The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 10, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT FINAL CITY EDITION Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. \Wol. V. No: 162. Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. sf SUBSCRI » by mail, $6.00 20,000 MILL STRIKERS DEMONSTRATE BEFORE NEW BEDFORD Not a Single Operative Responds to Plea to Iceturn to Silent Looms Bosses, Desperate, Order Militia to Mill Gates In Hope to Crush Strike NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 9.—Twenty thousand strik- ‘PLANTS ing textile workers hurled defiance at the mill barons’ threat of violence by heavily armed troops and police, and turned out yesterday to stage one of the most enormous demonstrations of picketing yet recorded. At the same time they went on ®record to a man as spurning NICARAGUA POLL) costes eb ote IS SEWED TIGHT they leave the ranks of the strikers and return to operate Rules 2 Conservatives On Old Parties the silent looms. The New Bedford Cotton Manu- WASHINGTON, July 9.—Presi- dential candidates of the two con-| facturers’ Association, through its secretary, Andrew Raeburn, admit- ted this afternoon that the attempt today to break the strike was a fail- ervative factions in Nicaragua] have been ruled off the November ‘itket by the National Board of Jections, Minister Eberhardt in- Long Threatened. | Since the first day of the strike, | over twelve weeks ago, when 70,000 looms were silenced by the unani- mous walkout, the manufacturers | have always tried to explain away BERLIN REPORT NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 10, 192 20,00 a BOMB EXPLOSION IN MOSCOW, IS day. Over 20,000 pickets jammed t. have been shut since the strike firs Not a single worker was trapped by the manouever of the New Bedford textile barons in their attempt to re-open the mills yester- was taken after the strike had been in progress several weeks. Since that time picketing has increased tremendously. | he entrances to the 56 mills which t began over 12 weeks ago. Photo Plot Laid to Czarist APPEAL FOR Conspirators BERLIN, July 9. — Reports| reached here today of a bomb ex-| An appeal on behalf of the Chi plosion which injured several per-| Red International of Labor Union sons and partially destroyed the | Executive Committee of the American Trade Union Educational League | has been sent out with a call to all building of the Gaypayoo, the So- viet political police, in the Lubfian-| ski Square, Moscow. The explosion RELIEF DRIVE { | was the work of monarchist plot-.| | x IS UNDER WAY Fire engines and ambulances were | rushed to the building, and a cor-j Miners Defense Week July 22-29 don of police and soldiers was placed | around the square, it was reported. | (Special to The DAILY WORKER) PITTSBURGH, July 9.—Prelim- * * * The most recent bomb explosion | inv Moscow follows several traced to | conspiracies organized by czarist | emigres getting financial aid from | CHINESE WORKERS ure. formed the U. S. ‘state department today. Dr. Carlos Cuadro Pasos, former foreign minister, is the candidate of the “moderate” conservatives led | by President Diaz, Wall Street puppet, and Vincent Raphacioli, wealthy coffee planter is the can- didate of the “extreme” conserva- tives. Raphacioli has the support of former president Emiliano Cham. orro. While the official explanation for the exclusion states that “the board previously decided that neither fac- tion had established the right to be recognized as representing the par- ' ty to the exclusion of the other, it has been pointed out that the ac- tual basis for the order is found in the fact that neither candidate is at present needed in order to main- tain Wall Street rule in Nicaragua. ‘With the complete subservience of Gen. Moncada, renegade liberal, to Ithe aims of American imperialism, the other candidates have found that.their services are no longer re- quired. PORTERS BREAK WITH U.S, BOARD Rank and File Prod Officials _In a new bid for confidence of the workers whom they have betrayed, the officials of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids Tast night announced from their headquarters, 2311 Seventh Ave., that they had broken negotiations with the U. S. Mediation Board. At the same time talk of a threatened strike is still vague despite. nation- fe insistence for. immediate ac- on on the part of the porters, A strike call some weeks ago re- ceived the overwhelming support of the porters, and recently the date for a walk-out was set. At an eleventh hour, however, the strike call was revoked by William Green, president of the A. F. of L. after a meeting with A. Phillip Randolph, general organizer of the union. A program of “education” was sug- gested as an alternative to strike action by Green. A porter now earns $72.50 a month, To receive this pittance he must ride 11,000 miles, which on an average of 80 miles an hour comes to about 400 hours a month. The men are demanding $150 and a 240- hour month. Plan to Stop Acosta Tf He Attempts Flight -{ |. WASHINGTON, July 9 (UP).