The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 6, 1928, Page 2

& f ' i 6 ies ‘4 ecutive director of the Zionist Or- Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1928. Foster and Gitlow Will Start Country-Wide Election Campaign Tour in September oy WM ramPull BARTY ARRANGES BY COMMUNIST ELECTION DRIVE Red Candidates Start September 1 The most extensi and intensive Communist pronaganda and organi- zational campaign ever undertaken by the Wo art rs (Communist) Party ber Ist. when Wil- and Ben- n a nation-wide them from Mas st to Oregon West, to Texas ie South and from York, where they -month trip on the viee- sachusetts and Ca and_Geor there ba will finish the tw eve of polling day. The itinerary of the heads of the Communist ticket was made public yesterday by the National Election Campaign Committee of the Work- ers (Communist) Partv from elec- tion head-quarters at 43 East 125th Street. Reports reaching campaign head- quarters from all parts of the coun- try indicate that the workers are ex- tremely interested in the Communist campaign, the better informed of them growing daily more hostile to the democr d republican par- ties and d the liberal hogwash alist party preacher candidate, the Reverend Norman Thomas, who is appealing to the libe: and small business- men and ignoring the class strug- gle of the workers and poor farmers. For the first time since the organ- ization of the Workers (Communis' Party, in 1921, Communist orga izers are building the Party in eve state in the union, taking advantage of the interest aroused among the OPEN-AIR MEETS THRUOUT N.Y. CITY Speakers to Cover All Boroughs The agitprop department of the Workers (Communist) Party has ar- ranged tor a series of open-air meet- ings this week that will cover all the boroughs in the city. Prominent speakers have heen assigned to cover the varioussmeetings. A list of the meetings and the speakers | follows: Tuesday, Aug. 7. Grand St. Extension and Have- meyer, Brooklyn—In- charge, P. Midolla; speakers, Yusem, P. Sha- piro and A. Mershon. Sutter and Williams, Brooklyn— In charge, Macklin; speakers, Pad- gug, G. Welsh, Ragozin and A. Pop- kin. Longwood and Prospect Ave., Bronx—In charge, V. Cibulsky; | speakers, Moore, Reiss, I. Cohen and Severino. Wednesday, Aug. 8. | Second Ave. and Tenth St—In Smith, and Epstein. Union Square—In charge, Ross; | Speakers, Baum, Blake and Powers. | Wilkins and Intervale—In jcharge,- Leroy; speakers, Grech Frishkoff and Jacobson. jeharge, Rosemond; speakers, | Wright, Schalk and Reiss. Passaic—In charge, Staliar; man. Eagle Pencil Co, charge, Garlin; speaker, Ballam. ARMOO masses by the election campaign to make new contacts and to explain the program and platform of the Party to the industrial and agricul- tural workers, to the poor farmers and the persecuted Negroes. With the Party, already ballot in several states anc sands of Communists collecting the necessary number of signatures to st place it on the b at least. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5 (FP). thirty of the forty states in —Two widows wept ceaselessly and the union, the Foster-Gitlow tour Children mourned for their fathers, is sure to reach hundreds of thou- killed through greed of the Phila- sands of workers who never heard delphia Gas Works Co. the Communist message before, The gas company, a trust which : As campaigners Foster and Git- pales up oe ‘ohiewaga pak public to low have few equals. Both have the tune of millions each year, sent years of agitational and organiza- out a gang of 50 men—working tional work behind them, and are ac- nine hours a day for $4.14—to dig customed to the hardships of pro-|a ditch for a fence around its huge tracted speaking tours. | plant at Passyunk Ave. The ground The schedule of dates is as fol.) Here is of soft clay. But no shor- lows: ing or bracing was put up for Monday, September 3, Philadel-| WoTKers’ protection. phia; Thursday, Sept er 6, Mo-| When the ditch was three feet nessen or Canonsbur, iday, Sep-|deep, the seven-foot embankment tember 7, Pittsburgh; Sunday, Sep-| towering