The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1928, Page 2

Police Lead : Lewis Gang in Attack on Mine Meeting; Beat Up and Jail Leaders COAL DIGGERS 7 hilar Flier to Antarctic NEW FEATURES Plight Troth in Big Vaudeville Stunt TAMMANY ALAND HOLD SESSION Va ” _ FOR LEFT WING ROACH STRATON DESPITE CREW Meyerscough Pictures Lewis Betrayal LABOR FESTIVAL Choruses and Literary Evening Planned PLAY AT COWBOY Governor Hankering to Prove He’s Pure Mail) —A m meeting of progres- last night by the local Trade Union Tammany Al Smith, Wall Street sive miners was broken Lewis Education League for its Workers] protege, aha Jahn” Roath "BEMteR. thugs with the aid of t e New Ken- The Advertising Club of New York City has given a dinner as a send-off to Commander Byrd who Open Air Festival. which will be whose congregation has often been tt Police force last night.) wilt carry the barier of American imperialism into the Antarctic. held in be Park, of pened , anaes seen to embrace. collectively, trees, Sa cisihg. the |p EAS TGS Ea aS at or ACY ee Aaa <e lpetreme iaiaielee are Alfred E. Smith, democratic presidential candidate, and John | chairs, and whatnot, under the in- Sainers for th Mion Which CHINESE TRADE UNIONS Choruses, and a specially arranged| Roach Straton, fundamentalist and fumer, have promised to lead one fluence of his frenzied “Come to Sell be formed at the National Con | literary evening. Both new features) ‘other to the altar of the Calvary Baptist Church for the purpose | Jesus,” was made a little more re- vention in Pittsburgh, September 9, r oe expected to supplement the other! f debating the question of moral turpitude with which the baptist mote today when Straton insisted was viciously beaten in the presence SEEK Ww OLRD LABOR Adit) items on the program of entertain-| @¢cuses the catholic. Straton says that Smith is leading the vanguard | that he wanted the debate to be re- of. police by Lewis gan re and CHINA TAG DAYS ment, and add to the uniqueness of| Of hell on the prohibition issue. The churchman is on the right. peated twice, once at a Catholic arrested. 5 oF AEE or) ; the evening. ; | ; Church, and the other at a Baptist Pee sdiate) oe as Brothers and Fellow bits e to vane eate in any eee even of Ie The skbbuses compbued coe anaes BIG GAS MERGER ASSAIL MARINES | Church, t . ediately Tugh ag. Again and again, from the deep |a strickly economic character. A is 5 than 200-voi ri on i | | “I am making the suggestion that gerty opened the meeting and in-| underground ino which we have Murder Unionists. |Stations Prepared All scicctions tow’ watlnenact Several [we debate both in my church, Cal Saeed oe h been driven by the united counter-| The British, Japanese, and Ameri- Quen e topping: thet with; ‘many. apivited | vary Baptist, and again in St. Pat- isex the ancite piaeuis hae adie eee? i i . Yonti : resent busily engaged in rehears- | “because lo not want anyone to Epeierioon the tot y rena cies iper we address to you Chinese hangmen. ‘The English DOR ORReE: Mn Page Ose ihe their. soerain te the day of| suppose for a minute that I believe Me ed thio. the T ae aan our a appeal for aid. courts trade in the heads of our States government. Down with the the affair. They will appear on if | = a Baptist Church more holy ground Bach Lewis man was ideativied by |, ¥@,"eulze that all measures “i brother workers. Neatly “alt the Kuo Ming Tang militar Down the evening of the performance in|/Publie Protest to Be Asks Demonstration at) than a Catholic Church.” "gaan ak cian 4), be taken by our government and leaders of the trade move-| with imperialist internation! ong | native costume. 6 ” $ Q 5 ee fhe Som: Theckofe whee | Your to prevent our groans and cries/ ment were arrested upon territories |live the Worker-Peasant Revolu-| ‘The program of the literary even- Ignored Peace” Pact Signing oa ed 2 oo of anguish from reaching you. They | of the foreign settlements and con-| tion!” The wire is signed by T. H. ing is in the capable hands of | ak dest: aninnte: chs {| PARIS, France, Aug. 9.