The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 11, 1928, Page 1

ae, rp De ve ‘SUNDAY | THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS EE nn] } FOR A LABOR TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT PARTY Bail Worker Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Vol. V., No. 190. Published daly except Sunday by The National Dally Worker _ Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union 8: EW YORK, SATU RDAY, AU UST 11, 1928 su BSCRIPTION RATES t 500 OHIO STEEL MILL WORKERS ON STRIKE IN CANTON Mill Committee Leads Men in the Struggle Against Corporation Fight Against Wage Cut; Bosses’ Treacherous | Proposals Turned Down 4 CANTON, Ohio., Aug. 10.—De- manding recognition of their Mill Committee, six dollars for an eight- hour day, and the removal of Su- perintendent Seldon, their auto- cratic boss, 400 chippers and 100 grinders of the Central Alloy Steel Corporation have walked out on strike here. The original strike action was taken Monday night with the walk- out of the first groups of workers from the steel mills. Announcement that wages were to be slashed from by the formation of « Mill Com- mittee in the Central Alloy plant and the statement of demands by the strik an Demands Made. Six dollars for an eight-hour day and the firing of the superinten- dent, Seldon, were the first demands issued by the newly organized com- mittee. Alarmed officials of the Alloy Corporation succeeded in procuring the arrests of four workers dis- tributing hand-bills calling out the Canton Central Steel and the Mas- sillon Steel mill workers. Cases of all four men were continued until next Wednesday. Officials of the Central Alloy Steel Corporation, which is one unit of a merger comprising the Canton Central Steel Company and Massillon Steel, have offered to split the difference between the wages of the alloy workers and those of the steel workers of the tivo other companies. pew Detecting in the offer an attemp' to reduce the wages of workers in all the mills, the strikers of the Central Alloy Steel, under the leadership of their Mill Commmit- tee have turned down the steel| company’s proposal. Plans for spreading the strike are | being rapidly developed by the Al.) loy Steel Mill Committee whose leaders declare that the spirit of the men is firm. They predict that the workers in the other plants will follow the alloy strikers in their walk-out. TO HOLD LABOR SPORTS MEETING A call to all affiliated, as well as non-affiliated organizations, for the second national convention of the) Labor Sports Union of America was issued last night by the Na-., tional Arrangements Committee of the organization, thru its secretary, Paul Cline. The convention will be held Aug, 27-28 at Progressive Hall, 15 W. 126th St., following the Second An- nual Olympics o fthe Labor Sports Union, to be héld Aug. 25-26 at Wingate Field. The call follows in part: “A year and a half has now passed since the organization of the Labor Sports Union. In this com- paratively short time the Labor Sports Union has mad egreat prog- ress, having secured the affiliation of 67 workers’ athletic clubs, com. prising over 5,000 members, In New York, Chicago and Detroit, district organizations have been es- tablished. The basis for: other dis- trict organizations has been laid in Continued on Page Four MANY FIRED AT DELAVAL PLANT (By « Worker Correspondent) POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. (By Mail)—since the last letter I wrote appeared in the Daily Worker, a general tightening-up and’ intensi- fication of the spy-system in the De Laval Separator Company plant has taken place. More work- ers have been fired by the company officials, who are beginning to fear the influence of the Daily Worker on the slaves working in the plant. The class-conscious workers here| izations. The alterations were|with a steady stream of activities are beginning an active drive| adopted. lasting far into the night. Games among all the workers here, in the) Roosbroeck, financial secretary,|and sports of all sorts will be factory for the purpose of awaken- ing them to the absolute necessity of a strong, fighting union. In this task, we are aided immensely by the Continued on Page Three B00 GOAL DIGGERS STRIKE DESPITE, LEWIS OFFICIALS | os \Company Fails to Live! six dollars a day to $4.40 spread | like wildfire thru the mills and the} walk-out was followed immediately | Up to Agreement | NOKOMIS, Ill., Aug. 10 (UP).— | Six hundred miners, working at) Mine No. 10, were on strike today | although local union officials op- | posed the walk out. The men con-| tended trip riders were not receiv- ing the extra 75 cents a day paid to| motormen for overtime work, eM. oe (Special to the Daily Worker) NOKOMIS, Ill, Aug. 10.