The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 10, 1928, Page 4

‘STRIKERS JEER | --— ; q 3 f & eg i THE DAILY WORKER, NEW. YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1928 Kenosha Worker reno Describes Arvest of Herman, Militant League Picket AS POLICE TRY TO SMASH LINE ” Spirit of Workers in| Allen-A Is High (By a Worker Correspondent.) KENOSHA Mail).—Police brutality v we evidence w the ar Herman. near the Allen-A Co. of Kenosha. | Herman was arr at the order of Sergeant Meissner, while ad- dressing a crowd of unskilled work ers of the Allen-A well Rumber of w n the r Nash Foundry wt watch the stzi fashioned hos A across the str¢ Previous to t ng Workers} (Communist) member’s ar- rest, a large ver of strikers were arrested 2 picket line as they marched y around the mill. Police trie displace the 4, workers who wer acted to the| scene. At this in Herman | mounted a chair and addressed the workers, calling on them to join the picket line of the ers as a ply to the arrests | the polic made with the intent n of remind up the picket linc Orders Arrest. Sergeant Meissner, who had been instrumental in arresting Herman several times in the past, then or- @ered a policeman to drag the} League speaker off the chair and Place him under arrest. Herman Was dragged to a police phone box the street near the full fashioned | josiery mill. The workers began to hoot and jeer the guardians of open shop law and order. The League speaker yelled out that this was a fine example of capitalist democra- cy. The policeman, assisted by Ser- geant Meissner, notorious labor Daiter, tried to prevent Herman from speaking and began to and shove him a vicious manner (Bhe League representative again , ee in addressing the work- ers, whereupon the police threat- ened to use personal violence. At this point Herman shouted to the workers, informing them of the threats of the uniformed thugs and ealled upon the workers to be wit- nesses to all acts the police would “perform that would be of a Cossack nature. Workers Cheer. The workers began to cheer and the strikers gave a rousing yell in sympathy..They all voiced their ob- jections to the rough methods -used by the cops in making the arrest. Soon a police car drew up at the curb and the League member was} thrust in. Sergeant Meissner yelled that he should be brought to the station and locked up over night without charges. This was done; sand the League representative was not allowed to call anyone up for ver 23 hours. }4 in the jail the arrested strikers xpressed sympathy to the arrested fellow worker of the Young Work- ers’ League. One woman striker who was arrested with her husband had left her child in an automobile mear the Allen-A while on picket duty. The police refused to take J@are of her child and neglected it for some time. Faces Jail. Herman was “freed” on $75 bail This was furnished by the workers and his case was postponed until July 16. The trumped up charge by the intelligence of the police force and the district attorney was “inciting to riot.” If found guilty the maximum fine is $500 or a year in jail. The International Labor Defense is taking care of the case. WG; *BRATIANI JAIL IS HELL HOLE Torture Inflicted to Force “Confessions” BUCHAREST, ( Mail) —Cruel | torments are cons antly being in- vented by the Bratianu government for the purpose of extorting ‘con fessions” from political prisoners! arrested for their labor and peasant | activities. One man was forced to eat two dried herrings and a _ sandwich without a drop of water. He was so, ' Rivy broke his window into bits and! .placed them on his tongue to make cool. Another man was placed in a large bag which contained cats fury scratched and bit the victim, in- ing serious wounds. Recently three peasants were ar- () rested on a framed charge of es- pionage and were forced to “con- fess” their “crimes” by having salt poured i their throats, Miss Earhart Home After Imperialist Trip BOSTON, July 9- 9.—Amelia Kar-, irt, who Ieft here 36 days ago as | almost unknown social worker, i¢ back today a famous womar in the®ford tri-motored plano. jerk} anguished by his parched throat that | eats were beaten and in their! who Miners in t Need of Defense and Relief le { Fifteen months of strik miners. the National Miners’ Relief Comm activities. | (Translated from the German by Sol Auerbach) (The following is the translation jof a port of a pamphlet published \t ‘Mopr Press, Berlin, called by the Cc of the Fascist Inquisi- |The ion.”- A) I | The Life of Sozzi ASTCNE SOZZI was socialist family, March 1903.