The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1929, Page 1

ea since then, THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For.a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the "Against Imperialist War ““Bor the 40-H Unorganized our Week Baily Entered as second-cinss matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. ander the act of March 3, 1879. Published daily Company, Inc., Sunday by The Comprodaily Publish! Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Price 3 Centd —— | Vol. VI, No. 189 JUDGE Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. <a: NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1929 BARNHILL RULES WORKERS AR Communist Party Plenum SOVIET PLANE IN Weinstone Proves That Upholds Comintern Line; $ AFTER FLIGHT Tomas Is Candidate of Faces Tasks of Struggle FROM THE USSR Bosses, Not of Workers Unanimously Approves Expulsion. of Rene- May Attempt Atlantic | Secialist Program Acceptable to Business Men, gades Lovestone, Wolfe, Gitlow, Ete. Corrects Old Factional Error in Filling Political | Buro Vacancies Hop; Greeted By Wash. Workers | In New York Shortly Workers Not Represented Shows How Capitalists Are Building Socialist Party Against Growing Militancy of Workers The Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist| Fliers Will Be Given William wW. Weinstone, candidate) mittee,” the statement says, “reveals Party of the U.S.A. has just come to its close in New York City | Tractors For USSR with very important results for the entire Party and-for the} working class. This was the first plenary session of the Central Commit-}a 1,000 mile flight through dense| ty, New York District, 26-28 Union tee of the American Party since the Tenth Plenum of the fog, during which their plane, the | Square, declared that the publication Hxecutive Committee of the® Communist International which | yecurred in July. For this rea-| son the Plenum of the Amer-| ican Party attained a special | importance in respect to the mobili-| zation of the American Party in line with the decisions of the Com-| munist International. | The Plenum was attended by the| following: | Members and Candidates of the Central Committee; | Members of the Central Control Commission; District organizers; | Members of the Bureau of the} N. E. C. of. the YC.L.; Members of the Bureau of the New York District of the C. P.; Department Heads and Section Organizers of the New York Dis- trict of the C. P.; Certain comrades admitted for special reason by action of the Pre- sidium of the Plenum. Elgcted to the Presidium 6f the Plenum were Comrade Krutis, Slin- ger, Kamp, Huiswood, Foster, Wein- | stone and Bedacht. | Elected as the Secretariat of the | Plenum were Comrades Minor, Am-| ter and Chernenko, | Comrade Huiswood was chairman |jast spring, hundreds of our workers | her and his agents in the Associated of the first day, Comrade Kamp, of the second day and Comrade Cher- | nenko of the third. The recommendation of the Poli- tical Committee for the agenda the Plenum was accepted as follow 1 Report on Tenth Plenum of) the E.C.C.l—Comrade Minor. 2. Report on the general political | and economic situation and the tasks | of the Party—Comrade Bedacht. 3. Report on Trade Union Work —Comrade Foster. 4, Report on Negro Work—Com-} rade Huiswood. Comrade Minor reported on the Tenth Plenum of the EC.C.I. and| Comrade Bedacht followed with an| extensive report on the general poli- tical and economic situation, after which a discussion took place on the} two reports ,lasting through the first, second and third sessions and into the fourth session. Many com- rades participat-d in the discussion, during which the unity of almost the entire Plenum on the line of the} Sixth World Congress of the Com- munist International, of the Tenth Plenum of the E.C.C.I. and of the Party was made clear. The marked exception was in the case of Com- rades Weisbord and Koppel In the entire discussion, as in the reports of Comrades Bedacht and Minor the greatest emphasis was laid upon the necessity of struggle against the right danger in the Com- munist Party, the war danger, espe- cially of the war against the USSR, the oncoming upsurge of the revolu- tionary labor movement, radicaliza- tion of the working class, the con- crete manifestations of sharpening class struggle throughout many countries and especially the concrete manifestations of sharpening class struggle in this country, as shown in the southern fields, etc., together with the tasks of the C.P. of U.S.A. under these conditions marking the third period of the post-war crisis of capitalism. The recent Address of the Com- munist International to the member- ship of the Communist Party of the U.S.A. was discussed from the point of view of its function in correcting the line of the American Party, its assistance in rooting out the fac- tionalism of the Party and in‘ laying the basis for a real struggle against right wing opportunism in the Amer- ican Party in accord with the direc- tions given by the Sixth World Con- gress and in the various utterances of the Communist International The struggle against the counter-revolutionary Trotsky- (Continued on Page