The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1929, Page 2

DAIL AY. Y WORKER, NEW 4 YORK, WEDNESD. ERS JOINING NATIONAL UNION BY HUNDREDS inersville, McAdoo; Tries to Fine Them ood LR i yy reece Welcome N. M. U. Speakers at Tamagua, Form New Local; Lewis Afraid to Expel, TMAQUA, tock place at Mc- volt here are preparing meetings. They all Illinois strike, and are 1 not to succumb to the U. M e. d here to onal NM. tion and the be Mine Worker closely with help the W. A. is plainly September. They are file committees . M. U. organ- ughout the di . is so much wor- movement of the cut whi to s rt ex- Septem curious At t S members The amount but not paid by the N. M. 1 N. M. U. wa: stalled. ly reject the . Ww. to A. but- operator e Lewis gang does not have At M ville a crowd of 200 , and tries to force miners att the mass me to hear the N. M. U. 60 of t i speaker exchange rs won't have it. W. A, locals here The min U. with Lewis offic’ meeting, \Labor and Fraternal Organizations vkets, ivi Communist Activities Text section or complete tl members. Y y root District Indus an eee Section 3 Indust Will have Dec. 11 at 1179 F i Roll Call will be our shop Will have @ay at Sec Membership Meeting. Section Will be held tonight ‘ the Boro Park Wor aly aed ‘3rd St. Brooklyn. A repres Sone i from the district will speak on the membership ndny za, 1 of de the section nference takes All must attend. come. Unit 19, Section Meets tonight at 6.30 at 1 way, All must attend eadauarte your fellow Protest Meet protest meeting nviet nd Oth will speak day, Collect Funds fer De ; ae ags Mine and Needle |, he \hour day and five-day |in wages, abolition of the speed: | and the infamous checkoff any per capita to the | | 4 every kind of pacifist and socialist sive| States, British, French and Italian “Must Give Relief to | Striking Mlinois Miners” — WIR The Workers International Relief is launching a nation-wide campaign to furnish relief for the striking Il- linois miners. It announces that spe- cial headquarters. are being estab- lished in Chicago and relief stations will be opened in the strike field as soon as possible. “The calling out of the National the W.IL.R. “on the first day of the strike of the Illinois miners shows that the bosses are wasting no time in mobilizing all their forces to crush the fight of the brutally exploited coal diggers. Guard,” says “The fight of the Illinois miners is the fight of eve worker, ey omy of capitalism. Against them are united all the reactionary forces that the bosses can command—state troops, police, thugs, and the strike- | | breaking company union agents of the Lewis and Fishwick machines i the United Mine Work eek, increase | | stem | these are the chief demands of the} miners who are fighting under the | leadership of the militant National | Miners Union.” | “We must have the support of} y worker, every worke: ganization. Send contributions of money and food at once to the Na- tional Office of the W.LR., 949 | Broadway, room 512, New York| City.” | or- NY COMMUNISTS “AID HAITI REVOLT -|Denounce Wall Street Murder of Workers (Continued from Page One) {3 struggled against foreign oppression | are again showing dauntless cour- age in the face of the Wall Street butchers. The enemies of the Haitian mass- es are our enemies. Their countr in the talons of the National City | Bank and the California Packing Corporation which controls Haiti through a number of subsidiaries: The Haitian Corporation of Amer- ica, the Haitian American Sugar Co., the Haitian Pineapple Co., the Banque Nationale de la Republique ‘.|@’Haiti, supported by gunmen and trained murderers wearing the uni- ill form of the U. S. Marine Corps. These same banking and indns- t/trial corporations are exploiting us workers in the United States. Your boss is either an investor or is in ’/partnership in some form or other with the big banking institutions which are robbing both us and the Haitian masses through starvation | wages, long hours, speed-up, ete. The fight of the Haitian workers and peasants is therefore our fight The American Federation of Labor is joining with Wall Street in its attacks on the colonial workers Supporting these attacks are also hypocrite. While these attacks on the Hai- tians are going forward the United are bombing the Chine masses in order to suppress their ey © Workers.