The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1928, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 235, 1yzs. Rebecca Grecht Found Guilty of Disorderly Cond | FLIMSY EVIDENCE. J CAUSE SENTENGE TOBE SUSPENDED But Tammany Bars the Communist Collection | Rebecca Grecht, District Campaign | Manager of the Workers (Commun- | ist) Party was found guilty of “dis- | orderly conduct tending to a breach | of peace” at the First Magistrates | Court of Long Island City yester- day, in spite of evidence given at the trial pointing to the guilt of the | fascists—none of whom were ar-| rested—who broke up the open air meeting of the Workers (Commun- | ist) Party'on August 9 and assault- | ed the speakers, and in spite of evidence showing that no police pro- | tection had been given the speakers. | to the Nanking regime. Blessed by the State Department The murder of Chinese workers and peasants, and their wives and children, by the Kuomintang war lords, has received the of ficial blessing of the state department thru the virtual recognition accorded (Above) A Kuomintang soldier amuses him- self. (drawing by William Gropper) Policeman Stewart Donnelly was | the first to testify. Donnelly sub-| mitted that in the face of the com- motion it was impossible to prevent the assault on Abraham Harfield, Communist candidate from the First Assembly District of Queens, that he had had no opportunity to appre- ey hend those guilty of the assault;, The Yanks’ iead was yesterday) that he had no chance to even in- | CUt to 8 games, when they dropped “quire the names and addresses of ove Famer FO St. Louis, 6-2 and 8-1, june been: ofthe Atctomae at Foreign the Athletics beat Cleveland, 1-0. Wars who were standing ina men- (0 Meu, ach ene, apes TB acing circle around Harfield. Don-| pits. Wlashalise pave Saat y tee nelly testified, however, that he re- only 6 hits in the second, Heimach mained standing there with Har- opposed him. Walberg for Phila-| field for a number of minutes, dur- delphia, shut Cleveland out, 1-0. | YANKS LOSE ing which Harfield was still sub- oes jected to the attack of the members of the jingo organization. ‘4 Jingo Testiiies, At the close of Donnelly’s testi- mony, after many glaring discrep- aneies and what amounted to an ad- mission of aid to the assault had been wrung out of him by Jaeques Buitenkant, representing the Inter- national Labor Defense, a righteous citizen walked up to the bench and asked permission to testify, having been present at the meeting in ques- tion. He gave his name as Alfred Heller, and proceeded to denounce the “inflammatory remarks” of Re- becea Grecht in a vicious manner. Under cross-examination, Heller,| Boston 2, Detroit 1 | who said he was motivated purely Philadelphia 1, Cleveland 0 | by his duties as a citizen-in yolun- | teering his testimony, admitted he 5¢ the meeting as ‘hoodlums.’” | was a member of the Veterans of | Upon this, the officer had arrested Foreign Wars, but maintained that peo aa as such he is not prejudiced against the Workers (Communist) Party. | This unprejudiced, righteous and in- dignant patriot, maintaining that he had not crossed the street from his meeting to the Communist meeting, proceeded to give “testimony” in/ detail of what took place around | The Giants lost to Pittsburgh, 16. 6. Genewich, Scott, Faulkner and | Bent: were slaughtered by the Pirates, whd got 19 hits. pitched for Pittsburgh. The St. Lonis Cards beat Phila, 1-0, gaining another game on the Giants. ‘i aie ee) YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League. Chicago 4, Boston 1 Chicago 4, Boston 3 Pittsburgh 16, New. York 6 St. Louis 1, Philadelphia 0. American League. St. Louis 5, New York 2 St. Louis 3, New York 1 | Harfield Scores. had oceurred, stating definitely that nick of time, after he had been | brutally beaten, made no effort to/ prevent the assault. During his tes- | the Communist platform, details not |imony , * court, official came possibly yee to anyone