The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 17, 1928, Page 1

| bosses. WOMAN'S LEGION 500 MORE STRIKE AT GENERAL MOTORS PLANT IN FLINT, MICH. GOVERNMENT THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ , Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. NATIONAL EDITION Vol. V. No. 168. Published daily except Sunday by The National. Dally Worker Publishing Associatiqg, Inc., 26-28 Union Sa., New York, N.Y. NEW SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Outside New York, by mail New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. ‘ Price 3 Cents YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1928 $6.00 per year. FISHER BODY WORKERS JOIN BIG WALK-OUT Movement Spreads As| (Men Organize (Special to The DAILY WORKER) FLINT, Mich, July 16.—The Fisher. Body plant of the General Motors Corporation in Flint, Mich., was seething with strike sentiment yesterday when five hundred more | men joined the walk-out of auto| workers in protest against the policy | of wage slashing the company is in- stituting throughout the indistry. The striking men have proclaimed their intention of standing behind | the strike committee, which ‘is com- posed of representatives from the different departments, who are mak- | ing every effort to spread the walk- | out movement to other plants of the | General Motors Corporation in Flint. | Plan Union The shop committee of the Buick plant have already organized their | strike committee, together with the organizers of the Auto Workers Union. Philip Raymond, Arnold Zeigler and others, who are active in the | strike, are organizing plans for | raising immediate relief and to es- | tablish the Auto Workers Union as the instrument of the workers in the Flint automobile industries. A huge mass meeting, to which it -is expected that thousands of work- | ers will rally, is being arranged and | militant speakers will address the | strikers. | A. F. of L. Sabotage Leaflets distributed throughout | the plants of the General Motors Corporation are informing the work- | ers of the issues involved in the! Continued on Page Two CMTC IS AIDING CAPITALIST WAR Many Young Workers} Trained For Slaughter According to an announcement at the Governor’s Island military head- quarters yesterday, 570 young work- ers will be prepared for imperialist wars at the August “Citizens Mili- tary Training Camps” at Fort Han- | cock and Fort Monmouth, both in} New Jersey. Young workers for these camps have been recruited from New York, New Jersey and Delaware. |The} majority, /354, have been assigned to Fort Hancock, and 216 will be sent to Fort Monmouth. False Promises. These young workers have been recruited by promises of a free va- cation from the long hours of labor in the factories, and in many cases the bosses even continue pay on con- dition that they attend the camps. Some, espécially the students, have been attracted by the appeal of “ad- ventpre.” During the month at the camns. those in the C. M, T. C. will receive military instruction to make them more efficient tools for use against workers of this country. “Citizenship” Bunk. But even this is regarded by the capitalists and the authorities as a relatively minor matter in compari- son with the courses in “citizenship,” and the nationalistic propaganda at the camps. During the month of August, the 570 young men at Fort Hancock and Fort Monmouth will be taught abso- fute submission to the will of the NDS SANDINO Heroic in Battle, Says General BARANQUILLA, Colombia, July | 16 (UP).—General Sandino, Nicara- | guan revolutionist leader, has or- ganized a women’s battalion to aid him in his struggle against the gov- ernment and United States marines, | General Jose Cesar Rivas said in an interview in the newspaper La Na~ | cion today. | The women, General Rivas said, | already had done “heroic service’ | In battle. They were quartered at Campo Bonanzo, he said. FLEE HEAT; 16 DROWNED VIENNA, July 16 (UP).—Six- i | teen persons were drowned here, eight at Budapest and two at Prague, among the millions who sought relief at bathing resorts from tgrrifie heat, ‘ * \ U Preparing for the Next Sacred Slaughter The military camp at Peekskill, N. Y., is where national guards- men are being trained to kill or be killed for Wall St. in the neat imperialist war. Photo shows the 107th regiment marching along Park Ave., New York, on its way to Peekskill. SMITH FAVORS OPEN SHOPPER AS GOVERNO MUSSOLINI FOR KELLOGG PACT Press Ridicules New Serap of Paper ROME, July 16.