The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 2, 1928, Page 1

* | 7 (BALTIMORE MEET THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR \PHE ORGANIZATION OF THE t UNORGANIZED FOR, THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vat V. No. 155. POLICE W¥ublished datly except Sunday by The National Daily ‘Worker Publishing Association, Inc,, 33 Wirst Street, New York, N. ¥, CONFIRM ZINOVIEV READMISSION TO “ALL UNION PARTY - Admit All Errors; Give Up Fractional Work | (Special Cable to the Dafly Worker). » MOSCOW, July 1—The Praesidium of the Central Contro!l/Commission of } the Communist Party of the Soviet : Union has decided to readmit to the kov and thirty-five other members of the former opposition because they , filed statentents recognizing the fun- : damental errors, of their former posi- tion, abandoned the Trotskyist plat- form, gave up their fractional ac- |) tivity and promised to completely ' subordinate themselves to the de- | cisions of the Comsuist Party of \ the Soviet Union and the Communist \ International. Their former membership in the party will be reckoned and nate made H of the interruption of their member- | ship since their expulsion. | Th addition to Zinoviev, Kameneff | and Yevdomikoff, those readmitted to * party membership are: Avdeyev, ! Babakhan, Bakayev, Belais, Belenki, Burzev, Weintraub, Gertik, Hessen, Gurlaski, Yelkovitch, Sevarakina, » Saluzki, Kuklin, Lashevitch, Levin, Lepeshinsbsaya, Lyalina, Matveyev, Makhov, Minitschev, Nikolaiev, Pin- son, Prigoshin, Rabkin, Ravitsch, So- kolov, Solovyev, Federev, Furtichev, Kharitonov, Sharov and ppuetOy Gad Shepsheleva, - ATTACKS U.S. S.R. TOUR ‘| Feeiieed C Comintern, Workers Party WASHINGTON, July 1—In ac. cordance with their policy of bitter opposition to the Uniqn of Sovk Soyiet Republics, ew oll, speaking for the bureaucracy of the “American Federation of Labor, has condemned the tour of Soviet Russia “by American educators as “a propa- ,ganda device.” This was disclosed “tonight in a correspondence made || public by Woll, acting president of “the National Civic | i vice-president of the A. F. The Tennessee Federation, which supported the tour, asked Wull, as _president of the International Labor \ Press of America, to give publicity {to reports on the tour. Woll’s attack on the plan was directed as a re- ‘buke at the Tennessee Federation. There are two hundred trade union publications comprising the Labor Press. : Secretary W. C. Birthright, of the Tennessee Federation, described to Woll in a letter to J. B. Matthew, one of the members of the tour, as a “very learned professor and a teacher on the bible in Scarritt Col- lege.” Matthew's plan is to send back reports on the tour as the par- ‘ty progresses through Russia. _ Replying to Birthright, Woll said: “Please be advised that the Amer- itan Federation of Labor had defin- jtely eposed the present Russian gime and has condemned it inf no uncertain terms. The Russian gov- ‘ernment as expressed through the Communist International has sought “for many years the overthrow of the ‘American government and as a con- aaa precedent to this, the over- row of the American Federation pf Labor. , © there is no distinction ' between the Communists (Workers) Party, the Third International and the So. viet regime, They are one and the same. Again, it has been the experi- ence of the American labor move- ment that no real insight can be ob- tained of the workings of the Soviets and conditions existing there, because the manner in which such delega- tions and investigators are received and surrounded. They are shown what is deemed best to show them gud are refused access to many places where conditions would not warrant the shedding of light.” MINOR SPEAKS AT on July 4, with Robert Minor, of The DAILY WORKER and for Senator on the Com- n Will be held in the Work- tative Shore on the 4th of at about 11 a.m. It the support of the entire lett-wing ‘in Baltimore. In addition to the speaking there will be bathing, games, dancing and a © “tt es i ‘ foe “Addresses Militants » party Zinoviev, Kameneff, Yevdomi«| Albert Weisbord, organizer of the Passaic strike, addressed thou- sands of New Bedford textile work- ers after their demonstration had been broken up by a police attack, Thousands heard Weisbord, though he spoke in an open lot in a heavy rain, TEXAS DELEGATES REPORT ON PARTY NOMINATION MEET Lauderdale En Enthusiastic About Convention BRECKENRIDGE, Texas, July 1— The delegates from Texas to the Na- tional Nominating Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party held re- eently in New York, delivered a verbal and written report to the Oklahoma and Texas sub-district of the Party. The written report, signed by E. H. Lauderdale and Harry Lawrence is quoted in full and says: My report on the Workers (Com- munist) Party Nominating Convention was delayed since it took me some four days to reach home after adjourn- “| ment and my crop required immediate attention upon arrival home. The convention was held as an- nounced on the 25-26-27 of May of this year in-the.city of Nes:-York. Dele: gates attended from some of the South (Continued on Page Five) ELECT OBREGON IN MEXICO POLL Communist Party Calls Him Careerist MEXICO CITY, July 1 (UP).