The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1929, Page 3

DAIL Y WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1929 Prince Kills Worker Who Dared to Get In His Royal Path VIENNA, Oct. 80.—Bucharest re- ports great indignation among the HOLD GERMAN COMMUNIST PARTY ‘ PLENUM AS GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CITIES STIR WITH MASS FIGHT (22S s"'S2 ioe |feur by Prince Nicolas. The Ru- manian press cautiously reports the outrage under a heading “Accident to Prince Nicolas.” Thaelmann Reports Young Plan Solidifies the Reaction; Party Prepares Forces iwho is a speed maniac! while racing Zoergiebel Sues Communist Paper; Masses |his auto through the streets, collid- a ed with a texicab, the driver of Demonstrate for Red Front Fighters which failed to get out of the noble- mai road, BERLIN, Oct. 30.—The Plenum of | tional situation, of the threatening | From his car, which he driv- | ling, the prince stepped out and beat and kicked the chauffeur until the the Central Committee of the Com-| position of Austria and the decisive munist Party of Germany has just |fight imminent there by the Aus- The “accident” | ‘occurred when the royal parasite, | LATIN. AMERICAN GABLE MONOPOLY PREPARING WAR ‘Control of Wires for U.S. Imperialism | The International Telephone and | Teegraph company of New York an- |nounces that the Venezue!-n govern- ment has granted the All-American ‘able company the right to take over the operation and m: mance of the French cable system in Vene- zuela, also to lay a new IN THE S Stretchout for Children in Mills in Easthampton, Mass. here the workers are com- The floor is oily 1! machir pelled te (By @ Worker Corresponden') EASTHAMPTON, Mass. (By Mail),—In the West Boylston mill end the stretch-out system or speed-up @ system is being put into effect. The West Boylston are starting a gen- eral extension of the belt system The boss comes to the Polish girls and them to run 8 size on the belt sys- {tem instead of 9 size on the motor slide, and neck through no fault of his own. Fellow work- crs, get wise to yourselves before it is too late. The wages of the workers are very small, not enough to buy the neces- ities of life. The women are com- pelled work in the mills with HOPS ended. In the proceedings there par- ticipated all members of the Central Committee, especially the factory workers. The mainslogan of the Plenum was that of self-criticism. » Thaelmann spoke of the Commun- | ,t Party struggle againts the oung Plan and its international tackground. The pla nmeans the political concentration of all reac- tionary forces, including the social “democratic” fascists. Thaelmann examined the party activities since the wedding party congress, from the standpoint of the Young Plan problems. The general line of the party is} trian proletariat against fascists. |Remmele treated the problems of |the FGrench and Czech parties, the | Yugoslav terror and the Palestine | rising, ete. In the debates there participated representatives from the Communist parties of Austria, France and Po- | land. The Plenum passed decisions |defining the Communist Party’s | work in the near future. Masses Fight for the Red Front. While the Communist Party Plenum was meeting, great mass demonstrations were being held in all large industrial cities of Ger- worker had to be taken to the hos- pital, where he died. The prince, while an ambulance took away h victim, drove off at high |Three years ago much the same thing oceurre? and at that time the prince was ozly saved from an angry crowd by the ruthless saber swing- ing of th» police. ibo, Venezuela. step, extending All- the tem under unified man- agement to every country in Central h America, is a most val-) ttainment for American im- sm, both for use ues against rising a ment of the s, and to for communications of | America from falling into the war Great Britain, The succe jcable system control is thus of Am war preparations. | sands in der to keep the system, Since it is impossible to| their hu n i e run 9 size on the belt system with| home fires burning. Even that is the dirty yarn, that is given to the| not enough, and so little children und working in the mills. Lit- ‘om the ages of 9 to 14 for the magnificent are f tle ck are w um ¢ | Polish girls; the girls ask if they | get the same pay for 8 size on the belt system as they get for 9 size on the motor system. The boss tells them that if run 8 size they get paid for 8 This means that instead of ge’ $17.20 a week they