The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1928, Page 1

ees BRITISH COMM UNISTS HAIL WORKERS PARTY CONVEN TION THE DAILY WORKER. clans matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥.. under the act of NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1928 THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FCR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 121... = V. No. 121. WILL CELEBRATE GERMAN WORKERS. VICTORY AT MEET Reich Triumph to Swell U. S. Communist Vote Greeting the National Nominating Convention of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, which will take place at Mecca Temple here from May 25 to 27, the Communist Party of Great Britain has sent its endorsement of the convention in the name of the militant British working class. The text of the greeting follows: “The Communist Party of Great Britain sends its greetings to the Na- tional Nominating Convention of the Workers (Communist). Party of N. at’l Cairrvention Notice The National Nominating Con- vention of the Workers (Commu- nistg Party will be held in New York at the Central Opera House, on May 25-26-27. The Convention will be opened with a welcome demonstration to the delegates at Mecca Temple, 133 West 55th Street, Friday evening, May 25. Many of the mest prominent out- of-town delegates will address the meeting. Every worker is welcome. There will be an admission charge of 50 cents to pay the expense of the meeting. America and hopes that your choice of candidates will mean the raising of the. banner of proletarian revolution against the bourgeois parties and against the sham democracy of the United States of America. “(Signed) Inkpin, secretary, “Communist Party of Great Britain.” To Celebrate German Victory. Preparations are now under way to convert the mass meeting which will precede the formal opening of the National Nominating Convention inte (Continued on Page Three) PARTY SPREADS FIGHT ON 7c STEAL Hold Open / Air Meets Thruout City While politicians of all camps sought to pluck as much political fruit as they could from the harvest which they beliave they can gather as a result of the temporary post- ponement of the increased fare move, the agitation against the traction sell- out under the leadership of the Work- ers (Communist) Party continued to spread. A number of open air mass meetings were held throughout the city at which speakers warned au- diences that the traction steal; put off | until after election, would surely go | through* then unless a mass opposi- | tion against: it developed. Jimmie Walker, Tammany Hall mayer, who is known to have made $287,000 last year from his traction stocks joined with U. S. Senator Rob- ert F. Wagner, ancther Tammany son in claiming the court order as a “sweeping victory” for the democratic machine. Wagner is the author of the -socalled Wagner Bill - which passed the legislature in 1913 legaliz- ing the dual subway contracts as a result of which the city has already been plundered of over two hundred million dollars.“ Hold Children’s Camp Conference Tonight “Win your children to your cause, class-conscious workers! If you leave them to the Boy Scouts, Y. M. C. A., Boys Clubs and similar anti-labor or- ganizations, they are trained. to. be- come enemies to our class.” This was the statement last night by Fred Biedenkapp, head of the Workers’ International Relief, which will build a summer camp for work- ingclass children, where class loyalty will be learned in a healthful vaca. tion environment. A Children’s Camp Conference will be held today at 8 p. m, at the Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. All workers’ organiza- tions find parents’ organizations have Published daily except. Sunday by The National Daily wi Publishing Association, Inc., 38 First Sireet, New York, N. ¥. Batored as sec: | Too Poor to Have Chi | | | } | She | world “to suffer privations,” the mother in the picture are three _ DENOUNCE the open yesterday afternoon when about 1,000 unemployed furriers left |the market where they were looking |for jobs and demonstrated their pro- test in front of the offices of the right wing fake union, completely | blocking all traffic near 31st St. and Sixth Ave. | | Protest Union Wrecking. | | Even a call for police by A. Fisher, tone of the right wing, which was an- |swered by a squad of about 20 police {and a large number of plain clothes men, all flourishing revolvers, failed to break up the demonstration, which continued for several hours. With shouts of “Down With the Scab Union,” and “We Want One Union,” the demonstrating workers evaded the clubs of the police and lagain and ‘again surged thru their lines to get into the block and before the building where the fake union is situated, on 31st St. Two workers participating—in- the demonstration were arrested, after being clubbed by the police. They (Continued 9n Page Five) BISCUIT FIRM LAYS OFF MEN 'Speeds Up » Workers at Other Times Conditions at the National Biscuit ; {Company are bad enough, but the worst feature of this slave factory is the matter of lay-offs. and overtime, As has happened many times this year already, we were laid off again last Monday. At this time of the year we are usually busy but our bosses have carried out so many plans for increasing the ou! -up, ete, Jately that there is too much stock produced, so we are laid off, usually