The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 17, 1930, Page 2

vage Two S. P. COMMITTEEMAN FLAYS “SOCIALISTS” JOINS COMMUNISTS Southern Carpenter, Member of the Socialist” -arty Since 1904, Resigns the Only Party of the Working -the Communist Party e socialist party doing? Fighting Russia—fighting the very thing we stood for all these years. and an executive | - {now joined the only party which from the state of} carries on the struggle for freedom joined the Commu-| for the working class—the Commu- fter resigning from | pict Party of the U. S. A.,” Swain 2 te Very | concluded. “This is the only party inders advocated. that is today carrying on the fight ignation to for the thing we workers who were a south-| in the old socialist party used to that he | fight for. party }hanner of our great leader, ry | Marx. It really fights in the ceased to} terests of the American workers. actual-| “Down here in the South the Communist Party bravely took the lead in the struggle against the | ploitation in the mills and planta- tions and against lynching. The so- \cialist party only attacks the Com- and the many militant! s following the Communist 1 therefore am Jeaving the hich Ka: in, that there {socialist party and have joined the by the w and for the workers, | Communist Party of the U. S. A— and I think it be the ambi-|the party of the American working | “I am proud to say that I have It is really carrying the | | Capitalism’s Friend ! | | | Boss Hilquit of the third e party, which calls itself ‘socialist’ the better to fool the workers in the interest of the exploiters. C. R. Swain, until a few days ago a long | standing member and committcem of the “socialist” party in Nor | Carolina, cut loose from the social fascis Party, “the only party that is today carrying on the struggle for freedom ‘or the working JUDGE ORDERS GIRL BEATEN Organizing Jobless; Meeting Place Changed NEWARK, N. b. 14.—A girl | class, “For the S Swain.” WIN CAFETERIA NEW BATTLE ON STRIKE QUICKLY IN PITTSBURG Food Clerks “Defy the Thugs Forced to Flee “Paragraph 600” From 8 Seab Cabs victory wa: (Wireless By Inprecorr) eteria Worke: BERLIN, Feb. 14.—At last y afternoon. After| night’s conference of taxicab mber of demands to’ drivers it was decided to declare Ivania Cafe- 1 : : eae teria on ween ‘Seventh | 2 Sarai; Aehetease, |The “60: 9) and Eighth Aves., which is an Asso- cialist” leaders of the union were | ciation shop, the bosses refused to, forced to give their consent by the accept. The shop committee imme- tremendous fighting spirit of the iately gave the signal; all the woke workers left at once, and in spite of Z Py rkers regardless of to help defend the But what do we find tion of all w political bel Soviet Unio evolution, C. R. | | | Another significant won by the Union yeste: * * the police and hired gangsters who guarded the place since early in the morning, a picket line was formed quickly. Six pickets were arrested. The customers who were all work- themselves, expressed their solidarity with the strikers and left the cafeteria together with them, The bosses were helpless in the midst of the rush hour with no one to pick up a dish or serve a cup of coffee. They were surrender even at the expense of breaking with the Association. Food Clerks Arrested. compelled to | PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 14,— Another struggle started today in the downtown section between pick- jets and scab cab drivers and depu- ties when a couple of green cabs appeared with the usual crew of 'armed guards wearing steel helmets. | The thugs escaped from their ma-| | chines and left them in a blind alley \near Hastings St. When the police and company crew came around to take them back to the garage, one was missing. Two hundred police, patrolling with clubs, guns and tear gas bombs | | | worker, 20 years old, will be public- ly beaten in court by order of the judge. Margaret Steele, xrrested for distributing leaflets to the un- employed was sentenced to tt jday, and her reactionary father is | assigned to beat her up, while the |judge sits gloating. She is ordered jheld in jail tonight, so as to be on} jhand for the beating tomorrow. Today’s unemployment meeting was held at.93 Mercer St. from 1.39 |to 4 p. m., with 150 present. New York District I.L.D. Secretary Nem- ser and Sadie Van Veen, of the un employed council were speakers. One unemployed Negro told of | working 7 years in a chemical plant, and being fired