get $15 a v meaning a reduction of § a week end an increase in ¥ If the Polish girl leaves th goes to the French gi er to do the best she can. This would workers get such “good” t the entire family is com- ‘ork to mak2 a living in eH hy RYSLER ORASH no recreation rooms in 3oylston Mills for a worker s sick; most of the ; there is very the We to rest if h W elo: window may against the prohibition of the Red Front Fighters’ League, Police dispersed the demonstrations bru- tally in Leipzig, Hamburg, Dresden, Duisburg, Dusseldorf and Essen, Zoergiebel, the socialist-fascist | | police head who loosed death against | A 4 the erlin workers on May 1, has sued |27Ct mass protest meeting called the Communist pape “Rote Fahne” |bY the Communist Party to meet for libel for stating that the police | Sunday, Nov. 3, at 2 p. m., in Peo- correct, but there have been many sins of omission in the execution of practical worl. The Party must do better mass work, It must make its correct Bolshevist tactics more pop- ular and immediately practical. It is important to organize the women and youth workers already tending toward the Communist Party. The elements excluded from the Party Carolina, Frisco, Labor (Continued from Page One) are the diseased and petrified ele- vefused to act on the warning given es fener aa eae i 7 ean! th f bh attack | “98 : merits, obstacles in Party work. |them before the recent bomb attack | Stool Pigeon Charges. on the Reichstag. Three members | of the Ehrhardt organization have | been arrested ; t Hamburg where the outfit ha sa bomb factory. They ad- The ommunist Party must expect illegality and prepare for illegal | work, but utilize all legal possibili- ties. Chicago District of the Commu- nist Party, and of the Young Com- munist League, have issued a joint MEETING SUNDAY, | Hits Terror Campaign | Int'l Cooperative Alliance Out For Class Collaboration LONDON (By Mail).—The ses- sion of the Executive and Central | Committee of the International Co- {operative Alliance has ended. The {majority of the Alliance again op- {posed the Soviet Delegation on the fundamental questions. The motion of the Soviet representatives that | relations with the institutions of the |League of Nations be abrogated, mit fresh bomb throwings are planned. Banish Strike Leader, The Communist leader of the striking Berlin plumbers, Nieder- Kirchner, has been banished from Germany by action of the socialist trade union bureaucrats in collusion with the police. He is banished as an alien, though he has lived in Ber- lin for thirty years. The debate was of a positive | character, on the winning of the! masses by new practical methods. Report om Five-Year Plan. 1 Heinz Neumann reported on the enormous success of the Five-Year | lan of socialist construction in the | hoviet Union, and its far-reaching political importance for the inter- | ational proletariat. Remmele reported on the interna- )gone beyond even the stage of car- jing whether notoriously exposed LOCALS APPLAUD ‘company henchmen like Farrington, or those who still wear a mask, like NM. U. PLAN Fishwick or Lewis, control the U. M, W. A. (Continued from Page One) Crews of organizers, militant, yank and file miners, fresh from the face of the coal, are streaming out ters into women’s auxiliaries to aid the struggle. She replied to the miners’ enemies-on the convention, and the local unanimously voted for the organization of women in the into the many small mining towns, carrying the message of the Na- tional Miners Union, whose state convention ended Sunday in Belle- ville, threw down the glove to boss land that the Alliance representatives | from them be recalled, was rejected. | Tt has been found’ that the Al-| liance representatives took part in | proclamation calling attention to the fact that the arrested workers, be- sides being charged with sedition, are held on warrants of “robbery with a gun,” these latter being |the drawing up of the resolution | |sworn to by a notor stool pigeon | recognizing the “usefulness of pri- | jot the Western Electric Co., named |vate trade.” The proposal of the | | Billing, alia: The ba for | |the charge is his claim that docu- ments on which he was relying to have Western Electrie Co, officials discharge workers organizing in the shops were taken away from him by | Communists. | The manifesto calls attention also |to the nervousness of capitalists and their government officers because |of the impending crisis of industry, heralded just now by the stock mar- ket