The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1928, Page 2

Page Two Scenes of Ho LIMBS BROUGHT TO SURFACE IN BLOODY BASKETS Relatives Besieging the Morgues, Hospitals of City Disaster on West Side Continued apart, were t perhaps -half tracks, against: s der the wheels of t Through the tra shriek of hundreds with ne, But t closely pa om Page One wildly them nchions, even rown, abi onto the un: s be’ there went the people, Wow r but it was a futile fight for they could hardly move. Someone tore open a window one of the rear cars; then another and _. another. People scrambled out. Electric Fire. Peter Molthef of Manhattan saw two women beside him. Their faces were pale and their forms were stiff. He thought they were dead. He lifted them both through a door, left them on the track, and sought safety for himself. Men pulled other men and women through doors and windows after them. Everyone seemed to scream for a moment and then to concen- trate upon winning safety for him- self and his fellows. A hiss went through the wrecked cars and blue smoke curled from the electrical wiring, short. circuited and burning.- But the fire was soon out. “As I fled from the place,” Peter Molther said, “I could see bodies strewn along the track clear back as far as the stanchion which the car hit, and I could see arms and legs and parts of bod: It was a fright- ful vision and I can never forget it.” Shrieks of Terror. Back on the Times Square plat- form, where hundreds were crowded waiting for trains, the people heard a crash, thena shriek, and a shout of terror; the thundering of the de- railed cars as they plunged along the track; and the hiss of the short- lived fire; all in such a brief space of time none could tell what sound had followed the other. Thecries were echoed from. the crowd on the subway) platform. Like sheep, the people crowded towards the end ofthe station from which the terrifying sounds had come; then turned- and fought for the exits. By 7:30 ‘p..m. 250. workmen were engaged repairing the damage to the subway—that New York might 3 These (right) were burned to death on ti GITLOW SCORES TAG DAY THREAT Urges Workers Defy Tammany Order remarkable photos were Continued from Page One ford and Fall River are getting a taste of Hoover-Smith big business government. “Defy the Wall Street powers who want to crush the labor move- ment and prevent a campaign in interests ‘of the workers and farmers being carried. on in the United States today. “Roll up a mighty contribution »m the workers for the Commu- the campaign. “Redouble your conjgibutions to the Communist electio® campaign. Let dolla: come from workers to the Communist Campaign Fund as an answer to the dastardly attack against the. workers by the Wall Street plunderbund. “Solidarity among the workers. Full support. to the Workers (Com- munist) Party. “Down with the parties of Wall Street and the candidates of Big Business. “Carry on a mighty; Communist campaign for Workers and Farm- ers Government.” THE VICTIMS OF SUBWAY CRASH Labor’s Martyrs Immediately After Murder—Capitalist THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, ATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1 938. rror as Hundreds Are Trapped in Rush- Class Justice CANDIDATES OF WORKERS PARTY TO FIGHT CASEY G. O. P. and Democrats Back Labor Faker WILKES-BARRE, Aug. 24— John J. Casey is the president of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor, the suecessor of Jim Maurer. Mr. Casy is ot only a so- cialist. He represents Luzerne County in Congress, elected on the republican, democrat, and socialist tickets. The honorable congressman is a typical labor faker, a good illustra- Sasa - tion of the fusion of the “non-parti- ; i a 3 i san” A. F. of L. machine with the p taken immediately after Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti capitalist parties. Because’ Mx. he electric chair on August 22, 1 Casey started his career as a break- WORKERS PARTY HAS MINE PAPER er-boy and because he comes from a district where the majority of the voters are union men, he is posing as a friend of labor. Last February he delivered a speech about the strike in congress, appealing to the representatives of