The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 29, 1930, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MukCH 29, lysv FIAT AUTO WORKERS | STRIKE; HIT THE ANTI- TRADE UNION BILL “Rote Fahne,” Communist: Paper With Story | of Strike Is Suppressed Workers Demand That Company of Armed Police Be Removed; Win Demand 4 VIENNA, Mar. 14 (By Inpréecorr withdrawal of the police. This de- | Service).—The indignation of the a he piaranrhen nit oa ;.|the social democratic officials ha workers at the so-called anti- ore ‘ ding th terror law, which is in reality an erent, cisticulty an pensiading the workers to resume work. anti-trade union bill against the Today's ‘Rote Fahne” is the only revolutionary workers, expressed it- | newspaper which brings a report of| self yesterday in a strike of the|the strike. It appeals to the work- | workers of the Fiat automobile jers of all other factories to follow | works in Flotisdorf near Vienna. |the example of the Fiat workers and | The direct cause of the strike wes /to strike against the anti-trade that like many other large factor-/union bill. In consequence of this ies, the Fiat works was being |appeal the whole édition was con- | watched by a company of armed po- | fiscated, that is as far as the police lice. The workers demanded thé !were able to lay their hands on it. | Egyptian Betrayers Meet With Henderson — | | LONDON, March —The Egyptian delegation of the Wafdists y (Nationalist party), composed of the leading Egyptian exploiters, head- cd by prime minister Mahas Pasha, and three members of his cabinet, arrived in London last night. The object of their visit is to make an | alliance with British imperialism against the Egyptian masses. They will discuss the matter with the “labor” foreign secretary, Arthur Henderson, enemy of the British workers. { Mellon Banquets on Backs of Workers PITTSBURGH, March 27.—Having lived bountifully, to the ex- tent of millions in profits off the backs of the workers, billionaire sec- retary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon, at a banquet given on his 75th birthday said that he is “a satisfied guest from life’s banquet.” The nunber of workers whose health has been shattered in Andrew ’s steel and aluminum mills in order to furnish this banquet to ich parasite are infinitely great. Mellon banquets while hundreds of thousands of his wage slaves who furnished him with the méais to banquet walk the streets facing starvation. M Enslave, Beat Negro Farm Workers NEW ORLEANS, March 27.—Negro farm workers were held in vtual slavery, chained to trees, and beaten, it was revealed here yeo- terday at the trial of James E. Piggott, a rich farm owner of Bogalusa who was charged with holding Negro farm workers in peonage. Piggott admitted before Judge Wayne G. Borah that he beat the Negro farm workers with heavy chains. He chained one run-away to a tree. However, he said he worked his help “just the same as anyone in this country does,” indicating that these conditions ave genera! throughout the South. He used the sheriffs to catch workers who ran | away from his farm. The sheriffs helped him very willirigly. | |Major Gen. Hanson E. Ely, and Prepare For War on xany other militerists, Soviets at London) General Delafield declared that |the imperialist powers of the world (Continued from Page One) jmust increase their armaments t ti Ok alle sillania ed the | mainly against the workers’ repub- AA ls jlie. He pointed out that the success imperialist powers for the erek |e the Five-Year Plan, which was closer approaching world war. ‘now assured, made it necessary for t bs! ‘ \the imperialist bandits to attack Hoover for War on U.S.S.R. the U. S. S. R. WASHINGTON, March 28.—It ig clear from the silence of Presi- dent Hoover on the question of the “consiltative pact,” that Stimson is | working on direct instructions from the imperialist chief on behalf of} Wall Street. As part of the el preparations, pacifist propagandists | are supporting the Ten Workers Hurt; Drill Hits Dynamite | Ten men were injured sevérely when a drill struck an uneploded é ists | stick of dynamite in a water tunnel ‘consultative | 600 feet underground at Boston Rd. a | and White Plains Ave., at 6:40 a. m., pact.” tae Asks Arms Against Soviets. | Yesterday. This was due to the NEW YORK, March 28.—Brig. | °6ligence of the bosses. All of the Gen, John Ross Delafield called for| Workers are in the hospital and are immediate war preparations against | critically injured. the Soviet Union at a “patriotic| ; dinner” of the Reserve Officers’ As | COUNTERFEIT SOVIET MONEY. sociation of the United States, hel at Hotel Astor Thursday. | TOKIO, March 28.