The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1928, Page 1

Pee J / THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS ¢ 5 aera | N TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK LoS seat FINAL CITY FOR A LABOR PARTY y v FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ if Le a . BUT Ie GOVERNMENT CALLA — Entered am second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. i vo Puy) ee 4 Vol. V._No. 166. “Paviuhing: amsciatien, Inns 30-8 Union Se new Yornnex, __NEW YORK, SAFURDAY, JULY 14,1928 "ones, Winters, Wynst saves reas Price 3 Cents THREE THOUSAND 8c FREED WORKERS | on Te) Or od Te Mill Pi MINERS. STRIKE Y WELCOMED AT Jail 37 New Bedford Textile Mill Pickets | 8 | SES GENS —_____— Sao San - Ceeeein ce oe oe Training Now : BMON ft Picketing in the Waiters’ Strike REPORT 5 OTHERS IIN ANTHRACITE, + sx» emesis caries DEMONSTRATION | THS.HEAVY |of the summer training schools for Walk Out When Boss) ‘mining, Whit tte aptaist mil: Hundreds Gather at. | Attacks Worker |for imperialist wars, and to use the Union Square | ee hee a OF DEFENDANTS ARCTIC WASTES eperaly fe ithe. RS ORR ome peste SS the eine A demonstration in which hun- 9 — are obtainii i | e i F * Thre. thousand ralies pe mine | knowledge to use for thelr Syn class | 27248 Bae caeerialdas cess wae ee f° ee i A Lee i eee Cee : — 7 of | interests: ee Tua : fea senile, Se Bosses Desperate As Icebreaker Searching 8 7 ‘The You: ‘orkers (Communist Squ wi m r | ° ‘a went GUtoka Hanae League is tioned to capitalist mili-| workers released from the Tombs | Ranks Hold Firm for Amundson Now man of the colliery, Robert Davis, beat up the motorman, John Beyer. The miners demand that section foreman Davis be discharged and punished iry accordance with the mine rules. Beyer was beaten up by the foreman when he ‘disobeyed’ some rulings of the boss. This brutally of the bosses has aroused miners in Nanticocke, and | they are determined to stay an strike until boss Davis will be dis- charged. i || (Special to The DAILY WORKER) | _ WILKES-BARRE, Pa., July 13. } Over 1,500 mine workers, members } of the local union No. 1432, work- ing in Maxwell colliery No. 20 of “Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., went out on strike today against the coal company who by speeding | up has in the past several weeks{ fired 80 men from the job without making any provisions for them. District organizer Mile Sweeney, as usual is trying to force the local | union No. 1432 into going back to| work without provisions being made | for the discharged miners. _ TAXL-INSPECTORS IN NEW RACKET Wiis Complain of Lost Cards Charges that hack inspectors, act- ing under orders from the Hack} License Bureau, were stealing crim- | inal identification cards from taxi-| cabs as drivers were inside of re: taurants, attending to other busi-| ness, have been made during the past two weeks by taxi drivers and officials of taxi associations. Hugo Werber, business manager of the Broad Street Taxi Owners Association, has been quoted as say- ing that “thousands of taxi drivers have had their card- taken in this way.” Inspectors have had orders, it was learned, from Commissioner Rutten- berg, in charge of the hack bureau, | to pick up cards in cabs that are left vacant. According to hack regu- | lations, cards must be displayed | conspicuously in the driver’s cab. Garages Raided | The Tammany hack inspectors, | drivers state, are not satisfied with | picking up these identification cards on the streets. These inspectors are | known to go to garages and pick up | cards left in the cabs by their own- Drivers going to work in the! morning, on examining their cabs, are known to have found their card missing. The driver then must re- port the loss to his precinct station | house. Here he is usually told that his card is on the way downtown. | * * * the Bronx or Queens, this means a| trip down to the hack license bu- | reau on Grenwich St. By the time he arrives there half his day is usu- ally gone. There he must stand in line and wait his chance to inqu! from one of the clerks about the Continued on Page Four DEMAND STRIKE | WN FALL RIVER (Special to The DAILY WORKER) FALL RIVER, Mass., July 18.