The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 8, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER wIGHTs: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK VOR A LABOR PARTY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Vol. IV. No. 203. In New York, by mail, 88,00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, 36.00 per year. DAILY W°O! Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1870. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPT. 8, 1927 KER. a eee recat Cee Seed ee lished Daily except Sunday by The DAILY WORKER ar First Street, New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents Pu PUBLISHING CO., 33 7,000 TRUCKMEN STRIKE; LONGSHORMEN MAY JOIN MEXICO HIRES LAWYERS TO DEFEND THREE WORKERS IN BOMB FRAME-UP “Want to Prevent Sacco-Vanzetti Case,” Is, Reason Given by Consul General | Giving as its reason a desire to “prevent a reptition of ‘the| Sacco-Vanzetti case,” the Mexican government, thru its consul | general yesterday appeared in court to defend the three young | Mexican workers, who, with two Porto Ricans and one Cuban, have been held incommunicado since early Monday in an effort to make them “confess” to a charge of bombing the Brooklyn court house. Frueauff, Robinson and Sloan of 67 Wall Street, legal ad- visors to the Mexican consulate, are the lawyers who have taken charge of the case which friends of the young Latin-American By Fred Ellis THEM ; oe | THE WORKERS DESPISE DEMAND EIGHT-HOUR DAY, WAGE INCREASE; TIEUP CITY FREIGHT Dock Workers Refuse to Handle Goods for the Scab-Operated Trucks ssterday morning Seven thousand truckmen went or } and almost completely tied up the moveme f freight in the city. |The prospect of a sympathy strike by long: en is indicated. Such a strike would prevent all incoming freight from leaving the docks. workers have branded as a brazen frame-up. Cuba Not Interested. The vice-consul of the Cuban gov- ernemnt yesterday told a reporter for The DAILY WORKER that “it is not interested” in Eugene Fernandez, the 26-year-old Cuban laborer who is among those who are being held by the police authorities. When informed that a subject of Cuba was being held incommunicado, deprived of the right of counsel, and being subjected to constant grilling. the Cuban official declared that “as long as the prisoner was not being treated worse than an American” he could see no reason for intervening. Hearing Sept. 14. This morning the lawyer for the ican consulate, Robert Wilson, succeeded in winning an adjournment until September 14 for his clients. Wilson told The DAILY WORKER that the young Mexican workers had been in the United States for periods rahging ftom four to seven years. All have worked regularly and have never before been arrested.” Only One “Witness.” Current Events He declared that only one witness has been mustered by the police thus far in the attempt to make out a case against the young Latin-Americans, jand he being a “voluntary” wiess. | Seek Indictment. | ees Meanwhile the district attorney was | striving for early indictments, at the F police were not able to unearth same time communicating with the a “plot” occasionally, they would Department of Labor in an effort to be obliged to disturb their brain pans | ascertain whether or not they made with the problem of employment at| illegal entry into the United States. some other occupation calling for; Besides the collection of wiring, either physical or mental labor or | electric batteries and other equipment both. This observation is called forth! which the defendants explained were by the sensational stories appearing | used for the making of toys for sale, in the capitalist press relative to the/ (Continued on Page Two) arrest of six Latin Americans on sus- By T. J. OF picion of being responsible for the | recent bombing of a Brooklyn court! house. * * if gic the explosions in two New York subways on the eve of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti the police have been busy trying to fas- ten the responsibility on some person or persons. The same tactics used by William J. Burns in the Wall Street explosion are now followed by | New York detectives in the recent New Case Against Our bombing scares. Suspected anar- . | chists are being’ framed, arrested and| Paper Being Prepared | third-degreed. Materials for the = | manufacture of explosives are con-| The reason for the calling of mem- | veniently found at their addresses and| bers of* the editorial, business and their guilt is already assumed by the, mechanical departments of The hireling, scribblers of the capitalist! DAILY WORKER before the Federal} press. |Grand Jury last Week became clear yesterday when the indictments