The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1928, Page 1

4] THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT a! FINAL CITY EDITION l¥ol. V., No. 204. Published daily except 6 Publishing Association, 1 lay by The Nat! fomal Daily Worker » New York, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION RATE Im New York, by all, $8.00 per year Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. "Price 3 Cente ‘SIGN KELLOGG “PEACE” PACT IN AIR F EVERISH WITH WAR EXPOSE NEW CAMPAIGN OF KANSAS AUTHORITIES TO DESTROY WORKERS PARTY Communist Leaders Face Long Jail Terms on Criminal Syndicalist Charges * New Attack Seen as Party Gets on Ballot in, the State (Special to the Daily Worker) KANSAS CITY, Aug. 27.—The| cases of Oehler Yocum and Kassis, Workers (Communist) Party mem- bers arrested here with a Sacco and Vanzetti demon- | stration, have been set over for, September 10. They are charged with violating the Kansas criminal | syndicalist law. The charges against them will be amended to - include in connection | their membership in the Workers | (Communist) Party as one of their “crimes,” The Kansas authorities will base heir case against the seven others arrested at the same time on the alleged “illegality’’ of the Party. The prosecution will seek to obtain convictions on the basis of the Party | | platform and on Oehler’s speech, it is reported. ee A rousing’ call for a fight against the “criminal syndicalism” law of Kansas, and the recent attempts of the Kdnsas authorities to crush and| drive out of existence the Workers (Communist) Party with the arrest) of a number of its members, was_ today issued by the national office | of International Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th Street. The ‘call follows upon’ the-arre: in Kansas City, Kansas, of Hugo Oehler, district organizer of the Workers Party, and Matthew Cush- ing, a young packing house worker, at an open air noon-day meeting lant, They were held on charges )f vagrancy, which were too thin, | and were later changed to charges ieee NEEDLE TRADES TO ENDORSE RED TICKET AT MEET |Ben Gitlow | to Speak Tomorrow Eve. The candidates and platform of the Workers (Communist) Party will be erdorsed at a rally of New York needle trades workers, to be held tomorrow night at Irving Plaza, 1dth St. and Irving Place. Benja- min Gitlow, vice-presidential candi- date of the Party, will be the prin- |cipal speaker at the meeting, which lis arranged by the National Needle Trades Committee of the Trade | Union Educational League. | Besides listening to Gitlow, the | progressive needle trades workers | will hear their own militant leaders, who have led them successfully in bitter struggles against the right wing of the socialist party and A. F. of L. bureaucracy, and who are En energetically working for the support of the Workers (Commu-| Continued on bern SEES Two POLICE AT MINE neld in front of the Armour Packing ELECTION MEET | of violating the Kansas Gumial| Anthracite M Miners Get) Syndicalism Law. Persecute Radicals. The Kansas law is an extremely | vicious piece of anti-labor legisla- tion and is cunningly framed to make it an easy matter for the prosecution: to railroad to prison any “qndesirable person.” against Oehler read that he “by word of mouth and by means and use of public distribution, display, circulation, gifts and sale of certain printed and written circulars, leaf-_ lets, books and other printed matter did unlawfully, wilfully, knowingly, | openly: publicly and feloniously sug-| gest, advocate, advise and affirma- tively teach to various and numer- ous other persons there assem-| bled, the doctrine of criminal syndi- calism, with the intent then and} there to spread the same, or the Continued on Page Three SREAT RESPONSE IN “RED DRIVE” Tammany Th Threat Is a ‘Boomerang The answer of thousands of class- conscious workers to the @ction of Tammany’s Department oMWeltare jn banning the collections for the campaign fund of the (Communist) Party will be an ex- tension of the Red Week drive to take in all this week, and an intensi- fication of the drive, the district of- fice of the Party announced last | night. The Tammany-controlled Welfare | Board’s action has proved a boom- Continued on Page Two talian Communist Tortured in Jail, Is Reported “Ill” Special Cable to The Daily Worker BERLIN, Aug. 27.