The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 17, 1928, Page 1

ON STO 3 t) ‘ || 6 Months Jail for Nine — { j | | | ‘) contested by the United Fruit and ' most important for the effective i } FOR THE 40-HOU THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT R WEEK u Entered as second-class matter at thé Post Office at New York, N, Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Publ Vol. V., No. 195. Published datly except Sunday by The National Daily Worker 26-28 Union 8. ishing Association, Inc. New York, N. Y, EW YORK, FRID b's AUGUST 17, 1928 _ SUBSCRIPTION RATE Outside New WAR DEPART COURT FAILS TO TERRORIZE FALL RIVER STRIKERS Deportation Thireat Is| Made to Pickets | by Judge (Special to the Daily Worker) FALL RIVER, Mass., Aug. 16.— Tho overawed, confused and threat- ened with deportation and long prison terms, bythe judge, and dis-| trict attorney and especially hired Portugeuses flunkeys, scores of Por- tuguese textile workers today stolidly refused to be bludgeoned into renunciation of the Textile Mill | Committees, the union leading the | strike. Nine strikers and leaders most articulate in their pledges of union loyalty were again the victims ofsavage six month jail sentences and -$1,000 “‘surety bonds.” | , Openly speaking as mill owners’| ‘ agent Judge Hanify brazenly de- clared that the vicious segtences he was meting out-were for the offense | of picketing and singing strike Intimidate Strikers The mtense.campaign of intimi dation of the strikers up for trial was consciously carried thru with the most flagrant disregard of the so-called laws the judge presumably was there to uphold. In a long vituperative attack on the Textile Mills Committee, which he later or- dered translated by the Portuguese interpreter, Hanify termed the workers’ organization as “criminal” and “illegal,” membership in which is punishable by deportation and im- prisonment. Following this fascist procedure, the editor of a reactionary Portu- ese paper, anda Portuguese law- who is the nephew of the priest wk> helped police break up the futeral of Johnny Madeiros, drowned boy, then delivered long harangues against the union. Completely overwhelmed and con- Continued on Page Three KELLOGG NOTES BACK FRUIT CO, HondurasEandDispute Is Fruit Feud TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Aug. {6—The Honduran government has receivedsanothernotefrom Secretary Kellogg which, it is generally be- The disputed.Jand contains large . fruit plantations which are being el Fruit Companies, the for- of which has branches through- Central America, The Cuyamel, with its center in Honduras, has i refused to submit the dispute to the Tribunal because the United Fruit would have a stronger and thus get the bet- i on Negro Work to Be Held Tomorrow | A special meeting of the Central Executive Committee subcommittee on Negro work is called for tomor- row at 5 p. m., at the National Office. As the work of this committee ‘has been much hampered in the past because of failure to attend these meetings, the CEC is requir- ing that all members shall attend tpunctually. The committee has just \ been reorganied and it is of the ut- prosecution of this work, especially in connection with the present elec- “Majesty of the Law; Throttling Textile Mill Leader When the terrorism of the Fall River Textile bosses operating thru their police burst upon the tex- tile pickets on Aug. 8, Peter Hegelias, young leader of the Fall River Textile Mill Committees, was one of those most savagely attacked by the authorities. Above, “guardians of the peace” in Fall River throttling the striker for leading the picket lines. IN “DAILY” AFFAIR Draw Thousands With the huge International Cos- tume Carnival of the Daily Worker at Pleasant Bay Park only two days off, active preparations are now being made at the park ‘to handle the largest crowd that has ever vis- ited there. postponing week-end vacations which they had’planned in order to attend the carnival Sunday. It will be the first outdoor costume event that the working class in this country has ever held. Various na- tional groups are planning to attend in their national dress. Pictures will be taken of the best groups, as well as of the best individual costumes, and later published in the Daily Worker. Great interest has been aroused by the announcement that the edi- torial staff‘of the Daily Worker will engage the editorial staff of the Young Worker in a mortal base- Continued on Page Two MILITANT MINER IS SENT 10 JAIL Steve Jacobs Framed by Court CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, Aug. 16.