ob- tained against the editors and busi- ness manager several months ago OF DALY, WORKER DROPPED BY U, S. * * T is needless to restate our opposi- tion to the method of individual | were dismissed by Judge Burns sit- terror as a means of abolishing the/ ting in the Southern District Federal | capitalist system or even improving | Court in the Old Post Office building the living conditions of the workers. Realizing that their original nS | Communists are against such methods | dictment against The DAILY WORK-| because they are futile, and granting ER was poorly constructed the fed-| that recent bombings in Manhattan era] authorities immediately set out and in Brooklyn were the work of| to build up a new case. Hence the| propagandists of the deed no sane examination of those connected with | revolutionist could find language the paper last Thursday and Friday | sufficiently vigorous to express aP- before the grand jury to obtain evi-| propriate condemnation of such ac- denee for a new indictment | tion. The subways are chiefly Weak Evidence. patronized by workers and it is in-/ C, A, Williams, formerly secretary | conceivable that anybody professing to Chief Justice Taft and an expert zeal for the emancipation of the in cases concerning interpretations of workers from wage slavery should be-"the so-called “obscenity” statute, | lieve that the cause could be helped was counsel for The DAILY| by destroying a little capitalist prop- WORKER. He requested a demurrer | erty at the risk of destroying the’ on the ground that there was insuffi-| lives of hundreds of workers. cient evidence against the defendants. | . ws * Judge Burns agreed and dismissed the , Bet no worker who has followed the indictments, which were against J.) methods employed by Burns in| Louis Engdahl, William F. Dunne, the Wall Street explosion case, and @ditors, Alex Bittelman, Bert Miller, | the many historical frame-ups that business manager, David Gordon and have made this country infamous Joseph Kalar, contributors to The} thruout the proletarian world will be- DAILY WORKER. | lieve that the men arrested by the; The dismissal of the indictments | police in Brooklyn are guilty of the does not mean that the case is closed. | crime for which they are being, The testimony of The DAILY WORK- grilled in prison. There is a rumor ER STAFF before the Grand Jury | current among railwaymen that the last week is now being considered by | subway explosions were due to that body as the basis of new indict- | mechanical eps in underground ments. | equipment. It is generally believed! It is expected that the federal at- | now that the Wall Street explosion! torney will not permit the gabidousnt | was accidental and resulted from the) (Continued on Page Two) | collison of a Dupont powder wagon} park etal eid | with another vehicle, but this clue) * | hae pedhte es On the other hand| Minor and Browder to | undreds of suspected radicals were s arrested and Burns received thou-| Speak in Brooklyn sands of dollars from frightened, bankers for his fake i tigations. | a6 ea! eons j cal stage of its dévelopment. THREE dead and two injured is the| | The Chinese revolution is ina “Ths | The generals, the reactionaries, captalist | ‘ 5 ‘©/ imperialism, all together ares trying casualty list of a shooting affair' to smash the workers’ and peasants’ in an uptown office over a real estate| revolution, which is rapidly pushing deal in which the pistol-toter con-| forward. . | sidered himself “whiskered” or eased; The problems facing China and out of a bunch of easy money. The) Russia will be discussed by Earl R. participants in the shooting bee were| Browder and Robert Minor at a mass TH FALLEN. es Th omcrae by PAI aca BEN GITLOW, CLOSING CONVENTION DECLARESFHE WORKING GLASS IN NTRY WILL BE VICTORWUS “Our Party accepts the leadership of the Communist International,” declared Benjamih Gitlow, making the closing address of the Fifth Na- tional Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party. Gitlow had acted as chairman thruout the closing session. Continuing Gitlow said: “Under that leadership (thee Communist International) we will enter the struggle of the working class. Under that leadership we are confident that in the near future in this country ithe working class will be victorious.” | Benjamin Gitlow said: “Comrades, this marks the close of the Fifth National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party. We leave this convention more consolidated and more unified than ever before in the history of our Party. This convention was convened at a time when the ruling class in the United States saw fit to execute two members, of the working class on account of their loyalty