The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1929, Page 3

———___ =r Page Three . DASLY WORKER, N W YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1929 OUTPUT INCREASE “IDS 5 YEAR PLAN “IW SOVIET UNION USSR Economie Coun- cil Says in Report (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Aug. 28.— The Presidium of the Supreme Eco- nomic Council set increases in indus- trial production for the current eco- nomic year at 28.7 per cent. The increase provided for in the five year plan for the current yeaf was 90.2 per cent. When further exam- ination showed still greater in- creases were possible, the final con- , trol figure was set at 31.2 per cent. ;see the establishment of 100 new tractor and agricultural stations. The labor power freed by mechan- ized, rationalized agricultural pro- duction is being used for the great development of road building. ATTACKS WORKER Right Wing Clique (Continued from Page One) in the cloak shop which has an agreement with the Industrial Un- ion, A large delegation of gangsters headed by Business Agent Mough- graso of the company union was in front of the shop yesterday morn- ing when the cloakmakers were en- tering the building. They attempted to terrorize the cloakmakers but were not successful. The workers ignored their threats and proceeded on their way to work. Hit on Head. The right wing thug Silver, how- ever, waylaid Mann and brutally hit him on the head. Silver was arrest- ed and when arraigned in Jefferson Market Court on a charge of felo- nious assault it was revealed that he has a police record under the name Pachman. In Feb., 1927 he was convicted of disorderly conduct and served three months while in| Sept. 1928 he was arrested, charged with burglary, but had the case dis- missed. Yesterday he was released on $2,500 bail. * * * Right Wing Thug Killed. Michael Petrone, an alleged gang- ster of the right wing company un- ion, was dead yesterday after being shot late Tuesday night at 65th St. The current economic year will] Cloakmakers Repulse’ Paradise for Anglo-Jewish Capitalists Tel Aviv, “first all-Jewish city in Palestine,” and the center of the Anglo-Jewish capitalists who exploit Jewish and Arabian workers alike. | perialists to divide the Arab and The vace rioting going on Jewish workers, raged fiercely here. in Palestine, incited by British im- E re | | Taken m A By FRANK HENDERSON CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 28.— The National Trade Unity Conven- tion to be ‘held in the city of Cleve- land August 31-September .2 is of great importance to the working youth of Ohio because it will launch a fighting progrom for the organ- ization of the unorganized young workers who are slaving under mis- erable conditions in the basic indus- tries of the state. To the young workers in the basic industries—in- | dustries which can be turned over- | night into factories producing de- structive war materials—industries ;which are highly rationalized—to these young workers especially will} the program for organization be welcome. * Heavy Work in Steel. In the steel mills of Youngstown, Warren, and Canton the young} workers are found doing the heavy | and dangerous work of adults for much lower wages. In the coal fields of East Ohio, through the betrayal | of the Lewis clique of the A. F. of L., the bosses have. smashed the old miners’ union and forced the young miners into open shop conditions of low wages, long hours, and slavery under unhealthy conditions, doing} dangerous underground work. With the check weighman gone, wholesale robbery through short weight is a source of great profit to the oper- Young Workers See Hope In SCAB UNION THUG Trade Union Unity Congress rom School to Rationalization, They Learning Lesson of Organization —_—_— 2 |T. U. E. L. will play a prominent role in the organization of the work- ers of these industries. Where is the A. F, of L. during these struggles ahd what is its posi- tion? It is not interested in the organization of the unskilled work- er Therefore the 10,000,000 un- led unorganized young workers have nothing to expect from the Federation. In all industries new machinery weplaces skilled with un- skilled workers, the bulk of which are young workers. Hours are lengthened, work speeded up; and wages cut but the craft*® unionism policy of the A. F. of L. leaves the unskilled w-rkers to the mercy of UNIONS ASSIST WORKERS SCHOOL Foster, Wortis, Dunne, | and Bedacht Teach | aa | Many thousands of workers in | Greater New York, foreign-born and | native, are in the midst of a struggle | for better working