The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 6, 1928, Page 1

. & - capitalism. 8,000 ANTHRACITE MINERS OUT IN PIG SYMPATHY STRIKE THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 159. URGE WORKERS TO SUPPORT $100,000. RED ELECTION FUND Appeals to Workers and Farmers to Rally to | Workers (Communist) Party Statement By Agitation Department Denounces Capitalist Parties In connection with its nation-wide election campaign with Foster and Gitlow as candidates for president and vice-president, the department of agitation and propaganda, the “Agitprop,” of the Workers (Communist) Party yesterday issued a statement denouncing the parties of capitalism and pointing out the neces- sity of the working class to sup-® ees port their own cause in the coming election. The statement in full reads: The two parties of American im- perialism, smeared with oil graft and polluted with sewer graft, have fin- LAUNGH ELECTION DRIVE IN DIST. 2 wublished daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥, ished the task of nominating their natjonal candidates for the next Pres- idential term, Wall Street is well sat- isfied with both—with Al, the ex-fish peddler and leader of Tammany Hall, and with Herbert Hoover, the effi- ciency man who came from some tumbled-down shack in the west—as they like to boast. The Republican Party recently went through the farce of holding a con- , vention to elect standard-bearers. Wall Street had already decided that Hoover was the man, so after a few native sons were carried out on stretchers no other than the “unholy” Bill Vare of Philadelphia was used as Well Street’s instrument in break- ing down all obstacles against the nomination of finance-capital’s favor- ite son. The Ohio Gang It was Harry Daugherty, the crooked Ohio politician, afterwards labor-baiting attorney general, who brought about the- nomination of President Harding for the Presi- dency. And under the Harding regime the Ohio gang became notori- ous. Now the Pennsylvania gang under’ Vare will probably take the ee of the Daugherty crowd. | apol if Tammany Hall“gets e White House what a story there be to tell four years hence! The Democratic Party is as corrupt as the G. O. P. and equally willing to serve the interests of the capitalist class. Wall Street’s “Liberal” The Democratic Party is also backed by Wall Street. Al Smith, who has been considered liberal in the literal and socialist press, enjoys the complete confidence of Wall Street. Both parties are equally corrupt. While the Republican grafters took to the oil fields, the Democratic graft- ers dove into the sewers for their loot. The Democrats did not have a chance for eight years to loot the national treasury, and the Tammany Tiger is now purring with pleasant anticipation of four years of national pillage. i Exploitation Chief Robbery But while the graft and corruption that goes on under those two parties makes good copy for the press and proves that capitalist politicians are » frauds and hypocrites when they talk of patriotism, the robbery that chiefly concerns the Workers (Communist) Party is the robbery of the workers at the point of production. The capitalist governments function as strikebreakers for the employing classes, and it does not make a par- ticle of difference to the workers which set of politicians are in power. Both will break strikes, issue injunc- tions through their compliant judges, persecute the Negroes and the for- eign-born, and wage war against the peoples of weak nations in whose ter- riteries are deposited resources that ean be exploited to the profit of American imperialism. Challenge Capitalist Parties It is on these fundamental issues that the Workers (Communist) Party challenges all other political parties in the field, including the degenerate Socialist Party, and calls on the work- ing class to organize for the over- throw of the system which those par- ties serve. The Socialist Party has repudiated the class struggle, nominated a cant- ing clergyman for President and sup- ports the reactionary officialdom in the labor movement, which constitutes the strongest bulwark between the working class and the revolutionary movement which aims to overthrow Under a socialist admin- istration the government. apparatus would be used to crush strikes and send warships to Nicaragua and China. The social-democratic government Successful Open-Air Rallies Held The election campaign of District 8, Workers (Communist) Party, was