The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Baily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥ NATIONAL | EDITION | [ Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥- SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, §8.00 per year. Price 8 Cents NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1928 ST Workers Give | Ne Greetings To Steel Helmets 2 eit 21 PIRMASENS, Germany, July 23 —Steel Helmets who attempted to arouse militant shoe workers in the | factories during a parade here, suc-| ceeded beyond their wildest inten-| Krassin Heroes to Visit United States REACTIONARIES. ARE MASTERS IN MEXIGAN CRISIS ?robable Arrest of Ex- Labor Minister MOSCOW, July 23 (UP).—For- eign Minister Tchitcherin, in a let- ter to the Russian-American Cham- ber of Commerce of New York, to- day accepted its invitation for Av-| fator Chukhnovsky and Prof, Sam- oilovich, of the rescue ice-breaker Krassin, to visit the United States. The two rescuers, Tchitcherin said, would go as soon as rescue work ‘was completed. , ~ '® * MOSCOW, July 23.—Capt. Fil- ippo Zappi, one of the survivors of | tience was exhausted, they, ‘issued the fascist Nobile expedition res-| from the factor3s and commanded | x ice-breaker | the fascists to keep quiet. The Steel Krassin, wore clothes belonging to| Helmets persisted in shouting in- cued by the Soviet Dr. Finn Malmgren, Swedish me- terologist, who was left to die on the-ice by Zappi and Capt. Albert Mariano. This was revealed today bv the correspondent of Tass, the Soviet | News agency, aboard the Krassin. Zappi wore two pairs of trousers, | two suits of underwear and three | pairs of socks when he was taken aboard the Krassin, the Tass corre-| spondent states. He also had with| him a co.apass belonging to Dr.| Malmgren. Mariano, Zappi’s ‘tom- panion, wore only one pair of pants, one suit of underwear and two pairs of socks. | Zappi also, refused to turn over| letters entrusted to Malmgren by Prof. F. Behounek, Czecho-Slovakian meterologist, before the walking party of Malmgren and the two} Italians started over the ice to bring | aid to the others. ‘RED ESSEX’ GETS tions with the result that a score or| more of the fascigts are in hospitals; MEXI(CO CITY, July 23.—It was suffering from minor injuries. A|announced by General Zertuche, smaller number of the shoe workers |chief of police of the federal dis- were also injured, tho most of them | trict, that Louis W. Morones, former declined hospital assistance. minister of labor, whose resignation The shoe workers, many of them Was forced by the reactionary so- Communists, were openly tantalized called “Agravfans,” is in hiding and by the boos and insults of a parade|that the police are investigating re- cist organization. When they had| City. E Steel Helmets, the German fas-|ports of his whereabouts in Mexico stood this treatment until thgir pa- Morones Under Arrest? The indication that Marones may even be arrested on charge of par- sults and the shoe workers quieted ticipation ‘in Sie 7Assanaination of them this time so effectively that | General Obregon, is part of today's numbers were satisfied to relinquish| developments indicating the victory the parade altogether. \of the reactionary elements and the The shoe workers are well organ- | Catholic clergy. ized and it is not believed that there | s : will be immediate police reprisals. | In the first days after the assas- |sination, and up to yesterday, Chief * of Police Zertuche announced that |the assassin confessed that he had | killed Obregon for religious ‘motives {so that “Christ the King might |nounced that the Catholic clergy, ae |exposed as responsible for the kill- Money Needed to Rally |ine of Obregon, are “co-operating ie with the police in the investigation Wor ers, PAYMers': |cf the assassination.” The Central Executive Committee | |reign supreme.” Now, the Calles of the Workers (Communist) Party | | government has reversed its policy |and today the chief of police an- Morones Anti-Clerical It is significant that Morones, \has issued a campaign assessment |who has been active in the struggle stamp for sale to the membership of | #82inst the church, has been Si the fourteen districts in the party | cused by the leaders Caldon sl See Ghat ae ebpameek ac: tol | ans as “intellectually respon- pect ring several sible* for the killing of Obregon by thousand dollars immediaely into|a religious fanatic. the treasury of the National Elec-! tion Campaign Committee, it was |}, ete is Ba as en senieineed yesterday: pecause of the pressure of the work- A BIG WELCOME Burke and Pearlman! Speak to Hundreds || (Special to the Daily Worker) ALBANY, July 23—One of ‘the outstanding lesso's we have learned from the tour of the “Red Essex”) is expected to be realized on the is the ridiculousness and at the|stamp sales and this money should} Same time the viciousness of the|be in the National Election Cam-| election laws of New York State.