on Mondays and Thursday. It may look funny, but while we are laid off so often, yet we have to work overtime every working day too. The reason is that we are not allowed to let any of the cookies, bis- cuits or dough stay over until the next day. All the, work has to be put out before we Meave the place, and we are always kept on the job from 10 to 30 minutes after closing time, On Saturday, for instance, we were told not to come to work Mon- day, but a few of the girls and men were asked to report for: work Mon- day to finish the work on hand. They come for a few hours and then are sent home, We are supposed to have 50 thine utes for lunch. Many times we don’t Mauneniied on Page Four) ue Idren, Jails Husband Boneuan her husband i cerned from $18 to $30 a week, when he could find work as a truck driver, Mrs. Ethel Cromwell, mother. of 18 chil- dren, all but four of whom died had refused to bring others into the insisted that the “lord would find some way to provide” for more. With doughier Eleanor, 12, makes Fifty cents a gross folding lengths of elastic. 1,000 JOBLESS FURRIERS | ee The deep current of revolt against the open shop conditions now ex- isting in the fur trade due to the destruction of the once powerful union by the socialist officialdom, A. F. of L. ‘Kun, the Hungarian Communist, be had her husband jailed when he of her children of whom the eldest RIGHT WING heads and the bosses, burst out into DEMAND KUN'S © PROMPT RELEASE Writers, Poets, Educa- tors Send Protest Roger Baldwin, secretary of the International Committee for Political Prisoners; Theodore Debs, brother of the late Eugene V. Debs; Professor Robert Morss Lovett of the University of Chicago; Bishop William Mont- gomery Brown; Scott Nearing, and Upton Sinclair are among the many | nationally known writers, poets, polit- ical figures, and labor men who to-| day despatched a cable of protest to Chancellor Seipel of the Austrian Government and demanded that Bela immediately released and assurance guaranteed for his safe journey to the Soviet Union of the U.S. S. R. The cable follows: May 21, 1928 “Chancellor Seipel Vienna, Austria “In the name of liberal and labor opinion in the United States, we pro-| test agaimst the arrest of Bela Kun} and are horrified at the idea of extra- dition to Hungary and his likely exe- cution thereby, and request his im- mediate and unconditional freedom (Continued on Page Two) Carpenters, Painters Needed at ‘Red Center’ Carpenters and painters who are unemployed or can devote part time are wanted at once for volunteer work at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union {ers’ Union, the Tolerance Group, an | organization of former right wingers, lissued an official statement yester- {man, Schlesinger and their henchmen, { full, | manifesto. ferance Group entered into the strug- TOLERANCE GROUP JOINS STRUGGLE TO REBUILD UNION Affiliates to National Organizing Committee Completely severing whatever con- nections they had with the Sigman- Schlesinger clique in control of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- day publicly affiliating themselves | with the National Organizing Com- mittee, formed by the left wing and progressive delegates who were lock-| ed out of the Boston convention. After participating in the destruc-| tive campaign carried on by Sigman as his allies, which resulted in the complete annihilation of union condi- tions in the cloak and dressmaking industry, the Tolerance Group al- though taking part in the fake con- |vention, came to the conclusion that |the only way in which bettered con- | ditions in the shops can be regained lis by joining the N. O. C. in a cam- |paign to drive from the union Sig- In the statément, which follows in mention is made. of Sigman’s This refers to his fake amnesty in which all but Commu- nists are entitled to full membership in the International. It was passed at the so-called convention. Former Sigman Allies. “Nineteen” months ago, when the General Executive Board carried thru the re-organization and as a result the largest locals of the New York Joint Board were expelled, the Tol- gle with the sincere conviction that the officials of the International were fighting against the control of our organization by a political party. In the course of the struggle, however, it became evident to us that far from being a fight to free the union from party control, the entire expulsion policy was laid down by the “For- ward” and the socialist party—(this was openly admitted by Abe Cahn on the open floor of the convention where he stated that the expulsion order was dictated to his own steno- grapher. in the office of the “For- ward”)—and that personal interests and ambitions of individual leaders at the head of the union played the dominant role in the whole struggle. After we had been in the thick of the fight for several months, we be- |gan to realize that to further con- tinue the war would mean the com- plete destruction of our union and the return of the sweat-shop system in our industry. “As workers whose chief aim is a strong and powerful union, the Tol- erance Group came forth with the de- mand for an end to the war on a basis where all elements in our union would get together for the purpose of rebuilding the organization and re- storing union conditions. Our de- mand to end the struggle is the wide- ;spread demand of the mass of the membership of our union, as demon- |strated by the fact that thousands of registered workers signed the peti- tions issued by the Tolerance Group demanding that the convention take) steps to make an end to the internal struggle. It was our fervent hope that the leaders of the International would heed this widespread demand of the workers and would lay the basis for a peace at the Boston con- vention that would make possible the active cooperation of all elements in our union, Rejected Demands. “However, the officials of tha In- Square. They are asked to report on the sixth floor of the Center. WORKER TROOPS NEARING NANKING War Lords Ban All Anti Imperialist Protest Demonstrations SHANGHAI, May 22.