The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1929, Page 3

1 Nuitants = Britie” STRIVE TO BROADEN WALKOUT OF 500 WHO STRUGGLE AGAINST MATES’ VICTIMIZATION Union Officials Denounce Strike as Work of National Minority Movement Men Persist in Struggle Despite Orders by Officials to Return to Work LONDON, Oct, 8.—Five hundred] ordering the workers to return to London busmen are striking despite} work. Militants are striving to ex- orders of the trade union officials|ten dthe strike. ‘9 return to work. The strike com-| enced Saturday in the London su-| burk of Barking, owing to the ais WILL ORGANIZE harge of two conductors who re) fused to use the time-recorder be- Trade Union Officia DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED. a ls Try Vainl; to Break 'Mukden Reported in) Split With Nanking Over C. E. R. Policy| SHANGHAI, Oct. 8—Although Nanking reports state that Chang ‘ak-wei \is “trapped” with his “Tronsides” army in the mountains of Hunan, the report of a new mu- tiny of 1,500 Nankifig troops sent to Ichang against Chang, does not| bear out Nanking’s story of the| | collapse” of Chang’s revolt. At Ichang foreigners prepared to evac- juate. ‘In Kwantung and Kwangsi \the conflicting nature of reports in- dicates anything but solidarity for | Nanking, while still another Amer- ican destroyer has been sent to Can-| ton in view of expected battles, In the North, it is persistently re- ported that Wellnigton Koo, who negotiated the 1924 treaty between Peking and the Soviet Union on the |Chinese Eastern Railway and who,| since the fall of Peking has been a refugee in Europe with a price on| SOCIALISTS IN| BIG SWINDLE OF MUNICIPAL BANK Workers to Dig Into Socialist Graft (Wireless to Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Oct. 7.—Concerning the million mark swindle of the Berlin municipal bank by the brothers Sklarek, the Communist organ, “Rote Fahne” publishes disclosures proving that socialists introduced} the Sklareks into business and facili-| F§ tated their swindles. The “Rote Fahne” proves that the socialist, Kieburg, director of the Municipal Clothing Utilization com- pany, deliberately permitted the) cause the latter was dangerously placed. The union executive issued a pub- lic telegram denouncing the strike as the work of the National Min- ority Movement (Left Wing) and GASTON WITNESS CONFESSES BRIBE Ford Admits Killings Previous to Raid (Continued from Page One) arrests. He did admit to “helping to kill one man.” “Did he die?” asked Attorney Jimison of the defense. ARON RANGES ‘National Miners Union | to Enter Mesaba (Continued from Page One) |000 to 8,000 with nithe past few years, Alongside this reduction in man power has gone a large nicrease in production. Unemployment is an levergrowing menace to the workers. Today, underground miners re- \ceive from 85c to $1.50 for a 3-ton| car as against $2.50 for the same car before the -introduction of ma- chinery. | The average wage in the under- jground mines for this extremely jhard labor is $6.00 with many men \receiving as low as $4.00. Whilst |supposed to work 8 hours per day lthe men actually are in the ‘mines his head, has been called to aMn‘|Sklarek firm to deliver shoddy in churia by the Mukden “government” |the year 1921, whereby the com-} to negotiate a settlement with the} pany went bankrupt with a deficit Soviet Union independently of Nan-|of 15,000,000 marks. | king. While Nanking hotly denies} Kieburg then was promoted to the} that Mukden has broken with it, the post of director of the All-Berlin) fact remains that Wellington Koo | Clothing undertaking, where Kieburg is actually in Mykden without Muk-}and the Sklareks continued the den taking any action against him | game, with the result that this sec- as Nankin gpolicy would dictate. jond company went bankrupt, with | 1,300,000 marks deficit. This second erful weapon in the hand of ¢] e|company was deliberately bank- bosses and is used against the mili-|rupted in order to permit the tant miners who are victimized at|Sklareks to buy the business cheap- | every turn. dly. To understand the extreme im-| This socialist, Kieburg, also com- |portance of this industry on the | mitted forgeries of large bills of ex- Mesaba Range, one need only know} |that three fourths of the total iron | ore production in the country 1s| mined there. | As a basic industry the bosses are | | using every means to keep the work- | ers employed in it away from or-| | ganization. To further this the com- “He shore did,” Hord answered 9 hours counting the time it takes | pany in many sections refuse houses with pride. This killing, Hord said, took place in South Carolina, where he was not an offiser, and he had no warrant for the man’s arrest. Hord