The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 2, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORG FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT ANIZED Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office mt New York, N. ¥., under the act of M FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION RAT: ee V., No. 182. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1928 _ Outside New York, US, WAR PLANS TO BE PAPOSED AT GIANT MEET Thousands Expected at) Union Sq. Saturday Speakers will expose the war pre- | parations of American imperialism, the huge anti-militarist meeting to to be held: in Union Square Saturday at 1 o'clock. ; Thousands of workers are ex-! pected to demonstrate against the war plans of the American Empire, and the meeting will serve notice on Wall Street that the masses are| wake to the real meaning of Kel-| ge’s “peace” talk while military| preparation is being rushed forward, new warships, airplanes and muni-| tions manufactured and the youth| militarized by the “Citizens Military | Training Camps,” National Guard camps, and other institutions. The meeting will be under the| joint auspices of District 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party aad the Young Workers League. League Worries Jingoes. This meeting is being held only| two days before thousands of young) workers and students from New| York leave for the “Citizens Military | Training Camps’ for the August | terms. The Young Workers (Com-| munist) League recently has con-| ducted working class propaganda in| the C. M. T. C. so intensively that| the Department of Justice has an-| bunced that special laws will be! esented to the next session of| wngress to stop the anti-militarist work of the League. Phil Frankfeld,| District Organizer of the League, | and Paul Crouch will tell of these | anti-militarist activities, and of the! fight for John Porter, a young sol-| dier court-martialed because he de- serted from the army when he be- came conscious of its anti-labor role} and became active in the textile strike and ‘the Communist youth | movement. | (Communist) Representatives of Nicaraguan Masses ial From left to right in the picture are Dr. Pedro Zepeda, General Sandino’s envoy to Mexico City, Socrates Sandino, brother of the leader of the Nicaraguan army of independence and Gustavo Machado, official representative of Sandino to Mexico, who has just returned from a visit to the Nicaraguan rebel general after delivering money and supplies sent by the “Hands Off Nicaragua Committee” in Meaico to the revolutionary Nicaraguan army. The photograph was taken in Mexico City. TEN WORKERS KILLED IN CANAL DISASTER “1” MOTORMAN IS. THOROLD, Ont., Aug. 1 (UP).— Ten men were known dead, five were missing and 31 were serious- PICKET MILLS DE Paris Communists to Demo TO MOBILIZE IN” MEMORY OFJEAN JAURES SUNDAY Couturier Is Arrested; | Jailed; Fined | PARIS, Aug. 1.—Thousands tt | French workers will defy the order | | of Minister of the Interior Sarraut, forbidding all meetings of workers in the district of the Seine, and will march to participate in the call to the Communist colors in the suburb of Garches, Sunday. The call to the | Communist colors is in commemo- |ration of the death of Jean Jaures, | militant French labor leader, mur- STILL IN PRISON Labor Defense May Take Up Case Kept in jail because he has thus far been unable to furnish the $15,- | 000 bail set by the Tammany au- thorities, suspended by the Inter- borough officials who have framed- up the case against him in order to escape responsibility for their | own guilt, Stanley N. Zellig, “L” motorman, whose train was i volved in the Sunday wreck, faces a certain prison term unbss mili- | tant labor rises to his defense. The Interborough officials yes- | ly injured today when a 500 ton| dered on the eve of the World War. steel gate held by a derrick slipped| Workers thruout the city of and precipitated the men working | Paris and its suburbs have affirmed on it to the bottom of the Welland | their intention of defying the gov- Canal at Lock Six. lernment’s orders to smash the de- The gate was being hoisted by | monstration. |two derricks preparatory to being| Supplementary orders from the |set into place when one derri¢’-\interior department have given | snapped under the strain. ect of Police Chiappe permis- All the men killed and injured | sion break up any meeting of were employed in the construction workers»; any means necessary. A |of the canal. | veiled threat to call out the army The injured were removed to hos-/is ridiculed by the workers who | | pitals in St. Catherines, eight miles | claim that it would cause an insur- | “ New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. . by mail, Three Workers Killed Wh Two firemen and the engineer were killed and other workers wer steam lighter Chancellor, blew up recently. The picture shows the a ball park 400 feet from the scene of the tragedy. en Lighter Boiler Blows Up e injured when the boiler of the base of the boom which landed in MOVE TOGRUSH “HELL BREA INDIAN CRISIS “Hell is again breaking loose in British ‘Send Army warming issued yesterday by the : Workers International Relief which Against Peasants — ji *jroviding food an@-clothing for BOMBAY, most of the 28,000 New Bedford India, Aug. 1.