|paign Committee treasury in two| If a tiny county (like Greene or | weeks’ time. Putnam County) should decide to| oppose the placing of the Workers (Communist) Party on the ballot,|shall come in under the wire first | Just as many peti-| with its allotment sold and the cash| tioners are needed for these: coun- | forwarded. it could do so. ties as for Albany County or New| York County. | This fact struck us most forcibly trict 2, 800 for District 3, 400 for when we spent three days going | District 4, 1,000 for District 5, 800 back and forth through the Catskill Mountains, seeking voters who) could be classed as proletarians. | The few farmers to be found would | not sign. ‘ One incident will illustrate their | extreme backwardness. When re-| minded of the farmer demonstra- tion for relief at the republican con- | vention, a group of them declared that no farmers had taken part in the demonstration. They denounced | farmers co-operatives, union for) workers and labor parties. The| solution of the labor problem was for them just a matter of individual effort on the part of each farmer. | When we had finally obtained our quota, we had talked with probably about 90 per cent of all proletarians in the county. And we certainly had to use all of our persuasive abilities on them. As for the small merchants— though the summer resort business has fallen off tremendously this year on account of the unemploy- ment in New York—they were still unable to see their growing com- munity of interest with the working class. Italians, Negroes, Give Support Thus far we have found the great- st support coming from the Ital- | the gigantic automobile trust, dom- : a if Thus we are| inated by the House of Morgan, Gen- jans and Negroes, |for District 15, and 200 for the) In a letter to the party member- ship, the Central Executive Com- | mittee stated that it is incumbent ‘on every party. member to-purchase one of these stamps—just as obliga- tory as the pajing of dues. | $7,000 Expected Soon. | At least seven thousand dollars The fourteen districts are engaged | in a friendly rivalry as to which one | The quotas for the districts ar 1,000 for District 1, 4,000 for Dis- for District 6, 800 for District 7 1,800 for District 8, 1,000 for Dis- trict 9, 400 for District 10, 700 for District 12, 700 for District 13, 300 agrarian regions. Quick Action Urged. The members of the Party are urged to consider the necessity of quick sales and quick returns to the| National Election Campaign Treas- ury. The election campaign is now getting up steam. The newspapers are giving more and more space| daily to the statements and move-| ments of the capitalists. Alexander Trachtenberg, treasurer | of the National Election Campaign | Committee, said in urging the mem- | bership to speed up the sale of the) stamps: “The campaign funds of the capi- all previous treasure chests. For the first time in the history of the United States both parties are on practically even terms in the mat- ter of campaign funds. Millionaires | are flocking daily to the Smith ban- ner, and the head of his national | committee is none other than John) J. Raskob, the finance chairman of | eral Motors. |mark symbolizing ing class of Mexico, but is in no sense a real leader of the masses. The fact that Motones has been se- lected as the victim of the landown- ers and clergy indicates that they regard him merely as a shining “labor” in the eyes of the reactionary masses, and that the attack upon him is a first step in the suppression of the labor movement in Mexico. Calles Bows to Clergy President Calles, in his efforts to remain in’ power, accepts the dicta- tion of the landowners and the cap- italist interests of the United States, which are utilizing the chaotic situa- tion of the present to entrench their power more firmly than ever. It was indicated today by Col. POLICE Kellogg Calls Parley to Aid Chin RECOGNITION OF on ghee ir Labor Leader : ousing ih NANKING CALLED OBJECT OF MEET 5,000 Mutiny in Army of Reaction WASHINGTON, July 23.