The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 19, 1929, Page 1

, ; , : —. SY SAA IERIE TANIOS: aE: A WELCOME = SALVATORE ACCORSI TONIGHT! DEMONSTRATE TO FRE $240,000 Salary Raise for Tammany Grafters Such As Jimmy Walker and Strikebreaker Whalen; But Noth- ing for Unemployed Workers —This is a Sample of Capitalist Govern- ment! ‘ 2 FINAL CITY EDITION Vol, VI., No. 245 Company. tne., Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION RA4 Outside New York. by mall. $6.00 per year. $1 im New York. by mail, $5.00 per year Price 3 Cents <@., NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1929. Spread the Coal Strike! Org-|World Meet of Negro anize Support for the Miners. in the Shops and Factories! The coal barons and their government see in the Illinois struggle a direct challenge to their unbridled reign of robbery and oppression with the aid of the Lewis-Fishwick-Farrington machine of the old union. All news dispatches show that the coal bosses are using every effort to crush the strike led by the National Miners’ Union. All workers will understand that the wholesale arrests and armed suppression by troops and fascist gangsters is intended to defeat the struggle for the 6-hour day and the 5-day week, for the abolition of the check-off and to prevent the victory of militant unionism. These demands are the basis of the whole struggle. These are the demands that have rallied the miners for one of the great historic struggles of the American workers. All workers will understand that if the miners are driven back into the pits that the entire working class will have suffered a defeat —a defeat which will be translated at once into wage-cuts, worsened working conditions and still further persecution of militant workers. The Illinois struggle is a battle of the entire working class—men, women and children. The Communist Party is in the front ranks of this struggle. Its members receive the full brunt of the enemy’s blows. That this is so is added testimony to the sharpness of the conflict—to the fact that class is aligned against class in the coal fields. Our Party has judged the situation correctly. The miners were ready to fight—and will continue to fight. It is necessary to strength- en immensely the organizational side of the struggle—to extend it to other mines in Illinois and to other coal fields. All efforts should be devoted to consolidating the ranks of the strikers, building the National Miners’ Union and—spreading the strike. This is a life and death struggle for the miners. From 96,000 miners in Illinois a few years ago there are today but some 55,000. At least 25 per cent. of these are jobless. Rationalization has driven the majority of the miners down to the starvation level. miners and their families are fighting for the right to live. The same issue arises in every other industry. Mass unemploy- ment already scourges the working class. Hoover’s fascist council plans further reductions in the number of employed workers and pre- pares a whole program of wage-cuts and suppression of the mass | struggles to which they will give birth. The others it has driven out of the industry. The | Spread the strike! Organize relief and defense in the shops and factories—for the miners! Build the militant industrial unions! Form shop committees on the basis of the Trade Union Unity League program of action. Build the Communist Party! International Conference of Negro Workers A wave of indignation and rebellion is rising amongst the toiling Negroes of the whole world. On the Black Continent, in the West Indies, in South and North America, everywhere the toiling Negroes are awakening to the con- sciousness of the need for the active struggle for their liberation. Land expropriation, forced labor, various forms of masked slavery widely applied in Africa and the West Indies by capital penetrating into those countries, unbearable taxation—and the absence of the ele- mentary citizenship rights, segregation, the pass system in Africa, lynching in the Southern States of the U. S. A, ruthless economic exploitation and unbearable political oppression, are drawing ever greater numbers of the toiling Negroes into the ranks of the active fighters against the barbarous colonial regime. Victims of the capitalist greed and inhuman oppression, the toil- ing Negroes are widely used by the imperialists as cannon fodder for their plunderous wars and for their struggle against the revolutionary movement. the new bloodbath being prepared by the imperialists. It was thus in the last world war, and it will be thus in Neither are the Negroes to