The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1929, Page 1

HAIL THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE U.S.S.R. AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, 2 P. M. SUNDAY! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS. For a Workers-Farmers Government! To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week Baily 2 Entered as second iter at the Post Office Pnblishee 4 Company. Vol. Bind No 208 Ine 28 y except Sunday by ‘Phe Comprodaily Publishing Unton Square. at New York. N.Y FINAL CITY EDITION N.Y, Saar New York City, Ontside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. _Price 2 Cents Welcome to the Soviet Flyers STOCK from the Land of Workers’ Freedom! Whey alight today in New York—these messengers from the fa: away land of workers’ freedom! \ Welcome, Comrades Shestakov, Bolotov, Sterlingov and Fufaev! These “ambassadors of the air” complete today one of the most memorable air voyages ever made—a flight across three continents, across European Russia, across immense uninhabited regions of North- ern Asia to the American continent, over the mountains and forests of Alaska, Yukon and British Columbia to the Western Coast of the United States—and thence on the “simpl flight across the United States to New York. This magnificent achievement of science, of human courage and skill, compares favorably with the greatest flights hitherto made by the airmen of any country. We do not expect the capitalist press to give even the slightest true estimate of the feat of these men, but at least the workers must know that no achievement of the air yet made is superior to this one of the bird-men of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. It is the continuation of the heroic tradition set by the ice-breaker Krassin in rescuing the lost crew of the Italian fascist Arctic expedi- tion; it is the carrying forward of the daring precedent of the Soviet flier Chukhnovsky. . But it is somethingymore than a scientific achievement. This hi: toric trip across the world is an expression of the scientific achieve- ments of a new Power that has come into the world—a Power that now stands victorious before the test of its prowess as compared with the older and “richer” powers of another order. The new and mighty power of socialism, based upon the Revolution of the Russian workers, has need of the mightiest achievements. And it is making good. As the steel wings of the Soviet ship cuts through t r on the landing-field today, the workers of this country must recognize the material symbol of the most stupendous technological triumph that has ever been know in the world—and by this we mean, not merely one ship or one seri of air flights, but the unprecedented industrial advance that has been made and is now being made in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. In no country in the whole world is the rate of industrial progress of the recent past equal to that of the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics. The immeasurably wealthier United States, under capitalist regime, has not been making a technological advance of as great a rate as that now being accomplished in the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics under the superior socialist method of industrial construction— to put it merely on the technological plane. The flight of the Soviet airmen is a symbol of triumph, therefore, o fa new. order of society, a triumph of our class—a symbol of coming triumph world-wide. The fligi:t is a bond between the workers of that mighty fatherland of all workers—the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics—and the work- { ing class of this and every other country on earth, It is a symbol of the unity of the cause of all oppressed classes and peoples, the soli- darity of all races of the earth. Comrades! We welcome you from the land of workers’ freedom! Mr. Thomas and Other Strikebreakers Workers who think it “strange” that the yellow “socialist” date for mayor of New York is s orted by Se ne daily new papers of fi i ing the uses that are the Euronean social-demoer: No paper has more rig cle the New York Ti perialists, in an editorial y over the failure of the G the m ry support for the a rhapsody of joy over the Czekho-Slovak elections. S: referend ke “socialist “Across the moun’ many the cause of meders- tion has registered gains in the elections for the Czechoslovak Parliament. Three socialist parties, among them the one headed by Dr. Benes, score a gain of 17 Deputies against a Communist loss of 10. The socialists now outnumber the Communists three to one. The significance is not so much in the absolute numbers as in the trend. In Western Europe, since the war, the socialists have been a consistent force for appeasement and