—The first step of what is believed here to be a gradual process of. recog- |nition cf the Nanking government, |with the purpose of strengthening the reaction to crush the Chinese revolution, will be taken when Sec- retary of State Kellogg issues his call for a so-called Sino-American council for treaty revision tomor- row. It is the plan of the secre- tary of state to widen this council, |after the American diplomats have established their control, to include other powers. It is understood that the confer- ence will be called following Jre- ceipt of a detailed report from the | American minister in China, Mac- | Murray. Recognize Counter-Revolutionists While de jure recognition will | necessarily be the price of conces- sions to the foreign powers in the questions of extra-territoriality, tax- ation and tariff. foreign concessions and settlements, redress to foreign- ers and damages to property, the conference will be a virtual recogni. tion of the Nanking government, since the powers will unite in deal- ing with it es the official govern- ment of China. Intimations are that the United States has a program of its demands Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. ATTACK TEXTILE STRIKERS Aid China Counter-Revolution Hundreds of New Bedford strikers waited at the gates of the ome on Jail Release BOSSES’ AGENTS 4B OUTLAW PICKETS soy AT MILL GATES Police Head Carries Out Barons’ Orders (Special To the Daily Worker.) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 23. —Obeying the signal given by John Sullivan, mill boss official, to start an immediate violent suppression of picket lines, a large force of police under Sergeant Jacobs made @ vi- cious onslaught on an orderly picket line at the Sharp Mill, 7:30 a. m this morning, smashed the line, ar- rested six and brutally beat up Man- uel Mario for protecting a woman striker. Without even waiting for some one to “define a legal picket line” as he hypocritically requested re- cently, Chief fo Police McLeod is- sued an ultimatum yesterday limit ing picket lines at all gates of 2 mill to 50 and ordering the dispersal of spectators. Pinto Arrested. At the Sharp Mill gates this morning, the police detail there commanded the picket line to dou- ble on themselves when they reach- ed the mill gate, not permitting pas- sage of the entrances. Refusal of the strikers to have their rights as | citizens abrogated by police was followed by an immediate attack, | which resulted in the arrest of four women, two men and in the severe injury of one. Augusto G. Pinto, the much ar- House of Correction and gave Fred E. Beale, one of the leaders of the textile strike, a great ovation on his release after serving a 30-day sentence for militant strike activities. Photo shows Beale, surrounded by enthusiastic workers, with a copy of the Daily Worker in his hand. corns ce had OONFER-ON-NEW.. VOTE BUYING DUE TO. BREAK ALL RECORDS * ¢ Northern Troops Mutiny | SHANGHAI, July 23.—Five thou- sand soldiers, former troops of Chang-Tsun-Chang, military crnor of Shantung, who had recently been incorporated into. the Nanking armies, mutinied yesterday in a | battle which lasted 18 hours. During the fighting foreign pow- ers seized on the opportunity to land patrols from their battleships. Driving out the Nanking com- mander, who took refuge aboard a British vessel, the troops rapidly TEXTILE UNION gov- | ‘More Regional Parleys to Be Held ‘ Delegates from New York City {and numerous adjacent industrial | towns, including cities in New Jer- sey and Connecticut gathered for a preliminary conference Saturday afternoon to work out plans for furthering the success of the great Preliminary preparation of the “public mind” for the greatest elec- tion campaign slush funds yet to be raised in the United States, it is believed, is the motive for the brazen publicity now being given by both old political parties to their vote-buying campaigns now getting under way. According to announce- ments made yesterday. $10,000,000 is to be accepted a sort of starting off figure for the national campaign committees. Topete, the wealthy leader of the gained control of Cheffo and hauled | reactionary “Agrarians,” that aClles | down the Nanking banner. | will be retained in office for two| The first act of the new authori- | more years as “provisional presi- ties was to close the Bank of Com-| dent.” munications