The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 25, 1929, Page 1

| THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week ia ily Entered as second: tas matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., ander the act of March 8, 1878 * if ~ ALN AL CLliy EDITION The Vol. VL, N Comprodaily Publish! New York City, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 ver year. Price 3 Cents . judiciary. iWhere to Buy Tickets Shearer and Mancuso Cases/Free These 13 to Lead Southern Textile Workers Expose Capitalist Democracy. Amid the sharpening contradictions of present world capitalism, it becomes more and more diffficult to maintain the pretenses of bour- geois democracy such as the carefully fostered illusion that govern- ment power stands separate from and above the great monopolistic concerns, .Two recent cases of corruption in high places reveal the ordinary mechanism of bourgeois democracy—the so-called “investiga- tion” by the U. S. Senate of the activities of the big navy propagandist, William B. Shearer, and the case of Judge Mancuso—the judge who took bribes—and was caught taking bribes. Shearer was sent to the Geneva arms conference of 1927 as the paid agent of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation (a subsidiary of Bethlehem steel), and other corporations, for the purpose of acting as a sort of foreman of the steel firms over the naval officers and other American “experts” who participated in the conference. Shearer knew that naval conferences are nothing but attempts of rival imperialist powers to impose arms limitations upon their rivals in preparation for the time when the last word will have been spoken by statesmen and financiers at international conferences and the conflict bursts forth into open warfare. For his work Shearer was paid enormous sums of money and lived in royal style at a villa near Geneva; but he was not paid enough, he thought. When through Shearer's starting a civil suit against these corporations for moneys due to him his activities became public property, frenzied demands came from Hoover at the White House for an investigation such as would over-shadow any awk- ward “revelations” which the civil suit might have divulged regard- ing the relations between the armament firms and the U. S. Navy Department. Now that the role of Shearer has come to light we are asked to believe that neither the government of the United States nor the heads of the Bethlehem Steel corporations knew anything about his activities. Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board, and Eugene E, Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, testifying before the sub-committee of the senate naval affairs committee, solemnly deny that they had anything to do with the employment of Shearer, or even knew anything at all about it. This is not the first time that a farcical investigation of the ac- tivities of Mr. Schwab has taken place. On two other occasions this trust magnate has appeared before his lackeys in the United States Senate and, in’answer to their questions, has with derisive civility de- nied knowing anything about important activities of the trust that he heads. i He was called.in the armor plate investigation and said he knew nothing about it, and the investigators pretended to believe him. He was before the committee investigating (?) the terror of the coal and iron police against labor in Pennsylvania and he knew nothing about that. Now he appears in the Shearer investigation and, although his company paid Shearer tens of thousands of dollars, Schwab knew noth- ing about it. Schwab admits an ignorance of the workings of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation amounting almost to imbecility and the senators and the capitalist press who listen to his pleas of ignorance pretend to be- lieve him. Yet the most trivial utterances of this same Schwab on ether questions are hailed by the senatorial and journalistic flunkeys of imperialism as pearls of wisdom emanating from a great mind. Shearer is being pictured as a sort of super-salesman with malevo- lent influence who imposed himself ypon lesser officials of the steel and shipbuilding ¢orporations thereby enabling. eminently patriotic gentlemen of the calibre of Grace and Schwab, against their will, to realize millions.upon millions in profits on the building of warships for the United States Navy. But not all the deceptive practices of Schwab and the senatorial lackeys of the capitalist class can conceal from class conscious work- ers the unity of the armor plate and munition manufacturers and the other great predatory trusts with the United States government. More than ever,must the working class intensify its