The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 24, 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 NATIONAL EDITION Vol. V., No, 201. Published daily except Publishing Association, SUBSCRIPTION RAT: Outside New : Iv New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. York, by mail, $6.00 per year. LATVIAN 81. - SPREADING THRU TRAM WORKERS 250 More Arrested by Police; Firing ~ Continues Martial Law Planned RIGA, Latvia, Aug. 23.—Fight- Ing between strikers and police was resumed here toda. | The rovernment was considering proclaiming a state of siege. : Two hundred end fifty workers were arrested today in addition to} 409 arrested yesterday. Police were firine continually in the air to in-| timidate the rioters. | Minister of War Kalminisch re- turned from his vacation. The strike movement, which be- gan yesterday among 5,000 harbor workers who walked out in protest against the trie! of Communist agi- tators in the Riga District Court, spread today to the street railway workers. RIGA, Aug. 23.—Police continued | to patrol the streets of this city to- | day following the demonstrations of | thousands of Latvian workers | against the government’s attempt to disband all unions which are pre- | dominantly Communist in composi- | tion. | The demonstration yesterday fol- lowed an’ attempt of the government | to close the offices of a number of trade unions. The unions have a| majority Communist membership. | The suppression orders brought res- | ponse from thousands of workers in the capital in the form of de- monstrations which marched on the center of the town. Police attempt- % \ Victim of Policemen in the Holland vehicle tube. tunnel between New York City and New Jersey severely beat James Bernard (above), when Bernard was driving thru the tunnel. Testimony showed that the assault was absolutely unprovoked, AL TAKES WALL ST. NOMINATION Against Injunctions, If | “Unwarranted” ALBANY, Y., August 22—) Speaking on this anniversary of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti by) American capitalism, but with no sign of recognition of its significance | Alfred 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 ing to stop the marchers fired into t everale party today. is the element: which | proclaims and executes the political |theories against which the party | | liberals like Roosevelt and La Fol-) TO AID WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN Communist Champion of Race, Says Moore Takes Up Challenge In answer to the challenge made in an article that appeared in the New York Amsterdam News by Dr.) Thomas L. Harten, pastor of the Holy Trinity Baptist church of Brooklyn, in which Harten declared that he would give $200 for the campaign of any colored man who is nominated for any office, who would be an actual fighter for th cause of the Negroes, the Workers (Communist) Party, through its candidate for congress in the 21st Congressional District, Richard B. Moore, yesterday made public a let- ter which discusses the points raised by the pastor’s article, The letter, agreeing with Dr. Harten’s summary of the republi- can and democratic parties as not only holding out no inducements for the Negro but being definitely against the entire race, claims his support for the Workers (Commu- nist) Party Negro candidate, Rich- |to the working class of the world,| ari B. Moore. “The Workers (Comzivnist) Par- ty,” the letter reads, “stands forth today as the champion of the op- pressed Negro race and of all other oppressed groups in the country. Unlike the republican and demo- cratic parties, which segregated and excluded Negroes at the na- tional conventions, the Workers (Communist) Party welcomed and seated 24 Negro delékates. These delegates participated on all impor- lant committees, many _serying. as, chairmen of sessions, and helped to draft a program of actgpn for the complete emancipation “of the op- ecepts Challenge TEN ARRESTED AT SACCO MEET IN KANSAS CITY Oehler, Cushing ‘Now Face Long Prison i Sentences ‘Plan Protest Meeting (Special to the Daily Worker) | Hugo Oehler, district organizer of jthe Workers (Communist) Party, land Cushing, a member of the ex- ecutive committee of District 10 of |the Young Workers (Communist) \League, are facing the possibility |‘‘criminal syndicalism” law of this NEW ERA AHEAD state, following a raid on a Sacco- All Eyes Turn to Big! Richard B. Moore, Vanzetti memorial demonstration at Shawnee Park last night. Seven other workers, members of the International Labor Defense, who were arrested at the same time, Convention | were later released. : The attack was instigated by the (Snecial ta the Daily Worker.) | Armour Company of this city, be- PITTSBURGH, Aug. 23.