—Fearing that demonstrations against Japanese. imperialism would take the form of|the town of Cheng-kiang, situated be-| the city of Swatow have declared a a protest against the Kuomintang au- thorities, General Li Chai-sum, in control of the city, has outlawed all protest demonstrations. The recent advances of the worker- peasant troops in the Swatow dis- trict and the growing unrest in the city of Canton have made the posi- the citv extremely, vrecarious. ternational, both the Sigman and |MINERS ROUSED der the act of March 3, 1878, Outat 59 1090. SUBSCRIPTION RATE RATES: Im New York, by mall, $5.00 per year. ide New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Miners who were evicted the moment they struck at the Midland No. 1 mine at Houston, Pa., have been supplied with tents by the Na- tional. Miners’ Relief Committee. determined to fight their way into hundreds of similar cases. The pictw shelters. The men who are unorganized are the Union. Relief is needed for re shows miners standing near their STANDARD OIL’S UNION GOES ON PICKET LINE By HARVEY O'CONNOR, (Fed. Press). BAYONNE, N. J., May 22.—The workers of the Tidewater Oil Company, a subsidiary of the Standard Oil, 2,500 strong, have learned something since they went out some seven years ago in a strike which ended not entirely as they desired. So shpy. are out again, this time to make a finish job of it. BY DEATH TOLL Evidence Now Company, Guilt (Special to The Daily Worker) MATHER, Pa., May 22.—Resent- ment and bitterness is spreading over the local mine sectidns as news of the horrible tragedy and loss of per- haps 200 lives resulting from the ex- plosion Saturday at the Mather col- lieries mine reveals the open-shop | operators’ esponsibility for the} deaths. Frantie attempts by the company officials to hide the facts have now failed. Piece by piece, against the deception and concealment of these officials, the circumstances surround- (Continued on Page Two) INT'L REO AID LAUDS HAYWOOD Urges Workers to Join Labor Defense International Labor Defense has re- ceived cables from the Executive Com- mittee, International Red Aid, and| from the I. L. D. Mopr of the Union of the Socialist Soviet Republics, ex-| pressing their sorrow at the de sath of | Comrade William D. Haytwood. Hay-| wood was a prominent supporter of} International Labor Defense in the United States and one of its founders, The cable from the International Red Aid, (Mopr organization) for the defense of persecuted workers and peasants throughout the world, is as follows: “The Executive Committee of the International Red Aid mourns, to- gether with you, at the death of Com- rade William Haywood, one of the most active workers of the Interna- tional Red Aid, who had dedicated his life to the work of freeing the work- ingclass from the yoke of capitalism and who had given away his best strength for the fight against one of the most obominable forms of capital- (Continued on Page Two) VANCOUVER, B. C., May 22.—} Worker-peasant troops have captured | tween Shanghai and Nanking, accord-' ing to advices received here by the! Canada Morning News, left wing) Chinese newspaper. | In Hongkong and Shanghai the au-| thorities are taking measures to sup- press the anti-imperialist protests. Police and soldiers in Shanghai have en invited to send delegates t to the | 8° down until 12:30 and have to come tions of the war lords in control of| broken up meetings to protest against) shek, Javanese imperialism, according to (Continued on Page Two) the Canada Morning News, Workers and peasants in, control of state of emergency. Japanese and British warships are anchored in the ‘harbor ready to go into action on the | slightest provocation. Proves | The workers struck for 11 days back in ’21 for the right to belong to} }a nice works council, such as hadj | been installed in nearby Standard Oil} | plants. They won. A works council | with a representative from each of the 12 departments met with 12 com- |the assistant to the president. | But today, wigh hundreds of men} clustering about refinery gates beg- ging for jobs, Tidewater didn’t care j what happened to the works cone). Men asked for council meetings to present grievances against speed up. But the meetings became more and} more infrequent. All Workers Quit. A spontaneous walkout in one de-| |partment soon brought out every} worker and forced the company union officers to act. Even many white collar employes joined. Hundreds of strikers clustered about the refinery | | gates in early morning hours, picket- | ing. So threatening was the situa- tion that the mayor and chief of police warned Tidewater not to try to bring in strikebreakers. Pickets jumped in boats and patrolled marine entrances to the plant, preventing harbor boats from shifting barrelled oil. Trucks were prevented from going in the main} gates, although the strike committee permitted food to be sent inside to the technical force. Three firemen, asked to move barrels about, quit and | the strike committee conferred with number pany men under the chairmanship of | | show FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents GERMAN COMMUNISTS GAIN HALF MILLION AT POLLS Ex-Right Wing oe to War on Sigman WIN 54 SEATS IN REICHSTAG: 11 IN BERLIN Greatest Strength Lies In Industrial Centers (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER.) BERLIN, May 22.