The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 18, 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 = \ iui Morker ps Published datly except 6u Publishing Associati: Vol. V., No. 196. by The National Daily Worker — ~-28 Union S GITLOW CHALLENGES SMITH New York, N. ¥- TREACHERY OF REFORMISTS TO. COLONIES TOLD Social Democrats (Wireless to the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, U. §, S. R., Aur. 17.— S‘m Katayama, Japanese Commu- nist leader, was chairman of the | thirtieth session of the World Con- press of the Communist Interna- | tional, which opened here today. Ercoli, of Italy, spoke on the colonial | question and pointed out that while the second international placed the colonial question on its agenda, for | the Communist International the Free to Lead Mill Strikers Again colonial question was always a great factor. Social Democratic: Treachery. Owing to the war danger, he said, colonial revolutionary movements are particularly important. The jhourgeoisie and the social democrats ny William T. Murdoch, leader Committees from the beginning of the textile strike to date was recently released from jail where he had served a three months’ of the New Bedford Textile Mill sentence for activities on the picket line. He will once more appear at the big lines that picket the mills daily in spite of the police terror. realize this, too, and the latter is row openly supporting the imper- jalist colonial policy. | The speaker declared that the | Brussels congress shows unexampled ireachery to the working class. The reason is that the social democracy | is expecting to take over the gov- | i Bay ernments and it wishes to prove that| Charging the capitalist newspa- the colonies would be safe for capi- | pers of New York of using a defin- talism under a social democratic | ite plan and policy to keep all men- government. Furthermore, Ercoli|tion of Sacco and Vanzetti out of said, the social democrats fear that | the press and particularly with ref- the revolutionary movement in the|erence to the memorial demonstra- colonies may sweep them away, and tion which is to be held on Union therefore they attempt to win the Square on Wednesday, Aug. 22, at I World Meet Exposes | PRESS IS SABOTAGING SACCO MEET, CHARGE © leadership. Reformists Are Imperialists. The Brussels colonial resolution factor in a cultural and economic “Continued on Page Two % N.Y. RED WEEK ~ BEGINS MONDAY Mass Collections Will Feature Drive Monday morning will usher in Red Week which will put the elec- tion campaign of the (Communist) Party on its financial feet. The Red Week, which will end with Mass Collection Days on Saturday, Aug. 25 and Sunday, Aug. 26, is expected to mobilize thousands of New York workers who will reach the minds and ready pockets of tens of thousands of other workers for the support of the election campaign waged by working class candidates on a work- ing class. platform. thousands of New York workers to further the campaign of their own candidates will go a long way to- ward offsetting the innumerable ex- enses of the campaign, the costli- st item of which is literature. The capitalist parties, which ob- tain their campaign funds from those who will get-a hundred-fold return on their political invest- ments, make use of the heavy con- tributions in buying votes by little “presents” and bribing misleaders of labor and heads of fascist or- - Continued on Page vo Red Squad of Section 2 Will Invade the Bronx One hundred class conscious workers, election-conscious members of Section 2 of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, will invade the Bronx tomorrow morning for the purpose of obtaining signatures to put the candidates of the Commu- nist Party on the ballot in the 4th and 5th Assembly Districts in the jronx. The Red Squad from Manhattan will meet at the Cooperative House, ‘9700 Bronx Park East, at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, eat breakfast, and divide into pairs which will gather signatures until 1 o’clock. The squad will at that time re- unite at the Cooperative House, where it will board a special bus for the Daily Worker carnival at Pleasant Bay Park. } According to L. Litwin, organizer of Section 2, such Red Squads will pay weekly visits to the different sections for the purpose of gather- ing signatures. The Section Two Squad will be exgmented tomorrow by an equally determined squad composed of Workers | Small contributions from tens of | 5 pgm., Rose Baron, secretary of |the New York section fo the In- ternational Labor Defense, 799 contains praise for capitalism as the | Broadway, has issued the following | | statement: SHOWS KELLOGE PACT IS FRAUD Lloyd George Lets Out Some Facts NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST Ii WHITE GUARDIST -INFLUENGE SEEN BEHIND MOVE Section of Chinese) Eastern Railway Seized Japanese Send Arms By EUGENE LYONS. MOSCOW, Aug. 17 (UP).