The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT FIN AL CITY EDITION Published daily except 8 Publishing Association, I: day by The National Daily Worker '» 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. Vol V., No, 192. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1928 BET SIGNATURES, WORKERS PARTY URGES MEMBERS Letter Asks Active Soliciting in Drive Every member of the Workers (Communist) Party is urged to ac- tively engage in soliciting signa- tures on petitions to help put the Communist ticket on the ballot. in the various states in an open let- ter to the membership issued by the Central Executive Committee of | the Party. The letter reads: | “Comrades: | ‘The election campaign is now the | central campaign of the Workers| (Communist) Party. In this cam- paign we have an excellent oppor- | tunity to mobilize the workers and ‘ Young workers returning from Citizens’ Military Training Camp, the coming imperialist slaughter. uniformed workers the nature of the C. M. T. C., and of the capitalist The Young Workers League, however, is active teaching these young FURRIERS MASS MEETING BEGINS BUILDING UNION Out-of-Town Locals Also in Big Drive What is signified as the most im-| portant step yet taken by the fur workers in their two year old strug-| |gle against the socialist-A. F. of L.-| jemployer alliance, will be taken at |the big demonstration in Cooper | Union tomorrow night, when the | workers will be asked to launch the campaign to build one united inter- [national union of fur workers in the U. S. and Canada. The meet-| ing will be held immediately after) | work. where they are being trained for class which maintains the camps. poor farmers for the _ struggle against capitalism and to build our Party by means of a vigorous cam- paign. “In order to wage a good elec- GITLOW'S TOUR Avassin Sets Finally convinced that Interna-~ tional Fur Workers Union of the A. F. of L. has been completely de-| stroyed as a workers organization) SOINJURED IN Fall River tion fight it is essential that the national and state tickets should be on the ballot in as many states as possible. The National Election Campaign Committee believes we will be on the ballot in 30 states. “According to reports received at the National Office the work of | putting the Party on the ballot is going ahead well in some states, Continued on Page Three NICARAGUAN HITS U.S, IMPERIALISM Protection of Property Is Not Motive CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Aug. 18 (UP) Discussion of United States intervention in Nicaragua usually has been based on false is- sues, said Dr. T. S. Vaca at the round table discussion of the Pnb- lic Affairs Institute here today. Vaca acted as representative in Washington of Vice-President Sa- ‘asa of Nicaragua in 1926. “Nicaraguan intervention has been explained officially and unof- ficially on three grounds,” he said. ‘Namely, protection of lives and roperty of Americans; or some orollary to the Monroe Doctrine; x the Nicaraguan Canal issue. They are all false. “Those thoroughly acquainted with the situation know there has never been any danger to American property or lives until recent months, when, intervention, General Sandino, retaliation, destroyed some Ameri- can property. This brought out the fact that the marines were not pro- tecting American property,” he said. “In order to interest Americans and to make it an issue of para- mount importance, the question of a canal through Nicaragua was raised as an excuse to give the Diaz ad-j ministration $3,000,000 to relieve financial distress. The canal issue pops up every time there is a dis- turbance in Nicaragua requiring ex- planation.” He charged that Nicaraguan schols, which he said had been flour- ishing before American interven- tion, were now neglected and fail- ing. The same condition was true in railroad and communication facil- ities, he said, and other industries d suffered because of “17 years of meddling.” RAID HONDURAS FOR NICARAGUAN, Seizure Ordered By) Kellogg TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Aug. 138.—Following the request of the United States government, in a note to the Honduras government, | that marines be allowed to enter its territory in order to capture Nica- raguans living in Honduras, a pa- trol of marines entered the border f town of Danli and seized several ‘icaraguans. The United States note had also ered that all organizations in Honduras, favorable to the Sandino Army of Independence, be declared jllegal and immediately disbanded. Feeling against the United States and the subservient Honduras gov- ernment is running high here as a result of the raid and the note, and the government has attempted to appease criticism by publishing the text of the American note, which is not permitted outside of the country. CANADA LABOR CONGRESS. ONTARIO.—The annual conven- tion of the Trades and Labor Con- of Canada will convene in this city on Monday, September 10. by the disruptive tactics of its right) | — Out to Hunt STARTS SEPT Oo On LONDON, Aug. 18.