The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 17, 1929, Page 1

q U.S. “High Commissioner” Gen. Russell Suppresses News in Haiti of Amer- .. 5 ican Workers’ Demonstration. Haitian Workers Should Drive Gen. Russell out of Haiti 81 Ui Tice at New York. N. ¥.. ander the act of March 3, Vol. VI, . 243 Company. tne. 26-28 Union Publishee dally except Bandsy by The Comprodally Pa quare. New York City, N. ¥.<@™-; FINAL CITY EDITION RIPTI Outside New York. by mal N RATES: ip New York by mail, $8.00 ver year $6.00 per year Price 3 Cents Spread the Coal Strike! The Illinois miners are displaying the most magnificent solidarity. The efforts of the Lewis-Fishwick-Farrington gang of * social-fascists to disrupt the strike and confuse the issues are met by such splendid exampies of militancy as that at the Peabody Mine Number Nine where the workers refused even to consider returning to work until all troops had been withdrawn, full reinstatement of all strikers guaranteed and all charges against arrested strikers dismissed. The strength of the miners tradition of struggle is ap- parent in every action. There is still some confusion result-’ ing from the treacherous campaign waged by the agents of the coal barons who operate in the ranks of the miners but the sharpness of the struggle itself is exposing them before the workers and their influence wanes rapidly. What is needed now is the rapid extension of the strike in the three sections—West Frankfort, Springfield and the Belleville region. Well-organized caravans of miners and their families will spread the strike over a wider area and link up the various sectors into one battle line. It is also necessary to send organizers into the Kentucky field at once and there begin open struggle against the Lewis machine which still exereises some malign influence . there. The Kentucky miners have voted strike and the National Miners’ Union alone guarantees that their struggle will not be betrayed. The more than 100 arrests of militant workers in the Illinois coal fields can best be answered by the closing of more mines—by the extension of the struggle. On other sections of the front—in other industries, in the collection and distribution of relief, in the organization of defense—our Party must be mobilized to the utmost ex- tent of its resources. The miners meet the full force of American imperialism in this struggle. So will all workers as other struggles develop. Organization and working class solidarity and militancy are our weapons. To the limit of its strength our Party must furnish leadership—Communist clarity against the treachery and confusion of class enemies in the ranks of the * Masses. Spread the-strike! Carry on the widest agitation and organization! Flood all the coal mine areas with leaflets giving the fighting program of the National Miners’ Union. Build broad rank and, file strike committees! Build the actual leadership of the struggle in the struggle itself. Build the National Miners’ Union! Spread the strike!, : Woll, Stimson, Manchuria- International Provocation The provocation against the Soviet Union continues. In the United States Matthew Woll, vice-president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, outdoes even the Wall Street press in his fulsome eulogy of the insulting and now entirely discredited Stimson note to the Soviet Government. To strike a blow at the only workers’ and peasants’ government in the world Woll indulges in a species of belly-crawling to Wall Street’s state department which sets a new record even for this social-traitor. Woll accuses the Soviet Government of trying to conquer Man- _ churia and says: . “Certainly nothing will be left of the moral authority of the Kellogg pact or of the League of Nations if China is robbed of Manchuria in this manner.” While American marines are slaughtering Haitian workers and peasants, while Wall Street governmefit’s army of occupation stays and carries on war against the Nicaraguans, Woll makes no protest. He is stirred to anger by only the sight of the Red Army repelling the attacks of czarist emigres and reactionary Chinese generals, Manchuria is not Chinese territory. The Mongol people’ who are the original inhabitants, have been conquered and are suppressed by Chinese and Japanese militarists. The People’s Party of Manchuria carries on a revolutionary struggle against the invaders. Woll joins hands with the international agents-provocateurs—the foreign consuls—who are now in Manchuria representing Great Britain, the United States, Japan, France and Germany. Ostensibly in Manchuria to look after the “interests” of a handful of their citi- zens, the real purpose of the expedition is that of espionage. « The United States government, the instrument of the capitalist class, has its own “interests” in Manchuria, They run counter to those of Japan but essentially in this case the activities of its con- sular agents are directed against the Soviet Union. Woll’s letter endorsing the Stimson note is one more manifestation of the imperialist war plot intended to strengthen the front of reaction against the fatherland of the world’s working class. Expose and smash this imperialist conspiracy! Defend the Soviet Union agaifst our class enemies! “Prosecution” in Trial of 8 Marion Murderers |Retracts. Anti- Party Builds Their. Defense|Policy; Admits Error BURNSVILLE, N. C., Dec, 15.