The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 11, 1928, Page 1

DRAFT PROGRAM OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ON PAGE 3 THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORG ANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FA GOVERNMENT RMERS’ } Entered ax econd-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 U. jon Sas, New York, N. Y. Outside New York, w York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Price 3 Cents Vol. V. No, 163. LEWIS MACHINE MOVES TO BREAK MINERS’ STRIKE Orders 7,500 Coal Dig- gers Back (Special to The DAILY WORKER) MAUCH CHUNK, July 10— Further strike-breaking activities | on the part of the John L. Lewis} machine were disclosed here when Andrew Matty, district president of | the United Mine Workers, ordered} 7,500 striking coal miners back to work. The miners went out last week on & sympathy strike when the Le- high Valley Coal and Navigation Company, by whom they are em- ployed, locked out a number of its workers in other pits in direct vio- lation of the existing agreement. Considerable resentment has been aroused among the miners of the anthracite over the establishment of the contractor system and the failure of the Lewis machine offi- cials in all districts to fight against this and other evils. The attempt by Matty to break the strike of the Lehigh Valley coal workers will, it is expected, meet with the firm resistance of the rank and file. The progressives, under the leadership of the Save- the-Union movement, have endorsed the strike and are fighting for the elimination of the existing evils in the anthracite and against the Lewis machine. AUTO CARAVANS TO MINE FIELDS Prepare For Qefence Week July 22-29 (Special To DAILY WO} ) PITTSBURGH, Fa ee preparation for the Miners’ Defense Week July 22-29, a caravan of auto- mobiles carrying relief workers and sympathizers direct to the industrial battle front in western Pennsyl- vania will leave every city and town east of Chicago where there are re- lief committees or International La- | bor Defense branches, this Friday. The New York City National Min- ers’ Relief Committees are atrang- ing the caravan; participants will take care of their own expenses. Those who go will see the mount- ed state troopers and coal and iron police patrol the roads. They will see the scab patch, where imported strikehreakers live, hemmed in by} high walls. See Scenes of Attack. Renton, scene of the infamous at- tack of the state troopers upon men, women and children pickets who gathered along the road to keep the first shipment of scabs from enter- ing the coal pits, will be one of the first camps visited. Thirty mounted (Continued on Page Two) ASSAILS BROTHER IN CAFE STRIKE Sazar, Left Winger, Will Picket The workers on strike for the rec- ognition of their union against the owners of the True Food Vegetarian Restaugant, 44th St. and Broadway, received new encouragement yester- day when the brother of the restau- rant owner issued a statement de- nouncing him for his anti-labor stand and agreeing to go on the picket, line for the workers on strike. Henry Sazer, himself the leader of the left wing in the Cloth, Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers Union, yesterday condemned his brother, Benjamin Sazer, who, he said, had made all his money out of the pa- tronage of union men, and declared, “JT always stand ready to help my union brothers, even if it means to sist in a fight against my own brother.” ‘ Sazer further explained that his brother and his partner, Tofilofsky, had always posed as a semi-radical in orfer to retain the good will of his customers. His brother, he said. is still a member of the Jewish Na- tional Workingmen’s Alliance, a socialist-controlled organization. He alsc stated his intention to picket the restaurant in drder to assist the strikers. Particularly emphatic was Sazer’s condemnation of his brother, who on the one hand can pose as “sym- pathetic” to labor and on the other hand can order the arrest of pick- Militarist Is Crook Harlow Hardy, 30, graduate of the Annapolis. Naval Academy, who found his jingo education of great value in his trade of skip. ping hotels without paying bills. Hardy rose to the top of his pro- fession, becoming known as the “King of Hotel Deadbeats.” His latest stopping place is Sing Sing Prison, where thig 100 percenter will have to spend two to four years before being allowed to skip. MOSCOW PLANS BiG CELEBRATION Anniversary of USSR Constitution (Special Cable to the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., July 10.