| volt against the Nanking butchers. Strikers in N. Y ‘vm tlt India, Palestine, Africa, and \ € in |throughout the world similar at- The Workers International Relief |tacks on the colonial masses are of New York has planned a mass |; 39 collection on Dec. 21 and 22 for the miners and needle trades strikers. “The employers are driving full speed ahead attempting to s the ranks of the workers,” says the statement issued by the N. Y. branch of the W. I, R. “There is |; only one course for the working class, the strongest i against this new offe united forces of the wor solidarity.” 9 Collection boxes are now ready. ers Danc Call or phone for the amount you | of Comrnde. be will use. The office of the N. Y. jain’ the group at Workers International Relief is 799 | aan men gnd women) Broadway. v is heing arrange Cuneil of the Work- e hil will start Dee. 15, at ring your 2 Work- the direction will partici- wanted to Comrades ho have h tl See 16th { 1 t 2.30 p. i Shoe Pickets Stand Up '%ir ihe Ni! (Continued from Page One) all there had been on strike from six Sie teas. | Organization Work | The jailed workers passed a rcso-| Since the organization of the lution to fight the battle to a vic- | Trade Union Unity League at the tory, pointing out the united front) Cleveland Convention, the TUUL in of the bosses, the A.F.L. and the New York has made rapid progress. department of labor all trying to! Many new unions have been estab- break the strike, and only the soli-| lished, while the TUUL actively par- darity of the workers to defend it-| ticipated in every important strike All were released without bail, but struggle. two. These are Max Hein, charged! ‘pho stru; ¢ 4 fe vise ggle of the produce with assault, baii $200, and George] trickmen, the gasoline workers, Spyranious, no one present to make | window cleaners, shoe, needle work- a charge, but held in $300 bail, after | 6), furniture workers and at pres- having been followed around from | ent the subway construction work- his home to a restaurant, to union | ,.. A i ‘s 0 ers found in the Metropolitan Area, headquarters, and quizzed by detee-| ruyy, an anexgatie ovgunlae, tives. He is held on $300 bail. Trial which exposed the treacherous role t date for all 38 is set for Dec. 19. | oF the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, and Trick Fails. mobilized the workers for struggle f Some employers spies yesterday|on the platform of militant class tried to call a meeting of strikers, | struggle. i presumably to oppose the strike.| The annual ball of the New York They had handbills signed simply, militant unionists which will be held “Committee,” printed in English and on Saturday evening, Dec, 21, 1929, Italian, saying this strike is “ill| at Stuyvesant Casino, 140 2nd Ave., to Cop Who'd Reet rit, Gives Dance to! |\Colleet Funds for. advised,” assigned a meeting place, None of the strikers went there ex- cept a small committee sent by the union to see who was attempting this defeatist tactic. But the bosses’ men saw they had failed, and did ¥ UB. % N. Y. C., will be the occasion this year for a real mass festival cele- brating the rapid growth of the revolutionary class struggle unions and the opening of the new revolu- tionary center in the Metropolitan Vase TUUL of New York. | fight must also be against the paci- at|being made by the imperialist op- a. |pressors. Only the Soci ist Father- land of the world’s workers, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, 3 useum/has not only liberated the peoples formerly under the heel of the mon-! hae |archists and Russian and foreign against capitalism! 