The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FI TO ORGANIZE THE UNORG. GHTS ANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY . FOR A WORKERS’ AND FA GOVERNMENT RMERS’ MDorker Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office ut New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. F INAL CITY EDITION Vol. V., No. 179. Published daily except Sunday by The National Datly Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 30, 2928 TWENTY INJURED AS TRAINS CRASH ON WEST SIDE “L” Wooden Cars Blamed for Accident At least 20 and possibly 25 persons were injured, some of them seriously, late last night when two “L” trains collided on the Eighth Ave. Line at 69th St. and Colum- bus Ave. The trains, wooden and _an- tiquated, burst into flames and caused an immediate panic among hundreds of passengers who were return- ing to their homes. Half a dozen ambulances were at once rushed to the scene of the accident. The operation of wooden trains has been the subject of continued agitation in the city, with the result that the transit commission has been forced nomin-*uy to ban their use. Thus far, however, the traction lines have con- tinued to violate the order with complete immunity. A number of accidents have previously occured, the most recent one in Brooklyn. PORTERS READY FOR STRIKE MOVE Officials Still Hold Men Back Announcement that the Brother- hood of Pullman Porters would join the American Federation of Labor | in the vicinity of Franz Josef Land | “to get more power” was made last night by A. Philip Randolph, or- ganizer of the Negro Porters’ Union, in a statement in which he likewise | circles, proud of the achievements of | declared that the porters would be ready to strike to secure their de- mands against the Pullman Com- pany. The speech, made at the St. James Presbyterian Church, St. Nicholas Ave. and 141st St., before a large | Negro audience by the labor offi- cials who recently called off strike of the porters in the face of a country-wide demand of the work- ers for action, was similar in tone to those previously made, in which he has declared the organization would rely on “moderation and edu- cation” rather than on the strength of the workers themselves to win their demands. BELA KUN ON WAY TO SOVIET UNION STETTIN, Germany, July 29— Bela Kun, former head of Commun- ist Hungary, who was recently freed in Vienna where he faced death at the hands of the Seipel regime, was reported to have arrived here today on his way to. Leningrad. Immediately upon his arrival Kun, whose: freedom was: effected by the huge world wide protest against the present reactionary state in Hungary, went on board the U. S. S. R. steamer Herzen to con- tinue his journey to the Soviet Union. the | Great Rescue ‘Hero of Chukhnovsky, the heroic Soviet aviator, who first sighted Zappi and | Mariano, two of the survivors of the fascist Nobile expedition, who | were later rescued by the Soviet ice- breaker Krassin. Tho his plane jerashed and he was marooned on Foyn Island, Chukhnovsky radioed to the Krassin to continue its res- cue work and he would take care of himself. CHUKNOVSKY T0 ~ G0 ON KRASSIN Foreign Aviators Are Rejected MOSCOW, July 29 (UP)—The Russian relief committee announced jooday that the icebreaker Krassin | will be able to carry only one air- plane | during the search for the ficulties in loading another plane. It was stated that offers from foreign aviators to accompany the expedition have been rejected and the Russian aviator, Chukhnovsky, | will be the only flyer on board the vessel. | Meanwhile, the icebreaker Sedoff bas been ‘ag2red to reconnoiter | along the entire northwestern sec- | tion of Franz Josef Land. It is ex- | pected that the icebreaker will be shortly. tt Moscow, July 29 (UP).—Soviet |the Russian ice-breaker Krassin in | rescuing survivors of the wrecked | dirigible Italia in the Arctic, at- tribute the Krassin’s success to the | most careful preparations to meet | all contingencies. The Soviet press is confident the ship will round out its record by reaching the six men blown away in | the envelop of the Italia when it crashed, as well as Roald Amund- | sen and his five companions who have been lost since leaving Trom- soe, June 18. The relief committee officially ap- proved the work of the Krassin in rushing, while -still crippled by ice, to the aid of the Hamburg South | American excursion liner Monte Cer- | vantes which had sprung a leak after collision with an iceberg. Fifteen _hundred passengers aboard the Monte Cervantes lined the decks and missing members of the crew of the | ill-fated Italia, Jue to technical dif- | COMMUNISTS. TO HOLD ANTLWAR DEMONSTRATION Big Demonstrations Thruout U.S. Aug. 4 On the fourteenth anniversary of -|the World War, as the imperialists lare preparing their machinery of |death for another blood-bath, into which millions of workers in all lands will be thrown, the Workers / (Communist) Party will hold a se- ries of giant anti-war demonstra- tions all over the United States, for the purvose’ of calling to the atten- ion of the workers the terrible dan- gers that confront them