The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1928, Page 1

y THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS + TO O®OANIZE THE UNORGANIZED ©O® THE 40-HOUR WEEK \ LABOR PARTY FOF | +. ERS’ AND FARMERS’ 4%. “RNMENT oy 2, 4 a ily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Ya under the act ef March 3, 1879. LAND TO ATTEND Pak ‘inky daily except Sui lay by The National Daily Worker 2 ablishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq.. New York, N. Y. A UGUST 21, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATE Outside New York MURDOCH ON HIS” PRISON AELEASE Landlords Organize to Evict Striking Mill Workers Union in New Drive! (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD. Mass.. Aug. 21. | —Hundreds of striking textile work- | ers yesterday gathered at 5 in the! morning at the gates of the iail here. | and patiently waited two hours to) greet William T. Murdoch, strike | HELD WITHOUT BAIL 10 HALT PICKET LINES 500 Steel Workers in Demonstration at Plant Defy the Rifle Guards| | leader upon his release two hours CANTON, Ohio, Aug. 20.—Alarm | later. Murdoch was released upon completion of a three month jail sentence imposed in the early days of the 18 week old textile strike of 28.000 oneratives. The delegation of strikers and union leaders presented Murdoch with a great bouquet of flowers purchased by the workers, when he appeared -outside the huge prison doors heavily laden down with books | sent him by friends and strikers. With Murdoch and union organ- izers stepping to the lead the strik- ers marched thru New Bedford streets down to the union’s strike which is seizing larger and larger churia which the Nipponese control. ported to be backing to serve her a Manchuria is the latest scene of operations of Japanese imperialism ing on the map shows the Japanese Islands with Korea and Man- private warlord, Chang Hsueh-liang, son of Chang Tso-lin, and Hat- of the Massillon steel corporation of- | ficials that the strike tying up the industry in Canton is on the point of spreading to their mills, was evi- denced by the arrest of three organ- izers at Massillon today. A taste of municipal co-operation with the steel officials was further afforded the arrested men when the authorities refused to fix their bail jin an attempt to keep them from participating on today’s picket line. areas of China.. The cross-hatch- Mukden headquarters of Japan's Manchuria and Mongolia, and as a base against the Soviet Union. bin, railroad center on the Chinese Eastern Railroad, are shown on the map. Harbin is near the recent disturbances which Japan is re- 8 an excuse for further inroads in | headquarters, singing strike songs. At the strike hall more workers were gathered and an impromptu meeting was held. Answering the welcoming cheers of the men and women, Murdoch declared, “I am| back again and am glad to see your ranks solid, and your organization | growing stronger every day.” Mur- doch disclaimed the importance of the individual in labor struggles | JAPAN MAY ACT workers organizati A doch Membership Drive” is to started. by the union today. Landlords of the mill workers : : tenements are taking preparatory | Threaten to Jail Soviet uw be RED MEET DISCUSSES COLONIAL SITUATION (Wireless to The Daily Worker). | MOSCOW, U.S. S, R., Aug. 19.— At the continuation of the thirtieth) Session of the World Congress of i¢ 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. A march of five hundred of the steel strikers, organized in the Cen- tral Alloy Steel Mill Committee, swung enthusiastically through the streets of Canton yesterday and) surrounded the struck plant. | Police with rifles at the mill en- ing men. f Persistent efforts of the Central | Alloy Corporation to import strike- | breakers has proved an almost total failure with the few scabs from Pittsburgh refusing to remain at work in-the mills. The strikebreak- lers have expressed their eagerness | to exchange five dollars in company scrip for three dollars in real money. | Leaflets distributed under the | W ON BALLOT IN FIFTEEN STATES See Spread of Steel Strike; Three \ SACCO-VANZETTI RALLIES. NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents by mail, 68.00 per vem . by mat Leaders A ve Jailed | One Year noon prior to the cremation of the Ago: “ A quarter of a million workers participated in the “march of sorrow” ola Sacco and Bartolom bodies of N ON COMMUNISTS ‘Shipload of Gold,’ That Alas—We Didn’t Get Matthew Woll, reactionary vice- president of the American Federa-, tion of Labor and collaborator with | trances failed to overawe the march- | 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. supervision of the Central Alloy His attaek further went on to say | Mill Committee aroused the great-|that Communist “agents” have been steps to organize themselves. for the ie 38 eviction of the striking textile Official Werkers here. A preliminary con- Cre ference of the ringleaders in this By United Press. scheme has already been held, the) TOKYO, Aug. 20.