The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 6, 1928, Page 1

ARREST THOUSAND AT FRENCH ANTIWAR MEET THE DAILY WORKER: FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT | Daily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. AL CITY EDITION lay by The National Daily Worker ition, Inc:, 26-28 Union Sq., New York, CHAPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Cent Vol. V., No. 185 ¥. “NEW YORK, MOND AY, AUGUST 6, 1928 Outside New Yo A.F.OF L. ADMITS DEFEAT IN FIGHT ON JAIL THOUSAND AT HUGE PARIS ANTI-WAR MEET Red Demonstration in Spite of Police | PARIS, Aug. 5.—More than one | thousand workers who had gathered at the Ivry, a suburb of Paris to) demonstrate against the danger of | a new imperialist war in defiance | “ofa government edict forbidding all | demonstrations held under the aus- pices of the French Communist | Party were arrested today. The little town of Ivry took on the | appearance of a besieged town when) three thousand Republican Guards, | armed with rifles, machine guns and | hand grenades, surrounded it and/ charged the demonstration one hun-| dred and fifty young Red Guards | who were selected to maintain dis- cipline at the meeting were among those ‘arrested. The Communist Deputy, and mayor of the suburb, | Capdeville, was also arrested. | | Vaillant - Couturier, Communist | leader and one of the editors of) L’Humanite, was arrested at a meeting at an anti-imperialist meet- | ing last night when he urged work-| ers to attend today’s demonstration | against war in spite of the police} ban. | The threat of deportation hangs over the heads of foreign-born workers who participated in the demonstration against the im- perialist war danger. Defying the police, the Commu- nists are planning to hold another huge demonstration tonight. Police and troops are being mobilized for Eli Keller, organizer of the Textile Mills Committee and Elizabeth Donneley, children’s organizer of the T. M. C. have been jailed by the police, the now open agents of the mill bosses. The arrest of the leaders has failed to dampen two militant leaders. The picture shows the courage of strikers who continue to defy police orders in picket- ing at several mills. USSR WORKERS FIGHT AGAINST WAR DANGER ‘SOVIET AVIATOR MOSCOW, August 5.—The an- niversary of the outbreak of the world war was marked by workers’ demonstrations thruout the Soviet| Union at which were pointed out the preparations for a new war by the imperialist power and the desire of the workers and peasants of the) Soviet Union for peace. All news- papers carried articles which point- ed out the necessity for a struggle | | against war. The editorial in the Moscow Iz- vestia pointed out that the capitalist nations were heavily armed and that the struggle for markets is no less accute than in the years preceding the war. The United States is de- New Bedford Strike Leaders Jailed | Fall River Meet Votes WILL WALK-OUT UNLESS COMPANY GIVES DEMANDS Demonstration for the Jailed Leaders (Special to the Daily Worker) FALL RIVER, Mass., Aug. 5.— Following the announcement by the Fall River Textile Mills Committee that demands of workers would be sent to the American Printing Com- pany and the Lincoln Manufacturing Company, both of this city, with the ultimatum: “Accept or we will strike,” 3,000 textile workers massed here at one of their regular nightly meetings at Liberty Lot, unani- TELLS HIS STORY Babushkin Joked When Marooned in Arctic MOSCOW, August 5.—A tale of |brave men in the frozen wastes of Polic the North, surrounded by hardships, continual storms and ice,’ and in spite of /all comradely and good- spirited, was told by the Soviet flier Babushkin, who just arrived here| mously passed a call to strike and elected a committee of one hundred to carry the letter and the strike vote to the mill bosses. Simultaneously with the reading and acceptance of the letter Unanim Copy of McGrady Letter Admitting Defeat ACRICK YEDERATION OF LABOR WASHINGTOS,D.C. ALF. OF L. BDC. July 6, 1528, Copy Mr.A.I.Shiplacoff, Secretary, Committee for Preservation of Trade Unions 55 ‘Test 21 st Street, New York City. Dear Sir amd Brotner:- Upun my return to New York City I was informed fo the ac tion of the Preservation of Trade Unions Commitvee un gaving tur uiee aseastanve to the Pur Yorkers Joint council in New York. It is indeed too bad that no further financial support can be Given to the fur workers at this time. As you know, a large number of the ¢isgruntled, and I might say dishonest, members of the fur workers have been suspended from membership for the good and welfare of the organization. They have joined with the communist forces of the city in a last desperate attempt to smash the Pur Workers Uniob affiliated.with the American Federation of Labor. The committee representing the American Federation of lator ouragedover this, situation and