The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 5, 1929, Page 1

\\ é V Y ; 7 MUNIST! VOTE AGAINST WAGE CUTS, SPEEDUP,- AGA »! 9 9 e ° e ° ‘e —— Workers of ? York: Today|the platform of the Communist |struggles of the workers on every'is a vote against the speedup;/and the boss-owned government; a/who are playjng a leading part in gles and prepares them for the The New York District Committee | you are « Iled on to decide which Pei:y. Your vote at the polls today |field under the militant leadership against wage-cuts; against the capi- vote for® full social, political and the war preparations against the ‘final battle for all power to the of the Communist Party has issued | party to vote for. The only party | must be a blow against all the ene- of the Communist Party. talist t-rror in New York, Gastonia, racial equality for Negroes! Soviet L nion, a leading ze in the workers, for a workers’ and farm- a call to the workers of New York/a class-onciscious worker cane vote |™mies of the working class, whether | A yote for the Commufist ticket Chicago—all over the country? A yote for the Communist ticket | capitalist attacks on the@Workers! — ers’ government! to strike a blow against their ene: | for is the “om-*unist Party. The | they call themselves democratic, re-' js a yote for defense of the Soviet! A vote for the Communist ticket is a vote against the monstrous be-| A vote for the Commenist candi- }-mies by voting Commypist at the|only platform a class-conscious | Publican or socialist. It must be a | Union against imperialist war! is a vote for the unity of Negro and trayals of the Sociafist Party and|dates is a vote for the party which | Roreat Wy oresen VE sian Colne ie! pols today, The call states: worker can-unreservedly approve is | blow to advance and strengthen the | A vo’> for the Communist ticket white workers against the bosses |the American Federation of Labor, {leads the workers in all their strug-| pow: ‘FHE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For « Workers-Farmers Govérnment Fe Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week FINAL CITY EDITION Daily <2. Hatered as second-clazs muttc: at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., ander the act of March 3, 1879, NEW YORK, TURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1929 e ° TS, ie Sa ‘ Vol. VI., No. 207 = —— Se SUBSCRIPTION RATES: tm New York. by mail, $5.00 per year. Outside New York. by mall. 86.00 per rear. = 3 Cents je¢ daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishi: 20-28 Union Square. New York City, N. >: ee Price 3 7 ene Only One Workers’ Party-- Vote Communist! Today the New York municipal electiéh brings to the attention of ‘he workers the fact that while there are three capitalist parties, there is only one workers’ party—the Communist Par open police brutality against labor, the strike-breaking regime of Walker, to register their resentment at the polls. Many of these workers have not read the recent issue of the official organ of the socialist party, where a cartoon shows a policeman unable to use his club because his hands are tied by ropes labeled “republican” and “democrat” parties. Thomas, the socialist, demanding the cops’ hnads be “freed” so they can use their clubs! s No working class party would for one instant sponsor such a slogan or such a policy, but thep the socialist party is not a workers’ party. It is a party‘of small capitalists, the keever party, the @pa-ty.of dissatisfied doctors and briefless law. , with a scattering of lalfr aristocrats—the skilled and highly paid few who follow the lead of the small capitalists. The socialist party has abandoned any pretense of being a revolu- tionary party. It has discarded the idea, through that idea is derived from th® facts visible to all,*that there is a c trugglée in society between the capitalist class and the working class. That fact being clear, it is equally clear that any political party reflect# in its policy the interests of one class or the other, and singe the socialist party rejects the working class, it cannot but champion the interests of the enemy of the workers—the capitalist class. This éxvlains why the capitalist press gives acres of socialist party, which appeals