The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 28, 1929, Page 1

| a While Rubio Eats Out of Hoover’s Hand the Wall Street Mexican Government Jails the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League!! Fight the Mexican White Terror! Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. nder the = Published datly except Sun Company. Inc.. 26-28 Uni Vol. VI., No. 253 y by The Comprodaily Publishing are. New York City, N. ¥.@2>21 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEM Revolution Gathers Its Forces Mexican Workers Ask Aid in Fight on Wall — in India | India witnesses today the gathering of forces for revolutionary struggle against British imperialism. But the concentration point of revolution is not the India National Congress, meeting in Lahore, for that body is rather the concentration of the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie of India, already crawling on its belly before British imperialism, and maneuvering to maintain its control of the mass movement of workers and peasants in order to prevent the outbreak of revolution. The actions that will be taken in Lahore will, however, be under the pressure of the mass movement, and thereby serve as a distorted barometer of the revolutionary storm that is rising in the East. How tremendous is the pressure of the masses is seen in the action of the Executive Committee of the National Congress, on the eve of its opening, in apparently abandoning the infamous “Dominion Status” project which was intended to be the bridge of “conciliation” between the Indian bourgeoisie and British imperialism. Adopted in October, 1928, by the so-called “All-Parties Conference” in Lucknow, this scheme accepted in principle the overlordship of the British Empire, providing for the administration of British rule to be carried through more by the Indian bourgeoisie under close British supervision and control. It con- stituted the most flagrant treason to Indian independence. Since that time, the reaction of the masses has been to move away rapidly from the bourgeois leadership. This was demonstrated most clearly in the great strike wave, of unprecedented scope and stubborn- ness, involving steel, railroad, jute, textile, and other industries, out Street and_ intellectuals; of which arose a whole series of left-wing trade unions, led by “Girni | Kamgar,” the union of textile workers with 65,000 members in Bombay | alone. | Hitherto the only national trade union center, the All-India Trade | Union Congress, has been under the control of bourgeois and extreme | ternationals and the League of Nations. While sabotaging the strike | struggles of the masses, supporting the treason of “Dominion Status” | and collaborating with British agents, these right-wing leaders have | maintained an organizational strangle-hold on the All-India Trade Union Congress. * Here also the mass pressure of the revolutionary workers has regis- tered itself in the actions of the bureaucrats at the top. While advo- | cating affiliation to the Amsterdam International, the right wing has been forced to resort to “postponement of all international affiliations” | in order to defeat the mass demand for affiliation to the Red Interna- emigres, of driving the Mexi- can International Labor De-| fense underground, of the ar- rests of all leaders of the Anti-Im- perialist League, of the use of the right wing elements, led by Mr. N. M. Joshi, a lawyer with close con- electric chair to torture Contono, a nections with the British Labor Party, the Second and Amsterdam In- | Cyban revolutionist. They tell of: | Barreiro, Cuban labor leader, go-| ing insane with the torture. His wife and two daughters have been arrested and are being held incom- municado. Money sent by workers | to aid him has been robbed in a} raid on his home. Women workers are being sub- jected to the same bestiality. Maria Cuella and Luz Ardizanno are being Jail Communist Central Committee; Tortured by Electricity; Inquisition Outdone Mexican and Cuban Workers Murdered by Tools of U. S. Imperialism; Need Protest While Ortiz Rubio, president-elect of Mexico confers with President Hoover within the marble halls of the White House in Washington, Mexico is being drenched with the blood of working-class leaders as torture, more fiendish than those of | the Inquisition, is being applied. The latest report here today told of the arrests of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, the Young Com- | munist League and of dozens of Jewish working-class leaders , of Cuban® ULS.KEEPS ITS Terror BER 28, 1929 Starved by Mill Bosses; Join th 1879. SUB! Outside N e N. T. W. rker SCRIPTION RAT