The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1929, Page 1

GRO WORKERS TO. THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Governmeit To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Vol. VI., No. 201 Crepany lee: emieal Unions auare he Compr. New York City, ily Publishing N.Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. T 12TH ANNIVERSARY RALLY FINAL CITY EDITION ee Cents ; Price 3 Wall Street Crash a Signal of Coming Struggle It can’t happen now in America—but it did! Only a few hours after Herbert Hoover, the Pope of American business, had pledged his word that “the fundamental business of the country . . . is on a sound and prosperous basis’—and after J. P. Morgan, Charles E. Mitchell and other heads of the six biggest banking houses of the country had formed such a money pool as had never been . heard of before anywhere in the world to prevent it—the Stock Exchange fell into a second crash, the biggest that has ever occurred since the panic that attended the beginning of the world war in 1914. After the first crash of last’ Thursday, all the forces at the com- mand of the kings of American finance were brought to bear to pre- vent this second crash of Monday. The money pool of the six biggest banks in the United States entered the market with a fund of one | hundred million at their disposal and bought huge blocks of stock for the purpose of holding the price up—and yet the prices fell in avalanche * efter avalanche about their ears. Thursday’s catastrophic fall in the market was followed by Monday’s still bigger collapse which wiped out unknown thousands of relatively small speculators and about five thousand millions of dollars of “values.” The “best stocks in the world” were thrown on the market as “rank speculations.” Fr the second time in five days the gods of American finance are defeated in the effort to control the forces of the business “universe” over which they rule. Hoover and the heads of the big money combines, in making public statements of reassurance, do not, of course, regard their own words to have a8 much to do with the real facts as with the “psychological necessities.” In other words, the reassuvances of the heads of the Wall Street oligarchy with its headquarters in Washington and } York, are false checks intended to prevent the little fellows from trying all at once to save themselves and thus driving the market down still further. But the naked fact is that this collapse in the sto real tremor in the oncoming earthquake of economic crisis. “Is the stabilization of American capitalism becoming stronger, or is it becoming more and more prezarious, shaky and decayed?” This is a question which has been at issue for many months between the open and concealed defenders of capitalist class ideology, on the one side, and the spckesmen of the revoluticnary Communist movement, on the other. And the answer of the Communist International has | been given, first at the Sixth World Congress more than a year ago, re market is a and again, with the added force of later-accumulated proof, at the Tenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- national last July: “The correctness of the estimation made by the Sixth Con- gress of the present third period of post-war capitalism is being ever more obviously demonstrated as a period of the increasing growth of the general crisis of capitalism and of the accelerated accentuation of the fundamental external and internal contra- dictions of imperialism, leading inevitably~to imperialist wars, to great class conflicts, to an era of development of a new upward swing of the revolutionary movement in the prinvipal capitalist countries, to great anti-imperialist revolutions in colonial countries.” Y Tho test plenary session of the Central Committee of the Commu- nist Paviv of the United States of America, held in the first days of this month at New York, again pointed out clearly that: “All of the main features of the third peried of the post war crisis ef capitalism as revealed in the analysis of the Sixth Con- -ress of the Communist International, are manifesting them- s—seme of them even more sharply than elsewhere—in the - present situation in the United States. . . . The very rapidity of growth of the productive forces in the United States becomes in itself a powerful factor for the intensification and acceleration of the general crisis of capitalism.” | value stream” of American industr ding, and that this has a causative effect upon the collapse of the Stock Exchange—is some- thing different from the nonsense generally distributed to the public. Capitalism cannot control the anarchy of the market which is inherent and inescapable in the system of capitalist production. The dream of Hoover, and of the social-democratic defender of the capital- ist system, Hilferding, which also attracts all opportunists even among those who try in quieter times to appear as Communists—the dream of .