The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1928, Page 1

FOR THE 40-HOUR WE: FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED EK Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879, F INAL CITY EDITION _Vol. V., No. 181. Cublished daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 23-25 Union Sa.. New York, N.Y. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1928 Outaid New Yor! 180 NEW BEDFORD PICKETS SENTEN ANTI-WAR MEET TO EXPOSE FAKE KELLOGG” PEACE’ WorkéS to Rally in| Union Sq. Saturday At the same time that Secretary | Kelloge’s “anti-war” pact is bein| paraded around Europe and Amer- | fea to blind the eyes of workers the | world over to the feverish prepara- | tion for a new and bloodier blood-| bath, news comes from England of | the construction of a fleet of war | cruisers calculated to outshoot and outdistance the battleships of aj similar class of any other imperial- ist power. British imperialists point with pride to these latest ad- ditions to the forces of British im- | perialism, saying that all the guns in these ships can not only fire at an increased rate, but, have ranges | of 16 miles. | Thousands of New York workers, not taken in by the so-called anti- war pact promulgated by a govern- ment whose marines are murdering workers and farmers in Nicaragua and whose gunboats are in China, | will gather in Union Square on Sat- | urday at 1 p. m. to protest against | the growing war danger and against | the plots of the imperialist powers | against the Soviet Union. Prominent Speakers. The meeting, to be held under the auspices of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, District 2, and the Young Workers (Communist) | League, will be addressed by an im- ve) posing list of speakers, among them | Benjamin Gitlow, Communist candi- | date . for . vice-president; Robert |, Minor, editor of the Daily Worker | and Communist candidate for U.S. | Senator, who recently served a jail sentence for his protest against the depredations of American imperial- ism, and Scott.Nearing, Communist candidate for governor of New Jer- sey and noted authority on imper- Continued on Page Two NABISCO PLANTS CONDITIONS BAD Workers Vietims: of Many Lay-offs (By a Worker Correspondent) We workers in the National Bis- cuit Company are very glad that @ meetings are being held every Fri- day in front of the company gates on the platform of the Workers (Communist) Party. I notice that not many workers stand around to listen. Most of them stay seated around the buildings and don’t come | over. But that’s not because they don’t want to, but because they’re afraid to listen, since many spies are around who will report them to the foremen. You bet the bosses don’t want us to learn about the Workers Party because then we would learn how to organize and fight the bosses against low wages and many lay- offs and the speed-up system. I wish the speakers would change to another corner, as they said they would last week. I know that the company brings out its locomotive on purpose so that the speakers can’t be heard. I think that 9th Avenue and 15th Street would be better. Many Lay-Offs. In the shop where I’m working conditions are very bad. If they are | as bad in other departments, then the National Biscuit Co. is the most miserable place for a worker to be. Wages are very small, and we have many lay-offs, Lay-offs are very bad all year round. In the winter Continued on Page Two Anita Wifftney Aids Party ion Drive; Sends Check for $100 Anita Whitney of Oakland, Cali- fornia, member of the Workers (Communist) “Pai an nt battle! t “apitalist. rule in the state of California, sent a check for $100 to the Communist Party Election Campaign Fund for 125 books of Vote Communist, stamps. Comrade Whitney is a thorn in the side of California “justice,” that “justice” that has kept Mooney and Billings and other innocent victims of ogpitalist hate in living tombs for She west part of their lives. The picture shows workers selling presidential campaign in Chicago. Russian branch of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism. (Photo by M. Stolar, Chicago) U $. 1S WITHOUT POLITICAL BASIS’ 'BukharinStresses War, Trade Union Work | MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., July |31.