Three) PAINTERS UNITE. VANCOUVER, B. GC. (By Mail). —Sign painters and pictorial writ- gp hece -bave , onganized._ into. a int pts FOOD WORKERS FOR 6. P, TICKET Cafeteria Employees Endorse Communists Complete endorsement of the can- didates and program of the Commun- ist Party in the New York mayor- alty election was voted at large meeting of Hotel, Cafeteria Workers branch of the Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union, held at 133 West 5ist St. The endorsement of the Commun- ist candidates, which was unanimous, followed the adoption of a compre- hensive program for the drive to unionize New York cafeteries. Michael Obermeier, organizer of the union, commenting upon the en- |dorsement of the Communist pro- | gram and candidates said last night: “We cafeteria workers know who our enemies are and we also know who our friends are. We know es- pecially, that during the bitter strike were victims of Tammany police bru- ty. Restarant and | SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 14.—After |Land of the Soviets, fought a_35- | mile-an-hour head wind, the four Soviet fliers headed by Semyon| Shestakov arrived here last evening | and were met at the landing field | by an enthusiastic delegation of| workers. } The airmen, with the most hazar-| dous part of their long journey from | | Moscow behind them, said they were | considering a trans-Atlantic hop as| la sequel to their present heroic un- | dertaking, which will be completed | when they reach New York, pos- |sibly continuing to Moscow and making a complete round-the-world | flight. | The trip from Waterfall to the first landing point on the mainland |of the United States took ten hours, | (Continued on Page Two) | TIE TOWBOATMEN TO CLASS PEACE | Handcuffed to a union-sanctioned | ten-hour day, twoboatmen commence | today a two-year peace in industry | plan engineered by William A. Ma- Marine Workers. committees, secret | talit, Defying injunctions gotten) Handpicked sociation, many workers were jailed | were traditional A. F. of L. weapons | and given long sentences in prison. |used to smother sentiment for a Over 1,300 workers were arrested | strike which would have tied up the | during the period of the strike and|harbor or traffic had the walkout over 100 actually served jail sen-|been called when the men made de- | tences—some of them as much as|mands for wage increass two weeks | six months. ago, | s for the socialists, in our| Lauding the agreement in which strikes the socialists worked hand | the operators will be enabled to cut | in glove with the corrupt betrayers|one man off each four of a crew, | of the American Federation of La- | Maher told a meeting at Palm Gar- | bor and the strike-breaking, social- |den, 302 W. 52nd St., Sunday, that ist-controlled United Hebrew Trades. | the men ought to be “glad” for the This outfit helpe dform the false | terms offered. y the Restaurant Owners’ As-| ballots and selective scab speeches | is intricately bound up with. the |for mayor of New York City on the | unmistakably the composition of this |Communist Party ticket, in a state-| group. It contains prosperous busi- ment issued yesterday from th high-salaried \headquarters of the Communist Par- | lawyers, college professors ness men, preachers, tists and writers whose allegiance lof the individuals composing the | during elections vacillate between all “Norman Thomas Non - Partisan|three of the capitalist parties—re- Committee” is further evidence that) publican, democratic and socialist. Thomas is the candidate not of the} “Not a single working man or wo- workers, but of the employing class. | man is represented in this group.” It is also proof, Weinstone added,| Weinstone commented on Thomas’ that Thomas’ program is “entirely | so-called program for alleviating un- acceptable to the business interests employment, especially points five because it has not the slightest sem-| and six, which aim to “put the moral blance of struggle for the interests | weight of the city behind the fight of the worker for a shorter working of the working class.” “The 333 names so proudly listed | week so as to divide up leisure and (Continued on Page Two) by this so-called Non-Partisan com- Leading Communist Candidate At Big Working Women Voice Gaston Protest, Back C. P. Election, Oct. 17) Negro Meet Friday What do the coming municipal! William W. Weinstone, candidate elections mean to the working wo-| for mayor on the Communist ticket, men of New York? What is the | Otto Hall, candidate for comptroller, connection between the Communist |and Richard B. Moore, candidate for election campaign and the Gastonia | congress in the Twenty-First Dis- struggle? trict, will be among the speakers at Working women of New York/an election campaign rally to: be will discuss these questions. at. aj held in St. Lukes Hall, 125 W. 130th joint Working Women’s Election |St., under the auspices of the Har- and Gastonia Defense Rally, to be|lem section of the Communist Party held Thursday night at 8 o’clock at |on Friday night. |Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving} Among the speakers will also be Pl. The rally has been arranged | Fanny Austin, candidate