—An official latest development being an invita-| statement by the Manchurian gov- tion to all landlords to come to a . A general meeting for the purpose of | rnment today said that the rebel- taking united action against the lion in the state of Barga—started workers. The meeting will be held) by Mongolians against the dictates cyied the SOE ee oe of the Manchurian government— nnouncements issuer 1y ie con- * ference, state that they will obtain | had been suppressed, jointly the services of “lawyers, con-| Bre £ stables and deputy sheriffs neces-- PEKING, Aug. 20,—Following sarv to help a tenement owner in the arrest of the vice-president of | the eviction. of obstreperous tenents. + 7 Union statements declare that | ‘Me Chinese Eastern Railway, Lash- Continued on Page Three levitch, a Soviet citizen, the Japan- “serious attention” must be paid to the situation in Manchuria. Of- ficial Japanese intervention is seen POLISH WORKERS Efforts of Japanese and Man- . | churian officials to create a critical | situation are further indicated by SASH SU i |ese government has announced that here as probable. threats that Vice-President Lashe- WARSAW, Aug. 20.—The “am- nesty” in Poland has brought no re- | in Sumatra two months after it had He pointed out that the errors of |est enthusiasm both in Canton and the insurrection were that: it began among the Massillon steel workers. BRITISH-FRENCH 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. PACT HITS USSR Talk Peace—and Plan) War at Paris Meet | BERLIN, Aug. 20.—A British and | French accord limited not merely | 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 | “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 Strachov, of the Communist Party | to armament conditions, as at first) j¢ Labor in supporting every inter-| of China, analyzed the history of the | reported, but covering in its scope | national union having ‘borers’ within | Chinese revolution, which is tem-| the most far-reaching contingeneies| its membership has nullified their porarily defeated, he said, on ac-|in the operation of French and Bri- | efforts. 5 3 | count of serious opportunist errors, | together with the objective cause of| mercial relations thruout the world, | indirect} the great strength of the counter- revolutionary enemy under the lead- ership of imperialism. The Party recognized the errors and is now mobilizing its forces for a second tish diplomatic, military and com-| is the fait accompli which the| alarmed governments of Europe and | the United States believe confront- ing them as they go to sign the Kellogg “peace pact.” raise to bring their wage up to $5 lief to the left political prisoners. On the other hand, the hunting and arrest of Communists continue. The Kattowitz political police have made many arrests in Katto- witz and Konigshutte. Among the arrested there are said to be mem- bers of the Warsaw Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party. In the home of a Communist assembly- man “incriminating material’ was said to have been found. The pris- oners are in the Kattowitz police prison. Lifschitz Articles to Be Continued Tomorrow Today’s installment of Ben Lif- shitz’s study on “Automobile— Symbol of Modern Slavery,” has \ been unavoidably omitted because of space limitations. It will ap- pear, again in tomorrow’s paper with a section devoted to the forms of actual slavery in the conveyor systems of the Ford plant. This is one of the most interesting sections in the whole series. MUNICIPAL WORKERS ASK $5 BOSTON, Aug. 20 (FP).—Met- ropolitan park board workers out- side. Boston are asking a 50 cents ' paid within Boston. The state con- “yention of municipal employes in Lowell, September 1-2, will support their cause. | ier MOROCCO FIRE SAN JURGO, Morocco, Aug. (UP).