—Nearly eight hundred miners fo Mine No. 10 went out on strike here against the pressure of the officials of the Lewis - Fishwick machine who | sought frantically to keep them at work. Wage slashes and failure of the }company to live up to its agree- | mentsecaused the walk out. Murdered by Kuomintang War Lords be troops have succeeded in driving tions of the province. One of the labor leaders in Honan tortured and then shot by the blood-thirsty Kuomintang war lords. Honan worker and peasant workers and peasant of China in their struggle against the Kuomin- tang and its imperialist masters. STRIKERS ROUSED MARINE PLANES AT BOY'S DEATH Pioneers Condemn Fall River Police FALL RIVER, Mass. Ang. 10.— Further substatiation of charges) against police in the drowning of| Johnny Madieros, six year old strikers child, were made by witnes- ses in the hearing yesterday. Testimony brought out the in- FOR NICARAGUA Fliers in Preparation gn November 4. FOSTER TO START ON NATIONAL TOUR SOON Be reer ey ees candidate of the Workers, (Commu- nist) Party, will soon start out on a speaking tour that will bring the message of the class struggle and the program of Communism into every corner of the United States. Foster starts out on his Red Cam- | paign on the second day of Septem- | ber with a meeting in New Hayen,) Conn, He will finish his tour «with | a mass meeting in New York City | To Expose Capitalist Parties. The Communist presidentia} nom- inee, as one of the leading exponents of Communism in the United States, will demonstrate to the workers and exploited farmers the folly of sup-| FIN AL CITY EDITION 00 per year. n » by mail, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. _ NEW ANTHPIGKET BUKHARIN ASKS WORLD CONGRESS 10 _Price 3 Cents URASE IN HUGE ADOPT DRAFT PROGRAM OF COMMUNIST BEDFORD STRIKE \Only 8 Pickets to Mill, | | Police Order | NEW BEDFORD, Aug. 10— Seven pickets were arrested this | evening when police attempted to break up the picket lines at the | north and south ends. Those ar- rested included Dawson and Mari- anna Botelho, picket captains. gk rasa | NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 10. —Executing another change of tac- tics, the police of this city an- |nounced today that no more than \three striking textile workers will | be permitted to picket the gates of a mill. The reply of the Textile | Mill Committees to this latest dic- tatorial measure of the bosses was the same defiant one as when the | police declared “more than 25 pick- jets are illegal.” Mass picket lines | will be continued, strikers say. | Leaders Jailed Again. Repressive measures of the mill- jowned city government are increas- ing daily as not a single striker shows any inclination to walk into f, ; |the yawning gates of the empty out the war lords from many sec- | the | , ; e of the United States must help the |Mills. This morning, Jack Ruben- stein, T. M. C. organizer; Eulalie Mendez, secretary of the T. M. C. | Textile: Workers Union, and Cas- |mire Lamieras were arrested while |leading the lines of pickets. They were later fined $20 by the strike- breaking Judge Milliken in the dis- rict court. Walter. Langshaw, president of the Dartmouth Mills, which did not enforce a wage cut and was not struck, issued a statement yester- day admitting that the members of the employers’ association were not justified in cutting wages. Al- though the statement of a compet- Continued on Page Three CHINA TAG DA ~ TOBEGIN TODAY ‘Thousands of Workers 30; Women’s Ausiliary. Slickville, Flight for War | WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UP). -—Four marine flyers took off here today in a_tri-motored transport | plane for a test flight to St. Louis, |Mo., preparatory to leaving on A one-stop flight to Nicaragua. | Lieut. Frank Schilt, in command) |of the plane, was forced to return |to the naval air station after his | first takeoff because of engine | |trouble, but left again soon after \repairs were made. It was announced sometime ago that Schilt would fly the trimotored | transport plane to Managua, Nicar-| agua, with a stop at Miami. It will | be the sixth marine transport plane| to be sent there. | The tests preliminary to the take- off for Managua are believed to) | have been ordered as a result of the crash of the last marine plane sent | to Nicaragua, which took the lives! | of three men. | OECTA | “SOCIALISTS? ARE FOR IMPERIALISM Colonials Demonstrate | Against Congress | (Special to the Daily Worker.) | BRUSSELS, Aug. 10.