The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 9, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE U: FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WC?" 'RS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT NORGANIZED aily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1979. FIN |Vol. V., No, 188. Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Agsociation, Inc., 26-28.Union Sq., New York, N.Y. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1928 95 FALL RIVER PICKETS JAILED IN NEW TERROR. Pregnant “Woman Is Assaulted by Police FALL RIVER, Mass., Aug. 8.— | “Breaking the back of the strike” | is chief of police Feeney of Falf River’s characterization of police brutality in throttling Mrs. Joseph | Pacheco, a pregnant striker, while | they held her against an iron viaduct and crushed her stomach {walls in with their knees. She was | rushed to the Truesdale Hospital in | ‘critical condition. The woman’s offense was that she tried to remain with her husband, @ picket arrested with 25 others, in- | cluding Bill Seroka, James P. Reid, Pete Hagelnis and Sam Wiseman, | leaders of the Fall River Textile | Mills Committee, in an attempt to} pass thru the cordons .which the | Police today threw around the fac-| tories. Boasts of Terror. For a quarter of a mile around the mills squadrons of police swept the streets bare of pedestrians while thousands of workers thronged the thoroughfares just out of arm’s reach of the police outposts. Chief of police Feeney is openly boasting in the local press of the feats of brutality performed by his squadrons. Police violence “will break the back of the strike,” he is fruoted as saying. | Simultaneously with the renewed lice terrorism, Commissioner Wood of the department of justice arrived in Fall River today to begin a de- > Question Clerical Leader Involved in Murder of Obregon The Mother Superior Maria Conception is charged to have turned the mind of Jose de Leon Toral, assassin of president-elect Obregon, towards his crime. She is shown at the left during an examination of her activities and those of the catholic church in the plot to murder the president-elect. The nun faces a twenty-year prison term. NANKING PLANS Big Gain in PASSAIC POLICE Unemployed in England BAN WEISBORD LONDON, Aug. 8—While the LO Hold Test Textile | British trade union bureaucrats and Workers’ Meeting | reformist political leaders vie with the each other in labor betrayal and \class-collaboration, the unemploy- ment situation and its resultant suf- fering grow steadily worse. A further increase in the number MASS MURDERS Threaten Massacre of | Worker, Peasant PEKING, Aug. 8.—While members of the Executive Commit- tee of the Koumintang are quarrel- ing among themselves and unable The Passaic Police Commissioner has issued an ultimatum that Albert Weisbord will not be permitted to speak in Passaic. This comes as a 15,000 CLOAK WORKERS AT AUNCH NEW UNION | JBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. $8.00 NEEDLE TRADES “WORKERS URGED ~ TO BACK PARTY “Communists Fight for | Working Class” . Fascist Inefficiency Kills 31 on Submarine Depicting the treacherous role played by the socialists ahd theit When the F-14, Italian submarine was urface of allies the Tammany Hall ¢ity and the Adriatic yesterday its crew of 31 was found dead, stifled by state officialdom in breaking the poison gas fumes. The submarine was rammed by a destroyer in once powerful organizations of the the Adriatic Sea during maneuvers apparently intended as a threat needle trades workers here, the to Jugo Needle Trades Section of the Trade Union Educational League, yester- day, issued a statement calling upon the workers to support the candi- dates of the Workers (Communist) Party in the November elections. |The statement declares: SINO-JAPANESE To all Workers in the Needle Industry! Brothers and Sisters! We stand today in the midst of TO HOLD CONFERENCE > (Special to the Daily Worker) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 8.