occupy the last place, according to the imperialist plans, in the war being prepared a; gainst the Union of Socialist Soviet | Republics, the only fatherland of the toilers of all nations and faces. The Negro masses are still disunited, their struggles are not co- ordinated through an organizing center for the fight, which greatly weakens their resistance to imperialist oppression. This is why the International Conference of Toiling Negroes which is being called will be of vast significance for the emancipatory movement of the Negroes and for the entire international revolutionary movement. This conference will discuss the most vital questions agitating the oppressed Negro masses, will draw up measures for the concerted in- ternational struggle of the toiling Negroes of all countries, will set up firm connections between the organizations of the toiling Negroes and the international revolutionary movement. All Negro organizations waging the revolutionary-emancipatory struggle against capitalism and imperialism must participate actively in this conference. The revolutionary organizations of the whole world must do everything in their power to ensure its complete success. MARINES AID. 'ACCORS! TO YGL MEMBERS SPEAK INN. Y. Protect Them from|Mass Meeting to Greet Officers; Get Leaflets Him Tonight NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 18.— U.S. Marines at the New London naval base yesterday received with the greatest enthusiasm Communist The great mass welcome for Sal- vatore Accorsi, Italian worker, to- night, will be a tremendous demon- stration for the release of all work- Party Young Communist e leaflets, hundreds of which (°TS still in the clutches of the capi- Leagu . were distributed to them. talist legal machinery. Hundreds of * New York workers will be presenti ted rf we iticers attempted to interter in Central Opera House, 67th St. and ors gtabbed the leaflets, and them- selves continued the distribution. The officers arrested John Vin- cent, a member of the Y. C. L., and grilled ‘and threatened him at the base station. They then turned the ,young worker over to state troop- , who continued the vicious threats, demanding that Vincent tell who had Lelped in the distribu- tion of the leaflets. Vincent resist- ed them. At the naval office the officers ordered, out the sailors while grill- ing Vincent. In the meantime the marines saved another distributor ‘we mushing him away in @ car from Third Ave., to greet this victim of the Pennsylvania coal bosses’ frame- up who has just-been freed through (Continued from Page Twa) the officers. The headlines of the leaflets read, “Wall Street’s Government Is Your Enemy”; “Fight Side by Side With the Workers,” and similar slogans in connection with the Hai- tian revolution. The demonstrations in solidarity ith the Haitian workers and pei ts will continue despite intimid: sicn, The Communist Party will lead these demonstrations, London, England, on July 1, 1930. JOBLESS BATTLE AND WIN RELIEF [Two Days Fight. With| Police in Germany (Wireless by Inprecorr) ning a bitter struggle took place at! |Frankfort on Main between police} jand unemployed workers. The police} |unemployed, firing volleys whereby | ‘many of the jobless workers were wounded. The unemployed workers defended |themselves with sticks, stones and bottles. Windows were broken, street-car service disorganized and numerous arrests made. « * * | | Dispatches Wednesday from capi-| talist sources state that the city | council at Frankfort on Main, under | pressure of the spirited fighting in the streets by unemployed, met in a session which was frequently inter- rupted by disturbances in the gal-} |leries, and “granted” some relief to |the jobless, making an allowance of \20 marks, about $4.50, as a scale of relief. It is added that 21 demonstrators were arrested and 44 persons, includ- \ing the police, however, injured. The| | demonstration began Tuesday night} when the council was considering a} motion by Communist members of | jthe council, to grant additional re-| lief to the unemployed for the winter, | since the unemployed dole is too little to live on. The demonstration formed outside | the city hall, but was attacked vio-| jlently by police. But the demonstra-| tors fought back and the fight spread all over town, jobless workers | cornering police in places and giving them blow for blow. Six thousand are said to have been in the demon- stration. Not only did the unemployed re- |fuse to be dispersed and fight back } on Tuesday, but they returned Wed- | |nesday to new demonstrations and| renewed fighting with police thru- jout the city. International Wireless News | BELGIAN TAXICAB STRIKE | (Wireless By Inprecorr) j BRUSSELS, Dec. 18.