The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1928, Page 1

_ e | A Teen ® ‘. GOVERNMENT THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS | | O ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED y FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ Vol. V. No. 164. Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sa.. New York, N. Y. _ NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1928 NAL CITY EDITION FI SUBSCRIPTION RA Outside Si In New York, New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $0.00 per year. Price 3 Cents SOVIET FLYER FINDS 3 LOST “ITALIA” CREW Braves Great Dangers On Ice Floe By EUGENE LYONS. MOSCOW, July 11 (UP).—Three men of the ill-fated trans-Iolago dirigible Italia who have been strug- gling for 42 days from ice floes to- ward land, and who had been given up for lost, were found today by an unknown Russian aviator on the Arctic wastes off Cape Platen, north east iand. The Russian ice ship Krassin re- | ported that Soviet aviator Chuknov- | sky had circulated over the men— Prof. Finn Malmgrem, Swedish physicist, and Captains Adalberto Mariano and Filippo Zappi of the Royal Italian navy, and that it was hoped they could be rescued tonight or Thursday. Chuknovsky circled over the bed- raggled figures, outlined on the ice oy the dazzling sun, and sought to find a place to land. Two of the men were standing and waved their hands to the aviator. The third was stretched out on the ice and Chuk- novsky was uncertain whether he moved. After he had made certain there was no safe landing place in the vicinity, Chuknovsky returned to his base ship, the Krassin, and the Rus- sians began rushing preparations to rescue the three men, whose con- dition could be nothing less than desperate, While only a short distance separates the Krassin from the Castaways great difficulties face the (Continued on Page Two) PARTY IN CALL FORBIG CONCERT Mass Demonstration Urged Saturday An appeal to all class-conscious farkers of New York to attend the “great concert at the Coney Island Stadium Saturday night was issued last night by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Com-| munist) Party. The appeal, which urges that the concert being ar-| ranged under the joint auspices of The DAILY WORKER and the Frei- heit be made a mass political demon- stration, follows: “Comrades! Fellow Workers! “The two greatest dailies of our party, The DAILY WORKER and the Freiheit, have organized a great concert and rally to take place at the Coney Island Stadium on Sat- urday evening, July 14. This con- cert is more than an ordinary enter- tainment, just as July 14 is more than an ordinary day. “July Fourteenth is Bastille Day | This day is written with letters of fire in the history of the great French Revolution. It is the day when the masses of France, rising against their feudal oppressors. tock by storm and partly destroyed the formidable political prison of their old rulers, the citadel of Bas- tille. Our comrades of The DAILY WORKER and the Freiheit did well to choose this*revolutionary day for their undertaking. (Continued on Page Five) SOCIALIST MAYOR HELPING SEIPEL Vienna Communists To; Demonstrate July 14 | | (Snecial Cable To Daily Worker.) VIENNA, July 11.—The social- democratic mayor of Vienna, Seitz thas refused to countermand the po- ‘e prohibition of the Communist ty demonstration July 15 on the niversary of the working class risings last year. The Commu- tt Party announces that the dem- tration will be held on July 14 ad. Section 2 Membership Meet Off Till July 16 ‘ On acocunt of the conflict with the meeting of the shop chairmen, called by the National Organization Committee, the membership meeting of Section 2 has been called off and will be held Monday, July 16, at 101 West 27th St. MARY SORKIN WANTED Mary Sorkin is asked to communi- cate immediately with the district office of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League, at the Workers’ Center, 26-28 Union Square. It is A. Nelle, former dance partner of Pavlowa, who will appear to- gether with the Roxy Ballet at the great DAILY WORKER con- cert at Coney Island Stadium Sat. urday evening. Program of Big Concert Is Announced At last the details of the program of the great concert to be held at Coney Island Stadium Saturday yight have been completely worked out. And the program indicates that the committee in charge has done itself proud. The first part of the program will consist of a concert by Arnold Volpe and his symphony orchestra of 50 musicians. The orchestra will open with the Coronation March from Meyerbeer’s opera, The Prophet, Ther. will follow the famous Rienzi Overture of Wagner, Caucasian Sketches by Ippolitow-Ivanov, Fan- tasy from Bizet’s opera, Carmen, and the ever-popular Marche Slav by