—D. d SMITH T0 HONOR Lewis district orennisen "| understand that you would not be |cessions and handed over to the Chi-| Li, secretary. Micharl. Golds. ‘sévolitionsey. post)”. Malling, Ast: saints See Ray ak oe ‘Kellog| 5 Emr ge ic: likely to look on calmly at the pain| nese bourgeoisie. All of them were All Workers Helping. and writer, and editor of the New| position on the part of the politi-| ne silateral ed poe 4 ey “thal Police Break In. and suffering of your Chinese| beheaded, while the British and! workers of all nationalities are|Massesi and A. B, Magil, member| cians in control of the Public Service city by Mae, Pan ay Ne Fea a As soon as Myerscough began to | brothers. We know that this appeal | Japanese spies received thousands|,allying to the urgent call of the | of the editorial staff of the Daily| id Sh Giseuss the strike situation and an-| nounced will also reach you with considerable for the heads of our leaders. satisfy All-China Fed jon of Labor Commission, the proposed billion Worker and a contributor to the| ; dollar merger of the Consolidated peal to the United States to “free enslaved Haiti,” Deputy Candace, of DEAD POLITICIAN rhe ; ernie : Mle ; Sacco Vanzetti anthology. that questions would be/| delay and with great difficulty. All this does not the Unions. Hungarians, Finns, Czacho- | Guadaloupe, yesterday bitterly as- answered at the end of the meeting, Ask Aid. murderers of the Chinese people.| Slovaks; Grealis, Shaniatds, Datin| Another feature: of ‘the Fentiyal, |G&s Company at New Yoreaaa they ith ast oT tain oad Pick Appropriat contrary to the habits of machine! Nevertheless we address ours Not all the sweat and blood of the Americans, Japanese and Chinese |%"d @ very important one, will be| Brooklyn Edison’ Company will be S an_ Appropriate Speakers, a local policeman walked down the aisle, demanding a permit. Myerscough informed him that the local committee had been granted @ permit by Burgess Daniel Burns. to you because you are our on liable ally and friend, and we are convinced that having heard our voice you will pronounce your’ firm Chinese people has been pumped out and turned into dollars for the im- perialists, and the latter, having bribed the Chinese bourgeoisie, are are among the volunteers for the Tag Days. A united front of work- ers is being formed to render real | aid to the Chinese proletariat which | the refreshment and food schedule.| Competent cooks for many favorite international dishes will be on hand for the occasion. ; All of the branches of the Trade| officially approved by the Commis- | sior today, despite protests in New| York and vicinity. If the official sanction of the | the island by American marines, The American tyranny in the is- land is bitterly resented by the Negro population, the writer as- serts, adding that Haiti must ask Party ALBANY, Aug. 9.—Governor Al- fred E. Smith, acknowledged leader fi ling China to pieces. The Japan- is being massacred by the interna- | merger goes through, pre-election =a of the corrupt Tammany Hall ma- js ‘eer ve ont: “Hands | PY ? ‘ pacred. Dy UN e l trot : PF s _ the League of Nations to plead her|°. ; 5 | fev. minutes later police ott the hinen. Revolution!” We ese government is engaged in open tional capitalist imperialists in al-|Union Educational League in New| protest” gesture of Governor cage (NURERINGY Lae IRAE: "| chine will make a flying trip to at- : off the Chinese Revolution © ncepvention 4 Jovi: Hav) 53) Hanae yet e Kuo Mi York City are responding splendidly] gmith ing that the publi ey patted y- tenant stamped up to the platform, |. it rou because we are|iftervention in the North, having oe- | liance with the Kuo Ming Tang and | i v ‘ Smith, asking tha’ ie public com: ‘Haiti's maseyrdom” is Candace’s tend the funeral of George F. again demanding the pert Whe eee " cupied ‘sinang and Manchuria, Chinese bourgeoisie. to the call for cooperation in the| mittee pe heard, mede for the pur- hi Bigede athpgrs Brennan, democratic boss of Illinois . strangled, not only by our own 2 - SPT sie arrangements for the affair, and < ¢ li 1 characterization of the experience r the exptanation was repeated, the da AC eOGLise HK ale BE uaF while the British are