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ea Page Four Ts Phillip Randolph Trying to Fool Pulman Porters, Cor HANdOuTS MEN WERE READY Gems of Learning Herb Hoover: “Ey ery Californian crosses the state line with gratitude that God made him this home state. T return t me with a deep sense of respon To whom? Wall Street. This sort of Bologna sells well in California. ty Chairman Work of the G. O. P.: “We have good candidates and don’t need to spend so much.” The $4,- 000,000 admitted is regarded as small. It is compared with what will really be spent. Judge Hatfield, of Washington: “ ‘Nice people’ sometimes become in- toxicated, and when the do, some indulge in conduct unbecoming their status in society.” e people have nothing to fear they're nice to judges. Deputy Commissioner William E. O'Connor of Chicago: “We stand ready and willing to carry out the orders of the new police commis- sioner. If he wants Capone, we'll get him.” Capone has enough money and brains to fix things with the new commissioner. F. M, Sackett, republican tor, Kentucky: “All American ex- porters are looking for Hoover be- cause they believe it will be the best thing for American export trade.” Many a big business man expects Herb to hep him out. William Allen White, noisy editor from Kansas: “Let no one ever say sena- that the New York press is biased,| is controlled against the free ex- pression of any creed, or is unre- liable in publishing the news. My experience proves the contrary.” White hasn’t been on the picket lines lately. George H. Moses, senator, eastern regional director of the republican party: “You can be sure that Mr. Raskob, isn’t going to have all the business vote for his candidate. In- deed, far from it.” Far from it. William J. Leonard, foreman of the July federal grand jury in Brooklyn: “Evidence brought to us tended to show that not only demo- cratic politicians, but also repub- licans were involved in the Queens graft. There seemed to be a sort of ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ between them to share in the boodle.” Naturally. “ness This One + Overexertion tg make a living is the common lot of workers. Over- exertion to make a record is the habit of sportsmen who thereby win a few pennies to support a family by endorsing some cigarette they never smoked. Above is Mrs. Myrtie Huddleston, holder of the world’s endurance record for in- door pools attempting to break the wecord for outdoor pools. Her trainer is shown holding the um- bretla over her so she won't get wet and catch a cold. —M. C. H. > 10 NOW DEAD ST. CATHERINES, Ont., Aug. 3, ® (UP). — The death toll in the new Welland Canal disaster at Thorold, Wednesday, mounted to 10 today hen Alex Wilson, 34, address un- sown, and 1.eco Bron, 82, Sher- ‘ooke, Que., died in a hospital here. remainder of the injured were jorted,. recovering. | fight and not go in for this fake “en-| against the Communists, FOR STRIKE HE ADMITS AT MEET Fails to Explain Why He Called It Off (By a Worker Correspondent) Last week I attended a meeting) Doe> Friend: called by the Brotherhood of Sleep- | ing Car Porters at the St. James Presbyterian Church. The meeting was called for the purpose of get- ting suppogt for the Pullman porters who are fighting against the open- shop company. We all want a strike to defeat the company and that is why we attend the meetings, but not just to hear our organizers tell us that they will get strength just by joining the A. F. of L. A minister by the name of Rev.| Ives, spoke and then a man by the| name of Walter White of the N. A.