The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Baily lorker Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1878. NATIONAL EDITIO “Tol. V., No. 184. am err — < O° e \ Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq.. New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1928 % é ee. Gd REPUDIATED BY HIS OWN UNION Large TMC. Lines at Mills; Defy Police NEW BEDFORD, Mass.. Aug. 3. —One of the most brazen class col- | laboration appeals to which Ameri- | $e Re to append their signatures was is- | sued to the New Bedford mill stock- | holders today over the names of | William G. Batty. secretary of the Textile Council; Frank J. Manning, confidential secretary of the same organization; Binns, the president, Joseph Harrington and other lesser lights. | “I appeal to the stockholders in| the New Bedford mills,” the state- | ment reads, “to make common) cause with us against the mill men from whose prevalent lack of vision, frequent lack of courage and occa- sional downright incompetence, we} have both suffered alike these many years.” URE pate NEW BEDFORD, Mass.. Aug. 3. —With virtually the same unani- mous voice with which they forced their reluctant leadership into the huge textile walk-out sixteen weeks ago, the rank and file of strikers composing the»Textile Council, yes- terday frustrated the attempt of their officials to get together with the manufacturers under the cover of arbitration proceedings. Undis- mayed by their long struggle, the strikers yesterday voted against the arbitration decision almost unani- mously, William E. G. Batty, sec- retary of the Textile Council, an- nounced today. Results of the balloting have been sent to the state board of ar- bitration and will probably be made pablic tomorrow. Repudiate Batty. “Small as the influence of the Textile Council has been in the ac- tual struggle due to the efforts of Batty and his outfit to prevent their participation, the vote is sig- nificant as a complete repudiation of the strikers’ corrupt officials,” leaders of the Textile Mills Commit- tee are unofficially quoted as stat- ing today. Picket lines so large that the po- lice chose the better part of valor end remained aloof, though watch- ful, massed before the mills oth in the south and the north ends this morning. The long lines of men, women and children marched under the eyes of the officers in defiance of police orders and the decision of the New Bedford district court that mass picketing {fs rioting. Call Mass Meetings. Two big mass meetings, one in the north and one in the south end, ere planned for this afternoon. Jack Rubinstein, leader of the Tex- tile Mills Committes, recently re- leased from fail followine his ar- vest during the nolice raid« on the lines at the Whitman, Mill, will sneak, as well as Corrigem, of the Citizen's Committee, and a number of women speakers whe will address the rallies in Portuguese, French and English. Many strikers are ef the opinion that the police passivity of the last two days {s purely temporary and will come to a sudden’end at this afternoon’s meetings. Work for Releases. While the spirit of the strike is a PREMARIN BATTY AND GANG can labor officials have ever dared |_ Pickets A group of pickets of the Jaco is shown in the above picture. Se at Perth Amboy Shirt Strike Shirt Co. of Perth Amboy, N. J., cond from the left is Veronica Ko- vacs, militant strike leader, while at the extreme right is Lottie Marks, of the Young Workers (Communist) League, who picketed with the strikers. COLORADO PARTY NOMINATES SAUL Communist Convention Held in Denver Sixty-three delegates from all parts of the state attended the Nominating Convention, of the Workers (Communist) Party in Colorado on July 28. The conven- tion was held in the Barnes School Auditorium, Denver. In addition to the delegates scores of interested visitors attended and intense enthusiasm prevailed. Many Industries. The delegates came from At- wood, Pueblo, Lefayette, Frederick, Erie, Walsenberg and L r. The; represented ers, painters, bakers, waiters, clerks, working-class housewives, printers, nurses, _packii ouse workers, boxmakers, teachers, tail- ors, steel workers, truck drivers, the Continued on Page Three SMITH SLAPS AT FARMERS? RELIEF Satisfies Demands of Big Bankers Governor Alfred E. Smith today finished another of his long list of hypocritical mameuvers in an- nouncing that the McNary-Haugen bill is “not acceptable as » form of | farm relief.” After carrying on a campaign of propaganda calculated to convey the impression that he was completely in sympathy with the farmers’ ef- for to secure agricultural-relief, Al Smith today made clear his real position. He still insists that he is for “farm relief” but makes it plain t othe banking interests who are op- posed to the McNary-Haugen bill, that the democratic party no more than the republican party will of- fend the eastern bankers. The McNary-Haugen bill, while in reality a camouflaged measure, MEXICAN NUN TO ~ FACE LONG TERM ‘Prosecutor Still Aims at Labor + Meanwhile, Lithuania, as a precau- POLISH TROOPS NEAR LITHUANIA THREATEN WAR 'Pilsudski Will Mass| | 40,000 at Vilna By FREDERICK KUH | BERLIN, Aug. 8 (UP).