— The Mexican national elections, at which General Alvaro Obregon, for- mer president, and friend of presi- dent Calles, was the sole presidential candidate, passed quietly throughout the country today with a fairly heavy vote, according to renorts received at the capital this evening. Obregon will assume office Decem- ber 1. *. * * MEXICO CITY, July 1. — The hollow formality of the Mexican presidential election was gone thru _| today with General Alvaro Obregon as the sole candidate. Fearing elec- |: tion disturbances, the entire Mexican army was ordered on active duty, and all the courts kept open. Obregon had the support of the American interests with investments in Mexico, es well as the middle classes and part of the upper class. His attitude towards the lauded Church interests has steadily bended to become more conciliatory. In reference to the Obregon candi- dacy, the Mexican Communist Party issued the following statement: “Ob- | - regonism at one time represented the united front against clericalism, lgnd- lordism and imperialism, but the re- cent split reveals that for Obregon the united front only exists in his own person. He has called on the peasants, the middle classes and part of the upper classes to aid him. The Obregon group has no sincere desire to destroy the false labor lead- ership of the CROM and strengthen the labor movement, but to destroy 4 strong rival political clique which interferes only with their. own ambi- tions. Many of the Obregonistas even wish to destroy the labor move- ment, reduce salaries and abolish the social gains of the revolution. A bréak is developing between the Obregon group and the Mexican La- bor Party, of Mexico has as a result taken a position of’ opposition to the Mexican labor misleadership, lead by Morones, The Party has termed the conflict be- tweon Obregon and the CROM a “sor- did struggle between two political factions called. Obregonism and La~ borism.” Currency in in elrculation, as of April 1, 1928, amounted to 1,518,800,000 ru- bles, of which State Bank notos were 906,200,200 rubles, treasury notes’ 430,000,000 rubles, silver coin 163,- act les, and bronze and Ciaes 3,700, 000. i ' MANY INJURED IN ATTEMPT TO OPEN COAL PIT Operators Try to Set Up 1917 Seale (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Kan, July 1— Miners of the Minden Mines, Mo. fields are enraged over the murderous assault made upon a picket line here Friday when armed scabs and gun- men fired into the crowd, wounding a number of coal diggers. Whole mine districts here have taken on the appearance of armed conflict. * * * Peates . itended from 39 states and the | District of Columbia. Fraternal dele- MINDEN MINES, Mo., July 1.— Serious injuries to miners and scabs resulted here from a clash which fol- lowed the attempt by the Western |Coal and Mining Company to force open its pits at the 1917 scale. A picket line of ‘striking miners of Dis- trict 14 here was fired upon by armed scabs when the company imported strikebreakers from Oklahoma. At Western 23 Mine the company planned to pitch tents for its scabs on (Continued on Page Two) GREAT MUSIC AT STADIUM CONCERT Theremin, Orchestra of 50 to Perform Thousands of New York workers will have the first opportunity to en- joy a demonstration of one of the most remarkable inventions. of our day, when Progessor Leo: Theremin of the’ Soviet, Union will extract from the air what are admittedly the most beautiful musical sounds ever heard. This and other great features will be presented at a concert to be held in Coney Island Stadium, July 14. Volpe and his orchestra of 50, one of the leading musical institutions in the country, will also be on the pro- gram of the concert. The stadium’s seating capacity of about 25,000 ig expected to be filled at this concert which will be the most elaborate proletarian event ever arranged in America. CREW ESCAPES DEATH. NEWPORT, R. L., July 1 (U.P.).— The captain and 15 members of the crew of the fishing schooner Eugenia had a narrrow escape from death when the vessel foundered on the rocks near Beaver Tail Light here early today, sinking within 20 min- utes. The Communtst Party | WASHINGTON, July 1 (U.P.).