The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1928, Page 1

CALL CLOAK WORKERS TO BIG MEET IN BRONX STADIUM \ On 5 & THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE U FOR THE 40-HOU FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNME: NORGANIZED R WEEK NT — TONIGHT ei FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V., No. 187 Published datly except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc, 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥- SUBSCRIPTION RA Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per yea A. F. OF L, LEAVES. MISLEADERS FREE IN VOTE SELL-OUT Fakers Split Between Capitalist Parties (Special to The DAILY WORKER) ,ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 7.—Offi- clals of each separate local or inter- national union of the coral of any of the old party machines, according to the final an- | nouncment issued here by the Fede- ration Executive Council which to- day completed its sessions. Neither Smith nor Hoover are endorsed officially. b The council report “neither the democratic platform contain all the proposals submitted by labor. The republican contains much less of la- bors proposals than does the demo- cratic platform. The injunction plank in both of the platforms is un- satisfactory.” Sell to Highest Bidder. said which was taken to be most signifi- cant declares that the officers and members of the American Federa- tion of Labor “may exercise their political judgement in a way which will be to the individual and collec- tive interests of all working men and women.” Couched in the cus- tomary phraseology of camouflage, this is taken to mean that any labor official may sell to the highest. bidder. The official statement of the council issued after the meeting read: “After giving consideration to all the facts relative to the candidates, the executive council of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor should con- tinue to adhere to its non-partisan political policy during the ensuing The statement by the council] BRONX TONIGHT | campaign... All inf ing platforms, candi records will be com oa political ‘ontinued d by the non committee and Page Five ENGDARL FLAYS __ IMPERIALISTS Adopt Bell’s Theses for Commission MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 7.— Fear contested session of the 1 ongress of the Communist International opened yesterday orning under the chairmanship of Murphy, of Great Britain. The anti-war discussion continued The following delegatcs all spoke: Dimitrov,” of Bulgaria; Engdahl, of the United States; Fiala,-ofAwstria; Cheng-kuang, of China; Spector, of Canada; Peluffo, of Latin America, and YaroSslavsky, Union. | Engdahl declared that American imperialism is not only responsible for its own crimes in, China, but also shareg. respo lity for the Tapenesh fend Brifish crimes. The Workers Party is conducting an en- ergetic struggle to expose American imperialism and mobilize counter- forces. The Party also energet- ically supports the toilers of Latin America against American imper- jalism. The Kellogg peace pact is not an inser ‘or peace but for prep- aration of imperialist war against the Soviet Union. Spector declared’ that the Cana- dian Party does not sufficiently mobilize the masses against the war danger. in Canada and demands the closest attention from the Party. The anti- war work must be systematized and strengthened among all sections of the workers. Peluffo declarea “that no strong organizational forms exist in Latin America. The most important task before the Party therefore is to or- ganize the existing revolutionary forces against war and for the de-/| fense of the Soviet Union. The struggle must be conducted against American imperialism, the social democrats ani e is, if- Ists. Vv « Yaroslavsky described the anti- milffQM"SE~"Wwork of the Bolshevist Party before the revolution. The Bolshevists concentrated chiefly on Continued on Page Three DROWN IN PLANE SAN DIEGO, Cal., Aug. 7 (UP).— Ensign C. H. Schmich and aviation pijot S. T. McIntyre, of the aircraft squadrons battle fleet, were drowned when their plane overturned in the harbor here today, American | Federatton of Labor throughout the | country will be left free to hog-tie| the workers politically within the| that | republican nor the| 1 | i j iF j The white terror in’Canton has claimed thousands of victims among the Chinese workers. But the workers have refused to be crushed by these. mass murders. This picture women workers demonstrating at the time when the terror was at its height. CLOAK MEET IN 2 Seamen Are KELLOGG PALES Badly Burned shows Chinese striking EXPOSE SMITH AS ENEMY OF - POOR FARMERS. ‘Foster and Gitlow to) | Tour Rural Districts mh Le de When Al Smith, presidential can- didate of the Democratic Party, re- i jected the equalization fee feature . | of the McNary-Haugen farm relief | | bill, he gave additional proof that he | is owned and controlled by the finan- cial barons of Wall Street, who will |not surrender their acquired right to fleece the farmers to the limit,| according to a statement issued to- |day by the National Election Cam-| jpaign Committee of the Workers (Commynist) Party, with headquar- {ters at 43 East 125th St. | “The ‘best minds’ in the Democra- }tic Party been brooding for weeks jover some formula that would win |the votes of the exploited farmer |for Al Smith and at the same time Satisfy Wall Street that Al’s elec- tion would not impair its power to skin the farmers which it now en- \joys under the benevolent regime of Calvin Coolidge. No Relief for Poor Farmers. “While the McNary-Haugen bill | | Giant Rally to Make) | in Ship Blast | : LINDEN, N. J., Aug. 7.