— Miners’ representativ of districts AL CITY EDITION Cents Price 3 ‘APPLAUD END OF SIGMAN-BOSSES’ COMPANY UNION National Convention to Be Held Soon Fifteen thousand cloak and dress- akers, assembled last night at a giant mass meeting in’ Bronx Sta- dium, thunderec¢ mighty “YES” for the passage of the resolution which heralded the launching of a |new union in the ladies’ garment manufacturing industry. Jamming tight all aisles, the field and the bleachers of the huge Bronx football park, the vast audi- ence declared their intention of re- |placing the ruins of the old Inter- |national Ladies Garment Workers |Union with a new workers’ organ- ization that will unionize the trade nationally and restore bearable to hold their scheduled session at Nanking, the Nanking government has issued a statement warning all opponents of the Nanking regime This statement in the face of termined campaign to drive the Tex-} strikes in Shanghai, the activities of tile Mills city. Committee out of the Terrible Weisbord! Wood declared that “Weisbord is a sinister menace to all hardwork- ing, respectable, industrious textile workers of this and any other city.” | In substantiation he pointed out Weisbord’s record in the Passaic strike where Wood himself was active in another capacity. He further warned the good peo- ple of this city “not to be blinded by the fireworks of this fiend and the peasant army in the south and the split within the Nanging ranks is construed here as an attempt to retain the Nanking regime by open dictatorship and terroristic meth- ods. climax to the chiefs disruptive tactics the presidential election campaign, 13, 21 and 25 and all miners of the| working conditions to the factories, agaist any criticism or action | against the Koumintang dictator- ship. | of unemployed persons for the week lending July 30 is reported in of-| | ficial figures which are probably | far below the actual figures, since they include only those registered | with the government as unemployed. | The total registered for the week} ending July 30 was 1,305,000 an in- crease of 22,066 over the preceding) week and 185,176 more than in the) corresponding week a year ago. at a meeting held by the Workers’ International Relief, Local New York, last°Thursday at the Ukrain- fan Hall, President St., Passaic, at which Albert Weisbord was the speaker, to raise relief for the New Bedford textile strikers. The Workers’ International Re- lief declares this arbitrary action by |the police a violation of its rights a meeting next Thursday evening in the Ukrainian Hall, President £t., which is of the greatest significance to the American workers. Soon the republican party of Teapot Dome fame and the democratic party with its Tammany Hall gorruption, as well as the socialist party, be- |trayers of labor openly following | along at the tail end of the capital- list parties, will come to you for | your support. There is also the Workers (Communist) Party—the party of the class struggle. Workers Must Take Stand. We. needle trades workers have CLASH LOOMING Nanking Regime Gets Threatening Note TOKIO, Aug. 8 (UP).—Japan may be obliged to “take measures which it deems suitable” to protect its interests if China insists on abrogating the present commercial treaty, a government note said to- Passaic, N. J. at 7:30 p. m. with “In order to bring the republic to Albert Weisbord as speaker, to test maturity,” the statement says, “the Koumintang does not tolerate the existence of an opposition.” In view of the wholesale execution of work- | ing class leaders and Communists | the statement can be taken as an/ | out this question with the American | | Civil Liberties Union. The meeting |will be held to raise relief for the |New Bedford textile strikers. ion| The following speakers will ad- Important Information) , th: meeting: Albert Weisbord, Is Revealed the promises that he will lead them avowal of continued methods of ter-| | Roger Baldwin, Nirector American jas. ie of Tor against workers and peasants | WF FD | Civil Liberties Union; Fred Bieden- yYemain in their reactionary unions,| The poleyree we Nanking regime Police department -here announced | International Relief; » Robert | W. ee which he expressed the great- est. respect. These, he declared, Id lead them to an adjustment their difficulties sooner than will today that 87 persons, including two catholic priestsNhad been arrested |.ocal New York, Wo?kers” Interna- | in connection the assassination |kional Relief, who will act as chair- | of president-elect Obregon. is necessitated, many observers point out, if it wishes to consolidate its financial and economic forces and gain recognition from the im- ann; Harriet Siverman, Secretary an. be effected under the banner ‘of | perialist powers. | Although gthe police would not} The last meeting was broken up ism.” me < + ————_ | give detailed information they inti-|and close to 700 workers ordered _ Following is announcement, ; | mated that the investigation is ex-| from the hall. The representatives 