launched Wednesday night, July 4, with open-air rallies in various sec- tions of the city. They were among the most successful meetings held by the Party during recent weeks and proved to be real demonstrations for the Workers Party against American imperialism. The subject of discussion at these meetings was, “Our Heritage from the American Revolution, the Struggle Against American Imperialism and the Program of the Workers Party.” Bronx Meeting In the Bronx a meeting was held at Intervale and Wilkins Ave., the prin- cipal speaker being Rebecca Grecht. candidate for assembly in the 5th As- sembly District, who was arrested at an anti-imperialist demonstration in Wall St. the day before. Other speakers were Harry Eisman, of the Young Pioneers, and Goldman, a member of the Laundry Workers’ Union, About 500 workers listened attentively to the speakers and a col- ion of over $17 was taken. ¥ “Another open-air meeting was held (Continued on Page Three) NEW PLANS LAID TO SAVE ITALIA Russian Icebreaker is Still in Ice-Pack VIRGC BAY, Spitzbergen, July 5 (UP).—The work 6f rescuing the stranded men of the transpolar dir- igible Italia was placed upon a new basis today when it was decided to have the Swedish seaplane Uppland establish a gasoline and food supply station nine miles from the icé en- eampment from which General Um- berto Nobile was rescued. The Uppland will establish this station cn the coast of North East Land, Meanwhile, the rescue ship Bra- ganza disembarked the seaplanes which Captain H. Riiser Larsen and Lieutenant Iuetzow Holm will fly. The Braganza started for North Cape, carrying a Finnish airplane which will be used at the new base to be established by the Uppland. The Russian icebreaker Krassin has been unable to extricate herself from the packed ice. Michigan Governor May Pardon Rich Criminal LANSING, Mich., July 5 (U. P.)— Gov. Fred W. Green said today that he has taken under consideration a plea of George R. Rich, wealthy Battle Creek steel manufacturer, to pardon his son. Arthur Rich, the son, is serving a life sentence in Jackson state prison for an assault and beating adminis- tered to Louise King, of Washington, Pa., Battle Creek college co-ed. The governor told the United Press that he had ordered x-rays, intro- duced by the state at Rich’s two triels as those of Louise King, taken to Ann Arbor and examined by a dental ex- pert at the state hospital. The father has claimed that the x-rays were not Louise King’s, the governor said. x Governor said that the x-ray report would be considered with other data on the case in the application for a pardon. ANOTHER DANCE MARATHON of Germany crushed a proletarian revolution, and under the premiership of Ramsay MacDonald the British government dispatched warships to China to crush a strike of Chinese workers, ’ S. P. a Capitalist’ Party The Sqeidlist Party would, maintain the machinery through which capi- talist government operates. This ma- (Continued on Page Two) BUFFALO, July 5 (U. P.) —The Common Council of Buffalo will is- sue a perm it to promoters who plan to stage a dance marathon contest here in the fall. DRAFT SCRAPS OF PAPER GENEVA, July 5 (U. P.) —The League of Nations Security, Commis- sion adjourned yesterday after adopt- ing model drafts of five treaties de- signed to prevent war, Entered as second-ciass matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. POLICE ATTACK ON. PROTEST MEETING Workers Party Nominee Shows Tammany Role Robert Minor, candidate of the Workers (Communist) Party for U.S. Senate from New York State, who together with 14 other participants was arrested on Tuesday, July 3, at the demonstration in Wall street in front of J. P. Morgan & Co., organ- ized by the All-American Anti-Impe- rialist League as a protest against the war of American imperialism against the Nicaraguan people, is- sued through the New York State} Election Campaign Committee of the} Workers Party the following state-| ment yesterday: .