—In a note ad- dressed to the American state de- partment, the Italian government yesterday announced its willingness to sign the Kellogg multilateral peace trenty. The note was signed by Premier Mussolini and briefly stated the satisfaction of the fascist government with the American pro- posals. The Italian press, however, is ridi- culing the treaty as another scrap of paper bound to be violated at the first serious international crisis. The press is also pointing out the discrepancy between Kellogg’s peace proposals and the war that Ameri- ean marines are waging in Nicara- gua. MILK DEATHS IN LEE NUMBER 20 No Action Taken Yet Against Company LEE, Mass, July 16—Another death, resulting from the septic sore throat epidemic in Lee brought about by a poisoned milk supply, oc- curred today. This increased the number of persons dead so far of the disease to 30. The latest victim is Benjamin W. Aires, who contracted the disease here, but whose death occurred in Springfield after the malady had developed into pneumonia. More cases of the disease were discovered after health authorities made a round of the city to dis- cover new aspects of the epidemic The authorities, ~however, did riot disclose how many new cases had been found. It is thought that these number almost a hundred, which, ad- ded to the 700 now known to be in existence, indicates a sick popula- tion of about 800. No concrete action has been taken so far against the milk company whose supply has caused 80 deaths and almost 1,000 illnesses. ATTACKS OWN DAUGHTER MT. CLEMENS, Mich., July 16 (UP).—Charged jointly with his housekeeper with mayhem and as- sault with intent to do great bodily harm upon his own seven-year-old daughter, Perky Smith, 36, of To- | Tonto, was to be arraigned in a cir- | cuit court. of Owen D, Young, open-shop chair- }man of the General Electric Com- | pany, whom Al Smith has suggested |for governor of New York State, on the democratic ticket, has been sent out asa trial balloon, it became | known today. If the response ap- pears favorable then the Morgan- allied, multi-millionaire will be placed on the Tammany ticket which is already being led by John J. Raskob, another Morgan official and biggest anti-labor boss in the country. Young’s record is perhaps |second only to that of Raskob as a | bitter enemy of the workers. Al's Master | Like Raskob, Young has been one jof the strong supporters of Al Smith and Al Smith has in turn | been a faithful and obedient servant |to the power magnate. Smith has | previously supported Young for the | officer of state water power “dic- | tator,” under a plan which the Tam- many governor advocated in 1226 by which the billion dollar power re- sources of the state would have been turned over to the.private operation of the Morgans. In December, 1926, through the sell-out of the republican controlled State Power Commission, these re- sources were about to be turned over to the American Pioneer | Power Company, a corporation con- | trolled by Mellon, Young and the dePont interests. Changes Tactics Al Smith had at first agreed, but later objected because of the fear that it would have an adverse effect cording!y he sent Samuel Unter- meyer to adjust the matter with Young. A deal was worked out by Untermeyer, under which the orig- inal investment in the project in- stead of being made by the private companies by means of their own funds, would be furnished by the state. Young's corporation “volun- tarily” withdrew its bid and a sort of “quasi-public corporation,” such as now advocated by Untermeyer for the traction situation, was rec- ommended by Smith in his next mes- fe to the legislature. And to head he concern Smith recommended his master, Owen Young. “I am in full agreement with Young’s views on power development,” said Smith at the time. Young is credited with being the real author of the Dawes Plan, un- der which Germany is tied to the chariot of the American bankers, Printers In Merger Vanguard Press, publishers of 50c labor books, has merged with Macy- Masius to enable it to publish more expensive books on a basis to, re ward labor authors through royalty payments. Vanguard has published |75 titles in the 50c series and dis- ‘tributed 250,000 volumes, OWN BRAINS OF SLAVES Dictaphone Firm Grabbing Inventions By HAROLD Z. BROWN, (Federated