“organized capitalism” which overcomes its inner contradictions and solves the problems of the’ internal market—this dream is diss pated by grim reality. The working class of this and all other countries should give its attention to the events coming to light in the chaos of the capitalist market. Panic and business recession, with still more unemployment, and still sharper class struggle are ahead. As said by the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party: “The coming of an economic crisis will immediately sharpen the contradictions inherent in American capitalism, lead in- ternationally in an accentuation of the general cr of world capitalism, sharpen acutely the war danger, intensify the class struggle, hasten the fascisation of the state (fusing of employers’ organizations and reformist trade union apparatus with the bour- geois state). The efforts to overcome the crisis by throwing the burden upon the shoulders of the working class (wage cuts, un- employment, breaking down of living standards) will speed up . the radicalization of the working class and lead to a perspective of big class battles.” Ne 6:30 p. m. OFFICE WORKERS | The meeting is part of the organ- ‘igational drive to unionize office ASS F | workers of New York City. In ad- ‘dition, the union is planning to con- | Qne explanation by an American banker, that the “underlying |centrate on commission houses, in- | surance companies, publishing con- ‘cerns and other large firms where . Robert W. Dunn, director of Labor Workers are forced to labor long NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1929 _ ILL. MINE CONVENT BIC BANKS FAIL SUPREME COURT REJECTS TQ STOP PANIC WOODLAWN SEDITION CASE N SEES 4000 GREET USSR PLANE IN DETROIT > STRIKE SOON MORE LOCALS JOIN DURING “SESSION: WHOLESALE SPLIT IN WALL STREET od Billion Five Dollars APPEAL; IN TERROR DRIVE FIELD RECEPTION 20,000 Toilers Jam Hall) Evaporate as Morgan Federal Government Strikes a Blow for Bosses’) in Chicago Welcome; H=" Don’t Help | Attempt to Crush Communist Party Crowds Turned Away Rocks Financial World World Protest Grows; Mass Meeting in Atlanta Arrive N.Y.Wednesday Choiee Stocks Fade in Record Collapse ‘ion dollars in “values” were cvaporated yesterday when the New York Stock | finance the world around as the’ sec- jond selling -vave hit Wall Strect be- jlow the belt within a week. Exchange rocked It was |the est collapse of all time, all | past time—since the future must yet |be reckoned. | Nor was it the “little fellows” of y bourg who yesterday ons and tens of millions— of y out of the great | vaults in the bowels of monumental millions—disap- pearing it who gamble in the most ex- e and “reliable” stocks” who went wild and dumped great blocks in a losing market. Nor can anyone construe it as just one of the many past little games of the kings of finance who have num- berless times sheared the petty bour- |geois sheep at will—and stopped ‘shearing at will. Yesterday the \ereat break took place despite the \additional support thrown in by a group of big bankers, organized by | Morgan. Votes Denunciation of Gastonia Verdict ~~ BULLETIN. BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 28.—In complete defiance of the police order revoking their permit to meet, 3,000 Boston workers assembled yes- terday evening at the call of the Communist Party and held a mass and demonstration on Boston Common against the Gastonia verdic against the employers’ attempts in many different places to : the Communist Party and smash militant labor organization. did not attack the meeting. Police * + The United States government yesterday again tock a direct hand in the reign of terror against militant labor and did its share in the campaign by which the employing class is trying to suppress the Communist Party. The U. S. Supreme Court, according to a report to the national office of the Inter- national Labor Defense, 80 East 11th St., refused to consider the appeals of three Communists convicted under the Pennsyl-, vania state sedition law, in what is usually known as the Wood- lawn case. ILD STARTS HUGE Tom Zenna, Pete Muselin, \ and Milan Resetor, with eight | | others mostly steel workers, DRIVE AS TERROR |were arrested at Woodlawn, Beav County, Pa., during a birthday party i jat Zenna’s house, Nov. 11, 1926. A 50,000 New Members, | $50,000 by Jan. 15 POL! Chicago Raises $6,000 for Trucks Tractors (Special to the Daily Worker.) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 28. — The boundless enthusiasm of 8,000 work- ers who waited for hours to greet the Land of the Soviets liter swept the four fliers off their fe jon their arrival at the Dearborn field at 11:30 this morning. Sweeping aside the cordon of guards, the crowd streamed for the great glittering monoplane. The airmen were hoisted to the shoulders of the crowd and carried in triumph to waiting cars. The interest aroused in Detroit workers by the achievement of the Soviet representatives is so great that the reception committee is hav- ing difficulties in securing a hall large enough to accommodate all (Coatimued on Page Two) HE INYADE MEET, FRAMING 4 Another frame-up against strik- ing window cleaners commenced y fe ly terday when police of the industrial The realitiese of capitalist econo-/ With hundreds of years of prison 2 t |mic laws defeated even the greatest | terms facing workers, in every part |of bankers who last Thursday halted | of the land, f-om Gastonia to the the selling wave by demonstrative | San Bernardino Valley on the West intervention. The demonstration Coast, for striking and organizing, | |was repeated yesterday, but it did the International Labor Defense has | | no’ register. (launched a campaign to raise $50,000 | Charlies Mitchell and other {an dto gain 50,000 new members by | |benkers played vainly on the stage| the time of teh appeal of the Gas- | vhen they demonstratively made a | tonia strikers, Jan. 15, 1930. | visit to the offices of J. P. Morgan,| “We must raise so tremendous a a gesture w when used last week | mass movement on behalf of the did the trick, but which yesterday | Gastonia seven, to save them from e, , i fell flat, after a slight halt. Then | living death in North Carolina pris- 7 7 7 | IU, SySteel and other acc-high stocks | ons, tat 'this mas protest will hall PETE MUSELIN. ed went down in a plunge and word the wave of capitalist oppression | stool pigeon of the Jones & Laugh- went out that the big bankers had | spreading over the land, “J. Louis | jin Steel Co. testified that they were failed. 'Engdahl, national sec tary of the|“plotting the overthrow of the U. Bank stocks themselves broke as/I. L, D. stated yesterday. S. government.” Jones & Laughlin much “ho need to appeal the Gastonia | pressed the charges. The conviction being se, W al B Steel, which led the great |'Terror throughout the United States, | Par d the announced basis for “boom” ago, led the makes it 1 2cessary to concentrate on the conviction was the finding of decline wi wheat lost in\a huge defense campaign which is to pite of support; cot- contmue until Jan. 1. The Gastonia ton fell; v declined, all felt the Joint Defense and Relief Committee blow, while the coffee market col-|has been dissolved and all funds for ed to s p a point that the Cof- defense are to be sent from now on schange in Rio de Janeiro, Bra- to the International Labor Defense, forced to close. \80 East 11th St. Room 402, New, msterdam, Holland. one of |York, New York,” Engdahl an-| Europe’s chief finance centers, the | nounced. | traditionally sedate banking houses! |. aur | unloaded stocks in a flood. Royal| Liberate the Gastonia Prisoners. | Dutch stock fell, and in Throgmorton| “Our slogans must be “Liberate | street in London, the panic mirrored |the Gastonia prisoners! Free them Wall Street across the Atlantic. \from a living death! Defend the| : workers in their struggles to organ- | » | & lize class struggle trade unions! De- AN FE NIAN fend their, right to defend them- | a WWE Asche 3") ‘selves from the attacks of the bosses’ | police! Down with the syndalist and | \ sedition wars,” he declared, IL WOPKERS | 50,000 New Members. | + “We must absolutely have 50,000 | OF | sailants, squad, marched into a strike meet- ing at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 Fourth St. and arrested four picket« strikebreake assaulted Unable to identify his alleged as- the scab picked out the (Continued on Page Two) matters, mut come together on this fundamental issue.” Tells of Exploitation. Hubert Carrol, youth organizer of the National Textile Workers’ Union spoke briefly, giving the background of the struggles in Gastonia, and (Continued on Page Three) - Har | president of the board of aldermen, |Trunces Bureaucratic FROM UMWA; FIGHTS BOSS Sub-Dstrict Conventions, Series of Mass Meets, Consolidation of Locals, Leads to Struggle National President and Takes Up Fight for Six Hour Day, More Pay BELLEVILLE, Il, Oct. 28.—The Belleville convention, the |second state convention of the Minois, adjourned Sunday night, having effected decisive plans \for splitting off the tens of thousands of Illinois miners from the United Mine Workers of America, and leading them in the strike situation that all see developing. National Miners’ Union in EXPLAIN TERROR AT COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN RALLY \Candidates to Speak at Bryant Hall Tonight The terror against the working- class now sweeping the land, bury- ing militant workers in prison as at Gastonia, at Woodlawn, Pa., at Los ‘Angeles, will be explained in the light of the class struggle at, the Communist election rally at Bryant | Hall, 42nd St. and Sixth Ave., to- night (Tuesday) at 8 p. m. W.