The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1928, Page 1

- LLL MPT I LONI EIN THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ is GOVERNMENT Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. FIN AL CITY EDITION Vol. V., No. 189. Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union New York, N. ¥. NEW. YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1928 “SUBSCRIPTIO. Outside New York, by mail, U. §. WORKERS TO. GET on EAL ELECTION APPEAL Mail 250,000 Letters Thruout Country One quarter million letters are | being mailed out to the readers of the Communist press throughout the country by the National Elec- | tion Campaign Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party in a drive to mobilize the entire left wing in the United States behind the Party ticket in the election cam- | Camps. Kellogg, Poser as Angel of Peace, S napped in a More Natural Pose 4 While powers endorse the Kellogg peace pact’ as a cloak for speedier militarist preparations, especi- ally jagainst the Soviet government, the secretary of state poses with the militarists who are fellow- servitors of Wall St. He is shown with a group of generals inspecting the Citizens’ Military Training paign, uccording to a statement is- sued by the committee last night. The appeal will reach at least 1,000,000 workers. The letter calls on the readers of the Communist press to give financial support to the Communist Election Campaign and help swell the fighting fund of the working | class. The letter reads: “In the presidential election this year only one political party Lattles | Italian Cloak Branch Meets Tonight, The epoch making decision of ORGANIZES TRADE NEW CLOAK UNION SANDINO TROOPS WIN; DRIVE BACK MARINES PUERTA CABEZAS, Nicaragua, Aug. 9.—The first American marine offensive against the Nicaraguan army of independence since the rainy season has turned back with |the loss of one marine killed and three others wounded. for the interests of the workers and working farmers of this country. The republican and democratic par- | ties, the twin parties of capitalism | end imperialist plunder, openly and | brazenly flaunt before the Ameri- | Wednesday’s night’s huge mass JINGOES BREAK ASTORIA MEET REP Price 3 Cents ORT CHINESE RED ARMY WINNING HONAN PROVINCE Fall River da Communist Candi — 2 a CHARGE TROOPER DROVE STRIKERS’ CHILD TO DROWN Own Members Jeer|} Union Faker Campos BULLETIN | FALL RIVER, Mass., Aug. 9.. | .—Charges that the six-year-old Johnny Madeiros, son of one of | the strikers, who was drowned here last night, died because he te ‘Addresses V Vorkers meeting of workers in the ladies) garment industry. to launch ‘a new cloak and dress makers’ union, has Supported by bombing planes, the marine detachment was pro- ceeding by boat up the Coco river, | which drains the territory controlled had rushed in terror thru a gap in a waterfront fence in order to escape a charging mounted trooper, were substantiated by Beat Up “Militant and} Arrest Grecht crashed with bombshell effect into|hy the troops of General Sandino, | the camp of the “socialist” union- can masses platforms and candi- | i u wreckers and at the same time given dates of absolute subservience to the bosses. The socialis: party has become a party of liberal reform end has disavowed the class strug- gle. | Board. “The ‘Workers (Communist) | Party is the only political party in the field with a program which champions the every-day needs and struggles of the broad masses and points 2 way out toward their com- | work of organizing the open shops that swamp the industry has been |climaxed by the large number of | open shops tied up by the Voluntee: Organization Committee of, 500. Be- plete emancipation. It has put fore the end of the week is reached, forth as_ presidential candidates | Joint Board officials declare, new William Z. Foster and Benjamin | yarks in the number of settlements Gitlow, valiant fighters in the class|.) have been reached. struggle, who have proven their loyalty to the cause of labor. The | Workers (Communist) Party is the | only anti-capitalist, party, and it ulone has the right to claim the support of the progressive workers end farmers, the militants, the left wing, the rebels, the class-conscious. Appeal to Rank and File. | standards and signing up with the |new workers’ organization. | This will be shown, union officers | announce, when names of the firms settled are published, which will be a tremendous impetus to the organi-| | down, agreeing to improve working, |when a contingent of Nicaraguans \intercepted their advance. |have lasted several hours, the | comparatively smail, though no ex- act estimgte is available. | News of the engagement, and def- linitely contradicting reports spread |by the American authorities that the | armies of General Sardino have been melting away ran through the |country here like wildfire. The \marine authorities are exercising Every day finds tens of employ-| unusual precautions in commanding | |ers, whose plants have been shut peons who gather to talk to dis- | 59y Precinct, 4th St. perse immediately. REFORMISTS