—-Alle- gations that the Soviet, or the ‘mil- \itary authorities of the Sovietized State of Mongolia, are behind the eastern railway in Mongolia’s pres- ent difficulties with Barga, were ridiculed in well-informed circles seizure of a section of the Chinese | picture shows part of the mass i MILL STRIKERS pation is merely the result of a lo- cal uprising or one of organized| Weisbord Addresses Two Meetings banditry. It is also hinted that it is possible there is some Japanese or White |Russian infulence behind the move. It is declared that the Jack of more positive identity of thase who occu. NEW BEDFORD, Mass. Aug. 17. |makes a clear interpretation of the Suddenly varying its usual mass incident more difficult, however. | Picketing in larger members by an Pointing out that the Japanese #dditional form, the Textile Mill newspapers recently forecast an Committees’ New Bedford Textile outbreak in the tersitory, the So, Workers’ Union rendered helpless pied the section of the railway viet dispatches declared: “It is suspicious that the Japanese press has known about the dis- the police force, who for the past week had been. under the mill | barons’ instructions to break up all turbances for some time and it is|Picket, lines, however small in size. LONDON, Ang. 17.—That the equally suspicious that the events! Instead of concentrating thou- “For the past two weeks we have | Kellogg peace pact, so-called, is/in Barga have occurred at the pre Sauds at several strategic mills in been sending news items to the var- ious metropolitan newspapers in |New York calling attention to the | fact that tens of thousands of New | York workers through their labor jand fraternal organizations have | pledged themselves to take part in |the Sacco-Vanzetti memorial de- | monstration. exception, not a line has appeared in any of the so-called “news” pa- pers. “The New York Times which |prides itself on being a paper of | “record” and of printing all the | sistently and-patiently ‘killed’ all | reference to,the Sacco-Vanzetti de- | Continued on Page Two HOOVER CHANGES LOS. ANGELES, Aug. 17.— Herbert Hoover, close ally of Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury, whose known to be one of the mov- jing spirits in the power trust, today turned a political summersault on| the Boulder Dam dévelopment pro- | ject which is the pet issue of Sen- |ator Hiram Johnson. mile parade announced that he would ‘support the project, government control and all. Hoover has bitterly opposed all | mention of the so-called government | |ownership. But what is an endorse- | ment in the light cf political neces-| sity, it was-pointed out here! Hiram! |Johnson has demanded Hoover's | endorsement of his fight against the | power trust. | The California vote is important. | so Hoover stretched the point. Both | he and Johnson—and Mellon and the Morgan controlled General Electric Company officials understand each | other. “ So far, with but one} news that’s fit to print has con-| ON DAM PROIECT | ture was vividly illustrated here when David Lloyd George, “war premier” of England, for reasons of his own, let slip a small part of the truth about the Kellogg instrument. In discussing the recent air force maneuvers over London, Lloyd George declared: “It is horrible to think what war in the air will mean jin the future. HM will be devasta- | tion and annihilation—nothing else. |It all shows that pacts are not of |the slightest use unless you tackle disarmament, “In my last speech in the house of commons, I pointed out that the |Kellogg pact and the Toco | treaty would be of no use unless we ruthlessly cut down armaments. As long as countries are building air- planes for bombing men, women and |Yelations have become worse.” really a futile and deceptive ges-|¢ise time when Chinese-Japanese ‘he daily strike demonstrations as heretofore, the strike committee de- The newspapers also emphasize cided to have a smaller picket line the recent seizure of a carload of |t nearly every one of the 58 cotton arms and munitions from Japan re- manufacturing plants tied up by the cently at Harbin enroute to West-| Strike. ern Manchuria. ee | Surprise Police. At nearly every one of the struck HARBIN, Manchuria, Aug. 17.