TUB WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government FINAL CITY To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party iUaily Worker EDITION Entered ¦¦ «erond-rla»k matter at iHtthe I'oat Olflee at New fork, N. T„ nader tke aet of Marek S, 18T». Published dully except Sunday by The National Hally Worker SUBSCRIPTION KATES' In X(n ork, Vol. V., Publishing I hr mall, f.8.00 per year. No. 362 Aaaoclalloa. lac. ?«-2» (Talon S«„ New Vork, N. V. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1929 Oulslde New York, by mall, SQ.IIO per year. Price 3 Cents PARTY CONVENTION TONKHT MR. HILLQUU IS PITIFUL MELLON GUILTY Editors on Bail; Need NEEDLE TRADES ANTI-WARDEMONSTRATION, FIGURE AS ‘STAR’ WITNESS OF THE MURDER Funds to Save ‘Daily’SHOP DELEGATES RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL AT TO THE Begs Judge for Chanee to Make “Statement” OF PENN. MINER WORKING CLASS READERS ACT ON STRIKES When Associate Blurts Out Facts OF THE DAILY W ORKER: TONIGHT Me lion-Owned Com- COMRADES:—The campaign to destroy the Plan Extension ofFight FORMAL OPENING Suffers from Lapses of “Memory” Under Cross- | pany Police Killed Daily Worker continues, and the Daily Worker con- Beyond Dress, Pleater tinues to rely “Defend Soviet Union” to Be Slogan; Honor Examination of Workers’ Attorney Barkoski on the class conscious workers to de- Trades v < fend it. -v Founding of Communist International; In previous installments of this expose of the huge Coal Diggers Aroused The struggle proceeds step by step. Late yes- Local 41 Signs Bosses Party Leaders to Open Meet ?150,000 swindle of the property of the New York cloak and terday, Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker, dressmakers, engineered by Morris Hillquit, millionaire boss of Victim Refused to Aid and Moissaye Olgin, editor of the daily Freiheit, im- U nionDressShops Work Delegates from Thruout U. S.; District Two the socialist party, we told how Hillquit’s tool, Frederick F. prisoned the day before on by had, Police Frame-up a warrant issued the Saturday for Strike Urges Workers to Attend Opening Umhey, under orders from' yellow leader, boss, gotten socialist Morris Hillquit, were bailed his possession of (By LRA Service.) The shop and dele- Tonight at 8 International Union flank shares out of the city prison by the International Labor De- chairmen’s o’clock several thousand workers will join in MINOR, That Secretary of the Treasury gates’ council, a meeting of shop a against by OLGIN IN fense. mighty demonstration the coming imperialist war at owned the Joint Board, Cloak Andrew W. Mellon is responsible representatives in the cloak, dress, and Dressmakers’ Union and the the huge mass meeting in New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park for the murder of John Barkoski, These worker editors were taken fur and auxiliary industries, was left wing locals. Umhey had pre- coal miner, by Pittsburgh Coal Co. immediately to held last night in Webster Hall, 11th Ave., that will mark the opening of the Sixth National Con- viously, at Hillquit’s suggestion, court COURT; OUT OF private police is acknowledged in a the for bailing formalities, and found there St. and Third Ave., in order to hear vention of the Workers (Communist) Party. been appointed of the shares trustee letter from Senator Burton K. representatives of Hillquit, and special full reports on the dressmakers' * and of the stock of the union build- Morris re- The convention comes at a Wheeler to the American Civil Lib- porters from the yellow official organ of strike and on the strikes the union time when the American sec- ings, which were given as security erties Union. the socialist has called in the other trades. for a loan of $300,000 made by the JAIL ON BOND party, the New tion of the Communist Inter- Mellon,” writes Wheeler, Leader, and the equally yellow so- After General Manager Boracho- EXPOSE BRITISH Joint Board from the International “Mr. national, the Workers (Communist) “who was secretary of the treasury cialist Forward. They came to gloat over vich of the New York Joint Board Bank to their work, Party, important Union in order finance the Bailed by Labor De- during the past six years, and who they had delivered his report, which in- faces the most cloak strike. Hillquit had at and hope to wreck us. tasks in history. growing 1926 undoubtedly will be the new secre- cluded recommendations of tasks for its The the time given his solemn promise fense; Continue Expose the OIL PLOT IN USSR war danger, the attacks on the Sov- -1 ary of the treasury, completely Here issue is clear cut and definite. The the immediate future, the Council that he would be responsible for the iet Union being planned by tjic Minor, Daily Worker edi- dominates not only the Pittsburgh Daily Worker supported delegates began what developed into im- return of the union property. Robert has enthusiastically the perialist powers, the m tion-wide of- tor, and M. J. Olgin, editor of the Coal Co., whose policemen commit- an extremely interesting discussion. strike of the needle trades workers, struggling win “Inprecorr” Shows His fensive of the employers against the Umhey Daily Freiheit, ted this murder, but likewise dom- to When this ended, plans for carrying We also told how