The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 20, 1928, Page 1

; Vol. V., No. 197. € —— ase FOR A LABOR THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT PARTY aily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March Publishing Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker anociation, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥- SUBSCRIPTION RATE: Outside New NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1928 OVER 100 MINE. LOGALS STARTED IN SCAB AREAS Rank and File to Rally | to National Miners Convention Call Luzerne Meet. PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 19.— Delegates from practically every mine in district five will attend the National Miners Convention, Sep- tember®9 reports made at the dis- trict miners conference in Walton Hall Friday indicated. Where miners have returned to work, dues will be paid directly to the National} Miners Convention Arrangements Committee headquarters at 119 Federal St. N. S. Pittsburgh, the conference decided. Reports from the tnorganized fields were particularly optimis Over 100 locals are- already estab-| lished in the former non-union area | in Pennsylvania and West. Virginia| alone thus far. An equal number have been organized in Kentucky,| Tennessee and Alabama. UMWA Completely Disorganized. “As far as the United Mine| Workers Union is concerned, Ohio| and Pennsylvania are just like West! Virginia organizationally,”” Thomas | Myerscough declared’ in an intro- ductory speech. “All that remains| of’ the U. M. W. A. are the paid| pickets, in Pennsylvania and in} West Virginia. Now our job is to| build a new union. Now we must) plan a thorough campaign to enter every district where there are mines, | organize them, and get delegates for) the Convention.” John J. Watt, national chairman of | the Arrangement Committee who re- | turned today from a speaking trip} through Illinois, declared that he is| convinced that the rank and file) miners had nothing to do with the movement which is reducing their wages—the scrapping of the Jack- sonville scale, contrary to the ac- cusations of Lewis supporters in Pennsylvania. “District twelve officers have an agreement which involves a big} wage reduction,” Watt asserted, “put they’re afraid to announce it officially because the feeling of re- sentment among the men is strong,| as is the sentiment for the new union.” Other Conferences A similar conference will be held in Bellaire, Ohio, of sub-district six. Conferences in the other subdistricts will be held throughout the week. | In Kentucky and Indiana, the first) of the series’ of subdistrict confer-| ences opened yesterday. District two (central Pennsyl- Continued on Page Three REPORT MONGOL TROOPS GAINING | together with the objective cause of | the great strength of the counter- Seen as Japanese War | Move BULLETIN. HARBIN, Aug. 19 (UP)., —Chinese authorities today |ership of imperialism. \Tecognized the errors and is now | mobilizing its forces for a second Seizing Militant Fall River Picket During the police terror which the textile mill owners and the city authorities combined to hurl against the strikers under the loader- ship of the Fall River Textile Mill Committees, scores of arrests were made and many pickets were jailed. A typical scene during the at- tack is shown above. (Photo by ci ing Standard) ourtesy of the New Bedford Even- COLONIAL SITUATION - (Wireless to The Daily Worker). MOSCOW, W. S. S. R., Aug. 19.— At the continuation of the thirtieth session of the World Congress of the Communist International, Kas- samin, of Indonesia, analyzed the politico-economic situation in In- donesia and the reasons for the de- (feat of the Indonesian insurrection of 1926. Indonesia Revolt. He pointed out that the errors of the insurrection were that: it began in Sumatra two months after it had already begun in Java; the whole working class was not mobilized; the main attack was concentrated on the capital, where strong forces of po- lice and soldiery were present; and lastly, the insurrection was insuf- ficiently prepared for. Sikander, of India, then spoke and declared that the idea held by some | of the comrades that India was be- ing de-colonized was quite false. British imperialism, he said, was backing the landowners in order to subdue the native bourgeoisie. of China, analyzed the history of the Chinese revolution, which is tem- porarily defeated, he said, on ac- count of serious opportunist errors, revolutionary enemy under the lead- The Party revolutionary wave, he said. Humbertdroz, of Switzerland, who spoke next, declared that the revolutionary movement in Latin- Strachov, of the Communist Party | RED MEET DISCUSSES 10,000 ATTEND DMILY' CARNIVAL Workers’ Come Despite | Threatening Weather Ten thousand New York workers | yesterday attended the International Costume Carnival of the Daily the day, had threatened to halt. ing the calls of workers who wanted to find out the directions to Pleasant | Bay Park. were exhibited, with the various American worker and farmer cos- | tumes predominant. People arrayed in Russian peasant costumes, work- ers costumes, Chinese, German and Balkan garbs made the festival a gaudy affair. In the midst of the festivities, the workers gathered in one part of the grounds in a mass mecting to hear the speeches of Bert Miller, Richard |B. Moore and D. Benjamin. After the big carnival was over and the workers had departed for their homes, a statement was re- leased by the arrangement commit- | tee apologizing for the lack of ade- Worker at Pleasant Bay Park, bring-| ing to a successful climax an event | 2 that the cloudy weather earlier in| tres for placing the Workers (Com- FIN EDITION AG ;CItY Price 3 Cents SACCO-VANZETTI MEETINGS URGED Workers Party on Ballot in Montana and Nebraska TOTAL MOUNTS | TO FOURTEEN AS BIG DRIVE GROWS Intensive Campaign Is Under Way Thruout Country Gain in Mine Regions Montana and Nebraska have been added to the number of states where the Workers (Communist) Party will be on the ballot, accord- ing to reports received at the Na- tional Election Campaign Commit- tee headquarters, 43 E. New York City. This brings the number of states, in which the workers and farmers can vote for Foster and Gitlow, on the official ballot up to fourteen. In the 1924 campaign the Commu- nists were unable to surpass this figure. The Party ticket is expected | to be on the ballot in at least thirty | states this year. | Kentucky and Tennessee are ex- | pected to be placed in the Commu- nist column in a few days. Four Electors Chosen. Willis L. Wright, editor of Labor ‘opics, Great Falls, wired the na- | tional office that 23 delegates from industrial and farming sections of Montana and also local sympathiz- ers attended a state convention on August 10th, in Butte. Stanley | Clark was elected chairman and Ma- | bel Clark, secretary. A large crowd attended the eve- | ning session at which the following | electors were chosen: ‘Emma Salis: | bury and Petra Krogman of Plenty- | wood, Mary Nolan, Butte, and Stan- ley Clark of Great Falls. | “The prospects indicate a large | vote in the state of Montana,” says | Willis Wright. | Nebraska Fight Won. The necessary number of signa- | munist) Party ticket on the ballot in the state of Nebraska have been Throughout the day the staff of the| collected. A ratification convention | Daily Worker was kept busy answer-| will be held in the Swedish Audi-| | torium, Omaha, on Sunday, August } 19th at 8 p. m. Stephens reports that the work- | Many features enlivened the huge | ers who attend Communist open-air | | affair. Costumes of all nationalities | mass meetings applaud enthusiasti-| cally when sthe announcement is Continued on Page Four BATTY GROUP IN NEW BETRAYAL ‘New Bedford Fishers | Continue Strike (Special to the Daily Worker.) 125th St.,| they lay in state. WOLL IN ATTAGK ON COMMUNIST ‘Shipload of Gold,’ That Alas—We Didn’t Get | Matthew Woll, reactionary vice- president of the American Federa- | tion of Labor and collaborator with |the big open-shop employers, yes- | terday issued another statement to | the capitalist press intended to in- | jure the organization of workers in \industries where the unions have been destroyed by Woll and his as- sociates. | Woll’s humor took the form of a statement that “shiploads of money” |were being sent to the Workers | (Communist) Party of America from |the Soviet Union. His attack further went on to say | that Communist “agents” have been | using the money “to finance many of the employers’ against whom or- ganized labor has been fighting for many years, and who themselves| are American labor's worst | enemies.” Woll’s statement follows lin part: | “The new campaign aims at es- tablishment of dual unions—duplicate unions in fields occupied by unions | affiliated with the American Fede- ration of Labor. Money apparently | has come from Russia in large quan- tities to finance this work. | “Communists have found their, | ‘boring from within’ procedure has |led to no concrete results. The at- |titude of the American Federation | of Labor in supporting every inter- | national union having ‘bor within its membership has nullified their efforts. “While not directly conceding it, | indirectly the Communists have con-| A year ago thousands of workers walked in silent respect past the bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti as A. Join Military on Labor Day Brazenly expr ship for the r ng its friend- litary machine of the American