The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 13, 1928, Page 1

€ j ; | j | / | GOVERNMENT THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ Bai Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 187%. NATIONAL EDITION Vol. V. No. 165. Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per | GASE OF FRAMED MILITANT HELD FOR GRAND JURY Four Other Arvested JWorkers Dismissed With-thetholding over-of the case of Nathan Kaplan, young furrier arrested*in connection with an anti- imperialist demonstration in Wall Street July 3, for a grand jury hear- in, the frame-up of this militant + worker begins to loom more om- inously. “Kaplan appeared yesterday morn- ing in the First District Criminal Court, Center and Franklin Sts., to answer a charge of felonious as- sault. He was accused by Officer Keegan of having bitten his finger at the July 3 demonstration. Despite the fact that a witness for the prose- cution repeatedly contradicted him- self and three defense witnesses, Laurence Ross, D. Benjamin and Nathan Adler, testified that the in- jury to Keegan’s finger had been sustained when he punched Kaplan in the face and his fist caught on the defendant’s teeth, Magistrate George Washington Simpson re- fused te dismiss the case. The New York Section of the In- ternational Labor Defense, which is defending all the workers arrested in connection with the demonstra- "| tion, was also compelled to furnish an additional $1,500 bail to secure Kaplan’s release. Four other workers, Max Shacht- man, -D, Benjamin, George Powers and I, Zimmerman, who were ar- rested at the anti-imperialist demon- stration, also came up for hearings yesterday morning. Though the charges against them were the same as against eight others who on Mon- day were given jail terms in the (Continued on Page Two) WELCOME FREED WORKERS TODAY Union Square Meet To ~ Protest Frame-up The release of four of the workers led for participation in an i-imperialist _ demonstration on July 3 will be celebrated with a huge welcome in Union Square at 4:30 this afternoon at which sev- eral thousand militant workers are expected to be present. The wel- come will also take the form of a protest against the jailing of the workers and particularly. against the frame-up of Nathan Kaplan, young furrier, who is now cut on ™ $1,500 ail on a charge of felonious ‘) assault,, awaiting a grand jury hearing. ‘Kaplan, it is pointed out, has been selected as the scapegoat, and unless the class-conscious work- ers of the city launch a drive for his immediate release, he will be railroaded to jail. The chief speakers at the wel- come and _ protest meeting this afternoon will be the four released workers, Robert Minor, editor of .» The DAILY WORKER and Work- ers Party candidate for U. S. Senator; 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 July 8rd demonstration, and Robert Wolf, poet and novelist. Kate Gitlow, secretary of the “ United Council of Workingclass Women, who was also arrested and later released, will also speak and demand that she be given the same treatment as her comrades: Fear Show of Power : By Communists VIENNA, July 12. — Fearing the impressive demonstrations of mili- tant labor now being planned in celebration of the July uprising of the Vienna workers last year, police ‘today forbade all public meetings. assemblies and parades between July and August 12. The order is specifically aimed at the Communist Party which has been in the forefront in exposing the treacheries of the social-demo- cratic rulers of the city. KILLS WIFE, COMMITS SUICIDE OMAHA, Neb., July 12 (UP).— Belief that Clifford McWilliams killed his wife and then committed suicide was expressed by police to- day. The bodies of the two were found in their rooms in an apart- ment house hére late today. Police Jearned that Mrs. McWilliams re- turned from Bristol, Col., this morn- Victims Join Hunger Strike ONNENBURG, Germany, July 12.