—Poland| }end Lithuania are massing troops jalong the Polish-Lithuanian fron-| tier, according to authoritative in- formation reaching here today. Considerable fear is felt in |Lithuania regarding the possible joutcome of the congress of Polish; |legionnaires, which Marshal Pilsud- | ski, dictator’ of Poland, will address August 12. It is believed possible | that the 10,000 legionnaires who are |gathering at the congress may be stampeded by a fiery address by Pilsudski and begin an invasion of Lithuania, supported by Polish regu- lars. Polish regulars are said now to moving toward the frontier. be tionary move, is reinforcing her border guards and organizing the | people into bands along the border | |to meet the invasion if it comes. | Mohilize Troops. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mati, $8.00 per year. jew York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents Marines Leave for War on Nicaragua town Navy Yord to tie part in th guan workers. Photo shows latest detachment of U.S. marines leaving Charles- e Wall Street slaughter of Nicara- AUGUST 4, 1928, FOURTEENTH ANNIVER- SARY OF THE | OF THE UNITED STATES. Comrades: Fourteen years ago, on August WORLD WAR 4, 1914, began the World War in MEXICO CITY, Aug. 8. — A| On the other hand, it is reported which ten million workers and farmers were killgd and thirty millions twenty-year jail term, it was an-| from Warsaw that the entire situa-|™more were wounded. nounced, faces Mariq Concepcion sinate President-elect Obregon. Juan Correa Nieto, attorney gen- \eral of the federal district who is |nounced that he would ask for a twenty-year maximum sentence for nun, The Jose de Leon Toral, the slayer {js probably be executed. Toral and Manuel Trejo, one of the leaders of the Mexican Federa- tion of Labor whom the prosecutro in conformity with the general aims of reactionary forces, is trying to connect with the shooting, are said to have spent considerable time at the convent of which the nun was head. There the consfiracy was | tion as to who exactly was present has not yet been and may never be made public. The prosecutor asserted that his investigations disclosed in the a branding iron with the letter “TI. H. S.” The iron was used to mark the members of the secret clerical society of violence and assassina- tion. The date of Toral’s trial is to be fixed soon and it will probably take place. within fifteen days. MINERS’ FAIR HERE SUNDAY The struggles of thousands of men, women and children in the mine fields’ will be brought to | mn ‘ou, awaiting trial for murder and will | worked out although the informa-_ mother superior’s house or convent | | tion is viewed as critical there. Ac- |with strongholds at Olida and) | Bolosy. |ment and two air force squadrons | jare now concentrated at Olida. Ac- | ording to Polish jes, the geting te Pale PT bela artillery contingents. From Kovno, Lithuania’s capital, | it is reported that President Sme- tona, in an address before 50,000 peasants who gathered along the frontier to demonstrate their sup- ‘port of the government’s policy, lurred “that the people maintain | their unity ‘to .“face foreign pres- will not make any concessions in | the» Vilna question. | The speech was greeted with leries of “Vilna must remain Lithu- anian.” May Leave League. A conferenca of Polish and Lith- uanian representatives is scheduled to meet at Koenigsberg shortly in an endeavor to find some solution to the entire problem between the | two countries. | Semi-official Lithuanian circles |declare that Lithuania will with- |draw from the League of Nations junless the conference “gives Lith- |uania justice,” and this is generally |interpreted to mean a settlement of the question of the jurisdiction over the key city of Vilna in Lithuania’s \favor. It is said that Lithuania in withdrawing from the League of | Nations would do so on the grounds | ‘that it was not an organization capable of ‘protecting the rights of the smaller nations of the world. PHILA. TEXTILE That was called “the War to En n tory of the Allies which would make |SeGure the billions of dollars which the The Poles assert that the cavalry | Afferican bankers had at stake up- trus [ni charge of the prosecution an-| division of the First Ulan Regi-|on the, Allied cause, Today, fourteen years after the of the “War to End Bae BM sts emgage. world war. Today, ten years after Woodrow Wilson’s hypocritical “Peace,” the armaments of all capitalist nations of the world are larger than be- fore August 4, 1914. Since the im- perialist “Peace” hardly a month has passed that there has not been in one or another part of the world, armed conflict against a weaker nation, conducted by a signatory of that treaty, Today the “demo ie” United States, ruled by the big- gest bankers, the finance-capitalists of Wall Street, is in open warfare against Nicaragua, and in armed intervention in China, But in 1927, after the “War to End War,” the United States spent $757,000,000 