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DAP NF ENF TREE ft iI I Fi H a = eter i | | | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14, 192, a RMIES MARCH ON CANTON: BRITISH RUSH NAVY Peking Hears Feng Has Slaughtered 80,000 | Peasants in Honan Province CANTON, China, Sept. 13.—The Hongkong (British) au- thorities are massing naval forces in the harbor there and at Canton to support a special proclamation they are about to issue and severe measures they are about to take against piracy, accord- | ing to their announcement. Proletarian groups in the city here disbelieve the British) statement. They say that the piracy is no worse now than at any | time before, when the British disregarded it, and that the ap- proach of the army commanded and peasants, and rapidly nearing Canton, is alarming the Bri- tish who have a friendly agreem tang now in control at Canton. will probably be used against the workers’ army when it,tries to| enter Canton. Another workers’ and peasants’ army ufider command of Ho} Lung is reported to have captured a section of the Canton Hankow | by Yehting, composed of worker ent with the right wing Kuomin- 3ritish military and naval forces railroad in Hunan province, in the district of Sianging half way between Yochow and Changsha, the center of peasant organization. They are aided by peasant organizations in their campaign. A Japanese battleship is sch is taken by the workers. * . * PEKING, Sept. 18.—Chinese pa- pers here state that General Feng Yu-hsiang, right wing Kuomintang leader, has embarked on a campaign of extermination of organized pea- sants.- Estimates of the number of peasants slaughtered within the’ last few days by Feng’s troops vary from 30,000 to 80,000. Feng is said to have killed without regard to sex or age, the heaviest sacrifice of lives having taken place at Changte, in northern Honan province. The as- signed motive is opposition to Fen, ess by the peasant military or- ation, “The Red Spears.” SHANGHAI, China, Sept. 13.—The Chinese printers |in ,the Japanese printing works at Shanghai. continue their strike. The owners are plan- ning to bring Japanese strike break- ers from Japan. ATTEMPT TO STOP PROGRESSIVE CAP WORKERS PROTEST In spite of right wing committees that were stationed at corners urging workers not’ to ‘attend;several hun- dre® capmakérs gathered in Manhat- tan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St., yes- terday evening to protest against the methods used by the administration against the membership. Referring to the present. elections, the speakers pointed out that in the past watchers were allowed during the balloting. As a result a prog?essive worker was elected. In the last elec- tion watchers were barred, resulting in the defeat of the left winger. At the present time, militant cendidates now even on the ballot. Against Tax. The speakers also showed that the $30 tax is not necessary and as a pro- test the capmakers were urged to vote against the three right wing candi- dates. eduled for Swatow before the city ‘SECRET HEARING OF MILK SCANDAL EVIDENCE BEGINS Fear Whitewashing of Higher-Ups The “investigation” of the giant nilk graft seandal was begun in the Bronx County Court yesterday when | District Attorney.John E. McGeehan ‘presented the grand jury with evi- dence contained in the report of for- mer Justice Charles H. Kelb; The Kelby report, it h been charged, brought no evidence against the higher-ups in the milk fraud whith boosted the price of milk and which jeopardized the lives of New | York workers with impure dairy pro- s. Proceedings sjmilar to the | York and Bronx counties within the next few days. Bronx Hearings Secret. Three witnesses were called yester- day to testify before the Bronx coun- ity grand jury. Their names were not | disclosed by District Attorney Me- |Geehan. The hearings of the Bronx | grand jury will be stretched out for | four weeks or more and will be made |to indiet those involved in the scandal. | Previous inquiries conducted result- ed in the conviction of officials who | held high offices in the nealth depart- ment. Among those convicted 6f com- plicity in graft were Thomas J. Clougher, secretary to former health |commigsioner, who was sentenced to | serve from five to ten years in Sing Sing; @rederick W. Kautzman, for- |mer supervising milk inspector, who | received a sentence of from three and a half to ten years, and William H. | Kehoe, former assistant corporation counsel who was granted a certificate ‘of reasonable doubt and is now free pending appeal. Demand Special Investigation. The Citizens’ Union, fearing that urged that a special attotney-general be named to investigate the situation. va $100 { 6 DAILY OI SECOND M SQUARE Bronx Park East Let Your Money Build Workers’ Co-operatives for You Secured by a 7 THis of the First Workers Cooperative Colony Consumers Finance Corporation SUBSIDIARY OF THE UNITED WORKERS COOPERATIVE | $300, ——_—___ % VIDENDS ORTGAGE BLOCK hearings will be held in New) the scandal will be whitewashed, has | “More Than Thirty Hurt ’ WORKERS SCHOOL 10 BECOME NATIONAL IN SCOPE; OPENS ON OCTOBER 10 WITH ENLARGED FACULTY As Weehawken Trolley | Hits West Shore Train WEEHAWK J. —More than’ thirty per many | of them women and children, were | injured late this afternoon when a| west-bound freight train on the] West Shore Railroad crashed into | | a crowded-trolley car at the Willow avenue crossing here. Many of the injured are in cri- tical conditions in hospitals near} | | | the séene of the accident and are| not expected to live. More than 40 persons were in the trolley and nearly all sustained injuries of some nature. | The crash occured just at the rush hour and the passengers were | | returning to their homes in North | | | | Jersey. The body of the trolley | y ipped from the trucks and] the injured, some moaning, me unconscious, were scattered eve 'y- where. Some were pinned beneath pieces of the wreckage. ‘May Call Strike of N. Y. Stevedores Very Soon | (Continued that overtime be increased fifteen {cents an hour. The longshoremen now | receive ninety cents an’ hour, and $1.20 | for overtime. | from ‘Page One) Representatives of the union served their ultumatum in the name of 30,- 000 members of the local union and | 15,000 other members of the North | | Atlantic district in ports from Port- | jland, Maine to Hampton Roads, Va Include Checkers In Demands. ; An increase of a dollar a day for | 2,000 checkers on the docks of Man- hattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island |who are members of the organization are also included in the demands cf the longshoremen. They now receive 186 a day. | | During their strike in 1920 union | jteamsters and organized railroad | | lightermen—those who truck goods to |or away from docks and those who | bring goods to, and from docks by tugs jand barges—joined with the dock- workers and refused to take goods from scab hands. ( ! Militant Organization. | The longshoremen have a long rec- ord of militancy, and in the event of a strike would recruit all their re- |sources against the steamship com-| |panies. They have an unusually pow- erful union, and it is likely that the | steamship companies may propose a} settlement before the actual strike vote is taken, * Truckmen Dissatisfied. Rumors have been circulated for the men and teamsters are dissatisfied at | the conduct of their officials during | the recent strike which resulted in a $5 increase in wages. It is said that many of the union men believe that the strike should! have been continued until in addition to the $5 raise, the workday is reduced | from nine to eight hours, also for/ working overtime the union spokes- | men should have insisted on $1.20 an} | hour instead of $1.10, which has been! accepted, ! | Delay Decision In Goldstein Case. Supreme Court Justice Leander B. Faber in Brooklyn yesterday reserved decision after hearing argument on a | writ of habeas corpus obtained by |counsel for William Wagner, held in \default of $25,000 bail as a witness | against three men under arrest on a |charge of murder in connection with the drowning on August 26th last of Benjamin Goldstein in Gravesand Bay. The Workers School of New York, | which will begin its fifth year on Mon- | |day, October 10th, has been changed | branch : |from a district school to a national | At the |school. So rapid has been its growth, | tablish o large has been its increase in en- rollment that the next logical step— | that of transforming it into a national | their stud school—has been taken. The Workers chool will now serve the needs of the working class of Ne York City on a larger scale than ever and at the same time will extend its system of branch schools until a net- work of similiar schools cover the |country. Before the end of the year a drive will, be launched to secure funds with which obtain a new building for larger headquarters to meet the expanding needs of the school. Correspondence Courses. One of the plans of the school is to establish in the near future a systém to Of Former Member Exposure of the American Legion as a strikebreaking agency and a plea for a real rank and file ex-ser- vicemen organization is contained in a letter received by the DAILY WORKER from a former member of the legion. 