The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 11, 1926, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER = Workers (Communist) Party _ | PROTEST THE MURDER OF CUBAN i oe age es CHICAGO DALY, STILL COMING! WORKERS BY BUTCHER MACHADO! FREIHEIT DRIVE The workers of Cuba, a supposedly “independent” nation lying in the shadow of United States imperialism, are suffering the most horrible tyranny. Rarely in the old world or the new have such atrocities been committed against the workers as are being carried out by the fascist government of President Machado, a butcher and tool for the American bankers, who have a RAISES $2,075 Eight Thousand More Starts Publication An enthustastic meeting of the Jew- fish members of the Workers Party ‘was held in Frethett Hail, Chicago, to initiate the drive for a Chicago datly edition of the militant New York Dailly Fretheit. A. Ravitch, manager of the Chicago edition, acted as chairman, and intro- duced Max Bedacht of the Workers Party, as the first speaker. Comrade Bedachit stated that the necessity of @ Chicago daily in the Jewish lan- guage was manifest. He mentioned how dmportant it is for the workers here to have their own Workers Party paper, day after day, dealing with the working condi- tions most of interest to them, and pointing out the schemes of their en- emies and the activities’ of their friends. He appealed to every Jew ish comrade to do everything that is Possible to help build the circulation of a Daily Freiheit, right in Chicago. First Edition on Time. The plan of campaign was explain- @d by another speaker, R. Zalsman, manager of the New York Daily Frei- heit. He ttold of the successes of the paper in New York, and prophesied equal progress for the Chicago edi- tion. Comrade Ravitch stated that he was certain from the response al- ready received that when the great meeting that is being planned for Ashland Auditorium on October 9, is held, and |the Jewish workers of Chi- cago celebrate there the launching of their Chicago daily, the first edi- tion of the paper qwill be at hand for distribution among the crowd. In the name of the Workers Party Jewish Fraction, Comrade Ravitch urged the members present amd all who might not have come tto the meet- ing to adopt the recommendations of the city committee of the fraction and contribute each of them a ‘week’s wages towards the much needed daily. Some of the members paid at once in full, and others paid part. More is coming in. Famous Speakers Coming. The meeting planned for October 9 will have before it such prominent speakers as Comrade Ruthenberg, sec- Yetary-of' the Workers Panty, M. Ep- stein, editor of the New York Frei- heit, Ben Gold, manager of the New York Joint Board of the Fur Work- ers’ Union, and others. There will also be on that occasion a ‘big concert, with the Freiheit Sing- ing Society and the best concert art- ists. There will be a play by the Dra- matic Section of the Fretheit Sing- ing Society, called “An Act of the Volga.” The Children’s Chorus also will sing. A brass band is engaged, and there will be other features on the program. It will be a real demon- stration, and it looks at this time, says Manager Ravitch, as tho the hall would be packed from stage to door, because for all this there is ‘be- ing oharged only fifty cents admis- sion; sympathizers are already rush- ing for ttickets. Large Sum Raised. As a result of the enthusiasm of the Chicago workers, Comrade Zals- man, New York manager, has been able to report to the executive board that there has already been raised $2,075 in cash, and the campaign is just starting. There will be needed about $8,000 more. The editorial board for the Chicago Fretheit will be complete by Oct. 9, and will be so composed as to cover al workers’ activities, all unions, the Workmen's Circle, workmen's clubs, ete. To Fight Forwards. Comrade * Ravitch points out the necessity of the Jewish workers in Cirieago having their own daily to combat the daily attacks on the pro- gressives made {thru the columns of the Yellow Daily Forwards. Every member of the Workers Party who can read Jewish, and ev- ery worker who sympathizes with the efforts to found a daily paper in Chi ego in the Jewish language, is invit- ed and urged to get in touch with the Chicago manager of the Freiheit, “Comrade A. Ravitch, at 3209 Roose- velt Road. He has certificates and ‘tickets, sufficient in number for ev- ery one, and every party member and every friend is expected to get busy and do his part. We will send sample copies of The DAILY WORKER to your friends— send us name and address, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 14 Good Amusements, Sports and Gami Leave your lunch home. W and 7 DIRPOTIONS: Take Red Sierra Vist low Huntington Drive to park, 108. I3i2_ , 2722 4330. 