The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 21, 1928, Page 2

Police GATHERING HELD IN DEFIANCE OF POLICE TERROR Communists to Keep Up Meetings LADELPHIA, July 20,—Po- ng under orders of the cor- rupt hine, attacked an elec- tion campaign meeting of the Work- €rs (Communist) Party Thursday Might and arrested five of the speak- fers. The meeting, h was held at the nd Poplar Sts., ® section densely populated by white and Negro workers, had attracted a Jarge throng of several hundred. It was held in defiance of Police Com- missioner Mills forbidding all #treet mectings the Workers Party. Those arrested were Herbert Ben- jamin, district organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party: Ben Thomas, candidate for governor of Pennsylvania on the Labor Party ticket; F. Crowley and Jennie Cooper and Elizabeth Levy, both of the Young Workers League. The men were taken to the Eighth and Jefferson Sts. police station and the women to the 19th and Oxford Sts. station. All were charged with disorderly conduct. The five work- ers were released on bail yesterday morning and will come up for hear- ing in a few days. All were sched- uled to speak at an open-air meet- ing last night. The Workers (Communist) Party of District 3 has issued a statement denouncing the police terror and ex- pressing its determination to con- tinue to hold meetings for the pur- pose of rallying Philadelphia work- ers behind the program of the Work- ers Party and to expose as before the role of Big Business and its petty hirelings in the city govern- ment in oppressing the workers. SIGMAN BOAST SHOW UP FRAUD “Big Drive” Failure, fs Statement Proves ak Continued from Page One customers do not violate the agree- mert. 4 One accomplishment of the organ- ization drive was, however, regis- tered yesterday. Nathan Leven- thal, a cloakmaker, came to the Daily Worker editorial office and exhibited a broken nose and a blood- stained shirt in evidence of a vicious gesanit made upon him by a gang cf about ten Sigman thugs, Lead Pipe Attack When ed why they had as- Saulteid him, whether it was because he was picketing or for any other zeazon, he veplied: “No, I was merely standing among another group of workers in the street, When the thugs attacked us with head pipes.” This uncalled for at- tack on cloakmakers was consciously ‘made in an effort to create the im- pression that the “organization cam- paign” was going on, it was proven. ‘Whree Firemen Injured _ ‘When Floor Collapses {@ PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 20.— Three firemen were injured, two iBeriously, late yesterday in a fire ‘which threatened to destroy the '®ameo Theatre Building, five-story itructure, in downtown Fifth Ave. = The firemen were hurt when part of one of the floors collapsed. aay (By Federated Press) CHICAGO (FP).—If you sweat nd choke nine hours in the hot Steamy factory of the Featheredge Rubber Company in Chicago you in take home $3.60 for your labor. Tf you can keep it up six days a week your weekly wage will be $21.60. But if you need more than $21.60 for your family the company Will let you work 12 hours a day, ‘paying 60 cents an hour for the ree hours overtime. In this way the 12-hour grind will give you $5.40, or $32.50 for a week of 72 jours. If you ure a girl your hourly wage much less and your overtime is “Timited by Mlinois law to one hour the nine-hour standard day. Girls don’t stand the work as well ‘as men, either. e Lay Off. The company specializes in rub- strips for auto windows and s recently Ford growled about the liyt and lack of orders forced a layoff, The company also specializes 4 employing a mixture of its and kidding along to keep workers from unionism, normal force is about 200, work hard and we'll take u,” is the favorite expres- superintendent. ‘windshields. It got contracts from| Ford in considerable quantity German immigrants for its labor | sking wages or RUBBER WORKERS IN | CHICAGO ARE SLAVES Attack Workers Party rouch and Porter—Red Soldiers ILY WORK ER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1928 In 1925, Paul Crouch was sentenced to 40 years and Walter Trumbull to 26 years for organizing a Young Workers (Commu- nist) League in the army in Hawaii. WORKER correspondent present as The DAILY A few days ago, Crouch was at the court. martial of John Porter, who was tried by the army authorities following his activities as strike leader and organizer of the Young Workers (Communist) League in New Bedford. Porter had de- serted the army after he realized that it is a tool of the capitalists. Many other soldiers, also, are beginning to realize the role of the army, and are determined to use their own military knowledge for the cause of the working clase. FIGHT FOR PORTER TO BE INTENSIFIED The two and a half year sen- tence given John Porter does not mean that the case is ended, ac- cording to a statement issued by the National Executive Committee of the Young Workers (Cemmu- nist) League, and also an an- nouncement of the national office of the International Labor Defense. Both organizations state that the sentence of Porter