—Sep- fore whose gates « similar meeting tember 9 will mark the beginning of was held the day before, workers a new era for the miners, according charge. At that time Oehler and to the view generally expressed by| Cushing were arrested. They” were progressive mine leaders and rank |jater freed under bail. and file coal diggers who are making) Despite the general police intimi- every preparation for the big na@-| dation which exists throughout the | tional conference which opens here |“ ; city, the International Labor De- on that date. At the headquarters of fonse is mobilizing all forces at its the National Arrangements Commit- = command for a series of protest tee, 119 Federal St. N. S., signs of meetings and a general united front the greatest activity are in evidence. | conference of labor organizations in Our enthusiasm and confidence is | 5 few days. knowledge of the situation.” it was) declared. “Reports from practically | every organized and unorganised’ field are uniform in declaring that; sentiment for the new q Kentucky Active. “Organization work in Kentucky | for instance, is booming,” Jeaders union is ris-} LANE SIGHTED KANSAS CITY. Mo., Aug. 23.— | E Textile picket seized by the Militant Seized in New Bedford Strike ; New Bedford police who have in- | tensified their terror in a vain effort to smash the strike against the wage slash. (Courtesy New Bedford Evening Standard.) ARREST FIVE PICKETS AT NEW BEDFORD MILLS | NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. |23—Four strikers were arrested |this morning, three of. them women, [when, they. insisted on. their. legal | right to picket at the Potomska Mill |gates this morning. Germina Me- | dieros, strike committee member on her way to a meeting at union & ‘Tampico Workers Go| on Strike as Sacco-| Vanzetti Memorial i | | | (By United Press.) TAMPICO, Mexico, Aug. 23.— Price BOSTON WORKERS DEFY POLICE TO HOLD MEMORIAL Hold Meeting in Street After Lock-out at -aine Hall Crowd Cheers Gitlow (Special To The Daily Worker.) BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 23.—In di- rect defiance of local police author- ities who earlier in the day had caused the doors of the Paine Mem- orial hall to be shut, 2,000 workers last night joined in a huge memorial demonstration in honor of Sacco and Vanzetti in the streets outside the hall. Benjamin Gitlow, vice presiden- tial candidate on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket, and principal speaker at the meeting, received a tremendous ovation. Other speakers were Jessica Hen- derson, who opened the meeting on |behalf of the International Labor Defense and Harry A. Cantor, of the Workers (Communist) Party, who acted as chairman. Held but a short distance from the Charlestown state prison where the two workers were a year ago executed by the frenzied business class of New England, the demon. stration was ‘one of the most mil tant held here in many months, Gitlow, reviewing the seven years of torture thru which Sacco and Vanzetti were led, declared that the most effective way to honor their memory is to build the militant, Continued on Page Three { 15,000 JOIN SACO * GFURLOCALS IN jlette and their party insurgents| Pressed masses of America. | stated. NEW UNION VOTE Members of all four craft locals | of the left wing New York Joint) 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-| “The Workers (Communist) Par-) ty, in accordance with its stand for the complete emancipation of the ‘Negro race, nominated three Negro candidates on its state ticket—Lov- ett Fort Whiteman for state comp- troller; Richard B. Moore for con- “Powderly, Browder, Hill- side, Beech Creek are already lined up .with the movement to build a new miners union. When William Duncan, Lewis’ local ‘boss’ comes to the mass meetings with armed gang- sters, with the handles of knives sticking out of their belts and draped ‘Seen Over Greenland | Sunday ; JULIANEHAAB, Greenland, | Aug. 23 (UP).—A plane believed to have been the Greater Rockford was ‘seen on Sunday passing over the headquarters was also arrested on la warrant issued against her on charges of “disturbing the peace.” Maria Valente, Laura Nunes, J0- |seph Gomes and 16-year-old Blanche Almeda after being twice driven |away from the factory gates by a demonstrations today outside the ;American and Italian consulates jand the newspaper El Mundo’s offices in commemoration of the Sacco-Vanzetti executions a year ago. Fiery speeches were made, but | | Communists Denounce Frame-up System In the face of a score of mounted i ; G 4 ist i set, the gover-|squad of police came back to re-!"