4726... - June 1 . July 1 . August I . September 1 . September 8 MAX of the party nuclei have just awakened to the import- ance of their collecting a nd remitting the United Labor Ticket Assessment. AIthd the time for final settlement was set for» August 31, payments for National Office since that time. 400 members have reached the Remittance from 500 nuclei secretaries representing about 4,000 additional members. would ment in good shape. WHY CAN'T IT BE DONE EVERY SECRETARY WHO H. put the collection of the assess- ? THAT IS THE QUESTION AS RECEIVED STAMPS AND NEITHER SOLD THEM, REMITTED FOR THEM OR RE- TURNED THEM SHOULD ANSWER, ° | Section Two, New York, Meets Tuesday! Meeting of Section Two, New York, Tuesday, Sept. 14, Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth Street, right after work. Don’t fail to attend! SPEAKS ON THE WORKERS AND THE OLD PARTIES ON TOUR OF EASTERN STATES J, LOUIS ENGDAHL, Candidate of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party for U. S, Senator from Illino! DAILY WORKER DRIVE GETS 2 NEW DISTRICTS PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 9. — The special DAILY WORKER drive now carried on in District Five of the Workers Party has attracted attention in other districts. Comrade Alex Bail, acting district organizer of the Phila- delphia district, writes to District Five: “Have read your article in the Daily in which you outline the conditions for the new DAILY WORKER drive in your district, I will take up the mat- ter tonight with the Polcom and am quite sure that we will join you in an All-Pennsylvania Drive for the Daily. Please rush any suggestions you may haye.” That is quite encouraging. It will be remembered that in the National DAILY WORKER drive Philadelphia district was way down the line, The district is now showing considerable improvement in its work generally, and there can be no doubt that a Daily drive started there at this time will meet with success. And while Philly is anxious to get in line for the Daily Worker, sunny Florida issues a challenge to District Five to raise at least one sub for every 5 secured by Pittsburgh district during the special drive, Florida has but a few members In Miami, and their challenge is a bold’ one, The Miami comrades surely have ambition, The comrades in Pittsburgh district wish them success and are anxious to see what Miami can do to béat Pitts- burgh, Whether the other districts wil) proceed with the campaign or not is yet to be seen, But Pittsburgh district, is going ahead and is determined to show results. peccrcccc cc rrrcrcccccsocs UNITED WORKERS’ PRESS PICNIC LOS ANGELES, CAL, at ROSE HILL PARK ENGDAHL MAKES FIRST TOLEDO, 0, SPEECH MONDAY Opens Second Tour in Party’s Campaign J. Louis Engdahl, candidate of the Workers (Communist) Party for United States senator in Illinois, who will start next week on a tour of half a dozen eastern states, will address his first audience in Toledo, Ohio. Altho Engdahl, during his 20 years of activity in the working class move- ment, has been in every state in the nation, yet he has never spoken in this Ohio city, Engdahl will speak on “The Work- ers and the Old Parties” and his Tole }do meeting will be held Monday night Sept. 13, at Iota Hall, Grant Hotel Jefferson near Erie, epening the sec- ond tour of the congressional cam paign of the Workers (Communist) Party. Dunne Completes First Tour, C. E. Ruthenberg, general secretary of the party, will conclude the cam- paign with a fourth tour, carrying the struggle up to election day. Engdahl starts out with the completion of the first tour by William F, Dunne speak- ing Friday night at Minneapolis, Satur- day night at St. Paul, and Sunday at Milwaukee, Wis. Engdahl’s dates following the Toledo meeting are as follows: PITTSBURGH—Tuesday, Sept. 14. N. S. Carnegie Music Hall, Ohio and Federal St, NEW HAVEN—Wednesday, Sept. 15 BOSTON—Thursday, Sept. 