Tschaikovsky. All of these num- bers are among the most popular in the symphonic repertoire. Ballet’s Program. After an intermission of 15 min- utes, the noted Roxy Ballet, under the direction of A. Nelle, former partner of Pavlova, will present its program. This will consist of a Gypsy Dance and Mazourka from Delibes’ ballet, Coppelia, and dances from Gounod’s opera, Faust. The dancing of the ballet is certain to be a revelation to all those present. Following an intermission of 10 (Continued on Page Two) DRIVE FOR NEW UNION SPREADS Urge Anthracite To} Stand Solid PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 11. —The call for a_ national miners’ convention to be held at Pittsburgh on September 9-16 for the purpose of form- ing a new national miners’ union, was forwarded to all local unions of the United Mine Workers with a request for the election of dele- gates to the convention, according to an announcement by Pat Toohey, secretary of the convention a! e- ments committee. Toohey added | that the convention arrangements | committee printed 100,000 copies of the Call for the convention for wide distribution among the miners in both the organized and unorganized sections of the industry. Warns Miners, The announcement warns the pro- gressive miners that the Lewis henchmen will do everything in | their power to prevent the local unions from taking action on the Call for a national miners’ conven- tion. Toohey therefore urges the progressive miners to make sure that the Calf is brought before their local unions ond that delegates loyal to the rank and file are elected to the convention. In a scathing denunciation of John L, Lewis and the other offi- cials of the United Mine Workers of America, declaring that they wreck- (Continued on Page Five) Apnear at Concert! TEXTILE STRIKERS PICKET MUL ALL LL NIGHT TO SPEAK UPON TOMBS RELEASE Kate Gitlow Assails Vicious Judge When the five cell doors in the Tombs swing open tomorrow, lib- erating the workers who were Mon- day sentenced to serve a five-day term for participating in the anti- imperialist demonstration at Broad and Wall Sts., July 13, a crowd of workers will greet them outside of the prison to escort them to Union Square. There a monster protest meeting will be held at 4 o’clock. The speak- ers will include Robert Minor, edi- tor of The DAILY WORKER and Workers (Communist) Party can-| didate for U. S. senator, Harriet Silverman, secretary of the New York branch of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, which ar- ranged» the meeting; Rebecca Grecht, candidate for assembly and state campaign manager of the Workers (Communist) Party; Rob- ert Wolf, novelist and poet, and Emanuel George, a striking miner! from Ohio. The meeting is expected to draw thousands of workers who will at- tend as a protest against the bru- talities of Tammany’s New York po- lice and the vicious prejudice shown by Magistrate Gottlieb in the trial of the five militant workers dur- ing the farcical trial. The buge protest Friday, which, is being held under the auspices of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, will be the beginning of a vigorous campaign for members among all workers and sympathiz- ers for the ‘ight against American imperialism. A letter was last night addressed to Magistrate Gottlieb by Kate Git- low, head of the United Council of Workingelass Housewives, an or- (Continued on Page ' on Page Two) AFFAIRS AIDING ar seas W. IT. R. “Appeals For ~“Rettef Activity | NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 11. —tThe Workers International Relief, which has now become the chief strike relief distributing agency in| the New Bedford strike of 28,000 textile workers has issued an ap- peal to workers’ organizations to! undertake activities that will bring | in funds for strike aid. The state- ment enumerates the affairs already arranged and says in part: “A smashing defeat was delivered | to the textile corporations on Mon- | day, July 4, when the mill gates} ) were opened for the first time in 12 weeks. Not a striker returned to work. . The attempt of the bosses to intimidate the workers by calling out an additional force of mounted police and the state militia was an- swered by the strikers by mass pick- eting. State Stops Aid. The state of Massachusetts an- nounced through the press that since the mills were opened the state would no longer aid in giving relief to the needy. The city of New Bed- ford and the chamber of commerce who have been doling out charity will no doubt follow this capitalistic example within a few days in the hope that this will defeat and force the workers back into the mills. “F, G. Biederkapp of the Workers Internationa! Relief says that the W. 1. R. is «ranging to open up ad- (Continued on Page Five) Bitter