— The Guernsey County Court, before going on vacation, climaxed a busy term of persecution against the striking miners by sentencing Steve Jacobs to one year at the Colum- bus Penitentiary. Jacobs, tricked by the complicated machinery of the state and fooled by the beauti- ful promises of the judge, changed his plea of not guilty to guilty, thinking in this way to get free. Jacobs was framed on a charge of possessing dynamite. Jacobs was approached in his-cell and induced to change his plea on Saturday afternoon, one day before the time of his trial. Since he pleaded guilty, the defense was pow- erless to defend him. Jacobs's case is another attempt to silence strike leaders and put an end to their ac- tivities. However, the miners march on to a new organization, a new Continued on Page Three WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (UP).— The United States has accorded de jure (or complete) recognition to the government now functioning in tion campaign, that every member participate. BUKHARIN’S REPORT of the : Executive Committee of the Communist International to the Sixth Congress now in session in Moscow will be published in the full official text Yeginning with next Saturday’s issue of the Ecuador, the state department an- nounced today. Sunday Carnival Will | Many workers, it was learned, are | INTEREST RISES “Belt” Claims © 18th Victim at | ee | DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 16—The |“belt” at the Packard Motor factory |took another victim here today |when James Wheeler, 55, dropped dead while at work. Doctors said |that his work in intense heat was responsible for his death. Wheeler. Packard Plant *Y SAUCO MEET EXPECT 50,000 Workers Will Crowd | Union Square Aug. 22 That the Sacco-Vanzetti memorial demonstration on Union Square Wednesday, August 22 at 5 p. m. | will be an unprecedented mass gath- | WORLD PROGRAM | FOR REVOLUTION Meet Is Unanimous; Bukharin Cheered by Delegates Stress War Danger (Wireless To Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, August 16.—The draft program of the Communist Interna- tional, introduced by Nikolai Buk- harin, chairman of the Committee of the Communist Inter-| national, was unanimously adopted | jat the twenty-eighth session of the World Congress of the Internation- ral. | A storm of applause greeted Buk- |harin when in expounding the pro- | gram he declared, “The Congress | should adopt the program which | aims to unite the proletarian forces for the coming struggles. The pro- gram is a program for world revo- lution.” Social Democrats Disruptive. Bukharin in his closing speech on the question of the draft program, declared, “The social democrats say that our program is disruptive, but facts will show the workers that we want unity whereas the social dem- ocrats are disrupting the mass or- ganizations of the working class by expelling the Communists, etc. “Abramovitch declares that tHe f$ the eighteenth to die while at critig ts.proved by the number of coalition policy means handing over work this summer. Workers in the Packard plant | have on a number of occasions pro- | tested against the terrific speed-up |which has been forced upon them, |A large number of those protest- ling openly have been summarily | discharged after their names were | turned over to company officials by hired stoolpigeons. CHINESE LABOR UNION AID URGED \Jeng Tells of Nanking Anti-Labor Tactics Reports from China arrive daily describing the want and privation under which the Chinese peovle are forced to live. The workers are suf- telegrams, letters and niessages | which continue to pour into the of- |fices of the New York section of the International Labor Defense, Rose Baron, secretary, said yester- |day. Labor unions, fraternal or- | ganizations and branches of the I. | L. D. are hourly pledging their sup- | port of the memorial demonstra- tions. Organizations which have ‘an- swered the call to take part in the demonstration include the Furriers’ Union, the International Ladies’ Garment Workers, Locals 22 and 43; Architectural Iron and Bronze Workers’ Union; the Hand Millin- |ery Workers’ Union, Local 48; the Amalgamated Food Workers, Bak- ers’ Local 22; United Council of Five GREAT BRITAIN PREPARES WAR fering through the suppression of their labor unions; the peasants through the unprecedented greed of the land-owners. Besides these in- ternal instruments that hang over the heads of the Chinese people, the prsence of foreign imperialist ma- rines in China are used as instru- ments of intimidation and murder. The reactionary Nanking regime, born of the counter-revolution that betrayed the millions of Chinese peasants and workers, is slaughter- ing thousand upon thousand of militant Chinese workers, suppress- | ing the labor unions, butchering | their leaders. | Photos reaching the outside world Continued on Page Two ‘Series on Automobile The second installment of “Au- tomobile — Symbol of Modern Slavery,” by Ben Lifschitz will | be found on page 3 of today’s issue of the Daily Worker. , Industry on Page 3. LONDON, Aug. 16 (UP).