because he caught an occupational disease. Another Negro worker, unemploy- ed, said: “I see this movement genuine. The Negro workers wi te loyal and fighting shoulder to shoulder with the white workers.” Of those arrested at the unem- ployed demonstration several days $10,000 bail. The bail of Austro| has been reduced to $1,000. When | of $20,000 worth, the judge refused | to accept it on the ground that her | husband's permission was needed. | The unemployment meeting sched- uled for Sunday has been changed | from Krueger’s Auditorium to 93) Memeer St., because the hall-keeper | was intimidated by the police into refusing the hall. STATE MAY PAY FOR GASTON Bick s and joined the Communist | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1930 7 ‘Seaman Fall to Death | pen | Faulty gear and staging caused the death of a marine worker yes- VOTE DOWN AFL, | LOVES TONE citer te8s ero [Loomis dry dock. The man was / ir meen |B gin number 2 hold, and Accept TUUL Leader- |= her than break out and rig stag- ling that was stowed away aft, old {makeshift gear was used. It col- lapsed and he fell to death, at 10.40 a.m. A Marine Workers League m, the striking | delegate saw the faulty constructioa rniture work n the Itzeik shop.}of the staging before one of the t and Watkins Ave., Brook- | ship’s officers had a chance to order haye placed themselves under |it taken down. It was taken down dership of the Trade Union}immediately, however, to hide the League and are fighting on/nature of the crime. READY FOR TAHID of the shop, which all the ship Absolutely repudiating both the A. F. I nd the Lovestoneite mis- in their uni N lyn, the ] Unity strikers nd all class conscious should respond to. s strike has been going’ on for | ven weeks, under the leadership} of the Frame Makers Local 1057, | ed Brotherhood of Car-}| Joiners of America (A. 'British -US. Murder « this time the AFL. off:| Chief Arrested nd Perlow, the Lovestonite ident of the local, have prevent- Abdul Tahid, leader of the gang worke FRAME STRIKERS rest snasveca not WORKERS ed the strikers from joining the|of blackmailers and murderers that T.U.U.L. and misled them into con-| shot four East Indian textile work- demning as “strike breaking” an|ers in Paterson January 31, was recently Worker, published in the exposing Perlow's The T.U.U.L. called a meeting of s at which H. Sazer, ey ve of the Metropolitan | Area T.U.U.L. spoke, and after) some more conferring of committees, the T.U.U.L. committee appeared, by invitation, at the strikers’ meet- ing yesterday at Colombia Hall. As soon as the meeting opened. Shutings, the very portly A.F.U. business agent of the local demand. ed the T.U.U.L. committee leave the room. The frame makers rejected | this demand and then Shutings de- clared he would settle the strike, on the conditions he had proposed the | day before, and send 18 more | s to the shops, in addition to those already there, under his pro- | tection. He then ordered all present | to follow him, and stalked from the room. None followed him. | arrested yesterday in company with a member of his gang, Abdul Gah-| ni. Two governments and the Pat- erson mill bosses stand by with the whitewash. Tahid led a gang, incliuu.rg Ab- dul Jabber, Abdul Gahni, and Usman Gahni, British spies, gangsters and blackmailers who have been preying on East Indian workers, into the workers’ boarding house at No. 13 Bridge Street, Paterson. SOVIET RULING CENTRAL CHINA \Red Army ‘Advances: Soviets in Honan (Wireless By Inprecorr) | SHANGHAI, Feb. 14.—Reports jare received here that Communist |troops are threatening Nanchang, | \the capital of the province of | Kiangsi in central China. | Peasant guerilla troops are said to be joining the Communist armies \in large numbers. Hankow reports state that there is an insurrection in southeastern | Honan (north of the Yangtze and the province of Kiangsi which lies | | south of the river),*and that Soviets | }are being formed there. The San-; reported to be ‘cheng district is under Soviet rule. oe Despite the savage terror of the | Kuomintang, whether of the Chiang | Kai-shek Nanking faction or its “opposition,” the genuinely revolu- tionary movement of the masses, |led by the Communist Party, is} | growing daily, finding an especially | strong support in the widening | agrarian revolt. The Pan-Pacific Red Aid reports | show how, with the worsening of | |the already terrible living standard of the Chinese workers, the Nank- | \ing