The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1929, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YOka, 402-11, »sPTEMBER 10, 1929 ; Labor Defense Demands Labor Dept. End Intimidation of Foreign-Born Workers ATTACK FEDERAL SPYING ON LEFT WING WORKERS Shows Alliance with Gov't, A. F. L. Fakers Demands that the Department of Labor at Washington cease its cam- eaign of espionage and intimidation of foreign born workers who belong to left wing unions were sent to Washington today by the New York Section of the International Labor Defense. A letter from Rose Baron, secre- tary of that workers’ organization, charged that police of New York were doing federal spy work on shops employing members of the In- dependent Shoe Workers Union. Mayor Walker also received a copy of the letter and a denunci- ation of the use of police to register foreign born workers and intimidat- ing them. The letter sent to Washington fol- lows in part: U. S. Department of Labor, Office of the Secretary, Washing- ton, D. C. Dear Sir: It has come to our notice that your Department has issued a questionarie asking for name, ad- dress, birthplace, port of entry, name of ship, citizenship, ete., of workers employed in this city, we presume throughout the United states. This circular, which, curiously enough, has as its heading “Con- ciliation Service,” states that it has been prepared by your de- partment “for the purpose of as- certaining the number of aliens who are believed to be in the coun- try, unlawfully, many of whom are believed to be employed at the locations indicated on the attached list.” At the bottom of the cir- cular appears a note which recites that “if children are connected with any Communist organization, such as ‘Young Pioneers,’ ‘Young Workers League’ or any Commu- nist organization, same will be noted above.” For many years anti-labor ele- ments in Congress, under the in- spiration of various “patriotic” or- ganizations, chambers of com- merce, and the lie, have been trying to put through an alien registration act; up to the present | and due to the opposition of mili- tant labor, they have not succeed- ed. It is evident, however, that the Labor Department is proceeding with the registration of aliens, us- ing city police for this purpose, seeking to frighten foreign-born + | Unanimous endorsement of the decisions of the Tenth Plenum of the Communist International con- cerning the expulsion of Jay Love- stone and his followers from the Communist Party of the U.S.A. is contained in a resolution passed by members of Section 2, New Yor District 2, of the Party at a plenary session of the Section Executive Committee. “We call upon the units of our section to take the firmest discipli- nary action—up to expu against any ‘attempt that may made by Lovestone and his follow- ers to split the Party,” the resolu- tion declares. Its full Accept Tenth Plenum, “We the members of Section Two, District Two of the Communi Party of the U.S.A., at a Plena Session of the Section Executive Committee, unconditionally accept and endorse the decisions of the Tenth Plenum of the E.C.C.I. on the expulsion of Lovestone | “We express our full agreement with and endorsement of the thesis of the Tenth Plenum ‘of the E.C. and of the decisions of the World Congress. The events since the Sixth World Congress prove the correctness of its estimation of American and world imperialism, the radicalization of the working!them in the camp of all the rene-| PARTY LIFE text follows: | one who is fighting decisions of the 2 . | “For Bolshevik self-criticism! gates—white and black, men and “We condemn the anti-Party, anti- pa : lit pede eciticism | women, young and old, from the tre- Comintern documents issued by “For mobilization of all our forees mendous unorganized shops and | .|Lovestone in the form of the “ap-|for the coming battles of the work-| from the old unions, from the East. | TUUL PROVIDES | | mere FOR INDUSTRIAL | |masses, and the utter bankruptcy of | gades, such as Brandler, Thalheimer, | Lovestone’s theory of exceptional-|Hais, etc, ism, | “We are in full agreement with | “The numerous strikes taking | the prompt action taken by the Cen-| place in the U.S.A. such as Gastonia, |tral Executive Committee and Dis-| New Orleans, Marion, Elizabethton, |trict Executive Committee against | etc. show that 4n this period the/the splitters who are associated with merican working class is entering | Lovestone. At the same time we de- | new and more intensive struggles | mand that the C.E.C. take organiza- Secretary | against capitalist rationalizaton|tional steps against the conciliators which has been correctly character-|who are still in the Party and are (Continued from Page One) | izod by the Tenth Plenum and the /now the agents of Lovestone. These sen, Pa. and Gary, Indiana; from| Sixth World Congress as one of the | elements are correctly characterized) Bethlehem Steel, Jones and Laugh- predominant characteristics of the) by the Tenth Plenum as “cowardly | jin Steel, Republican Iron and Steel, third post war period. opportunists.” We demand that! Youngstown Shell and Tube (two | Characterize Third Period. jthe Party immediately put to these! plants), American Tin Plate, Wheel- eho ) elements the four conditions of re-jing Corrogated, Andy