The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 1928, Page 2

WORKERS ROUSED BY COMMUNIST ELECTION DRIVE Red Candidates Start September 1 ve and intensive anda and organi- zationa paign ever undertaken by the Workers (Communist) Party will start September Ist, when Wil- liam Z. ster, candidate for presi- United States, and Ben- low date for vice- president, will begin a nation-wide tour that will take them from Mas- East to Oregon 1 the West, to Texas in the South and from and Georgi there back to New York, where they will finish the two-month trip on the 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 (Commu ) Party from eleec- tion head-quarters at 43 East 125th Street. Reports reaching campaign head- quart 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 democratic and republican par- ties and disappointed in the liberal hogwash of the socialist party preacher candidate, the Reverend Norman Thomas, who is appealing to the liberals 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 (Communist) Party, in 1921, Communist organ- izers are building the Party in every state in the union, taking advantage of the interest aroused among the 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 on the ballot in several states and thou- sands of Communists collecting the necessary number of signatures to place it on the ballot in at least thirty of the forty-eight states in the union, the Foster-Gitlow tour is sure to reach hundreds of thou- sands of workers who never heard the Communist message before. As campaigners Foster and Git- low have few equals. Both have years of agitational and organiza- tional work behind them, and are ac- customed to the hardships of pro- tracted speaking tours. The schedule of dates ts as fol-| lows: | Monday, September 3, Philadel-| phia; Thursday, September 6, Mo-)| nessen or Canonsburg; Friday, Sep-. tember 7, Pittsburgh; Sunday, Sep- tember 9, Cleveland; Monday Sep- tember 10, Youngstown; Tuesday, September 11, Bellaire; Wednesday,! September 12, Toledo; Thursday, September 13, Grand Rapids; Fri- day, September 14, Gary; Saturday, September 15, Indianapolis; Sun- day, September 16, St. Louis; Mon- day, September 17, Springfield; Wednesday, September 19, Duluth; # Thursday, Sejtember 20, Iron Range; Saturday, September 22, Bismarck; Monday, September 24, lentywood; Wednesday, September i Great Falls; Friday, September 28, Spokane; Sunday, September 30, Seattle; Monday October 1, Port- land; Tuesday, October 2, Astoria; Thursday October 4, Oakland; Fri- day, October 5, San Francisco; Sun- day, October 7, Los Angeles: Tues- day, October 9, San Diego; Wednes- day, October 10, Phdenix: Thurs- day, October 11 Tucson; Saturday, October 13, San Antonio; Sunday, October 14, Houston; Tuesday, Oc- tober 16, Fort Worth or Dallas; Wednesday, October 17, Oklahoma City; Thursday, October 18, Tulsa; 19 Arma, Kans. , Minneapolis: 2, Omaha; Tues- Wed- Friday, October Sunday, October Monday, October day, October 23, Kansas C nesday, October 24, Milwaukee; Friday, October 26, Chicago; Satur- day, October Pontiac, Mich.; Sunday, October 28, Detr Mon- day October 29, Reading; Tuesday, October 30, Philadelphia; Wednes fay October 31, Boston; Thursday, November 1, Haverhi Friday, November 2, Fall River; Sunday, November 4, New York; Monday November 5, Providence. » Other dates will be announced PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 6.—Dr. f. M. Rubinow, statistician, social worker and former socialist, has ac- pted an invitation to become ex- ecutive director of the Zionist Or- ization of America and of the United Palestine Appeal. The office which Dr. Rubinow will fill has been newly created and The looked upon as an effort on the “part of the Zionist organization to Bilence criticism such as nearly dis. rupted its last convention concern- 04 gross mismanagement and fi- nancial juggling on the part of of- fhe former and socialist will ve the close co-operation in his “work of the notorious, labor-baiting ©) Judge Otto Rosalsky, chairman of | the United Palestine Appeal in New ~ York. “ Foery new reader of The DAILY WORKER is a potential roller in the coming battles of © the webhora THK VAILY WUKKER, ~~ JEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1928. FOR 21% YEARS? PROFIT GRABBED INSURANCE FIRM Foster and Gitlow Will Start Country-Wide Election Campa viene" PARTY ARRANGES. OPEN-AIR MEETS THRUOUT N.Y. CITY Speakers to Cover All Boroughs The agitprop department of the Workers (Communist) Party has ar- ranged for a series of open-air meet- ings this week that will cover all the boroughs in the city. Prominent speakers: have been assigned to cover the various meetings. 