The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1928, Page 1

A} THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 26. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. EA ) Bamteree un acc ce at New serk, 8. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1, 1928 under the act oF THE DAILY WORKER. Marca 3, inTy, Published dally except Publishing Association, lay by The Nation » 33 Firat Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION al Daily Worker Price 3 Cents WOLL ADMITS SUPPORT OF U.S. ANTI-STRIKE LAW: WillDistribute 20, 000 Copies of Worker’ In Bisnn ‘Builder’ Drive To Reach Employes of National Biscuit Company | and Many Other Shops Party Members Asked stand Circulation A decision to distribute 20,000 copies of The DAILY WORK- ER during the period of the campaign to build the paper, -was! made last night by the een we Committee of the Bronx Section of the Workers (Communist) Party. This is part of the six weeks’ drive to obtain at least 10,000 new readers for the “Daily” and 5,000 new mem- bers to the Party. This campaign will culminate with the Ruthenberg Memorial meeting March 2. Spread Among Factory Workers. As part of the plan to distribute the 20,000 copies in the Bronx, the “Daily Builders” working in that ter-| ritory have announced that the em- ployes of the New York factory of the National Biscuit Company will be sup- plied with free copies of The DAILY WORKER during the next few weeks. During the present week arrange- ments will also be made to reach thousands of other workers employed in cloak and suit houses, fur shops, and in Metropolitan offices which em- ploy thousands of clerical workers. To Add. Newsstands. Coincident. with the intensive drive among the workers at their places of employment, special emphasis will be laid on the task of increasing the number of New York newsstands iSee Wage Cut Defeated | which handle the “Daily.” Special forms are being prepared which will be mailed ovt to all Workers Party members and sympathizers, with the “MIL ARIST AID Tactics Altered in Muffling Protest Altering its tactics somewhat with- out changing its repressive attitude, the New York post office yesterday continued to function as an adjunct to the war department in relation to the Nicaragua war protest stamps being sold by the’ All-American Anti- Imperialist League, according to Manuel Gomez, secretary of the league. The national office of the league, 8@ Union Square, was warned in a Jetter from J. J. Kiely, New York postmaster, that use of its protest stamps cn mail was punishable with imprisonment or a fine or both. Mail Is Rejected. “Protest Against Marine Rule in Nicaragua,” the stamps say. They are being sold in books of 20 for $1 by the league as a part of its protest e. ration of the Textile “Uperatives, held against the United States invasion of the Latin-American. country. All mail bearing these stamps is now being returned to its owners by the New York post office, the office of the postmaster reported yesterday. On the previous day it was reported that such mail was being sent to the inquiry department and that prosecu- tion for use or sale of the stamps was contemplated. League View Stated. Gomez reported last night the league would continue to defy the post office in its ruling against the stamps. Sale of the stamps is being continued. Referring to the postal authorities’ interference and threat of criminal prosecution, Gomez issued the fol- lowing statement yesterday: “We are not satisfied with the im- pression that has been created that we object to interference with our (Continued on Page Three) ———— Basis Laid for Labor Sports Organization The basis for a permanent labor sports union was laid at a conference held recently at the Hungarian Workers Home; 350 E. 8ist St. Dele- gates representing 2,000 workers were present. The conference elected A. Austin, chalrouic: J. Rubenstein, secretary and T. Mackev. financial secretarv. to Cooperate in News- WEAVERS STRIKE IN 2 MORE FALL RIVER FACTORIES by Workers Action FALL RIVER, Mass., Jan. 31.