The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1929, Page 1

\ ee THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized ‘Against Impe For the 40-Hour Week rialist War under the act of March 3, 1879. Vol. VI, No. 149 Published daily except Sundsy by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION Outside N RATE! ew York, by mail, $6,00 per year. im New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, FINAL CITY {| EDITION Price 3 Cents Y, AUGUST 29, 1929 CHARLOTTE PROSECUTION INSISTS UNIO “MILITANT PROGRAM FOR CLASS. (A. FL. 3 Rank and File DENY RUMOR OF PALESTINIANS i}; WAR ON ALL FRONTS OFFERED Rebel fo Aid in Gastonia NEGOTIATIONS DEMONSTRATE AT FOR ADOPTION AT CLEVELAND) Drive for Defense Funds OVER MANGHURIA BRITISH CONSUL | e %.U.E.L. Draft Analyses Capitalism; Declares “We Will Not Stand By and See Our Southern Chinese Warlords Kill Protest Indiscriminate| Comrades Burn,” They Tell Officials . For Organization of Most Exploited Opposes Imperialist War; Defends USSR; Calls | Working Class Protest Mounts With Tag Days, | For New Unions, Struggle in Old Ones The Trade Union Educational League, in Labor Unity, : its official organ, yesterday made public a lengthy and detailed draft program proposed by the T. U. E. L. to the Trade Union Unity Cenvention, which meets on Aug. 31 in Cleveland, with, at present indications, something over, 700 delegates. It is a fighting program, for class war on i aa ae New York Delegates To Cleveland Meet At Midnight ‘Tonight All New York and _ vicinity delegates to the Cleveland Trade Union Unity Convention . and guests going to the convention, must be in the Workers’ Center, 26-28 Union Square, fourth floor, at twelve, midnight, tonight, the New York local office of - the Trade Union Educational League announces. A short meeting will be held and delegates will have to bring their credentials. It is very im- portant that all arrive on time. The entire delegation of 100 will leave after midnight, at 1 a. m. The local T. U. E. L. office re- ports that there will be a sub- stantial.percentage of the delega- tion made up of Negro workers. There will also be young worker delegates, women worker dele- gates and a well rounded repre- sentation of all the principal in- dustries of New York and New Jersey. In Seranton and Buffalo and other industrial cities, through which the delegation will go, the workers have organized demon- strations to greet them. ARREST NEWARK TEL, MEMBERS Gave Leaflets Calling For N. J. Car Strike NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 28. — Two members of the Traction Workers’ Section of the Trade Union Educa- tional League were arrested today while distributing to street car men the League’s appeal for a hundred per cent strike to enforce the men’s demand for the 25 per cent wage gain and the eight houf day. They (Continued on Page Five) RUBBER WORKERS DEMAND RELIEF Disemployed by U. S. Rubber in Hartford HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 28. — Demands for the relief of 1,400 workers disemployed by the United States Rubber Company were voiced in a resolution adopted unanimously+ by several hundred workers at the Lyric hall last night. The program, drawn up by the Rubbér Workers Relief Committee, will be presented to the factory, Mayor Batterson | and Governor Trumbull. The workers are hit by the re- moval of the rubber plant to De-| troit. . The demands include: ‘three months’ compensation pay; complete pension to the discharged workers over 40 years old; complete pension to dependents of Stanley Duckworth, kjlled Aug. 24 “as a result of the rush imposed on him by the employ- ers”; immediate distribution of the funds, of the Mutual Aid Society; city and state gvernmént provision for employment; relief fund estab- lished by taxation of manufacturers and recognition of the Rubber Work- ers’ Relief Committee, Tite Communist Party has actively assisted in the organization of the relief committee. . OFFICE WORKERS MEET TODAY George Siskind, Saul Stark and * qthers will speak at the open air ig of the Office Workers Union St. and Park Ave. at 12.30 all fronts and no truce. The program presumes that )|the convention will organize a | new trade union center, and jthat the new organization will be |composed of both the militant in- |dustrial unions already formed and the left wing movements in the re- actionary trade, unions, as well as |shop organizations and local unions |in the unorganized industrie: ously proposed to the convention by the T. U. E. L. names this new trade | union, organizational and agitational center, the “Trade Union Unity | League.” Tells of Class War. The draft program begins with jan analysis of the capitalist system lin the United States and in the \world. It uses government figures to prove that in the United States jone per cent of the population owns a third of the national wealth and \that less than 25 per cent of ihe population owns 