had. in Jewish Communist working class, actively aided by the getting possession were brought before Judge Mul- inates the republican party in the forty hour week and a wage raise, to abolish | on of the strike in the dress indus- Money addition to thru Counterfeit corrupt officialdom of the American trickery shares, organized a 1 Ses- Pennsylvania, and, to a large ex- sweat shop try, and the tuckers, pleaters and of these pueen in Part of General conditions in the industry. Federation of Labor and the social- corporation, 130 sions, yesterday morning and plead- tent, the economic life of the west- hemstitchers trades, were adopted. LONDON, Feb. 28. —The secretary fake the East 25th Yesterday yellow ist party, side by side with the himself as “Not Guilty” charge of ern part of the state. the socialist “Forward” came In the report and it Street Corporation, with ed to the discussion I 1 of the head of Shell Oil Co., the Bri- growing militancy of the workers, '-resident, “taken having Hillquit, out openly, and hysterically commanded not was clearly shown that the strike which had over” “libelled” Morris “All that he would have to do is workers tish oil trust, Sir Henry Deterding, make this convention of unusual buildings. All this was re- when they published facts exposing say the legislature that these called by the Needle Trades Work- ti. 3 union Ito to to support the Daily Worker, financially or other- in his name that he had not significance and place a heavy re- Hillquit as having organized a steal policemen should be done ers’ Industrial Union in the dress stated vealed in Umhey’s testimony before ; private In spite yellow sponsibility upon all the delegates. belonging legislature, wise. of the Forward, the workers and auxiliary trades, has resulted in j signed a contract with the Soviet Supreme Court Justice Townley of $150,000 to needle away with and the in | Ruthenhcrg, Fighter Against Im- when the union brought suit to pre- trades worker. Hillquit is a milllion- imy humble judgment, would no will support and help the Daily to fight the traitors : the gaining of union standards in i Union Oil Trust, and was as much perialist War. vent Hillquit and company from aire lawyer who steers the traitor- doubt pass a law prohibiting them, of the working class. The socialist party, and all of hundreds of open and right wing an enemy of the first workers’ state ous of the socialist say his shops and how the union was pre- The hig mass meeting tonight will ateahng the buildings belonging to I course party and he could likewise to publications as ever. is its slander the strikers, demand the paring the ground for the big gen- i , strike the keynote the convention and dressmsl-ers. , j and committee company that he not approve of of here .an executive did has carried on for member of the “Second Interna- ihem. and they would be done away jailing of their leaders applaud gangster eral strike in the fur industry, by Deterding Iby raising the- slogan of fight installment we print the and tactics ¦» In today's tional.” organization strikes going on now j years, ever since he failed to agree against the war danger and defense official testimony of Hillquit ; j with.” against the members of the union on the picket line. i court in strongholds of the right wing. over a con- of the Soviet Union. This slogan and his aides under cross-examina- After the technical pleading, bail As chairman of the senate com- This is plain with the Soviet Oil Trust set Pennsylvania strikebreaking, done in the service of 28 Settlements. will be given added significance by tion by Louis B. Boudin, attorney for was by judge and representative mittee in the western tract for Baku oil, a campaign of of the New coal fields in 1927, Wheeler had op- the employers. being linked with a tribute to the the Joint Board (now the Needle York section of the In- Settlements with 28 employers slander and calumny in which his portunity to find out about the coal men who in the struggle in this Trades Workers’ Industrial Union). ternational Labor Defense provided Now the next stage in the battle. Morris Hillquit, were reached today by Local 41 of favorite charge against the workers the necessary bonds, obtaining the Continued on Page Three the Hemstitchers, Pleaters and Tuck- country concretized it most com- * * * socialist smarting of the Soviet Union is that they pletely during his life, release of the Communist editors. leader, already under the lash of ers, affiliated with the Joint Board C. E. Ruth- enberg, who at the time of his death Tho the right wing clique had Hillquit, the “socialist,” through working class wrath because exposed by the Daily of the NTWIU, which called a strike have “stolen the oil from its own- March 2, 1927, was the executive claimed that the union buildings be- the district attorney’s office had ob- Worker as a participator in the swindling of the last Tuesday. The strike will con- ers” (the capitalist exploiters). warrants of secretary of the Workers (Commu- longed them, Umhey, Hillquit’s tained for the arrest tinue against all those employers * * * to CROUHLL NOT needle trades workers out of $150,000 money, nist) Party. Speakers at the meet- tool, was decidedly evasive on the : Minor and Olgin without the two of their who