— |° Saturday’s session of the white- washing proceedings here for the Bucharin, in “Pravda”, (Wireless by Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Dec. 16.—The organ of the Conimunist Party of the Mass Protest Raised by ILD. pegresTs FROM Saved Accorsi | HAITI MASSES { } Salvatore Accorsi would today be) H | awaiting the electric chair, is the) opinion of Grace Hutchins, author | of “Silk and Labor,” if it was not wick miner, and I could see that the troopers were determined .to| get Accorsi. If the prosecuting at-| torneys could have pulled it over| in the dark—Accorsi would not to-|Gen, Butler Says Wall wife and three Marines Run Elections day be with his Se children. He would be on the same Street Always Wins | road that Sacco and Vanzetti| rs travelled.” | PORT AU PRINCE, Dec. 16.— The labor writer declared that|NeWs of the mass protest demon- thecat a ; q | Strations against Wall Street’s im- ¢ state troopers were determined | worislist rule of Haiti and for the to make a victim of Accorsi in re- NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1929 Fear Demonstrations! siiptea by the Eleventh Congre for the International Labor De- ey: i of the British Communist Party | fense. | of U. S. Workers will which recently completed its ses “I attended the trial of the Ches-| Spur Revolt sions: Great Britain Greet CPUSA The following greetings sent to the Communist Party, from the British Communist Party, were SS “Dear Comrades: “The Eleventh Congress of the | {British Communist Party sends its | revolutionary greetings to its Amer- | ican brother Party and expresses its great satisfaction at their success | in bringing to an end the devas- tating factional fight within its ranks by defeating the Right Liquid- atory Lovestone group. “Your fight against the right danger has undoubtedly enabled your Party to fulfill its great task of ALL AUSTRALIAN Murdered by Lewis Thug eight Marion deputy sherriffs, de- putized mill owner’s gunmen, who helped Sheriff Adkins slaughter 6 unarmed Marion Manufacturing Textile Co. pickets on October 2 was featured by unusually open co- operation between the prosecuting attorney and the mill lawyers. Soviet Union, “Pravda,” publishes an article by N. Bucharin, retract- ing his anti-Party policy and at- tacks on the Party, admitting his errors, particularly those contained jin his article against the Party’s venge for the ugly notoriety they |Support of the Haitian masses is not had gained through the John Bar- koski murder, and the Chegwick riots. Mass Protest Saves. “They manufactured evidence, they got false witnesses, they had (Continued on Page Two) . “US. ORDERED LOCKOUT”... WOOD Shoe Pickets Mass at’ 2 Shops; 36 Arrested | When the La’ Valle injunction against the Independent Shoe Wofk- | ers Union came up in Superior Court, Part I, yesterday, “aveouael Buitenkant for the union forced | Commissioner W. €. Woods of the U. S. department of labor to admit | that his letter to the shoe bosses some time ago, urging them to break their contracts with the Independ- ent Shoe Workers Union because it | was Communist was approved by his superiors in Washington. He} admitted that news to the contrary | carried by the New York World and other capitalist papers. was false. The union offitials point out that the capitalist press seems to be try- ing to whitewash the labor depart- | | ment. | | Two successful mass picket | demonstrations took place yesterday morning, one in Brooklyn and one | |Manhattan. In Manhattan the |demonstration started on Bleecker | \and Mercer Sts and proceeded to the |La Valle Shoe Co., 682 Broadway. |The employer was furious when he noticed the procession. The police- | man on the beat seeing that he could | not handle the situation himself called the riot squad for help. In| the meantime the shoe workers were | marching back and forth and sing- | ing revolutionary songs while al {large crowd gathered around to look | jon, le Thirty-s There was also a demonstration in “front