The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 30, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War ‘ For the 40-Hour Week Entered as Baily Poblishea Company, “Vol. VI., No. 202 " Sunday by The Comprodally Publishing Union Square, New York City. y. <@>.. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1929 FINAL CITY EDITION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New Yor! Outside New York, by mail by mall, $8.00 per year. 36.00 per yenr. Price 3 Cents SOVIET AIRMEN COMPLETE WORLD F ” Socialist Imperialis Demagogy The national council of the French “socialist” party, in rejecting the offer of Edouard -Daladier, leader of the “ratical socialists” (the name has nothing to do with socialism in either case) for equal repre- sentation in a coalition cabinet, rebuked the parliamentary group for tentatively accepting the offer and announced that they “would not walk with MacDonald.” By this, one might think that, araong she parties of the Second Tuternational, at least the French have left a remnant of class honesty. This is just what the French socialist party wants French workers to think. But it is altogether untrue. This pose of virgin purity is much too awkward to be convincing; and firstly, what does this mean, that the “socialists” of France are denouncing the “socialists” of England? Do Blum and Boncour denounce MacDonald ani Snowden for foresak- ing socialism and becoming the capitalists’ hangmen in fighting against the working class? Not at all! MacDonald and Snowden are given this, left-handed slap because Snowden fought against French imper- ialist interests at the Hague and for British imperialist interests, and for numerous other attacks on the continental ambitions of imperialist Trance for imperialist Britain. It being thus understood that it is an imperialist objection to im- perialist actions for which French “socialists” are denouncing British “socialists,” let us see if the French “socialists” themsel have clean hands, Albert Thomas, the “greatest of French sociali does he not collaborate with imperialism in the League of Nations as head of its “Labor” Office? Has not Paul Boncour held a ministerial post in a coalition cabinet with French capitalist parties? Dil not the whole French “socialist” party enter head over heels into war in collaboration with French imperialism? Are they not now, even more cleverly than in 1914, supporting the capitalist war preparations—especially against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics? We have heard no recantation of all this, and the coalition policy is still a policy of the French “so- cialists.” So it is not that which is the basis of the dig at MacDonald. Again, the French “socialists” have aided French capi suppress strike after strike, to break the unions of the railroad and postal workers for example. So it not for MacDonald’s government betrayal of the Lancashire textile strikers and the coal miners that the French “socialists” reprove British “socialists.” And with their whole- hearted support “of French imperialist niassacres in Syria and Morocco, it cannot be that French “socialists” object to MacDonald and Sidney Webb spilling Arabian blood or imprisoning Indian trade unionists who fight for independence or for imperialist subjection of Egypt. The-real reason that Leon Blum will just now “not walk with Mac- Donald” is that, at this moment, he has not the chance MacDonald had, who at least is King George’s prime minister, while the French “so- cialists” were offered mere subordinate posts under Daladier. And why were they offered only a second rate position? Because the situation of French capitalism is not yet so critical as that of British capitalism. And Leon Blum is merely awaiting the deepening of the crisis—and he will not have to wait so very long—when he, too, will “walk with MacDonald.” Horthy and Hoover, Fascists Reports from Budapest Tuesday state that Comrade Loewi is dead in the dungeons of Hungarian fascism after five days of hunger strike, there being a hunger strike of hundreds of political prisoners, Commu- nists and other revolutionary workers and peasants against the un- bearable prison conditions. ¢ These victims are sentenced for life terms. Yet the only crime they committed was to organize the Hungarian toilers against the bloody fascist regime of Bethlen and Horthy. After ten years of the