and to rally them for the struggle against capi- talist imperialism, the fountain- head of war and war’s attendant miseries. In Union Square, New York, the scene of many historic demonstra- tions, a great anti-war rally will be held on August 4, with Benjamin Gitlow, Communist vice-presidential candidate, as the principal speaker. “As the two Wall Street parties settle down to a contest over which one of them shall serve imperialism in the White House for the next four years, signs are multiplying that the increasing rivalry between the imperialist powers will soon bring on another bloody conflict,” reads a statement issued today by the National Election. Campaign Committee of the Workers (Com- munist) Party from its headquar- ters at 43 East 125th St., New York City. “The last war,” the statement continues, “bloody tho it was, swal- {lowing up several millions of work- ing class lives and maiming three |times as many, was only a Quaker picnic compared to the next, the imperialist butchers having learned |much in the art of murder since th \last cannon boomed out its las! | message of death on the battlefields of Europe in 1918, “While the imperialists prattle | words of peace, draw up fake treat- ies to outlaw war, hold sessions of | that imposition on human credulity jealled the League of Nations, and a Continued” on Page Three HOOVER AGREES TO RAISE TARIFF ‘Vies With Smith to Serve Bosses | WASHINGTON, July 29.—Up- ward revision of the tariff and still | further reduction of taxes in the in- |terest of big business was yester- \day promised by republican Senator | Smoot, chairman of the finance com- | mittee, in the event that Hoover is elected president. Smoot, who is known to have drafted the tariff plank in the re- publican platform, indicated that the | republican party had made such a “Here We Come”; N New Bedford textile strikers, 30,000 strong, have been carrying on a heroic struggle against the mill bosses for months. The picture shows one of numerous demonstrat ew Bedford Textile Strikers De Outside New monstrating 3 & | ‘ions which they have carried out against the bosses. Increasing police brutality and the jailing of strike leaders has been a feature of the latter part of the strike. BILLINGS GALLS FOR AtO IN FIGHT \Workcers Party to Hova/OMINESE TARIFF | oned for 12 years, after the famous | Pravda Scores iv, Ss: San Francisco frame-up, in a letter nas recently sent to the International Imperialism Class War Prisoners’ Aid, calls upon carrey the workers of England to fight for | fe liberation of Mooney and him-| Pravda Scores ‘U. self. The letter follows: “Represa, Cal., July 18, 1928.) “International Class War Prisoners’ | Aid, London, England. <seich a d '“Dear Comrades and Fellow Work-/the negotiations which have led to the signing of a treaty concluded S Demonstrations S.. SHANGHAI. July 29.—Shrouded |in secrecy and concluded fh. haste. | ers: “I have been asked by the Inter- poten the governments of the national Labor Defense ofthe United States and Nanking have | uwrese mates to write you a letter Tesulted in widespread questionings of American motives on the part of |the British controlled and Japanese press, and to suspicion on the part of large sections of the Chinese press, which is pointing out that while the treaty appears to contain \regarding my case and I presume that what you desire most is a brief | resume of the history of the case | along’ with some few words of ex- | planation as to who I am, and why I have become a class war prisoner. | favors to the Nanking government Active in Many Strikes, in the way of tariff autonomy, which “I am a shoe worker by trade—a/on the surface the treaty appears member of the Boot and Shoe Work- | to concede, it in reality involves no Continued on Page Four concession on the part of the Ameri- can state department. It is pointed out that tariff autonomy is granted) on condition that there be no discrim-| ination ageinst the other so that any | tariff increase on American goods of Nationality Laws is made contingent upon the ability WASHINGTON, July 29 (FP).! of the Nanking government to —Nationality of women and their secure the repeal of the existing children, as affected by internation- | tariff arrangement with Great al marriages and residence, will be Britain, the terms of which impose |'Women Are Victims ~ MEXICAN GOVERNOR TOPS LABOR MEET Imperialism i |cheered the Krassin as it came alongside. y ; iy Professor Samoilovitch, com-| #8 profits keep up,” Smogt declared, | mander of the Krassin, has been in-,“Tevenues will be more than ade- | structed to finish repairs as soon as | Wate and business and taxpayers possible and proceed to the search | Will be relieved as much as possible for further members of the Italia °f taxes imposed by the war debt. dina? | The statement by Smoot is un- | |derstood to be a reply to one re- CLOAK T. U.E.L. cently made by John J. Raskob, the | Morgan manager of the Al Smith An promise to big business. campaign, in which the General Mo- tors executive declared that the democrats would not disturb the tariff. Hoover, it is believed, is | seeking to go Smith one better in an attempt to prove that he will be the better servant of big business. important meeting of the “As long | | Trade Union Educational League of Locals 2, 9, 22 and 35 of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union wil! ve held THIRTY KILLED INPOLE BLAST LODZ, POLAND, July 29.