The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 21, 1928, Page 1

i i i cagecro ne | of The DAILY WORKER. | i] | Theremin, Volpe, Roxy | as and every trade will throng | | will draw these workers to Coney ‘ ¢ : 4 THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT , Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. ' |\THEREMIN AT GREAT CONEY ISLAND STADIUM CONCERT TONIGHT Tt FIN AL CITY EDITION Vol. V. No. 172. Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y- NEW YORK. SATURDAY, JULY 21. 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Outside New York, New York, by mall, $8.00 per year by mail, $6.00 per year. EXPECTED AT BIG. “DAILY” CONCERT Ballet on Program All roads will lead to Coney Is- | land Stadium tonight. Twenty-five thousand workers of every nation- | from various sections of the city 0 attend the long-awaited concert | Theremin is the magic name that | national nominating convention of which was held recently in New ¥ Island Stadium tonight. Theremin y A ST THRONG | S|. Returning idee Bed fs kc td Convention | Photo shows a group of delegates from Ohio returning from the the Workers (Communist) Party York City. een In case of rain the concert ea be held tomorrow evening at at Coney Island Stadium. SUPPORT MINERS LOOK TO CONVENTION. Leaders Prepare For) Big Convention The affair tonight will also be| (Special To DAILY WORKER.) & demonstration of the left wing) PITTSBURGH, July Bieter movement of New York. And in/arations for taking control of the| honor of this demonstration Ben | mine situation was speeded up here | Gitlow, acting secretary of the|by leaders of the National Ar-| | rangements Committee for a New | Miners’ Union, a convention for Five hundred volunteers for work | which is being called here for Sep-| in connection with the concert must | tember 9-16. The move by Lewis | be at the gate of Coney Island Sta-| dium at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Oe tegen te cates ae SS ae pe has been expected, progressive Workers (Communist) Party and jleaders declare. candidate for vice president, will) The results of the Lewis betrayal appear to bring a revolutionary will have no permanent effect, it messag the vast ae s ; Mo said. Upon the rank sod ge is the name that has been on every- | body’s lips. And tonight Theremin | himself will perform his scientific | miracle—he will play musical com-| positions of the greatest difficulty | in the air. The great program will be put | on as previously announced. In ad- | dition to Theremin, Arnold Volpe | and his symphony orchestra of 50, and the Roxy Ballet will round out what promises to be the greatest | roletarian concert ever held in this | ountry. st RELIEF BODY PLEDGES TO MINERS Unremitting rgoart of the needy) miners notwithstanding the aban-| donment of the strike by the Lewis machine was yesterday pledged by the National Miners Relief Commit- hoe in a statement issued by Alfred) enknecht, relief director of the Riba which has sent thou-| sands of dollars into the fight and! has supplied hundreds of mine families with tents and clothing in | order that they might continue their struggle against the open shop! menace facing the industry. “The need for relief and protec- | |tion is even greater now than be-| represent the best that the prole- fore,” the statement declared. ‘Those who have fought in the front | ranks of the strike, those militant rank and file leaders who were | elubbed by the police on picket lines and suffered arrest, will be the first to be victimized and black-listed by| the women whose special problems | Pierre Seward, the operators. These courageous | miners must not be allowed to starve. Their children must be fed Aid Is Urgent. a ae the officials of the long unsold. Those who don’t want to be turned away at the Stadium tonight should buy their tickets at once at the office of The DAILY WORKER, eed aie Union Square. POVIET AVIATOR 4 IX NEW REPORT Chuknovsky § Says 3 on) Ice Flow KNGS BAY, July 20 (UP).— The Russian aviator, Chukhnovsky, | who first sighted the Polar explor- ers in the Malmgren walking party, said today he was convinced there | were three men in the group at that time and expressed surprise that only two had been\rescued. Chukhnoysky, who was rescued by the Russian icebroaker Krassin | after his plane was forced eer when returning from t trip, said there was a possi ‘lity a mistake in his observations, aia that pictures taken at the time would reveal the situation. Two members of the wrecked | Italia’s crew, Captain Filippo Zappi nd Captain Alberto Mariano, have een rescued by the Krassin. They | eported Dr. Finn Malmgren had) beon left on the ice in a dying con- dition. “We were convinced we saw three persons,” Chukhnovsky said. The aviator was accompanied by three sides. “The first was standing erect, the second was tottering and the third man was stretched on the ice. “ANl three were tied together by ropes to prevent falling from the | E | Fields case, insofar as the League} tiny icefloe, which was only 20 meters square and was surrounded by open water. We were greatly surprised to learn that only two men were rescued. "Though it is possible we mistook a bundle of garments for the third person, we hope this will be clari- fied through pictures we took while cruising over the icefloe. The small size of the floe prohibited dropping f supplies to the starving men.” WON’T RACE BYRD BUFFALO, July 20 (UP).