Mellon’s “In this period, while imperialist | maining in the Party, as contained] Aluminum Co. of America, Themp- was is looming against the Soviet/in the C.E.C. statement and based|<on Steel, the Harvester Trust, Union, and fierce battles of the/upon the Tenth Plenum: decisions. | Brooklyn Navy Yards, Otis Eleva. ng class are taking place, any-| «we call upon the Units of our|tor, Timkin Roller Bearing, Rem- |Section to take the firmest discip-|ington Arms, Winchester Arms, |linary action—up to expulsion—| Standard Seamless Tube, Westing- against any attempt that may be|house Mfg., etc. + ' made by Lovestone and his follow-| Meeting under the chairmanship ers to split the Party. |of Andrew Overgaard, the 69 dele- METAL UNION Overgaard Provisional) Sixth World Congress and the Tenth Plenum is splitting the Party and putting himself in the camp of the enemy of the Communist Interna- tional and the working class. peal.” This, as well as the other/ing class! documents circulated by Lovestone and his followers, show only the splitting character of the faction headed by Lovestone. This lands | |the West, the North, the South and the great industrial centers of Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, etc., a A ‘ i | met, discussed their conditions and | Executive Committee, Section! +heir problems, the line of the T. U. Two, C. P. U. S. A.” U. L. and the R. I. L. U,, unani- “For a united Communist Party of the U.S.A. GREAT INCREASE! IN FUNDS VITAL Intensify Gaston Drive Committee Warns | | (Continued from Page One) fense. The witnesses must be cared |for a longer period of time, and their expenses will grow, The law- | yer will demand more fees for their} part in the long-drawn out case. | The great amount of funds to {carry the trial on to this date will, have to be raised again—and in- greased doubly. The period between the. present} moment and reopening of the case will have to be utilized for a great intensification of the campaign to |meet the added burden of increased | costs. | Preparatory work must be in-| jereased for thc mass collection days, nationally, September 21 and} 22. | The mistrial comes at a most un- jfortunate period, after the prosecu-| |tion had presented their witnesses, | and had a chance to guage the| ee es a mously endorsed both and mapped | out a program whereby the entire | industry will eventually be organ- ized into one great fighting union. . Pde. rayers. Homes Lost, Famine| BY a EFT” UNION | The delegates were unanimous in MANILA, P. IL, Set. 9.—Seventy- | declaring that the A. F. of L. had | . . letely demonstrated its utter eight lives were lost and tremend- comple r linability to cope with present-day ous damage was caused by a ty- — 4 ey inal fe 7 phoon that struck # portion of the! Philadelphia Workers ratlonalsasion) suet sod the Seen ake maa pnd tag Desert A. F. of L. pointed out that, far from even at- PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 9.—} teati | tempting to cope with it, the Ma- Ghee es ‘Sad ak the| chinists’ Union even went so far as | y, on sland, . Building operations requiring hard-|to keep on its payroll brunt of the storm, with seventeen | \ooq flooring have been completely |Captain Otto Beyers, origi- deaths. tied up by picketing of the Hard-| nator of the infamous B. & O, class- Rocks and earth slid down the) wood Flour Workers here. ‘| collaboration plan, who earns his sides of Mayon volcano, killing) Organized 15 weeks ago with 28|pay by helping the bosses invent aye workers, the union’s membership | bigger and better speed-up and ra- ‘Hundreds of homes were swept away by the floods. A severe water famine prevails. REPORTERS AID MILL LAWYERS Times, World Men Help Hold 2 in Charlotte (Continued from Page One) has grown to over 600 against bi tionalization schemes—bigger and ter opposition of bosses’ associa- | better ways of exploiting the work- | tions and the A. F. of L., whose of- | ers. ficials refused to organize thetrade.| The decay of the A. F. of L. craft The officials, however, after they | union policy is further evidenced by saw the determined progress of the | the decline in membership of the union, offered to “organize” the | 24 unions covering the metal indus- | two highest branches of the trade—|iry. The machinists, in the period layers and scrapers—and ignore the | of post-war power, numbered 332,- nailers. 000—today they claim 65,000. Boil- The men rejected the splitting | crmakers had 270,000—today claim- tactic, and adopted the Trade Union| ing 14,000. The Amalgamated As- Unity League program as a basis | sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin of orgarization. | Workers, at one time the most pow- The new union has forced 21| erful union in the country, today firms in the city unconditionally to | Claims 7,000 members. sign agreements on recognition, abolition of speed-up and piece- the condi- | the eight hour day. |faking the vote and the few ballots | must be organized in every car barn,| |ecast for arbitration (a sell-out after |fake negotiations). Teuckmen Win Short ‘Strike re BRITISH. CABINET STRIVES TO STOP REVOLT OVER WAR HendersonVery Cold to ‘SIGNED ip : | French Premier’s Plan (Continued ,from Page One) WITH at Geneva and Snowden at the 28 =. |Hague. The tactic of the “opp |tion” among the cabinet and labor |party leaders seems to be to soothe |these angry workers by the well known tactic of taking up their cause and betraying it. Proof of this is adduced in the report that the “opposition” to’Henderson is led New York truckmen handling general merchandise won their strike foram eighthour day and time and a half for overtime, an hour \ne ‘PPOSITON, to Menccraon 1 Ire afte @ general walkout was begun. Striking kmen are s pil agg ae ea SANE Plan, recently ended, that he was for British imperialist interests to ' }of the company we were given bal- |, farthing: lots and told to vote. When some- |the last pound and farthing. one refused to vote he was threat-| Re aed ened with the loss of his job. Under| Briand Outlines Plan. these circumstances most of the fel-| GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. lows threw in blank ballots in the|Aristide Briand, French for ballot boxes.” minister, held another banquet last The P. S. company and its “kept” jnight, and again outlined his - officials were able to mobilize only |8@m for a European confederation, the votes of the most -eactionary|Which he says is a peace move, but jelements in the union, Most of the Which the Genevese press and all | vote was faked, It is clear that the|Political observers recognize as_an union officials came to a quick de ettemint to ecgate a Jesens satintt se : cision with the company to defeat|Communism and possibly, if tha for a 25 per cent wage increase and paige taieacne fi deriaaas be de_|fight comes first, against U. S. The The sell-out by| saving the vote for the old agree-|confederation would place France in the Amalgamated officials occurs| ont and to rush thru the sigining|the foreground, instead of England, simultaneously in New Orleans and | oe the conteete. las in the League of Nations, or New Jersey. ream ; U. §., as in the Kellogg pact. There In the first vote taken by the offi-| The Traction Workers Section of were representatives of 27 nations i ing majority of | the Trade Union Unity League calls : i cotting the ballots. At a number of | fake vote, and to fight the sell-out; points the bus and trolley operators | and to demand a vote on the 25 per beat up their officials. There were|cemt wace in-rease and the eight so few votes cast that the officials hour day under rank and file con- could not even take a chance on|trol. “Rank and file committees) JERSEY SELLOUT Threaten Non-Voters with Loss of Job (Continued from Page One) representative of Britain, comment- ed dryly after Briand had again out- lined his plan, saying, “The project further is interesting but needs study.” Stresseman Endorses. |garage and shop as a means of pre-| Stresseman, of Germany, day endorsed the Briand plan. Snow- |den’s determination at the Hague to |increase the reparation payments to {England increased the payments from Germany, were burned. k b For the second vote the reaction- | Paring to strike for the workers’ de- ary officials would have us believe |™ands,” it declares. that some 5000 out of 7000 voted, with 2,962 votes cast for the re- 1 newal of the old contract (an im-| Inner Bloc Squabble Peru was elected a non-permanent i 2 tea! ; mediate sell-out) and 2,240 votes Stops Tariff Foe s cee Wes clected 8 nb et aanient From War on Bills Council today to succeed Chile; Jugo-slavia succeeds Roumania, and The real story | of the second vote was told by the} men as follows: | WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—The | Poland is re-elected. Force Men to Vote. | “progressive” farm bloc with insur-| * * * “When we went to get our pay| gent republicans whose sae Admirals Whiteweshed. envelopes in the treasurer’s office | backers are hit by the Hawley-Smoot WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Secre- |tariff bill, claim they have enough tary of the Navy Adams proceeded votes to wreck ithe $600,000,000 Dill); the expected manner today when ~~but, they can’t agree on the WaY|he announced that the U. S. ad- ferences must be called and com- |*° Wreck it. mirals in the Geneva armaments mittees appointed to supervise and| Borah wants a motion to recom-| congress “had no improper relations co-ordinate the work of the shop j mit the bill to the Senate Finance | with Shearer.” William B. Shearer, committees, it was decided. A na-| Committee with instructions to pare|U, §. civilian delegate to this con- tional committce of 23 workers from | own increases to agricultural and| ference is suing three shipyards for every important branch of the in-|Telated products—in line with the! $250,000 for propaganda and secret 3 | ening their base. City (ar district) | and regional metal industrial con- | | strength and weakness of their case.