—(U. P.) Thirty persons were believed dead and probably 300 were injured in, an explosion which wrecked several large benzine tanks, started a great fire, and threw the town into a panic today. The exact number of casualties could not be determined late tonight because of the resulting confusion. One hundred homes were damaged by the explosion, which was heard for many miles around and shook a wide area. e tonight at the Workers Ucnier, 26- | 28 Union Square. Questions directly affecting the | fight of the cloak and dressmakers | to rebuild their union will be dis- cussed as well as the latest develop- ments in the trade and in the T. U E. L. All T. U. E. L. members of these locals are urged to be present. DAYTON PAINTERS ORGANIZED DAYTON, 0., (FP) July 29.— Special Meet Tonight A svecial meeting of all progres- sive vestmakers will be held tonight immedietely after work at 101 E. 14th St. All vestmakers who are interested in building a strong pro- gressive movement are urged to at- tend this meeting. BUENOS AIRES, July 29 (UP). —The constitutional committee of | the senate has been authorized to \investigate accusations by Senator ties or none. In some countries of > our Western Hemisphere, a mar- | ried woman takes the nationality of her husband in all cases. In other |countries, as in Ecuador, she loses her nationality on marrying a for- eigner only if she goes to her hus- |band’s country to live and if that ‘country gives her his nationality. [In the Dominican Republic and | Costa Rica, she loses her national- ity on marrying a foreigner, pro- vided that her husband’s count: gives her his nationality. | the first subject to be studied by the , maximum import duty of five Inter - American Commission of Women. “The subject of women’s nation- ality is in a completely chaotic con- dition,” according to Miss Doris Stevens. “A woman may find her- self possessed of several nationali- |percent. Until the five percen' |tariff fate is abolished with other governments, the United States | government will be in a position to | claim discrimination if a higher duty | is placed on its goods under the pro-| visions of tariff autonomy. | It is furthermore indicated that the United States while standing to [lose nothing by the ambiguous \clause on tariff autonomy, has gained \signal advantages in the way of |securing the abolition of inter- |provincial tariffs on American | goods. | | The fagt that extra-territoriality |finds no mention in the treaty. is already causing considerable resent- ment here. . > Pravda Analyses Move. | thought” “An Englishwoman, married to| MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., July 29.— an Argentine, ceases to enjoy Brit. | United States state department in ish nationality according to British | Regotiating the new trad? treaty law, but does not become Argentine | With the Nanking government as a by Argentine law. Argentina gives Contihued on: Page: Tiree the woman her passport and diplo- | POOR ATR RETR matic facilities, but she is beyond Qpyj7 the pale of nationality; cast off by Soviet Motor Race to |her own country and not accepted Develop Auto Interest by her husband's.” | | Moscow, July 29.—One of the main purposes of the 3,000-mile With significant exceptions Dayton Molinari of the Radical Party that painting contractors are operating a plot exists.to assassinate Presi- 100 per cent closed union shop. | dent-elect Irigoyen of Argentina. PRISONERS ARF VICTIMS OF FIRE motor race from Moscow to Tiflis and back in which almost 30 motor- | cycles and automobiles of different makes will participate, is to develop | interest among the workers and pea- | “?M HUNGRY, DOCTOR” srEweRY workers WIN. Jobless Young German Dies in Bellevue EDMONTON, Alta., July 29.—In- creases of 2 to 15¢ an hour mark the new 2-year contract negotiated by the brewery workers unions of Alberta with the employers. The Earl Dodd, 23, came to the United States from Germany several years ego. Unskilled in any trade, Dodd worki:d as a day laborer, handy men new scales run from 57% cents an/ and clerk. Sometime ago he got a hour for laborers to 81% cents an hour for first brewhouse men. The contract covers Edmonton and Cal- | gary and brings the scale to the level | obtainisg in Lethbridge since 1923. job with the Monarch Exposition vainly for work in a dozen cities. Six weeks ago the young German walked into the cheerless “reception rooms” of dank Bellevue Hospital. He explained that he had had very | litle food for six weeks. | | ants in the Soviet Union in motor- | HOUSTON. Texas, July 29.