*The tyrannical action of New York | City police in breaking up the demon- stration against Wall street and its! oppression of Nicaragua, in assault-| ing and arresting workers peacefully | demonstrating their solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Haiti, Porto Rico, Cuba, the Philippines and China, on the day before July 4, the very day on which the American people them- selves, 152 years ago, overthrew their foreign oppressors, shows very clear- ly the real role of the American gov- ernment as the government of Wall Street, the government of the bank- ers and manufacturers. Police Tools of Capitalists “The Tammany police, as the re- publican administration in Washing- ton, are at the beck and call of Mor- gan and Rockefeller to attack work- ers, their meetings and their strikes in this country, just as they are car- rying out the wishes of the financial interests with 4,000 marines in Nica- ragua today. “Governor Smith, democratic can- didate for president, stands at the head of Tammany, whose police broke up the peaceful demonstration of (Continued on Page Two) NOTED BALLET AT STADIUM CONCERT Theremin, Orchestra in Big Program The famous ballet of the Roxy Paramount Theatre has been secured to take part in the great concert and entertainment that will be held at Coney Island Stadium Saturday eve- | ning, July 14. This ballet, one of the finest in the country, will perform a program of modern and classical dances specially prepared for the oc- casion. Together with Prof. Leon Theremin rand Arnold Volpe’s Symphony Or- chestra the Roxy Ballet will help (Continued on Page Three) CALL MONEY DOWN Call money dropped to 5 per cent today on the Stock Exchange, com- pared with 10 per cent yesterday. Renewals were made at 8 per cent, the highest rate since February 9, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1928 ‘MINOR DENOUNCES Demand His Release Thousands of New Bedford textile mill strikers will take part in a huge mass meeting today to demand the from prison of John Porier (above), member of ‘the Young) Workers League and textile strike leader. Porter, held in Fort Adams military prison, Newport, R. I., faces year sentence for his strike ac- rele PORTER PROTEST MEETING TODAY New Bedford Strikers to | Fight For Release NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 5— | Plans for the huge mass meeting called in protest against the impris- onment of John Porter in an army | jail are completed, the Internationa! Labor Defense committee announced. The meeting is to be held tomorrow afternoon on Sauliner’s open field. Many thousands of striking’ textile workers are expected to turn out in a demonstration for the release of Porter, who is a vice-president of the New Bedford Textile Workers Union of the Textile Mills Committee. It was because of his activities in the strike here that he was thrown into jail by the army authorities and) now faces compound charges of de-| sertion, participation in a strike and| several other points, any one of them punishable by long prison terms, ac-| cording to army statutes. Porter is also a member of the Young Work-)| ers (Communist) League. Paul Crouch, young Communist ex- soldier who himself served a prison term for his activities as a Commu- nist while in the army, will be the chairman of the meeting. Other) speakers are Jack Rubenstein, strike | organizer; Theresa Valente, from the union, and representatives of the In- ternational Labor Defense. Theresa Valente, who is secretary of the Provisional National Commit- tee for Porter’s Defense, announced that a national conference of sym- pathetic lator and youth organiza- tions will ba called in New York soon, with the date of the official 1921. : call to be issued later. SUBSCRIPTIO. Outs! 4.00 MINERS IK ANTHRACITE JOIN IN BIG WALKOUT District 1° Progressives Hold Conference MAUCH CHUNK, Pa, July (UP).—Operation was suspended to- day in the collieries of the Lehigh Valley Coal and Navigation Company when 8,000 men went out in a sym- pathy strike. The strike was a result of suspension of operation in col- lieries Nos. 4, 5-and 6. ek . (Special to the Daily Worker) Complete Shut Down HAZELTON, July 5.—Nearly nine {thousand miners employed by the | contractor system mines of the 5 | Lehigh Valley Coal and Navigation | {Company near Mauch Chunk walked lout on sympathetic strike today when. the company shut out its em- ployees in collieries 4, 5 and 6 in what is believed to be an attempt to foree down .wages and weaken the power of the union. Progressive min- \ers of District 1 have advocated the ___ Jealling. of a general strike against |the contractor system which the re- | actionary officials of District 1 are refusing to fight. * * (Special to the Daily Worker) WILKES-BARRE, July %.