—The Soviet icebreaker Krassin, which has al- ly rescued 16 people in one of iCommunist Nominee to Speak Thruout U.S. Requests for meetings with Wil liam Z. Foster and Benjamin Git- | low as the principal speakers of the | Workers (Communist) Party at New | read: the ELEVATED CRASH |Wooden Cars are Held) Responsible | most heroic expeditions of mod- | | Over thirty workers were injured, ern times, has resumed the search | eleyen of them seriously, when a for the 12 men still lost in the far | : north; according to a dispatch to | Brooklyn-Manhattan elevated train! | | York. | Benjamin Gitlow, the Communist | vice-presidential candidate, will start | bis national tour on September 3. | |He will speak in the principal cit: | jies of the country, and will bring |the message of Communism and the \class struggle to striking textile workers, coal miners, railroad and steel workers, exploited farmers and oppressed Negroes. Expect Big Audiences. Several states are complaining | |that they have not been given enough dates. The membership of the Party is enthusiastic over the | Foster-Gitlow tour, and are certain | Maneuver that the workers will turn out en) masse to hear them. | CHICAGO, Aug. 18.—Officials of Letters from the mid-west and|the Brotherhood-of Railway Train- | west express the enthusiasm of the | men announced yesterday that they dl cious... workers .over -the} would take a strike vote as a result tour. Dakota writes: “Comrades: Glad to hear that Benjamin Gitlow is speaking in Bis- marck on September 22. I know The announcement was made by lots of farmers who will shake up| A. R. Whitney, president of the their old flivvers and make them |Brotherhood as a result of wide- cough their way to hear him. We spread sentiment among the work- have been fooled so often here by |ers for strike action. the Daily Mail. The Krassin get out on the second leg of its rescue trip from the port of Stavanger, where it had gone for repairs. STRIKE VOTE | Officials Carry On New | south-western roads to meet their demands for a flat minimum wage increase of 746 per cent. FOR TRAINMEN A poor farmer from North | of the refusal of the western and| |crashed into another on the Fulton | Street line in Brooklyn yesterday |morning. The passengers were! |nearly all night workers returning| |to their homes in Jamaica from |Manhattan and lower Brooklyn. Wooden cars, the usual cause of the large number of injuries in colli- sions, was again here responsible. Attempts apparently being | | made to hush up this fact since no | mention is being’ made of it by of- ficials responsible. are A ten-car, eastbound train stalled} on a curve over a vacant lot in Eu-| clid Avenue between Liberty Ave- nue and Glenmore Avenue due, it was said, to a short circuit. The train stopped behind a curve and TEXTILE YOUTH wing and reactionary leadership, representatives of every important local of the International, met in conference here as reported yester- day, and decided to back the left wing Joint Board in a struggle to) \establish a real union controlled by the workers themselves. Isolate Right Wing. Contributing considerably toward this decisive action of the officers) of the out of town Canadian locals) was the recently published secret| correspondence between the leaders) of the A. F. of L. and their socialist allies. In these letters they ad- mitted to themselves that the right) wing dual organization in New York| and the International was com-| pletely destroyed. Not only was the conference at- | tended by the aforementioned locals, nearly all of whom have been Continued on Page Two HAIL CONVENTION Bedford Meet Demands Release of Porter Cuntinued on Page Five POSTPONE GASES | cities glib-tongued artists who promise | The Brotherhood is tied by the in-| NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 13. | —Delegates from young textile! workers’ organizations from many | in New England held a} highly successful conference at the Petemska Hall here yesterday and/ unanimously endorsed the coming James P, Reid, leader of the Textile Mill Committees in Fall FOR WALL ST. AID’ IN JAPAN CRISIS Imperialist Rivalries ” are Sharpened WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.— Suay Fo, member of the Nanking regime, conferred with Secretary of State Kellogg today. The na~ ture of the conference was not disclosed. gue SHANGHAI, Aug. 13.—Follow- ing the reports that Baron Hayashi, sent by the Japanese government to confer with Chang Hseuh-liang, has. given the Manchurian war lord an ultimatum that amounted to a threat of military intervention if Manchuria allied itself with the Nanking regime, the Nanking gov- jernment is reported to be prepar- ing a note to the United States gov- ernment asking for its support | against Japan’s aggression. Hayashi, who had been in Mukden during the last week in an attempt to confer with the Manchurian dic- tator, is reported to have told him that the Japanese government had decided against the proposed alle- giance of the two reactionary gov- . ernments, because, in its opinion, Japanese interests in Manchuria would be threatened. Hayashi is reported to have made it clear that River is shown above. He has ju st been sentenced to six months in jail, together with Sam Weissman, Jack Rubinstein and Bill Seroka, for organizing the strike of the t ture by courtesy of the New Bed, extile workers in Fall River. (Pic- ford Evening Standard) PICKETING IS RIOTING! SAYS FALL RIVER JUDGE (Special to the Daily Worker.) FALL RIVER, Mass., Aug. 13.