for alder- by the Women’s Department of the} man in the 21st District, who is the Communist Party. \first Negro woman ever to be The question of the right of |nominated for public office in New workers to organize, one of the chief | York City, according to Rebecca issues in the struggle in the south,|Grecht, Communist Party campaign | manager. | The housing question, discrimina- |tion and growing police brutality, lespecially in relation to the thou- ands of workers in Negro Harlem, will be discussed at Friday’s meet- ing. Southern Textile Meeting, TUUL Convention Make election campaign of the only party that fights for this right, the Com- munist Party, it is pointed out. The women candidates of the Commu- nist Party will speak at Thursday night’s rally. and school teachers, and a group of ar- CITY GOV'T LETS LOOSE TERROR ON TRUCK STRIKERS *Young Worker Is Shot; As Gunmen Attack |1,500 Police Aid Bosses TUUL Calls Mass Meet | Bargemen Vote Strike | ' * * An 18-year-old worker was shot 'ing that while the Communist P: in the back, @ small boy was run munisis of full social and politi To Be Tried As Loy: T. U. U, L. organizer was clubbed by police and countless strikers were ferociously beaten as a result of t intensified terrorism unlashed yes | & tives” and Tammany police, in a des- perate attempt to break the militant strike of the 3,000 gasoline truck | drivers. Led by Willis Day, 120 workers | wh ohad been ercruited to scab on | the strikers in the Pratt. Plant of | Rockefeller’s. Standard Oil Co., Brooklyn, threw up their jobs and entered the struggle on the side of the strikers: early yesterday morn-| ing. Marching shoulder to shoulder! with strikers, the workers, among A AT ARVING PLAZA | whom were many Negroes, proceed- ed to the Standard Oil offices at N. | me, New Branch of I. L. D. in Garment Section This morning Barnhill sta now what manner of men th CONFERENCE FOR | 12th and Berry Sts., where they demonstrated against the scabs who are being brought in by the truck- load. They succeeded in persuading a number of strike-breakers to walk out with them. ty When the seven Gastonia defend Fire on Strikers. 2 Shortly” before: noon the strike- |ANts are being called to the witness breaking agents of the oil bosses {Stand to face the direct attack of launched a mass atack on strikers |the legal hirelings of the Manville- at Franklin and Calyer Sts., which ‘Jencks soon turned into a pitched battle, in [ Company, representatives \Court Says If Carolinans Believe in Equality of Races They Are Impeached; Beal on Stand 4 CHARLOTTE, N, C., Oct. 14.—Formally ruling this morris DEFENSE TONIGHT : from the gangster cars. William (Continued on Page Two) TRESCA'S ATTACK which 200 men participated. Two Ee Uae spor oe class cars filled with gangsters, acting aS | preparing to intensify the efforts guards” for a scab-driven tank | ¢, them at a mass Gastonia truck, charged a line of 30 truckmen | Defense and Relief Conference to- who weer picketing the corner, night at 8 o'clock at Irving Plaza knocking them to the pavement. AS y5th St, and Irving Pl. : the sfrkers scattered, a fusilade of ned aeinesun aicaihe shots was emption into their ranks Sa ar yin ated te mat abor Defense and the New of the Workers Interna- wae tional Relief. Well-known speakers | L . D ANSWERS will point out the new developments in the Southern textile struggle and ' 1 ‘ e plans will be made for vit- enl stonia defens and of thi “Food Council” which tried feverish- gling cafeteria workers who are de- termined to put an end to the 12- hour day and miserable working conditions which now prevail.” Concluding, Obermeier, one of the leaders of the last strike, declared: “Only the Communists threw in all their forces in support of our struggles. They assisted in every possible way, sending speakers to our meetings, and h-lping in the mobilization of mass picket lines. “The example of the cafeteria workers in endorsing the candidates and platform of the Communist Party should be followed by every trade union which is genuinely fight- ing in the interests of the workers.” KANSAS CITY, Mo. (By Mail) —Organized art glass workers have demanded a five-day week and in- erease of 37% cents an hour, to take effect next March 1. The union approved split tactics |1 yto break the strike of the strug-| through its endorsement of the plan | whereby $10 and $5 license men are divided. Only an insignificant frac- tion of the original demand for a $25 a week raise is granted. | No guarantees for raises | (Continued on Page Two) ‘Working Youth in N.Y. Conference Demands Release of Gastonia 7 Telegrams demanding the imme- diate release of the seven Gastonia prisoners were sent yesterday to Judge Barnhill by the New York Youth Conference for Gastonia Re- | lief and Defense, | The conference also sent its mes- sage of solidarity with the Marion strikers, and replied to a letter which Clarence Miller, one of the seven on trial, sent the conference (Continued on Page Two) are Textile Workers Organize National Silk Campaign Anna Burlak, Younges ALLENTOWN, Pa., Oct. 14.