—One hundred-fifty representatives from fifty local unions of the anthracite attended a rousing conference called by the Save-The-Union Committee at Luzerne, and after listening to speeches by leading militants of the districts resolved to unite behind the struggle of the bituminous miners and to support the National Miners’ Re- lief Committee. Elect Officers Bill Gebert was elected chairman of the conference and George Papcun secretary. Mike Harrington, from Avella, Pa., District 5, spoke in the name of the striking miners of that region and told the miners picturing the true situation in that region where striking miners have to fight not only the coal operators, state police, but also the reactionary ma- chine. Papeun pointed out that the mining industry in both sections in anthra- cite and bituminous are in crisis. “The officialdom of the union do not even attempt to help the situation,” he said. ; In District 1 miners are on to (Continued on Page Three) FASCISTS SIGN COMMERCE PACT ROME, July 5.— Another step in the eommercial and military under- standing between the Italian and Hungarian governments was effected today when Premier Mussolini and Hungarian Minister Horthy signed a treaty of commerce and navigation. It is believed that this is the first of a number of projects involving co- operation between the two govern- ments to be consummated. revolution. ~ completed. Watch for Monday’s Daily 2: Worker: of improved quality and bigger pages, in which will be- gin the publication of the new Draft Program of the Communist International, just completed by the Pro- gram Commission, to be submitted to the Sixth Con- gress at Moscow. When acted on, this program in its final form will become the program of all Communist Parties of the world, the program of the proletarian The first instalment, to be published Monday, will consist of the foreword and introduction, to be followed on the succeeding days by a complete chapter until Don’t miss The DAILY WORKER Monday. Get your fellow workers to become new readers. New address: 26-28 Union Square, New York. New telephone: Stuyvesant 1696-1697-1698. FINAL CITY EDITION IN RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. le New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents “MEDIATION” MEET BARS DELEGATES OF MILL STRIKERS “Batty, Binns Do Not Represent Workers; Parley Decisions Invalid,” Says Mill Committee Mass Sentiment Demands Return of 10 per cent Cut Before Union Goes to Conferences NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 5—Following a conference |held today by Mayor Ashley, Chief of Police McLeed, Major | Winslow and Lieutenant Perry of the 101st Field Artillery, an annuoncement was issued by Mayor Ashley to the effect that 40 national guardsmen, as much a mounted force as is obtainable | will be used to assist the police Monday, when the mill owners | will try to reopen the mill gates. In addition the entire police | reserve and the civil service force will be called out to augment | the police forces. Monday is scheduled to bé the real test day of the strike as tens of thousands of strikers are being mobilized to picket duty at the 56 mills. : * * * NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 5.—In an attempt to clear the road ahead for an attempted sell out of the 28,000 textile workers on strike here, the State Board of Conciliation Confer- ence, in which officials of the Textile Council and mill owners tiara tgie tm participated, refused admittance to the eleven representatives of COOK VOTE RAPS LABOR SELL-OUT Fights to End Against Official Treason LONDON, July 5.—A. J. Cook, mil- itant miners’ leader continued to struggle against the action of the of- ficials of the Trade Union Congress in conference with business leaders headed by Lord Mond, by casting his | vote against the report providing for the establishment of an industrial council, Cook, who sees in the industrial council the latest maneuver of the industrial leaders and union ‘official- dom fcr class collaboration has fought the measure from the start. The report which deals with trade union recognition and the prevention of strikes was drawn up largely un- der the direction of the business lead- | ers headed by Lord Mond. In the fall it will be submitted to the Trade Un- ion Council and the national confed- eration of employers’ organizations who are expected to accept it. Strikes are throttled under the pro- visions of the report. Though the idea of compulsion is discarded, it is specifically stated that no stoppage of work is permissible while the na- tional industrial council is reporting. Under the phrase “rationalization of industry,” it is believed that Lord Mond and the group he represents and leads intends to introduce a na- ficiency, with corresponding elimina- tion of workers. : Characterizing the measure pub- lically, Cook declared it to be “a mere fig-leaf upon naked capitalist autoc- racy in industry.” WHITEWASH COAT FOR REMUS CASE CINCINNATI, Ohio, July 5.