—Sixty-five-class war pris- oners, led by Max Hoeltz, mili- tant leader, have started a hunger strike here as a protest against the delay by the Reichstag of the vote on the amnesty bill. Seventeen leading Communists, including a group of Communist deputies imprisoned for “treason,” organized the strike yesterday. Today 48 more political prisoners joined the protest and refused all food. The amnesty bill was defeated in the Reichstag last spring. COAL OPERATORS TRY NEW TRICK Great Defense Week Plans Speeded PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 12— What coal and iron police, terroriza- tion, state cassacks’ clubbings, and fifteen months of hunger failed to do, the Carnegie Goal Company is attempting to effect with a trick. Two years’ back rent for company houses must be paid, the officials declare, or the miners and their households will be thrown into the muddy roads, already flooded by the spring rain. But the willy operators are willing to be “charitable.” They will open their mines, and the coal diggers may go back as scabs, the operators say, and work three days for every two months back rent they owe, and stay in their homes. As soon as the wi were posted at the mines, the coal diggers de- clared they would not be duped into returning to open shop mines, and committees were quickly dispatched to the national miners’ relief com- mittee, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, to ask for tents. “They won’t make strikebreakers out’ of us!” the mili- tant. miners said. Immediately a special appeal was issued by Alfred Wagenknecht, relief director, to re- lief committees and sympathizers all over the country, for funds to fur- nish. “heads of the striking miners’ children. Houses Dilapidated. Thousands of families in McDon- ald, Atlasburg and Primrose will be affected. The company houses are smoky, broken-down shacks, border- ing the hills in crooked rows. The walls are streaked with the remains of years’ old paper, holes in the win- dows are stuffed with rags, there is hardly any plumbing and the roofs ore leaky. But they are the only roof@ the miners’ families have to protect them from the frequent rain storms. Hunger, lack of clothing, privations and hardships innumer- able they have lived through, these fifteen months. Nevertheless the threat of losing what little shelter they have, comes like a thunderbolt. Great Solidarity Week. . “The greatest manifestation of solidarity that the workers of Amer- ica have ever shown for their strik- ing brothers will be seen every- where during the week of duly 22 to the 29th” Wagenknecht said in the appeal sent broadcast from the Pittsburgh office. “The Interna- tional Labor Defense is cooperating with us to raise money to buy tents for the evicted miners, food for their robbed of his sight. children and defense for their ar- rested leaders,” “The miners are in the vanguard of the struggle against the open shop and slave standards of work and life for all Jabor,” Martin Abern of the International Labor Defense added to the appeal. “They are on the firing line, and we must rush am- munition to them. Every dollar, every dime available must be rushed to the relief headquarters at 611 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh. Every worker must join the drive, to swell the national relief-defense week drive, July 22 to the 29, to mass proportions! Join the Caravan. “Join the caravan to Pittsburgh, Saturday, July 14, and see for your- self how the courageous strikers and their families are living!” the offi- cial communication concluded. Arrangements for joining the auto- mobile campaign can be made through local national miners relief committees or’ International Labor Defense branches, or directly through the national headquarters in Pittsburgh. BLIND NEGRO AIDS PARTY H. Lackett Is Fearless Militant in Ohio By LOUIS SISELMAN (Special to DAILY WORKER) ‘AKRON, Ohio, July 12—It is now fourteen years since Harold Lackett, a colored worker, was He was in- jnred while working for the Central Gas ard Pipe Company of Lisbon, Ohio. But Lackett understands the oppression of his class and is an active member of the Workers (Communist) Party, When. Lackett was injured, he was robbed not only of his sight, but also of the com- pensation which the law grants for such accidents in Ohio State. He received, instead of a much larger sum which he should have gotten, only $3 a week. to receive as city pension for the blind, was also taken from him ir 1926, for the reason that he davec 65 Class War WORKERS PARTY NEEDS $20,000 BEFORE AUGUST $100,000 Required For. Election Drive The first response to the call of the National Election Campaign Committee for contributions to the $100,000 Communist Campaign Fund have been highly gratifying and have given the fund a fine Start, ac- cording to a statement issued by the Committee last night. Hereafter, until the full quota is reached, the job will require steady work by all elements in the Commu- nist movement. The National Office of the Work- ers Party is reporting an extreme shortage of funds. Work on the campaign has been steadily carried on for months. Numerous organi- zers and speakers have been main- tained in the field thruout this period. Much of the preliminary work of organizing the campaign on