also killed a boy a few years ago, but hwas acquitted. . The courtroom went into an up-|the injured men to come to work poe soar when Hurd- admitted that he was indicted in Cleveland County for disorderly conduct, when he rode his horse into a church. “But I have stopped drinking,” said Hord, in extenuation. Hord contradicted the other wit- nesses when he said he had given Ferguson, another of Aderholt’s fol- lowers in the attack on th tent col- ony a rifle when they got out of the auto there. H. ©. Jackson, another of the policemen wh oaccompanied Ader- holt, admitted, under cross-exami- nation, that he did not make any ar- rests in the afternoon when the Lo- ray thugs tried to break up a meet- ing by throwing eggs and stones at Beal, attacking Clarence Miller, one of the workers on trial and firing a He denied using brutality in the police went down to attack the shot. breaking up picket lines just before | ¢ § union headquarters to disarm the guards in preparation for the mur- derous assault of the Jenckes Committee of 100. Attorney Jimison brought out clearly that Jackson, like other wit- nesses, found it, convenient to forget} everything said at the strike meet- ing except what the prosecution al- leges Beal said, and which they think will incriminate him, When Jimi- son made sarcastic remarks about Jackson’s poor memory, and conven- ient forgetfulness, Jackson invented a story about writing down Beal’s alleged statements in a little red book. Howex-r, he “had forgotten to bring this book to court.” There will be a mass meeting next Saturday at the old City Auditorium in Charlotte, as part of the program of the Southern Textile Workers’ Conference. The akers will be George Maurer, o fthe International Labor Defens; James Reide presi- dent of the National Textile Work- ers’ Union; Hugo Oehler, southern organizer of the N. T. W. Us Tetherow, an dthe released defend- ants i nthe Gastonia case; Russell Knight, Delmar Hampton, x. 0. Byers, and Sophie Melvin. The {cuthern Textile Workers’ Conference sarts Saturday, Oct, 12, in Charlotte, and is assured large delegations from N. M. U. locals’ mill committees and organization group sall over the textile belt, and some delegates from locals of the United Textile Workers’ Union, locals which do not agree with the sell-out policy of th U. T. W. of- ficials. On the 18th, there will be in Char- lotte the Southern Convention of the Trade Union Educational Leageu with representatives not only from text:!. mills, but from all the other industries of the South, to lay broad basis for organization work. The results of these two confer- ence will be the stimulation, of active resistance, on a wide front, against the speed-up, the low wages, and the bad onditions of , Sout! factory work. CAN'T FIND EDITORIALS. The Weekly People, organ of a counter-revolutionary sect known as the socialist labor party, states that the Daily Worker, reduced to four pages, has ceased publishing editor- ials, Being an imitator of the American capitalist press, both in ntent and make-up, the ignorant , perceived that our Manville | { |to get to and from the ob. The percentage of accidents is ex- tremely high despite the lying de- | partment of labor figures to the |contrary. Official statistics of the} laccidents are kept low because of {the steel trust practice of compelling the “dry house” after having check, ed in as if they were working. Any |man refusing to come to the “’dry |house” for this purpose is fired as \soon as his injury is healed. | In the open mines the introduc- ‘tion of machinery has practically |wiped out the miners. Slave con- |ditions have been introduced. The | men are compelled to work two Sun- |days per month for time wagés. The gang system, an integral part of the horrible speed-up, is in force, |with one straw boss to every four | men. | The finger printing system, used ln the pienitentiaries for convicts, is lin use in the mines, This is a pow- | epaTeMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP. |” MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, | HTC. REQUIRED BY THE | ONGRESS OF IST 24, 1912. | jor «1 daily, Di Worker, except for October published New York, [State of New York |County of New York a Notary Public in and d county aforesaid. ed A. Wagenknecht ‘duly sworn accord- Before me, for the state an personally appear who, having been ine to law, deposes and says that he lis the Business Manager, of ‘The ily Worker,” and that the follow- tng is Worthe best of his knowledge land belief, a true statement of the |Qumnershiv, management, etc. of the |atoresaid ‘publication for the date |Shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, em: |bdaied in. section 411, Postal Laws and Regulations printed