officials are trying to block the | rising of the workers. On Dec. 26 tHe Nanking government notified |the Shanghai authorities that, in| spite of the mounting cost of liv | * Arrest Shoe Picket Tho 'No Injunction Granted, |Affairs to Help Strike | duct because the bosses claimed he American Restaurant 1003 SPRING GARDEN 87. PHILADELPHIA Clean Wholesome Food Friendly Service. Popular Prices. When organizer Reinstein, of the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, attempted to legally picket the Mackey Shoe Company at 117 Gratt St., Brooklyn, he was arrested and held on a charge of disorderly con- Physical Culture Restaurants QUALITY FOOD AT LOW PRICES 19 North 9th St, Philadelohia 77 Bleecker St. New York OMy 2) Marray St. New York City ‘ PHILADELPHIA i CAPITAL BEVERAGE CO. Sutertaluments and. supply ‘entertainme SODA “WATER ‘and BEER 2434 West York Street ‘Telephone: COLUMBIA 6286. is not a member of the crew. This firm is one of the 24 shoe manu- facturers who broke their agree- ment with the union and locked out more than 100 workers that worked there. This firm has not served the union with an injunction and picketing is still going on there. STRIKE OF 200 HOUSE WRECKERS, Two hundred house workers em- | ployed by the Albert A. Volk Co. | PHILADELPHIA he work we make is good. Ore ganizations’ work—our specialty. Spruce Printing Co. 154 N. SEVENTH ST. PHILA. PA, Bell—Market 6383 Union Keystone—-Main 1040, printers went on strike yesterday against PHILADELPRJA rous iti j The Patronize the Daily Worker dangerous conditions on the job, The be aay poppe ott) Buy all your supplies sicntes | and other affal at SLUTZKY’S Delicatessen Store GSOURTH AND PORTER STREETS GLENSIDE UPHOLSTERY All Repairs Done at Reasonable Prices ROBERTS BLOCK, No. 1 Glenside, Pa. Telephone Ogontz pickets carry signs, “Five men killed in 1929 on this. company’s jobs; we strike for conditions.” The company is demolishing the old Continental Hotel, 41st St. and Broadway; the Casino Theatre, 89th St. and Broadway, and_a loft build- ing at 58 West 37th St. The workers protest the scheme of the Volk Co. to use no chutes, but simply to cut through the- floors, and knock all rubbish and building material down into the cellar, from which it is steam-shoveled out. safe working | 8165 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Four workers were shot, one of | ing, “requests” for wage increases whom is dead, and a second is ex-/ may be made “only when it is known pected to die. The four gangsters that the business conditions of the escaped, The blackmailers have| companies by which the workers are recs Yorkers, with | employed, have been satisfactory patti with regular sums of mone ee MG DARE wk Laat ey. In this scheme the gang has| The Kuomintang is following a been aided by an American lawyer, | Policy of using police that are im- and certain British and American) Ported from other districts and iti | cities, thus hoping to keep them as authorities. Eee i rndeebihig’ thé |hostile mercenaries oppressing Ea pba vel saohaare sitea | !°c2! masses, with whom they have 7 ;. ‘4 less chance of sympathy than in Ali were also arrested today with! their own localities. This is being Friday, February 21 at 7 P. M. Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 22-23 at 2 P. M. | FIRST SHOWING! THRILLING SOVIET FILM | 66 | Seeds of Freedom” | at COLUMBIA THEATRE Continuous Performance Epic Story of the Revolutionary Martyr, Hirsh Leckert | Auspices: Dept. of Cultural Activities, Workers International Relie: Workers’ Control. | Tahid. “They were held on charges Sazer, of the T.U.U.L. committee, | o¢ being material witnesses. The and L. Harper, its section repre-| workers shot were members of the of the T.U.U.L., and exposed of the Interntional Labor Defense, the A.F.L. misleadership, which has which had been defending them left tens of thousands of furniture against the blackmail schemes of the workers unorganized and betrayed murderous gang <f British spies. ntative explained the purposes and | National Textile Wokers Union and| | done throughout China. | | Frequently, however, in the most | |densely populated and heavily po-j lieed cities there break out demon- strations of the workers against the Kuomintang tools of imperialism. | Repeated demonstrations were held illustrated History of ib many strikes. He called on the work- |ago, Levine is being held still on! ers ‘not to rely on any individual but through shop committees