The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1928, Page 1

| THE DAILY WORK. ER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT second-clans matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1878. Vol. V., No. 200. * Published datiy except Sw Publishing Associat! m, 1 y by The Natjonal Daily Worker 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. NEW ORK, SACCO-VANZETTI URSDAY, AU! GUST 23, 1928 MEET ON UNI SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New Yoo Outside New York, by mail, FINAL EDITION CITY by mail, $8.00 per year. Price 3 Cents ON SO. TODAY, 5 P.M; HUGE DEMONSTRATIONS HELD IN MANY COUNTRIES JAPAN MUNITIONS ‘FOR UPRISING IN ‘MONGOLIA FOUND RRA STEEN AE RENEE RE TRS a eed cae aie SeektsExcusefor Armed Intervention , in i North China Arms are Intercepted | (By United Press) VLADIVOSTOK, Aug. 22. — A large shipment of alleged contra- band munitions arrived here, Au- gust 13, and were confiscated, it | has been announced. The munitions ‘were on board the steamship Kahi- mara and were allegedly from a firm in Osaka and addressed to a firm in Harbin. * | VLADIVOSTOK, Siberia, Aug. 22.—The munitions sent by Japan ‘bound for Harbin, via the Chinese Eastern Railroad, and seized here, is taken to indicate that the Jap- nese government was instigating a revolt in Manchuria in order to create an excuse for military in- tervention, as was hinted in a statement released a few days ago by the Soviet government of Outer Mongolia. Reports have been current in both Japanese and British papers that the attack of Inner Mongolian tribesmen on the northwestern sec- tion of Manchuria, which cut the Chinese Eastern Railroad at two points, were instigated by Soviet, government™aathcrities in order to create a Soviet Republic out of In- ner Mongolia, which is under Chi- nese rule. On the basis of this charge Vice-Director Lasevitch, of the Eastern Chiiese Railway was rrested by Manchurian officials. The new developments, however, ‘jseem to indicate that Japan is at- tempting to prepare the way for armed intervention in Manchuria, where its interests are at stake, by provocative staterents. The discov- er-- of thp shipment of munitions is considered by many to be adequate proof that the ment has a hand uprisings. ee Imperialist Scheme Exposed. in Manchurian AL TAKES WALL ST, NOMINATION Against Injunctions, If “Unwarranted” ALBANY, N. Y., August 22.— Speaking on this anniversary of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti by American capitalism, but with no ‘ign of recognition of its significance ‘fo the working class of the world, Ifred E. Smith, Tammany-Wall /Street candidate for the presidency of the United States, tonight ac= cepted the democratic party’s nom- ination. Smith’s speech was a peculiar mixture of the promise of humble obedience to the will of finance-capi- tal with an appeal to elements with- in the republican party. This ap- peal to republicans is seen in the) words: “Dominant in the republican party today is the element which proclaims and executes the political theories against which the party liberals like Roosevelt and La Fol- lette and their party insurgents have rebelled. This reactionary ele- ment seeks to vindicate the theory of benevolent oligarchy. It assumes that a material prosperity, the very existence of which is challenged, is an excuse for political inequality. It makes the concern of the govern- ent, not people, but material ings”. But the governor astened to cover up: “It is a fallacy that there is in- consistency between _ progressive measures protecting the rights of the people, including the poor and the weak, and a just regard for the rights of legitimate business, great)’ or small. Therefore, while I em- phasize my belief that legitimate business promotes the national wel- fare, let me warn the forces of cor- ruption and favoritism, that demo- cratic victory means that they will be relegated to the rear and the front seats will be occupied by the friends of ecual opportunity.” The expecter retreat of the Tam- Continued on Page Two Japanese govern-| | Children Starving, | | | Mrs. Olga Larkin, 28, a widow of for adoption. | Cecilia, 8, Howard, 11 months, and Wants Them Adopted Unwilling to see her little children suffer hunger and privation, Elizabeth, N. J., is offering them Under a ruthless profit system no provision is made | for caring for those families who become dependent upon the sullen | charity of professional “philanthropic” agencies. In the Soviet i an elaborate system of social insurance exists for the protec the workers and their families. Photo shows mother and schildren, ion. of Joseph 4. Forced to Bare} Company Guilt In Mine Blast | HARRISBURG, Pa. Aug. 22.