means that the workers must intensify the drive for his release. The statement of the League follows: “The declaration of John Por- ter to the court-martial that the army is the tool of capitalism, in spite of the fact that he was at the mercy of the military, is typi- cal of the best traditions of the revolutionary youth movement. “We will take up the challenge of the army in sentencing Porter to two and a half years in prison following his militant stand. The facts of the case must be brought to every young worker in this coun- | try. The sentence of Porter will echo around the world and mark another step in the unity of sol- dier workers with civilian workers in their common struggle for a new society free from wage slav- ery. “Porter's militant stand shows that he is worthy of being one of the first Red Soldiers in the United States, and his sentence will urge us forward and we will intensify the struggle for which Porter is behind the bars. “The Young Workers (Commu- nist) League calls on every class- conscious worker to support the drive for Porter’s immediate uncon. ditional release. “National Executive Committee, “Young Workers (Communist) League.” The National Office of the In- ternational Labor Defense has stoted that both the legal fight for 1 the mass protests will be continued and intensified until Porter soon will be sent to the military prison at Governor’s Is- land. During the next week or two, his address will remain: John Porter (Walerysiak), Guard House, Ft. Adams, R. I. Workers are re. quested by the League to write to him. The rubber is molded by steam pressure at great heat. The work- ers are in a constant sweat and at the end of the day nothing but cold water is provided at the wash trough. The cold water closes the pores of the skin around the tiny particles of rubber and sets up an intense irritation, Complaints to the management are met with the remark that there is steam available to heat the water at the other end of the room. But this is a difficult scalding business and after 12 hours of fatigue few workers have the energy left to heat their wash water in this way, Old Scales. When two foremen quit in order to start a rival plant wages sud- denly jumped. up. A number of 40-cent workers got 55 cents and a couple of key men were raised from from 62% cents to around 70 cents. But when the rival failed to prosper there was a lay-off in the Fether- edge and then the old scales once more. During the war, rubber workers, principally in Akron, 0., had a union that functioned well until the open-shop drive of 1921 knocked them out. have practically no ¢ COAL DIGGERS IN DEATH GAMBLE And Usually the Black Rock Wins + Continued from Page One the miner’s job. That is the only way he can “make coal,” for which he draws his checks. When William Ochs was caught under a fall of coal and instantly killed the other day at the Bean Gap colliery of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Co., nobody could blame him for taking unnec- essary chances, since the very nature of mining is to “rob out the coal.” The term “robbing the coal” sug- gests something of the nature of the miner’s work, He -actually sneaks up on the coal and “pulls it over”! on the breast that threatens any moment to crush him in a hundred different ways. Tons of coal in lumps as big as houses hang above him miraculously. The height of the breast often makes it impossible for timber to reach up to the top. The miner is compelled to creep quietly under the hanging coal, his ears alert for every warning sound as he carries a few sticks of dyna- mite for the blasting. Game With Death. If suddenly these overhanging tons roll down on him and crush him, the game is up. If they still hang up, his next pay may be a good one, Either way it is pure chance, And when William Ochs was crushed to death under tons of coal the other day, his buddies said it was “bad luck.” “The place looked safe when Bill went up,” they told each other. That’s the game! PIECE WORK FOR MILLINERY BOSS Imposed on Workers in Spite of Protests Continued from Page One leetive agreement in the industry. The workers immediately in- formed their officials that they ob- jert to piece work, but to na avail. When the case came for a ruling to Abelson, he recommended that the system be given a four weeks’ trial. As a result of the ruing, and .with the threat of incurring the employ- ers’ and officials’ persecution, the workers were bludgeoned into ac- cepting the so-called trial period. * * * Arrested and Fined For conversing with a scab work- ing in the shop of Rothstein and Hershson, 63 West 36th St., in an effort to get her tg join the millin- ers’ strike, Silvia Rosen was ar- rested yesterday and later fined $10 by Magistrate Sorell in Jefferson Market Court. The arrested milliner was not a striker herself, but because of work- ing nearby had tried to talk to those refusing to strike. Police in the millinery manufac- turing district are beginning to ex- hibit a brutality against the strik- | ing girls not yet seen since the struggle of the workers against their international officials and