—Lieut. Karl B. Eielson, who with Captain George H. Elkins will explore the Antaretic, said here today that their expedition will in no way make an attempt to race the one commanded by Comamnder Byrd to the South Pole. Must Settle For All Coney Tickets Tonight All tickets for tonight concert at Coney Island Stadium must be settled for at the Stadium not later than 7 o'clock Oe aeniae: Since poles Me nia of seers e tl strug is not over. The Pittsburgh Coal| Company and the Pittsburgh Ter- minal Coal Company, two of the| largest coal trusts, and the Ohio operators declare they will never sign agreements with any union This means that the fight against open-shopdom is still on. While the miners battle for union recognition, * | they must receive the aid of all their) Operators Expose Betrayal |fellow workers in the cities so that | (Special to The DAILY WORKER) | | they will not be starved into accept-| | HELLVILLE, Ohio, July 20—|i€_open-shop conditions. | Confirmation of the charges that | “The relief work must continue és, John. L.., Lewis *machinesin or- | Relief committees spread throughout |dering back the miners to the scab the, country must not lessen their faite Len Baye sensi) Siete the: ‘coat | een ever, and miners must | companie: , ing eh Big no eg Neocles be forced to accept conditions | the outcome of the battle. “That the miners can never be beaten down has been proven, it is pointed | out, by their fifteen months of the | most heroic struggle ip the history jof the American labor movement. | The coming convention in Septem- | ber will see a turning point, it was | declared. * * The International Labor Defense Mass meetings are scheduled f | Well Represented EB fare for the turnout of the entire yip- gle| P | imself and the operators was had |from the operators which will ean lis cooperating with the National | Miners Relief Committee in a coast! |to coast drive for funds during the | Sunday, July 22, the opening day of the drive. House to- house collec- |_At a meeting arranged by the| tions, tag days, entertainments, shop |Young Workers (Communist) | League of Brownsville in their) sel membership in Brownsville was the fact that Philip Frankfeld, act- ing district organizer of the League, | Continued of ruedl_ on Page Boise | continued misery. Hundreds |miners are still under arrest, and YOUNG WORKERS [emits week. National Miners’ Re- lief and Defense Week is expected and union collections will be some of the week’s activities. | headquarters there were more than 100 persons present. Among these had been announced to speak on the Fields case and the Young People’s must be defended. EXPOSE YIPSELS ie mobilize hundreds of thousands) All funds collected will be for- was a large delegation of yipsels, | Socialist League. Defense Week. Basic Industries RCE ewes. Continued on a pagina Two about 25 in number. The reason Frankfeld said in part: | is concerned, is an expression of the | | petty-bourgeois degeneration of the| _yipsels. We are not interested in the Fields case for its own sake. The young Communists, however, see in it a sign of the fact that the young socialist movement has cer- tainly reached the bottom of the lad- der, when members of its national committee can in any way be con- nected with such practices.” Frankfeld went on to say that the Continued on Page Two By ED FALKOWSKI, moves his cap, feels the bleeding spot and goes back to work. assures | MINER’S LIFE A GAMBLE Falling Rock Usually. Wihs Struggle TREMONT, Pa., July 20.—Coal| rocks and pebbles and pieces of coal in the breasts is always loosening.| Every miner carries his nicks on his crumbling, falling down. When aj back, lump falls on a miner’s head, split-| dropping rocks and coal have hit ting the scalp, he often merely re-| him. taking two or three days it'll be all right,”| whenever a man is being hauled out himself. “Only a. split} of the mines, HH ontedy 33 GIRL WORKERS INJURED IN FIRE “The | SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 20. (UP).