200 workers of the American Print- & 7 | pected to reveal information as to/of law and. order informed Mr. ing Company marched a half mile to | the real motive for the assassina-| Weisbord and the secretary of Local ithe Algonquin aie ae ey tion. |New York, Workers’ International where be Ricans tha weriers With the surrender of Carlos Relief, that they were under orders looked out and returned the cheers. AL SMITH DRIVE | Castro, who had been sought as the to disperse the meeting and that | aide of Toral, further information | Weisbord would not be permitted to pe Sa | has been obtained which will lead to | speak in New Jersey. eae °. | nts, it was announced. MorganMunitionsKing "*” “”°P"s"*,* ‘ ” MEXICO CITY, Aug. 8—The| 000 EXPE TE May ‘Leave” Job | statement of the Roman | ¢ WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 8.—/ Church accussing President Calles | Pierre S. Du Pont, chairman of the | as being the instigator of the crime : board of directors of the General | is being received here as an indica- Motors Company, will. “resign” | tion that the clergy is in a position | from his position with the open-| Which, from their ren of view, re- = shop Morgan concern and devote | quires strenuous efforts to turn sus- | ‘ Nienuelt ts fo dtherine the campaign | Picion in another direction than their | Electrical Workers to of Al Smith for the presidency, it) own. The statement of the church | Fight Broach ‘was unofficially announced yester-| authorities does not deny that those : 2 day. He is also the country’s larg-| directly implicated in the crime are i} Considerable excitement has been aroused among electrical workers, war munitions maker. directly connected with the Mexican day. The note was sent to the Nank- ing government, which recently an- | learned many bitter political lessons |in our struggles. We have been | taught by injunctions, arrests, club- southwest have been called to a Tri- ‘when they were destroyed, together District Conference to be held here|with the old union, by the “social- Labor Day, September 3, at Musi-|ist’-boss-police coalition. cians Hall, 1017 W: on St. | Declaring that the Lewis machine completed its long list of betrayals in the recent abandonment of the Jacksonville scale, the call to the conference states: “We have one road left to follow, to rid our or- ganization of the bosses agents, the Lewis machine, and to build the The call, signed by , secretary of the Tri- District Committee, Route 1, ington, Mo., follows in part: Make Labor History. With tremendous outbursts of en- thusiastic applause, the crowd of workers endorsed the declarations of the leaders of the National Or- ganization Committee that a new historic era was dawning for the workers in the industry with the successful holding of this meeting. When Ben Gold, leBder of the Furriers Joint Board, gave expres- <-|sion to these sentimefits by saying, “This is not a protest demonstra- tion, this meeting is here to build,” Phiten Pe its cancellation of the Call to Act. e k | bings, imprisonment, that every eco- nounced its cance! 1 hed’ Nel " decane seungih against one group | ‘tfeaty., Japan refuses to accept the| “To all locals and members of the ume rocked ih Seen cancellation, and urges China to| U. M. W. A. ee | of capitalists brings into the strug- | gle the whole power of the capital- ist state, representing the interests withdraw it. Ce a “District 13-21-25, to all miners of the southwest. Reject Rotted Structure. The speakers, leaders of the N. i British Recognition Seen, “Greetings: |0. C., which will lead the drive to : of the chpitehet selass as @ whole. | ‘cides age fi Oftigjal.cincles |...‘Distri 3.2 ” ited: erect powerful_cloak..and. dreste—:. biggest. task in our historf—Mfet here admit that negotictions be Continued on Page Three tT reibdea. at the umsaok, Wh eene building of a new union of needle) tween the Nanking regime and the ey * lplstalye discard every vontlge heaee trades workers that will fight to re- | British government over the Nani establish union conditions in the in- \ing incident of March 1927, have dustry, and organize the thousands been going on for some time and of unorganized needle trades work-|that a satisfactory settlement may ers, we cannot, we will not, stand soon be reached. | aside from the present political | The settlement of the Nanking) campaign. We must take-a definite | incident, for which the English gov- | position. We must state clearly and | ernment demands raparations, would | boldly which political party repre-| be followed by a revision of the| sents our interests as workers, and u F commercial treaties. That negotia-| which program and candidates we | tions are being carried on with the| | will support. Nanking government is indicative The last few years have been for of the fact that it is recognized as | us a period of intense and continual |the responsible government for| struggle. Union organization has | China. been destroyed in large sections of | Soscsceeo'ee IN BARBER STRIKE which thousands of workers are | Socialists are Betrayers. 