The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1929, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW 2s WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1929 Page Five Boston Police Fail to Prevent Picnic for Defense and Relief of the Gastonia Strikers USSR LEADERS, GORKY ADDRESS WORLD PIONEERS Great Demonstration | in Moscow Stadium MOSCOW, Sept. gress of thhe Commun Organizations just ended a demonstration in the Moscow Stadium. 7,200 delegates arrived from vari- ous parts of the Soviet Union, repre- 3. —In the con- ist Children’s Sport senting 50,000 groups with 2,2 0,000 | members was held. Almost all the} delegates were put up by Moscow workers wh> en‘husiastically wel- omed the children. 50,000 Moscow Young Pioneers took part in the| lemonstration. Rudsutak sroke in the name of the government, Kaganovitch in the| name of the Central Committee of | the Communist Party and Unshlicht | in’the name of the Red Army. The} children delegates from the various | affiliated republics promised to do everything possible to double their | membership during the course of | the coming year. They also prom- ised to support as far as possible the carrying out of the Five Year Plan. After the meeting a great demon- stration marched through the} streets. Before the building of the Moscow Soviet representatives of the government spoke to the masses Maxim Gorki, who also spoke, was greeted with great applause. After|fense, remembers with proletarian | spontaneous | Solidarity the two martyrs Sacco | the demonstration a meeting of adults formed itself o the Soviet Square and speakers) from amongst the masses promised that the workers of Moscow would} do their utmost to a: the utmost to put the Five Year Plan into operation. The enthusiasm reached its high-| est point when a representation of | great textile strike in Gastonia, are | the five year development scheme | was lighted up electrically before | he Moscow Soviet building which | was also illuminated. ing meetings of the three genera-| tions took place in the workers clubs! Today the delegates visited the Moscow factories. The chil- dren’s congress lasted a week and} numerous delegates from sthert countries arrived in Moscow. MEDAL FOR HIS WORST SCABBERY Loyal Legion Banquets |* Him Over Elizabethton ° (Continued frem Page One) wing needle trades workers and led in the strike-breaking during the} last great struggles of the militant} unions here, ' Sold Out Elizabethton. McGrady helped Al. Hoffman in| the most outrageous sell-out of re- cent years, by which the victorious) Elizabethton strikers were driven| back to work with a black-list and | not a single demand won. | The Loyal Legion, in the words of Paul A. Vacerrilli, its president, was organized during the world war | by members of’ unions affil iated | with the A. F. of L. .. . sworn to| uphold the constitution of the United | States, to frustrate strikes and lock: outs and otherwise aid in holding the men to their war time tasks. The aims of the organization are peace and harmon; in the trades.” Representative F. LaGuardia, who wants the workers to make him the | the next mayor of New York, was an honored guest at the banquet. * 1 * * Weinstone Denounces McGrady. William W. Weinstone, Commu- nist candidate for Mayor, last night | assailed Edward F. McGrady who on Monday was awarded a medal for his scabbery by the Loyal Labor Legion, a strike-breaking organiza-| tion. “The awarding of the medal to eGrady,” Weinstone said, “for his trike-breaking activities shows the uture fascist role of the American) ‘ederation of Labor. “The workers of New York know | McGrady as a_ strikebreaker who led the fight to smash the needle trades union and eliminate the gains they had won after many years of struggie. Can Join Socialists. “MeGrady can now join hands} with the socialist party which sup- ported him in his attack cn the) needle trades workers. In fact, the | socialist party is today continuing | its attack on the needle trades work- ers. Lieut, Goy. Lehman, Morris Hillquit and other socialist and Tam- many Hall leaders recently gave a banquet to Raymond V. Ingersoll, chairman of the Coat and Suit Com- mission, at which new assavlts on | the needle trades workers were | taken up. “Only the Communist Party fights for the needle trades as well as other workers, while the McGradys, the Hillquits, the Lehmans and the Ta Guardias, as the agents of the em- ployers, fight to worsen the condi- tions of the workers.” | Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! great | ist the young- \the class justice of An est generation and themselves do} talism is now | murder, Haif: | ialism. impe A Center of Arab Workers peuelion n Against Imperialists