on the army and navy. All army standards have been in- creased. Military and naval bud- gets.of all capitalist governments |are bigger than eyer before. Mili- , |tary methods have been mechanized | way for the slaughter of whole armies and whole populations of large cit- ies by wholesale. The wars which than any that have gone before. The wars of {> imperialist states against the so-called “undeveloped” | nations, China, Egypt, India, Nic- aragua, ete., are proceeding and the monstrous crime of Imperialist pow- nd War.” Fearing the anger of the Acebeda de la Llata, mother su- | cording to Polish information, Lith- | working class, the cenitalist politicians declared the World War of 1914 perior of a local convent.. who has |yania would be able to station one! “the Last War.” i been revealed as one of the leaders | artillery and four infantry regi-| mobilized the cannon-fodder of this in the clerical conspiracy to assas-| ments among the important towns German fellow-workers for a vic-¢ With hypocritical phrases about “democracy” they ation into the shambles to fight their committed to obey the commands o biggest “banks and industrial in their “foreign policies,” ch means the unlimited use of the diplomatic, naval and military power of the government to impose the. imperialist profit - making ‘sthemes of these tapitalists upon the whole world. Imperialism The development of the forces of production in each capitalist country drives its ruling oligarehy to secure for itself more and more territories into which to pour its products and its surplus capital, filched from la- bor, for investment in the greedy scramble for more profits. Already, before the War of 1914, the entire world had been divided up for exploitation, into colonies, “possessions” and “spheres of influ- ence.” Each imperialist power, striv- ing for further territory and more subject peoples to exploit, is forced to fight another imperialist power for possession. It was this imperi- alist struggle and not “moral” causes, not “to make the world safe for Democracy,” that caused Ger- many and Great Britain, Japan, + Russia, and France to go to n 1914, and the United States to enter that war. The cause of imperialist wars lies are coming will be more terrible in the nature of imperialism itself. It is this same cause which is pushing the imperialist powers now to another and ‘a bigger war. U. S. and Britain to Fight But, whereas Germany! and Great ers in attempting to crush the Chi-| Britain were the two chief powers hese revolution may itself precipi-| at daggers’ points in 1914, so the tate a world war. The first sparks United States and Great Britain are of the coming holocaust of war be-| today the two biggest imperialist “'ST INTERNATIONAL URGES ANTI-WAR STRUGGLE ® Pilsudski Masses Troops in Clash Over Vilna WORKERS MUST DEFEAT _ IMPERTALIST ATTACKS AGAINST SOVIET UNION Turn Capitalist Slaughter Into Class Conflict, Is Slogan Warn That “Socialists,” “Pacifists,” Are Smoke Sereen for Armament Preparation The following appeal to the working class of the world has been received by the Daily Worker from the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International on the fourteenth anniversary of the im- perialist World War. MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Aug. 3. To the workers and peasants of all countries! To all oppressed peoples! To all Communist Parties! Fourteen years have passed since the outbreak of the world slaughter. The imperialists declared that the World War was the last war, but today there are signs of war every- | where as the nations feverishly arm. The imperialists are openly conducting armed interven- tion against the Chinese Revolution. Thousands are being | killed because the imperialists demand the control of the Chi- nese markets. The present intervention threatens world peace. War Against U. S. S. R. The preparations for war against the Soviet Union are as plain as |day. The imperialists are strengthening their armies ‘and armaments. Millions of dollars are being spent on armaments. The bitter struggle for markets can only end in war. Today, more than in 1914, the imperialists are hiding their preparations for war under a pacifist mask, the League of Nations, the Kellogg pact, ete. The aim of all these efforts is to convince the workers that the abolition of war is possible within the frame work of capitalist society. The capitalists want to conceal from the workers the dangerous truth that the only way to abolish war is by overthrowing capitalism and erect- ing a dictatorship of the proletariat. : “ Imperialist Agents. The “socialist” and “pacifists” are assisting the imperialists con- sciously or unconsciously to mislead the workers in order to trap them into another war. The Communist International appeals to all workers with the cry: “Down with the imperialist war”; “Fight with all means against war”; “Side with the Soviet Union against the imperialists.” The Communist International appeals to all workers to demonstrate on the fourth of August under these slogans against the