vaguely for i ace to the when there under. capitalism, class organization and cla shops and factories, knowing that on can they escape the evils of capital of workers’ freedom and working class rule. Thomas, the socialist, is supported by the “Citizens’ Union,” an érgenization of bankers and open-shoppers, precisely because the social- ist ‘party is one more leg besides the republican and democratic parties with which the capitalistsekick the wo ig clacs in the face, The socialist party is part of the secord international, which supports the robber League of Nationas oppress colon a party which in every co#atry supports, when it dees not initfate, pre tions for war on the Soviet Union, the First Workers’ Republic of history. With tens of thousands of unemployed, while the ~loyed are speeded to death in factories at wages below the government cstimate for health- ful living standard, Thomas, the socialist, comes: forth as opposed to what he calls “special favors” to the only useful class in society, the working class, robbed in peace and butchered in war for centuries to fatten a class of slave-driving parasites. The Communist PartY comes to the workers in this election with a program of class struggle, not only for demands of immediate bet- terment—for which the workers must struggle not only on election day but every day in shop and factog, but with the revolutionary de- mand, enforcible only by organized ¢ igglo of the broadest mass- es, for the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ government, a Soviet Governmnet in the United States Unemployment cannot be abolis ed, low wages and poverty are To the Aid of European Struggles! BE to reports from Europe state that Stefan Rakosi, the brilliant and bi&ve Communist leader who dared to continue working for eman- cipation of the Hungarian workers in spite of the fascist regime of Horthy and his hangmen, is dying in prison—not from natural causes, and not to our opinion simply fram results of the hunger strike which he and other political prisoners are engaged, but from the tortures and legally permitted torture of “forcible feeding.” Why are the fascist governments of Hungary and Roumania re- sorting to means of prison tortures of Communists at this particular time, rather than yield a few more cents a day to make life possible, of the Horthies and the royal lice of Roumania? The reason is that these governments can exist even temporarily as they do, only by terror designed to check the rising of the toiling masses whose miseries are simply indescribable and who look to the Communists as the leaders of their straggles. American workers, whose counter-revolutionary “Quaker” president a sdictator of relief in Hungary after the war aided in establishing the Horthy terror and dared to boast of it, cannot remain silent before the murder of Rakosi and his comrades in Hungarian prisons. Not only in Hungary, but in Rumania, another land of stark white terror against the workers, are the Communists in prison calling the going tortures of the hunger strike. They are forty, all comrades, on this strike as a reaction against the Rumanian government’s tendency to murder them inside the prison. The prison regime is unbearable. There is no possibility to live. The food ration for each prisoner is equal to six cents a day, of which half is stolen before it reaches the prisoner. Visits from relatives are forbidden, food sent in is stopped, papers and books not permitted, beatings and “H” chains on hands and ‘feet are the common treatment. The lives of these comrades are in danger. They appeal to the working class of Rumania and of the world «to make their fight in the Rumania prisons a part of the fight of the tMasses everywhere agaiist capitalism, against: fascist terror rule helped by the social democrats.” The fascist terror now torturing our comrades in. the prisons of Hungary and Rumania, is a reflection of the revolutionary stirrings among the masses outside, rising against their own miseries and re- sentful against the obvious war preparations against the Soviet Union. American workers must understand the immortance of support to these struggles, and must let the hongr-n of "> “7 and Testy bow that American labor will a’' (> Ly, ~vopean DEPUTIES SHOOT Ul beatings rained upon him by the Horthy terrorists under cover of the | a few cents from the millions they are squandering in parasitic luxury | ALL LEEKSVILLE Workers, Vote for These Communist Candidates Today! FOR MAYOR WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE MILL WORKERS FOR PRES., BOARD OF ALDERMEN HARRY M. WICKS FOR COMPTROLLER - STRIKE FOR NTW Union in Battle on Stretch Out Union in South to Stay Workers Not Terrified by Bitter Prosecution 17TH DISTRIC’ CHARLOTTE, N. C., Nov. 4.