The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1930, Page 1

é Three Headlines on the N. Y. '‘felegram: “Bishop Cannon Walks Out on Lobby Inguir, One How a Guy Won $149,000 on an illegal Lot- tery; Next, “Vause Witness Capitalism Is Rotten, So It Attacks the “Reds!” in Fear.” Vol. VII., No. 136 Published daily exce: Company, in NOU HISTORIC CONVENTION OF NEEDLE Build a Fighting Needle Trades Union! ODAY opens the Second National Convention of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union. In extending the revolutionary grect- ings of the workers of the whole country, the Daily Worker also greets in this convention those tens of thousands of needle work inside and outside the '.W.I.U., who for years have testified by their heroic struggles against the bosses and against the social-fascist and fascist bureaucrats, that the revolutionary union is their leader and guide, The Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union was born in strug- gle, and born out of the old unions of the A. F. of L. From the cir- cumstances of its birth it received a heritage of strength and weak- ness—strength in a long experience in mass struggles and in organ- ization; weakness in an incomplete break with the old practices and theories of the A. F. of L. and its bureaucracy. It is the task of this Second Convention to carefully preserve and further develop all the strong points gained from the past, while ruthle: cutting loose the cords still partially connected with old ways of class collaboration and bureaucracy. Our union must be an organization of the masses, based upon the shops, with an active membership really functioning in their shop com- mittees, and providing the basic force and control of the union. It must be the instrument of organization and leadership of-all struggles of the needle trades workers. It must, by democratic centralism, pro- vide a solid, iron unity of all workers in the struggle. It must know how to defeat and liquidate all opportunist groups and cliques, which try to send it back under the control of the Schlesinger bureaucracy. It must be the organizational center of all workers in the needle trades, in all branches. It must lead the struggles of the workers, Needle trades workers know that their union must be a‘ part of the general movement of revolutionary unionism. They know that it must be organically united with the other revolutionary unions in the Trade Union Unity League. In the past, this knowledge, strong in the rank and file, has been weak in the leadership. The Second Con- vention must mark a clear and definite ending of this weakness, and the organizational consolidation of the membership’s keen sense of solidarity and unity with the T.U.U.L. International solidarity and organization is just a burning neces- sity. Needle tradés workers are no strangers to this issue. They all know, also, that internationally there are two organizations—Amster- dam International, the organ of the social-fascist bureaucracy ‘of all countries, the prop of capitalism, and breakers of international soli- darity; and the Red International of Labor Unions, the organ of all class-struggle unions of all countries. The N.T.W.I.U. must sharply and definitely align itself with the millions of revolutionary workers all over the world organized in the R.I-L.U., and elect delegates to the coming World Congress. And above all, this convention must be the starting point for a mighty recruiting’ campaign, leading to a great struggle in which the needle trades workers will smash the strikebreaking apparatus of the Schlesingers and Hillmans, which is united in closest bonds with the employers and with the state, and forever destroy its power over the working class. It must rally the masses for a mighty struggle against the wage-cuts, speed-up, and general worsening conditions in the gar- ment industry. It must prepare the working masses for the political mass strikes which are developing in the immediate future in this coun- try, as a result of the deep crisis and merciless exploitation of the capitalist class. Out from the shops must be brought a leading staff which will renew and refresh the leadership of the struggles. Preserving the best from the past, there must be an infusion of new blood into all leading bodies of the union. The Second Convention of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union will meet these tasks, and will solve some of them now, laying | the basis for the progressive solution of the others in the course of life and struggle. j Hail the revolutionary needle trades workers! All together to , build a powerful, fighting industrial union of the needle trades! | They Have a “Hand” In It | OMETIMES they have both hands and all four feet! We refer to the astounding graft