conditions, short- er heurs and better wages. Relative- |ly few of these workers have the | theoretical training that should en- | able them to understand the back- ground of the labor struggle in America, the historic&l reasons for the present alignment of forces on the economic field, and the inevitable role of the social reformists as the |upholders of capitalism and apol- ogists for imperialism. For Trade Union Workers. | For such workers as are in revolt jthe employers, Through direct boy- | against social democratic treachery cott, high initiation fees, difficult | to the working class, and are anxious examinations it raises "the bars|to participate in the militant strug- against the young workers and ex-| gle of the left wing unions against cludes them from trade unions. A. F. of L. as War Maker, Today when the workers are in| tries to be sent into a slaughter of a bosses’ war the A. F. of L. comes | out in open betrayal of the interests of the workers by endorsing the war program of the Government (Cruis- e Building—C. M. T. C.). The A.F. of L. has become the nurse maid of American imperialism and is work- ing hand in hand with the employ- ers to send the young workers into a bosses’ war directed against the) the A. F° of L. and socialist party | betrayers, the Workers School offers !a group of courses, especially plan- ned to train the students for re- |great danger of being taken from) sponsible work in their trade union jthe hell-holes of rationalized indus-| organizations and effective leader- ship in the labor movement. This group course consists of the |History of the American Labor | Movement, a choice of Fundamentals of Communism or Principles of Warxism I (economies), and a choite |of Theory and Practice of Trade Unionism, Lessons of New York Strike Struggles (a symposium), or American Trade Union Problems (a symposium under the leadership of ADD ANOTHER. TO-MURDERS BY SERB FASCISTS Part of Terror; Say He Was Communist , Wireless by Imprecorr.) | BELGRADE, ug. 28—It is re-| ported here that the secretary of the | Yugoslavian Red Cross, Doctor |Nesitchy was arrested for alleged |Communist agitation, Nesitch was later discovered dead én the pave- | ment before the pOlice presidium. | Police allege “Nesitch committed | | suicide By jumping from the fourth | | story window.” The Nesitch case is | |the latest of a series where prison- Jers “comitted suicide” this fashion. | Nesitch was probably murdered police. | JOBLESS LOST IN. PARIS FIRE Stayed in Market at Night PARIS, Aug. 28.—Firemen, arriv- | ing in relays, continued today to} fight the flames which have already | restroyed a section-of the central | market in Paris known as Les Halles. « Searcherg through the debris for many unem- continued to look Picus Fraud to Divide Palestine Workers The wailing Wall, the semi-mythical religious relic in Jerusalem by which the British imperialists and the Jewish capitalists in Pales- tine furnished a pretext to encourage race hatred between the Arabs and Jews, thus dividing these workers in order to prevent them from combining to fight the imperialists exploiters. a 2 Textile Union Progress Told arian ie acne or nary wen: By Organizers At Mt. Holly refuge in the market at night, and who may have perished in the fire. | However, the fire brigades first in- sured the saving of the property before iooking for possible victims. The fire started yesterday and has caused damage amounting to; several. million francs. It may take | jtwo more days before the flames | will be completely extinguished, au- | thorities claim. AIR PROPAGANDA YIELDS GUN FOOD Rush for Air Permits; ‘Workers Refused WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. — Wall Street’s intensive air propaganda, carried on by means of air derbies, endurance flights, coast-to-coast hops,-the Graf Zeepelin tour, the Cleveland air meet, etc., is bearing fruit, The aeronautics division of tae U. S, chamb-: of commerce has been receiving in the last few weeks jin the face of threatening clouds Oehler Accuses Manville-Jenckes and Other Bosses of Wholesale Slaughter - . CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 28.