The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 14, 1929, Page 1

R AND HAITI | DEMONSTRATE TODAY AGAINST ATTACKS ON U.S.S. ALL WORKERS MUST STAND BY THE MINERS, AS THE MINERS ARE GIVING THE FIRST WORKING CLASS RESPONSE TO THE WAGE CUT DRIVE OF HOOVER! Ottiee ny Mew York. N + ander the a Published dally excep: Company, inc., 26-28 Vol. VI., No. 241 2 orker ot March 8, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION @A’ Outside New York. by mail $6.00 ver year. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 19 Demonstrate Today! In Protest Against the Massacres in Haiti by U.S. Imperialism! Protest Against the Stimson Note! Today at 1:15 p. m. thousands of New York workers will proceed to Park Row and Broadway, before the Federal Building, to voice their protest against the murder of Haitian workers by U. S. marines. They will demand the withdrawal of all U. S. armed forces from Haiti They will demand the complete and immediate independence of all the oppressed people. They will protest against the presence of U. S. marines and navy in China, and against the infamous Stimson’ note which attempted to block the settlement of the Chinese Eastern Rail- way question between the Soviet Union and the Manchurian govern- ment. They will proclaim their determination to defend the Soviet Union against all attacks. This demonstration demands the participation of every worker con- scious of his class, every worker who realizes the necessity to break the power of imperialism which is crushing the toiling masses, every worker who really wants to fight against war. Let all workers understand that the same forces which kill our Haitian brothers, and which prepare war against the Soviet Union, at the same time are conducting war against the workers in the United States—a war of wage-cutting, of strike-breaking, of murder of union organizers, of railroading union leaders to prison for 20 years. Just as American imperialism sends its armies into Haiti and China, it has its armies today in the Illinois coal fields: Just as it murders Haitians today, yesterday it murdered Ella May Wiggins in Gastonia and the six strikers in Marion. . Today's demonstration against American imperialist aggressions abroad, is at the same time a protest against its aggressions against the working class at home. Every worker to the demonstration! Voice your protest! Mobilize and organize the power of the working class! Our Class Enemies Know What the Illinois Miners Strike Means The tide of struggle rises rapidly in the coal fields. The strike in Illinois led by the National Miners’ Union has opened. a breach in the wéll of fascism through which thousands of workers in other sections are preparing to rush, From Kentucky comes the news that 18,000 coal miners have voted to strike. These workers are nominally members of the Lewis com- pany union but their strike vote is a direct repudiation of the agree- ment that no strikes shall be called or wage increases demanded, made by John L. Lewis and the rest of the American Federation of Labor og tae with Hoover, as part of the drive against the working class. In Boonville, Missouri, a miners’ strike is in progress and 64 strikers have been arrested. Deputy sheriffs are stationed on the properties. The coal miners have given the first answer of the working class to Hoover, the official head of the “executive committee. of the capi- talist class’—the United States government—and his fascist council of A. F. of L. bureaucrats, business men and bankers. = The miners have taken the offensive and today are the shock troops of their class. Other sections of the working class will mobilize for struggle as the burden of unemployment, wage-cuts and speed-up increases and as the sinister meaning of the Hoover program of “no wage increases, no strikes,” is shown, as in Illinois, to mean troops, machine guns, bayonets, capitalist class courts and jails for the work- ers and their militant leaders if they dare to challenge the dictum of the rulers. The ne! Miners’ Union has struck a decisive blow at imper- jalist reaction and it must have the utmost support. Conceived and born in the bitter struggles of the coal miners in Illinois, * Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio, fought from its birth by the coal operators and their agents—Fishwick, Farrington and Lewis—but able to expose their treason to the miners they betrayed, the National Miners’ Union now stands forth as the militant leader of a mass struggle whpse im- portance to the whole working class cannot be overestimated. Let us pay some attention to what the organs of our class ene- mies say. The Chicago Tribune