that goes on underneath our eyes, which is becoming so usual that no one thinks of it as extraordinary. The thought came to us like this: In an evening paper recently we noted that Mayor Walker’s pri- vate secretary, Charles Hand, was appointed on the “Sanitary Com- mission.” The salary is some $10,000 to $12,000 a year, we forget which, and it was noted that some other crook was “disappointed.” Why all the “disappointment” for the fellow who lost, and the celebration on the part of the friends of Hand? Why, indeed, if such appointments are not simply sinecures, “cinches,” in plain English— graft? Not only does the fellow appointed get a fat salary of thou- sands of dollars from the city while about a million workers of New York City are going hungry from unemployment, but all the million and one ways of getting a “divvy” from contractors who want bad sewer construction O.K.’d and every other conceivable form of crook- edness found in Vitaleland is used by appointees to such “commissions.” Does an appointee to the “Sanitary Commission” have to know anything about sanitation? Perish the thought! Charles Hand, the secretary of Mayor Walker, probably doesn’t know any more about sanitation than to wipe his nose. It’s a political graft, that’s all! And the multiplicity of such “commissions!” There are not only “57 varieties” but a thousand and fifty-seven kinds of “commissions.” It would be interesting to find out how many dozens of “commissions”. there are to give fat jobs and rich graft to the Tammany gang in the city of New York. How these fingers connect with the “Hand” named on the “San- itary Commission” we leave to the constant revelations in the capi- talist press of graft here, there and everywhere. point out here is: The government of the city of New York, which savagely clubbed the workers demonstrating against unemployment on Union Square on March 6, which does not a damned thing for the great masses of job- less and hungry New York workers, and which has railroaded to long terms of prison the committee elected to present their demands to Tammany’s cabaret mayor, is rotten with graft, in which participate all the upper strata of A. F. of L. leaders, the “big guys” in the underworld, and the inflated “patriots” heading the fascist “veterans,” | and so on, What must be done? First, let’s tear off the mask of “democratic | government,” which serves the interests of the bosses and plunders | right and left while it assumes a lofty air of virtue and “law and H order” to beat workers into bloody subinission for demanding ‘Work or Wages.” To expose them properly and make a fight for the work- ers’ interests, let us try to elect Communists in the coming elections, izing the workers in the shops for daily struggle while in the campaign. Fi And let us press harder than ever for the demands of the jobless, for “work or wages!” Let us fight, and fight like hell to get the | release of all those arrested as a result of March 6, the Unemployed | Committee now laying in prison for speaking for the unemployed in the teeth of this incredible machine of grafters. And let us build the unemployed movement by making the July 4 convention at Chicago a success in the sense that it will intensify the fight for social insur- ance, unemployed relief, the seven-hour day and five-day week, no speed- wr no wage coy | | What we want to | Sunday by he ¢ New York Square. BOSS CONGRESS BEGINS ITS “RED” PROBE WITH SPIES Hand Picks His Dicks So They Get or | Make ‘Proof’ |/Hide Unemployment Push War Propaganda on Soviet Union WASHINGTON, D. C., June 5.— A swarm of detectives, hired by the fascist, Fish, chairman of the Con- gressional Anti-Communist Com- mittee, it was revealed today, are ‘now busy imitating Sherlock Holmes around Communist and alleged Com- |munist organizations. Oiling up their burglar tools, they are instrueted to break in at night jto nizations’ offites to subtract “incriminating” evidence—and, as is natural to these gentry, to leave some of their own make, like Eas t jley's and Whalen’s forgeri make sure of furnishing fascist F with material for “red hyster' | ballyhoo. | | One objective is: To try by blab- | |ber about the “red menace to cover | up the fact revealed by the govern- | | ment census, which, itself admitting | that there are about 6,500,000 un- | employed workers and their fam- | (Continued on Page Two) | The real union of needle JUNE 7 PROTEST, opens today! 