—In a| ing. | fire at the Blue Ridge State Prison| At the present time, the number | farm five prisoners were probably | of motor vehicles in Russia is 200,- |mortally wounded and twenty oth- | 000, one for every 700 people. Some ‘ers were badly burned. | peasants in the outlying districts | The large number of casualties have never even seen automobiles. ‘among the prisoners was die to the | The Soviet Union desires to stim- locking of both exit doors, with no| ulate their interest in the machine. | MEXICO CITY, July dences that the Calles gov nent is moving to the right is seen here in the virtual suppres during the past two days of two laWor conven- tions. One of these scheduled for yester- day in the Saltillo district was called off by its leaders just as another convention scheduled several days ago at Pechuca was stopped by the governor of the state of Hidalgo with the apparent approval of the federal government. Right Presses Calles. Reactionary agrarian forces under the leadership of Soto y Gama Manrique and Topete have been able, it is believed, to exert pres- sure orig the®* Calies government which is yielding to’ these influences. The militant National Peasants’ League as well as the Mexican Com- munist Party several days ago called upon the workers and peasant masses to organize for the struggle against clerical and other reaction and has) likewise called for the formation of a bloc of South, Central and North American masses to fight imperial-| ism. Report on Assassination Tomorrow Events are expected to crystalize| with the police report tomorrow or| the next day on the responsibility for the assassination of Obregon by General Antonio Rios Zertuche chief of police who is investigating | the shooting. | OPEN SHOPPERS WRITE PLATFOR) Old Parties Adopted All Demands The platforms adopted by both the democratic and the republican part- ies in respect to a majority of the major issues contained in them have been written by the largest open shop association of big business, it became known yesterday. Not only the general program but the “full | of the open shoppers | changing the crossing of a “t” or the dotting of an “i” has been incor- porated into the platforms* of the parties of big business. Boast of Results. This was the announcement made yesterday by ames A. Emery, gen- eral counsel for the National Asso- ciation of Manufacturers, the organ- ization which has dictated the nom- Continued on Page E BIG LISBON FIRE. | LISBON, July 29 (UP).—A seri- | lous fire today destroyed the post office adjacent to the palace of the counsellor of state. The damages were heavy. 500 TROOPS, ue derice: 3 Cents 150 POLICE © MASSED IN NEW BEDFORD TEXTILE STRIKE REGION ‘Rushed From Other C Strikers’ Huge Mass M ities at Cost of $4,000 eeting Overflows Fields As Soon As Weather Clears WORLD CONGRESS HOLDS ELEVENTH, TWELFTH NEETS © Jay Loyestone Opens Session (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July 29.— Under the chairmanship of Jay Lovestone, Executive Secretary pf the-Workers Party, the eleventh ses- sion of the World Congress of the Communist International opened here yesterday. Dix, of the United States, declared that British - Japanese - American rivalry in the Pacific increases the danger of war. He said that the -| revolutionary movement is growing in the Pacific countries in spite of the efforts of the Amsterdamers to obtain leadership. He further stated that the policy of the Central Ccm- mittee of the American Party is op- portunist. ten Hrshel, of Czecho-Slovakia, de- clared that Bukharin had failed to criticize the mistakes of the Czech Party. Thaelmann, of Germany, declared that the German delegation agreed with the fundamentals of the Buk- harin theses. The internal contra- dictions of capitalist stabilization are leading to revolution and the external contradictions to imperial- ist wars, he eaid. elas The social democracy is support- ing the imperialists, Thaelmann de- clared. He pointed out that the So- cialist constructive work in the So- viet Union is developing rapidly and every difficulty is followed by a new victory. The German elections have showed the Communist advance in the indus- trial districts, the speaker pointed | out, but the party membership is not Continued on Page Three Worker and Passenger Hurt in Subway Fire Michael Puscar, 38, of 2621 Spuyten Duyvil Road, a trackwalk- er employed by the Interborough Rapid Transit, was seriously bzurn- ed yesterday when his steel-pcinted paper spear touched the third rail at the 96th St. station of the I. R. T. subway. Ruth Armstrong, a Negro wom- an, was injured when she was pushed from the platform by ex- cited passengers who swa the spurt of flame which burned Puscar, which resulted in a blaze which firemen fought for more than half an hour. Both Puscar and Miss Armstrong were taken to the Knickerbocker Hospital for treatment. AMERICANS WIN HEATS All of the American sprinters en- tered in the 100 metres won their quarter final heats. Robert McAl- lister, erstwhile “flying cop,” and Claude Bracey of Rice Institute, Houston, Tex., won their heats in 10 4-5 seconds and are paired with Legg of South Africa, Houben of Germany, Williams of Canada, and Pina of Argentina in the first semi- final. Frank Wykoff, Glendale (Calif) high school boy, and Henry A. Rus- sell, of Pennsylvania A. C., also won their heats in 10 4-5 seconds