The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 4, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 157. L ete wublished daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc. 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Entered as second-cluss matter at the Pout Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of Marck 3, 1879, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. "NICARAGUA PROTEST MEET IN WALL ST. ATTACKED MILL CITY MAYOR | TO PERMIT UNION FAKERS TO PARADE Bosses Lackey Endorses} U. T. W. Officials NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 3.— Providing indisputable proof ‘that the «leaders of the Textile Council of the Textile Workers are held in great es- teem by the mill owners, Mayor Ash- Jey, the one time recipient of a $20,- 000 “gift” from the mill bosses asso- ciation, announced yesterday that he would gladly give a parade permit to the council officials, but “never to the Textile Mills Committee.” The entire New Bedferd police force broke up a Textile Mills Committee parade last Saturday after clubbing and injuring many and arresting 29 participants. Although the U. T. W. leaders have not as yet signified their intentions of accepting Mayor Ashley’s offer of the “fullest police protection” for a parade, the whole offer is recognized as a gesture of the authorities, made to escape the severe condemnation for Saturday’s onslaught levelled at them by the great majority of the city’s population. Bosses’ Agents. The effect of the whole maneuver was entirely unlooked for by the mill barons’ agents, occupying city hall, as well as the bosses agents at the head of the Textile Council. All that the Mayor’s statement has so far ac- complished is to announce to the 28,- 000 textile strikers in the 12th week of a struggle against wage cuts, that the mayor and his bosses, the mill owners, greatly prefer that they should be led by Binns, Batty and Co., and not by the militant leadership of the Textile Mills Committee. This contention is overwhelmingly sustained by the sentiments expressed by hundseds of workers, upon hearing | of Mayor Ashley’s statement. These strikers argue very simply, they say: “Any labor leaders that are good for Ashley, and therefore for the mill owners, are not good for us.” F 28 Jailed. The full list of the twenty-eight strikers arrested at Saturday’s parade is as follows: Hannibal D. Costa, Eli Keller, Marion Botelho, John Ares, Rose Fernandes, Jack Rubinstein, | Manuel Peter, John Pelezar, Andrew ‘Bourassa, Bessie Katsikeras, Joseph Julio, Manuel Moniz, Jose Madieros Arbine, Joseph Cohele, Manuel Macha- do, Elizabeth Donneley, Joseph Pa- ( chece, Ellen Dawson, John Gonsalves, Maria C. Silva and Andrew Izyk. | STAR PERFORMERS AT BIG CARNIVAL Great Program at Joint Defense Affair Maurice, well-known acrobat and wrestler, and Alex Fox, the workers’ strong man, will be among the fea- tures at the huge sport carnival and jamboree of the Joint Board to be held Saturday in Starlight Park. The carnival, the greatest prole- tarian sporting event ever held in this country, will bring together the lead- ing workingclass athletic organiza- . tions New York. There will be } baseball and soccer games, swimming, | / wrestling, boxing, gymnastics and acrobatics” In addition, a program of music will be rendered by the Hun: garian Symphony Orchestra and there will be dancing by a children’s ballet. The great carnival will start in the afternoon and last until the early hours of the morning. Admission will be 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. All the proceeds will go for the defense of framed-up needle trades workers, Flood of Lava Buries Many Philipine Towns LEGASPI, Philippine Islands, July 8.—The coast town of Libeg, with a population of 7,000, and several vil- lages near the eastern base of the vol- eano Mayon, have been virtually destroyed by lava streaming down the volcano’s side, refugees reaching here reported. The volcano has been in eruption since June 21, and all the inhabitants of the devastated district are thought to have left days ago. NATURAL RESOURCES OF THE U.S. S. R. i The immense resources of the So- viet Union, which probably exceed those of any other country, have been explored only, to a comparatively small degree. In 1925 a discovery was made in the Ural region of potash reserves which are believed to be among the greatest in the world. The Kursk anomaly, of which extensive