° The twenty-five rs of his life was consecrated to |the ideals and hopes of the proleta- riat. From his childhood on he ex- need the bitterness of the class struggle. Mussolini, who at this time still played revolutionary, was the leader of the socialist movement | {in the territory of Forli and was a {frequent visitor in the Sozzi home. As a guest of the Sozzi family Cesena, this coming leader of the Blackshirts, elated over the pre- cocity of the little Gastone, assured the father that a future as a prac- tical revolutionary fighter awaited | the ycungster. Mussolini knows | from the reports of his sherifis that Sozzi remained until his death on heroic revolutionary fighter. In his early youth he enlisted in the ranks of the socialist move- ment. In 1921 he joined the Com- munist Party and became secretary cf the Young Communist League in the province of Forli. When fascism first lifted its head Sozzi stood in the front ranks of fighters against the armed bands of Blackshirts. The workers who knew him remem- ber his zeal and his passion; but they also remember his nerve and| his courage in battle against the enemy. In the fire of the civil war | which accompanied the “March on} Rome,” Gastone Sozzi had learned | how to unite the enthusiasm of a fighter with the coolness of a revo- lutionary leader, who must know all the difficulties of battle. Hated, hunted, he was forced in 1922 to go into hiding for the first} time in order to escape the police. who had cooked up a false charge against him and other workers of Forli for the murder of a fascist. Sent by his party to the Lenin In- stitute in Leningrad, he excelled as a student fired by a revolutionary proletarian spivit. In the meantime | the charge of the police was openly discredited. Towards the end of 1924 Sozzi could return to Italy. After a year of military service he placed himself again at the disposal of his party. Forced to live as an “illegal,” he was very active in the Communist Party, and was the ed- itor of the illegal paper, “The Prole- tarian Child.” born of a in Cesena on a II The Martyrdom of Gastone Sozzi in j the Prison of Perugia | "THE bloody strike of Gallarate (Oc- tober, 1927), in, the -course of | |which two workers Were killed, the broadening of the labor movement in Venige, in the province of Milan Jand in Piedmont let loose a new j-vave of terror against the working ela The pressure of the police The arrests and raids were | longer to he counted. On No-} 1927, Gastone Sozzi fell | no vember 4, | into the hands of the police in Milan. He spent a few weeks in the prison of San Vittore. At the beginning of Derember he was transferred to |the prison of Peragia by six plain- {clothes men. In spite of his strong constitution the countenance of Sozzi gave evidence of great suffer [ne His face bore signs of blows. | In Perugia he was confined in an underground cell, which was ordi- narily used as punishment for those attempted escape. Sozzi was | not permitted to write to his fam- | ‘ily, so they knew nothing about his arrest or his transfer to Perugia. Immediately after Sozzi’s arrival at Perugia there came to this smal! Umbrian town General Ciardi, mili |tary head of the Special Court, and |an inspector from the state depart- | ‘ment. Sotzi was considered respon- sible for a large part of the illegal | deeds of the Communist Party. | | Sozzi, therefore, “knew” something; he must “speak.” The martyrdom of Gastome Sozzi began. Was Tortured starvation, fields, families living on 90 cents a week —and others dying on this amount — this is the lot of the Virtual famine has been avoided only through the literally remarkable efforts put forth by 29, this body together with the International Labor Defense are planning a huge defense week which is expected to make a record in the history of relief | beaten on every part of his body COURT PAROLE 1S IMPRISONMENT evictions, police terror — life ittee. For July a in barracks, tents, in the open quisitors, at hin cave every ecutive answer was followed by blows of a horsewhip. This failing, he was | placed in solitary confinement, for | many days without food, in the hope that long fasting’ would weaken his | power of resistarce. Again foree- ful methods were used. He was with clubs and horsewhips. This procedure was continued for many weeks, but the officer and the in- spector did not succeed in tearing | a single word from Sozzi. The ex- ecutioners tried other means. They knew that for a month’s time he had been father of a child which Religious Groups Glad | to Give Up Violators | (By a Worker Cobrapieaion’y Being a constant reader of your newspaper of truth and facts, I} hereby call your attention to the existence of the Parole Commission | that handles only cases of persons| sentenced to the indefinite term of | the city penitentiary. I mean to show you how unnecessary it is to keep this commission in existence. | which consists of a chairman, who| receives a salary of $8,500 a year, and two of his associates who re- ceive $6,500 a xear each. Also others such as secretaries, ex-offi-| cios, clerks, ete., all of whom are | appointed the capitalists. Now I will start at the root and prove my contention beyond the} shadow of a doubt. (1) Before sen- | tence, a court parole officer or in- vestigator makes a very