a country-wide basis and of putting | the party on the ballot has already | been accomplished. Neew Funds Now. Quite a number of states are al- ready on the ballot. Several more | states are daily expected td report | success in this field, while reports | from all segtions of the country in- | dicate that everywhere the tempo of | the election campaign is increasing. | Launch Tours. | If the success already gained are | to be continued, twenty thousand | dollars must be raised before August | firsrt. This sum is needed to pay| for the immediate necessary print- ing, the production of the first lot of literature, , campaign posters and campaign buttons, the maintenance of the organizers’ and speakers al- ready in the field, and to pay the legal expenses of the bitter fight that must be conducted in many | states to force the officials to certify our party for the ballot. | Twenty thousand dollars by Aug. 1st is a tremendous sum of money, i especially when very little of this ean be expected to come in lump| sums. The campaign depends wholly’ on the contributions of large num- bers of individual workers, and the Campaign Committee. -is* confident that the workers will respond gen- erously. All contributions should be ad- dressed to Alexander Trachtenberg, Treasurer, 43 East 125th St., New York. CZECH POLIGE ~ TERROR GROWS Workers Sports Clubs Disbanded . PRAGUE, Czechoslavakia, July 12—Smirchov and _ Vysocan,’ the leaders of the relief organizations and Vrsovic of the Federation of Proletarian Physical Culture re- ceived an order from the Prague police that their organizations are from now on dissolved, and that all their possessions and documents are to be turned over to the police. The order was based on certain slogans which were used by these organiza- tions in a demonstration. The word- | ing of these slogans were censured| by the police. Similar organizations were dis- | banded by the police in Liben and) Klado, and in the latter place the children were forbidden to partici- pate in proletarian spgrt festivals. The police at Liben expropriated the treasury 6f the sport organiza- tion and all their papers. Over 8,000,000 Women Workers In the U.S. WASHINGTON. D. C., Julv 19 — According to the figures of the Wo- | men’s Bureau of the Department of | Labor there are about 8,500,000 vo- ; men wage-earners in the United | States. Of these three-fourths are between the ages of 20 and 44. Thirty-three and two-tenths per cent are engaged in domestic and personal work; 24.3 are employed in industry, 17.3 per cent in agri- culture, 8.1 per cent in trade, 6.1 per cent in clerical work, and 1.4 per cent in transportation service, ey But the $3 weekly, which he used (Continued on Page Two) “i —The June 21, came to claim the load there were but four pint bottles left. The vil- lage trustees have questioned Chief of Police Jennings and two of the patrolmen about the mystery. fA ais) To Speak at Concert bi } | Benjamin Gitlow, acting secre- tary of the Workers (Communist) Party and vice-presidential can- didate will speak at the huge Coney Island Stadium Saturday demonstration and concert at the evening. Thousands to Hear Theremin Play Tomorrow “Theremin.” ~~ Price 3 Cents TEXTILE BOSS TRADE ORGAN © CONCEDES MILL STRIKE VICTORY “Kyrassin” Rescues Two of Nobile Crew ‘MALMGREN DEAD; FIRST SEEN BY SOVIET AIRMAN Five U. S. S. R. Fliers) Now Missing | By EUGENE LYONS (U. P. Staff Correspondent) MOSCOW, July 12.—The giant Russian icebreaker Krassin today | yvescued Captain Adalberto Mariano | and Captain Filippo Zappi, of the | dirigible Italia. The third man of the group of three which left the dirigible Italia ice camp forty-three days ago— Finn Malmgren, Swedish meteorolo- gist—was dead. He died a month ago. With Malmgren’s ody, over which they had kept vigil, the two Ttalian naval officers were taken aboard the Krassin, which resumed at once her fight through the ice to effect other rescues. The rescue was made possile by This is the magic name that has | flights Tuesday of the Russian avia- been on the lips of thousands of New | tor, ‘Chukhnovsky, and four com- York workers during the past two |panions, who today were themselves weeks, the new age who performs miracles not by superstitious hocus- pocus, but thru the application of the first to discover. Tomorrow evening 25,000 workers will at lgst have the opportunity to ee and hear this distingyjshed cientist of the Soviet Union at the greatest proletarian musical event ever held in this country, the concert at Coney Island Stadium arranged by The DAILY WORKER. Theremin’s program has already been