carrying on a Stations Throughout 5 thousande Ae ke t te rts | POSE of attracting the liberal vote of the island under marine occupa. and head of another intrenched / Hientenant demanded to see the per- | Counter Tevolution, Dut Also bY Your! masked intervention in Kwantung. The stations where workers can t New York and vicinity arcs |t0 Tammany Hall, will have been|tio. waite in biting words he des-|St@fting organization, who died | mit. He was told by Haggerty that | S°vermments. Yet Chiang Kai-shek and the other procure collection boxes for the tag |) New Fork and vicinity are ex- Burgess had given it verbally. By this time the chief of police and almost his entire staff had arrived, all clamoring for the permit. They took Myerscough to the police sta- We address ourselves to you be- cause we wish to tell you about our conditions. You know that the Chi- nese workers, in common with allgihe toiling masses in China, have al- generals, having sold themselves to he imperialists, keep silent about those things. All of them are turn- ing their hungry eyes towards the | days follow: Downtown stations are: Jt. Board of the Furriers, 24 East 22nd St.; | Jt. Board of I. L. G. W. U., 18 West st St.; Progressive Workers Club, disregarded by the Commission, which is made up of two d@mocrats and two republicans. | The protest of the Public Com- mittee on power, made through their | pected to attend, BOARD APPROVES cribes the “anguish” of the people | under American army rule. The American protectorate in the island of Haiti must be abolished and the population freed from the Wednesday. Smith will travel in an automo- bile provided by Wm. F., Kenny, multi-millionaire crony of the gov- ernor, owner of traction stock, Con- ; i 1:4: | Yangtse Valley and are prepared to | lawyer, Morris L. Ernst, objected | yoke of American t is the final| solidated G: d Edison C i * vays suffered from impe st 3 pared 60 § is Places Worl sai ly rican troops, is the final| solidated Gas an ison Co. securi- | o : oe oes Naat send warships and| fight over the sharing out of China, es ater teed Bales et | to mee ae = the sree that | demand of the deputy. ties. In the party will be included ere Burns denied giving the | ?° = Saag . + Not y is the ble 5] BE; , GU me sige hil aba > i er of contro! | i permit, | “"*|airforces and arms of every kind to| | No ig Dot peceratigs|sive Workers Club, 101 West 27th Aa NRE eTTENY caine | Mayor Frank Hague, mayor of Jer- Pictures Lewis’ Betrayals. Myerscough’s audience waiting for him. For twenty. min- still | fight against the Chinese people Shanghai Massacre. On May 30, 1925, the workers of Shanghai arose against this yoke; are in progress for an even more | terrible and bloody deed. Your gov- ernments, for the sake of *sharing St.; Committee to Aid the Chinese Trade Unions, Uptown stations are: Hungarian | Workers’ Club, 360 East 81st St.; 96 Fifth Ave. | hands of New York State officials. | over the light company out of the} They also insisted that the merger will place the Koppits Gas and Coke Predict Higher Rates| NEW CLOAK UNION sey City, recently exposed in huge graft deals in that city, James A. Riordan former part owner of the S. Trucking Corporation with utes he spoke, telling how Lewis | : s¢3| the spoils, are preparing for a new! teutem Progressive Club, 143 East | a It Company of Philadelphia, a Mellon | [| which Smith was connected and and the policy committee had be-| the Hongkong-Canton strike which| war in China. 108d Sts Finnish Workers! Club, | s Resu |eoncern which owns most of the | several militaty officers, trayed the miners by scrapping the | lasted 16 months was directed Fight Imperialism. sf stock in both the Consolidated and cacksonville scale of wages and lost the strike by ruinous policies. But as soon as the machine gang- Sters began to heckle, the police, as though taking their cue, declared |against the same yoke, and it was in the fight to throw off this double yoke that we undertook the Northern | Expedition upon a united front. It was for this struggle that we have | Dear brothers and fellow workers, |you should not allow such mockery over