Empire, the New York Central Trades and Labor Assembly has made public the fact that it will hold its Labor Day celebration at Fort Hamilton thi§ year, “Impressive military displays” will. accompany the. festivities, it is stated. The customary Labor Day pro- gram will be entirely scramped, and even the brassy platitudes of labor misleaders will be dispensed with, it has been revealed. “Labor features” will be absent, explained President Ryan, “because the trade union movement is now so strong that Labor Day can be en- joyed as an ordinary holiday.” At the last convention of the American Federation in Los An- geles, Gen. Summerall, chief-of- staff of the U. S. army, and Presi- dent William Green exchanged genuflexions and called each other “good fellows.” BRULE WORKERS IN 2-DAY RALLY Hold Meets Where Coolidge “Rests” (Special to the Daily Worker.) —In SUPERIOR, Wis.,, Aug. 1 the town where President Coolidge, NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 19.| ceded the success of the American | $100,000-a-year servant of Big Busi- —The Textile Council, of which Federation of Labor in defeating) ness, is spending his time catching One Year Ago; Workers Pay Last Respect. to Their Dead FL. Heads WILL LEADERS WORKERS PARTY CALLS FOR HUGE PROTEST MEETS Rallies Arranged by International Labor Defense Fight Bosses “Justice” ion of taken and Pointing out the inten: the class struggle that place since the murder of Vanzetti a year ago, t Ceneral Executive Committee of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, in a state- ment issued last night, appeals to all American workers to express their class solidarity and their de- termination to overthrow the capi- talist system by attending en ma the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstr: that are being arranged th country by the Internatior Defense. The statement of the Central FREED, SPEAK Campos Move to Betray Fall River Strike (Special to the Daily Worker) FALL RIVER, Mass., Aug. 19.— Defying the police terror which Executive Committee follows: A year has passed since the death of Sacco and Vanzetti who were murdered by capitalist justice for the triple crime of being fighters for the cause of labor, “aliens,” and workers. The crime of the Amer- ican ruling class against two inno- cent proletarians, whose innocence was strikingly demonstrated by in- numerable and irrefutable facts, | Was not only an act of vengeance | against mempers of the exploited might envelope them at any moment,| masses. It was also a challenge to enthusiastic mass. meetings strikers in this city yesterday listened to the leaders of the Fall River Textile Mills Committee just released from jail who spoke at Liberty Lot in spite of their $1,000 bonds. Sam Weisman, Fall River Textile Mill Committee leader, flayed the | hypocrisy of Judge Mannify and his pretended concern for the strikers and branded him as a coward for sentencing Bill Seroka to six months | in jail for leading a picket line of children. That John Campos and other offi- cials of the American Federation of Textile Operatives have asked recog- nition of the union and restoration of ten instead of twenty sides in the mills, instead of withdrawal of the wage cut, as a reward for their strikebreaking services against the Fall River strikers and the Textile Mill Committees was revealed in a report on the conference with Nathan Durfee, official of the American Printing Workers yesterday. Durfee met the officials’ commit- tee with a demand for a general speed-up. He declared that it was necessary “to reorganize” all depart- ments of the plant, with workers Continued on Page Five arrested Vice - Director Lashevitch of the Chinese America was developing rapidly. The quate preparations in food and re-| William E. G. Batty is secretary, |freshments. This was due, aceord- Eastern Railway in connec- tion with the uprising in the no-man’s-land of Barga, eas LONDON, Aug. 19 (UP).—Dis- patches to the Daily Mail tonight re- ported Chinese troops were retreat- ing before Mongol forces in North- western Manchuria. The fighting was believed to be near Hailar, an important railroad center and the seat of local admin- istration of Japanase government. According to meagre reports, Hailar | was, in immediate danger of cap-| ture. It was believed here the situation had grown more serious within the last 24 hours, as any disturbance in Hailar would effect Japanese inter- ests. Communication with tne en- dangered points has been broken, tut unofficial reports were disquiet- ing. . + * * According to reports received by the Daily Worker, the Mongol troops have been subsidized and armed by the Japanese as an excuse for further Japanese intervention in Manchuria. Early reports state that they had seized