The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1928, Page 1

J INTER \ THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT ee Daily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the net of March 3, 1878. ar f ° BOROUGH RESPONSIBLE FOR 35 MORE DEATHS FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by The Nati Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Uni Vol. V., No. 202. 1 Daily Worker NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1928 IN RUSH-HOUR SUBWAY SMASH-UPs COMPANY KNEW OF FAULTY SWITCH Train Crammed With Workers Split in Two on | Concrete Stanchion Mayor Walker Views Tragedy; Pleased Cement Support Was Strong BULLETIN IN CONFORMITY WITH THE HABITUAL PRACTICE OF THE NEW YORK TRACTION OFFICIALS, AN ATTEMPT WAS LAST NIGHT BEGUN TO SHIFT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE | DEATH OF AT LEAST 35 PERSONS AND THE MUTILATION OF AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF OTHERS IN THE TIMES SQUARE CRASH TO THE SHOULDERS OF THE MAINTENANCE AND TRAIN WORKERS. THE REAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE TRAGEDY WAS | INADVERTENTLY STATED BY MAYOR WALKER, FOLLOWING A VISIT TO THE SCENE LAST NIGHT, WHEN HE SAID THAT HE “UNDERSTOOD THAT THE SWITCH HAD BEEN REPORTED FAULTY.” een eae (By United Press) A southbound Interborough subway express train waa ‘wrecked at Times Square late today, derailing three cars and) telescoping two others. An ambulance attendant at Bellevue Hospital told the United Press he had seen 35 bedies laid out in the Times Square station and he believed all of them were dead. The train was wrecked on a split yswitch., _/Thousands of persons, t hame at the eve-) ning rush hour, were stranded on subway platforms. Extra) police were called to kecp order. | Just before 6 p. m. Mayor Walker arrived at Times Square. | Then he came out and in the midst of a group of newspapermen | said: “there will be an investigation.” i “Terrible and deplorable as this is, we find some comfort in the splendid subway construction where a train would split in half, yet only one supporting column was destroyed. The) rest of the structure is safe.” | FIVE HOSPITALS CROWDED. Hours after the accident ten blocks in the heart of the | Times Square district, where the wreck occurred, were still closed and under police guard, with none permitted to enter. At five hospitals 100 surgeons were busy attending the injured and reviving those who were shocked and fainted. In morgue rooms there were strewn gruesome relics of the havco which had occurred when the thing all New Yorkers fear | came suddenly upon the city. | It was just 5:10 p. m., with the rush of home going traffic | approaching its peak, when the accident occurred. On the! Times Square subway platform, and every other subway plat- form in lower Manhattan, there were crowds, almost countless in numbers, milling abont and waiting for trains. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company’s New Lots! e Avenue express train of 10) VICTIMS: steel cars, southbound, whirled | | When this edition of the Daily | Worker went to press, only six of | |the 35 or more dead had been iden- into the Times Square station. | Jammed in Cars. “Let ’em off; let ’em off,” |tified. They were: shouted the guards and a few) DEAD. 35 ARE KNOWN DEAD; SCORES DYING ‘Golden Tag WORKERS IN BIC Days of Wall Street Parties Mr. Bird Coler, how about pro- hibiting the Golden Tag Days of the two corrupt parties of capi. talism? * William F. Kenny, of New York, to Al Smith’s campaign fund, in return for fat construction con- tracts. with the New York public utilities corporations at the hands of Gov. Smith’s Public Service Com- mission. Herbert Lehman, banker, identi- fied with the importing interests, $10,00. William Todd, ship builder, doing much contracting work for the city of New York, $5,000. James J. Riordan, head of the County Trust /Co., of New York, $5,- 000. ee peas ag Al Smith’s pre-convention cam- paign in 1920 cost $121,471. The republican party spent $566,364 to put over Calvin Coolidge. The two capitalist parties spent (officially) $730,981 to put over Calyin Coolidge in 1920. This does not include crooked transactions in mysterious “black satchels” that are, naturally, not recorded. es me “Official” reports of pre-election campaign contributions to the Washington offie of the Hoover or: @anization state that $43,150 in that office alone, The ‘other $337,672 Hoover fund collected at other G. 0. P. stations was not disclosed. Gen- erous contributors included Edsel Ford, Julius Rosenwald, of Sears, Roebuck Co., and others. * * * * Enormous sums of money were collected by both democratic and re- publican parties during the cam- paign of 1924. Corruption and thievery reigned supreme and the backers of the two Wall Street can- didates did not even disguise the brazen fashion in which the elec- tion was being bought up. Some of the contributors to the G. 0. P, fund in 1924— Joseph R. Grundy, Bristol, Pa., president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association, $50,- 000; William Wrigley, Jr., Chicago, Continued on Page Two FIGHT THUGGERY IN AGW, IS GALL Forming themselves into a “Com- mittee for the Reinstatement of Abe |Jacobs, of Wililam P. Goldman’s | shop, militant workers in that large factory yesterday issued a circular calling oh tne approximately 500 left the train, their places, James P. Cedmore, Manhattan. taken by as many as the guntde) William McDonald, Bronx. workers there to demand the return to the job of the worker who was CENTERS RALLY TO BACK PARTY Organizers are Busy in Drive to Line Up Maine Negroes Support Drive Five of the six New England states comprising one of the greatest indus- trial sections of the United States will be on the Communist ballot in this election campaign according to a report made to the Central Execu- tive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party by Alexander Trachtenberg, chairman of the Na- tional Election Campaign Committee who has just returned from a tour of New England. Massachusetts. Rhode Island, Con- necticut, and New Hampshire are already certain to be on the ballot and the Campaign Committee of Dis- trict one with headquarters in Bos- ton, plans to send an organizing crew into Maine to whip that rock- ribbed center of reaction into line as soon as their work is complete in the other states. Heightens Campaign. Having already placed more states on the Communist ballot than the total in the 1924 campaign the Na- | tional Election Campaign Committee is sending representatives from New York headquarters into the various districts to spur the comrades into increased activity. Added interest is attached to the Maine fight because of the fact that the placing of the Communist ticket on the ballot there will mean a clear- cut fight between the Workers (Com- munist) Party and the Republican Party, the Democratic Party having quit the field in this election cam- paign and the Socialist Party being nowhere in evidence. There were only two New England states on the ballot in 1924, Massa- chusetts and Rhode Island. The Communists polled a bigger vote in Massachusetts in that year than the Socialist Party and this year be- cause of the activities of the Com- munists in the New Bedford and Fai: River textile strike and the general activities of the Party in behalf of the workers in all other industries. the workers of New England are rallying to the Party standard and helping energetically in the munist campaign. In New Bedford alone the striking textile workers guaranteed to collect half the necessary number of signa- tures to place the Workers (Com- munist) Party ticket on the ballot and in Rhode Island the textile work- ers, impressed with the work of the Party in Massachusetts are turning |to the Party as the cnly political leader of the exploited masses. The Socialist Party is practically eliminated in New England, Comrade Continued on Page Five Com- | WORKERS PARTY ON BALLOT IN 5 NEW ENGLAND ST SCRIPTION RATES: Im New Outside New York, y Release at N. Y, Sacco-Vanzetti Meeting TR a, Ki LS 18,000 workers braved a heavy rain in Union Square, New York, Thursday to demonstrate against capitalist “justice” at the Sacco-V Janzetti memorial meeting. They pledged to smash the frame-up sys- tem and voiced a demand for the immediate release of all class war prisoners. The demonstration was held under the auspices of the New York section of the International Labor Defense. LEWIS MACHINE Kellogg Dodges COLONIAL ISSUE y Sacco-Vanzetti ny RED CONGRESS GRANTS 85 DA Aim to Break Ranks of Ohio Miners / COLUMBUS, Ohio., Aug. 24.