on the re- ¥erse of this form, to wit: 1. That the names and addresses of ‘the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are: Publisher, Comprodaily Publishing Company, Incorporated, 26-28 Union Square, New York City; Editor, Rob- ert Minor, 26-28 Union Square, New York City; Managing Editor, Robert Minor, 26-28 Union Square; Business Manager, Alfred Wagenknecht, 26-28 quare, New York City. ‘That the owner is: If owned by a corporation, its name and address must be stated and also immediately thereunder the names and addresses of the individual owners must be given, If owned by a firm, company, or other unincorporated concern, its name and address, ag well as those of each individual member, must be iven, Comprodaily Publishing Co., inc,, 26-28 Union Square, New York City; J. Louis Engdahl, 26-28 Union Syuare. New York City; J. L. Perilia, 34-28 Union Square, New York City: Alfred Wagenknecht, 26-28 Union Square, New York City. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security hold- ers owning or holding | per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mort- gages, or other securities are: (If there ‘are none, state.) None, 4. That the'two paragraphs next Union 2. above, giving the names of the own- ers, tockholders, and security hold- contain. not only the list of, stockholders and security olders as they appear upon the the company but also, in cases where the stockholder or Security holder the books of the com- appears upon jduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such rus’ ja acting, Is &! also that the said two parag 8 contain statements embracing fiant’s full knowledge and belief cumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security hold- era who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and osecurities in a capacity other than tpat of a bona fide owner: and this affiant has no reason to be- lieve that any other person, tion, or corporation has any direct or indirect in the sald stock, bonds or other securities than as so stated by him. 5. That the average number ot copies of each issue of ‘this publica- tion sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers a date shown above is 33,765. (This information {s required from daily publications only.) ALFRED WAGENKNECHT, this 30th day of September, 1 MAX K (SEAL) NG ol commission expires March 30, morning in machines and lie around | | }to foreign born workers, and try to use the native workers against |them. In the struggle of the work- | ing class for the Defense of the| Soviet Union and Against Imperial- | list War, the organization of the metal miners plays an important | | Enemies of Labor. | In Minnesota and Upper Michi- | gan, whilst not going any organiza- tion work, the A. F. L. betrays the | |miners through the Farmer Labor Party. Every move for struggle is met by pessimism and sabotage. A. F. L. leaders like Mr. McEven; edit- \or of the Labor World, Duluth, uses | his paper openly as an instrument |fo the steel trust against the miners. | Chauncey Peterson of Duluth,4, Farmer Labor legislator and A. F. L. «stalwart, was recently exposed change, but socialist authorities hushed the matter up. Many other socialistg are involved, and the social democrats are moving heaven an earth to stop the “Rote Fahne” ex- posures, having prohibited the past- ing of “Rote Fahne” posters on billboards. The Communist Party, plus other | workers’ organizations, have formed a proletarian committee for investi- | gation into the Sklarek scandal in| order to find answers to the follow- ing questions: pr Sklareks into DELEGATES TO VISIT U 88, Group of Workers to Observe 5 Year Plan (Continued from Page One) oletarian fatherland; various capitalist governments their congresses speak about peace, their secret diplomacy is to make a common conspiracy to bring about war against the Soviet Union. You're Invited. “The Soviet Union, the country which freed itself from capitalism, the land of the workers and peas- ants, calls upon you, working men/ and women, to come apd see for| yourself what is going on in Soviet SDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1929 while the ‘Rottenest Food to Punish | Deserters Jailed in Army (By an Ex-Soldier Correspondent) }from the inspector-general's depart- | This is the conclusion of a letter | ment inspected the prison. He was | from a former military prisoner,!also to inspect the dining room at |who tells of the brutality at the |dinner time. Because of that, we |Governor's Islan detention- bar-/ had steak for dinner. | racks, I was told once, that general pris- | I worke don the coal pile in win- | ers according to army regulations, |ter. We shoveled coal in canvass|a™@ to get a fcod allowance, even |bags which was put on a motor truck | M0re than men in the service be- Jand delivered by us into the boiler °#use of their hard labor. {rooms of the officers’ homes. | The officers, who were stationed General pri:.ners can’t get a cent | e nay cout ere neal ie ae of pay for their hard labor, In civil | yived us of. ; je for the same work, we'd get about $5 a day. The food served us was very poor in quality. | The poor food ruined our health, decaying our teeth. Nearly all the We were : prisoners confined there and at all fed about twice a day on slum s is (stew). We sure got tired of it so) *!