—Two . History, Says Call © ‘|sesmen were seriously burned and | many others narrowly escaped in- | In a final call to the workers in| jury teday in an explosion ‘which |the cloak and dress industry here,| Wrecked the tanker Pacific, of the |to come to the huge mass meeting S. Fuel Corporation. x Captain Anthony Merski, 28, and to be held, tonight in Bronx Stadium, | George ‘Terrable, 26, both of Lodi, the National Organizational Com-|N, J., were enveloped in flames and mittee issued the following call | severely burned before they could be which will be distributed by the Tescued. s and their of “the Soviet | The war danger exists also | thousands in every district where workers and to be found. Louis Hyman, .Chairman of the N. O. C. signs the call. The call says in part: against the company union, against the sweat shop, against everything that has helped to make your life miserable during the past two years! | “Every worker@who is suffering |and slaving in the cloak and dress | industry must come to help lay the | foundation for the rebuilding of our | union. | “Enough = suffering, enough | slavery! Let) us become free men | and women, Forgvard to the Stadium | méeting! Long live the union of the | workers!” | The circular is signed: “Joint Board of the Cloak and Dressmakers Union of the National Organization | Committee. Directions to the meeting are simple, it is’ stated. The meeting | place can be reached from all parts | of the city by either the Lexington lor the Seventh Ave. Subway on a | Bronx Park train. The station is | blocks from the station, next to Starlight Amusement Park. The Organization Committee of 500 will come to the meeting where they will be appointed as captains in charge of keeping order at the rally. Rumors have been circulated by the right wing Sigman union to the effect that the meeting has been postponed. The Organization Com- mittee declares to the workers not to heed any rumors or possible handbills that may announce post- | ponement. The meeting will be held | under all circumstance’, they stated. } Lael ‘Earthquake Destroys | Five Mexican Towns MEXICO CITY, Aug. 7 (UP).— | Five towns in the state of Oaxaca were partly destroyed by: an éarth- quake Saturday, according to des- patches received here tonight. Fifty were reported at Pinotepa but only two persons were known to be seriously injured. sha Despatches from Oaxaca said the towns were “semi-destroyed.” CAMBRIDGE, Ohio. Aug. 7.— Another frame-up is being perpe- trated against an active, militant mine worker. Steve Jakub, an active worker for the Sgve-the-Union Committee, ac- tive now fox the formation of a new miners’ union, and secretary of the Slovak Workers Society of Cam- bridge, Ohio, is in jail on a charge of “having dynamite: in his posses- sion for the purpose of blowing up The blast was believed to have | BEFORE U.S.8.R French Gov. Fears to Invite Tchitcherin WASHINGTON, _ Aug. 7.—Re- ports in the. Berlin press that Georges Tchitcherin, Peoples Com- missar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, had indicated that the’ Soviet Union would accept an invitation to send a representative to,the Kellogg conference scheduled for August 27 in Paris, has brought, offered no solution of the problem |that confronts the exploited farmer, being an attempt to bring relief to the big farmers only, Coolidge op- posed the measure because the big |financial interests of the East want |the agricultural industry completely in their control. | | “It is significant that Al Smith jthe democrat and Calvin Coolidge | the republican oppose every proposal that might help in any way to give! \the farmers relief from ‘the oppres-} |sive dictatorship of the finance- capitalists. ‘commit ovine: TEYTILE PICKETS. BRAVE POLICE TERROR AS MORE LEAVE MILLS; 20 JAILED New Recruits Swell Ranks of Strikers While Walk-out Spreads PRISON TORTURES George J. Saul, subdistrict or- ganizer of the Workers (Commu- Textile Committee Re- nist) Party, who was chosen as 5 % Communist candidate for Gov- |Plies to Foes’ Slanders ernor of Colorado at the recent convention in Denver. Saul has spent more than 20 years among (Special to The DAILY WORKER) EW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. | 7.