— Anna Burlak arrived in the Anthra- cite District of the National Textile Workers Union, having been sent in from Bethlehem, Pa., by the Na- tional Silk Committee to conduct the National Silk Campaign in the great silk region that centers around Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. She be- comes district organizer of the union and will open headquarters in Scran- ton, Anna Burlak is the youngest or- ganizer in the National Textile Workers Union, being only 18 years of age. Burlak is also a member of the National Board of the NTWU and of the National Committee of ‘ex tthe TUUL, and was taken right out t Organizer in N. T. U,. Arrives in Anthracite District | of the silk mill, where she was a) weaver, in order to become an or-| ganizer, The National Silk Campaign, | which is expected to culminate in a national silk strike next spring, is now in full swing in every major silk section of the country. The great national conference of silk workers will be held in Allentown, Pa., on November 8, Meanwhile pre- liminary conferences and mass meet- ing are being held in Paterson, New York, Easton, Lehigh Valley, Pa, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and Rhode Island. One of these conferences wil Ibe the Paterson Youth Textile Textile Workers Show | CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 14.—! The two great delegate meetings, the Southern Textile Workers Con- ference and the Southern Conven- tion of the Trade Union Unity League, came to an end yesterday, with plans laid for giant organiza- tion drives in all industries in the South, and for a campaign, particu- larly in the textile industry, against low wages, long hours, the speed-up and fascist terrorism. | As textile worker delegates troni| Plans for Great Campaign Militancy, Denounce U T. W., Ready to Fight for Union 175 mills in five states gave their reports during the Southern Textile Workers Conference here yesterday, it was overwhelmingly proved that the masses of the southern mill slaves are ready for strugglge for the economic demands of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union. Expose U. T. W. It was also shown that the work- ers are disillusioned with the United Textile Workers. Delegates who (Continued on Page Two) Boys Sell ‘Daily’ in Charlotte Newspapers “The Communist newspaper is cesses by the Charlotte boys.” ‘Court; Workers Call for It Gastonia Workers Spread Meaning of Their Thru South cried in the courtroom during re- A grudging bit of admission of what the Daily Worker means to campaig being ection. This Stung by the revelation made by the New York District of the Inter- national Labro Defense of his ef- ganized in the branch will be for launched at forts to cripple the defense of Sal-|2 ire mooting F signee cator Accorsi, a worker framed for Sta et ine GineeTe murder in connection with the Ches-| Broadway, at which Sidney Bloom- wick, Pa., case, Carlo Tresca, editor cid. will’ speak on. the. “Struggles of the anarchist weekly, “Il Mar-|o¢ the Gastonia Textile Workers.” tello,” has replied+ with a vicious attack on the International Labor Defense and the Communist Party. In his article Tresco repeats the lies and slanders that have been worn threadbare by enemies of the working class of every stripe. Among these are that the Interna- tional Labor Defense is conducting “a speculation with all political pris- oners,” that the I. L. D. fraudulent- } VOTE ON WINDOW WASHERS STRIKE New York window cleaners will ly collected money for the defense vote tonight on the question of a of Sacco and Vanzetti, Mooney and ' general strike to take effect tomor- | Billings and other class war pris: | 1 morning. The practically un- oners, that by asking for contribu-|animous strike vote expected will be | tions for th edefense of Accorsi the | taken at a mass meeting of organ- | I. L. D. is asking workers to become | ized and uonrganized window clean- (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) Gastonia Protest Echoes in Johannesburgh, Buenos Aires $25 from South African Workers; Argentine the southern mill workers. is thus sandwiched into a voluminous and for the most part, lying report in a New York capitalist paper on the Charlotte trial of the seven Gastonia National Textile Union organ- izers and members. “In Gastonia,” a mill worker writes us, “the boys sell the Daily Worker in the streets every day. “They even go uptown where the rich live, and stick it right in the noses of the bosses, to show them what they think of them. “Every worker in Gastonia knows what the Daily Worker means to the mill workers.” And from these workers in Gastonia the word has spread to mill workers of every cotton mill state in the South on what the Daily Worker means to the mill workers. The result of this is that appeals have come to us from these mill workers, asking that the Daily Worker be sent to them each day, to aid them in preparing for the coming great struggle of the southern mill workers against the mill owners. To answer their appeals, funds are required—at once. Answer the appeals of the southern mill workers for the Daily Worker by contributing to the “Drive to Rush the Daily Worker South.” Conference, the first conference of (Continued ox Page Three) 4 Indiyidual workers as well as