— A delegation comprising six hundred Kharkov workers arrived here yes- terday to participate in the celebra- tions on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the proclamation of the U. S. S. R. constitution. They were cordially met by work- ers of Moscow, when they arrived at the railway station. The celebra- tion, according to reports received here so far, and according to the |. spirit and oyerwhelming- enthusiasm. that the Moscow workers are show- ing at present, seem to be a certain indication that the jubilee will be one of the most impressive and joy- ous demonstrations held here. BISCUIT SLAVE . URGES UNION Hot Weather Adds to Misery in Plants (By a Worker Correspondent) The other day I read in The DAILY WORKER about the miser- able conditions in the National Bis- cuit Company. Being an employe of that plant myself, I not only approve of the statement, but also want to add that it is even worse. The speed-up system of the place is almost in- tolerable. Ney machinery is being brought in practically every day. which means that less workers are employed and the employed are therefore driven to do more work. And if anyone complains, the bosses have a quick and ready reply: “If you don’t like it you can look for another job.” During the summer the heat in the National Biscuit plants are un-| 3. bearable. There are no electric fans, and sometimes the workers are com- pelled to close the windows which are slightly opened because of in- terference with the work. The fore- men in their palm beach suits have made an art of slave-driving. I want to say to the fellow-work- ers in the National Biscuit plants: It is about time that we realized what is happening about us. It is about time we organized a union to fight for us and protect us. We cannot expect anything from the company. The company is organ- ized against us. NOR, 4 OTHE WORKERS, HELD INCOMMUNICADO Young Pioneer Ordered | Sent to Indiana DAILY WORKER and Workers (Communist) Party candidate for U. | S. Senator, and four other workers | were held in jail practically incom- municado for taking part in an anti- imperialist demonstration July 3, an- other participant in the demonstra- tion was yesterday caught in the machinery of capitalist “justice” when Magistrate Samuel D. Levy of the Children’s Court condemned Rose | Plotkin, 13-year-old Young Pioneer, | to be-sent back to her home town in Indiana. The young militant had been kept prisoner in the Heckscher Founda- tion since her arrest. When she ap- peared for trial yesterday morning, | Jacques Buitenkant, defending at- torney, representing the New York Section of the International Labor ; Defense, asked that the case be i postponed in order that Fanny Plot- kin, the sister and guardian of the | young accused, might have an op- portunity to testify. Fanny Plotkin was serving a two-day sentence for her part in the demonstration. The magistrate, evidently acting on in- structions fro mhigher up, refused, declaring that Fanny Plotkin was “unfit” to be the guardian of the Young Pioneer. Rose Plotkin will be released from the Heckscher Foundation today and sent back to Indiana, Three Workers Freed. Three of the workers who were yesterday given jail-terms by the viciously anti-labor Magistrate] Maurice Gottlieb, of the First Crim- inal District Court, were released yesterday at 4 p. m. upon the com- pletion of their two-day terms. They are Phil Frankfeld, Fanny Plotkin and Anna Bloch. The other five, Robert Minor, Re- becca. Grecht,. Harriet - Silverman, Emanuel George and Robert Wolf, who are being held virtually incom- municado, will be released Friday afternoon. The men are in the! Tombs and the women in Jefferson Market Jail. Minor’s wife, and yes- | When Lydia Gibson, attetipted? towseewher terday, prison authorities refused | her.entrance. They also refused to allow books or copies of The DAILY \f While Robert Minor, editor of The NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1928 Join in Spoils Hunt bu Senator, Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas (left) didn’t always like Gove, Al. Smith (right). Robinson has most of his political support from the benighted south where Ku Klux Klanism reigns supreme. Besides, Robinson is a so-called Dry while Smith is a so-called Wet. The marriage of convenience took place when Robinson was nominated as Smith’s running mate in the forthcoming election in an effort to capture some*of the southern votes which Smith might not be able to corral. Both candidates have the blessing and enthusiastic support of Wall Street. SOVIET VESSEL NEARS “ITALIA” “Krassin” Only 2 Miles Away VIRGO BAY, Spitzbergen, July 10.