The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1928, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1928. Lewis-F. agan Machine MAKES BID FOR SEMI-COMPANY UNION BETRAYAL Alling to Grant Wage Reduction PITTSBURGH, Aug. 13.—By way * virtual indication to the oper. tors that he is willing to estat sh a semi-company union in this ‘trict, Pat T. F s henchman and president of fachine district 5, today in- 31 coal ¢ nies to a joint to ¢ Ss wage scales renc miner: his district hoppers. vitation, ch C irgh the miners refused among Com minal ir v { have c 1 with When the sell-out was announced fol lowific-the Indianapolis meeting of agreements msistently to the union. the | so-called - policy committee, the: operators again announced thag they would not deal even with the {obedient Lewis machine Sign of Defeat. The invitation sent to these com pan taken in some quarters to mean) that «he Lewis machine, which is rapidly losing ground, will seek to impress the operators with the advisability of letting the machine control the coal diggers, who are rapidly coming under the influence of the progres The National Arrangements Com- mittee is preparing for a big con- vention to be held here September 9-16. Representatives of all mine sections are expected to be present for the launching of a new mine union, which is.the great hope of the coal diggers. PROTESTAGAINST FASCIST TREATY Croatian Peasants Hit Yugoslav Parliament BELGRADE ot Aug. 13 (UP).—The Skupschtina to- night ratified the treaty of Nettuno after a tumultuous session. Rati- fication of the trea which had Been Violentiy opposed by the Croa- tians, started demonstrations at Zagreb and other’ cities which. au- thorities feared might grow to ser- ious disturbances. to the convention of the Nettuno treaty‘had caused con- tinued friction in the Skupschtina (parliament) and among the Croa- tiams, who contended their rights were endangered. Although Ste- phen Raditch, who died last week of woknds received in a shooting fray inithe pa ment chambers, had sought to bring a peaceful settle- ment which would unite the peas- ant forces, his death had further strained the situation. Heavy guards were placed in Zagreb after the death of Raditch to prevent any disturbance and it appeared the crisis might passed without violence on the part of the peasants who charged the Shooting of'their leader was a poli- tical move. The Skupschtina’s ratification vote tonight, however, aroused vio- lent protests. The full extent of demonstrations reported at Zagreb could not be learned. Consideration of the Nettuno treaty started early tonight when Deputy Foreign Minister Shumen- kovitch recommended ratification in + @ speech in the Skupschtina. His words were the signal for interrup- tions by peasant party leaders. Twice he was forced to halt when the oppositionists pounded the tops of their desks and shouted. er (The Nettuno treaty with Italy permits fascist encroachment in Delmatia.) Section 2 Red Squad to Invade the Bronx in Signature Drive A Red Squad composed of 100 members of Section 2, Workers (Communist) Party, will meet at the United Workers Co-operative House at 2700 Bronx Park East on Sunday, at 9 o'clock, and after a proletarian breakfast will scour the Bronx for signatures to put the candidates of the Workers (Com- munist) Party on the ballot. The squad will be divided into pairs, and until 1 o’clock in the afternoon, they will rap on doors and give Bronx workers an oppor- tunity to place on the ballot on next Election Day, working class repre- sentatives of the Workers (Com- munist) Party. At 1 o’clock, the squad will re- unite at the Co-operative House, and after lunch will board a special bus bound for the Daily Worker Pienic at Pleasant Bay Park. The Section 2 Red Squad will concentrate on the 4th and the 5th assembly districts of the Bronx, Who wins when you read your dusses’ puper? YOUNG WORKEKS FIGHT ° AGAINST WAR DANGER ADDRESS YOUN Urging an international struggle ainst the danger of an imperial- t war, the Young Communist In- ational has sent the following appeal to the Central Committee of he Young Communist Leagues of countries nize), Copii “ League Is Conducting Or 2 we will hold our’ Enthusiastic Meets traditional fighting day—the Inter- panei national Youth Day, for the four- More