refuse to sign an agreement on i He Made Money. ing will describe the part Ruthen- question of ownership at the : editors having had an opportunity rushes into the attack. He demands indictments for union terms. trial berg played in the struggles of the before Townley on 16, ! to have themselves heard before the “libel." A. Gross, manager of the furriers The February 8 issue of Interna- Justice Jan. Recognizing the services of his party to the workers of this country and parti- 1929. When Lawyer Boudin tried to ! warrants were issued. They were BE EXTRADITED (Continued on Page Two) tional Press Correspondence contains strikebreaking employers, cularly taken from the editorial offices of the district attorney’s of- detailed charges that Deterding has his role as the leader of the get a definite answer from him Jus- fight against the last imperialist Townley interposed with the the Daily Worker and Freiheit Wed- fice of New York gives him every facility, handcuffs | secured the stealing of the secret tice war and the betrayals of the yellow understanding nesday afternoon by plain clothes I.L.D. Forces Governor by minutes of a German court which statement that his of the defense permitting Hillquit to get his indict- socialist party. Umhey’s that the latter is detectives who were accompanied by was investigating Georgian chervon- words is to Refuse Application ment direct from the grand jury, without any pre- WAR PERIL Tonight’s meeting will also cele- holding the stock of the buildings as representatives of the socialist party IN i etz counterfeiters. The theft in- and its organ the “New Leader.” liminary hearing, something that ever eluded photostatic plates and brate the tenth anniversary of the trustee for the original owners, i. e., ALBANY, N. Y„ Feb. 28.—The has seldom if other The Communists were confined in happened evidence which proves that Deterd- founding of the Communist Inter- the Joint Board and the locals. To New r York District of the Interna- before in criminal practice in New York. Tombs Prison till on bail ing himself was part of the counter- national. In honor of this occasion this Boudin replied that Umhey had released Defense gained a second together MILITARY PACT I tional Labor These enemies of labor know how to stick Sovkino film, “A himself several times. bonds. feiting ring. the remarkable contradicted important victory when Governor Trip Thru Russia,” will be seeing man, Basing its disclosure on facts ex- and help each other. Deterding evidently using Soviet Hillquit, that his Um- Roosevelt today refused the applica- was the shown for the first time in this tracted from Hillquit agents counterfeit to (Continued on Page Two) and his tion of the state of Massachusetts to phase of the battle is not over yet. Also Exposes Socialist : money work out plans while under cross-examination at an- This country. This film shows the work | Crouch, national ! submitted to the British admiralty other trial, the Daily Worker and extradite Paul We to see now working and League Hypocrisy of building socialism in Moscow, secretary of the All-America Anti- have whether the class for the conquest of the Caucasian all indus- Freiheit told of a ap- fields, to Leningrad, the important fraudulent Imperialist League, to stand trial know s this lesson too. The Daily Worker expects a ; oil pay for agitation propriation of a huge sum of money (Wireless By "Inprecorr") 1‘against I trial centers and on the farms, and two conspiracy the Soviet Union in Paris,l belonging to needle trades workers. with 24 others on long and hard fought struggle against the socialists also presents unusual scenes taken WRITES charges in connection with the New MOSCOW, U. S. S. R„ Feb. 28. where he secured the recall of the I TROTSKY at the celebration of the tenth an- It is now publishing a series of ar- and the strikebreaking district attorney’s office of U. S. S. R. ambassador, and for a | Bedford textile strike. Two weeks Pravda states that the Franco-Bel- niversary of the Soviet Union. ticles quoting stenographic records gian-British military agree- publicity campaign. ago the L. D. succeeded in having New York. It w ill need money for this defense. The secret Communist Leaders To Speak. of these cross-examinations, to prove I. ments are now exposed and declares the governor refuse to extradite Daily Worker, as all its readers know, was already t Counterfeit money and stolen evi- j The meeting will be addressed by PRESS with Hillquit’s own words the truth that the existence of such agree- ENEMY dence are considered quite by IN Biedenkapp, secretary moral Fred national Jay Lovestone, executive secretary of the scandalous thievery. The in serious financial difficulties when Hillquit | against Germany I of the Workers International Relief, ments are well a millionaire who wants to start a of the Workers Party; William Z. articles are to be found in another working | known. They mean that the Lo- war, as defendant in the conspiracy trial. launched his indictments. To the class, world and who is shocked be-j Foster and Ben Gitlow, members of Slanders USSR in For- part of this issue. carno illusions are dead and buried cause the The governor gave as his reasons which the Daily Worker has defended in their every workers have taken