more than of Judge Paul U. Daly. Im-| B TOW: OR Bway: [mediately the judge walked | Greeht on Stand. out of the court room and a recess Rebecca Grecht, called to the wit- was declared for a few minutes. | ness stand, testified that when the The nature of the closed-chamber | meeting was being broken up and consultation and the identity of the | Harfield and Mueller assaulted, no person consulted was not revealed. | policeman was in sight, and that In finding Rebecca Grecht guilty | when one arrived she made repested of disorderly conduct, Judge Daly | demands for attention from him, refused to consider the circum- but that the policeman ignv.vd ...., stances of the case, refused to take and ignored her demand that those | into consideration the breaking up responsible for the assault be ar- of the Communist meeting and the rested. Only after she had seen assault on the Communist speakers, | Harfield’s bleeding face and blood-| refused to censure those responsible stained shirt, Rebecca Grecht testi-| for the assault, and refused to cen-| fied, did she characterize “the ele-| sure the policeman for failure to | ments responsible for the assault) make arrests or even inquiries as to | on the speakers and the breaking up | those responsible. | Get Your Money’s Worth! Try the Park Clothing Store For Men, Young Men and Boys Clothing 93 Avenue A, Corner 6th St. NEW YORK CITY Health Food Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 MADISON AVE. PHONE: UNIVERSITY 5865 Leaders Prepare for Grimes | the wage cut that Harry Fishwick, Lewis and the coal operators are! attempting to force upon them. In| John Watt exposed John W. Hind- | has inflamed all Southern Mlinoiis. 2 GAMES; GIANTS LOSE BY 16-6 pS ACE DESY ate aoe cen ed MINE DISTRICTS DRIVE FOR UNION Convention | Continued from Page One Springfield, Tony Minerich and marsh’s dealings in a debate which | Eyen the children shout “labor faker!” when the Lewis henchmen mount a platform, Illinois, “always | in the forefront of miners struggles, | | will have a big delegation from | admission every part of the state at the na-| tional miners convention jn Pitts- burgh. Anthracite Active. The Silverbrook local in the hard ¢oal region was the first to receive a charter for the new miners union. | The anthracite miners know that it | would be fatal to allow themselves ¥ sca |to be split away from the soft coal |* cents—110-meter hurdles, trials; Harfield next testified as to what | miners as some company-hired trait. %00-meter. finals: 60-meter, boys, ors in the ranks are suggesting. the policeman who arrived in the! They know that one united front of fin#*s: 200-meter. finals; 60-meter, bituminous and anthracite miners under honest and militant leadership | is the goal of the progressive move- ment. The tri-district will send aj strong delegation to help build the | new union. | The proof of Lewis’ union-wreck- | ing program is arriving at the Na-| tional Miners Convention Arrange- ments Committee headquarters, in the form of credentials from the former union fields of Maryland, Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma, Kentucky, the southwest and far! west. This proves that the miners want a union and that Lewis has deliberately broken district after dis- trict. Now these miners are mobil- izing their forces for to affiliate them with thi w miners union. MARY WOLFE STUDENT OF THE DAMROSCH CONSERVATORY PIANO LESSONS 2420 Bronk Park East Near Co-operative Colony. Apt. 5H Telephone EASTABROOK 2459 Special rates to students from the Co-operative House. MEET YOUR FRIENDS at Messinger’s Vegetarian and Dairy Restaurant 1768 Southern Bivd., Bronx, N. ¥, Right Off 174th St. Subway Station Dr. J, Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone, Algonquin 8183 “For Any Kind of Insurance” CARL BRODSKY 7 ™. 42d St. New York Cit Telephone Murray Hill 5550. PYCCKHA 3YBHOM BPAY Dr. JOSEPH B. WEXLER Surgeon Dentist 25 yrs. in practice. Moderate prices. 