crash and the Chicago wheat pool collapse. The big employers resort to wage cutting and rational- ization campaigns to extort more | profit from the workers, and the llatters’ resistance grows. The state- |ment says: a Soviet delegation to put on the order of the day of the fortheming con- gress of the Alliance in 1930 reports on cooperation and the war danger and on participation of the gooper- atives in the industrial struggle of the proletariat was also rejected. The leading circles of the Alliance still reject all political proposals made by the Soviet cooperatives concerning. active joint struggle with the militant labor organizations against capitalism. The Soviet Government will spend $6,500,000,000 in construction of farms and other building ente s, Come hear the rest of the Five Year Plan in the U. 8. 8, R. at the Twelfth A niversary Celebration of the Rus: Revolution and Communist Rally at Madison Square Garden, Sun- Ford Lays Off 30,000; “Prosperity” Flops DETROIT, O:t. sands have been added to the hun- dre! thousand out of work in Detroit by the closing down of all Chrysler Corporation plants due to bank- ruptey, | for several weeks that the corpora- | tion had gone under and was in the | hands of the receivers but it was not until this week that reliable infor- mation of the crash was secured, Engineers and financiers place the blame on the rapid model changing indulged in by the company prior to its breaking. They pointed out that the extensive scrapping and chang- ing of machinery constitutes a drain on the finances which can be main- tained only for a very limited period. Meanwhile For] has laid off all of the 30,000 ch were to be laid off before Chri Extensive re- arrangement and changing of ma- chinery, designed to give greater output through using less men, is going on at the Rouge plant in prep- aration for the new mocel, scheduled for the beginning of 1930. | Social Democrats ).—Tens of thou- Rumors have been prevalent here Most of the re under weight and under- little air in the mills. | also mean an increase in production. The Union wishes to point out that this is the old trick of divide and rule; and we advise all the | workers who do not understand the |game of the bosses to come to the Union and we will explain to the workers what this means to you. |. The West Boylston Mills have not hed their floors cleaned for a cen- | tury. This will some day lead to |a serious accident for the following veason, and that is underneath the | EXPOSE PHILA, | ~—FRAME-UP PLOT ‘Part of Terror on Mili- tants PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct The effort to implicate:-the Needle! Trades Workers Industrial Union in the shooting of a right wing thug |’ Wig EOuRDY, octane RnyAN and a policeman, was today charac- | °' 1s, Our organization is there- terized by the Needle Trades Work. fre opposed in principle to the em- ers Industrial Union as part of the ployment of gangsters and gangster- Pennsylvania boss courts’ reign of }8™- We base ourselves on the terror designed to crush all militant | 48 support of the conscious work- sections of the labor movement. ers in our industry and the frater- The statement of the Needle nal support of the conscious workers children < fed. Weavers, spinners and doffers get 15 a week to $18 a wee cent, of the workers 1 and children; they get from 3 a week for a 50-hour week, wom $8 to $14 The workers must join the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union to overcome this slave a BOYLSTON SLAVE. |the officials who seized control of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, “Among the many points of dis- agreement with these officials we also constantly maintained our 6p- position to the practice which they borrowed from the bosses of hiring unde characters for strike du “We learned through bitter expe- rience that this practice resulted in the establishment of a sinister al- liance between the officials and angsters the rank and file | of other industries, a . Trades Workers Industrial Union, Agree to Aid Slash | iorcd ty J. Miller, organizer of the Reich Jobless Relief | dress department, follows: “The fakers of the Schlesinger BERLIN, (By Mail).