The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1928, Page 2

Page 1wo Workers Thruout ee ING MASSES “Soon Stekss ery: Speoch <0 THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1928 Country. Sending Contributions to Communist Campaign Fund Chairs HIT FAKE MILL - FREE BILLINGS — RECEIVE DEWEY Pp comer ity Ocean Flight Crippled Flyer Plans Public pty SUPPORT GREAT jaa $100,000 DRIVE Many Buy Communist Election Stamps R Frank in the ‘ that all rican presidents are elected by and that the unpurchased American voter who thinks he is a determining factor in the election of Wall Street’s executives in Wash- ington is not only stupid but a darned fool There are two kinds of campaign funds according to Kent. There is the bally-hoo fund that is used for publicity and corruption during the campaign and there is the election day fund which is used to purchase the necessa nber of votes in each precinct on election day to fwing the victory to the political feng with the n portly money if determined to bear out contention, Smith and Hoover ate openly declaring that more money will be needed in this cam- *paten than in any previous one, Smith’s managers say that there skn1! be no limit to contributions. Foover’s treasurer demands four million dollars. -That’s money for you Jf the workers and farmers did Mt expect to gain control of the United States and establish their > 8 government they were ~ehle to beat the capitalists’ game of xpte-buying and win the elections the ture would be dark indeed But the workers and exploited farm- ers—the class-conscious sections that understand the Communist position 14> not expect that the capitalist system will be overthrown at the hallat box. It will be overthrown by the mass struggles of the exnloit- ed masses under the leadership of the Communist Party. And the Workers (Communist) Party is raising a $100,000 campaign fund to mobilize the masses for a real fight against the capitalists and their system. The election campaign is proving until pn excellent opportunity to reach the masses with the Communist message and the Communist pro- gam. They are in a receptive mood Tha ballvhoo of the capitalists gets them thinking of political matters Tho capitalists find it more difficult than in other times to shut off rival parti from provagating their views, Therefore, the Communists have an opportunity—if only » limited one under the iron fist of i democracy—to get their to the masses. Workers, Farmers Understand. Thousands of workers and poor farmers thruout the United States understand this fact. So they are eotribnting to the Communist Cam- paien Fund. Tt is possible here to give only a few of the many letters that are coming in with contributions to the headauarters of the National Elec- | tion Campaign Committee. Steve Morasky of Caldwell, Ohio cage writes: “Please send me two books of Vote Communist stamps and also five Foster-Gitlow campaign but- tons. I am also sending $2.50 as my contribution to the Communist Cam- paten Fund. Enclosed you will find $5.00.” From Toledo, Ohio, Hannah Tueb- bler writes: “Accept this amount $5.00. Will contribute again.” Harry A. Battle writes from Orange, Mass.: “Enclosed find two dollars to be used for the campaign fund.” Branch 246 of the Workmen’s Circle, New York, sends in a five- dollar contribution. And so the dollars and ffve dol- Jars are pouring in, From now on as the Communists and their sympathizers get the col- Jecting machinery into high speed, ‘the flood of contributions will in- + crease steadily. /; Communist assessment stamps being sold to the Party membership will bring in thousands of dollars, Tf each Communist and each sym- \ pathizer considers that the success Sof_this drive for $100,000 rests on ‘WIS or HER shoulders, then success fs assured. And this is the way every devoted Communist will re- gard the drive. Cash Aided U. 8. 8. R. Financial contributions enabled the Bolshevik! of Russia to flood the country with literature in the dark davsa before the workers and peas- ants toppled the ezar’s throne, drove out the traitorous Mensheviki, and established a Soviet government. The harrassed workers and peasants gave their rubles to enable the Bol- shevik agitators to write and sneak and travel from place to place spreading the revolutianary mes- sage. This financial sacrifice bore fruit, The workers and expieited farm- Senator Heflin of Alabama, elected with the money and sup- ill traveling around the country port of the Ku Klux Klan, is st calling for a war on the pope and city. Photo shows the Klan senator MINERS Campaign Speakers © PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 23.