struggle against the war mongers and the fake democracy of the capitalist class. While the Shearer scandal is progressing in Washington, the city of New York has a new local scandal, which explodes another myth of bourgeois democracy; the ilea that the judiciary is above classes; the illusion that there is such a thing as an independent or non-partisan Judge Mancuso is revealed as having been on the payroll of a gang of financial pirates and bank-wreckers. The capitalist press and pulpit is indignant, not because Mancuso was in the pay of a capitalist institution, but because through taking his hire from a fraudulent and tottering banking concern which was bound to collapse, he carelessly exposed not only himself but the whole system of graft. But even where no graft is probable all judges, whether directly in- volved in shady deals or not, are by their mere function under: capi- taiism hirelings of the capitalist class, and their “independence” and “impartiality” myths are daily shattered by their brutal and cruel at- titude to workers and strikers, The Mancuso and Shearer incidents serve as valuable aids in ex- posing the real role of bourgeois democr: of the capitalist govern- ment as the special instrument of oppression in the hands of the capi- talist class by which it maintains its rule by force and terror over the working class. The only way we will ever be rid not merély of the Shearers and the Mancusos, but of the whole crew of hirelings and the Schwabs and other paymasters of the’ hirelings is by waging a revolutionary struggle for the overthrow of the capitalist state and the establishment of the-dictatorship of the proletariat. MELVIN TALKS IN PHILA. TOMORROW ‘Alag | able’ Open Ai Rally, Banquet PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 24.— Sophie Melvin, one of the Gastonia defendants who go on trial next | week, will be the principle speaker /at the Ella May Memorial meeting Sallins Restaurant, 216 E. 14th) Thursday evening at the Labor In- 8t.; Lane Vegetarian Res-| stitute, 810 Locust St. taurant, 199 Second Ave.; Lisky! An open air -protest demonstra- Bookshop, 202 East Broadway. |tion against the terror rampant in Harlem: Unity Cooperative| the North Carolina textile fields and House Rest, 1800 Seventh Ave.;| | the attempt to send 13 union leaders Health Feed Veget. Rest., 1600] |to the electric chair will be held at Bronx: Rappoport and Cuttler| | demonstrants will march from the Book Store, 1310 Southern Blvd.;| | Plaza to the meeting hall. Coop. Colony Restaurant, White! 4 banquet in honor of Sophie Plains ‘Ave. corner Britton;| | yeivin will follow immediatel . ly after Smolin’ and Lerner Silk Store,| /+ne mass rally. The Gastonia Joint 1040 :Seathern Blvd; Defense and Relief Committee of Williamsburgh: Laisve (Lith-| | philadelphia is sponsoring all of uanian Daily), 46 Ten Eyck St. | |these activities Brownsville: Goldstein Book F Store, 365 Sutter Ave. ' Boro Park: Max Snow Drug Store, 4224 13th Ave. ‘ Bath Beach: Mallerman Book Store, 8603 20th Ave, Staten Island: Moss Dry Goods Store, 1060 Castleton Ave. Newark, N. J.: Workers Cen- ter, 93 Mercer St. i Roselle, N. J.: S. Diesend, 900 Chandler Ave. Trenton, N. J.: H. Gold, 413 Market St. for the Daily Worker and Freiheit Bazaar Tickets for the: Daily Worker and Morning Freiheit Bazaar, which opens at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 3rd, are now on) | sale at the following stations: Downtown: Workers Bookshop, | — 30 Union Square; Morning Frei- heit, 30 Union’ Square; Needle | Trades Industrial Union, 131 W.) 28th St.; Millinery Workers’, Union, Local 43, 4 W. 37th St.; Trial of 7 Postponed. The trial of seven workers arrest- ed about a month ago at 138th St. *jand Seventh. Ave., when police broke jup an open air meeting of the Com- |munist Party was postponed when | they were arraigned in Washington Heights Court, 15th St. and St. Nicholas Ave. , yesterday morning. | Jaques Buitenkant of the I. L. D. wes attorney for the workers, ast |the City Hall Plaza at 7 p.m. The, County Prison, Charlotte. Wo. «@.,NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPT Facing clectrocution at the hands of: the mill bosses’ courts, these 13 Gastonia textile workers, 1 organizers and members of the National Textile Workers’ Union, train to be better leaders in the uggle against slavery, by studying Lenin, while awaiting trial for “murder” rkers must fight to free these work the struggle against slavery, fighting under the National Textile Wo in Fi ght on Slavery | i in Meceklinburg 8, so that they may take up crs’ Union banner, MASSACRE 3000 Bad Weather Holds Up 4 ~NEW REVOLT ON Sovzet Fliers atAttu Island ‘Report New Defections ‘Plane Not After Speed