Horthy-Bethlen rule, hundreds of thousands are unemployed. And those who work get such miserable wages that their only food is bread and potatoes. The wives of workers must not only sell their labor power, but to keep their families alive, must sell their bodies. The agricultural workers are even worse off; underfed, garbed in rags, thousands of them are living in ¢ e beasts. There is no country in Europe where the death rate is so high as Hungary. There is no other country where the number cf suicides is so high as in the land of Horthy. This bloody t regime of b: crushes all attempts of the workers ar dition. And the fascist Bethlen-Horth the Hungarian social “democratic” p: which has acted for years as police prison the best and most courageous fighters of the Hungarian prole- tariat. Only recently Prime Minist chien called back some of these gentlemen from abroad in order that they might serve as exhibits for his claim of “democracy” in Hungary. ~ But these social-fascist leaders, who with mock “bravery’* paper “demands” at the head of the government to mislead the masses are those responsible for the death of Comrade Loewi, for the prisons packed with hundreds of Hungary’s finest fighters. And these social “democratic” fascists support the Horthy terror and aid the war prepa- rations against the Soviet Union. The hundreds of workers, peasants and intellectuals, the Rakosis, the Szantos and the rest, suffering unspeakable conditions in Horthy’s prisons, went on a hunger strike to call the attention of the world prole- tariat, not only to their sufferings, but to the mass misery of the Hun- garian toilers. For in spite of all the regime of murder and terror, the whole counter-revolutionary structure is shaking. The economic situation is such that workers are massing under the Communist Party for final struggle. It is precisely hecause of this rising movement that Bethlen calls in the social fascists to serve as an “opposition” to attract the masses only to disrupt their fighting front. They are to play the same role as the Muellers in Germany, the Mac- Donalds in England, the Blums in France and the Renners in Austria. They are to keep in power the rottenest, most ghoulish government in history. The hundreds of hunger strikers in Hungarian prisons must re- ceive an answer from the American proletariat. Hoover it was who intrigued with relief at the end of a political string to bring about the overthrow of the Hungarian Soviet Republic after the war. It is American bankers who prop up the whole superstructure of fascist ter- ror erected on the graves anf@ prisons of Hungary. American imper- ialism it is which holds Horthy-Bethlen and their social fascist blood- hounds in leash for war against the Soviet Union. And American ‘workers must speak in tones that can be heard behind the walls of Hungarian prisons, giving a message of class solidarity. The masses of Hungary must be told the criminal role of their social fascists, and encouraged from across the seas to fight under Communist leadership for a Workers and Peasants Soviet Republic. ——_—_—_—KKK—X—K—KX—XN—X————— “Schools Dope Children tor ' Imperial War’’-- W einstone The role of the schools in pre-)man Thgmas have been gradually paring workers’ children for the next |caugkht up by the capitalist press, imperialist war was exposed by Wil-| and Thomas prays for the exposure li W. Weinstone, Communist can- of evils of the school system. te for mayor, in an interview, “Here again Norman Thomas is with the Daily Worker yesterday in| embraced by the capitalist class be- which he also showed how Norman | cause in his comments on the schoél Thomas, “socialist” candidate, at- situation he very decisively conceals tempts to hide this role. Weinstone |,the basic fact that the New York said: ‘schools are being turried into armor- “The so-called exposures by Nor- | (Continued on Page Two) kers and landowners ruthlessly peasanis to better their con regime finds a will in y, the party of social fascism. nies, turning over for death an] CHT HERE TODAY $9 000000900 18 Detroit, Pittsburgh Labor GALL 0 ACTION 99) WORKERS’ GROUPS 10 GREET USSR AVIATORS ON ARRIVAL FROM DETROIT LOSS AS WALL ST. CRASH GROWS Greatest Fiscal Crisis in World’s History Gains Momentum Fights Boss Terror Drive; Protest to US Ambassador Einstein. Heads List of European Scientists Who Protest Gastonia Case Verdict Communists