—Thirty-three girls were in- jured, several seriously, when a fuse exploded in the Duerler candy fac- | tory here late today. More than 100 girls, at work the factory at the time of the ex- plosion, were thrown into a panic| and rushed for the doors. Fire broke | out and burned several of the girls before they could make their es- cape from the building. A miner works in a shower of -Shoulders and legs where “Why is the miner so foolish in chances?” someone asks MANY MILITANTS _ DIRECT WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN Committee From All) Parts of Country A committee of one. hundred prominent and active Teaders in the | American labor movement of both sexes comprise the National Elec- tion Campaign Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, accord- ing to a statement issued last night from the committees headquarters | at 43 East 125th St., New York City. | This committee—organized around |the national ticket of the Workers |Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow | carrying the banner—hails from every state in the union and is representative of |workers, farmers, women and | Negroes. In making public the names of the | committee, the National Election | Campaign Committee statement de-| clares: “Rallying around the election campaign of the Workers (Commu- |nist) Party, headed by William Z. | Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, are to | be found men and women who have proven their loyalty to the working class in the past by deeds as well as by words. Represents All Workers. “The members of this committee | tariat of the United States has pro- |duced. They come from every part | of the country and represent the ex- |ploited in factory, on farm, the doubly exploited Negroes, the per-| secuted foreign-born workers, and | | are taken advantage of by the em- ploying classes to work them at! starvation wages. “This Committee of One Hundred proletarians realize that only) through a revolution can the prob- fast roo abe working class in misery the eliminated and a social | order built up that will give the pro- ducer the fullest possible share of the fruits of his toil—a social order | where the exploiter who lives on the labor of others will be conspicuous by his absence. “Those men and women of the working class see in the election campaign an opportunity to rally the masses for the struggle against capitalism, to protest against the! | crucifixion of the peoples of Latin- | | America by the imperialists of the | United States, and to help organize | into the Workers (Communist) | Continued on sere tae AS Two ‘LOSE JOBS THRU TARITSKY UKASE Cap Bosses A Aid Right | Wing Union Wreckers | (Special to The DAIL DAILY WORKER) BOSTON, Mass., able to destroy the Boston Cap-| makers Local 7 by reorganization and expulsion of its militant leader- ship, Max Zaritsky, president of the International Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers’ Union, together with socialist party official and lawyer Bearack, filed suit for an in- junction to remove the legally elected officers of the local from control of the union. S. Miller, organizer and other functionaries of Local 7 received summons to appear in court for a hearing July 23. Availing themselves of the econ- omie power which the bosses active Continued on ened es a Four “PIECE WORK FOR ~ MILLINERY BOSS Imposed on on Workers i in Spite of Protests The next organized step for im- posing upon the members of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Work- ers Union the hated system of piece work was taken by the Zarit- sky machine, in control of the mil- linery union recently, according to the workers of the shop of Teitler Bros., 648 Broadway. This employer had asked the union officialdom to grant him the privilege of operating under the piece work system. Not daring to grant it outright, the union oficials advised the boss to take his demand for pemectlon to ms Abelson, (Communist) Party, with William} Communist election | July 20.—Un- | Price 3 Cents NEW BEDFORD MILL BOSSES ANNOUNCE TERROR CAMPAIGN World’ a Stresses | War Danger FOSTER OPENS THIRD SESSION OF WORLD MEET Bukharin Stresses War Danger | (Wireless To DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, July 20.—William Z. Foster, member of the secretariat of the Workers (Communist) Party of America and a member of the Presidium of the Communist Inter- national, opened the third session of the Sixth World Congress of ,the Communist International this mrn- ing. Nikolai Bucharin. president of the Communist International, continued his speech begun at the second ses- sion last night, in which he made the report for the Executive Com- mittee cf the Comintern and pre- sented the theses on the interna- tional situation and the tasks of the | Communist Parties. | Seward Opens Second Session The New Bedford textile strii picket demonstration tonight. the Kilburn Mill, which thwarted e working. Photo shows night picketing outside | kers are preparing to hold a big fforts of scabs to start the looms » WILL OPERATE | PLANTS DESPITE WORKERS RISK Cheer Picket Captains at Demonstration NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 20 (UP).