the the Secretariat; William W. Wein- now. Social democratic hypocrisy oil fields away from ward, Volkszeitung for refusing to extradite Crouch the strike, I some of his as- 1 stone, district organizer, and other in all their demands for better wages and im- concerning the League of Nations as Section 1, WP Members fact that the Massachusetts author- sociates. leaders of the Communist movement. proved conditions, to preached the a peace instrument is finally ex- l Trotsky, once a member of to arrest whom it has that Minor, Daily Leon to March to ities had failed Crouch posed. Mueller and Vandervelde; Robert editor of the the Party of the Soviet Convention despite the that he appeared in workers should have and should run the industries Worker, released last night from the Communist fact will find difficulty in coming an Convention Delegates Union, now the head of an interna- Party to j prison on bail, will members of Section 1 are New Bedford many times subse- and stop supporting a useless millionaire class, or its agreement concerning the contents Tombs address counter-revolutionary organi- instructed the quent June 27, 1928, when the to the opening session of the conven- tional to report at Harlem to strikebreaking socialist party of the published secret Attend New Masses continues to make “progress.” headquarters to and other reformist agreements.! tion tonight. Tickets are limited sation, of the Workers (Com- “conspiracy” is alleged have Social democracy represents an, Spring Ball Tonight |Not only has he become a staff cor- munist) Party, 142 E. 103rd St., to- taken place; and also that the con- grafters, to these workers the Daily Worker comes, and should be bought at once at the | organic part of the present system ; Irespondent for the New York Times, night. They will march in a body spiracy trial has been indefinitely appealing help district office of the Party, 26 Union for financial which to it is a matter of military combinations, says Because delegates to the Sixth organ of Wall Street and Wall Street to the opening of the Sixth National postponed. | secret j Na- 1 Square, or at the national office, 43 imperialism, but he is now serving of life and death. , Pravda. tional Convention of the Workers I Convention of the Party, 1 New Jacques Buitenkant, representing * * * E. 125th St. Star (Communist) Party will attend the in a similar capacity for yellow so- Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., at the New York I. L. D., appeared What is your answer, workers? Send in the j The sessions of the convention AMSTERDAM, Holland, Feb. 28. New Masses Ball at betrayal sheets. 8 p. m. the Webster! start tomorrow morning at Irving cialist for Crouch before the governor. supplies we need to carry on this war for you. This —The Dutch foreign ministry has Hall, 11th St., Third the German Volkszei- between and Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. Yesterday your fight. Daily not something asked the Belgian foreign ministry j Fourth Aves., tonight, the for by renegade, is The Worker is event, Over 100 delegates from every sec- tung, edited the Lud- whether the published Franco-Bel- the first time since its inception, will began same separate and different from the workers, it is their i tion of the country, including many wig Lore, printing the gian-British agreement is authentic.! ! be into a bombastic attacks and W. I. R. Opens National transformed national cele- coming directly from shop, mine and series of paper, their voice in this contest. The capitalist press is artists, here conduct- bration of writers and prole- mill, will be present. slanders on the Soviet Union and ing a violent anti-Belgian campaign. tarians. Rush funds immediately. Calling for mass support of the the All-Union Communist Tarty that The social democratic paper Hct j It is not too late to obtain in the Times under tickets Sixth National Convention of the are appearing Miners Campaign THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Volk publishes the Brussels report ; at the Workers Bookshop, 26 Union day the Relief Workers (Communist) Party, which Trotsky’s name. The before according to whiNew York City, all con- i added force to the blow the “Daily" jected to the most intense exploita- try”—discredited, supposedly, in the addition to those who are members broadcast1 widely to acquaint the explosion. Three persons were product fully Expan- known was satisfied. tributed one day's wages to the i i- landing against the socialist trai- tion through the speedup eyes of the Tammany police who of the union. These W. I. R. public| with the destitution that is dead and four seriously injured. The : sion of factory year and the this is ex- drive to save the Daily Worker. tors and their imperialist masters. rationalization and by the heavy came to the aid of James F. Cannon branches, as well as the locals of thejinow to be found in the coal fields. Tritonia was with dynamite pected to raise loaded the production to The rum, to act a financial fuel 1 crierdsy, the v.'orkc in one burdens of American imperialism. and Company. miners union are immediately to (Continued on Page Three) and gasoline. |i6,000 tons. 'in the fight the Daily Worker carries. (Continued on Page Thief) j (Continued oh Page Five) \