— More than 2,500 collection lists are in circulation today, raising for the National Miners’ Relief and Defense Week drive which the National Min- ers’ Relief Committee and the In- ternational Labor Defense are jointly conducting. Requests for speakers are pouring into the re- lief headquarters at 611 Penn Ave- nue, Pittsburgh, Pa. Anthony Min- erich, secretary of the committee, jhas his first speaking engagement this afternoon in Erie, Pa. Mass meetings will be held throughout weary pe GETTING incidentally searching for publi- making an open-air speech in persons turned out. RELIEF : Tour the Country ii ILL BOSS ASKS FOR NEW “CAL” Employers Call Mayor to Break Strike Continued from Page One strike,” Sullivan, “he writes was the week in every large city where subjected to the same political pres- mobilizatio for mass the cam- paign are being made. “Hunger Banquets,” Feature, “Hunger banquets” are scheduled for the latter part of this week everywhere. Hundreds of organiza- tions are participating and all pro- ceeds will immediately buy food for hungry miners’ families, and fur- nish defense for jailed pickets and strike leaders. In factor departm oil field utomobile yp shop committees ar tions. " Hundre: workers will part to house collections I making collec thousands of ate in the house < of ays. Now that the union policy com killing his own political future in| taking the stand that he did, but he| saw it was the right thing to do| and he had the courage to do it in spite of any consequences it might Sulli sure that exists with our mayor to- day. the situation firmly even though he was told that his action meant the ending of his political career. was not so sure himself, at the time, | but this was true, and that he was | He had the courage to handle He have so far as he was concerned.” big issue in New Bedford, as n sees it, is not the slashing of a $19 average wage to $17.10 but 2 whether “labor organizations shall Fight Blacklist. run the mills” instead of the. In good employers’ language, he says mittee has abandoned its demand the way to stop disorder is to an- for the Jacksonville scale of wages, ticipate it. The police should be jand are instructing the districts to “ready for an emergency of any make separate agreements, the strikers are banding together to fight the black-list and open shop conditions which the operators are attempting to force upon them. The militant coal diggers will-not allow | the operators to victimize those who fought in the front ranks of the strike, declaring they will go back to the mines in organized fashion as they left them in April, 1927. They are appealing to their fellow workers in other industries to stand by them until this is effected, by warding off starvation. Appeal For Aid For Leaders. The struggling coal diggers es- ‘pecially appeal for defense for their arrested leaders. “The Internation- al Labor Defense has been called upon repeatedly for aid, and it has not been found wanting in a single instance,” is the answer of James Cannon, secretary of the defense organization, makes to the miners. To the workers, Cannon says, “Every worker must respond to the | appeal of the men and women be- | hind the bars, whose hands are out- | stretched for aid. Just because the resources of our enemy are great, our work of solidarity must be gen- efous and swift. Must Have Funds, “We must not fail the courageous fighters in the jails,” he declares, “Every dollar counts, The money in now counts doubly, They will| |help us strengthen oGr arms to tear | |away the prison bars and prison walls that keep ouy fighters from | the firing line, Every organization, every worker, must volunteer to as- sist in the most far-reaching relief | and defense campaign ever made for the striking miners, The operators must not be allowed to bury the miners in tho living grave of their | prisons,” Arrested Party Stamp Campaign Is Now In Full Swing! Continued from Page Ona tween now and November, After | |then whichever set of capitalists win, the explottation of the work. | ers and farmers will go on with greater intensity than ever, “Against the billions of - Wal! Street our drive to raise the $100, | 000 Communist Campaign Fund | | would be futile but for the fact that with wing Textile Workers Union, Sulli- kind” and “tolerate no fooling.” The mass picketing must be broken up and strikers’ parades forbidden. Many Pickets Arrested. “There must be no temporizing” the workers led by the left van tells the major, “Gatherings should be limited to the smallest pos- sible numbers.” Numerous arrests of pickets and harsh sentences have marked the fourth month of the strike of 27,000 cotton mill workers. Judge Gardiner was challenged as a former attorney for the manufacturers association. Gardiner steadfastly refused to ad- mit he was swayed by having re- ceived mony from the mill owners and proceeded to sentence the ar- rested workers, | One, Augusto Gonsalves Pinto, | pictureque Portuguese figure on a) bicycle, was given five months for “obstructing policemen” and “dis- turbing the peace,” familiar charges | in New Bedford courts Pinto was) dispatch runner for the Textile! Workers Union, speeding from mil)| to mill on his bicycl e during all picketing hours, | Jokes In Prison Cell | Continued from Page One to me: By that time you will all) have sideboards and beards. Old—| but not young Communists will you be. Oh, how dreadful! It hurts me when I think that I will not see you again so young, as young as I re- member you and aa I love you. That is silly—-but it hurte! Very well and good, show yourselves with your beards, But I will see you all again!” NO FLOWERS, POINCARE. PARIS, July 28 (UP),—Premier | Poincare today celebrated by work- | ing throughout the day on the next budget the second anniversary of | his assumption of the premiership | in the dark days of 1926 when the + franc slumped to 51 to the dollar, | OF POLITICIANS Passaic Gathers Funds for Real Aid PASSAIC, N. J., J 23.