—}| | Faced by inescapable evidence of | |the criminal negligence of the of-| |ficials which resulted in the death |of 13 miners following an explosion | jin the mine of the Irvona Coal and | | Coke Company, near Coalport, four district inspectors were today | forced to charge the management | with “carlessness” in carrying out | |the provisions of the mining laws. The report which covered the in- vestigation” made ‘by’ the: inspectors was made public by Walter H. Glas- gow, secretary of mines. DISCUSS NEGRO ~-ATWORLD MEET ‘Colonial Issue Theme) at Red Congress (Wireless to the Daily Worker.) | MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Aug. 22:— At the thirty-fourth session of the | Sixth World Congress of the Com- | munist International this morning | the discussion on the colonial ques- | | tion continued. Those who partici- pated in the discussions were Man- | aver, of Indonesia; Fokin, of the | Young Communist International; | Tchousteumet, of China; Ford, of | the United States; Lacerda, of | | Brazil; Schneller, of the Young | | Communist International; Paredes, | of Ecuador; Martinov and Travin, of the Soviet Union. Ford, American Negro, declared | that the American social democrats | | were actively supporting the imper- jialist attack on Nicaragua. The | “socialists,” he said, permitted an ‘imperialist agent to make a speech from the “socialist” broadcasting | station, “Eugene Debs,” defending | the American robber policy in Nicaragua. The Negro and colonial population, he declared, can only be freed under the leadership of the | Communist International. | Lacerda, who spoke next, declared | that the Latin-American countries are semi-colonies, British influences | in Brazil, he said, caused exceptional | laws against the Communists on the | basis of forged documents. United | States capitalism, he continued, is | striving to drive the British out of | Brazil and has already achieved |some success. He said that the Bra- ‘zilian Communist Party was work- ling illegally and making progress. | Paredes declared that the bour- | 'geois democratic revolutions in| Latin-America must receive ‘more |attention. Numerous revolutions of Continued on Page Three | TAUNTON POLICE STOP MILL RALLY T.M.C. to Arrange New Weisbord Meeting TAUNTON, Mass., Aug. 22.—A mass meeting of textile workers, scheduled to be held here -yesterday to hear Albert Wisbord, national secretary of the Textile Mill Com- of police, who was carrying out a jJast. minute order of the mayor. The meeting was arranged by the part o: factory groups of the organization there. Albert Weisbord was sche- duled to speak at the meeting about the coming convention of textile workers’ organizations, which will, ment that the meetings were being) be held in New York September 22| continued they sent detachments of |and 23, for the purpose of launch-| heavily armed police to the outly-| ing a.new national union of mill operatives. Leaders of the organization work here declared that another meet: ing is already being arranged for despite police prohibition. “If nec- essary,” they stated, “meeting after meeting will be called to test the ‘authority’ of the mill bosses’ city hall office boys, as was done by our Fall River organization.” CLOAK WORKERS DRIVE BROADENS Hold Spirited Delegate Parleys in N.Y., Boston More than one thousand shop delegates, representing many thou- sands of workers in the ladies gar- ment manufacturing industry con- cluded their second monthly shop chairmens’ and delegates’ conference at Webster Hall Tuesday night, with the unanimous adoption of measures providing for the continuance of the organization drive with which they are building the new union and the idening of its scope to take in wil workers. The other outstanding feature of the enthusiastic conference was the | answer given by all the speakers to| the recent public decision of the re- actionary chiefs of the United He- Committee” of underworld charac- ters for the admitted purpose of breaking up left wing meetings and attacking left wine leaders. A Continued on Page Two | | | | Seven hundrel youre wor'rr| athletes from all parts of the United States have already sent} their entry blanks to the _head- quarters of the Labor Sports Union of America, signifying their inten- tion of competing in the Second an- nual track and field meet to be held this Saturday and Sunday at Win- gate Field, Brooklyn, N. Y. Worker-athletes from the entire country will participate in the mma TABOR SPORT OLYMPICS Expect Record Crowd at Meet Saturday games, expected to be the most colorful and successful of any labor sports meet ever held in the coun- try. “From as far west as Cali- fornia, young workers have arrived. Some of them are even now riding the rails, hitch-hiking across the continent to take part in the meet. The program of events includes nearly every standard track and field event. Although no records Continued on Page Three DOCK WORKERS STRIKE AGAINST WAR ON UNIONS Saeco Anniversary Is Signa! for Action Scores Hurt in Clash RIGA, Latvia, Aug. 22 (UP).