— “Mass picketing constitutes a riot,” was the decision handed down by Judge Hanify, who openly acted as the mill baron’s prosecutor in the trial of Peter Hegelias a leader of the striking textile workers here. As in the case of other picket leaders yesterday, Hegelias receives a jail | sentence of 6 months. Today’s trial, everyone agreed, was an openly planned attempt to, outlaw all picketing of the struck mills. Isadore Levin, attorney for the International Labor Defense, in a brilliant cross examination proved beyond all doubts that the disorders prevalent last week on the picket TEXTILE RELIEF NEED GROWING ‘Issue Appeals To Aid Strikers |— Addressing themselves to all workers’ organizations throughout the country, and mailed to as many of them as they found possible, the Workers International Relief, now active in the New Bedford textile NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 13. | line were caused by organized police! in the event of Manchuria being in- cluded in the Nanking regime the Japanese government would be pre- pared to use its military. A statement issued by the Jap- anese foreign office insisted on its decision not to revise the existing commercial treaties between Nank- ing and itself, and declared that the Japanese government would not begin negotiations for the settle- |ment of the Nanking and Tsinanfu incidents or any other negotiations | until the Manchurian situation was | settled according to its wishes. . * . Japan’s Command Obeyed. |. TOKIO, Aug. 13.—A_ dispatch | from Mukden to a vernacular news- | paper here said that Chang Hseuh- |liang, Manchurian . dictator, agreed to follow the demands of the Japanese government and not join | the Nanking government. This announcement came after Baron Hayashi had warned the war lord that Japan was ready to use military force to protect her inter- ests in Manchuria. Chang is also reported to have told the Japanese | representative that he did not wish had after 17 years of | in| us something without having to put |famous Parker Law as a result of begimwing to see that nothing of|outlawed on the railroads. When Continued on Page Four |other lines were given an increase up a fight for it that we are now which strikes have been practically | pubont a quae ago an the south- e western lines were refuse an in- “Automobiles ; the Modern Slavery a”? An unusual series of articles on the automobile industry, especial- ly prepared for the Daily Worker by Benjamin Lifschitz, will begin in Thursday’s issue. This impor- tant and interesting series not only gives the fundamental facts of this tremendous industry, but tells graphically the story of the recent strike in the plant of Gen- eral Motors at Flint, Mich., what it meant and what were its short- comings. The, title of the series is “Auto- mobiles, The Modern Slavery.” Don’t miss this series. Begin- ning Thursday, it will run for several days, and you won’t want to miss a day of it. * * Tomorrow the Daily Worker will announce a very important feature for the coming Saturday’s issue which will have to be en- larged to eight pages in order to carry it. * UNION WINS RENEWAL. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13.— | Members of the Iron, Steel and Tin Workers’ Union here have won a renewal of their contract. crease it was openly charged that |the “mediators’ had been reached by the railroads during the lunch ‘hour while negotiations were going on. The case has been stalled off |for a year. Strike action will result only from the mass pressure of the workers themselves, it is believed. NANKING LICKS BRITISH HEELS LONDON, Aug. 13 (UP).—The government today issued the Chi- | Nanking incident of last year when jone American and several British subjects were killed by Southern Chinese troops entering Nanking. The Nationalists offered apologies for the incident and compensation for personal injuries and losses coin- cident with the lootings and killings. * Hundreds of Chinese men, women and children were slaughtered when | British and American gunboats bombarded Nanking last year. The | Nanking reactionaries, tools of the | imperialist powers, have accepted all jof the demands of the imperialists in the “negotiations” concerning the “incident.” SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. Aug. 13.