View of the port of Haifa, Palestine, one of the centers of the Arabs in revolt against British AUSTRIA TOILERS HAIL PRISONERS 'Cable Solidarity With Gastonia Defendants (Continued from Page One) | meetings and in factory meetings Jand sent to the American consulate jin Vienna. The Austrian Inter- national Defense also forwarded |resolutions to which were affixed jthe signatures of many well-known | | Vienna intellectuals. Their resolution “This imeeting, held August 1929, in| |Hernalser Brauhaus, called by the | Austrian International “abor De- r ind Vanzetti who were executed on| |the electric chair two years ago by | \the American bourgeoisie. “The meeting is fully aware that erican capi- planning a second and criminal Sacco-Vanzetti | Sixteen workingmen and | women, who had taken part in the even more to be sentenced to death on the charges of the state attorneys. “The textile workers’ strike in In the even- | Gastonia was an heroic fight against | unbelievably shameful conditions. | During this strike the bourgeoisie | attempted to carry through an armed | police attack accompanied by their fascist bands on the striking work- ers. ‘Together with the international |working class the Austrian prole- | tariat raises its voice in the sharp- jest prot against this planned | « age rete ‘der. ympathy and solidarity with \the usgiula comrades and warn the ayia capitalist rulers that: second Saceo-Vanzetti ease wil not be permitted by the working e “Hands off the Gastonia workers! “Long Live the Struggle of the | American Working-class! “Long Live International Prole-| tarian Solidarity!” Fake Needle Strike Will Start Today (Continued from Page One) union conditions for the workers, and when the strike ends the work- ers will not have gained shorter hours and higher wages. * To Collect Dues. “The fake strike has been called} for the purpose of obtaining money for the company union. The heads of the scab ovtfit think that as a result of the so-called .irike they will be able to collect some dues for their strike-breaking organization and at the same time strengthen the is no wonder that the employ- it is remembered that from them the bosses are able to secure promises of long hours, low wages and speed- up conditions. “The pleaters, stitchers and bon- naz embroidery workers should watch out for a betrayal at the hands of the company union. “The cloakmakers know what a ‘strike’ under the leadership of the scab union results in, The same conditions will result from the pres- ent strike called by the company union. “All needle trades workers should rally to the Needle Trades Workers | Industrial Union for a real fight for | higher wages, less hours and the end | | of piece work and speed-up.” Shoe Union to Resist. Attack By Government (Continued from Page One) Hall police have been visiting shops | | having agreements with the union) land have demanded that the work- ers fill out questionnaires stating | when they entered the country and | ‘whether they are citizens. After Israel Zimmerman reported on the attempt of the federal and) city government to smash the union, a general discussion followed in which it was the opinion of the dele- gates that the union should resist |the move to break down union con-| ditions. Arrangements were also made for the shoe workers’ mass meeting ealled by the union, which will be! held Thursday, September 12, at) Arcadia Hall, Brooklyn. into two great and dire: poned classes: bourgeois! letariat—Mars, They promise their | “favor the right wing union, when | (Hold Son of Dry Law| |Fenatic for Indulging | in Drunken Antics) PHOENIX CITY, Ala., Sept. 3.— | |Charges of public drunkenness and | violation of the prohibition law to- |day were made against J. Tom Hef- \lin Jr., son of the Alabama senator. | {in recorders court. Young Heflin and a companion, B. |M. Haines of Standing Rock, Ala., |, were arrested last night after they |had driven into town in an auto- | mobile. ANOTHER VICTIM [Tune Up S Saieecial Planes for War | NEEDLES, Calif, Sept, 3—The Cleveland air mobilization meet is | believed to have claimed anotker victim in Major John Wood, whose speed plane, crashed in the desert near Piute Springs, 35 miles from here. No |trace has been found of the jingo} pilot. His mechanic leaped to! safety. Their plane was bound for | Cleveland from Los Angeles in one of the numerous air meet side-show “derbies.” | * CLEVELAND, Sept. 3.