FINAL CITY EDITION tn New York by mail. $8.00 per rear a " ‘ ee York. by malt, 6.00 per year Price 3 Cents : : : <r MINERS CALL FOR RELIEF, STRIKE FUNDS T0 CARRY STRUGGLE TO A VICTORY Illinois Strikers Need Help; UMW Gets Many -eabody Boss in Christian County Orders Ar- ast of All National Miners Union Organizers Ve BULLETIN. The Workers International Relief has opened a relief station at Eldorado, Ill, according to word received by the National Office, 949 Broadway, from Marcel Scherer, W.I.R. field representative in Illinois. This station will distribute relief to the striking miners in Saline County.. In a few days a second relief station will be opened at Chris- | topher to reach Coella, Buckner and Benton miners and their families. A third station will shortly be opened at Taylorville. Scherer writes that the suffering in the strike area is indescriable. | In addition, the miners are facing the most brutal terror. “Yet despite everything,” he writes, “they are determined to carry on to victory if they can only keep alive. Funds are needed at once to save men, women and children from starving. An active relief committee has been organized in West Frankfort and a conference will be held Sunday. GRIP IN CHINA A fanvily of Tennessee mill workers in Knoxville. Wages of a | few dollars a week for the children and $9 to $16 a week for the ST FRANKFORT, Ill, Dec. 27.—The winning of the tional of Labor Unions. While fighting against the Pan-Pacific Trade |held incommunicado. All members Union Secretariat, they have only been able to defeat the mass senti- |of the Central Committee of the; ment in its favor by masking their opposition to it under the plea of | Young Communist League have been | “necessity of more information,” and “postponement of the affiliation arrested. , | for another year.” The whole reign of torture and | The maneuvers of the MacDonald government with the “Dominion | murder is the beginning of an at- Status’ fakery have helped still more to expose the Indian bourgeois | tempt to destroy the revolutionary treachery and enrage the masses. Making the gestures of accepting trade union center, the C.S.U.M.— the terms of surrender of the Indian bourgeoisie, MacDonald at the Confederacion Syndical Unitaire same moment assured his Tory friends in Parliament that this meant Mexicana, and primarily, the Com- | absolutely no change in policy from that of Baldwin and Birkenhead. munist thovement. It is aimed at) Lord Birkenhead, opposing his policy of forcible repression to Mac- forestalling any attempts of revolu- | Donald’s policy of trickery for the same ends, declared: tionary workers to demonstrate on “How could anyone imagine that there was anyone so simple es praia at Ma SE ne among our politically-minded critics in India as to be reassured cP Galea enka ) | by a statement under which, if plainly made, they were receiving 2 nothing which they did not already possess under the laws of E nd? The pronouncement was intended to appease them because a grave threat had been made subversive of civil gov- ernment in India. It was because, supported by the names of men of great political position in India, we were menaced. at the end of the year with a campaign of civil disobiedence that it was . thought that an announcement of this kind, misleading in its scope, would avert this threat to law and order. . . . No sane man can assign any approximate period for the date on which the return of the arch-reactionary | we can conceive India attaining Dominion status. \Calles, from his trip to Europe, | On November 11 MacDonald published a letter to former Premier | (Continued on Page Five) Baldwin, in which it is said: ——— | “The answer to both parts of the question, ‘whether the E § BOSSES IN viceroy’s declaration (regarding Dominion status) implies any | change in the policy hitherto declared or in the time when this | H status may be attained?’ is ‘No.’” i [ Thus does imperialism in India even cheat its own agents of the thirty pieces of silver promised for their treachery. And thus do the Tory and Liberal masters of the MacDonald government unintentionally ed ; | perform a service, by exposing to the whole world the vile servility, the Will Get Cooperation of! lackey-like subservience, the lying hypocricy of the “Labor” govern- | : | 'ILGWU in Wage-Cuts | And last but by far not the least, | it marks the marriage of the Mex- ican bourgeoisie with Wall Street— | the sell-out of their land to the in-; terests of American capitalism. The “great honors” given to Rubio by | Hoover! today in Washington and | advertised widely in all the land, is | further evidence of the holy union. | ment in its service to capitalist imperialism. j Meanwhile, the “Labor” government has never abandoned the basic | : ; policy of imperialism in India, the policy of forcible repression and | David N. Mosessohn, executive police persecutions. In Meerut, the “Labor” government has on trial | chairman of the Associated Dress 38 trade union leaders, charged with “sedition” for organizing left aay of America, represented wing. unions; and even bourgeois Nationalist leaders and editors, about bosses with an investment of $800,- 20 in number, are awaiting trial or serving savage sentences in prison | 000 has been added by Hoover to | for “sedition.” | his “grand fascist council.’ | The gathering forces of the working class of India constitute the i Piece a ae ee 20 only firm fighter and reliable leader in the struggle for independence. Taine 4 Bie a ie astalts To their side are rallying the peasant masses, driven by the sharpening i Cor a diag Shh fhe he uae! jan crisis and intolerable rack-rents, products of British imperial | of Comme S$ SI } agrey in India, which drives the toiling masses as a whole toward | Cut attacks against the, mores revolution as the only road possible to travel. UE ec iid revolu- i iia the AL Bot Ui dais tionary events in the immediate future are maturing in India. wage-cuttine’ campaign. Mosessohn is calling upon the social-fascist in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union to co-operate with him in his capacity on the fascist outfit. The semi-fascist imperialists that Hoover has gathered, which now 1n- cludes the ladies garment industry, is weaving its plans for drastic Lenin Memorial to Be Jan. 22, Date of Death of Labors’ Leader The Communist Party of Amer- | ica announced yesterday through its RALLY OPENS LLD, CONVENTION Jernment even to consider a change | | when in reply to the Chiang Kai- ithey would make a sham try at do- \the State Department declared adult workers under conditions brought about the destitution you Tennessee mill workers are organ Refuse to Change Ex-| tra-Territoriality | WASHINGTON, Dec. = stine| have above The the leadership of the letters on page 3. intense in the izing under of peed-up—these “ sec picture. See their National Textile Workers Union. son, whose war threat to the Soviet | that U. S. imperialism was really vee concerned about China, while at the} same time U. S. gunboats surround- | ed the country in the interest of | Wall Street, today reiterated the abrupt refusal of the American gov-| AND COLONIES in the question of extra-territorial-| epee ity. ; ; [French Insist on Navy The policy of U. S. | to Make War imperialism | that “Chinese and dogs,” were to be PARIS, Dec. 27.—In a memoran dum sent to the ‘other imperialist treated alike was again stressed France outlines its aims in rmaments conference. The note is a diplomatic covering for the rabid war preparations of the French imperialists. It points out the sharp conflicts of the cap- italist powers. Foremost is the shek government announcing that | ing away with extra-territoriality, it was not considering any change. The Soviet Union, immediately after the revolution wiped out extra- territoriality in China as far as the | 3H : French demand citizens of the workers republic were d that their navy be built large es aad : enough to protec: “the French em- The Chiang Kai-shek governmen’ | pire.” The capitalist powers are which relies on foreign imperialism | preparing for war in order to get to maintain its rule against the a larger share of the world markets revolutionary masses, does not want and for a re-d the elimination of extrd-territorial-| The French come out openly and ity. : declare that the London conference This can be wiped ont only by the| Page TO BEAT WORKER Extra-territoriality is one of the Young Communist Has very sinews of imperialist domina- tion in China. It permits repre-| Good Answer vision of the colonies. | Continued on Four sentatives of foreign imperialism to | commit any crime on the calendar and then be tried by a court of their fellow imperialists. Conference All TUUL, Union Exec. Boards Meets Sunday, 10 A.M. The Trade Union Unity League) Bureau has called a conference of | all national executive boards of af-| filiated unions which have their headquarters in New York, to meet tomorrow, at 10 a. m., at the Work- | ers ‘Center, 26-28 Union Square, | Fourth Floor. Pee | The conference is to take up the) decisions made at the last T. U. U.) L. board meeting and work out practical programs and application for the different unions, coordinat- ing the work between them, etc. Magistrate Sylvester Sabbatino, of the Flatbush court, yesterday tried to do his little part in the gen. eral fascist terroristic drive agains Having before him David Weiss, 17, member of the Young Communist League, and his sister, Miriam, 15, both arrested for gathering contributions for the Workers International Relief fom workers in a B.