Press). A tricky new kind of yellow-dog contract gaining popularity with American employers is typified by an agreement which must be signed by every worker enterigg the em- ploy of the Dictaphone Sales Corp.. largest distributors of office dic- tating and transcribing machines. Framed by legal master minds trained to think of everything, it signs away not only the employe’s right to organize, but his right to the products of his future ingenuity —if any. Even the humblest stenographer or porter must execute this agree- ment, making over to the company! in their employ and relating to dic- tating machines, their parts, appli- ances, supplies, production or sale “or in any way to the dictating ma- chine industry.” This covers every- thing from a mechanie’s plan for a better electric gadget to a cub sales- man’s newest bright idea for put- ting sales resistance to sleep. © “Valuable considerations” for which Dictaphone Corp's. hired hands and rented brains must de this are duly recited: One dollar “in hand paid”; a weekly pay check generously given after it has been worked for; a job where the com- pliant robot “may be” in a position to learn something about dictating machines and to work with the com- “any and every invention, improve- ment, or modification” made while pany’s “tool and appliances and Continued o® Page Two ALBANY, July 16—The name| on his presidential aspirations. Ac-| WILITANT STRIKE LEADER TO FACE MILITARY. TRIAL Military Violates Law to Railroad Porter | | | Paul Crouch, formerly of the 21st | Infantry, Hawaii, who was sen-| tenced to 40 years for Communist | activities in the army, left last| night for Fort Adams. He will re-| | port the developments of the Porter | court-martial for The DAILY | WORKER. * | (Special To DAILY WORKER.) FORT ADAMS, R. I., July 16.—| | The court-martial of John Porter, | imprisoned for his militant strike | jactivities and leadership in the) | Young Workers (Communist) | League while subject to military) jlaw, and on a technical charge of | | desertion, will begin here tomor- | | row morning. | The methods of the military au-| |thorities in framing and railroad-| |ing its victims to prison are re-| vealed by the procedure in the case, which even violated military law |itself. Porter has been held in-| | communicado for some time and the authorities have been trying to} | weaken his spirit. Violated Law. According to military regula. tions, a week’s advanc enotice of courts-martial is necessary to en- |able the defense to study the case |and call witnesses. However, no- | tice was not sent to Isaac Shorr, International Labor Defense attor- ney retained for Porter’s defense, |until today, so he can arrive only in time for the beginning of the | trial. | Details Secret. | No details of the charges are |known. There is every indication of a determined effort to railroad | Porter to prison. | A statement issued by Theresa | Valente, secretary of the Porter | Defense Committee of the Interna | tional Labor Defense, calls on the workers to prevent the war depart- ment from giving Porter a life sen- | tence. : LABOR OFFIGALS ~-FINED BY COURT Defy Injunction and Picket Shop | CHICAGO, (FP) July 16—Fines | of $75 and $50 were levied on busi- |ness agent John Werlik and Louis Kanule of the metal polishers union | for violation of an injunction ob- tained by the Chicago Flexible | Shaft Co. forbidding picketing and other union activities. Werlik and Kenule paraded with placards before the plant against which the union has | been conducting a strike for over |15 months. It was the only union shop that refused to raise the scale | from $1 an hour to $1.10 a year ago |last spring. It is now operating openshop. The company has refused to arbitrate the dispute though the union is willing to accept any Chi- | cago judges the company may select |as arbitrators. | 2 Sing Sing Officers Jailed for Robbery WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., July 16 (UP).—Two Sing Sing Prison keep- ers, who it is alleged “shook-down” | tourists and “petters” on the Albany Post Road, were themselves in | prison today. | Anthony Fallon and Arthur | Treasure, the keepers, were arrested |on information furnished by one of the victims. Police said it was be- their prison caps bearing the initials “N. Y. S. P.” to represent them- selves New York State Police. The als stand for “New York State Prison.” Express Drivers and R. R. Clerks to Meet CINCINNATI, July 16 (FP). — The jurisdictional dispute over ex- press drivers which has kept the railway clerks out of the American Federation of Labor for two years will be ironed out in Cincinnati Aug, 18, it is unofficially reported. Clerks teamsters and A. F. of L. chiefs will have a joint meeting then. Loss of Million Hasn’t Cured Vanderbilt, Jr. BUFFALO, July 16 (UP).— Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., who lost a fortune in tabloids, may again embark in a newspaper enterprise. " | lieved Fallon and Treasure had worn | Soviet Icecutter Rescues 4 More British Troops Massacre Indian Strikers FIRE INTO LARGE JUTE WORKERS’ DEMONSTRATION May Call Troops As Mass Feeling Rises CALCUTTA, India., July 16.— Firing into a procession of several hundred jute mill workers, who were demonstrating for a number of their fellow employes who had been dis- charged, British police yesterday killed and wounded twenty-three of the demonstrators. Instantly the news of the outrage spread thru all working class sec- tions of Calcutta and thousands of workers were waiting sullenly yes- terday for the next move which the British might make to suppress the strike by violence. Following the revolt of the pea- fants in the Gijerat, who have driv- en the tax collectors from the north- ern section of the Bombay presi- dency and, under the instructions of a peasant revolutionary adminis- tration, have harvested the crops in the fields declared forfeit by the government, the British are pre- pared to take any measures against the Indians, and the calling of troops to Calcutta is foreseen as a consequence of .yesterday’s massa- cre, "Whether the workers on the In- ¢ian National Railways will man the Tri roop trains is being eagerly eee fore te the workers and the government tonight. * * * Bombay Workers Aroused. BOMBAY, India, July 16.—Masé movement against the British au- thorities was forecast here today as news of the massacre of twenty- three Indian jute strikers by British | police in Calcutta yesterday reached | this city. |. Headquarters of the textile strik- ers, fifty thousand of whom are on strike in Bombay alone, were be- sieged with crowds of workers de- manding news of the atrocity in | Calcutta. The huge textile strike which has involved over one hundred thousand workers for months, threatened to assume even more militam), propor- the jute strikers fell like a thunder- bolt among the textile workers to- day. CHIANG IN NEW Call Army Reduction Move Against Rival * PEKING, July 16.—Following the dictates of the financiers in Shang- hai and this city, Chiang Kai-shek and other warlords assembled in conference at Peking have agreed to reduce the Kuomintang armies for purposes of economy. % Reduction in the size of armies is also seen as a blow to the forces of various individual warlords who | threraten the domination of Chiang | Kai-shek. | does not, of course, contemplate the | abolition of the Kuomintang armies who are being held in readiness for a campaign in Manchuria if the heirs of Chang Tso-lin refuse to ac- cede to Nanking’s terms, Chiang Kai-shek bas not yet settled accounts with Feng Yu- hsiang and his troops are being dis- tributed with a careful regard to sudden advances into the territory controlled by Feng should the oppor- tunity arrive. Immediate settlement of the Chin- ese Eastern Railroad which is, par- tially controlled by the Soviet gov- ernment is also under consideration by the warlords at the Peking con- ference. FORD PLANS PURCHASE ORANGE, N. J., July 16—Menlo Park, the birthplace of the incan- BLOW AT FENG Cineinnet? Contri mites $4,000 to M | Abov, organizatio is a group of miners who have been visiting varicus in Cincinnati in behalf of the starving coal diggers. | Cincinnati has contributed about $4,000, which has been distributed through the National Miners’ Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh. The three miners are, left to right, Oliver Rigot, Harry Logsdon, and James White of Eastern Ohio. Weeks, a carpenter who has been Next to the miners is W. A. active in the relief work. Stand- ht) are Hobart Scott, William Foster and Wallner, e been active in the work. PHILA. TEXTILE MEN JOIN MILL COMMITTE FULLER SPURNED | AS “ARBITRATOR” ‘New Bedford Strikers Resent Insult HILADELPHIA, Julys 15.