| cally carried into the courtroom |It gives the Manville-Jenckes law-| after both newspaper reporters had yers a chance to buy up new “wit-| called attention to his absence. This nesses” and forge new evidence to! action of Shaplen and Leary shows place in the testimony to send the|the superiority of the metropolitan strikers to the electric chair. | newspaper correspondents over the The situation demands most mill owners’ local stool-pigeons. dustry was elected, and from it an “befriended the farmer” tactic’ service rendered there, in favor of a executive bureav. including a | adopted by the progressives for elec-|]arger U. S. navy. His action has woman, Negro and several young | tioneering purposes. |resulted in an attempt of the workers, was organized, to meet as However, many of the democrats|Hoover administration to make him often as possible. Pat Cush, vet-|are too interested in getting protec-| the scapegoat and keep up the fic- eran of the Homestead strike of | tion for their southern states to join|tion that the administration strug- tions of the workers are deplorable and they are completely at the mercy of the bosses, who reduce wages at their own will and through rationalization are able to increase the productive canacity of the work- work and acceptance of a minimum wage instead. Pwo delegates of the union re- ported today on the Cleveland con- vention. workers into giving information which subsequently will be used to crush them in struggles which they may wage against their em- Ployers for betterment of their conditions. The “Conciliation Ser- vice” is thereby helping exploit- ing employers browbeat their op- pressed workers, It is also interesting to note that the first places invaded by the city police doing federal spy work were shops employing mem- bers of the Independent Shoe Workers Union, an _ industrial union that has but recently given evidence of its ability to wage militant struggles against their bosses. This union has been a particular object of attack by the American powerful and concerted efforts on the part of the I, L. D. and the! | workers backing the Gastonia strik-| ers. It means the Gastonia cam-| paign for funds must be carried on| with renewed and intensified ef- forts, It means that the joint cam-| |paign must be carried on with tiré-| less energy from Atlantic to Pacific. | Two of the state witnesses, Tom! Carver and William Goff, led a mob of 200 that murderously attacked! Hugo Oehler, Dewey Martin, Mike Harris, Si Gerson and Walter Robi- Hampton Il. Too ill to be in the courtroom | while Judge Barnhill ordered a mis- trial as a result of the sudden in- sanity of one of the jurors, Hamp- ton was taken to his cell for treat- ment. Judge Barnhill was unaware of the defendant's‘ absence, and court continued despite the legal require- ments in capital cases that the pris- oner must be present. After the judge had formally or- dered a recess until 2:30 in the ers more and more from month to Conference, after a thorough dis- cussion of the situation in the in- § dustry, adopted a program based primarily on the organization of Rage | today, “although not neglecting the Uproar of British T. U. | work in the old unions, which must i |be intensified. The program calls Congr ess for an extensive drive to build shop (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) | | month,” Overgaard pointed out. | “The Metal Workers’ Industrial | the unorganized,” Overgaard said committees in all the metal and | BELFAST, Sept. 9.—An uproar | steel plants on the basis of concrete | demands fitting the needs of the} |1892 and the great steel strike of |in complete bloc -with the hodge- gles for disarmament. Shearer says 1919; Overgaard and a Negro! podge opposition. molder from Milwaukee, were elected to represent the metal industry of the National T. U. U. L. Committee. Metal Page. “It was decided that a system of | membership cards and regular dues be inaugurated immediately; that a Metal Industry Page be estabiished in Labor Unity (organ of the T. U. U. L.) and that every effort be made to get underway, as soon as possible, a regular organ cf the workers in the metal industries.” \that Admirals Robinson, Plunkett, |Pratt and Wylie encouraged him in jhis Geneva activities. Our own age, the bourxeois age, is distinguished by this—that it has simplified class antagonisms. More and more. society is splitti up into two great hostile into two great and directly posed classes: bourgeoisie and pro- | letariat—Marx. OHIO TYPOS GAIN CINCINNATI (By Mail)—News- paper printers gained an increase of $2 a week in wages. TOURS to |son, all organizers of the National| afternoon, both Shaplen and Leary| was caused in the trade union con-| workers in their every-day strug-| In the old unions, it was stressed f W Federation of Labor, which has substituted in place of class strug- gle a policy of class collaboration. Recently, Mr. Matthew Woll, chief mouthpiece of the American Federation of Labor, threatened militant foreign born workers with deportation, and your ques- tionaire evidences the close alli- ance between the government and the labor bureaucracy for the pur- pose of crushing militant trade unionism in America. To those workers who sought our advice as to whether they were under lagal compulsion to answer these questionaires we gave an emphatic NO as an an- swear, and we have made it our business and feel it our duty to inform all workers that this act on the part of the Labor Depart- ment wa not only not authorized by any legislative enactment, but was in fact a deliberate attempt to aid and assist their employe in crushing the rising tide of mili- tency which is inspiring worke: in America to greater struggles against their masters. The International Labor Defense represents hundreds of thousands of workers in this country; our sole purpose