over it began to slide. tember 9, Cleveland; Monday Sep-| Within a few minutes it had com- tember 10, Youngstown; Tuesday,| pletely buried two workers and im- September 11, Bellaire; Wednesday,’ prisoned two others. Their com- September 12, Toledo; Thursday,|rades dug frantically with hands, September 13, Grand Rapids; Fri- shovels and buckets to free the day, September 14, Gary; Saturday, trapped men. When uncovered one September 15, Indianapolis; Sun-|was dead, another died soon after day, September 16, St. Louis; Mon-| reaching the hospital and two were day, September 17, Springfield;, treated for serious injuries. The Wednesday, September 19, Duluth;/ two workers killed were Anthony oS. eaieoter sie i Cinquino and Joseph Carrutto, ange; Saturday, September 22, Both had been working for the Bismarck; Monday, September 24,| gas company about three weeks. Plentywood; Wednesday, September | Cgrrutto, 34, had been employed at 26, Great Falls; Friday, September! in. McCain sugar refiner But 28,.Spokane; Sunday, September 30, ae. i ee Lp ; ic i * unable to support his family on Seattle; Monday October 1, Port-|three days work a week, he quit t land; Tuesday, October 2, Astoria; | y sb ‘ sAegaldedhoagtong look for another job. Cinquino, 40, ‘Thursday October 4, Oakland; Fri- tind Seen cell: f : ~ " ing for the Atlantic “day, October 5, San Francisco; Sun-| G25 Refini ra ne z ining Co. as a fireman four day, October 7, Los Angeles; Tues-| Oe One ‘Sunday he was cdught day, October 9, San Diego; Wednes- by hed Sit an “after fo Fe be ee October 10, Phoenix; Thurs-| rere te tiew for quitting ana day, October 11 Tucson; Saturday, ay be pee 5 lew for quitting —énd October 13, San Antonio; Sunday,| "© Was fired. October 14, Houston; Tuesday, Oc.| Neither left enough for funeral tober 16, Fort Worth or Dallas; Recrp eaiees left i ae Wednesday, October 17, Oklahoma 8nd a child, eight years old. Cin- Gity; Thursday, October 18, Tulsa;/quino is survived by his sickly, Friday, October 19, Arma, Kans.; shrunken widow and five children Sunday, October 21, Minneapolis; big ot in age from two months to Monday, October 22, Omaha; Tues- eight years. day, October 23, Kansas City; Wed- PROFIT GRABBED BY GAS COMPANY By H. BARUFKIN. nesday, October 24, Milwaukee; | Friday, October 26, Chicago; Satur- 200 ARE DYING day, October 27, Pontiac, Mich.; Sunday, October 28, Detroit; Mon- ay October 29, Reading; Tuesday, ‘tober 30, Philadelphia; Wednes- 7 October 31, Boston; Thursday, vember 1, Haverhill; Friday, E Tember 2, Fall River; Sunday,! At least one hundred and possibly tember 4, New York; Monday two hundred workers exposed to _Kember 5, Providence. the hazards of rock-dust inhalation Mbper dates will be announced. are slowly dying while the Tam- we —_ + pe — many Board of Health, assisted by PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5.—Dr. |the obedient officials of the union . M. Rubinow, statistician, social ¢, which the workers belong, are ap- worker and former socialist, has ac-| parently seeking to hush the matter dan invitation to become ex- up until after election. Investigation of the extent of silli- _cosis, a disease contracted by rock Rubinow (drillers, sand blasters, subway con- q Struction workers and workers sim- ilarly exposed, was first begun by ization of Amenica and of the mited Palestine Appeal. The office, which Dr. will fill has been newly created ani is looked upon as an effort on the izati the Tammany Board of Health. rt of the Zionist organization to La a riticiam such as nearly dis-| 7homas.J. Curtis, head of the Tun- ence. nel and Subway Constructors’ Fupted its last convoment and fi. Union, at. first complained of the gro! a . . danger to which nearly 7,000 work- nancial juggling on the part of of ers are known to be exposed. ficials, j More recently, whether through The former socialist will | pressure exercised by the Tammany and have the close co-operation in his | nachine or for other reasons, Cur- ~ work of the notorious, labor-baiting | tig has quieted down and the Tam- a Palestine Appeal in New | Otto Rosalsky, chairman of | any department of health has an- nounced that it would be at least January 1 before the report would he ready. The report originally was ‘to have been made public August 1. Attempts are being made to hjame the workers, as usual, for the Every new reader of The ILY WORKER is a potential in the coming battles of workers, INSURANCE FIRM SHORT $3,500,00 ST. LOUIS, August 5.