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- pire and A. Mershon. Sutter and Williams, Brooklyn—- In charge, Macklin; speakers, Pad-| Al G. Welsh, Ragozin and A. Pop- in. Longwood and Prospect Bronx—In charge, V. speakers, Moore, Reiss, I. Cohen and Severino. Weénesday, Aug. 8. Second Ave. and Tenth St—In charge, Gussakoff,; speakers, Miller, Smith, and Epstein. Union Square—In charge, Ross; speakers, Baum, Blake and Powers. Wilkins and Intervale—In charge, Leroy; speakers, Grecht; Frishkoff and Jacobson. Myrtle and Prince, Brooklyn—In charge, Rosemond; Wright, Schalk and Reiss. Passaic—In charge, Staliar; speakers, Stanley, Sroka and Frei- man. Eagle Pencil Co. (Noon)—In charge, Garlin; speaker, Ballam. Finnish Ave., Harlem—Cadkind, _re- porter. Seventh Ave. and 137th St.—In charge, H. Williams; speakers, Taft, Padmore and Rosemond Thursday, Aug. 9. Cibulsky; | speakers,| Accused In Huge Baseball S windle | William Pringle, alleged.treasurer of the so-called Albany base- ball pool is awaiting trial in connection with the swindle he is re- ported to have run. He is charged, however, not with giving the prizes in his pool to a “dummy” winner, but for “violating the federal anti-lottery laws.” Hundreds of workers, chiefly young men and boys, have been taken in by this and similar frauds. Pringle is in the center of the above group. | DEATH TOLL OF © YWL CELEBRATE MINERS GROWS SEPT. 9 10 16 | By B. K. GEBERT | The National Committee of the The coal. mining industry of this) Y 01" Workers (Communist) country is the slaughter house of the League has decided that the four- miners and mine workers. This is| teenth International Youth Day |shown by the government statistics | Will be celebrated during the week | of the Bureau of Mines showing that|0f September 9—16. Extensive | during the first six months of 1928) Preparations have been made to |accidents at coal mines caused the make International Youth Week loss of 1,128 lives. The production|this year the greatest demonstra- of coal during this period was 271,- tion against capitalist war and mili- |392,000 tons, showing a death rate |tarism the league in America has \of 4.16 per million tons as against ever held. ; |8.86 for the same sixy months of| Meetings in Every City. |1927, based on 1,225 fatalities and| Every city in the country will | 817,526,000 tons of coal. The rec-|hold indoor and outdoor meetings | d for bituminous coal alone from|in protest to the militarization of the young workers and the present | or from January to June, 1928, was 901 danger of war. The league recog- nizes that the danger of war is deaths and 234,289,000 tons, with a greater than ever before. The con- | fatality rate of 3.85; while that for| |anthracite showed 227 deaths, “37,- | 108,000 tons and a death rate of/tradictions between the imperialist /6.12, The same period for 1927|powers, the offensive against the jshowed 947 deaths in bituminous Soviet Union and the imperialist at- mines, 276,629,000 tons and a death tacks on the colonial peoples, are | rate of 3.42; for anthracite the rec-| today laying the basis for a future war for Wall Street. The tre- mendous growth of armaments and ord was 287 fatalities, 40,897,000 tons and afatality rate of 6.80. The the armed forces constitute a real menace to the young workers of ign Tour in September 4 Denver Workers Start Struggle Against’ Low \Injury Compensation DENVER, Aug. 6. —Organizéd workers here Have launched a cam- |paign against the present state |compensation law. At the sathe | |time statistics show that accidefits | : ; while at work have increased by Unions Support 3,500 | 8539 since i919. : | ik The weekly compensation for in- Strikers juries received at work at the pré- jsent time is only $9.26. The work. SHANGHAI, Aug. 6.