studies have been made only recently, gives evidence of containing iron ore reserves as great 4s those of the rest of the warld combined. Taxi Chauffeur Must Take Day Off---But How? American “justice” becomes more magnanimous day after day. Work- ers must have vacations, is its latest decree, regardJess of whether they have the money to procure a vacation or not. This recent stand was illustrated yesterday when Recorder Cain in Bayonne yesterday sentenced Edward Schilling, 28 years old, a taxicab driver, of 181 West 24th St., to take his wife, Julia, to Coney Island on the fourth of July. Failure to comply with the court’s order, the omnipotent recorder said, would mean a jail sen- tence, Mrs. Schilling had complained to the judge that her husband “never took her out.” He said that he had to work seven days a week in order to procure a living wage, and had no time to go out for pleasure. But American justice rectified this wrong. Trust American justice for that. Even if Schilling has to starve, or lose his job. DISTRICT 1 FOR GENERAL STRIKE Anthracite Miners Fight McGarry (Special to the Daily Worker) By ANTHRACITE MINER. SCRANTON, July 83.—The Brennan- McGarry crew, so-called new officials of ‘district 1, again exposed their cowardice and treachery when on Thursday they turned down a resolu- tion calling for a general strike in the district. The resolution was introduced by James Lamarca and Chas. Licata of local 1708 of which Frank Mc- Garry, new district preisdent, is a member, Members of local 1703 and in fact miners throughout the whole district, pare in favcr of a general strike, The McGarry, Brennan, Harris forces have shown that they are following in the footsteps of the reactionary Cap- pelini machine, Bitter Struggle. The miners have been thru starva- tion and ali kind of misery for months, their leaders have been murdered, the vank and file have been discriminated against. But the so-called new dis- trict officials have done nothing to force the Pennsylvania Coal Company to concede to the demands of the miners in its collieries. The contractor system against which the miners have fought so bitterly still exists. The wage cuts threughour the Pennsylvania Coal Co. fields still are enforced. The terroriza- tion by the company in combination with the contractors and the old dis- trict officials led by Cappelini, Lewis and Kennedy is still going on. Yet when the left wing advances a proposition for the elimination of (Continued on Page Two) 2 New Patents For Artificial Rubber WASHINGTON, July 2.—Artificial rubber on a commercially feasible scale may become possible as a re- sult of two-new patents taken out in Germany and England, copies of which have been received by the De- partment of Commerce here. The Soviet Union offered a first prize of $50,000 and a second of $25,- 000 for five pounds of synthetic rub- ber with the formula delivered in Moscow before Jan. 1, 1928. No an- nouncement has yet been made. of the awards. Industrial Institutes In the Soviet Union Thirty-five new scientific industrial institutes have been created during the past ten years to carry on re- search in various branches of indus- try in the Soviet Union. Among these are chemical, radio, silicate, auto- mobile, mineral, _ thermotechnical, electro-technical, peat, leather, to- bacco, metallurgical, mining, geophysi- cal, hydraulic, oil, physico-technical, sugar, coal and agricultural institutes, Allen Will Publish New Hearst Sheet OMAHA, July 3.—Nelson B, Up- dike, the owner of the Omaha Bee- News, announced the sale of that newspaper to the William Randolph Hearst interests. Hearst will take over the property on August 1. Terms of the sale were not made public, Updike also announced that for- mer Governor Henry J. Allen of Kan- Sas, editor of the Wichita Beacon. will be publisher of the paper under the Hearst management. OVER HUNDRED HORTHY TERROR Torture Men, Women, in Jails (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) VIENNA, July 3.