of Benjamin & Schwartz Shoe |Co., 184 Noll St. The ranks were not broken until 36 of the workers (Were put in a couple of patrol wa- | | gons, | | At Gates Ave. Court one ‘was jcharged with assault, third degree, | and is out on $200 bail, his name is | |Salvatore Trapini. The other 35 were held on aj, jcharge of disorderly conduct and | were released without bail, trial to | come up on Thursday, December 19, | at the Gates Ave. Court. | Eight more were arrested late yes- | |terday, before the Bressler Shoe Co., | |104th St. ard Fourth Ave. They | are charged with disorderly conduct and are held in $500 bail each. The Workers International Relief and the United Council of Working | Murder Charge to Whitewash In a statement issued lagt week by the International Labor Defense, southern district, the flat charge is made that the attempt to frame up C. D. Saylors is actuated by a desire on the part of the mill owners to cover up the lynch mob activities of |Worker Organizations *| Saturday, December 28, at 2 p. m.; | permitted to be published in the papers by order of General Russell, marine high commissioner in Haiti. Russell fears that the knowledge of international support by the revo- lutionary ‘workers’ organizations would spur the Haitian workers and peasants to increased attempts to overthrow Wall Street domination. General Russell specifically men- tioned the demonstrations in New York and Washington in his order of censorship. Ae a PORT AU PRINCE, Dec, 16.— The Haitian petty-bourgeois polit- ical leaders have asked Hoover for marine supervision of the elections (Continued on Page Two) | NEEDLE UNION IN CALL TO CONFER to Send Delegates | « BULLETIN. A meeting of active members in the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union at Webster Hall last night energetically discussed organizational measures and | voted for all to devote at least 3 days to the union organizational | department, also to participate in the Workers International Relief tag day for miners, textile work- ers and needle workers. | Wednesday in Bryant Hall there will be an open forum with Joint Board manager Borucho- witz speaking on “The Latest | Developments in the Cloak | Trade,” taking up the tactics of | the militants, and explaining the | present fight of jobbers and con- | tractors. + # & The Needle Trades Workers In- | dustrial Union has issued a call for a special delegate conference of all workers’ organizations to meet in Irving Plaza, to enlist support in | the campaign to organize the needle | workers in the industrial union. The call, signed by Joseph Boru- | chowitz, general manager, and for the joint board is in part as fol- lows: Enemies Unite. | “The present period in the strug- | gle of the workers of this country is a very serious one. All the dark | forces of reaction have united in} jour foree jgle against the social }in connection with the reorganization | |ment, which the men refused to ac- IMPERIALISTS [Ne and the strike started in con- sequence. Rank and file pressure |smelling out new excuses for more | resentative: |robber powers get together for such leading the workers in the growing economic crisis which must inevit- ably lead to intensified mass radi- calization and an ever growing dan- ger of war. “The rapid sharpening of ‘Anglo- American rivalry calls for closer collaboration between our Parties.| SYDNEY, N. S. W., Dec. 16. In particular the forthcoming Lon-| Four hundred miners mass picketing | don conference makes clear the) before the struck Rothbury mine necessity of strong united efforts for |fought a pitched battle with New| the defense of the Soviet Union, the| South Wales police in the attempt | workers’ fatherland. lyesterday to prevent scabs belong- | “Our Congress has shown its de-|ing to semi-fascist strike breaking | termination to fight the right dan- | organizations and here called “volun-| ger in our midst, which task when | teers” from entering the pit. carried through to a successful con-| The miners used stones, and the clusion will enable us to organize} police their revolvers. One miner for a more ruthless strug-|was killed, nine were wounded seri- st Mac-|ously and 45 less seriously accord-| Donald government with its hang-| ing to capitalist news services here. man role in the colonies and its wage! A member of parliament named cutting, strike breaking role at home.