Theremin, Noted Soviet Musician, in Program at Stadium on Monday Professor Leon Theremin, noted the Mellons and Reckefellers to re- Soviet scientist and musician, and = lieve the suffering of the miners and inventor of the Theremin-Vox, y. TT to save the country from the Bolsh- which: produeas’ musio from the potanton Nucleus Will Si sce. Meurer: can be well ether, will appear as solo artist at proud of his suceessor—this flag Push Election Drive the Lewisohn Stadium, Convent aS waving, _red-baiting, publican-| Ave. and 139th St, next Monday, wit KRESBARRE, Pas, Aug. 24, democratic-socialist politician. the Stadium Concerts Committee Spies ee see Casey is running again for re- anagancel: poland. The first coal’ diggers’ paper ever Professor Theremin, with three of issued by a Workers (Communist) his pupils assisting him, will pre- |Party mine nucleus, appeared yes- sent a program of well-known clas- terday with the publication of “The sies as well as the improvisations Mifers’ Blast,” that featured his recent program at the Daily Worker Concert at the Coney Island Stadium. He will be accompanied by the entire Phil- harmonic Orchestra in several of his renditions. BARE RIGHT WING MURDER ATTEMPT Sorkin, ex-McGrady | Man, Exposes Plot election. The labor misleaders are working hard to get him in. Of course, the socialist party: is not go- ing to oppose him. He will have the united coal-operators-“labor” support, which will mean election. The Anthracite Sub-district of the Workers (Communist) Party of America is going to put up a strong fight against Casey, as well as the other capitalist politicians. A rank- and-file miner will run as candidate in his district against him. The class collaboration of the A. F. of L. will be fully exposed, and the miners rallied behind the Party of the Class Struggle. Benjamin Gitlow, vice-presidential candidate of the Workers Party, will devote quite some time in his speech to the Caseys, Lewises, and the other fakers. He will speak at the mons- ter Picnic and Rally in Sans Souei Park, Saturday, September Ist. Judging from the interest of the miners and the publicity given to it by the capitalist papers, this affair | will be a great success in our elec- tion campaign. Perfect New Airplane for Militaristic Use | A new type of airplane, reported shop-paper of the miners in the vicinity of Stanton, Pa. This is the first miners* nucleus paper that has ever been isssed in the United States, Introducing itself to the coal dig gers, the “Miners’ Blast” prints an editorial, part of which follows: “The Miners’ Blast is published by a group of miners in Stanton, organized: in the mine nucleus of the Workers (Communist) Party, the revolutionary organization of the American working class. It is your paper, the paper of the rank and file, the miner, the laborer, driver, breaker-boy, of all thé work. ers employed: in and around the mine, Accusations of startling cold-; “The Miners’ Blast is appearing bloodedness were levelled at the|at a time when conditions in Stan- right wing scab Joint Council of the netted piggies panes oP bil Fey cs is ry as a.whole, is be- pai He te oy utes |coming increasingly worse day by a re es day. Unemployment, wage-cuts, and ‘ elm of the drive speed-up mark the’ offensive of the to destroy the fur workers union| operators, who gloating over their conditions. victory in the soft coal fields, are ride to work in haste again Satur- day morning, or perhaps even ride home from the theatre tonight. While the city andthe transit company centered efforts on rescue at Times Squere, thousands crowded platforms: at stations along the route, and extra police had to be sent to each platform to maintain order. It was mid-evening before the last of these home-goers had been moved away on emergency trains which were routed over the Broadway and East Side subways. Many of them were hours late. “It was mid-evening before the work of identification of the dead and injured was more than well un- derway. It may be dawn before it is completed. About 10.