—The fea- ture event of the national jingo air show now in progress here, the | closed course 50-mile free-for-all) race, was won this afternoon by a |“commercial” plane, racing against army and navy bombers under wa conditions. Its victory proved again the ease with which planes not es- pecially designed for air raids can be pressed into the service of Wall Street in the approaching imperial- ist war. i'TUUC Enlists Women| ‘Workers, Says Grecht (Continued jrom Page One) Section of the New York Metropoli- | tan Area, to the Daily Worker yes- terday. “Seventy-two Grecht added. * * women delegates,” food, electrical and mining centers. One after another they clamored for the floor to tell their fellow-workers just what rationalization means for them in their respective industries in which there are absolutely no protecti> mecsuzes for >. “But <fter three deys of intensi- fied working class activity, they left the conference satisfied that under the guidance of the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions they have at last a class weapon for their eman- cipation. And they left determined |to carry on the struggle.” “Challenge to A. F. of L.” A direct challenge t othe decad-| ent A. F, of L. and the bosses, the cokvention was thoroughly repre- | sentative of the great basic indus-! rine, transport, and building trades. ‘There were 80 Negro delegates full of enthusiasm. “You felt as they spoke that this was something new for them—com- ing together with white fellow-work- ers on a program of struggle and against race and class oppression,” the Women’s Section delegate re- | ported. Marks New Era. “Without doubt it marked an en- \tirely new era in the history of the American working class,” she con- ‘cluded. Why? Because, organized by its fore-runner, the Trade Union Educational League in the very heart of the basic industries, the ‘convention formulated a program of \action for mobilizing the workers, ‘for a national and international struggle against capitalism, led by \the R. I. L. U.” Freiheit Chorus Picnic To Be Held on Sunday The annual picnic of the Freiheit | Singing Society will be held Sunday at Pleasant Bay Park, the Bronx. The chorus will present a new pro- \gram and John C. Smith’s Negro jband will farnish the dance music. The program is under the direction of Jacob Schaefer and Jacob Mestel. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! Pa | He will be brought to trial tomorrow | AIR MEET CLAIMS struck by lightning, | “They came from 14| industries—including textile, steel, | tries, Grecht said. There were dele- | gates from the mines, railroads, ma-) CHIGAGO NEEDLE WORKERS STRIKE Millinery “Shop Breaks Union Agreement CHICAGO, Sept. 3.—The workers of the Richard and Meyers millin- ery shop which had an agreement with the Needle Trades Workers In- |dustrial Union have gone on strike again when the boss broke his agree- ment with the union. The strikers are calling upon the scabs to join the struggle. Those who are scabbing include three sup- porters of A. J. Muste, the fake progressive who is conducting a sham battle against the reactionary merican Federation of Labor. The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union announced today that it will conduct an aggressive strug- gle to again bring back union stand- ards in the shop. | * Boston Meeting Tonight. BOSTON, Sept. 3.—A mass meet- | of furriers, cloak makers, dressma- kers and millinery workers ‘will be held tomorrow (Wednesday) night jat Franklin Union hall, 41 Dudley |St., at which questions of great im- portance will be taken up. Louis Hyman, president, and Ben Gold, secretary-t idle Trades Workers Industrial ion, will be among the speak: report of the recent general tive board meeting of the urion ie given. DEMAND RELEASE : Un . A | L. A. Needle Workers 'to Aid Gaston Defense | , 108 ANGELES, Cal., Sept. | ditional release of the 28 Southern | textile strikers and pledging organi- zational and individual aid to their ; defense was -silopted unanimously |by the Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union here. “We congratulate the National Textile Workers Union, its members ; and organizers, for their courageous |struggle against the forces sent |against them, and we hereby urge the N. T. W. U. to continue its splen- did campaign for the organization of the Southern textile workers, in | which we pledge our full support,” | the resolution says in part. It was agreed to send telegrams | | of greeting to those on trial and to send copies of the resolution to the N. T, W. U., the Gastonia Defense | and Relief Committee, the Gastonia | |prisoners, the press and the gover- nor of N. C. Resolutions were also passed greeting the Cleveland T.U.U. Con- | vention and for the defense of the! | Soviet Ton. Land of Soviets Safe In Khabarovsk, Siberia (Continued from Page One) Alaska. Pilot A. Shestakov znd his three comrades expect to reach Seattle within a week. From there they will proceed to San Francisco, und thence to Chicago, finishing their 12,500-mile tour in New York. The Friends of the Soviet Union re preparing two receptions for the ‘oviet fliers, who are bringing with hem greetings and expression of | solidarity from the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union to the | workers and farmers of the United States, one in Chicago and the other here, Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! Fre | urer of the Nee-| OF 23 STRIKERS. 