—Ad- IN TEXTILE STRIKE in- | Gitlow and Minor to Speak. The Workers (Communist) Party terday maintained silence as to its will be represented by many pro- minent speakers, including Ben Git- low, Communist candidate for vice | president, Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker, and Albert Weis-| bord, leader of the Passaic textile strike. | * ' Other Speakers. Other speakers will be M. J. Ol-| gin, Communist editor, Richard B.| Moore, organizer of the American) ‘egro..Labor,Congress,” Ray “Rago- in, in charge of Women’s work, Ben| (pld, militant leader of the furriers, | ebecca Grecht, Campaign Manager | of the Workers (Communist) Party. Bert Miller, Organization Secretary | of the Workers (Communist) Party. | and D. Benjamin, Director of the Workers School. CONFERENCE TO HEAR NEARING : Working ‘Women Will Meet Tonight | Scott Nearing. Communist writer and teacher, will be the principal speaker at the second conference of the New York Working Women’s Federation, to be held at the Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave., tonight at 7:30. ) To Discuss War Danger “The War Danger” will be the t pie of discussion in which repre- sentatives from a large number of labor and fraternal organizations will participate. “Against the futile ‘peace’ talk of the pacifists,” a statement issued last night by the organization stated “the New York Working ‘Women’s Federation has raised the slogan of struggle against capital- ist imperialism by the united action | of the working class.” | Declaring that the federation has taken the initiative in launching a campaign to arouse working women to the menace of the next war, tHe statement points out that the world imperialists are carefully hatching a plot against the Soviet Union. “The stage,” the statement says, “is set for war, with the first Workers’ | Republic as the target for attack.” Open Discussion. | The federation cites the activi-| ties of the American empire in Latin | erica and China and calls upon ‘forking women everywhere “to join i} the campaign to expose the plans r a new world carnage.” Representatives from all labor and fraternal organizations are in- vited to attend the conference to- night. Discussion from the floor will foliow the talk by Nearing, it js announced, ~ BRICKLAYERS FETE CHILDREN. BOSTON, Aug. 1 (FP).—Brick- layers Local 8 is running its fifth annual excursion for children whose fathers are jobless or~en - poverty wages. They will be taken on a motor trip around Boston and given = tonm kent xida down the harbor. procedure following their announce- ment Tuesday that the company would wash its hands of the motor- man. It became certain, however, that the so-called suspension an- nounced is actually the discharge of Zellig. A’ half dozen cases in the past provide the precedent for this action. In the meantime it was learned yesterday that the International La- bor Defense, an organization cre- ated for the purpose of defending workers who fall.into the clutches of the bosses’ courts, has become in- terested in the case. In a statement branding the case as an obvious frame-up,, officers of the orgamiza- tion declared that they were pre- pared to take up the defense of the innocent motorman. It is believed that some steps will be taken to secure Zellig’s release from jail. Following the death of one of the assengers in the Sunday night charge of manslaughter. District Attorney Pecora in a vicious attack, which showed evi- dences of having been pre-arranged with the Interborough officials, sought to create the impression that thé motorman was guilty of the ac- cident. The whole case centers about the attempt of the Interborough to cover up its criminal use of wooden cars, the use of which have been con.’ that what limitations are entered | Semts 4 her eee SOmpromiise. be: demned in the past and which have into are calculated to help the de- tween these officials, caused the death of numbers of passengers. The Tammany controlled Transit Commission has issued a report equipment must le communicated | Federation of Labor in session here whitewashing the Interborough of- to the allied governments five years |™ade a crude gesture towards or- ficials and seeking to blame the mo- torman. Venizelos Accused of Murder by Pangalos ATHENS, August 1—Venizelos. dictator of Greece, has been charged by Pangalos, who was recently re- leased from jail by the dietator, with the execution of the former premier Gounaris and his fellow ministers in 1922. - Pangalos thus shifts the cha®:e from himself to Venizelos, who has used terrorist methods ‘against the Greek workers in the recent strike. wreck, Zellig was arrested on a_ Assistant | away, by commandered conveyances and ambulances sent from that city and Thorold. Wrecking crews were able to clear away part of the debris late today, but it is expected it will be hours before the huge gate can be lifted to get at the men pinned beneath it. WAR AGREEMENT - SEENAN PACT British and French in Alliance WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UP). Details concerning the secret Brit- ish-French naval compromise were | received by the state department |today in a note from the British |rovernment transmitted through the American