| C. P, Then we heard from our gen- eral organizer, A Phillip Randolph, who again put a lot of weight on a| “campaign to educate and enlighten the public.” From what he said in A moments reflec we cannot very well afford to Jus and on mine if we prevent tio reca; tare Communist. responsibility toward upon you and whos. lt at his smooth way, it is hard to tell arom : Cehan whether he meant we are to educate sl | Bock rimn the public to strike for us. 3.0. Viadck N. Gtllis Old stuff. L. Fuchs D. Rergor No, I guess he meant the same) J. Roborts Stetsky old stuff: Don’t fight, go slow, let) %+50 Sm.Ninfo the boss step on you. When our J- M. Zariteky leaders get that old “higher educa- E. McGrady tion” bunk, its good-bye fight, which | is the only way you can win, Then Randolph told us that 85) 4g per cent. of the porters were ready! jay, to go out the last time a strike was) to be called. Well, if that is true what kind of leader was he not to have acted according to the senti- ment of the men. At that time Green, president of the A. F. of L., said it was no time Tw. sday, Probably briny, you to the conclusion it bro intrench themselves in the Furriers Union. Praternally yours, July 17th, 3 West 1€th Stry aut) DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1928. |\Shiplacoff’s Frantic Appeal to Union Wreckers CUB A. |. SHIPLACOFF B295 Weer Zier Srackr tion an the ed will me that have the Communists rea whut can be cone I don't know, but I do ‘mow that it vould weigh heavily on your sorscicnco did net make @ scrious atte st to cf the Furriers Yinton by. the Knoving that you havo a sincer> sense of © labor moveront I em calling ¥elos to. ri hn in the Council Room of the I,L.G.%.U. 3 West 216th St. ot on Tuesday, duly AM eran ia aa ka M. Feinstone A.Held Hershkowitz Gertler Mr. Imhoff A.Rose H.Orlofsky S,Hilinan M. Spector J. Weiss Begocn If the destruction of the Furriers Union roally to bo consumatod, 1ct none of us feol that we’ en't made a last.attompt to save it. a strike, and we know that privately Randolph said to some people that he did not think the men would re- spond to the call for a walkout. Fven at the meeting he admitted that he was astonished at the spirit of the men! Can you beat it? That’s a leader for you, no confidence in his soldiers and now he says that 85 per cent. would have come out. Continued from Page One |in the frantic hope that ‘Something Stop Manouvering. | might happen.” | The question I want to ask is: Is} The appeal to the right wing la-| Randolph still speaking just for| bor fakers for a last desperate stand | publicity and is he trying to fool the against the rank and file was writ-| company or the porters? can’t fool either of them. So hej lacoff. Enclosing the letter of Mc- better make up his mind to lead a|/ Grady with its farewell swansong fight or get out and let somebody | from both himself and Green, Ship- else lead. . lacoff, president of the pocket| Then we heard from a man called) workers’ union wrote pitiously: Richard B. Moore, who spoke on be-| “Our Conscience.” | half of the Harlem Tenants’ League,) “Just what can be done I don't! and said: “We pledge the support of! know, but I do know that it would | our organization to the porters in a! weigh hagetiot oan ‘ militant struggle.” That sounded) Yj x 08 “pany coneciente i. ; and on mine if we did not make a| different and so we listened. He} serious atinngi 40 ofevent the cen said: “Mr, Green did not organize) cantune of the Furriers’ Unton’ ts the porters, These leaders have) {)? is me Furriers’ Union by suppressed the spirit of the workers! aa ontmunigte,” ond betrayed them.” He said we), The letter in which McGrady sent | must net now submit to the dicta-| the final notification of the A. F.| tion of any one who advised no| 0f L. defeat in the struggle against | strike. Then he warned the porters the rank and file in the needle agrainst the prejudiced labor leaders trades, co-incides with the recent | who have kept the Negro workers declaration by the Federation exec- segregated just as the bosses have’ Utive council that the left wing and| done. “When you go into the A. F.