2 His letter, which follows, relates how the legion sent him to jobs where strikes were taking place: “To the Editor of The Daily Worker. “I am sure there are a good many men amongst us who saw service |the late war who have the interests {of the working people at heart, who will agree with me on the view of or- ganizing an organization in opposi- tion to the American Legion, the Ku Klux Klan and all other military and patriotic societies. spit Bt organization should have a very distinct name, so as not to con- flict. with any other ex-servicemen’s organization. Hts main principles should be, loyalty to the proletarian class, agitate and spread propaganda against future wars, complete free- dom of all suppressed people who are under the yoke of American imperi- alism and to co-operate with all pro- gressive labor bodies. “Another good feature would be, to hold publie meetings and lectures to enlighten the masses the true aim of.such an organization. “I am a former. member of the | American Legion wii I have been sent} to several strike jobs through last few days that many of the truck-| their employment office which I had| to refuse. Upon my return to the employment office I related my story o the clerk in charge and upon th base of my complaint, with a smile on his face he told me that he was ignorant of the fact; which made me think that he was lying. I am sure there are lots of ex-servicemen who had the same experience while seek- ing work from the American Legion employment office. “JACK KALMAN, New York City.” NOTE—Readers of the DAILY WORKER are requested to send in any material as to the strike-break- ing activities of the American Legion. otal ‘ Bernstein Indicted for Murder. Charles M. Bernstein, the Baltimore dress manufacturer, whose outburst of rage at a conference of attorneys and real estate men in a 44th St. law office lagt Tuesday resulted in four deaths, was indicted by the grand jury,yesterd&y on two counts of mur- der in the first degree. FOR A_ FRESH, WHOLESOME VEGETARIAN ME. Come to Scientific Vegetarian Restaurant 76 E. 107th Street New York. ———S——Saeers || Phone Stuyvesant 3816 i John’s Restaurant | SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A piace with atmosphere where all radicals meet, 302 EB. 12th St. New York =——= 'T TO DRINK BA t the New Sollins Dining Room Good Feed 7 Good Company Any Hour Any Day BETTER SERVICE 216 East i4th Srteet New York OOD print- igg of all description at a fair price. Let \us estimate on and Allerton Ave, your work, eACTIVE PRESS i ok tile tae ieh WA SS ae Sea ) $2 FIRST STREET NEW YORK Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 6°65. i Telephone ORCHARD | The Legion Breaks 60 Shipping Clerks | Strikes, Is Charge of Biscuit Company pondence that will in cities, other than where hools are located, to study. same time the school will es- training courses during the | day time for those who wish to come |to New York City and concentrate in order to prepare for |more effective work in the American | labor movement, Added to Faculty. The Workers School, ir tion of a banne: its quarters, has added to nationally known leaders of the American working « movement, land is offering a greater variety of courses than ever before. In a few d its new catalog will be out. Those wishing to secute one should write |to Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the Workers School, 108 East 14th St., New York City. on Monday, Sept. 19, of cor aid wo courses er Go en Strike Here More than 60 young workers em- ployed in the shipping department of the National Biscuit Company, 16th Street and Ninth Avenue are out on stri They are demanding a $3 a week increase in wages. Before they went on strike the young workers received $28 a week for eight hours of strenuous labor. The biscuit comp is advert in the local capitalist SS “clerical” help, shipping clerks, ers, ete. Many unemplc workers responding to the ments, upon finding out that a strike is in progress have refused to accept as scabs. While there is no organized picket- ing of the place, the large number of youths congregated around the place immediately, attr; nd as |soon as they see anybody approach with a paper, he is immediately told of the strike. The strike started last Friday. SEES TORY HAND IN FRENCH ANTI. USSR, CAMPAIGN s the | MOSCOW; U. S. Ss. R., Sept. 13 i t Union agitation th going on in the French teactionary ss is very much like the movement preceding the Anglo-Soviet break, de- clarec Izvestia today. * “The