—A radio message from the Rus- sian icebreaker Krassin said today that the ship was only two miles from the dirigible Italia ice camp off North East Land. The same message said that one of the Italia survivors, apparently jmentally deranged, had wandered away from the carap. Within sight of land.on a melting ‘icefloe four members: of the crew of the dirigible Italia, headed by Lieu- tenant Alfredo Viglieri, today were reported in dispatches from the north as losing hope of rescue. Latest dispatches from the Arctic area told how the men were under- nourished, unkempt and suffering acutely from cold and exhaustion. Their plight is pitiful, dispatches said, because the ice is melting so WORKER to be sent to Minor, stating that prisoners are perrmitted | to receive only underwear. When | she asked to have underwear de- | livered to him, she was told that | prisoners can purchase underwear at the prison store. This is an obvi- | ous attempt to compel inmates of | the Tombs to boost the profits of | the prison store. { The cases of Max Shachtman, D. Benjamin, George Powers, Nathan Kaplan and I. Zimmerman, five other workers arrested when police at- tacked the anti-imperialist demon- stration, will be heard at the First District Criminal Court tomgrrow morning. Kaplan is charged with felonious assault, while the others are accused of disorderly conduct. ae cae The District Executive Committee of the Young Pioneers last night is- sued a statement condemning the ac- tion of the magistrate in ordering Rose Plotkin, 13-year-old member of the Young Pioneers, to be sent back to Indiana for participation in an anti-imperialist demonstration July Want 500 Volunteers At Center Tomorrow Five hundred volunteers are wanted at the Workers Center, 26-28 | Union Square, tomorrow evening at | 7:30 for important organization work in connection with the concert at Coney Island Stadium Saturday. All volunteers are asked to report on the fourth floor. Proceeds of the affair will go to The DAILY WORKER. NOTED ARTIST TO APPEAR Volpe and Theremin Prepare Program “One of the foremost of American conductors” has been the practically universal comment of critics con- cerning Arnold Volpe, who will con- duct an orchestra of 50 picked mu- sicians at the great concert to be given at Coney Island Stadium Sat- urday for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER. Volpe was the founder and first conductor of the Lewisohn Stadium «ymphony concerts and last summer acted as guest conductor at these concerts. He has also been the founder and conductor of a number ‘of other well-known orchestras in this country. Volpe is a former pupil of the famcus Leopold Auer, teacher of Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz and other leading violinists of the world. To Play Famous Overture A »vrogram of some of the best known syniphonic selections is now being rehearsed by Volpe and his orchestra; One of the numbers will be Tschaikovsky's famous “1812 Overture,” written on the defeat of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. The Roxy Ballet is also rehearsing its program under the personal (Continued ab Page Two) swiftly that it is next to impossible for a plane to land. Captain Thorn- berg of the Swedish expedition messaged that relief must*be car- ried to the men within a few days, otherwise they must be abandoned to their deaths. All hope has been exhausted for saving six other men—three mem- bers of the Italia group and the Captain Sora relief expedition of three. They can not be found and probably died on North, East Land. STRIKERS FINED IN SCAB FRACAS Say Milliners . Broke Umbrella Over Head Despite testimony favorable to the defendants, brought out by their at- torney’s examination of a policeman, Magistrate Jean Norris, in Jefferson Market Court yesterday fined Betty Newmann and Francis Schwartz, striking miliners, five dollars each for allegedly breaking an umbrella over the head of a strikebreaker. The two workers have ‘been strik- ing for many weeks against the at- tempt of several employers who have united with International President Max Zaritsky in a campaign to de- stroy their union, the