14,500 Quit Shops to ‘the industry. Sweat-shop cnoditions thrown out of employment. Today | hundreds, thousands of workers, are | { Who has been responsible for this . j demoralization and destruction? | Answer Union Call | have been introduced. A vicious | | speed-up system has been estab- | faced with want and actual starva-| There can be only one answer—re- JAIL 7 PICKETS ON HUGE LINES Batty Pleads for Speed Up in New Bedford (Special to the Daily Worker.) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug, 8. |—With the largest picket lines in weeks surrounding the textile mills, the fake conference of the State Board of Arbitration and Concilia- tion opened here today. Seven strikers were arrested dur- ing the day, including Elizabeth Donnelley, who was seized at the children’s playground during the afternoon, while William E. G. Batty, seerctary of the New Bed- |ford Textile Council, and his col- league, Binns, of the United Tex- tile Workers, pleaded with the rep- | plet rotted structure led by the Sigman- Behtecinker clique through their |agents and allies, bosses, police and gangsters. For twenty-two months the cloak- |makers have been suffering under |more and more degrading sweat- |shop conditions, due to the fact that |the right wing hes destroyed the Lge powerful cloakmakers union, | speakers declared. During all that time we have called upon the right wing to end the war against the | workers and make peace, they said, but now, we call a halt to appeals for peace, knowing that it is im- possible to make peace with agents of the employers. Tells of Struggles. Charles S. Zimmerman, chairman of the meeting, delivered the key- note of the sentiment of the gath- ering when he recounted the strug- |gles of the left wing against the ‘corruption and gangsterism of the |Sigman clique and the workers? fight for a clean and honest union of the membership. Seven striking barbers were ar-| resentatives of the bosses to rescind | Hyman Gets Ovation. members of Local 3, over the issues | rested yesterday afternoon on East | the ten per cent wage cut.in order, Louis Hyman, chairman of the i 2 ues | sponsibility rests upon the alliance | (now confronting the union which | between the manufacturers, the re- women on picket lines continued to| Du Pont indicated that the report | clergy. patrol the Amierican Printing Com-| was accurate when he announced’ - began their | he would have “an important state- wholesale arrests of the strik-| ment to make to the directors of the 4 heads of tt Fur- |General Motors at their meeting in made at the |New York Thursday afternoon.” John J. Raskob, cee chairman of the | $500,000 from the Bancitaly Cor- Official of New York Bank Is Charged With Embezzling $500,000 Charged with embezzling about regular meeting of the organization to be held at Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. The membership is extremely wrought up, it has been learned, over the attempt by the Broach ma- chine to railroad through a number of amendments to the by-laws in- tended to deprive the rank and file of their control over union affairs. Among the proposed amer t are one to eliminate half of the elections, one to raise dues, one to do away with the making of a fi- |nancial report and one to eliminate poration of New York City, Cor- nelius Callahan, assistant secretary in the stock transfer department of fic. against Cal- lahan is larceny of $21,600. a grand jury indictment having been re- i Lyon ag the: facts were laid | the yearly elections. Gallakan was on his _vacation Over Feet iene Seabed of gabon. he wae: sivaatad..