— Officials of the Lewis-Hall machine have worked out another betrayal of the miners im a so-called agree- ment signed up for about fourteen miners in district 6 which call for a wage scale of $5.00. Most of the operators to whom the concession was granted belong to the Central Ohio Operators As- sociation. Four of the mines are said to be in the Hocking Valley, | one in the eastern Ohio district, and the remainder in Tuscarawas county. The contract is dated September 1, and terminates March 31, 1930. It calls for $5 a day and 70 cents a ton for cutting and loading. Rank and file miners and militant leaders are organizing their forces for the convention for a new miners union to be held in Pittsburgh September 9-16, as the only way to protect the coal diggers from the| betrayals of the Lewis machine. MEXICAN LABOR Demonstrators PARIS, Aug. 24. — Secretary of state Kellogg arrived in Paris this morning having changed his entire schedule in an effort to dodge a Sac- co and Vanzetti demonstration which he feared was waiting to receive him at the depot. All he succeeded in outwitting was a small crowd of Americans who were waiting to welcome him on the wrong platform. Surrounded by a phalanx of gendarmes and intelli- gence service officers, the small fig- ure of the American secretary was; hustled out of his compartment be- fore he was whisked away thru a little used side-door of the depot. Elaborate precautions were taken by the French and American intelli- gence service conjointly to protect the secretary from Sacco and Van- Continued on Page Three BIG PICNIC TODAY AT ULMER PARK Thousands of left wing workers of New York, representing every nationality and every industry in the city, will meet today at Ulmer Indian Delegate Tells of British Rule At World Congress of the Com- munist International now in session Contreras declared that the main aim of the Latin-American Parties must be to found a workers’ and peasants’ alliance between Latin- America and the United States. He said that Humbert Droz’s slogan of Latin-Americanism was dangerous. The Indians must receive more at- tention, he said. The Communist Party of the United States has not fulfilled its tasks in the anti-imper- ialist struggle, he declared, and the Central Committee of the Party is responsible. Pepper declared that the funda- mental line of the theses was cor- rect. India was really agrarian and dependent on the motherland, he said. He thought that Bennet’s ideas of decolonization were wrong. India, he said, has practically only light industries which cannot trans- form an agrarian into an industrial country. The transformation was only possible, he said, by the pro- duction of the means of production. Ninety per cent of British capital was sent to India, not for industry but for state loans. The basis for the revolutionary situation in India, he continued, is the collisicn of im- | peal directly to the Price 3 COLLECTIONS 10 BE MADE TODAY, TOMORROW HERE [Commun ists Expose Fake Tammany Alibi Volunteers toCoverCity In complete defiance of the threat |of the Tammany police department which yesterday indicated that it would take steps to halt the Red Tag Day collections, the Workers (Communist) Party will p: with its program, it w last night at the New Y office of the Party. All the forces of the Party be mobilized for the collect to- day, and the entire city will be blanketed with thousands of volun- teers who will invade all sections of Greater New York “We propose to go forward with our collection,” John J. Ballam ing organizer of District nounced last night. “We shall a working clacs and carry out our original plans in spite of the attempts of Mr. Coler to prevent us.” Announcement had been made yesterday by. Police Commissioner Warren that he would act on the in- structions of Bird S. Coler, Com- missioner of Public Welfare, advis- ing him of the Communist collection and that “any collection of moneys by party workers would be in viola- tion of the ordinances of the city of New York.” A Tammany Order. Calling attention to the obvious political character of the order, the statement charges: “Mr. Coler’s party — Tammany Hal!