—Albert Weisbord, leader of the Textile Mitt Committees and just released *rom™a charge of “tres- passing” in a Fali River court, was, enthusiastically cheered by strikars at two biz mass meetings here, where he told New Bedford’s strikers of the growing strike in } the neighboring city The Textile Mil’ Committees are calling a mass meeting espe- cially for the members of the United Textile Workers’ Union of the A. F. of L. Thursday. These workers will be openly appealed to there to join the T. M.C. Ten thousand leaflets will be distrib- uted by the union for this purpose. * * NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 7. the workers and farmers of Colo- rado and was active during the Colorado coal strike last year. ALL OF FASCIST GREW OF 31 DEAD Submarine Sunk Dur- ingMilitaryManeuvers ROME, Aug. 7 (UP).—The 31 men who went to the bottom of the MILL'UNION HITS Both parties are now)sea in the submarine F-14 when it E, 177 St. The Stadium is two} FRAME UP OHIO WORKER Charged With “Possessing Dynamite” harrinet ciel to obtain the release of : : | | | Continued on Page afd |been caused when the feed pipe of | a gasoline engine on the vessel be- came clogged, causing the engine to | backfire. | | SAYS BILL GREEN lYellow Press Waxes Hysterical With a great fanflare of trumpets the right wing Jewish Daily For-| |ward came out yesterday with a/ | hysterical denial of the importance of the two letters written by the |right wing leaders of the attack | against the fur workers, Edward F. | McGrady. and A. I. Shiplacoff, in | which they admitted being defeated by the left wing Furriers Joint Board. A telegram by William Green, president of the American ‘Federation of Labor was used to |“prove” that Shiplacoff id Me- | Grady were only joking when they | signed their ngmes to a confession | of failure. Charles Stetsky, of the defunct | right wing Fur Joint Council issued another statement to the same ef- fect, Hugh Frayne A. F. of L. or- ganizer, McGrady and Matthew Woll issued pitiful denial, but to no! avail. The impression left by the letters, which speak for themselves, |is ineradicable even from the minds }of the manufacturers who read jabout it in their own trade press. | This despite.the fact that the re- ports in these journals were--ex-| |extremely favorable in assigning | space to the denials of the right. wing leaders. This was admitted) |by many manufacturers when their impressions are recorded. McGrady’s letter admitted that {his Jjoint Council ‘company union had been unable to destroy the left | wine Joint Board, and that if finan- cial aid was not forthcoming from the committee, then, the A..F. of L. | would withdraw from the situation. | 52 UNIONS CONWENE. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 7) | (FP).—Fifty-two local Unions were | represented at the bricklayers’ an- nual convention here. a high tension line.”» He is held) without bond, but the International Labor Defense has intervened and is Jakub. Held for “Disturbance.” Jakub was «arrested originally on a charge of disturbance in connec- | tion with a demonstration at the King Mine in Cambridge sometime ago, but there has been no indict- Wi ‘claims that the ships and other dominated by the same interests,! a staterhent from the state depart-| and the workers and poor farmers ment to the effect that only 15 na-| who still believe that the democratic tions already invited would signthefparty is an anti-Wall St. party pact at Paris. should take to heart the lesson of The reported statements of Tchit- | the latest testimony of loyalty to! cherin that the compact as now for (i. siness given by. the candidate | mulated ahd: with the Soviet’ Union’ of Tammany Hall. uninyited would constitute a bloc | against the Soviet Union, and that in the event of his participation he would suggest basic changes, since the pact did not provide for disar- mament and as such was not a Jockeying for Votes. | “Both capitalist parties are jock-| eying for the agricultural vote. Their game is to kid the farmers | along until election day. After the! treaty to outlaw war, have Jed to | first week in November, the presi-| fear in official circles that Kel- ailage veto a oon any measure + ert t passes thru the congressional logg would not succeed in carrying | "4 ey his pact through with any’ amount | 24untlet, whether the White House lof dignity should Tchitcherin be ‘8 occupied by Tammany Al or by Hoover. “The poor farmers should expect} Cay nothing from the republican and} _If the United «States and Eng- | democratic parties buf heavier mort-| lish governments do not wish to! pages and more intense robbery by invite the Soviet Union to partici-’ the elevator trusts and the railroads. | Continued én Page Two When Al Smith called on Governor | SALE OF SHIPS ing problem, he proved that he was) not concerned about the problems Rumania Seized Boats in 1917 present at the Paris conference. Would Embarrass Kellogg of the poor farmers, but with those) of the millionaire ‘gentlemen’ far- mers. Governor Lowden is summer- ling at his palatial summer home in Thousand Islands, while millions of tenant farmers are out under the) burning sun, slaving from dawn | until dusk, trying to make enough to keep body and soul together. By EUGENE LYONS. Organize! MOSCOW, Aug. 7 (UP).