—Over three and one-half million in mis- sing securities have been reported in an audit of the accounts of the International Life Insurance Com- pany, it was revealed yesterday. Insurance Commissioners have notified the company to account for the missing securities by next Fri-| day at which time a meeting on legal procedure is scheduled. The msurance company had $309.- | 115,719 of insurance in force on Jan. 1, 1928. It reported 160,000} policy holders and gave its assets as $43,186,431. Attorney General Stratton Shar- tel of Missouri was notified of the shortage yesterday. SOVIET AVIATOR TELLS HIS STORY Continued from Page One while trying to repair a wing fell into the water, the temperature of which was just about freezing. It | Was a great moment when at last we sighted the Maligin. Fominikh jumped up in the cabin and did a folk dance.” His story went on to tell of nar- row escapes on melting ice, of polar bears that ran around like dogs, of days and nights in succession of flying in search for the missing Italia crew, followed by stretches of 24-hour sleep at a time. To help pass the time on board the Maligin the sailors and fliers issued a weekly newspaper. Due to the lack of foreign news local talent supplied short stories, amusing in- | cidents, cartoons and sketches. * \regular workers’ correspondence w } | instituted that even included letters from the polar bears complaining of the hunting. Mechanic Groshev was made the point of a joke. When flying with Babushkin he always in- sisted on leaving his heavy fur coat behind so as to enable the plane to carry more fuel. Finnish Harlem—Cadkind, re- | porter. Seventh Ave. and 137th St.—In charge, H. Williams; speakers. | Taft, Padmore and Rosemond Thursday, Aug. 9. Steinway and Jamaica, L. I—In charge, Heder; speakers, Padgug, Schachtman and Suskin. | 138th St. and St. Anne’s Ave., Bronx—Nessin, Ed. Welsh, Paster- nack and Smith. Fortieth St. and In charge, J. Cohen; speakers, Huis- | wood and Powers. Allerton and Cruger—In charge, Primoff; speakers, Rose Wortis, | Leibowitz, Frishoff, Weich and D. | Seltzer. Twenty-fifth Si. and Mermaid Ave., C. I—In charge, Weitz; speak- ers, Bimba, Hendin, Shapiro, Moore land A. Green. Loose Weils Biscuit Co. (Noon) — | Crouch. Friday, Aug. 10. National Biscuit Co. (Noon)—In | charge; Ross; speaker, John Sher- man. 4 Bristol and Pitkin, Brooklyn—In \charge, Lefkowitz; speakers, Ben | Lifshitz, Lipzin and L. Sobrin. Varet and Graham, Brooklyn— Baum, Maglicano, Harfeld, E. Kop- el. | Fifth Ave. and 110th St—In | charge, Lyons; speakers, Moreau, |Bentall, Edw. Welsh, Campbell and |H. Schlachter. Seventh St, and Ave. A—Taft, Lillienstein and Weitz. | Market and Plaza, Newark, N.J. |-—Wright and Schalk. | Finnish Hall, 816 Union Hall St.,|one hundred and twenty-eight killed heat, even though the torrid wave |Jamaica, L. I—Rosemond, Padmore |and LeRoy. Saturday, Aug. 11. First Ave. and 79th charge, Lustig; speakers, Magliacano and Lloyed. | Thirteenth Ave. and 42nd St., | Brooklyn—In charge, | Speakers, Napoli, Shapiro, Donald- son, Chalupski and M. Pizer. St.—In Padgug, West New York, N. J.—Marshall. they must pay at least $100. Min- hot as the day before. Poughkeepsie—Markoff. | 146th St. and First Ave.— |Schachtman and Cudkind (special | meeting). Perth Amboy—Powers. ‘Many Sckool Children Suffer From Diseases The bureau of physical welfare of the Cleveland Board of Educa-| tion reports that examination of nearly 73,000 school children from the kindergarten and early school grades showed that at least 7 out of every 10 had physical defects. Noeorly one-sixth were suffering from malnutrition, 32,000 children kad defective teeth, 7,000 had goiter, | charge, Gussakoff; speakers, Miller, | | Myrtle and Prince, Brooklyn—In | speakers, Stanley, Sroka and Frei-| (Noon)—In | Eighth Ave.