| Badley tried to persuade the miners “We wholeheartedly accept your] to go home and let the scabs work challenge to engage in a broad re-|peacefully, but got caught between volutionary competition particularly | the lines and has a.head injury. The New South Wales government rush- |{+ ed more police and “volunteers” onl MINERS MAY QUIT |1,000 Strike in F ‘ance| | as Militant is Fired | John Moran, a militant miner of Bentleyville, Pa., led the strug- gle in his local union to win it for the National Miners Union. When it voted to send a delegate to the convention. that or- ganized the N.M.U., a Lewis gun- man shot and killed him in the open meeting of the local, and was whitewashed by one of Mellon's over International of your Daily Worker and the build- ing up of ours. | a special train to the mine. il Wireless With Communist greetings, Miners For General Strike. | = HARRY POLLITT, | the wight wing leaders of the4f News For the Presidium. | miners’ union had negotiated a sell- |‘ jout agreement with the state govern-' ARMED ITALIAN WORKERS BATTLE FASCISTI. . (Wireless by Inpreeorr) compels the leaders to announce that} VIENNA, Dec. 16.-The bourgeois the miners’ union central committee | PTess reports that there have been will meet Tuesday to consider the | Ploody collisions between fascists calling of a general strike. and workers in Italy. At the village The Australian Federal govern-/0f Cesenatico armed workers re- ment is Labor Party. The New Pulsed the fascists, wounding eight South Wales government is that of of them. The Communist Donati has ‘the Liberal Party. teen held on a charge of killing a SPYING JOURNEY INTO MANCHURIA Say Chinese Red Army) 1,000 Out in Spain. [LE i aes Rules South Hupeh OVIEDO, Spain, Dec. 16—From|PUTCH POLICE RAID .COMMU- z : |the coal mining district of Pola NISTS. SHANGHAI, Dec. 16.—Tokio and Mukden news dispatches indicate a renewed effort on the part of world imperialism to provoke further con- flict with the Soviet Union over the Manchurian situation. The “anxiety” alleged to be felt for foreigners in western Manchuria, has served as an excuse to invade that region with a so-called “international train” bearing representatives of America, Japan, England, Germany and France, evidently with the idea of Labiana, a strike of 1,000 miners is reported of the Barrelo Rimonia jmines, property of the Duro Fel-/tice have raided the offices of the |guera company. The strike arose/Communist Party in Amsterdam, |because of the persecution of a| Utrecht, Harlem, etc., searching for jminer by a mine guard. The min-| anti-militarist. leaflets. | ers’ union, finding no other way of | obtaining satisfaction, struck for} | the demand that the guard be fired. | (Wireless by Inprecorr} Sete os ALGERIAN STRIKES WON. (Wireless By Inprecorr) (Wireless By Inprecorr) | PARIS, Dec. 16.—The workers of PARIS, France, Dec. 16.—An at-| Algeria in French northern Africa tempt of the employers to victimize|are exhibiting splendid fighting a member of the miners’ revolution-| spirit. Following the example of ary union, affiliatgd to the C. dockers of Philadelphia, the @ 3.T.U.| the | (United General Confederation of |dockers at Bona struck for higher Labor) and through that to the Red | wages and won. They have decided International of Labor Unions start-|to form a branch of the revolution- ed a strike yesterday of a thousand |ary union of transport workers. miners at Piennes. | Also the petroleum workers at Port de Bouc have won a strike, \Five Miners Killed jn |etting 5 franes daily wage increase and securing unién recognition and war propaganda and new war threats against the Soviet Union. It is self-evident, that when “rep- ” of these imperialist an expedition, that some mischief is afoot, and that the world’s work- | (Continued on Page Two) an offensive, against the workers! 5 ‘Two Accidents; Fire, 1 vietimization of strikers biter uh Ee dCAL WOLL WANTS WAR cave-in Destroy Them! sam RevoLuTIONARY Build the United Front of the | Working Class From the Bottom | Up—in the Industries! Class Women yesterday opened a kitchen for striking shoe workers at 21 Porter Ave., Brooklyn. on Saylors Is Chiet Lynchers mill thugs who flogged and kidnap- ped Wells, Saylors and Lell on the night of September 9, 1929. Saylor’s definite exposure of these tools of the mill owners was too dangerous to have suspended over their heads.” These murder charges, against AUTHORS. . (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Dec. 16.