-M. T. subway train, Sabbatino raved at them, and called David a “moron and a mongrel.” “In your diseased the magistrate snarled at Weiss, “do |you think the United and | States The conference will also take up| Communism are in any alike?” | “My mind is not disea: for decision numerous questions) | MY i d, for one that have arisen because of new de-| thing,” the youth said. “Some day velopments since the board met. 'there will be Communism existing mind,” 320 Delegates at Meet, Branches Reported PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 27.— ‘Three hundred and twenty dele- gates, of every race and nationality, covering practically every section of the U.S. A. are here for the mass meeting opening the Fourth Na- tional Convention of the Interna- tional Labor Defense tonight at 8 «clock. Class war prisoners, some already sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, will address the meeting tonight, in North Side Carnegie Hall, at which more than a thousand miners, steel workers, men of the heavy indus- tries, and their families will attend. The Convention, which officially opens its business tomorrow morn- at 10 a. m. in Labor Lyceum, 85 Miller St., will represent 481 branches of the ILD. Latest re- ports tell of a strong branch in New Orleans, chiefly instrumental in freeing the marine workers ar- rested, and of a branch in Alaska. The largest number of branches are in Pennsylvania, having a total of 95, Next is New York with 60; Department for Agitation and Pro- paganda that the Lenin Memorial Meeting originally scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 18 at 7 p. m., will be held on Wednesday evening, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. The meeting will take place at Madison Square Garden. This change makes it possible to hold the Lenin Memorial Meeting on the exact day when the great lead- er of the workers died. His un- timely death took place after mid- night on January 21, Organizations. from all over the city and even from out of town have already notified the Communist Party of their intention to partici- pate in the meeting. The meeting will be a great anti-war demonstra- tion uniting dozens of organizations and tens of thousands of workers. Occuring as it does on the day that the Naval Disarmament Conference in London opens it will be a fitting counter demonstration to this new conspiracy of the imperialists against the Soviet Union, Workers’ organizations are urged to continue sending in resolutions and organiz- ing their membership and their sup~ porters to participate in the demon- strations. My, tite About Your Conditions ‘Massachusetts and Michigan with and California with 29, for ‘fhe Daily Worker. Become a 1 Worker Corresvondent wage-cuts to include every industry. The union leaders are being drawn jn an attempt to stop mass resis- tance, one of the first steps being the company unioning of New York workers through the proposed Jan- vary fake strike in which dress shops and I.L.G.W. heads cooperate. Lynchers Can’t Keep Negro.ILD Delegates Instructions have also been sent) in America.” to the unions to have rank and file) “What you need is for me to have representatives from the local/ you in a two-by-four room,” Magis- unions present at the conference. _| trate Sabbatino said. “What I wouldn’t do to you! I'd blacken your eyes and give you some real American spirit . . .” Then he raved against David's mother, Frieda Weiss, threatened to have the whole family deported, and said he would try to have David ex- pelled from high school. There was | no sentence. ACQUIT FRENCH COMMUNIST. (Wireless By Inprecorr) | PARIS, Dec. 27.—A jury has ac- | quitted the Communist, Clement, charged with killing a police agent, after the lawyer, Berthon, exposed the system of police provocation. \ TOILERS PROTECT TO GET MARKETS Ni. BEDFORD NTW MILL DELEGATES ix More Paterson Mill Committees Formed New Bedford mill workers. delegates to the National Workers Union have already one round from their bosses, national office the today. A truck carrying part of the dele- gation back to New Bedford broke down and made the workers in it won the union heard a day late for their jobs in the mills. A meeting was held, and it voted that if the emple victim- ized any of them for being late, they would call a strike. The employers after feeling out the sentiment for struggle among the workers