condemnation of Magistrate Samuel D. Levy of the Children’s BAS who on Tuesday condemned ose Llaticin, 13-year-old member of the Young Pioneers, to be sent back to her home town in Indiana is contained in a statement issued by the Communist youth organiza- vion last night. The young militant was arrested very important ff at the anti-imperialists’ demonstra- PIONEERS RAP COURT Denounce the Verdict on Kus oth» n tion at Broad and Wall Sts., duly 3, and has been kept prisoner in the Heckscher Foundation since her ar- rest. Magistrate Levy had refused the request of Jacques Bruitenkant. representing the New York Section of the International Labor Defense, that jydgment be postponed in or- cor tre Fanny Plotkin, sister of the young accused, might have an op- ' (Continued on Page Two) |the technical charge of desertion, |methocs being used’in an effort to |the young soldier-worker, although | Porter was turned over to the mili- Feeding the 28,000 New Bedford mill Strikers and Their Families | During the entire 18 weeks that the 28,000 t International.Relief has been supplying food for them and their dependents. 20,000 participated, indicated that victory is not Photo shows but a small pr far distant. ‘ing demonstration last Monday, in which over Meanwhile relief is urgent. | Minor, Giecht, at Union Square Protest Tomorrow at 4 P. M. JAILED WORKERS © 18,000 MARCH TO KILBURN MILLS AS SCAB RUMOR RISES United Textile Worker Rank: Rank and File Defies Batty; Fraternize wit with Mill Committee |Pickets in Pihermen's s Boats Guard Mill Gate on Waterfront Against 8 Scabs NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 11.—The most dramatic single event to take place since the big New Bedford textile tile workers of New Bedford have been on strike, the The magnificent oportion of the thousands cared for by the W.1. R. relief kitchen in New Bedford. For a few weeks city charities provided some relief, but the moment the mill barons announced that they would attempt to reopen the mills if the strikers __ would return, the charity agencies ceased giving relief, telling the workers to return to the looms. DETROIT COMMUNISTS ACTION. BEGINS IN PORTER GASE Shorr, LL.D. Attorney, Goes to Ft. Adams By PAUL CROU John Porter, imprisoned in an army jail for his militant strike ac- tivities, membership in the Young Workers Communist League and on will soon be brought before a court- martial or a civil court. The National Office of the Inter- national Labor Defense, 80° East 11th St., has announced that Isaac |Shorr, the attorney retained for the defense, is leaving today for Fort Adams, R. L., to start action on the ease to attempt to stop the brutal crush Porter’s spirit. Information was received yester- day that the military authorities, who have kept Porter in solitary confinement for almost a week, are resorting to the most extreme mea- sures in’ their attempts to break the militant revolutionary stand of it is more than a month since John tary authorities. The International Labor Defense has decided that the authorities will not be permitted to continue their brutai treatment of Porter, and Shorr will demand that the case be brought to trial immediately. If this is refused, action will be started in the civil courts. On his visit to Porter in the prison cell, Shorr will be accompanieg by Porter's sweetheart, Theresa Va-| lente, 2 New Bedford strike leader and secretary of the National Com-| mittee recently formed to mobolize the young workers of the country for Porcer’s release and to expose the role of the army. TO HOLD CONEY ISLAND DANCE The Coney Island Workers Club will hold a Moonlight Dance, Sat- urday, July 14. The dance, which will begin at midnight, will be held at the Pythian Temple, 2864 W. 21st St., Coney Island. The affair had originally been ar- ranged to take place on the after- noon of the same day, ‘and notices had appeared both in The DAILY WORKER and in other publications to that effect. But because it would have conflicted with The DAILY WORKER concert at. the Coney Is- land Stadium at which Theremin, the noted Soviet musician is to play, the club moved the time ahead to ja public declaration DETROIT, Mich.’ (By Mail). —| The first open air meeting in the Workers (Communist) Party elec- tion campaign was broken up by po- lice the other night and: three work- ers- arrested. They are Alfred E. Goetz, Philip Bart, district organ- izer, Young Workers League,. and Morris Fleishman. They were tak- en to the police station and at mid- night were taken out of their cells by Detectives Delesle and Pender- grass, who were both under the in-| fluence of liquor, and severely beat- en up. The workers later declared that they were taken to the fourth floor of police headquarters sand before | questioned, were beaten up. They| were beaten until they were uncon-| scious, then forced to stand up and| take another beating. The work-| ers were then held incommunicado} for two days, when they were freed} by the court without having had any charges preferred against them. The Detroit campaign committee} plans to take up the whole matter and will get out a complete policy | on open air meetings in relation to| the campaign. The committees wil’) proceed with meetings on the street | corners in spite of the police terror POLICE ARREST THREE \W, Y, COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN IS ON First Bint For Big Signature Quota Evidence that the election cant paign of the Workers (Communist) Party in New York State and par-| ticularly in New York City swinging into mid-season form was had yesterday with the announce- ment through Bert Miller, organiza- | tion secyetary of District 2, that a} numberof successful meetings have already been held in the drive to secure 25,000 signatures to put the local candidates of the Party on the ballot. Running Start While the full force in the cam- | paign may not get under way be-| fore next week, it was announced, | various sections have already be-| |gun with the house to house cam- paign to secure the necessary: sig- |natures. Those in charge report a greater degree of enthusiasm and | interest in the present political cam- |paign than was manifest in previ- ous years when the value of politi- cal activity had not yet been so SMITH IN PLEDGE TO BIG BUSINESS Pick Morgan Bankers to Lead Drive Governor Alfred E. Smith, in an interview given out to the press yesterday, boldly declared that the campaign of which he is to take personal direction will be based upon a determined effort to win the support of the big: business inter- csts of the country $n conformity with this plan the |Tammany leader announced his choice of John J. Raskob, chairman of the finance committee of the finance committee of the General Motors Company, as head of the national committee of the demo cratic party and Herbert H. Leh- man, head: of several Morgan-con- trolled banks of New York City, as the treasurer of the committee. Raskob, who is a republican, in intended ob- viously for G. 0. P. consumption yesterday assured them that Smith would not disturb the present status of the tariff. Fur Shop Chairmen’s Meeting Tonight at 6 “To All Actiye Fur Workers: “All shop chairmen, Joint Board delegates, Executive Board mem- bers, and active union members must be present at to-night’s shop- chairman’s meeting immediately af. | ter work at the union office, 22 E. | 22nd St. | JOINT BOARD, midnight. FURRIERS’ PNION.” | fully realized. At a section meeting held in the Harlem headquarters of the Party, 143 E, 103rd St., last week prelim- linary plans were laid for the car- rying out the campaign in that district. Signature squads were ap- pointed under a program of activi- ty which includes a seven-day drive until the necessary quota is secured. Every member is to report daily at 7 p. m. for work in the evening. (Continued on Page Five) SOVIET UNIGN TRIES 10 SPIES | = | | | was | | strike began more than 12 weeks ago, occurred yesterday when it was rumored at a meeting of the Textile Workers Union'strike committee that eight strikebreakers had entered the Kilburrn Mills and had started the looms. : The immediate call for a pic-* |ket demonstration issued by| |the strike committee =» AUTO WORKERS like wild-fire thruout the city IN FLINT, MICH. OUT ON STRIKE ” | | burn plant is situated. i | blocks. | Plant here. The spontaneous. sa As the hours crept toward the/ cause it is a fight of all workers and resulted in ‘the formation} of a picket line marching 3,000 strong, with over 15,000 other{ strikers ayd sympathizers jamming | the entire South End where the Kil- Hugs Dempnatration |\Several Hundred Joi Then followed a hnge all night} : demonstration, spqntaneity and en- in Walkout thusiasm of which did not diminish | 3 | even after daylight had come. The| FLINT, Mich., July 11.—Several | picket line stretched along Rodney | hundred auto workers have walked ' French Boulevard for several city| out on strike in the Fisher Body | The peak of the demonstration! developed out of the spee-up was roached at cbout Witinight, the|tem and: the -general Worsening: many thousands of workers then go- | working conditions, ing home, but many hundreds still | The men are determined to put oe stubbornly watched the waterfront | strong fight and are calling upan | thru which the eight scabs were re-|"the rest of the workers in the plant | ported to have entered the mills. to stand with them in the fight be early dawn, hundreds of men and| women came to augment the picket | line despite a pelting rain. Mothers who had -left the Kilburn plant to| take their