to the workingclass. “We met at a time of growing reaction in the United States. We met at a time when the reactionary bureaucrats in the labor movement were sharpening their weapons to exterminate the left wing and the Communists from the trade union movement. We met at a time when the capitalist ruling class of this country were preparing new attacks upon Latin-America and the other colonial peoples. We met at a time when the imperialist powers throughout the world were preparing and are preparing to make an attack upon the Soviet Union. We met at a time when the imperialists were doing everything in their power, and using by all means at their command to crush the Chinese revolution. “Nevertheless, we are determined in this country to carry on the work of the Communist Party. We have tremendous difficulties to face. Our Party must function in a country where capitalism is supreme and most powerful. We face the future hopefully. We are not discouraged by the obstacles»in our way. We are determined, first, that we shall build and strengthen the Party organization; second, we are determined that we shall defeat the offensive of the capitalist governmeril and the reactionary labor bureaucracy against the left wing and the Cijmmunists in the trade unions. We are determined in the United State; to raise the issue of the recognition and defense of the Soviet Union (Applause). We pledge ourselves to do everything to further and defend the Chinese revolution. We pledge ourselves to do everything, in the event of a war, to fight for the defeat of our own capitalists, and if that war will be against the Soviet Union, for the victories of the Red Army (Prolonged pplause). , “Our Party accepts the leadership of the Communist International (Applause, Hurrah!). Under that leadership we will enter the struggles - of the working class. Under that leadership we are confident that in the future in this country the working class will be victorious. The future remains for the revolution!” (Prolonged Applause). | Following the recommendation of the Central Executive Committee,| worker was released from the Wel- does not wish to the delegates to the Fifth Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party | fare Party Comrades In | | Needle Trades Meet At Plaza Tomorrow | pe | of the Workers (Com- who belong to the} ions must attend a special me tomorrow night right after work, in the Victoria | Room at Inving Plaza, 15th St. and | Irving Place. Important questions will be acted upon. | All memb | |munist) Part needle trad ‘BEN GOLD, HYMAN TO SPEAK AT BIG ‘GARDEN’ MEETING | Oscar Mileaf Released From Workhouse Louis Hyman and Ben Gold will | head the speakers’ list at the monster | cloak and dri akers’ meeting next Saturday at Madison Square Garden | » | that is being held by the New York | Joint Board. | Other speakers will be: Joseph Borochowitz, Juli Portnoy, Rose Wortis and a representative of the shop chairmen’s counci]. Charles B. Zimmerman will preside. The question of rebuilding the {union on a real working class basis will be discussed at the meeting. The scab-herding tactics of the Sigman {clique will be exposed by the speak- | jers. A tremerfdous outpouring of | workers from the shops will be a ‘testimonial of the strength of joint board leadership. * * Oscar Mileaf Released From Jail. Oscar Mileaf militant needle trades Island workhouse all safe, sane and conservative citi- | meeting, held tonight at Royal Pal-| voted to move the national headquarters of the Party from Chicago to New| morning, where he served six months. | (Continued on Puae Six) ‘| ace. 16 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn. | York. (Continued on Page Five) | “Union and th When the The waterfront yesterday was, t sible to desolated with only a few non-union ing com- trucks occasionally passing by. The | janie thavat! « bosses ha ad: ed that the s | crowd held at Beethoven has been unusually effective, paralyz-| a1), 210 10th St. After a ing the entire city. The lengthy dis: yn the strike vote was ly. locals 28 ea Union are striking for an eight-h day and an average wage ir $5 a week. Longshoremen Join Struggle. Longshoremen yesterday refused to load trucks along West and South! streets that were being driven by scabs and there appeared to be a strong possibility that the piers along ween the union on Septem- anded that the cut in wages. a counter- > of Wage Increase Asked. The strikers demand $45 a week in- stead of $40 that they now receive and an eight-hour day with $1.20 for the water front would be jammed | overtime in place of $1 under the old with freight which could not be} eontract moved. The sailing of many bo: | g is at a stand- still throughout