China, you should demand the discontinuance of the traffic in the 15 West 126th St.; Czecko-Slovak | Workers’ Home, 347 East 72nd St.; Unity Co-operative House, 1800 7th Ave., N. Y. C.; Negro Labor Con- gress, 200 West 135th St. Despite the protests of the Pub- [lic Committee on Power, and ‘from | Edison, in complete control of the power throughout the New England | States. Ss | | organizations of consmexs all over |New York City, the Public Service Commission yesterday afternoon Continued from Page One | trade are called upon to attend this | eeting. All other workers in the CAP WORKERS T0 m | ng 2 heads of Chinese toilers, you should Bronx Stations. | approved the application of the Con- shops are also appealed to inform the hell had to be cleared. The | borne great sacrifices. We expected | gamand a prohibition on extraditing| Bronx stations are: Bronx Pro-|solidated Gas Company of xew STREET FIGHTS | their Italian fellow workers to come | thugs went ovt first, organizing | our -emancipation: we built up our! prisoners into the hands of the Chi- @ressive Club, 2075 Clinton Ave;|York for permission to purchase the | to the meeting. themselves in groups. When Steve/trade union organization, and we United Workers’ Co-operative, 2700 Kurepa left the hall, three gang- nese authorities, you should demand Brooklyn Edison Company. | | In the yellow sheet of the reac- =) helped the peasants form their pea-/ the withdrawal of all warshi Bronx Park East; Jewish Workers’| Several days Governor r Le ‘i Pr : , f ome ships and 3 iB Ais: a MeN cite cae ha" |tionary Jewish labor leaders, th | sters fell upon him, slugging | sants’ unions. armed forces from China, you/Club, 1472 Boston Road; Bronx|Smith, in a pre-election gesture preety hel ae! emiae cdl otest Breaking of } Viciously. John McFal! was at-| We have been cruelly deceived by | should come to our aid, because just | Workers’ Club, 715 East 138th St.) made for the purpose of attracting | | ereaks of consternation filled almost | Their Union tacked from behind by another oy; bourgeoisie; having disposed of : Stations in Brooklyn are: Fin-/ the liberal vote to the cause of Tam- Cs agers ‘ gang who immediately heels. took to their Arrest Kurepa. The streets were awhirl with the sirens of the Northern militarists with our aid, having captured the Yangste| region, having occupied Shanghai and Hankow, they decided to put an now your governments are prepar- jing for a new war in China. You should demand that your govern- | ments give up all interference in the | internal affairs of China. nish Workers’ Home, 764 40th St.; 1940 Benson Ave. Brownsville stations Watkins St. Boxes may be had in Wiliams- are: 154 many Hall, requested the commis-| Death |sion to reopen the hearings on the) | merger, and allow people not own-! ing stocks in either of the two com- | of Politician Causes Outbreak _| Not able to that Bronx Stadium was the entire front page. deny | With an appeal to all workers in jammed, its columns, shriek that no. New York cap and millinery markets cloakmakers were there, only Com-|t® come and protest against the munists and passers-by attended union wrecking activities of their cycles. Kurepa, covered with blood,|mon struggle of the Chinese people| will come to our aid and that you Eyck St, | Smith, its Iackey, and the protests | Councillor-General Bourgarel, were| however, they point out. Several| yooti ve pine Mu oneTy tant was approached by, the police lieu- | and offered their services to your! will help us in our struggle for) “Coney Island, 2901 Mermaid Ave. | of the neapld ware ignobed i spite Killed ‘here; totay. ducing the street | Sentences later they inform their thers: Bastion et the Praia’ Union tenant who had broken into the| governments, and together with’ right, life, and liberty, against ‘the Brighton, 227 Brighton Beach. |o¢ Smith's big stunt. x tek ames fighting following |Teaders that the enthusiastic meet-| Educational League yesterday an- Saat ROCRE, ae _ hap- | them they have been destroying and | entire counter-revolutionary bour- Oh Tine OM he Ue etcanniayal ak given’ dt @lthe. onening of the cinvestinakion