—Fire today destroyed the French military and civilian ware- houses. Several soldiers fighting the fire were seriously burned, The | | vitch will be imprisoned unless the alleged uprising is halted at once. Lashevitch is reported to be con- fined to his own. house .at present. Forces of Chang Hsueh-liang, northern war-lord, including arm- ored cars, have been rushed north on pretext of suppressing the revolt and are reported to have taken up offensive positions along the Chi- nese Eastern Railroa Randolph Issues New Appeal for “Public” | Sympathy for Porters | In a_ statement issued by A. Philip Randolph, general organizer of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, attention is drawn to the fight of the western trainmen and train conductors to secure an in- creased wage. The strike vote now being taken by these railroad work- ers, the statement declares, will help the Pullman porters and maids in ‘their fight. 4 The statement, it is noted, is still based on the present attitude of the porters’ officials to appeal to the | “public.” Considerable criticism has been made of the officials because they have failed to muster the rank and file for a real struggle, consid- ered as inevitable and have instead pursued a policy of trying to “bluff” the Pullman company officials. Militant trade union leaders who are both informed of the situation 20| and sympathetic to the struggle of the porters have expressed their opinion that the porters can be fully organized and their fight won if a revolutionary wave, he said. If this is so, the accord has been Humbertdroz, of Switzerland, who| reached, in the opinion of experts, spoke‘ next, declared that the on the basis of French accession to revolutionary movement in Latin-| the British viewpoint that navies America was developing rapjdly. The are to be limited by categories of Anglo-American struggle for hege-| ships and not by global tonnage, mony, he pointed out, made Latin-| and British support of the Frénch Continued on Page Three | proposition that trained army, re- Keepers | serves are to be unlimited. H. T. Wilson, Named _ However temporary such an al- * + |liance must in its nature be, it is New President of Big | pointed out that there are elements + in the situation facing the alleged) Open Shop Coal Firm signatories which makes its dura-| ‘tion at the present time, extremely LE HIDE Cena enna plausible’ American aggressive-| named president of the Pittsburgh | "°SS in foreign affairs, which is ex-| Terminal Coal Corporation, suc- | pected to be intensified following ceeding Horace F. Baker, resigned, | the election of Herbert Hoover to the Pittsburgh press said today. the presidency (and Europe regards Although no formal announcement | this as a foregone conclusion) is of Wilson’s appointment was thade | indicated ae one of these elements. | from the office of the Terminal Cor-| But overshadowing all others in poration, the press said the informa- | immediacy is considered to be the “While not directly conceding it, ly the Communists have con- ceded the success of the American Federation of Lgbor in defeating the boring procedure. Now, by ex- plicit direction of Moscow, of which we have absolute and detailed evi- dence in abundance, Communists in America have changed their policy, coming completely into the open to organize dual unions. “Thejr departure into the field of open organization covers so wide a range as to be a startling develop- ment in the Communist plan for world revolution. “What we are dealing with is not the ultimate failure of the plan but the present phases of it and the fact that it must be stopped. “Communists’ efforts at dual or- ganization are found today in the needle trades, centering in New York, the railway shop unions, build- Continued on Page Two JOBS SCARCE IN IOWA CLINTON, Ia., Aug. 20 (FP)— The largest employer here, the Corn Products factory, is running only 3 or 4 days a week. There is little construction work going on. Corn WOLLIN ATTACK Beckermanand AUG, 29 PROT Boss Upset on Quiet Joy Ride Of course, it was just a little inconspicuous news item. But— Abraham Beckerman, the little “socialist” Mussolini of the New York Joint Board of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers Union, was in a minor auto accident on Thursday. The automobile in which he was riding with a companion along Fifth Ave. got mixed up in a traf- fic jam, the brakes were slammed on, and the strong-arm lieutenant of Sidney Hillman .was a. little shaken up and bruised. And— The companion happened to be a coat contractor, Frank Reggio by name. Just a few weeks ago the admin- istrative machine of which Beck- erman is high-priest was exposed as graft-ridden to an almost un- believable extent. The graft ring’s field of operations, it was then revealed, was among the con- tractors of Reggio’s type, thou- sands of dollars being extracted from them on threats of having their labor sources cut off by union machinery. Hillman, during