Records’--Csoaviakhim; in Nanking Armies BULLETIN. The United Press cables from Moscow that the Soviet govern- ment officially denies sendi any ultimatum to China. Bri and American papers had carried a report that the U. S. S. R. declared that the Man- churian crisis muSt be liquidated within two months or the “Chi- nese Eastern Railroad would be retaken by force. Shanghai correspondents re- port severe depression in Chiang Kai-shek’s camp over the sudden and unexplained resignation of all government posts of Chiang’s right hand man, General Ho Ying-ching. . eo Ne Apparently accurate reports of the laughter of 3,000 Chinese Moslems | in Central Kansu province haye-been sent out through Peking. Kansu has sufiered for a year from a terrible famine. A large section of the pro- vince revolted, under Moslem leader- ship, some months ago. The armies sent against them were unable to oyercome them, and a peace con- | ference was arranged. | During the conference, the 3,000 representatives of the rebels were jenticed away from their families, and treacherously exterminated. | The government authorities are \ frantically appealing to Nanking for reinforcements, fearing stern re- |prisals from the followers of the | murdered leaders. Stories of Revolt. In Nanking the Chiang Kai-shek government is officially denying a (Continued on Page Two) COUSES BERRY IN QUEENS GRAFT “Aron Mum on Doings | of Republican Party | | Harold G. Aron, candidate’ for |comptroller on the LaGuardia re- publican ticket, at a meeting Mon- day before the Near East Repub- lican Club, in what purported, to be a detailed survey of the duties of the comptroller’s office, placed responsibility on the present Tam- many comptroller, Charles W. Berry, for neglecting to investi- |gate and stop the Queens sewer | | graft. | | Aron, lawyer and banker, who |was chief of the legal staff of the | Botany mills during the Passaic} strike and who directed the legal assaults upon the underpaid and overworked strikers, promised to make the sewer scandal the chief topic of a future speech. - While Aron and LaGuardia ap- peared and addressed the club, Bird S. Coler, candidate for presi- dent of the board of aldermen on the LaGuardia republican ticket, was absent. Coler, for years a Tammany politician, was removed from office for diverting funds in the King’s County Hospital scan- dals a short time ago. The man- agers of the republican campaign probably thought it unwise to have the grafter, Coler, present when Aron was waxing jndignant at the (Continued on Page Two) SEAMEN ENDANGERED WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Rescue of one woman and three men from aground off Elizabeth City, N. C., was reported to coast guard Head- quarters here today by the Kill- Devil Hill Station near there. Sixteen persons remained aboard the vessel and are being brought ashore by a breeches buoy. The ship was bound from Canada to| Tampa with a cargo of plaster. | Massachusetts Workers to Greet ‘Airmen U.S. Coast Guard Cutters Ready to Aid Land | of Soviets 6n Flight to United States SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 24.-— With rain and high winds reported sweeping over the Aleutian chain today, the monoplane Land of the Soviets apparently -was still land- bound at Attu, outermost island of Philip Bolotov the group, awaiting more favorable, weather. The plane was to have taken off yesterday on a 752 mile stretch to Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, which is just off the Alaskan pen- insula. | The uncharted air course over the Aleutians, which has been attempt- ed only twice, is an especially hazardous one, since the islands are covered with high volcanoes con: stantly banked in snow and fog. * * MOSCOW, U. —Although radio R., Sept ons here and, Drive for Labor Unity Subscriptions Includes Attractive Book Offer A drive for 000 yearly sub- seribers will be launched with the ‘coming issue of Labor Unity, of- ficial organ of the Trade Union; Unity League. , The campaign follows a decision of the Cleveland conventon of the League, when delegates emphasized the importance ef building the revo- lvtionary trade union press. The subscription campaign in- cludes book offers. Selling ordinarily for $1.75, “Misleaders of Labor,” by | William Z. Foster, League general secretary will be sold with a yearly | subscription to Labor Unity for $2) during the campaign. Labor Unity costs ordinarily $1.50 for tht year, ad- So- failed to receive any further vices from the Land of the viets, it was believed that the plane, en route from Moscow to New York, is still awaiting favorable weather | before leaving Attu, the most west-! eri of the Aleutian Islands, for the other end of the