3. | resolution demanding the uncon-| WORKERS SCHOOL’ HAS IMPORTANT NEGRO COURSE Briggs, Huiswood Will) Instruct | One of the most important new | cours in the curriculum of the Workers School this Term is the} special course in Capitalism and the | | American Negro, given on preteey | |8:30 to 9:50 p. m. with Otto Huis- wood and Cyril Briggs as the in-| structors. This course is offered with the! jaim of calling to the attention of the militant workers of this city the | ‘importance of the Negro question for the working class movement, the policies that must be followed to win the Negro workers for the working class movement, and also to | help develop a strong movement among the Negro workers for ra-| cial emancipation. Cyril Briggs is {the head of the National Negro De- jpartment of the Workers (Commv- | |nist) Party of America, Both he and Huiswood have lectured thruout the | country on the problems of the American Negro and made a special study of this question. .‘:nong the | topics to be taken up are: 1, The Negro Problem World Problem African Background Negro in America. 3. History of Slavery, Anti- Slavery Movements and Slave Re- volts. as a of the | 4. The Negro in the Civil War, |Reconstruction Period and ,Post- | Construction Period. Present Social Conditions and Class Divisions. 6. The Negro Workers—Migra- tion to the Northland Industrializa- | tion of the South. 7. Negro Agricultural and Farmers. 8. Development of the role of the Negro Petty-Bourgeoisie and Bour- | geoisie. 9. Present Race Movement. Workers 10. Status of the Negro in the cs: 11. Program of the Warkers'| _| (Communist) Party and the Com-| munist International on the Negro Question. 12. The C lonial the Negro. at Negro and white workers are ged to take this course. The course will begin on Monday, Sep- tember 30th. Registration opens on September 2nd, Monday evening at the office of the Workers School, 26-28 Union Square, fifth floor. Write or ask for 1929-30 Catalog. > SWELL GASTONIA DEFENSE FUNDS Boston Mothers League Collect $147.25 BOSTON, Sept. 3. — A sum of $147.25 has been collected for de- fense and relief of the Gastonia tex- tile strikers by the Mothers’ League Council here. The collection was taken at a pic- nic of the organization in which Mothers’ Leagues of Revere, Win-| throp, Dorchester, Roxbury, Lynn | and Chelsea participated. Mass meetings, house-to-house | ‘collections, social events and tag |days are Leing organized by the League as part of its campaign fo Gastonia oO Shoe Paper Committee 'To Hold Meet Tonight | At the last Agitprop meeting of | District 2, Communist Party, a new- reorganized shop paper committee | | was elected. The committee are J. Sultan and A. Heder. Sam Darcey, head of the District Agitprop De-| partment will act with the com- mittee. i The Enlightenment Campaign and the struggle against the policy of Lovestone has prevented the regu- lar issuing of shop papers in the district. A beginning has been made now to issue them more regularly. In order to consolidate and bring | together the various experiences in| putting out shop papers, and to! start an intensive drive for more end regular shop newspapers the | Question and | a tor will com sting | : m Gastraln ola nak br ABRAHAM MAR’ OFF Other plays to be, ‘produced this sen-| SURGEON DENTIST Ison are an anti-fascist 249 BAST 115th STREET play; voy | ning, Sept Cor. Second Ave. New York aboard a, ema a Office hours . Sat., 9.30 I I 2 aE = a.m. to M. ing Guns,” a miners v ing Gund “RU. Ra” a mass panto- Apo Ener Seamen Burnt on Parscie s Y ante C FORCED BY WAR, ILD, TO LIFT OFFICIAL BAN Workers Prepare Free Speech F ” Fight 4 31 (By of the police de- city has again been on taken by lo- tional Relief and Defense offi- partment ged for f and terna Labor the p pien Three seamen were s this yacht land, a millionaire idler, riously burned on off Connecticut. of H. H. Cler ¢ organi- that their allowed, on the picnic wo grounds the Communist Activities Unit R2, Section 1. Will meet Wednesday, Sept p.m., at 27 we 4th ae | partmer al Labor De- 1d, district Interna- 1 decided lu At they tackled one tional police h Agents, W Intl, Branch 1, Section §, A special meeting of the unit utive has been called for Wednesday €3 s polic 0 W Sept. 4, 7 p.m., at 154 Watkins