—Nicolai Bukharin, Chair- man of Executive Committee literature at the opening of the The group pictured is the L’ MOTORMAN FRAMED ON HOMICIDE CHARGE Arraigned on a charge of man- slaughter in one of the most aston- |ishingly brazen frame-ups yet at- tempted, Stanley Zellig, motorman of the Sixth Ave. Interborough train involved in the Sunday night wreck, yesterday was held under $15,000 bail following the death of John Carillo, one of the passengers injured in the collision. The full meaning of the vicious frame-up of the innocent motorman became apparent immediately after the court proceedings yesterday through an announcement from the hypocritical “legal” department of the Interborough Rapid Transit ompany that it had washed its ands of the case of the worker whom a company representative at first appeared to “defend.” — Zellig Still Dazed. Zellig, with his head swathed in bandages, hardly able to stand or to speak coherently, appeared in | court to answer the charge and was | then shunted off to a cell to await |the bond. One of the most gro- | tesque.farces yet staged by the | traction gang which controls the dis- pensation of justice in New York City just as it controls the admin- istration of practically every other so-called public commodity, was the appearance of one of its legal staff, Lee M. Hutchins, on behalf of the tinnocent motorman. In what was obviously a prear- | ranged plan between the district at- | torney’s office and’the Interborough legal department, headed by “Rough | Stuff” Quackenbush, to divert at- |tention from the company’s guilt |and to fasten the blame upon the | worker, acting district attorney Pe- cora argued that the “motorman |should be held to a greater degree |of accountability for passengers in |his charge.” The Interborough at- ‘torney, forced to admit that Zellig | | ‘had never had an accident in his fif- | | teen years with the scab traction Continued on Page Five IMPERIALISTS 10 PARLEY IN PARIS ‘Chamberlain to Meet | Kellogg PARIS, July 81 Secret negotiations, (UP).— | | which (tion campaign manager, will be ex- have been conducted for the | posed in the affair. |of the Communist Interna-! tional, was greeted with pro-| | tracted applause when he arose | in the fifteenth session to be-| gin his closing speech of the| discussion of his theses at the| World Congress of the Com- munist International, now in progress here. Bukharin declared that the dis- cussion had been rather positive and A. F. L, COUNCIL | all of the Communist parties in the SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New ik, by mail, $6.00 per New Bedford Strikers’ Children With Pails for Food ; The bayonets of the Massachusetts National Guard have been used by the textile barons and their al. lies, the authorities, to hold at bay thousands of men and women textile strikers. jailed. Every form of police violence is being triedto crush the great strike. The lines still form around the mills and the pickets sing “Solidarity” in their cells. And this danger must be met with generous relief from Recently the New Bedford relief area has been extended to cover the entire cown- are of no avail. Only hunger can crush the New Bedford strike. workers everywhere. try. Rush money and supplies to the Workers International Relief, Room Bedford, Mass. Political Betrayal Is on | International had participated in the | Program | discussion. The basis of the discus- | sion, he said, had been very broad, with representatives of the Com- munist parties from all over the world, The discussion had produced many correct and critical remarks concerning the peasant, unemploy- ment, colonial and N; questions, | (Snecial to the Daily Worker) | ATLANTIC CITY, July 31.— Discussion on the presidential situ-| ation, it is understood, will form the | chief topic on the program before the executive council of the Amer- i . te. ican Federation of,Labor. which is £ ‘ lis e to meet here for its opening session | ey eames alemigier Bap: ane today. | sion, however, lay in the fact that ee ae rumored that because | bso oma ape gti eis rte ° ie division among the labor |; we * 5 bureauerats over the endorsement |" With international questions. of Smith or Hoover, no choice will Change Estimation. be announced for president. Mat- “Many comrades opposed the divi- | thew Woll is known to have had sion of the post-war period into several secret conferences with | three parts in my speech,” the speak- | Hoover recently and is fighting for | er said, “and particularly denied the | the candidate who has just been ex-| necessity of differentiation between | posed as the enslaver of the Liber- the gradual, partial stabilization ian Negro masses in the interest of period of 1915 and the following the Morgan-controlled Firestone | period of rapid technical progress rubber interests, and reorganization together with the _, William Green, president of the| strong. development of world econ- cJeration, on the other hand, has| omic difficulties. For capitalism to| intimated that he would favor |overstep the pre-war levet must | Smith following a secret conference | mean a change in the estimation of held with the Tammany governor | capitalist stabilization. The differ- about two weeks ago in which entiation of periods must find CX Smith agreed to make a statement pression in the theses because the on injunctions. | situation is really