—Rus-| “The National Platform of the sian-Rumanian relations, always | Workers (Communist) Party pre- strained because of the Bessarabian | sents the poor farmers and agri-| question, have been made far worse | cultural workers with the only solu-_ by. the revorted seizure by Rumania | tion of their present plight. It urges \of certain former Russian proper-|them to organize for the struggle ties, it was made plain today. (against their enemies and the poli- The ‘Soviet government, it was tical agents of those enemies—the learned, proposes to protest ener- republican, democratic, and socialist getically, and to threaten reprisals, parties. It points out that at least against the reported seizure and|40 per cent of the whole agricul-| subsequent sale of the properties. | Continued on Page Three The new situation arises from a Pron report that Rumania had sold 200 vessels of varius types, the vn TQ DISCUSS DRIVE erty of the Ee tad Russian Danxbe in Steamship Company, as well as other properties estimated here to be worth several million gold roubles. A rouble is 50 cents. The properties were left by the retreat- ing Russian armies in 1917. Russia ‘Plan Campaign properties undeniably belong to her. | Williamsburg The steamship company, it is The drive for signatures in Sec- claimed, was a Russian government institution, even before: the. revolu- | 1... Williamsburg,’ covbring the 14th, 18th and 6th assembly dis- tion. triets of Kings county, is expected to gather fresh~imretus from the special functionaries’ meeting to be held tomorrow at 8.30 at 46 Ten Eyck St., Brooklyn. | One week from tomorrow a spe- T SAYS IT ISN cial’ membershin meeting of the sec- ‘ | tion will be held for mobilization | for the first “‘Red Sunday,” to be WASHINGTON, Aug. 7—The. isa Sn Radio Corporation of Ameriea, now Observed in Vette ya th Au-| under the control of the power trust “U8t 19. The plan 4 te ge a pein | yesterday filed a brief with the|bure section is to hold Red Sun.) Federal Trade Commission in reply 4ays” often and, if necessary, “Red | to the nominal complaint filed with Saturdays” and “Red Weekdays, | tHe Commission of unfair trade | Until a sufficient number of signa- practices and monopoly. tures are obtained to assure the The Radio trust defended as legal,| Placing on the ballot of Peter Mi- such practices as erdss-licencing of dolla, Anton Bimba and Herbert | radio patents under which seven | Zam, Communist candidates fro: | corporations pooled their patents the 6th, 13th and 14th assembly | and thus srestrained competition. | districts respectively. \ spite of this, the ranks of the 28,000 | —Announcement was made by Eli Keller of the New, Bedford. Textile Workers’ Union that criminal and was sunk in a collision, have been found dead, it was officially an- nounced tonight. surface toright and as rescue crews| officials and. patrolmen who are jumped into the craft, hopeful charged with assaulting strikers find a tems ‘the im: willbe: ae 5 oan anit prisoned men still alive, they were | the Amarican mie be Het th $204 greeted with the full extent of the| The NBTWU is gathering evidence tragedy—All of the crew dead. | of the beating in prison of Aiplionse : +4: |Lamirios, A. C. Pinto and other Bocas oka ig wee strikers. The evidence will include maintained until shortly after noon|® broken policemen's he ai today, had indicated that allor | Uion’s possession which was broken at least most--of the men aboard| over the head of one of the strikers were alive. Then, when the com-/°" the picket line, munication was broken off, it was| Keller, general organizer for the feared something had happened union also issued a statement de- dowhstnitke submerged vessel. nouncing the latest trick of the Phe Wid hed. sunk stan ancla of enemies of the strike, namely that 70 degrees. Work of raising, was |! @ slander campaign against the ctarted, but because of the angle of| Textile Mill, Committee leaders. The its slope it was feared that its wai sdaei podghtany Ste ip ager e storage batteries had upset and that Saget mere pap si uaecnns part of the crew had-been asphyx-|SPread campaign to .discredit the iated by fumes of sulphuric acid. | New__Bedford..Textile.. Workers’ Experts believed, after the an-|Union was conducted by the bosses nouncement, that the ship’s comple-| Who are using the police, prison of- ment of two officials and 29 men ficials and the A. F. of L. union must have succumbed to the acid officials as agents. The rumors fumes. that these people spread among the While on maneuvers with the re-| arrested workers included that the the amount being just enough to en- plot to assassinate Premier Valde- and Lithuania. Poles sare revorted ian ministers. A number of arrests! and bombs are being experimented Continued on Page Two organizers of the NBTWU are re- ‘able the organizers to subsist dur- maras-of Lithuania were printed to- Silent Planes Object to have been involved in the at- heve been made according to the|upon by United States, British, . (sence ceiving $75 a week as wages for leading the strike. We brand such MURDER ATTEMPT charges as falsehoods without any ON WALDEMARAS ss tS i lh | “Another rumor that was spread “yh t last week while the strike leaders See New. Polish Move | day by “Glossprawdy,” official mouthpiece of the Polish -fascist war minister, Pilsudski, in what is of Imperialists tempt. + The paper discloses the existence LONDON, Ang. | 7.