—), Accused In H uge William Pringle, ball pool is awaiting trial in connection with the swindle he is re- alleged treasu ported to have run. prizes in his pool to a “dummy federal anti-lottery laws.” He is charged, however, not with giving the Hundreds of workers, men and boys, have been taken in by this and similar frauds. Pringle is in the center of the above group. Baseball Swindle fo ‘SHANGHA TEA CAFE STRIKE Strikers SHANGHAI, Aug. +5.—The 3,000 |tea shop and cafe employes who | have been on strike flor some time ver of the so-called Albany base- ” winner, but for “violating the chiefly young DEATH TOLL OF MINERS GROWS By B. K, GEBERT The .coal mining industry of this country is the slaughter house of the miners and mine workers. This is shown by the government statistics of the Bureau of Mines showing that during the first six months of 1928 accidents at coal mines caused the loss of 1,128 lives. The production of coal during this period was 271,- 392,000 tons, showing a death rate \of 4.16 per million tons as against 8.86 for the same six months of 927, based on 1,225 fatalities and 817,526,000 tons of coal. The rec- ord for bituminous coal alone from from January to June, 1928, was 901 | deaths and 234,289,000 tons, with a fatality rate of 3.85; while that for anthracite showed 227 deaths, 37,-| 103,000 tops and a death rate of 6.12. The same peri®d for 1927 showed 947 deaths in bituminous mines, 276,629,000 tons and a death rate of 3.42; for anthracite the rec- ord was 287 fatalities, 40,897,000 tons and a fatality rate of 6.80. The industry as a whole had 1,225 deaths, with a production of 317,- 526,000 tons and‘ death rate of 3.86/ during the first half of 1927. Killings Increasing. During the month of June, 1928,/ 135 miners were killed in the mines. Thirty-two of this number were| killed in the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania. The remaining 103) deaths occurred in bituminous mines | in various states. The death rate) per million tons of coal mined dur-| |ing the month was 8.27, based on a production of 41,264,000 tons of coal, as compared wth a death rate| jof 8.92 for June, 1927, based on 172} ideaths and 43,884,000 tons of coal} |produced. The fatality rate for} bituminous mines alone for June, | | 1928, was 2.86, with a production oF | 35,963,000 tons, and that for an- |thracite mines was 6.04 with a ton-| mage of 5,301,000, as compared with rates of 3.22 and 7.44, respectively, |for June of last year, based on an} output of 36,627,000 tons and 118| | deaths, and 7,257,000 tons and 54) | deaths. Six Killed In Explosion. One major disaster occurred dur- ing the month of June, 1928. This was an explosion at the open-shop |mine at National, W. Va., on June 20, which caused the death of six} | men. | | One hundred and thirty-five min-| }ers killed in June! One thousand during the first six months of 1928! This is the price the miners are paying for the “privilege” of work- ing in mines that are nothing else than death traps. Everyone knows that accidents in the mines can be reduced to a minimum, but this costs} Schwartzberg; | money, and the miners are free on| Yesterday brought showers to the hand. The bosses are more con- | cerned about the mule for which) ‘ers by the hundreds around the| |mines are forced by starvation to | work under these hazardous con-| | ditions. | Allies of Death. | | The speed-up system, cutting} down forces in great numbers, cut-| \ting down price on piece work, are | \the things that are helping to in-| ‘erease the number of deaths. The} families of the dead miners are left | in misery and starvation. On pay| day in front of every mine one can see a line of widows with great) numbers of children begging for) pennies from the miners, and along-| side of them are miners that have lost their legs, arms, eyes, hearing, ete. Yes, this is the condition that is offered by the bloody coal operators| |the young workers and the present went