-W. Weinstone, Communist can- didate for mayor of New York, Otto Hall, candidate for comptroller and W. Wicks, candidate for will be among the speaker: The well known leader struggles of the New York needle trade workers, Ben Gold, running for candidate in the 29th alderman district; Rose Wortis, in the thhird aldermanic district, E and Jo- seph Boruchowit of the Needle Tre rkers’ In- dustrial Union, will also speak. Word was received yesterday, proving that the terror had reached every part of the land, that three workers of Woodlawn will serve five (Continued on Page Two) manager > The convention grew, almost |to the moment of its closing. Starting with 110 delegates, Committeeman Allard’s final creden- tials showed 133 present, many of them representing locals whose membership ran above 500 to seven or eight hundred. report The first step to retrieve the wage scale reduced against the vote of the rank and file of the miners by District President Fishwick of the |U. M. W. A., the first step in the terrific combat approaching to im- prove the intolerable underground working conditions, to win the six- hour day and five-day week, to solve the unemployment problem that is cutting to the heart of the district, with new labor saving machinery displacing men daily, with speed-up and rationalization in full swing— all are agreed is a complete break with the U.M.W.A. and its paralyz- ing policies, Proves Miners With N.M.U. The convention delegates go back to their sub-districts with complete in the!confidence that the response to this convention call and the spirit shown at the meetings proves that the 50,000 miners in this state are following the N.M.U. in a victorious struggle against bosses and mislead- ers of labor, no matter whether it is Lewis or Fishwick who wins the dog fight over union funds and buildings, and the privilege of repre- senting the coal operators in their dealings with the miners, Following adjournment Sunday night, the achievements of the con- vention were placed before the large mass meeting in Belleville, and all Negro, White Workers to" “awe” Negro workers of New York are ‘preparing to join with their white fellow workers in celebrating the 12th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution and demonstrating for the Communist election program at the huge mass rally in Madison Square Garden this Sunday at 2 o'clock, They will rally round the peipeate “Vote for the Party that Fights for the Defense of the Soviet Union.” "4 | To the Negro workers, doubly op- ‘pressed because they ame workers and because of their race, Sunday’s tions as the only party that fights rally is of peculiar significance. | Research Assn.; John Schmies, as-| hours for inadequate wages, very | sistant secretary of the Trade Union| often under conditions unsanitary | Unity League, and Sylvia Bleecker,| #24 unhealthful. | organizer of Millinery Hand Work-| With the treméndously i i ers’ Union will be the principal] introduction yermechunieatt Gttice Irving Plaza Hall last Thursday, a ists of the nation with instituting a _ speakers at the mass meeting of the| devices many _bookkeepers, sten- | Provisional organization committee /drive through governmental agencies Office Workers’ Union tonight at|ographers, typists, ete. are being of nien was elected, the first step upon workers in an attempt to stifle _ Labor Temple, 14th St. and 2nd Ave.| forced out of work. " ‘towar dthe formation of a militant the growing labor movement. \union embracing all workers in the| ngdahl enumerated briefly the oil industry. cases the 1. L. D. is defending: ee : © | Many of the delegat t had | ws i Marine Workers League Call its": 'to"estlne rot) "7% spel of te Gaston case e f lated >. k dri 5 for Pacific Coast Conference 22.10% eRe men’s strike, which like the recent akers | YCL, Membership Meet of the ‘Teamsters’ Internation: , They denounced bitterly the sabo-| 4 special membership meeting of the workers on the job. taging tactics used by the union the Young Communist League, Dis- The Pacific coast conference is officials to prevent sympathetic or- trict No. 2, will be held tonight at one of several, starting with the! ganizations from joining the walk-| the Workers’ Center, 26-28 Union Atlantic Coast Conference August’ out, otherwise aiding the bosses and Square, The present League situa- 17-18, leading up to the formation) their political henchmen to smash tion and the plans for the member- by the marine workers themselves the struggl-. ship drive will be discussed. Admit- of a new industrial union. Five delegates from Elizabeth, /tance by membership card only. The call ior the conference says: representing thousands of New | Comrades going to school evenings “The Marine Workers League) ersey oil workers, were in the hall.