110 ST & FIFTH Masses Will Demand Release of Leaders Police Give Away ville-Jenckes Co., which owns The International Labor Defense jealls upon all workers to come to |the mass protest demonstration to he held at 110th St. and Fifth Ave., Saturday, June 7 at 1 p. m.,, the an- |niversary of the raid on the Na- jtiona! Textile Workers Union in Gastonia and the arrest of 23 or- ganizers, Just one year since the arrest of these workers in Gastonia, 7 of whom were convicted and are still threat- ened with 20-year prison sentences comes the arrest of Powers, Carr Dalton, Burlack, Storey and Burdy | in Atlanta, Ga., under the “inciting | to insurrection” law which means ceath if convicted. June 7, 1930, finds the leaders of the unemployed workers in jail with-| out bail or jury trial. | Budenz J 7, 1930, finds the sedition] Workers, ing used in Newark, N. J., MUSTEITES FO GANDHI, GRAFTER ‘Pacifism in India and Farrington in U. 8. Rey. Muste’s “Conference for Progressive Labor Action” cele- | brated its first anniversary in New | York by a banquet. At the dinner appeared Louis F. of the United Textile (Musteite leadership) who ounces himself as the head now ai to railroad 9 workers, Negro and|of a Musteite bureau to “organize | to long prison terms for or-/the unorganized.” Budenz did not ganizing and fighting for the de-j find it necessary to tell the diners mands of the unemployed workers.|of the U.T.W. sell out and str These arrests and persecutions! betrayal in Elizabethton, Marion, are a challenge to the entire work-| and of the U.T.W. silk workers’ ng class of this country and must} ynion bureaucracy (Musteite) join- be fought by the working class. ing the fascist business men’ The International Labor Defense | cj] in Paterson to prevent any stri and the National Textile Workers! there, Union has arranged this demonstra- | “ gir tion as a mighty protest of the work-| Oscar Ameringer, socialist party ing masses to demand the release|™ember who edits the Fishwick of- of all these fighters. (Continued on Page Three) 3 "NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1 Part in Atlanta Electrocution Plot SCRANTON, Pa., June 5—Complete proof thaf’ the Man- one factor behind the attempt to send the six organizers in Atlanta jail to the electric chair, was inadvertently given away by police here who did not realize the political implications of PARTY, JUNE 20h Opens with Great Mass | Meeting in Madison | Square Garden |Marks New High Point iStruggle of Jobless a Central Issue The Seventh National Convention Stu year everywhe (ity and foreign cou to Smash Sweat Policies; Jobless |S, A. which will bring together the | leaders of the struggles of the, | revolutionary from all parts of the country for the p pose of planning further intens | cation of these struggles, will be | appropriately opened with a gigan-| | tic mass demonstration in Madison Square Garden, June 20. Thousands of workers from the shops, unions, fraternal organiza- tions and cooperatives and thou-, sands of unemployed workers who | look to the Communist Party for leadership in their day to day strug- gles are expected to rally on this |oceasion in order to demonstrate | ‘their approval of the revolutionary | 7 ike ieee of the Communist Party. | Fight For Jobless. } The mass opening of the Seventh} trades workers, the N.T.W.LU.,) national Convention will be a dem- onstration for continued struggles !against unemployment and will | launch an intensified campaign for the release of the delegation of the| | unemployed, Comrade Foster, Min-| | or, Amter and Raymond who are | serving a three years sentence be-/ |eause they dared lead the struggle | for work or wages. At the same | time the workers of New York will) |ratify at this demonstration the/ nomination of Wm. Z. Foster as) (Continued on Page Two) workers Gastonia Bosses’ the Loray Mills at Gastonia, is! ¢ their acts. NESSES During. a meeting of the bu- | | D ENDORSES | |reau of the Communist Party, | F5s=:Si1 two Scranton city detectives | entered the headquarters and |called out the Communist Party or-} |ganizer. They showed him a letter | written under a Manville-Jenckes Calls on Workers to letterhead, addressed to the chief of | Come to Sports Meet | police of Scranton, asking for in- | formation from the police depart: | | The International Labor Defense today issues a statement endorsing the mass meeting of the Labor Sports Union, to be held on Satur- day and Sunday, June 7 and 8, at the Eastern States Track and Field Meet of the Labor Sports Union at | Ulmer Park, Brooklyn. It asks all I. L. D. members and all workers ton. and sympathizers to attend these | Manville-Jenckes Co., during the| meetings and swell the protest |Gastonia strike directed against it| against the Gastonia sentences. last year, hired the gunman “com-| These meetings will protest as |mittee of 100” which followed Chief | well the continued holding of Fos- |of Police Aderholdt in his raid June 7| ter, Minor, Amter and Raymond; to commit another Ludlow massacre | the jailing of six organizers, facing |in the strikers’ tent colony. Before | death in Atlanta, indicted on charges |this they had brought in the militia.