— Over three thousand Fall River tex- tile workers responded to a mass meeting called by the Textile Mills Committee, and showed the great- est enthusiasm ‘when the speakers threw out the slogan “Prepare for a Strike.” The meeting was held on a lot located in the heart of the mill dis- trict and was purchased outright by the T. M. C. for $1,000 contributed by Fall River workers. This was imperative because of the police re- fusal to permit any landowner to tarism and will continue to fight the C. M. T. C. and other institu- tions of this type, but we realize that pacifism is an equally effec- tive instrument of imperialism, he military courses for youn; orkers demonstrates our stand fo ilitary knowledge—when it will sed for the interest of the work ing class. GREAT THRONG AT CONCERT TONIGHT 25,000 are Expected to Hear Theremin Tonight is the night. Thousands of workers — to be more specific, some 25,000 of them — will gather in Coney Island Stadium at the greatest proletarian concert ever held in this country, arranged by The DAILY WORKER. All the participating artists, who have been rehearsing faithfully \during the past. few weeks, have put the finishing touches on their work, When Arnold Volpe lifts up | his baton to lead his orchestra of ——————————————————— In the event of rain tonight The DAILY WORKER concert will be held on Saturday, July 21, at the Coney Island Stadium. — 59 picked musicians in the Corona- tion March from Meyerbeer’s opera, The Prophet, it will inaugurate an event which will make musical his- tory. The Roxy Ballet, under the direc- tion of the famous dancer, A. Nelle, former partner of Pavlowa, is cer- tain to find favor with the great stadium crowd tonight. The ballet will present a program of dances of un international character. But of course Theremin will be |the hero of the evening. The fame of this great Soviet scientist has spread to every part of the world. Tonight thousands of workers will have their first opportunity of hear- ing this new ether-music. Revolutionary Demonstration. Tonight’s affair will be some- thing more than a concert. It will also be a demonstration of the New York workingclass in celebration of the anniversary of the fall of the} Bastille. The spirit of the evening will be in keeping with the revolu- tionary traditions of the day and | SSS Five hundred volunteers are needed for important work in connection with The DAILY WORKER concert. All willing to assist should report from 2 in the afternoon on. Ask for Harry Fox. for this great occasion Ben Gitlow, acting secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, will appear to bring the revolutionary message of If the driver lives in the far end of | July 14 to the thousands assembled | in the stadium. Just how many will try to get in- to Coney Island Stadium tonight is unknown. What is known is that only those lucky enough to have tickets will be admitted. The only way to be lucky enough is to buy these precious little pasteboards at once. They are on sale at the of- fice of The DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square. and the Workhouse, where they had served a sentence of five days for Participation ein anti-imperial| Without recourse to a middleman. demonstration in front of the office | Beis oie De etectes | JGR ae | Raskob, shown above, who is of J. P. Morgan on July 3. | chairman of the finance commit- | Big Business will an Robert Minor, editor of The| tee of the viciously open-shop DAILY WORKER and Workers! Morgan-controlled General Mo- (Communist) candidate for'U. $.| 78 Corp. as chairman of the democratic national committee. Raskob is worth more than $100,- 000,000. HOLD MEETINGS TO FREE PORTER 'Youth Takes Up Fight Senator, and Robert Wolf, novelist and poet, were freed from the Tombs; Rebecca Grecht, New York state campaign manager of the Workers Party, and Harriet Silver- man, secretary of the local branch of the Anti-Imperialist League, which” arranged both the” July 3 demonstration and yesterday’s meet- |ing, were released from the Work- house. ; vel agri ik bad ene guehiced Minor, Grecht, Shachtman, editor o: ° |“The Labor Defender”; D. Benja- For Young Rebel min, asistant director of the Work- | ; . : ers School, and Arthur Stein of the |, The voice of the working class is Young Workers League and Jessie | Lede aR te ie pas te Taft of the Young Pioneers. | opee for his eevalceniah Jane ae: | rie