a section of the Chinese eastern railway, owned jointly by the Soviet Union and China. DETROIT WORKERS With twelve teams already signed up for the coming season, the De- troit Workers Soccer League is as-, Anglo-American struggle for hege- | mony, he pointed out, made Latin- Continued on Page Three Three Workers Killed as Blast Wrecks Train CORNING, N. Y., Aug. 19 (UP). —Engineer W. C. Carrier, Fireman R. F. Criddle and Brakeman John E. Bell, all of Hornell, were killed to- day when the engine of an east- bound Erie freight train was wrecked by an explosion. Twenty freight cars were wrecked by the blast. The engine was of the large type, known us 3100. The cause of tha explosion was not determined, Trains were forced to detour over the D. L. and W. tracks until Mon- day. ‘ . The bodies of the three men were mangled beyond recognition. Hassell Plane Is Yet Unheard From JULIANEHAAB, Greenland, Aug. 19 (UP).—The wireless station at Mount Evans, Greenland? upon which the world must depend for news of the flight of Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer, announced at 10:45 a. m. (eastern standard time) that no word had been received from the flyers. The Greater Rockford left Rock- ford, Tll., last Thursday morning to prove the practicability of a north- |ing to the committee, to the threat- |ening weather of the forenoon, which had caused them to think that not many workers would come to the Carnival. The statement further went on to say that thanks was due |to the many Daily Worker agents | whose hearty cooperation had made ‘possible the successful carnival. SINCLAIR PARIS, Aug. Lewis, author LEWIS SAILS 19 (UP).—Sinclair of “Main Street,” |sailed for New York today on the ‘liner Hamburg. Lewis was accom- |panied by his wife, with whom he ihas been spending an eight-month \ “caravan honeymoon” in Europe. yesterday issued another statement urging full co-operation with the ‘textile mill owners, “The real need in the mills is more | economical production,” the state-|coming completely into the open to| ally in Brule. ment says, “and the Textile Council | has offered its full co-operation to | the mill owners in getting better | production.” . Fishermen to Continue Strike. | NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 19. —Striking fishermen of this port voted to stay on strike until the owners return to the old wage sys- tem at a meeting held in the Cen- tral Labor Union Hall on Friday. William Brown, secretary of the Fishermen’s Union, affiliated with the Seamen’s Union, presided. ' o* the boring procedure. Now, by ex-| Pempered fish in his private stream, plicit direction of Moscow, of which| Yesterday the Northern Wi8consin we have absolnte and detailed evi-| Election Campaign Committee of dence in abundance, Communists in| the Workers (Communist) Party America have changed their policy, held a two-day election campaign Plans were dis- organize dual unions. leussed for an intensive drive in the “Their departure into the field of| vicinity of the $1,000,000 estate open organization covers so wide a| where Coolidge is spending his sum- range as to be a startling develop- mer. ment in the Communist plan for) Poetition lists have been distributed world revolution. in the state to place the names of “What we are dealing with is not the national as well as local candi- the ultimate failure of the plan but dates of the Workers (Communist) the present phases of it and the fact, Party on the ballot. Alvar J.Hayes _ PARIS, Aug. 19 (UP).—The min- that it must be stopped. is running for governor and H.| istry of marine today awarded the “Communists’ efforts at dual or-| Koski for Lieutenant governor of contracts for four destroyers which ganization are found today in the| Wisconsin. were a part of the 1927 construc- needle trades, centeting in New! Another election campaign rally|tion program. The destroyers will York, the railway shop unions, build- | wi}! be held in Brantwood, near | be built in various coast shipyards. Continued on Page Three | Brule, on September 2. + 8 * PARIS, Aug. 19 (UP).