the height of the sensational disclosures, piously announced that the graft machine The March of Sorrow” TEXAS PLACED ON TICKET FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY | Present Total Exceeds : by 1 the Total in 1924 Gitlow to Go on Tour With the Workers (Communist) Party placed on the ballot in the state of Texas for the first time in in Boston on the Sunday after eo Vanzetti. history, the number of states of- ak ————— |ficially on the ballot reached a to- |tal of fifteen according to a tele- EST | graphic report received last night at the headquarters of the National | Election Campaign Committee of the Party, 43 East 125th St | This total, which is less than half of the grand total of states that To Land Year After|the Workers (Communist) Party Sacco Murder PARIS, Aug. 20.—In order to pre- | vent the large demonstrations that , are expected to take place at Cher- bourg on August 22, the first anni- versary of the Sacco-Vanzetti ex- ccution, when Secretary Kellogg | lands on his way to sign the pact at Paris, the French government and | police have made elaborate arrange- | ments, in the form of strengthening | the police and gendarme forces at the: port. The “Ile-de-France,” manned by a crew of strikebreakers recruited |from the French navy, will dock on the day when workers throvghout expects to have on the ballot in the | fall elections, exceeds by one the |complete number of states that were on the ballot in 1924 Totals 15 States. The Workers (Communist) Party ticket is now officially on the bal- lot in the states of Montana, Ari- zona, Illinois, Delaware, New Jer- sey, Michigan, Maryland, West Vir- ginia, Iowa, Arkansas, Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, South Dakota and "Texas. The addition of Texas not only places’ the Party ahead of its figure_ for 1924, but it is now almost a certainty that the mark set of 30 states on the ballot this year will be surpassed. At the present time |the world will hold demonstrations commemorating the heroic martyrs. the Party is diligently working to This coincidence, together with| Place its ticket on the ballot in the the fact that the ship bearing Kel-|11 states of Massachusetts, Rhode logg is stoked by government strike- | Island, Connecticut, New York, breakers, is expected, to arouse the | Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin, strikers in the port, their sympa- | Minnesota, North Dakota, Colorado, thizing comrades and the working | and Washington, making a total of class generally into a rousing pro-|26 in all in which success is as- test demonstration. It is recalled that when the American legionnaires landed here, a year ago, shortly after Sacco and | Vanzetti were éxecuted, police and | troops attacked the huge demonstra- tion that had gathered to protest had been cleaned out. But Beck- |American class justice, and that | erman is still joy: ing with |crews on the ships in the harbor Reggio and his boy friends, it (went out on strike as a protest. seems. Haldane, British Labor Party Misleader, Dead PERTH, Scotland, Aug. 19 (UP). -—Lord Haldane, prominent labor party leader and twice Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, died here today at the age of 72. Vis- count Haldane suffered a heart at- tack after a few weeks’ illness. oe ee Viscount Haldane was born July 80, 1856. He was created Ist Vis- count Haldane of Cloan in 1911 while serving as secretary of state for war, which office he held from to 1912. Previously a liberal, V: cocnt Haldane went over to the la- bor party following his appointment | as lord chancellor in the labor gov- Jernment of 1924. He had served in| Picketing in early April, when hun- the office from 1912 to 1915. MILL FEUDALISM Old feudal traditions of the castle MINE MILITANT FACES TRIAL Adam Getto Charged With Walking (Special To The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, Pa., Aug. 20.— Adam Getto, a leading miner in Bentleyville, will be tried in the county court here August 25, on charge of unlawful assemblage, pre- | ferred by coal and iron police in the employ of the Bethlehem Steel Cor- poration. | The case dates back to the stormy dreds of strikebreakers left the mines in response to appeal of men, women and children who marched upon the mines. Getto was walking down the road fi sured. May Have 41 on Ballot. In addition to these state has come through from Ohio, Utah, Oregon, Wyoming, Kentucky, Ten- essee, New Hampshire, and Cali- fornia that work is proceeding there, and there is no question but that the Party will be on the ballot in these states for the first time in its history. If the workers in those states keep their promise, the Workers (Communist) Party will be Continued on Page Three TO HOLD CHICAGO ELECTION PICNIC Enlarged Campaign Meet Aug. 22 CHICAGO, Aug. 20.