— The Le ille Woolen Mill at Homestead, one of the suburbs of | Charlotte, was shut down at mid-} night yesterday. Two hundred workers are on strike, under the leadership of the National Textile | Workers Union, to which most of | them belong. | The strike became 100 per cent| strong when at 12:20 this morning eight mill hands who had been re- JULIBE S. POYNTZ ATH DISTRIC The midnight picket line, partici- pated in by many women workers, was led by the local union leaders, and by James P. Reid, national president of the N..T. W. U.; Wil- liam Murdoch, national vice presi- dent; Saylors, one ofgthe organizers (Continued on Page Two) 14TH DISTRICT: 16T HDISTRICT 22ND DISTRICT: 23RD DISTRICT: FOR ASSEMBLY 6TH DISTRICT: Henry Sazer 8TH DISTRICT: Alexander Trachtenberg Albert Moreau 18TH DISTRICT: Abraham Markoff 21ST DISTRICT: Perry Murphy FOR CONGRESS, 21ST DISTRICT: RICHARD B, MOORE | e FOR BOROUGH PRESIDENT FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR ASSEMBLY 1ST DISTRICT; George Pershing 3RD DISTRICT: Rose Wortis Moissaye J. Olgin 5TH DISTRICT: Rebecea Grecht ° FOR BOROUGH PRESIDENT FREDERICK BIEDENKAPP FOR_ASSEMBLY 6TH DISTRICT: Joseph Magliacano Samuel Nesin : Morris Kushinsky : Alfred Wagenknecht Rachel Ragozin BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN FOR ALDERMEN 6TH DISTRICT: Adolph Bassen | 8TH DISTRICT: Samuel Darcy® * 17TH DISTRICT: Libertad Narvaez 20TH DISTRICT: Gaetano De Fazio 21ST DISTRICT: Fanny Austin BOROUGH OF BRONX FOR SHERIFF 50 HOFFBAUER e BELLE ROBINS FOR ALDERMEN 25TH DISTRICT: John Harvey 28TH DISTRICT: Dennis C. Gitz 29TH DISTRICT: Benjamin Gold FOR SHERIFF HYMAN LEVINE | FOR ALDERMEN { 33RD DISRICT: Nat Kaplan | 35TH DISTRICT: Hyman Gordon 50TH DISTRICT: Samuel Wiseman 56TH DISTRICT: Lena Chernenko Need. Red Watchers | at Polls Election Day | Members and sympathizers of | the Communist Party who can act as watchers on Election Day today in order to prevent, | any flunkies of the three capital- | BULLETIN. |ist parties, democratic, republi- | United Press news service re- ae and socialist, from terroriz- | |ing workers voting Communist, | ports that Fred Beal was bailed today by the I. L. D., which posted | | are asked to report from 6:30 a. | | m. to 9:30 a. m. at the following | new bond on a Gastonia case and | MAY GET DARROW FOR CHIGAGO 7 ‘Philadelphia Workers * * * be given instructions at the above CHICAGO, , Nov. 4.—Clarence | | addresses. |Darrow, of Chicago, America’s most |noted attorney in labor cases, is ‘being urged by the International Labor Defense to cut short his vaca- tion in Europe, and return immed- iately to this country and take over ‘th: defense of the Communists being arrested and helud under exortion- ate bail on sedition charges. Seven arrests have already been made in Chier7o. More than a score more are threatened. i Attorney Darrow was the \gading counsel in 1920 in defense of the members of the Communist Labor * charged with sedition follow- ing the so-called Palmer “red raids” ‘n January of that year. He is, therefore, thoroughly familiar with the use being made of this state \sedition act in attacking working class organizations. “While the Gastonia case is being fought out in the higher courts, fol- ‘lowing the legal lynching at Char- ‘lotte, North Carolina, the Chicago |sedition trial will be the next im- ‘portant labor struggle in the lower courts,” declares J. Louis Engdahl, LABOR JUROR ON WITH USSR FILM Mass Demonstration of Leaflets in Cleveland NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Nov. 4. —Solomon Harper, Negro worker and member of the Labor Jury in the Gastonia case, spoke yesterday on the railroading of the textile workers and organizers, and the terror campaign of the