—The plen- | ary session of the congress of the Socialist 2nd Internationa! opened | yesterday and Marie Juchacoz re- | ported on the fifth point on the agenda, “Report and Resolution on \the Women’s Conference.” The resolution read contains no word against the punishment of vol- untary abortions afflicted on jwork- | ing women in many countries be- cause the British, American, Dutch and Scandinavian delegations were opposed to it. The speaker regretted that the resolution against war mobilization was not unanimously adopted. A French woman delegate had de- clared herself in favor of Paul Bon- cour’s. military law in france. Fredereich Adler then spoke on the sixth agenda point, “Alterations in’ the Statutes.” The alterations referred to the times for holding conferences and the prevention of relations with revolutionary organ- |formation that the mounted police- man who ran the terrified boy into | the water, did so because he thought the young six year old had thrown a stone at his mount when he was breaking up the picket demonstra- ition last Tuesday. Thousands thruout the country are sending messages of condolence to the parents of the boy expressing horrified condemnation of Fall River police brutality. The father, a Textile Mill Com-} |porting the democratic and repub- liean parties, the big parties of Wall Stret, or the socialist party, the | party of pink liberalism and the pea- nutstand businessman. Foster will base his expose of the |role of the capitalist parties on the |Nationai Platform which brands |those parties and their candidates {as instruments of American imper- | the workers, poor farmers and agri- {cultural proletariat. Foster, who led the great steel jialism and the natural enemies of | mittee picket captain, made a public strike that brought 400,000 slaves declaration announcing that his loss ont of the mills of the United States will not deter him from continuing the fight against the mill bosses. Thousands of workers here’ are out on a strike against a ten per cent wage cut. Strikers’ childrens’ organizations ings. There will also be a children’s division of marchers in the mass funeral being planned. The Young Pioneers of America, a Communist childrens’ organization issued the following statement on the death of the boy. “Six year-old Johnny Madeiros has been murdered! Brave little Steel and other corporations, will | speak in the heart of the coal region | where a great strike raged for over |twelve months, a strike that was \eventually lost because of the | treachery of John L. Lewis. Foster tile workers of New England, who Continued on Page Three NEW CLOAK UNION to Participate That the Chinese Relief Tag Days to-day and tomorrow will be the biggest ever held in this city, was indicated last night when the num- ber of collection boxes distributed by the Committee to Aid the Chi- nese Trade Unions reached the 3,000 mark. Trade unionists of this city are responding wholeheartedly to the urgent call of their Chinese brothers and sisters for immediate help in their fight against the united front | of the Kuomintang reactionaries and {the imperalist powers. Thousands | of young workers, women, and chil- / |dren are among the volunteers who | will start out this morning from 27) | stations in all sections of the city | with collection boxes and arm bands are planning mass memorial meet-/| will also speak to the striking tex- | reading: “Help the Starving Chi- nese Workers; Demand the Right of | Existence for the Chinese Trade | Unions.” Chinese Workers In Struggle | “The workers of China are fight- | ing with renewed vigor now,” stated Y. Shu, secretary of the New ISSUE APPEAL Seek Funds for Com- ing Convention PITTSBURGH, Aug. 10-—Em- phasizing the importance of the coming convention for a new mine union, the National Arrangements Committee has issued an appeal to workers to make possible the hold- ing of the meeting by contributing for the carfare of delegates, ex- penses for a hall and other neces- sary costs. “From all parts of the country miners end workers of other indus- tries are responding to the call of the committee,” the statement de- .clares,—.“However, the’ money |not arriving fast enough to meet the urgent needs of the preconven- tion campaign.” Donations have been received as follows, the statement reports: “Oakland, Calif., Touristen Verein, | Pa., $35; Joe Silagy, Rivesville, W. | Continued on Page Three | LOCAL 3 WILL STICK TO FIGHT | Electrical Workers to Start Again (By «a Worker Correspondent) Broach won a hollow “victory” at Thursday night’s meeting of the Electrical Workers’ Union when he | pushed over his list of amendments to the by-laws of Local 3. Broach may claim that the men passed his |amendments, but over four thou- |sand workers, one of the largest meetings of the local ever held, have learned something about the ways of our little labor faker which |was worth more than all the talk |and propaganda, possible. A Necessary Lesson. |have a little more to eat and may| manufacturing shops of the city, his father on the picket line, so_ that the textile workers’ may build Twenty-two months of terrific their Union, so that they all’may' exploitation in the cloak and dress 1s | responsible for the deep-rooted en. thusiasm being manifested by the masses of workers in the trade, to- UEEGEETEN | ward the drive of the left wing to MINER KILLED AT WORK build up a new cloak and dress- STAUNTON, TI, Aug. 10— makers union here. This spirit, Stanley Mekula, 47, was killed while @thering headway each moment, is xt