HIT “The republican and democratic parties will get their funds from ‘Wall Street and the bosses; the so- cialist party, from the liberais, the trade union bureaucracy and other elements who have turned their ! backs on. the working class; while the Workers (Communist) Party appeals to the rank and file, to the workers and poor farmers, to all that are opposed’ to capitalism, im- perialism and exploitation.” Enclosed with the letter is a con- tribution blank, a Communist cam- paign leaflet and a return envelope. The National Election Campaign Committee appeals to the workers to support the party of the work- ing class+the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, to contribute te the best of their ability to the Campaign Fund so that speakers may be sent into every nook and corner of the | country and literature carrying the | in a short while.” : ' | Plans are rapidly being completed, | | E. Oswaldo, Italian organizer of the| | National Organization Coma | declares for intensifying the organi- | zation drive among the large num- bers of Italian workers in the in- | dustry. Oswaldo, addressed Wed-| . 2 \nesday’s mass meeting where, | Special Cable to The Daily Worker speaking in his own language, he} MOSCOW,U. S. S. R., Aug. 8.—} jlaid before the Italian workers) The Pravda today published an in-| | there, the plans for the erection of | terview by a representative of Tass) | new national cloak and dressmakers’ With Chaman Lal, the representa-| | union. | tive of the Indian Trade Unions} ; .,|Congress in which Chaman Lal! The Italian branch of the Joint) + o+eq that “the Second Interna- Board of the National Organization | tijna] is obviously dominated by the| | Committee, he further announced,| British Labor Party as regards all| | will hold a membership meeting to-| tdian questions. Its attitude is,| jnight, at Joint Board headquarters | neither socialist not international. | 16 W. 21st St., immediately after{ “The Second International,” Cha- | work. All Italian workers in the! man Lal, continued, “showed its real | Continued on Page Two |visage in its proposals before the ‘ChamanLal Repudiates Socialists Colonial Commission, which repre- BY INDIA LEADER =" |form to take his place. The Veter-|mands put forward by the workers. In an organized assault, made through the cooperation of the The marines were forced to fall | Police, members of the John J. Dwy-| zation drive now in full swing under| jack with the loss of one dead.| eT Post of the Veterans of Foreign) |the auspices of the left wing Joint During an engagement reported to| Wars last night rushed a platform! |from which speakers of the Work-| ‘A whole week’s highly successful| Nicaraguan losses are said to be|€?S (Communist) Party were ad- | dressing a group of workers at Jamaica and Steinway Avenues and| | brutally beat up Abe Harfield, can- didate for assembly in the first dis-| trict, Queens, and caused the arrest) of Rebecca Grecht, Workers (Com-| Party candidate for as-| sembly in the fifth district, Bronx.| munist) |She was charged: with disorderly |conduct and disturbing the peace, jand was held on $500 bail at the Astoria. The assault took place at 9 p. m. George Padgug had just begun to ‘address the crowd of workers when the gangsters in the John J. | Dwyer Post, rushed toward him and him bodily from the plat- Immediately, both -Gr | testimony in the court hearing | held here today. Eye-witnesses declared that a mounted policeman had chased the child down the street till he disappeared into the water. Fanning tne flames of bitter mass resentment manifested by the population here, was the cyni- cal police testimony that the of- ficer thought the six-year-old child “was swimming.” Fellow strikers are planning the holding of a mass funeral. . (Special to the Daily Worker.) FALL RIVER, Mass., Aug. 9.— The Algonquin Mills, picketed yes- |terday by strikers from the Amer- ican Printing Company despite po- lice terrorism, were completely | tied-up today when the plant’s Mill | Committee announced to their fel- low workers the refusal of the man- Benjamin Gitlow, NJ. GITLOW vice-presidential candidate of the yer 4 Z Workers (Communist) Party in the presidential election campaign, is shown addressing a mass meeting at the August 4 demonstration in Union Square, New York City, against the imperialist war danger. CHINESE-JAPAN and Harfield jumped on the plat- |ans, enraged by this, brutally at-| ‘tacked and beat up Harfield, and| strikers, held at the Algonquin | afterward pressed charges against/| gates yesterday, the operatives at Rebecca Grecht. The assault was organized with |the police in advance, members of| passed a unanimous strike vote, and the Workers (Communist) Party said late last night. The fact that the police were out of sight during the meeting, which is usually well- covered by them, was taken as proof. The members attached to the John J. Dwyer Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, had for a long time resented the weekly attacks of \the speakers representing the Work- ers (Communist) Party who at- tacked the Tammany Hall machine and showed that it was responsible for the recent sewer scandal. Following the demonstration of Kellogg R ef uses to Comment WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (UP).