—The FRENCH BUILD 4 DESTROYERS To Start Imperialist War Maneuvers Labelling Herbert Hoover as the “Good Man Friday” of American imperialism, Benjamin Gitlow,. vice presidential candidate on the Work- ers (Communist) Party ticket yes- terday challenged the G. O. P. made by him in his Palo Alto ac- ceptance speech that “unemploy- ment in the sense of distress is rap- idly disappearing” and points to the 4,000,000 unemployed workers in the United States today as proof that standard-bearer on the statement | GITLOW CHALLENGES HOOV Charges Servant of Big Business With Minimizing Suffering of U.S. Workers | a member of the French ruling class | prior to the French revolution, that workers who asked for bread could eat grass, is called to Mr. Hoover’s ; attention by the Communist candi- date, in relation to his statement on unemployment. “The low wages paid in the tex- tile industry, the 4,000,000 unem- ployed, the bankrupt and poverty- stricken farmers, the wage cuts in the textile, coal, automobile, shoe and other industries are sufficient hi two strong divisions. | ern route to Europe. The take-off | Hoover distorted facts in his at- sored oe is the ‘ of | was without incident and the first tempt to establish the republican the league, which is ex} ’ the flight, which party as the party of prosperity. | Gitlow. “an , " paeas, made by| There -is no hope for the proof that everything is not as rosy| Japan over the Chinese markets, turned out to be a vacuum as far as Mr. Hoover paints them,” says| why he did not protest against the|as they are concerned. poor| Sacco and /)’anzetti, by a repyplican, ER ON UNEMPLOYED first large scale French army man- euvers since the war began at mid- night Saturday. Rather than one ‘large single maneuver, this year’s activities are being split into a series held locally along the Italian | frontier, Alsace, the Seine Valley, the Rhineland and the Pyrenees. | farmers in Hoover's solution of ap-| governor, why Tom Mooney and | Utmost secrecy surrounds the man- | propriating a few millions a year | Billings are in prison while the big) euvers. | for farmers’ relief, Gitlow rosie bap grafters are free, why the So- | since only the rich farmers who! viet government is not recognized | . . Fascists Win Framed ernment apparatus stand to bene-| other questions. Albanian Elections will be part of the additional gov-| by the United States, and several | fit. | Gitlow’s statement, issued to the Gitlow asks Hoover ,why he| National Election Campaign Com-| TIRANA, Albania, Aug. 19 (UP). constituent as- war on Nicaragua, a large army| Party, reads: sembly were held today. The gov- and navy for imperialistic adven-| “The workers who listened to Mr. | ernment candidates were highiy suc- tures, if he favors the preparations) Hoover’s acceptance speech found) cessful, of the United States for a war with) out that the oracle of big business | ae to state his position on the| mittee of the Workers (Communist) _ plections for the * The government “candidates” are hacked by fascist money, which vir- “Every issue raised by the work-| tually exercises mandatory pawey, PB * # execution of two innocent workers, | Continued on Page Three cver Albania, ~ of| the workingclass, to those sections of it that are fighting against a social order in which all govern- | ment, all laws and all judicial ac- | tions are directed to protect the ex- | ploitation of the masses by the own- ers of wealth. It was a challenge |to those who challenge capitalist | dictatorship. One year has passed and the for- ces of capitalist brute oppression, arrayed against the murdered fight- ers, have not only remained the |same, but have even become more brutal and more savage in their at- tacks on the workingclass. The |courts are working at full speed | sentencing wworkingclass fighters, | demonstrators | leaders, to lo Police, militia, thugs, detectives; | are mobilized against the workers, breaking up strikes, arresting pick- ets, dispersing meetings, beating up Continued Page Four strikers, organizers, on TAMMANY PICKS WALL ST, BANKER ‘Lehman May Run for Governor Col. Herbert Lehman, Wall Street banker and director in the Stude- baker Corporation, will probably be the Democratic nominee for Gov- ernor of New York State, it was au- thoritatively declared yesterday. Lehman, who is at present finan- cial director of the Democratic Na- |tional Committee, is a member of the Banking firm of Lehman Brothers, 16 William Street. He has long been associated with Demo- cratic politics and has been a sups porter of Governor Smith. The probable appointment of Leh- man is another example of the direct participation of Wall Street bankers in federal and state politics and gov- | ernment. |Bomb Blast Injures Four in Family of Poultry Trust Foe | “BROOKLYN, Aug. 19 (UP).— Four members of the family of Jo- |seph Hasenfratz, a poultry dealer | who, police said, had been fighting jthe so-called poultry “trust,” were | injured today when a bomb exploded. joutside the door of their apartment.) | Hazenfratz’s wife and daughter’ and two others were thrown from | their beds and slightly hurt. bomb shattered all rear windows in. | the building and blew a hole. in tl | floor of the hallway. Police said Hazenfratz had plained to the district attorney ‘cently that two men had been bo ering him and try'ng to get him jott¥ the “trust.” The men u ed and later released on 1 is erm imprisonment neem aan peas GE \