chain, Unalaska. Osoaviakhim, the popular avia- tion society which is backing the flight, states that the flight is be- ing made primarily for experiment- al purposes and for the promotion} of good will between the workers | and farmers of the United States| ,and the workers and peasants of the | Soviet Union. It does not have for! its aim the establishment of any} “records,” least of all, speed records. | 6 | + * # Amtorg Trading Corporation stated today that U. S. coast guard cutters at Dutch Harbor were in| readiness to aid Semyon Shestakov | and his three comrades in their| flight down the west coast of North | America. The navy department has lent the fliers every assistance, Amtorg adds, having provided them | with detailed information regarding | vadio communication along the en- tire route of the 12,500-mile flight and transmitting weather reports and the position of the plane. Vari- ou. other government departments 5, 1929 | close COMMUNISTS IN DISCUSS TASKS | Weinstone Reports on| Decisions of Tenth | Plenum of E.C.C.I. Oppose Right Danger | OverwhelmingVote for) Militant Action Communist Party members crow: d- GOVERNOR AND MILLMEN PACKED MEETING THREATEN MARTIAL LAW TO FIGHT TEXTILE UNION Refuse Hall to Honor Ella May in Charlotte; Her Brother, Wesley May, Fired for Activity \Bosses Consider More Use of Legal Weapons; Admit Failure of Open Violence Alone CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. the National Textile Worke: 24.-New plans for outlawing Union and all other workers’ ed into Webster Hall, last night,! organizations in whose leadership there are Communists, are jamming all available floor space) being laid by the mill owner Governor Gardner in conference to hear William W. Secretary of District 2, report in full on the situation facing the working class in this period of the rising militancy of labor, of ration- alization, of government persecution and the war danger. The meeting last night was for members only, and one of the prin- ciple subjects under discussion was the treachery of the international right wing, and of its American sec- tion, the Lovestone group. The meeting was opened by Stachel, as chairman, who intro- duced Weinstone, for a report of an hour and a half, to be followed by questions. It was planned to discussion at 11.45, and vote no a resolutino endorsing the analy- sis of the Tenth Plenum of the 2xecutive Committee of the Com- munist International, and all of its decisions for militant struggle, ex- | actly the points on which Lovestone and his followers left the Comin- tern, and began to wage war against it, objectively uniting for that pur- pose with all other enemies of Com- | munism. The voting was too late to be re- vorted in this issue of the Daily Worker. Up to a late hour last night, no evidence of contealed opposition had appeared. It is absolutely certain that the resolution will be adopted by an overwhelming majoriyt, if not unanimously. Weinstone’s speech will be given more fully in next issue of the Daily Worker, as it could not be fully reported last night, but the speaker stressed as main points the tasks facing the Communist Party of America as a result of the de- velopment of events in the Third Period. ‘ He called attention to the events since the Sixth World Congress, proving the correctness of the de- cisions of the Congress, that in- tensified exploitation, the drive to- ward new imperialist wars, the capitalist menace to the Soviet Union, all were bringing on a ‘sharpening of class consciousness on the part of the workers all over the world, without exception, and Weinstones | with other mill owners of North Carolina. |frankness one of these mill bar With amazing rons stated yesterday that the fascist methods of terrorism that have been employed by the bosses’ black hundreds under the leadership of Manville-Jenckes | have not been as effective as had been hoped. MILL SLAVES IN ROSEMARY, N. ¢. CALL FOR UNION ‘Communist Party Not to Leave South’ (By a Worker Correspondent} ROSEMARY, N. C. (By Mail).