— George Remus, bootleg king and con- fessed wife-slayer, who was released from the state hospital for the crim- inally: insane at Lima, Ohio, recently, was given a complete carte blanche today when Judge Chester R. Shook. of Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, dismissed a contempt citation made against the millionaire boot- legger during his murder trial last November. Remus is now resting at his home here and says he expects to remain here: indefinitely. A special course in the Fundamen- tals of Communism with A. Markoff as instructor, will begin in the Work- ers School, 26-28 Union Square, today at 7:30 p.m. The course will consist of six sessions, on consecutive Fri- days. Ten Negro workers have al- ready registered for the course. Thru a special arrangement, no fee will be charged. The course will analyze capitalism, thru the stage of imperialism, the na- ture of the Dictatorship of the Prole- tariat, and Communism. It will con- clude with a discussion on the work- ing class movement of today, and the role of the Communist Party, INDIA JUTE STRIKE CALCUTTA (By Mail).—The strike in the jute industry has spread to the works of the Wellington Com- pany, where 7,000 workers stopped work in protest against the jeut in wages, t | | Workers School Offers Free Six-Weeks Course | have | the Textile Mills Committee on the grounds that they were not invited. The strike committee of the T. M. C. upon learning of the exclusion, is- sued a statement declaring that the conferences are not valid since the Textile Council is not representative of the vast majority of workers on strike, Secret Confab. Although the conference was called for 10:30 a. m. in the City Hall, an announcement was issued by them that sessions will start in the after- noon and will be held in secret, not even representatives of the capitalist press being permitted admittance. In view of the heretofore expressed eagerness of the Council officials to end the strike on any degrading terms offered, this move for secrecy merely emphasizes the charge that the con ference is engineered as an attempt to betray the heroic fight of the work- (Continued on Page Two) “PROBE” OF POWER TRUST TO RECESS Last Witness Up Today; to Resume in Fall WASHINGTON, July 5—Only one witness remained today to clear the decks in the Federal Trade Commis- sion’s power trust “investigation,” tionwide speed-up and increase in ef- | prior to taking on-the summer recess. Frank M. Cuppy, Lafayette, Ind., will be questioned at a short session tomorrow. Cuppy, a power trust ex- ecutive, was shown in previous testi- mony to have received substantial sums in connection with lobbying ac- tivities in behalf of Indiana utilities interests. He will be questioned re- garding disbursement of the money. When the commission has finished with Cuppy, it intends to recess open hearings until September, when Pa- cific coast and northeast utilities prop- aganda activities will be investigated. Klansmen Fail to Hear Heflin; Can’t Burn Cross Klansmen gathered at Bailsley Park, South Jamaica, Queens, waited for several hours yesterday for the appearance of Senator Heflin, who had been scheduled to speak to them. Heflin, however, did not appear, send- ing a message that he was detained in Jackson. Michigan. Over 8,000 members of the Klu Klux Klan waited patiently ir the hot sun, until they got tired of waiting. Finally, when they had just about decided to burn their hundred-foot cross, it began to rain, making the af- fair a complete failure. Lindburgh to Study Mexican Air Routes MEXICO CITY, July 5.—The New. York correspondent of the Excelsior said today that Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh planned to spend three months in Mexico early next year, studying new air routes. MORE IMPERIALIST PLANES MELPOURNE, Austrelia, July 5.—- Thirty modern airplanes have been ordered by the Australian government to be used as light bombers and two- seater fighters. MELLON TO GO ABROAD WASHNGTON, July 5 (UP).—Sec- retary of the Treasury Mellon an- nounced today he will start a month’s vacation on July 11, spending about two weeks abroad. ~My A eed Llp gain