—The League Capitalist press reports tell of two fatal mine accidents, one near ‘ y, Ontario and the other at : M puabiere Onvenio jof Revolutionary Authors organized ON THE U.S.S.R, Gonebyr Sco in the Levack mine |@ “Book Week,” a part of which was Are) Four worker: : ‘ Begs Stimson to Take) (gin International Nickel. Co. of |the selling by authors of working Manchurian R. R. — |canada at Sudbury were killed in|‘lass books. While selling da the WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-—Mat- la fire yesterday. They were trying | Christmas market stalls, the {role- Ito escape up the mine shaft in a|tarian authors, Johannes Becher F. of L., who joined in Hoover's | collapsed and fell on them. prosveds fascist wage-cut attack against’the| At Crosby, in the Croft mine, Gus | American workers, led by such scab | snyder was rescued Thursday after | corporation heads as Lamént, Youm, |being pinned under a cave-in for! The Central Executive Committee Rosenwald and Barnes, follows up m 40 hours. He died yesterday from of the United Council of Working- his attack against the toilers in the | internal hemorrhage. |Class Women, issued a statement U. S. by approving the Stimson war | jlast night calling upon its members threat against the Soviet Union. “| Workers! This Is Your Paper. |to participate in the Tag Day, ar- Woll's approval of Wall Street's) write for It. Distribute It |ranged by the W.LR. for Saturday, threat against the Union of Social-) Among Your Fellow Workers! December 21 and 22, ist Soviet Republics is contained in a letter to Stimson in which he FOR W.LR. TAG DAY. | AMSTERDAM, Dee. 16.—The po- | praises the state department's ef- a Gastonia city official and of one of the chief attorneys of thé Man- ville-Jenckes textile company. The statement says in part: “The charge of murder levelled against C. D. Saylors, organizer of Saylors indicate the flaring up of a more active period of the never jended attempts of the bosses to ter- \rorize the mill workers and prevent. their organization, the I.L.D. states. The present campaign of the forts to get control of the Man- churian railway in the interest of U.S. jmperialism. When Hoover announced his policy of forming an organization led by 20 leading imperialists, whose main London Naval Conterence to Be Struggle tor War Armaments | policy, which article he had pub- | lished under the title, “Notes of an | Economist.” The mill owner’s defense placed on the stand one John Snoddy, an overseer in the mill, who testified that the ‘first shot was fired by a ae 3 The workers in many Soviet fac- the I.L.D, and member of the N.T. W.U. is nothing more than an at- tempt to frame up a militant worker whose activity during the trial for the defense of the Gastonia union North Carolina mill press is to get through a criminal syndicalism law. The papers carry huge streamer headlines featuring every profession- al patriot, however obscure, if only object. would be to attempt to batter down the wages of the American workers, Woll was one of the first to rush in and offer his services as By HARRY G aS. ; pact fame, and Dwight Morrow, act- On January 21 opens the battle ing for their brethern in Wall Street, for increased naval armaments be-! is a navy for U. S. imperialism sec- tween the United States, Great ond to none. Palm Dutt says: HIDE N.Y, WASH, Communists of MINER MILITANCY GROWS IN ILLINOIS, AUSTRALIA, FRANCE; ONE KILLED AND 54 WOUNDED IN BATTLE NEAR SIDNEY | New South Wales Workers Strike When Leaders Sell Them Out; Police Fire With Revolvers; Miners Use Stones; Strike in Spain Peabody Mine in Christian County Still Struck After U-M. W. A., Boss Try to Argue Men Back to Work; They Demand Troops Leave MSPREAD STRIKE” ILLINOIS SLOGAN | Many Mines Closed in | All Centers TAYLORVILLE, Il, Dee. 16.— Attempts of the operators and the United Mine Workers of America to stampede the miners of Christian county back to work came to an ‘abrupt halt today. The Peabody No. 9 mine had been selected as the starter, and a meeting was called to hear propositions by the opera- tors. The miners, however, voted over: whelmingly to stay on strike, They demanded withdrawal of the militia, release of all those arrested, and driving of all scabs from the terri- tory. More Peabody mines are com- ing out. Be. om “Spread the Strike.” |. WEST FRANKFORT, IIL, Dec. 16.—“Spread the strike” is the {watchword from now on, the Illinois {district headquarters of the Na National Miners Union here announced today. There are now strikes in all the {more important centers of the Illi- nois fields except Williamson coun- jty. There are ten mines, mostly [Peabody Coal Co. on strike in Christian county, around Taylor- jville, Kincaid and two in, Pana. |Benld mine in Macoupin county is jout, Livingston and Collinsville mines in Madison county, a mine near Belleville, Buckned and Coella mines in Franklin county and Fasson mine in Franklin county. Marching miners from the struck |mines in each of the strike areas should proceed to the mines still working near by and bring all the men out, the N. M, U. says. Plans jare under way to extend the strug- gle into Kentucky and Indiana at the first opportunity. MINERS NEED STRIKE RELIEF W.I.R. Appeals for Funds to Aid yeas Strikers {A stark, harrowing picture of starvation and misery in the Mlinois coal fields is told by Ann Clark, secretary of the Workers Interna- tional Relief in West Frankfort, Il.. in a letter to the national office of the W.LR., 949 Broadway, New , York City. ; She writes: | “Relief is needed in every section of the Southern Illinois mining field |In the outlying districts of Spring- field whole settlements of unemploy- ed miners have been living on the verge of starvation for more than a {thew Woll, vice-president of the A.