—In spite of de- nial by the Budapest government that arrests involving more than a hun- the last few days, further arrests are being made hourly. Since the issuance of the official denial 12 more arrests have been re- ported. Earlier reports alleged that a wholesale round-up of workers, charged with spreading Communist propaganda, was being carried out by the Horthy authorities. At least one hundred workers, many of them women, are reported to have been victims of the police raids. The government is endeavoring to maintain a wall of secrecy around proceedings in Hungary, but some details of the government's persecu- tion are now available. According to official report, the arrested workers are being submit- ted to the most-brutal torture by the jail and police authorities in their effort to force them to make incrim- inatory statements. A gruelling examination preceded the imprisonment of most of the workers. A few against whom no accusations could possibly be main- tained have been released by the au- thorities. They continue to be under the strictest surveillance, however. Further examination of the pris- |oners is being arranged for immedi- ately, and it is believed that the next twenty-four hours will witness numer- ous other arrests. FIFTY HURT IN _ TROLLEY CRASH Faulty equipment caused a Bergen St. car to jump the rail with the re- sult that one passenger was killed. the motorman so badly injured that hurt. The practice of overcrowding street cars that are run by over-worked motormen leads to such accidents, which find their victims among the workers, Production Lower in Two Ford Factories DETROIT, Mich., July 3.—Despite the efforts of the executives of the Ford Motcrs Corporation in speed- ing up preduction, the Fordson fac- tory, where more than 80,000 men are at work, is turning out only 2,800 complete Model A autos daily, it was announced today. The plant, however, is making 3,100 motors daily. At the top of production of Model T, nearly 10,000 cars were turned out daily, with a maximum working force of 110,000 men. The two Ford plants now employ nearly 120,000 workers. ARE JAILED IN dred workers have been made within | Nhe is expected to die and fifty others | i (Commun ing into a cro’ ‘i m’s war on Nicaragua. ; They are, from left to right, Rebecca Grecht, election campaign manager of District t) Party; Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER and Wor nstration ROT if wd of about 1,000 workers who were Above are three of the 14 2, Workers Party candidate for U. S. Senator; and Kate Gittows Secretary of the United Council of Workingclass Women. THEREMIN 10 BE ARMY OF BOYS SEEKS Will Play ‘International’ at Coney Stadium For the first time American work- ers will hear the International com- ing in mysterious tones out of the air. This miracle will be performed at the great concert and entertain- ment to be held in Coney Island Sta- dium Saturday evening, July 14 when Prof. Leo Theremin, the great scientist of the Soviet Union, will demonstrate his new sensational mu- sical invention. Prof. Theremin has revolutionized musical science. All previous mu- sical production from the earliest times has required the use of some musical instrument. Prof. Theremin has for the first time succeeded in drawing musical tones of the great- est beauty directly out of the air. His invention has created a sensa- tion throughout the world. At the great concert at Coney Island Stadium Theremin will make his first appearance before an Amer- ican working class audience. In ad- dition to the International, he will play many other selections. Theremin will be only one of the |features at this unusual concert. Ar- nold Volpe, famous conductor, will lead an orchestra of 50 musicians in a program of symphonic selections A well-known ballet of interpretative dances, as well as many other num- bers, will help make this concert an epoch-making musical event. Unity Camp Full The management committee of Unity Camp has announced that the camp is full, and requests comrades not to seek accommodations until net Monday. HALT FASCIST FLIGHT BUDAPEST, July 3—Hungarian fascists are backing a flight from Hungary to Italy over Jugoslav ter- ritory, it is claimed. The flyer, Lieu- tenant Kassala, has been refused permission by the Jugoslavian au- thorities to cross over the country. | “Boy, general office wor! Several hundred boys, lookin FRENCH DIE-HARD TO ADD TO NAVY Doumergue Watches Huge Imperialist Fleet PARIS, July 3.