than 400 Negro workers teenth time. As usual, we must do | crowded the corner of 136th and itmost to mobilize the masses | Seventh Ave. for more than two of the working youth. On Interna- Youth Day we must not only ¢ to place our slogans and nds -before the young work- t street corners, in squares and ,» we must also get hold of m organizationally, The venter of our agitation must | hours Tuesday night, listening to speakers representing the Harlem unit of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League. The audience listened attentive- ly while Comrades Slipyan, Lam- port, Novzen, and Albert. and Ida Eisman portrayed the conditions Inuites the Coal Operators to a New Strikebreaking Parley FURRIERS’ MASS _** MEETING BEGINS ut-of-Town Locals Also in Big Drive Continued from Page One | | morally supporting the left wing! Joint Board in its fight against the| AF of L. Joint Coane! wal ial delegation of functionaries of the| right wing Council designating itself as the “progressive bloc” also whole-| heartedly endorsed the proceedings, | thus making complete the isolation| of the right wing forces of disruption! in the industry. ae Gold to Attend. | Unobtainable late last night while| |the conference was still in progress, a nearly complete list of those at- P ‘TAYLORS GROVE.L STOP 23%.PROMINENT- ~SPEAKERS 3,500 Workers Attend International Labor Defense Picnic Bi: LANSING .0. “ "SHMENT S: RETRACING. oa BRITISH POLICE HUNT WORKERS IN | SINGAPORE RAIDS 14 Communists Jailed; | Others Sought LONDON, Aug. 13.—According to reports in the Times the Sings | Pore police have succeeded in car- |rying out raids against the Com- |munists in big style recently. In | Singapore 14 leading Communists |are in jail, says the Times, others have been chased out, and the po- lice have published the names of |fourteen other Communists whom they are seeking, and who are re- ported to be members of the Work- ers’ Organization of Nanjang, of the Malay Communist Party and of the revolutionary committee of the ‘tending the parley will be presented Above is the Arrangements Committee in charge of the International Labor Defense picnic at Lans- | Koumintang. today. «They are: ing, Ohio. The picnic, proceeds from which will go for the aid of class war prisoners, was attended by | Whether it is actually a question Signed | three thousand five hundred workers and their families. |of the persecution of Communists _ New. York Joint Board—Ben-|—————___ ee |is hard to determine. It is known, jamin Gold; Progressive Bloc—I, | however, that under th ewhite ter- Winnick, Hyman Sorkin, Dave Goodman, S, Strauss; Greek Branch of Joint Board—S. Soulouinas, J. be the struggle against the imper- | ialist war danger. The struggle of the imperialists for markets, their war of intervention in China, thei | and struggles of the young and|Baraz; Local 10—Louis Cohen, Her- adult workers of this country, and Shkowitz; Local 15—Joseph Wino- dealt especially with the horrible|gradsky; Local 25—Morris Langer, {conditions of the millions of Negro|B. Yadkowsky, F. Yadkofsky, Louis |Pappas, G. Perdicaria; Local 1— |Samuel Leibowitz, Jack Schneider; MEETINGS CALLED Local 5—Aaron Gross, Benjamin War Danger, China be| attempts at the economic encircle- | : : ment of the Soviet Union, are ali | WoKer: The most interesting part of them danger signals. The rejec- | of She maeiog, ‘bewevey, Was, whet tion of the Russian disarmament orrade Brody mounted the. plat- proposals exposes the real attitude |f'™ to answer questions. Despite of the imperialists to this problem. | the attempts of Garveyites to heckle It is incumbent on us to draw con- | 22d keep Our. MAspage from the tinuously the attention of the work- | ¥o"kers, the convineing arguments ing youth to these perils, to rouse |°f the speakers soon succeeded in and mobilize them for struggle Winning the overwhelming sympa- against the war mongers and their thy of the crowd. Later, when the aiders and abettors and for the pro-|8Peaker read the special Negro de- tection and defense of the Soviet |mands from the platform of the Union. Workers (Communist) Party, they Fight Pacifism. were received with prolonged and In this connection considerable enthusiastic applause. The speaker answered questions movement which has been able to| put