reconstruction, and the Communists have been, of course, for the policy of crisis. ‘There was a time soon after the war when Communists found it feasible to cooperate with Monarchists in the promotion of dis- order. The present moment in Central Europe seems to be un- favorable to the reactionaries of the Left as well as of the Right.” Of course the loss of 10 seats by our brother Communist Party of Czecho-Slovakia is, to a certain extent, a set-back. Undoubtedly the Czecho-Slovakian capitalists owe their thanks for these inroads against the Communist Party partly to the renegades, Jilek and Hais, who deserted the working class party and did all they could to disrupt it; but on the other hand the exposure of Jilek and Hais (the equivalents | of the opportunist renegades Lovestone and Pepper group in the United States) as the worst elements of opportunist corruption within the Com- munist Party was a necessary process by which the Communist Party of Czecho-Slovakia gains in revolutionary strength far more than enough to compensate for the temporary loss of parliamentary seats. It is well known that the number of candidates elected in capitalist elections—important as this is as a partial measure of working class support—is not at all the decisive test of the strength of the Com- munist ‘Party. But what we speak of here is the revelation of the character of | the led “socialist” parties. What does the capitalist New York Times mean when it says that a gain by the “socialist” parties is a gain bythe cause “cause of moderation”? “Moderation” in what? On'the surface it might be thought to mean that the “socialists” " will’be in a position-to hold the working class back into a more “moder- ate” conduct in the fierce class struggle that is going on between the workers and the capitalists in Czekho-Slovakia. But in a deeper and the real sense, it means that the “socialist parties will be in a stronge: position to sabotage the workers’ cause from within—that is, to b the most effective instrument of struggle against the working claz cause. We take it for granted that no one thinks that the New Yor’ Times, in praising the “socialist parties” means to advocate the e¢ tablishment pf Socialism in Czekho-Slovakia (any more than in Nev York), with the confiscation of the capitalist properties. And, asid from the little lie about “cooperating with the monarchists,” the capi- talist organ correctly places its finger upon the Communist Party as the only party that is a real enemy of the capitalist exploiters, Does anyone seriously argue that the so-called “socialist” parties of any country are fighting for Socialism—for the introduction of « socialist system of soaiety? Socialism today is not a mere intellectual conception. as embodies in the tremendous building of a socialized system of production—already well under way and astoundingly successful in a . Vi iy ARKET CLO AND SA TURDAY Ras kob “Admits to “Temporary” Losses to Business Morgan Manipulates |Frantic Efforts Made, to Save Banks Despite the combined efforts of Wall St. bankers to save the stock nge by throwing countless mil- | of dollars on the market, the jextreme seriousness of the situation is shown by the closing of the stock | market until ~oon today and the announcement that the stock @x- ichange will be closed Friday and |Saturday. During the remaining half-day that the stock exchange jwill be open this week, J. P, Mor- ‘gan, Lamont, Mitchell and other leadin gfinanciers hope to be able} by the manipulation of hu funds ar limitless propaganda in they capitalist press, to preven’ Arranged | Monday ¢:d Tuesday. Realizing the fateful consequences | to the “stabilization” of the whole | \financial and business system that/ may ensue if the downward fall of | |the stock market is nct retarded in} some way, the most desperate means | are being used by Wall Street, The | | propaganda aimed at ].ading small | investors to believe that the crisis is |near an end and that instead of sell- ling they should. inyest even more money,cortinued yesterday. The tac- | ties of Tuesday, in throwing millions jon the exchange only a few minutes ‘before closing time were repeated. meet at 2 2 p. m., Sunday, Nov. NINE COMMUNIST MEETS LEAD 10 GARDEN” RALLY THE “LAND OF THE Fig ing in the face of an employers’ terror a repe- holds seven leading militants of the ition of the tremendous break of $160,000 bail, workers of Chicago have promised to rally in|trict, Bronx; and Rebecca Grecht, | masses to a demonstration called by the Communist Party, to As Final I Drive for SOVIETS” gee Chicago Workers Defy Terror, Demonstration for Nov. 3rd fass Meetings in North Citeling Pledge Fight | for Release of Gastonia Case Defendants rampaign that on a total of | 3, at People’s Auditorium, 2457 | West Chicago Ave. Meanwhile