organizations % (Continued on Page Two) mayen toi at | Writer Says “Fighting Spirit Will Win” Two cablegrams received this|ica, the most imperialist capitalist afternoon from Johannesburg, South |!anJ of the world, contains the! NGO anl igs Bashan Alva: cies and _orislett pineeialon, ‘ = ‘ i he history of capitalism is built {South America, protesting in vig- upon rivers of b'ood and corpses of orous terms, the terrorism of the the worke: he writes. mill employers in the South against) “It is enough to record the cases the textile workers further indicated of the martyrs the Hay- ;the mass of world-wide protest on market 1 > of Sacco behalf of the strikers and the seven and Vanzetti, for the workers én ‘trial in ‘Chatlotte, of the world to readily understand ‘A sum of $12 was received from|What faces the southern strikers ia group of workers in the South “The manner in which Sacco and| African City, which had previously Vanzetti w crificed have not sent $25. ° been forgott y the world. The The South American Ictter was|U. S. captialisis, impetuous and in- from Triston Maroff, a well known|solent, defied all the protests that left-wing writer in Argentine who|Were made on that occasion for the) Stated, “The United States of Ameh- | (Continued on Page Three) E NOT CITIZENS GASTONIA TRIAL NOW OPEN ATTEMPT LEGALLY TO LYNCH MILITANT UNION LEADERS id | TUUL Man Clubbed «jp po] 1s Communist, He Should Not Demand al Citizen of U. S” ‘ arty and the advocacy by Com» cal equality for all races is ire down by a nautoload of gorilla, a }oleyant, incompetent and immaterial, Judge Barnhill, preside ing at the trial in which the textile bosses are trying to rails road to 30-year sentences seven Gastonia strikers and union or anizers on murder charges, also_ruled that the prosecution is terdays by the oil barons, through | tg be allowed to present their distorted interpretations of the hordes of gunmen, private “detec-| G.rendants’ views before the jury, as long as they do not ofe ficially label them as Communist. ted: “The jury is entitled tq defendants are when they aré on the witness stand, in ordé# to know whether or not to bes} lieve them.” +. Thus Barnhill rules thai Communist views are impeach, ing, that Communists are no’ » be believed as readily adj other men. The judge ruledi that Communism would be img! peaching anywhere in the S., and that if a defendant were: a citizen of North Carolina, belief in race equality would also’ ima peach his testimony. No Fair Trial For Him. While Beal was on the stands Barnhill said: “If he is a Commue nist, he should not demand to be tried as a loyal citizen of the United States. As the trial nears the time when the jury will be sent out to “weigh the evidence and render a verdict,” Judge Barnhill becomes more opénly hostile to the defendants and ail that they symbolize to 300,000 ‘southern textile workers, and to the labor movement generally. The prosecution long since entirely aban- doned its pretense that they “want- ed merely justice,” that “this is an ordinary murder trial,” and not an- other case in which the capitalist class is trying to railroad defend- ants to the penitentiary. Barnhill Unveils. Now Barnhill is also dropping the e of “just and impartial judge,” ealing out even handed justice,” nd appears as part of the machin- . ery of the employers’ state, smash- ing the lives out of rebels against employers’ exploitation. Barnhill’s ruling today permits the prosecution to use any mis- representations it pleases to preju- dice the jury. This is exactly what the judge, the prosecution, and the entire capitalist press have for months been assuring would not be done—this was not to be another Sacco-Vanzetti case, they declared, and ridiculed the International bor Defense for asserting that tl workers cannot get justice in capi- talist courts. The position of the I. L. D. has been proven absolutely correct, and the case is now openly a trial of workers for their activity’ in labor organizations. “No high class respectable white man and no high class decent Negro advocates social equality of the races,” Ed Cansler, attorney for the State, declared in court today, and added: “When these defendants came South and advocated these’ doctrines, they came to array race against race. The history of the world shows that if they succeeded, the white race would go down and civilization would be destroyed. The defendants also advocate overthrow of government by force and violence, They try to array class against class. I maintain that such beliefs - must be brought out to impeach the’ ~ testimony of the defendants.” Barnhill ruled in effect that all these matters can be brought out by the prosecution, while camou- flaging his decision by saying th the Communist Party as such was not on trial, but that the views of the defendants can be inquired into by the State, without classifying them as Communist. “Matter of Impeachment.” “The jury has a right to pass upon these views,” said the judge, Lh \“as to whether other evidence given (Continued on Page Three) LOW PAY FOR FISHERMEN. SITKA, Alaska, (By Mail).— Alaska fishermen are now working” a, 16-hour day for $1.10 a day. is great unemployment.