The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UN FOR THE 40-HOUR ORGANIZED WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT ily Entered an second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥., under the act of March 3, Vol. V., No. 186 . Sunday by Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Uni The Natio 1 Dally w Sq.. New York, NATIONAL EDITION SUBSCRIPTION F 2.000 WALK OUT IN FALL RIVER AS PEASANT LEAGUE! TELLS GALES TO. STAY TWO YEARS. Calls for Labor-Farmer | Coalition MEXICO CITY, Aug. 6—A mani- festo issued today by the National Peasants’ League of Mexico de- ] manded that the congress continue Discusses Work Among the term of President Calles for Negroes two years and warned the, militar- ists. against aligning ‘ thmselves with any political group. It warned the militarists that any Flayed Fascist Conduct ON PREPARATION FOR COMING WAR (Wireless to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., August 6 ‘ORK, TUESDA , AUGUST 7, 1928 _ Outside NEVESS Caught in the Act; Capital’s Candidate Reviews Troops In New Ye ® hk, by mi 00 per Price 3 Cents . by mail, $6.00 per year. on U.S. Impe WORKERS STILL SWELL RANKS OF STRIKERS AT MILL COMMITTEE CALL Workers Answer Committeemen’s Shout of “Strike, All Out,” by Tie-up of Printing Plant rialism ~F BIG STRIKE BEGINS Lovestone Reports to Red World Co TELLS OF FIGHT poh acon set Vladimir Myakovsky, the So- ebay bots eile Faye a | uch political group organized for, yiex Union's celeb ig. |of the Worwers (Communist) Party, 3 s On 7 ies revolt was a doomed failure as evi-| Hs i ihe mistrial, |88 co-reporter on the War Danger. New Bedford Masses Greet New Allies as the denced by the failure of the recent veyolt in spite of the aid of the| whole Mexican reaction. The statement pledged the Na- tional Peasants’ League to support the Calles military against all srmed movements and called upon &ll labor and ‘peasant groups to ™ake a united front with this end In view. The statement declared that the clericals were responsible for the assassination of Obregon and de- plored the unfounded attacks against Morones and others, but re- | joiced at his downfall. The C.. R. O. M., it declared, was now stronger by the purging, which will result in the arising of new leaders, making | possible a common alliance of all! taks upon the cowardly conduct of the fascist Italia fliers in abandoning Dr. Malmgrem to die in the ice and against No- bile’s personal conduct in permit- ting his' own rescue before that of his comrades, were a large factor in turning the attention of the world to this new fascist atrocity. SOVIET AVIATOR TELLS HIS STORY Babushkin Joked When ysteerday outlined to the World Congress of the Communist Inter- national the condition of American imperialism, its gradual penetration of many countries, the preparations which it is making for war and the efforts which the American Com- munists are making to defeat and overthrow American imperialism for the purpose of establishing a dic- tatorship of the proletariat in the United States. | “We talk of American imperial- ism,” Lovestone said, “not in order to advertise it but in order to mobil-} ize the workers to destroy it.” The'role of governor Alfred E. and imperiali: viewing the st Smith, democratic presidential candi date, as the agent for Wall Street war was never more graphically de pieted than in this picture where he is shown re- y-ninth regiment 6f Manhattan and the fourteenth regiment of Brooklyn at, Peekskill. Accompanied by a staff of officers, war and Wall Street's candidate smiles admiringly as he sees the rows of well-trained cannon fodder ripe for the co ming imperialist harvest. American capitalism has a domin- ating situation in the world market and in a number of important in-/ dustries. Capital export from the Nordica Myth CONFIRM REVOLT Supremacy of POLISH FASCIST TO BOOST BUDGET FOR ARMY, NAVY Announce Increase in Appropriations SUPERIOR, Wis. Aug. 6.— | While the Kellogg “peace” pact is being peddled around the world, in- creased appropriations for all the Struggle Spreads to Key Textile City FALL RIVER, Mass., Aug. 6.— Two thousand workers in the textile plant of the American Printing Com- pany here, walked out on strike to- day in answer to the call of ythe Textile Mill Committees, thus spreading the struggle of neighbor- ing New Bedford’s 28,000 strikers to this huge mill center. By mid-afternoon 2,000 of the company’s 4,300 operatives had answered the strike cail issued in the morning, with even the capitalist press admitting that night-fall would find nearly every worker out. 2,000 Walk Out. The Textile Mill Committees’ exec- IN VENEZUELA FLIGHT A STUNT proletarian forces. | Unite States is growing and is ac-| war and navy departments and all Marooned in Arctic - @§sassination of Obregon would be » about “occasional injustice.” -Militarist Renamed Scientist Says utive board, granted full power to | Ke (companied by increased aggressive-| | ‘i branches of the aviation service are set the strike date by a textile pag ike ee \ness' against other nations and|Anti-Gov.