\p. m. Frank Hedley, president of the Interborough, came to the Seventh Precinct Headquar- ters and for 10 minutes talked with two assistant district attorneys in an inner office. Hedley left, ac- companied by two detectives, refus- ing to make any comment. Rumors went around tWat he was under techrtical arrest but these were de- nied by officers who said he had been directed to produce immedi- ately the switch inspector who responsible for permitting the train to cross aswitch which was not in good repair. Contributions See 1—Shop Nuc 1, N, Y. C..3.75 Sec. 1—3F, New York City 3. Sec. 1—2F, New York City. Sec. 1—2I, New York Cit Sec. 1—1F, New York City P. Glasser, New York Cit CG. Labron, New York City Brown, New York City... J. Reiner, New York ‘ Pizer, New York City.. Kahn, New York City. Klein, New York City. Blum, New. York City......1. M. Feinblatt, New York City... Risher, New York City.. i Fredrick, New York City.. 3g S Continued from Page One leg;-Pol¥clinic Hospital. Keenan, Anna, at Polyclinic Hos- pital. Kenway, E., thirty-five, No. 108 Rockaway~ Boulevard, Rockaway Beach, fractured shoulder, to New York Hospital, Kraft, Emma, forty-seven, No. 101 East- Forty-first St. Kreunter, John, No. 71 Willow St., Brooklyn. Larecomb, William, thirty-three; Perth Amboy, N. J., multiple abra- sions of scalp, left knee and_shoul- der. M’Groarty, Anna, No. 20 Rensen St., Brooklyn, Polyclinic Hospital. MiteheM, William, lacerations; Polyclinic Hospital. McGarrity, Anna, at Polyclinic Hospital. Palange. Alice, twenty-one, No. 793 Baker Ave., Bronx; abrasions of legs, at New York Hospital. Rabinowitz, David, sixteen, No. 585 Powell St., Brooklyn, lacerations of face, abrasions of left knee; treated at Bellevue Hospital. ~ Rabinowitz, Isidor, thirty-one, No. 322 East 19th St., Brooklyn. Seanlon, E. ., twenty-nine, No. 219 Washington, lacerations of scalp, at New York Hospital. Sebold, Elizabeth, nineteen, 385 Beach 87th St., Rockaway. Whitman, Mabel, thirty, Brooklyn, No. Weisman, Louis, thirty-seven, 81 Nassau’ St., contusions. Wortendyke, Frank, thirty-three, Mahwah, N. J. Mr. Plunkeet. An unidentified woman about 30 years old Crafp. Emma, 47, Manhattan. Price, Morris, 52. Brooklyn. 5 Spain Dictator Exiles Soldiers and Civilian Opponents to Colonies LISBON, Aug. 24 (UP).—Maior “Forty thousand dollars were used |"°W preparing to attack and smash by the scab council in payments to|the union in the anthracite also.” those who were to ‘wipe out of exist- The editorial, after. showing up ance’ one of the leaders of the left/the betrayals of Lewis’s corrupt wing Joint Board Furriers’ Union,” {clique ends with a call to all the was the statement made by Hyman) miners to write for the paper and Sorkin, until recently a leader of | to participate in the election cam- the seab council and therefore in a paign of the Workers (Communist) position to know, This statement! Party, was made by Sorkin at a meeting of the Progressive Bloc which split away from the council in order to igin the movement for a new union sponsored by nearly all fur union locals. Sorl ‘GOP Appoints Machold N. Y. Campaign Head Ss tiated by facts already known since labor power magnate of New York, declaration is substan-| H. Edmund..Machold, big anti- it can be recalled that Aaron Gross, Was yesterday chosen by the repub- Joint Board leader, was murderously |lican State Committee to succeed assaulted by thugs who slashed his | George K. Morris as G. 0. P. Cam- throat in an effort to kill him. paign manager of New York State. After his selection had been as- sured, Machold, following in: the footsteps of John J. Raskob, went through the same gesture of “of- ficially resigning” his post as presi- dent of the Northwestern Power Company. Sorkin also bared facts relative to this attempt. He declared that in order to avoid the possibility of | future investigation on the big sums |paid out, finance books were de- stroyed. Furthen‘in the expose, it was learnt that, at the time Gross was attacked, the “socialist” party eit? leader, Bearak, was in New York yPUGs. and was the recipient ofa number », MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Aug. 24 of checks averaging $6,000, Bearak (UP).