Defy Auto City Police, Speak to IN ILLINOIS BY REAL MINE UNION “Fight Now or Never” | Statement Warns Coal Diggers Becoming World Wide| 1,000 Although Five Are Arrested by Police “Prepare for Strike” Bank Failures Feared by Senator \ BULLETIN. | WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Sen- | ator Brookhart of Iowa declared today that any further decline in | stocks would be likely to endanger the position of the banks. Secretary of the Treasury Mel- lon today held conferences with President Hoover and the Federal Reserve Board as the stock market ¢ crash gained momentum through- out the country and even became | World wide, resulting in crisis in | many other countries. * The greatest stock market sh in history became even more serious yesterday than on either Thursday or Monday, in spite of the frantic jefforts of J. P. Morgan and the largest banks to halt the panie on | the stock exchange which has re- sulted from the business recession. | Between $23,000,000,000 and $25,- 000,000,000 in “values,” including | both actual and paper, were lost on | Monday and Tuesday, and the crash jhas became international. The stock markets in Berlin, Am- sterdam, Stockholm and other for- eign centers ure facing a panic as ja result of the New York’crash. In | Gentox, Brazil, the Coffee Exchange |has been closed indefinitely and the | Rio exchange is expected to close. The commodity exchanges in the nited States yesterday were hit (Continued on Page Three) | iu | PLAN TWELFTH CELEBRATIONS Mass Song's to Feature “Garden” Meet Sunday | What the Wall Street stock erashes mean for American workers and how they prove the correctness of the Communist election progam’s analysis of the sharpening contra- dictions of American capitalism will be made clear by leading candidates the Communist Party at the great elebration of the 12th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and Com- munist Election Rally in Madison Square Garden Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock . Mass Singing. | For the first time in the history of Madison Squa Garden demon- st-stions, organized mass singing ill be one of the features of the huge:c:\:*“>sion, Directed by Jacob Shaeffer and supported by ¢ Freiheit Gesangs Verein and a 50-piece orchestra, the | songs will be taught to the vast aud- jience and « ng in = way that they |have never been sung before. The Freiheit Gesangs Verein will sing three numbers in English. These |numbers vill be the “Internation- \ale,” “Solidarity” and the “American (Continued on Page Two) COAST SEAMEN LOOK TO MEET Marine League Plans Organization Reports from the Pacific coast ports to the national office of the Marine Workers League, 28 South St., indicate ever increasing activity of seamen and longshoremen, lead- jing to the foundation of a strong in- dustrial union, San Francisco head- quarters of the league have been opened at 130 Steuart St., and the committee in charge of arrange- ments there is holding regular water- front meetings in preparation for the Pacifie coast conference, which | will meet in that hall, Nov, 9-11. In New York the tow-boatmen’s union has been recently sold out by its leader, Capt. Maher, who acts as czar of the union ahd who to- tally ignored the membership’s wish for better conditions. Captain Ma- (Continued on Page Three) ) Mass protest demonstrations continue in the industrial ‘cities of U. S. against the Gastonia sentences, and against the er ployers’ terror which utilizes gangsters and state power to |{ry and drive the Communist Party and militant Jabor organ- ‘izations out of legal existence. The wave of workers’ indigna-| tion and determination to resist this terror campaign in Amer- ‘ica transcends national boun-® Sree ania a BIG rallies on Friday mobilize daries and sweeps across the tt MMIINIST jworld. To it has just been ROP ABE ea ee as added that of the German sec-| MARAE) 4 |tion of the League for the Rights of T The League yesterday presented to | , ia | ELECTION DRIVE | ae eee 16 other wéll known German scien- tists and lawyers. It states that ae the verdict in the Gastonia, case| Mobilize Workers for “was clearly dictated by the wealthy peed, pares North Carolina cotton manafactur| PYiday, Saturday ers, who were determined to convict at on prejudee by “bringing into the |the workers of New York for their court room a ghastly dummy of |final drive in the