as a result of the action of your committee I have conferred with President Green on this situation and we feel that inasmuch as the Preservation of T Unions Committee is not in a position to render any further ance the eration of Labor will surrender i@_various matters ups If there is anything further that you think might be done in the immediate future,I will be very glad to hear from you. hepae pe American Federation of Labor will get out of the situation w e next few weeks. Thanking you for the personal interest you have taken in the matter, I am, with every good wish. Yours sincerely, Edward McGrady-Organizer Chief of Police Feeney and his offi- lcers appeared on the field and ar-| rested the leaders of the Textile Mills Committee, in spite of protests | from the meeting. Mass Demonstration. | Resentment among the workers | was almost indescribable as the/| whole meeting responded to the} e violence and streaming from | | Liberty Lot poured down to the jail’ where they staged a mass demon- | stration in the streets, demanding | the immediate release of their) | leaders. s Jim Reid, Sam Weisman, and Wil- | RELIEF VITAL TO WIN NEW BEDFORD STRIKE If the Workers International Re- lief had not furnished food to the | 256 textile strikers arrested Mon- a | Whitman mill, they would have SF ed ei starved for two days while held in FUR WORK by mail, $6.00 . WORKERS ously for Strike Call TWO YEAR OLD UNION “WRECKING DRIVE FAILS: ~ LEFT-WING BOARD WINS | McGrady Letter to Shiplacoff Admits Workers Have Repudiated Right-Wing {Green Orders Abandonment of Terror Reign | as Money Payments Give Out ! Routed, beaten into final surrender, discouraged beyond all hope of continuing the fight of union wreckers in the Ameri- ean Federation of Labor has further, the right wing crew | openly admitted its defeat in the Furriers’ Union and is taking steps to liquidate all traces of the treacherous struggle which *for nearly two years it has waged with bribery and cor- ruption, by means of the black jack and the lead pipe, with the, aid of police thugs and gangster squads, against the efforts of needle trades workers to maintain their unions. ‘WAR LORDS SPLIT AT NANKING MEET Fight On in China Over | Spoils Game Is Up. “The American Federation of La- bor will surrender its control of the situation just as soon as we can close the various maters up,” Ed- ward McGrady, A. F. of L. organizer and chief of the right wing wreck- ers, wrote in a letter to A. I. Ship- lacoff, “socialist” job-holder and secretary of the so-called Committee to Preserve the Trade Unions. A copy of the letter which has come into the possession of the left wing Furriers’ Joint Union Board, SHANGHAI, Aug. 5—As_ the | Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang is unable to muster a quorum and proceed with its ses- | sions at Nanking reports received ‘here indicate that General Yen) | Hsi-shon, governor of Shansi, is re- moving his troops from the Peking area and concentrating them in readiness for opeh warfare. Simultaneously, Marshal Feng Yu- Weisbord and Nearing: jail awaiting trial, it was learned today. and which has just been made public, the mae gyricee : hsiang, has left Nanking, and is re- ported to have refused to participate Address Delegates The arrival of the food sent by was written to Shiplacoff by Me- y, pene _clared to be the most powerful na- Grady immediately as the latter up- from Archangel, where the ice-cut-| liam Soroka, all leaders of the Fall PAPIS. Aug. 5.—Ninety-six Com- | munists were arrested today in con- | nection with a Red demonstration against militarism in the weods in} the vicinity of Paris. | Before the demonstration the gov- | ernment announced that it would} break up any meetings. held by the Communist Party. The edict was! issued by.the Poincare government | in its attempt to check the rapid | growth of the French Communist | Party. The demonstration was’ held’ ‘in connection with the anniversary of the World War to protest against | the danger of a new imperialist war. | Speakers stressed the necessity of | fighting against the war danger, of | mobilizing support for the Soviet | JJnion and the struggling masses. Continued on Page Three ALLIANCE SEEN IN NAVAL PACT French and_ British ter Maligin has docked. The hardy and stalwart Babush- kin, whé worked in a factory and his story with real relish, his eyes tinkling with the spirit of adven- ture and a devilish humor. His listeners could not help but feel the unbreakable spirit of the man who related how he and his companions Jingoes Hai] It PARIS, August. 5.