seakers denounced the bra-| {vities while technically, subject to petratge te the Pa ae military law. r continued agitation f merican 5 | “ % ‘ * “Tail risncesvan act divtehtehi un! test meeting, the first drive for Pare : | Porter’s freedom. was launched, so Communists,” Minor declared. “That | far as the masses are concerned. The is what we expect as long as we 1 o We | International Labor Defense and the continue our fight on the ruling Young Workers (Communist) class of the United States and in| League issued appeals immediately the. interests of the workers. to the workers to come to the de- ‘We were not thrown into the fense of John Porter—to defeat the Tombs because we violated any S0- | sinister purposes of the military au- called statute. Beside us in the thorities, and now the fight against street a minister speaking on a sub-/ the capitalist military machine is ject which did not menace the rul- gaining momentum. ing class was, of course, unmo-| This drive must be intensified if lested. | Porter is to be saved from a’ living “But such acts of intimidation| death behind iron bars during the and terrorism will not prevent the rest of his life. Arrangements are Communists from bringing their being made for defense committees, message to the working class. It | composed primarily of young work- will only heighten our agitation and | ers, in cities all over the country to spur us to greater activity.” Continued on Page Four WORKERS PARTY FASCISTS PLAN SPEEDS DRIVE WAR ON USSR, direct the | campaign of Al Smith directly | Reports reaching the national | campaign headquarters of theWork- ers (Communist) Party from all sections of the country indicate that interest in the Communist campaign is daily becoming more widespread Everything points to the fact that the Party will succeed in mobiliz- ing a tremendous following of mil- itant workers and farmers thru- BUCHAREST, July 13. — The | French general, Rond, arrived | here today. Pilsudski, military dictator of Poland, is expected to arrive momentarily as well as rep- resentatives of other Little En- tente states for the purpose of holding a secret military confer- ence which is to take place under the direction of the French gen- out the country, if successful in its| eral staff. 5 efforts to secure a place on the bal-| | According to reliable informa- lots of the various states. This will| tion the purpose of this confer- enable the Party to carry on the, ence is to prepare the way for vigorous fighting campaign for) War on the Seviet Union. which the situation is actualiy rot-| Cae | need for political organization, and an appeal for funds to make possible |ous states still remaining to main- f the Workers (Communist) Party tain the many speakers and field Conducted an open-air noonday meet- ten ripe. | In a statement issued by¥ the na- E Tl 0 N MEET tional campaign headquarters of ; the Workers (Communist) Party, the | AT BISCUIT PLANT this political organization, was stressed. The appeal follows: i. ; “The need for funds to pat the). For tha first time the Election Party on the ballot in the numer- Campaign Committee of Section 2 organizers thruout the country, and i@ at 15th Street and Tenth Ave- |to print the immediately necessary "Ue alongside the four huge plants } Continued on Page Two |of the National Biscuit Company yesterday. » GORKI FINDS A DOUBLE Relates Incident of MOSCOW, July 13—At a banquet given in his honor Maxim Gorky related the following story to the great amusement of his listeners, While on one of his visits to tl surprised one day to see advertised on a bill board that the “great Maxim Gorky” was to appear on the stage of the theatre where “The Lower Depths” was to be played. The writer went to see the play. On the stage there appeared a man, greatly acclaimed by the public, who looked exa¢tly like him. During the intermission Gorki wished to make the acquaintance of his double. The teny # meeting place to the 7, M. C. latter was overcome with fear, and NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 13. —The vicious hatred of the Massa- chusetts courts far the workers here |has again made itself felt when the | judges of the District Court today |imposed six months’ jail sentences and $20 fines on each of the 37 New | Bedford textile strikers tried before them yesterday. Most of the defendants, who in- clude the most active unionists, were arrested when the New Bed- ford police force broke up a strik- ers’ parade arranged by the New Bedford Textile Workers Union on July 1: Three were arrested for picketing July 6; six of those tried |were arrested during a monster picket demonstration last night that continued far into the early hours of the morning. 