|of “insurrection”; the nine men bayonetted workers and sent thugs | facing long prison terms in New- to wreck’the union and relief head-| ark, N. J., on charges of “sedition,” iquarters. After the arrest of work- | and the ten workers now being tried (Continued on Page Three) ‘in El Centro, Calif., ment about Anna Burlak, “who was |arrested in Atlanta, Ga., and who is charged with inciting to riot.’” Man- ville-Jenckes wanted to know what her activities were in Pennsylvania, where she was an orgariizer for the National Textile Workers’ Union, and whether any arrests or charges against her had been made in Scran- Defend “Daily”! Rush Funds! It certainly is clear to every Party member, every reader of our paper, every workers’ organization that the “investiga-_ tion” of, the attack upon our paper may now take place at any moment. In voting the “investigation” of the Daily Worker, the House of Representatives at Washington reveals the serious- ness of the capitalist crisis in this country and the effect upon American imperialim of the narrowing markets for the things American workers produce by their sweat and blood in the industrial hell-holes. This “investigation,” this attack against the Daily Worker by the big bosses who drive you to exhaustion in shop, mine and mill, also reveals the reaction of the bosses’ politicians to the growing proletarian revolutions in China and India, and their plans for war against the Soviet Union. The big bosses are between the devil and the deep blue sea. Being devils themselves, may the devil take them. We will help see to that, But right now they still have power. They intend fighting for their bloodsucking capitalist system. Faced with seven million unemployed workers and shrinking | profits they intend engaging in another world war to bolster up their profits and intend as well to engage in a war on Communists and the Daily Worker because they know we will correctly lead all workers to victory over these plunderer~ | And so Representative Fish, nice gefuelter, primed by | his bosses, whoops it up for a war against the Reds. In effect he shouts: “The bosses and I want satisfied workers. We will | suppress all trouble makers, all who organize workers into | the Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party. We are against a convention for unemployed workers. We are against organizing Negro and white workers for common strug- gle in the South. We intend fighting ‘Soviet propaganda.’ We intend keeping the workers all over the world enslaved. | We intend suppressing the Daily Worker so the workers will not get the truth about what is happening to them in all the jindustries, so that they will not have a common means of expression and information.” We may be “investigated” at any moment. We must ; marshall. all our forces before this attack comes. We must add you, your organization to our army of supporters. We | must increase the income for our $25,000 Emergency Fund so that every day for the balance of this month we receive $1,000 a day in our office. The Daily Worker is in distress. You must strengthen your paper in face of this coming attack by our enemy. Help us now so we will win! | | * * * | |Tag Days—Philadelphia—June 6, 7, 8. Every ~~«ai;, Worker should help. | |of hammering out the policy | Southern Wisconsin MEET, PROTEST Needle Delegates Delegates are arriving from most of the needle trades cen- jters, ready to take up the task and) | program for our revolutionary |Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union. _ All comrades are asked to in- form the office of the union, 131 |W. 28th St., Lackawanna 4010, of | the number of delegates they can | accommodate. | | All out-of-town delegates should |see Comrades Sol Hertz and| | Bailis for accommodations. | | CONVENTION ARRAD} | MENT COMMITTEE. | JOBLESS RALLY FOR CHL MEET Unemployed All Over} Country Preparing MILWAUKEE, 5—| Wis., June and northern Illinois are planning to send 500 delegates to the July 4th unemploy- ment convention conference in Chi- cago, states the Milwaukee office jot the Trade Union Unity League. | From all parts of the country, | delegations are being elected from | Unemployment Councils, and new Jeouncils spring up daily, all with \representation at the National Un- |employment Convention. The organization of the unem-| | ployed proceeds in close connection | with the organization drive for 50,-| 000 new members t# the T.U.U.L. unions. The ides & & ergerize the jobless and the eimitsyed workers around their wert: <deps, or the shops where they worked when they |had jobs, on a common platform lof work or wages, unemployment | relief and insurance paid for by the | government and administered by the workers, seven hour day and five | day week, no speed up, and no worsening of conditions. | $e * Closing Mines | PITTSTON, Pa., June 5.