1f will |capitalists, but is today the friend} ide. Be/and leader of the workers of the} colonial countries and of the world, | It is exactly for this reason that the | capitalists and their pacifist and < |“socialist” allies have directed such fierce attacks on the fatherland of | the world’s workers, the Soviet Union. | The brutal terror used against the colonial masses is also used against | triking workers in the United | tates. Witness the events in Gas- | tonia, Chicago, New Orleans and the | brutality of the police in New York. | In the United States, the Commu- nist Party fights for the Haitian masses and in defense of the work- ers of the United States. This | fists and “socialists” who have al- lied themselves with Wall Street and Washington in their attacks on militant workers’ organizations, in sending workers to jail; in framing them on trumped up charges, in smashing workers’ headquarters and deporting the foreign born, and in to the terribleDHARSDOILNUNU persecuting Negro workers in the U.S. well as in Haiti for daring to raise their voice in protest to the terrible conditions imposed upon them. ‘This Saturday at 1:15 p. m. work- ers will gather throughout the city in demonstration against these con- ditions, in defense of the Haitian and all colonial revolts, and in de- fense of the Soviet Union. Down with the blood suckers, the banks and their government and so- cialist and labor faker allies! Long live the revolt of the masses throughout the world! Complete independence for Haiti, and all other colonies! Join the Communist Party, the leader of the oppressed masses! We demand full social and poli- a ee li ban tse LONG PRISON convicted on Novemb |Ping will speak at Bohemian Hall,|to end toda |sary Celebration, and many other | “Our cinema hag reached such a| high ee of development that we already have a group of film TERMS FOR 3 OHIC WORKERS ants, matin tee Steel Tnust) Railroads i eee chee ng debate now taking place in ie in “Syndicalism” Case | the Soviet cinema press and in the the ‘ easier artistic and intellectual ecieles in St. CLAIREVILLE, Ohio, Dec. 10. | and outside the film ini The —The steel-trust controlled court ate revolves about a group o film ic | noclasts calling themsel an abbreviated term tha or “Studio of the Eccentric Studio of the Experimental here today refused the demand by /fi the International Labor Defense for |} a new trial for Tom Johnson, mem- | Stand: ber of the Communist Party, Lillian | or else. Andrews, District Organizer of the ' Actor. Young Communist and| The right of the Feks to be wrong Charles Guymn, 0 for the|is now generally conceded, but it | National Communist League, and|took four years of raging contro- versy, of earnest work and of start- ling achievement for the Feks to 20 by a steel bosses’ hand-picked j DECEMBER 11, 1929 FEKS---The Eccentric in the Soviet Union Cinema they made*the domes of the saac Cathedral, in Leningr serve as a platform for the antic: acrobats, In another way their irreve before tradition was exhibite the treatment of a well-known sto by the immortal Gogol. The t was turned topsy-turvy by th scenarion writer, and the orth intellectuals who considered Gos a national shrine, were thorough yutraged at the manner in whic the pathetic story of the go ment clerk who was robbed of new great coat was treated. One on he ardent defenders of the gocd id traditions in literature pro; J] n dead earnest, that the Feks laced on trial as common felons. je urged thus: Gogol’s writings a: he property of the Soviet Republic; the Feks wilfully and maliciously mutilated a literary relic, the pro. erty of the Repub! ergo, they are felons and must stand trial as such. | But, as the Feks went on wi Now he Game of playing in Love and Death,” Romain Rolland’s drama at the Guild Theatre. of ninal ndicalism,” a out of their arrests when steel-trus (Continued on Page Three) jestablish their right to be wrong. At that they may not be wrong at all. As the Soviet public is grow- ing accustomed to the Feks films (five of them have been produced the Ten Days That Shook the World” | nd “The End of St, Petersburg. same class with “Potemkin,” | their “eccentricities” they lost a good deal of their ardor for icono- clasm, and gained much wisdom by a group of re-|way of positive style and manner. The Feks compris: fy ReeGl bellious moder: who chose the| Dropping their rogueries they be- PEPUES TAs te 5 EG longer appear as shocking, and the | pounds, They