—-The 3,000 | ers here propose to increase this to tea shop and cafe employes who | $13.45 per week as compensation. |have been on strike for some time! Accidents at work have intreased | were joined by 500 workers of the |from 11,258 in 1919 to 19,797 in | Japanese tea company here who 1926. Employers have made no at- | went on strike to secure wage in-| tempt, in this perfod to install safety | creases and the reduction af work- -devices. | ing hours. | | The employers locked out the! | workers and requested the authori- \ties to expel the strikers from the company houses. MEET PROTESTS Eight great trade unions anclud- | E ERROR ing the postal, the tobacco and the! printers’ unions called a joimt con- | | ference to organi ii | | strikers, “Banize relief for the) rom 200 to 800 Chinese workers Accounts in both the Chinese and be sa pa hob phe ae ssi nS foreign press show that the strike joiting sun listening to speakers dé- situation is regarded with anxiety | i r : and is declared to be menacin; eee ees oe eee ae | e terday afternoon at a meeting held under the auspices of the New York |branech of the 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 weré H. T. Tsieng, of the Workers’ and Pea- sants’ Alliance; Harry Wakes of the Seamens’ Union; Seizo Ogino of the Japanese Workers’ Association in SHANGHAI TEA WORKERS JOIN CAFE STRIKE Michigan University To Educate Czarist Girls Free of Charge WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Rus- sian czarist girls, now grown wom- ten, who may claim to be “gradu- | ates” of Russian universities, are | sought as beneficiaries of the Bar- bour scholarships at the University }of Michigan, according to an an- | mouncement by the U. S. Bureau of | Education. * “More than 70 women from orien- tal countries,” says the bureau, “have already availed themselves of the Barbour scholarships which | provide $800 per annum and uniyer- | sity fees for attendance at the Uni- | versity of Michigan.” Steinway and Jamaica, 1. I—In 596,000 tons and a death rate of 3.86 charge, Heder; speakers, Padgug, during the first half of 1927. Schachtman and Suskin. industry as a whole had 1,225 deaths, with a production of 317,- this country. Pacifists Betray Workers. The socialists and pacifists are | Inquiry at the bureau developed | the fact that President C, C. Little of the University of Michigan had America, and Harry Gannes acting secretary of the All-America Anti- Imperialist League. Harriet Silver- BY GAS COMPANY By H. BARUFKIN. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 6 (FP). —Two widows wept ceaselessly and killed through greed of the Phila- delphia Gas Works Co. The gas company, a trust which holds up the Philadelphia public to! the tune of millions each year, sent out a gang of 50 men—working nine hours a day for $4.14—to dig a ditch for a fence around its huge plant at Passyunk Ave. The ground there is of soft clay. But mo shor- workers’ protection. When the ditch was three feet deep, the seven-foot embankment towering over it began to slide. Within a few minutes it had com- SHORT $3,500,000 138th St. and St. Anne’s Ave., Bronx—Nessin, Ed. Welsh, Paster- nack and Smith. Fortieth St. and Eighth Ave. Killings Increasing. During the month of June, 1928, 135 miners were killed in the mines. | | Thirty-two of this number. were ing the workers and International Youth Week will show the young workers the role of these organiza- ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 6.—Over In charge, J; Cohen; speakers, Huis- killed “in the anthracite mines of tions and also the attempt to. cover three and one-half million in mis- = sing securities have been reported " 3 : ‘Ape ; Primoff; riot children wmotened toy Waele Saihers> lin an padlt OF Ge aobwnale at the Leibowitz, Friskkoff, Weich’ and D. Per million tons of coal mined dur-} wood and Powers. Allerton and Cruger—In charge, speakers, Rose Wortis, International Life Insurance Com- Seltzer. pany, it was revealed yesterday. Insurance Commissioners have notified. the company to account for the missing securities by next Fri- Twenty-fifth St. and “Mermaid Ave., C. I—In charge, Weitz; speak- |ers, Bimba, Hendin, Shapiro, Moore | of 3.92 for June, 1927, based on 172) and A. Green. Loose Weils Biscuit Co. (Noon)— day at which time a meeting on) Crouch. legal procedure is scheduled. | The insurance company had $309.: jing or bracing was put up fot 115,719 of insurance in force on in. It reported 160,000 Bristol and Pitkin, Btooklyn——In holders and gave its assets as charge, Lefkowitz; speakers, Ben | for June of last year, based on an’ Jan. 1, 1928. Policy $48,186,431. Attorney General Stratton Shar- pletely buried two workers and im- tel of Missouri was notified of