—A meeting of the enlarged Foster-Gitlow Cam- paign Committee will be. held on Wednesday, Aug. 22, at 8 p. m. at 1214 Spring Garden Ave. Dele- vates from many Chicago labor or- eanizations will attend. The first meeting of the enlarged committee formed plans to draw the largest possible number of workers into the Workers (Communist) Party elec- on tke hill for the lord are still) with two other miners when coal | tion campaign. good enough for rayon Covington, Va., They are developing a choice residential sec- | tion in the hills two miles from the town. But the mill workers must) mill executives. and iron police accosted him. The company agents told him that he Arrangements were made for a huge rally and picnic on Labor Day where Benjamin Gitlow, the vice was, violating the sheriff's procla-| Where Be : mation by walking in a group of | Presidential candidate of the Work- thea) eke auld. ers Party will be the principal Squire S. C. Lloyd was at hand| Speaker. At least 5,000 workers tion was obtained from reliable | necessity which the two great pow-|stands fine, promising a bumper |live in the village laid out around in the office of the Bethlehem Steel | #7 expected to attend and demon- sources. Continued on Page Three crop, the mill. RALLY FOR SACCO AND VANZETTI TOMORROW Workers Thruout U.S. Will Demonstrate Against Capitalist Frame-Up System Workers all over the world will gather tomorrow in mass memorial demonstrations on the occasion of the first anniversary of the legal murder of Nicola Sacco and Barto- lomeo Vanzetti. Throughout the Soviet Union; in France, Italy, Ger- many, Brazil, England, India, China, Austria, South Africa,—on every continent—workers will assemble to pay tribute to the two martyrs to damages were heavy. militant policy is adopted by their officials, ‘i eanitelist class justice, and to re- affirm their determination to do away with the system that made, and continues to make, class mur- ders like this possible. Here in America no section of the country will fail to hold a mem- orial meeting. From Maine to Flor- ida, from California to New York, thousands will crowd the public squares, thousands will meet in halls. Not only will the demonstra- tions be centered in the big cities. | Little towns, mine’ ber regions, all will participate in the general demonstrations of pro- test and rally to the fight against} capitalism, The workers in ¢very industrial center in America will demonstrate against the’ capitalist frame-up sys- tem. Pittsburgh will demonstrate, the pivot point of many such meet- ings throughout the anthracite re-, gion in Pennsylvania. New Bedford! are now engaged in against the labor-hatin; owners, will rally. “Our reports,” said Martin Abern, assistant national secretary of the struggles gz textile mill | Corporation a half mile away to| Strate their determination to fight | hea the case. “He told me that if | back the attacks of the bosses, An |I would plead guilty he'd let me| Unusual program of sports and, | get away with a $10 fine,” Getto proletarian entertainment from 10 reports. “But I know that this is | their trick of trying to keep us out of the fight by scaring and fining | us.” When Getto persisted in his | refusal, the charge was changed to unlawful assemblage, and $1,000 | camps, lum-jand Fal] River, where the workers| bail was set. in the The case will be tried Washington County court. MORE CIGAR TOBACCO BOSTON, Aug. 20 (UP).—The | in the morning to past midnight is promised. Members of all affiliated organ- izations will be mobilized for an in- tensive distribution of 50,000 circu- lars advertising the rally. Tuesday August 26, has been set aside for this purpose. VIENNA, Aug. 20 (UP).—An airplane whose pilot lost control be- headed a boy during an exhibition International Labor Defense, under | cigar type tobacco. acreage in the | flight at Senta, a Belgrade dispatch whose auspices the meetings are being held, “which are not yet com- plete, already indicate that close to one hundred meetings, if not more, Continued on Page Three United States is estimated at 133,- | | 700 acres, or 11 per cent greater | than the 120,300 acres harvested last year, the New England crop ‘reporting service announced today Aw said today. The excitement of a passenger unnerved the pilot, who regained control of the falling plane only a few feet from the ground. A ‘ing struck the boy.