Millinery Band Workers Union Local 43 of the Cloth Hat Cap and Millinery Workers In- ternational. The policeman testified that the disputed umbrella had been not in the hands of either of the defen- dants, when the arrest wgs made, but in tHe hands of the husband of the strike-breaker. The workers were arrested last week at 30th St. and Broadway. * ~The right wing clique in the Cloth Hat Cap and Millinery Workers Union have again demonstrated that they will stoop to any terrorist meth- ods in order to quiet the protest of the membership who_see their union being wrecked by the Zaritsky gang. In the offices of Local 24 a worker was brutally assaulted yesterday by a hired thug acting as a “guardian” of the officials. J. Rosen, one of the many unem- ployed workers who congregate at the union headquarters was assaul- ted with a blunt weapon wielded by Sam Blechman, a paid escort of scabs sent to work in shops in the * * OUST STRIKEB mail, $6.00 per year. REAKING MAYOR | OF NEW BEDFORD, IS DEMAND CONTRIBUTIONS — POURING INTO PARTY OFFICE Over $2,000 Already Received - Contributions to the Communist Campaign Fund are already pouring into the national office of the Work- ers (Communist) Party at 43 E. 125th St. Over $2,000, in amounts ranging from $5 to $500, has already been received. Bishop William Montgomery Brown, the heretic of Galion, O., and an international figure thru his war on the superstitions of the church and his espousal of Communism, leads off with a contribution of $500. Other Contributions, Other contributions are: Albert Gerling, Madrid, Iowa $5; T. Ger- lach, $25; Benny Smith, Charlotte, N. C., $5; I. Haberman, Minneapolis, $3; Hyman Slomberg, McKeesport, Pa., $5; Alice MacFadlin, Luscon City, Ariz., $10; collected at Mecca Temple mass meeting, $1,662.37; col- lected at convention banquet, $74.68; S. Rubin, Minneapolis, $25; Julius D. Lore, Philadelphia, $50; Stavros Heas, High Coal, W. Va., $10; M. Eisenstat, Endicott, N. Y., $15; Branch No. 80, Philadelphia, $5. €andidates Jailed. Several candidates of the party i og is has issued an appeal for funds. CLOAK COUNCIL MEET TOMORROW Ne o@s Committee Issues Parley Call The. official call of the New York Local. Committee of the National Organization Committee of the Cloaktaakers International Union for | the first monthly conference of shop | delegates was issued to the workers in the industry yesterday. It stresses the need for the cloak and_dress- maghkert to be represented. 109 per cent at the conference. It declares: | “Tomorrow at 6 o'clock, represen- The 28,000 heroic textile workers who are carrying on a mil struggle against a ten per cent wage-cut are in need of relief. Aid is ning largely through the Workers International Relief, which Strikers | » ~ ay Rel yah ‘ant EXECUTE FIVE DON PLOTTERS: fr Commute Sentences of Six Others oe MOSCOV 0.—Five of the eleven cons’ swho were sen- tenced to death for” organizing the Donetz coal congpjracy were ex- ecuted today. mutations of sentences had recommended ses of the six | and granted in the | those executed | other pace were Budners! lietzky, Yusewitch and Boyarinof. | The trial of the Drive for Red ‘Election Fund Under Way Need Relief For Militant Textile ASHLEY INCITED TERROR, CHARGE MILL STRIKERS Picket Demonstration Great Success BULLETIN NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July! 10.—A mass meeting is to be held ~ of all the workers in the ten tex ! tile manufacturing plants not on‘ strike in New Bedford, accordings, to an announcement made by Eli . Keller of the Textile Workers Union of the Textile Mills Com-» mittee. The workers in these plants are to take up the question of joining the strike of the 28,000 men work- ing in the factories of the New Bedford Cotton Manufacturing Association. The ten mills mentioned include the Firstone Tire Fabric Mills and other automobile fabric concerns, The workers in these plants did , not have their wages reduced when the general wage cut went — into effect, but nevertheless suf- fered reductions in the recent past. * » * NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 10. — The slogan, “Oust Mayor several days ago by ‘the New -pacoky, Gor»| Ashley,” which was put forws , are in New York jails for having tatives of the cloak and dress shops participated in an anti-imperialist | of New York will assemble in Web- demonstration in front of J. P. Mor-| ster Hall for the first monthly con- gan’s offices in Wall