children home returned to patrol the reill gates and the water | | front Spirit High. The entire city is as one in agree-| |ment with the belief that this demon- stration did more to display the iron | determination underlying the spirit of the strikers than any other mani- festation@of strength. Again the yellow role of the leaders of the textile council was shown here when Lieutenant Mann- ing, and Chiet McLeed in charge of the emergency police force called out, asked the picket line leaders that the mass picketing McLeed and Manning asked this of the picket captains of the Textile Workers Union of the T. M. C., Caesare Barbosa and August Gon- salves Pinto; and also of the Council leader Batty. Batty Aids Bosses. Batty immediately responded to the police request that picket lines be reduced to six at each gate and that marching cease. The T. M. C. Picket captains gave an immediate unconditional refusal to obey the police request. Quits Picketing. Batty thea followed with a call to the council membership that they withdraw from, the picket line and move to an adjourning lot. council pickets protested s saying that they wished to remain on the picket lines as long as the Mills Committee | pickets were there. A large and the} singing of strike songs be stopped. | | in the industry. The strike and picket line have been organized under the leadership | of the Auto Workers’ Union. Philip Raymond, the organizer of the un- j ion, is in the strike field directing | and leading these workers in their | struggle against the open shoppers. Mass meetings are being arranged | and all indications show that these | meetings will be successful. It is the general feeling among~ strikers | that the only way to stop General | Motors from cutting their wages is | by having al! the workers organized into an Auto Workers’ Union. FUR UNION WAGE RAISE DRIVE ON |Wkr’s in “Right Wing | Shops Join Campaign- | The first repercussions of the | drive for July wage raises now be- |ing conducted by the Joint Board Furriers Uhion, were heard yester= day when, as a result of’ the suc- | cess the campaign is so far regis- | tering, the Associated Fur Manufactusers) went out on strike after their de: mand for wage inereases had ‘© | refused by the bosses. } Despite the fact that the Shoe |of the Associated all have so-called ‘agreements with the right wing | MOSCOW, July 11 (UP).—Trial | majority of his pickets remained on {Joint Council and do not recognize the line after disregarding his ex- the Joint Board, the ability of the of ten Russians: and! one German | onder to withdraw, Joint Board to call and win several accused of economic espionage be-|" At 2 a, m. the T. M. C. captains |shop strikes in other shops caused gan today before the military see- | collected doughnuts and cookies from |the workers here to put up spon- Mon? ch abensinineie. Caarh |three bakers and handed them out |taneously these demands to | to the pickets. At 3 a. m. a big truck |own bosses. In prosecuting The defendants are charged with | | loaded with sandwiches, milk and drive the Joint Board had thi spying on behalf of Sweish conces- | coffee with sent by the T. M. C. Re- out the slogan to all workers in sionaires of the Alfa aval and Di-| lief Station and distribution to the |trade to fight their bosses for abolo Separator and gathering and selling secret agri-| cultural data. companies, een as well as to the T. M. C, pickets. j at first hesitated, but then accepted (Continued on Page Five) DELAY MOONEY APPEAL Gov. Young . Must Take Vacation Now The hearing for the unconditional pardon of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings before Gov. Young on July 27, the date originally set, has been postponed until the middle of August, according to information just received by James P. Cannon national secretary of International Labor Defense, in letters from both Fremont Older, editor of the San Francisco Call and Frank P. Walsh Dave ne prominent New York attorney. Both have been deeply interested in the frame-up case and have been work- ing for the release of Mooney and Billings since 1916, Clarence Dar- row and Arthur Garfield Hays, who | have served as counsel in other fa- mous labor trials in past years, are | also active in this latest move for the freedom of Mooney end Bill- (Continued on Page Two) The Council picket captain | July raises. The two-shops in which the kers struck are Bloom and ks W. 27th St. and Bro (Continued on ed eee Five) 500 WANTED. AT. _ CENTER TONIGHT | Five hundred volunteers are wan: |ted tonight at 7:30 on the fourth floor of the Workers Center, 26.28 |Union Square. The volunteers are {needed to organize the istra- tion at the great DAILY WORKER jeoncert at Coney Island oe aturday evening. f the workers in two shops of f | shed i |