4,060 Picket More than 4,000 strikers marched in picket formation up and down before the gates of the Whitman, Page, Nield and Nonquist Spinning Mills, while about 11,000 strikers jand sympathizers jammed the streets leading to the factories in a |demonstration that lasted many | hours late last night. They had | come out at the call of the T. W. U. strike committee when the news |spread that a few scabs had gone to work. A tremendous wave of indigna- tion spread rapidly throughout the entire city as the news' of the half- year prison sentences imposed upon the strikers became known. Many of those imprisoned are middle- aged workers who are heads of | families. The attorney for the Interna- jtional Labor Defense announced | that all cases would be appealed im- | mediately. Release of the strikers, however, is dependent upon the raising of a total of $20,006 for bail bonds. It was not learned whether the necessary total had been se- | cured. * * (Special to The DAILY WOKKER) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 13. |--An excellent guage of determin- ing which is the real union in the New Bedford textile strike was of- fered here late Wednesday night |when the strike committee of the |New Bedford Textile Workers Union of the T. M. C. went to the picket lines before the Kilburn Mill land led the thousands of “pickets | away from the mill in parade forma- tion to a huge mass meeting in Saul- |nier’s field. This contrasts sharply |with the impotent leaders of the | Textile Council, who publicly ad- mitted not being able to influence the actions of their members. The T. M. C. leaders had told the | workers to halt picketing here so | that they can go home and take a |needed rest before coming out for the big demonstration at other mills in the morning. The membership of the council, on the other hand, had defied the order of their officials when they were ordered to cease picketing with the members of the mills committee. Enthusiastic Meeting The mass meeting, which was held about 10:30 p. m., presented an inspiring sight as the huge elec- trie bulb over the platform lit up) the sea of listening faces. Eli Keller, one of the speakers, pointed to the iron discipline that existed in the Textile Workers | Union, and concluded by saying that The workers of the Nabisco|they were the only organizaticn plants, usually idle during their) that has complete control of the lunch hour, gathered around Bert) New Redford strike. he United States Gorky was greatly & Fis his whole body trembling, he said to the novelist. “TI am an unfortunate man, encum-| bered with a large family. I have due to lack of organization among the workers, and urged his eager listeners to organize into a union. Despite the spy system used by the Nabisco bosses, the workers 8 contract with the director to repre-| listening to the speaker evinced sent the author of all plays that he great interest, interjecting occa- stages. You are my specialty, but sional words of approval. Copies of |tions in the Nabisco factories were | Miller and listened attentively to) rt i i i his talk on the Workers (Commun-| 4 22¢k, Rubinstein, speaking: later | His American Visit s, Party and what it means to | workers. Besides speaking on the election campaign, Miller empha- sized the fact that the poor condi- declared that the continuous picket ‘line that lasted more than 36 hours |showed conclusively to the mill “hosses that the strikers will fight Continued on Page Two ‘Notice For Members | | Of Section 2 and 3. All members of Sections 2 and 3) of the Workers (Communist) Party are asked to report at section head-| ‘quarters, 101 West 27th St., prompt- Gertrude Walsh is a member of the Waiters’ and Waitresses’ Union which has declared a strike against the Truefood restaurants York. working condition in New She is militantly By EUGENE LYONS. MOSCOW, July 18 (UP). — A tale of triumph of a sturdy