—A great fleet of bombing planes, to he held as a threat against hostile nations who might bomb London during war time, was urged today as a defense measure. British air force maneuvers over London for three successive nights have demonstrated the impossibility of defending the city from night air raids. Brigadier-General P. R. C. Groves therefore proposed today a vast increase in the country’s bomb- ers. The purpose of the formidable fleet would be to make enemy na- tions afraid to bomb London, | be- cause of the more terrible havoc the British could work in their own cities in retaliation. —A charge that Rev. William ' Thomas Reynolds, fashionable Epis- |copal clergyman, was intoxicated letter sent out by the union office! jlast February was made in \good| yesterday. Louis Hyman, chairman! |faith, Mrs. Marguerite Du Pont Lee | of the N. O. C. and Joseph Goretsky, | | asserted in her answer today to the| manager of the local will be the) minister’s $100,000 slander suit. WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (UP).| the power of the Party to the workers. The action of all the so- Continued on Page Two CLOAK CHAIRMEN TO HOLD PARLEY Russian Workers and Pressers to Meet The first shop chairmens’ and| delegates’ conference to be held since the new union of cloak and dressmakers was launched, is to be held next Tuesday, Aug. 21, in Web- ster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave. Immediately after work. This an- nouncement was made yesterday from the headquarters of the Na- tional Organization Committee. Leaders of the N. 0. C. will de- liver a report on the progress of the organization drive Plans for ex- tending the scope of the drive wil’ be discussed and decided on. Scores of non-union shops have already been brought under the banner of the new organization since the last conference of the shop chairmen. All executive boards of the New York locals in the ladies garment manufacturing industry will meet in joint session tonight at the N. 0. C. headquarters, 16 W. 2ist St. at 6 p. m. The local committee of the N. O. C. will also take part in the) joint executive meeting. This meet- ing will take up in detail some of the problems encountered in the or- ganization drive, In the same building a meeting of the Russian Polish Branch of the New York Cloakmakers Joint Board will also be held, the branch secre- tary, Olga Lvoff, announced. A general membership meeting of the Pressers’ Local 35 is to be held Monday, Aug. 20, according to a principal speakers, Executive | & John Porter _ FORCE MILLS T0 CLOSE UP AGAIN Strikers, Work, Stay Out (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 16.—Abandoning all hope of obtain- ing scabs with which to resume op- | Taber, clanged the Pierce, Soule, and Booth ‘mills eration, Sharpe their gates shut after keeping them | open after a vain standing invita- tion to the strikers to return. The 58 cotton manufacturing plants here had demonstratively reopened | the gates several weeks ago and had kept them ovtn in the hope ‘that the strike would be broken. The ges- ture of opening and the subsequent police terror was a miserable fail- ure. Not more than a few score of petty foremen returned to work. The mill closing today was hailed by the masses of strikers as evi-| dence of a coming split in the ranks | of the ‘employers. Eli Keller, union organizer, in a statement issued today answered the charges levelled against him by Thomas F. McMahon, reactionary head of the United Textile Workers’ Union, Keller, who is also a lead- ing member of the Passaic local of the U. T. W., was charged by Mc- Continued on Page Three 13 MINERS DIE IN GAS BLAST Coal Operators Admit Negligence COALPORT, Pa., Aug. 16.