careful in- vestigation of the defendants past| record of his entire lifetime and) presents such findings to the court. (2) Then the court sentences the defendant to the city penitentiary. (8) The case goes into the hands | of this parole commission and they| fix the length of time that the de- fendant is to serve. (4) Such time as they fix must be sanctioned by the court. Can anyone deny that our courts are not able to fix the time that the defendant is to serve. Surely our high-priced judicial minds should be capable of performing} such a minor undertaking and bring some relief to the working class and the real tax-payers of this city. Jobs to Favorites. I only give you this as an ex- ample that exists not only in the Department of Correction but in every department of the present Tammany government of this city, | that manufactures these jobs as per- sonal favors for votes to uphold the, bosses, who are the representatives | of the capitalists. To clean the house thorol;; and do away with all unnecessary positions | will save many millions of dollars| yearly of the poor people’s money. Try as you may to get other | papers to copy. Oh, no, not in eee Tammany stronghold. The voters who go to the polls and sign their names on the dotted line should open their eyes and see how their money is used to buy other votes and to benefit the capi- talists of this city. When the former chairman of the parole commission, B. De N. Cruger, resigned, Jimmy Walker, the mayor, \expressed regret that this city | should lose such an ardent and duti-| ful servant. Let us ask Night- Club Jim Walker just what duties did this $8,500 a year man perform? , The answer is, very, very little, and’ not at all needed. Report Violators. For men out on parole, we havel |the Catholic Big Brothers, Jewish |Board of Charities, Salvation Army \and other organizations that would \gladly have paroled men to report to them and report violators to the committing judge and do all this) work gratis. I hope I made myself very plain and that you will notify our friends | | He was at first submitted to a preliminary examination by his in- Begging to remain a friend, —JAMES CARROLL. y- |for some time. |cials to finish their work. /The Life and Death of Gastone Sozzi he had not seen. They gave him permission to write home and re- ceive wife and father learned that Gastone was im- prisoned in Perugia. In vain did answers. Sozzi’s |they try to arrange a meeting with him or, at visit him. least, for a lawyer to The exchange of letters between the prisoner and his family lasted Then again unen- durable silence. Finally a short laconic notice from the police that “Gastone 'Sozzi has committed sui- cide by hanging himself from the bars of his cell on the night betweer {the 6th and 7th of February What happened to Sozzi? Fascist Terror When every means at the dis- posal of Rome to obtain a confes- sion was employed and failed, more awful tortures were invented. A | fascist chemist of Perugia suggested jto the Blackshirts a new form of |forture-—injections of a strong fodine solution. Gastone Sozzi re- ceived such injections. The iodine transformed the bowels into sore shreds, The prisoner fell uncon. scious. When he had regained con- sciousness for a few moments he was offered complete treedom and a monthly stipend of 5,000 lire if he would take service with the fascist police. Sozzi refused. It now only remained for the vile fascist offi- On the night between the 6th and 7th of February Sozzi was murdered in his cell, The autopsy of the body would have revealed many things. Bu‘ Mussolini would not grant this te Sozzi’s father and wife, wno had hurried to Perugia with the child Sergio as soon as they had heard of his death. he relatives saw Gastone Sozzi on his leath bed in a prison cell; and they also saw no sign of hanging on his neck. After many days of “negotiations” be- tween Perugia and Rome permission was granted to remove the ecffin to Cesena, the resting place of the martyr, but no pernission was granted for a burial. Sozzi was guarded by fascist sheriffs until he wes buried. Anthracite Miners Rising in Revolt Against Wage Cuts (Special to The Daily Worker.) WILKES-BARRE, Pa., July 9.— At the meeting of the Local Union No. 310 of Dupont, miners and mine workers compleined that their wages have been cut to the point) at which laborers are getting about | $1.65 a day; miners cannot make | more than $3.50 or $4.00 per day Members of the local are employed in the Florence Colliery of the Le-| high & Wyoming Coal Mining Co It was also reported that in Slopes | |No. 2 and No. 4, rates were cut} down, Miners decided to go on |strike if company will not live up |to the existi The Organization By OSIP PIATNITSKY MINE OWNERS IN Seab Mines (Snecial To D AL Y WORKER.). PITTSBURGH, July 9.