— Secretary of State Kellogg reiter- ated today that the Japanese quar- |rel with China over Manchuria is too “delicate” in nature for him to discuss publicly. His remarks were occasioned by press reports from Tokio saying Japan had warned the Nanking government against permitting the Manchurian government to join the regime at Nanking. The warning also said, according to these re- | ports, which have not yet heen con- |firmed by official dispatches, that | Japan would take “suitable mea- | sures” unless they modified their |this factory came to the Textile | Mill Committees’ headquarters, elected a committee to present their | demands to the employer. Charles Silvia, Frank Govenor, | Manken Consour, Manuel Sousa and | Manuel Perry, the committee elect- |ed, visited Superintendent Hindle and demanded restoration of the | wage cut, a 20 per cent increase over that and the other demands of the Textile Mill Committees. The | bosses’ answer that the committee must wait for a reply till Monday | was immediately recognized as a | ruse, and the employer was told the strike would be on after one o’clock *—IN-GZECH CITY message of the class struggle may | be distributed in nuillions among the | working class. LOCAL 3 MEMBERS WORKERS TO AID DEFEAT BROACH “si'sut""" """"" OF LL.D. OUTING CHINA TAG DAY Boo, Hiss Tacties at | Big Demonstration | Almost 2,000 collection boxes! Four thousand electrical workers fave already been given out to! members of local No. 3 last night | workers in New York who have vol- | yoted down amid hisses, booing and unteered to participate in the Tag | demonstrations two propositions pre- Days this Saturday and Sunday, ar-| sented by the Broach machine to ranged by the committee to aid the| rise dues of the membi ip to Chinese Trade Unions, Room 413, | go4 ‘and $23 per quarter. " ig ae gh Maneuvering with the aid of a Chi- ae eke Pentel Bepalition bee handful of his paid henchmen ledges fullest support to the drive | Broach finally pushed over on the for pee to aid. the workers of | unsuspecting membership the pro- China in a wire received today from | position to pay $21 dues, an increase their national headquarters in San | of $4.50 and pounded the gavel to Francisco. “We pledge fullest sup- \indicate the passage of his motion port to the Committee to Aid the | before the members could again be- Chinese Trade Unions in its drive gin a demonstration. for funds to help the Chinese work- | One of the stormiest sessions in ers who are being massacred by | thé history of the union marked the thousands in the new wave of ter-/ defeat of the Broach machine and the rorism initiated by the Nanking | ¢okced postponement of a number of fascist dictators in celebration of | other amendments which they had their recognition by the United planned to put through. Continued Gua Fane. 7.08 (The complete details of the meet- sue of the Daily Worker) » PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, Aug. 9.—Workers in Kesige in Czecho- Slovakia joined in a general strike to day as a protest against the new re- pressive measures resorted to by the city aithorities in crushing la- bor manifestations in Czecho-Slova- (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Aug. 9. — The story of the bituminous coal strike, one of the most bitterly contested battles, between organized labor and capital, carries with it a classic tale of solidarity from. the workers of many ecuntries. Fouy hundred Finnish marks were received today from Finland. Poh- yan \Voima, who sold. them, reports that Solidarity certificates are the kia. The striking masses are united irrespective of parties and despite efforts of the reformists to prevent the general walkout. Police forces attacked a strike meeting and arrested five workers. Dyy |seht a narrow-minded European re- formist stand point. The Second In- ternational sets up different stand- |ards for white and colored workers, colonial workers. | “The draft of the Second Inter- \national which opposes the inde- pendence of India is accompanied by which contains many errors, deliber- ate falsifications, and suppressions of the truth. For instance, the mem- orandum quotes a resolution of the Indian: National Congress for In- dia’s independence, and adds falsely | |dominion. This is absolutely false. | tains no word of cooperation be- |tween the Labor Party with the |Simon Commission. Despite the |clear command made at the Black- pool Conference that the Commission | must be acceptable to the Indian people, the Labor Party cooperated | with the Simon Commission, al- |though the latter was absolutely inacceptable to the Indian people. | “The British Labor Party is work- ing for the prevention’ or the post- | ponment of the emancipation of the colonial peoples. If the resolution ‘of the Second International con- | cerning India is adopted despite our protests, then India will refuse all \offers of