— Manville-Jenckes Company, The International Labor Defense|Mr. F. L. Jenckes, boasted of the Confererce, held at Davidson’s Camp | saving of $500,000 a year by means Ground, Mr, Holly dam, was at- of the str tch-out, This means $280 tended by 3,000 mill workers, who | cut from the ay of each of thi 00 workers in the Loray mill. This also means the dread disease of mal- b M | mutrition—pellagra. In other and tions, decided upon extensive plans| more brutal words, the* Manville- of defense action, and acquainted|Jenckes Co. is guilty of cold- themselves with many of the defend-|blo8ded murder, not only of their ants of the Gastonia case who spoke |agent, Aderholt, but also of men, to them for hours. women and children killed by pella- Many of the workers joined the gra.” j Internationalh Labor Defense on the conference grounds. Many others accepted application cards which they ‘preferred to fill out in a less public place. And organizers de- cided on the period of the trial as the most opportune for a Gastonia Defense Enlistment Campaign. Comrade Saul acquainted the work- ers with the necessity ana the pos- sibilities of organizing the Negro workers in the I. L. D. Adopts Program, Communists Expelled through and in the midst of intermittent showers adopted significant resolu- Juliet Stuart Poyntz exposed prop- aganda of the mill owners and their agents that a fair and impartial trial will take place. The jury will be drawn overwhelmingly from the middle class which is almost unani- mous in condemnation of the de- fendants because of their radical be- liefs and their activity in organizing |a militant union. GLASS. PRISONER IN REICH JAIL ON HUNGER STRIKE IG erman Communist | Demands Release © (Wireless Inprecorr) | “BERLIN, Aug. 28.—The German Communist worker Josef Klais is hunger striking since Aug. 8, in or- der to secure his release from the Elberfeld Jail, where he has been incarcerated while awaiting trial since January on a charge of shoot- jing a monarch uring the Kapp putsch in | Defending lawyers were refused permission to examine the indict- ment WORLD PIONEERS MEET IN U.S.S.R. 236 Delegates Hear Comintern Leaders (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 28. |—The International Communist chile |dren’s congress opened here Satur- \day. Bela Kun spoke for the execu- tive committee of the Communist International, Yaroslavsky for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and Max Hoelz for the Ger- man workers. Hoelz was made an honorary Pioneer. ° Pioneer delegates from Britain, |Germany, U. S, A., and China spoke, There were 236 delegates present. FREIHEIT PICNIC THIS SATURDAY Sports, Music, Dancing —Speeches Included At the Morning Freiheit’s annual pieniec t turday, Aug. 31, in Ul- | mar Par Brooklyn, there will be a special sport tournament, in which the following workers sports clubs will varticipate: | The Workers Sports Union, Frei; |heit Sport Club, Harlem Progressive Youth Club, The Vassa “Finish” Athletic Club, The Junior Section Eastern District Club, Bronx Work- ers Athletic Club, Red Star Athleti Club, Kay Tee “Finish” Athletic | Club, and others. Two soccer games will be played |and nationally known speakers will expound the issue of the present oo ators. Many of the young miners {Workers and peasants of the Soviet | Robert Dunn), a huge number of applications for|. Resolutions on the Gasténia case,| From German Metal political campaign. and New Utrecht Ave., Brooklyn. Two of his associates were wounded and are in the United Israel Zion Hospital. ] When Petrone’s body was examin- ed by the police several member- | ship books in the company union were found in his pocket. It was stated that he has a long criminal record. Before he died, Petrone admitted that he had driven a car for the} company union clique. It is believed | by many workers that he is one of | the gangsters used by the scab un-| ion to terrorize the militant work- |mills of Akron have become the| termined to fight, |“colleges” of the youth of Ohio. have tried to escape th@ hell-holes Union. of coal mining only to find the fires | of exploitation much more fierce in| the other industries, Special Youth Conferencay Against the betrayal of the A. F. The rubber |of L. the Unity Convention is de- | Unorganized” will sound throughout The Goodyear, Goodrich, and Fire-|the Convention, A Special Youths stone rubber miils yearly vomit | Conference will make a thorough an-/ hundreds of young workers who/ lysis of the conditions of the youth have become prematurely “old” in| industry. Steps will be takn to| [rubber mills which they entered only | °Tganize the Negro youth who are | a short time ago—the vitality of |¢ven more exploited than the white youth burned out by the “production | Young workers. The Convention will must come out” slogan ofethe rub- | !aunch a fighting program to organ- “Organize the | ber kings. In the metal, auto, tex. | ize the unorganized young workers. | tile and other industries of Cleve- F he Needle Trades : By SHO eet eo tne Needie TxAAes (iad tahe moreineewouttie acentoutl é : Work ea une ae Unen: slaving under indescribable condi- Case Is Postponed. tions. 