—The taxicab strike has ended with the owners recognizing the union and agreeing to submit wage claims to arbitra- tion. They had refused to recog- nize the union and tried to run cabs with scabs. a, Wee. CHRISTMAS FOR INDUSTRIAL- ’ IZATION. ~ (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Dec. 18.—The Presi- dium of the Soviet Labor Unions has declared Christmas Day to be Industrialization Day. The Moscow Soviet prohibits the cutting and transport of fir trees for sale as Christmas decorations. Great anti- religious celebrations are organized for Christmas week. oe “LABOR” RULE JAILS INDIAN UNIONIST. (Wireless by Inprecorr} LONDON, Dec. 18.—Dispatches from India state that Ranadive, the Secretary of the Indian Railway’s Union, has been arrested by the British-Indian government charged with inciting class hatred. Talk “Disarmament”; Build War Vessels PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Dec. 18.— Submarine V-5, the largest under- sea boat ever built for the U. S. Navy, was launched yesterday un- der the supervision of navy offi- cials. A whole new fleet of sub- marines are under construction. Work is under way on five of the proposed 15 new 10,000-ton cruisers voted by Congress. While the capi- talist papers are flooded with “dis- | Toilers at London July 1 International Negro Unionist Committee Calls Meet to Unite Race on Working Class Base The call, which is signed by the Temporary International Trade | Union Committee of Negro Workers elected at the Second World Con- gress of the Anti-Imperialist League deciares. “The temporary International T.U. |Committee of Negro workers, elect- | ed at the Second World Congress of the Anti-Imperialist League, in- forms of the convening of an Inter- national T.U. Conference of Negro Workers on July 1, 1930, in London, England. We herewith invite all |proletarian organizations of Negro| workers, trade unions, factory, shop groups and committees, and all sym- |pathizing organizations of all na- | Newspaper, as saying that the Jap-| BERLIN, Dec, 18.—Tuesday eve-|tionalities to send their fraternal|anese naval demands are directed delegates to this conference.” The aim of the International’ Con- ference of Toiling Negroes is to tried to disperse a demonstration of create an international fighting or-|cent ratio concerns the ganization for a united and organ- ized struggle against imperialist op- pression. The rising wave of re- bellion among the Negro masses thruout the world, so sharply mani- fested in the militant action of the Haitian workers, will occupy the closest attention of the conference. It will discuss all the vital problems of the Negro masses who are brutal- |War Dan |Mounts in ger MINERS STRUGGLE ON THREE FRONTS: ‘Mounts i” PICKET DURING STORM IN ILLINOIS; WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Yes- | GENERAL terday, Henry L. Stimson, who| |heads the U. S. delegation, in its| }fight for more arms, met the Jap-| |Revolt of Oppressed Negroes in Haiti, Africa ancse imperialist representatives to| and Other Lands Proves Need of Unity While Hoover dispatches the armed band of American imperialism | to quell the growing resistance of the Haitian masses, the call has gone ls forth for an International Conference of Toiling Negroes to meet in| Ghing the Five-Power Naval conference. The Japanese, maneuvering for a big increase in armaments to| strengthen their position against U. imperialist encroachments in| |more cruisers and submarines. | Stimson rejected the proposals of | the’ Japanese imperialists. Though |it was not mentioned in the official | }communique issued by the “peace| Merely A Death |pact” secretary of state, who is the| |chief representative of U. S. im- perialism in its frantic race for evel jarmaments, the American naval | GENERAL STRIKE | delegation will insist on additional & f cruisers to off-set the Japanese- | Anglo re-alli . A ee Rae: | Pickets Massed Around A despatch from Tokio to the} ‘ “New York Times,” quotes the “Hoci Rothbury Pits (Wireless by Inprecorr) | Shimbun,” a Japanese capitalist | SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. 