other demonstra- tions are taking place through- | Police broke | out the country. up one meeting in San Francisco yesterday at noon, but failed to smash another held there in the eve- ning. | District, Bronx; Ben Gold, secretary- | treasurer A meeting of 200 textile) ; N.Y. WORKERS TO GREET Sov ET FLIERS HERE T0 DAY FWE COMMUNIST [AND OF SOVIETS LEAVES NOMINEES SPEAK AT 12TH” RALLY Tell of Class Issues Boss Aides Avoid at | “Garden” Meet ‘Assail Terror Drive ‘To Hail ‘the Socialist Triumphs in USSR Five leading candidates of the Communist Party and Max Bedacht, member of the Party Secretariat, |will speak at the great 12th anni- versary celebration of the Russian | Revolution and Communist Election Rally at Madison Square Garden {Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The five candidates are William |W. Weinstone, for mayor; Otto Hall, Negro candidate for comptroller; M. |J. Olgin, editor of the Freiheit and | candidate for assembly in the Fourth Moscow. Its crew of four, of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union and can- didate for alderman in the 29th Dis- candidate for assembly in the Fifth) District, Bronx. | In addition, a young worker will | speak in the name of the Communist | Youth. Explain Issues For Workers. Appearng before an audience of thousands of workers, these speak- ers will deal with the burning issues now confronting the working class, issues that the candidates of the! three parties of capitalism, the FUFAEV workers in Bessemer City, near Gastonia, Sunday, denounced the Gastonia verdict, and a meeting in Dallas, N. C., same. Both were called N C., did the y the Com- big} :| democratic, republican and socialist, |have taken pains to hide, | Wage cuts and speed-up, capital-| jist terror, Gastonia, Negro persecu-| |tion, social insurance, defense of the candi- | | The Chicago stock exchange will jopen today only from 11 a. m, to 2, |p. m., and will be closed Friday and | Saturday. The St. Louis exchange lyesterday continued its fall. | John J. Raskob, one of the na-! door rallies Saturday night and then |tion’s leading stock mai” : opera-|the great demonstration in Madison |tors and financiers, admit 1 that |Square Garden Sunday afternoon— | general business ¢ tions will suf-)this is the whirlwind finish being |fer, but claimed that it will only be | planned {sr the Communist Election | “temporary.” Campaign. All these meetings will join in hailing the arriva of the Soviet avia- ‘tors, who symbolize the achieve- ments of the Soviet Union, bringing home to every worker the necessity of fighting relentlessly for the de- fens Election Campaign Three indoor and three outdoor lolgin at Womens’ Membership Meet J. Olgin sershin meeting cil of Wor lace Center, at 8 p. m. sharp. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the present situation and f ill speak at a mem- of the United Coun Women, which wil . Ist, at the 8 Union §q., t out he signifi Of the indoor meetings one is in Erooklyn and two in lower Manhat- |ture tasks of the Councils. Every|tan, i nthe heart, of the working- {member of the U. C. W. W. must Class districts. The Brooklyn meet- | make special efforts to be present. | (Continued on Page Two) | — Drive to Free Centralia (Lik These Workers Were | Railroaded for Defending Themselves, w fighting for the freedom of the stonia strikers and in the midst of |a campaign against the wave of ter- tice Day by the American Legion curing an Armistice DWay parade. The workers fired back. As a re- | meeting stomorrow night, three out- | |munist Party and the Young Com-| Soviet Union and the fight against| munist League. 4 | imperial war—these real issues of | | (Continued on inued on’ Page Two) Sas Seven Still Held. CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 30. — The! s’ government here, dictated to | ON FINAL FLIGHT TODAY; 25,000 IN DETROIT MEET Masses of N. Y. Workers Turned Back From Field and Station as Storm, Fog Delays Hop 3 Halls Jammed, Overflow Crowds in Detroit; Out-of-Town Delegations Coming Nov. 9 DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 30.