—--Fol lowing the wage-slashing operators in the bituminous area are launching a drive to cut still ther the starvation wages they are now paying. The Pittsburgh Ter- minal Coal Co. is cutting loaders’ pay from 65 to 58 cents a ton, and cutters’ pay from 12 to 11 cents. An unusually large number of serious accidents have occurred at the Pittsburgh Terminal mines received by the Relief Committee. reports Miners’ day, July lenauer, at the number Mike S the same mine, and were seriously burned and cutting machines. ers are having their pay slashed. three mine. other: many by police, who are hired, fired, paid coal company, are There are checkweighmen miners’ mines, full pay. no groes imported from the south, 1 in company houses penned high walls. They buy their company-owned stores with money coined by the operators, demand. miners are striking against. National Miners’ is raising funds to save their fam- ilies from starvation. All sent to their headquarters at 611 Pittsburgh tc to Organize | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Julv 9. The Workers (Communist) Party of Pittsburgh District is making ar- rangements to prepare for an effec- tive election campaign. Reports frpm the field indicate that the workers are busy getting signa- tures for the Nomination Petitions and it is expected that the required number of signatures will be se- cured within several days. Preparations are under wav to hold open air meetings regularly in various parts of the City of Pitts- burgh. A number of comrades were selected who will be trained to speak at these meetings on the various issues of the campaign. A meeting of all these comrades will be held at the District Office, 805 James St., N. S. Pittsburgh, July 12, at 8 p.m. CAMP H ULIE T (Over the Delaware) LUMBERVILLE, PA. JUST A_PLACE FOR A WORK- ER'S VACATION. Directions—By Bus or Trolley to Deyelstown and then by Camp Bus to the Camp. By Train—To Raven Rock, N. J., on the Penna R. R Form New York—By Raven Rock,N. For further information and reg- istration apply to: Workers’ Co-operative Assn. 817 So. 5th St. PHILA, PA. Train to PENNSYLVANIA IN NEW WAGE SLASH Accidents Increase in|‘ move of| the H. C. Frick Coke Company, coal | fur- | within the past month, according to National | | | John Motko, 48, was killed Fri- 6, by a slate fall in Mol- sko had his leg broken in motors These work- Any disputes which may arise in these open shop mines, between su- perintendent and miners is invaria- bly settled by the coal and iron po-) reopen the closed collieries, and pre | and one‘of. the lice who are always at hand. These and entirely at the disposal of the licensed by the state and enjoy full police power | or|general strike pit committees as in union i to demand fair weight and’ D i DEFEATS STRIKE | <2 8a VOTE ISSUED BY a Curious Picture About Communists at the Cameo RANK AND FILE. HE Loves of Jeanne Ney,” a Ufay assistance of his lady friend and : : | ‘Lip Service,” But No Real Action film from Germany.} everything comes out just fine in presents what would be called a new} the end. The hero, who is on party (By Miner Correspondent.) WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (By Mail) imported orientation in the treatment of|/work among the French seamen, is Communists in motion pictures. The Bolshevik is beardless; and thruout most of the film, human. Tn fact to be led out of jail and his. Com- munist activity is not only not dis- closed but is not even presented to At the meeting of the General|® Communist is the hero, the de-|his discredit: Of “coursey” a> few Grievance committee of the Penn- | feated aristocrats of Russia are de-| scenes of a Red firing squad in, ac- ivanik ‘Gout 206s ats whi generates and the villain is the| tion are not aimed to, make, the sylvania Coal Co., at which local] ee eae See mituite ean neem ret unions from the following collieries] Worst of them. We have come t0) i thes rindi ther mhorgoae phage as were represented: No. 6, Ewen.|this, comrades. But don’t cheer | related here: a story with a Com- With all this, the picture is by and i large a lot of unvarnished drivel No. It is absurd in story and ‘undistin- declare a general strike of all the| guished in acting. | collieries of the Pennsylvania Coal] qt js | Co. | things Frank McGarry, the so-called new president of District No. 1 of the| United Mine Workers of America | fought against this motion and the meeting was adjourned with a heat-| ed discussion lead by delegates} from local unions Ewen and No. 6 who demanded a call for a general rike. Demand General Strike. Miners who are employed by the| Pennsylvania Coal Co. demand a| munist hero, in which there is an aristocratic villain and in which the nobility is just so much mud. There you are. As queer a fool thing as ever wou saw. Arid “if it isn’t a new orientation it isn’t either a picture that should have neces- sarily been*imported all the way from Germany. Surely we do as bad here. Uno Henning, acting the handsome Communist, does it: ‘well Central, No. 9, Butler, 14, a motion was presented to Barnum