16. WORCESTER—Friday, Sept. 17. ROCHESTER—Saturday, Sept. 18. BUFFALO—Sunday, Sept. 19. CLEVELAND—Monday, Sept. 20. DETROIT—Tuesday, Sept. 21, at 8 Pp. m. Finnish Labor Temple, 5969 14th Street. CHICAGO—Wednesday, Sept. 22. MINNEAPOLIS—Friday, Sept. 24, ST. PAUL—Saturday, Sept, 25. MILWAUKEE—Sunday, Sept. 26, Arrangements are being made in Detroit to have Engdahl address a noonday meeting at Packard auto plant, Engdah! will also hold confer- ences of worker correspondents in the cities that he visits, New York Workers’ School Postpones Its New Member Course NEW YORK, Sept. 9, — The Work- ers’ School has postponed the courses for new members in the party one week, They will begin on Tuesday, Sept. 14 and Wednesday, Sept. 15, at 8 Dp. m. respectively, The instructor for the Tuesday class is D. Benjamin, assistant director of the school and the instructor for Wednesday Bert Wolfe, director of the school. These are to run for four weeks, The Workers Party in the New York District is making it obligatory on all new members, who have joined since the membership drive began, and all older members who have never gotten any training in this subject, to take the course, The course will deal with the fundamentals of Communism, the organization, role and tasks of the Workers (Communist) Party, ete, Steamer Goes Down In Riga. LONDON, Sept. 9, A dispatch from Riga today declared that the coast vessel Neibade has gone down reshments, at park. BY AUTO, take Mission Road to Huntington Drive, fol- in the Gulf of Riga with thirty pas- sengers and a crew of ten aboard, The cause of the disaster fs unknown That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to night. Hand him. this copy of the AILY WORKER. a 1. a oe oar a Tickets, incl, dancing, 50¢ e will serve a plate lunch 4 car (Main Street Station), stops workers of all countries for protest: aT AE The Terror HE new government * of General Machado, already known for its tyrannical declarations and its faith- ful lackeyism to Wall Sfrebt, has en- tered on a new period of dictatorship. To the imprisonments f last years, which were obviously éarried thru with cynical disregard for court evi- dence and which only helped to hurt the prestige of the government itself as well as American imperialism, has succeeded the systematic application of strong armed methods against the workers and poor peasants. Workers have been ahd are systematically in- timidated. Strikes are: brutally re- pressed. All sorts of pressure is re- sorted to to destroy the labor unions and force the workers into accepting leaders who have sold out to fascism. Not content with this, the government has resorted to undisguised murder, in the approved Matteotti style. IOMRADE VERANO, organizer of the railroad workers, was shot in the back by national guardsmen while walking in the street in company with his wife and children, a few days after he had been discharged from prison, where a framed-up charge had placed him. Comrade Cuzart was assassin- ated in the shadow of the prison. More than fifty unfortunate peasants who rebelled against the Machado sugar trust system of force wages, were foully slaughtered by the goldiery, Comrade Grant of the railroad work- ers, was murdered by a policeman white about to report for work at the railroad station. Among the long list of other victims there st&fd out: Sal- vador Lopez, active trade hnion fight- er of Cienfeugos; Domingo, treasurer of the railroad brotherhoéd; and Al- fredo Lopez, secretary of the Havana ®ederation of Labor, whése sensation- ul disappearance has shO@ked the en- ire, labor movement. [HIS Comrade Lopez. stood out among the organiz ‘uban mass- es as one of the most ina tigable and and courageous militants in-the ranks of the working class. He was knqwn to have left his home to go to the headquarters of the Fedetlation of La- bor but he never arrived. Nothing has been heard from hinf’since, The entire working ¢lass of Cuba, even the railroad workers—among whose leaders were included some of the worst police spies ofthe govern- ment—lies groaning undér the iron heel of an ominous dictatorship, with- out possibility of defending itself with the right of strike denied, without the most elementary rights df assembly. There is no such thing as:freedom of speech; nay, not even treedom of thought! Legal protectiow is a vulgar