* Forces Try| po Premature’ ATUCTDD Cs 5 aiid ia the pralitainary ectim.| Seat) ne tine ine penta ae tged to Support Calles. MOSCOW,. August 5-—A tale. of| avalnst the:-workers if dire |. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Aug. Made for Publicit: 3 workers’ meeting last Friday, me| MEXICO CITY, Aug. 6—As the |brave men in the frozen wastes of F Rortially Worsideced, the Unitea) tO Seize Munitions {¢—-ne facile and boisterous ex, 4aae lor Fublicity ae e the igh budget for the ree night = acted mt be oficial Obregon campaign center +4. North, surrounded by hardships, | States has no such large colonies as |Ponents of “Nordic supremacy” got| LISBON, Portugal, Aug. 6—|*i#cal vear of 1929-1930. pekit aertnee Wipibiclacrias Minnsereen ss was closed, Aaron Saenz, carapaign manager for the former President- elect Obregon, declared today that | the Obregonistas must place their | faith in the “revolutionary person- ality” of Calles and in congress. He also. expressed confidence that the continual storms and ice, and in spite of all comradely and good- spirited, was told by the Soviet flier Babushkin, who just arrived here, from Archangel, where the ice-cut~ ter Maligin has docked. | The-hardy and. stalwart Babush-— kin, who worked in a factory and Great Britain, but by economic pene-| tration in Central and South Ameri- ca, these countries have been forced into deepndance on the United Economically Canada, also has be- come a colony of the United States. CUCUTA, Columbian-Venezuelan Frontier, Avg. 6.—While Dictator Gomez of Venezuela has established a strict censorship of news, reports Venezuela. . a. . Reports received here (today indicate that» the “fire 1 hee a a severe jolt today when Prof. R. D. McKenzie, of the University of | Washington declared that the the- | States and turned directly or in-|Teceived here confirm rumors of @ ory has no real foundation and | directly into colonies or semicolonies. teVolt against the dictatorship. in. “prises from the conceit of the Nor- peaking at the round-table 4 Further explanations on the part of the Polish fascist fliers, whose plane, the “Marshall Pilsudski” was rescued from the waters of the Atlantic by the steamer Samos, verified reports previously extant’ that the flight had ) been undertaken. merelyag an inter- This was announced here today by Gen. Herbert Lord, budget di- rector, who stopped here on his way to Cedar Island Lodge for a confer- ence with President Coolidge. The entire budget for 1929-1930 will be slightly under» $3,700,000,- struggle those employed by the American Printing Company. Fight Wage Cut. The strike was officially declared after Manager Durfee for the ¢om- pany publicly refused to meet with the plant’s mill committee, when they demaded ‘abolition of the 10 i od | national-gesture for the purpose of 990, according to his preliminary es- 3 pace a Saenz called for 25 8 memiber in the Red Army had Cloaked with Pacifism. ody pnt ope Te owe tkaect cussion of the Institute of Politics showing off Polish fascism before. timates, “Gen. Lord “said. This eT Be nt entogeed mepeii the unity of all Obregon parties and |fought in the clvil war, recounted) The \Ameri¢an foreign policy| 1. Vno attempted to obtain am-|héfe MeKenzie said that no basis the eyes of the world, in a manner | #bout $40,000,000 more than for | Nit Bnd Trier improvements, 4a cthers “uncohtaminated by the hor- rible crime.” The public declaration of Saenz 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, cloaks aggressive imperialism with hypocritical pacifist phrases, Simul- taneously the United States is car- ry-ing on a war against Nicaragua. munition from the garrison. The. police report on the fire re- leased from Caracas headquarters for this supposed supremacy exists from a biological point of view, or from that of technical development. similar to the ill-prepared and ris- astrous Nobile “expedition.” In spite of criticism and warnings the last fiscal year. The federal government will also have a paper deficit of $90,000,000, he stated, but | | working standards. The American Printing Company is the largest of the ninety-four is looked upon as indicating the vie-| 7+ Cakable spirit of the man who|Intervention against China and the ‘definitely lays the blame for. the “The more we study and classify levelled against them by French air-| its Tevenues will be greater. gene senor ered, he cen ey tory of Calles and the defeat of the |"2teq how he and his companions |Soviet Union also plays a great five on -the revolutionary eroups| human beings scientifically,” Me- men who themselves contemplated a ————— a NE cnn eae Obregon extremists, Manrique