— {Commerce department officials late » itoday telephoned Roosevelt Field in an effort to locate U. S. inspectors 0 are to seize the monoplane Co- ia if Bert Acosta attempts to it on the proposed flight with les A. Levine to South America ht. Acosta is under a 90-day violation of air ey announced also that Levine a licensed pilot and that he may the plane if he desires. Acosta ill be fined and probably have his license suspended permanently if he attempts to pilot the Columbia a proyosed flight, officials their inability to begin operations in even one plant by declaring that they did not. want to open. It was only until about two weeks ago, after the textile employers had secretly arranged for the assistance of the city and state military and police apparatus, that they pub- lished the announcement that they had finally “decided to reopen the mills” with the ten per cent cut still effective. The New Bedford Textile Work- ers Union of the Textile Mills Com- mittee readily accepted this chal-| lenge and welcomed the test of | strength, responding immediately, however, with calls for preliminary mass demonstrations. These inelud- ed parades and larger picket lines. The work cf arousing the strikers spirit to meet the bosses’ challenge was systematically sabotaged by the Textile Council of the United Textile Workers Union to the point of an open endorsement of the use of mounted police yesterday by its chief official, William E. G. Batty. Police Terror In an attempt to dampen the strike morale, the bosses launched an im- mediate police’ terror of clubbings, the break up of a parade by vio- lence and the jailing of the strike leaders, Beal and Murdoch. The ter- ror culminated in the mobilization of several companies of militia to in- form the striking textile workers that they would be supplied with sufficient protection if they chose to enter the mi! Today, however, not a single worker walked into any of the mills. This is frankly admitted not only in the local press, but even in the tex- tile bosses’ trade journals. The manufacturers’ association this morning held a special meeting and issued an announcement that the mills would be kept open “to give the strikers a chance to return.” This the Textile Mills Committee leaders characterized as a “consola- tion statement.” Picketing Only Effective Weapon The masses assembled today in the mill districts were too over- whelming in numbers for an attack to be launched on the picket lines. The continued presence of the militia means but one thing, strike leaders say. It is an open threat of breaking the strike with violence. The Textile Mills Committee heads declare that they intend to begin the immediate mobilization of many more thousands for regular picket duty than have responded even here- tofore. * * * (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 9. —Today’s picket demonstration be- fore the textile mills is conceded to be one of the greatest displays of solidarity ever seen, Even the pol- ice claim no more than 18 scabs as returning to the mills, after a check- up by the bosses, The whole city experienced a mass gala holiday. The pickets had on their best clothes, wearing crimson roses. Women wore bright shawls and bright cotton dresses and the captains orange bands. The picket- ing commenced at five with the sunrise over the bay. Before going on the line many stopped at police stations to pay respects to mounted troops in tin Great Britain. Last fall bombs were inary conferences of local branches set off at the office of the Gay-!of the National Miners’ Relief Com- payoo and at the Communist Club | mittee and the International Labor in Leningrad. Several workers were | Defense were held in every key city killed and a large number injured! east of Chicago Sunday, ‘July & at that time. Plans for an automobile caravan to thousands | SS EnEEEEEEEEEeiieee the strike fields of Western Penn- sylvania were completed. On Sat- CLOAK CHAIRMEN lay, July 14, the mining camps | will be visited and the following day \a conference will be held in Pitts- y burgh, 7 H] SDAY July 22 to 29 is the week set for the drive, which is expected to mobilize hundreds of. . * +,, |from the Atlantic to the Pacific and To Begin Drive to Gain|srom Canada to Mexico, to raise Union Conditions |funds to buy food for the striking | miners and supply legal aid for ar- Workers in