|the Communists have increased of L. you must not fall under the in-| their influence in the American La- fluence of these narrow craft mon- bor movement. That declaration | opolists,” was the way he put it.) also contained a feeble announce- Well, that sounded different and we) ment that the A. F. of L. official- applauded. I believe we should)dom would begin another war | How ac- | curate this statement was intended, | to be may be judged from the posi- | tion in which these officials, by their | own admission now find themselves, | McGrady’s letter to Shiplacoff follows; “AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR “WASHINGTON, D. C. “A. F. of L. Bldg, lightenment of the public” bunk, which is all it is. —O, BN. ‘Best Part Was USSR, It’s a bad day for capitalist news- | paper editors who try to paint the| | U. §. 8. R. as inhospitable and un-| civilized. No sooner had the Kras-| | sin picked up and sent home the Se “July 6, 1928. | Blackshirt boys who had run away|“Mr. A. I. Shiplacoff, Secretary, |than John Henry Mear and Captain| “Committee for Preservation |Coloyer (above) reach New York | Trade Unions, after a record trip around the world| “55 West 21st St., New York City. and blurt right out in the papers! “Dear Sir and Brother: | that they had their best time in the) No More Money, U. S. S. R. F. L. Curtis describing} “Upon my return to New York | the trip in the New York Sun says:”| City I was informed of the action “The most interesting part of | of the Preservation of Trade Unions the journey. . . was the flight | Committee on giving further assist- over Siberia. They were the |anee to the Fur Workers Joint first Americans ever to make | Council in New York. this trip in a plane and the Rus- “It is indeed too bad that no fur- of A.F.L. ADMITS DEFEAT IN FUR UNION WAR | we cannot very well afford to have! |r. Imhoff, H. Orlofsky, M. Spector, | Begoon, A. Miller, M. Guskin, A. | terest you have taken in the matter,| I am, with every good wish, | ‘Yours) sincerely, | (Sikned) “EDWARD McGRADY,| Organizer. | Immediately upon receipt of the| Well, he) ten by the same “socialist” Ship-| McGrady letter, Shiplacoff sent a| Machado and opposing his re-elec-| | hurried call for help to chief repre-| tion. sentatives of the right wing crew of union wreckers. The letter follows: “July 11, 1928, “Dear Friend: | “A moment's reflection on the en-| closed will probably bring you to| the conclusion it brought me that | the Communists reintrench them- selves in the Furriers’ Union. No Hope, “Just what can be done I don’t know, but I do know that it would weigh heavily on your conscience) and on mine if we did not make a} serious attempt to prevent the re-| capture of tke Furriers’ Union by| the Communists. “Knowing that you have a sin- cere sense of responsibility toward the labor movement, I am calling upon you and those listed below to meet on Tuesday, July 17, in the| Council Room of the I. L. G. W. U.,| 3 W. 16th St., at 3 p. m. “M. Brown, M. Sigman, B. C. Vladek, L. Fuchs, J. Roberts, C. Goldman, J. Schlossberg, A. Cahan, A. Beckerman, M. Gillis, D. Berger, Stetsky, Sm. Ninfo, M. Zaritsky, E. McGrady, Luigi Antonini, B. Schle- singer, M. Feinstone, Herhkowitz, Held, Gertler, A. Rose, S. Hillman, J. Weiss. “If the destruction of the Fur- riers’ Union is really to be consum- mated, let none of us feel that we haven’t made a last attempt to save it. | “Fraternally yours, (Signed) “A, I. SHIPLACOFF, “Tuesday, July 17th, 3 West 16th) Street.”* | Beginning of End. The two letters reproduced above | mark the beginning of the end for, the right wing fakers. Gangster- sians whom. they ‘encountered | ther financial support can be given made much of them. Every- PP ci where they stopped they were greeted by official reception committees and dined in state. They were not permitted to spend any money while in Rus- sian territory and their Com- munist hosts were uniformly friendly even where none of the natives spoke a word of English, which happened several times. you know, a large number of the honest, members of the fur workers with the Communist forces of the | city in a last desperate attempt to |smash the Fur Workers Unjon af- | filiated with the American Federa- | tion of Labor. hours, rationalization, the workers, $100,000 For a campaign against wage-cuts, longer Send your contribution to the National Election Campaign Committee, 43 East 125th