—The crew of the steamer CREW SAVED B} refuses to explain whether these Lbrador was.saved by tugs today, when the vessal struck a sunken reef off the Isl¢ of Gorriti. Water flood- ie the ship through a hole in the side. huge sums were for himself or for people who were to do the “work.” Further disclosures made later by Sorkin, interestingly portray the complete demoralization reigning in the camp of the right wing union destroyers. A special ‘gang of Who wins when you read your bosses’ paper? to be a compromise between the \Speakers and -Agitprop ‘Conference at 2 Today A ‘special conference of Workers (Communist) Party and Young Workers (Communist) League open- air meeting speakers and agitprop directors will be held at the Work- ers Center, 26-28 Union Square, fifth floor, at 2 p. m. today Bert Miller, organizational secre- tary of District 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party, will lead the discussion on “The History and Rec- ords of the Major Capitalist Parties in this Country.” ARREST 175 FOR ~~ LESE MAJESTE Peasants are Jailed by Japanese Terror TOKIO, “Japan, Aug. 24.—The temporary suspension of police cen- sorship has revealed that 175 men jand women, chiefly peasants, were arrested in this countr: j zeligiqns practises whic! form of primitive collect m. The devotees are alleged to have seceded from the Shinto faith and the leaders of the moyement have exhorted their followers to con- tribute their wealth to the common suport of their sect. The govern- ment charged that this is a form of | Communism and proceeded against them on accusations of lese majeste to the emperdr. Many of the adherents to the sect are peasants upon whose credulity their religious teachers imposed. BRITISH PREPARE DIRIGIBLE BASES LONDON, Aug. 24.—Bases for giant dirigibles are now being con- \structed by the British government in Cardington, England; Ismailia, Egypt; Karachi, India; St. Hubert, | Canada, and Groutville, South Af- rica. Additional bases will be built in Australia and New Zealand. The bases are being built to ac- commodate the giant airships that are now being built in England. They are capable of carrying 100 men, can travel a distance of 4,000 miles at a stretch and will use heavy |oit as fuel instead of gasoline. | This, together with the world- | wide wireless communication com- hine recently contpleted by the Brit- ish, and the extensive construction lof railways in the colonies and do- minions, is taken to indicate that 2. the British empire is being unified | in preparation for war. in April for | included a} monoplane and biplane models now in standard use was scheduled for ‘public ‘exhibition and test today a German Firm Produces | Hasbrouck Heights, N. J. ‘ A rocket-propelled car which will The model, known as the New attain a speed of 400 miles an hour Standard, is the work of Charles |i, being planned by the Opel Motor Healy Day, veteran aircraft design- | Works ‘of Germany, according to er. Clarence Chamberlain, officials|p, Karl Kuelb who arrived ‘here of many New Jersey cities, and/ aviation engineers will watch the yesterday. tests. ed with in Germany and will prob- ably be shown at the Daytona Beach this winter. Dr. Kuelb is 120thersCharged With lb i A [here to arrange for the exhibition ‘Part in Obregon Death (o¢ the “tightning” car. The car was recently experiment- | THE GOLDEN TAG DAYS OF PARTIES OF CAPITALISM WitnessesShowJingoes Led Brutal Attack Continued from Page One $25,000; F. K. Prince, Boston, $25,- 000; W..H. Woodin, N. Y., head of the American Car and Foundry Co. and now in return for bus franchise in New York City a contributor of $25,000 to the Al Smith campaign fund. The democrats were equally re- ceptive in that year. Some of their “rich emles” included : B. M. Baruch, New York banker, $22,500; Henry Morgenthau, New York ambassador to Turkey under Wilson and real estate operator in Tammany controlled New York City; Jesse H. Jones, Houston Tex., who won notoriety in 1928 demon- stration convention, $20,000; Thomas F. Ryan, public utility op- | erator in New York City, $50,000. ried oad publicans showed a_ surplus of $355,264 and the democrats a de- ficit of $265,000. On March 7, 1928 jthe democrats announced that the deficit was wiped out, and that the 1928 campaign fund would be be- gun with $250,000 in hand. Contri- |butions: Thomas F. Ryan, $50,000; |Jesse H. Jones, director