— Lieut. Lowell Harding, noted Pilot, was injured here today when his air- plane took a nose dive into the Po- tomac River. William P. Cassidy, Entered as second-class matter at the Post Ofiice at NEW TURE. MONDAY, JULY 2, 1928 New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879, FINAL EDITION At left is Bertram D. Wolfe, Workers (Communist) Party candidate for congress from the’ 10th congressional district in Brooklyn; Paul Crouch, Workers Party candidate from the 2nd congressional district in Queens, is shown at the right. STEEL TRUST ORDERS NEW MINE WAGE CUT UNIONTOWN, Pa. July 1. — A wholesale wage cut which will in some cases bring the pay evel of non-union miners to that of pre-war times was announced yesterday by H. C. Frick Coke Company, a subsidiary of the United States Coal Company. Reduc-® SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by Outside New York, by mail, $6 BREAK Pi il, $8.00 per year. 0 per year. Price 8 Cents SLUG, ON MARCHERS Thousands Hear Welthard at at Giant Mass Meet After Demonstration Despite Rain 29 Parade Leaders Jailed; Are Charged With “Inciting to Riot” acd NEW BEDFORD, ™ HORTHY FASCISTS ost." ARREST THIRTY IN cess" WAVE OF TERROR jeven flags were torn f of carriers when the Arrests Follow Bela Kun Trial clubbed ners and the hands {mented New Bedford police broke up the parade of ov x sand textile strikers marching un the leadership of the Textile ™ Committee, in defiance of a poli fusal of permit. The divisions of marchers coming up from the North End had gone about five blocks, and that from the who was with Harding, also was in- jured. ‘collaboration with the bosses. tions of 10, 12 and in some cases of 15 per cent were announced for all grades with the exception of pit coal! diggers who haye already been cut to below $3.00 for a nine-hour day average. The cut affects about 35,000 men in Fayette and Westinoreland Coun- ties and will become operative if} the miners do not in the meantime walk out on strike on July 11. Machine drivers ‘under the new scale would receive a 10 per cent slash. Drivers, cagers, blasters, tracklayers will receive a similar re- duction. Outside laterers will be re- duced to about $3.05--per day and mine laborers to $3.05. Definite information has been se- cured that other operators in the Connellsville region will follow the lead of the U. S. Steel Corporation. CARNIVAL TO AID FRAME-UP VICTINS All roads will lead to Starlight Park next Saturday where the great Joint Defense Sports Carnival will be held. Thousands of workers, repre- senting every trade and every nation- ality will gather there to witness the greatest proletarian sporting spec- tacle ever held in this country. But the sports carnival of the Joint Defense will not be a mere amuse- ment event. It will also be a demon- stration of solidarity on the part of New York’s militant workers with their needle trades comrades who have been framed up by the union- smashing right wing bureaucracy in WAGE INCREASE WAITED 4 YEARS Stereotypers _ Learn of Tammany Tactics Forced after over four years of stalling and deliberate tactics evasion to meet the issue, a Tammany arbitration board, it was learned yes- terday, is about ready to hand down its decision granting a wage increase to members of the stereotyperg union of New York City. Under the decision which will be an- nounced shortly the workers receive a wage increase of $5.50 per week and other increases are said to be in pros- pect, ‘It is understood, however, that the decision which is not retroactive, is made public only after the employ- ers, who are chiefly newspaper pub- lishers, have become certain that they can soon begin steps for a general wage slash. In any event the workers lose four years of increases which they now declare they could easily have won through a strike. Democrat Women Drys 'To Vote For Hoover WASHINGTON, July 1 (U.P.).