— The walking out of two more mills marked the day on which the 10 per cent wage became effective. In ad- di.ion to the Arkwright and Stevens Wills, which were struck several days ago, the No. 2 Davis Mill and the Davol plant were shut down, when the workers pacxed their ‘tools and ieit the looms at noon Monday. In spite of the fact that many. of the workers remained at work in the ovher mills, it is almost certain that the wage cut will not be successfully put into Seclt” Their resentment ex- Presses itself in a general demand | that another strike vote be taken, yesterday, resulted ina unanimdus demand of their membership’, hat they ask the Textile Council to take an- other vote. The great ma,ority of the workers aré certain that a recount will show a successful strike vote. The ten per cent wage reduction which reduces the income of about 30,000 textile workers almost to the starvation poin. caused even a.Catho- lic priest, James L, Cassidy, to preach a sermon jast Sunday conagemning the wage cuts. At a crowded meeting held under the auspices of the Central Labor Union, Thomas F. McMahon, presi- dent of the United Textile Workers of Ameriea, offered no better solu- tion to the wage cut wave sweeping New England, than to ask for a federal investigation from the govern- ment. At the same meeting John L, Campos, chairman of the Centfal ‘La- bor Union, had shown to the audience pay envelopes received by weavers which contained their weekly wage of from $7 to Bideicd cai a week. GANGSTERS SLASH FURRIER WORKER Mass Meet at Cooper Union Tonight Scores of furriers rs furious over the \ssault an hour earlier on Mike Fine- man, an active member of. the Joint Board, Furriers’ Union, yesterday af- ternoon cornered four of a of | i gangsters who had severely Fineman on the face and body. held the thugs until the arrival of police, Acsording to Joint Board o! ficials four gangsters were hired the right wing group of the Interna- tional ‘Fur Workers’ iy 4 Meeting Tonighi The Joint Board will se a meet- ing at Cooper Union at.5. o'clock e night to start a new offensive agai! the right wing and the pst fe is announced. Fineman was attacked-by the right wing strong arm men. at the corner of Sixth Ave, and 29th St. shortly after-12 m. Drawing knives they cut his tr chest and back and disap- pea: About an hour later scores of fur workers who-had. heard of the-attack) saw the gangsters a short: distance from the scene of the attack. ‘They pursued the thugs down 29th St., the gangsters disappearing into: various buildings: along the street. One of the right wing henchmen threw a knife at his pursuers narrowly miss- ing B. Peisach, a fur worker. . Four of the gang were at last -cor- (Continued on Page Fiua) - pe Fg scone. district, organizer. Mexicar xICAN, Canadian DELEGATES FROM ABROAD TO VISIT WORKERS PARTY Communist Plenum Will Meet at N.Y. Feb. 4 Delegates from the Communist Par- ty of Mexico and the Communist Par- ty of Canada will participate in the meetings of the Plenum of the Cen- tral Committee of the Workers (Com- munist) Party during its sessions at the Irving Plaza on Feb. 4 and 5. The Mexican Communist Party is sending its delegates to take part in the struggle of the Communist par- ties against the aggressions of Amer- ican imperialism which is enslaving the workers of-Mexieo in common |with all the workers of Latin Amer- ica. The presence of the delegates from ;the Communist Party of Canada as- sures a united front of the North | American Communist parties against American imperialist encroachments. A thorough discussion of the prob- lems confronting the workers of the three countries represented will be held by the delegates, and plans for carrying on the struggle will be ge- cided upon. YOUNG SOCIALIST RESIGNS FROM S.P, Was Suspended for Part in Mine Relief. Work ° Henry Hoffman, one of the four suspended members of the Young People’s Socialist League,. officially announced his resignation from the YPSL and the socialist party, in a letter yesterday to the membership of these organizations. The resigna- tion comes at the end of a struggle with the officials of the league, who refused to participate sinperely in the. work of miners’ relief, after af- filiating with a united front organ- ization for this purpose under pres- sure from their membership, accord- ing to Hoffman. YWL Member Heard. The four members were first sus- pended when they allowed a member of the Young Workers (Communist) League to speak before their circle on miners’ relief, at ac had been delegated for this purpose by the relief committee. Hoffman’s letter of resignation ‘was sent to the membership of the YPSL but it announces his resigna- tion from: the socialist party. It fol- “jlows in full: The Letter of Resignation. “As an old member of the Yipsels, and a member of the S. P. I always believed that the YPSL was an or- (Continued on Page Five) Bosses’ Slugger Starts Serving 5-Year Term Sammy Sieger, a professional box- er who served in the pay of bosses in garment strikes as a professional gunman and strong-arm man, has be- gun serving a sentence of from two and one-half to five years on a charge of assaulting David Madrick, a dress goods déeler, in 1925. Sieger was serving as a strikebreaker