— factories a picket line of one or Reports received here state that | more scores of workers patroled the Mongolian troops are moving along gates. the Chinese eastern railway between the towns of Barim and Unur and have seized a section of the road. SIGMANITES FEAR NEW UNION DRIVE |children and defenseless cities and| |smashing their inhabitants, it is | idla to talk about improved housing for people. “It is useless to have pacts as long as nations are perfecting ma- chinery for devastation. It is |bound to end sooner or later in a |smash. It cannot be avoided. Of |all the.armaments to be eut down, lit is the armament of the air which lis the most urgent.” The former. premier, however, supports the illusion that capitalist countries will disarm, and even sup- ports the strengthening of the mil- Hoover speaking on the steps of|itary in the guise of not “neglect- the new city hall here after a two) ing our civil flying.” Andrews Expedition | Brings Storv of Race of 20,000 Years Ago PEKING, China, Aug. 17—Thé dramatic story of a thickly popu- lated fertile land of 20,000 years ago that is now a desert and of fossil remains of an enormous beast which ate itself out of existence, were brought back here Chapman Andrews and his expedi- tion into the Great Gobi Desert of Inner Mongolia. LONDON, Aug 17 (UP).—A world conference on oil restriction | was predicted today by the finan- cial expert of the Evening Stand-| ard, | The writer said the conference | would be called after “discussions” | now taking place in Scotland be.) tween the three great oil magnates, Sir Henri Deterding, Walter C. Teagle and Sir John Cadman, Sir Henry Deterding is director of Royal Dutch Sheii; Teagie is head of Standard Oil of New Jer- members of Section 3. y sey and Sir John Cadman is chair- bs OIL BARONS IN CONFAB ‘Plan to Boost Prices at the Conference man of the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. The Evening Standard said well- informed persons consider the world conference on restrietion of pro- duction as almost assured. The ar- ticle continued: “Naturally the trend of the dis- cussions in Scotland is being kept as secret as possible but I am in- formed by an authority usually in close touch with oil affairs that all three leaders went to Scotland con- vinced of the necessity of restric- tion. There is little likelihood of Continued, on Page Three » by Roy} Mt Schlesinger Puts Paid Ads in Boss Paper Desperation at seeing the tre- mendous mass development of the movement for a new cloak and dressmakers union. is the only ex- planation seen by the leaders of the National Organizat'on Committee when asked for an opinion about the paid advertisements being daily in- serted in the reactionary Jewish press by Benjamin Schlesinger, New York chief of the right wing forces, The advertisements’ contain vitriolic attacks on the new workers’ organ- ization, which is termed by him, “Communist scab union” The terrible fear that is para- lyzing the socialist union workers is caused by growing signs that the employers are beginning to show cpenly that they are afraid of the new organization. This is shown by the increasing numbers of manufac- turers who are daily coming down to the new union office to sign |agreements so that their factories can resume operations. The right wing is therefore spending thou- sands to destroy the demoralization |such news creates in their ranks and-in the ranks of their partners in union-smashing, the employers. Many cloak factories are com- nletely tied up by the strikes called hy the N. O, C. volunteer organiza- | tion conimittee. Many of these are frankly open-shop and others have | 4 fs |agreements with the Sigman com- | pany union, where conditions are as | bad as the non-union plants, ° |. The Joint Board office yesterday _ issued a call to all their active mem- bers asking them to come to the union headquarters and to the mar- ket early, Monday morning for \ picket: demonstrations before the struck shops. Preliminary reports from the shops shows that the workers in the trade are busy with the elections of ‘Khop delegates to the Tuesday con- ference of ghop chairmen anc shop delegates. e conference wil) he held in Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave., immediately after work. a ‘ The police were entirely unprepared for this. Albert Weisbord, national leader of Textile Mill Committees, will speak here at the two strikers’ mass meetings scheduled for to- night. Weisbord is now on a tour | of all textile manufacturing districts in New England and other sections to prepare the various localities for the coming convention of mill work- | ers’ organizations, which will launch |an independent national union. He will also go into conference with the local strike committee here and Continued on Page Seven TWO FUR LOCALS OK, NEW UNION ‘Brooklyn, Philadelphia Behind Campaign Carrying out with precision their plan to build up a new national) |union of fur workers, members of | the Fur Dressers’ -Local 58 of | Brooklyn, held a membership meet- jing yesterday, unanimously en- dorsed the steps taken by their rep- resentatives on the International United Front Committee and’ elected three of their members as dele- gates to the Provisional National | Executive Committee. While recording this decisive step from the Brooklyn membership of