work in the No. 2 Mine of the | ¢Xhibited by the increasing successes jive a little better! Murdered by the extile barons and their agents, the Continued on Page Three in op & | York Worker-Peasant Alliance at} |the office of the Tag Day Commit-| Almost the whole union member- |tee yesterday. “The quick response | ship was present. Before the meet- to their call for aid by the workers ing, in spite of the considerable |thruout the world has given them | propaganda which has been carried | new courage and determination. The/on against the Broach machine |workers of Germany, France, Eng-| methods, most of the membership land, and Soviet Russia have already | was still uncertain of the true char- sent hundreds of thousands of dol-j| acter of the machine. This meet- lars. They are confident that the|/ing was a perfect object lesson. American workers will take this|Broach thought he was doing Continued on Page Two something very clever, no doubt, ~ but from now on it will be clear to WIN $200 INCREASE five thousand workers that it is MIDDLETOWN, ©0., Aug. 10.—| Broach against the rank and file. pany when. he was caught beneath a fall of slate. -A widow and four children survive him. Mt. Olive and Staunton Coal Com- | registered by the drive to organize | the open shops now being carried ie by the Joint Board of the Inter- Continued on Page Two |Members of Local 924 of the Steam jand Operating Engineers Union, |working at the water works here, |have won a raise of $200 yearly. A motion to raise the dues to $21 }per quarter was pushed over | through a trick of first offering | Continued on Page Two Thousands of workers will throng to Pleasant Bay Park today to at- tend one of the banner proletarian social events of the year, the big outing of the New York Section of the International Labor Defense, The outing will start at 12 noon then made a financial report. Roos-| played, there will be a torchlight broeck said practically nothing|parade in which many working about finances, mentioning no fig-|class organizations will take part, ures, but, ha used his time attack-|a lively jazz band will play the Continued on Page Two latest dance hits | so that all those e bers will be included in an elaborate program. Mass Scene. The two chief features of the day will be the mass scene and the tak- ing of movies of the outing. In the mass scene every one of the several thousand workers present will take part, thus forming one of the larg- est mass spectacles ever staged in this country. The scene wil sym- bolize in a vivid manner the fight of the militant workers of this EXPECT THOUSANDS AT BIG I.L.D. OUTING TODAY Drive to Free Mooney, Billings to Be Launched at Pleasant Bay Park Affair who want to can take part in open- jcountry to free their comrades who|fair will have an additional air dancing, and many other num-|have been thrown into jail for their | nificance in that it will offic devotion to the working class. The taking of movies will be a unique feature of the outing. All the activities of the affair, showing workers at play, will be screened and later shown in various parts sig- ially |launch an intensive, city-wide cam- | |paign that the I. L. D. will con- |duct to free Mooney and Billings. Tickets for the outing are 35 cents and are on sale at the office of the I. L. D., 799 Broadway, Room | his | terests”” of the country. 422, and at the Workers’ Center, To Launch Mooney Drive. | 26-28 Union Square. Pleasant Bay The I. L. D, outing today, which | Park can be reached by taking the is an annual celebration of the left-| Bronx Park subway or “L”, to. wing movement, will furnish funds |177th St. and from there the Union | that will be used to aid class war | Port car. victims and their families, i" af- the park. Great Marxist Docum INTERNATIONAL; POINTS TO WAR PERIL ent Will Be Rallying Point for Workers and Peasants of World Growth of Soviet Union Vital Features of (Wireless to the MOSCOW, U. S. S. R and Chinese Revolution Present Situation Daily Worker) Aug. 10.—“The draft program of the Communist International represents for the first time a — real international strategic document of the proletariat.” ie With these words Nikola Executive Committee of the Nanki ng War Lords Hold 17 USSR Citizens PEKING, Aug.’ 10.—In spite of the appeal of the Soviet govern- ment that the seventeen Soviet citi- zens and diplomatic officials who were arrested when the Manchurian war lord Chang Tso-lin raided the Soviet Union Embassy in March, 1927, the Nanking regime has re- fused to release them. They have been in prison ever since the provocating raid had taken place a year ago. According to the Chinese civil code no prisoner can be held without charge for than three months. CUBA RECOGNIZES more “WANKING REGIME | Action is Taken ;U. S. Controlled Fort NANKING, China, Aug. 10—An official announcement was made here today that the Cuban govern- ment had formally recognized the Nanking regime. Since it is generally believed that the Cuban government would not have given de jure recognition without the approval of the United States government, the move is taken as indicative of United States formal recognition soon. * * British Agreement. NANKING, Aug. 10.