the! prisoned two others. Their com- shortage yesterday. rades dug frantically with hands, SOVIET AVIATOR shovels and buckets to free the trapped men. When uncovered one was dead, another died soon after reaching the hospital and two were treated for serious injuries. The two workers killed were Anthony TELLS HIS STORY Cinquino and Joseph Carrutto. Both had been working for the gas company about three weeks. Continued from Page One Carrutto, 34, had been employed at | while trying to repait a wing fell the McCain sugar refinery. But into the water, the temperature of unable to support his family on | which was just about freezing. It three days work a week, he quit to was a great moment when at last we look for another job. Cinquino, 40, sighted the Maligin. Fominikh had been working for the Atlantic jumped up in the cabin and did a/|Brooklyn—In charge, Schwartzberg;% money, and the miners are Gas Refining Co. as‘@ fireman four | folk dance.” years. One Sunday he was caught | washed up a few minutes before ae the whigts Blew. oF quitting —and | tear that tan afotind like dogs, of he was. tired. days and nights in succession of Neither left enough for funeral flying in search for the missing His stoty went on to tell of nar- Ww escapes on melting ice, of polar expenses. Carrutto left .a widow Italia crew, followed by stretches of and a child, eight years old. Cin-| 24-hour sleep at a time. quino is survivéd by his sickly, To help pass the time on board shrunken widow and five children | 41. Maligin the sailors and fliers ranging in age from two months to issued a weekly newspaper. Due to eight years. the lack of foreign news local talent SE ape supplied short stories, amusing in- \cidents, cartoons and sketches. 4 0 ARE DYING regular workers’ correspondence w ) | instituted that even included letters | from the polar bears complaining of the hunting. Mechanic Groshey was made the point of a joke. When flying with Babushkin he always in- xan sisted on leaving his heavy fur coat At least one hundred and possibly behind so as to enable the plane to two hundred workers exposed to carry more fuel. the hazards of rock-dusi inhalation When the Maligin heard that the ure slowly dying while the Tam- Krassin had rescued the five Italia many Board of Health, assisted by | men marrooned on the ice near Foyn! the obedient officials of the union |Island, it turned in seatch for the! to which the workérs belong, are ap- missing Amundsen group. Failing | | parently seeking to hush the matter to find them near Spitzbergen, the up until after election. iee-cutter could only return. Babush-| Investigation of the extent of silli- kin describes how they made their) cosis, a disease contracted by rock first landing for days as follows:| drillers, sand blasters, subway con- “The arrival in port and how we struction workers and workers sim- rushed for fresh tomatoes and fruits flarly exposed, was first begun hy from the peddler women without the Tammany Board of Heaith. even waiting to bargain I shall Thomas J. Curtis, head of the Tun- never forget. After that I slept nel and Subway Union, at first complained of the every fifteen minutes to drink milk. danger to which nearly 7,600 work- “During the next few days .we ers are known to be exposed. gratified another hunger—we ha More recently, whether through not seen a newspaper for the last pressure exercised by the Tammany eight weeks. I have never devoured machine or for other reasons, Cur- so many Izvestias at one time be- (tis has quieted down and the Tam- fore in my life. Then for the first |many department of health has an- time did we realize that the atten- nounced that it would be at least tion of the whole world was focuséd assassinating leaders of the Govern- $18.04 for each telephone in 1925, \January 1 before the report would upon us.” he ready, The report originally was |to have been made public August 1. ments that they are reluétant to | Attempts are being made to give out information about their ill- Klame the workers, as usual, for the ness. The reason given is that they | dejay in the investigation by state- fear to lose their jobs. ay é- 4 id Constructors’ for thirty hours straight getting up| a _ Friday, Aug. 10. National Biscuit Co. (Noon)-—In charge; Ross; speaker, John Sher- 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, 810 Union Hall 5t., Jamaica, L. I.