™Y posts are in for desertion or often. When weld get scrambled |@bseince without leave. Many de- sert because of the inhuman condi- eggs for breakfast we'd only get a) °° ' tions in the service. tablespoonful of it. ‘ : : The army law book is filled with Often we'd get change in menu jaws, to bind us to blind obedience. from stew to hash. When they |p, : 7 For the least offence one is put in {served dessedt at a meal it usually !the guardhcuse and tried. ares beteeleigaciats e : a s id not cost/ also desert because they see they 7 Be BUR OR, Panes: have small chance to learn a trade, Tl never orget one day for sup-| abou! one chance in several hun- per we had hash. At about 2 a, m.,|dreds. Next to poverty due to un- at the same .time, all gf us were | employment, low wages, a desire to stricken with ptomaine poisoning | learn a trade is the second major caused by the hash we had eaten. | reason why men join the army. Once, while I was thers, an officer | SOLDIER. in fense and Recognition, and which; all industries, automobiles, textile, aims to educate the workers and| metal, coal, needle trades, farmers, farmers of this country about the | co-operatives, etc., to select one or achievements of the Fiv e-Year Plan,|two delegates to participate in this has undertaken to conduct this dele- | Twelfth Anniversary Celebration. gation. ; The only expense for each delegate _ “The workers will visit the most | will be steamer from New York to important centers, Leningrad, Mos- | the Russian border and return, which cow, Dnyeperstroy, Tiflis, Rostov, | will amount to $200. Our aim is to ete, and during the six weeks will | acquaint the workers with the facts. be guests of the Russian workers| Workers who are not yet convinced Who brought th rf ‘. ; A . | cron What politicians Sad of. (Russia. Soviet Russia has nothing| and peasants, with free food, lodg-| about the Soviet Union should go cian avers) GonatanE geste oR Che |(G mie: one) Wormera end, peasais | 76s entertainment, an dtransporta- | and see with their own eyes. Shops Sklareka at races, hunting parties want to show the workers of the tion, We will have special English- |and factories where the workers are and banquets? Where are the | World their success in building gon) renee guides to lead the delega- interested in sending delegates stolen millions? France, Pie Pe | (Wireless by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Oct. 8.—The disclosures in the Communist paper “Rote Fahne” concerning the Sklarek swindle is causing a panic among the socialists. The paper today pub- | lishes a report of the persons who received “presents” from the Sklarek ‘brothers, among whom is Berlin’s mayor Herr Boess, at present in any as trustee or in any other) to the cir-) luring the six months preceding hugh Business Manager | Sworn ‘to and subscribed before me | Notary Public New York City, and a number of other prominent socialists. Liebert, a prominent socialist and director of the big Berlin municipal | undertaking, is now suspended fol- lowing the discosures in the “Rote Fahne” accusing Liebert of gigantic | swindles with the Sklareks. | as a stool pigeon in the pay of the steel trust. This rat has been an \obstacle in the way of organization | for some time. | The I. W. W. in the metal mining | \fields has degenerated into one of) |the worst obstacles in the organiza- tion drive. Every move for organ- lization is opposed by them unless | directed towards the stagnant I. W. |W. Existing as it does on its past fighting record, the I, W. W. is| The Miners Industrila Confer- ‘quickly breaking up for want of ajence, together with the N. M. U.