ing lacked “spirit.” Workers, who eines holding EAs told mee" a ies mae an- | drowning oe rivers of blood the! geoisie. : |meeting yesterday which lasted! into the mysterious death of former est of this, puncture the obvious | ing in Webster Hell, Lite Steed a ae Mae my atic workers’ and peasants’ movement | Fight War Menace. ARREST 3 FRUIT |more than two and a half honrs,) Deputy Jean Galmot. lies by asking, “If it was a meeting Third Ave., Monday evening im- aay fe ald pickets, darted: out| noe eee gdiebatses We rely upon your fraternal soli- and which was attended by William) The investigation was held on|Packed full of Communists why | mediately after work, ofya doorway and cked. Kurepa. eens i Ae ope “Chess and your fraternal aid. The | A. Prendergast, chairman, and Com- | orders of the Ministry of Interior at| Should applause be lacking?” A circular, distributed by thou- Paken unaware, Kurepa fell back-| rivers are dyed more and more|ci. of patience of the Chinese peo- | missioners Pooley, VanNamee and paris, Even the trade papers of the em- ward. The lieutenant arrested Ku- Tepa as a result of this, charging him with disorderly conduct and fighting on the streets. Jack Has- San was also. arrested, but this is s considered as a mere gesture, and he is expected to be released at the A : | _ hearing. over 4,000 workers because they|the menace of a new world war. | Carrying out their expressed in. | electric rates in the near future, the | POOR FELLOW! Small groups of three or five wished to “reorganize” the unions, With fraternal greetings, tention of actively prosecuting the Public Committee said. | LONDON, Auk. 9 (UP).—Albert “pickets” are employed by. the ma- The All China Federation of , j. - chine in each camp, and maintained thickly with the red color of the blood of workers and peasants. Mass Murders. Do. you know that in April of last year Chiang Kai-shek in Shanghai and Li Ti-sing in Canton murdered i. e., to dissolve them. Do you know | ple is becoming filled. The Chinese | peasantry is rising again, while the soldiers refuse to take up arms against the people and go over to the side of the toilers. Help us in our struggle and thereby you will also fight against CLERK PICKETS To Fight on Till We Win, Say Strikers | strike against the Bathgate Ave. ‘Lunn. The meeting was held in Prendergast’s office, at 129 Broad- |way, and proceeded behind closed | doors. | Now that the merger has been) |definitely approved, the inevitable | jresult will be the rise in gas and) Some persons said that Galmot, who was a political power in French} Guiana, was the victim of poison- ing by his enemies. He was a spec- tacular figure and was involved in a gigantic rum-scandal of 1923. | Loewenstein, Belgian financier who ployers, always staunch supporters | sands in the working area, details to the workers the recent union of the Sigman right wing gang, ad- smashing activities of the right mit an enthusiastic meeting. wing clique. Labor Unions, Sou Chao Jeng, Chairman. - WALKER FIGHTS that since the April coup d’etat in| Be ee | Kwangtung there have been over 2,000 workers killed. | Do you know that in Hunan and Hupeh 20,000 peasants have been shot for the sole offence that they | open-shop frait market if it will |take many months more, the Retail | Grocery, Fruit and Dairy Clerks’ | Union is still picketing that,section | in large numbers, despite a police | terror. Three more strikers were | on a salary basis while militant ‘workers are cut off the relief list, s0 that the Lewis officialdom Which is completely dicredited in the strike fields can boast of the €xistence of a “Lewis local.” CASABLANCA, Morocco, Aug. 9 disappeared from his airplane over (UP).