Street, New York City. Trachtenburg, treasurer. | “Very Discouraged.” “The committee representing the American Federation of Labor feels |very much discouraged over this situation, and as a result of the ac- situation and we feel that inasmuch | | as the Preservation of Trade Unions Committee is not in a position to |render any further assistance, the American Federation of Labor will surrender its control of the situa- tion just as soon as we can close} the various matters up. | | “If there is anything further that you think might be done in the im-| » |mediate future, I will be very glad) [to hear from you. Otherwise the, American Federation of Labor will and all exploitation of Alexander tion of your committee, I have con- ferred with President Green on this| ism terrorization, open aid of the to the fur workers at this time. As| bosses, thousands of dollars received | from the Committee for the Preser- | disgruntled, and I might say dis-| vation of Trade Unions, from the) |yellow “socialist” Jewish Daily | have been suspended from member-| Forward and from other sources, | |ship for the good and welfare of have been powerless to compel the| the organization. They have joined| Workers to desert their leaders and/ to abandon the struggle. The let- | ters vindicate the belief of rank and| filers that it is now only a matter |of time before all the right-wing | wreckers will be sent scurrying back to their holes and the task of re- |building the shattered Furriers’ Union will be pushed on a larger scale by the membership. ADJUST FRONTIER DISPUTE. The dispute between Brazil and Venezuela about the boundary de-| limitations in the north of Brazil| has finally been settled after more | than 40 years of negotiations, The | foreign ministers of the two coun-- | tries have signed a protocol finally | settling the frontier. ORGANIZE Detroit, Aug. 5.—Steel rod work- | ers in building construction have or- ganized into a union here. ‘The In- | get-out of the situation within the next few weeks. “Thankin you for the personal in-! ternational Union of Structural Iron | Workers have chartered them into their, organization. TERROR GROWING HE new theatrical weason will get on its way with full force this evening. No less than three open- ; | ings are scheduled for tonight. They linclude “Vanities,” “Guns” and “Elmer Gantry.” | | “Elmer Gantry” which opens to-| night at the Playhouse, is a drama- | tization of the Sinclair Lewis novel by Patrick Kearney who did the same to Dreiser’s ‘‘American| Tragedy.” Edward Pawley will play! the title role. Other players in- seauel, mt in the execution of the| clude: Martin Burton, Helen Twelve- | Sevtminal” ay ‘ trees, Charles Henderson, Donald ‘eriminal,” called varionsly, Miguel) (ees, © es oe | Gonzalez. or Severino Rey or Do-| Campbell and Messinger Bellis. | mingo Germinal Gonzalez, as was | announced, but in the simple de- portation from the Cuban territory. | Dispatches from Cuba to New York reported that Germinal Gon- | | zalez had “confessed” his intention | ene to kill Machado “for the cause and| (Continued.) |for his class.” He was’ described] ‘The danger of a new imperialist as the leader of the “anarcho-Com-| war does-not necessarily express it- | munist” movement of Cuba and the| self only in building bigger navies, former editor of “Tierra,” the an-|and armies, and preparing war am- archist weekly of the Havana I. W.| munition, but works together with W., and the “Accion Directa,” an|the pressure upon the workers, the anarcho-syndicalist weekly, both! bourgeoisie offensive expressed in |long ago suppressed. | reduction of wages, growing unem- Gonzalez had been deported once} ployment, destruction of the labor before from Cuba as a “Spaniard,” movement, denying the workers the because his parents were born in| right to organize, getting out in- Spain. : junctions against picketers, sending a ereapcintened acter! eae? its militia to crush the workers dur- Dette renee: Ce! ing strikes, as when using its troops | Cuba, the chief of police of that city | aauihay thetightitp waimesr ast ae | was congratulated for his important) | citing the textile strikers of New| service, “because the intentions of | Bedford from picketing. All this| the anarchists were, after the as- f c eat + f the) accompanies and is part and parcel | | sassination of the president o' Lietike agentes wast daapaee Mor ike | ii 4 ‘ist revo-| | American intervention in our terri-|ingclass is, the easier will it be | | tory. | American imperialism to wage war. | | In spite of this plat, a few days} Our memories are still fresh from | |later Gonzalez was merely deported.