—The New Bedford Strike Relief Confer- ence of Passaic yesterday issued a statement referring to the uses to which the money being collected by the Passaic Central Trades Council in a tag day here, is being put. It criticis the manner in which the A. F. of L. in New Bedford has allowed -the relief funds collected for the strikers to be controlled by politicians who are enemies of the union. The statement sa: “Mr. Fuller and. the Central Trades Council are holding a tag day today for the New Bedford strikers. We would like to know whether this money collected will be sent to help the thousands of srtiking men, women and children, or if Mr, Fuller will send this money to the strikebreaking Citizens’ Com- mittee hedded by the mayor of New Bedford, the man responsible for calling out the militia to break the strike—this Citizens’ Committee composed of business men, and agents of the bosses in the guise of friends of the workers, Strikebreaking Committee. “This committee is similar to the strikebreaking citizens’ committee that made an attempt to break our strike in Passaic, by opening re- lief stores and handing out relief with propaganda against the union. This citizens’ committee in New Bedford is a strikebreaking commit- tee. It is not a labor body, and does not give any relief to the thousands of unskilled workers that have joined the New Bedford Textile Union, the union that is leading the militant fight against the bosses, under the leadership of capable or- ganizers such as Albert Weisbord, Eli Keller, Ellan Dawson and John Peletzer, all from Passaic. Attempt to Break Union. “The money sent by Mr. Fuller will be used for propaganda against the union, and relief will be given to the two thousand skilled work- érs that are members of the United Textile Workers only, “The Workers’ International Re- lief, which carried on a prominent part in the Passaic strike, is feed- ing the New Bedford strikers, and is the only workers’ relief commit- tee. It is headed by such well known men as: Bishop Wm. M. Brown, Roger N. Baldwin, Elizabeth G, Flynn, Scott Nearing, Ellan Hayes, Edgar Owens, Upton Sin- clair, C. Anita Whitney and all mon- ey should be sent to the Workers’ International Relief, 49 William St., New Bedford, Mass. The local re- lief committee is preparing to hold a mass meeting in Passaic, where the leaders of the New Bedford strikers will speak. STRIKE RELIEF §=ANDMOONEY,IS LABOR DEMAND Many Join in Asking Immediate Release In the 12th year of the impris- onment and frame-un of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, the la- hor and liberal movement is raising its voice in protest at their con- tinued incarceration. John Haynes Holmes, pastor of the Community Church in New York City, in a let- ter to the national office: of Inter- national Labor Defense, 80 East |11th St.. endorses the campaign in- itiated by International Labor De- tense for their release. Holmes de- clares: The latest in aviation publicity stunts is the plan of Morris R. Dougherty, one armed, legless flyer, to fly the Atlantic. Dougherty is shown above with his plane, on his arrival at Roosevelt Field, Long Island. “I am greatly interested to hear that a new movement is under way to secure the release of Tom Mooney end Warren Billings from their alifornia prison. The case of hich these two men are the vic- tims ranks with the Sacco-Vanzetti ease and the Dreyfus case, as one of the most terrible and inicuitous |miscarriages of justice in modern times. “It seems now ineredible that ‘om Mooney and Warren Billings should ever have been convicted. Still more incredible it is, that, 12 years after this frame-up of in- |nocant men, they should still be behind the bars. In the name not |of merey but of simple justice they should be released. It cannot be |that the present effort on their be- |half wil! fail.” | | Fro, within prison walls them- selves reechoes the interest on be- |half of Mooney ,and Billings. Leo | Ellis, himself a class-war prisoner | nt Represa, Cal., where Warren Bil- lings. is imprisoned, writes to the International Labor Defense as fol- lows: “T wish to compliment the Inter- national Labor Defense for the ex- cellent work you are doing in. be- half of the Mooney-Billings case. “Hoping you will meet with suc- cess in your undertaking, I remain “LEO ELLIS, “Box 14388, Folsom Prison, i “Represa, California.” From Liberals, writers, doctors, ete,, roll in storms of protest and demands for the release of Mooney and Billings. But labor’s strength, emphasizes International Labor De- International Refuses mand. WEST COAST FUR GREEK PREMIER UNION IN FIGHT MAKES NEW MOVE \Bids for Aid of Fascist | Balkan States Charter | ATHENS, Greece, July 28—A The recently published appeal of| pid for the support of the reaction- the Boston Fur Workers Union, Lo- }ary governments of Bulgaria and |eal 80, to all International locals |Turke;' was made by Premier Veni- requesting them to endorse the Bos-|zelos of Greece in a speech 1ast ton union’s demand on the general | night. Lavish in his promises, the |executive board for an