|pucket, and part of the headframe }4"d Kurt Peterson have been ar- year. In Taylorville and the Mid P |bucket, and } jland track the intense strike situa. tion makes it imperative that we immediately establish a relief center there and rush relief to these strikers so that we may provide them |with incentive and encouragement \to keep on militant picketing. | “Franklin county conditions are very bad in every town, Saline county is living under conditions as bad as in the unorganized fields of | Kentucky and West Virginia, Credit |has already stopped at the company |stores. We can expect the strik to be evicted any day. The strikers report that they have no food. One Striker, head of a family of seven, said to the organizer, “We have not enough food in the house for another jday. The company store has refused jus credit. But I will carry on the |fight—-I will not go back to work until we win. This is the spirit (Continued on Page Three) Britain, Franee, Italy and Japan.| We must Tolden Carver, one of the strikers | killed in the Marion massacre, Snoddy testified he looked out of a mill window, and saw Carver fire at the deputies from the rear ranks of the crawd of pickets. Carver tories have decided to work on Christmas Day, giving their wages for that day to the industrialization loan in, order to push further the jattainment of the Five-Year Plan of socialist construction. members and organizers incurred the | he calls for a C. S. law. The Gas- enmity of the mill owners and their /tonia Gazette in a recent issue com- pawns. His courage, working class’ ments with pleasure on the sentenc- integrity and zeal caused the desire |ing of three Communists at St. for revenge upon the part of the Clairsville, Ohio, under a C. S. capitalist class. They have seized charge because they proved to the would have had to shoot through half a dozen pickets to hit any dep- uties, so A. Hall Johnston, one of that, Prosecutor J. Will Pless, Jr., the prosecution staff, carefully /temarked that Snoddy was evidently brought out that Carver must have |ic'lag the trutht,. and tommented |. “ower their heads,” After on his “frank and truihful manner.” this flimsy, outrageous and low pre- satisfaction of @ worker audience on STUDENTS STRIKE IN ARGEN- TINE, BUENOS AIRES, Dee. 16,.—Two hundred students of the Buenos Aires University declared a strike and barricaded themselves in the This conference will mark an enor- | mous increase of armaments by the two leading imperialist nations— Great Britain and the United States. While dickering between them- selves for advantages in naval ar- maments, the two leading powets text to exact revenge, Another sig-| International Red Day that the U. nificant reason for trying to get rid |S. government is an imperialist tool, of him is to whitewash the unmis- !and against the worke The takable culpability of Bulwinkle and paver's headline says: “Need Same Carventer luadexs of the mob of | Law Here,” w university building. want to limit France, Japan and| Their first act after capturing the | Italy, or to allow them.to arm only | building was to declare the dean of | insofar as they are assured allies of | the school discharged. The s' one or the other, as lead by a students’ cyuncil, 4. The object of Stimson, of “peace’ alism are seeking: first, to im- Pose a statutory inferior position on all other powers, while making their own level too high for com- petition by any others (Japan has already sent in officially a plea that parity may be fixed at a low- er level, and that within that low- er level she may receive a higher percentage, 70 per cent; both re- quests have been refused); second, (Continued on Page Three) i “British and American imperi- | throughout the territory. get relief down here to keep this spirit up. We cannot permit the | operators to starve us out.” | The Workers International Relief ‘appeals to every class-conscious |worker, every organization and every sympathizer with labor to re- | ply to this letter at once with money jand food. Rush them to the Na- tional Office of the W.LR., 949 Broadway, room 512, New York City. ’