an¢| one of the most curious shown on the ever “The Loves of Jeanne Ney titled only to lure the price of ad- mission from what you have left after paying the rent, The story isn’t that kind at all. It is a per- fectly moral tho absurdly foolish! and handsomely. His sweetie tale of only one love, not many, of! Jeanne, who isn’t as bad'as the title |a Communist leader and the ward| makes her, is nicely acted by 2 jof a counter-revolutionist and ped-| young and attractive lady: named |dler of czarist diamonds that find | Edith Jehanne. | their way out of Rus: Better Coming, The story is laid n the Crimee The non-union miners, mostly Ne-, tract system, ve | work. in by tion was adopted by the special dis food in | trict script | Scranton. at the price their store representatives strike proves that he is not willing It is such virtual peon-| to fight for the interests of the min- age that thousands of bituminousjers; this new misleader of the min- The] ers already shows that the coal dig-| Relief Committec| gers funds | | Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, are used for| refuses to fight against the contrac- | the purpose of none the strikers. | tors. Speakers for Campaign |under the Pennsylvania Coal The Vege-Tarry Inn RINE KRETCHME" v BP: ETARIAN FOOD MODERN IMPROVEMENTS DIRECTIONS: Take ferries at 234 St., Christopher St., Barclay St. or Hudson Tubes to Hoboken, Lacka- wanna Railroad to, Berkeley Heights, N. BERKELEY. HEIGHTS NEW JERSEY Phone, Fanwood 7463 R 1, o: a World Party 15 Cents What are the various section s of the Communist Interna- tional doing? Germany, France, U. S., England, Italy? What are their achievements, shortcomings and future tasks? B. Vasiliev, reviewing this pamphlet in the May 1 issue of the Communist Internati “Every active mem italist countries must hi a every Communist Party py of Comra ional, says: in ca sky's little Piatn book among the number ‘ot absolutely necessary handbooks on everyday Party work.” Order from WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS , 39 EAST 125th STREET, NOW YORK CITY. LE , general strike to force the com-|arter the revolution. The Reds{ On the same program at. the pany to eliminate contractors and! drive out the debauched aristocrats|Cameo Theatre this. week, is one of rewards of our Com-|the very early Chaplin pictures vent the company from using me-| munist hero for his share in the job |“The Vagabond,”... Every. Chaplir chanical loaders without adjusting|i, to be sent to Paris where hie| picture, ‘wo..matter how old, hae iwages and shortening working| sweetie has gone. He is sent by the|some funny stuff in it... Also, there hour : leading committee who do this ar|is an announcement that. soon there This shows McGarry is against a will be shown a bill composed. of #la favor, knowing the weakness of altho he says he is) our hero for the ward of the coun-|“Hunting Big Game In Africa” and favor of closing every colliery ir! tor-revolutionist, who was shot by|“The Arctic Seal Hunt.” Now rict No. 1 if it is necessary to) our hero himself, in person. “| that’s better. We have never seen the special mining con-| Ty Paris our hero almost gets into|a really bad animal picture. a lot of trouble but for the happy wi'G. eliminate and to equalize the Also to that effect a resolu-|— convention held recently in McGarry’s opposition today to the The Heart of Coney Istand ) LUN - ¥'lm Arts must depend on their own| Binh ane caatnR auie forces and not to depend on Me- aaa} CAMED 0 Presents Garry, who only gives a lip service | against the contractors system and} ‘PARK | BOOTH 7° Mats, Tuesday Dancing | mming Pool » SR gS 2d & B'way omen Premiere Thrilling Drama of Russia and REAL Paris “LOVES Of Jeanne Ney” A UFA. Production got Bway na ruradese GRAND ST. FOLLIES CHANIN'S46th St. W- 2:30 The Save-the-Union Committec| of District No. 1 is leading a fight | for a general strike of the miner Co. of Broadway | NEW ENGLAND HEAT WAVE Mate, wean menings at 8:25 ‘Sretrapoliet oo” BOSTON, July 9 (UP).—New CHWAB and MANDEL'S Bg io ag MUSICAL Good NEWS 0. OLSH. and HIS MUSIC | England still suffered today from the most severe heat wave of the season, with no relief in sight be- fore tomorrew night. Also Showing Chas. Chaplin in “The. Vagabona” with @ In July the Banks Are Paying Half Yearly Dividends Transfer Your Savings to a Co-operative Workers’ Finance Institution OI PORAN Subsidiary of the United Workers’ Co-operative Ass’n. | dividends are being paid from the first day. | of deposit on gold bonds in denominations | of $100, $300, $: $00 and $1,000 secured by the second mortgage of the second block of | houses in the Co-operative Workers’ Colony. The GOLD BOND CAMPAIGN Will Be Ended in July Subscribe ‘Now, Don’t Be Left Out! Consumers Finance Corp. Office: 69 — 5th Ave, New York, N. Y. TELEPHONE: ALGONQUIN 6900. Branch Office: 2700 Bronx Park ‘East (Co-operative Workers’ Colony) TELEPHONE: OLINVILLE 894,