thus describes the background and- the beginning of a struggle whose historical significance is not yet entirely clear to many of our own comrades: “Coal men predict that this strike is the beginning of the end of the United Mine Workers of America. Illinois is the last stronghold. .. . . The organization recently has been split wide open, its 56,000 members in Illinois about evenly divided as fol- lowers of John L. Lewis, and Harry Fishwick, president of the Illinois district. .. .. . It is into a breach that has been consid- ered as wide as the ocean that the new organization has stepped. The National Miners’ Union at the opportune moment yesterday called the strike, making sixteen demands on the operators, these including the six-hour day, the five-day week, and $35 per week minimum wage. Once the call was out professional organizers and strikers took over the locals of the United Mine Workers, ousted any officials who were faithful, set up temporary of- | ficers and asked the men to join the National Miners’ Union. The miners who refused to join were met at the gates of the mines last night and this morning by large groups of strikers and their women. They were cursed and stoned, the women threw their arms around their necks and either taunted them or pleaded with them. Or their dinner buckets were snatched and kicked about the streets. And then most of them, willingly or unwillingly, joined the National Miners’ Union. “One strangely disturbing factor was the presence of militia. At Mine No. 8 most of the men would haye gone to work this morning if it had not been for the soldiers. When they saw the guardsmen they disdainfully refused to go to work. They appeared ‘to believe there was a stigma in working under the guard of soldiers.” P The Chicago Tribune is the most frank of all American capitalist »apers. Its news stories and editorials are as sharp and brutal as the class struggle in the huge heavy industry district for whose ruling class it speaks. Here it gives in harsh strokes, the better to call at- +antion to the danger to its class, the picture of the discarding by masses of workers of the old class peace unionism and the rise of class struggle unionism in the coal fields. me The role of our Party is likewise clearly understood by the Chicago ‘Tribune: «+. -“the trouble here constitutes the most serious attempt yet made by the Communists to get a foothold in American labor. Newspaper editors and publishers who have no direct interest in either the coal industry or the old miners’ union and others familiar for years with the coal mining situation in Illinois .. . assert that many leaders of the National Miners Union . . . are ~out and out Communists.” It is true that our Party is playing a leading role in this struggle. More than this, it is a major task of our comrades to,widen the base of our Party and increase its influence. Our Party has given to our class in the United States the only correct estimate of the present - situation, the Hoover “anti-panic” statement as a declaration of war _ ppon the working class, and has put forward the fighting program I, L. D, SMASHES CRUDE FRAME-UP Jury Brings in-“N ot Guilty” Verdict After 13 Hours Judge Is Pittsburgh Defense to Call Big Mass Meet . PITTSBURGH, Dec. 13.—Salva- tore Accorsi is acquitted. A “not guilty” verdict was returned by the jury after it was out eighteen hours, from 5 o'clock last night until 11 o’clock this morning. It has de- liberated through the night. A crowd assembled in court at 9:30 in expectation of the verdict, but rio news was received until 11 o’clock. The court was filled with worker friends, of the defendant. Mrs. Ac- corsi and her three children were present. The judge warned the spectators that arrests would be made if there Vicious reading of the verdict. before the return of the jury with their verdict. Accorsi stood up as the foreman of the jury rose and read “not guilty” as the verdict of the jury. Great commotion followed the ac- quittal and suppressed cheers and cries. The vicious flunkey attend- (Continued from Page Two) SUPPORT HAIT MASS. REVOLT Anti - Imperialists to Fight Against Marine Rule The All-America Anti-Imperialist League has issued the fgllowing statement calling upon American workers to stand shoulder to shoul- 4der with the revolutionary Haitian masses: Support the Negro masses of Haiti vasion and conquest! “Again the bayonet of American imperialism is plunged into the hackéd and scarred body of Haiti. The hel of the marines has been on her neck for nearly 15 years. | joke of imperialism. Her wealth has | been systematically plundered. And at every sign of restiveness, the ma- rines standing over her, pinion her with their’ weapons more cruelly than before. “Nowhere throughout the dpmain of world imperialism is there a more vicious tyranny than that mdintained . |on the island of Haiti by the imperi- ally designated “High Commis- sioner” Russell, his handful of cor- rupted native servitors and the bru- tal menace of his, or rather, Wall Street’s marines. “American capitalism is long prac- ticed in extracting special profit from the oppression of Negro toil- (Continued on Page Two) FEAR GROWING UNEMPLOYED IN HUNGARY BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 9.