\there was no disorder, beyond i d torcycl d Board Furriers Union, cutters,|™ent not people, but material| -.2., and Edward Welsh for as-/on their fat stomachs, the men Village of Fiswenaesset, ; [ T : r, bey police, armored motorcycles, an operators, dinllacs atid finishers qoitt| nes”: | Seaabig. sane NSIS TOF 28 |“ mply laugh at him and go on with |nor of South Greenland, announced | form the ews none aoe wee the suspension of traffic. Three| | several hundred uniformed cops and 7 Hf rn Ss) ie c re ‘, meet tonight immediately after; But the governor immediately) The letter concludes with a call their plans for more and more mass today. time, which resulted in the arrests | | general stoppages were reported| | plainclothesmen, about 15,000 New work to take up the important ques- tion of endorsing the action of their, leaders in launching a flew national | union of fur workers. Cutters’ Lo-| cal 1, Operators’ Local 5, and Nail- ers’ Local 10 meets in Irving Plaza tional Fur Workers’ Union of the hastened 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) cratic victory means that they will) and the} to Harten to support the campaign of Richard B. Moore if he is as sin- cere as his article implies, and if he has the true interest of the Ne- gro masses at heart, IN FALL RIVER meetings, organizing more electing delegates. “You've done your share, Dun- can!’ they tell him. ‘You've wrecked what was left of the U. M. W. of A. in Kentucky. Now we're doing this Continued on Page Three locals, | A message from the governor re- ceived at the radio station here said there was no doubt about the plane having passed, as it was seen by the entire population of Fiskenaes- set and the neighboring village of ‘place. on charges of peace disturbance and loitering. | William T. Murdoch, general or- ganizer of the New Bedford Textile Workers’ Union, who was just re- leased from jajl appeared this at noon. CLOAK WOR peel KERS sands of workers in the ladies gar- York workers yesterday crowded the north side of Union Square at the first anniversary memorial dem- onstration of the murder of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. From three platforms nearly 50 Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place; | rights of legitimate business, great, job.’ We are going to- build an|Lichtentel. PICEA aur etc antes ito lead) the speakers representing the Workers Finishers’ Local 15 will + in|or small. Therefore, while I em-) 2 he s sbeebs ‘ +-—. , picket lines. sot z : : subi sappbehart ties Med hasi belief that legitimate! honest, militant miners’ union, and| The plane was sighted a : Podat Ber ie (Communist) Party, left wing trade Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second St. lhaainees cedtwotee tuk ns doentaale a thousand Lewises and Duncans|a. m., Sunday, flying from the | unions, working women’s organiza- The new union movement, launched | hasiness Rei, iy prc ete a can’t stop us!’ north and going low over Fiskenaes- | More than one thousand shop| tions and fraternal societies de- at a recent conference in which all| fare, le Ne Nat dem “Bven in far off Wasington the set, as though looking for a landing delazat cents thon-|nounced the “rapacious system « but two local unions of the Interna-|ruption and favoritism, that dem6-| seat ages White Ags Bgrcaen! Manes | which was responsible for the death of Sacco and Vanzetti,” and ex- A. F. of L. participated, has already| be relegated to the rear 6. a 2 ment manufacturing industry con-| of been saree by the membership of ra es a be Coa the! : aie their wood pesely hop siawliay oes ene ba ls at thei ti ev-| friends of equal opportunity.’ | Th ' chairmens’ and delegates’ conference | 's ve = De aa meee peer es Cay he expected satreat ofthe Tamn- Flays Uniformed Ug | ELECTI N FUNDS NEEDED tees at Webster Hall Tuesday night, with | migrant workers. this action was the Boston local ‘Continued on Page Two Brutality | ‘ Hold the unanimous adoption of measures} Communist speakers declared that which met Tuesday night, according | | \Red Congress olas ee ee Gide eee the overthrow of the capitalist sys- to a report received today. i (Special to the Daily Worker) | S j organization drive with whic ey| tem and the establishment of a dic- The tremendous sentiment for the Japanese War ships to) Eat RIVER, Mass., Aug. 23.—| : ; : Sey 37th Ses sion are building the new union and the tatorship of the working class alone construction of a new and real| Vie With British and Fall River textile workers at a mass __ With the Workers (Communist) Party ticket on the ballot in (Wireless to the Daily Worker) widening of its scope ee tal e in would prevent the recurrence of workers organization in the industry fs 4 H s«| meeting held on Liberty Lot yester-|| fifteen states and at least fifteen more expected to be in the red | | Wee eeW USER. kee. 28 The| every shop in the trade w ere union such brazen frame-ups as was made » has brought about the union wreck- American in @Wall Gay evening welcomed William T.|| column within the next six weeks, the need for funds to cover this | | snietysachenth deskiGn of the: BEAT conditions are not enjoyed by the| i554, Sacco and Vanzetti. ing policy of the A. F. of L. and “i Murdoch, New Bedford strike leader large territory with speakers and campaign literature is becom- | World Congress ao Abe ‘Camuiunict workers. 