223 SECOND AV. NEW YORK Temple Courts Bidg. WE ALL MEET at the NEW WAY CAFETERIA 101 WEST 27th STREET NEW YORK —) Advertise your union meetings here. For information write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. 26-28 Union Sq., New York City All Comrades Meet at » BRONSTEIN’S VEGETARIAN HEALTH RESTAURANT 558 Claremont P’kway ~ Bronx Motel & Restaurant Workers Branch of THE AMALGAMATED FOOD WORKERS Phote Circle 7836 ing Held On the Rational Vegetarian Restaurant |} 19: SECOND AVE. Bet. 12th and 13th Sts. | Strictly Vegetarian Food. Join and Fight the Common Enemy Office Open from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. AMALGAMATED FOOD WORKERS Bakers’ Local 184 Meets istSaturday in the month at 68 Third Ave. Phone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicals meet. 302 BE. 12th ST. NEW YORK Co-operative Workers Patronize I. SCOLNICK TAILOR Fancy Cleaner and Dyers 707 Allerton Ave., Bronx, N, Y¥. Patronize Unity Co-operators SAM LESSER Ladies’ and Gents’ Tailor 1818 — 7th Ave. New York Between 110th and 111th Sts. Next to Unity Co-operative House ‘Tel. Res, 187 Pulaski St. Pulaski 1770, Tel. Pulaski 6216. Insure with DAVID OSHINSKY GENERAL INSURANCE Office: 60 Graham Ave., Brooklyn. Fire, Life, Public Liability, Com- Automobile, Accident, Health. pensation, No Tip Center Barber Shop NEW WORKERS CENTER 26-28 Union Sa. 1 Flight Up NEW YORK CITY Individual Sanitary Service by Ex- pert ADIES’ HAIR BOBBING SPECIALISTS. a Comradely Barber Shop Men and Women Will months the clubs have been practicing Units, branches, nuclei, etc. of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers (Com- munist) League in New York City are asked to send notices of their activities to this column. There is no charge. All notices must ar- rive one day in adyance to ensure publication. BIG LABOR SPORT CARNIVAL TODAY Participate ATTENTION SECTION 3. All those members of Section 3 who did not attend unit meetings this week are hereby ordered to re- port to section headquarters, 101 W. 27th St., this morning at 10 a.m. Section Organizer. Continued from Page One specially for this occasion, and the drill is expected to be executed in| perfect harmony. A big brass band will be on the field to enliven the Proceedings. Moving pictures will Branch 2, Section 8 " ri A unit meeting of Branch 2, Sec- be taken of the drill, as weil as the | 4,0) {” will be held Monday at 8 p. Members should bring cards, as a roll track and field events and the soccer game. m. promptly their membership call will be taken, Big Crowd Expected. Wingate Field, where the meet will be held, has a covered grand- stand, accommodating 6,000 people. However, there is standing room around the field for the overflow crowd which is expected. The field can be reached by taking the Brigh- ton Beach B.-M. T. line to Ave. J. | ce Upper Bronx Signature Drive. A contest for a free week end at a cooperative camp for the comrade securing the most signatures in the 6th A. D. will be held tomorrow One hundred comrades are wanted at 2700 Bronx Park Bast, headquar ters of Branch 6, Section 5, morning at 9 a. m. to compete the free week ends. Subsection 3B. Sunday for The enlarged Executive Commit- L. S. U. Convention. tee of Subsection 3E will hold a meeting on Monday, Aug. 27, at 6:15 More than 100 delegates, repre-|p. m. at 101 W. 27th St senting 70 affiliated clubs, are ex- pected at the Second National Con- vention of the Labor Sports Union, which opens Monday, at 10 a. m. at the Progressive Hall, 15 W. 126th St- International Branch 1 will hold the regular meeting on Monday, Aug. 27, at 9 p. m. at 101 W. 27th St. Membership Meeting. The membership meeting of Sub- section 3H will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 28, at 6:15 p. m. at 101 W. 27th St. The convention will definitely establish the L. §. U. as a real na- Williamsburg Y. w. L. tional organization for workers’) rhe following open air meet will sports and athletes. \be held: Tuesday, ‘Tompieian Avedand Hart St. Speakers: R. Gordon, Har- The full provram for Saturday ts ; Attention Section 3, All members of Section 3 Hvinggin Brownsville must report for duty Sunday mogning at 10¢a. m. at cam- paign headquarters. and Sunday follows in full: 1*)-meter dash, trials; 60-meter Gash (boys), trials; 190-meter dash (women). trials; 100-meter dash, semi-finals; 800-meter run, trials; £.000-meter walk; 200-meter dash, trials; 4 X 400 relay (district); 400- | meter, trials; 4 X 100 relav (club); 5.000-mbter run: weight throwing; nole vault, hon-skin and jump; high Unit 20, 3F. “The War Danger” is to be dis- cussed as a special educational order of business at the meeting of Unit 2C, 3F, on Monday August 27, 6 p, m., at 108 E. 14th St. Section 2 Red Sunda ‘ump (women); shot put. 8-pound All members of Section e urged SI as Ae on to participate in the Red Sunday thoys); hammer throw; basketball prive for the collection of funds for thras norter mame, semi-finals the Workers (Communist) Party iple): © 2: fs j-fi election campaign. Members should (girls); soccer game, semt-tinsls. | Watkins St, this Sun- Seturday, Aue, 25. 8:15 p. m ae Washington Baths, Co’ Island; Attention Literature Agents! 85 cents—Sixty-meter,| The new “Party ae is just ee 1 a " off the press. All literature agents free style, women; 60-meter, free 3re requested to report for their style, hovs: 100-vard, free style, bundles g othe Workers Book Shop, | 28 Unio Square,| 1st floor. men; 8 X 100 relay, three styles; 4 X 10M yay, free style; spring- board di life saving;* water polo; exhibitions; comical acts; pub- lie dancing after 9 p. m. Surdav. Aug. 26. 10 p. m., Win- mate Field (P. S. A. L.): admission Labor and Fraternal Organizations Labor and fraternal organiza- tions in New York City and vicinity are asked to send notices of their activities to this column. There is no charge. All notices semi-finals; 100-meter, women, ovs, finals; 4 X 100 relay (women); 400-meter, semi-finals; shot put. 16- pound; broad jump; women: high jump; porter ball game, finals. ensure publication. Bemis ik OPEN AIR FESTIVAL, T. U. BE. L. Th jocal New York Trade Union Educational League and the Jewish | Workers University have arranged a Workers Onen Air Festival at Ulmer Park for today. All friendly organizations are urg- ently requested not to arrange any af- fair on this day and coperate to make this affair a success, BALTIMORE, Md., Aug, 24 (UP) — Seven men were killed, three are dying and six others were overcome today by lethal acid fumes when the freighter Steel Inventor, on which they were stowaways, was fumigated for yellow fever at Quarantine, off Hawkins Point. free! All wishing to partici- pate in contest apply to Local 22 T. U. EB. L. Local 22 of the Trade Un‘on Educa- tional League will hold its annual Dance on October 13 at the Park Palace. A WEEK-END at Beautiful Camp Wocolona (Near Monroe, N. Y.) Will be given FREE to the comrade | L. SPENCER 4 Campaign Director procuring the greatest number of | 6 A.D. signatures in the “Put the Party on/| 2700 Bronx Park East. 1 the Balhot” Drive. | WORKERS! Spend Your Vacation and Week-End Home in CAMP UNITY ‘) The Camp With All Modern Improvements and Conveniences WHERE PROLETARIANS Rest --Swim --- Row --- Eat -- Drink and Enjoy the Proletarian Cultural Entertainments ain | Buses Leave Every Day From 110th St. and 7th Ave.: Friday .......... 6:30p.m. ° Saturday ........ 1:30pm. Sunday .......... 8:30a.m. Monday ......... 9:00a.m. | Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday ...... 