and |sy04" while they were hemmed in|port in the war plans of the Ameri. ,Who tried to detract the attention Kenzie declared, “the more con- trans-Atlantic flight, but who post- - [een tae recite See Soto y Gama. by ice and marooned on ice packs./ean imperialisth. Propaganda(°f the soldiers. in this way and gain| fused. we become about the mean-|Poed it because of adverse weather BRO ACH AIMS T0 | taxing ‘Compang: had ales Jorma ae The Obregon party of Vera Cruz! "1, told how he made fifteen|against the Soviet Union and -at- 9ccess to the munition stores in the ing of the term race, because the conditions, the two aviators, Louis strike Ue woke eal ee came out today in a demand that | riohts in spite of wind and storm tics on the Soviet disarmament| outskirts of the city. peoples of the world are all mon- Idzidowski and Kasimir Kabala, both et at 1 Stake Cal SRC ee Calles remain as president for two| sng on every one of his flights he|proposale belong to the ideological, Détails are lacking, but it is:re-| grels, hybrids or mixtures of emi. of whom are notorious fascists giana te oa “if edaleetlaitied "| met with a storm that more than) preparation for imperialist war. Ported that Colonel Roberta ross grating peoples of the past.” baal to have peers in ue The srtire tainting diviiee ee. | h : sficati counter-revolutio Yate JUDGE UPHOLDS — BLACK-LISTING Hits Pacifie Coast) Marine Workers | —— | SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5.—The blacklisting of marine workers by Pacifie Coast ship owners has been legalized by Federal Judge Kerri-| gan. 1 The blacklisting is veiled by call- | ing it the “marine service bureau.’ Marine “workers must apply to these bureaus for jobs and their conditions of work are arbitrarily decided upon by ship owners. Sea-| men haye no choice in taking a job on a particular ship for a particu- lar voyage and cannoé choose the qmployment to which he is best fitted, but must take whatever job there is on hand when his turn) comes on the employment register of the so-called bureau. Only sea- men who register at the blacklist quarters can secure employment | when there is work to be had. Even officers are allowed little freedom by this blacklist scheme. They are deprived of the right to select those men who are best suited to the particular work need- ing filling. Cornelius Anderson, a mate of a vessel, was sued for dam- ages when he did not comply with the blacklist rules. Judge Kerrigan, rejected the opinion of the supreme court which stated that the ship owners violated the Sherman anti- trust act and stated that the ma- rine worker “is free to refuse em- ployment if he is not satisfied” He elso added that seamen “may show there are instances” where the blacklist has “worked an injustice,” but he seemed to think that the workers ought mot to complain To Government Job SUPERIOR, Wis., Aug. 6 (UP). —President Coolidge las re-ap- pointed Major General Frank MeIn- tyre chief of the bureau of insular affairs in the war department, it was announced at the executive of- fice here today. HITS LOW WAGES mother ship. One storm forced him to fly only 160 feet above the ice and finally grew so fierce that he| could do nothing but land and wait. Our radio was broken and we sat there for three days, cut off from? the world. Our provisions ran’ low) s0 we killed a bear and cut out and ate the soft parts, being careful to’ throw the rest away so as to avoid 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) ljand to save our fuel. Fominikh, Continued on Page Two | LABOR “demonstrations against the Nicar- |aguan war-and, thanks to the closé ted and the GREENSBORO, N. C., Aug. 6.— A general | workers’ campaign throughout the entire Piedmont sec- tion is being made against low wages and for unionization of labor. This | campaigin is being especially di- | rected against the textile mill own-| ers. In connection with this activity of (trade unionists, workers here have | held a mass meeting to protest low” wages and urge organization. Work- | ers are alert to the poor conditions | transforming the imperialist war New Orleans Limited were derailed. | which they must face as industriali- | zation proceeds in this state. tions are the colossal increase in ar- maments, the mechanization of the army, the growing identification of the state apparatus with the great trusts. The American imperialist policy in Latin America in the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine aims at secur- ing the domination of these coun- tries. In the United Far East ‘the | States imperialists support the open door oplicy which aims at the con- solidation of the American position in China. - Workers Party Activity. The Communist Party in the United States fights. against the pacifist illusions which represent a. great danger. It has organized cooperation of the Young Workers on a successful war campaign for China. Anti-militarist propaganda is also actively carried outé The Communist Parties of the rising occurred when Fossi induced students during a carnival at Cara- cas to revolt against the dictator- ship. 10 DE, 60.HURT ~ INTRAIN WRECK 2 Illifois Rail Flyers “Sideswipe” | MOUNDS, TIL, Aug. 6 (UP)— The Chicago-to-New Orleans Limi- femphis-St. Louis Chickasaw flier on the Illinois Cen- wrecked here today, and at least 10 | persons were believed killed. The | trains “sideswiped” in passing. United States and China must co- Six known dead were: operate in order to organize thes L, A, Drennan, Mattoon, IIl., ex- Chinese masses in the United States.