—has access to the money bags Continued cn Page Three GITLOW SCORES TAG DAY THREAT Urges Workers Defy Tammany Order In a scathing statement issued last night from the national cam- paign headquarters of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, 43 E. 125th St., Benjamin Gitlow, the Party’s _vice-presigential candi- date, denounced the action of the Tammany police department in threatening to bar the Red Tag Days scheduled for today and to- morrow. Characterizing the move as a Park, Brooklyn, at the festival of | IN SACCO MEET =: Trade Union Educational Lea- perialist capital with the pre-capi-| vicious attack by Tammany Hall talist conditions of India. The In-| upon the Workers Party, and urging dian bourgeoisie was not completely | the workers of the city to redouble could squeeze inside the fr: With effort, the doors of the| 10 cars were closed and inside| each car was packed 200 or! more people, men and women, clerks, office workers, profes- | sional men and women, labor- ers. The heavy train pulled out, leaving hundreds of peo- ple still on the platform, wait- ing for other trains. | Just about a city block be-| yond the end of the platform, | there is a switch on the ex-| press track. The first seven! cars of the train passed swift- y over it with only the usual! lack and clatter. | Fic the eight car, for a reason which may never be known, in rail- road parlance “split the switch” and went hurtling from the track. The momentum carrier it on. About 100 feet from the switch jt smashed with a deafening crash into one of the great, steel pillars which sup- port the street above. ‘ The impact tore the car in half and ripped it loose from the for- ward seven cars of the train. The forward half smashed and plunged jts way alone some 200 feet above etna Crone, Far Rockaway, 1 James Benke, Far Rockaway, L: I. George Frey, Rockville. Centre, at | | Workers Union. West 30th St. station. .. Vincent Mangario, thirty-one, No. 175 Trimble Avenue, Clinton, N. J., at St. Vincent’s Hospital. THE INJURED The names of the injured, accord- ing to first reports, were: Beckler, Mrs. B., thirty-one, No. 237 West 12th St., shock; at St. Vin- cents Hospital. Blanchard, George, low St., Brooklyn. ‘ Cornello, Tony, satitan No, 243 Wil- Fricario, Andrew, twenty-nine, No. 324 Wilkinson Ave., Jersey City, lacerations; St. Vincent’s Hospital. Gerrity, John, twenty-nine, No. 358 57th St. Brooklyn, head and back injured; at St. Vincent's Hos- pital. Gentry, John, thirty-four, No. 350 57th St., Brooklyn, lacerations; at New York Hospital. Gomez, Ricardo, twenty-eight, No. 75 South St., returned home. Grunkett, Guy, eighteen, No. 708 West 184th St., lacerations; Poly- clinic Hospital. Harvey, Lillian, twenty-four, No. 946 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, con- tusions of both legs; New York Hos- pital. | Ave. | other hundreds of workers in the | | | | | | recently severely slugged by the! business agent of the Lapel Makers | Local of the Amalgamated Clothing | FISHING SMACK DISABLED — The fishing vessel, Orion, Gloucester: Mass., is disabled at lati- tude 48.41 north: longitude 69.37 west with a broken shaft, a radio mes- sage from the S, S. Gytsun, received here today said. Because he was known to the right wing gangster officialdom to be a left winger, Business Agent Frunzi and a squad of other thugs came into the factory and assaulted Jacobs while he was at work, knock- ing out three teeth, slashing his lip and then emptying’ his pockets of a pay envelope just received contain- ing $44. . The attack was made because the A HUNDRED PER CENTER. ROME, Aug. 24 (UP). — Secre- tary Turati of the fascist party, in a circular to fascist federations today, deplored th® use of forei¢n sparkling | wines at fascist banquets in prefer- ence to the native beverages. “Such Continued on Page Two | snobbishness is intolerable,” he said. yesterday on the anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Marching defiantly before the American consulate, they carried placards denouncing “Yankee im- perialism” and “the assassins of Sacco and Vanzetti. | The demonstration continued for |three hours and forced the closing |of stories in many parts of the city. Traffic was completely paralyzed. Three speakers were arrested for making “statements offensive to the Mexican army.” | MEXICO CITY, Aug. 24.—Several | CHATHAM, Mass,, Aug. 24 (UP),| thousand militant Mexican workers of staged a fier}: demonstration here | Sue. A list of sport events will be staged, after which there will be general potato races, fat men’s races (of whom there is a scarcity among the left wingers), and others. In evening several well known revolutionary poets will read their creations in a Poet’s Forum, led by Mike Gold, editor of the New Masses. Those who will participate are Edwin Rolfe, Hebry Heich, Jr. George Henry Weiss, Beatrice Sis- kind and A. B. Magil. Ulmer Park may be reached by |taking the B.