—The heroic performance of the Textile Mill Committees in its leadership of the big New Bedford textile strike, is giving tremendous impetus to the | growth of the National T. M. G,, re-|constant rejoicing aboard ti. |ports from this as well. as~all other) | textile centers indicate Philadelphia to be held Thursday, evening July KRASSIN SAVES CHUKHNOVSKY, 1 COMPANIONS A mundsen Found By Maligin, Rumor By EUGENE LYONS (United Press Staff Correspondent) MOSCOW, July 16.—After bring- ing to a climax today, with the res- cue of nine men, the most triumph- ant relief voyage in Polar history, the Russian icebreaker Krassin steamed through the Arctic ice for Advent Bay to re-coal and resume her rescue work. | The Krassin embarked at 10 p. m. esterday her aviator, Chukhnovsky, \his four companions. who had crashed with him last week on the ice in the rescue flight, the Nor- |wegian huntsman Noyes and three |Italian Alpine chasseurs who had |been in search of survivors of the Italia d Krassin Rescues 16 These nine men joined the seven survivors of the Italia who had been embarked last week—two of them from a small icefloe and five from the ice camp off Foyn Island, The Italia survivors are under rhysicians’ care, but they, who had given themselves up as sure té die, are even more jubilant than the Krassin’s complement, ai re is hip. To Hunt for Others The Kyassin, with Chukhnovsky’s | mill workers are called to another | damaged plane in tow, will make for |mass meeting of that organization) Advent Bay to recoal and proceed |to search for the six men carried |19, at 8 o'clock at Kennington La-|away with the dirigible’s gasbag and NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 16,| bor Lyceum, 2nd and Cambria Sts./for Roald Amundsen, discoverer of ;—Confronted with the impassible| | barrier presented by the unyielding In a call to the textile workers of that district the Philadelphia the South Pole, and the five men lwho disappeared with him in a ranks of the 28,000 textile strikers | T. M. C. hails the coming convention | French seaplane. here, agents of the mill owners, in|Called by the National Textile Mill| The story of how Dr. Malmgren the role of “mediators,” are again|Committees, to be held September|was left alone on the icefloe while beginning to suggest that the wage- cut question be arbitrated. This time the mediators have gone so far as to suggest as “arbitrator” the murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti Massachusetts Governor Fuller. In a searching denunciation of those who dare to put forward the | 22 and 23 in New York. The offi- \cial said was made public yester- | day. The Philadelphia unit also de- clares that the workers in all cloth |weaving sections are recruiting in amazing numbers into the T. M. C | because they are disgusted with the his two companions, Mariano and Zappi, who were saved last week, truck out on an expedition for aid, |became known today. | Was Malmgren Alive? There was every belief, reports here indicated, that Malmgren had died June 15 as his companions name of Fuller as a participant in|Craven leadership of the United| marched onward towards where they |any kind of labor parley, Eli Keller| Textile Workers Union of the A.|believed land could be found. |ford Textile Workers’ Union of the | Textile Mills Committee which de- \clares that the mere suggestion of |his name immediately brands the {whole move as the preparation for |a betrayal of the strike. “To suggest the instrument for |the governments’ murder of Sacco- | Vanzetti, who died because they fought for the workingclass as the union is now fighting against the mill bosses, shows how much the strikers can expect from that sort of ‘mediation,’ ” the union statement de- clares. The strike committee of the T. W. U. is now devoting much of its | attention to work out plans for the |coming parade of the textile strik- \ers, it was learned. The alaborate preparations now under way and the extreme interests being manifested by the masses of strikers in the parade, gives evidence that this will be one of the mightiest labor demon- strations in recent times. SMYRNA, July 16.