—Seven a At the “patriotic dinner” were | "Se have been arrested at Viadivos- Jazzy Mayor Walker, assistant sec-|tok by Soviet authorities for coun- retary of war, F, Trubee Davison, | terfeiting. SECTION THREE RED SUNDAY Every member of Section Three must take part in the RED SUNDAY! Come to the Section Head- quarters, 1179 Broadway, at 9:30 this Sunday Get new subscribers for the Daily morning. Worker! Make connection for the T. U. U. L. and the Party! Make this SUNDAY the starting point in the Drive for 60,000 new readers for the Daily! COME, HEAR JOHN PORTER Just released after having served 20 months in Federal Prisons for his activities in the New Bedford textile strike. } MASS MEETING Monday, March 3ist at 7:30 p.m. at the IRVING PLAZA HALL - Fifteenth Street and Irving Place | Admission 25 Cents | Other Speakers Including: | JOHN HARVEY ALBERTA TATE | National Secretary of the Young Nei ‘Women Organiser ' Communist League oe fer J. LOUIS ENGDAHL National Secretary of the Im ngtional Labor Defense =~ * Demand the Release of Harry Fisman! AUSPICES: M INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE | 799+ Broadway, Room 422 | Workers! Young Workers! Soldiers! Sailors! GRIPPLED Urdunlacr of Yrinch tLe WAR VETERAN M eemakdd Ne Iw JOSEPH F. FOFRICH Chinese Children Support Soviets Chinese Pioneers demonstrating against the bloody Chiang Kai- shek Nanking regime. These fighting children are staunch sup- porters of the Soviets which have been established in many southern provinces. Indict 10 Workers in Newark on Sedition Law; Protest Eviction | NEWARK, N. J., March 28.—The | CHICAGO, March 28.—Vicious 10 workers who were arrested at| sentences were meted out to nine the unemployed mass demonstration | Chicago workers arrested at a dem- |Vicious Sentences For Nine Jailed at |on February 11 and charged under |onstration of unemployed workers, | the sedition law, have been indicted|led by the Trade Union Unity by the grand jury, and now face | League, on February 21. The trial terms up to 15 years in the peniten- lasted three days. Paul Cline and tiary. A hearing on pleadings has | Lydia Oken received a fine of $60 been set before Judge Flannigan,|or 120 days in prison; John Gus- the worst labor-hating judge in New Jersey, for April 10. |vens, $30 or 60 days; N. Gould and 2 96 |Seymour Saporin, $10 or 20 days; | Ed. Lasky, $5 or 10 days; Henry |Radin and John Hecker $1 or two | days. Hold Demonstration Against Evic- tion. NEWARK, N. J., March 28.—-A demonstration protesting the evic- tion of a Negro worker’s family for non-payment of rent was staged to- day in front of the owner's place, the Plumbing Supply Company. As | soon as the workers started their | march, with banners protesting against the eviction and demanding “Work or Wages,” police rushed in to break up the demonstration. A mass meeting was held outside and the workers resisted the cops. Jay Rubin, T.U.U.L. organizer, Frank Fisher, Albert Grenelli and Jack Ballet were arrested and held on $100 bail on the charge of loitering and disorderly conduct. Another demonstration is planned for Tues- day. ‘Find Sickness Grows } | Hospital patients of New York | City have increased by thousands as ja result of the enormous unemploy- ment here, according to Dr. Mark | L. Fleming, general medical direc- tor of a number of large hospitals in this city. The daily average for February, 1929, in’ 26 hospitals was 13,549, whereas the daily average for Feb- ruary, 2930, rose to 15,752, Tell the Advertiser—“I Saw Your Ad in The Daily Worker.” Vida Obrera BALL arranged by the Spanish Bureau of the Communist Party of U.S. A. at the HARLEM CASINO 116th Street and Lenox Avenue Saturday Evening, April 5, 1930, at 8:30 INTERNATIONAL DANCES AND SONGS VARIOUS ATTRACTIONS JOHN C. SMITH’S NEGRO JAZZ BAND Admission 75 Cents Unemployed workers will be admitted free of charge only on pre- sentation of card showing membership in an Unemployed Council. Tickets on sale at the Workers Bookshop, 26 Union Square and the Spanish Workers Center, 26 West 115th Street. FREIHEIT BANQUET Arranged by the BRIGHTON BEACH WORKERS CENTER TONIGHT AT EIGHT O’CLOCK 227 Brighton Beach Avenue ‘Admission 75 Cents MILK DELIVERED BY UNION DRIVERS TO ALL WORKERS Workers, when you drink milk, do you take into consideration— Is it the best milk— Is it fresh— Is it the most nourishing— Is it delivered by union drivers MORRISANIA is the only milk firm which employs strictly union drivers. Morrisania Stock Farms, Inc. 883 TINTON AVE., BRONX LAST CALL for MOSCOW? SAILING APRIL 12 ON THE “BREMEN” AND APRIL 16 ON THE “AQUITANIA” MAY Ist ON RED SQUARE! $280 “ur Splendid Vacation—Great Opportunity—See the Soviet workers in action! WRITE, TELEPHONE, CALL PERSONALLY 175 Fifth Ave., N. Y. Algonquin 665¢ Steamship Tickets to All Parte of the World Chi. Jobless Meet! With