election campaign Chief of Police Aderholt.” of the Communist Party. i ; repent These open air meetings will eee seacs pees dg. | Pring before thousands of New York ed their solidarity with the Gastonia | YorMe#s the real issues, of the elec- |strations held generally in defiance “lization, the fight for full social, | of police orders in. New York, Phila. (tial and political equality for |delphia, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit. Negroes, defense of | the Soviet |Atlanta, Asheville, Scattle, Kansas {Union and t aged aar cet foe saa ‘City, and other cities in U. S., and erigRied haba gp: te jin London,England, where a regula | Goes font te the American ambassador in Ber- lin a declaration signed by the great workers,” and it demands a new trial, Seven great open air with sn unpacked jury and elimina- | V@tious parts of the ci case defendants and declared war ‘ion campaign such as the fight on the boss: oppression of militant against wage cuts, specd-up and the |battle with the police took place. More demonstrations are being ar- a OO be s © tot mathematician Albert Einstein, and tion of the prosecutors who played and Saturday nights will \labor organizations in huge demon- pate system of | capitalist ration- vanged in still other cities. * * Steel Demonstration. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 29.- There will be a mass demonstration in Croation Hall, 339 Merchant St., Ambridge, at 2 p. m. Sunday, Nov. Courts Aid State Aim 3, to protest the imprisonment of 4 ” Pete Muselin, Milan Resetor, and, to Hit “Independent Fifty workers of the Colonial Shoe Tom Zimo, Woodlawn case defend- ants, whom the U, S. Supreme Court Company, 641 Lexington Ave., Brooklyn, were locked out yesterday | has just acted upon. * * € Detroit Demonstration. after they protested discriminatory DETROIT, Mich., (By Mail).—A practices begun by the management | thousand workers gathered Saturday as part of teh union-smashing cam- afternoon at Campus Martius, near paign encouraged by the Manufac- illac Square, to take part in a turers’ Association. protest meeting called to demon- The ion is inspired. by the trate against the sentencing of the letter widely circulated by Commis- seven Gastonia strikers and organ- sioner Charles G. Woods of the la- to long jail terms. bor department, advising shoe bosses , pite of the fact that there was t obreak with the Independent Shoe In plenty of police “protection” on hand Workers’ Union because it is a —&, Fourth St., yesterday afternoon. | to prevent the meeting, Philij Ray- “Communist organization” controlled Continued on Page Three) | by those “alien to the United States ——— |form of government.” The Colonoial management refused | to negotiate with the Independent after it arbitrarily discharged members and ordered the union’s business agent from the shop Miners, Disgusted in UMW, Won’t PayDues; Buttons Used as Bait —_ Cordial support of Woods’ in- SCRANTON, Pa., (By Mail).—So structions was again expressed ) disgusted have the rank ahd file terday when the judge at Gates Av members of the United Mine Work-|Court, Brooklyn, immediately re- ers become with the misleaders of |versed his earlier dismissal of four | the union, that they have in thou- | workers arrested pickets after their sands of tases refused to pay dues. former boss showed him the labor “Designed to correct lax payment of ,department’s letter. The strikers per capita dues,” as the words of will stand trial Dec. 26. They had the fakersgread, the uniform work- picketed the Elbee shop, 449 Trout- | | ng button system has been put into man St. effect, as ordered by the recent U.| Two other shops which violated M. W. A. district gonvention. But uunion agreements were the Sep- militant miners state that the bait tum, 33 Marcy Ave., and the Re- of buttons for dues will not induce |sinded, 330 Melrose St. | the members to turn over hard-| Picketing is being maintained at jearned eash for the fakers to use |these shops in spite of customary | as they please. \police terror. | ‘Workers Must Aid in Bailing gthe settlement committee. the Seven Gastonia Prisoners |Legal Technicalities Tie Up Release ‘of Mill) Workers | Bail, which has been previously|in bail. The International Labor raised and which is now to be ap-| Defense is now stretching all its 1 plied to the release of the seven sources and doing everything Gastonia