18— \against the U. S., and not the Brit- |The miners of Queensland and V lish. The “Hoci Shimbun” says: | toria have declared a strike in pro- “Jepan’s demand for a 70 per test age shooting of American | t ing miner in y. If the British navy only were |New South Wa’ Although 700 involved Japan could accept a|armed police are guarding scabs, smailer ratio. If Japan and Amer-| the Federated Enginemen’s Union ica cannot zgree on this point|of the r: has refused to | limitation will be hopeless.” transport sce | | * | | The New South Wales govern- | ‘ment has been trying to break the | |Rothbury strike for some time. | Monday pitched battles were fought ly exploited, and subjected to every | PI shade of masked slavery by preda- | tory capitalists in Africa, the West Indies, South and North America. The conference will also draw up measures for the concerted action of the exploited Negroes all over the world, and will set up firm connec- tions between the various organiza- tions. The conference is of: the greatest importance to the interna- tional revolutionary toilers. SHOE STRIKERS OPEN KITCHENS Will Mobilize in Relief Tag Days Sat. and Sun. Two more kitchens for shoe work- ers were opened yesterday in Will- iamsburg, 94 Havemeyer St., and one at 200 Yorke St., Borough Hall section. There is also a kitchen in Ridgewood, at 26 Porter Ave. The kitchens give free sandwiches and | coffee, and will provide food pack- | ages for strikers’ families, | The Independent Shoe Workers Union and the Workers Interna- tional Relief co-operate in running these food stations, and will do the same in the W.LR. tag days, Sat- urday and Sunday. Shoe workers’ tag day stations where all workers will b> able to get boxes for this tag day are 129 Myr- tle Ave., Brooklyn; 351 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn; 94 Havemeyer St., Brooklyn; 28 Porter Ave., Brook- lyn; 200 York St., Brooklyn; 18 Wycoff Ave., Brooklyn; 77 Wycoff Ave., Brooklyn; 196% Lewis Ave., Brooklyn; 27 Boerum St., Brooklyn; 2370 Pacifie St., Brooklyn; 91 Bleecker St., N, Y. C.; Union Head- quarters, 16 West 21st St, N. Y.; 235 Park Ave., Brooklyn; 281 Po- well St., Brooklyn. Women Meet. A section meeting of the striking shoe workers’ wives was held in the Brownsville section in 219 Sackman St. with about 50 women and men present. There was enthusiastic discussion on how wives of the shoe strikers can help their husbands win this struggle against the shoe manu- facturers. Another meeting of the wives of the shoe workers will be held Thursday evening, at 8 p. m., at 16 West 21st St. N. Y. C. At a meeting of the Dan Palter strikers $23 was collected for the W.LR. tag day, the following strik- ers gave $7 each. Gagliamo Calo- gero, Jimmy Costa. A trial of about 100 strikers will take place at the Gates Ave. court today at 9:30 a. m. They are on two charges, disorderly conduct and violation of the bosses’ injunction. . MOVIE EXTRAS STARVE. LOS ANGELES (By Mail).—Out 6f 11,000 movie extras registered last year only an average of 756 worked’ each day. Only 133 men and 87 women worked more than two days a week, STEEL WORKERS STRIKE. PITTSBURGH (By Mail). — ‘mament” propaganda, the capital- ints are building their navy for wat} | purposes, Twenty-five chippers at the Union Casting Co. struck for better work- ing conditions, A SCAB GUNMAN \Potash, Winogradski, Framed for Jury. When detectives of a private scab | agency came to herd strikebreakers into the Baum Rose Dress Shop yesterday they found a militant picket line there, representing the linterests of the 40 Needle Trades Industrial Union workers who are Jon strike at the place. The scabs | were supplied by the International Ladies’ Garment Workers. | One of the dicks pulled a gun and pointed it at the pickets, who had made a rush for the scabs. The pickets then turned on this gunman |between police and the miners, in STRIKE ON IN AUSTRALIA {llinois Grievance Committee Meets Today to Call Out More Mines; Militia-Seize Taylorville N. M. U. Office; Relief Badly Needed presented their demands for|52 Bodies of McAlester Victims Taken Out; 8 Still Missing; Mine Was Trap; Many Mexican and Negro Miners — for Site UMW BOASTS IT IMPORTS SCABS Sheriff Uses Fishwick Gunmen Against Strike WEST FRAN ORT, Ill., Dec. 18.—Mass pickets a tationed be- fore the mines on strike in Staun- ton and Livingston today. They are braving a blinding snow storm, fighting heroically in spite of short |rvations and periods of unemployment which has cut down their weekly in- a 5 : 3 come for months before the strike Vincent Kemenevich, young miner | ty win the right to organize in their and. field organizer for southern Il-| own mines, and the demands adopted linois of the National Miners Union. | at the second state convention of the He was arrested at 2 a. m. yester-} National Miners Union. day for mobilizing pickets. Kemene-| The United Mine Workers, the vich was prominent in th state and federal governments, and struggle