at the time, and it is said that he mistook Madrick -for:a striker. The gunman had been found guilty in July, 1926, but had been at liberty under $10,000 bail until now. i Faked “John Pepper” Letter, mad> ‘bv faleenationsl horsey Ring THE INTERNATIONAL Comrades:= Moscow, November 10, 1928, This letter was addressed to the Commmnist Party of Hungary by the Executive Committee of the Communist International. Under ordinary circumstances a communitation to a party in one country, dealing with the problems of that country, would not be of sufficient interest to be sent to all the other Commmist Parties, but this is not true of the dooument I am submitting to yous In advising the Communist Party of Mungary as to the policy it should adopt in the class struggle in that country, the Communist International has outlined the etrategy of the Commmiste’ in all countries. . What shall be the policy of the Rowmgntste in Preparing the workers and peasants for the Proletarian Revolution? Can a Communist Party accomplish a Proletarian Revolution without the help of the, bulk of the toiling messes? The Communist International answers these questions in advising the Hungarian Communist Party what it should do in order te achieve a Proletarian Revolution {n Htmgary. i Long liye the World Revolution! Long live the Soviet Ree public of Hungary! . This is the fourth document to be printed in The DAILY WORKER. munist International” letter head. This is a cut which has been lifted from the English edition of Yours for Communisa, a * Note the fake “Com- the monthly magazine of the Communist International in a form now obsolete and is quite out of. line with the supposed Moscow postmark. Use Papers Forged in U. S. Against Hungarian Workers How forged letter, purporting to be signed by C. E. Ruthenberg and ' John Pepper, were used by the reactionary government of Hungary in the prosecution of the Hungarian Communists, Rakosi and his comrades, is shown in the present article of a¢ series exposing the work of the Hor- thy White Terror government in this country. Hetenyi, the chief detective of the murderous Horthy-Bethlen regime, has boasted continuously of his suc- cess in extending the white terror spy system to other countries. At such times he has especially lauded the efficiency of his agents and showed their connection with the Hungarian minister in Washington and the state department. Today we wil! explain how these same spies furnished the Horthy government with ‘letters forged in America for the purpose of framing innocent workers in Hun- gary. The Rakosi Frame-up. On September 23, when Matyas Ra- kosi and 42 comrades were arrested, the letters which we print in today’s issue, were among the forged docu- inents used against them. Stronger documents concerning supposed hid- (Continued on Page Two) UNEMPLOYED PLAN CITY HALL MARCH Jobless ybless Workers Will Hold Mass Meeting Tomorrow A delegation to present the case of; (Communist) Party; Fred Beiden-) The status of unemployed workers in New York’s unemployed workers to Mayor Walker will be selected at a mass meeting tomorrow at 10:30 a. m. ft Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., under the auspices of the New York (Council of the Unemployed. The job- less workers will demand that the city authorities take immediate action to|vited to speak. meet the critical situation that con- fronts scores of thousands of their number. The meeting tomorrow morning will be addressed by William W. Wein- - Workers| Church.of All Nations. 2. kapp, national secretary, Workers In- ternational Relief; Henry Bloom, In- ternational Seamen’s . Club; Julius Fleiss, Council of Unemployed Needle Trades Workers; Rose Peseta and Harry Meyers. ‘Jack Walsh, of the Industrial Workers of the World, and Norman Thomas have also been in- Bert Miller of the Workers Party, will preside.’ Tomorrow’s mee.ing will be the sec- ond this week. More. than.) aah workers attended a meeting: of unemployed Monday afternoon at hd Second A the United States was compared by the speakers wih their status in the Soviet Union. . * Suffering from starvation and ex- posure, Harry Leventhal, 51, an un- employed painter, was taken to Con- ey Island Hospital yesterday in a serious condition, He collapsed at ist Ave. and 86th St., Brooklyn. He teld hospital attendants that he had. mot eaten since Saturday, ; Leventhal came to New Zork from eS * PARENTS ATTACK SCHOOL TRANSFER Politicians Evade Real Issue, Is Charge The third meeting of the parents of the neighborhood schools was held at So. 1st and Rodney Sts., Brooklyn, last night to hear the decision of the board of education on their