| press messenger on Chicago-New Work among ne nde ase Orleans train. also be connected wi e fig x against war. The Workers Party Mrs. Annie Covey, West Orange, eals to the workers to mobilize “*"* ayes the Soviet Union, it de-| Joseph Zdenck, West Orange, N mands immediate recognition of the J- eine tas Soviet Union. and the development) Three unidentified Negro women. of trade relations. Seven cars of the north-bound Our efforts are directed towards train and 10 cars of the Chicago- into a civil war for the esthlishmeht; The wreck was indirectly caused | of the dictatorship of the proletariat. hy an iron pine which obstructed BRITISH RAIL BETRAYAL + Tom-Mann Scores Misleaders in Letter (From Tom Mann, England.) Dear Editor:— My personal greetings to your- self. I hope you are none the worse for the short imprisonment. I feel sure you will be interested in know- ing something of our forthcoming annual conference of the National Minority Movement. I am always deeply interested in reading the Daily Worker and in seeing how the ‘ight is going on in the United. tates of America. Always you are full of activities, as, of course, we all should be. Continue, comrades, and with you and with us per- the south-bound track. The crew of the Chickasaw saw it and stopped the train. The New Orleans Limi- ited, on the adjacent track, struck |the obstacle and sideswiped the standing train. Between 50 and 60 tmiured were |taken to St. Mary's Hospital a: | Cairo, which is 16 miles south of ‘the scene of the wreck. Twenty- bay eT reuilcle Uneasy. ‘eight of the injured were Negroes, We are having an especially hot | sistency in the right path will get time just now. The reformists are very uncomfortable bocause of our work, and many of them are savage with us. You will have seen reports of the Miners’ Federation, held last week at Llandudno, and may have seen that tha chairman, Herbert Smith, lost his temper and left his seat on the platform to go to the gallery to have a hand at helping to put out of the some mem- Conteaued, on Page Three Standard Oil Votes _ Big Cash Dividends | CHICAGO, Aug. 6 (UP).—Direc of Indiana today voted a regula? cash dividend of 62% cents and a1 added cash dividend of 25 cents per share of capital stock. ber 14 on stock of record August 1 tors of the Standard Oil Company) The dividend will be paid Septen-| no scientific validity, the speaker declared. “We might as well try to classify flowers by their colors.” “The concept that the Nordic is superior to the Oriental because he has more and larger industries has no basis’ in science,” Prof. McKen- zie said. The Nordic’s industrial superiority is merely an accident, he declared, and will be equalled by the Oriental and the Negro in the future. Only about 20 per cent of the 800,000,000 peonle that are in or face on the Pacific are white, he stated, and it is unthinkable that the future of the Pacific should be- long to the ‘white races alone. 1,000 JAILED AT , | (Communist) League, it is carryirg 15) were derailed and partially | “HUGE PARIS MEET ‘Communists in Anti- War Demonstration 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 of a 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 Capdeville, was also arrested. Vaillant - Couturier, | Communist Continued on Page Five 2 Workers Drown In Sewer Manhole John Bell, foreman, and Harry Con- toy, workman, were drowned today when overcome by gas in a sewer manhole. Bell died try!ng to rescue proletarian revoltuion, were prompted by the Polish fascist gov- ernment into undertaking the pre- mature flight. Although their plane was not in good condition, having developed en- gine trouble, and although the weather conditions were definitely against the chances of sugceeding in such a flight, Polish fascism decided not to delay the exhibition. TAMMANY SLAPS ~ AT FARM RELIEF Raskob Gives Up Plan * He Promised Democratic leaders have aban- doned the recently announced in- tention to draft a definite farm re- | lief plan. This was revealed tonight in the announcement by Chairman John J. Raskob of the national committee that he has requested Prof. E. R. A. Seligman of Columbia University, brother of the Wall Street banker, to make a “survey” of the agricul- tural problem which Raskob said would “require many weeks if not months of hard work.” Raskob re- cently announced he would direct drafting of a plan to be submitted | during the campaign. Has Program Ready | for Local 3 to Pass (By Electrical Correspondent) | The meeting on Thursday even-| ing of local No. 3 of the Electrical Workers Union will tell whether the workers in the trade or the reaction- ary Broach machine will control our} union. | | At this meeting the Broach ma-| chine is planning to put through a set of so-called ammendments to the| | by-laws which will put the member- \ship into a backseat and will give to the Broach machine the full power to do as it likes with the organization. Among these hcanges are one | which eliminate one half of the | meetings, one which dispense with the making of financial reports to the union, and one which elimin- ate yearly elections. Another am- mendment is to increase dues. A Deliberate Sell Out. In order to cover over this deliber- ate sell-out, the Broach machine de- clares that these things are neces- sary in order to maintain the good conditions on the job. For this rea- son also. Broach is now demanding $150,000 a year from the members. It would -be interesting to know about the wonderful conditions en- joyed by the electrical workers to justify such a betrayal. At the same time this will refute the gen- Continued on Page Four . COOLIDGE, STEEL BOSS? Cal May Manage Huge Morgan Firm | future industrial boss of Minnesota's | steel trust_on the iron range sur- jrounded by company officials. | Coolidge came from his summer |capital in northern Wisconsin near | the ore ports of U. S. Steel and he DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 6 (UP).— |returned the same day. The mys-| from Superior and Duluth to Hib- is the fact that the skilled worl | tery of his vacation choice is some- what cleared up by this journey. When judge Elbert H. Gary died it was common gossip that Coolidge Conroy, city officials were informed. had been selected by J. P. Morgan Hibbing, Minn., (FP) Aug. 6.—, Deputy, and mayor of the suburb, | The present political servant and the | U. S. Steel Corp. in 1929, Gary died to succeed him as chairman of the} prematurely for these plans but the pletely tied up as a result of the walkout, with skilled and unskilled, British, French, Polish and Portu- guese workers demonstratively halt- ing work and marching out of the plant at 10 in the morning. With indescribable enthusiasm, the workers in the printing division. ” poured out into the streets in answer to the shouts of the cdm- mittee int the mill walking from room to room. “Strike! All Out!” was the committeemen’s cry, which grew in volume as it was picked up by the men leaving the machines. Leaders oftthe workers organiza- tion immediately announced that a mass picketing line would be thrown around the plant at 4:30 this after- noon, to meet the shift of night workers as they enter. A mass meeting of the strikers was also immediately announced for 6:30 tonight at Liberty Lot which is located directly opposite the mill. Police Aid Bosses. A picket line of the workers out of the Lincoln Manufacturing Com- pany plant are already face to face with an intensified police dictator- ship. Police lieutenant Violette has already challenged the pickets at the Lincoln mill and ordered not more ,¢ than two to patrol the gates. Those orders, workers declared, will be completely ignored. Refusal of the pickets to leave o the lieutenant’s~ order was answered by his taki the names of ten leading pickets. Warrants will undonbtedly be issued for their arrest. ae Fully prepared for the respons elicited by the workers to their strike call, the leaders of the Tex- tile Mill Committees are meth- odically working on organizational plans, preparatory to issuing a gen- eral strike call in this huge eotton manufacturing center. 0 The strike affected today, shows | how completely the Ameri Fede.» iron miners, Pres. Calvin Coolidge, | place has been kept open by split-| ration of Textile Operative: is dis- visited the gigantic domain of the|ting Gary’s job into 8 parts, to be| credited in the eyes of the’ te’ workers here. The reactionary léad- ers of the A. F. T. O..are powerless | to stop the coming walkout of, f | of thousands, is the statement heard Fortifying this belief | reunited, according to the dope in. | financial circles when Cal is free | bask the white house. | Learns the Ropes. | With the president on the trip| everywhere. bing and other iron mining centers in the American Printing Gomi was Pentecost, Mitchell, head of the | are joining the strike as readily. : | Oliver Iron Mining Co., the big steel | the unskilled. The A. F. T. O.si ‘trust subsidiary. In the Duluth of-| composed wholly of several Continued ¢ Page Three , |aand skilled operatives, i] i 4, ¢ t is