—Stormy weather and a dense fog this morning prevented the Land of the Soviets from taking off for New York on the final leg of its long journey from headed by Semyon Shestakoy, arrived early at the Dearborn airport, but in view of the impossible ee ne CONCILIONS: Notiniee. = cms BOLOTOV jnational office of the Friends of the Soviet Union that they could not get away today. The vicinity of Detroit was so fog-bound that not a single plane left the otherwise busy field at Dearborn. Shestakov indicated that should the weather clear later in the |day, he and his comrades planned to take off and fly as far as possible, resuming the flight tomorrow morn- ing. | . . . Thousands of New York workers dropped work yesterday morning to |gather at the Pennsylvania station from where the two special trains chartered by the Friends of the Soviet Union were to have left for the Curtiss Airport at Valley Stream, L. I. Despite a steady rain, more than 6,000 others had reached the field, prepared to give the four Soviet fliers a welcome worthy of their achievement, when word was received that unfavorable weather conditions in Detroit had forced the Land of the Soviets crew to post- pone the New York flight. Disappointed but taking the mat- !ter in good part, the crowds slowly thinned out, trickling back to homes {and shops, but determined to vent Men in Fight on Terror: | ‘The International Labor Defense | Their hall wa sattacked on Armis: | ‘ror against the working class is also concentrating its strength to gain the freedom of the eight Centralia sult they were charged with murder and sentenced in December, one month after the attack on their hall. by such notorious open shoppers as| the Western Electric Co., Pullman | Car Co., the stoi s companies, | International Harvester Co., and the Illinois, Coal Operators’ Association, is 1 holding in jail seven militant labor leaders. Included among them Sommunist Party distr and in jail with him are , Milgrim, Zinich, Borich, and Murphy, all of them very active in the work of organiz- mg among the toilers in the big) companies back of the a k. War-| rants are out for about 25 more lead- ers, but have not been served yet. | | The bond set for these workers, | a total of $160,000, has been raised | by the International Labor Defense, | ‘but the authorities determined to cripple the militant labor movement here if possible, continually under- take legalistic trickery to prevent their release. The usual stunt now is to declare the property bonds offered to be over valued. The International Labor Defense heniete that workers’ organizations by the score are protesting this cam- paign of the employers, and are daily passing resolutions pledging | solidarity, and attendance at the (Continued on Page Three) Defend the ot ‘ommunist! +Hendry Seriously Ill; Bail Needed to viet Union! | Largest Yet: Held by |tective Union which called the strike. | Increased picketing followed a de- 4 | leased yesterday in custody of the MASS PICKET IN WINDOW STRIKE SHESTAKOV. Washers The largest picketing demonstra- tion since the strike of 2,000 window cleaners started Oct. 16 was held yesterday morning under the leader ship of the Window Cleaners’ Pr jeision of the men to intensify the strike when they unanimously re-| jected an offer made Tuesday by} boss members of the Manhattan Window Cleaners’ Protective Asso- ciation, of a $2 increase in the pres- ent minimum wage of $45. é The union is fighting for a $4.50 ‘increase. Its other demands are the 40-hour, five-day week; proper safe- \ty appliances and adequate compen- {sation insurance carried with a sol- | vent company. | | The strikers were working the 44-| | hour, five and a half day week when |they walked out. Steve Rojak and J. Jurgal, ar- ‘vested yesterday while picketing on |dist St. near Sixth Ave., were re- TROTSKYISTS TROTSKY. (Wireless By Inprecorr) DENOUNCE | Jacques Buitenkant, the union’s at- torney, for hearing next Monday. LENINGRAD, Oct. Charged at first with felonious % 30.—Thirty- Today Socialism is the most powerful reality in history | workers sent to jail to terms of from 25 to 40 years almost ten years ago | November 11, 1919. Those in prison are Bert Bland, 0. C. Bland, Eugene Barnett, John Lamb, James McInerny, Loren Rob- The Centralia workers were im- orts, Britt Smith, Ray Becker. |prisoned on circumstances closely, The International Labor Defense | ‘similar to the Gastonia strikers. |is rallying all workers to join the | They, too, acted in self-defense. (Continued on Page Three) | material results under the rule of the working class—in the Union | of Socialist Soviet Republics. | When we ask what is the attitude of a party toward Socialism, | we must ask, not what is its attitude toward an émpty word, but what is its attitude concretely toward the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lies. The “socialist” parties are the deadliest enemies of the Soviet Union. The capitalist class throughout the world has no fear of an empty, hypocritical word of “socialism” when it is used by their strikebreakers, whether it be by Norman Thomas and Morris Hillquit or by their Uzekho-Slovakian “socialist” equivalents. They are fully satisfied when hese scoundrels sabotage the labor movement, break strikes, sell out nions and help them to prepare the working class for imperialist war th pacifist phrases, and for imperialist war particularly against the Jnion of Socialist Soviet Republics behind “socialist” phrases. American and all