S' aaty : z Brooklyn. Membership meeting at official hemmed sharp. and sd knowledge pene Tae) voy Unit 4F, Section 6. ohibiting the of A meeting for discussion the Henao of the Tenth Plenum, fois led icni¢ ound to be a y Comrade Nesin, will be held Wed l blot 2 = nesday, Sept. 4, 6.80 p.m. at 263 | luff. nent was lantic Ave. Comrades are wu > forced perm:t the read up “On the oad to Bolsheviz, micnie: to, be tion” and the articles on, the Ten doen i Plenum which appeared in the Im- i only one more example of precorr and the Daily Worker. After es ae is ample o the discussion an open air meeting the death-gripping fear which the will be held at Fleet St. and Myrtle | eauthorities of Boston are feeling Avenue. hanaghe mes et ie ae whenever a book or meeting or in- Unit 1, Section 3. dividual threatens to expose the A special meeting of the unit will oligarchy.of the bosses in this state be held Wednesday, 4 at 1179 Broadway * vernment organization,” “The in conjunction with |to prevent worker: I ulled the local I, L. FP. declares. for Thursday, Sept. 5, 8.30 pom. at police department stands warned Tenth Plenum thesis. that the local defense organization ats By becom or. is preparing a fre speech fight to The executive meets Wednesday, | at resist police efforts to muzzle the workers, and they been de. have 1 t feated in this atte Fraternal Organizations “ tay hold mime of world forma Freiheit Singing Society The annual picnic of the Freiheit on apply Singing Society will be held on Sun- it appear in a new s and instrumental music. mith’s Negro j band will provide music for dancing, Wihtaswers 1. tL. D A general membership meeting will be held Wednesday, Sept. 4, 8.30 p.m., Patronize Cooperators! nee oe Oe CHEMIST Dental Mechanics Meet, at 56 Manha Ave. Comrade ory We 557 A Blumfield will. speak on an impor= '$ meetin Lee deset vl Bees tant subject. | 5. Estabrook 3215 Bronx, N. ¥ Plaza Hall, 15th and Irving Pl |discuss the issues arising out of roaching expiration the Soviet Fiters Reception Commit A meeting of all Workmen's Ci | delegates will be held on Wednesda Sept. 4, 7.30 p.m., at 175 5th Av Room 304. ear Surgeon Workers Labatatncy ithe 141 SECOND AVE r. ¥th St The Workers Laboratory Phone, Orch 929-30 season w will open its 1 general members day. Sept. 4, 830 p.m, in room 6 Workers Center, 28 Union Sq workers interested in the drame gardless of experience, are invit After the busines: ing ah direc: e or the h your teeth who has assure t ase of trouble w me to see t long exper! vou of ip meeting W: canes All OPEN AIR MEETS! Eagle Pencil Company at 12 noon (12th St. and Avenue C), speaker, | P. Grecht; 7th St. and Avenue B at | 8.15 p. m, speakers, G. Ackerman, | D. Morgan, Wm. Simons; Stanton Myrtle and Prince at 8 p. m., speak- ers, Candalla, S. Nesin, I. Rothstein; 149th St. and Third Ave. at 8 p. m., peakers, J. Codkind, Glassford; Myrtle and Prince at 8 u. m., speak- ers, W. Burke, H. Bloom, J. William- son; Intervale and Wil m., speakers, I. Zimmerman, Cohen, G. Primoff; 116th St | 2nd Ave. at 8 p. m Coco, Di Bartolo, S. Spir Advertise your Union Meetings here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. 26-28 Union Sq.. New York City Db. 10m oe ele for nppointment. : Lehigh 6022 DR. J. MINDEL SURGECN DENTIST 1 UNION SQUARE Rcom 803—Phone: Algonquin 8188 Not connected with any other office AMALGAMA’ | rd Avenue, Wronx, N. ¥. omrades Always Find It Pleasant to Dine at Our Place, 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD., Bronx (near 174th St. Station) PHONE:— INTERVALE BUTCHERS’ UNION}, Local 174, A.M.C.& B.W. of N.A. Office and Headquarters: Labor Vemple, 243 EB. 54th St, Room 12 Regular meetings every altae and third Sunday, 10 M. Employment Bureau day at 6 P. 9149. “For Any | Kind of Insurance” ARL BRODSKY | ‘elephone: Murray Hil. 6556 Hote) and Restaurant Workers 7 East 42nd Street, New York Branch of the Amalgamated Food Workers 133 W. Sist St, Phone Circle 7336 1 Eos MEETING) ld on the firat Monday of the month at 3p. m One indastry—One Union—Join and Fight the Common Enemy! ‘¢ Open from # a. m, to 6 p. ms. MEET YOUR FRIENDS Messinger’s Vegetarian and Dairy Restaurant 1763 Southern Blvd., " nx, N. Y. apep every M. Right off 174th St. Subway Station Patronize RATIONAL Vegetarian RESTAURANT 199 SECOND AVE1.UE No-Tip Barber Shops 26-28 UNION SQUARE (1 flight up) 2700 BRONX P’ “K EAST ‘FURNISHED ROOMS. District Shop Paper Committee is | calling a meeting tonight at 7.30 p. m., Workers Center, fifth floor. Section agitprop directors and com- | rades who have anything to do di- rectly with shop papers are request- | ed to come. 7 PRE 26-28 UNION SQUARE ACTIVE 8S, INc. 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