attempt of the English foreign ininister (Sir Austen Chamberlain) to | Organize an- anti-Soviet bloc, at the {June session of the League of Na- tions failed. Nevertheless the attempt |was a step forward in carrying out the hostile plan of surrounding the Soviet Union,” Izvestia says. | Hand of British Oil Magnates. | The beginning of the vicious anti- viet campaign and the demand for recall of Rakovsky strangely coincides with Sir Austen Chamberlain’s visit to Paris, the Izvestia points out. The attempt of British oil magnates to | Stop the delivery of Soviet oil to France is also influential in the pro- paganda war on the U. S. S. R. “The campaign reveals that there are adherents of a rupture with the | Soviet Union in the French govern- ment,” the Izvestia concludes. See Many Thunderstorms, “The international sitaution is full ,of thunderstorms and the danger of | war is greater than ever, Should the lintentions of France really be peace- ful, it is its duty to prevent the dan- ful, it is its duty to prevent the sharpening of the sitaution.” 8. ——_——— ee nannies — i Window Cleaners’ Protective | Union—Local 8 iated with the A. F. of 1 7 E. 6th St. New York, Meets evvh 2nd and 4th Thursday of tach month at 7 P.M. ~ Window Cleaners, Join Your Union! ee Bonnaz Embroiderers’ Wnion © 7B. 15th St. Tel. Stuy. 4279-3657 Executive Board Meets Every Tues- day. Membership Meet nad and last Thursday of Bac Month. George Triestman ZL. Freedinan Manager. President. Harry Halebsky Secretary-Treasurer, ARBEITER BUND, Manhattan & Bronx; German Workers’ Club. Meets every 4th in ‘the month at Labor 1 3. Sath Street. New me pted regular meetings, German and En lsh library. Sunday lectures. § cial entertainments. AM Germa speaking workers gre weleome. AMALGAMATED FOOD WORKERS Bakern’ Loc, No. 164 Meets Ist Saturday in the month at $468 Third Avenue, Bronx, N. Y. Ask for * Union Label Bread. ‘Advertise your union meetings here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. | 83 First St, New York City. | {\ oa. W. anticipa- | year, has repaired | its faculty Registration begins { | Page Five PARTY ACTIVITIES NEW YORK-NEW JE Open £ Air Meeting Tonight. 14t Street J. Brahdy; and Louis \* ir Speake’ Ida Dail Sisselman Place * and Cc. W Ed Open Air Meetings Thursday Second Ave. and 10th St. Spez Weins {. Powers a Bergen Bert Miller er C. K. Morning International Branch ‘The Morning |will hold dn edu |Room 34, 108 Ea | today n t workers are invited t BR Factory dist sectio: will hold an important meetin night at 108 Fast 14th St., 0 |p. m. Matters concerning seven members will be taken up. Night Workers’ General mem Section. ership meeting o Night We Section will be held next Tuesday p. m., at 108 East }14th St. Jack Stachel, head of the organization department will report on the Fifth National Convention of the Party. Election of officers will also take place. "LABOR AND FRATERNAL | |__oRcANZATIONS | Furriers Sewing Room in the Bronx. The Bronx Women’s Furriers ‘ouncil has opened a sewing room at 542 Minford Place, Bronx, for pur- pose of .making articles for the Na- tional. Pre Bazaar in . Madison Square on October 6, 7, 8 and 9. Vol- unteers are urged to report there for working any evening. € Soccer Club In Bensonhurst. Thé Red Star Soccer Sport Club is | organizing a branch in Bensonhurst. | | For information see E. Gaddesoff, th \ Progressive Center, 1940 Benson Aves 8 Needle Trade Workers Framed by Right Wing Page One) Magistrate Weil on a charge of as- sault made by a right wing adherent named Morris Becker. The workers were arrested Monday evening at Fifth Avenue and 25th Streetas. they. were walking down | from the market. They were first stopped by members of the industrial | squad, lined up against a near-by | building and searched, and then up| (Continued from came a right winger named Sam|} Greenberg, with two others, one of whom Becker said that all these| eight workers had committed an as- sault upon him two weeks ago. The frame-up was so brazen that wpen| the workers were taken to the pdlice station, Greenberg had to tell Becker | which men he was to identify. The eight men were then released on $500} | bail each. Has No Witnesses. Yesterday Samuel Marckewitz ap- peared in behalf of the complainant Becker who had no witnesses to. the alleged assault, who could show no marks of any assault, and who ad- mitted on the stand that he had not| needed the services of a doctor. In spite of all this lack of any evidence, Marckewitz demanded that the bail for the defendants be raised since some of them had been convicted of disorderly conduct