2% The case of the two right wingers Fight Docility Poison. | who murderously’ attacked Joe Ja-| Although the young workers are| cobs, a member of the N. T. W. I. /filled to the brink with “docility” U, on Aug. 2, in front of th e€/pumped into them from the time Schwartz and Saltzberger shop, 131 | they enter the schools and when W, 35th St., where he was employed, !they are forced out by poverty they was postponed yesterday to Sept. 9| are again caught in the web of the when it came up in Jefferson Mar-| posses through a network of radios, ket Court. Jacobs is still very ill| movies, press, and literature—re- and was not able to appear in court. | gardless of this the young workers, EE of I |through bitter experience, see the POSTAL CLERKS jvalue of organization and have |played an important role in many (union Will Campaign struggles. On a national scale one has but to point to the coal, textile, and needle trades strikes to find the youth in the forefront of many clashes between the workers and the agents of the employers. The heroic. fight of the young textile | workers of Gastonia is a splendid example of the militancy of the For Reduction youth in their fight for the right WASHINGTON, D. C., August 28.—A campaign for a 44-hour week for postal clerks will be launched at the biennial convention of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks which opens in New York on Sept. 2, William F. Flaherty, secretaty, announced today. unfon will also demand a half holi- day on Saturday, he added. Flaherty denounced the claim of the department that it is run on a deficit and charg- e4 that this plea was largely ficti- tions, This too, he said, would be digouseed at the- convention. He seid that @ proper system of accoun- taney giving financial credit to the postal service for many free or pol- icy. services it now performs would 4 show the deficit a myth, and con- | ae that it should not be used ment improvement to the postal workers.” President Hoover recently order- ed Postmaster General Brown to make a study of his department with the intent of curtailing the al- leged deficits. It is believed that _ Brown’s recommendation will be for The | “as a reason for denying employ-| to organize. Leading the Fight. In Ohio, during the miners’ strike, the youth played a militant role leading picket lines and fighting against the combined attacks of the coal barons and the Lewis thugs. | Today they are fighting for organ- ization of a militant miners’ union —the National Miners Union—to replace the operators’ union of the Lewis gang. | In the city of Cleveland the strike |of several hundred girls of the In- dustrial Rayon textile mills was be- trayed by the A. F. of L. who through its local officials persuaded the workers to return to work and wait for more favorable opportuni- ties. At Akron the attempted or- ganization of the Goodyear rubber | workers several years ago was met by a combined attack of the Fire- stone, Goodrich and Goodyear who through spies, lay-offs, and a $50,000 fund succeeded in smashng the or- ganization of the rubber workers. Spontaneous walkouts, small strikes in Cleveland shows intensive exploit- ation of the workers and a fertile field for organization in the basic Economic youth demands will be a part of a fighting program to bet-| ter the conditions of the young workers. Against capitalist ration- alization! Against low wages, long hours and speed-up! Against the betraying policy of the A. F. of L. the young workers must organize shop committees, elect delegates to the Unity Convention, and follow the leadership of the T. U. E. L. Munich Police Arrest Communist Officials During Party Session * (Wireless By infrecorr) “MUNICH, Aug. 27—A number of leading Communist officials were arrested yesterday during a Party session. Police alleged it was a session of the prohibited Red Front Fighters’ League. Another Heart Sheet For Jingo Propaganda SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28.