against the Lewt \the operators continue their joint at- gang and in the great miners’ tempt to break this strike. Today VOReu sola opto atte tioaees: jthe militia at Taylorville forcibly s which one miner picket was killed, | | nine were sericusly injured, and 31} jless seriously injured. BOSS SCOFFS AT | Eight thousand pickets mobilized, | and the rank and file pressure| forced a meeting of the miners’ | union central committee to vote the {general strike now on. The labor | party government of Australia was| Sse | just | reacti ary union leaders to stop| the picketing when the murder took, Death Compensation |place at Rothbury. The miners! | were striking in defi: of an McALESTER, Okla., Dee. 18.— | agreement made by the treacherous | Fifty-two bodies have been taken out |union officials with the New South| o¢ Ol@ Town mine, near here, fol- | Wales (Liberal Party) government,|, . mS ‘ey tall SEP IRS ate lowing the terrific gas and dust The armed police are still in pos-|°XP!osion which yesterday blew the | session of the mine, with the miners |life out of at least 60 miners, per- and their families camped around|haps more. Eight men are known i g, somewhere in the and cutting all communications, depths of these old workings, nearly a mile underground. There is no nic |to be miss’ arranging a conference of Oklahoma Law Forbids in utter defiance of his threat to| kill them and smeared him. By the| time they let him go he was help- HOOVER HELPS hope for them. Rescue crews of workers from the mines are still invaded and seized control of the N.M.U. local office there, and the miners’ hall. Fifteen miners were arrested today, and will probably be charged with the usual “incitement to riot.” . Today the Illinois District griev- ance committee meets at West Frankfort, to di e further ways and means of spreading the strike. The heroism of the pickets so far, and their determination to win con- |tinue unabated, and they are anxi- jous to swing the masses who have |not yet come out into this fight, | which is for all miners, for the six- hour day and five-day week, for un- |employment relief paid for by the | bosses and by the state, for 15 min- lute rest periods every hour on all machines, for more men hired on |machine crews, against check-off, against the penalty system, against unsafe conditions such as murdered |62 men just yesterday in McAlester, land killed 7 in Mine 14 of the Old |Ben Company at West Frankfort all | brutal as they usually are, and con- (Continued on Page Two) TRUSTS GROW IN CRISIS Form $350,000,000 Steel Merger “Crises of every kind—economic crises most frequently, but not only these—in turn increase very considerably the tendency to con- centration of capital and to for- mation ,of monopolies.” — Lenin, “Imperialism.” eq os OLEVELAND, Dec. 18.—Follow- ing the rapid trustifieation which is growing out of the present crisis, Cyrus S. Eaton, head of a powerful financial group, announces the for- of steel companies in the United States. This consolidation will merge a number of Middle West independent (Continued on Page Three) PLAN TEXTILE FIGHT SAT, The order of business at the Sec- ond National Textile Workers Union Convention, which starts in Paterson, N. J., on Saturday, will be adopted by the convention itself, but the national office of the union and the national office of the Trade Union Unity League are proposing that it be preceded with the Na- tional Youth Conference, then meet tion, hear greetings} ete., and then take up reports. Among the reports should be one on the textile industry and the op- portunities of the union, one on the —. (Continued on Page jless and fleeing to the police for F the pickets meant business, and d # that a considerable fore: sym- pathizers with the str were{ as 7_ ais there, were not as anxious to be/A1GdS Suggar Lobby Which Paid $75,000 WASHINGTON, Dee. risking themselves, hunting through atid two hea Ae ae Fi “ be striking, and call a inois, Ken- the gas-filled galleries, trying to) + sky and Indiana miners to strike, curtain off the most dangerous\¢oy equal pay for young workers spots, and occasionally finding a|and for Negro workers. body ,some of them so blasted and} The sheriff of Franklin county burned as to be unrecognizable. yesterday seized all records and j The relatives of the dead cluster |mimeograph machine, supplies, ete., _| about the mouth of the shaft, watch-|in the Illinois district office of the mation of the third largest merger | jdent Hoover is sinking deeper ir |the sugar lobby mire. The imper- ialist chief helped his friend Edwin ; > (Continued on Page Three) Shattugk earn $75,000 graft that was paid to him to enlist Hoove | UR | TRUST GETS U.S. {support for the Cuba Co., which e« |trols $170,000,000 in sugar interests | in Cuba, and is the backbone of the | bloody Machado regime. | A letter written by Herbert C.