—A state nominating convention of the Workers (Communist) Party which comprised delegates from every section of California met here yesterday, nominated Anita Whit- ney for United States senator on a slate which included candidates for a congressional district and eight | assembly districts. Firty-seven regular delegates were present from all parts of Cali- fornia. There were a number of Japanese and Chinese delegates and the Imperial Valley sent Mexi- can delegates, while Oakland was represented by several Negroes. Tremendous enthusiasm which ELECTION MEET IN WEST Workers Party Names Anita Whitney marked the convention from the be- ginning to end culminated in the acceptance speech of Anita Whit- ney. “I accept the nomination as United States senator on the Work- ers (Communist) Party ticket,” the speaker said. “I allow my name to be put forward because I unre- servedly believe in the principles for which the Workers Party stands.” HOTEL WORKER DROWNS. FAIRFIELD, Conn, Aug. 13 (UP).—Seized with a heart at- tack while bathing, Miss Mary Flanagan, Stratfield hotel employe, was drowned in two feet of water. y nese-British agreement settling the OF 13. WORKERS Be Tried Friday | The cases of 13 of the 15 worker | arrested for participating in th | | Chinese Tag Day Sunday were post- ‘poned until Friday when they ap- | | eared yesterday morning before | Magistrate Gotlieb in the First Dis- | trict Court. This is the same mag- istrate who several weeks ago sen- tenced a number of workers to jail | | terms for participation in an anti- imperialist demonstration in Wall | St. Edith Segal, one of those arrested Sunday, was held overnight in the Heckscher Foundation, Her case | was dismissed when she appeared | yesterday in Children’s Court. | Another of the arrested workers, |Rachel Silburg, who was arrested Saturday night, was ordered to ap-| pear in the Municipal Building. | Hez collection box was taken away | from her and when she appeared in court yesterday morning, she was told that District Attorney Banton’s | office would make an investigation | into the Tag Day objectives. The drive for funds to aid the | Chinese workers, which was initiated | |with the Tag Days, will continue | \for three weeks. Circulation of an | | appeal to labor unions, fraternal or- | | ganizations and individuals will be- | gin this week. More than 60,000 irculars, portraying in pictures the | ife of the Chinese workers under | the White Terror regime of the Nanking reactionaries, will be sent throughout the country. Tens of thousands of dellars are needed to save the lives of the fam- ilies of White Terror victims. Ac- tive trade unionists are being dis- charged by the hundreds and their places filled by less class-conscious workers from the country. In Shanghai 80 per cent of the factory workers have been recruited from the peasantry during the past eighteen months. The old guard of militants is starving, but their fighting spirit has not been crushed. Some of them can be found among the leaders of the peasani unions, while others have gone into the small towns, These.are the workers on whose behali the All-China Fed- eration of Labor Unions is appeal- ing to the workers of this country for ‘help. | | | | | | | | Tag Day Collectors to| convention of the Textile Mill Com- terrorism, clubbings and arrests of mittees at which a new union of pickets. mill workers is to bé launched. Photographic Evidence. Nearly evory large textiie manu-| Producing a photograph published facturing city was well represented in the Evening Standard, a local iby youth delegates sont directly rom the plants in which they worked, A sharp domand for the release of John Porter wan voiced in a resolution adopted by tho con- ference, Porter is a textile striker now sorving a two and a half yoar prison «entence imposed on him by the army authorities for his deser- tion from the army. Although very young he had become vice-president of the New Bedford Textile Work- ers Union, now leading the big strike here. Special youth demands were also rmulated by the conference for for presentation to the coming n convention to be held in New York September 22 and 23. They will | ask the new union to insert these | include: A minimum wage of $15 for young} textile workers, equal pay for equal | work. | | taken papor, tho striker’s attorney proved |that’the police intentionally adopted tactics of extreme brutality ovon after an arrested striker has been into custody. The picture showed Hegolias being choked by three uniformed thugs, his face dis- torted with pain. When the prosecutor reported to the judge that Hegelias was a union organizer the judge rasped out his vicious sentences. Hegelias was also compelled to furnish a $1,000 surety bond that will be forfeited in the event of his being arrested again. Two théu- aati sand dollars was demanded as bail done | before he was released on the ap-| Continued on Page Five | youth demands in their program. Passengers Removed | Their main demands From Grounded Ship MIAMI, Fla. Aug. 13 (UP)— tions to alleviate the suffering from want, daily affecting more and more strikers as the strike enters its eighteenth week of struggle. The letter is signed Fred Biedenkapp, relief director, and says, in part: “With tho ordering of mounted police and the National Guard into tho strike zone the mill owners have issued instructions that no more charity relief by the city is to be given the strikers. They are to be starved into accepting the wage re- duction. “We ask you to give heed to our plea for help. We urge you to do everything possible in support of the striking