embassy in London. Secretary of State Kellogg im- mediately instructed the embassy to ask permission to publish the ‘note. Meanwhile he refused to dis- \cuss its contents! . * * War Pact Seen. PARIS, Aug. 1—While the con- | tents of the Franco-British naval | pact is still being kept secret, com- ments in official government circles here reveal it is a strong bond be- tween the British and French gov- ‘ernments and a treaty of mutual \armament development. The reports here indicate that there has been no agreement on ac- |tual decrease of armaments and | velopment of the two navies along | lines favorable to both powers. All |plans for construction of more |in advance. Wages of Cottonseed | Workers Average $15 | | WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. — The | average wage of workers in the cot- |tonseed oil mills in the Unted | States was: $15.53 per week, ac- cording to figures compiled for | sample weeks in 1927 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of | Labor, The figures were a part of a study of wages and hours of la- bor and working conditions in cot- | ton gins, compresses and oil mills. LUMBER BOSS FRAME-UP Jordan Urges Centralia Victims’ Release Protests against the continued imprisonment of the Centralia pris- oners in Walla Walla, Washington and demands for their unconditional pardon continue to pour in upon Governor Roland H. Hartley and H. B, Clausen, Chairman of the Parole Board from labor organizations and prominent individuals. Robert Whi- taker, author and formerly a min- ister of the First Baptist Church of Senttle and Professor David Starr Jordan, President. Emeritus of Le- land Stanford University, California are among those who have added their protests, according to: letters | Teceived by the national office of the International Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th Street, New York. Whitaker in his letter to the Gov- ernor declares: The continued imprisonment -in Walla Walla of the eight members of the I.W.W. by reason of the hysteria of the after war period, is a heavy handicap upon the reputagion of Washington. ... Particularly at this time the United States is in a special need of every possible exhibit | of the spirit of tolerance and good jwill,... May I urge that your reetion. | The attempt of the authorities to | smash the huge workers’ mobiliza- | tion has been ushered in with the jarrest of Vaillant Couturier, one of | the editors of L’Humanite, French mittedly fearing outbreaks ali over India, especially in the textile mills in Bombay, as a result of the con- fiscatory measures of the Bardoli peasants in seizing and plowing the ground despite government orders, | Communist daily, whose militant ar- | two British regiments, two squad- ticles calling upon the masses to|Tons of cavalry, twelve armored jignore the government’s orders ap- | Cars and an air force sauadron have | peared recently. Vaillant Couturier has been sen- | | tenced to six months’ in jail and a| fine of 10,000 francs on charges of | | Provoking disobedience among the AF E POSTPONES ACTION ON SMITH | | Officials Make Gesture | at Organizing ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 1—The | executive committee of the Ameri- |can Federation of Labor in session | here announced the postponement of its expected decision to endorse Al Smith for the presidency. The | reason given out by William Green, president of the Federation in a | guarded statement was that the la-| | bor bureaucrats would prefer to wait | until after the acceptance speeches | of the candidates. | It is known, however, that mem- | bers of the executive council have | been divided over the endorsement \of Hoover and Smith and the present | announcement, it is believed, repre- | * * | ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 1—The | executive council of the American * | ganization work by announcing that | it would organize the aviation work- | | ers before the company unions would | get on the job. A similar announce- | |ment was made in regard to the _auto workers two years ago, but | nothing was done. No informed per- | son really believes that the Green- Woll crew is in earnest in its new | announcement. PRIEST AND NUN IN OBREGON CASE MEXICO CITY, Aug. 1—As the | ‘investigation of the assassination (of President-elect Obregon comes to its close, the Catholic clergy has | become involved through the direct |influence of a priest and the nun, Mother Concepcion, upon the assas- sin, Torral. The trial, which is shortly to be held, will be considerably compli- cated by the introduction of a “third party” to the prosecution. In addi- tion to the prosecution and the de- fense, tha Obregonista party will, through its representatives, take an active part in the case in accord- ance with the Mexican law which provides for this third element. The Obregonistas, who stand in opposition to the Federation of La- bor and are more prone to be favor- able to the Catholic Church, have affirmed that Morones was respon- Continued on Page Three sible for the murder. ‘to the go |been dispatched to quell the situa- tion in the northern Bombay dis- tfict. ; A pepulation of 88,006 Indian peasants. men and women, has been. mobilized to offer passive resistance iment forces, while