The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 22, 1928, Page 1

ral Tan | BIG RED PICNIC AT PLEASANT BAY PARK ON SUNDAY | THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK ni } FOR A LABOR PARTY FINAL CITY EDITION THE DAILY WORKER Entered as second-class matter at cae Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. wublished daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc. 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Vol. V. No. 147. Price 3 ne \ NEW bhai FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1928 Textile Strike Leader Faces Army Court Martial BAIL IS DENIED T0 worke NEW OFFENSIVE YOUNG WORKER IN eat AGAINST SOVIET U. $. GUARD HOUSE OFFICIALS SEEN. Imperialist Powers Help LL.D. ¥. W. L. Launch st Powe Huge Defense Drive Incite Raid 1 GIANT PICNIC ON SUNDAY TO DRAW MILITANT LABOR Party Planning Similar] Events Thruout U. S. None of the militant workers - of New York will remain in the city this | Sunday. | | They will all be at Pleasant Bay Park, where the Workers’ (Com-| munist) Party has arranged the great Wooden Subway Trains Endanger Lives of Hundreds of Bronx Workers »—- . [~smeneoce} “Red Picnic,” one of the banner NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 21.— SHANGHAI, June 21—In 9 getd) ~ events in the present election cam- The United States ‘Army. Sasa hean |which recalled that on the Soviet pmen. eae called to the aid of the textile opera- | consulate here some time ago, police, Not only will it be one of the great tors in their efforts to break the operating under the orders of the working-class demonstrations of the year, excelled only by the monster May Day demonstration held last month at Madison Square Garden, but it will be a day of merriment and comradeship for thousands of work- ers. Torchlight Parade. Indicative of the spirit of the af- fair will be the old-fashioned torch- light parade with a band and ban- ner, with the candidates of the cap- italist parties burned in effigy. Cal Coolidge will be ridden on a rail, and with him will be the new gold dust twins, Herbert Hoover and Al Smith From thousands of lusty threats will resound the words of the “Inter- national” and comradeship will be the keynote of the political holiday next Sunday. Party Leaders There. The principal candidate of the Workers Party in the coming national and state elections will be there, and will participate not only by outlining briefly, the issues facing the Amer- iar goon in the campaign, but Iso join in the Seba od Proletarian sports and games and a musical program will feature the “Red Picnic.” Mass singing of revo- lutionary songs will precede and con- clude the various contests that will be staged. The “Red Picnic” will follow the great demonstrations such as the Russian workers make of their field (Continued on Page Five) PIECE WORK FOR ACW CONTRACTOR Officials to Permit It, Boss Paper Avers Despite loud protestations now current in the Socialist Jewish daily Forward, to the effect that the Hill- man administration in the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers Union; will not grant piece work to the con-| tractors, an employers trade journal yesterday made public the fact that in the negotiations for a new agreement} 'T" now going on between Hillman and the bosses, the union officials will probably permit piece work for “some” contractors. The particular contractors referred to are those doing work for the manu- facturers’ association. When the (Continued on Page Five) SUSPEND ANOTHER 0.0. N.Y. STUDENT Hank amie Nok silos president of the Social Problems Club of the College of the City of New York, and right- end on the varsity football team, has been indefinitely suspended from the college by order of the faculty, it was learned today. This supension will delay his gradvation for a year. After the protest meeting, held last Friday, against the expulsion of Simon Gerson, president of the or- ganization of which Rosner was vice- president, during which Nathan Ad- ler, 19, of 1204 Boynton Ave., the Bronx, and Jonas Schiffman, 18, of 84 East 137th St., both members of the Young Workqrs (Communist) @, were arrested, Rosner ap- plied for admission to the summer school of the college, because he need- ed two more pcints to receive his degree. His application was returned with a note informing him of his in- Unlike the United States, military training in the Soviet Union is in the interest of the working class, and the role of the Red Army is to defend the freedom of the workers against world capitalism. This young soldier will fight the Cham- berlains and Mussolinis of the fu- ture. TAMMANY TRICKS RULE IN HOUSTON Party of Murphy Graft *’Plays Both Sides ~~‘ (Special to The “DAILY WORKER.) HOUSTON, June 21. — Old Boss Murphy is dead but his policies lives on at Houston. “Divide and rule,” “play both sides” und other famous maxims of the man who for two de- cades was the leader of the Tammany grafters are being put into practice here in the preliminaries to the demo- cratic convention. One of the typical devices of play- ing to both sides was witnessed here yesterday in the publicity on the prohibition issue given out by Nor- man