—The Pittston Coal Co, announces a policy | of closing down part of its mines | and running only a few of them. After the miners in the closed mines | Continued on Page Three) CUT HERDERS’ WAGES. BUTTE, Mont., June 5,—Sheep- | herders on Montana’s far ranches, | who heard that a leading Deer Lodge | ranch owner complimented them | over the radio, suspect that they are being fed apple-sauce in return for hard work. The rancher boasted that the Montana wool industry had | made a profit of $27,000,000 last | year, but the herders were forced | to take a 20 per cent wage-cut this spring. VIENNA, June 5.—Severe colli- {sions between fascists and workers | occurred today. in Dunkelstein as a| result of which a worker by the name of Toitl was killed. The coun- 'tryside is excited and indignant. —— Today in History of the Workers June 6, 1836—New York tailors sentenced for “illegal combina- tion” to prevent reduction of | wages. 1860—Central Working- men’s Congress of New York City, under influence of Horace Greeley, met. 1863—“Fincher’s Trades’ Review,” most influential labor paper of its time, first appeared in Philadelphia. 1922—Railroad | excepting Manhattan ries, there 88 a year. New Star Casino tonight will be the sc historical importance to the militant needle tr: ei New York; and of the whole country. | of the Communist Party of the U.! Convention of the Needle Trades Wor |Lodgings Wanted for, | | employed repre Labor Board cut wages of 400,000 shop men $60,000,000 a year. (Spt GARDEN: FINAL CITY EDITION fe) 8 3 Price 3 WORKERS OPENS TONIGHT Tth CONVENTION HUGE RESPONSE 0 CALL OF COMMUNIST ALREADY CERTAIN; MASS MEETING STARTS SESSION Reorganized Wnion, Based on Shops, Ready Shop Conditions Furriers Gather by the Thousands to Hear ot Elect Delegation 2 of an event of les workers of The Second National ers’ Industrial Union be- gins a three day session. A year and a half ago, the veterans of years of the most heroic struggle against attacks by the bosses and and city governmer betrayal t existed, a str t fought | with the mos 1 ination and vigor, n the for- | mation of a nev covering whol field. ; There followed mor ization and reorgan ion, of wi ing out of trade on pract and right v ues which had no place in a fighting union, months of shop struggles and consolidation of forces, months ¢ which the bosses led ions” that had become company unions, and with the aid of the bosses id the police, entrapped some of the nee- dle trades =m to slave con- tracts, with worse pay and horribly Only the indus- agents worse conditions. | trial union gave hope to the work- ers, and throughout the whole per- iod was their cc ant bulwark | against a torrent of exploitati On the Eve of Great Now, with the greatest orga history, eld open for the econd n the convention of needle workers, fi under the new st legate system of organization, with ery branch of the trade repre- sented, with right from the s legation proceed to maki very differe conventions recen inger and Hillma Bringing the In f it has begun. Yesterday when B , general manager of the N Trades Workers’ Un to addres: a the fur n Se thousand: him tell of the n¢ ning fight on conditions, spe long n piece slave work and contracts. The crowd grew so large and enthusias- tic that it blocked t in the | whole block, and the police had a hard time opening a lane for the cars to mov unemployed trade fur- riers, men’s clothing workers, mil- linery workers, cloakmakers and dressmakers and all others, gath- ered in Bryant Hall, heard the pro- gram and policies of the industrial union explained, endorsed them en- thusiastically, and elected 15 of their number as delegates to the convention. Turn From Amalgamated. A good meeting of men’s clothing workers, sick of Hillman’s betray- als, cl; collaboration, and all his schemes to ab’ ” the industry (schemes which always work out in the tailor’s doing a little more work for a little less money, and in one man doing two men’s work) took place yesterday at the Workers Center, and also elected dele to the N.T.W.1.U. convention. The meeting tonight, every needle w in- terested worker i: ted, will hear Louis Hyman, president of the N.T. W.LU. report on the progress of the union since the first convention. Johnstone for T.U.U.L. The national office of the Trade Union Unity League, to which the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union belongs, will be represented by Jack Johnstone who will report on the situation of the needle work- ers, as a part of the general class struggle, and make recommenda- tions to more completely co-ordinate these different fronts of the class war, Saturday there will be a recep. tion for the out of town d at New Star Casino,