The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1928, Page 2

bul DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. _Page Two_ ESDAY, JUNE 19, 1928 URGE INTENSIVE YOUNG DAUGHTER OF STRIKING MINER DEAD FROM STARVATION PARTICIPATION IN ELECTION tame Workers Party Call Out- “MORE PICKETING” ” iv’ll be under his dad’s work about conaitions in the mining camps, never get her to take’ lunch along in Detroit, helping to Pomfret said, “She’d say, ‘If t tak y for the National ’ ‘lunch, it’s that much less supper for | ail fighting.” better conditions than to speak at more meetings in the big ing. That’s why-we're| cities,to tell them about the fight going on in the Western Pennsyl- il of us. I’m no better than the' Helen was to bé married next| A ‘ int mps, about ikers. We've got to share, to hold! month. to a young man she met down venia..and OBio ‘mining: eamps, out.’ ” at the aluminum works in New Ken-|the hunger, disease and hardships other children died before; sington, only waiting until she turned| the strikers and their families are vow ON STRIKE There was always too little! twenty. jliving: through, and urge that. con- the house to give them the’) Last. Wednesday night tributions be sént to thé National are + _ re. rushed to a hospital. pee Relief Committee, 611 Penn Plan Workers Offensive Pomfret clings to last! Thursday morning child, a thirteen year old boy. “When! s | Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa., to help in Special To The DAILY WORK ER.) ARNOLD, e she owas Four o’¢lock she was dead, The} to be the veniently declares dropsy S$ jcause, her lines Tasks tions of the c American prole of its struggles. } man and woman, North, South, fused into one ary body for historic working class. al, garment, eral transport, from all worki they came t the b on struggle of the Wor s (Communist) | Party. This basis has been laid. Now, to| the mobilization of the toiling masses for a successful election campaign. | Several vital immediate ta must be accomplished in the process of| mobilization. | No Slackening! 1. The placing of the Party’s na- tional ticket on the ballot of the re- | spective states. This work was be-| gun prior to the Nominating Conven- | tion and was prosecuted reasonably | well. More effort and energy must | be put into this work now. No slack- ening is permissible. The Party’s na- | tional ticket must be on the ballot in as many states as was decided upon by the National Election Compaien) Committee. 2, State and local \candidates and Platforms. The Central Executive Committee has been stressing con-| tinually the necessity of our Party organization placing local and state tickets, formulating partial demands for the various localities and states and integrating this work with the national campaign of the Party as a whole. We again repeat and empha- size the need, of this being done. Without an energetic struggle on lo- cal issues, and with local candidates, “She was working, but we could Box |he-has to work in the mines, I hope| ay Hall Is sho Busy Graft n¢ Repair Brows: Streets Photo shows housewives along Conkin. Ave. Brooklyn, repair- ing the streets in their neighorhood which the Tam- many city govern ment has p ently refused mend. Broken reets are respon- sible for a large proportion of the auto a ecide nts that occur in New York City. Most of the streets, the contracts for which are award- ed to the friends of the city politi- cians, are deliber- ately constructed so that they give way within a few years. VARIETY PROMISED) AT “RED” PICNIC Sports, at Affair Sunday For years it has been the custom for ward politicians of the capitalist | parties to run clambakes and outings for their constituents where with the Entertainment there can be no successful national |help of rum, brass bands and hot air campaign and vice versa. Local Committees, 8. Organization of local and state campaign committees. The prelimin- ‘ary work of organizing these commit- tees must be completed within the shortest possible time. Without them the campaign will not begin in earn- | est. The respective Party units must | see to it that these committees take the field immediately and open up the | work of mass agitation. 4. Distribution of campaign liter- ature. The National Campaign Com- mittee is preparing a plan for the nation-wide distribution of the first important items of our campaign lit- erature. These will include the elec- tion platform, the acceptance speeches , of Comrades Foster and Gitlow, also |: a brief resume of the platform, Every | Party unit must immediately organ- | ize and prepare its distribution ma- chinery for this nation-wide canvass of the working class with our litera- ture. 5, Mass meetings and talks. Every Party unit must immediately begin to lay plans and prepare for a series of meetings, outdoor and indoor, by neighborhoods and at factory gates, by sections and cities. National speakers will be supplied by the Na- tional Campaign Committee, which is at present also laying plans for na- tional tours for Comrades|Foster and Gitlow and many other katenn Campaign Fund. they led thousands