E. Mack, one of the leaders ,in the Smith band of strategists. Mack unburdened himself of a fiery tirade against prohibition. Holding no public office, the oft-exposed Tam- (Continued on Page Five) $3,000,000,000 AUTO MERGER PLANNED Third Huge C Combine in Last Two Days MACKIMAC ISLAND, Mich., June 21—Another move toward the cen- tralization of the control of industry in the United States was made to- ;Equipments Association of Chicago \voted unanimously to merge with the Motor Acessory Manufacturers’ As- ‘sociation of New York. The merger ‘was described as one of the largest |manufacturing organization combines in the automotive history of the United States and Canada. More than $3,000,000,000 in trade volume and almost 200 separate busi- ness organizations and trade activi- ties covering every part of the civil- ized world are involved in this mer- ger, which, following close upon the huge coal and steel mergers in the past few days, indicate the rapid industry under U. S. domination. strike here. dent of the Textile Mill Committee, over to the military day -before yesterday and is being held in prison denied the right of bail. He is to be court-martialed for hav- ing left the army last year, after be- coming conscious of the role of sol- diers in fighting their fellow workers. Finger-Print Porter. The role of the military authorities in opposing the workers and the de- termination to use every means to get militant leaders of the masses be- .—$—_—___——__| hind bars is shown by the fact that the finger-prints of Porter, after his arrest for participation in the strike were compared with those who had left the army without discharges. though the chances that he had been in the army were small. ab Nevestt Fe R. L., or to Fort William, ere he will ‘be “tried” by a general |¢ court-martial composed of army offi- cers specially selected for this pur- pose by the military commander of the post. any evidence courts. The intervention of the army in the effort to imprison Porter and to pre- vent him from participation in the textile strike follows repeated ar- rests for his militant struggle for the workers by civil authorities, and recently he was sentenced by Judge Frank A. Milliken to five months in jail. He was on bail pending appeal. Bedford, was that of collecting funds for the striking workers. Entered Army As Boy. Porter entered the army when illegally accepted by the more cannon fodder. At that time, he had no knowledge of the role of the enslaving the working class. school, and within two years he be- he was being used. At this time, however, he did not know that the \ the exploiters. | Care Lb. D. putes Strike Leader. has taken up the defense of Porter, this country. Soldiers are denied the constitu- often for many months. (Continued on Page Two) SECURE “DAILY,” IS CALL Must Insure Paper’s Life for the Summer Contributions which continued to come in yesterday for the drive to save The DAILY WORKER brought the total up to last night close to $10,000. $301.55 was received yester- day. However, much more than this definite suspension, with a postscript _ added to the effect that if he “acts like a good boy from now on,” the ela “consider” his rein- amount must be raised if the. exis- tence of The DAILY WORKER is to be secured over the sumrher months. Summer is usually the most difficult pace Peak enka with the income from advertising and other sources falling off sharply. The $10,000 which has been so generously raised by workers thruout the country is necessary to meet creditors’ bills. The workers must prevent another such crisis from occurring during the And they|day night, difficult summer months. Jokn Porter, a weaver, Vice-Presi- and organizer of the Young Work-| ers (Communist) League was tarned| authorities reds of the city’s workers. underpaid slaves who operate the lines. INCRIMINATE FOUR MORE IN THE HUGE Porter is being held in the military prison at Fort Rodman, and from there he will be sent to Fort Adams Efforts will be made to deny all civil rights and the War Department does not permit its “ictims to present in appeals to civil DON BASIN PLOT Gorletzky “Proven Chief in Sabotage MOSCOW, UP. S. S. R., June 21.— Gorletzky, one of the most prominent | leaders of the huge criminal sabotage conspiracy against the Soviet Gov- ernment, was today examined here on || charges. of his having-Seen implicated in the plot. Gorletzky was a high- salaried mines director before the rev- olution, hated by the workers under his supervision. After the revolution, he became an active counter-revolu- tionist, and supported the cossack white-guardist, Krasnov, against the Soviet Union. When questioned by the prosecu- tion, Gorletzky told the court that so- Among the crimes of Porter, as re- ported in the capitalist press of New hardly sixteen years of age, and was military authorities because of their desire for army in defending imperialism and But for Porter the service proved to be a gan .to realize the purpose for which task of militant workers in the army is to expose the true nature of cap- italist militarism to his fellow sol- day when delegates to the Automotive | diers so that they will fight against The International