— I’ve just read the Daily Worker, |sent me by a friend. I work in an unorganized mill. I would like to get people interested in organizing this mill village. We need it badly. $15 for 55 Hours. ;. I am a weaver, tending eight | jlooms. I weave the damask art mat-} tress ticking for a famous beauty rest mattress. My wages average '$15 a week for 55 hours. Slave in Hot, Dry Mill, To keep the cards and harness from sticking the mill is kept very hot and dry. Every day we have to |fan the lint off the looms. Only a few of the women can do this. The rest hire men to do it, paying 25 | (Continued on Page Two) HOOVER RESISTS DRIVE ON TARIFF | Demands Centralized | The reaction of the workers to the terror has been favor- able to the union, and there- fore other measures must be taken, he implied broadly. Stuart Cramer Baron of the “model mill village” of Cramerton is hailed as an “enlightened’ employ- er” of the textile industry—one of those who try to bribe his slaves with paternalistic welfare schemes. He said that the conference of mill bosses with the governor had laid plans which they hoped would “pre- vent further violence which places the Communists in the position. of martyrs and gives them advertis- ing.” Cramer further stated that- the bosses would “pass the word around” that the reign of terror had failed in its purpose and other measures would be taken to stop. the activities of the N. T. W. and drive it out of the South. “We discussed every phase of. the subject, including legislative action, terrorism and martial law,” Cramer stated. He added that the governor cided not to declare martial law fox politigal reasons but’ would ré- sort to this if other measures fail. “We do not want to call a special session of the legislature if we can restore peace without it,” . said Cramer, pointing out the lack of anti-Communist legislation at pres- ent. “No law exists on North Caro- |lina books by which an officer can legally stop a meeting of the Com- munists,” he complained and added that if any further violence occurred it would give the necessary excuse to call a special session to pass drastic legislation legalizing the suppression of all rights of grorkers. Thus the state comes out even more openly as a government dom- inated by the mill owners utilizing | its power without apology, and in a are cooperating with the Soviet| emissaries. a greated tendency to resist. | Authority on Imports poorly camouflaged manner against WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Pres- workers’ organizations. The power 900 SAND HOGS VOTE ON STRIKE Workers Mostly Irish) and Negro | More .than 2,000 sandhogs m: go on strike today when the ques- tion is taken up at a meeting of the Sandhogs Union, at 10 a. m. at! Mankattan Lyceum, 66 E. Four St. The Blasters Union, which will also meet today, and the Steam and | Operating Engineers Union, may also strike. | Several hundred sandhogs, it was) learned yesterday, are already on Strike, having walked out Monday | and the normal price of both is | sfternoon in Long Island where they $3.25. were working in the water tunnel | The Cleveland convention decided /from Croton to Brooklyn, which ic) ‘each member of the League shall being constructed by the Patrick | |hegome a Labor Unity subscriber. | McGovern Construction Co. |Labor Unify agents, if they have | The strikers are mostly Negro and the Swedish steamer Carl Jerhard, | not already done’so, should see that |Irish workers. They demand a their group or local union orders a} minimum wage of $12 a day. At regular weekly bundle order, the. T. | present’ they are paid $8 for an U. U. L, advises. ‘ * The campaign will last several | for lunch. months, particular emphasis being, The work is done in a hole three placed on’ reaching unorganized |o- four hundred. feet below the workers. ‘ground, They toil. in cold, black, ——_—"—-_ * {slimy mud, with the constant danger R.R. WORKERS DIE IN FLOOD. ‘of death from a cave-in or falling POTENZA, Italy, Sept. 24.—With | rocks. flood waters rapidly subsiding, the, \search for the bodies of ten railroad DRESS SHOP CHAIRMEN WILL 'men of a Battipaglia—Potenza train | MEET TONIGHT : |who were believed to have drowned|- A meeting of the shop chairmen lin a flooded tunnel near Balvano, of the dress division of the Needle 15 miles west of here, was resumed. | Trades Workers Industrial Union The missing men included the will be held tonight, right after fireman and engineer of the train,| work, at the union headquarters, |two watchmen and section hands.|/16 W. 21st St. A report will be |The train was stopped before enter- given on the conditions in the in- ing the tunnel while the crew went‘ dustry, to be followed by a gen- ‘ahead on foot to examine the road |cral discussion from the floor. bed. They never returned. ALLENTOWN, Pa. (By Mail). —Union building workets who struck on the high school "job be- cause non-union iron workers were \used, obtained assurance that union iron workers would: be used hence- forth, i a im sian 0 {ro gren directly ea pon classes: bourgeoisie an: lafariateoMarx. vs NURI pre | 8-hour day, with one hour or less| Weinstone showed how Thal- heimer, Humbert-Droz and other right wingers, incliding Lovestone, make out a theory of capitalist stability, trying thereby to prevent the militancy of the workers. He told of Varga’s theory, that the antagonism of the United States and Britain will not deepen, and pointed