the shops of New oe picteotn cup sieiiegsslenserer York’s cloak and dressmaking’ in-| The week's activities will involve dustry are now preparing for the| Ss meetings, house to ‘house cam- election of delegates to the second| Pins, tag days, collections in fac- conference of shop chairmen and| ‘Ties, labor unions and special the- delegates which will open this | 2tre parties, dances, banquets, ete. Thursday immediately after work, in| The caravan will serve as a stim- Webster Hall, 1ith St. and Third|us for the week’s activities. All ‘Ave. The conference call was is-|Télief workers and sympathizers will sued some time ago by the Local| Supply their own expenses for the Committee of the National Organi-| ‘TP. zation Committee. | Brief for the appeal of the con- The Joint Board of the Cloak and|viction of Anthony P. Minerich, Dressmakers’ Union yesterday is-| prominent strike leader, has just sued a call to all workers to see to! heen printed. Minerich was charged it that the shop they work in is|with violation of the injunction ban- represented. All factories, whether registered or unregistered, or totally unorganized, are called upon to choose delegates to the Thurs- day’s meeting. This is the second gathering of shop delegates since the Council -of Shop Representatives was officially declared as a permanent institution in the ladies garment trade. The meeting was held a month ago, and will be followed by' regular monthly conferences. The organization of the almost completely chaotic industry, and the regaining of livable working condi- tions is the primary task the con- ference will concern itself with. The The Local Committee of the Na- tional Organization Committee holding meetings for the purpose of working out the agenda for the meeting in detail. ir Sumner Raids Theatre Takes Two Paintings John S. Sumner, Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice descended on the Fifth Avenue Playhouse yesterday, armed with a search warrant, took ‘two nude paintings which adorned the walls of the theatre’s lounge and departed after giving a summons to the the- atre manager, Isidore Cohen. Cohen must appear Wednesday morning in the Essex Market Court. Cohen was indignant at Sumner’: action and asked him if he had ever gone to the Metropolitan Museum and seen their nudes. Sumner answered “I think so.” jning mass picketing granted by |Judge Benson Hough of Columbus, | Ohio. Judge Hough presided over |the case five months ago. | #Josaph Shartes, labor attorney, will \conduct what promises to be a ma- | jor legal battle involving the status of injunctions in labor disputes. junds raised in the relief-defense | drive will carry this case to higher ‘courts and appeal hundreds of picket and vights-of-assemblage and free | speech cases. | The largest percentage of the funds, however, will be used to send carloads of groceries into the strike area, Duncan McDonald, chairman of the relief committee, said. Communist Sentenced, Quoting Lenin At Meet PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, July 9. — The young Communist Ta- borsky was sentenced to five months at hard labor for quoting from Len- in at a mass meeting. Baborjak, also a young Commun- ist, was sentenced to 13 months of labor for speaking at two public meetings. Coal Worker Loses All Fingers of Right Hand Frank Holman, 25 years old, a coal loader, of 398 Tenth Ave., lost all five fingers of his right hand yesterday when it was caught in the loader as he was working at Pier 63, at the foot of 25th St., North River. ROXY BALLET TO FEATURE SATURDAY’S CONCERT Theremin, Symphony Orchestra to Perform; Proceeds Go to The Daily Worker AIDFOR — | inese Trade Unions, initiated by the is and supported by the National | workers of the United States to| rally to the support of the Chinese masses. The Trade Union Educational League which represents the class | conscious workers of the United} States has announced that it will| set aside the last two weeks of this month for plans in support of the| Chinese workers. | Meetings, conferences, house-to- house collections, shop collections, tag days, etc. will be among the{ methods to raise financial support. | The appeals follows: To All Workers and Workers’ Organizations: The Chinese trade unions need our help. The Chinese trade unions are appealing to us at this grave hour. The Chinese workers are the most | exploited in the world. The weekly | wage of the begt paid worker in the building trades does not ex- | ceed $3.00. The weekly wage of a| painter is hardly above $3.00. Com- mon labor gets from $1.00 to $1.50 | a@ week. The labor day is seldom shorter than 12 hours—often longer. Child labor is the rule. No age limit is set. No laws to protect