imperialists and their “pacifist” and “socialist” agents. The workers must energetically assist the Chinese workers. The war clouds on the horizon of the Soviet Union must cause the workers to take energetic measures to defend the Soviet Union. Only the most energetic struggle can put the workers in a position to resist the im- yerialist war, whether it comes from internal contradictions among the imperialists or from their common hatred of the Soviet Union. All Communists, revolutionary workers and peasants must work to turn the imperialist war into a civil war against the imperialist bour- geoisie. Long live the Chinese Revolution! Long live the Soviet Union! Down with international imperialism! (Signed) The Communist International in its Sixth Congress Assembled. WORKERS STRIKE MOBILIZE ACTIVE IN ROLLS ROYCE CLOAK WORKERS | The electrical department of the) po): seas |Brewster Rolls Royce automobile | eatonty: mobilization steps factory in Long Island went out on for the great drive to build a cloak strike last Monday after their de-|and dressmakers’ union were com- |mand for the reinstatement of M.| pleted last night with the holding of |Fortoul had been refused. Fortoul| a enthusiastic meeting of the ac- was fired “to cut down expenses.’ To bolster up this hypocritical state- | tive workers in Manhattan Lyceum, keyed up to a high point of inten- sity and their determination is con. stantly demonstrated by their defi- ence of police orders on the picket | day that all necessary steps are be- | ing taken to effect the release of | these class war prisoners. | At the same time strenuous ef- forts are being made to meet the needs of the textile strikers now in the sixteenth week of their strug- gle. Thirteen hundred pounds of bread’ were brought here by the Workers International Relief yester- day. They went to feed the need- jest cases among the hundreds of workers and workers’ children who are in urgent need of relief. YOUNG WORKERS TRAINING SCHOOL. ROCKFORD, IIL, Aug. 3.—A training school is being conducted by the Young Workers (Communist) League at Rockford, closing Aug. 25. Most of the young workers in attendance come from the Illinois mining area and from the iron and! steel mills extending from ‘Wauke- gan through Chicago to Gary and peyond. Max Appelman is in abarge. i which can afford no teal and per- manent benefit to th efarmers, rep- resents the issu earound which some | f the farming forces have fought. | Miners’ Solidarity Fair that has Pleasant Bay Park Sunday when the | miners’ strike film will be shown | MEET for the first time at the great| been arranged by the National Smith’s announcement is taken therefore as a sort of defeat in democratic party. SELLS CEME. MIXERS TO U. 8. S. R. COLUMBUS, O., August 3, (F.P.) —The Jaeger Machine Co. of Colum- bus is shipping 2 carloads of cemen? mixers to the Soviet Union. Miners’ Relief Committee. | This film was taken in the strike lines, efforts to release their com-| principle for those unreliable lead- fields, not in a studio, and tells the Z rades remaining in the New Bedford | ers who within the past few weeks | story of the heroic struggles of the |at Free Letts Hall, 581 N. Seventh iol are being pushed. The Interna-|have sought t oturn th efarm dis- miners in scenes that are vivid and | St. tional Labor Defense announced to-| content to the advantage of the gripping. The early scenes show the men working in the mines. Then | the strike is called. The men leave the mines in a body. Picketing | scenes, scenes of women and chil- | dren, babies with empty milk bottles. | Evictions, building of barracks. Scab | mine accidents, ambulances, corpses. | Continued on Page Two USSR. GRAIN PLENTIFUL Peasants Sell Their MOSCOW, Aug. 3.—Official gov- ernment reports published here to- day show that considerable amounts of grain have been bought up by the Soviet buying cooperatives and that the peasants are reacting very favorably to the new legislation governin gthe buying of the crops. The harvest is not only plentiful but of especially fine quality. Dur- ing the last few days of July, ‘Union, Best Grain to Gov't Souyzchleb, the largest all-Union grain * purchasing organization, bought 15,000 tons, 200 per cent more than during the five preceding days, Big progress was reported in Northern Caucasia where large quantities of barley and wheat of | the highest quality were bought up. | Favorable repotrs have also’ come ‘in from all parts of the Soviet | \ | | 1 | PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3.