farce. The mask of democracy has been thrown aside and loud boasting is being heard of the new dictatorship by the tools of the “Mussolini of the Carribean”—a* Mussolini without tal- ents and one who is himself a tool. HE entire country, not recovered yet from the series of massacres, illegal detentions and kidnappings, fears to raise its voice in protest, The mercenary press, half of it sold and half of it gagged, remains silent. Pub- lic opinion is reduced to whispered criticism in family circles. The work- ing class still struggling to be born, and without revolutionary traditions or education, appears as one defense- less. Almost as we write, four more work- ers have been wrenched from their hearthstones by the tyrant Machado and his assistant executioner, the Cuban Stolipin, Zayas Basan. Habeas corpus has been denied them. ‘They are to be railroaded to léng terms in prison or perhaps to exile, A mantle of terror and ‘crime covers the whole country. The phrase with which the secretary of 'the interior closed his last interview ‘with the un- fortunate Alfredo Lopez, repeats it- self like a credo of death: “For foreigners depértation, for Cubans, death.” ‘ The working cla: of Cuba asks support and solidarity from its com- rades of all other countries, Down with the Imperialjst-controlled tyranny! Central Committee of ‘the Commu- nist Party of Cuban. __ CORRECTION, From the headlines of an article in The DAILY WORKER of August 27 (relating to the Painters’ Strike in Cleveland) the inference might be drawn the painters of Cleveland were sold out for a money consideration, Such is not the general belief of the Cleveland painters, It was not the intention of the writer of the article to insinuate that money played any part in the termina- tion of the strike, but ta point out in plain English that the Cleveland paint ors were betrayed im the@trike settle ment,” RE Ra ae a Rie aceon i ee eC TE ee he RES Beste lt A Pt ie OLN Daca eee eet ae ee ET Se fH EN LEI FONT ERY ————— $1,250,000,000 invested in the island “republic.” To back up their property interests, the Washington government keeps a U.S. army “advisor” to Machado in Havana. General Enoch Crowder gives the orders of American imperialism which murders with Machada’s hand the best and bravest of Cuban trade unionists. below the statement of the Communist Party of Cuba and its appeal to the The DAILY WORKER gives in Cuba Statement of Protest Issued by the Communist Party of Cuba WORKERS PARTY ENTERS CANDIDATES IN STATE ELECTIONS THIS YEAR In a number of states nominations have been filed by petition while in others the petition campaign is still in progress to place Workers (Com- munist) Party candidates officially on the ballots, Nominations officially filed: Michigan—The following candi- dates will appear officially bn the ballot in the primary elections to be held’ Tuesday, September 14: Governor, William Reynolds, Congress, 13th District, William Mollénhauer, Congress, 1st Dist. Harry Kish- ner, Congress, 9th District, Daniel C. Holder, Pennsylvania—The following were the candidates nominated: Governor, H. M. Wicks. Lieutenant-Governor, Hills, Secretary of Internal Affairs, Max Jenkins. United States Senator, E. J. Cary. State Legislature, first district, Ernest Careathers and Anna Weis- man, Second District, Mike Blaskovitz and Celia Paransky. Seventh District, Margaret Yeager. Eighth District, Susie Kendra and Peter Skrtic, Ninth District, William P. Mikades and Sam Shore. State Senator, Willlam Schmidt. GARMENT UNION SENDS SPECIAL FUND TO STRIKE Chicago Shep Chairmen Continue Drive The first two thousand dollars of the fund being raised by special as- sessment of five dollars a member of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers in Chicago for the New York striking cloak makers has been sent to them, says J. Levin, manager of the joint board and more will go this week, Money is coming in very well from the shops. It is not only in New York that the LL. G W. U. is making strenuous efforts to improve conditions, An enthusiastic organization drive is un- der way in Chicago to make the non- union dress shops into union shops. A shop chairmen’s meeting held Sept. 7 renewed pledges of support for the campaign of unionization. It also decided to call a series of shop meetings in which to propagate the idea of the continued