the Now rubber workers | employers first began many weeks organization | ago, The workers are nevertheless anywhere in the country and their! determined to fight the attempt to qeniro unionization may have to wait until| destroy their Local 43 at all costs, the nuto industry, the principal con-| and see the intensified police terror sumer of rubber, comes under union | as proof of the desperate situation of the Zaritsky crew, Meet MANY GREETINGS FOSTER OPENS | SENT 10 MOONEY THIRD SESSION. AND TO BILLINGS Labor Defense Urges Increased Fight | Continued from Page One | which will bring the issues of their imprisonment again before the coun- try and we pledge our support with- out let-up until they are free.” Bishop Paul Jones, of the Fellow- ship of Reconciliation, writes to the International Labor Defense in part as follows: Unconditional Release, “I appreciate your invitation to |speak at the outdoor meeting. | want to assure you of my interest in the campaign for the release of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings I am quite sure that they were un- justly imprisoned and I hope that someday soon they may he released | unconditionally.” ‘| Another who has expressed him- self on the Mooney-Billings frame- |up is Professor David Starr Jordan. | president emeritus of Leland Stan- |ford University of California. In |a letter to Tom Mooney he states |in part: | Inquisition. | “As matters stand the state of | California is on trial. The principle I have heard expressed that the per- |son accused may or may not be | guilty as charged, but ‘whatever he gets is coming to him,’ I consider one of the most dangerous, affecting | criminal tactics. It is the spirit of the inquisitions of the Dark Ages.”| Other statements of prominent! people in behalf of Mooney and Bil-| lings will be released shortly. Inter- | national Labor Defense urges work- ers to continue to send messages to Tom Mooney at San Quentin Prison. Calif. and to Warren Billings at Folsom Prison, Calif. Agitation for the unconditional pardon of Mooney \and Billings is increasing. A recent | editorial in the St. Louis Post Dis- patch asks for their release. MILITANTS LEAD PARTY CAMPAIGN Communist Message for All Workers | Continued from Page One the world over, as a section of the Communist International, makes | common cause with the revolution- ary workers in all countries who are struggling to free themselves from | native or foreign imperialism.” Communist Message for All. “This campaign will be waged | with all the energy at the disposal of the Workers (Communist) Party and its thousands of sympathizers. | For the first time the workers and } farmers in every part of the coun-} try will have an opportunity to lis- ten to the Communist message and _ hear the two big parties of capital- ism and the renegade socialist party exposed by Communist speakers. “The Workers (Communist) Party, the only working class party in the field, the only party that recog- nizes the identity of interests of the proletarians and poor farmers all sands of militant workers who have hitherto heard of .the Communist | movement through’ the press of its dollar you can,” Wagenknecht de- | the interests of the toiling youth— | iom the pulpits of | clared. “We must defend, protect and | and an enemy of the working class. provide food for men who are fight- | Sree | adverseries and its spiritual gi | _ The n dians. the Committee of One Hundkedgof which Alexander Make this drive a classic example of | Trachtenber; urer, follow: Mary Adams, Virginia; I. Amter, Ohio; Louis Bedacht, Illinois; Louis is the national treas- Bergar, Maryland; Fred Biedenkapp,| to Stay Closed Month New York; A. Bittelman, New York; Allan Bloomquist, Idaho; Ella Reeve Bloor, Indiana; Frank P. Brill, New | York; Al Camp, Washington; Jas. |P. Cannon, New York; Stanley |Clark, Oklahoma; Paul Crouch, | North Carolina; Anna David, Illi- nois; Ellen Dawson, New Jersey; Gus Deak, New Jersey; Julius Deter, Kentucky; Wm. Deitrich, Colorado; L. Derman, Washington; Edward L. Doty, Arkansas; Vincent R. Dunne, Minnesota; Wm. F. Dunne, New York; D. E. Early, Kansas; J. Louis Engdahl, Illinois; James Flannery, Rhode Island; W. C. Francis, Penn- sylvania; Kate Gitlow, New York; Ben Gold, New York; Oliver Golden, Tennessee; Rebecca Grecht, New York; David Griffin, Washington; Elizabeth Griffin, Il; Sam Ham- mersmark, Illinois; Wm. G, Hear- ing, Connecticut; M. Hendrickson, ™orida, Charles Henry, Mississippi; One Huiswoud, New York; Jackson W. Hunter, Massachusetts; H. C. Iram, New Hampshire; Wm, Jan- honen, . Massachusetts; Jack John- stone, Ill; David Jones, Maine; R. S. Kling, Connecticut; Alfred Knutson, North Dakota; B, H. Lauderdale, Texas; H, Lawrence, Texas; Joseph W. Leigh, Louisiana; A. Leon, Ala- bama; Ben Lifshitz, New York; Leonard Luoto, Wyoming; Jay Love- stone, New York; E. Markizon, Delaware; A. B. Martin, New York; Jack McCarthy, Massachusetts; Bob _Minor, New York; Frank Mozer, | Pennsylvania; I. Munsey, Pennsyl- |yania; Scott Nearing, New Jersey; |Emli Niva, South Dakota; Moji Nurmi, Wisconsin; Hugo