—A |earthquake shook the city today, |lieved, loss of life. are not yet known, nor the dama; | estimated, ge tions as the news of the murder of issued a statement for the New Bed-|F. of L., who have laid down before | general wage cut onslaught of the | mill barons all over the country. | The call then cites the need of a national textile workers union which | will replace the reactionary U. T. W. |and the other innumerable small in- | dependent craft unions now in exist- ance. In discussing the particular con- |dition of the industry in the Phila- delphia district, the T. M. C. call declares: Wage Cuts, Speed-Up. “At the present time the textile workers here, are faced with wage- cuts, speed-up systems, unemploy- ment and a vicious open shop of- |fensive of the employers. The tapes- try carpet weavers in Philadelphia received a 15 per cent cut in wages. A few months ago the Wilton car- | cent wage cut. have seen similar reductions in the |pay envelope. Workers are receiv- ling a starvation wage, working two. three and four days a week. Nine- unorganized; and the one-tenth or- ling on the struggle against the | bosses. Many Cities Honor In response to the call of the In- ternational Labor Defense that memorial meetings on the anniver- sary of the murder of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti be ar- ranged, branches of the organiza- tion throughout the country have informed the national office, 80 E. 11th street, of the preparations that are now being made for a series of gatherings that will cover all of the important cities of the country. descent electric lamp, the phono- century inventions, may become the property of Henry Ford. It is learned the automobile mag- the park, where in 1876 and for 11 years afterwards, Thomas AgEdi- son worked on his inventions, graph and numerous other twentieth | New York’s meeting will be held in the Central Opera House on Aug. 22. Cleveland will pay tribute to the two martyrs on the same day at the | Public Square. Denver, Colorado, nate is negotiating for purchase of Detroit, and Chicago also meet on| Pittsburgh and Buffalo. | Aug. 22. | tional Labor Defense will have its | Sacco-Vanzetti greeting at the Labor SACCO MEETS PLANNED Martyrs in August| Institute on Aug. 24. Announcement has already been made of meetings in numerous other cities and the exact date and place of the gatherings will be pub- lished shortly. Meetings that are in the process of being arranged, in- clude the following cities: Seattle, Portland, Spokane, As- toria, Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, Canton, Toledo, Paul, Minneapolis, Akron, Duluth, | Martins Ferry, Wilmington, New- ark, Passaic, Boston, Haverhill, | Springfield, Providence, New Haven, | Hartford, Stamford, Waukegan, It is ex- | will hold memorial meetings this | year. pet workers were handed a 10 per) The hosiery workers | Flint, Grand Rapids, St. Louis, St.| Direct reports here from the | steamer Krassin. however, would in- dicate that Malmgren had been abandoned while he was still alive. Government advices indicated that the two Italians, wearily cold and facing what seemed inevitable | death, had left the Swedish explorer | alone. $i: ate Amundsen Rescue Rumored VIRGO BAY, Spitzbergen, July |16 (UP).—A wholly unconfirmed | message—and one that appeared to be somewhat garbled—today indi- cated that the Russian icebreaker Maligin had rescued Roald Amund- sen and two members of his party. Sweden Plans Probe | STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July 16.— |A special cabinet meeting was held |today to discuss methods of holding jan official investigation of the cir- cumstances of the death of Profes- |sor Finn Malmgren, Swedish metes= rologist of the dirigible Italia. Sewere |tenths of the textile workers °- PROTEST BRINGS | | The reduction in armed forces | causing much damage and, it is be- | ganized are led by trade union offi. The casualties | cjals that have no intention of carry-| HOELZ RELEASE | Thousands to Celebrate | Return to Berlin nation-wide protest of German workers, expressed by mass meet- |ings and demonstrations, the Reich- | stag has been forced to release Max |Hoelz, the Communist leader of the | Revolution in Saxon in 1921. Con- victed on a trumped-up charge of killing a real estate man, Max Hoelz was in prison for seven years. The workers here are dissatisfied with the Amnesty Bill, just passed and are arranging for huge mass meetings all over the country to de- mand the unconditional and full re- lease of class war prisoners. | LUMBERMEN SET WAGE SEATTLE, July 16 (FP).—Five dollars a day was set as the mini- Philadelphia’s Interna-| pected that a minimum of 75 cities | mum wage by the conference of lumber workers, Seattle } recently held, in BERLIN, July 16.—Due to the