of finance of democratic national committee, $50,000; William F. Kenney, $25,- 000; C. Watson, Fairmount, W. Va., former U. S. senator, and coal magnate, $25,000. The sums of money mentioned above relate only to expenditures of the national committees and prob- ably eonstitute less than half of the total cost of the national campaign. The Party Drive In Arkansas By WILLIAM PICKENS. So says a news headline—Well, what difference will it make with evolution if#Arkansas vdtes on it? If a “Hill Billy” votes yes, what is the difference? If he votes no, what is the difference? Evolution will not be altered by a political vote. Evolution is not a town law; if it be a law at all, it is a law of the uni- verse. And great natural laws are not to be determined by stump speeches and ignorant voters. tural laws are, only to be discovered and understood. They cannot be in- fluenced, altered or repealed. If there are any scientists in Ar- kansas, they might set about and study the theory and the laws of evolution and see if they can under- stand any of it, or rediscover it—or something like that. What could be the sense of sub- mitting the matter of evolution to \ the general populace “to take a vote on it?” BLAST INJURES MANY. NEWBURGH, N. Y., Aug. 24 (UP), — Several persons were re- ported injured today in a gasoline , sewer explosion which seriously dam- aged two buildings shortly after) noon. x After the 1924 campaign the na Na-) |F'ood Workers Support ‘Big Youth Conference | Local 164, of the Atmalgamated | Food Workers, has contributed $10 to earry on the work of! the Work- ing Youth Conference. The Working Youth ‘Conference, which will take place Saptember 29 and 30, has issued thousands of leaflets to unorganized young work- ers. One was a general leaflet ad- dressed to all young laundry work- jers. Bulletins have been distributed to department store workers in Kleins, F. and W. Grands, to Wool- | worths, to Ohrbacks, and many oth- ers. Leaflets have been distributed to biscuit, shoe, knitgoods, pencil | workers, and to many mone groups | of youth workers in New Yiork. FIGHT THUGGERY INACW, IS CALL |Beckerman Is Ousted | From Joint Board Continued from Page One shop declared they refused to pay dues -to Hillman’s collector because the officialdom had made a company union out of the organization. An event oceurring too late to be contained in the leaflet took place when Jacobs appeared before the executive board. When he came to face that body he was told that he will be kept off the job unless he signs a statement against the Jew- ish Commnist Daily Freiheit and the Daily Worker which denies the truth of the story of the beating. After the worker had refused this, he was ordered to stay away from that shop. S Sigay edi? The long expected withdrawal of Abraham Beckerman from manager- ship of the New York Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union has finally been effected by that. “little Mussolini” and his name will not be put on the ballot in the so-called elections to be held by that union soon. An internal dispute of long stand- ing with the chief officials of the organization are known to be the cause in informed circles, The rapid and ever-growing assumption of more power in the New York mar- ket due to his popularity among the bosses because of his brazen sell- outs of the workers’ interests, caused the Hillman-Schlossberg. clique in the national ‘office to look upon him as a dangerous rival. This, and the recent exposure of a huge graft machine in his admin- istration, coupled with loss of sup- port of his own underworld char- acters, back up the generally known belief that Beckerman’s resignation is imminent. It is not as yet known which henchman of Hillman is to be assigned Beckerman’s place. ANOTHER HOOVER BANKER WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UP)— The United States needs the leader- ship of Herbert Hoover, Mortimer L. Schiff, of Kuhn, Loeb and Com- pany, New York bankers, said to- day in advising republican headquar- \ters of his support. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 24 (UP).