Soviet ice ship and hardy Soviet seamen, scientists and navigators over the ruthless, elemental forces of the Arctic was told in messages from the Steamship Krassin which re- ported today the rescue of all known | i survivors of the trans- polar dirigible Italia. This rescue accounted for all ct | the sixteen men aboard the Italia | when it crashed on its homeward | journey from a flight over the North Pole, except the six men blown away in the hulk of the dirigible after the commander and nine men ; had been thrown on the ice from 3 the shattered gondola. ? The Krassin sighted the Viglieri — group from a distance of three miles engaged in the strike for better |—a faded red silk tent and bits of ARCTIC VETERANS ON SOVIET ICE-BREAKERS *m order to effectively organize the rescue expedition for Nobile and) his companions the Soviet govern- ment appointed a sp 1 commis- sion. Each of the two ice-breakers, the “Krassin,” the most powerful in the world, and the “Malygin” in- cluded in their parties scientists and aviators with long experience Artic exploration. Professor Sa- moilovich, the leader of the “Kras- sin” party, is director of the In-| stitute of the North and has made extensive researches in the region of Spitzbergen. Aviators Chukhnov- sky and Babushkin are considered among the foremost of Soviet avia- tors, having made many notable flights in the Arctic regions. Veteran Explorer. Professor Wise, the chief explorer of the “Malygin,” spent consider- able time in making a reconnois- sance of the regions of Novaya Zem- bla and Franz Joseph Land with the Saydov expedition in 1912 and 1914, The foggy weather which so greatly hampered the work of res- |cue was predicted in the reports of Professor Multanovsky, director of |the meteorological section of the Central Geophysical Laboratory, on \the basis of observations made by| | Nansen’ in 1893-96, by the Saydov expedition and by others.. Accord- ing to these studies, as many as 25 foggy days have been observed during the month of June in this region. Powerful Ice Cutter. |. The “Krassin,” which is of 10,- |000 indicated horse power, is com- manded by Captain Egge who is assisted by four special sub-com- manders from other steamers added to the party on account of their wide experience in the Arctic regions. The “Kyassin” left Lenin- grad for Kings Bay on June 15. It is capable of cutting through ice from 3 to 4 meters in thickness The “Krassin” radio works on wave lengths of 450, 600 and 800 meters The short wave station operates on a length of from to 40 meters. The ice-breaker “Malygin,” com- manded by Capt. Chertkov, was completely overhauled last winter at Since 1923 it has been used each Hamburg and is perfectly equipped in| wreckage from the Italia’s bet: surrounded blocks of ice—a1 sounded its en. eS MOSCOW, July 13 (UP). — On the last short stage of the most tri- umphant voyage of rescue in mod- ern history, the Russian ice-breaker Krassin radioed today that-she had’ picked up two dogsled men off North East Land and was proceed- * summer to accompany the commer- cial fleet carrying freight from the B mouth of the Yenisei Riyer in Si-|iM& to rescue five men stranded on beria through the Kara Sea to the coast with their damaged air- ei . ; plane. & european ports. It carries coal suf- - = ficient for twenty days cruising in|_,1 her last brief message, the the open sea. When used in the ice, | however, with only one boiler work- sp eae ing in order to furnish light and Se" who with a dogsled team had j heat, the supply of fuel is sufficient | 07 in search of survivors from! fon aici ‘ the wrecked dirigible Italia. pty as 4 At almost the same moment, an The expedition is organized under unconfirmed report from Virgo Bay the direction of J. Unschlicht, as-| said that Ludwig M. Varming, third sistant commissar of war, with the member of the Little Expedition had cooperation of the All-Union So-| been picked up with the dogsled ciety for Aviation and Chemistry.