southern textile companies. He stressed the need of active, militant labor unionism, centered in the Trade Union Unity League, as the best defense, and the way to victory. Two large mass meetings are being held in New Bedford, and one in Fall River, at which Harper jent class political action under the|ing Saturday of the film, “A Visit ‘leadership of the Communist Party. | (Continued on Page Three) film. Four thousand textile work- * aT er Pee ers crowded the hall, although the picture was passed by the censors only on Friday, and the most ener- getic efforts of Fanny Rudd, in charge for the Workers Interna- \Negro Labor Juryman ‘Reports on Castonia to Brownsville I. L. D. Brownsville workers will be en- abled to hear the verdict of the Gastonia Labor Jury through a re- | port by Charles Frank, Negro mem- ber of the jury, who will speak at ‘8 o'clock tomorrow night at a mass meeting of the Brownsville Branch \of the International Labor Defense jat the Youth Center, 122 Osborn ‘St, Brooklyn, 4 the ticket holders on such short no- tice. ‘ Harper told of the 5,000,000 black (Continued on Page Three) Social! te traction in USSR in support of the p revolution! Attend e Meet ov. 3, int consi jee 12th Anniversary, Nov Madison Square Garden, to Soviet Russia,” and the Gastonia | tional Relief, failed to notify all of | | | Fascist Fury "Reveals Italian Crisis Only a year after the execution of the Communist Martyr Michele Della Maggiora, the ill famed “Spe- cial Tribunal” of the fascist regime condemned to death the anti-facist Vladimir Gortan. An hour after the the capitalist system. It shows quite clearly that fascign is alarmed and worried by the increasing discontent of the workers and by the movement of large masses which develops itself ever more openly against the fas- | bor,” which realizes the unity of all the workers in the struggle against fascism, has always been a menace to the fasci:' regime unable to de- stroy the leadership of the proletar- ian masses and of the Slavonic min- orities. Not the Italian workers only have been victims of the infamous fascist terror. The Slavonic and German minorities subjecte dto Italian im- perialism by virtue of the Rapallo death in the fascist dungeons. | The wild activity of the “Special | Tribunal” is a glaring proof of the unstable fascist regime. It shows that in spite of the pitiless ration- | alization imposed upon the workers, | in spite of the wage cuts, in spite of the heavy texes, fascism does not succeed in arresting the in®vitable course of the crisis which shatters treaty have also felt the heavy pres- STOGK RALLY 18 cristo QUIOKLY ENDED |vious “liberal” governments and physically and morally oppressed Market Slump Failures Again Close Exchange the inhabitants of the so-called “re- |deemed” provinces. The attempt to Italianize German, Croatian and @lavonic people has been made by means of the most coercitive and violent methods at the | disposal of the ruling class, Right in the face of assurances/ Already in 1919 more than a thou- by President Hoover, Robert P. La-| sand Slavonic citizens were confined mont, and the other big bankers of | in the fortresses of San Marco, Wall Street, that business was sound Verona and Sardegna. Among those and stock prices would rise, and in Continued on Page Four apparer{ disregard of the Federal . Reserve Soard’s reduction of the price of cail money from 6 per cent COLLECTS $27.20 FOR GASTONIA Pei EERE ingly Favor Uniting State, Misleaders and C Try to Prevent Series 0 ORIENT, Ill., Novg!.—Thr terests of the coal operators an America, invaded the session he NATINOAL MINERS UNION LOCAL OFFICERS CLEAR HALL IN vowss. ORIENT TO STOP UMWA The three capitalist candidates for mayor, Walker, LaGuardia and ry Thomas are so Many names for the same thing—the dictatorship of the | L ¢ L R capitalist class. Thomas, it is true, trades upon the illusion created > |\FOR BOROUGH PRESIDENT FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY : FOR SHERIFF | around the word “soéialist” to attract many workers who resent the 20() Follow Lead of New. Gnas Tere ete Eee ae Biter RE aRe | ‘ .Workers in Biggest Mine in World Ovtrwhelm- with Union in Body oal Operators Unite to f Miners’ Conferences ee deputies? working in the in- d the United Mine Workers of re of Local 528 of the National Miners’ Union and shot up the meeting. They were attempting COMMUNIST VOTE ANSWER TO DRIVE OF BOSSES TEDAY Candidates in NY and} Other States | Thousands of workers will vote Communist today in New York. | The Communist party is running | candidates for all the more impor-| tant city offices, and for state of-| fices voted on in the city. The ticket is headed by liam W.!