Oehler, | Missouri; Wm. O’Brien, Arizona; M. J. Olgin, New York; Walter Pana. nen, New Hampshire; Lucy Pars Illinois; Wm. Patton, Iowa; N. B. OF GREAT MEET Bukharin Traces Path of Struggle Continued from Page Ong the shifting of the economic balance to the United States are the great- est factors in the new situation. In addition, the increased capitalist production is faced with smaller markets. The contradictions in the capital- ist system must lead to catastrophe. There is also a great contradiction between the United States and Eu- | rope. The United States is power- ful, but has no colonized territories, while Great Britain has colonized territories but is itself deteriorating, The capitalists thus face the prob- lem of the redivision of the world, which means war. War is the chief problem today. The United States intends to become a colonial power. The antagonism between the United States and Britain is the greatest present factor in the situation. German Imperialism | German imperialism is also regen- erating. Germany is now indus- trially powerful and tending def- initely toward the west. The gen- eral tendency is the capitalist prep- aration for war against the Soviet Union with the preliminary sup- pression of the working class. The workers are no longer facing individ- ual capitalist enterprises, but great trusts and state backing. Strikes thus immediately become political, he said. Relative stabilization does not ex- clude intensification of the class struggle. On the contrary, unem- ployment, strikes and the leftward swing ef the masses are character- istic of this period. Growth of Communism | When the floor was thrown open Capitalist stabilization means also stabilization of the social-democracy which, despite its treachery, is in- creasing its influence in some places. Capitalist contradictions are the basis for the growth of the Com- munist Parties. Social-democracy is today unashamedly defending cap- italism. The tactical change of the last Plenum towards the social-dem- ocracy arose from the given situa-| tion and was not any concession to the opposition. The expulsion pol- icy of the Labor Party towards the Communists in Great Britain justi-~ must fight against the social-dem- vocratic leaders and win the soci | democratic masses, PLEDGE SUPPORT TO COAL MINERS Miners Relief Body Opens Drive Continued from Page One warded to the relief headquarters at 611 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa ‘to buy bread for hungry miners’ | children and defend the hundreds of arrested miners. “Give your best efforts, all of | your time, to collect every dime and ing with their backs to the wall.| | workers’ solidarity!” Phillips’ Safety Box | MONTREAL, July 20.—The con- ‘tents of Francis Phillips’ safety de- posit box in the Montreal safe de- posit vaults here will remain a mys- tery for one month at least. | Aecording to an arrangement in |the Superior Court here today, the |boii shall remain sealed and intact in its present condition until Au- gust 21. On that date the motion on behalf of New York will again be before the court. ( Phalen, Oregon; Juliet S, Poyntz, New York; Henry Puro, Wisconsin. S. E, Roy, Michigan; James P. Reid, Rhode Island; Wm. J. Ryan, Massa: chusetts; Rodney Salisbury, Mon tana; George Saul, Colorado; Robert E. Smalls, South Carolina; Vern | Smith, California; Carl Skoglund, Minnesota; J. Sorenson, Washing- ton; Jack Stachel, New York; Roy Stephens, Nebraska; Rose Pastor Stokes, New York; Thomas Stone, Virginia; E. W. Sheinert, Rhode Island; Ben Thomas, Pennsylvania; Claus Thorwaldsen, Maine; Sadie Van Veen, Ohio; Wm, Watkins, Min- ‘nesota; Wm. W. Weinstone, New York; Albert Weisbord, New Jersey; | Anita C. Whitney, California; H. M. Wicks, Michigan; Seott Wilkins, Ohio; Wm, J. White, Pennsylvania, | Bertram D. Wolfe, New York; Rose | Wortis, New York; Willis L. Wright, Michigan; Chas. Zimmerman, | York; Herbert Zam, New York; N. | Zirganos, West Virginia. Funds Needed. | Money is urgently needed to wage this campaign. Send your contribu- tion immediately to the National Election Campaign Committee, Alex- der Trachtenberg, treasurer, 43 East 125th St., New York City. New | | Only two weeks after he had tionary catholic faction. triumph thru the streets of Mexico been elected president of Mexico, Gen. Alvaro Obregon was killed by an agent of the counter-revolu- Photo shows Obregon (arrow) riding in two days before his assassination YOUNG WORKERS: EXPOSE YIPSELS Reactionary Trends Exposed at Meet Continued from Page One Communist youth league is not in- | terested in helping in any shape or, | form the prosecution of Field. The | umbian-German Aviation Company | | Communist youth has nothing in| has succeeded in obtaining a sea-| |common with any of the capitalist) plane base twenty miles from the) | institutions, and it is the mission of | Atlantic entrance to the Panama) | the Communists to destroy them all. | He pointed out many instances |where the socialist party used the! forces of the capitalist government | and has met with considerable oppo-| | against the revolutionary workers,| sition from the