on strike to secure wage in- | creases and the reduction of work- jing hours. " | The employers locked out the YWL CELEBRATE | workers and requested the authori- | ties to expel the strikers from the company houses, Eight great trade unions includ- 1 ing the postal, the tobacco and the | printers’ unions called a joint con- = ference to organize relieft for the The National Committee of the | strikers. Y ong Workers (Communist) | Accounts in both the Chinese and Leanos Tas aed hy ae sour | foreign press show that the strike fall dalcbeatad Gating tha eek Ce is regarded with) anxiety of Renthinhe> Oeste: Extensive (220 declared to be menaxing. preparations have been made to ; 5 Ps - make International Youth Week |Michigan University this year the greatest demonstra- . tion against capitalist war and mili-| LO Educate Czarist tarism the league in America has | MH ever held. Girls Free of Charge Meetings in Every City. Every city in the ‘country will| WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—Rus- hold indoor and outdoor meetings | Sian czarist girls, now grown !wom- in protest to the militarization of |@m, who may claim to be “gradu- ates” of Russian universities, are danger of war. The league recog- | Sought as beneficiaries of the Bar- nizes that the danger of war is|bour scholarships at the University greater than ever before. The con-|0f Michigan, according to an an- tradictions between the imperialist | nouncement by the U. S. Bureaw of powers, the offensive against the | Education. Soviet Union and the imperialist at-| “More than 70 women from orijen- | tacks on the colonial peoples, are/tal countries,” says the bureau, today laying the basis for a future | “have already availed themselves of war for Wall Street, The tre-|the Barbour scholarships whith mendous growth of armaments and | provide $800 per annum and univer- the armed forces constitute a real | sity fees for attendance at the Unii- menace to the young workers of | versity of Michigan.” this ets Inquiry at the bureau developed | ‘acii ‘Betray Workers. Unions Support 3,500/§ | branch of the \Denver Workers Start Struggle Against Low Compensation Inj WORKERS JOIN “ee Toke August 5—Organized workers here have launched a cam- paign against the present state compensation law. At the same time statistics show that accidents | while at work have increased by 539 since 1919, + The weekly compensation for in- juries received at work at the pre- | sent time is only $9.26.. The work- ers here propose to increase this to | $18,45-per week as compensation, Accidents at work have increased | were joined by 500 workers of the ftom 11,258 in 1919 to 19,797 in Japanese tea company here who | 1926. Employers have made no at- tempt, in this period to install safety | devices. MEET PROTESTS CHINESE TERROR From 200 to 800 Chinese workers gathered yesterday on the corners of Pell and Mott Sts. in spite of @ boiling sun listening to speakers de- nounce imperialism in China yes- terday afternoon at a meeting held under the auspices of the New York All-America Anti- Imperialist League. Su Mei Chen, representing the Sun’ Yat Sen Club of New York, spoke on imperialism and war, stressing the fact that the first leads inevit- ably to the second, and that the con- flict of all the imperialist nations now anglng for a foothold in China will result in a war of the imperialist nations. Ying Hsren of the Chinese Workers’ Peasants’ Alliance ex- plained Japanese imperialism in China, and Yung Ying Hsu, a mem- ber of the Students’ Alliance spoke |on American Imperialism in China, Others who spoke were H. T. Tsieng, of the Workers’ and Pea- | sants’ Alliance; Harry Wakes of the Seamens’ Union; Seizo Ogino of the Japanese Workers’ Association in America, and Harry Gannes acting | the fact that President C, C. Little {Secretary of the All-America Anti- The socialists and pecifists are| of the University of Michigan had | Imperialist League. Harriet Silver- ing the workers and International | provided by the late Levi Barbour, Youth Week will show the young |g regent of the university. | workers