—The company union together with the| “Our opinion is that the shooting in question was the result of a quarrel between different groups of gangsters and racketeers who are “Vor- and labor faker alike. Organizational Form. — Farrington’s Bunk. | “The workers’ resistance is tak- Farranigton’s declaration issued to in gorganizational form, through the militant new unions, the Trade Union Unity League, shop commit- tees, and strikes in Gastonia, Eliza- bethton, Marion, New Orleans and elsewhere, proving that the move- ment is not an isolated Chicago event,” says the manifesto, and calls attention to the special persecution of Negro workers, then state: “The Chicago attack is not an |isolated case. This is proven by the sentence of the heroic Gastonia strike leaders to 20 years in prison, by the fascist mob-terror against the militant workers, by sentencing ix youth leaders to San Quentin Prison on sedition charge, by the outlawing of all working class or- |ganizations in Pennsy! ia (even the mutual benefit societies), by public raids upon all meetings of mine fields, She stressed the neces- sity of full rank and file discussion to popularize the action taken at | the Belleville convention, | the press on being admitted into the Livingston Supports. Fishwick local at Streator, Ill, is Livingston local which a little|2,@e™ | He says, under a title, ‘Home Again”: ver a week ago threw the U. M.} “*,, F “ ‘October 4 marked an epoch in » A. takers out cf the hall) willl this author's, life. On that date, rear the report of the Belleville| “. - ry with left hand held ove r a pound- panvgncian Wednesdey, They Ar ioe heart, and with right hand Leld Wepested to support: thet N. “ME high, I again took the obligation of pugnimonsly, where Watt has|™embership in the United Mine Staunton local, a now stationed himself, is the only) Workers of America, and thereby one in Illinois where he has any fol- | solemnly swore. anew an allegiance lowing. The rank and file there | that was uae SY Aer t will fight to oust him and his split-| ay RARE AUR, Of BiG ters at their local meeting, Friday, prevent Farrington from selling out | ‘ jthe miners of Herrin to the Lester | and to purge the National Miners! strip Mine in 1922, by giving the a bosses permission to scab—scabbing “ | a iatrengthen that link ‘of the | that stopped only because the min- | Benld local instructed its secre |S, themselves killed most of the | Face scabs, It did not prevent him from aIGs L ‘ea ee a cae ned taking $25,000 a year for his trea- ,Workers in New York, by wholesale first. : id ‘arity | son to the union he headed, from the | (deportation of foreign born workers eabodPy Coal Co., the biggest coal |all over the U, §., etc. x cperator in Illinois. “Through our experiences in past “Walking With the Dead.” |struggles we must understand how * * Despise Farrington. WEST FRANKFORT, Il, Oct. * day, November 3, at 2 P, M. est to assume a leading role. The ntense stretch-out in the mills than do the older workers and are the first to fight harder for the union demands. The young textile work- ers can only realize better condi- tions by the estgblishment of youth sections throughout the South,” “Side by side with the mill locals, the locals of the youth section must be built. stated, “that our demands be broad- ened out into the political field. “The Young Communist League | jis the political organization of all) young workers, The most active | and leading members of the youth! section must participate in building the Young Communist League in the South and maintain their political organization along the youth section of their Union.” | The two remaining speakers, Roes | Clark of the National Textile Work- | ers’ Union, and George Saul of the | ILnternational Labor Defense called | upon the textile workers present for It is necessary, also,” he | young workers suffer more from the | ‘ |the capitalists are being helped in But Farrington goes on: han chee by the Anedeny beter jation of Labor, by the Socialist |party and by the “left” social re- |formists, the Musteits) betrayals in |Marion, N. C., Elizabethton, Tenn., New Orleans, ete). In Chicago, we 'dricks and George Carter. have Fitzpatrick, Nickels, and Oscar| “These work.rs have been sen- | | Nelson, acting openly as the agent tenced to prison for the rest of their | | of the bosses,” * | | | | 80.