Unemployment WORLD TOURISTS, INC. NAT'L JOBLESS. “CONFERENCE 1 MAKING HISTORY Form Center to Lead ‘Work or Wages’ Fite | | (Continued from Page One) arrest of the committee elected at Union Square. There are many similar declarations by workers’ or- \ ganizations. | Leads National Struggle But the conference today is not primarily a protest body. It is a |centralizing force, a planning and leading organization, to build un- employment councils in every in- dustrial city of U. S., however small, To form them into a centralized, |democratic organization, driving |ahead to build a huge mass unem- \ployment convention later, in Chi- cago, and to fight for definite de- | | | | | jal Executive Board adopted yester- |day. (Demands are in another col- umn), | The conference today will be open- jed and greeted in the name of the |T.U.U..L by Pat Devine. It is planned that there shall be la main report on the unemploy- ment situation by John Schmies, |national assistant secretary of the | T.U.U.L. to be followed by reports \from the delegations of the larger districts: the South, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Boston, Minn- leapolis, Seattle, Kansas City and | California. Opportunity for full disctission jand amendment of the program will | follow, and during the course of the discussion it is expected that much veluable information will result as to the situation in all the largest industries. Forms National Center. | A presidium will be elected to also act as a resolutions and pro- | ‘ s gram committee for .the routine |work of arrangements during the |convention, finance, press, rules, etc, it rday, classifying anid verifying the jeredentials sent in, and a housing committee is hunting up places for |the out of town delegates to stay. | West 15th St., phone Watkins 10128 jat once, |A credentials committee is already | ‘at work, elected by the board yes-| Anybody having éxtra room should) ‘communicate with the T.U.U.L, 2) Demands for Jobless Proposed Today to Conference by TUUL (Continued from Page One) blacklisting shall be rigorously pun- ished. 7. The streets and sqvares of the cities shall be declared open and free for all workers’ meetings and de- { monstrations. 8. Free unemployment agencies |, {shall be established under the con- |trol of the workers. : | 9. All workers arrested for re- presenting the unemployment move- |ment or for participating in unem- |‘ |Ployment demonstrations shall be | immediately and unconditionally re leased. 10. Immediate abolition of all va- | | grancy laws. | 11, The six hour day in mining, }chemical and other dangerous oc- |cupations and for youth under 18 in all occupations. | 12. Abolition of the speed-up |tem; 15 minutes rest periods tw | per day; regulation of |speed by the workers. e |tandis $85 or 70 days; Ethel Ste- minds, which tre T.UU.L. Nation | ,23 Abolition of underground and |night work and work in dangerous industries for women and youth. No Child Slavery. | 14. Prohibition of unemployment of children under 15 years, govern- | ment maintenance of all children. j 15. Abolition of all evictions for ;Monpayment of rents for unem- ployed. 16. Recognition of the Soviet Un- lion. This is a central political de- {mand of the working class, and also {would alleviate unemployment thru of trade which the Soviet Union would place in the United States if “normal” relations were established. workers are warned to have no il- ilusion that the government will lief, although they are well within the material possibilities now exist- ing. Only by the way of revolu- tionary mass action can the worker: fight for these immediate demands, | as well as fight against the whole | | capitalist system with its inevitable consequences of crises and unem-} | ployment. | | | Special conferences of Youth, Ne| gro, and women delegates are to be held in conjunction with the main conference. | The conference is expected to last |two days, and at the end will elect a national executive committee to} carry on its work, and a full time national organizer. | SU go 93 Avenue A, 17 wW RELIABLE MU: Majesti SPANISH AND RUSSIAN RECORDS 1808 Third Ave., near 101st 1393 Fifth Ave., Near 115th St. Telephone Atwater 0402 FOR BETTER VALUES IN MEN’S AND YOUNG PARK CLOTHING STORE PIANOS and VICTROLAS EXPERT REPAIRING 22° vW SIC COMPANY ic, Victor and other Radios ALSO MEN'S ITs to Cor. Sixth St. FULL LINE OF St. NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK WORKERS! Mobilize for the Defense of the | Uemployed RAISE FUNDS! : Free Harry Eisman from five Winogradsky! Free Shifrin i Free Zinalavino and Piccolella! MASS COLLECTIONS TODAY «4 TOMORROW | Come to the Collectio: | DOWNTOWN | Workers Center, 27 E, Fourth | Workers Center, 36 Union Sai | Shoe Workers Nnion, 16 W, 2int te | Millinery MWorkera Local 43, 4 W. | 8tth St. Window CI Loenl 8, 15 &. Third St. Ukraininn Workers Club, 06 Bast Fourth St. Needle Trades Industrial Union, 131 ‘Went 28th st. HARLEM Workers Ce 143 E. 103d st. Finnish Wor! ub, 15 W, 126 St. Unity Coop 0 Seventh Av. Curechoslovak Workers Home, 347 Tana St. oy Workers Club, 350 Enst BRONX | Workers Center. 