ef workers into | the folds. Sundays one may see th ese | expeditions crowded into huge raie with blatant horns and banners ad- vertising this or that district leader or ward healer. But the election picnic arranged by | the Workers (Communist) Party to | be held next Sunday, June 24, at | Pleasant Bay Park will not be of this } character, it is announced. It will be | {a genuine outpouring of masses of toilers from the shops and factories of the city to demonstrate their sym- pathy with the aims of the Workers Party, and the support of its candi- dates. The affair will include sports and games of all kinds, track and Try Politician | OSSINING, N. Y., June 138. Fred D. Grannis, superiatendent cf streets of Ossining, today faced | technical charge of homicide follow- ing the death yesterday of Stanley | Jones, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Jones, cf Bell Avenue. The boy \died of a fractured skull received j Saturday when he was hit by an auto- mobile, said to have been driven by Grannis, who is at liberty of nis own recognizance, TO RAP ZARITSKY TACTICS AT MEET Call Local 24 24 Members to Bryant Hall Thousands of circulars flooded the millinery manufacturing district yes- terday, caliing upon the millinery workers who are members of local 24 of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Mil- linery Workers’ International, to at- tend a mass meeting tonight at Bry- | i > | field athletes, mass singing by some |@"t Hall, Sixth Ave, and 42nd ‘St. to Of dhe well known mir TE sing- | hear how and why their international ing societies like the Freiheit Ge-|fficials are causing the destruction 6. The campaign fund. few days, the National Committee will cor Party units a raising of the fund. This will be a general election campaign. Comrades! In the present strug- gle, we aim at establishing our Party in the minds of the working masses as the political Party of the Ameri- ean workers, This is a great and dif- ficult task, but one that can be ac-| complished if our Party and its sym-! pathizers will give Within a Campaign } to the for the campaign 1 part of our 00 ! Detailed |sangs Verein, the Lithuanian Chorus, | ete. POLICE DRAWN IN CHASER INQUIRY Worked With Corrupt Lawyers and Doctors Policemen work hand in hand with negligence and injury case attorneys {and corrupt physicians, according to testimony rendered y day in the} ambulance chasing inves’ tion. | notes were taken while | s before Supreme Sout | Justi servogel declared that pé- | licemen that came to their aid in/ac- cidents had asked them if they) “wanted a good lawyer.” The injured are said to have been directed to Albert Schlact, of 150 De- lancey St. The testimony of other witnesses | Morris Sigman. |paign of removing from positions of leadership in the organization all of- cf their organization. Beginning a few months ago, Pres- ident Zaritsky and the general exec- utive board under his control, decided to emulate the tactics of the right wing head of the cloakmakers’ union, They began a cam- ficers disagreeing with his policy of installing the piece-work system and relinquishing the 40-hour week to the 44-hour week demand of the employ- ers. The rank and file committee of operators and cutters, which is spon- soring the meeting, will explain this among other things as the real reason for Zaritsky’s attempts to remove the militant leadership of the Millinery Hand Workers’ Local 43, the Chicago Capmakers Joint Board and the Bos- ton tik race ban Union. ELECTION RALLY IN CHICAGO JULY 4 their best to the showed that Schlact, as well as many | campaign. ‘other lawyers involved in the huge The masses are stirring. The high|graft, had taken fees in excess of | pressure of capitalist rationalization | those ordered by the court in infant is calling forth resentment and readi-|ones, and that he had also settled ness to struggle among wide masses ‘cases without obtaining court orders of workers, Our Party is the only Permitting compromise settlements. Party that can and will supply the necessary political understanding’ ‘and | leadership for the struggle. The ponsibilities are great. so ‘are the opportunities for the building and strengthening of our | Party and the awakening and organ-| ization of the mass of American! workers. ‘Let us make the maximum | possible use of the opportunities. Illinois Senator Is Inyolved in Election Graft Mess, Charge CHICAGO, June 18. — Chicago’s special grand jury, investigating elec- ticn crimes, late today named state Senator James RB. Leonardo of the 17th district, and eleven other men, in the first indictments returned by the special judicial body, The charge against Leonardo is But | * * An investigation of ambulance chas- ing doctors, blood-brothers of the le- gal shysters recently exposed in su- preme court, is indicated in an article on the medical practice written by Sol Ullman, deputy attorney-general of New York state, for the Panel, the official publication of the Association of Grand Jurors of New York Coun- ty. He said that recent disclosures have established that a so-called “ring” of physicians has been in league