strike leaders sentenced to| power to raise the required a total of 117 years in prison, has! money immediately to release the been-tied up on p¥etenses of legal seven Gastonia strike leaders from) technicalities, in order to prevent Mecklinberg County Jail. All di the release of the prisoners, it was tricts of the I. L. D., friends and announced yesterday by the Nation-| sympathizers, are called upon to give al Office of the International Labor | their utmost aid in raising the bail Defense. |money or liberty bonds, which The Charlotte authorities of the should be sent.to the National Of- textile mill bosses will only take fice of the ILD, 80 E. 11th St, New cash or liberty bonds for the $27,000! York City, immediately, t ,er Dp ch Isauliing the seal Haq 3 Battle Looms to Smash Checkoff, Cut Hours Til, Oct. m of the ict convention of Illinois miners called by the National Miners Union, a call to action is being sent out by the N. M. U. throughout the coal fields of this state. The pro- gram of the N. -f. U., as explained in leaflets broadesst tod death blow at company w EST FRANKFORT, Acting on the decisi dist’ the United Mine Workers or any other variety. and rallies the miners to their o militant National Min- Union. It says in part: ‘ow is the time to abolish the company union. the U. M, W. A. of the traitorous Lewis and Fishwick. The time is ripe for rank and file to forever end the domination of the in co: rupt U. M. W. A. leaders, tools of | the coal operators. We must oust the fakers. “Now or Never.” “The time is now or never to build a fighting, powerful, rank and file controlle’ National Miners: Union. Now we must re-establish ton wages, hours, and working conditions in the industry. have been betraye¢ and sacrificed hy these corrupt agents of the bosses, | L wis and Fistvicl-. “Mobilize your forces to smash | s Or-|trains to take the official reception ganize, and enforce the abolition of |committée to. Valley Stream the control of these fakers the infamous checkoff. “Smash all the tricks of the fak- ers which hold you in the corrupt U. M. W. A. and under. its organ- ized exploitation. Mobilize, and hiuld the fighting Natiqnal Miners’ Union. Destroy the fake U. M. W. A. charters: locals in a body to the National Min- ers’ Union. “Prepare to enforce the demand (Continued on Page Three) JECT WINDOW BOSSES OFFER 2 000 Strikers Keep Up Walkout They | | | | { | | | | j Meeting at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 1,000 strike ers’ Protective Union unanimously voted to reject the offer of the Man- hattan Window Cleaners Protective ociation, a boss organization, of a $2 increase in the minimum wage. The offer was made at a confer- ence held earlier in the day at the Broadway Central Hotel at which ‘ion representatives attended. The ssociation had refused the union de- mands for an increase of 14.50 over th $45 minimum wage; the 40-hour five-day week; proper safety de- ces and adequate compensation in- surance. The strikers, who have forced 45 independent firms to date to accept their demands, also rejected unani- motsly the demand of other employ- ers organized in the Manhattan Window Cleaning Employers Pro- tective Association that Peter Darck. former union secretary, be removed from the settlement committee be- fore the association would negotiate. A small right wing in the union had agrecd with the bosses request to keep Darck. because of his cour- aeous leadership in the union; off However, confronted by the de- termined stand 0 repeatedly victor eroup was from policy. iterated their will to ng the meeting, the compictely disconrared its cone’ me a strike activ- in spite of the volice and thues arrayed against them, the union embers voted to rush busiress so * to get back on the picket line The strike of more than win ers throughout the rs Four lice, Jod t a st released on $2,000 bail and w ceive ¢ hearing Monday possible Semen of the Window Clean- | Amalgamated Clothing Workers and i i | | | | 1 the pickets who | ‘veam Early This Afternoon; ception November 9 Arrive at Valle; Plan Thousands Storm Detroit Hall to Hail Great Achievement of First Workers’ Republie The historic world flight of the Land of the Soviets wlil be brought to a triumphant close early this afternoon when the giant Soviet ship swoops down to earth at the Curtiss airport, Valley Stream, L while a roaring ovation let loose by thou- sands of waiting workers and the stirring refrain of the Inter- national, played by ‘a 40-piece brass band, rolls across the field in honor of the latest achieve-¢ ccm seas, OF LATIN LABOR HALTS CONGRESS who have | Pan American Meet WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 29.