the wrecked International Fur Workers’ Union of the A. F. of L., |a full report of the debacle suf- ‘fered in Philadelphia by the reac- | tionary chiefs of the International _was obtained. Stetsky, Begoon and _Falpern had tried to organize a “putsch” by calling a membership meeting of Local 53 in the name of |the International in order to rail- road thru a measure in which the |membership deny support to the new union movement. ‘The mem- ‘bership had driven the three “gen- jerals” out of the meeting. First To Approve. The Brooklyn local is the first to | officially approve the formation of a new union and the first to elect its delegates to the National Execu- tive Committee. All American and Canadian local unions participating in the drive for the new union (com- | prising every important union in | the industry) are to hold member- Continued on Page Two ’ Thousands of workers gathered in Union Square last year to protest the execution of Sacco Vanzetti by the official murderers of Massachusetts, using the class courts as their instruments. The protest demonstration. Amundsen Is Alive, Krassin Crew Believes STAVANGER, Norway, Aug. 17 —The Soviet ice-breaker Krassin, after its heroic rescues in he Arctic Zone, is now undergoing repairs here in preparation for another trip into the Arctic in search of Amund- sen and-the six men that were lost with the balloon part of the Italia. Commissar Oras is full of confi- dence that the men are still alive and fully determined to find them. He points out that both Guil- baud and Dietrichson, pilots of. the | Amundsen seaplane dre able pilote and must have reached the balloon party. They carried. enough food and equipment with them to make life possible for a number of months. He thinks it possible that | they exhausted their fuel supply and are now waiting for rescue from a world that has given up hope. The Soviet flier Chukhnovsky also thinks that the men are alive and has determined to continue the search on board the Krassin. CARNIVAL T0 BE COSTUME AFFAIR Many Features at the Affair Tomorrow Pleasant Bay Park will tomorrow! to Be Held Today at 2) ‘e the scene of the most co.orful out- door affair ever held by Now York werkers+the International Costume Carnival of the Daily Worker. Thou sands cf workers from New York City and vieinity are planning to Le present at this unique event. For the first time in the history cf outdoor affairs costumes will be worn, These will be of all kinds, with national dress much in evi- dence. Russian costumes are ex- pected to be much in faver. A special Russian hour is being ar- ranged, during which tea will be served in samovars and Russian folk-songs will be played by an ac- cordion orchestra. A program such as has never been presented before at a proletarian af- fair has been arranged. This will include open-aid dancing of both the Russian and American kind around a bonfire, games for young and old and an elaborate sports program. Athletic Contests. Another number on the sports program will be an exhibition soccer game between two clubs affiliated with the Labor Sports Union. There FIN TOMORROW ) CITY EDITION AL > 3 Cents ON SACCO-VANZETTI MURDER “Mongol Drive” in Manchuria Is Japanese War Plot TAO He NO Noah: Ne Ye One Year Ago; Thousands Protest Murder of Sacco and Vanzetti ASKS CANDIDATE OF WALL ST. T0 STATE POSITION oi |Communist Nominee, in Letter, Exposes Al’s Role |Kept Mum Last Year | pa | In an open letter to Gov. Smith, Benjamin Gitlow, Communist can- didate for vice chal- president, and lenges the democratic presidential nominee to state his position on the | execution of Sacco and Vanzetti in speech, which will be | hi \d Aug. 22, the anniver- |cary of the execution ofthe two |Italign labor leaders in Charles | town, Mass. zetti memorial meetings on Augus* — 22, and declares that he will “: Worker Athletes Rivaf’ Olympic Marks MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 17.— A grand carnival today was held on the banks of the Moskva River in honor of the Spartakiad, where sport results, both in the times of the runners and-the strength of the field event athletes, are equalling the anniversary of Sacco and |zetti’s execution to arouse the “- ltred of the masses to the vile tem of capitalist frame-up and der of innocent workers, and mobilize them to fight to end it.” Text of Letter. The letter reads: “August 17, 1928, “Honorable Alfred E. Smith, “Governor of te of New York, and in some cases bettering the | “Albany, New York marks set in the last Olympic! “Dear Sir: ames at Amsterdam. F gam) Seeanthas | “August 22° will mark onc. year. 4 Numerous ~ st@r''s, — motor= | gince»Saceo: ant’Weazetti were e! c- boats and rowboate participated in the sports festivities together with the thousands of workers engaged in the sports programs. The river banks were lined with tens of thou- trocuted by the state of Massa*>»- setts. These two workerr we: - solutely innocent of the cr which they were executed. 