— The San Francisco Bulletin was sold today to William Randolph Hearst, who thus gets another news- paper to aid him whip up war prop- aganda. - The Bulletin, oldest daily in San Francisco, will suspend publication as a separate entity after today. Beginning tomorrow it will be merged with the Call, Hearst eve- ning newspaper, as the San Fran- cisco Call-Bulletin, All of these courses will be given by teachers experienced in the labor |movement and in the trade union | field. Among them will be Bedacht, Biedenkapp, Rose Wortis, M. Ober- |meier, Wm. F, Dunne, A. Markoff, Vern Smith, John Williamson, and others. English Classes. Another group of courses, ex- tremely important for all workers active in the labor movement, are the English courses, ranging from ele- mentary English, speech and accent improvement for foreign-born work- ers to advanced classes in English, classes opens on September 2 and continues through September» 30, when regular classes begin. All students are requested to register early in the month. ‘SOVIET FLIERS EXPECTED SOON ‘Meeting Tonight Will Plan Reception } (Continued from Page One) workers’ organizations held on Aug. 13, for the purpose of planning a fitting mass demonstration and re- ception to the fliers o fthe “Land of the Soviets,” the first emissaries ‘of |the Soviet Union; who are now well on the way to'New York. Within Two Weeks. Definite and authentic informa- tion has been received by the Friends of the Soviet Union that the Soviet fliers are at the end of Siberia, and are definitely expected in the United States within the next two weeks or less. This trade union confer- ence is therefore urgent because very little time remains to go through | with the plans of the conference for a mass reception, and for a cam- paign to raise a number of tractors student flyers’ permits — approxi- mately 600 a week. Many of these applicants, lured into offering themsélves up as gun} fodder for the next boss war, are young workers, but a careful weed- ing out process assures the jingoes that only bourgeois elements which can be depended on not to turn the imperialist slaughter into a civil war are allowed to handle potential bom- | ers. | Only 15 per cent of the applicants are granted flying permits. In the course of a meticulous physical ex- jen workers, and the working youth| | the trial. in memory. of Sacco and Vanzetti, | ° ° on the. War Danger and Defense of Union by Reformists (Wireless By Inprecorr) the Soviet Union, and regarding or- | BERLIN, Aug. 28.—The Metal ganization of Negro workers, wom-| were adopted. Wrkers’ Union expelled today 25 The Conference decided on thefol-; Communist members of the shop lowing program of action: | council of the German General Elec- 1—A Gastonia Defense Member-|trie Company. The expulsion rep- ship Drive, beginning immediately |resents reformist revenge for the and lasting until the conclusion of| workers’ election of exclusively rev- olutionary shop council candidates 2.—Activization of established | instead of the reformists. branches. 3.—Organization of branches Our own age, the hpurgeoin age, | Where workers have recently joined. inati study of the prospective sega eae Lata 4.—Establishment of a Southern airman’s family background for is distinguished by this—that it has simplified class antagonisma, labor journalism, workers corres- | pondenee, ete. Registration for all the above Sale price was not announced, but and trucks, for presentation to the| was reported to be $1,000,000. MISTREAT WOMEN IN JAIL. PARIS (By Mail).—The women recently arrested at the ggeat round- up of Communists in Paris and charged with having “plotted against the security of the state” are de- tained in St. Lazare prison where they are denied the privileges gran- ted by French law to politicalgpris- oners. The wardresses in this prison are members of a religious order who persecute the imprisoned Com- munist women with all the fury of ther speed-up of the postal work. industries of the state. The young iworkers under the leadership of the etait religious fanaticism and the galling method of petty spit jfliers, as a gift of the workers and| \friends of the Soviet Union in the} United States to the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union. Final} arrangements must also be made for the organization of a workers’ dele- gation to accompany the tractors to the Soviet Union. LATHERS UNION MEET ST. LOUIS, Mo, (By Mail).—The International Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers Union will hold its annual convention of misleading officials on Sept. 9 here. These officials were) | signs of militancy, and various. psy- | chological and “intelligence” tests, which «only college-bred parasites | are able to pass, all proletarian ele- | ments are eliminated. Fascist Italy Sends 5 Planes to England for Imperialist Air Races ROME, Aug. 28.