—An agree- | ment was signed here today between representatives of the British and Nanking governments settling the Nanking incident of March, 1927 and other agreement was signed by both governments providing for negotiations on treaty revision. No details have been released, but it is understood that the same terms were procured by the British repre- sentatives as by the American. TROOPS TO BACK JAPANESE NOTE Will Add Forces In * Manchuria TOKIO, Aug. 10.—As_ Baron Hayashi, special envoy of the Japanese goverment is waiting for a conference with the Manchurian war lord Chang Hseuh-liang, son of Chang Tso-lin to induce him to fol- low Japgn’s advise in the proposed alliance with the Nanking regime, , the Japanese government, it is gen- erally understood here, is preparing to send more troops into Manchuria. Premier Tanaka is uneqnivical in decision that Japanese in- in Manchuria must be “protected.” Wh After the envoy to Manchuria succeeds in getting as interview with Chang Hseuh-liang, who re- fuses to grant it on the ground that he is sick, he will leave for Nank- ing where he is expected to confer with the Kuomintang war lords. 2 SHIPS IN COLLISION. BOSTON, Aug. 10 (UPP).—The excursion steamer Nantasket and the two-masted fishermah Isabelle Parker collided in Boston Harbor to- day. ‘Both vessels were badly damaged, but were beached at Gal- Free busses will run to!lups Island with the aid of the tradictions which lie in its. quarantine boat Waterhouse. be i Bukharin, Chairman of the Communist International char- “acterized the program which he declares will be the rallying banner for thousands of wark- ers and peasants throughout the world. His speech was de- livered before the twenty- fourth session of the World Congress of the Communist International which opened here yesterday under the chair- manship of Thaelmann, of Ger- many. Guide to Struggle. Bukharin declared that the pro- gram of the International is the program of proletarian dictatorship, and serves as a sign post to imme- diate revolutionary struggles. The first documents of revolu- tionary Marxism, such as the Com- munist Manifesto are still valid to- day, the speaker declared, but our program contains differences born of the present. Then Communism was propagandistic, today Commu- nism is an active world army with an aim in immediate view. The dic- tartorship of the proletariat exists in what was formerly the Tsarist .. empire. First Strategic Document. The present draft program is long and this is necessary in order |to deal with all sides of the situa- tion. Our program represents for |the first time a real international | strategic document of the prole- |tariat. The program commission | was forced to make changes in the Fifth Congress draft because the world situation had altered in the |meantime. These alterations are | chiefly: the new imperialist group- ings; the Chinese Revolution and the \progress and new experience of the | Soviet Union. At the time of the Fifth Congress, fascism was only beginning. Since - then the social democratic parties have gone through a new stage of development and the functions of the trade unions have altered. Tac- | tical questions, as for example thé | united front, are today different. | different. a Marxism Is Basis The program is an open ap- proval of dialectical materialism. | We stand on a basis of orthodox revolutionary Marxism and our method is dialectical materialism. We propagate the Marxian lessons concerning the collapse of capitalism and the world revolution. The urg- ency of the present situation compelled us to analyze it cretely. We speak of the existing economic system, the contradictio of imperialism and the crisis capitalism not abstractly but cretely. We interpret our theo 3 Types of Countries The program states concretely” final aims, transformation the strategy and tacties of Communist parties. The pi differentiates between three types of countries: highly developed cap talist countries, moderately d oped capitalist countries and colonial and semi-colonial cou The special characteristic: program is the section deal the Soviet Union and colonial tions. The program deals als \the question of the relations . world proletariat with the |peasantry. The program © entiates between countries capitalism is strongly develo those where it is not. In # mer, the question of the of the proletariat is ripe. The Chinese Revolution | veloping from a bourgeois \letarian revolution. On the ¢ question, we must si sharply Lenin's thesis the avoidance of the ec of society. Despite its | tendencies, capitalism is still of powerful technical pro will collapse through the | Continued on Page TI