protest to the proposed change of Public School 50 into a Junior High School. A committee including Capt. Fruen- gal of the democratic party, 17th A. D., who is also president of the Par- ents’ Association of P. S. 19, Sen. Jacobson, Assemblyman Nathanson, Alderman Gormody, Commissioner of Schools: Lentol, and six of the par- ents protested the transfer before the board of education in the morning. Gormody presented the issue as a “ra- cial issue” claiming that there was objection to the fact that Italian chil- dren of the North Side would mix with Jewish children of the South Side and vice versa. Igno~: Keal Issue. This is, according to parents, ridicu- lous. The real point at issue has been neglected. The main objection is to the fact that, inasmuch as the neighborhood is at the Brooklyn end of the Williamsburg Bridge, traffic is extremely heavy and the children will have to make many dangerous crossings. Nothing definite was settled at the interview except that Dr. Baker, of the board of education, promised that there would no longer be a doubl le cogging _ whieh be leaped. an Delegates Meet U. Us Communists 10 STIFLE LABOR Red Baiting Officialdom | Leads Move | Admission was made yesterday by | Matthew Woll, acting president of the | National Civic Federation, and vice president of the American Federation of Labor, that the Federation would | support the “formula” being worked out by a sub-committee of the Amerie jean Bar Association by which all strikes would be made illegal and by | which legislation is to be recommended, for setting up an arbitration system in industrial disputes. Announced By Lawyers. The first announcement that such a formula was being worked out em. inated on Monday from the head- quarters of the Amercan Bar Asso- ciation when Julius Henry Cohen, an attorney who is chairman of a come mittee of that association which has been dealing with the subject, stated | that both labor and certain open shop interests were working in close “hare mony” over the plan. Complete endorsement of the “ar bitration” proposal which is to be made to Congress and which is to provide the basis for legislation te rule out all strikes from industry, was yesterday given to the plan by Woll, speaking officially for the American |Federaton of Labor. “The law, so far as industrial rela- tions are concerned,” said Woll, “must be modernized. It has not kept pace with modern industrial developments and-with the complexities that have entered into-our industrial relations.” What this means more definitely, it is pointed out, becomes clear from the announcement by attorney Cohen that, “It is a serious thing that in this country, we have not, yet evolved an American labor policy. Hereto- fore our position has been negative instead of positive.” That the National Civic Federation, an open shop institution, of which Woll is acting president, and the Na- tional Association of Manufacturers, an organization with a twenty year record of anti-labor activity, are working together with the Bar As- sociation to put over the “formula” of surrender, is seen as a confirma- (Continued on Page Two) KELLOGG PEEVED AT USSR BONDS State DepartmentMoves to Stop Private Sale WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—That the State Department wil! express “dis- approval” of the $30,000,000 issue of Soviet Union railway gold bonds was tacitly admitted yesterday by offi- cials in the department. The U. & S& R. railway bonds are not being of- fered for public flotation but are for private sale to United States citizens with the Chase National and banks in Chicago and San Francisco acting as agents for the payment of in- terest. This is believed to be the first case in which the State Department has taken the initiative in openly express- ing an opinion on a loan. Hitherto, & is stated, the State Department had expressed its opinion on the “ad- visability” of a loan only after being approached by bankers. The Chase National Bank has made its arrange- ments for the sale of the bonds with- out consulting the State Department. The State Department, it is am thoritatively stated, will ask the Chase National Bank to halt the sale of the Soviet Union bonds. War Veteran, II] Since His Discharge, Jumps te Death from 25th Floor CHICAGO, Jan, 31.—Daniel Whit. ing, a world war veteran, leaped to his death from the 25th floor of the Mallers building here today. “He had been in ill health since his dis- charge from the army, his widow said, That the fall was not an a0~ cident, but a deliberate suicide, was: apparent because it was for him to crawl over a high railing that. surrounded the window from SHOPPERS IN PLOT