inter-local| premier, who feels the uncertainty |conference met with a response|of his tenure of office, announced |from a Los Angeles local, it has|that he would be happy to sign ‘a been learned here. treaty of friendship with the Angora A group of progressive workers | government. To Bulgaria and Jugo- in the fur industry in that city or-| Slavia he offered an outlet to the ganized a furriers’ local and were | sea via Saloniki as an inducement. |vefused a charter by the Interna- tional officers. Fur Workers Union, as the group | afterwards termed itself, replied to | ing the Boston appeul will a full en-| Volk,” the German government has dorsement of the conference de- | complained to the Netherlands gov- | ernment against former emperor The Los Angeles | WILHELM HAS HOPES. to a newspaper here, “Het The proposed conference was| Wilhelm’s “abuse of Dutch hospi- asked for by the Boston local ‘in or- | tality...by publicly voicing designs jder to have -all the International | for the restoration of the German | locals take steps to end the struggle | monarchy.” between the right wing Joint. Coun- | jcil and the JJoint Board in New| translation of a letter that it says | York, |struggle there was rapidly destroy-| the Kaiser Wilhelm Association in ing the out-of-town locals. The newspaper also publishes a and stated that the inner| was sent by the emperor exile to Germany in which he speaks of the The Los Angeles reply contains | time when it may become “a ques- a brief history of the California | tion of freeing the German father- workers’ struggle to build a union | fense in its statement, is the chief | thero. Kaiser and hereditary prince.” AMSTERDAM, July 23.—Accord- | land and re-establishing it under its AND DELEGATION IN. SOVIET UNION Many Educators At- |tend Welcome Banquet | MOSCOW, July 22.—John Dewey and his American group of educa- | tors were officially received here by the Society for Cultural Relations, | at a banquet attended by Lunarchar- sky, minister of education; repre- eentatives of the foreign office, of the Amtorg and a number of lead- ing Soviet professors, Mms. Kameneff, president of the | Society for Cultural Relations, wel- comed the American professors and asked them to present the facts fairly to the American public. As- suring him ‘that “our work is scarcely begun and that we know that there are many grrors and shortcomings,” she hoped that Pro- fessor Dewey and ‘his companions would help in sweeping away the host of prejudices and lies that are extant about the Soviet Union. FLIER TURNS WRITER DRESDEN, Saxony, July 23— Baror von Huenefeld’s. first dra- matic effort, a trite and blatant eulogy of the former Emperor Wil- helm, was played here last night and applauded by the monarchists who filled the theatre. The dramatic critics agreed in de- nouncing the play as extremely weak and trivial and having noth- ing original in it, except, perhaps, the out-of-date praise of the mon- archy. Take the DAILY WORKER With You on Your Vacation Keep in touch with the strug- gles of the workers while you are away on your vaca- tion. This summer the Elec- tion Campaign will be in full swing. The DAILY WORK- ER will carry up-to-the-min- ute news concerning the reliance and guarantee that Mooney | end Billings will finally emerge as | frée men from San Quentin and) Folsom prisons and take their place | in the ranks of the labor movement. Resolutions are now being adopted in trade umons throughout the | country demanding that the open- shop governor of California. Rich- ardson, release Mooney and Billings. | They were railroaded because they | were active union organizers and now the solidarity and protest of the working class can and must free Mooney and Billings. FOR JOHN PORTER By JULIA They put him in a solitary Whose mind is prisoned with a million men And is defiant yet: he who has been One of the gnawers at the worker's shell Where men are born for m Shall he lie wasting in t The while they tremble to release again One of the fires in the rich man’s hell? Perhaps, perhaps . . . wh We in whose wombs his Whose breasts he lay upon Whose searing passions He is not ours, but theirs whose wish is to Fill up the bloody mouths that stink and gape. PELLMAN. cell, en to buy and sell. . . he prison then at s there we can do?... being took its shape, the while he grew, he could not escape? . . . report for duty to collect | open every evening: Section 7—Boro Park, 764 A Worker’s Tour to Soviet Russia TO WITNESS THE CELEBRATION OF THE NOVEMBER REVOLUTION Put the Party on the Ballot All Party members and all sympathizers are asked ta on the ballot at the following headquarters which are Section 1—Downtown Manhattan—60 St. Marks Place Section 4—Harlem—43 East 103rd St. Section 5—Bronx—2075 Clinton Ave. Section 6—Williamsburg—29 Graham Avenue Section 8—Brownsville, 154 Watkins St. signatures to put the Party 40th St. PHYSICAL and MENTAL RECREATION Co-operative Workers Camp Nitgedaiget Beacon, N. Y.—Tel: Beacon 731 ASS PLAYS, mass singing, sports, such as baseball, soccer, football, tennis, ete. Social dancing, campfires, amateur nights, lectures, camp magazine and other recreations during the entire summer season. 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