— Four hundred men were arrested today during a disturbance attend- ing a protest strike of 5,000 har- bor workers. \ trial Mounted police frustrated an at- tempt to ‘invade the courtroom. of Communist agitators. KOVNO, Lithuania, Aug. 22.— of workers were injured in Riga today when police attempted | to break up an open air meeting in the center of the city where the | workers protested against the gov- ernment proclamation disbanding the radical trade unions, and simul- j taneously the longshoremen and workers in several industries went Scores | mittees, was stopped by the chief | on strike. | The fighting began when a rein- ,| forced. patrol ..of ..police. attempted. | to break the demonstration at noon, Taunton unit of the Textile Mill) When thousands of workers were | Committees, and was to be held as| Present. Strikers, workers and sym- | membe f a drive to establish new) Fathizers then withdrew to other/committee of the 'sections of the city and resumed The men struck in protest against Jail Communist HUGO OEHLER ARREST MISSOURI WORKER LEADERS Oehler and Cushing Held Ineemmunicado | KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 22.— the Workers (Communist) Party in the Kansas district, and Cushing, a ber of the district executive (Communist) League of District TOOLS; MANY | CITIES RESPOND | Country Hugo. Oehler, districtorganizer of il 400 as Riga Militants Protes ROSARIO DOWNS \Many Demonstrations’ Held Thruout U.S.S.R. Holds Meets (By United Press.) ROSARIO, Argentina, Aug. 22. —The Jabor unions here have de- cided to call a general strike to- morrow in commemoration of the first anniversary of the Sacco- | Vanzetti executions. | (By United P: space today to the first anniver- sary tomorrow of the Sacco-Van- | zetti executions. The press, recalling the 1927 demonstrations against the execu- tions, said the workers of the world never will forget the Amer- ) ican class murders. oe One year after Sacco and Van- zetti were executed by capitalist jus- * tice, working class demonstrations | have been held all over the United States and throughout the world. __ Rosario. _ | In Rosario, where “ stevedores, | street-car workers, bakers, telephone operators, transportation workers, months and have finally forced the | their meetings in defiance of the|10, were arrested today in front of street car company (Belgium-owned) | police. | When news reached the govern- \ing districts. The workers refused | to disband and latest reports indi- jeate that the street fighting still continues. The decree of the government | disbanding the unions was directed espécially against those unions | which were strong in Communist | membership, which included almost jall the major unions in Latwvia. | Simultaneously with the issuance of the decree many working class | leaders were arrested and the revo- lutionary press ordered suspended. That the first memorial of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti was chosen as the occasion for the | workers’ demonstration and strikes in several industries, has greatly |alarmed the authorities who have feared such an outbreak on August | 22. 4 FUR LOCALS IN _ NEW UNION VOTE ‘Meet Here Tonight Simultaneously | Membets of all four craft locals | every shop in the trade where union|of the left wing New York Joint | conditions are not enjoyed by the|Board Furriers Union, cutters, operators, nailers and -finishers will meet tonight immediately after work to take up the important ques- tion of endorsing the action of their \leaders in launching a new national |union of fur workers. Cutters’ Lo- | brew Trades to organize a “Vigilante | cal 1, Operators’ Local 5, and Nail- ers’ Local 10 meets in Irving Plaza |Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place; | Finishers’ Local 15 will meet in Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second St. | The new union movement, launched at a’ recent conference in which all | but two local unions of the Interna- tional Fur Workers’ Union of the A. F. of L. participated, has already been endorsed by the membership of | three locals at their meetings sev- eral days ago. The last one to take this action was the Boston local which met Tuesday night, according to a report received today. The tremendous sentiment for the construction of a new and real workers organization in the industry has brought about the union wreck- ing policy of the A. F. of L. and socialist officialdom who attempted to destroy the Joint Board because of its left wing leadership. conditions were destroyed. the out Continued on Page Two |the Armour Company’s packing | plant here, while they were speak- |ing to workers employed there, dur- ing the noon lunch hour. Bond was refused them, and ef- forts