|the last great massacre of peoples. | But a number of other arrested men, Twenty million people mostly of the | whose names were not given to the) working class laid down their lives | |Deportations, Jailings Follow Fake “Plot” | | stash | The Story of a, plot to kill Presi- |dent Machado of Cuba, and to es- tablish there a “reign of anarchy and Communism,” as reported by the Cuban bourgeois press, had its War Danger By OLGA GOLD | | leader of the “Partifi Nacionalista,” | Jand an additional four thousand | press, are still in jail. | Santiago de Cuba is the main support of’ General Mandiete. the the only party which opposed the unanimous nomination of Machado for the next presidential term. | Supporters of Mandiete were ar- rested. Among the supporters of| Mandiete are some of the yellow labor organizations. More arrests were reported when in the public parks and on walls un- signed posters were found attacking Layoff Affects 6,000 Philadelphia Workers PHILADELPPIA, Pa.,- Aug. 5.— Two thousand workers employed at the Atlantic Gas Refining Company in Philadelphia have been laid off, | put on part time. Workers who formerly earned $45 a week have been switched to | boilermakers’ jobs at 65 cents an hour, i EMRE ITE | LOCOMOTIVE PRODUCTION | LOWER WASHINGTON, August 5.—July) shipments of railroad locomotives, | from principal manufacturing | plants, based on reports received by| the Department of Commerce, to-| taled 46 locomotives, as compared with 51 in June and 60 in July, 1927. | The following table gives the ship-| ments and unfilled orders of locomo- tives for each month since January, 1927, | SCHOCK KILLS LINEMAN HUNTINGDON, Pa., August 5.— | Lee Wicke, 30 lineman, of the Hun- tingdon Electric Company, was in- stantly killed here when he came in contact with a high tension wire while working on a pole. He was! knocked from the pole when he re-_ ceived the shock. Wicke leaves a| widow and a child behind him. in the last great world war. The) cry of the capitalists was “War to} End War,” “To Make the World} Safe for Democracy.” In reality, | like all capitalist wars, it was a war | to make the world safe for imperial- | ism. Wars are made to protest the profits and increase the power of the capitalists to further exploit and | subject the workers. The Workers (Communist) Party | is coming out daily with revolu- tionary warning to the toiling! masses of the danger of the coming | world war. It makes clear to the workers that the wholesale slaugh- ter and bloodshed is the outcome of | a capitalist system, that war is in- evitable under the profit system, | that only with the defense of the Soviet Union and with the transfor- mation of a capitalist war between imperialist powers into a civil war, the workers to take possession of the political power and of the wealth, the workers to control the state industries as in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, only in| this way will there be an end to the horrible, wanton slaughter and de- | struction of millions of lives. The Workers (Communist) Party calls upon all workers to organize their forces, to rally to the banner of the American Communist Party under the leadership of the Comin- | tern, the only, party which cham-| pions the, campaign to defeat the | Wall Street war and to defend the Soviet Union, the first workers and peasants government of the world. 