1:30p.m. DIRECTIONS: By train, take train from Grand Central or 125th St. to) ‘Wimgdale and from there our machine to camp. When you come to Wingdale, call Wingdale 10F12. For Registration APPLY TO MAIN OFFICE, 1800 7th Ave., Cor. 110th St. Phones: Monument 0111; Monument 0827 must arrive one day in advance to | uct at Long Island Ma “GAO ATHLETES AT Workers Party Activities WORKERS IN BIS Fretheit Gesangs Verein. The annual picnic and concert of the Freiheit Gesangs Verein will be held Sunday, September |Pleasant BP: ark. An o program of for the occasion. has been ar or? Concert. On Saturday night, sept. 29, at Town Hall, 113-123 West 43rd St., a concert will be held for the benefit of Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Un¥on and the new Jewish territory “Biro-Bidjan. Office Workers’ Unton. On Monday, Aug. 27, at 8 p. m. the Office Workers’ Union will hold an open air dance on the roof garden of the Hecksher Foundation United Counell of Working “<tynen. Today the Newark Councigs.o. 1 will hold an open’ air meet at Springfield and 16th Aves., Ne N. J. Joseph Cohen, Eva’ Shaf and other speakers will address th meeting, A meeting will be held today at 6 p. m, in the Negro section, on 131st St. and 7th Ave. Subject,’ the exploitation of Negro women in in- dustry. Speaker to be announced. Brownsville Sacco Meet. The Brownsville branch of the I L. D, will hold a Sacco-Vanzetti mem- orial meet Thursday, Aug. 30 at 8 Dp. m,, at Bristol St. and Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn NEED AID TO 60 ON WITH STRIKE Textile Union Appeals to Workers With a grim determination to win, the 30,000 textile strikers of New Bedford enter the fifth month of struggle against the mill barons with as much enthusiasm and cour- age as they had on April 16, when the strike started. Altho the forces aligned against them are strong and powerful the strikers, the biggest part accepting the leadership of the Textile Mills Committee, are putting up a fight that is winning the admiration of the entire American working class. With several hundred workers ar- rested, many sentenced to terms in prison ranging from a year and a half to one month, the fight is now reaching the point where all can |see that it will be a long drawn out struggle. Both the mill owners and the strikers realize this and are acting accordingly. The workers of America must im- mediately rally to the support of the strikers. They are willing, to man the picket lines, but the entire | American working class must do its |share. Food is needed for the strik- jers and their families. Needed in |larger quantities as the strike con- ‘| |tinues, more workers applying for relief every day. The striking textile workers of New Bedford need help! Workers come to their aid! Send contribu- tions at once to the Workers’ Inter- national Relief, 49 William St., New Bedford, Mass. ERON SCHOOL 185-187 EAST BROADWAY NEW YORK JOSEPH E. ERON, Principal THE LARGEST AND BEST AS WELL AS OLDEST SCHOOL. fo learn the English language, to prepare oneself for admission to College. ERON SCHOOL is registered by the REGENTS of the State vf New York. It has all the rights vernment High School. 1, Phone or write for Catalogue: Register Now. School Opens in September. Our 25,000 alumni are our best nesses ORCHARD 4473 w TELEPHONE trate Court In Maine and New Hampshire Par- ty conventions have already been held, state tickets nominated and presidential electors secured.‘ In ad- dition to the Party members, many non-Party sympathizers are helping in the campaign and several have agreed to act as Communist elector Despite the tremendous difficulties confronting the comrades in getting the Party on the ballot in Maine, they are determined to put up a real battle against the Republican Party and establish the Workers (Commun- ist) Party as a militant political factor in that state. Connecticut Coming. Comrade Trachtenberg reported that District 15, under the direction of Comrade Charles Mitchell, district organizer and campaign manager: is sure to be on the ballot. Tho a small state, Connecticut is the home of several large industries, and the population of many cities in the state is more than 80 per cent industrial. The obstacles placed in the way of getting the Party on the ballot in Connecticut can be seen from the fact that tho small, it requires 6,000 signatures to get a new Party, or