} Lakin, president of the Cuba Co.|Cuba Co. Gets Inside exposes the fact that Hoover joined | "(Continued on Page Three) Dope from Crowder 43 wg} WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—The N. Y. Textile Workers) robbers, with whom Hoover Meet Tonight to Elect) wa: working very closely through . his friend, Edwin Shattuck, who got A Convention Delegate) a 375,000’ bribe, were given U. 8. A pre-convention _ membership | der. Crowder also is on the pay- meeting of the New York District | yol] of the Cuba Co., the largest |of the National Textile Workers | sugar trust in Cuba. |Union will be held this evening at | Bio’clock, at 16 West)2ist St Final | vein, bead of the Cuba Co,, wrote % eona\the: the’ delagat 1 | about the inside war information preparations for the delegates and/}. got from Gen. Crowder, to M. visitors from New York to the con-| « A , 7 ‘ . Rionda, r] vention in Paterson on Saturday |proker His See ork sugar and Sunday will be made. The New = 4 % ¢ | war information by General Crow-| York Local, because of the increase another delegate to the convention. The election will take place at to- in membership is entitled to elect | “General Crowder has learned the plans of the general staff provide (Continued on Page Two) night’s meeting. 'Provocations of U. S. All the textile workers of New| ; H | York, who are out of atk. are | and Japan a China |asked to register with the union at| Thwarted by USSR the district headquarters, at 161 and organize the N.T.W.U. conven- | Tico) . | Among Your Eellow Workers! fied of any jobs. Members who are working, are asked to report any vacancies in their mills to the union —Call Watkins 0628, MILITARY PRISONER TRIES ESCAPE, A military prisoner seized a gun from one of his guards on Gover- nor’s Island and attempted to es- cape on a tug. He was recaptured after a tussel with several guards. Workers! This Is Your Paper. Write for It.‘ Distribute It West 21st St., so they can be noti- | KHAMARAOVSK, Siberia, Dee. | 18.—Despite the war threat of Stim- json which was designed to disrunt the peace negotiations between the Soviet Union and the Chinese gov- ernment in Manchuria, and in spite of the attempted provocation of the Japanese with their “international \train,’ negotiations for the final settlement of the Manchurian rail- | way question are progressing rapid- ly. ‘ Julius Rudy, who was appointed | viet Union, is expected in Harbin soon, according to an Associa' ee Tess despatch, _ Pi | manager of the railway by the So- | |N.M.U. at West Frankfort, and still {hag them. He still holds in jail | Henry Corbishley. Sheriff Pritchard \is particularly venemous against |Corbishley because the miner (he is \secretary-treasurer of the Illinois district of the N.M.U.) has been publicly exposing the strike breaking and gangster methods of the sheriff. Vincent Kemenevich, field organ- ize: in southern coal fields for the N.M.U. was arrested at 2 a. m. yes- terday, along with another miner. | They were taken up on the street, (while mobilizing pickets for mass picket line, and were held until six that morning and released. | The United Mine Workers of | America officials state that they are \co-operating with the employers to furnish 1,000 scabs and that these are being imported today from over |the state line. | Relief is needed in this strike. All workers are urged by the union to send in contributions to the Workers | International Relief, which is feed- |ing the miners, and to contribute to \the International Labor Defense, | which is providing them with de- | fense when arrested. Banker Crooks Freed by Capitalist Court The four bankers who were ar- |vested because of their graft in the | City Trust Co., and for robbing the |savings of a number of workers, were let off easy by the capitalist judge, Arthus S. Tompkins of the Supreme Court. Two were given a | $250 fine and two were let off scott free—on suspended sentences. All pleaded guilty to wrecking the bank and paying bribes to state bank examiners to overlook their robbery. Bankers always get gracious treat- ment in capitalist courts, while workers are sent to jail for long terms for strike activity and for | distributing Communist leaflets. This was the case in Ohio where Commu- inists received 5-year sentences for ldistributing leaflets after a few ‘minutes trial. ; nian