—The Franco. British: naval pact, although stil kept seceret, has aroused the Pari- sien capitalist press to hailing it as a further political and military bond between the two governments. Enough has been related from of- ficial and semi-official sources to} reassure the militarists and conserv- joked, while they were hemmed in Eat Bear. He told how he made fifteen \flights in spite of wind and storm jand on every one of his flights he met with a storm that more than once forced him to land far from the mother ship. One storm forced him to fly only 160 feet above the ice and finally grew so fierce that he | River Textile Mills Committee, were |the men arrested. They are held on | warrants charging them with dis- | |as a member in the Red Army had|turbing the peace similar to the the Workers (Communist) Party |fought in the civil war, recounted| | Continued on Page Five THOUSANDS AT |by ice and marooned on ice packs. | ANTI-WAR MEET Gitlow Hits Powers;) Flays Kellogg Plan | Over a thousand workers gathered | | on Union Square Saturday afternoon _ |at 2 p. m. to participate in the) | gates present, stressing the fact that | NEWARK, N. J., August 5.—The the Workers International Relief was greeted by cheers by the work- ers who were closely herded to- |gether in small cells. “Hurrah for |the Workers International Relief!” |was the slogan. Taken into custody Monday after- New Jersey State Convention of for the purpose of ratifying the platform of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, opened here today at | the Workers enter, 3 Mercer St.,| | with delegates representing almost | 20°F the workers pee. refused sends levery big industry in the state pre-|£00d by the prison officials who 1 eat; jclaim that thoge arrested late in the Scott Nearing,* named candidate) (a¥ are not entitled to food. When for G és | William Schwarzfeller, local relie Petty eee ree director of the Workers Interna- and Albert Weisbord, candidate for tional Relief was informed of the _| police ruling, he immediately rushed the U. S. Senate, addressed the dele {dod toithe ‘prison‘ It cousiuted ‘of 500 100 doughnuts, Page Five sandwiches, é | New Jersey is one of the onen-shop Continued states, controlled by the big cor- porations. and that the fight will in the Kuomintang sessions. The first indication that the op- posing factions within the Nanking regime has come to an open breech was the sudden retirement of Gen- jeral Yen-Hsi-shon to his province of Shansi when he was expected to |be on the way to Nanking. The re- | moval of his troops from the Peking area, where he was left in charge by Chiang Kai-shek, and the report | that he was concentrating them has led to the general belief that war- | fare may break out at any moment between the Kuomintang generals. At the same time the withdrawal of Feng Yu-hsiang from Nanking, is considered here a confirmation of the report that he had allied him- self with General Yen against Chiang Kai-shek and his faction. on a recent visit to the city was in- formed that no further funds would be forthcoming to the labor fakers. By this admission is revealed one of their reasons for having launched the drive on the workers in the needle trades. Consternation! The receipt of the letter by the little “socialist” job-holders putting a formal end to the game which in fact had long since been played out, caused a temporary flurry of con- sternation in the right wing camp. A hurried conference, it has been learned, was ealled for July 17 at which desperate efforts were made to raise funds to continue the at- tack. At the same time the word was passed to the police industrial squad to intensify its murderous as- saults on the needle trades workers Continued on Page Fowr In the meantime General Chiang Kai-shek, who just arrived in Shang- hai, is believed to be attempting to induce the Canton group of the ative opinion that technically nothing had been done to hinder the growth of the French navy and that un- i | demonstration against imperialist | have to be carried on with all the! jee se ate bir cto walt | var on the fourteen anniversary of | Tesources ites aged to open ae bed lthere for three days, cut off from| the beginning of the last world |°f the workers slaving in the big) | | factories to the necessity of organi- |the world. Our provisions. ran ‘low| Slaughter to “make the world safe) eter ind of voting the Workers| HAYWOOD ASHES PUT IN. KREMLIN Thousands Honor Dead at Funeral MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 5— Following a solemn funeral cere- mony, the ashes of William D. Hay- wood, American Communist leader, and Eugene Landler, leader of the Hungarian Communist Party, were placed in the wall of the Kremlin in the first workers’ and peasants’ re-| public. All morning the urns containing the ashes stood exposed in the Oc- tober Hall of the Labor Palace, where posts of honor, consisting of - four comrades each from the Ameri- can, Hungarian, German, British, French and other delegations stood guard, The urns were carried to the Red Square, accompanied by American and Hungarian delegates to the World Congress of the Communist International. With tens of thousands of Mos- cow workers attending, Semard opened the funeral ceremonies. The masses were then addressed by Semard, of France, for the Com- munist International; by Alexander Losovsky, president of the Red In- ternational of Trade Unions, for the Central and Moscow Committees of the All-Union Communist Party; William W. Weinstone, for the Workers (Communist) Party; Bela Kun, for the Hungarian Communist Party; by Starchov, for the Com- munist Party of China, and by Carl- ton for the Negroes........ At the conclusion of the meeting the urns were walled, into the Krem- lin, accompanied by the strains of the Funeral. March and the Inter- limited development of the French| land forces will not be interfered with. That the conservative forces are frankly very pleased over the pact of mutual development is shown by editorials in “Le Temps” and the statement of a well-known conserv- ative political writer who said: Haven’t the Germans frequently said we were soldiers of England? The English have become to some extent our sailors. The interests of England and France are comple- mentary.” r rR ue Hailed as War Agreement. | LONDON, August 5.—The British press comment on the naval pact between the English and French Governments, whether they be favor- able or unfavorable, agree in their opinion that the pact represents a virtual alliance for the benefit of both powers. _It is pointed out in many papers that the new pact is analogous in many ways to the old alliance->f 1906 which prepared the way for oe landing of British troops on Fre soil if France were attacked. The Manchester Guardian, a lib- eral paper, suggests that besides the actual pact itself certain agree- ments have been entered into be- tween the two naval and military departments to provide for a pooling of the two navies in time of war. The conservative paper, The Satur- day Review, looks with disfavor upon the freedom given the French military authorities to strengthen their land forces. REFORMISTS IN CONFAB BRUSSELS, Aug. 5 (UP.)The in- ternational socialist conference cpened here ‘today. ‘Arthur Hen- derson, British labor party leader, in an address before the conference |so we killed a bear and cut out and| for democracy.” | ate the soft parts, being careful to attracting more with the smell of blood. “The fourth day it cleared so we flew back but the Maligin had gone.| Fruitlessly we explored the whole region but then we were forced to land to save our fuel. Fominikh, Continued on Page Two Norway Building Trades Wages Cut OSLO, Norway, Aug. 5.—A wage | reduction of 8 per cent has been forced upon the building trades | gozin, Robert Minor, D. Benjamin, Jersey conventian of the Workers | (Communist) Party will appear in) workers. There were 26,000 unem- | ployed in Norway at the end of July. | | Benjamin Gitlow, candidate for) |throw the rest away so as to avoid| Vice-president of the United States. Delegates present represented the) on the Workers (Communist) Party | ticket, stressed the significance of the preparations now in progress by | every imperialist nation of the | |world for future warfare. Other \speakers denounced the Kellogg |Plan as a hypocritical gesture, | stressing its failure to include the | | Soviet Union in the pact, and flayed the imperialist powers for | having shrunk so squeamishly from | Maxim Litvinoff’s proposal at the! | Geneva conference for complete dis- armament. Other speakers included Ray Ra- Rebecea Grecht, Manya Reiss, An- thony Bimba, and Jessie Taft of the Young Pioneers, (International greeted the speakers (Communist) Party ticket. saris NANKING TERROR and Hauffman, Sart: EY. irtually Recognizes Aeronautic © atterson; ‘ide | W: ar Lords Water Oil Co.; Bayonne. Singer) Sewing Machine Co., Elizabeth; GENEVA, Aug. 5.—The Nanking regime was recognized- by the Standard Oil Company. Bayonne; the Du Pont Chemical Co., Arling- ton and many other of New Jersey’s| League of Nations as representing large open shop industries. |China today when it accepted the Great enthusiasm marked the pro-| nomination of Sac-ke Alfred Sze, | ceedings at the meeting. Protracted, Nanking’s minister to Washington |as the delegate to the September | meeting of the League Assembly. The virtual recognition by the cheering and the singing of the Kuomintarlg to participate in the plenary sesSions and form a quorum. | That the disagreement between the Nanking regime and the-Japan- ese government is growing sharper is indicated by reports from, Tsing- tao that the Japanese officials there had not permitted the Nanking| | representatives to fly the Kuomin- tang flag. At the same time the, boycott exercised by Chinese mer-| chants against Japanese goods is| reported to be growing ‘stronger. . VESSEL FINDS POLISH FLIERS Fascists are Sighted Off Coast LISBON, Aug. 5.