—The Fishwick machinee, con- trolling what is left of the U. M. W. A., in Illinois, features in its of- ficial journal a flamboyant, and to one who knows the facts, intensely ™Y memory had reverted to the days humorous statement by the Peabody °f lng ago, and i nfancy I was walk- Coal Company’s $25,000 a year labor |né with the dead.” traitor, Frank Farrington. But the miners of Illinois have “To me the scene was inspiring and impressive, though my physical being was present with the living, The Socintixts are the Third Hour- geoils Party! Vote Communist! | THE “ATLANTA CONSTITUTION” OR |)" “DAILY” FOR GEORGIA MILL HANDS? ‘(Continued from Page One) the Georgia textile workers; because they know that the Georgia mill workera.have sent out calls for organizers of the National Textile Work- ers’ Union—and for the Daily Worker, Here again is a case of southern mill workers preparing for a fight of class against class, calling for the militant textile union and Daily Worker—and receiving only the mill hosses’ papers. It’s up to the southern toilers’ fellow workers of the U. 8. A, to see to it that the Daily Worker is rushed at once to the southern work- ers, Which shall it be for the Georgia mill workers, the “Atlanta Con- | stitution,” or the Daily Worker? oo _—_ ee eee NAME .ccceeecereccncbasesecencesestenserentetnseaenseaeensteeence AAdreSS ceeeescensereeeeesereetsnsteseecnesers City .. 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We will not accept Bankoff, representative of the Com- | this!” waerts,” the official organ of the German social democratic party, has | declared repeatedly that no member of the SDP has committed any pun- |ishable offense in connection with he million swindle of the brothers |Sklarek in which the victim is the Berlin Municipal Bank. The fact is, j however, that both Willy and Leo Sklarek have been members of the SDP for over a year, and in its Sun- day’s edition the “ |ports in small print a |of the way corner that both of them |have been expelled from the SDP as “the facts which come known are sufficient to cause their expul- sion.” PALE PRISONERS. (Wireless By Inprecorr) JERUSALEM, Oct. 30. — The workers imprisoned by the MacDon- ald “labor” government in Palestine for rallying both Jewish and Aral workers and peasants against Brit- ish imperialism, have been flogged -with whips in an effort to break FLOG their hunger strike they began as | 1 treatment. protest arainat il * * STRIKERS TO VISIT U. (Wireless By Inpree MOSCOW, Oct, 3! The Moseow Metal Workers have invited the striking Berlin plumbers to send a delegation to the “welfth Anniver- |lives for daring to fight against the | sary celebration in Moscow of the | Bolshevik Revoluticn, Soviet Workers Wages Going Up! American Workers Wages Going Down! munist Party, scored the Gastonia textile company verdict against the seven Gastonia strikers and organ- izers, the flogging of Ben Wells, the murder of Ella May, and the free license given by North Carolina |government to mill company gun- men in two well attended meetings in Dallas and Bessemer City Sun- | \day. Said Bankoff: { “These crimes against the work- ing class are not new, they have been performed all over the U. S. wher- ever the workers have risen against their miserable conditions, starvation wages, increased speed-up and wor- sened standards. The textile work- ers have a concrete task before them now. They must join and build their industrial union, the National Tex- | tile Workers’ Union which will wage a militant struggle for higher stand- ards of living and against the intol- | erable conditions imposed by the mill owners. The most militant workers, the workers who play a leading part in this class battle must swell the ranks of the only working- class party in the United States, the Communist Party Joe Carr, who spoke for the Young Communist League, directed his message to the young workers, “It is of great importance,” he said, “that we find six of the seven con- vieted members and organizers of the union are young workers. In ever ystruggle throughout the coun- \tr ylhe young workers are the quick- Socialist Cons “miraculous” arguments by a me 15 C Published for the Pa 13 RAST 125TH STREET | The Trade Unions and in the Soviet Uniens By KATERINA AVDEYEVA WwW You will understand the secret of the successes of the FIVE- YEAR-PLAN, The Soviet Trade Unions as the driving force in Socialist construc- tion is revealed with startling factual dium of the Soviet Trade - Unions. ‘Send All Orders to WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS truction mber of. the Presi- ents n-Pacifie Secretariat NEW YORK CITY employed by the right wing against us and of whom Jos, Marks is one, “We must point out at this time, that the present strike at the Raab Shop is the result of an effort on the part of the reactionary A. F. L. union together with the owner of this shop to break an agreement |police whom they have been using in the effort