\ te is. be | the union are expected at tonight’s meeting at which one of the storm- iest sessions in the history of the union are predicted. __ It was learned yesterday that of all mem- lare to be voted on tonight at a) actionary socialist union officials and A. F. of L, bureaucracy, and capitalist state powers, who have joined their forces in the attacks upon us. The fur workers were the first to clean out their union of the dis- Continued on Page Two Brennan, Tammany Ally, Dies in Chicago CHICAGO, Aug. 8—George F. Brennan, democratic boss of Illi. nois, dictator of presidential nom- inees, chief ally of the corrupt Tam_ many thachine during the.past four | years, died today after an illness of a little more than a week caused | by. tooth infection. ie “Rising” from a coal miner he managed by devious ways to become one of the rulers of one of the | Frank L. Smith, the Ineul | 33rd St. by Detective Lieutenant that an unrestrained speed-up» may | John Broderick when they attempt- | be introduced in the mills. led to picket shops on the street in | efforts to induce fellow-workmen to | Basing his plea on the prosper- f ‘4 Z v: | ity which will result to the textile join them in their strike, the pur- | bosses, Batty appealed to them and pose of which is to unionize the| their agents to increase efficiency | in | better able to deal with the bosses, e|all exerted toward the city-wide | disorderly conduct. International Union of Journeymen | Barbers, 4,500 workers left their | shops in the morning, exceeding the estimate that the union had made | previous to the actual strike by 500. | Two-thousand shops in the borough of Manhattan were reported closed. No wage disputes are involved in the present strike. The union mem- bers realize the importance of build- ing uy a strong union so as to be and their energies in this strike are recognition of the union. re- ‘para- in n of “on mnt, ‘ial sion under the chairmanship of Lord Oliver, ex-governor of Jamaica, At ‘the proposal of Longuet, a small commission consisting of one Eng- lish, French, Belgian, German, Chinese and Dutch representative was formed. The following spoke at the first session of the large commission: | trade in New York City. The seven, | in the plant and decrease cost while | whose names have not yet been as- speeding-up production. \certained, were taken to the East! | 85th St. Station and charged with | y, John Sullivan, president of the few Bedford Cottor Manufactur- |ers’ Association, appeared for the | According to Abraham Green- bosses, while Edward Fisher, chair- wald, manager of Local 752 of the man of the state board, presided. RADITCH DIES; CALL OUT ARMY | ZAGREB, Jugoslavia, Aug. 8. —Stepher Raditch, Peasant Party leader who was shot in «1 polit- ical fray in the chamber of depu- ties of Belgrade June 20, died here today. Police and gendarmes were calied immediately after the an- nouncement and stationed at all important points in the city tw prevent outbreak. No Word Yet From Disabled Steamer SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8 (UP) ~The navy and other powerful radio stations here reported today they had received no word from the Steamship Stanley Dollar, 4,171-ton Dollar Line freighter, believed dis- Snell, Britain; Kaplanski, Poland; Continued on Page Three explosion, abled in mid-Pacific after a boiler | Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union : | |N. 0. C., was received with a great ovation when he took his seat on the speakers’ platform with Ben Gold, leader of the left wing Fur- riers Joint Roard. Joseph Berachevick, Rose Wortis and Julius Portnoy, three outstand- \ing leaders of the N. O. C. them spoke. Other speakers were, Harry Berlin, of Local 10, H. Korets of the Organization Department, Saul Shelly, of the one time impartial committee of 50; A. Gutesman of |the former Tolerance Group. The resolution unanimously car- ried by the thousands assembled calls for the following immediate measures: We call on all registered work- ers to immediately change their | on all workers\in our trade to rally ‘around the National Organization | Committee; to pay their dues and the voluntary tax of $10 so as to jraise the necessary funds with |which to carry thru a successful — j organization campaign. |. We call on our legally elected of- ficers and the National Org: 'tion Committee, under whose books at the Joint Board. We calli lership we are launching our new ‘union, to make immediate prepara- tions for a general election in out “union under the supervision of # | Council of Shop Delegates, on jbasis where all elements will» | able to participate in the leadersh jand the work of building our Clot and Oressmakers’ Union. | We call on the National | zation Committee to begin _ate preparation for a conve} | true representatives of the ‘garment workers of the (country, so as to lauch our a national scale.