-M.T, West End Line to Twenty-fifth Avenue, 650 ATHLETES AT BIG LABOR SPORT MEET TODAY Men and Women Workers Will Participate in Thirty One Events Here The biggest workers’ athletic mect ;the meet. From Sudbury and To- |Jokinen were the two high scorers|to give every athlete a chance. ever held in the United States will | ronto, Canada, five athletes have get under way at Wingate (P. §, A, /Come, making the trip in a has-been | |Ford. Milwaukee, Waukegan, Chi- L) Field, Brooklyn, N.Y. at 2 | cago, Duluth, Superior, Claraland, o'clock today. Thirty-one track and Buffalo and other cities have sent field events, soccer, swimming and athletes to the meet. In all, 24 cities @ mass drill will top the program. |are represented. Strong Waukegan Trio. lof last year’s meet. the honors in the short distance | events. | Expect Records to Fall. | Last year’s 100-meter record of | Five Negro athletes are also tak- | ing part. They are favored to grab the stanchion. The rear half tele- scoped into the two cars behind it The 200 or more people in the Kammille, Ted, No. 1650 59th St., Brooklyn, sprained ankle. © In the mass driil alone, 300 will par- | ticipate. |11.2 seconds will undoubtedly fall Waukegan, Ill., has probably sent before the onslaught of the sixty the strongest trio of athletes of any athletes who will take part in this |Nearly all of the trials and semi- nals will be held on Saturday, with the exceptions of the 3,000-meter walk, the 400-meter district relay race and the 5,000-meter run. The big feature of the Sunday program, which starts at 10 a. m. ‘and continues through to 6 p. m., will be the mass drill. Three hun- dred trained men and women will ;the miner Continued on Page Three MINE DISTRICTS. DRIVE FOR UNION PITTSBURGH, Aug. 24.—“The United Mine Workers of America is dead! Long live the new union!” This is the ringing slogan now resounding throughout the mine fields as preparations for the con- vention of September 9-16 are speeded up. The National Arrange- ments Committee of which John Watt is chairman and Pat Toohey is secretary, has been receiving re- ports from numerous districts indi- cating the rising sentiment of the coal diggers for a new and militant union under their own control. Unionism and militancy is in the life blood of the coal diggers! Texas to Pennsylvania, east to west, or- ganized and unorganized fields— is a union man. He knows the value of solidarity, the need for militancy and struggle. September 9, everyone predicts con- fidently, will prove the accuracy of this estimate of progressive leade: Throughout District 12, thou ands of miners are getting together their energies in the drive, Gitlow said: “Bird S. Coler and Police Com- missioner Warren are determined to prevent the Workers (Communist) Party from collecting funds from the workers for the Communist Elec- tion Campaign. This vicious attack upon the Workers (Communist) Party is being made by the Tam- many Hall Al Smith adminstration of New York. Al Smith does not seek campaign contributions from the workers. He gets his from Mr. DuPont, the powder and explosive king of America. He gets his from the big fat boys of Wall Street. The Standard Oil crowd, General Motors, the power interests, the traction ij terests, the trusts and super-trusts are out to elect Al Smith. They will supply millions to elect Al Smith | president. These millions they have robbed from the sweat and toil of the workers and poor farmers. They | want to elect Smith to continue the reign of Wall Street and a strike- | breaking government. Hoover will jalso get millions from the same crowd for the same purpose. The millions that will be spent by Wall | Street for election purposes are for corruption in government, wage cuts, injunctions, breaking up of | picket lines, jailing of workers, framing up of innocent workers, Sacco and Vanzetti executions, and \imperialist world war. Keane, Anna, amputation of left Athletes from all parts cf the|one city, in Paul Venhe, Arne Joki- event. It will be necessary to run Continued on Page Two cauntry hava enma ta New Vork farinen and A. Karjala. Venhe and/12 trial heats in this event in order, Tee eet “The textile strikers of New Bed- _ Continent nm Dana Tan ie 3 \ s ‘ jrroninlinnsatidlurd diaalsnohenteiensonntdaduti orateerchiessbaiss telat ee ae eighth car, which had ‘been torn take part in this drill. For three Continued on Page Two Continued on Page Five in mass meetings, to protest against Continued am Dawa Ese 1 .