are the direct de-| cinema. ‘The Soviet Government, |new treatment of sereen material | <condants of the rebels who a de-|with its fine broadmindedness to- fi j {finds more and more admirers. In- | cage or so ago Y against the | ward every school and departure in 1} } Pq | deed, many of the orthodox critics | traditional method of the Russian |the realm of art, did not deny the who came to scoof, remained to theatre. ‘As innovators and icono- | Feks its financial support, and they i ‘ praise, While the last production | clasts they belong in the same camp | were allowed to continue with their N. Y. Communist Mass /ef the Feks, “New Babylon,” which | ith the great leader of the the-|experimentation under a constant is now: showing ab the Cameo The- rebellion, Vsevolod Meier-| barrage of criticism, abuse and in- Meetings Friday — [atre, brought about a liv \fire of controve Throughout the city on Friday, |nal distinction oi December 13, there will be a series | the official Film of mass meetings which will turn| mission in the “ into mass demonstrations upon| the S closing of these meetings. These | — Sanaa meetings will be held in the follow- | GW AFRAID 3 ing addr The Chinese Work- | ‘ ers’ Alliance have sent the follow- | ing speakers to speak at these meet- | 5 ings. Comrade James Mo will| crosi » it won the s being placed by Repertory Com- t category” of et cinema products, i. e., in ing parts of the city at the follow- eration ago they were at firs cerned principally with the shocking and scandalizing the man- ¥ ©" | darins of established tradition. this Their first production was a film named ‘The Adventures of Comr: Octobrina,’ i | poking fun at the housing conditions| AT FILM GUILD CINEMA in Leningrad. “eccentric” than its matter. impish disregard for the “rules of | ing the silent version of the lates: Like the Futurists of a gen-/ vective. And now the Feks brought con- | out “New Babylon,” a film officially of | pronounced of the “first category.” i irits of the Feks are yr and L, Z. Trauberg, In ucceeded. G. directors. they thoroughly * * * ie | “HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY” a preposterous farce Its manner was more | With! The Film Guild Cinema is present- speak at the Menheen pean | the game” the Feks heaped all kinds | Ufa production “Hungarian Rhap Li Gail canal ates auteall h , +)_.» |of jincongruities into this film, |sody,” a picture of Hungarian life si will speak at Bryant Hall, Sixth) Attack on the ‘Daily’ jwnhich by its general tenor re-| directed by Hans Schwarz, under the Ave. near d St.; Comrade T. Y Hu will speak at Rose Gardens, 1347 | Boston Rd.; Comrade Y, Hu will| eak at Miller's Grand Assembly | Hall, 318 Grand St., Williamsburg; | Comrade T. P. Hu will speak at Hopkinson Mansion, 428 Hopkinson Ave., Brownsville; Comrade Tong | Exposes Misleaders er (Continued from Page One) ally made the motion to ask him to | drop the case, now provides this ex- cuse. sembled an American “comic” more than a piece of artistic ultra-mod- “good time” mischievous truants on a spree. | F They had men furiously riding bi-| cludes “On Zola’s ‘Money.’ ” |supervision of Erich Pommer, who |produced “The Last Laugh.” The Feks obviously had a| The drama portrayed by Lil Dag- h this picture, like | over, Willy Fritsch and Dita Parlo. The surrounding program also in- ‘ism. The convention, which is expected u has been almost as | Astoria, | long already as a special session of congress. It was packed in the be- ginning, being made up of the offi- | Second and Woolsey Aves 2 ae of These speakers sent by the Chin kers’ Alli- | nd their gangsters, and is a| ance will answer the atta that jrubber stamp for the emplo; | are being made by the Imperialist |Its principal other actions, besides | countries on the Soviet Union. The | United States not satisfied with | having carried on its murderous at-| ments on the members, demand that tacks on Nicaragua in Haiti. locals charge more dues, and vote Are we vicious to stand by and |to lobby for expulsion of Philippine see the Imperialist powers attack|garments, to help the American these countries thart fighting