the work- | ers.are in existence...The. workers must protect themselves and you must assist them or your own stand- | ards will be lowered. | Many Enemies. The Chinese trade unions must! carry on in the face cf the Chinese and foreign manufacturers and the Chinese militarists and foreign im- | perialist powers who protect with} an iron hand the foreign and Chi- nese exploiters in China. There were times in the last few years when| the workers, rising against their in- tolerable situation were helping the | native businessmen to wrest from the foreign invaders the extraordin- ary privileges they had secured for | themselves at the bayonet’s point. | At the same time the workers were | also improving their own conditions. | But the native capitalists, afraid of | the growing strength of the working | class, decided rather to make peace with the foreign imperialists than | to make concessions to the workers. | Thus the Nationalist movement, at first progressive and aggressive, urrendered to the United States. Japanese, British, French and Itali- an diplomats and navies, and to- gether they try to crush the working class. Courageous Struggle. The workers have not lost cour- age. They continue the revolution- ary struggle in alliance with the exploited peasants. They are con- solidating their forces. They con- tinue vigorously the work-of organ-! ization. They continue the struggle for economic demands. They do so under most trying conditions. Labor unions are persecuted, labor repre- sentatives are seized both by the foreign imperialist forces and by the native exploiters—and “seizing” in China means executing without much ado. Heads of workers are being chopped off without even a semblance of trial. Twenty-five thousand workers have been killed this year. Unions Persist. Still, the labor unions have be- come an established fact. The Chi- nese workers are carrying on a courageous and determined fight for their own lives and the lives of their families. They need money and the (Continued on Page Two) PLAN TAG DAYS © earcmmse 8 WORKERS JAILED IN fo %, FRAME-UP; MINOR IS Price 3 Cents BEATEN UP IN COURT Wall Street FOR COMMUNIST anor defense 1ssu ELECTION DRIVE Funds Urged For Fight Gottlieb by Robert Minor, ed- Off Ballot | itor of The DAILY WORKER “Success in presidential election| and Workers (Communist) campaigns has always been on the| Party candidate for U. S. Sen- side of the heaviest campaign| ator, as he was dragged away chests, and the Workers (Commu-|;,y three policemen, roughly! nist) Party does not expect that the], anhandled and slugged in the| workers will ever buy their way in-| First District Criminal Court yes- to the White House or knock the| terday, shackles of capitalism from their|” yinor together with nine others limbs at the ballot box. But it takes! a neared for a hearing yesterday money to educate the masses, to| (0's charge of disorderly conduct agitate them against the system) i connection with the anti-imperi- stat holds them in slavery, and to alist demonstration on July 3 which organize them for the immediate|‘\ 2° Stacked by police. The pro- struggles for better living condi- | vcedings quickly took the form of tions and for the ultimate over-/ {UF sition, with Magistrate throw of capitalism. An election i n campaign pelle the workers in a| Gottlieb usurping the powers of the listening mood, and presents a| Prosecuting attorney in an tiger splendid opportunity to teach them| effort to railroad the workers to “You are doing the work of Eight Who Farticipated in Demonstration in Are Jailed es Statement Denouncing, Trial as Example of Capitalist Justice i z a Morgan, your master, for tributions to Al Smith’s campaign fund.” This was the accusation hurl: ed at Magistrate Maurice ‘ CONVICTION OF MINOR SCORED Wkr’s Party Exposes “Wall St. Justice” In a statement issued by District of the Workers convict al Party, last night, the conviction | Robert Minor, Communist candidate for U. S. Senator, and seven other workers, is characterized as “@ typical act of Wall Street justice.” The statement reads as follows: 2 i “The conviction of Robert Minor, Communist candidate for U. 8. Sens jnal societies, cooperatives, women’s | 0 COLLAPSE IN : the meaning of Communism and| Jail ’ what they must do to free them-| Demands Right to Speak selves from wage slavery.” This| The climax was reached when was the statement made last night} Minor, just before sentence was at the National Campaign headquar-| passed on him, requested, through ters of the Workers (Communist) | Jacques Buitenkant, defending at- Party in commenting on the appeal] torney, representing the New York of the Central Executive Commit-| Section of the International Labor