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The cast is headed by Suzanne Bennet, Marion Haslup, Hugh Thompson and Bessie Le Roy. Rehearsals for Schwab and Man- del’s musical play, “The New Moon,” will begin today under the direction of the authors and composers, Frank Mandel, Oscar Hammerstein and Sig- mund Romberg. Horace Liveright has engaged Richard “Skeets” Gallagher to play the part of Ascanio, Cellini’s ap- prentice in the forthcoming produc- tion of “The Dagger and The Rose,” which is the musiz# ersion of “The Firebrand.” A*other player en- gaged is Josephine Whittell, last seen here in “No, No Nanette,” Willy Pogany is designing the pro- duction. Earl Carroll’s “Vanities,” which is usually ushered in at this time of year, will open at the Earl Carroll Theatre with W. C. Fields as the star. Ray Dooley, Joe Friseo, Gordon Dooley, Martha Morton and Vincent . Lopez and his orches- tra are other features of the W. C. Fields revue. A DAILY WORKER ocorre- spondent is the real spokesman _and leader of the workers in his respondent Wants to Know AN REIGN OF ‘Elmer Gantry’, ‘Vanities’ To Have First Showing HEAR WEISBORD MANY CITIES TO IN TEXTILE DRIVE |Tour Will Prepare for | National Meet | Albert Weisbord, national secre- tary of the Textile Mills Commit- tee, will leave shortly on a tour of various cities as part of the organ- ization campaign that the commit- tee is conducting in preparation for tha national textile convention in |New York City September 22-23. August 13, Manchester, N. H.; | August, 14, Lowell, Mass.; August 15, Lawrence, Mass.; August 16, |New Bedford and Fall River; Au- gust 17, Salem; August 18, Wal- |tham (Boston): August 19th, New Bedford; August 20, Taunton; Au- gust 21, Adams; August 22, Chi- copse Falls; August 23, New Bed- ford and Fall River; August 24, Shelton, Conn.; Adigust 25, Bridge- |port, Conn.; August 26, Williman- \tie, Conn.; August 27, Woonsocket, |R. 1; Algust 28, Olneyville, R. 1; | August 29, Pawtucket, R. I.; August 80, New Bedford and Fall River. Till Monday, September 3, Weis- hord will be in Fall River, New Bedford, Boston and vicinity. If possible the cities of Maynard, | Fitchburg, Concord, New London and other points in Connecticut may be included, replacing other cities. He will then continue his tour as | follows: | Sept. 8, Corona, 1. .; Sept. 4, As- |toria, L. Sept. 5, West New | York, N. J.; Sept. 6, New York City; Sept. 7, Paterson, N. J.; Sept. |s, Chester, Pa.; Sept. 9, Kensington, Pa.; Sept. 10, Easton, Pa.; Sept. 11, |Allentown, Pa.; Sept. 12, Anthra- cite. If possible the cities of Brooklyn, |Queens, Phillipsburg, Bethlehem, |Shamokin, Reading, Trenton, Wil- mington and other points in the an- \thracite regions may be included, |replacing other cities. | Following the week of the 10th lof September, a few days will be | allotted for Utica, Amsterdam, Lit- |tle Falls, Herkimer, and other cit- lies of textile importance in Upper |New York State. | Two new Tom Barry plays have been acquired by Lew Cantor for early production. The first to be | presented is “Courage,” with Janet Beecher, Dulcie Cooper, Junior Dur- kin and Gertrude Gilmore in the cast. “Danger,” the second Barry play a mystery melodrama, will be soon after. — Another play mentioned by Can- tor showing on Broadway is “The End of the Rope” a melodrama by George Probert. ee aoe BOOTH Thea., 45 St, W. of B'way Evenings 8:30 Mats, Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30 GRAND ST. FOLLIES SEATS 8 WEEKS IN ADVANCE. CORT THEATRE. W. 48 St. NOW ON_ SALE The Heart of Coney Island Battle of Chateau Thierry May Wirth, Phil & Family in BIG FREE CIRCUS Luna‘s Great Swimming Pool 50 Acres of Real Fun LUN. PAR CHANIN’S, W. of Broadway 46th St.Froninge at 8:98 Mats, Wed. & Sat. SCHWAB and) MANDEL’S (; MUSICAL SMASH OOD NEW coo. AND COMFORTABLE Eves. 8:30. Mats. Wed. & Sat. Money Refunded if Not Satisfied With Play. with GO, OLSEN and HIS MUSIO —— REFRIGERATED —— 42nd St. and tm | CAMEO | = KEITH- NOW FILM ARTS GUILD presents Adolphe Menjou in ‘A Woman of Paris’. 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