a party not “legal” in the sense of election regulations, on the ballot. Over half the necessary number of signatures have been already col- lected. Urge Worker Correspondence. Those who are collecting signa- tures are invited by the National Election Campaign Committee to write their experiences in the form of workers correspondence for the benefit of the readers of the Com- munist Press. Those stories in ad- dition to having intense human inter- est are excellent propaganda and will serve to encourage the Party mem- bership as a whole to participate in this most important campaign work. The prospects for waging a splen- did campaign in New England are bright, Trachtenberg says, and the probability that all the New England states with the exception of Ver- mont, with their tremendous work- ing class population will be on the ballot, will establish the Workers (Communist) Party in that section of the country, as the political lead- er and the organizer of the masses in the class struggle against capital- ism and the capitalist government, CENTERS RALLY TO BACK PARTY Organizers are Busy in Campaign Continued from Page One Trachtenberg reported, leaving the hegemony of the class struggle in the hands of the Workers ‘Commun- ist) Party. Alexander Bail, district organizer for all the New England states out- side of Connecticut, and Sidney Bloomfield, campaign manager as- sured Comrade Trachtenberg that Maine would be on the ballot, leav- ing Vermont to the ex-bill collector and strike-breaker Coolidge and the renegade John Spargo, who is now engaged in writing a treatise on the fauna and flora of the Granite state. Comrade Trachtenberg reported that on the eve of the textile strike in New Bedford, there was no Com- munist organization there worth speaking of, but now, due to the par- ticipation of the Party in the strug- gle, there is a strong Workers (Com- munist) Party organization and a healthy nucleus of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League. Negroes Sign Petitions. Trachtenberg learned that the Ne- gro workers in Connecticut, where there are large Negro settlements are most willing to sign the Com- munist petitions: which shows that those workers, who suffer from race discriminations as well as industrial exploitation are beginning to see a way out, and are turning to the| Workers (Communist) Party as the only Party that has a program to meet their problems as a persecuted race and also as industrial wage slaves. Rhode Island Strong. The New Bedford strike not only raised the revolutionary spirit of the workers in that great mill city but the struggle has electrified the work- ers in all the New England states, | particularly Rhode Island, another \ great textile state. Though small in area New England.is an industrial stronghold where the textile workers in particular, in view of the chaos in the industry and the wage-cutting drives of the textile barons are in a state of ferment unequalled since the great struggles in Lawrence and other cities seventeen years ago. You're in the fight when you write for The DAILY WORKER. Workers Cooperative Ses) Airy, Large Meeting Rooms and Hall TO HIRE Suitable for Meetings, Lectures and Dances in the Czechoslovak SUITS MADE TO ORDER. READY MADE SUITS. Quality—Full Value 872 BROADWAY, N.Y. Cor. 18th St.—Tel. Algonquin 2223 Workers House, Inc. 347 E. 72nd St. New York Telephone: Rhinelander 5097 ys SUMMER SALE 20 Per Cent. DISCOUNT On All Books, Pamphlets and Literature Workers Bookshop 26-28 Union Sq. 1 Flight Up | Pa a Given by Trade Union Educational League, Local N.Y., and Jewish Workers University | | TODAY August 25 | An Unusual Program Will Be Offered —, TO Bh OBTAINED AT WORKERS’ CENTER, ROOM 205 3 P. M. »Freiheit Soccer Team. 5 P. M. International Red Poets Forum 6 to 11 P. M. Camp Fire Concert with the Mass Chorus of Brooklyn—and other musical members | Tickets for Entire Festival, Only 50 Cents THE FREIHEIT AND B. M. T. West End Line to 25th Ave.