—The Polish trans-Atlantic plane “Marshall Pil- sudski,” piloted by Louis Idzidow ski and Casimir Kubala in an a’ * « who struck the keynote of class| SHANGHAI, Aug. 5.—There is a United States followed by the ac- tion of the League of Nations, isin Shanghai that the German gov- looked upon as marking the accept-| ernment is preparing to recognize ance of the business men’s govern-|the Nanking regime. The German ment of Nanking as the “respon- expected. here fram sible representative” of China. struggle. A complete report of the New) rumor current among official circles tomorrow’s issue of The Daily Worker. minister Peking. is COMMUNISTS ANSWER CHALLENGE OF GREEN FUR TUEL 10 Reply to Threat With That the members of the Work- ers (Communist) Party are active in the New Bedford textile strike, in the coal mining regions and in- dustry in general, was frankly af- firmed today in a statement issued by Benjamin Gitlow, vice-presiden- tial candidate of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, in reply to a de- cision of the executive council of the A. F. of L., in session at Atlantic City, which declared for a new war of extermination against Com- munist influence in the trade unions. The statement is as follows: | Communist Activities Expanding. | “The executive council of the described the development of post- war socialism as “encouraging.” American csi a of Labor, in session at Atlantic City, a summer resort patronized by bankers, busi- ness men and trade union bureau- crats, while marking time over the delicate problem whether to endorse Al Smith or Herbert Hoover, the two Wall Street candidates in the election campaign, broke the mon- otony of their, wait by issuing a fresh declaration of war on the Communists. “According to press reports of this threatened offensive, the high- salaried officials of the A. F. of 1. discovered to their amazement that, despite several previous wars of ex- termination against the Commu- nists, the latter are more active than ever and that their activities are Call to Workers to Throw Out All Labor Misleaders MEET TONIGHT expanding. |road workers to be held in Chicago. js ‘ “Reports to William Green from|He denounced these efforts to build|,. 4% important meeting of the trade union ‘organizers’ are re-| militant fighting unions as a work 77@de Union Educational League of | ported to reveal that the Com- of ‘disruption, and declared ‘we | the Furriers Union will be held at | munists were actively cngaged|shall deal with each situation as ® °'clock tonight at the Workers fighting on the side of the striking | seems best, and we shall do every- | Center, 26-28 Union Square. miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West | thing possible to protect American, This meeting is open to hon-mem- Virginia, Indiana and Illinois, with | wage-earners against the designs of bets as well as members and is re- the striking textile workers in New Moscow, which are entirely revolu- | 84tded as of the greatest” import- Bedford—in fact, wherever the tionary and which we thoroughly ance a8 the management committee | struggle between the exploited understand.’ jof the Joint Board will render a Te-| workers and the employers develops| “For the hundredth time the ex-| Port on its activities and its plans into an open clash. |eutive council of the A. F. of L,|for the future. | Green Sees “Moscow.” has declared that it would drive the | fe RR RRO ETT | “President Green is said to have Communists out of the trade unions. | MORE JOBLESS in his possession copies of a callfor| Communists Organize Workers. The use of electric trucks instead | a miners’ national convention in| “The central executive commit-|of hand trucks has resulted in al Pittsburgh issued by the Com- | tee of the Workers (Communist) great decrease of employment amc munists and of a convention MY rail- Continued on Page Three ithe longshoremen. | aS Pe el | America, |lantic flight. tempt to succeed in a publicity sty flight following in the footsteps the ill-prepared Nobile “expeditio, fell near Cape Finistere and x found by the Hamburg-Amer™ Line steamship Samos, and has brought to the Portuguese poft “on Leitoes. One of the fliers, Major Kubala, was seriously injured and was taken to the military hospital at Oporto. — eee PARIS, Aug. 5.—The Polish : tors, Idzidowski and Kubala sl have awaited more favorable er before starting their flight several French aviation officials said today. ee They said that the flyers had been rushed by the Polish gove! n who had been planning the Hight ; for some time, resulting in the fliers. leaving before they had made ade= quate preparations for a cross-At- Majors Leon Idzikowski and Casi- mir Kubala are fascists and now | very active in the conta ae ary armies that invaded the Union after the reolution. They are known to be the instigators of pro- groms against the Jews in Poland and involved in the Danzia “corridor” incident, Pox. Bi TKNa ee” ~~