to take control of the union and of their }a woman presented property bond! own struggle and to have their own union. Discussion followed, and the work. ers exposed the role of Perlow, ball Lovestoneite, who, under instruc- tions from the Lovestone renegades | had instigated the adoption of a| resolution recently condemning an: article in the Daily Worker simply | because it criticised him for coopera- tion with the A.F.L. officials. .Per- low then admitted his error and de- ‘himself ready to follow the ‘ogram. The workers openly expressed | themselves in favor of the T.U.U.L. | but poin ut that it should have | neen inv! our or five weeks ago t ed by misleaders and | Miller's Market, 161st St, and failed to keep the scab cabs run- Union where the ning today. Eight were destroyed bosses, police and socialists are re- in the fighting, several being burned. | sponsible for the murder of Steve Several thugs sent out by the com- Katovis, is Paragraph 600 | pany were brought to the hospitals; | (the law a lating an in-| police estimate about 21 scabs in-j junction) vengeance. Four jured. The strikers carry away their | were arrested there on the picket ; wounded, line yeste: Miller and and iness agent of Lo- cal 28, Retail y and Grocery Clerks Un ited Hebrew Trades, only a strike-breaking gang, | pointed out members ef the Food| Clerks’ Industrial Union to a large | swarm of policemen, who surrounded | the whole block. The four came be-| fore the labor-hating Judge Duress, who held them in $500 bail. The strike and picketing goes on. The strike of the food clerks pro- | ceeds agai the butcher shop at 967 Aldus St., in spite of strike- 1 ers | breaking activ: of the social fas- |of the Metropolitan Areas is being | cist injunctionites. Working class Played by the Councils of the Un-| housewives near both Millers and employed that have been formed by the Aldus Ave shop are showing |the Trade Union Unity League. | solidarity with the strikers and giv- Abuot 10 such councils are now ing the owners a lesson in what it means to kill and jail workers. the gangster CONFERENCE ON JOBLESS, FEB. 13 T.U.U.L. Metropolitan Area Mobilizes An important part in the organ- ‘masses of unemployed workers every day. Next week the councils will | elect delegates to a Central Unem. | ployed Council which will direct ac- | iGas Used on Strikers : Kills Stool Pigeon CHARLOTTE, N. C., Feb. 16.— Claim has been filed with the state industrial commission for compensa- | . . tion for the death of Marvin John- |, son, detective, employed by Gaston | — County to act as stool pigeon on _ Loray mill strikers held in jail fol- ; lowing the repulses of a gang of |murderers, the Loray Mill . |“committee of 100,” led in an at bos: ck on the Gastonia strikers tent colony ization of the unemployed workers |by Chief of Police Aderholt and j;.¢ some of his deputies and police of- ficers. Fargot the Stool Pigeon. strikers resisted, Aderholt was killed and other police wounded. The holding daily meetings in various the murder plot failed, but mass ar lof the shop, Newport and Watkins parts of Greater New York and | vests followed, and seven strike lead- “Ve Brooklyn. |New Jersey and recruiting new lors are now out on bonds, pending | appeal of a convition which they were sentenced to 20 year terms. | While these heroic strikers were | atements about the T.U.U.L. ‘n Shanghai during December. Nine youths were arrested in the French Concession for participating in a | demonstration on the anniversary of the Canton uprising. One, a metal | worker, was given five months for )“subverting internal security of the | state,” | Fourteen in one and sixteen in another raid, fifteen in a third raid, | during one month, show the gather- ing resistance of the Shanghai !workers. One Chu Ying-ping was given six months for having in pos- session a bundle of Communist Abdul Tahid, chief of the yang had his lawyer ready, as soon as he was arrested. He telephoned to Attorney Joseph Tanner, of 113 W. 42nd St., to come to his aid, and the latter lost no time in coming to help release the murderer. Labor Defense Bazaar Set for Feb. 26--Mar. 1 The biggest bazaar of the year the annual colorful bazw. of the New York district of the Inierna- tional Labor Defense to be held at | papers. New Star Plaza, February 26 A At a cotton mill during Decem- 28, March 1 and 2, will find every ber, fifty or more girl strikers sud- militant union and wi rs’ organ-idenly shouted out