different. epi eeinine eater | World War Danger. “The chief factor in the world | D | situation is the war danger. My re- | marks concerning the war danger Pp |hit home, as is proved by the im- iN GANG A ] ] ACK |Perialist and social-democratic fury |at these parts of my speech. | | “We do not say that war must) Ney TTY | come within a few months,” he con- N. Y. American Fore- timed, “but that the whole world) ; situation proves that war must man Is Dying come. The imperialist and the social | democrats are trying to hide this Following a murderous attack be- | fact, we must proclaim it. e lieved to have been carried out by “Any attempt to balance internal the Berry-Armstrong gang in the contradictions of the capitalist Printing Pressmen’s Union, a fore-| states with their external contradic- man named Brown, employed on the tions means an underestimation of New York American, is today lying | tp, d i whi 4 unconscious in a New York hospital, | eahieriey mise epee venue be ae held practically incognito with the | t lutions | knowledge of the Tammany poliea with ware, but We woudl be eat | Who are withholding the story from tor Communists to base their revo- the’ public in the fear that George lutionary perspective on war alone. | L. Berry, Al Smith’s assistant elec- The : \ravdlixtio situation may come from internal contradictions, | past two months, have resulted) This was the story, details of | in a naval agreement between | Which were revealed last night fol-| France and Great Britain, the | owing. certain rumors which have | ’ foreign office announced today. |A certain foreman named McBride, . employed by the American, was re-| but must come from war. “Industrial peace, the growth of | the social democracy with the bour- | Continued on Page Two | | Chamberlain accepted today the in- French government to meet Kel- logg and representatives of the other powers to sign the “Kellogg” pact in Paris on August 27, at the same time sending the text of the Franco-British naval pact to Kel- logg. Lloyd George, commenting on the Kellogg plan, said that unless it were followed by disarmament on the part of the powers the people would understand that they had been tricked and that the whole thing was “hum-bug”. | In the meanwhile the naval pact entered into by England and France is still being kept secret until “the naval authorities determine how much of it they want known.” Chamberlain explained in the house of commons that the naval pact was not an agreement as to definite reductions but essentially VGalpie of principles.” vitation extended to him by the) \reported the incident and the Berry employed as foreman by the New gang had a “drunk party,” it was York Telegram. McBride, who is a declared. | Berry machine man, is said to have, Yesterday Brown was found lying | |in a pool of blood. He was rushed | gang is said to have been sent “after to a hospital. z Hundreds have been But all these measures , 49 Williams St., New WORKING WOMEN TO FIGHT WAR Scott Nearing Will Speak at Meeting England and France have signed a naval treaty, which adds to the | smoke sereen concealing the prep- jarations for war, according to the statement issued by the York Working Women’s. Federation. The Federation hee avenged for Scott Nearing to speak on the War Dan- ger. tomorrow evening, August 2, at/| Labor Temple, 14th Street and Second Avenue at 7:30. The New York Working Women’s Federation has invited working women’s clubs fraternal organizations, © women from shops and unions and parti- cularly unorganized women who cannot send official representatives The Delegate Conference will con- sider plans for mobilizing the senti- ment and support of working women throughout the state in a special campaign to expose the menace of the coming Imperialist war and to arouse working women to support the struggle against Imperialism. Unorganized Invited. According to Ray Ragozin, secretary of the Working Women's Federation, the support of unorgan- ized women is of primary signific- Continued on Page Two 20,000 CALCUTTA WORKERS STRIKE (Cable to the Daily Worker) CALCUTTA, India., Twenty thousand workers employed at the jute spinning mills in Bouri | in protest | went on strike today against the brutality of the police in wounding 23 of their fellow-workers, When workers in the Bouri jute- spinning mills held a meeting among themselves near the factory recently, the owners of the plant called the | |been verified by the Daily Worker, | 8¢0i8 state, ete, are inexplicable ex- | police to break it up. Coming im- mediately after the call was received, the police began to shoot at the LONDON, July 31. — Austen) Placed by Brown, who was formerly | Brown.” Monday night the Berry | workers. In the general fight that followed, after the workers’ resent- ment of the police tactics forced | them to defend