—! The twelve persons recently arrested | in connection with the assassination | |of president-elect Obregon will be charged with being co-authors of the crime and not accomplices, it was/ \indicated here today. The penalty) | for the men if found guilty is death | ‘and 20. years imprisonment for the women. The Vege-Tarry Inn “GRINE KRETCHME” BEST VEGETARIAN FOOD MODERN IMPROVEMENTS DIRECTIONS: Take ferries at 234 st., Christopher St., Barclay St. or Hivason Tubes to Hoboken, Lacka- || wanna Rallroad to Berkeley || Heights, N. J. BEKKW! iy HEIGHTS NEW JERSEY Phone, Fanwood 7463 R 1, thugs are employed by the scab council, Sorkin said. Their job is to force fur workers to take out mem- bership books from thé council. Each of these gangsters alwajs carry scores of member: books in his pockets, which they sell to the work- ers, pocketing ‘the money. In rare cases only do'these cut-throats force a worker to the council offices for! a book or dues stamps, each one is himself a union treasurer. Books and stamps are sold on the spot. Every time a squad of these guer- rillas are sent out to stop a shop, they are paid five dollars for a morning job and three dollars for an evening job. Recently, Sorkin re- ASS PLAYS, mass singing, football, tennis, ete. Soci nights, lectures, camp magazine ——————SSS— SSS PHYSICAL and MENTAL RECREATION Co-operative Workers Camp Nitgedaiget ‘Beacon, N. Y.—Tel: Beacon 731 sports, such as baseball, soccer, ‘ial dancing, campfires, amateur and other recreations during the Contribute and Collect Funds for the ELECTION CAMPAIGN of the WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY During s Srrike A BLOW /or the PARTY OF THE WORKING CLASS Hour Interborough Smash-Up . u CRE? J. H. Owens, Ripley...:. K. Zbikova, Ambridge..... Herwegh Maenner Chor, Cin- cinnati - 10.00 H. McGilliway, - 5.00 P. Males; Portland... 5.00 Sarmento De Beires. one of that lated, they went on strike demand- select group of men who have flown ing five dollars for both jobs. They across the Atlantic Ocean. has been| Won. Now that the thousands of transported to exile in the Portu- dollars are spent in the fight to guese colonies as a deserter, it was Wreck union standards, many of revealed today. these thugs are threatening to re- sign unless the Forward or the A. entire summer season. Red Week--August 20 to August 26, Inclusive | VOLUNTEER FOR SERVICE ALL WEEK A kindergarten with compe- tent counselors for children whose parents stay in camp. Don’t drag any bundles.— You can get everything at mod- erate prices at the camp store. Siegel Family. Ontario, Calif..1.00 | cile in such colonies as the Azores, in connection with the assassination V. Gosheff, Portland. -5.00. The government made public a 2 > REGISTER NOW for the New Para L. Skaka, Portland. .s01.00|list of those who were shipped to |*> ° 1. “comes across ‘ , ; _T. Evanoff, Portland. Edit tha colontengrenterdariin the steamer - | Spaciousand: Airy. Bupgelowa, A: 60 St. Marks Pl. 1800 7th Ave. 2700 Bronx Pk., E. L Wanolf, Portland. “500 | mostly: military men and cnctinne, More Involved in | OFFICE: 69 Fifth Ave, PHONE: Alg. 6900 101 W. 27th St. 2076 Clinton Ave. 46 Ten Eyck St., Bklyn, J. Duman, Portland... .1.00 most of them nrominent, involved Obregon Murder Plot 2700 Bronx Park, East (Co-operative Workers Colony) 143 E, 108rd St. 215 E. 138th St. 1878 48rd St., Bklyn. G. Nacdenoff, Portland . .50 im the latest attempt to overthrow EL ry Rat 17.00 Per Week . x §. Nekelchoff, Portland ..1,00 the government. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 24 (UP). — ates; er Wee S. L. Hetrick, Elwood. . DLOUIS conte Msetnedl to. enforced domia\ The lakast grodn cdl atievectaatres tad $ For Red Mass Collections, August an and 26 TRAINS LEAVE GRAND CENTRAL EVERY HOUR. Mrs. M Okicich. Pueblo .-1.00| Angola and Mozambique included 40 of President-elect Obregon will be Nucleus 23> Chicago 5.00 | officers, among them two former |tried as co-authors of the crime in- BOATS TO NEWBURGH—$1.50 ROUND TRIP WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY - - - - - 26-28 Union Square, Now York City d, Beenstock. Bronx. . 1.00 cabinet ministers. and others prom- st®ad of accomplices, it was indicated me - 1. [ygeris, Paterson...... .00\inent in the professions, ‘today. o* O~“— _»_L_L_~~~m~____SS=