—France never will permit her re-born navy to fali again in strength, President Doumergue said at a dinner tonight aboard the cruiser Duquesne, off Havre, where from a destroyer he had watched the most ambitious naval manoeuvres held by the navy since 1913, 9 After expleining that these naval manoeuvers should cause worry to no one, and that their only “ambition is to maintain peace” the President goes on: “The construction of this fleet is in- dispensable to our national dignity and safety. We shall continue methodi- | cally to add to it. Several of our new | warships already have carried the | French colors throughout the world, for France wants her navy and her sailors to stay on the high seas.” Important Meeting of ‘Daily ’Agents Thursday An important meeting of all sec- tion, / WORKER agents of District 2 will be held Thursday evening at 8 o’clock at 26-28 Union Square. The meet- ing is being called for the purpose of discussing plans for the great con- cert that is being arranged for Sat- urday, July 14, in Coney Island Sta- dium. An appeal has been issued to all DAILY WORKER agents by Harry Fox, campaign director of the “Daily,” to give this undertaking their utmost support. On next Monday the Daily 22: Worker will be a bigger and better paper, appearing for the first time in its “new dress” with standard 8-column pages. In the meantime we request the readers to excuse some faults in both appearance and regularity of de- livery, due to disorder in the mechanical departments, incident to moving into our new quarters in the Work- ers Center on Union Square. We are sure you will be pleased by the new form of The DAILY WORKER, keginning next Monday. Will you get a new reader for The Daily Worker? New address: 26- 28 Union Square, New York. New telephone: Stuyvesant 1696. A eee A ARIAS AVENE TAA AL ae subsection and unit DAILY} AT BIG CONCERT JOB: FINDS IT FILLED to start. Vredenburgh, Kennedy Co., 171 Madison Ave.” g for jobs to help out poverty-stricken —parents, read this want ad in a New | York newspaper yesterday morning. |They gathered outside 171 Madison | Ave. struggling for positions near the entrance. The boys started coming shortly after dawn and at 6:30 there were about 250 of them crowding on the pavement. New Recruits. New recruits kept pouring into | this youthful army of the unemployed. They came by subway, by bus, by surface car and many who couldn’t sfford the carfare walked. At 7:30 the elevator operators of the building arrived ahd found the en- trance completely blocked. Leo Frizon, superintendent of the building, was much annoyed and immediately tele- phoned to the E. 35th St. police station frem where a deiachment of polige was despatched.” The police “kept vrder;” they shoved the boys around, vhreatencd and glared at them to show them that the mighty arm of “the law” would have its way. And stii the boys kept coming from every part of New York suburbs. Walk 16 Flights. The office of Vredenburgh, Kennedy Co. was on the 16th floor. A few of the boys were taken up*by elevator, but the rest were told to walk. They walked. Up 16 flights to the door of Vredenburgh, Kennedy Co., where | they crowded, waiting to be admitted, each eager to prove his merit. Many of then: were already inside the office where Miss May Maher, secretary of the company, and several men assistants were trying to throw them out. But the boys were desper- ate after their long wait and climb and refused to move. Finally the boys were thrown out and the door lecked.. A sign was hung out: POSI- TION ALREADY FILLED. Then somehow the news leaked out. It spread from boy to boy, mingling with their curses and cries of anger. Vredenburgh, Kennedy Co. had hired a boy at 4 o’clock the day before. They had forgotten to cancel the ad. Inter-City Gang War Seen in Thug Killing Authorities of America’s two larg- est cities were confronted today with something new in criminal activities —an inter-city gang war. When Frank Uale, Brooklyn gang chief, was shot to death here Sunday, police attributed the killing to Chi- cago gangsters who had come here to settle a grudge against him because of his activities in the midwestern city’s gang feuds. An exchange of communications with the Chicago po- lice seemed to bear this theory out. And now the authorities of both | cities are inclined to the belief that Chicago wili be the scene of the next murder, with New York assassins in- vading the western metropolis for re- venge. Chicago police have been warned to head off the invaders be- fore they enter. 15 Dead, 25 Severely Injured in Indian Riot CALCUTTA, Thdis, July 3.