themselves, 23 work- ers, 13 policemen and one officer were wounded. July 31—| CHINESE RED ARMY HONGKONG, July 31. The Chinese Red army of 10,000 workers and pessants today was within 40 miles southeast of Changsha, with | the capture of the city of Li Long The worker-peasant army has been steadily advancing for the .past twenty-four hours. Risings of far- mers and workers against the war lords have invariably occurred in advance of the arrival of the Red troops. Stirred by the steady success of the Red troops the workers’ of Can- ton are said to be on the verge of a revolt against the Kuomintang war lords. Additional reinforcements have been rushed against the work- ers by the Kuomintang war lords to no avail. Fear of the Red troops has re- sulted in a continuation of the execu- tions of workers on a large scale by the Cantonese authorities. ENGLISH TORY SPLIT LIKELY LONDON, July 31—A disagree- ment in policy on the protective tariff threatens to split the Conser- vative Party at the meeting of the cabinet tomorrow as the two factions led respectively by Baldwin and refuse to concede their position. The Baldwin-Churchill faction are opponents of a protective tariff and Jonsyon-Hicks, who has a consider- able tory following in the parlia- ment, calls for the use of the tariff to “safeguard” the iron and steel industry and repair the depressing economic condition of the country. [Membership Meet of | Party for Tonight John J. Ballam, acting district organizer of the Workers (Com- munist) Party yesterday an- nounced that an important mem- bership meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party has been called for tonight, at 8 p. m. at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. All Members have been asked to postpone all other engagements and to attend this meeting. NEW EVIDENCE EXPOSES CENTRALIA FRAME-UP Two Jurors, In Affidavits, Swear They Believed Jailed Militants Innocent New evidence, in the form of additional affidavits made by two other jurors in the case of the Cen-|cution it is revealed. The affidavits tralia I. W. W. who are now serving) were yesterday made public by the terms in the Walla Walla, Washing-| national office of International ton, penitentiary, was yesterday| Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th Street, produced to show the manner in| which is conducting an energetic ants to be innocent of the charges made against them by the prose- lumber workers ~— was | through. They were convicted and eight prisoners. sentenced despfe the fact that many of the jurors believed the defend- Sweitzer, clearly expose the facts of the frame-up. They read as follows: “WwW. E. Inmon’ and E. E. Sweit- zer of Grays Harbor County, Wash- ignton, each for himself upon his oath says: “That he was one of the jurors in Harbor County, at Mpgntesano | growth of the Armistice day tragedy |at Centralia, Washington, November | |14, 1919; that during the considera- | | tion of said case by the jury, one Harry Sellers, one of said jurors. | stated in the jury room in substance \‘Every one of them is guilty and which the frame-up against these campaign throughout the country) the case of the State of Washington ought to be hung no matter what the carried for the immediate release of the| vs. Britt Smith et. al, tried in Grays evidence shows’; that the evidence showed, as affiants verily believe | The affidavits, made by the two| Washington, during the first three that all the defendants were, in- tiurors W. E. Inmon and E. E.|months of the year 1920, as an out-| Continued on Page Three MAKES BIG ADVANCE GALL WORKERS TO CLOAK MEET Price 3 Cents CED TO 60 DAYS World Congress U nanimous for Bukharin Theses ‘ALBERT WEISBORD ARRESTED, DENIED RELEASE ON BAIL Strikers Defy Court, Refuse Bond NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 31—Following an open revolt in the ranks of the small picket line of William Batty, president of the textile council, | the police began preparations | for mass arrests on the New } Bedford Textile Union’s line | this evening. Strikers drowned out Me- | Mahon, president of the U. T. | W. with cries of “No Arbitra- | tion” when he attempted to | put across a sell-out at a meet- |ing yesterday. | The local jail is reported to |be seriously overcrowded, with eight prisoners o\:upying a cell intended for one. es eee NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 31. —Albert Weisbord, national secre- tary of the Textile Mills Committee, was arrested here this afternoon, after speaking at a mass meeting at Saulmier’s lot on the South Side. The police arrested Weisbord on | of ® charge. of: “trespassing in’ Fall River eight weeks’ ago.” e is be- ing held in jail here without bail, the local authorities claiming that they are “waiting to hear from Fall River” altho Chief of Police Feeney ee it To