announced, a program that will display to the full all the possibilities of his wonderful invention which en- ables music of the greatest beauty to be drawn o1F of the air with movements of the hand. In another part of this paper a special inter- view with Theremin will be found | which discusses in fuller detail the achievement of this great scientist. Theremin alone would be a suffi- cient attraction to pack Coney Sta- dium. But in addition to him the committee in charge has secured Arnold Volpe and his famous or- chestra of 50 picked musicians in a program of symphonic favorites and the Roxy Ballet in oriental and Rus- sian dances under the direction of A. Nelle, former dance partner of Pavlova. . Tickets have been selling so fast that it is likely that the demand will surpass the supply. Workers who want to make sure of not miss- ing this event of the centurry should therefore buy their tickets at once at the office of The DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square. BREMEN WORKERS SCORE FASCISM BREMEN, July 12.—At a large demonstration for amnesty of poli- tical prisoners a resolution was also passed against the Italian fascist terror, which was sent to the Italian embassies at Berlin and Duesseldorf. The resolution turned sharply against the blood rule of the Special Court at Rome and closed as fol- lows: “Free the martyrs of the white terror from the Italian prisons! Free the condemned immediately! Down with the bloody terror of Italian and international fascism!” Police Suspected of Drinking Seized Beer SARANAC LAKE, July 12 (UP). whole town is wondering what happened to a load of beer seized by police on the night of When prohibition agents Swiss Workers Score Terrorism in Italy GENEVA, July’12.—In a swell at- tended mass meeting the workers of Switzerland gave their opinion of the methods of Italian fascists. lution, unanimously adopted, pledged A reso- BS | scientific principles that he has been Jai the men. Theremin is the ,wizard of | stranded on the Arctic ice awaiting 1 his | rescue by the Krassin. Plane Damaged They were forced to attempt a nding on the ice when they lost their bearingsion a later flight. The plane was damaged, and today, with’ ample provisions and a radio, they waited for rescue by the big ice- breaker. Zappi and Mariano said that they had abandoned hope until Chukh- novsky’s airplane roared through } the air toward them through the fog, sighted them as they waved with ex- citement and circled over them five times, to indicate that it had seen them. During the intervening hours they knew that rescue was near, they said. Zappi and Mariano had been with- out food for thirteen days when they were found. Chukhnovsky and his companions, flying over the ice between the Krassin and the camp where four members of the Italia crew are awaiting resuce, spotted the three men who had been given up for Jost. Two were standing on the ice waving their arms to attract the plane’s attention. The third was lying on the ice. It was not known until today that this was Malmgren, dead. Wrecked on ‘Shird Flight Chukhnovsky flew back to the irassin, reported his discovery and returned to attempt to land near He was unable to find a safe landing place on the rough ice and returned to the Krassin. He started out on a third flight, it was brought out today, this time to drop a message to the party that help was only a few miles away— a litle more than thirteen, to be ex- act, for the Krassin was reported earlier only that distance away, fighting her way, nosing aside one by one the ice floes in her path. This time Chukhnovsky and his companions met disaster themselves. They made a forced landing on the ice and smashed their plane. Taking their fourteen days’ rations, the fliers made for the coast, found it and radioed their position to the Krassin. MUSSOLINI URGES MORE SLAVERY ROME, July 12. — At the first national conference of fascist in- dustrialists Mussolini, in his key- note address, laid the basis of fas- cist “labor” policy by proclaiming that “Wage workers should accept wage reductions in time of crisis.” He patted’ the fascist bosses on the back for recognizing the fact that “high wages are impossible in Italy” for workers and urged them to continue their present policy. He promised them that any worker | who goes on strike to better his conditions will be immediately ar- rested. i MUST BE KICKLESS. WASHINGTON, July 12 (UP).