textile workers. Send us your contribution and have your | friends do the same.” | OPERATE ON AMESE TWINS (By United Press.) Mary and Margaret Gibb of Holyoke, Mass., known as “Siamese Twins,” probably will undergo an |cperation Monday or Tuesday to | Seventy-five passengers of the Mun-| sever the cartilagenous band which LONG ISLAND BUS DRIVERS STRIKE Work 70-Hour, 7-Day Week (By a Worker Correspondent) Bus drivers of the Richmond Hill | Lines, Inc., went out on strike Sat- | urday against the 10-hour day and | seven-day week and for an increase in wages over the $30 or $25 av- erage they are now earning, it was | learned yesterday. They are now working for 50 cents an hour with- out a day off throughout the year under a system of speed-up, spying and discrimination which finally drove them to strike. | The company, which is owned by | Stephen and William Hanran, has | employed strikebreakers. Several | accidents have occurred and in one | of these a man was badly injured. | ‘| Still the city authorities permit the | inexperienced dyivers the scab buses. erates one line to Ozone Park and) one to Coney Island. Workers are fighting for the rec- ognition of their union and declare that they will remain out until their demands are granted. a to operate aboard the tug Lady Cordeaux. The Lady Cordeaux removed the passengers from the liner today, tropical radio here reported. The Munamar went aground near great Abaco Island early Sunday while en- route from Miami to New York via Nassau. Efforts to float the liner were to be made at high tide tonight, tropi- cal radio said. | son liner Munamar were enroute to| has bound them together since birth | Nassau, Bahama _ Islands, tonight | 17 years ago. WOMAN MISSING. ALBANY, N, Y., Aug. 13 (UP). —When the night boat Fort Orange docked here from her trip from New York Sunday, authorities of the Hudson Navigation Corporation | notified police that Miss Gretta | Clark, 50, of New York was miss- ing. THE USSR SPARTAKIAD 50,000 Athletes in Big Sports Festival strike area, appealed for contribu- | to join the Nanking regime because of dissensions within its ranks that might lead to civil war. ISSUE CALL FOR BiG SACCO MEE Expect 50,000 at Memorial Rose Baron, secretary 4 New York section of the tional Labor Defense, way, yesterday issued @ to some 50,000 members filiated members of the oFgt tion to take part in the Saceo-Wa zetti memorial demonstration wl will take place on Union Square | 5 p. m., Wednesday, August 22nd. ~~ The appeal, which is printed on Western Union telegraph blanks to impress members of the organiza- tion with the urgency for making the demonstration a genuine mass protest, reads in part: “The Sacco-Vanzetti demonstra- tion which takes place on August 22nd in Union Square is not far off. One hundred thousand leaflets have already been printed and are ready for distribution. We urge all branches to elect special commit- tees for distribution of these leaf- lets. Every shop and factory in New York must be covered. Call at this office for leaflets immediately. There is only one week left. Put everything else aside and devote the — next few days to building a huge Sacco-Vanzetti memorial demon- — stration in Union Square. Act at — once. Signed, Rose Baron.” Leaflets have been printed in English, Italian and Yiddish and already more than 25,000 have been — distributed at factories, shops and MOSCOW, Aug. 13 (UP).—One, here yesterday at the opening of the offices. of the most colorful scenes ever created in Moscow came at the for-| mal opening of the first interna- tional Spartakiad yesterday when 50,000 athletes gathered in Red juare. Many of the girls wore red one- Piece bathing suits, while the boys were dressed in white shirts and blue tights. ment. : Ae, ee MOSCOW, Aug. 13.—Fifty thou- sand men and women athletes from every part of the Soviet Union and |many foreign countries gathered The Turcomans, Use-| | becks, Caucasians and Laplanders in The company op- | native dress attracted much com-| | Soviet Union Spartacan Games, the most ambitious sports undertaking since the revolution. The games will continue until Aug. 22. The foreign athletes include repre- sentatives from workers’ sports or- ganizations in Germany, France, Czecho-Slovakia and other countries. Most of these organizations are members of the Red Sports Interna- tional, with headquarters in Moscow. The games have been made an _oceasion for a wide propaganda for physical culture. “The more sport- ing events” one of the slogans fer the occasion says, “the fewer hospi- tals.” Another reads: “Physical \ Continued on Page Four It is estimated that the memorial | demonstration will be the largest outdoor meet ever staged in New | York. It will rival the meeting held — in New York prior to the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti last August when, on one occasion, more than 50,000 New York workers filled Union Square. HONOR TOLSTOT MOSCOW, (By Mail.—The hun- dredth anniversary of the birth of Leo Tolstoi will be celebrated thru- | out the Soviet Union soon. The gov. /ec=nment has given 150,000 roub (for the celberation. !