Launch Campaign | that city is at the police station to Build Union Aug. 8 “The hour has struck for the building of a union of the workers in’ our industry.” With this as a keynote, a state- ment has been issued by the Na- tional Organization Committee, call- ing upon all cloak and dressmakers to attend en masse the great mass meeting in Bronx Stadium Wednes- day, August 8, which will launch a huge drive to organize the industry and -build up a strong union of the workers. Two important preliminary meet- ings will be held today and tomor- row for the purpose of mobilizing in New Bedford. Other speakers at the mass meet= ings were Alex Bail, of Boston, Harry Cantor of the Typographical Union of Boston, Fred Beidenkapp, Marry Correina, Arthur Daiz, Sam Weisman of the Fall River textile mills, and Nat Kay, district organ- izer of the Woilng Workers’ (Com- munist) League. * « * NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 31. Arrested as a result of last night’s picketing demonstration, 256 textile strikers were hustled into court by armed guards this morning. Of this number 180 waived examination and were immediately sentenced, the majority of them receiving sen- the workers for the mass meetings | fences of two months’ each. A num. and for the organization drive. To-| bet of the defendants were juven- night a meeting of all the units of ies, and received smaller sentences. the rank and file organization com- |All the pickets appealed and their mittee of 500 will be hel@ in Mam- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. This meeting is of the greatést import- ance, it is pointed out by the Na- tional Organization Committee, as upon the members of this rank and | for launching the great drive. | Tomorrow night at 6 o'clock a |meeting of all active cloak and | dressmakers will be held in Man- |hattan Lyceum. This meeting will | mobilize the active workers for the Aug. 8 meeting and for the other important tasks’ that lie ahead of |the fight to build a union. Wretched Conditions. Pointing out the unbearable con- ditions that now prevail in the cloak und dress industry, the statement appeals to every cloak and dress- maker to attend this historic gath- ering and to arouse his co-workers |to join in the struggle for a union. The statement follows: | “To all cloak and dressmakers! | “Brothers and sisters: | “Unite your ranks. Stand ready |for the great work. The end to the domination of the clique in our union is approaching. Their false ‘campaign has been broken by your resistance. The international and the bosses can no longer save their |company union from annihilation. “Get to Work!” “Let us get to work. Let us mobilize. The hour has struck for the building of a union of the work- ers of our industry. Mobilize for Continued on Page Three CHARGE LABOR TRUST STEAL. PITTSBURGH, July 81.—After a \ delay of two years officials of the alleged labor bank, the Brotherhood Savings and Trust Company, will be brought to trial this fall, charged with embezzlément of $320,000 of | workers’ savings, bail was fixed at $500, pending hearing before a superior court. All refused bail. Fred E. Beale and Jack Rubin- stein, strike leaders, receiv six month sentences at once and were Winston Churchill on one side and|¢ije committee will fall the brunt Placed in bail of $1,500 each. Beale William Joynson Hicks on the other | o¢ the preparatory work necessary | W@S recently released after serving a month’s sentence for activities on the picket line. Pelezar and Boshak Dawson, Marion Batelho anc Maris Silvia, received sentences of three months and are held in $1,000 bail each. Cheered On Way. The strikers arrested yesterday were brought fron‘) the jail to the court in trucks in batches of thirty. Cheering crowds, assembled early in the morning to listen to the singing of the pickets in their cells, accom- panied the trucks and were held back at the courthouse by the bay- onets of the Massachusetts National Guard who are still patrolling the city. All the arrested strikers pleaded not guilty and received their sen- tences in an atmosphere tense with excitement. Parents Jailed. In many cases both parents of a family are in jail.. One family of six small children walked miles to’ the jail, the oldest carrying a two months old baby in her arms. While the sentences were being handed down in the court. room, a | line of pickets larger than yeste bs undaunted by the previous night's’ arrests resumed picketing at | Whitman Mill. The police did | interfere, altho the resumption picketing is in direct defiance of | police orders. | The Textile Mills Committee yes- | terday fsstied a” statenient pointing out that the hysteria and despera-— tion of the mill owners was bait cal better seen than when mayor in the national guard. “By this time”, the s! Continued on Page | f ~ {| |