} Weinstone, for Mayor; Otto Hall,| FRED BIEDENKAPP ae Communist Party candidate for | President of the Borough of | | Brooklyn, Negro worker, for Comptroller; | Harry M. Wicks, for president of the board of aldermen. District 2 of the Communist Party | has issued an appeal to voters to| vote “No” on all the amendments | proposed except No. 2, which pro-| vides for absentee voting for in-| mates of a U, S. veterans’ bureau | hospital. The party is in favor of all extension of franchise to work- ers away from their homes, and although the present amendment af- fects only disabled veterags, it) should be supported. | Amendments to be voted down in- | clude a fake provision of jobs for | disabled soldiers, which is a sub-| stitute for providing them with full} maintenance, and a means of build- | ing a graft machine; one increasing | Added to the news of incipient de- | |drop of $1 a ton in sheet and bar/ | steel. ishipping Bureau. and white slaves in the South, and|are laid low his example. pression in eastern centers, came | the report of a 5 per cent drop in| retailers’ sales in Ciicago, and a War Ir” try Rise About the only thing that looks | healthy is ship building, which is at a new high figure for the post war period, according to the U. S. All recent keels nder the Jones Act, and are auxiliary war vessels, being built with gun supports, and capa- ble of being turne4 into cruisers CHARLOTTE, N. C., Nov. 4.—! Southern District of the Young Communist Leagse haz issued the folioving st: nt against the boss class verdict the Gastenia case, polniing out. the particula> interest of going w An * * (Continued on Page Three) The sentence against the seven ‘breaker Walker members of the National Textile qieardia Thugs! Vote Com- | workers Union in the Gastonia case | » Continued on Page Three) EEE Young Communists in South Call Upon Youth to Struggle workers. “The young textile workers are the most interested in the efforts to fight against the bad conditions the long hours of toil, the Gretch-oitt, system and the generally had condi-| tions. The young workers in the! South are made old men before they reach the age of 30. Their entrance into the mills at the age of 12, 13, (Continued on Page Three) ¢ a lrepudiate the Lewis and ‘to smash the militant miners’ union here in order to stop the | important sub-district convention which will be held Sunday. The Orient mine the largest in the world, and even now, after the lavish introduc tion of labor displacing coal is {cutting and loading machinery, em- ploys 1,400 men. is.no hone for the workers so long as ca and no faith lied on by the boss to scab walked sh | The rahk and file of the U. M to be had in demagogs who use such abst t divert the masses |out, refusing to do this dirty work BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN W. A. local here is flocking into the =from the oaly path of emancipation from the daily miscries they bear |any longer. . tion J National Miners’ Union, and also has a strong majority able at any time they get a vote to transfer the U. M. W. A, local bodily into the Na- tional Miners’ Union, They have not yet been able to Fishwick fakers because the machine has ar- bitrarily controlled the meetings, At the last meeting when the rank and file overwhelmingly demanded they be allowed to vote the local out of the U. M. W. A., the president an- nounced an immediate adjournment, and armed deputy sheriffs appeared to clear the hall and break up the meeting. Fail To Expel Allard. The U. M. W. A. machine in this local had the nerve to bring up for expulsion Gerry Allard, of the Na- tional Miners’ Union, one of the Zeigler case defendants, framed up and sent to pwson by a conibinatioy of coal bosses and the Farrington- Fishwick administration of Illinois permanent, and the death-dealing speed-up will remain—under capital- | released $5,000 cash to be used ||stations: Manhattan, 27 E.