to him on Africa for the Negro, divert the attention of big masses | Tammany and the Negro, ete. He! of young workers and peasants; unmasked the republican party by from the real struggle of the im-|denunciating Hoover’s part in sell- perialist- war danger by fostering ing out Liberia to the Firestone among them vyarious illusions.; Rubber interests. He also men- Therefore we must utilize the Inter- | tioned the segregation of the Negro national Youth Day to spread true| delegates at the Houston conven- information about the reai charac-/ tion, and pointed out that the dem- ter of this movement among the | ocratiec platform had not a single ing youth. Our attitude to the word on the conditions of the Ne- ist Youth Congress where we groes, al Bin et sm the prin- The meeting adjourned in great ciples of the revolutionary anti-war i si dimuon gine oa ee capper (Canaan especially when the i speaker announced that the League tunity to enlighten the masses. would be back on the same corner The bourgeoisie is endeavoring to this Friday. The fact that a po- suppress the revolutionary Com- iceman is necessary to clear the munist movement by all possible | traffic during our meetings is an means, in the interests of economic jndication of the prestige the Y. W. stabilization and war preparations. 1 is gaining in the greatest segre- This is borne out by increasing re-| fated area of Negroes in the action in all countries, the excesses | f, , [of white terror and increased re. | United States. Fighty platforms of pression against our Young Com- munist Leagues. We must bring it home to the working masses by our practicat work that the increased {pressure of the capitalists against the revolutionary movement is also harmful to their interests; in this manner we will be able to mobilize |them for the struggle for the legal jexistence of the Young Communist | organizations. | Raise Slogans. Side by side with our political |slogans we must bring forward for the International Youth Day econ-| Attend Conference omic demands adapted to the gen- —- eral conditions and the situation in SUPERIOR, Wis. Aug. 13.— individual countries. It is essen-| Over one hundred delegates, repre- tial to make propaganda for our| senting many important industries, fighting program which was adopted | attended the first Industrial Con- at the Sixth Congress of the Red/ference of the Young Workers International of Labor Unions. | (Communist) League of the Su- The Fifth Congress of the Y. C. I. | perior sub-district. The conference will come to an end just before the was called to lay the basis for the |International Youth Day. We must building of shop and mine nuclei. therefore popularize the Fifth Con- Young miners from the Iron Range, gress and the Y. C. I. itself as an, youth from the lumber mills, paper international organization among mills, saw mills, ete., were present, the masses in our recruiting “work, as well as a large delegation of making the widest possible use of youth from the farms. For the first the Congress's decisions. \time the problem of organizing the | On this basis we propose the fol- league on the basis of nuclei was lowing siogans for the International | thoroughly discussed. Youth Day: | The two reporters were Comrade | 1. Down with imperialist wars— | Sam Reed, sub-district organizer of defend the Socialist Soviet Union! the Young Workers League, and T. 2. Down with the disarmament Foley, representative and reporter importance attaches to the pacifist of the Young Worker were sold at | the last three meetings. SUPERIOR YOUTH DISCUSS NUCLEI Over 100 Delegates swindle of the bourgeoisie, the for the Workers (Communist) League of Nations and its socialist | Party. In the discussion that fol- supporters! lowed it was clearly shown that 3. Energetic support for the lib-| there are thousands of young work- eration struggle of the Chinese peo-|ers exploited under the most ter- ple and the colonies against world | rible conditions, and that the league imperialism! can only approach and lead the 4, Destroy the pacifist illusions | youth, by first establishing contacts —long live the common struggle of and then building the league on the workers, peasants, soldiers and sail- basis of shop nuclei in the many lors! important industries in this district. 