which handles the com- | national convention of textile work, ers, being called for September 22 and 23 by the Textile Mill Commit- tees. The conference was held in the Progressive Labor Center, 101 E. 14th St. Merely a Beginning. That this figure is merely a be- ginning, it was pointed out by well informed politicians, may be seen in the fact that nearly seven mill- ions was expended by both major Raskob to Turn “Democrat.” It was -disclosed yesterday that John J. Raskob, open-ship, Morgan- connected, chairman of the Al Smith election campaign committee, will become a “democrat” by being voted into the National Democratic Club. Raskob is now a member of the National Republican Club. The change will no taffect his politics, a witty politician was overheard to re- mark. Raskob was proposed to the Demo- cratic Club by George J. Atwell, its president and seconded by William F. Kenny, an old crony of Al Smith who is also a large holder of traction and power stocks. Another seconder was John F. Gilchrist, chairman of vested popular Textile Mills Com- mittees’ picket leader, heard the po- | lice order to keep away from the | gates just as he was coming up on his bicycle rounds, called to the picket line to march on despite the police order. He and other leaders of the line were immediately ar- rested, this being the sixth arrest for Pinto. The pickets immediately went in to prevent the illegal arrest of their leaders and were met by the swing- ing clubs of the police. Ellen Dawson, T. M. C. organizer, then called on the workers to con- tinue with the picketing. When a policeman lunged forward to grab her, Manuel Mario, a picket, put his arm protectively on her shoulder |and protested against her arrest. For this Sergeant Jacobs hit Mario |a gmashing blow in the eye and {continued to beat him while four | police thugs held him to the ground. Police “Impartiality.” Of the four women arrested, one =e! Esti a tis GNSS mercial relations of the port. The CHICAGO HOLDS manager of the bank was arrested. RELIEF MEETING Chang-Tsun-Chang ie believed to be on his way to Chefoo aboard a gunboat flying the northern flag. * * * ‘U. 8. Sailor Wounded | SHANGHAI, July 23—One Amer- ican sailor was wounded acciden- First of Series. This is the first of a series of con- ferences to be held by the T. M. C. in preparation for the national con- | vention. The delegates will form a |new nation-wide textile workers’ | union. The second preliminary confer- Miners’ Defense Week |tally during fighting last night be-| ence will be held Sunday morning, Under Way. (Special to The DAILY WORKER) CHICAGO, July 23.—At a con- ference called jointly by‘ the Inter- national Labor Defense and National | Miners’ Relief for the purpose of ar- |ranging a joint drive for funds to| talist parties this year will surpass | take place on the week of July 29 practically the whole Chicago Pro- gressive Labor Movement was repre- sented in addition to branches of I L. D., fraternal societies and other organizations, Ida Winsberg of the! Miners’ Relief and joseph Giganti of I. L. D. pointed out in brief addresses the terrible privations of the coa) miners of the United States. The eye-witness accounts of the present | struggle in the mining fields fired |the spirit of those present and a |tween the nationalists and forces |of General Chang-Chung-Chang, re- ; ports from Chefoo said today. A. F. L. MEETING |S A FAILURE | (By @ Worker Correspondent) FLINT, Mich. (By Mail).—Frank Duffy, general A. F. of L. organizer | called a meeting of the auto workers | | who are out on strike and promised| them on the leaflet that if the work- ers come down to the A. F. of L} meeting that they will be organized. | Time for the meeting was set for \ | July 29, at 10 a. m., at 38 Causeway | St., Boston, at the district headquar- ters of the Workers’ International Relief. Textile militants from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, representing centers | such as Manchester, Nachua, Con- cord, Fitchburg, Maynard, Lowell, Lawrence, Adams, North Adams, Salem, Waltham, New Bedford, Fall River, Providence, Pawtucket, Woon- socket, Arctic, Natio, Taunton, and the Connecticut Valley and Black- stone Valley districts will attend this conference. Weisbord To Report. The third preliminary conference will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p. m., August 5 in Philadelphia, 631 North 7th Street, the meeting parties in 1920 according