— The executive committee of the Am- | of Labor an- nounced today the indefinite post- y sponsored mass demon- strations for Semyon Shestakov and all of the his three comrades in : * American cit erican Federation pinement of the sixth congress of the Pan-American Federation of Labor which was to have opened in Havana January 6. The energetic” compaign of the Red International of Labor Unions, this and the Latin American Trade Union : 5 Saal carry "S| Confederation, a militant trade union morning. Each train will carry 1- center organized at Montevideo, 200 delegates, the first leaving the| Uruguay, May, 1929, has opened the Pennsylvania station at 10:35, the eyes of the South and Central Am- BOLOTOV other followings twenty minutes] erican workers to such an extent later. that any labor bureaucrats who More than 200 working ciass or-| might repeat last years’ slavish 7 affiliate each of its |Z@nizations will be represented by scaping and bowing befoe Ameican ism epesented by Woll and (Continued on Page Two) BOMBS EXPLODE IN NEW ORLEANS Seabs’ Houses and Car Damaged by Blasts NEW ORLEANS, ODct. 29.—The house John Bourdett, occupied by a scab motorman and two seab eonductors was bombed and wrecked last night. A house occupied by B. Paragne, scab motorman was bomb- ed a little later. A street car, early this mo. g ran over explosives o nthe track and was damaged. No nish, Italian, Lithuanian, bi *| one was injured in any of these ex- Chinese, Hungarian and other lan- plosions, guage workers groups participating. “ ‘phe street car strike is still on, A delegation of Russian working no matter how much the strike- women, dressed in native costume, breaking officials of the Amalga- will lend color to the gathering, and| mated Association of Street and workers’ children will be out in) Electrical Railway Employees try to force, carrying huge bouquets of| force the men to accept the agree- flowers for presentation to the four! ment, embodying the blacklist, ar- dauntless airmen. ,|vanged for the.a by President Ma- After a speaker representing the hon of the union, and William Green, Friends of the Soviet Union has| president of the A. F. L. bestowed greetings on the Soviet, It is not known whether the bombs emissaries and officially invited) are the act of an agent provocateur, them to the mass reception in the or of some striker, resentful of the Polo Grounds on Noy. 9th, they will| federal injunction, and police bru- be escorted to quarters in the Astor |tality which has involved the murder (Continued on Page Twe) ral strikers already. the delegat Trades Work , including the Indastrial Necdle Union, impeia| the Independent Shoe Workers, the / FUFAEV the Cafeteria Workers’ Union. The event will be truly international in character, with Lettish, Volish, of s oanoke, N. C. Mill Workers, W. Va. Miners, Want ‘Daily!’ The mill workers of Roanoke Rapids and Rosemary, North Caro- lina, are calling for the Daily Worker! The coal miners of the southern fields in West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky write that they must have the Daily Worker distributed in (unorganized coal fields of the South at once, and regularly! Both these groups of workers, unorganized, or in other cases simply sold out like chattel to the southern mill bo and coal operators by the twin boss-controlled machines of the A. F. of L., the United Textile Workers and the corrupt United Mine Workers, are turning to the mili- t unions to lead (hem. Wyrkers in Roanoke Rapids and Rosemary, hearing about the Daily \ from textile workers who had come to these villages from Gas- t aave written w ppealing for speakers from the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union—and bundles of the “union paper”"—their name for the Daily. Here’s the letter from a mili worker in Roanoke Rap’ North Carolina mill towns slated to he a base of the str against class in the South: “I received your copy of the Daily Worker. 1 thank you very much for the same. “I enclose a list cf nz of rail workers of Roanoke Rapids and ed on Page Three) ‘ s, one of the ggle of class sure do want to