—Operators of New Bedford Textile Mills today started an ac- t ive campaign against picketing in connection with the strike of more than 25,000 employes. This change sudden was an- |nounced last night by John Sulli- daineaiient was made yester- day by Martin Abern, assistant na- tional secretary; of the International Labor Defense, that numerous re- plies have come into the headquar- ters of the organization in response The second session was opened by secretary of the French Communist Party, | Bucharin declared that a new | analysis of the world situation was necessary. Since the war three peri- ods have been experienced, he said. The first was the acutely revolution- ary period during which capitalism wne-unstable.and ended the’ defeat of the German workers. | The second period was characterized by the capitalist offensive and the preparations for the capitalist sta- |bilization. The second period also saw the temporary end of the revolution- ary situation in Europe and the transfer of the revolutionary wave | to the colonies. | Capitalist Reconstruction The third period was the period of capitalist reconstruction with growth of “the productive forces, great technical progress and reor- ganization of capitalism. Simul- taneously the Soviet Union was ex- Hunger is more wide-| Party during this campaign thou-| periencing a reconstruction period | during which it formed a new tech- |nieal industrial basis and reorgan ized industry. Capitalist development, coupled with the growth of antagonisms, is now threatening war, he said. The third capitalist period created a new world situation requiring new tac- tics. Capitalist development is tend- ling towards state capitalism and |trusts are becoming identified with | state organs. New Outlook Under these circumstances the | | theory of the partial stabilization of | [capitalism formuiated at the Fifth | Congress has now a new sense. The capitalist crisis remains and consists in the fact that the structural altera- tions of world economy intensify the internal contradictions of capital- ism. The existence of the Soviet Union, the Chinese revolution and Continued on Page Two BLAME GHURCH IN OBREGON DEATH Quis of Assassin Nears End MEXICO CITY, Julv 20 (UP). — Police investiration of the murder of General Alvaro Obreron. presi- dent-elect of Mexico, was near an lend tonight and the assassin. vonng |Jose De Leon Toral, a_ religious fanatic, was being questioned prob- ably for the last time before his execution. In addition to Toral, ten others | have been arrested and are held for investigation in connection with the assassination, which it is officially | charged was due to catholic clergy | action. Presumably the authorities hope by a public trial to definitely estab- | lish the fanatical character of Toral | and his alleged connection with} catholic clerical dissidents. Chief of Police Rios Zertuche blamed the catholic church for the assassination. “Police headquarters now is in position to make public the fact that responsibility for the crim to the campaign among organiza-| tions, groups and individuals to send | greetings to Tom Mooney and War- ren Billings on July 27, the twelfth anniversary of the imprisonment of these workers on a frame-up now conceded by everyone. Victims mes Class Struggle. Among ft] eceived is one from) ‘Roger Bi if, director “Of “the! | American Civil Liberties Union, en- dorsing and backing the campaigt. for their unconditional pardo., In this statement to International Labor Defense, the Civil Liberties Lmon states the following: “The Civil Liberties Union recog- {nizes Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings as the victims of their radi- jcal views and activities, not as the perpetrators of the crime with which they were charged. That makes theirs a clear civil liberties case. We are prepared to back the campaign for their unconditional pardon to the limit of our resources. It is a dis- grace to the country that they have been imprisoned these 12 long years. |It is a disgrace to the labor move- ment that it allows its brothers to remain in prison without raising their voices for their unconditional pardon. We welcome any campaign Continued on Page Two SIGMAN BOAST SHOW UP FRAUD “Big Drive” Failure, His Statement Proves The pretense at an organization campaign, conducted for an_ entire week by the right wing forces in the Cloakmakers Union, loudly her- alded in the yellow Jewish Daily | downtown section of the city MANY GREETINGS SEN7 MOONEY AND BILLINGS POLICE ATTACK STREET MEETING ° Industrial Bar Barons Fear Communist Party (Special To DAILY WORKER.) KENOSHA, Wis., July 20.—Once more..the.Kenosha spolice took or- ders from the powerful open eel interests that dominate the city an broke up an onen air meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party and Young Workers (Communist) League. The held in the yes. terday, and was organized for the purpose of calling upon the dele- gates to the Wisconsin State Fed- eration of Labor that was holding its annual convention in Kenosha, to organize the unorganized work- ers. Samuel A. Herman, of the Young Workers (Communist) League, had been speaking for about twenty minutes, exposing the treachery of the bureaucracy of the American Federation of Labor and its close adherence to the policy of the Wall Street government, on the political Continued on Page Four CONGRESS HEARS YOUTH REPORT Moscow Session Hears Progress of Y. C. I. (Wireless to Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July 20.