—Silent,. al at Kovno of a widespread plot to | most invisible airplanes capable of same report. French and German governments. Polish fascist leaders and mili- Experts predict the early devel- tary heads have sought consistent- opment of the new type of machine, truth whatsoever. The organizers of the NBTWU do receive wages, Continued on Page Three Toward War — suspected to be a new attempt to set off hostilities between Poland assassinate not only Premier Val- wiping out unsusnecting popula- demaras but several other Lithuan-| tions with sudden showers of gas ly during the past few years to which would alter the whole char- precipitate a war with Lithuania. | acter of warfare. NEW BEDFORD ARRESTS 441 Jailed Since Textile Strike Began BOSTON, Aug. 7.—Describ@l by strikers not only holds rock-solid but the bosses and by reactionary labor jis being augmented by additional officials as a “peaceful” strike in| thousands walking out of Fall River which the “poltee~und=thertity’ au- | plants in a struggle against the thorities are “gentlemen,” the pub- wage cut, lication yesterday by the Interna-| Siinte May 10, 441 strikers have tional fabsr Defense of a list of ar-| heen arrested or otherwise brought | rests for picketing, shows on the|to trial before the mill bosses’! contrary, that the New Bedford tex- courts. The New England district | tile strikers are facing a most vici-| office of the I. L. D. records: ous police and court terror. In Number of arrests, 441; number Continued on Page Three | 2 civil court action against all police | Price 3 Cents First Time in Their Lives on Line, Men and Women Stand Firm Under Slugging FALL RIVER, Mass., Aug. 7.— In defiance of a savage police attack launched against the first picket de- monstrations of the strikers here, and against each successive line that formed and reformed in spite of a total of 20 arrests and the clubbings of men, women and children, picket- ing continues and many more work- ers in the American Printing Com- pany and the Lincoln Manufacturing Company textile plants are joining the ranks of the strikers. Strikers, picketing for the first time in their lives, meet the re- peated police attacks with the most inspiring courage and despite the ar- rests of the picket line leaders. The eleven pickets arrested last night were increased by the jailing this morning of nine more strikers, among whom was James P. Ried,t Fall River Textile Mill Committees { organizer. : The first line of about 800 were led from Liberty by Reid to pick- et duty at the American Printing Compapy Mills. The police patrol immediately attacked. Reid, Peter Hogelias, Manuel Rogers, and Jessie Cardiero were arrested. Sweeping down on the second line the charging police arrested, Antone Souza, Raymond Mendes, Frank Chaves, Joseph De Pachecs, An- tonio Lopez, Joseph Carvalho, and Louis Ferreira. The thousands of strikers and sympathizers then went back to Li- | berty Lot for a mass meeting, in spite of the police who ta bar | the way to the meeting place to the — | stream of workers headed there. The largest meeting ever held in Fall River was then held. Bill Seroka, chairman opened the meeting in spite of the sudden ap- pearance of 50 police under Chief Feeney. Albert Weisbord, leader of the Textile" Mil’ Committees rose at Continued on Page Five 4,000 BARBERS GO | ON STRIKE TODAY Recognition of Union Aim of Workers Four thousand barbers will strike today in Greater New York to force recognition of the union by the 2,000 non union shops in the borough of Manhattan, according to an announcement made yesterday by Abe Greenwald, manager of local 752 of the International Union of Journeymen Barbers. The strike which was decided upon, after a unanimous vote of the members ‘of the union on July 18, is being called under the leadership of locals 752 and 900 The main | Purpose of the strike will he to have the 2,000 non-union establishments |recognize the International Union jof Journeymen Barbers, Further | disputes, such as bettering of hours |and imcrease in wages for the bar- bers will all be possible after the complete recognition of the union has been obtained, according to a statement made yesterday at the union office. In the present strike, no wage disputes are involved. The union members realize the importance of building up, a strong union so as to be hetter able to deal with the bos- ses. and their energies in this strike will all be exerted toward the re- cognition of the union. , REFORMISTS IN. ATTACK ON USS! BRUSSELS, Aug. 7.—The session of the third congress of id...International was mi today by a vicious attack on Soviet government by members, the former Social-Democratie p of old Russia. i The “socialists” raved about | “brutal tactics” and “terrorism” the Soviet government and called. a “menace” to civilization, n the Workers’ and Peasants’ ment a “betrayer of the class.” Some of the British urged the resumption of diploms relations with the Soviet Union | order to mend the economic tion in England. goon | —_