anti-Nanking izations represented by ooch:. sloga stonishing the police in —_—_—_—— the bu: BUILDING BOSSES MEV ON section of Shanghai. They were led HOOVER PROGRAM. |“by a bobbed-haired girl with shell- SAN FRANCISCO, Cai.. (By Mail) / rimmed glasses and a foreign t section of the Chinese | the Russian Revolution 2 Volumes—Value $6.75 FREE} WITH 4 YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS d the TLD. |—The convention of the National ly Al! Support: | Building Employers hhange opens The meeting decided to continue /in San Francisco next week, where the strike under the leadership of |the main point for discussion will e T.U.U.L. and a rank and file | be Hoover’s building program out- e committee of frame makers lined at the recent ‘ational Busi- carvers was elected to meet) ness Conference in Washi committee of the T.U.U.L |. The National Buil z Employ- zing the militant|ers’ Exchange, a powerful onen- organizations in sup-|shop bosses’ organization, el send committees to|the once strong building trades the I.L.D. and the Workers Interna- | unions have been almost ecmplesely tional Relief for defense and a re-|smashed by the open-shop Indus- en for the strikers. trial Association and Chamber .o1 to call a conference |Commerce at:icks assiste] by the 's organizations in order | treacherous poli-ies of misleaders of the strike. And there|the A.F.L. building trades unions. | will be a picket line Monday g@; all militants to be in front gion | mornin; nieets | |quite appropriately in the city where | | was being maintained. sweater over her Chinese gown,” says the press. The military authorities have, as; consequence, ordered the courts to “turn over all arrested Communists” to the military, which means they | |are not to be given trials, but sum- marily punished by the soldiery—| | which frequently means beheading or shooting. MINERS ENTOMBED. | | PARIS, Feb. 14.—Rescuers worked | tonight to save 15 miners entombed | in a tunnel at Haute Cappe, near | Saint Etienne. Air communication Workers Electing the Delegates, Emergency tivities for the entire Metropolitan | Area. held in the Gastonia jail, jailers who Relief Conference, N.Y. | jthrew tear gas bombs into the, strikers’ cells to stop them from) The Workers International Relief SILK WORYERS CROWD NTW MEET The Unemployed Couneils are also hy 7 wc the big conference on unemploy- | vompany Union Fakers ca.ed’ by the Metropolitan | | Area T.U.U.L. for next Wednesday, Meeting Very Small |February 19, at 8 p. m., in Manhat- PATERSON, N. J., Feb. 14. —/tan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. Un- While Union Hall was crowded to| employed workers, workers in shops the doors with members of the Na-/and factories, trade unions and tional Textile Workers Union and) workers’ fraternal ‘organizations other silk and dye workers of Pat-|are asked to elect representatives | erson tonight, only a handful at-'to this all-important conference, tended the attempted meeting of the | which will unify the fight of the Associated. Enthusiasm ran high ‘unemployed and make final prepara- at the N.T.W.U. mass meeting. rations for the huge demonstrations Organize for the coming strike,” |against unemployment on February was the keynote of the meeting set | 26, if by Tiistriet Organizer Kushinsky| The conference will also be a and by the other speakers, who in-! preparatory step for the convention e Robert Minor, M. Olgin,! of the Metropolitan Area Trade Mario Alpi. Bill Dunne. ‘‘arence! Union Unity League, which will be Miller an} Joseph Magli {held Saturday and Sunday, March ‘ians for building a ra \-file |1-2, Irving Plaza, 15th St., and Irv- strike committee and for organizing |ing Place. Th's convention will co- shop and block committees were out- ordinate the economic struggles of lined by the speakers. Among the the workers, both employed and un- slogans on the walls were the fol-/employed, organized and unorgan- lowing: “Down with the Associated | ized, Negro and white, men, women Silk Workers and the A. F. of L. and young workers, U.T.W.—Fake eae ghee The Daily Werker is the Party’s “Down with the Strike-Breaking _ Community Council.” “Build Shop ‘ “Committees in Every Mill.” “Fight hest instrument to make contacts for Higher Wages and Better Con-| “mong the masses of workers, to ditions.” build a mass Communist. Party. singing, forgot Johnson was among) Emergency Conference for aid to them. 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