of friends to see them were | prohibitéd by the police authorities, who arrested them under the insti- gation of the Armour Company of- ficials. to rehire the fired Communist and anarchist. members of the union, all workers have downed their tools, as a memorial to the class murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, and a protest against capitalist justice. U.S. S. R. Every newspaper in the Soviet Union has called the attention of the workers and peasants to the Militant Mine Leader Freeman Thompson, one of the leaders of the National Arrange- ments Committee for a new mine union is having considerable. suc- cess in organizing work in West Virginia. NERS ACTIVE IN UNION DRIVE Unorganized Fields are Responding (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Aug. 22.—Indica- tions of the broadening influence of the movement for union are miners’ the numerous reports which come in to the National Arrangements Com- mittee. * In Fayette County, when or- ganizers succeeded in getting into a a new had here daily in Young Workers) have been on strike for a number of |C°™pany town and told the miners there about the new miners union which was being built to replace the collapsed U. M. W. of A., one miner said: “The whole world is moving and we're standing still!” Two weeks later a strong local was organized. Credentials for three representatives from there were re- ceived today at the Arrangement Committee headquarters. Freeman Thompson on Job! Freeman Thompson is directing Both Oehler and Cushing are be- class murder of Saceo and Vanzetti, the job of reorganizing West Vir- ling held on charges of vagrancy.| They recalled the heroic struggle #inia. | The case will be called for trial at |8 o’clock tomorrow morning. WESTERN UNION ABSORBS POSTAL Morgan Now Supreme Over Telegraph The merger of the Western Union Telegraph with the Postal Telegraph lines, if not already actually ac- complished, is seen here as an im- mediate prospect in the announce- ment made public yesterday that the Postal would in the future use the same wires and services as the Western Union thru an agreement against capitalist justice carried on by the two revolutionary workers, with the eyes of all the workers in the world fixed on the Dedlam court- house. Cherbourg. In ¢Cherbourg., the scene of an angry working class deimonstration on the arrival of the American Continued on Page Five WORKERS ANGRY AT JINGO THREAT Many to Attend Astoria | Meeting Tonight |. The threatening letter received by the District Office of the Work- West Virginia will be. well represented at the National Miners Convention in Pittsburgh, Septem- ber ninth, credentials already re- ceived indicate. Organizers tell many interesting stories about their experience in or- ganizing locals in southern West Virginia. “The men in West Virginia sure are behind the new union!” this or- ganizer says. “I asked one fellow how things were, and he told me that the boys earn enough to buy bread, but they got to send to the old country for enough to buy meat! It’s about time they had a fighting) union! Mothe: Ella Reeve Continued on Pa Bas Relief Being Made for Sacco, Vanzeiti BOSTON, An Bloor writes ge Three (UP).—Gut- jwith the American Telenhone end] ers (Communist) Party from a pa.|z0n Borglum, famed sculptor, has | vice to it. Morgan Move. The agreement is terests which now own both lines, J. |that the meetings being held by the Workers (Communist) Party at the to continue by the Veterans of For- Telegraph Company which controls] triot who signs himself “A Real Vet-|completed a bas relief of Nicola the Western Union and provides ser-| eran,” in which the patrint intimates | Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, the internationally known radicals who were executed for a double murder exvected to|corner of Jamaica and Steinway |at Charleston State Prison a year make millions for the Morgan in-| Aves., Astoria, will not be allowed ago Thursd The bas relief, depicting Sacco P. Morgan and Company is repre-| eign Wars, has enraged thousands of | and Vanzetti in life size, will bear sented on the directorate of the In-| New York workers, and made thern the following inscription, taken ternational Telephone and Telegraph| more than ever determined that from Vanzetti’s last letter Company, the new owner of the| those meetings shall be held every) “What I.wish more than all in Postal, by Russell C. Leffingwell,| Thursday, as scheduled. this last hour of agony is that our one of the Morgan partners. The Communist speakers sched-| case and our faith may be under- | Telephone and several telegraph uled to speak at the corner of Stein- tood in their reo] being and serve messages simultaneously are to be) way and Jamaica Aves, tonight are | as a tremendous lesson to the forces transmitted on the same long dis-| Reiss, Heder, Blake, Tom O'Flaherty |of freedom so that our suffering tance wire circuits of the American and Martin Abern, acting secretary and death will not have been in Telephone and Telegraph Company.