capitalist classes fear only the Communist Parties and the Communist International, whether it be in the smallest strike or the smallest political episode, or whether it be in the tumultous times of revolutionary crisis, when the Communist Parties alone lead the workers against capitalist oppression and the social-fascists are the last reserve for the bloody repression of the workers, It is not so “strange” that the press of finance-capital sings the praises of the Reverend Norman Thomas ind his yellow political brothers gcrons tife sea, Sekine isaac assault when arraigned before Judge | | Magistrate Brodsky at Jefferson | |Market Court, their charge was Free Gaston Seven seven Leningrad Trotskyists have \made a declaration condemning Trot- |sky’s counter-revolutionary activity | jabroad and begging to be readmitted | | them. their enthusiasm all the more lustily | for having been temporarily balked. The national office of the Friends of the Soviet Union, 175 Fifth Ave., |Room 511, yesterday issued a state- ment announcing that the Soviet ship would leave Detroit early today if the weather permitted. The spe- cial trains, held up yesterday, will run to the Valley Stream field this morning and tickets purchased for Wednesday will be honored on them. 3. U. advises workers hold- S office, Algon- jquin 6650, 8048 or 2745, between 6:30 and 8 o'clock to learn the exact ‘time the trains leave. A reception committee of 1,400, representing nearly 200 workers’ or- (Continued on Page Two) LOCALS GREET N. MU. PLAN Farrington Says He Is Back With Dead BENLD, ILL., Oct. 30. — The | unanimous vote of Benld local of the National Miners Union, one of the | strongest in Staunton sub-district. | pledged support to the demands set \forth by the Belleville convention and the plan of action to enforce The members defeated de- | cisively the plan of Watt, repudiated K. Y. Hendryx, one of the) seven Gastonia strikers sentenced | | | last week to heavy terms by the boss-controlled courts of North! Carolina, is seriously ill in his) cell. Due to the machinations of the Southern mill bosses the seven strikers are still in jail, although | they could be freed on $27,000 cash bail bond. The bosses have caused much of the funds of the | International Labor Defense to} be tied up for some time. As a result it is absolutely nec- essary that the working class of the alnd rally to ¢ree the strik- | ers on bail by sending cash loans | | or LIBERTY BONDS to the na-| tional office of the International | ! | Labor Defense to raise the cash | | | bail necessary. The defense organization has | called on all workers to notify the | national office of the I. L. D. a( | once, at 80 East 11th St., 402, New York City, of their wil- ae sto free the strikers on bail. rn sr 7 Room | | (Continued on Page Two) into the Communist Party. The ‘Atlanta Constitution’ or ‘Daily’ for Ga. Mill Hands? ' The Murder-Inciting Sheet vs. Militant Organ of Southern Textile Workers But ten hours after two organizers of the National Textile Workers’ Union came into Atlanta, Georgia, in response to the appeals of mill workers in and around that big southern ndustrial city, the Atlanta “Constitution,” chief organ of the Georgia textile and power barons, had begun to incite the fascists of that city towards lynching the union organizers. “Let the Reds be warned,” said this vicious and boot-licking organ of the Georgia bosses, “every plant of Russian Communism will be promptly and fearlessly rooted out.” This incitement to murder of the N. T. W. organizers and the mill workers who follow the lead of the National Textile Workers’ Union, was made in a capitalist newspaper which the mill bosses take par- | ticular pains to put in the hands of as many mill workers as possible. Why? Becauge they think to thus stifle the rising militancy of ~~. Continued on Page Three) — Wee national president, to split the min- ers’ militant new union on a basis | friendly to the operators. Freeman Thompson, national jboard member of the N. M. U.,-fol- \lowed by a local delegate, reported on the Belleville convention, stress- ing the primary need of forging the organization into an iron chain, strengthenn iwheetgkaheooidu Bn strengthening the weaker links, pre- paratory to the big struggle ahead. The miners spiritedly applauded |the demands of the convention, and brushed aside Watt’s pessimism. Benld local invited Barbara Rank, | formerly of the National Miners Re- lieef, to speak on the subject of or- ganizing miners’ wives and daugh- Continued on Page Three) STORMS SWEEP CALIF. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30,—Two storms, one laden with snow, swirled from the West and East to- ‘day toward the mountain region | where a Western Air Express plane has been lost with five persons aboard. eee te *