with @ number of ambulance-chasing lawyers. These physicians, who gen- erally received as part of their com- pensation part of the settlement or recovery in negligence claims or ac- tions, were at all times ready and did make false statements, false af- fidavits and falso certificates, In many cases the physicians who had not seen the alleged injured tes- * assault to murder. Five of the men rity have been seized by the pol- tified concerning fictitious injuries, They were invariably ay to per- form any act required of them in iGitlow to Be Chief | Speaker at Event CHICAGO, June 18, Militant workers of Chicago are making ex- tensive preparations to receive the Workers Party candidate for vice- president, Ben Gitlow, who will speak at the opening campaign raily on July 4 at Chernauskas Grove, 79th end Archer Ave. All Party units, | sympathizing workers’ clubs, and labor organizations are mobilizing for a mass attendance. An interest- ing entertainment program is being prepared. PittsfieldWeaversStrike PITTSFIELD, Mass. (FP). Hoosae Worsted Mill looms are silent due to the walkout of 46 weavers, They are demanding a substantial in- crease in pay, having turned down a niggardly raise offered by the com- pany, The entire mill will be forced to shut down if the weavers do not return, order to frame up the suit and the victim of the accident, who was usu- ally left in ignorance concerning the legat proceedings. ¥ ) KATE GITLOW TO GET BiG WELCOME Fine Program Arranged for Saturday Affair A program of unusual excellence is being arranged at the ‘Welcome Home” for Kate (“Mother”) Gitlow class Women at Manhattan Lyceum, |66 E. 4th St., next Saturday evening, June 23. Mother Gitlow ‘has just returned from a six months’ visit in the Soviet Union and will discuss the remark- able progress of women there, She will also tell of her experiences in other European countries. Juliet Stuart Poyntz, candidate for attorney-general on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket; Bert Mil- \ler, organizational secretary of Dis- trict 2, Ray Ragozin, general organ- izer of the United Council of Work- ingclass Women; and Sylvia Blecher of Local 43 of the Millinery Workers’ Union will be among the speakers. One of the highlights on the pro- gram of entertainment will be the ap- pearance of the Konin trio. 5 TAMMANY MEN HELD IN GRAFT Smith’s Tool to Act Five street cleaning department of- ficials of Manhattan were yesterday indicted in the second forced round- tp of the great $200,000,000 Tam- many graft seandal as a result of which there has been involved may- ors, street cleaning commissioners, superintendents, foremem and others more remotely connected with the de- Refuses jeven the Tamniwny mayor, Jimmie Walker, who at one time compared himself in honesty to some of those now implicated in the graft. The five indicted are attached to Stable D in East 116th St., who re- cently have been doing “clerical” work in extensive payroll operations. They are James Purchio, the stable, Albert A, foreman, Charles i sistant foreman, John’ end John Maher, ‘stableman. — Padded Lists, All five were named charged with the viol _of the: penal code. Judge Donella before whom they were Tats in gen- eral sessions, fixed bail in each case at °* 500, Numerous names on the lists made up at the stable never received the wages credited to them but the money was as in other cases turned over to those “higher up.” Max Schmillowitz, section foreman ‘end James Gevlin, who were indicted jlast weck, pleaded not guilty today before County Judge Cohn. Their case will probably come up next week for trial Gasoline has been known to have been stolen from city supplies, other city supplies have disappeared, trick specifications have been tolerated, payrolls padded, city au s have been used for private purposes, supervision has been avoided, records falsified, but still old Tammany, new Tammany does nothing but cover up its trail. ee bill by the United Council of Working-| Now George Pom ret is going out! the great fight. LASHES ZARITSKY | Vitat Meeting Is Called | for Tuesday. BOSTON. June 18, — A scathing | attack on the union-wrecking activ- ities of Max Zaritsky, president of Cloth Hat, Cap and linety Workers Union is, contained i & statement issued today by the execu- cal 7. It will be distributed tomor- row in circular form. Meeting Tuesday. At the same time announcement was made by the leaders ofthe local capmakers that membership meeting will be held Tuesday evening in the union headquarters, 28 Hayward Place. The executive board requests that all’ members be present with- out fail. The statement, follows in part: “During the six years that our lo- eal has heen under a left-wing lead- crship, we have suceceded in estab- lishing a record of struggle and de- votion to the interests of the member- ship. Our local was the pride of the international and of the labor move- ment of Boston. Our local unser the present leadership was victorious in gaining the 40-hour week, the un- employment insurance fund as well as increases of wages. Our loca) with this administration has com- manded