||sentence was passed the young |cist-capitalist regime, against its district of the U. M. W. A. some ism. Neither Walker of the nifamous Tammany Hall, nor LaGuardia for Beal. His release is delayed || Fourth St., 143 E. 103rd St., 235 | | Vadimir was officially murdered by | ruthlessgexploitation and its savage years ago. He is very active organ- 6 the fascist, zoe Thomas, the socialist svokesman of small capitalists, is 24 hours because Mecklenburg au- || W. 129th St.; Bronx, 715 E. 138th | |the fascist firing squad. terror. iaing miners te the } me . a ¢ against capitalism. The only political party that leads the w: thorities refuse to accept a check. || St. 1330 Wilkins Ave.; Williams- i | cutine. extatanne of Mie’ Comuntaniat An overwhelming vote of the now in their daily struggle against capitalism, the only political par He may be sent on H speaking || bare, 56 Manhattan Ave.; Bath aaa Sot ee Ua Cacleas Party, perce illegally, and membership defeated this motion tc that will continue to lead the workers in struggle until capitalism is {cur, to raise moneyg to bail out || Beach, 48 Bay 28th St.; Browns-|| 204 the Dussan brothers to a slow |of the “General Federation of La- expel, and showed what would hap- @ overthrown, is the Communist Party. Vote Communist! the other defendants. | ville, 29 Chester Ave. They will | pen if the vote on which union the \local should belong to ever came up. Try Again Wednesday. The reactionary administration of the U. M. W. A. local then turned the charges over to Fishwick’s of- fice, and called for another trial of AMard next Wednesday. While this fight goes on, the miners are flock ing into Local 528 ofgthe Nationa) Miners’ Union, anywa: The sub-district conferences which the U. M. W. A. machine and the operators are so anxious to prevent are to be held Sunday, Nov. 10, in five different coal centers of Illinois: Springfield, Staunton, Belleville, West Frankfort, and Harrisbur These conferences will be organization meetings, with re sentation from N. M. U. locals, U. M. W. A. locals that have joined the . M. U. and abandoned the Lewis or Fishwick sell-out organizations, and U. M. W. A. locals which have repudiated Lewis and Fishwick, but have not yet formally alligned them- selves with the N. M. U. | The sub-district conferences will outline plans for further growth of the N. M. U. at the expense of the attention of the world proletariat to the sufferings not only of them- ‘i speaks. On his own initiative, J. Schecht-|state power in the counties; one toy, M. W., and for a fight against selves but of the whole toiling masses by a Kancer strike. The Ruma- Lorhhe ae the Later hatin Al eal Parva mld apoker wilibophnNe- to 5, the din sank Usd een man, of Blockers Union, No. 42, col-|contract debts for forest fires; one | the operators for the deekouvdee nian Workers’ Club in New York has received a letter from Budapest, | “This effort to outlaw labor’s ac-|horski cf the National Textile) Along with it and hastening it, |lected $27.20 for the Gast nia strug- |to increase state power in rural dis- and the five-day week, no discrimin- hich in part says: tivities, for the organization of class | Workers Union, and Peter Hegelias came news of the f ‘lure of the’ gle, in the market during noon |tricts; one to strengthen the police | ation, no penalty and no docking of “For two weeks our comrades held at Doftana prison are. under- | struggle trade unions; for independ-|of the Communist Party at a show- | $20,000,000 Fosh-y Utilities Co.) hour. All workers are urged to fol-|force with higher wages during the jiners for alleged bad coal, ete.; jsocial insurance for the miners and lcare for the unemployed; the speed-up and for larger conveyors and other machines, with 15 minutes rest period in every hour; abolition of the bug lights, no dis- crimination because of age, color, creed or nationality, with no Jim Crowing of Negro miners and equal jpay for young min Candidates at Harlem Dance - Social Tonight A sociaWand dance will be held tonight at the Labor Center, 235 W. 129th St., at 8 p.m. Commun- ist candidates Moore, Hall, Moreau and Fanny Austin will be present. »