unionization of the industry. The slogans under which the drive is conducted are: “Improve your conditions by organ- izing the unorganized!” and “One hundred percent organization, one hundred percent union!” Parthenla Waton, Head of Party Without Members, Says U. S. Should Annex All By a Worker Correspondent, NEW YORK, Sept. 9. — Harry Wat- on, founder of an _ unsubstantial “American Labor Party” here earlier in the year gave a lecture recently at the Community Church, in which he advocated the annexation of Mexico and also all of South America and Canada by the United States, He poses as a Marxian student, Workers’ Open Forum Has Dates in Oakland OAKLAND, Cal,, Sept. 9. — The Workers’ Educational Club announces open forum lecturers in Fraternity Hall, Seventh and Peralta St., every Sunday evening thru September, at $:15 sharp, Casey Jones will speak Sept, 12 on “Friendship, Unity and Justice,” FB. Levin, will speak Sept, 19 on “Slush Fund Elections. Harry Glickson will speak Sept, 26 on “Cliss Collaboration.” Street meetings are held by the clth every Tuesday night at Tenth and Broadway. A workers’ iibrary and reading room is being established at Fraternity Hall, MORO STUDENTS PROTEST BACON BILL; DEMAND INDEPENDENCE MANILA, P. I—The Moro students at the Central Luzon Agricultural School in Munos, Nueva Ecija, have sent a petition to Senate President Quezon vigorously protesting against the Bacon bill threatening to dismem- ber the Philippine archipelago by separating Mindanao, Sulu and. Pala- wan from the rest of the Islands, The petition was received by the senate president, bearing the signature of 82 Moro students in that seliool. The students expressed in their pe- tition what they feel’about separation from the rest of the group. ‘They de- clared that to separate them from their christian brothers would be worse than to castiithem info the mouth of a hungry lion, because it would mean dependency and ever- lasting slavery, Their|old, people ex- pressed to them their, conviction, they said, that the present. government established in Moroland ‘‘is a hundred times much better than, the military government way back in the early American occupation. of the Philip- pines. To change the present system of government in Moroland and to separate us from our christian bro- thers would not do us any good, for it would mean disaster to our future and. deprivation of our rights, We, of the younger generation, are entire- ly opposed to it.” ‘These Moro students emphasized the fact that the present condition of the Moros was not petitioned and that they were given the opportunities foc material, educatidial and moral im- provement. They expressed their gratefulnéss to the christian Filipinos for these’ opsortunities, “We want to maintain our relationship with our christian brothers and live or die with them for the sake of our national sol- idarity and our common destiny. What we need is that the American people should give us the privilege of a na tion to be free and independent. To segregate us would be a backward step.” In addition to this, the Moro sttd- ents in Munos are asking the govern- ment to give them more compensation so that they can continue their studies “especially we people, who are finan- cially unable, to further our studies.” They want to continue their éduca- tional pursuit so that they may be able to undertake the share in the material development of their respec- tive provinces in particular and the country in general, Youth Meet Protests New War Dangers The New York Young Workers League will celebrate the 12th annual International Youth way with a big mass meeting and concert in Central Opera House on Friday, Sept. 10th. Comrade Lovestone, member of the C. E. C, of the Workers (Communist) Party, Sam Darcy, national secretary of the Y. W. L., Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union besides other prominent speakers will address the meeting. This year’s celebration will be made into a big mass youth demonstration against militarism and future wars. The war department is intensifying its militaristic propaganda in the shops and factories, There has been an increase in the attendance at the summer training camps. Appropria- tions for war purposes has been steadily increasing. New deadly poi- sons, new machines of destruction are invented daily. The youth