—Thir- teen miners were killed here in the No. 3 Mino of the Irvona Coal and Coke Company late yesterday when a gas cxplosion went off, due to| the criminal failure of the company to rock dust its mines, One hundred and fifty-nine men | were in the mine at the time of the blast. The thirteen who were killed, and one other miner who survived, were working together in one sec- tion and were trapped by poison- ous fumes following the explosion. | Marina Coccia, the survivor, gave the details of what occurred just preceding the blast. Officials of the mine admitted their failure to rock dust the dig- gings, a precaution which is known to, be a fairly certain preventative against explosions. Thousands of miners have been killed during the past few years due to the increas- ing and criminal neglect of the ‘open-shop operators. (By Federated Press.) Yellow-skinned workers of the Orient, swarthy laborers of India _| together with organized masses of Europe, will mourn with American workers August 22 for Sacco and Vanzetti, and rededicate themselves to the task of freeing Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings from life imprisonment in California. In hundreds of cities and towns of England, France, Germany, Rus- sia, and in every industrial center WORLD-WIDE M in the United States and Canada, these meetings will commemorate the first anniversary of the death of the two “anarchist bastards” whom Judge Thayer, Governor Ful- ler and President Lowell sent to the electric chair, Meetings have been definitely arranged in 75 American cities and the International Labor Defense estimates that at least 25 more demonstrations are being planned. The World-wide Sacco-Vanzetti, EMORIALS FOR SACCO-VANZETTI To Hold Demonstrations in All Countries to Protest Against Class “Justice” Mooney-Billings demonstrations will be conducted by the International Labor Defense and allied organiza- tions such as the powerful Rote Hilfe of Germany, Mopr of the Sov- iet Union, Class War Prisoners’ Aid of England and Canadian Labor De- fense League. The Germans have prepared a Sacco-Vanzetti film, tracing the history of the men from Italy through their participation in labor struggles in the United States until their death in Charlestown state prison. are contributing to a fund to place a stained glass window in memory of Sacco and Vanzetti in the Trades Council Hall. It was in South Braintree, Mass., that the crime oc- curred for which the two labor mar- tyrs were framed. When Governor Fuller visited Braintree this sum- mer, he was net with a demonstra- tion of several hundred workers to Invited to) __ Price 3 Cents United States COMMUNISTS WIN, ASTORIA FIGHT TammanyThugsForced | to Move on A cheering crowd of 1,000 work- ers who listened for three hours to speakers of the Workers (Com- munist) Party last .night at Ja- maica and Steinway Aves., Astoria, L. L, was the answer to the attack on a previous meeting held last Thursday night. At that time Abe Harfield, Communist candidate for the assembly from the first district of Queens and George Padgug and Paul Muller were badly beaten by hooligan members of the Dwyer | Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Rebecca Grecht, state cam- paign manager of the Workers | (Communist) Party was arrested on | a charge of “inciting to riot.” The | organization is known to be a decoy for. Tammany. local tbosses......f* Resent Expose. Resentment at the expose of} Tammany corruption by Harfield | |and other Communist speakers at | | other meetings was the cause of | the attack. | | Stirred by the brutal attack on | the Communist speakers last week, | workers from Astoria and adjacent towns on Long Island flocked to the meeting last night. Five minutes after Max Shachtman, editor of the | “Labor Defender,” opened the meet- ing, a group of the belligerent “pa- triots” swept up to the pavement | in a car, carried out a platform and erected it about fifteen or) twenty feet from the Communist | meeting. At the meeting last night, the principal speaker for the legionists | | was a certain George H. Kent, said to be a stool pigeon who has been seen snooping around the Workers Center in which Communist head- quarters are located with the pur- pose of spying on the movement. Cops Are There. About a dozen sullen policemen | from the Astoria station remained | MENT DRIVE ON YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE JINGO ORDERED PORTER SENTENCE KEPT SECRET AS INVESTIGATION PROCEEDS Whereabouts of Jailed Textile Leader Remains Uncertain Link Seizure of League Members Thruout With New Move NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 16.