the full.confidence of our membership, the respect and fox: cf the employers. The present leader- ship of our local has militantly pro- international | | tive board of Boston capmakers’ lo- | partment and involving, it is believed, Y tected the interests of the Boston ) Capmakers, particinated in the strug- gles of the international as well as of the labor movement in general, fur further accomplishments. Trying to Destroy Union, “Disregarding all these facts, Zar- itsky and his general executive board are now trying to destroy our union, which was always on guard to en- force the union conditions gaired by the workers thru years of struggle and sacrifice. “Sisters and brothers: At this time, wien the capmakers thruout the country are faced with meeting the attack of the employers and open- shoppers, when we can clearly see the disastrous results brought about by the Sigman pogrom in the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union — at this time Zaritsky has started a pog- rom in our union and the interra- tional. . “Why does he do it? “This pogrom against our local was launched because we ®are militantly opposed to Zaritsky’s attempt to force work upon the capmakers and the re-establishment of the 44-hour week. Zaritsky in collaboration, with the traitor Perey Ginsburg have organ- ized a lock-out against our Chicago brothers in order to drive them into submission to the piece-work system. Zaritsky wants to break local 43 in erder to eliminate all obstacles in carrying out his criminal policy of starving out the capmakers, weak- ening of our union and make it pos- sible for the employers to force their economie program of piece-work, longer hours and starvation wages upon the workers.” HOUSE WORKERS GO ON STRIKE Protest the Dismissal of Superintendent Twelve striking employes of the twelve-story apartment at 645 West End Ave. picketed the place today while scabs worked in their places. Yesterday the entire staff of em- ployes, elevatormen, porters and doormen ‘walked o’ in protest against the dismissal of Robert Jen- sen, superintendent. Joseph Freidman, owner of the house, was threatened with strikes in his other buildings. Bronx Cooperative Will Be Scene of e of Banquet Section 5 the) the Workers (Com-| munist) Party will hold a banquet on Friday, at 8.80 p. m. at the United BOSTONCAPLOCAL Negro Laborer. 89, Is Killed by Asphalt. Mixer RY SHING, b Te “June 18.—Wil- Jones, 89-year old Negro laborer is dead. He was killed, his body smashed beyond recognition, when he fell into an asphalt mixing machine plant of the Cleveland-Trinidad Paving Company at College Point, Causeway and Myrtle Ave., Flush- ing, today. It was necessary to take the machine apart tc. remove his body, Jones had werked for the com- pany for over 30 years. Recently he was “promoted” to work on the asphalt phi td Machine, To Coafer on ‘on Camp in Grand Rayids Thursday GRAND RAPIDS, | Mich, June 18. The second conference to discuss plans for the camp of the Young Pionecrs will be held Friday evening, at 7.80 at the 8. & D. Hall, 1057 Hamilton, N. W. All sympathetic or- ganizations are invited to serd two delegates. The pioneers are planning this year’s camp on a much larger scale than feurmerly and vacations will be provided for a large number of work- ers’ children in Western Michigan. CAB DRIVER DIES OF COPS BLOWS Tammany Fails to Act in Violation Samuel Zorn, for 14 years a taxi driver, and one of four cabmen who, police claim, they mistook for gun- men during a hold-up on May 28 of the Actors’ Inn, died at Bellevue hos- pital following a severe beating ad- ministered to him by Officer Hertz of the East 5th St. police station. Zorn is the second driver to die as the result of this hold-up and of the Tammany police practice of beating up and slugging workers at will, with- out waiting to find out if the taxi driver whom he suspected’ had any- thing to do with the hold-up, Upon reaching the scene the officer took out his gun from his holster and started firing point blank at the in- nocent hackmen. Beat_Up Drivers Also. Not satisfied with the deadly ef- fect his gat had on the drivers, Hertz, with the aid of patrons began to club up the cabmen, altho they offered no resistance and were trying to explain that a mistake had been made and begged the cops to stop firing and clubbing them. Louis Mishkin, a taxi driver and formerly a garment worker, also shat by Hertz, died a few hours after be- ing transferred to the hospital. -Isi- dore Temes received a severe beat- ing and was seriously wounded. Harry Halpern, the fourth driver, escaped with a few scars and bruises, liam Alexander ‘The bandits who held-up the place} approached in a touring car and forced the drivers, who were hacking in front of the inn, to remain in their places, + Families Destitute. As a result of the shooting Zorf’s and Mishkin’s families are left des- titute and friends of the dead hack- men are raising a fund for them, No action has been taken against Officer Hertz by the Tammany police commissioner, Warren, although Hertz had ‘violated the order from the police commissioner's office