5. Down with fascism, white ter- | |ror and class justice! | ing methods of work. International 6. We demand a legal existence Youth Day, its preparation and con- for the revolutionary young work- duct, must offer to us an opportu- ers’ organizations! nity for the application of new 7. Struggle against monopolist |forms of work on a large scale. (trust capital—for the economic de-| Central Committees must take the mands of the working youth: | necessary measures at joint sessions 8. Long live the united revolu-| with the Party and the representa- tionary struggle of the working| tives of mass organizations under youth! our influence. 9. Join the Young Communist | With fraternal greetings, League, the only mass organization | EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of the class-conscious working YOUNG COMMUNIST | youth! the Party and two hundred copies} We will be able to bring our slo- gans and demands foreibly before the masses only unless we strength- ‘en our work in factories, on the | farms, in trade unions and wherever the working youth congregate. Our | demonstrations on International Youth Day cannot be successful un- |less we plan out properly the prep- 5 siete campaign and use interest- 7 INTERNATIONAL. ae See Editor's Note: International Youth Day in America will be celebrated during the week of September 7 to 16, because of Labor Day and other conflicting dates, All Leagues must immediately arrange meetings and Workers League, 43 East 125th St., New York City. y send date, place and time, to Young | To Be ‘ Discussed Meetings for the relief of the Chi- nese trade unions will be held in | Jaffe, M. Hudyma; Local 30—David Mathoff, G. Pearlman; Local 40-— H, Englander; Local 53—J. New- |man, Samuel Burt; Local 54—Philip| 2°8° 0 n B Getz, Irving Ader, Morris Stein;|New York this week thruout New | Local 68—Louis Brieca, Julius Weil;| ¥°" under the auspices of |Local 70—G. Satirople; Local 88—|¢ Workers (Communist) Louis Canter, Simon Lunin, Boris|P@rty speakers are urged to obtain Praksain be discussed at the meetings. All Each of the attendant locals| Patty speaers are urged to obtain bulletins on these subjects from the Agitprop Department, 26 Union |Square. The bulletins on the sub- jects are, The Party Platforms pledged itself to be represented by one or more speakers at the big mass demonstration tomorrow. The Sorkin-Winnick progressive bloc will also speak to the masses of fur| What I Saw In China, by Tom workers for the first time since it| Mann. began its fight for one union in the! Today. right wing camp. ,Grand St. Ext. and Hayemeyer, Weer west B'klyn—P. Midola, Nessin, Rose- 2 > a mond, Frank, Dan Cuh! (Pioneer). The united forces of militant) Sutter and Williams, B’klyn— unionism in the fur industry,|Wright, Ed Welsh, G. Silverman namely, those who had signed their] (Pioneer), [names to the declaration for the building. of a real union brought forth by Sunday’s conference have |formed themselves into a “Interna- | tional United Front Committee” un-| |der whose auspices the mass meet- ing is to be held. CAP WORKERS IN Longwood and Prospect, Bronx— Cibulsky, Greeht, G. Welsh, M. Him- off (Pioneer). ¢ Tomorrow. 2nd Ave. and 10th St., N. Y. C— Milgrom, Powers, D. Kindred, Frish- koff, Gilber, G. Holtz (Pioneer) | Shapiro, Blake, Harfield. Wilkins and Intervale, Bronx—Le- Roy, L. Margolis, I. Cohen, 8. Lieb- Stone (Pioneer). Passaic, N. J.—-Staliar, Marshall. Eagle Pencil Co.—Garlin, Sher- man, 7th Ave. and 137th St., New York City—Williams, Moore, Baum, G. Campbell, O. Passikoff (Pioneer). Thursday. Van Sicklen and Sutter—Jul. Cod- kind, J. Cohen, Rob’t Mackjin, V. owitz, T. Rosen (Pioneer). | i Myrtle and Prince—Rosemond, Padmore, Smith, M. Weich, M. Injunction President Is| Condemned at Meet | | Enthusiastic applause from the \erowded Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave., greeted the speakers’, sharp condemnation of the union| wrecking campaign of Max Zarit- a Ae a sky, president of the International poo w Hae olia antec ate Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Work- @ abraham ‘Gacnan) pe dae) j ers’ Union, at the protest meeting | 40th St. and’8 Ave. x. ¥.o—J. | held last night by the Cap and Mil-| Cohen, Miller. |linery section of the Trade Union| “Allerton and