cooperation from the ‘Second International.” WORKERS’ SOLIDARITY Labor, the World Over, Gives to Miners treasured possessions of many workers of Oulu. The proceeds from another book of solidarity .certific- ates sold in Moscow, U. S. S. R. also came in this morning’s mail. From Mexican workers, come periodic donations. London Workers Help. | that most of the delegates did not| mean independence but the status of! “The memorandum purposely cOn-| the Prektiwicugle aera militant | tile Mill Committees. When his at-| eral TO TAKE MOVIES | Several thousand workers will be- | actionary Textile Council of the| & memorandum of the Labor Party! come movie actors tomorrow for a American Federation of Textile Op- | DU PONT PESIGNS 1 | mation will occur at the big outing | \in Pleasant Bay Park, arranged by | | single day. This unusual transfor- | |the New York section of the Inter- | national Labor Defense, where mov- ing pictures of the various activi- ties will be taken. | To Symbolize Workers Fight. | This mass scene will symbolize workers of this country to free their |comrades that are lying behind the |bars of the capitalist, jails. Par- ticularly will it symbolize the cam- paign to free Tom Mooney and | Warren K, Billings, a drive to be officially launched by the I. L. D. in New York City at this outing. Continued on Page Five PREPARE RADIO BERLIN, Aug. 9.—The maneuvers | of the German navy and its experi- ments with radio-steered ships and _targets was watched by President von Hindenburg today at Kiel. An old battleship will be used as a target, which will be directed by radio, making it unecessary to have any men on board. The navies of the powers have carried out many experiments in this direction in an attempt to produce a battle fleet without crews. MANAGED SHIPS. |in the afternoon. Enthusiastically the workers streamed out of the plant to im-| mediaely fling a picket line com- pletely around the mill. ee eae | FALL RIVER, John Campos, secretary of the re- eratives, was howled down by. his own members at a crowded meeting of 3,000 on Brandea Lét last night while he was urging his listeners to participate in no strike movement |against the wage cut they suffered last January. The jeering began when Campos | began a vicious attack on the Tex- |tacks on the strike movement be- | came sharper, a storm of protest | that rapidly grew in volume finally \forced him to leave the speakers’ |stand for home under a police es- cort. Tear Up Books. Members of the A. F. T. O. here began to surround the platform and demonstratively tear up their membership books. A marching line of over one .thousand today broke through the |massed police squadrons and suec- ceeded in picketing the mills despite repeated charges of police. Many workers were injured by the swing- ing clubs of. the police. Peter Hegelias, young leader of the Textile Mill Committees in Tall River, was brutally beaten up by the uniformed thugs. He was later lodged in jail, charged with leading the picket line, and held for $1,000 bail bonds. SEEK TO SAVE KILLER, SALEM, Mass., Aug. 9, (UP).— A new move in the battle to save George E. H. Taylor, known as the “Dancing Barber,” from the elec- tric chair, was made here today. Mass., Aug. 9.—| toward in China. | attitude “special | rights” Japan's Japan to Protest Interests. | TOKIO, Aug. News that the | Manchurian ‘war lord, Chang Hseuh- |liang, was ready to affiliate him- Continued on Page Three FOR LOVE OF AL | peas | Pjerre S. Du Pont offered his | resignation today as chairman of |the board of directors of the Gen- Motors Corporation. The | board declined to accept his resig- nation, granting him instead a leave |of absence. Wall Street doubted that Du | Pon’t resignation would be accepted because of his enormous holdings in the company. The Du Pont inter- ests are practicaily in control of the corporation, Du Pont’s personal interest amounting to 23 per cent, or more than 4,000,000 shares. John J. Raskob, who resigned as ckairman of the finance committce |of General Motors to become Gov. | Smith’s campaign director, is tak- ing a much more active part in | Continued on Page Two KELLER EXPOSES | Mill Workers Demands Spurned by Bosses NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug 9. —Branding the “investigating con- ference” held here yesterday under the auspices of the state board of conciliation and arbitration as a fake, and a strikebreaking scheme of the mill owners, Eli Keller, or- ganizer of the Textile Workers Union of the’ Textile Mills Commit- tees, told the reactionary union of- ficials and bosses taking part in it that the 28,000 strikers will not heed any decisions they may arrive at. . Keller appeared before the state board’s “investigation” with docu- mentary proof in the form of strik- ers’ former pay envelopes to show that no mere investigation of the textile workers’ slavery is needed. Envelopes of the heads d) large fam- ilies, marked $8, $9 and $10 were shown to the so-called mediators, and reactionary labor officials parti- cipating in a talkfest, which the mill barons, who were present, hold to demoralize the strikers’ ranks. Keller’s demand that the investiga- tion be held before a large mass | meeting were categorically rejected, preference being for continued se- cret meetings behind barred doors. BOMBAY POLICE OCCUPY MILLS Workers Refuse to Return to Work BOMBAY, Aug. 9.