90 per cent of the wealth, that the rich are getting richer and the poor grow poorer. Thé program points to the bitter exploitation, the starvation wage in many industries, and the continued |rationalization of industry, driving |more and more out of work, until |at present there is a permanent .un- employed army of 3,000,000. The | Negro workers, the program points out, are a specially exploited group, jand are otherwise discriminated {against by Jim Crowism and lynch- | ings, etc. | The enormous profits, turned to capital, which {Proceeds simultaneously with the lowering of the workers’ ‘standards, (Continued on Page Two) accumulation of ‘ | RATIFICATION "MEETS CALLED |To Endorse Communist Platform Delegates from many organized to attend the County Ratification | Conferences, called by the Commu- | nist Party, New York District, to \endorse the Communist platform and candidates in the municipal elections. The conference will be held Sunday, Sept. 8, at 2 p. m., at 26-28 Union Square for the Borough of Manhattan; 56 Manhattan Ave., for the Borough of Brooklyn, and (1830 Wilkins Ave. for the Boyqugh jof the Bronx, ~ Printing plants, machine shops, biscuit companies, shoe factories, wire goods plants, leather goods shops and ‘dock committees, are among those who will be represent- ed. Meetings are being called of militant workers in the shops to dis- cuss the political issues of the elec- tion campaign and to elect delegates. Reports from these shops show an increasing interest in the Com- munist Party, especially of the struggles led by the Communists |against the speed-up system and wage cuts. The program of the Party calling ‘for the organization of the unorgan- (Continued on Page Five) Help Gastonia A powerful appeal to the work- ers of America to save the Gastonia textile strikers from death by par- ticipating in the present campaign for funds, is made by thirteen of the defendants directly in danger of the electric chair. : Their appeal, signed in their own handwriting, was written in the Gas- tonia County jail, where they were three! -The draft constitution simultane-| Is Appeal of Defendants American Working Class Asked to Save Work-| ers From Death by Drive for Funds “We will not stand by and watch our Southern comrades burned in the electric chair — in spite of your commands that we do nothing .for) them.” This was the reply of rank and file workers to officials in American Federation of ‘Labor locals in Phil- adelphia, which is one of the chief | cities engaged in intensive activity | on the ten day Gastonia: Joint De- fense and Relief Campaign Aug. 26 to Sept. 2. Reports from Philadelphia, Bos-| ton, Washington, New York, Detroit | and other cities show a rising wave} of working class protest, which, , if) | strong enough, will sweep down on Charlotte and free the Gastonia tex- tile workers from their threatened deaths. Legal Expenses Rising Rapidly. + The enormous expenses of the trial, increasing daily at Charlotte, where scores of witnesses must be provided with food and _ shelter, where lawyers require funds, and incidental legal expenses mount high, have caused a tremendous drain on the resources of the Gas- tonia Joint Defense and Relief Cam- paign Committee, with national of- fices at 80 E, 11th St., room 402, New York City. All workers are called upon to (Continued on Page Two) SECRET SESSION | “ON “DISARMING” U. S., Britain, Both | Want Battleships | WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Strict | |secrecy marked the conference of) | Under Secretary Cotton ang his as-| sistants, who labored all night at} the state department to draft gov-| ernment instructions to Ambassador Dawes for his guidance in the Mac- Donald conversations. | Purporting to aim at conyening| of a “disarmament” conference be-/ tween the high-strung imperialist) powers, the Dawes-MacDonald par- ley and the diplomatic barrages which accompany it have about ex- hausted the phrases of the rival} statesmen. On the actual question of scrapping the battleships, neither | side is willing to budge. The United States is still firm in| its determination to hold ommto the | big-gunned ships of the 1,000-ton class, capable of traversing the long distances between points on the At- lantic and the Pacific coasts of con- tinental United States and its sub- |jugated colonies like the Philippines, | Haiti and Cuba. | | But, as the London Times em-| phasized editorially today, the “Brit- | ish empire is not a self-contained unit of continuous states.” It wants | {to increase its light cruisers which) |fire bombs—and more of them are jneeded every day—to crush. the tide} |of revolt in its scattered colonies, | |. Both powers may agree on a dip-| tire cruisers as they become more_ useless and replate them with newer | craft. In any case, such a plan| calls for no action for six or seven} years, by which time the Kellogg |pact will have long been ditched in| |the imperialist wastepaper