— The murderous Horthy dictatorship in Hungary fearing growing unem- playment and radicalization of the masses is acting on a resolution to forbid foreign workers in Hungary from obtaining employment. This move is being sponsored by the fas- cist organization, the National Fed- eration of Hungary. SPANISH WORKERS AT HAITI DEMONSTRATION, The Spanish Workers’ Club at its meeting on Thursday night voted to participate in the demonstration of the New York Communist Party in front the Federal Building against United States imperialism in Haiti, and for the support of the Haitian revolution. . unemployment, rationalization and Every miner a member of the the Trade Union Unity League! Spread the strike! rested miners! Fight for the demands of the of the United States! was any demonstration following the} | An unbearable interlude followed against Wall Street's war of in-| ’ Spreading to Santo Domingo WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Efforts of the administration and the eapi- talist press to paint the situation in ‘Haiti as “quieted down” only con- ceal the continued strike resistance of the Haitian masses and the con- tinued attempt to break that resist- jance by jailing and deporting of {supposed “leaders.” Even more sig- nificant is the report that Santo |Domingo, the other part of the island on which both “republics” are located, is also astir with resent- ment of the imperialst oppression of the United States. Three members of the Dominican “cabinet,” which, like Borno’s “coun- cil’ in Haiti, is composed of native lick-spittles of Yankee imperialists, are said to have visited Haiti for a secret conference with Brigadier General Russell, whose “high com- missionership” seems to be extend- ing its authority without regard to (Continued on Page Two) DEMONSTRATE FOR HAITIAN N Y Communist Party Mobilizes Against Imperialism | This afternoon at 1.15 all work- fers are called by the Communist | Party, New York District, to join in a big mass demonstration in front |of the Federal Building at Park Row, corner of Briadway. The demonstration is called to pro- test against the reign of terror set up in Haiti against the workers and peasants, and the descending of a squadron of warships on China in lorder to defeat the growing revolt in the Yangtse Valley apd in the south of China. Following on the |series of splendid meetings held last night, it is expected that many hundreds of workers who have hitherto not participated in such demonstrations will now join, there- |by increasing the protest which will |be voiced there. | Ty a statement issued last night | by the Communist Party through its Department for Agitation and Pro- paganda workers are urged to be at the steps of the demonstration a few |minutes before its opening so that lers organizations are urged to come with the banners of their organiza- |tions and to have representatives jchosen to speak at the meeting. SHOE WORKERS The Independent Shoe Workers’ Union of Greater New York is mobilizing its forces to carry out its plan te “organize the unorganized.” This is the aim of the drive planned by the union. The. women’s department of the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union is calling the wives of the shoe work- ers to the following mass meetings: Brownsville District, 219 Sackman St., Brooklyn, Dec. 17, 8 p, m.; Ridgewood District, 76 George St., Dec. 18, 8 p. m.; Downtown District, 16 W. 21st St., Dec. 19, 8 p. m,, sharp. The general strike committee of the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union issued a call for all shoe workers to meet at the following halls on Monday morning, 7 a. m., for special strike duty. Manhattan, 91 Bleecker St.; Boro Hall, 200 York St., Brooklyn; Ridgewood, 76 George St., Brooklyn. Workers! This Is Your Paper. Write for It. Distribute It Among Your Fellow Workers! which now rallies ever larger numbers of miners for the fight against the imperialist war danger. National Miners Union, section of Withdraw the troops from the coal fields! Disarm the social-fascist