Street. | ference of the Council of Shop Dele- The capitalist press is filling its| gates to discuss the activities of the pages with drivel about the virtues| past month and lay down plans for of the two sets of capitalist candi-| future work. conspirators, : 1 5 which lasted a month, revealed the| Textile Mills Committee is being taken up by so large a section of the entire New Bedford population that it no longer assumes the char- acter of a strikers’ protest alone. It was revealed yesterday that a existence of an imperialist plot to| wreck the economy of the Soviet | Union. Foreign official, as well as| private capitalist enterprises, were | involved in the plot. | dates. While some papers support no hard feeling. This furnishes ad- ditional proof of the Communist con- tention that there is no difference be- tween the two parties, except the rival ambitions of the respective political leaders. The boodle of the employing classes will be poured into the treas- uries of both parties. This money will be used to drive the workers into a frenzy over Al Smith “who started life as a newsboy” or Herbert Hoover who was born in a shack in the west. Same Old Hokum. The worker who does not realize that a class struggle exists and who sees nothing in this campaign ex- cept a struggle between personalities will be confused by this propaganda. It is therefore extremely urgent that the Workers (Communist) Party should be in a position to publish literature to counteract this political poison of the capitalist parties. The raising of funds for the Com- munist election campaign is now in full swing. Money is needed at once. One dollar now is better than three later on in the campaign. Every worker who can spare a dollar should mail it at once to the National Cam- paign Headquarters, 43 E. 125th St., New York City, Alexander Tracht- enberg, treasurer. OFFICIALS BLOCK NECKWEAR UNION The United Neckwear Makers’ | Union, 11,016, will limit itself to |“legal” means, it was learned yes- jterday, to fight the strangling in- j Junction issued against it by Su- Freme Court Justice Arthur, Tomp- kins of Nyack, who held that pick- eting activities of the union had “unlawfully obstructed the side- walks” before the shops of the | bosses. The decision to carty on a purely | Slegal” fight against the injunction. which is one of the most drastic on record, is understood to have fol- lowed the policy adopted by the leaders of the union on the advice of their attorney, Louis Waldman, former socialist assemblyman of New York. On his advice the neck- wear workers’ officials adopted a policy of “making a test case” of the issue, it is reported. No mass picketing or violation of the injunc- tion first issued last November was ' | | | officials’ fight against Local 43. permitted. one set against the other, there is| “The cloak and dress season is ap- | proaching! The bosses of our in- | dustry are eager to continue the | chaos, the sweat shop system, the | long hours and the starvation wages |so that they may make millions of | dollars’ profit from our labor! The |leaders of the “Company Union” | (the agents of the bosses) will once more raise a turmoil about organiz- ing the trade and establishing union conditions. But just as during the past four seasons, this is only a fake slogan through which the clique will seek to maintain its domination over the workers, thus increasing the .|¢haos and demoralization in the in- terests of their allies, the bosses, at whose mercy their “Company Union” exists! “The last Shop Chairmen’s Con- ference, held on June the 2nd, has laid the basis for making an end to the present situation by uniting all the constructive elements for the purpose of building the Union. A mass organization committee was formed and plans for an organiza- tion campaign worked out. The united front of all constructive ele-' ments is a living fact today. Hun-| jdreds of paesive cloak and dress-| makers joined the ranks of the Na | tional Organization Committee dur- ing the past few weeks. Now is the | time to take up the great task of building the Union with all our strength. “No shop chairman or shop com- | mittee can afford to stay away from great moment. No one must be | main passive or indifferent at this |} grerat moment. No one must be under the illusion that the work will | be done without him. Let us get | together to build the Union. Let us through our united strength make! CHICAGO, July 10. — Mildly | denouncing both