—-Rosemond, Padmore and LeRoy. Saturday, Aug. 11. First Ave. and 79th St.—In charge, Lustig; speakers, Padgug, Magliacano and Lloyed. Thirteenth Ave. and 42nd St., speakers, Napoli, Shapiro, Donald- son, Chalupski and M. Pizer. West New York, N. J.—Marshall. Poughkeepsie—Markoff. 116th St. and First Ave— Schachtmah and Cudkind (special | meeting). Perth Amboy—Powers. Many Schoo! 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. Nearly one-sixth were suffering |from malnutrition, 32.000 children kad defective teeth. 7,006 had goiter, 1,600 had heart disease and 2,000 had defective hearing. Nearly 20,090 children of 14 to 18 years who applied for work permits showed, in feneral, a still larger percentage of efects Since many of the physical defects can be prevented or con- trolled the department of health soba og believes that the neces- sity for more health work in the | schools is cleariy demonstrated. MEXICO CITY, August 2 (UP). —José Deleon Toral, assassinater of president-elect Obregon, was not latoné involved in the crime, but had others back of him, according to a statement issued today by Govern- tt prosecutor Cerrea Nieto. iment Nieto declared that he believed that Toral was a member of a terrorist organization’ which met frecuently ‘and talked over the possibility of ment. A taxi driver would avpreciate this copy of The DAILY | WORKER, Pennsylvania. The remaining 103 | up the feverish military prepara- deaths occurred in bituminous mines | tions by holding disarmament con- in various states. THe death rate | ferences such os the coming Kellogg peace conference in Paris. Appeal to Servicemen. An appeal to the soldiers and ailors will also be issued by the } league. “Do not fight the wars of deaths and 48,884,000 tons of coal yall Street!” “Fight for the work- produced. The fatality rate for! : a eevigis bituminous. inines- alone for June,|o™ *esinst the bones!” wil be 1928, was 2.86, with a production of | z 35,963,000 tons, and that for an-| All sections of the league should i ‘i ‘ immediately start preparing for the acti Mey leh goede yy fen celebration of International Youth 4. ‘ \Day. Make I. Y. D., 1928, a living ee bid sp paige habs saa example of the struggle of the | working youth against capitalist ilitarism and war. ing the month was 3.27, based on a} production of 41,264,000 tons of coal, as compared wth a death rate| . | output of 36.627.000 tons and 118) |deaths, and 7,257,000 tons and 54) ™ 11 MORE DEAD 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 hundred and twenty-eight killed| heat, even though the torrid wave during the first six months of 1928!) receded a bit from the peak it This is the price the miners are paying for the “privilege” of work-| that shook the suburbs on Saturday, 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 | perature. free on| Yesterday brought showers to the hand. The bosses are more con-|suburhs again, but the heart of the jeerned about the mule ee which| Metropolitan district remained as |they-must pay at least $100. Min-/ pot as the day before. ers by the hundreds around the|_- imines are forced by starvation to| work under these hazardous con- \ ditions. | | Allies of Death. | | The speed-up system, cutting | jdown 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 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 ‘in the mines, for such working con- ditions that will reduce accidents to a minimum. The government mine “inspectors and the company fire bosses who are supposed to look after the safety measures in the mines are simply a joke. No one is ‘¢oncerned about the lives of the |miners. Their lives are the cheap- est. The miners themselves in every | mine and local union must fight for ‘their right to look after the safety | measures in the mines, and force the companies to install safety devices for their protection in the mines. ing séveral ‘deaths, exetted a slight- ly cooling effect on the city tem- Take the DAILY WORKER With You on Your Vacation Keep in touch with the strug- gles of the workers while you are aWay on your vaca- tion, This summer the Elec- tion Campaign will be in full swing. The DAILY WORK- ER will carry up-to-the-min- ute news concerning the campaign ef the Workers (Communist) Party in the various states, Daily cable néws service from the World Congress of the Communist International which opens soon in Moscow. 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