has been psychologized and mobilized to fight the wars of capitalism. The Young Workers League of America is rallying the young work- ers and students for a militant strug- gle against these preparations of war. In New York the league is arranging a series of open air meetings thruout the city. A big open air demonstration will take place on Wednesday,” Sept. 8th at Union Square Park at 6 p, m. after work. The league will wind up the week of Sept. 3-10 by a mass meeting in Central Opera House, Pioneers of Grand Rapids Give Annual Banquet Sept. 12th GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Sept. 9. — Extensive preparations have been made by the Young Pioneers for their first annual banquet to be held Sun- day, September 12, 7:30 o’clock at the S. and D. Hall, 1057 Hamilton Ave. Ruth Reynolds, actively engaged in the Young Pioneer work of Detroit ever since its inception, will head the speakers, A splendid program has been arranged, and the committee an- nounces every one present is eligible to the candidacy of chairman in a novel, but keen election contest from the floor. An attractive list of re- freshments will be served and an ad- mission fee of twenty-five cents will be taken at the door, Newark Youth Plans Celebration Sept. 19 A mistaken date ‘printed several days ago in connection with an Inter- national Youth Day celebration in Newark, N, J., should nave read Sept. 19. “At 2 p. m, Sunday afternoon on that date the meeting will be held in the Newark Labor Lyceum. Banker Held For Embezzlement. HARRISBURG, Ill.) Sept. 9. — H, H. Pelhank, former president of the First National Bank at Eldorado, was taken by federal officers today to Danville to go on trial on charges of embezzle- ment. Why Not Become a Worker Correspondent? Lenin a Organisation The most important publica- International Youth Day Is Celebrated by Many Mass Meetings BOSTON, Mass.—Sept. 26, Paine Memo- rial Hall, 9 Appleton St. Speakers: Jack tSachel, 'N. Kay and others. PERTH AMBOY, N. J.—I, Y. D, date has bene changed to Sept. 12, 7:80 p. Muy at Workers’ Home, 308 Elm 8t. ST. PAUL, Minn.—Sunday, Sept. 12, at 435 Rice St. The district organize the party and Y. W. L. and M. will be speakers, WASHINGTON, D. C—Sept. Workmen's Circle Lyceum 1397 12th at —7th St. “LOS ANGELES, Calif, —Sept. 19, at Eagle Rock Park. Enthusiastic Youth Meeting in Open Air One of the finest street meetings of the season was held last Thursday by the Chicago Y. W. L. at Karl Marx Square, St, Louis and Roosevelt Road. Hundreds of workers filled the street and sidewalks. Comrade Burke open- ed the meeting with a brief talk tell- ing. the audience what ‘the Youtg Workers League is. Comrade George Gilberts spoke for an hour on anti- militarism. He also explained to the crowd the meaning of International Youth Day. In the meantime the crowd was ever increasing. Comrade Joe Plotkin took the box for about twenty minutes and talked on Capital- ist Holidays and International Youth Day. Comrade Minnie Lurye held the huge crowd for two hours while she explained the conditions of the work- ing class. Pluggers and leaflets were distributed, papers and pamphlets and tickets for I, Y. D. were sold, and a collection of over $6 was taken up to be used to send organizers into the coal fields for the coal mining campaign. The meeting was ended with cheers from the Young Pioneers for the Young Communist League, YOUTH HOLDS MEETING, The next regular street meeting of section 4, Y. W. L., Chicago, will be held Saturday, at Karl Marx Square, St. Louis and Roosevelt Road. The main speaker of the evening will be Comrade Max Shachtman, RUSSIA RUSSIAN WORKERS AND WORKSHOPS IN 1926 By WM. Z. FOSTER This pamphlet is a report of a visit to the mines, mille and factories of the Soviet Union— an authentic and most interest ing picture of conditions aa found by the author on a recent trip to the first Workers’ Re: public, $25 A MOSCOW DIARY. By ANNA PORTER This book, dealing with ferent phases of Soviet life, forms another addition to the literature on Russia—essential to understand what is happen- ing there “for the first time in history.” Ctoth, $1.00 aif. tion for workers issued in many years. Writings and speeches of a great leader on the fundamen- tal question of organization. No worker’s library can‘be complete without this invaluable work. _ Cloth, $1.50