— | The women of democracy “will bolt | their party rather than vote for Gov, Smith,” and they will support Her- bert Hoover in an active campaign, Mrs. William Atherton Du Puy, Lia- son Press representative for women dry groups at the Houston conven- tion, declared in a statement here tonight. aay Nae BEGINNING NEXT MONDAY, JULY 9 Daily 225 ‘will appear in its “new dress” with pages in full stand- ard size, eight columns to the page instead of the seven columns as heretofore. Complete telegraph service direct to its office from all countries of the world, including the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics, has been secured. The opportunity to establish the workers’ revolu- tionary daily paper on a more economical basis with great saving in cost of publication and great improve- ments in quality, is given by the splendid response of the militant workers and sympathizers in the crisis which threatened the life of the Daily Worker. New Address: 26-28 Union Square, New York. The Daily Worker is confident of the continued support of the militant workers. Worker of (By Cable To DAILY WORKER.) - BUDAPEST, July 1—Thirty ar- rests were today made here in a po- lice dragnet of the Horthy Fascist dictatorship in “conspiracy” which the police claim to have discovered in connection with the Bela Kun trial and activities in Vienna. The Horthy police are concealing the names of the persons arrested and no information of charges against them can be obtained. In the mean- time arrests in the provinces are tak- ing place. * . * VIENNA, July 1—The lawyer for Bela Kun on trial here refrained from | appealing against the sentence so] that the sentence is now valid. It ex- \pires on July 27th. SEAMEN READY FOR NEW UNION Worker Writes About Child Labor (By a Worker Correspondent) Ninety-six per cent of the American seamen are unorganized because the eorrupt officialdom of the Interna- tional Scamens Union will not organ- ize them. There is a crying need, in every seaman’s opinion, for a new union to combat the grasping ship- owners as well as the bureaucratic of- ficials and their recently exposed am- bulance-chasing attorney. Child Labor The shipowners are gloating over the profits they are making out of child labor this summer. Approxi- South End had marched about two blocks, when large truckloads of police, their numbers heavily in- ereased by prohibition agents and others, jumped out and began the elubbings and arrests. Charge Picket Lines. Many more thousands of strikers and - sympathizers were densely crowding the sidewalks, waiting to get into line when the police assault on the strikers began. The two lines of the parade, start- ing from the two far ends of the city, began promptly on schedule ti o’clock and were to meet and z go to the final destination. Several policemen walked before the two marching lines and kept the space in front open for the parade, giving the impression to tho numerous thou- sands on the sidewalks that a permit had been granted. The thunder of cheers that greeted the passing paradg was transformed into hoots and jeefs when the police leaped from the many big Mack trucks and began to charge the lines of the men, women and children marchers, after the order to halt had been defied by Eli Keller and Jack Rubenstein, leaders of the two lines. Weisbord Speaks. Huge mass meetings, addressed by Albert Weisbord. leader of the Na- tional Textile Mill Committee and the (Continued on nued on Page Two) PLAN PITTSBURGH ELECTION DRIVE Put Forward Communist Ticket in Virginia By A. JAKIRA (Organizer, Pittsburgh District.) mately 54,000 children under 16 years of age were forced from their schools | during the vear ending Aug in order that they might enter slave market of the shipowners as cheap labor. These figures were re- (Continued on Page Four) MINE GRIEVANCE BOARD EXPOSED : Coal Diggers Exposed | of Betrayals (Special to The DP HAZELTON. J ciliation board, whi coal operators and uni meeting here to settle many geri ances brought up by the miners} arainst the coal companies. The con- ciliation board, in a majority of ca: are upholding the position of the ¢ pany, actually burying the crievance of the miners. or sending them to Umpire O’Neil‘in Washington, who is “impartial” ond knows how to serve the coal operators. Many Grievances There are many grievances that miners bring up which indi, the bosses are on the offens is the list of grievances from D No. 7: Bratticemand and Roadman, Latti- mer Colliery vs. Pardee Bros. & Co., Ine. In re: Hourly rate. Certain miners, Lattimer Colliery vs. Pardee Bros. & Co., Inc. In re: Rock Hole rate, Certain patcher, No. 4 Oneida Col- (Continued on Page Two) | Pl The struggle of the miners, the | question ae or, pe the unorgan- ) Party in Dis- . were the main problems. 4 para ere by the D u Leng 2 ee work rence: Plenum and ntion to org district exe ued on Page GiTLGW TO BE AT eIMGAeD PICNIC New Step in Election Drive in Illinois cor ill tion ve com- Benjamin Gitlow, Commnnist ean- didate for the viec-presidency United States, will be the speaker ata picnic in Chernauskas Grove, Chicago on the aftérncon of the 4th of Jnly. The picnic will mark a step in the intensive clection drive whieh the party is carrying on in the Chicago district. In addition to Gitlow, Max Bedacht and’a number of other party leaders will speak.