| team where Sora and Van Dongea M. Groza, chairman of the rescue | had left him, near Cape Brun. committee, stated that the ice- The only other party of known breakers and aeroplanes of the Sov- survivors now on the Arctic ice that iet expedition carried supplies suf- fought such a long, bitter and for |ficient for three months. a time winning battle to rescue the i i victims is that of aviator Chukhnov- The following radio message was sky, off Cape Platen. Chuknovsky sent yesterday to the Soviet ice- and four companions crashed after breaker Krassin by M. G. Gure* they had flashed back word that vitch, vice-chairman of the board of they had located Capt. Filippo Zap- directors of the Amtorg Trading pi and Capt. Adalberto Mariano, of Corporation, and other Soviet citi- the Italia. zens in the United Stat During their vigil on the ice, the |! Chukhnovsky two men saw eight airplanes pass and his assistants, Prof. Samoilo- over them. They almost went in- vich and captain icebreaker Kras- | sane, they said, as they waved their sin: blankets and rags vainly, and saw Soviet citizens in the United each plane disappear. States hail the skill and courage Then Chuknovskj's big plane which have made possible the reseu- roared over them, turned, circled ing of the marooned Italia explorers, over them five times, and sped back Public opinion is deeply moved by to the Krassin, its powerful radie the supreme heroism of your avia- crackling out the news of their dis- tors and crew. Your act is another covery. : jillustration of the spirit of sym-| As it pushed its way along # |pathy and self-sacrifice which mani- | coast to the rescue ‘of the Sora a fests itself in times of great hu- Chukhnovsky’s parties, the Krasi man need and reveals the strong radioed she had aboard seven m bonds of international good will un- brought back from death to life af- derlying the stress and strain of ter the wrecking of the Italia, everyday life. In describing the rescue it is re- M. G. GUREVITCH, vealed that two hundred yards away PROFS A SHAROV. from the two men the Krassin coule G. DELGASS, and others. get no further through the ice. The RRS AOR two men were on a floe 24 feet ir width. They were balancing them- selves with difficulty on the block Continued on Page Two 6,000 PORTERS Krassin wirelessed that she had res- cued Capt. Sora and Sefj Van Don- To crew, aviator |Carranza, Mexican Flyer Is Killed Capt. Emilio Carranza, Mexican aviator, was killed yesterday in a crash in New Jersey in an attempt at a non-stop flight from New York | to Mexico City. OFFICERS FEAR “DAILY” Sailors May Get 6 Months for Reading PHILADELPHIA, July 13.—Read- ing the DAILY WORKER is a ser- ious crime, according to the naval authorities, and they have an- nounced that sailors who continue to read the Communist paper will be imprisoned at hard labor for six months ‘and fined one hundred dol- lars. Many of the sailors on the U. S. S. Oklahoma were called before the T have posed successfully for Suder- “The Coolidge Program” and “The|lv at 12 a. m. today without fail authorities and charged with read-— man, Rostand and Donnay.’’ | Workers (Communist) Party And . Gorky had pity on the poor devil, Wt It Stands For” were distribu. and did not oer him, | ted. ‘ This is. by order of the district of- | fice. Attendance will be check '\d. i ing the DAILY WORKER and the Young Worker. They were ques- ‘tion individually how they happened | DEMAND STRIKE Over 8,000 members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por- ters are due to strike shortly un- less the officials of the organiza- _tion, working together with Presi- to get the papers, whether they | ‘ent Green of the American Fed- approved the principles of the Com- | eration of Labor, again forestall the munist organizations, etc. move as they did several weeks ago. The officers then announced that, ‘Secret, strike directions are sai¢ those who continue to read the|to have been issued in concealed en: | DAILY WORKER and Young Work- | velopes, it became known yesterday er will be court-martialed; and made | According to A. Philip Randolph threats of “action against those feneral organizer of the union, wh: | sending the papers.” Then, they in-|was instrumental in calling off the |dulged in extreme abuse of the previous order for a walkout, those Young Workers Communist League. | envelopes are not to be opened unti Several of the sailors practically orders are received from a two-ma? | told their officers that they were strike committee com of Ran. | liars, because they had been at meet- dolph and M. P. Wel — Continued on Page Two ,\ organizer of Chicago, » division