—The creeping shadow of the army intelligence service lies over every soldier who dares even in thought to oppose the use of him- self and his organization against is class as the result of investi- gations which the United States war department, is making into the ac- tivities of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League in connection and other activities. The arrest of John Porter, vice- president of the New Bedford Tex- tile Workers’ Union, and a former serviceman, is reported to have furnished the occasion for the in- vestigation and the secrecy which has surrounded his imprisonment and sentence is attributed to the secrecy with which the war depart- ment is proceeding against the workers in the army. It was Major-General Preston Brown, commanding the first corps district, at Boston, under whose | military jurisdiction the case of the young textile leader came, who on his own initiative or that of his de- partmental chief, requested the | wardepartment, to, keep secret the sentence passed upon John Porter following his sudden transportation to Rhode Island and subsequent court martial several weeks ago. It was learned that the sentence Continued on Page Five FUR LOCALS PICK NATIONAL HEADS WSs, Canada Unions to Hold Meetings As first steps in following out the instructions thye received Wednes- day night at the mass meeting where a new furriers’ union was launched, the International United Front Committee of Fur Workers yesterday anounced that machinery lis being set in motion to construct the Provisional National Executive Committee of the new national or- ganization. Workers at Braintree, England, | Sst? ooh hen) aatdinn gel oad during the entire meeting. While | Hi |Bert Miller, organizational secre-| All the American and Canadian tary of District 2 of the Workers |fur garment and fur dressing locals (Communist) Party was revealing | that are represented on the Interna- the long history of Tammany cor- | tional United Front Committee, rep- ruption in New York, a bag of | resenting nearly every local in the water was thrown. present A. F. of L. International Several minutes later, painfully! Fur Workers’ Union, are to hold conscious that their audience con-| membership meetings in the imme- sisted at most of 50 persons, the diate future and are to choose their | stalwarts from the “foreign wars”| representative to the N. E. C. organization modestly removed their The Provisional National Exeen- | platform down Steinway Ave., and/ r Pr i tive Committee is to function as the across Jamaica, where a gentleman, palate ly of the new furriers’ |Krump by name, proceeded to de- 4 : ‘i sek tA Pia program. union till the national convention to Among the speakers at the meet-| be held within 60 days chooses | ing were Robert Minor, editor of the Permanent executive body. Daily Worker and Communist can-| Committees of workers from the didate for U.S. Senator; Abe Har-|tocals ef fur dressers in surround- field, Bert Miller, Rebecca Grecht,| ;0° cities and Brooklyn are coming | Philip Frankfeld, acting district or-|;°t, the office of the left wing |ganizer of the Young Workers! y.int Board, which now serve algo (League, John Muller, Donald Burke | 4. the headquarters of the newly [ee ERO: SDB RES: |1aunched union, with information of Minor told the history of the Cen- Bee Ot eae a | tralia frame-up and how organiza- the open shops that Pp dressing trade. They asked that a tions like the Veterans of Foreign, oy ‘ | drive be begun to organize their Wars and the American Legion are! sade. Since the reactionary Gai Sees ee ee captame class for) e'L. International officialdom be: |gan their destructive attacks ‘against the New York Joint Board, Daily Worker Agents |the open shop system gained pre- 'dominance in the fur dressing in- Hold Meeting Tonight | dustry. The officers of the new or- An important meeting of unit, | S@nization announced that a drive subsection and section Daily Worker | {nm that industry will be begun as agents has been called for tonight at | $0on as plans now being considered the Workers’ Center, 26-28 Union | &re completed. The six fur workers arrested yes- at this meeting is very important, | terday by the police industrial according to a district statement, | (thug) squad, were fined $5 each and no Daily Worker agent should | when tried yesterday in Jefferson fail to attend. Market Court before Magistrate |Goodman. Willie Yacker, the gang- BOSTON, Aug. 16 (UP).—Two | ster who had slashed Meyer Wein- heat deaths were reported as Bos- stein who refused to be forced into ton sweltered in the third day of a | heat wave. Yesterday was the hot- | further examination till September test Aug. 15 in the city’s history | 4th. The right wing union was Continued on Page Three with the mercury at a maximum of | compelled to provide $2,500 bail be- 91, “Sfore the thug was released, the scab Joint Council was held for — t i ; :