—A dig district conference of the Textile | | Mills Committees will be held in | Philadelphia Sunday at 1:30 p. m., Albert Weisbord, national secre- tary of the Textile Mills Commit- | | tees, will be one of the chief speak- | lers.. This conference will have dele- | gates from textile mills in every | tmportant center around Philadel- | phia, including Easton, Bethlehem, | Reading, Chester, Trenton, and the’ various towns and cities in the an- | thracite region, as well as 2 num-— her of mills in Philadelphia. This conference will mark a be- ginning in the organization of the textile workers in these centers. There ‘are no organizations of the workers in Easton, Bethlehem, Ches- ter and Trenton. In Philadelphia and Reading only a small percent- age of the textile workers are or-| ganized, chiefly within the reaction- ary United Textile Workers of America. The district conference in Phila- | delphia will be the first step for-| ward in the establishment of com- mittees of rank and file workers in every textile mill in this district. Here the preparations. and plans for building a new, fighting textile ‘saion |tween the great imperialist nations rivals. are already in the wind. Cause of War The problems of petroleum, of control of the sea, the problems of the market and of export of capi- tal, drive the rapacious finance-cap- im this section will be made. | ver and the parties penina wfem are | explosion, only two neve recovered The cause of the World War is jtalist oligarchy of Wall Street to now clear to millions of workers. penetration of the territories of the The cause is in the capitalist sys- is, imperialism, stricken wi. decay tem itself. Imperialism is the mon- | but still a mighty world-force deeply opoly stage of capitalism, in which British empire. The powerful Brit- great cartels, combines and trusts jintrenched in all are the dominant force in the life globe, faces the new and more pow- of the capitalist nations. In the erful American imperialism which is United States the big mergers of d¥iven inexorably to fight to displace giant corporations proceed openly, its older rival as exploiter of the and there is no longer any pretense world. of enforcing the famous “Anti-| Trust Laws” (except against La- bor unions!). The final stage of trustification is reached by the com- plete merging of the giant banking Other Antagonisms At the same time the imperialist Continued on Page Three quarters of the| ment, the company gave him a good 66 E. 4th St. |recommendation and said they were| In his opening remarks the chair- “sorry.” Yet the knowledge of the | man of the meeting, Saseha Zimmer- true reason for his dismissal was) man, of the National Organization |immediately recognized by the men. | Committee, declared that the drive That reason was a suspicion of con- for a union would be officially nection with the “Mascot,” the shop jaunched next week with the holding paper of the Communist nucleus in| o¢ the huge mass meeting of all the shop. eS cloak and dressmakers in Bronx The Mascot” had been appearing | Stadium Wednesday night. The first monthly since February of . this | stage of this drive, during which year. The company was forced to a1 intensive organization campaign jmake many of the small improve-| 5 in he waged thruout the trade, will |ments demanded by the paper. The |isst about five weeks. | All the nc: ‘company organized a sociat and ti “ A ‘ ive cloak and dressmakers will have athletic club, whieh fell fiat with |.) serve ‘an volunteers dn thie! drive: th 5 4: Mee athe uss airadves, thus devoting at least three days to the Continued on Page Two Woniritp MAIL Right Wing Frantic. houses together with the mergers | of industrial corporations. These | financial-industrial mergers have al- | ready reached the point in all capi- | “s talist countries where they hold com- | Pa a ee oe plete domination over the lives of 20) Dead Many Dy the peoples. The governments of all ? “advanced” capitalist countries are mere adjuncts of the national oli-| VINCENNES, Ind., Aug. 3.~-The | garchies of finance-capital. In the toll of deaths as a result of the} coming so-called “democratic” elec- explosion Wednesday morning of an | tion in the United States, both of the old steam oil still of the Indian| two candidates of the big capitalist Refining Company has already risen parties are representatives of the|to 20, and only one of the 15 re-| same finance-capitalist oligarchy, maining survivors of the blast is and each competes with the other to expected to recover. The deaths of prove that,he has the support of the five more workers are expected mo- greater number of the lords of fi- , mentarily. nance-capital, Both Smith ard Hoo- Of the 37 brought here after the SACRIFICED TO PROFIT In a speech full of irony and humor J. Boruchovich described the sad state of the pirate right-wing clique and pointed out the tasks that Continued on Page Two Railroad Worker Is Killed in Collision ng in Oil Explosion’ sufficiently to be “discharged. Medical aid to the injured has been in vain and deaths have been averaging one every two hours. VALLEY CITY, Ml, The disaster occurred while the | (U, P.)—-C. B. ies ae aa: refinery's fire brigade was fighting | man, was killed today when Wabash a small fire in a néarby still. When | passenger train number 8 Crashed the second fire alarm was turned |into the Caboose of a freight train. in, the workers, complying with | the freight was pulling into a siding - company orders rushed out only to | to make way for the passenger but find themselves drenched in flam- | the caboos> had not cleared the right ing oil. of C oe