that po- licemen must first give warning by firing a shot in the air before firing directly at any person. Venezuela Exports Half of American Crude Oil CARACOS, June 18—Venezuela is now supplying more than half of all| wheat at the crude oil imported into the United States, Department of Commerce fig- ures show. During the first four in the { } | value of the mill stocks, and the pr Immediately NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 18. The ruse unfailingly used by all em- ployers whose plants are completely tied up by a strike’ is about to be used by the owners of the 58 textile ills, which gre completely shut down by a strike of 28,000 workers. They are preparing to announce that the are about to reopen the mills with the. 10 per cent wage cut order not withdrawn. Although the great strike is enter- ing its tenth week of struggle, the widespread attitude among “the sti jers toward this new development is lone of ridicule; “the workers and not the bosses were the ones to say whether the mills reopen or not,” they say, Plan Big Picket Line. While the 28,000 strikers here have the right to feel confident that the new rvse will meet with utter fail ure, the leaders of the New Bed ford Textile Workers’ Union. of the Textile Mills Committee declars that all possible measures will be taken to ensure the unanimity of the work- ers’ ranks by the mobilization of still larger picket lines. he latest decision reveals the desperation of the mill barons, who are not accustomed to seeing the un- animous walkout of tens of thou- ‘ sands, it is pointed out. It was also shown that the continually falliny sure of local business which has been undergoing a slow creeping paralysis, were important factors in provoking this move of the employers. The reports have it that the dates for opening will be either June 26 or July 2, but the T. M. C. stvike committee intends to throw heavily augmented picket patrols around the mills at once, The officials of the A. Fi of L. Tex- tile Council for the first time yester- day marched in a picket line. After several days preparatory announce- ments they were able to muster about 45 pickets. The several hundred patrolling nearby mills under the lead of the Textile Mills Committee or- ganizer, Fred E. Beal, later came ever to join the council pickets, being received with cheers, TAMMANY BEGINS HOUSTON FARCE Old Parties Haunted by ; Farm Revolt (Continued from Page Oie) for the presidency, is now seen to have been operated by entifely too clever maneuvers and betrayals. Even the politicians who were most elated at their great “triumph” are now asking themselves if the “victory” really extends very far beyond Kan- sas City. The farming sections, it is now ad- mitted, are up in arms not only at the complete betrayal written into the republican convention, but are en- raged equally at some ° of their “friends” whom they originally trusted, among.whom are MeNary, Curtis, Borah and others. Reacting to this pressure from the fafm districts Senator George W. Norris has bolted the Hoover-Curtis ticket and made a bitter attack on both nominees. It is clear, of course, that Norris’ stand is dictated by the fact that he knows the temper of the farmers better than, for instance, Curtis and is not as confident of his ability to “put over” such a deal as was made by Borah and Curtis both of whom went over to republican re- action and more recently by McNary who several days ago likewise cashed in to the republican political chest the following which his farm “opposi- tion’ had gathered up, The charac- ter of Norris’ bolt at the same time may be seen from the fact that he is careful to announce that he will not offend the powers that be to the ex- tent of forming a third party. It is slear that the farmers~have nothing to hope for here: Resentment against Hoover is in- creasing rather than diminishing be- jeause of his systematic campaign to jerush out all signs of farmers’ grievances. The farmers remember only too well the fact that Hoover took from them about $300,000,000° a year for three years in Kansas alone | through wartime price fixing on’ time when he was per- mitting the big bankers, steel mag-¢ nates and other capitalists to reap huge harvests in war profits. Over months of 1928 the United States|four thousand new ‘millionaires were imported a total of 24,687,000 barrels,| created under the Hoover regime a as contrasted with 17,192,000 barrels isis the first four months of 1927. Imports from Mexico for the first Workers Cooperative Restaurant, ‘sour months of last year totalled near the Allerton Avenue station, the | 7,409,000 barrels while Venezuela fur- Bronx, to celebrate the of the new section executive commit-} een Tha, DALE the i Biss rose to ie tallation | ™#hed 5,604,000 barrels. For the first] Captain C four months of. this year, however,|stor, was ing the war days. Military y Welcome way aes, the’ Mexican vec ght to city hall Wy from Mexico totalled only| Grover Whalen and received New tee. Part of the proceeds will be} 4,919,000, while delet, from Vena. York’s formal official weleome or ‘Walker. |