—News- paper advices say that fifteen per- sons were killed and twenty-five more severely wounded in religious rioting at Khatgpur. Hindus end Sikhs are reported to “|have attacked a Mohammedan reli- gious procession when it attempted to pass a Hindu temple. P Statements from members of the different religious cults lay the blame on the British authorities. They say that the officials are doing all in their power to incite such hatred and fights among the different religions in an effort to keep them from uniting and forming a powerful national senti- ment among themselves, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ‘MANY INJURED IN “POLICE ASSAULT, FOURTEEN JAILED |Minor, Schachtman, and Grecht Are Arrested | Charging into the crowd with clubs flying and fists swinging at faces, police yesterday afternoon attacked a demonstration of about 1,000 work- jers at Wall and Broad Sts. which de- manded that American marines ba |immediately withdrawn from Nicara- gua. | The demonstration, which was ar- |ranged by the All-American Anti- Imperialist League, began at 12:30 with the raising of placards by a group of Young Pioneers directly in front of the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co., near the New York Stock Exchange. Police Charge Hardly had the crowd of workers gathered around an automobile from the top of which speakers began to address them when 14 detectives of neat appearance essential; salary, $15-$20 | the Wall St. and Madison Lane squads | and 30 patrolmen of the Old Slip Sta- tion descended upon them. The po- |licemen, brandishing their clubs, and the plain clothes men making liberal use of their fists, kicking and slug- ging the workets. and began tearing up the placards which bore such slo- gans as “Defeat Wall Street’s War Against Nicaragua,” “Millions of Un- employed While the Funds of the United States Go for Conquest in Nicaragua,” and “Why Not Relieve the Farmer Instead of Supporting the Banker?” On the same corner a preacher was giving a “Bible talk.” The police did not molest the preacher. Slug Speakers Robert Wolf, poet and novelist, got up on top of the automobile and be- gan speaking. A policeman immedi- ately threw him down. Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER and Communist candidate for M.S. Senatoy, mounted=the (roof of the automobile. Minor was pulled from the top of the car by two police- men and thrown to the pavement, where he was kicked and slugged. Speaker after speaker, undaunted by |the assault, arose to tell the work- ers of the role played by Wall St. |in murdering the natives of Nicara- {gut and to demand the immediate | withdrawal of American marines. All |were thrown down, slugged and placed under arrest. Harriet Silverman, secretary of the ‘New: York branch of the All- America “ Anti-Imperialist League. was viciously hit in the facé and a large cut made over her right eye. | from which the blood streamed freely. ;Another worker, Nathan Kaplan, jwas dragged into the Old Slip police station and there slugged in the face by Policeman John Keegan and two \plain clothes detectives. In hitting Kaplan in the mouth, Keegan’s fist |collided with the worker’s teeth and |his finger was cut. Keegan declared |later in court that Kaplan had “bit- \ten” him, Those arrested were hurried off to South St. police station. The crowd of workers followed and were joined by dock workers and a meeting was improvised at the edge of the river. |Again the police appeared on the scene and resumed their previous |slugging tactics, finally dispersing’ |the workers. A total of 14 were ar- ‘rested. The police showed not even the (Continued on Page Two) SOVIETS VESSEL NEARS AMUNDSEN |Now Within Few Miles of Lundborg VIRGO BAY, SPITZBERGEN, July 3.—The U.S.S.R. Ice Breaker Krassin, which had been reported near six of the twenty-four men lost on Arctic -e wastes, wired it would be impos- | sible to reach the survivors for sev- {eral days. | According to the Krassin’s report Monday night, the ship had penetrated to within a few miles of where Capt. Einar-Paal Lundborg, Swedisr aviator who rescued General Umberto Nobile, jand five of Nobile’s companions ars marooned. The ship was expected to rescue them at any hour. Strong winds and thick fog swept over the region, the ice closed in about the Krassin, and the message of hope was cancelled. The northern elements have held secret for days the fate of nine men | who flew from land over the ice in |search of the !ost .explorers—Raold ;Amundsen «und five men and Lieut. | Babushkin of the Soviet air force and | two companions. Amundsen has net been heard from since June 18, and the others have been missing since the last week of May. ett akon ROR EMM AD re OA TCO IMLS MSN YE RRNA | |