a detachment of six hundred has been detailed as an intelligence depart- ment to report the movements of the government’s troops. Despite the policy of non-resist- ance affected by the leaders of the movement in the Bardoli district, the arrival of the government squad- rons is believed to presage the opening of possible mass hostilitie: The authorities are frank in admi ting that they fear, and are taking | measures to cope with, armed out- breaks throughout the country as a repercussion from the struggle in Bardoli. Drastic measures are planned against the Bardoli peasantry whose mass movement has for months pre- vented the approach of a single tax collector into the district while the peasants took over the lands de- clared confiscatory by the govern- ment and sowed them themseives. Any attempt to remove the ripen- ‘ing crops will be met with military | resistance, Collector Hartshorn of the Bardoli district declared today. STRESS THE WAR DANGER AT MEET Discuss Campaign at Party Rally “We must use the election cam- paign to fight the war “danger,” John. lam, acting organizer of Dit feclared last night at a membership meeting of the Work- | ers (Communist) Party held at Man- |hattan Lyceum, 66.E. 4th St. Ballam discussed the antagonisms between the bourgeoisie and the pro- letariat, between the exploited col- onies and the imperialist countries, between the imperialist nations themselves and the struggle between the capitalist countries on one, hand and the Soviet Union on the other. “At the present time there is an , economic depression due to the ra- tionalization process, with more than 4,000,000 unemployed in the coun- try,” said Ballam. Discussing the use of the National Guardsmen in New Bedford, Ballam said that as the class struggle be- comes more acute the soldiers will be called upon to shoot down the workers. if Rebecca Grecht spoke on the in- creasing radicalization of the work- ers and the role of the Workers (Communist) Party in the growing economic struggles. She urged the fullest support of the election cam- paign of the Workers (Communist) Party in its fight against the parties of the capitalists. Bert Mill anizational_ secre- tary of district 2, was chairman of the meetings” mill workers who are now entering the 16th week of strike. Calling attention to the new reign of terror instituted by tHe mill barons, made desperate by the united front of the strikers, the W. I. R. is making an appeal for funds with which to continue its vital work in New Bedford. The call reads in part: Workers! Friends! Stand by the fighting textile workers! “Hell is again breaking loose in \ the textile industry! “This time it is ‘in New Bedford. Mass., where for sixteen weeks 28,- 0060 men, women and children have Continued on Page Three MORGAN BANKERS GIVE" TO SMITH Republicans to Begin With $4,000,000 Announcement of the contrib- utors to the Al Smith campaign fund has disclosed two of the largest donners of $10,000 each as members of firms connected with the Morgan banking interests. The first of these came from John D. Ryan, president of the anti-labor, Anaconda Copper Company. The second came from John T. Smith, counsel for the Gen- eral Motors Company. Raskob, Kenny and Todd, Al Smith’s immediate multi-millionaire friends have not yet been disclosed as contributors. It is believed that ways will be found to conceal large contributions made by these figures while they later announce moderate gifts. Republican campaign manager Work, announced boldly that the} sum set as a jumping off figure for the G. 0. P. campaign would be $4,- | 000,000. | Daily Worker Agents Will Meet Tomorrow A special meeting of all section, sub-section and unit DAILY WORKER agents has been called + for tomorrow evening, at 8 p. m., at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union | Square. KS LOOSE 39 SACCO MEMORIAL MEETS PLANNED Will Link Case With Mooney Fight Sanco-Vanzetti memorial meet- ings, under the auspices of the vari- ous sections of International Red. Aid, will be held throughout the world during the week of August 19 to 26, 1928, The national office of International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th St., New York, is in re- ceipt. of many communications and j¢ables. from the Red Aid (Rote | Hilfe) of Germany, the Canadian Labor Defense League, the Inter- national Class War Prisoners -Aid of England, the Red Aid (Mopr) of the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics and many other scictions, outlining plans for the commemora- tion of the memories of Sacco and Vanzetti, labor’s martyrs. Interna- tional Labor Defense is organizing the meetings in the United States. Linked With Mooney Case. The} Sacco-Vanzetti memorials to be held on an international scale are being linked with the frame-up against Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, the two American class war prisoners about to begin their 13th year at San Quentin and Fol- som, Calif. “The case of Sacco and Vanzetti,” pointed out Martin Abern, assistant national secretary of International Labor Defense, “cannot be treated isolated, but it is necessary to com- bine it with the special occurrences of terror and class justice @ each country and to demonstrate that the Sacco and Vanzetti case is only