4 teat ¢ The memorial was quickly turned } socialist officialdom who attempted) HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 23— recently released from jail, with an | ing daily more critical. | World Congress gf the Communist The other outstanding feature of .41,. Yemonstration for immediate | to destroy the Joint Board because | After American and British war- enthusiastic. © demonstration. . This William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow are to start their oe ea aig 23 a Seales the ove ae te Aded oe release of ‘Tom. Mooney: Warsea ia of its left wing leadership. In the) ships have vied to show their ef-|was his first apnearance before || national campaign tours the first week in September, and several | |"0™ 01 August 18 wilt Schirtt | answer given by all the speakers t0 nill'ngs, the Centralia victims and ensuing two year struggle all union| ficiency to the residents of Hawaii jeeting of the Fall River Textile ss fi ieduled ¢ 1 ale woud as chairman. Continuing the colonial | the recent public decision of the cas Pe a sce where conditions were destroyed, the out|at the centennial of the landing of | i11 Committees. | |. other nationally known speakers: sta. scheduled to go on the |debate the following spoke: Fachri | actionary chiefs of the United He-|the other class-wer prisoners con- Continued on Page Two Captain Cook, the Japanese navy i8| I the speech that followed aa shértly. It costs money to neue sbeakers and to print literature. | | o¢ Turkey, Murphy of Britain, Mon- | brew Trades to organize a “Vigilante | fined in American jails and peni- aR ea |now rushing two battleships, bear-| doch commented on the chairman’s | The tremendous circularization of the readers of the Party | |dok of Czechoslovakia, Losovski of Committee” of underworld charac-| tertiaries. Bi ay 7 * * ling the brother of the emperor of | introductory remark that he had press, the sending out of a quarter million pieces of mail, placed || the Red International of Labor| ters for the admitted purpose of/ Speakers at the meeting included No Work; Girl Tries to | Japan, to Hawaiian waters. |been jailed without any justifiable a heavy financial burden on the campaign committee. Thousands Unions, Neumann of Germany, Page| breaking up left wing’ meetings and| Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Kill Self by Poison | The cruisers Yakumo and Idzuma cause. Murdoch declared that he|| of dollars were expended for printing and stamps alone. Unless Arnot of Britain, Devries of Hol-| attacking left wing leaders. A Worker; M. J. Olgin, editor of the | will: be received by the Japanese had been imprisoned for the great- there is a generous response to this appeal, not only will there land, Dutt of India. Continued on Page Two H het aa Tate Communist Cah si official resident on the island with | ect reason that the bosses can have. be né net return for the $100,000 Communist Campaign Fund De-Colonization Theory. Capea ‘ monthly; Bert Miller, organization- BLeRY Base vindteslsoourale a show of pomp and splendor. The “That reason,” said he. “is that I but the campaign itself will be hard hit by the heavy deficit. Murphy opened his speech by say- MORE BOR ER POLIC Led al secretary of District 2, Workers girl who came here several months Vessels will retaliate by maneuver- represented the Textile Mill Commit- The National Election Campaign Committee again appeals to |/|ing that he spoke for himself and) BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 23 (UP).| (Communist) Party; Louis Baum, ago to find employment, yesterday |ing in the harbor, where American |{ees, which had come in and carried, | the readers of the Communist press to contribute generously and not for the British delegation. He|—The addition of 17 members to of the Photographers’ Union; Roger attempted to commit suicide by | battleships are anchored. |on the strike'that Batty had planned| | gt once to the Campaign Fund. |said that he was completely in| the customs border patrol was an- Bee gee Civil ae rs epcars ances yr eae } j ‘| it- 1 i - . * ; at zit vy | wallowing lysol after repeated at} 5 167 OIL MONOPOLY. —_|coy the atfisialdom of the Fall River | If every Communist who reads this appeal will take at least | /Sereement with the theses. He de nounced by Harmy Smith, assistant 15° Tinited Council of Workingelacs | tempts at getting a job had failed ba || one single dollar and send it at once to Alexander Trachtenberg, | |Cared that Bennet gave a menhe- toy of customs. The appoint: | wy aban es : | her. WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 23/ Unions. had sold out the workers) | 45 ‘East 126th Street, New York City, our problem will be solved | | Vist picture of the industrial devel ‘ Vormen; Martin Abern, acting! na; | She was taken to the Atlantic |(UP):—A virtual government mon- “hem the ware cut was enforced | ieeln h ency i t, | {opment in India, Bennet’s de-colon-|ments ere temporary, pending re- | tional secretary of the International re ; ai ar ‘ ine here in January.’ We are also the and the campaign will)go ahead. Help. The emergency is great. Dis rh ; ivil ; Hatble| Labor Defense, and w tame Suc Ss City Hospital in a serious condition. |opoly on oil in Poland is being he raph 4 |] You are urged not only to contribute yourself but also to canvass | | zation ideas would lead to the con- ceipt of the civil service eligible 5 ‘ge number |. Surgeons said she would recover. | planned, it was understood today. ‘mill owners’ most dangerous enemy | 7 ; b ac tha ‘workings dame clusion that no revolutionary pers- list. of others. FS ' because we proceeded to organize | the shop in which you work, the mem| ‘i 0: : Panis a ; Basi eras. paanibU afore the. tn at vi izati i tl Ts 0! ° ne OR BRS = ; jfuauspanse aber kare thet the: Bard Peri ee ernie a tamrane) ane tne tir dustrialization of India, he said. The ( i\ @ | |tvs term “unorganizable.” | : |decisive factor in the colonial rev- FIGHT THE SAME ENEM Y : e S. IN RUBBER GRAB He then launched a slashing at- | Many have already responded, and hundreds of dollars are Jolution Murphy designated as the i = Continued on Page Three (| reaching the National Office for the Campaign Fund, but thou- [aceumulation’ of: imperialist yi a { ‘ | perialist contra one | || sands are needed—and now—and unless the flood of contribu- dievlicnd and’: ent. Malidatrtalination, i | To Force Filipinos to Increase Grants Rescue 32 in Schooner | tions is substantially increased, the campaign will suffer a ter- | The retarding process of industrial’ 5,Q0Q Strikers Honor Sacco, Vanzetti x ’ ‘Wreck Off West Alaska | rible blow. ae : |ization in the colonies is the com-| MANILA, Aug. 23.—The first | leases on the land may be renewed | The. National Tle Cambell eed aad mon character of all imperialist! ¢c,cciol to the Daily Worker) | the day when the world’s workers step in the program of leasing.large | at fifty per year intervals, which! wasttNGTON, At 23 (UP) the class conscious workers who ai ipporting: the |colonial policies, he said. Statistics) rw BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 23.| mourn the death of their martyred ‘A , Aug. by ticket the seriousness of the situation and the urgent need for rove that Britain always followed whags ns, | scale plantations to American syn-| will assure the large rubber cor- " dt ; P y —Over five thousand striking tex-| comrades. Another speaker was A. f i This provii Sheen | erty one men were rescued from funds. Every worker gvho realizes the importance of the election the same policy of hindering the tie work GEL Wit Makinlars | Gantaz, arreatad: leat in th jicates, chiefly for the purpose of | porations. is proviso has“ been| the schooner Moweema, wrecked off F a th cf rtonitiod MEAD weeinenth toradicalize | {4 : k n& {he | tile workers crowded into Saulniers par, arr year in the sultivating rubber, was taken yes- |stipulated-by the large rubber in- the west Alaskan coast, coast guard || Campaign and the Breit! OPPori ts a eeweal as a |_| {industrial development in India with | Lot yesterday at a Sacco-Vanzetti | demonstrations arranged by the low terday with the introduction of ajterests who will not undertake in-| hendquarters was advised by radio Mabel Cia in Pai va ee Ragetaco Dot acintaes the exception of the war years. | memorial demonstration held under cal Portuguese revolutionary paper, " aew land law into the national leg- | vestments under the terms of leases | today, one and join actively in the drive to raise the $100,000 campaign Bennet’s contention that the whole | the auspices of the International La- | “A Luta.” — \ ‘ 2 \slature. The law would increase | which might expire at shorter per-| Tha mtn were placed on board fund. |Indian bourgeoisie is already in the por Defense. G. Zamieras, representing the 4 she amount of land which may be| iods. ’ the cutter Haida and taken to Un- If you have not already acted, help now and save the |counter-revolutionary camp, he Out of a sick bed, Augustus Pin-| Workers (Communist) Party, in an i leased from the government to 5,000| The present land laws, which|alaska. The Moweema is owned by campaign from a most disastrous blow just when we are be- | termed a false statement. x | to, the heroic young strike leader impassioned speech in Portuguese | vectares. prevent the leasing of large acre-|the Alaska Cod Fishing Co. of San ginning to go full steam ahead. ‘We must stand on the basis of came to the meeting, declaring he | declared that the oligarchy that had ki The law further provides that Continued on Page Three Francisco, 2S) RES SERRA RES Py Continued on Page Three | felt he must speak to the strikers on | Continued on Page in 7 ‘ ¥ : b)