and are psi.ed with Fitzpatrick of Canada, Corts of Germany, London of Eng- land, and Lammers of Germany in the seii-final. RADIUM VICTIMS DYING Totally Helpless as Disease Eats Tissnes With the time which physicians ) predicted would mean their death quickly approaching, the five New| Jersey women whose suits against| the United States Radium Corpora- Through the activity of tha: tor- the hearing of their cases, th mate’ “award” they receiv: y ulti- “was poration in continually ae pring | shows as a cook, Saturday Dodd died at the hos- Dodd lost his job with the show | pital. several months ago while the travel- | officially recorded as “heart dis- St expires March 31, 1930. ing carnival was in a. mid-western | ease,” town. Since that time he poarohed | haustion, - The cause of his death was | induced by starvation and ex- | | guards to} release the men, follow- ving an explosion of films. The authorities are much con- cerned about the escape of three of peeted to die were taken to the hos- jpital ia ambulances, RAINCOAT MAKERS. Union raincoat makers won a 10 per cent wage increase, resisted em- ployment insurance, in their new j agreement. ‘ tion were betrayed by their own $10,000 each, a saving of ovée’ $1- \lawyer together with a former|000,000 for the United judge of the New Jersey court, are| living their usual lives, helpless| the prisoners rather than the vic-| ployer demands to return to the 42-| against the ravages of the radium tims of the fire. Only those ex-| hour week and lost a fight for unem-| poisoning which they contracted | vhile they were employed by the) radium corporation. i Radium Corporation, and a€ sam which the women declared wot suffice for their livitig ex since their maladies precludi possibility of work as a mei support. ‘the of (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 29. This Whéle city is laughing with he strik jay at the spectacle m Boston, Brockton rushed here, together nen from the 241st sooling their headquarters, to ch of thou- in defiance monstration he heavy , now > proj tile strik 1 sed m. > orde: The d wa: a Early the leaders of the New Be Textile Union, un- willing to en er the heaith of the stmkers by having them march in their worn clothes and shoes, which offered insufficient protection egainst the weather, decided to postpone the proposed demonstra- tion until n day. The w however, cleared later in the rnoon and permit- ted the holding of one of the largest mass me ever gathered to- gether in th ath The call- ing in of outside pe and mili- tary reinforcements at a cost of $4,000 incensed the workers and it was in an atmosphere tense with excitement that thousands of strik- ers rallied to protest against the in- ,creasing police violence and the mustering of the out-of-town forces, Saulnier’s lot was too small to hold the masses who jammed the meeting and the officers of the citi- zens’ committee were compelled to call on the mayor and, after insis- tent efforts, red permission to use the immense municipal field lying along the harbor edge at Clark's Cove and adjoining the Kil- burn Mill, the recent scene of all- night mass picketing Over. six _thonsand..styikers. ‘present at the meeting of w Continued on Page Five MISLEADERS T0 ENDORSE SMITH A. F. L. Officials Meet in Atlantic City ATLANTIC CITY, July 29-— Preparations for the expected en- dsrscment of Tammany Hall and Al Smith for the presidency was seen here in the open statements by the advance guard of the American Fed- eration of Labor leaders that Smith would inake “an eminently satisfac- declaration on the injunction tory” The executive council of the fede- ration is to meet here for its regu- lar quarterly conference » Tuesday, d according to certain of the ers already here Wm. \Gr oy president of the A, F. of L. already has the assurance of the Tammany governor that he will “favor” the demand of the federation leaders on the subject of injunctions. The executive council of the fede- ration will hear a report of its so- called non-partisan political commit- tee which, it is understood will recommend the endorsement of the | Tammany hypocrite nothwithstand- ing the admittedly anti-labor plat- form adopted by the democrats and the ring of open shoppers who are managing the Smith campaign. Question ‘Police Here On Police Club Theft Members of the pdlice depart. ment, organized into the Police Glee Club, are being summoned to police headquarters here for the purpose of gaining evidence on the mysteri- ous “disappearance” of $22,000 from the funds of the ¢lab. WASHINGTON, July 29 (UP). —Five hundred and fourteen per- sons were killed in automobile acci- dents in 77 large cities of the Uni- ted States during the four weeks ending July 14, the commerce de- partment reported. This is a de- crease of 59 over a similar period last year. { SHOW THEIR COLORS. LONDON, July, 29. — The hundred members of the conserva- | tive party who recently signed a pe- tition to the government ‘urging im- / ‘mediate measures to “safe | the iron and steel industry in |Britain are meeting at the Hi of Commons Monday to : | steps to expedite action on | proposal.