a link in the chain of class justice und international white terror. Mooney and Billings were framed- up and imprisoned by the powers of the open-shoppers in California and the consent of American im- perialism. Labor throughout the world sees this and, therefore, the Sacce-Vanzetti memoria! meetings will be utilized to demonstrate for and demand the freedom of Mooney and Billings.” The Canadian League, writes Labor Defense Florence Custance, » Canadian secretary to the I. L. D., is organizing Sacco-Vanzetti meet- ings and is conducting a campaign for the Centralia prisoners and Mooney and Billings. “When Governor Fuller of Massa chusetts,” writes H. B. Lovell, sec- retary of the International Clas War Prisoners Aid of England, Continued Four on Page GREET FREED WORKERS Messages Urge Figh BERLIN (By- Mail)—On_ the amnesty of the proletarian political | prisoners in Germany, the Interna-~ tional Red Aid received the follow- ling telegrams: |“To the free proletarian prisoners | in Germany: | “We greet you in the name of the International Red Aid and weleome your return to the front ranks of | the class-conscious proletariat. | “The energetic battle of the Red | | Aid of Germany has succeeded iA lending your long prison term. Now | it is a question of leading the battle |for the amnesty of the remaining | political proletarian prisoners. t for Total Amnesty | “We hope that you together with the R,.P ™ and the International | Red— carry on the fight fur! ther against the white terror and | \for the freeing of all proletarian political prisoners in Italy, Bul- garia, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania, Finland,.Greece, as wel] as in all the other capitalist countries. “Long Live International Solidar- ity! “On with the fight for the am- nesty of all proletarian prisoners in the jails of the capitalist world! “Moscow, July 17, 1928. “The Executive of the International | Red Aid.” es ‘ SPITE ARRESTS . Price 3 Cents nstrate In Spite of Ban © HOLD NATIONAL! “GUARDS, READY FOR NEW RAIDS Women and Children March in Long Line (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. Ll. the passage by the New Bedford chamber of commerce of a resolution applauding the vio- lence of the police in arresting hun- | dreds of striking textile workers at |the Whitman Mill two days ago, | Commander Charles Davis tonight | called a meeting of the local Amer- | ican Legion to consider offering the services of the legionnaires as strikebreakers, wing The chamber of commerce reso- lution, which was accepted earlier in the day, demands that all strike organizers be driven from the city jai The Kiwanis Club has approved the chamber of commerce resolu or n. Sentiment against the proposed strike arbitration is strong in the Textile Council with the majority of the unions opposed. The first vote of the slashers’ union has already registered against arbitration. The New Bedford Textile Union and the Workers’ International Re- lief are caring for the children whose parents have been jailed as a result of the police raids at the Whitman Mill. ae NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 1. -—Defiant of the order of Chief of Police McLeod to arrest every strike leader for law violations on sight, regardless of the natare his offense,“ picket line of 300, which swelleti to nearly one thou: sand before /police appeared, con+ tinued picketing the Whitman Mill yesterday. Smaller lines formed also at the other mills. The order issued to the police ac- companied the decision of the city authorities to retain Battery E of the Massachusetts National Guard in their arm in preparation for further raids against the picket lines. The battery, which is under orders to proceed for training to Fort Wright, Long Island, was or- dered detained by Mayor Charles S. Ashley. rmination was the feeling prevailing on ‘the lines which sur- rounded the Whitman Mill yester- day and on which women and chil- Continued on Page Frag CLOAK WORKERS TO MEET TONIGHT To Mobilize for Huge Gathering Aug. '8 With the holding of a meeting of all active cloak and dressmakers in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th \St., at 6 o'clock tonight, all forces will be mobilized for the huge s meeting in Bronx Stadium Wednesday which will launch an it- tensive drive to organize the ti and build a strong union. The meeting tonight, which hi been’ called by the National Organi- zation Committee, will be addressed \ r of the leaders of the and will discuss plans for the great campaign. All active cloak and dressmakers are urged to attend this important meeting. Rank and File Group Meets. Last night a meeting of all the units of the rank and file organiza- Continued on Page Two Workers Party Units Contribute $100 To Help Daily Worker The Daily Worker has received two contributions from units of the Workers (Communist) Party, both of an equal amount. These units made .it a special point on their agendas to raise specifie contribu-_ 4 tions. The South Slav section of the Party, St. Louis, Mo., at a recent pienic held for the benefit of the Communist press in the United — States, collected $50 for the Daily — Worker. 4 ‘The same amount, $50, was raised by the Syracuse, N. Y., unit of the Workers (Communist) Party, a rnin nape thi