—French engineers have dis-|the English Channel and whose covered ext.nsive manganese de- body was found recently, lost about posits in the Atlas mountains, and| $60,000,600 within the three weeks coal north of Oudja. The first im-| before his death, but left $40,000,- did not wish any longer to die from arrested in a picketing demonstra- | portant coal discovery in the whole | 000. the Evening News reported to- i snaregien ‘ of North Africa. day. jena attention and the energien| sorvation upon thelr little plots tion yesterday. : Reine convention vena of land and to give up the last cup- ) They were released in custody of |) = ‘nine union called for Pittsburgh, September 9-16. OUT ON BOSSES 8 $80 workers of Local of the United Hatters’ of America walked on Wednesday against their em- 4 ers, Schnell-and Fink and Com- — known also as the Merit Hat “Company and the Perfect Hat Com- pany, 303 Mercer St., N. Y. The walk-out was made by the finishers, because the bosses dis- ‘regarded their requests mada two "weeks ago, that “raw” bodies should be had for them to work on instead ‘of the cheap bodies which they sup- plied and which they wanted pounced to a better finish than could be done to the better quality goods. UTILITIES ARE SCABS READING, Pa., Aug. 8. — The ful of rice to the militarists? Do you know how cruelly the Canton rebellion ‘of the workers, directed against the yoke of the im- i | The Tammany city administra- tion is planning to reject the so- called Untermeyer transit readjust- |union counsel and are to come up| for trial Monday, August 14 in the| the Eighth District Magistrates’ | Court before Magistrate McKinery. | The same judge yesterday re-| DAILY WORKER ° perialist ‘murderers, has been sup- , | A pressed? Do you know that over Ment plan, it was learned yesterday leased four strikers arrrested for n eCynd Ona 5,000 workers’ corpses were thrown ‘70M reliable sources. picketing and fined one, Frank Is- upon the streets of Canton? Do ,, Action or at least discussion on slowitz five dollars. In yesterday’s you know that working women were tied together in batches of five and burned alive? Do you know that about 600 rick- shamen—those human horses whose existence is possible only in an op- pressed semi-colonial country like China—have been shot down upon the public square in Canton for the sole offence that they preserved the red badges in memory of the revolt? Behead Thousands. Do you know that in Changsha and Hankow where no revolts have taken place, nevertheless Pei Sun- chin and other generals have shot down over 4,000 people solely be- cause they had work-soiled hands? |. Do you know that Feng Yuehsiang |has beheaded 300 workers of the | textile mills for the sole offence of | strilcing to secure higher wages, and|from the hands of the local Tam- election campaign directors, and all | poles many patriots. There appears to} members of the different section had their heads exhibited on the plan is due to be taken up at a Board of Estimate and Apportion- ment meeting in the near future. Recently the mayor announced from his Hollywood vacation haunts be- tween sips of champagne and flir- tations. with moving picture ac- tresses, that he was opposed to the public corporation feature of the Untermeyer plan. He politely let the world know at the time that only a simmn pure private grab would be to his liking. Untermeyer |Promptly rejoined that there was little difference in their intentions but intimated thot his own way of putting the proposition was greatly to be preferred. Under the Untermeyer plan de- signed for the needy Morgan. inter- ests, the control over traction would practically. be eliminated ‘attack on the picket line Dave Za- | row, J. Linder and Paul Flakowitz | were arrested. Costume ‘Speakers and Agitprop \Directors Conference! to Be Held Tomorrow A conference of all speakers and agit-prop directors of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers (Communist) League, at which J. Mindel, chairman of the ntrol_ Commission, will analyze the platform f-the socialist party, will be held tomorrow, at 2 |p. m, at the Workers Center, 26-28 | Union Square, fifth floor. All speakers, all section, subsec- tion and unit agit-prop directors, Carnival SUNDAY, AUGUST 19—PLEASANT BAY .PARK GAMES — OPEN AIR Dancing--Sports ATHLETIC EXHIBITIONS Order a Bundle! Let The DAILY WORKER help you in your Election Campaign Work, Order a bundle to distribute and sell at your oper! air meetings, in front of factories and at union meetings. 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