Cruger, Bronx— | Educational League. Primoff, Padgug, Ed Welsh, R. | The hundreds attending despite be-| Gozigian, A, Krivis (Pioneer). | ing threatened with loss of job, ex-| 25th St. and Mermaid Ave., C. I. | pressed, by the unanimous passage |—Weitz, Yusem, Eva Shafran, Cas- of a resolution and by the senti-|trell, Ben Eisenberg (Pioneer) ment displayed thruout, their de-| Steinway and Jamaica, Astoria, ltermination to put a halt to the, L. I—Heder, Minor, Schachtman,| right. wing's transformation of | Shapiro, Burke, Michaels (Pioneer). | their organization into a company be A MBE Se union. The officialdom had caused| ,,Nationsl Biscuit Co. — Ross, he disch: of workers for their} A , faecal ie i eapaeing the meeting. |, Bristol and Pitkin Ave., B’klyn— Pi ¥ | Lefkowitz, Taft, Maglicano, J. Arousing more indignation than any other particular issue, was the | Kelstein (Pioneer). recent act of the socialist official-) 5th Ave. and 110 St.—Lyons, Gill, |dom in applying for an injunction’ Green, A. Peer, Lloyed, B. Brantz to a Massachusetts court against | (Pioneer). | the left wing leaders of the Bos-| 7th St. and Avenue A, N. Y. C.— ton Local 7. Not only did they con- | Wright, Schalk, S. Shatzkramer, demn the step of asking for an in-| (Pioneer). | junction, which is the bosses’ wea-| Market and Plaza, Newark, N. J. pon against the workers, in an in-|—Nessin, Milton, Zaslavsky. \tra-union fight, but the deliberate | application for such a writ to the murderers of Sacco-Vanzetti, came! in for the hottest denunciation. Speakers at the meeting were, | H. Sazer and J. Jukovsky, left wing | leaders of the capmakers here, and J. Miller, manager of Boston Lo- leal 7. The meeting demanded an imme- ‘diate halt to the right wing policy of expulsion of militants and the} { reinstatement of expelled locals and | individuals, They all pledged them- | | selves to increase the intensity of the struggle against Zaritsky and | his clique till their ends are gained | and in order to safeguard the union | conditions in the shops. | WITH THE YOUNG WORKERS This section appears in the Daily Worker Tuesday and Thurs- day (Wednesday and Saturday in National Edition), but for tech- nical reasons this week the Young Workers’ Department is being published Thursday and Satur- day (Friday and Monday in Na- tional Edition). Contributions should be sent to: Young Workers (Communist) League, 43 East 125th St., New York City. | Cohen, G. Welsh, Lillienstein, Fin- Costume GAMES — Tickets Now For Sale at Daily A taxi driver would appreciate this copy of The DAILY WORKER. “ Union Square—Ross, Houiswood, | SUNDAY, AUGUST 19—PLEASANT BAY PARK Dancing--Sports ATHLETIC EXHIBITIONS ADMISSION, 35c CITY OPEN AIR Hits Olympic MANY FEATURES Team Ban on Negro Athletes (By Federated Press) America would have made a bet- ter showing in the Olympic games at Amsterdam had Negroes been permitted to participate, asserts William Pickens of the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Colored People. As it was, not one Negro was placed on the Olympic team despite athletic abilities shown by the race. Pickens protests also against the barring of colored players from the inter-city golf tournament at Phila- delphia. Newark and Chicago en- trants were forced out of the game through official rulings. USSR PREPARES -— TOLSTOY WEEK 100th Anniversary of Author’s Birth MOSCOW, Aug. 13.—Prepara- tions are going on for the anni-/| versary week that will mark the 100th year of the birth of Leo | Tolstoi The government has ap-/| propriated 150,000 roubles and | meetings, discussions, exhibitions and performances will be held throughout the Soviet Union. In the village of Yasnaya Poly-| ana, where Tolstoi wrote most of | his works the Jubilee Committee 'and the Commissariat of Education | has built a permanent memorial to his genius in the form of the erec-| tion of a modern high school and hospital. His youngest daughter, | | Alexandria, has directed the restora- tion of his cottage and is also the | | educational director for the district. | | The hospital and the school are | two of the most modern buildings |in the Soviet Union, the Soviet | Government having spent 140,000} jroubles on the school and 450,000 | | roubles on the hospital. In the hos- | | pital the peasants receive free care | as well as services in the clinic for | |the prevention of disease. There will also be celebrations in the schodis and clubs thruout the Soviet Union, The new film of the Sovkino “Tolstoy and the Epoch of the Romanoffs” will be shown, and a new edition of his works, in- cluding his. diary, which has never been published before, has been re- leased by the Government Publish- ing Company. FARM WAGES LOWER. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—Wages of all classes of farm labor are be- low wages a year ago, according to |the Department of Agriculture. DAILY WORKER International | Carnival OPEN AIR Worker Office, 26-28 Union Sq. ‘ Sunday in Pleasant Bay Park. | Corporation Counsel | steamer Seapool. ror every proletraian fighter is called a Communist. AT BIG CARNIVAL COURT FIGHT ON > MERGER PLANNED Proletarian Editor; Play Ball The hard-working, serious-minded Conference To Prepare members of the Daily Worker edi- torial staff will throw off their cares! Plan of Action for part of a day next Sunday to! engage in a ball game with the| The fight being carried on by the equally hard-working, serious-| Public Committee on Power against minded members of the Young| the $1,000,000,000 merger of the Worker staff. | Consolidated Gas Company of New iS 3 :) | York and the Brooklyn Edison Com- This epoch-making athletic con-| jany, recently upheld by the Public test will take place at the great In-| RanY: Been Y MP mM ternational Costume Carnival that| S°Tvice, Commission, will be pre- | pared for court action today. the Daily Worker is arraneing next| i] Nicholson, John Bauer, New York City’s power expert, and Morris L. Ernst, coun- |sel to the Public Committee on attend this unique carnival, at ; . A | Power, which has opposed sthe mer- which costumes will be worn for} por for overdo sabathy will hbldow: the first time at an outdoor event.| * . The various language groups will Conference today to determine their appear in their national dress, with| Plan of action in the fight against Russian costumes expected to pre-| ‘Re commission’s recent ruling. dominate. It was learned yesterday that the Whe SLabes sone tetany ill be | formal order approving the merger one of the organizations that will| H#d been sent out to the two com- take part in this unusual proletarian | Pane involved by the Public Ser- carnival. An exhibition soccer game| Vice Commission in Albany. Not a will be played by two of the mem-| Word: however, had been sent to the ber organizations of the Labor | cit or to the Public Committee on Sport Union. Special games are| Power, whose protest was denied also being arranged in which ali| hearing because of the commission’s those present will be able to partiei- | ling that no one was entitled to pate. In addition, there will be a hearing who owned no stock in many other interesting numbers on|¢ither of the corporations. the big program. Tickets for the International Cos-|1 Dead, Many Others tume Carnival are now on sale at in Danger as Terrific 85 cents each at the office of the Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square.|Storm Hits East Cuba HAVANA, Aug, 18 (UP).—A |terrific rain and wind storm struck eastern Cuba, in the vicinity of the Guantanamo Naval Training Sta- tion, late today, according to a special dispatch to the newspaper | El Pais. At Guantanamo a total rainfall of 11 inches was registered and the | wind at times reached a velocity of 80 miles an hour, At Caimanera, a small seaport, several hundred houses were un- roofed and many gasoline launches and fishing vessels driven ashore. Reports reported at Guantanamo indicate that the path cut by the storm was narrow. Thousands of workers from New York and vicinity are planning to BRITISH UNEMPLOYMENT) BIGGER LONDON, Aug. 13.—Unemploy- ment in Great Britain is increasing, The total number of workers on the unemployment exchanges on June 25 was 1,192,000. This was 30,079 more than the week before and 187,- 987 more than a year ago. SIGHT WRECKED PLANE. ST. JOHNS, N. F., Aug. 13 (UP) —Sighting of a wrecked airplane in the Atlantic off the northern tip of Newfoundland was reported to- day in a radio message from the Order a Bundle! Let The DAILY WORKER help you in your Election F Campaign Work. } Wy! 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