the role of these organiza- tions and also the attempt to coyer | up the feverish military prepara- | tions by holding disarmament con-) ferences such as the coming Kellogg | peace conference in Paris, Appeal to Servicemen. graduates of Russian universities were probably to be women who had not been students in Russia since the revolution. They were to be | girls of the old Russian empire. |playing their usual role of betray-| explained that the money had been™An, secretary of the New York branch of the league was chairman. This meeting, was only the first It was further developed that the “i series that the league plans to old. Twenty-five dollars were collected rom the Chinese workers at yester- ge meeting, all of which will be ent to aid the Chinese trade unions. An appeal to the soldiers and) sailors will also be issued by the league. “Do not fight the wars of Wall Street!" “Fight for the work- ers against the bosses!” wiil be some of the demands of the ieague. All sections of the league should immediately start preparing for the celebration of International Youth Day. Make I. Y. D., 1928, a living example of the struggle of the working youth against capitalist militarism and war. TO ALL OUR READERS eT DSTO 1{MORE DEAD ings, etc. Name of business place INHEAT WAVE Eleven persons died yesterday in New York City from the excessive receded a bit from the peak it reached on Saturday. The storm that shook the suburbs on Saturday, | inflicting heavy damage and caus- ing several deaths, exerted a slight- ly cooling effect on the city tem- perature. $3 FIRST STREET suburbs again, but the heart of the PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTIZERS Do not forget at all times to mention that you are a reader of The DAILY | coupon stating where you bu: RKER. 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The government mine first landing for days as follows:| sducation believes that the neces- | inspectors and the company fire “The arrival in port and how we sity for more health work in the bosses who are supposed to look rushed for fresh tomatoes and fruits) schools is cleariy demonstrated. | after the safety measures in the from lath mnie sca Ba Pie Mikel Se | mines are iuiply ‘ ee No one s oe | MEXICO CITY, August 2 (U.P.) concerned about the lives of the bedi Le wast he cnet | —tose Deleon Toral, assassinater| miners. Their lives are the cheap- wae fit capi ‘ te ty ane aie |of president-elect Obregon, was not est. The miners themselves in bed ba chews ae *!alone involved in the crime, but had| mine and local union must fight for) “During the next few days we others back of him, according to a| their right to look after sie ay gratified anfother hunger—we had/ statement issued today by Govern-| measures In the mines, and force the not seen a newspaper for the last| mont prosecutor Cerrea Nieto. companies to install safety ~ ices is Lae! I have never devoured) Nieto declared that he believed that for their protection in the mines. 50 Rey een -|Toral was a member of a terrorist fore in my life. Then for the first| organization which met frequently, According to telephone officials, time did we realize that the atten-|and talked over the possibility of operators’ wages, which averaged | tion of the whole world was focused) sssassinating leaders of the Govern-|$18,04 for each telephone in 1925, upon us.” ment. \will drop to $6.40 in 1930 and 90 | ———_ | cents in 1936. | A taxi driver would appreciate | this copy of The DAILY WORKER, who are responsible for this whole-| sale massacre of miners and suffer-| ing to those left behind. The union bureaucrats will never put up a fight for safety measures jin the mines, for such working con-| ditions that will reduce accidents to) ments that they are reluctant to_ give out information about their ill-| ‘ness. The reason given is that they campaign ef the Workers (Communist) Party in the various states, ; Daily cable news service from the World Congress of the Communist International which opens soon in Moscow. 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