Pan-American Air-| | both in this country and in other parts of the world, He showed that the fundamental differences be- tween the young socialists and young Communists were irreconcil- | able. |for questions and discussion it be- | came evident that the Yipsels would attempt to monopolize the floor and would attempt to create disturb- ances and disorder. They were granted the floor and asked all the | questions they wished, which were | promptly answered. The floor was | then given over to discussion, The yipsels objected to a ruling of the membership that there be a five minute limit for discussion, One after the other they spoke. League members answered them. | all we are all brethren, we are all | cational director of the Browns- ville circle, “Comrade” Plotkin. the close of the discussion, when a |large group of young Negro work- ers came into the hall, and when Frankfeld began to sum up, the| yipsels marched out of the hall, | The League clarified its position on the Fields case. The League helped to show very concretely the | methods and arguments to many | young League members. The argu- ments of the yipsels were fully | | brought out and thoroly exposed. | |The League members in Browns- | ville, as a result of this discussion, | became more determined than ever to go out and fight and expose the yipsels as a petty-bourgeois, stu- dent organization that is opposed to Stereotypers Gain a | $1.50 Wage Increase OKLAHOMA CITY, July 20, — Stereotypers employed on newspa- pers have won a raise to $45 for) | day work and $46.50 for night work. This means a $1.50 increase for both| day and night workers. | The arguments of the - yipsels | . i i d from appeals “to the mili- children’s mass meeting to be held | s w Communist policy there. | 748° : a rd sd pre front policy saya ihe We tant young Communists, that &fter Wednesday at 2 p. m.‘at the La-| REPORT PANAMA GIVES AIR BASE U.S. Opposes Grant to German Firm BALBOA, Panama Canal Zone July 20.—Some doubt was expressed here over the report that the Col- Canal. The German company, Scadta, has been operating in South America ways. A United States line and the United States has opposed the con- cession to the German firm. The Washington foreign depart- ment has objected on the ground that the German planes would fly over the Zone Canal and the mili- tary base, Herman Kuehl, an official of the| Seadta, said that the base had been granted as “a matter of courtesy because his company had a contract to assist in the delimitation of the/| boundary between’ Columbia . and Panama.” Miner’s Child to Speak Zz | | for | Miners’ Relief has arranged a big |$ campaign of the at Mine Relief Meetin The Children’s Committee bor Temple, 14th St. and 2nd Ave. working for the same goal” to a | One of the most active children. in| | vivid description of a hypothetical | | Communist in Prospect Park with | the children’s strike clubs of Bent-| the miners’ strike, an organizer of ‘a pretty damsel.” This by the edu- | Jeyville, Pa., who has been touring | the country for the purpose of or- At ganizing children’s strike activities | for miners’ relief, will speak. In addition to this, there will be a program of plays, singing, reci- tations. Refreshments will be served. Many miners recently ar. rived from the strike area have also been procured to address the meet- ing. Boston Painters Win 1214¢ Wage Increase BOSTON, July 20.—Union. paint- ers here have won a raise in wages from $1,25 per hour to $1.3714. Over 3,500 workers are affected by this raise. Get the genuine Santal Midy Effective- Harmless) Report of the Fifteenth Con- gress of the Party of the Soviet Union The first report in the Engish language of the most im- portant Soviet Union Party Congress since Lenin’s death, A 500-page volume containing all reports, decisions and 50 ‘Cents discussions. Please include postage WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 89 EAST 125th STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Communist with every cash order, Telephone Regent 4391. 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The stickers, signed by the Young Workers (Commu- nist) League, exposed the role of capitalist militarism and called on the workers to fight the “Citizen’s Military Training Camps.” The army officers repeat the usual threats of “turning the case over to-the district attorney,” but cannot decide whether to make the | charge “disorderly conduct” or, “malicious mischief.” As no arrests were made and the military author- ities know who put up the stickers, - it is obvious that the charges must be against “John Doe.” Military authorities report that they “may start a campaign to root out what seems to be an organized movement to discredit the summer training camps.” Among the recruiting posters covered with the League stickers was one at Third Avenue and 149th Street. CRIPPLED AVIATOR DOWN ROOSEVELT FIELD, L. 1, July 30 (UP).—Morris R. Daugherty, 24, crippled aviator, landed here at 2:45 m. today, after a flight from Passaic, N, J., where he was forced down yesterday. 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