| concrete organizational program. Executive Board meeting at the} | Standing out as the only force|Trade Union Unity Convention in} ble and willing to organize the|Cleveland, concretely laid down} | metal miners is the National Miners |plans for the organization of the Union. This militant union has led|Iron and Copper Miners into the |heroic struggles in the coal fields National Miners Union. | and will lead the struggles in the | metal fields. Indian Summer Days at CAMP NITGEDAIGET ARE WELL REMEMBERED Come Out Now and Enjoy Yourself. | The first working class camp——entirely rebuilt The New Nitgedaiget Hotel of sixty rooms with all latest improvements is in construction. It will be ready in November. WN CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. Telephone Beacon 731 New York Telephone Easterbrook 1400 | } } | DIRECTIONS: Take the Hudson River Day Line Boat—twice daily—from W. 42d St. or 129th St. or by train— New York Grand Central Trains Leave Every Hour cialism in every field. Workers from | the world over, will come and celebrate, together with the Russian workers and peasants, the Twelfth Year of successful proletarian revolution. “The fact that the workers and peasants are inviting workers of the world to come and see their achieve- ments is a slap in the face of the bourgeois and socialist lies about Soviet Russia. England, Germany, See It All. “The Friends of the Soviet Union, |, which was organized for the pur- pose of publishing the facts about the Soviet Union, and for its De- So Come and Join the I. L. D. sang ELLA MAY, I. L. D. organizer of Gastonia, before she was murdered by the mill bosses who fear the strength of this powerful organization defending labor. 50,000 New Mem- bers by January 1 Have You Joined Yet? Hundreds of workers are be- coming members throughout the land, I. L. D. organizers are touring industrial centers in every part of America. The Labor Defender, the I. L. D. publication, is read everywhere, carrying the story of labor everywhere. The next issue ‘of the Labor Defender will commemmorate the Twelfth Anniversary of the only workers and peasants government in the world. Workers in Philadelphia, Detroit, Boston and New York have reserved FULL PAGES in the next issue to print their greetings to the workers of U.S. S. R. Rush Your Greetings in By Telegraph! Do you know there is a governmental drive against the foreign-born in America to- day? You may be the victim tomorrow. Help save Salvatore Accorsi! Stop the murders of the Pennsylvania cossacks! Halt the drive against workers in the shoe industries in New York! How can you do that best? JOIN THE I. L. D.! Fill out the following blank and become a member of the International Labor Defense. I want to join the Interna- tional Labor Defense, Enclosed find 25 cents. NAME ... ADDRESS CITY .... - International Labor Defense 40 E. Lith St, New York City i | should write to us at 175 Fifth Ave. ‘We urge workers from shops of | Room 512, New York City. Greet the Soviet Fliers! THe” Page Three mm THE SHOrS CANNERY SLAVES WELCOME T.UL Oakland Workers Have ey Enough of Slavery (By a Worker Correspondent) OAKLAND, Cal. (By Mail).— venu truck drivers were fired re- cently for sympathizing with the striker sin August and this created a bitter feeling against the com- Workers’ shop committee issued a bulletin, which was welcomed by the All took the bulletin eager= {openly flaunted it in the face of the bosses. The forelady ran out of the cannery trying to claw the distributors of these bulletins, but the workers only laughed at her and cheered the distributers, Two T. U. U. L. members came to speak at the cannery gates recently during noon hour. The enthusiastic workers rushed out to hear them, tut the boss got ahead and locked the gates, commanding the women to return to their work. The speak- ers were arrested an dheld incom- municado without any charges against them till next morning, when they were released. The women throughout the plant were indignant and showed it in their remarks, | One woman worker rushed out crying: ‘“‘Let’s see what it is about; let’s protest against this.’ Others grabbed the leaflets through the windows and fence. General com- motion existed for an hour. The boss fired the worker who shouted, He narrowly missed a walkout in his plant. The A. F, of L. labo rfakers did not see the need to organize this industry and the T. U. U. L. is open- | ly welcomed here—Anne Alden. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- ‘ tom Up—at the Enterprises! Gigantic Reception Watch Papers for Exact Date! AERONAVIGATOR The four fliers of the “Land of the Soviets” will be officially welcomed at Madison Square Garden Fiftieth Street and Eighth Avenue Tickets on Sale NOW at the offices of the FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION 175 Fifth Ave., at 23d St. Alg. 2745. Room 512 Program and Features: 100-piece orchestra; Finnish Workers Sports Union Gymnastics Prominent Speakers Dut-of-town delegations BUY YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE! Prices—75c—$1—$1.50 Auspices Friend of the Soviet Union 175 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. C. are asked to report at offices of F. S. U. at 2 p. m. on day of the reception