7 state of Massachusetts ignored an¢ sands of spectators and were deco- defied the mighty protest of ‘n rated with bunting: hundreds of millions of peop ~ As night approached, a thousand all the countries of the worid, ~ a9 | lights were turned on, and glor- iously illuminated the river for more than a mile down the banks. Delegates from the Soviet Govern- | ment, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, delegates from the Commu- nist International World Congress and thousands of participants in the Spartakiad were present. The display of fireworks, colored beams of light, together with many searchlights, lent an air of gaiety to the scene. The carnival lasted far into the night. Speakers’ Conference The weekly joint speakers’ confer- ence ef the Wcerkers (Communist) Party, District 2, and the Young Workers’ League will be held today at 2 o'clock at the Workers’ Center, 26 Union Square. Rickard B. Moore, Communist candidate for congress, will speak on “The Negro Worker and the Election Campaign.” ENGLISH PLANE LONDON, Aug. 17 (UP).—Two air force officers were killed and another seriously injured in & col- lision today between two training school airplanes in Digby, Lincoln- shire. 4 CRASH. will also be. athletic exhibitions by demanded that the judicial murd of these two innocent workerc should not take place. “The United States government, in the face of the widespread jtest movement in this country cs well as abroad, refused to interfere jand sanctioned this outrageour, | brutal execution. | Protests Ignored. | “Never in the history of the | whole labor movement did a capi- jtalist power fly so brazenly in the | face of such a widespread demand as that of the millions of workers and peasants throughout the world | who raised the cry for the release of Sacco and Vanzetty. “The United States government, by its action in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, proved conclusively to the workers and farmers of America and the whole world that as the government of Wall Street, of the bankers and super-trusts, it will commit the vilest and most atro- cious deeds against the labor move- ment in order to protect capitalist profits and investments. Bloodthirsty Imperialism. “The Sacco and Vanzetti case ex- posed United States imperialism in all its savage nakedness and bestial- ity. This imperialism, fattened with the blood profits of the world war, is depriving workers of the |right to organize, is smashing their unions, is jailing hundreds of work- ers fighting wage-cuts in Massachi- the Finnie. "Athletic Club. setts, keeps Mooney and Billings in The program at the big carnival |PTison, uses the government as a will also include several. surprise | Sttikebreaker, orders militia and numbers that are certain to be en-/ttoops against striking workers; joyable. crushes the movement for inde Tickets for the affair are only 35 cents. They are on sale at the of- fice of the Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square. TO HONOR DEAD SEAMEN USSR May Inter Crew of British Sub LENINGRAD, Aug. 17.~—The crew of the sunken British subma- | rine L-55, which has been raised by the Soviet navy after lying at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for nine years, will be buried with appro- priate military honors, R. A. Mukle- vich, commander of the Soviet fleet, announced today. “Though these sailors were our enemies,” he said, “the Red sea- men bear them no malice, Unless the British government ¢psires to | make other disposal of .them, we will bury these men with military honors.” The submarine was sunk in battle June 4, 1919, having been sent to the Baltic as part of the imperialist expedition which attempted to crush the Russian revolution and the So- viet Union. “«* LONDON, Aug. 17 (UP).+The British admiralty is applying to So- viet Russia for return of the bodies recovered from the lost submarine 1-55, it was said on reliable au- thority today. ‘ tN areag? pendence in the Philippines, rapes Nicaragua, butchers Haiti, sends warships and troops to crush the |Chinese Revolution, and refuses to |recognize the Soviet Union, the first Workers’ and Peasants’ Re- public in the world. This imper- ialism is preparing for a world war, which it will provoke in order to guarantee the foreign investments and enterprises of Wall Street. “This imperialism of the United States that murdered Sacco and Vanzetti is preparing for the slaughter of millions’ of workers and farmers in an imperialist war for Wall Street. Challenges Smith. “The workers are, therefore, on Continued on Page Three BUKHARIN’S REPORT to the Sixth Congress. of the Communist International | on page 4 of this issue. i re $