the republican and | democratic parties, delegates to the | “Farmer-Labor” convention assem- bled here today to choose a presi- dential candidate. While Herbert Hoover, republi- can presidential nominee was men-_ tioned in the keynote speech of | Laura Hughes Lunde, of Chicago, | no direct reference was made of | Gov. Al Smith. Hoover was re-| ferred to as “a member of that cabinet which knew what was go- ing on” — a timorous hint of the Lawyers, Businessmen Are Delegates RED CONGRESS REPORT FRIDAY Speakers Will State | ; New Pglicy | In order that the recently decided | policy of the Red Trade Union In-| ternational for its adherents in this country be clarified, Local New York of the Trade Union Educutional League has called a mass meeting, Friday night, where a report will be | given by the leaders of the recently returned delegation to the World Congress. The meeting will begin} at 8 o’clock at Manhattan Lyceum, | 66 E. 4th St. | 27 Lands Represented | The Congress of the Red Trade} Union International, held in Moscow, brought together the organizers of the revolutionary unions of 27 coun- tries. The congress exposed the role which the reformist and reac- | tionary labor leaders are playing in| every country in collaboration with the government and employers to- wards the defeat of the revolution- Jery unions of the organized working | class. The congress devoted considerable attention to the American trade | union movement and laid down a| Continued on Page Five) an end to the misery, degradation, the sweat shop system and the “Company Union” which has brought it all about.” ‘FARMER-LABOR’ MEET ON oil scandals and corruption in the Harding administration. Four men appear outstanding candidates for the presidential | nomination, according to the United | Press. Among them are former senator George W. Norris, of Ne- braska; former governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania and Gov. Sweet of Colorado. The fourth is a dry southern democrat whose name was not revealed. The majority of the delegates are small business men, lawyers and other professional men and a scat- tering of “gentleman farmers.” citizens’ body is in process of for- mation which will lead the fight’ to rid the city of the textile bosses’ agent, Ashley. Inquiries made at the office of the Textile Mills Committee later | brought a statement from its spokesmen to the effect that they would be ready to give their whole- hearted endorsement to any such move. It was also learned there that a mass meeting to which the general public will be invited is ale ready being planned. Mayor Seeks Violence r Many sections of the New Bed- ford population are expressing the_ deepest resentment against Ashley’s open attempt to provoke bloodshed in the big textile strike here, by ordering heavily armed troops to the 56 mills yesterday morning. Ashley, it is charged, was well acquainted with the fact that the mill owners had planted provocateurs among the 20,000 who turned out to picket the mills. In addition to this, it is shown that the mayor had pursued a de- liberate policy of breaking the strike, by a series of wholesale ar-, rests for no greater crime ‘that singing on the picket lines. arrests were followed up by jails if ings of strikers and their lead 4 Over 46 were arrested and eith Murdoch and Beal, the two of the T. M. ©. are still imprisoned for leading picket lines: ‘ | 4 fined or jailed for this,“of-” (Special To The Daily Worker) ‘| NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 10. —The mill owners staged the sam@ | farcical performance today as they did yesterday, when they had the factory whistles blow long and im- perative blasts early in the mopn- ing, to show the strikers that they were ready to resume operations if | they would only come back to works The thousands of pickets of the Textile Mills Committee greeted the whistles ‘and the wide-open gate®, with the same contemptuous The widespread protest by the threat of armed terror is so” great as to have caused the an+ nouncement that the militia will be withdrawn after today. Enthusiastic Meetings Mass meetings where the greate est enthusiasm yet exhibited were. held yesterday. The strikers are thoroughly convinced that yester- day’s events gave conclusive proof that the strike will be won, In addition to the local leaders of the strike, Albert Weisbord, national head of the Mills Committee, alse spoke, i | ford Textile Workers Union of the —