—Armed de- tachments of police oceupied the textile factories here after the re- fusal of the striking textile work- ers here to return to the mills which the employers attempted to reopen. The strike committee is conduct- ing an energetic campaign against the return of the strikers to work. SELL OUT R. LONDON, Aug. 9—A complete sell-out of the British railwaymen was achieved yesterday by J. H. his associates, in the conference of Cer yer artisan cEaRE Francis EF. Rafter, cousel for the| National Railway Union have en- ALBANY, Aug. 8—Of the 98,984 | condemned man, who faces death dorsed a two and one half’ per cent accidents while at work in the past|/for the murder of Miss Stella) reduction in the wages of all British “At the request of several of our| year, about 100 per cent were suf- |Pomikala of Lawrence, filed in railway employees. branches,” writes Alex Gossip, gen- eral secretary of the National Amal- Continued on Page Three re fered by boys and girls under the age of 21. cidents occurred in laundries. Essex County superior court an ap- | recent decision refusing a new trial. The reduction had been agreed to The most serious ac- peal from judge Joseph F. Quinns by Thomas and other officials on \July 27 in a conference with the Thomas, British union official, and| R. WORKERS British Union Chiefs Endorse Pay Cut — ) raiiway managers, owners and their representatives. Attempting -to justify their sell- ioe on the grounds that the wage reduction will reduce the shortages under which British railroads are reported to be running, the union officials came to terms with the owners. The understanding is that the reduction will apply to all sections of the railway workers and will go into effect at once. Strike Grows; New Mill Out WORKER PEASANT FORCES SWEEP ON IN’ ADVANGE Gain Most of Provinee in Sudden Drive | nee | MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 9— | Suddenly widening the front which they have been gradually extend- ing for months, the victorious armies |of worker-peasant troops yester- |day mvept forward in an offensive that has already made them vir- tual masters of most of Honan province, according to reports re- ceived here, Determined fighting has charac- | terized the campaign of the work- |er-peasant armies against great jodds and Kuomintang troops better equipped and trained, during the | consolidation campaign of the last six months. Take Villages. | Extending their lines gradually, almost from outpost to outpost as village ‘after village was gained for the Communist peasants, the armies of workers and peasants have pro- gressed slowly, strengthening their positions as they advanced, One hundred and ninety-two mili- tants are reported to have been executed by the war lords in an ef- fort to stem the rapid spread of the revolt: Gain in South. The advance of the worker-pea- sant army was preceded by revolts jof artisans and peasants in vil- |lages who aided the Red troops in «Sweeping out the landlords: | The new ‘victories of the work- er-peasant troops come on the heels of gains which the Red Guards have made in the vicinity of Changsha and Swatow in the south. Thruout the souther provinces of Kwangtung and Fukien and thruout the Yangtse valley there has been going on a steady advance of worker-peasant armies. In spite of the wholesale execution of. militants, workers and peasants have risen against the Kuomintang war lords and the ar- mies business men’s organizations and landlords, swept them out and set up their own Soviet govern- ments. REFUSE RADITCH FUNERAL OFFER Troops Still Patrol’ the Streets ZAGREB, Jugoslavia, Aug. 9 (UP).—Fear that serious dis- turbances might occur here as a result of the death Wednesday of Stephen Raditch, Peasant Party leader, was increased tonight when the government's offer of a state funeral for the dead leader | was refused. Followers of Reditch, who died as a result of a shooting in the chamber of deputies, blamed the government party for his death. Intense feeling was aroused among members of the Croatian Peasant Party by the shooting. Police and military guards were still on duty in streets and all principal buildings tonight. 5 MINERS DEAD IN EXPLOSION: Many Others Narrowly Escape Death JOHNSTON, Pa., Aug. 9 (UP).— The bodies of five miners killed in — an explosion at the Lochrey Coal © Company’s mine, near here, were recovered tonight. A number of other miners work-— ing near the scene of the blast had a narrow escape from death. Fed- eral mine rescue workers were noti- fied that all of the bodies had been recovered and that the company ployes had the situation well in | hand. 15,000 ILL OF FEVER. ATHENS, Aug. 9 (UP).—Fit- teen thousand persons are ill ‘ Athens and Piraeus as the result of a ¢ontagious fever said to hav been spread mainly by mosquif A Ubites. r j Bs S| ner te ] ;