—Five Italian seaplanes were being packed today for shipment to Calshot, England, where the Schneider cup speed races | are to be held Sepg: 6-7 to further | popularize the imperialist air forces | of fascist Italy and the British Em- | pire. Italo Balbo, under-secretary | or air, and killer of thousands of Italian workers, will leave for Eng- land Thursday. The planes selected for the im- perialist race, from which the United States and France have withdrawn because of inability to prepare ma- chines in time, include two Macchi 61's, two Savoia planes’ and one Fiat. After four days of search the body of Giueseppe Motta, fascist pi- lot who crashed last week : while testing a plane for the races, was recovered today in, Lake di Garda. BIGGER PROFITS WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Since the treasury announced more than a month ago its intention of au- thoritative resumption of medicinal whiskey manufacture, only three dis- tilleries have applied for permits to| engage in production of the 2,000,- 000 gallons. of rye and bourbon needed, it was: learned’ today. CHANCE FOR BOOZE FORTUNE ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 28.—Word was received at Prohibition Head- quarters today of the’ appointment of Henry D. Moss, assistant. admin- istrator at New York City, to have charge of the Tenth Enforcement District, with headquarters at Al-| bany. Lowell R. Smith was in tem- porary charge. Moss will have charge of the state west of Lake Ontario, north to the | responsible for the barring of Ne-| groes in Chicago, —~ =< chester, e Nese Canadian border and south to West- Bi RI | |I. L. D. District. More and more, society is splitting up into two great hostile camps, district executive committee, into two great and directly contra- 6—A Labor Defender subscrip-| posed classes: bourgeoisie and pro- tion drive, to progress concurrently | Jetariat—Marx. with the membership drive. | 7.—A drive for defense funds. |, 8.—Close co-operation between | I. L. D. and National Textile Work- | ers Union for the building of both organizations. | 9—Another conference to take) place some time in October which} shall consolidate the organizational results of the above mentioned campaigns and activities. These resolutions and this pro-| gram of action, having been adopt-| ed and positively endorsed by 3,000 mill workers, who came to the Con- | ference from every city in Gaston and Mecklenberg counties, from An-| derson, Chester, and Greenville in | South Carolina, and from Rome, Ga. | At the National Textile Workers | | Union picnic held simultaneously | with the conference at Mt. Holly, Vera Buch and Amy Schechter told of their successful trip for the de-| \fense through the northern states, | and Hugo Oehler reported rapid | growth of the N. T. W. U. since \the Bessemer City Conference on July 28th. “We are sending more organizers | out into the field, extending the power of the union thruout five states,” said Oehler. “We have es- |tablished a sub-district headquarters jin Greenville and Anderson, S. C. | Delegates are now on the way to the Trade Union Unity Convention | to be held in Cleveland on August) 31. On their way, they will do or-| | ganizational work and distribute lit- jerature for the I. L, D. and the union. On their return trip they | will stop at the textile centers and | speak at meetings arranged on the way to Cleveland. | Bosses Kill 458. “There have been 458 deaths from pellagra in North Carolina during the past six months, according to the state board of health. This is an increase over 1928 of 50 per cent. This is one of the results of the) vicious. and iniquitous stretch-out | system, and starvation wages. The| —Election of a Southern I, L. D. Month of day, 1:30 P. M. Spend a few days of SE aL ean nae er eT There will be music and dancir | in the large hall; refreshments wu. be served; entertainment galore. Admission forty cents in advance, | tickets to be gotten at the Morning | Freiheit office, 39 Union Square, HONOR-GERMAN © ~~ REVOLUTIONIST BERLIN, Auga 28.—The Commu- nist member of the Reichstag, Emil | Hoellein, was cremated yesterday. A great demonstration of Berlin | workers paid last respects to the old revolutionary fighter, Register Today for Labor Day Unity Camp Will be Open During the September |UNITY CAMP WINGDALE, N. Y. Camp Telephone: Wingdale 51 N. Y. Office: 1800 7th Ave. Tel: Monument 0111-0112 e e IMPROVEMENTS: Hot and cold showers Open-air theatre A new sport field A new room is being built for writing letters A fine library. On Sunday there will be a, special sport program. A variety program has been arranged for the Labor Day week-end. Buses leave from 1800 7th Avenue today, 2:00 P. M.; tomorrow, 6:30 P. M.; Satur- the “Indian Summer”: in Camp Unity. Pleasant Memories! men