out, not only the refutation logically, at the Plenum, but the events of the Hague conference on the Young Plan, where this an- |tagonism took a sharp form, as also ./in the failure to agree on cruiser) parity, and other cases of conflict since the Plenum adjourned. Considerable time was spent by Weinstone in explaining the mean- ing of the Five-Year Plan of con- (Continued on Page Two) TEXTILE UNION. IN N.Y, DRIVE NTWU Shop Delegate | Conference Sunday A conference of mill delegates called by the National Textile Workers Union, New York District, will be held Sunday, at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., at 11 a. |m. Representatives of knitgoods |workers, rug, passementerie and other textile workers are to attend ‘the conference. New York and organizing the un- organized textile workers. In a statement issued yesterday, the union points out that the N. T. W. U. is leading the struggle of the textile workers of the South; that in spite ot the fascist terror of the mill owners and their agents the workers are rallying to the union. The conference will formulate plans to build shop committees, fight against the speed-up and for better working conditions. Build Up the United Front: of the Working Class From the Bot- e conference will take up the | question of building the union in} jident Hoover entered the tariff | fight for the first time as the senate | began consideration of the flexible provisions. His statement, the first he has issued on the tariff since the kouse topk up the bill in April, was designed to bolster up adminis-! tration forces in their fight against democrats and western republicans who are seeking to wipe out the | provisions that permit the chief ex- ecutive to raise or lower tariff schedules 50 per cent without the | approval of congress. | Needs Free Hand on Rates. ( It is necessary for the efficient functioning of the tariff as a weapon against other powers and as an aid in war preparations for the president to have a free hand in| determniing schedules. | The tariff on chemicals, for in- | stance, is maintained at a high rate so that monopolistic prices can be charged in the United States. The tremendous profits realized because of high domestic prices enables the chemical trust to throw its products upon foreign markets at ridiculous- ly low prices. This serves to cur- tail production of chemicals in other countries because of the ruinous | (Continued on Page Two) BLAST SCAB CAR IN NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 24. —Dynamite blasted a hole thru the floor of a scab-operated street car here yesterday, destroying several | feet of track and shattering all the windows. Three passengers and the strike-breaking crew were unin- jured. Det ned to fight the betrayal of the American Federation of La- bor, the women have been organized in picket squads to swell the lines. The agreement, prepared in a con- ferefice with Public Service, Inc., |and accepted by William Green and W. D. Mahon, president of the of the mill bosses and the state is being openly consolidated for. action against the union that is leading the southern textile workers against the stretch-out system, the starva- tion wages and child labor. An edi- torial in F issue of the Manu- factur Record of Baltimore called gal methods” more effec- ive than violence. Plans of the International Labor Defense to hold a gigantic Ella May protest meeting in Charlotte this week, have met with a united front from all owners of halls and thea- tres who refused the use of halls (Continued on Page Three) MINERS KEPT OFF BARKOSKI JURY Was Murdered by Coal and Iron Police BULLETIN. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 24.— Physicians today described the horribly mangled body of John | Barkoski. They were testifying at the trial of three coal and police who beat him te iron death, The Pittsburgh Coal Co. doctor told of being called to the: bar- racks and finding Barkoski lying on the floor drenched in blood, and, when he demanded the: man be seated, Policeman Lycester kicked Barkoski Savagely in the side and later twisted his already broken nose. This doctor saw | Lycester flog Barkoski repeatedly | with a heavy strap. Barkoski | had one-and-a-half-inch _lacera- | tions of the head, nose broken, | ribs and breast-bone broken, A story of torture was told from the witness stand today by Dr. John Paterson, of Imperial. He told the jury that he saw Lieut. John J, street car employes’ union, relin-| Lyster, one of the defendants, lash |quishes all strike. claims, .and in- Barcoski with a long strap while |mludes whei actraily omicints to a/ the miner in © semi-conscious blacklist in the weil.ca eg ociaemig) (Continued vu Foye Two) | y