New York City and many parts of New Jersey. The Commercial truc will undoubtedly be delayed if the strike continues. A $25,000 fund will be used by the Merchant Truckmen’s Bureau, the bosses break the strike. Seventy-five per cent of the trucking companies in the ass ation, in an attempt to! union said that they would not inter- with the movements of produce to and from the markets in New York, Approximately 800 cks of the ted States Trucking mpany, a the | § * \ ti yesterday |get to it by Baldwin. U city are affiliated with the Bureau. |}je¢ numbe rof the Merchants Truck- Long Negotiations. jing Bureau and from 200 to 3,000 in- For the last three weeks negotia-| dependents were tied up by the giant tions have been going on between the | walk-ou MORE FASCISTS SAIL FOR LEGION CONVENTION ON SIX SHIPS TODAY L’Humanite Call Sacco-Vanzetti Murder s Legionnaires Accomplices In \ legionnairesout the entire world workers fought to prevent the murder of the two workers, and for the last two days have fought to avenge them. Twenty-five hundred who sailed yesterday on five Cunard liners for the- American fascist con- vention in Paris on Sept. 19th, will be met with huge protest demonstra- Protest Against Murder. : tions by French workers when they “In France, and particularly in arrive Paris. French labor is! Paris, the protest movement against in ir i f and Vanzetti proportions; t majority, of s expressed its the brutal mur- the murder assumed the majority, the populati Pa indignation against fight to bar the Ameri- cco who slink along Paris vily guarded by the gend- armes, obliging provided at the or- ders of the Poincare government, re- ports from Paris state. der ton And Paris is not More Fascists Sail. rea¢ y soon. : Droves of legionnaires will sail , American, Leas Hoh bia lar Anca erga 1 have with thé mur from New York City on more than a dozen ships before Saturday. Con- tingents of fascists will leave on six ships today, on five tomorrow and many more will leave on the Levia- then Saturday. General Pershing, Secretary of War Davis other prominent die-hard leade d-|¢ dress the fascists aboard the vessel late Friday night. F derers.” Then follows by John Dos Pass ist, which I text of an article American novel- , and William Me. of the legion in ye congratulated and offered him the achuset rp as Fuller Copies of L’Humanite, fighting P s of the rican Legion in organ of the French Communist} pace of ‘trouble’. Party, just received here, indicate! “The article closes with 4n appeal wich how much intensity left wing worke and peasants of urging F and Communist workers are car nce to help y the legion con- on the st uggle to prevent the fa vention. The appeal says: gather'ng. “The workers and peasants of In an introduction to a teleg France to be fooled by te received from John Dos Pas f the Sept. 19th affair American novelist, L’Humanite de-|g “the friendship clares: of France and of the “Throughout the entire world meu | United State ay with feeling have been shocked by ne workers and peasants of the terrible seven years’ torture in- France have no friendship for the Saceo and Vanzetti.’? Through-' murderers of flicted on the two martyrs. BRITISH TRADE UNION CHIEFS BOSSES' TOOLS AT EDINBURGH e beginning of the end. Pravda re- s the following two points: First, by comparing the trade union mem- bership at the time of the Bourne- 4mouth Congress with the membership the present congress e decreased 200,000. 7.—The who last } EDINBURGH, Sept. re- nist labor leaders, betrayed the Brit engineered the Trade Union Co into supporting the Trade Un eral Council in its “refus: nize any trade council aff n Gen- og- with represented by it is seen to ha’ the national minority movement.” This is the 1lt of the new Trade The att on the m ity move-}Union Act 1 the strikebreaking ment was led by Herbert preity of ftactics of the General Council. j ion anc alter the ani Le heie pL al ie pret Secondly, this strikebreaking trend ies jof the leaders of the congress by no + Me ° ‘ means reflects the sentiments of the Moscow, USSR. Sept 7.—- | masses. _The strikebreaking mood t from the out- {Which is firmly rooted in the leading Pravda points out Edinburgh Tr quarters of the British trade union t was clearly expressed on fi day of the congress. isfaction and hatred are |growing amidst the masses who pain- fully seek for an issue from the trade union impasse the leaders have al- {ready found an escape for themselves (Continued on Page Two) } ade Union Con- istified Baldwin’s expecta- y on the first day the con- gress showed that in spite of the d satisfaction of the laboring masses it nsgress the limits Strikebreaking Leadership. Hicks’ speech on strikebreaking was |