to figures which they themselves were willing to make public. Harding was pushed over by a slush fund of $5,319,729 and Cox was helped along to the extent of $1,318,347. There was no great doubt of the republican chances that year such as there may develop this year. Everyone knows that the figures given out are only a portion of what is really ex- pended. The reported total, more- over, does not include the millions spent throughout the country in the various state fights for the election of congressmen and other officials. $3,000,000 In All. Informed observers are willing te | wager that fully $30,000,000 will be expended this year by both old par- |ties: The contributions as in the |past will undoubtedly be made by the same large corporations to both old parties, their purpose being to maintain art | machines. om, oe May Name “Socialist.” The Executive Committee of the the New York State Transit Com-| was Sadie Reison, organizer for the mission, and likewise an immediate| U. T, W. Textile Council. When follower of the Tammany governor |the prisoners were arraigned in Pee: court later, she was charged only Negro Radical Patents with parading without a permit, ‘a New Lock Invention | while each of the others had three more charges stacked up against |them. They were “assaulting po- Henry Charlemagne, a Negro lice,” “disturbing the peace,” ete. worker living in Anse-A-Viewx, | _ That this assault is not what the | ci On .,;..|city government heretofore termed Haiti, and a member of the Haitian «an accident,” but is the beginning Patriotic Union of America, one of of an official strikebreaking terror, the best known Negro radical and | is proved by the fact that the pick- anti-imperialist organizations in the| tS were charged with “parading " R without a permit.” The- filing of world, has just received from Wash-| such a charge is admittedly a de- ington the patent on his most Te- | liberate step towards carrying out cent invention. - | the mill bosses’ demand to outlaw control of both political} It is a combination lock, that is listed in Washington as Serial No. 1,673,411. German Employment On Steady Decrease BERLIN, July 23.—The number of unemployed in Germany is picketing at the textile plants. Calls For Picketing. | The New Bedford Textile Work- ers’ Union, in a statement issued to- | day assailing the city government as the hosses’ strikebreaking tools, |calls upon the masses of strikers to rally to huge picket demonstra- tions at the mill gates this evening and hereafter. place of the district Trade steadily increasing. The increase in ‘ . Union A : ehal ge demonstrating that the basis of a unanimous determination to make|& P- ™. in the evening, but we found| Rducational League. Active textile | Domocratic Party of New York the number of partly unemployed Workers Party is among the most exploited class of workers. Unemployment is to be found in every city of the state. The plank in the platform of the Workers (Communist) Party demanding un- employment relief has ben of great help in obtaining signatures. The extreme weakness of the unions has also been a detriment to us. When we mention the desire of the Workers (Communist), Party to organize unions, workers are of- ten revelled. They have been dis. Fight Wall Street. “Hoover will have the millions of other capitalist groups, not the least of which is the Mellon group. This is a millionaire election campaign Those millions will be used to cor- rupt and befuddle the workers and farmers of the United States be- Continued on Page Two the drive a success was expressed. There will be mass conferences of all language groups affiliated with the city conference. ences will be held on July 25, 26 and 27. They are preliminary to the weeks’ drive and expect to take care} of all details, BOSSES WANT NEW “CAL” ap the Konan er YF] Barons Call Mayor to Break Strike Many declare that they would never join another union. Such was the case in Troy, where an unorganized NEW BEDFORD, M (FP) July 23.