is to aid and defend workers who are victims of the class struggle, such as the Gas- tonia vietims whom the powers of capitalist government are seek- ing to send to the electric chair because of their struggle against the textile barons of the South. We demand the immediate ces- sation of this campaign of espion- age, intimidation of foreign born workers and the attempt of your gpa gi to establish the open and company unions in the thee industry of New York. ‘We demand the immediate ces- mation of your attempt to crush the Inedependent union in order to sid the employers to introduce Seater speed-up and break down indards being established by Independent Shoe Workers is iaisy very truly, a * | Textile Workers Union and the In-|rushed up to Solicitor Carpenter | |ternational Labor Defense in the who was leading the battery of| | midst of the trial period, last Satur-| prosecution lawyers, and called his |day on their way to address a mass attention to this slip in legal proce- gress today when the compositors’) delegate, Lemaire, declaring himself “proud to be a Communist,” de- nounced the labor government’s war gles against the bosses. Shop Committees. “The most important task is the | Kecix. / tom Unesat the Enterprises! sia |meeting of workers before the Pinck- | ney Mill in South Gastonia. This action of the state’s wit- nesses would have been used to dis- credit them before the jury. Now| however, with the mistrial declared, | new “witnesses” will be brought up by the Manville-Jenckes. All these facts must be -ealized so that the workers of America will be} forewarned and forearmed. It brings forth the absolute necessity of intensified activities. We must: Increase our work in the shops, in the streets, before the factory gates! Increase the number of joint cam- paign committees among the unions Increase the spread of knowledge of the case among the working- class! Increase the preparatory work for the mass collections throughout the land September 21 and 22! No let-up until all the workers are freed! (Signed) Workers International Relief, Ludwig Landy; International Labor De- fense, J, Louis Engdahl; | National Textile Work- ers Union, Jim Reid; Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Campaign Committee, Alfred pV aeenicnecht. Actors’. Union Fails to Fire LaBarrymore for Strike Sabotage The Actors Equity Association failed to take the disciplinary action expected against Ethel Barrymore at its five hour meeting today. Fail- ure to ereceive formal charges against the actress was given as the reason. Build Up the United Front of | the Working Class From the Bot- and workers organizations! |dy and the motion was denied, erganization of shop committees in the -various plants and connect these committees up with the gen- eral metal trades groups in various localities and cities, the general group to be-in constant touch with the National Metal Workers’ League of the T. U. U. L. “These shop committees must, through concretization of demands and the publication of shop bulletins voicing these demands, and by the leadership they give in struggle, draw the rank and file of the work- ers behind them—constantly broad- dure, which would automatically have freed Hampton, Reporters Betray. The following is a quotation from the Charlotte News: “Joseph Shap- len of the New York Times sensed the situation and spoke to Leary of the World. Leary asked the solici- tor about it after court had re- cessed and started an uproar.” As a result of the action of the newspapermen, the prisone returned and were counted, whole proceeding was repeated. Lawyers for the defense immediate- ly demanded the release of Hamv- ton on the grounds of double jeopar- preparations, exposed the futility of} pacifist resolutions and justified the sabotage of the manufacture of anunitions. The congress adopted the general council’s report. regarding “disrup- tion” which two avowedly non- Communist Derbyshire miners op- posed, declaring the general council was responsible for the disruption in consequence of its betrayal of the general strike and following its col- laboration with the employers. The congress rejected a timid en- gineers’ resolution demanding that Mondist conversations cease. A resolution was unanimously adopted demanding immediate re- opening of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, but only from the viewpoint of the stimulation of trade. Attacks on Cramp and Walkden for signing the cotton award caused them to defend themselves today. Lying Rumors. Shaplen, especially during the two weeks since the trial began, has in- terlarded his reports of the trial with lying and malicious rumors about dissension among defense lawyers and among the defendants, intended to injure the campaign of the International Labor Defense to free the 16 workers and has acted as a propagandist at large for the mill owners while in Charlotte, Citadel of the Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday BAZAA MADISON SQUARE GARDEN class, (plus be. / Place your order 43 EAST 125TH STREET Octoher 3—4—-5—6 GASTONIA in the New South By WM. F. DUNNE / HISTORICAL PHASE in the struggle of the American working class analyzed and described by 4 veteran of the class struggle. 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