tee of the Party for a $100,000 Com-| Defense, that he be allowed to ad- munist Party Election Campaign] dress the court. This is one of the one j constitutional rights of alll accused e first stage in the financial] jn a court of law. Magistrate Gott- drive is Row over, and the work of lieb summarily refused. Whe oe raising the money has begun. nor protested, he was seize y An election assessment stamp is| three policemen and dragged to the being insued, adi every Party mem-| side. Struggling wrth - ee r must purchase a 50 cent stamp. | vers of “law and order,” he shoute This alone will bring in thousands] out his accusation showing the real of oe ha | forces behind the gl us oe nations wi solicited from|policomen swung his fist at Mi- trade unions and other working| nor’s face and gagged his mouth class organizations, such as frater-| with his hand to prevent him from saying any more. Everybody in the audience arose and it seemed as if many of those in the audience were on the point of rushing to Minor’s councils, and thru donations from shop committees and individuals. Communist Campaign Stamps are being issued to be sold to all or-| defense. The bluecoats dragged ganizations and individuals. The| Minor from the courtroom when he stamps carry the pictures of Will-| fung back at the magistrate: iam Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow. i “You're no judge; you’re a prose- (Continued on Page Two) ‘You’re j cutor!” It summed up the entire roceedings of what was supposed to be a trial in a court of “justice.” Magistrate Gottlieb looked grave and pounded his gavel. He offered ator, to five days in jail was to be expected. It indicates the com= plete subservience of Tammany Hall to the interests of the big financial magnates, al! the way from Raskok and Young to J. PB. Morgan. The brutality of the Tam- many Hall police against the peace. , ful demonstrators and the arbitrary | sentence of the Tammany Hall judge indicate how close to Wall Street the Tiger has his den. The arrest and the conviction constitute a typical act of Wall Street justice, carried out by the political minions of Big Business. wid The workers of New York have receiyed many samples of this jus tice.’ They well remember’ thé bru= tal police terror used against the striking truck drivers, the mobiliza- tion of the police force to terrorize the traction men and the y of the mounted police in the fur~ riers’ strike. The act of the First District Court comes on the heels of another anti-labor decision is- sued by Judge Arthur Tompkins of Nyack, prohibiting labor’s right to vicket.' We have here displayed be- fore the workers of the state and the nation a record of anti-labor activity on the part of Tammany Hall not to be excelled even by the strike. I HEAT YESTERDAY | 4 Dead; Hottest Day/{ in Two Years Greater New York’s death toll in the heat wave of the last two days climbed to twenty-six yesterday when the mercury reached 92 de- grees, breaking all records for the past two years. Twenty persons collapsed in the city and two of them died from the oppressive heat. Promise of relief was given when the Weather Bu- reau predicted thundershowers for the night and today, with an at- tendant rapid drop in temperature. During the hour ‘between 11 o’clock and noon the mercury took its biggest jump, going from 85 to 92. At noom the humidity was 53. The intense heat continued until three o’clock, when an ocean breeze | sprang up and the mercury began | to drop. Charles Bearonoff, 55, of 491 E. 174th St.; Herman Schwartz, of 1350 St. Marks Pl., Brooklyn; Louis Grossman, 36, address unknown, and John Ventri,’ 71, of 2451 Hughes | Ave., Bronx, died of heat prostra-j| tion. Twenty others collapsed in| the subways, in factories and on the streets. Even the list of the twenty prostrated was considered incomplete last night in official cir- cles, which stated that the toll had probably doubled the known num- ber. The famous Roxy Ballet will be] The Roxy Ballet is now arranging] scientist, is certain to create a sen- hats. Laughter by children and yells of “Barney Google” “Spark Plug” made the troops uncomfortable. Over twenty thousand strikers marched around the gates including loose lines. Groups across the road marched around the gates. The larg- est lines were at the principal mills, Whitman, Nonquit, Wamsutta, North ‘Continued on Page Two) one of the chief features of the great concert and entertainment to be held next Saturday evening at Coney Island Stadium, This noted ballet will serve as a pleasant in- terlude in the musical program and will perform classical and modern dances in ity own original style. a special program for the concert that will be sure to be a revelation