—Having gained than in the national elections to the more vot Re 1 above three millions, the Com- munist Party achieved results that even exceeded the expectations of the Party leaders, Over half a million votes have been in the great Communist elec- syccess. Fifty-four seats "have been gained in the Reichstag. Tho the social democrats gained in the neighborhoofi of 1,200,000 this is proportionately far less than the Communist total. The great- est Communist successes were ob- tained in the large towns and indus- trial centers. Big Berlin Success. Two hundred and twenty- seven {thousand more votes were gained in the overwhelming success in Berlin alone, while the social democrats won pay one hundred and twenty-four |thousand more votes. | All the bourgeois parties suffered |heavy losses. The German People’s |Party suffered catastrophic losses. A coalition government between the social democrats, People’s Party, Cen- ter Party and democrats is. forecast as a result of the election. Surpass Social Democrats. Late returns from two Berlin dis- |tricts, Wedding and Friedrichshain, that the Communist Party votes than the social | polled more democrats. Some of the greatest gains made by the German Communist Party were polled in the Ruhr Valley, the industrial heart of the country. Here the Communists definitely dem- onstrated that their strength- in the election lay in the masses of indus- trial workers. Essen, Elberfeld, Dues- seldorf and Barmen all show heavy Communist increases, EXPECT HUNDREDS AT “RED POETS” the chief of the fire department whether the rest of the company’s | private fire fighting force should be | called out. | Relief there was, too. Departments | (Continued on Page Two) DONETZ PLOTTERS : Social Democrats Try to} Provide Lawyer (Special Cable to The Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, May 22. — V)shinski, who is presiding at the trial in the Donetz Basin conspiracy informed the} court yesterday that he had received a telegram from the leaders of the Berlin district of the metal workers| union requesting the acceptance of the German lawyer Munte as a de- fender for Meier, German technician} REFORMISTS HELP <:. Gold, Freeman, and Taggard to Read Hundreds of workers are expected > present tomorrow evening at cond annual international Red Night, to be held at 8 o’clock Labor Second Ave, b nt will bring together rev- poets writing in various languages, who will read from their ‘own work. Red Poets Night is said to be unique in this country and has been modeled on the writer-worker readings and discussions that are so popular in the Soviet Union. Among those who will read will be David Gordon, 19-year-old member of the Young Workers League, who was condemned to three years in the re- formatory for publishing a poem in The DAILY WORKER which was used as a pretext by professional pa- triots for persecuting both the poet land the paper. Gordon has just been released on parole from the New York County Reformatory and will read t Temple, ae 1 ohio y who is accused of participating in the conspiracy. Munte is the lawyer for! the Allgemeine Elektrische Gesell- schaft, whose officials are accused o: aiding in the conspiracy. The court refused the request de-| claring that the accused had sufficient! time to choose their own defenders, The court deprived two of the de- fence attorneys of their position be-| cause they had exercised undue pres-| sure on the defendants. Show “Mechanics of the Brain” Tonight Workers in the munition factories of Canton have gone on strike. * * SHANGHAI, May 22. ane Kai- eneralissimo of the forces of (@ontinued on Page Two) The American Society For Cultural Relations With Soviet Russia will Sponsor a showing of the famous Sovkino film, “The Mechanics of the Brain,” tonight at Town Hall, 113 W. 48rd St. Staaten nee oan ner Se ARE ARE EDC some of his prison poems. The other poets who will take part lin the evening’s program include such well known writers as Michael Gold, Joseph Freeman, Genevieve Taggard, James Rorty, Henry Reich, Jr., Rob- ert Wolf, A. B. Magil, Adolf Wolff, Edwin Rolfe, the Yiddish poets, Abra- Tham Raisin, H, Leivick and Aron Kurtz, the distinguished Hungarian poet, Lajos Egri, as well as Russian, Chinese, Ukrainian, German, Italian land Spanish poets, Hammer, will be chairman of the eve- ning and give a brief introductory talk on revolutionary poetry. A feature of the evening will be the rendition of a number of cow boy songs to banjo accompan by Margaret Larkin. Miss work has been favorably conj (viontinued from + 4 half a million popular , stag, and with a vote totalling | Moissaye J. Olgin, editor of The — a