—Textile mill "bosses have strike of collar workers was won in| deserted their policy of sullen si- three days. Avter the strike was ‘lence. After three months of surly over, none of them would listen to | “nothing to say” statements, the proposals to form a union. Propose Workers’ Council Instead, we proposed in a Daily Worker story that a factory work- ers ‘council be formed. Members of | the Workers (Communist) Party in Troy will continue this agitation. New Bedford Cotton Manufacturers Assn. at last has consented to place its program before the public. | Get the cops on the job. That is the gist of the association’s demands | What are cops for if not to club [strikers and protect scabs, sum- marizes President John Sullivan’s broadcas' its. Strikebreaker Calvin Coolidge is John Sullivan’s hero. Playfully lec- turing the mayor, Sullivan said he has an opportunity very much like} Coolidge’s in strike. Coolidge the Strikebreaker. “At the time Coolidge was called upon to act in the Boston police Continued on Page Two \ the Boston police These confer-| that not a single auto worker at-| | tended the A. F. of L. meeting, while) _on the’ other hand the hall was pack- ed with auto workers attending the meeting which was called by the | Auto Workers’ Union. Those workers who are striking against the wage cuts are conscious | of the fact that only the leadership of the Auto Workers’ Union is, will- ing and able to organize and defend the interests of these workers. | Altho it is thirteen days that these workers are out on strike the spirit among the strikers is still deter- mined. It must be understood that these strikers are fighting a big battle. The policy of the company during this strike is that all the workers who are about to go out on strike are given an increase in pay in order to stay in-the factory while the oil sanders are fighting |on the outside. As the situation now stands the company is doing everything they can to bribe the workers and is giv- workers from Wilmington, Ches- ter, Kensington, Allentown, Beth- lehem, ,Easton, Phillipsburg, Tren- ton, and from the anthracite coun- ties of Pennsylvania will be present. In all of these conferences there will be a report by Albert Weis- bord, national secretary of the Tex- tile Mill Committees and following a discussion on this report, the con- ference will work out the immediate steps to be taken to insure the suc- cess of the national convention to build a new textile union. Worker, Horses Hurt WhenAutoHitsWagon MILWAUKEE, Wis. July 23— People in the suburbs south of here State met yesterday afternoon and decided to hold its state convention ‘in Rochester, October 1 and He Rumors are current that George IR, Lunn, former socialist and ne amounts to 22 per cent of the total a member of the up-state corrupt| membership; among the leather} public service commission, will be| workers 22 per cent; in footwear |pushed for the nomination for gov-| trades 53 per cent; and in clothing jernor on the Tammany ticket. ' 15 per cent of the total membership. JOKES IN PRISON CELL Young Communist Girl Full of Spirit WARSAW, Poland, (By Mail).—|caught in the mass raids of the fall Wjera is one of the 183 who are of 1925. She has already been in waiting for trial in a Polish prison. | jail for three years. , She has against her six years from; And in spite of this she finds the is especially great. | At present the partly paid mem- bers of the textile labor unions | | an earlier trial and the coming pro- strength, altho somewhat bitter, to British Cable Merger Extends Round World LONDON, July 23.—A merger, just completed, has enlarged the British cable monopoly by an ad- ditional 8,000 miles of lines with 22 stations. The acquisitions are in the West Indies and control the Halifax and Bermuda Cable Company, the Cuba Submarine Telegraph Company and the West India and Panama Tele- graph Company. * Explosion in Grocery Injures Three Persons TOLEDO, Ohio, July 28 (UP).— Six persons were seriously injured identity of two men, whose big | years more. e touring car struck a milk wagon She is a member of the Commu- yesterday crippling both horses. The | nist Youth League of Poland and worker driving the wagon escaped |was very active in the underground with a few bruises and small lacer- movement, was much sought for by ing all kinds of promises to them. i. Ss. ations ithe police until she was finally are today trying to discover the|cess will bring her at least eight! when a gas explosion wrecked the | John Nick grocery store here late She writes to her comrades: “How I hope to set eyes upon all you again. The time will come) today. when we will again be together. I) Three of the injured were water- dream of that time and jump with, works employes who were working joy, but then a hidden thought comes in the basement. They were buried Continued on Page Two undr debris but were rescued alive. joke.