— Sale of unfermented grape juice with instructions how to turn it into wine is a violation of the prohibition solidarity with the fascist terrorized |laws, Pnghibition Commissioner vorkers of Italy and refuge for polit-| Doran notified dr,, administrators jal emigrants. today. \ ‘Workers in Moscow Greet Maxim Gorky ot A section of the crowd of workers of the Red October Chocolate Factory of Moscow which greeted Maxim Gorky, the beloved writer of the masses, who has returned to the Soviet Union. His agreement with the principles of the Workers’ and Peasants’ State, and -his sincere feeling for the masses has awakened great enthusiasm among the workers and peasants of the U. R NOMINATES THREE KILLED IN MINE BLAST \Gas Explosion Brings Down Walls MINERSVILLE, Pa., July 12 (FP).—A black ambulance scurried toward the mine, throwing dust into the eyes of patch people as they followed its progress. It waddled through mud and shimmied over humps, finally arriving at the top of tue shart of the Lytle colliery. Pir~ o.d women wearing sun-| bon t~ rushed through their gar-/ der3 > the colliery. Wives, moth- ers, barefooted kids, trotted to the| top of the shaft to see. Everybody! asked everybody else, “What hap-| pened? . Who is it?” Who Is It? | they | Minutes seemed hours watched the cages of the shaft bringing loaded cars up, taking empty ones down. It didn’t seem| there was any hurry about. bring-| ing up the man—whoever he was Finally the shaft bell rang for an as “empty cage.” Everyone watched the vibrating rope as the cage came up. But when it landed, a surly-faced fireboss got off it, hold- ing a lighted safety lamp. “Who is it?” they asked in unison. “We don’t know yet,” replied the fireboss gloomily. “Three men closed in by a gas explosion down the second lift. Gotta dig ’em out We'll know tonight when the tickets are in.” Men and Disks. He referred to the numbered metal discs miners use for check- ing themselves in and out of .the mines. When they leave the mine they hang up the discs in the places assigned them, each miner having a number. The explosion started a heavy fall of rock and it would probably take two days to get the men out. The women gradually disappeared; the kids stood for hours, waiting. But many hearts beat fast all that day trusting that those three unlucky devils were “someone else.” The | victims, finally dug out of the rock- | fall, were all from nearby patche ENGLISH IMPERIALIST DEAD | | | LONDON, July 11 (UP).—Sir George Alfred Wills, 74, president jof the Imperial Tobacco Company “FARMER-LABOR” MEET MILL BOSS CHICAGO, July 12.—Will Ver een, of Moultrie, Ga., a cotton mil] owner who operates a non-union shop, was today chosen to be the | vice-presidential candidat |“Farmer-Labor” party naming of Sen. Norris of Nebraska to be the party’s dential choice. | Despite Norris’. refusal to run, the | “organization for a time at least |must consider him its candidate.” | This was announced today by Bert Martin, of Denver, chairman: of the executive committee of the party. The convention, which consists for the most part of petty businessmen lawyers, accountants and a sprink- The plan of colition with the pro hibition party has been dropped by mutual consent. FIGHT TO FREE BELGIUM LEADER Red Aid Organizes Big Demonstration ANTWERP, July 12.—To demand the release of the fiery working class leader, Jef van Extergem. who has already been in prison for five years, the International Red Aid staged a huge demonstration in which 6000 workers participated Among them were the striking dock workers of Antwerp, who have awakened great sympathy in the city. A resolution ‘was passed demand- ing the freedom of all political pri- soners. 32 Rescued From Sea After Yacht Capsizes yacht Connie had crashed onto sub- merged rocks off Sandy Bay, about two miles from here. | jof Great Britain and Ireland and a director of the Great Western Rail- way, died here today. He was a| member of the Reform Club, the| University and Literary Cluk and| the Bristol Club. { The wrecked yacht quickly filled | with water and became partially submerged on the ledge, but red] flares brought a crew from the| Straits South Coast Guard station in time to save all on board. HAMBERG, July 12.