basket. | SOVIET FLIERS EXPECTED SOON Plan Reception A conference of trade union dele- gates, to complete arrangements for | the reception of the Soviet Fliers, jwill take place tonight at 8 o'clock at the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St.) jand Irving Pl. | The conference is. called by the | \ways and means committee, elected | ‘by a conference of 600 delegates of | Continued on Page Three) Campaign months awaiting the trial which will send them to the chair or to freedom. Fellow Working Men and Women: We, 13 organizers and members of the National Textile Workers’ Union, are writing you to let you know the real issues in this case: and ask your help, 4 . We fought for the right to or. sim, (Continued on Page ACOMMUNISTS JAILED IN VIENNA Will Be Deported After Sentence (Wireless By Inprecorr) VIENNA, Aug. 28.—Trial of the Hungarian Communists ended yes- terday with acquittal of all those accused on charges of forging pass- ports. Hermann Mueller was sen- tenced to six weeks’ imprisonment |for secret association, Grahczi and Ross Hesky to four weeks each on the same charge, and Ernst Mueller to one week for false registration. All were ordered for deportation except Ernst Mueller. . * * (Wireless By Inprecorr) VIENNA, Aug. 28.— Trial com- menced here today of the Hungarian Communist emigrants Ernst and Hermann Mueller, Dr, Grajezi and Rosa Hesky, who were arrested last May during a police raid on the Hungarian Emigrant Bureau. The trial is similar to the Bela Kun trial. The defendants are accused of se- cret association and passport for- geries, The accused denied charges, declaring the Hungarian Communist Party was openly pur- suing its open aims among the masses. They proudly admitted do- ing everything possible to assist the Party. Most of the witnesses were de- tectives. A bottle of fluid, confis- and unorganized shops are expected |!omatie plan not to scrap, but to re-|cated from the emigrant burean by police, and allegedly containing chemicais used to tamper with pass- ports, proved utterly harmless The prosecution was also unable apparatus was used to establish connection with Hungary. The de- ‘endjng lawyer proved that the con- fiscated material had been handed by the Vienna police, in defiance of Austrian law, to the Budapest police long before the Austrian courts re- ceived the material. OF THE A. F. OF L, An appeal to all workers to sup- port the Hotel, Restaurant and Caf- eteria Workers Union in its cam- paign to organize the cafeterias of New York was issued yesterday by the union. It points out that the Ameri¢an Federation of Labor is conducting a movement to sell out the food workers. Launch New Attack. Referring to this new attack of the cafeteria employers and the company union, it ,says: “Now the bo&ses seek to launch a new attack, and lo and behold, there (Continued on Page Five) § Communists Report! At “Center” Today egy. er The New York District Exec- utive Committee of the Commun- ist Party announces that “all Party members, employed and unemployed, are instructed to be at the Workers Center, 28 Union Sq., today at 11 a.m., for very important Party work.” 7 TWO), rere} | the | 4 More USSR Workers ' On Spy Pretext Collections, to Meet Heavy Legal Expenses - Protest Mistreatment |Nanking Moving More Troops to Border BERLIN, Germany, Aug. 28.—The Soviet Union Embassy here today denied that there were any official or unofficial negotiations taking place between the Soviet government and the Chinese militarists over the | | Manchurian situation and ,the at- | |tacks by white guard bands from Manchuria on the U S. R. ‘The Chinese embassy admitted that the rumor of negotiati false. ak ee Shoot More Soviet Citize HARBIN, Manchuria, Aug. |The Chang Hseuh-liang government | continues its work as the agent for | foreign imperialism by murdering | Soviet citizens, under the excuse that they are “spies.” Yesterday four |more were executed at Manchuli, | charged with espionage. ese and | others -who have been shot or strangled on orders of the Chinese Eastern Railway, who strick when |the Chang officials seized the road. | | Mistreat Prisoners. The German consul acting on be- | half of the U.S. S. R., is protesting today against the mistreating of over 1,600 Soviet citizens held in the jails of the Chinese militarists. Among them are women and chil- dren. moving toward the Siberian border, and the government yesterday issued a formal order placing the white guard Russian volunteers under reg- | ular Chinese military discipline. TAILORS AWAIT T.UE.L. MEET |Many Shop Delegates , Will Attend The arrangements for the shop delegate conference of Amalgamated | Clothing Workers Union shops to be held Saturday, Sept. 14, at 11 a. m. at Stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave. |and 9th St., are steadily going for- ward, the Trade Union Educational League, which has arranged the con- ference, announced yesterday. Members of the Amalgamated | throughout the city, aroused over the | policies of the Sidney Hillman clique | | Tealizing that only a militant policy \to prove that the confiscated radio | Will better their conditions, are look- |ing forward eagerly to the confer- | (Continued on Page Five) | ‘SCAB UNION THUG ATTACKS WORKER Meeting Tonight wilt NEW SCAB PLAN \eloidebieies Repulse | Right Wing Clique Harry Mann, a cloakmaker em- \ployed by T, Stamm & Co., 205 W. | 35th St., was viciously attacked yes- | terday morning by Louis Silver, jalias Louis Pachman, notorious gangster on the payroll of the scab \International Ladies Garment | Workers Union. Mann, who is .a |member of the Needle Trades Work- {ers Industrial Union, was assaulted when he was on his way to work Continued on Page Three) THIRD “INQUIRY” FORCARPENTERS Paid Scab Wages; AFL! Aided by ‘Cooperation’ Following its complaint of violated wage scales paid its members by subway contractors, the New York District Council of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners has, been granted a third “investigation.% The invitation to attend at Albany, /Sept, Shooting of Arabs | Jews, Christians Fighting Continuing) Jewish Fascists in At-! tack Arabs BULLETIN. HAIFA, Palestine, Aug. + 28.— British airplanes bombed a group of Arabs near Athlit, not far from Haifa, today. Troops shot into Arab villagers from Tirah, killed many and took 45 prisoners. The rest of the Arab villagers are hid- ing in caves in the hills. Fight- ing continues between troops and | villagers at Hulda. . oe BEIRUT, Syria, Aug. 28. — All shops and bazaars in this city were losed today while a huge proces- ion of Arabs, Christians and Jews who realize that Zionism is a tool jof British imperialism, demonstrat- ed before the British consulate and |filed a protest against the British | troops in Palestine and the pogrems provoked by the Jewish and Ara- |bian religious leaders. A demonstration of 20,000 Arabs militarists during recent weeks, were marched through Damascus early | ‘ i : . A former anges of the Chinese | today, protesting Zionist penetration | in their struggle against British im- Palestine, and the swindling of the Arabian peasants of their land by Jewish financiers and the British ‘rule to establish big capitalist plan- tations in the guise’of “building a Jewish home land.” The procession was followed by |clashes between Jews and Arabs. | More reports of a convergence of Arabian tribes in Syria and Trans- Jordania on the Palestinian bor- | of Additional troops are continually+) Ger were received here today, and| | there are many indications that the | pogrom movement will not after all | shunt off the wrath of the Arabian peasants against their imperialist holy war against the Jews. cullen. JERUSALEM, Palestine, August 28.—Fighting continues, though at a slower tempo. British troops are | Pouring ‘into the Palestinian cities) as warship after warship arrives in the harbors. * These troops fire on all bodies of piled up a huge death list. At Haifa, they shot Jews and Arabs alike. A British guard on the bridges (Continued on Page Two) TRIAL TODAY OF N.Y. COMMUNISTS 7 Include Engdahl, the Party Candidate Seven members of the Communist Party will be tried today at the | Washington Heights Court, 168th St. | and St. Nicholas Ave., on disorderly \conduct charges made following their ‘arrest while speaking at a Harlem | open air meeting ten days ago. |. Those standing trial include J. | Louis Engdahl, Party candidate for | President in the Borough of Man- |hattan; Harold Williams, District | Negro Director of the Party; Leon- |ard Patterson, District Negro Di- irector of the Young Communist League; Abe Ross, Assistant Cani- |paign Director im Harlem; Abe Tompkin, Solomon Harper and Jack | Rosen. | + They will be defended by Jacques Buitenkant, of the New York Inter- ‘ national Labor Defense. Vie ——_—_—- |° Build Up the United Front of the Working Class. U.S. Planning N IS CRIME BAR FROM JURY ANYONE WHO READS LABOR PRESS: MANY ADMIT PREJUDICE |Three Jurors Tentative |Court Forcing Defense | CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. selecting an “impartial jury,” this morning in the court here, JEWISH WORKERS SUPPORT ARABS AGAINST BRITISH Communists Call for | Join Struggle Support for the Arabian masses |perialism and its Zionist allies was |voiced by more than 2,000 Jewish | workers who crowded Irving Plaza, ‘hall, Irving Plaza and 15th St., to} the doors last night at a mass meet- | ling arranged by the Jewish Section| ‘of the Communist Party of the | United States. | Although a group of Zionists and socialists following out the pc of | provocative, editorials and ne sto- (Continued on Page Five) | NEGROES TO AID RED. PLATFORM Hold Conference Workers. Center |oppressors into the channels of a| in Endorsement of the election cam- |men observed, and have already Paign of the Communist Party in the New-York municipal elections was officially expressed by a num- ber of Negro organizations and trade union and fraternal groups in which | Negro workers are active at the Ne-| gro Conference at the Workers’ Cen-! ter, 26-28 Union Square, yesterday | evening. Delegates represented the Harlem | Tenants’ League, the Women Day Workers’ League, the American Ne- |gro Labor Congress, the Needle |Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, the Amalgamated Food Work- _ers’ Union, the Brownsville Tenants’ League, the Window. Cleaners’ Union ‘and Negro student groups. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! | ‘Workers Asked to} .\Send Their Gastonia | Petitions in at Once | In order to send the mass pro- | test petition, with the hundreds} of thousands of workers’ na attached, to the state authori of: North Carolina, demandi the freedom of the Gastonia| textile workers, all petition lists | are asked to be returned at once | to the national office of the Gas-| tonia Joint Defense and Relief | Campaign Committee, at 80 E. 11th St., room 402, New York) | ng | rl to Deport Eas Indian Workers in N.T.W.U. | Agents in Pay of British Imperialists Spy on By LISTON City. | Workers in United States |, East Indian workers find little freedom in this country from spies of imperial Britain or imperial America, it was revealed in the est attempts of the United States government to deport nine Indian workers to “Mother India” where the labor government will throw Nine East Indian workers of Pat- erson, N. J., members of the Nation- al Textile. Workers Union, are held at Ellis Island for deportation. They were active among the East Indians in the silk industries of Paterson. They were given a hearing at Eis Island Monday night. Isaac Shorr, representative of the New ax, (Continued on Bage Five) .., thom iota dail fox long terme | Gontinued on Page Five) . ly ly Selected First Day; Probably Will Require More Veniremen to Use Up Its Limited Number of Peremptory Challenges OAK . 28.—The impossible task of “free from prejudice,” began where the 16 members of the National Textile Workers’ Union may be sent to electrocutiom or imprisonment for their leadership of a class struggle. | That no intelligent person could possibly have lived in this county for the past five months without forming a definite opinion as to the “guilt or in- nocence” of the defend: was proved by this morning’ i tion of the veniremen. Ne: one of them admitted freel open sympathy or prejudice. Workers Show Sympathy. With few exceptions those who were poorly dressed, who were work- ers, expressed sympathy, while al- most all the business men, salesmen and highly skilled prosperous work- rs were hostile, Six workers were exc ate from jury service d they believed the re not guilty. Eighteen prosp: tive jurors stated they were pre- judiced against the defendants and were either excused by the court or challenged by the defense for cause, Twelve yeniresion declared them- sé.ves., entirely unprejudiced, Of these twelve, only three were ac-. cepted for the jury. The court made it necessary for the defense to use their peremptory challenges, limited to 168 for all defendants, in many cases where .there was obvious and admitted prejudice but the ven- iremen, upon urging from the prose- cution, said they could be impartial despite their prejudice. An invariable question of (Continued on Page Two) MEXICAN MASSES HAIL GASTONIA Hold the Meets; Demand 23 Be Freed Millions of workers, from Mos- Mexico cow, City, West Saxony, Hamburg, Germany, as well as in America, have raised their voices in an international demand that the Gastonia textile strikers be diately frecd. A cablegram received in this coun- try yesterday from half a million members of the International Labor Defense in Moscow, was part of the movement in R: protesting the Gastonia case. A telegram from the Mexican In- ternational Labor Defense told of |twenty cities in that land holding | joint Sacco-Vanzetti-Gastonia -meet- ings. Intensified activities on be- |half of the strikers were pledged in the Mexican telegram | Hundreds of thousands of work- ers in Germany, those in the Inters |national Labor Defense organiza- (Continued on Page Two) VIENNA WORKERS FIGHT FASCISTS | (Wireless by Inprecorr) | VIENNA, Aug. 28.—A Heimwehr parade at Stockerau, near here, was broken up yesterday by local work- ers who blockaded the railway sta- tion and rauled the fascists, |Tow Tanker to Port; |\Fire Endangered Crew NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—The tat jer Paulsboro, whose sailors were dangered last night by a fire in the ship’s hold, is ngw ‘being towed te ‘port by the steamer Birkenhead and |the fire had been extinguished, the Radio Marine Corporation was ad- vised by its West Palm Beach sta- | tion. The Birkenhead started towing the Paulsboro to port at 11:30 a. ms efter the fire—which developed when the tanker was off the Pony pees been extinguished shor: Mer dey hreai stat sunic Satay imme-