— Following the conclusion of Buk- harin’s speech today, Schueller re- ported on the activities of the Ex- meeting was ecutive Committee of the Young Communist International. As a re- sult of the partial stabilization, ra- Forward, showed its true nature when the Sigman Joint Board is- sued an official statement giving the resultseof the “great drive” for tionalization and radicalization of afl week the working-class youth, Schueller “Four contracting shops joined said, young wi and appren- fate more actively n the strugg|g® of labor and join unions in thg/special youth sections. The main task of the Young Com- munist International should be cen- tered in the anti-militarist struggle and against the bourgeois attempts to militarize the youth. During the the Contractors Association and one ‘ices must partigg joined the Manufacturers Associa- tion, says the Sigman statement. Tragic Humor The most laughable. of the week’s ‘accomplishments. however, was the appointment of Sol Metz to a posi- tion as the official guardian of the jast few years, Schueller also re- pereements with the emplovers.| ported, the membership of the Metz, who for the past few years Young Communist International has has been selling insurance and real estate to the cloak manufacturers, is the man who is to see that his Continued on Page Two |remained fairly stable and progres- | sive, whereas the Socialist Youth | |International has lost over one eal of its total membership. SADISTIC JAIL TORTURE ‘Perverted Warden in Rumanian Prison van, president of the New Bedford Cotton Manufacturers Association | who declared the association was de~ \termined that operatives desiring to resume work should not meet inter- ference. * * Open eae of Terror. NEW BEDFORD, July 20.—New |and hitherto unattempted methods of force and terror against the striking textile workers were openly Pater here by spokesmen of the Bedford Cotton Manufacturers Rexctton who demanded that the Coolidge tactics of using the militia to break the famous Boston police strike be adopted by. the authorities in New Bedford, “We are going to operate at all costs,” John Sullivan,” Continued on Page Four JAPS FIRE ON CHINESE TROOPS . Invaders Plan to Stay Ten Years SHANGHAI, China, July 20.— Japanese imperialist troops fired on Chinese regulars near Tsinafu today according to a report which eminated from Japanese sources. The Japan- ese troops were sent to disarm Chi- nese troops who it was charged were infringing on the railway zone set up by the invading Japanese army. oo me PEKING, July 20.—The Japanese Consul at Nanking notified the Japanese Legation of Peking today that the Chinese Nationalists had presented a note proclaiming the lapse of the Sino-Japanese Treaty. The note made clear that the Japan- ese therefore were subject to Chi- nese jurisdiction. The Consul refused to receive the note, but agreed to unofficially transmit the terms to the Legation. The spokesman for the Legation said that Japan was willing to dis- cuss treaty revision when the Nank- ing Nationalists showed an amicable snirit. He considered the present ac- tion to be discourteous. He said that the Japanese intend to maintain the attitude that the treaty was not revised within the set period and therefore the treaty was automatically renewed for another term of ten years. alin Sater WASHINGTON, July 20.—In a statement tonight Representative Porter of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Af- fairs, urges early action by the United States in the negotiations of new treaties with China. 900 CHILDREN ARE POISONED WASHINGTON, July 20 (UP).— | A holiday excursion down the Po- tomac River turned into tragedy to- |day when about two hundred chil- dren, taken for a pienic by Central Union Mission, were stricken with | food poisoning. GENEVA, July 20. — Prison |handled him in a sadistic fashion. terror in Rumania is a common- The Adevarul writes: “The pris- place but stories reach here thru oners of Doftana can be subjected ithe “Adevarul,” the publication of |to punishment—justly or unjustly, the Red Aid of Rumania, that are | we will not argue. That is all. They | unbelievable. have not been sentenced to torture. | On the night of June 30th the|They are not sentenced to satisfy | n director Coroiu together with |the immoral dictates of a crazy di- | an engineer, Pascal, entered the/|rector. And finally they are not prisoner, pulled him out and | ton. Fifty were hurried back on the first boat fifteen miles to Washing- A second boatload was due in later tonight. Meanwhile, a squad of physicians and nurses had been ent to the scene and had first nid treatment to some 50 chil- dren left at the pienic grounds, Up until 7 p. m. more than had been treated at 7 col. rests with the catholic teh his cell of Bujor, a proletarian mecyintes eels to be made a joke es by | pital. Bon of eee wo od