during the cloak strike last year. This service in be- |half of the strike was their only| police record, yet because of it bail| for four of the men was raised to} $7500, and for two of them to $3000. The case was then postponed until next Monday altho Attorney Jacob Mandelbaum was ready and anxious | to proceed with an expose of the deliberate framé-up which has been j hatched by the Sigman clique simply |in An effort to make trouble and un- necessary expense for the Joint Board. Chicago Hold Big Rally. CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—Louis Hy- man, manager of the New York Joint Board, Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union was given a rousing reception when he appeared unexpectedly at last night’s meeting at Northwest Hall. It. was held by the Chicago Joint Board. A number of gitls who were beaten up that morning by Sigman gangsters appeared at the meeting and declared their determinaton to continue. the | struggle. | The picket line in front of Hyman Bros. dress shop is holding fast in} spite of the right wing thugs, gang- sters are using, most brutal methods against the girls, hitting them with- out mercy. In these acts they are supported by the police. faa. Lehigh ¢o23. br. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours; 930-12 A. M. 2-8 PM. Daily Except Friday and Sunday. 249 EAST 115th STREKT Cor. Second Ave. New York. Sao “SOLUTICE SCHOCL CR 13, ah Pupils Report at Thou FOR OWDING ‘orced to 40 A; M. ands of school children 1 be ~~ the mmer mont reduce Se ef Teachers Face Problem. The ted to i part-time a pec the ticul, sections 8 3 rc In pre a seriou: in \ stant flow of population fror hattan. E A representative The DAILY WORK who interviewed teachers in the Stuyvesant High School, Man- hattan, and the Morris H hool in the Bronx was told th tua- tion this year is not much as the come a chri urpri inas- be- York’s congestion New ure of educational system usual t politics—corruption, dila and ir a—are held res the m r in which the problem is being handlec Unity Appeal! to Green to End Fur Struggle (Continued from Page One) work, home work and many other sweat shop conditior Those ele- ments served an overpro- duction in the i ry which result- ed in cut-thr etition among the manufacturers d in widespread unemployment during what nor- maly.the height. of the The net result of this demc the industry, it union conditions and wages lowest wiped out, have been degraded to the level, while the union is so weakened as to be helpl in the face of the nerous evils. “The dressing ing industry it was reporte self in the same condition anufacturing industry of N Out of five million ins dressed and dyed last year, more than 50 percent were made in open shops at prices lower than non-union she condition which has led to Consolidated Rabbit Dressers’ As on de- mand that wages be cu fany dress- ing and dyeing shops have broken their contracts with the unions. , Lo- cals 25 and 58 were compelled to call out the workers on s to remedy this situation. Similar conditions exist in Boston, Philadelphia, Chie cago and the Canadian territory. To Bring About Unity. “These were the conditions that prompted the calling of this special meeting. The execu of the Unity Conference Committee decided to make an organized effort to bring about unity in the International which it is recognized is the only way to bring k stabilization in the fur industx ba the executive » with William the American in order to en« decided to cor Green, presiden Federation of Labor list his aid in unifying the Interna- tional. Should this effort prove fue tile, the executive has adopted més- sures that will er at once te initiate a strong offensive in all the International !ocals for the purpose of bringing about unity, if necessary, over the heads of those who may be interested in preserving the present chaotic gonditions regardless of the disastrous effects they have upon the working standards of the fur worlte ers. bl ble k “The executive was pleased to note that the sad state of s in the industry is beginning to sober up some of those ble for the in- ternal strife in the union, both among the manufacturer the officials of the well ernati AMONg ral. This condition, as well as the d« rooted discontent of the ran > with the present state of affairs, makes the executive hopeful of sting with success in its campaign for unity. (Signed) “H. Englander, Chair- man, Unity Conferenc Committee, International Fur Workers’ Union of United States and Canada.” | pr. J. Mindel Dr. L. 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