for the 25,000 workers that are ex- pected to pack Coney Island Stadium, “The other artists who will participate in this great pro- letarian musical event are also busy putting the finishing touches to their programs. Prof, Leo Ther- emin, the world-famous Soviet sation when he draws the music of the “International” out of the air without the aid of a musical instru- ment by means of his latest dis- covery, q And Arnold Volpe is busy rehears- ing orchestra of 50 picked musicians in a program that will include some of the best known selections in the symphonic repertoire. The proceeds of this great concert will go to The DAILY WORKER. Tickets should be purchased at once at the office of the “Daily,” 26-28 Union Square, as they are in great demand. The proceeds will help secure the position of The DAILY WORKER during the summer months and en- not a word of censure of the brutal behavior of the police. He then proceeded to impose the sentences. All Choose Jail Minor, Rebecca Grecht, Workers Party candidate for assembly and election ‘campaign manager of Dis- trict 2, Harriet Silverman, secre- tary of the New York branch of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, which arranged the demon- stration; Emanuel George, a strik- ing coal miner; and Robert Wolf, poet and novelist, were condemned to five days in the Tombs or $25 fine. Fanny Plotkin, Anna Bloch and Phil Frankfeld were given two days or $10 fine. The cases against Kate Gitlow and Sophie Melman were dismissed. All of the accused chose to serve their terms in jail. Prior to this incident Magistrate Gottlieb, a former shyster lawyer who has a high standing with in- side Tammany circles, had given an astonishing exhibition of “impar- | tial” conducting of a trial by a pre- siding magistrate. When the trial started in the morning, he was com- paratively mild and the machine did not seem to be functioning as smoothly as it should. Jacques Bui- tenkant, the attorney for the ac- cused, was permitted to tie officer John Rochford, the first witness, in- to a knot of contradictions and in- consistencies. Officer John Word, the second witness, unwittingly revealed the imperialistic psychology of the hun-| dred percenter by saying that the accused had “demanded the with- drawal of American marines from Nicaragua and other possessions of the United States government.” Rev. J. Hall, the *** itness, who was Conducting a 1. i meet- ing in Wall Street at the time the demonstration took place, bowed and scraped before the magistrate. He declared he had not seen police slug any of the demonstrators and in general seemed to have seen only that which it is proper for a pious minister of the gospel to see. After a recess of several hours, the trial was resumed. at 2:15 in the afternoon. It was at once evi- dent that the machine had smoothed out all difficulties in the interim. able it to continue its struggle for the American working class. The witnesses for the prosecution, all of whom were members of the (Continued on Page Two) ainaaelna breaking activity of the Republican state of Massachusetts of police strike notoriety, or the Black Cos- sack state of Pennsylvania, where the agents of Mr. Mellon are as- saulting peaceful men and women in the coal fields. “With such open use of the govs ernment by the agents of Big Busi= ness, brandished flagrantly before the eyes of the workers of New York, we are confident that the com- ing election will find many work- ers thoroughly disillusioned with the capitalist parties. The open de- fiance hurled in the face of Amer- ican imperialism by our candidate, Robert Minor, candidate for the U. S. Senate, the courageous effort to expose before the American work- ers the truth about the American plundering expedition in Nicaragua will rally thousands of workers to the standard of the Workers (Com- munist) Party.” TAMMANY GRAFT HUNT SLOWS UP Still Refuse to Nab Man Higher Up The long drawn out hearings in the Tammany street cleaning graft investigations being conducted by Commissioner James A. Higgins, disclosed yesterday that Higgins would not disclose the identity of the “man higher-up” in the case, although everyone in the court room appeared to know who the gentle. man was. is Charges have repeatedly made that the man is none than Commissioner of the > Cleaning Department, Alfred A, Taylor. But Higgins refused yes | terday to admit that he knew the identity of the man, Commissioner Higgins indicat the purpose of the present hearings when he declared yesterday that the. probe still had a long way to go. Five men indicted in Manhatta in connection with snow rem graft are scheduled to come up in) special sessions this morning. — * a - = Re { tisbsetts13 tes