in their mills, decided to drop the’ matter. No one was fired. The N.T.W. national office also is informed that five new mill com- mittees in big Paterson silk mills, and one new mill committee in a erson dye house have been es- hed since the coaventon. These (Continued on Page Fi--) Shestakoy Ill; Search For Eielson Led By Aviator Chuknovsky Because of illness the Soviet pilot, Shestakov, will not join the expedi- tion to hunt for Eielson and Borland, American aviators lost in Sibe say cable dispatches to New York capitalist newspapers today. Boris Chukhno and other members of the Krassin expedition which last year saved the Nobile crew 1 take charge of the search w The Soviet Government is using its available forces to find the ssing aviators. Telegrams have been sent to Irkutsk authorities to org: pedition to supplement the Kra: crew’s search, Chukhnovsky said that his flight will start immediately despite the | * fact that all preparations and the flight will have to be made in com- plete darkness until January 13 when the sun comes up in this area. The planes will be equipped th jradio to keep in touch with the So-| solve to continue this struggle to| viet steamer Stavropel, New Subway Union Meets Sunday, 3 P.M. A m ce meeting of the Subway Illinois miners’ strike and the spreading of the strike into the rest of the Illinois mines, and into the Kentucky and Indiana mines, even the efficient organization of the national strike scheduled for 1930 by the last board meeting of the National Miners Union, Illinois District, several days ago, | depends very much on active support of the rest of the work- ing class in the way of strike funds and relief it was stated here today at the N.M.U. dis-%: = = | WE | ize immediately a sledge ex-| trict offic Miners | tremely. jnearly half the miners of Illinois a long period unemployment. Miners were forced out of work during the period since the 1927-28 strike by | an increasingly active replacement of men by machiner At the present time, all active in are suffering ex- ; the National Miners Union are be: ing victimized in the unstruck mines, and militants are blacklisted every- where. The United Mine Workers of America acts as the stool pigeon! of the coal operators. When miners} se in U.M.W. local meetings, and pr yof the N.M. calling on the workers to join strike, the meetings seldom permit their expulsion. Expel and Discharge. But the hierarchy of officers, local, sub-district and district, in the U.M.W. takes over this task. These officials have gained and held power through the use of gunmen, fake/| meetings, stuffed ballot boxes, count- (Continued on Page Five) MASS PICKETING AT DAN PALTER 57 Shoe Strikers Jailed | Refuse to Quit Union Over a hundred striking shoe workers demonstrated before the Palter Shoe Co. shops, 151} st 26th St. yesterday. For} eting this shop, tammany po- lice arrested 67 workers, 28 of them | women, and charged them with dis- | orderly conduct. This shop is one | of 28 locked out or struck because of an organized attempt led by the | U. S. Department of Labor to de- | the Independent Shoe Work- ers Union and crush the workers down to a lower standard of livii Adopt Resolution in Jail. | They were taken to the lockup at | Jefferson Market court, singing | ke songs on the way, and while | held there, adopted the following | | resolution: | Notwithstanding the persecution | by all the forces of capitalist society | against the workers, we hereby re- a final victory and support the In- dependent Shoe Workers Union.” | After a speech by C. Lippa, who! was among the arrested, $6.39 was | collected for the defense fund. The errested workers were taken | | before Magisti «t+ Smith, and) There has been for | Out cf Convention CHARLOTTE, N. C., Dee. 27.— The lynchers of Willis McDaniels are trying to prevent the three Ne- gro delegates to the Pittsburgh con- vention of the International Labor Defense from leaving. They have tried to intimidate the three delegates by going to their homes, and forced one to go to a doctor in an effort to have him held .in custody under the excuse of men- tai unbalance. But the delegates are going to leave tonight. The I.L.D. has issued a statement on the lynching and a great protest meeting is arranged for Sunday at 6 p. m,. This is to be'a joint protest at the lynching as well as against the imperialist oppression of Haiti, he Negro republic. Speakers will ies Bein Gerson, Hugo Oehler and Sol Harper, a “Wallace D. Fogan, San Fran- cisco unemployed worker, com- mitted suicide recently in des- paration because he could not find work. He turned:on the gas, and left this note to his wife: ‘Dear Lottie: Please forgive me. T am leaving you all my money—13 cents and 6 cents in stamps.’ News item. (Dozens of workers all over the country testify to Hoover's “prosperity” in this fashion.) ‘ * Crisis Bares Unemployment; Push Reliet Demand Fight : jand truetion Workers Indus-| paroled in cust trial Union will be held tomorrow | Jacques Buite: jat Stuyvesent Casino, 142 Second | for Jan. 2% with trial set Ave., at 3 p. m. ween Cheer Communist Speakers. The Subway and, Construction! After the court session was over Union was formed a couple of the workers marched down to the weeks A. F. of L. sold out the Bronx|/a very enthusi: ike and refused to spread the /held. Litvin and L. Sisselman of strike as the workers demanded. | Section 2 of the Communist Party : Unemployment continues to climb |The workers saw the open sell-out | spoke at this meeting on the parti- in the present sharpening crisis.| of the A. F. of L. and broke away |cipation of members of this section Yesterday we reported in the Daily | from them. ‘They formed a new/in the huge demonstration. The Worker the fact that unemployment | union, open to all the workers in| workers cheered the militancy of | had dropped 1.2 per cent in Illinois. | the construction industry, regard-|the party members and pledged a | This information was received from | less of craft, race or nationality. | continuous fight to break the stub- | the Illinois Department of Labor.| The initiation fees are low enough | borness of the bosses and the brutal- | The Illinois Department of Labor |to permit the lowest paid workers |ity of the police until victory. ‘ie meeting was licd in its figures. Employment is | t® join. Timbermen, drillers, engi- The Dan Palter injunction hear- inuch wor The Federal Reserve AU ota plasterers, laborers | ing has still not resulted in a de- | Bank (which is not inelined to | an all other workers in the con- | cision, the courts and the employers struction industry are urged to holding things up for over a month, join this union and wage a struggle |to allow the temporary injunction for better conditions. jto remain in force. | spread anything but the most glow- | Continued on Pose Four rs ago after the fakers of the| union hall, 16 West 21st St. where | heir attorney, | ¢—_________. | |tive will report on the G International Wireless News IMPORTANT SOVIET NEWS (Wireless by Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Dec. 27.—Reports show that Christmas Day was worked everywhere one hundred per cent as the second ‘Industrialization Day’, with the workers contributing their wages to the industrialization loan. Henri Fourcade, the veteran of the Paris Commune, has died here. He participated in the historic cap- ture of the Montmartre artillery and the repulse of the Versailles troops at St. Cloud. In recent years Com- rade Foureade was editor of “L’A- vantgarde” and was sentenced to five years imprisonment in 1927, af- ter which he sought refuge in the homeland of the world proletariat, the Soviet Union. * o* The Presidium of the Central Ex- ecutive Committee of the Soviet Union government has honored the Moscow-New York fliers, Shestakov, Bolotov, Sterligov and Fufayev, by conferring on them the Order of the Red Flag, * * The Rumanian note concerning the Manchurian conflict which Litvinov flatly refused to accept from the French ambassador, who finally tried to throw it on a desk and only succeeded in throwing it on the floor, has been consigned to the waste paper basket. YUGOSLAV WORKERS NTENCED . (Wireless by Inprecorr) Vienna, Dec. 27.—Delayed reports from Yugoslavia show the following prison terms given the workers, Joseph Czikos, five years hard labor; Johann Czikos, four years; Com- vades Macas and Sap, one year each; Stephan Czikos, six months, by the Belgrade court, under charges of membership in the Communist Party. al % JAIL BULGARIAN TRADE - UNIONIST (Wireless By Inprecorr) VIENNA, Dec. 27.—Reports from Sofia state that Dotchinov, editor of the “Edinstvo,” the organ of the independent trade unions, has been arrested for criticizing the trial of the fifty-two workers of whom forty were recently sentenced to long terms of prison. Build The Daily Worker—Send in Your Share of the 15,000 New Subs. iC. P. Conventions This Sunday The ‘following Sections will hold their conventions Sunday, |December 29th, at 10:30 a, mz | Section 2—at Workers Center, 26 Union Square. | Section 3—1179 Broadway. | Section 5—1330 Wilkins Ave. j Section 8—29 Chester St., Brook. lyn, The conventions will take |the problems confronting Sections and orientation of membership to their con tasks. The District Rep aspects of the present partoetion,