Labor Defense legal defense will be given at the court-martial, and the working class throughout the country will be ral- lied for the greatest struggle against the military machine ever known in tional right of bail and are forced to do hard labor while awaiting trial, This is being done in the case of Porter, and for passing of the control of the world’s the first time the unconstitutional Kate Gitlow, veteran of more than thirty years of struggle in the Tabor movement of this country, who has just returned from a visit to the Soviet Union, where she spent six months studying the conditions of the Russian working class, will be wel- comed back. by the workers of New York City at a huge banquet to be held tomorrow evening at 6 o’clock at the Manhattan Labor Lyceum, 66 E, 4th St. The United Council of Working Class Woman, which has arranged the banquet, announced yesterday that the most elaborate preparations had been made for this-affair that have ever been made in the history of the organization. Artists in every field have been invited to entertain those present. Most notable of those will be the Konin Musical Trio. Speakers have also” been procured. MILLINERS PICKET DESPITE ARRESTS Neither the strike-breaking activi- ties of the right wing officials of the International Cloth Hat Cap and Mil- linery Workers’ Union, nor the police terror of arrests and beatings can prevent the members of the Millinery Hand Workers Local 43, from mass- ing in large picket lines daily around the 11 shops which locked out their members for refusal to obey the or- der of the International chiefs, to drop their membership in Local 43 and register in Local 24. The two pickets arrested Wednes- Dotty Newman and must see to it that The DAILY] Francis’ Schwartz, were released yes- WORKER remains six pages. (Continued on Page 2'wo) terday on $500 bail each for trial on on Page | Fine Program Arranged | for Banquet Tomorrow} they crashed.on the elevated structure on Morris Park Ave., near the B. 180th St. station. been lost, the company, as is its practice, would undoubtedly seek to shift the blame to the overworked and Merely as a gesture, the Transit Commission has on numerous occasions “ordered” the I. R. T. to replace its woodgn cars, but the company has, with characteristic arro- gance, refused to pay the slightest attention to it. [KANSAS MINERS CALL SPECIAL CONVENTION (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) ARMA, Kansas, June 21.—Charging that the Lewis-Burr-Skahan ma- chine of District 14 has brought the mine union to the verge of destruction pearly forty officers and representatives -of local unions and sub-districts ——have sent out a call for a special con- BAIL TO TALK IN _ PROVIDENCE, R. To Speak in 3 States on Organizing Tour PROVIDENCE, R. L, June 21. — Alex Bail, crganizer of the New England district of the Workers | (Communist) Party, will speak here tomorrow night as part of the tour which he is conducting to mobilize ali |the Party resources in the election “is a Utopia that has no | campaign and for the support of the chance of ever being realized.” was revealed during the course of his | examination that he had seized every (Continued.on Page Five) “MOTHER” GITLOW TO BE WELCOMED New Bedford textile strikers. Bail is at present on a tour of vari- ous cities in Rhode Island, Massa- chusetts and New Hampshire. In ad- dition, special organizers are also in the field in charge of the work in certain sections. Election work in Rhode Island is at present concentrating on securing the required number of signatures to place the names of William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, candidates for pres- jident and vice-president of the Work- ers Party respectively, on the bal- lot, as well as the state ticket. * Ed- ward Theinert is candidate for gov- ernor and James P. Reid for senator. is as follows: vidence, R. 1h Bail’s itinerary Brockton, Mass. VOonsinuad on Page Three) Painters and Carpenters Urged to Help “Daily” Painters and carpenters who are at present unemployed are asked to report for volunteer work at the DAILY WORKER business office, to assist in renovating the office on the fourth floor into which the editor- ial staff of the DAILY WORKER will move as soon as the alterations are completed. BREAKS PATIENT'S NECK WASHINGTON, June 21.—Louis W. Hoffman, who called himself “doc- tor” and practised physiotherapy, pleaded guilty to second degree mur- der here yesterday in connection with the death of Eleanor Lehman, 23 whose neck was broken in a treat- ment by Hoffman. Wooden cars on the Interborough Rapid Transit lines have again placed in jeopardy the lives of hund- Photo shows two I. R. T. trains which telescoped late Wednesday night when Had any lives vention to be held here on July 1 at which a program will be worked out to meet the crisis in the union to place the organization back into the hands of the rank and file miners. The convention call is addressed also to miners of Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma and Colorado who are urged to send fraternal delegates. Credentials to the convention are to be sent to Everett Cook at Mulberry, Kansas. The call in full