-When the Tirpitz, a freighter of the Hamburg- American Line, left New York for | Hamburg on June 27 the watch from ‘|his look-out on the mast called “All’s well” at the ringing. of the bells. In the course of the trip there was no one to yell “All’s weil” from the | masthead, for the crew, under the leadership of the Communist Nu- cleus, has rebelled against their of-| ficers. | The workers of Hamburg: heard | GERMAN SAILORS MUTINY. Workers ‘Creel Them With Cheers of the mutiny. When the ship reached Hamburg the docks were vered with a mass of workers. singing the International and the sailors heard the cheering of their fellow-workers. From dockhand to sailor, from factory worker to stoker, from working woman to stevedore came the greetings “Long BATTY BANKRUPT ADMITS HE CAN'T CHECK MEMBERS Couldn’t Stop His Men Picketing with T.M.C. The principal trade organ of the textile manufacturers, The Daily Ne Record, published in New York, in its leading textile article declared yesterday that there is atisfaction among manufac-. turers and a disinclination to con= tinue idle, leading to the opinion that the struggle will soon end favorable for the operatives.” 1 alone, clearly shows that a split is expected in the New Bedford Cotton Manufacturers* | 2. | cle says further: “Many | mills in favor of con- | tinuing the struggle much longer be There is growing talk that |p Hissatisfaction is spreading among ; the ranks of the manufacturers, With assurances that the opera- tives will not weturn to the mills The art are not here. Vereen has never been a farm-| this week while the gates are jer or wage worker, one dele; open, there is every indication charged, in opposing his nomination | that some manufacturers will pro= Vereen’s selection followed the! | test against closing the mills for indefinite period. The association will soon find itself in an embarrassing situation as a | result of this difference of opine | ion.” e +. ..The publication then continues: “There is a tendency among some members of the manufactuners’ association to question the author- ity of a few of the older mem- | another »| bers of the body, and the smolder- ling of “gentlemen farmers,”| | : d floundered between Norris and Nor-| i& fire may soon break into man Thomas for its presidential ne re . ‘ hope, and finally settled on the : te western senator. In the final ballot] (Special to nla Daily vie Norris received 16 votes and| NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 12. Thomas 14. —Conclusive proof that the Textile Workers’ Union of the Textile Mills |Committee is now the outstanding | leader of the 28,000 textile workers in their thirteenth week of strike against a wage reduction, has come |from no less a reliable source thap the officials of the Textile Couneil gf the United Textile Workers’ | Union. ‘ | An open admission that they are | panic stricken at the growing power W. U. was made by William E. G. Batty, Coun- | cil secretary, in a statement to the local press yesterday. The poli | had criticized him for permitting the | Council membership to participate |in an all-night picket demonstration together with the Mill Committee members at the Kilburn Mills. © | No Heed, He Says. Batty’s response to this criticism was a public statement absolving |himself and the other Council lead- ers from blame for the irrepsonsible behavior of his members. He re- assured the police that he had done all that was possible to call off the pickets but to no avail. Some re- fused to leave the mill, he said, and others came back “After he had léd them away. r Completely confessing his bank- ruptey despite the lavish, aid being rendered him by the socialists, Batty |declares: “As a result of my inter- jand prestige of the T. Uo An ongh vases atl, 12] view with Chief of Police McLeod, sooercae thoneh handicapped bythe chief says he is satisfied that'T ete sca gt tee re! in| S2¥e_ 100 per cent cooperation. He ee us Sige Site ; | i8 Satisfied I am not responsible for young women, after. the Gloucester |e" Who stayed on the picket line after I thought they had left, could not have done any more, Criticized. aan “Already I am_ being. roughly criticized by my own people for co- * operating with Chief McLeod as much as I did. Lieutenant Manning told me the chief wished I could co- operate with the department as far as possible in clearing the crowd away from the mill. Despite mur- murs from my own people that I was going too, far, and despite the fact that they wanted to keep on picketing I worked up to the head of the line and led it off to the South End, callimg on those behind me to follow me. “T led the line away from the plant to a vacant lot and spoke to them till 11:30 p. m. when I left for home in the belief that the several hundred Textile Council pickets would also leave for home. This morning I learnt that they had returned to the mill and had picket- ed all night.” Batty at the same Live the International Working | time denied that the Textile Couns Class!” “Tong Live the Soviet |members had joined the T. M. G, Union!” “Long Live the Communist | pickets in singing strike ie oa International!” . \ the picket line, at’ ~ *