1330 Wilkina Ave. | vers a one 2700 “Bronx ar Bakers Locyl 144 A. F. W., 3831 | Third Avenue INTERNATIONAL 799 Broadway, Room 422 New York District Delegation! years prison! Free Potash and and the Mineola defendants! m Stations for Boxes: Non-Partisan School, 1400 Boston Road BROOKLYN Scandinavinn Workers Club, 1. G. 'T. Hall, 65th Street Lithanian Workers Clob, Hyek Street Fionish Work w o.! 40 ‘Ten Club, 764 40th st, MSBURG 4S Whipple Street | CONEY ISLAND sf Workers Center, 2001 Mermaid Ave, BATH BEACH Workers Center, 4% Hay 28th Street BROWNSVILLE Workers Center, 28 ¢ enter Street BOROUGH PARK Workers Club, 137% 43rd Stret LONG ISLAND Workers Center, 1 Fulton Avenue, y jects Village } ‘orkera Center, 3173 33rd Street, Astoria ; ie % STATEN ISLAND Workers Center, 110 Mariners Harbor. LABOR DEFENSE |and have nothing to do with militar- macnine |the development of increased volume | In presenting these demands, the | |grant these measures of partial re- | “ISVESTIA” HITS “tities and Tractors For the Soviet Unior LIES OF “TIMES? ) cua aac The United States Section of th Friends of the Soviet Union ha : ° aunched a campaign to buy 25 trae Letter Tries to Deceive Readers on USSR s and trucks to aid the Russia workers and peasants in upbuilding MOSCOW, Mail Socialism under the Five-Year Plan The F.S.U. sent 15 tractors and on truck with funds raised in connec: tion with the viet aviators’ visit The campaign is being carried o1 in co-operation with the Workers Internationol Relief. Workers ar ch 14 (By Inpre- “Isvestia” takes to task in connection rom the correspondent ” in Riga and an edi- The torial } hung onto it, aceordin: to wh baloanta vie Gate the urged to secure lists and to collec collective agricultural undertakings |i factories, in fraternal organiza tions and among friends. Lists ma; e obtained from the Friends of th: oviet Union, 175 Fifth Ave. Nev militarized by the Soviet author- s. The Riga report is based sole on the use of the word “brigade” | 5 : the Russian workers in their in- | ¥°T® City-_ strial economic campaigns. he “Isy declares that the Pittsburgh Judge Bar: Times” is well aware of the fact|Strjkers Bus Service that the term “brigade” and “bri gade leader” mean nothing but la-/ Few Scab Cabs Rur bor column and labor column leader PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 25.- Taxi service has been halted o1 Pittsburgh streets by Judge Josial Cohn, defender of judiciary tyranm during the 1919 steel strike. Al though the service was on a volun tary contribution basis, the judg ruled it contravened state public ser vice commission rules and grante: a temporary injunction, Back o the The “Isvestia” accuses ‘Times’ of deliberate dishone pretending to believe that’ the col- lectivization has anything to do with |militarism in order to deceive unfortunate readers and slander the collectivization movement. The “Is- vestia” concludes its article, “The infamous lie to the effect that the| the court order is Parmelee Trans Soviet Union is preparing an attack | portation Co. on its neighbors, is one of the main} planks in the platform of the capi- | talist powers in their ideological St. Louis Bus Strike; reparation of an attack on us. The/ Car Men May Qui: attempt of the “Times” to make its | readers shudder at the idea of 120! ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 28.—Five million peasants in the Soviet Union| days after their first meeting t marching behind their ploughs in| unionize, and 48 hours after the: | military formation, is a part of this|demand for union recognition hac | campaign.” | been tossed in the waste basket by |the traction monopoly, organized bui drivers and conductors of St. Loui DETROIT, Mich. (By Mail).—| walked out in a spontaneous, unex Figures just released here on auto| pected strike. Bus operations ha produetion for February of this year | been completely tied ‘up. show a total output of 62 motor} A sympathetic strike by 5,00 vehicles, a decrease of 142,456 from | union street car men is not consid February, 1929. lered unlikely. < its PRESS, Inc. 20-26 UNION SQUARE NEW YORK CITY . ry { Workmen’s Sick and Death Benefit Fund) OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA { ORGANIZED 1884—INCORPORATED 1899 { ii MAIN OFFICE: 9 Seventh Street (Cor. 3rd Ave.), New York, N. Y. 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