follows: Rank and File Speakers. To all Local Unions and Members of District 14, United Mine Workers of America Greetings: The rank and file of District 14 is hereby calling a special convention of District No. 14 of the U. M. W. A. to convene Sunday, July 1, 1928, 10 a, m., Eagles Hall, Arma, Kansas. The purpose of the convention will be to work out a program to meet the deep crises which have been (Continued on Page Two) TAMMANY RING GETS $5,000,000 Wrecking - Market for | Trucking Firm Governor Alfred E. Smith, in par- ticular, have deliberately wrecked the city wholesale terminal markets in the interest of the United States }Trucking Corporation of which Smith \for two years was head, were made tor of the City Affairs Bureau of jthe republican county committee. Facts Verified. While made in the interest of re- publican propaganda these accusa- tions have long been known to be cor- rect, it was declared yesterday in in- formed quarters, The wrecking of the city market, it was charged, has enabled the trucking corporation to obtain a monopoly on supplying the city supply of food which yearly to- tals over $5,000,000, and which would otherwise have come in by direct rail connections at a great saving to the workers. Harry N. Taylor, president of the trucking corporation, denied the truth of the charge. Smith’s activities in connection with the company of whose (Continued on Page Five) POLICE Murder “Annoys” (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) HOUSTON, Tex., June 21.—At least one, and possibly more members of the Houston police force took’ a leading part in the lynching, here yesterday, of Robert Powell, 24-year- old Negro. His body had been found hanging from an old bridge about eee miles from the city. Powell had been dragged from a|police were parties to the lynching.|president, in addition to a _ The DAILY WORKER has not as|July 10th on charges of disorderly|cot in the hospital ward where he lay} While some of the local papers|of other-companies of ‘lesser i (Continued Fins) dying following an exchange of (Continued: om. Raga: Lea) ety shots AIDED LYNCHING Houston Democrats Iwith a city detective, Davis, who shot into a crap game in which a group of Negro youths had joined. Police in Line-Up. This morning the witnesses to the kidnapping in the hospital were con- fronted with a whole watch of the police force at headquarters in an effort to discover just how many | Nanking g jer interests. Charges that Tammany Hall and} yesterday by William Bullock, direc- | ‘have made an appraisal of the erties to be included. ‘Coolidge interests of Boston, ral Fu-Tso-yi, yester- day invaided the consulate of the, |Soviet Union at Tientsin, according to despatches from that city. The invaders occupied the consulate for several hours, overturning desks and ransacking cabinets in their ef forts to find the quantities of arms which they declare Chinese Commun- had secreted in the consulate pre- tae mises. Consul Grigoriev produced nine loaded revolvers, the only weapons in the consulate, which are kept for the purpose of defense against attacks by Russian white guardists in China, The Chinese officials admit that they found neither arms nor Com- munist propaganda, The raid is interpreted here as the first of a series which are scheduled to do for the diplomatic and com- mercial agencies of the Soviet Union in northern China what the Nanking police carried out in the southern offices at an earlier date. It is believed that the Tientsin raid will be followed immediately by raids on the Soviet offices in other towns. British newspapers here have com- mended the raid. “A, P.” FAITHFUL LACKEY OF TRUST Sends Out Much Power Publicity WASHINGTON, June 21.—Farther evidence that the Associated Press has been acting as propaganda agency for the power trust was revealed to- day in spite of much soft-pedalling lin the investigation being conducted | by the federal trade commission. The spotlight turned on Missouri today with J. B. Sheridan, secretary \of the Missouri Committee on Publie | Utility Information, testifying as to |the readiness and efficiency of the Associated Press in serving the powe A letter was prot in which Sheridan told George Me- Quaid, cf the Texas Publicity Burean, that the Associated Press jn Mis- souri “sends out practically every |thing we give them.” About 18 M NeWSPapers, Sheridan said, printed every power t story sent to them by the As- sociated Press. Since 1926 an average of one story a week has been dis- tributed in this way, he declared. * . WASHINGTON, June 20—A, tale of power trust bribery of newspapers \through advertising and public school (Continued: on Page Ftvé) s700,000,000 COAL’ MERGER IS NEAR Secret Conference Is ss Working Out Plans — Plans for the formation of a $200, 000,000 bituminous coal merger af nounced recently advanced another step yesterday when representatives of a number of open shop operators of West Virginia met in a secret sea= sion at the Waldorf Astoria and Tis- tened to reports of engineers which will inelude the producers’ of 35,000,000 tons of coal yearly, are Consolidated Coal Company, the D. Rockefeller, Jr. interests, and by a relative of Calvin Coolid See