bands organized by the Fishwick-Far- rington-Lewis gang and the coal barons! Unconditional release of Thompson and Voyzey and all other ar- National Migers Union! Miners! Join the only party of your class—the Communist Party “REVOLT TODAY Her |the organization of the meeting will | independence has become a coarse |Proceed with all expediency, Work- | PUSHING DRIVE: | AGCORSIFREED;. Haiti Revolt CANTON TOILERS ILLINOIS STRIKE SWEEPS IN TES) in New York by mail $8.00 ver vent FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents 10 MORE AROSE IN ARMS —CQAL CENTERS; BELLEVILLE MINE IS OUT; ON ANNIVERSARY Fought Hot Battle in Rifles in Hand Nanking Gains Empty! No Permanent Result from Bribery (Wireless by Inprecorr) SHANGHAI, Dec. 13.—The sec- ond anniversary of the Canton So- | viet, saw armed workers’ demon-' strations, which wer edefeated by the } police. | A pitched battle was fought be- tween the workers and police near | the Canton police headquarters, in |which forty persons wefe: killed. The workers fought with rifles |and manufactured bombs. Masses of |leaflets in both English and Chinese |languages were distributed through- | out the Canton area. | tony Sou | “SILVER BULLET” VICTORIES. SHANGHAI, Dec. 13.—Because of two major facts, the “victories” of the Nanking “government” now be- | ing broadcast are to be discounted as far as such claims infer a cessation of war and a new “stabilization.” While reports from Canton do in- dicate that the “Ironsides” of Chang Fa-kwei have been repulsed, the “victories” reported from the Pukow area across the Yangtze from Nan- king, and the alleged “hemming in and checking” of Tang Sheng-chi in Honan, if having any ba: in fact, are to be accounted for “silver bullet” victories, namely, bribery of the opposing militarist generals by Chiang Kai-shek with new funds supplied by American imperialism. The first principal reason, then, why such “victories” ,of Nanking | must be “loyal” to one side of the fight between the “Americanized” generals led by Chiang Kai-shek and the general whose chief financial | backer is the Japanese-British bloc. | If these are bribed today by Amer- ica to stop fighting, tomorrow they | will renew fighting to force new bribes, and.no “settlement” can take |place without a “settlement” be- | tween American imperialism and its rivals, which is far from possible. Secondly, no “settlement” between | imperialists and their militarist | tools will or can settle the burning | problems of the workers and peas- | ants, and the swelling of pt ant revolution in cen! China, with | the ignificant of armed wor! s at Canton, | | | ing show that the workers’ and peasants’ revolution is on the order of the day. Confer.te Drive ILD in Shops, Factories, at “Plaza” Sunday “Build the International Defense in the Shops and Fae- | tories!” will be the slogan of the} Convention of the New York Dis-/ trict of the International Labor De- | fense that opens Sunday, at 10 a, m., | at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irv- | ing Pl. | The historic step of transforming | the I. L. D. into a mass organiza. | tion will be taken by this conven- | tion. Plans for securing thousands | of new members, particularly among | the Negroes, women and young workers, will be made and delegates | elected for the National Convention | | Illinois strike area. Labor | 4. GAS, GUNS AND ARRESTS EVERYWHERE Center of City With Coella U. M. W. Miners Meeting Refuse to Continue While Deputies are Present; Take Down Charter; Second Pana Mine Shut Down _M. W. Gunmen Deputized; Renegades Help Taylorville; Militia Arrest and Kidnap 16 WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Dec. 13.—The Illinois miners strike bu Bosses; 84 Arrested in Women at Bulpitt rst into the Belleville district today, with mass picket lines at No. 2 mine of the Lumaghi Coal Co., near Belleville, and 400 miners in that mine | streaming aver to the side of the National Miners Union, which is leading the struggle for the demands of the Belleville convention (see page 4 of this issue for the demands). Another mine at Pana came out on strike last night, making two at that place. ‘At the Coella meeting of the United Mine Workers of America local, forty deputies of Sheriff Prit- it, M.U. national speakers from chard went into the meeting to keep } addressing and the miners took down the charter, and refused to conduct a meeting with gunmen present. ke Area! Everywhere the sentiment strike is growing, and the miner: are ready to re The spread of the strike is The United Mine Workers mislead- ers, and the coal operators are des- ing the police heriff’s deputies for all they are