for | bosses. their independence, are we to stand | Sere by and let the Imperialist Powers! Militant. picketing was resumed attack Soviet Russia? Shall we | yesterday by the Needle Trades In- stand by and let the socialist party, |dustrial Union before all struck | Hoover, Green, Wall Street and /shops. A considerable number of their allies, the pacificists, saddle us| bosses who relied on the Interna- with even greater burdens? |tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ nana Oe |fake “strike,” which was supposed | DAILY WORKER AGENTS — to be contemplated for the frst of | ATTENTION! the year to fool all the wo and | A very important meeting of all! establish a company union, are find- ly Worker representatives | ing out their mistake. The workers | ; I be held on Thurs-| are doing some real striking, and | day, December at 8 p. m. at the | pushing through their organization Workers Center. Party Recruiting- | campaign with vigor. authorizing a fake strike for Jan- uary 1, were to vote hea’ S- “AMUSEMENTS “Here is really something new in movie production.” —Daily Worker. 2nd Big Week! “A film worthy to stand in the high company of ‘Potemkin’ and *The End of St, Petersburg.” —Herald Tribune, “Most effective Russian films.” FIRST AMERICAN SHOWING —Evening Post. THE LATEST THE NEW SOVKINO MASTERPIECE BABYLON Founded on the Dramatic Episodes of the Franco-German War and the Paris Commune. SEE= of the recent Paris in the wild enthusiasm of the first days of the war. Fighting between the Paris Commune and the army of France Don't miss this marvelous film! Daily Worker Drive, Sixth Anniver-|" The union yesterday called on all| — active members to come up to its office at once to be assigned to organization work. Today, in Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. Jand 42nd St, at 1 p. m., Paul | Yudich, labor editor of the Freiheit, will speak on the topic, “Why the Bosses Support the Schlesinger Co- Union.” (Schlesinger is head of the International Ladies Garment Work- | ers’ Union.) important questions will be taken | up. Section D. W. Reps. will make | a check-up on the attendance. LAY OFF AUTO WORKERS. DETROIT (By Mail).—The clos- ing of Fisher Body plant No. 18} here threw thousands of auto work- ers out of work. tical equality for all Negro and other oppressed people! Support the Chinese, India, Hai- tian, and all colonial uprisings! | Long live the Communist Inter- national, the leader of the oppressed Belgian Workers Show Fine Fighting Spjzit! In Current Struggles BRUSSELS, Dec. 10.—On Satur- day the Brussels street car men| New York District. | pulled off a demonstration strike of | Working men and working wom-|24 hours to give point to their de- | en, demonstrate against the murder- mand for wage dncrepge p ous butchers and oppressors of the} At Ostend, fishermen striking for masses of workers and peasants of |™more pay have rejected the agree- ment which treacherous reformist Defend the Soviet Union, our So- cialist Fatherland! Communist Party of America, re Haiti! i e Show your solidarity with the leaders fixed up with the employ- courageous fighters against the |¢?s: They are continuing the strike. | American imperialist ruling class |-——— ————— which is using the same measures for the subjection and exploitation of the Haitians which they use against the workers of the United States! The Communist Party calls upon all workers to come in masses to the demonstrations which will be held on Friday night in all sections of the city to protest against the atrocities of the U. S, marines in against the Stimson note which aims to mobilize the imper- ialist powers for war against the Soviet Union. Come in masses to the demonstra- tion in front of the Federal Build- ing on Park Row near Broadway Saturday at 1:15 p, m. and demand uae the immediate withdrawal of Amer- } ican forces from Haiti. Distriet Executive Committee, FURNISHED ROOMS Communist Party of the U,S.A., } 183 East 110th St. Heated rooms; targe and all improvements; near sub- New York District. fay, Rel ueliten 890, WotR, WORKERS CHORUS ENGLISH LANGUAGE Now Being Organized Register at Workers