| must. also attend, as there will be hereby calls for the election of dele- | A report on the conditions in the in- Ino excuses, Full Soctal, Racial, Political Equality for Negroes! Vote Com- munist! |new members by January 1, and At a meeting of the chauffeurs, hundreds of thousands of dollars to oil truck drivers, pumpmen, garage |fight ou reases in all the courts,” and filling station workers, held in|he stated. He charged the capital- Demanding of the marine workers “Do you want higher wages, shorter ‘ours, to abolish the fink hall, to itop the speed-up, to establish job mtrol on ships and docks?” the larine Workers League has issued a call for a Pacific Coast Confer- ence. The meeting will be held at the San Francisco headquarters of the Marine Workers League, 160 Steu- a art St., November 9-10, and will be | gates to constitute the Pacific Coast | dustry was given and plans for a broad rank and file organization dis- cussed with great onthusiasm, composed of delegates from ships,|Conference of the Marine Workers de ‘ks and harbor crafts, elected by Continued on Page Three) | MILAN RESETOR. | | Workers. Party periodicals and leaf- lets.in the house. ‘The sentence was | five years in prison, and $500 fine for cach. + 8 «© ATLANTA, Gaz, Oct. 28.—A meet- | ing of 125 workers of Atlanta Red- | men’s Wigwam took place yesterday afternoon to protest the vicious sen- tences given their fellow workers \convicted in the Gastonia case by | the bosses’ court at Charlotte, N. C. Many of the workers in the audi- lence were Negroes, a fact without parallel in the history of the At-| lanta labor movement; white and | Negro workers came together to| voice their protest at the verdict | of the mill bosses and their govern- | The militancy of the Illinois to the miners of the South. for the N. M. U. and left unorganized by the U.M | And, like their fellow workers K | they must have the Daily Worker, ment in the, southern state. | bundles of the Daily be rushed to Bill Dunne was the principal | speaker of the afternoon. He struck | the keynote of the meeting when he | stated: ‘The elementary rights of | the whole labor movement are at stake, All workers, regardless of their opinions on the right to revo- lution or on Communism or other have come appeals that the Daily c Worker be sent to Soddy. shameful betrayal of the miners in sili A miner of Morgantown, West Celebrate 12° Anniversary tical equality for Negr democratic, republican and so by their silence on this question ly participate in this pe Communist Party enter: the elec: ‘ (Continued on Page Two) Southern Coal Miners, W.Va. and Tenn., Call tor the Daily e miners, bred ovt of their disgust with the United Mine Worker fakers now quarrelling for cash, is spreading While entire locals of the United Mine Workers in Mlinois are being converted by the rank and file into locals of the militant Miners’ Union, the coal diggers of the southern states are also calling National Sold out in some cases by the Lewis machine, or totally ignored . misleaders in the other cases, the southern miners are preparing for a fight to the finish against slavery—a fight under the leadership of the National Miners’ Union. of the South, the textile mill toilers, and they are beginning to ask that their town. From minefs in two southern states, West Virginia and Tennessee, ome to them. A miner of Soddy, Tennessee has written and asked that the Daily irginia, sends in word of the his state by the Lewis machine. As a result of the sell-out of the West Virginia coal diggers to the Continued on Page Three) ses. the fight for full social, racial and /poli- s. While the three parties of capitalism, the cution, the A meeting tonight of the District ecutive Board of the N. M. U. will stalize organizational steps lead- ing towa struggle, following the break of the rank and file miners with the U. M. W. A, Organization crews are being dis- tributed throughout the state build- ing locals of the N. M. U., in prep- tion for the battle to kill the off and win the six-hour day. ishwick machine of the U. M. - has signed contracts with the nce the betrayal of the ysear by Fishwick and ~ Lewis. These contracts offer on the - part of the U. M. W. A. to cut the wages about one-third. The sses, in return, guarantee to hire U. M. W. A. members. As few min- uld voluntarily belong to such zation as its officials have he United Mine Workers of They will demonstrate not merely for the clection program of the Party of their class, but for the only election program which r show their approval of the persecu- tion of Negroes and, when in of. fice, not merely approve, but active an org made America, the operators by the terms of Fishwick’s contract, collect dues from the miners for the U. M. W. A, simply by checking off of the w id, and handing the money over to whomever the bosses’ courts finally decide is the adminis- tration in the Ilnois distriet of the U. M. W, A. Consolidate Locals. Sub-district conferences re being rapidly arranged throughout the Tl- linois coal fields to consolidate the (Continued on Page Three) R. had sur- economic level r a start truction, At Year Plan in 19 list Soviet Rep duction n the road of basic the nd_of the the Union of lies will surpass test, of the how this 12th Anniversary tussian Revolution Slection Rally at © Garden, Sunday, No= pm vembe lixt conktruce % che Soviet Union to nan Industriaiization Loan for viption by the American work= FIGHT AGAINST THE SPEED -UP SYSTEM, IMPERIALIST WAR AND BOSS TERROR! VOTE COMMUNIST!