worth. Hundreds of U.M.W.A. “organizers” and hired gunmen are being deputized by the sheriffs, and so are the operators’ guards. Most g Rushes to | ducted by these elements. Sheriff Pritchard of Franklin county with fifty deputies equipped | with Thompson machine guns and | tear gas bombs attacked 200 miners’ |mass pickets at Coella mine today, *|firing the machine guns, hurling gas bombs into their midst, and clubbing |men, women and children. One wo- ;man is badly hurt, three pickets are arrested there, and the National Miners Union hall is closed by the sheriff’s armed fo: | Pat Tooney, naiaonal secretary- | In treasurer of the National Miners ene Laat a ice ae Union, a young miner, now in the ie Bee cee ahaa ecanit rece surrounded by heavily armed dep- |uties when they came to picket Mine | No. 10 of the Illinois-Indiana Coal Corporation at Nokomis, and held | prisoners until deputies from Chri Montgomery in south of Taylorville, 200] Nokomis, ORGANIZE FIGHT es county arrived and served wi taken to Taylorville for seamen lon “inciting to riot” cl The Trade Union Unity. League, 16 Women Jailed. metropolitan area, has issued the} | National Guardsmen took to Tay- following call for a conference |forville today 23 other str 16 on Saturd and Sunday, Decem-|of them women, arrested while pick- e the work- ttacks on , to organ: he growing a ber 21 and ers agai the standard of living of the Ameri jeting at Bulpitt. The number of a sted in Taylor- ville today and yesterday now num- can workers: bare St. Conference Call! | Everywhere there is an attempt To all class-struggle unions; to|@t mass, terror on the part of the all trade union unity league groups |bosses and the U. M. W. A. offi- and shop committees of organized | ils. d unorganized worke ,| Attorney Bentall, sent by the In- 4 Ganley. {ternational Labor De: has ar- Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irv- |” ke up the cases of those ing PI., New Y: suena their rel a * ee We reeman ompson and oth Bela oper placed under military arrest with With: the rapidly developing eco-|him recently at Kincaid have been nomic crisis of Ami pital- | released and are back in the strug- ism, while, Mr. Hoover, his fascist | gle. George Voyzey, Illinois dis: council of ‘trust magnates and the |trict president of the N.M.U., ar of L. bur ‘acy united in a|yested while leading the picket line piracy to introduce general | at Coella, and others taken up there, wage cuts and drive down the liv-|are still in jail in Buckner. When ing standards of the American |the sheriff proposed to Vozey that workers, the Trade Union Unity League, the center of revolutionary class-struggle unionism raises the banner of militant struggle against intensified rationalization and of war plans of American imperialism. | “The Metropolitan Area Trade Union Unity League has made prog- he be released if he would leave the |were released today he would lead janother demonstration tomorrow. Renegades Help Bos The bosses’ press is utilizing the attacks on the N.M.U. made in the ress since the Cleveland Convention. reciente renegade “organ, It actively participated in many | /h¢ Militant,” as propaganda strike struggles, made contacts |98inst the strike. According to the local press, John Watt, renegade \president of the N.M.U., discredited with many new groups of workers, of the recent arrests have been con-| |fight, the miner declared that if he | of the I. L. D. in Pittsburgh, De- | hitherto not connected with the left cember 29-31. By SENDER GARL PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 11.—The assistant district attorney sounds gentle and persuasive. “The de- fense is trying to make it appear that we are against labor; nothing is farther from the truth.” This is told the jury trying Salvatore Ac- lcorsi as the state formally opened its case this morning. And to give ballast to his point, Prosecutor Langfitt declared that he couldn’t possibly be prejudiced; in fact, he has been acting as atttorney for years for the building trades unions of Pittsburgh. Thus the attorney for these cor- rupt, reactionary organizations is the prosecutor of a striking coal miner, concluded at the end of this week, the lawyer for the A. F. of L, bnild- i (Continued on Page Two? Mellon Hived Murderers Just ogee Love Labor, in Accorst Case Hoover Sinks Deeper Jing bureaucrats will demand from |the jury that it return a verdict or- jdering that Salvatore Accorsi “shall | be killed by the passage of a current of electricity through his body.” The prosecutor is a friend of the building trade sunion. He is also an |intimate friend of the crooked chief: tains’ of the United Mine Workers jof