Internationa! Relief, New Address: 949 BROADWAY Room 512 Telephone Algonquin ae Advertise your Union Meetings here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER | Advertising Dept, 26-28 Union Sq., New York City Gastonia and Anti-Terror Banquet GALA ENTERTAINMENT Welcome and Mobilize to Keep Out of Prison Fred Beal—Clarence Miller—Red Hendryx—W. M, MeGinnis—Jos, Har- | JOLSON’S Een oun REPERTORY 14th, st | | Pom, Mat—#TH ‘Tom, The Theatre Guild Presents ——~ | “GAME OF LOVE |! AND DEATH” By ROMAIN ROLLAND GUILD Oe 52, 8:50 PITKIN vitkin§ Avenue Brooklyn PARADISE Grand _ Concourse Bronx Mats. Thur. & Sat. SENS THE MERRY WIDOW By PRANZ LEHAR Popular Prices—$1 to $3 Ave. Eves. 8:20, Mats, Thur. Sat.. 2:30 bc, $1, $1.50 EVA Le GALLIENNE, Director ight—*THE SBA GULL” LIVING CORPS Night—“THE SBA GULL” Stage Shows—Both Théatres from CAPITOL THEATRE, BROADWAY ANNUAL Costume Ball of the MORNING : FREIHEIT THE ONLY WORKERS’ JUOWISH DAILY IN AMERICA will take place on Saturday, December 14 t ARMORY HALL , Lexington Avenue and 25th Street | “For All Kind of Insurance” (ARL BRODSKY 5530 phone: Murray Hill ‘aste42nd Street, New York i Sodsdsh cB Patronze ip Barber Shops/ 2700 BRONX PK EAST {corner Allerton Aye.) LEHIGH 6382 | | sternational Barber Shop M, W. SALA, Prop. 1016 Second Avenue, New 103rd & 104th Sts. Bobs Our Specialty Beauty Parlor ' York (bet i Ladies Private ooperators! Patronize SEROY CHEMIST 657 Allerton stabrook 3215 Avenue Bronx, N. ¥ + geecee! is | Frances Pilat Comrade MIDWIFI. 351 E. 7/th St, New York, N. Y. Rhinelander 3916 Tel. | —MELROSE — | : VEGETARIAN | Dairy RESTAURANT emrades Will Always Find it Pleasant to Dine at Oar Place 1787 SOUTHERN BLVD., Bronx | (near 174th St. 8 i INT. ve HONE o103 RATIONAL | Vegetarian RESTAURANT | 199 SECOND AVE, JE Bet. 12th and 13th Sts. Strictly Vegetariun Food HEALTH FOOD _ Vegetarian RESTAURANT | | | I 1600 MADISON AVE. | Phone: UNIversity 5865 ed Phone: Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant | | SPECIALTY: IPALIAN nISHES A place with atmosphere | where all 302 E. radicals 12th St. meet i New Yerk | All Comrades Meet at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 558 Cleremont Parkway, Bronx | = - --= | DR. J. MINDEL} SURGECN DENTIST || 1 UNION SQUARE t Reom 803—Phone: Algonquin 8183 | Not connected with any other office Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST of, h STREET Second Avi New York DAILY EXCEPT FRIDAY Viease telephone for appointment jh Telephone: Lehigh 6022 Cor. DR. MITCHELL R. AUSTIN Optometrist 2705 WHITE PLAINS AVENUB Near Allerton Aye, Bronx, N. ¥ TAL, ESTABROOK 2631 Special Appointments Made for Comrades Qutside of the Bronx. Dr. M. Wolfson Surgeon Dentist 141 SECOND AVIENUB, Cor. 9th St Phone, Orehard 2333. in case of trouble with your teeth come to see your friend, who has AMALGAMATED FOOD WORKERS Meets ist Saturday in the month at 3861 Third Avenue, Bronx, N. ¥. Ask for Baker's Loca) 16% Vel. Jerome 7096 Union Label Bread? Window Cleaners’ Protective Union—Local 8 Affiliated with the A, F. of 15 B, 8rd St, New York Meets each Ist and 8rd Thursday of each month at 7 P. M. at Manhattan Lyceum, Window Cleaners. l3UTCHERS’ UNION fLoeal 174, A.M.O.&@D.W. of NA. Office and Headquarters: Labor Temple, 243 1B, s4th st. Ri | ‘oom | Regular meetings third Sunday, umployment Bureau day at 6 v first and ev rst ani 107A. M. open ever M. ( Hotel & Restaurant Workers ranch of the Amalgamated Mood Workers, 13% W,. 5 Li NY C Phone Gtrele 7336 rison—Louis McLaughlin—George Carter—Out on Heavy Bail t STUYVESANT CASINO, 140 SECOND AVENUE Friday Evening, December 13. 1929, 7:30 } Admission $1.25 Auspices: TONAL LABOR DEFENSE, N. ¥. Dist., 709 Brondway I ATS MUST i BOUGHT IN ADVANCK Business meetings held the first Monday of the month at 8 p,m, Ndueational meetings—the third Monday of the month. Executive Board” meetings—every ‘Tuesday afternoon at 6 o'clock. One tndastery! One Union! Join and Fight the Common Enemy! Oftica cpen from 9 a. m, to 6 pom TICKETS 50 CENTS HAT CHECK 50 CENTS Tickets at the Morning Freiheit, 30 Union Square | gain: take on oa notin — he ao diana © i tae ie ais P x