| of the International Labor Defense. | vain.” The new “lations between the Telephone and the Telegraph Com- panies are to make use of inven- tions which are expected to elim- inate to a large extent the necessity of parallel pole lines and wire cir- cuits of the two companies, No estimate of the probable econ- omies of the scheine was made ‘by Walter S. Gifford, president of _the American Telephone and Tele- |graph Company, but it is known | that millions will be made. | DELAY FASCIST PLIGHT | HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 22 (UP) —It appeared today that Captain plane, “Roma,” might be obliged to postpene his flight. 4 ‘THE LAND OF VITALITY’ | By SENDER GARLIN | A vivid, enthusiastic report of life | in the Soviet Union has been brought back by Joseph Brodsky, New York jlabor attorney, who has just re- |turned following a visit tasting nearly three months. Leaving this” city on the Acqui- In the| Cesare Sabelli, Italian aviator plan- | tania” on May 30, as leader of a ensuing two year struggle all union | ning a hop to Rome in his Bellanca | group of 65 traveling under the aus- pices of the World Tourists, Inc., | Brodsky visited the larger centers | | Labor Lawyer Returns trom the USSR of the U. S. S. R., spoke to hundreds of workers, ‘peasants, Red soldiers and students. He sat through all the sessions of the Shachta trial of the foreign technicians convicted of criminal sabotage against the So- viet Union ard was in Moscow dur- ing the World Congress of the Com- munist International, which is still in session. “The first impression which: the Continued on Page Three ly “On to Union Square.” a t White Terror 50 SPEAKERS T0 ADDRESS. ClANT MEMORIAL HERE Gitlow, Minor, Nearing Among Speakers at Meet Rain Cause of Delay The demonstration in honor of Sacco and Vanzetti will take place at 5 o’clock today on Union Square. Benjamin Git- low, candidate for vice presi- dent on the Workers (Com- munist) Party ticket, was added to the list of those to speak at the meeting which was postponed yesterday be- cause of the heavy rain. New York’s shops and fac- tories late yesterday afternoon poured forth thousands of workers who thronged Union Square to attend the memorial demonstration called by the New York section of the In- r Defense to com- iversary of the der of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, pte heavy downpour. of . rain which continued thruout the entire day caused the demonstration to be ‘postponed until today at 5 p. m. For over an hour thousands of workers waited about in the square until they were definitely assured that the demonstration would not take place at the scheduled time. Police Arrive. Making good his threat that the New York police department would assign at least 1,000 uni- formed and plainclothes cops to the meeting, Police Commissioner War- ren yesterday instructed his men to exercise “extraordinary police watchfulness over public buildings and the homes of prominent citi- zens” and directed his patrolmen “to arrest on sight anyone distrib- uting handbills in connection with the demonstration.” Inspector, Patrick McCormick, in charge of maintaining “order,” was on hand with a special detail from headquarters. All parades in eon- nection with the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration were prohibited by official ukase. Worker€ Eager. While the possibility of the dem- onstration hung in the balance due to the shifting weather conditions, Continued on Page Two WORKERS GALLED TO SAGCO MEET Labor Defense Issues Statement A to the w ers of New York to come in thousands to the Sacco-Vanzetti memorial demonstra- tion to be held at Union Square to- day at 5 p. m. was issued last night. The call, which is signed by Rose Baron, New York Section of Inter- national Labor Defense which is at~ ranging the meeting, says in full: “To the workers of New York: “The blood lust of the American master class was not slaked with the blood of Sacco and Vanzetti. New frame-ups, arrests, clubbings are the order of the day. The mass protests last August were answered by clubs and bayonets and machine guns. The class war has flared on a dozen new fronts in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Bedford, Fall River and elsewhere. Mooney and Billings are suffering a living death in Folsom and San Quentin prisons. “On to Union Square at 5 today! “Make today’s demonstration a smashing challenge to the forces that strangled Sacco and Vanzetti. Come in your thousands and tens of thousands. Bring your comrades and fellow worker “Remember Sacco and Vanzettil “Release Mooney and Billings! “Challenge the class murderers!