America. He is also a friend undoubtedly, of the husky individual jin the front, the president of the Pennsylvania State | Labor, leader of the Lewis thugs at the N. M. U, convention in Pitts- burgh in 1927. “The finest bunch I’ve ever run nto!” This was the warm tribute | paid the officials of the U. M. W. A. County, the florid silver-haired re- (Comtinnad: an Paae Tarr) ‘ederation of | and discarded by the rank and file lof the union and deprived of office | , by its national executive board, has | stated that he will go to work in a| mine if he can make his peace with | \the U. M. W. A. in Sugar Lobby Mire WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Fur- ther revelations of the close connec- | tion between the imperialist chief, | Hoover, the bloody Machado regime and the Cuba Co., was brought out | today. by the testimony of Herbert C, Lakin. Lakin implicated Hoover | through Hoov personal attorney, Edwin Shattu “In view of Shattuc! promi- nence,” wrote Lakin in a letter put | in evidence before the senate inves- | tigating committee, “and his inti-! | macy with President Hoover, I ex pect we shall pay Shattuck and his; | partner something like $75,000.” | Shattuck obtained Hoover's O K} | in his work lobbying for the sugar And when the evidence is |by the high sheriff of Allegheny | barons. Hoover told his friend he could count on the president’s sup- port in order ta mca hia RTKD00, | production WAGE-CUT BODY READY TO ACT ‘Semi-Fascist Group Picked to Head Scab Attacks | WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Julius \H. Barnes, another of Hoover's | friends somewhat on the order of | Edwin Shattuck, who is on the pay- roll of the sugar trust, announced today the organization of a group lof big capitalists to head Hoover's | semi-fascist aggregation of exploit- lers of labor to conduct the drives against the working class. Barnes, head of the United States ;Chamber of Commerce, was given ‘the job by Hoover to organize~the imperialists to take over govern- mental functions in Hoover’s at- |tempt to pull the capitalist industry lout of the swamp of the present | crisis. “ Very little “prosperity” bunk was “" | included in Barnes’ message to’ the bosses he is calling together. These men will work out the ac- \tual wage-cut drives, as most of them have experience as heads of big scab corporations. Green & Co. will be called in later to lend |a hand. A date for the meeting of this powerful group of exploiters has not been set. The list of those to head Hoover’s “grand fascist council,” is as follows: Owen D. Young, chairman of*the board of the General Electric Co.; Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the finance committee, United States Steel Corp.; Thomas W, Lamont of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Paul Shoup, president, Southern Pacific Railway; {Clarence M. Woolley, chairman !American Radiator Corp.; Henry |M. Robinson, president, Los Angeles F National Trust & Savings | Bank; Walter C. Teagle, president, tandard Oil Co. of New Jersey; James Simpson, president, Marshall Field & Co.; C. F. Kelley, president, Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; E. L. ' Carpenter, president, National Lum- ‘ber Manufacturers’ Association, Pierre S, Dupont, Wilmington, | Del.; Louis E. Pierson, Irving Trust jc ew York City; George Horace |Lorimer, editor, Philadelphia; Wal- ter S. Gifford, president, American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Alvan | Macauley, president, National Au- |tomobile Chamber of Commerce, |Detroit; John D. Lonsdale, presi- dent, American Bankers’ Associa- tion, St. Louis; S. W. Cramer, direc- jtor, Cotton Textile Institute, Cram- erton, N. C.; Charles Cheney, presi- dent, National Industrial Confer- ence Board, Manchester, Conn.; Silas H. Strawn, chairman, Mont gomery Ward & Co., Chicago, and ‘Henry Chandler, publisher, Los An- geles. The new stock market crash be- lies the Hoover dope on “stabiliza- tion.” Stock speculators re-act much quicker to growing decline in in all basic industries than Hoover's semi-fascist outfit. The proceedings of these leading enemies of labor will be secret. While Green attempts to disarm the workers Barnes, Young and Lamont will institute the wage-cut drives. Resistance is already rapidly de- veloping against these drives as par- ticularly typified by the general mine strike in Illinois. ee The drive for 5,000 new members for the Communist Party is inti- mately tied up with the growing at- tack against the wage-cut drives no~ being instituted individually by the capitalists who compose Hoo- ver’s fascist council, and to be made vere when their plans are d.