to smash our organ- | ization, are making arf attempt to implicate our organization in the shooting which took place on Octo- ber 22 in which Jos. Marks ani Police Officer Jones were wounded. In this connection Jos. Marks, who is a weil known local gangster with a police record, is described as a | union man while those charged with |the shooting are described as “Red gunmen.” | “We most categorically disclaim any connection with the incident in |question. Our union was organized |in consequence of a rank and file |revolt against the reactionary and bureaucratic policies and tactics of | ganization and to exclude from the shop those workers who insist on belonging to our organization be- cause they realize that this is the only means of guaranteeing decent wages and working conditions for themselves and other workers in the industry. Attend ™ Novomber Indian Summer Days at CAMP NITGEDAIGET ARE WELL REMEMBERED Come Out Now and Enjoy Yourself, | | | The first working class camp——entirely rebuilt The New Nitgedaiget Hotel of sixty vooms with all latest improvements is in construction, It will be ready in November. CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. Telephone Beacon 731 New York Telephone Easterbrook 1400 DIRECTIONS: Take the Hudson River Day Line Boat—twice daily—-from W, 42d St. or 129th St. or by train— New York Grand Central Trains Leave Every Hour which the latter made with our or- | Page Three l\Fry, Jingo Faker in |A.F.L. Metal Trades, Is “Lieuten Colonel” ant (By a Worker Corres} it) WASHINGTON, D. C. ( Ma —For his services to American i yerialism, John P. Frey, a head of the m etal ment of the Amer been commiss onel in the long reactionary laboration and s trades wor ious also as a gest possible nav tra record ¢ l-out of the metal id became note x for the b Wall He has nching of some of built U. S. Navy cruis | the rec | ers. CENTRALIA MEN Campaign Is Part of Fight on Terror lGcntinued een Pace One} fight for their rele ease. The organi- zation is mobilizing ousands of | workers to activ e in the struggle for th f the | Cent a prisoners as well as those more recently jailed throughout the Jand. Letters by the thou d will be sent to the Centralia worker | ing them on the tenth anniver this case, November 11, The International I r Defense now in a campaign for 50,000 new members and for J: 15, whe nthe appe $50,000 by uary 1 for the Gastonia strikers is made has called on all workers’ organ! ions to elect dele- gates to the fourth national confer- ence to be held in Pittsburgh Dee. | 29, 30 and 31. At that time mobilization will be completed for the counter offensi against the capital drive to o law all wozking class organizi and stifle their struggle for better elas The numerous cases now upper- | most in the attention of the working | class are the Gastonia the Chi- |cago sedition case, in which 28 work- jers are ¢ d with sedition for membership — ir Communist Party, the Sal rei |the San Bernandino case in wh five women wo have been sen- |tenced to five-year prison terms charged with criminal syndicalism for flying a red banner at their summer camp and numerous other cases of working class oppression, | Vote Colors! Ax You Str Vote Communist! e, for Your WHEN THE COPS PULL YOU IN FOR PICKET- | ING PHONE THE LLD. | | The International Labor De- fense is on the job day and night. It is re to defend all class war prisoners. Today it defending the GASTONIA defendants; the CHICAGO worke the LOS ANGELES workers; the PHI- LADELPHIA workers! the WOODLAWN = work the CENTRALIA workers—and— is WORKERS PART IN EVERY OF THE LAND! The International Labor De- fense wants 50,000 new mem- bers and $50,000 by January 15, when the appeal for the Gastonia defendants will be heard. The International Labor De- fense and the Trade Union Unity League have sent mem- bers of the Labor Jury at the Gastonia trial to tour over the country telling the truth of the trial, COME AND HEAR THE REAL FACTS OF GASTONIA! Charles Frank, a Negro worker and member of the la- bor jury, will speak in Balti- more October 30 and 31; in Wilmington, November 1; Chester, November 2; Phila., November 8 and 4; and New Haven, Conn., November 5, Sol Harper, New York Negro worker and Charles Buckley, New York shoe work- er, will speak in Providence, R. 1, October 29; Boston, Oc- tober 30; Lynn, Mass., Octo- ber 81; Chelsea, Ma ovem- ber 1; Lowell, Mas Nov, 2. For further information write at once to International Labor Defense 80 East 11th St, Reom 402 New York City