—Terracini, Italian Communist leader, who was sentencéd to twenty-two years imprisonment at the recent trial of the members of the Cen- tral Executive Committee of the Italian Party, has been taken’ sus- piciously ill in the Santo Steph- ano pelner His life is endan- ding to reports which have wccrtn the border, Terracini was brutally sortired n jail. The charges Workers Taste of Democracy | WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Aug. 27. Using the ridiculous excuse that a@ mass meeting was being held on Sunday @vithout a permit, Chief of Police Taylor yesterday broke up the Endorsement Conference called by the Workers (Communist) Party at 206 South Main St. The confer- ence was called to endorse the Com- munist candidates, William Z. Fos- ter and Benjamin Gitlow and to mobilize for the September 1 picnic | and rally at Sans Souci Park, where |Benjamin Gitlow will be the main | speaker. About sixty delegates were pres- | ent, representing labor organiza- tions in Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties, when Emil Gardos, sub- | district organizer, opened the con-| ference. Pointing to the presence of the police, he said: “This con- ference is being stopped in spite of | the fact that we are in election) Continued on ued op Rage Three DUNNE ATTACKS _ IR. T, OFFICIALS Greed for Pr Profit Costs Blood, Says Nominee Charging that Al Smith, Jimmie ‘alker, the republican legislature, | together with the I. R. T., are re- sponsible for the terrible subway | catastrophe which took place Friday afternoon at 5 p. m. near Times, Square Station, resulting in 16) killed and over 100 injured, + Wil- | liam F. Dunne, candidate for Gov- | (Communist) Party ticket, the following statement: Service Undermanned. “For years the traction companies | have followed a practice of under- | manning their trains without any | | action by the administration. They have consistently refused to install and maintain mechanical safety | equipment, have not carried out the order to.purchase more cars. The infufficient number of cars has re- sulted in thé inhuman crowding in trains to unheard of limits. perienced workers have been fired as punishment for organization ac- | tivities. In general, the I. R. T., with the connivance of Tammany Hall, has been carrying out a policy that was bound to endanger the life and Continued on Page Five issued | |ernor of New York on the Workers “Goat” Selected Rapid scapegoat in order to shield itself | ion criminal responsibility for he subway smash-up which killed is and injured over 100, William by Transit the Interborough Company as a Baldwin, above, is now out on $10,000 on a charge of homicide. In return for many years of ser- vice to the traction barons, Bald- win may be’ imprisoned for the rest of his life. Faulty equip- | ment of which the company was aware was responsible for the dis- aster last Friday evening. 2 MORE WORKERS IN I. R. T. NET ‘Traction Barons Evade Responsibility Two more Interborough workers, Joseph Carr and Harry King, a towerman, may be dragged into the net which the I. R. T. is weaving in an effort to shake itself from responsibility for the subway wreck which took the lives of 17 and mu- | tilated oyer..100.others Jast..Priday-- | evening, This was stated by attorneys for |the I. R. T. yesterday simultaneous- |e ae the announcement that the ving in. connection with the [tragedy which was scheduled for yesterday would be held today. Ten | witnesses were called. William Baldwin, veteran em- | ploye of the I. R. T., who was the | first scapegoat of the company is | now free under $10,000 bail, charged | with homicide. Carr, who is to be dragged into the case, was Bald- | win’s helper when the disaster oc-| curred. At the same time District Attor- ney Banton announced that he would not submit the case to the Grand Jury until he had read “re- ports” from Mayor Walker and for the RT: CO ABS KNIFE 3 IN ASSAULT ON STEEL STRIKERS _Men Turn Down Boss Flat at Rate Massillon Strike Looms CANTON, Ohio, Aug. 27.—The Central Alloy Steel Corporation’s attempt to break by force the big steel strike which their counterfeit peace proposals have failed to smash after two weeks of struggle, resulted yesterday in a fight be- tween strikers and scabs, in which three of the former were arrested. Scabs Stab. The fight, which followed the arm- | ing of strikebreakers in the Central | Alloy plant, began when mine scabs attacked six strikers. The pickets defended themselves and in the course of the affray a strikebreaker stabbed three men not strikers, seri- ously wounding them. Bleeding pro- fusely the victims were carried by the police not*to a hospital but to the jail. It is thought that the po- | lice believed the men were strikers. The strikers were then fined $10 and given ten days in the work- house. The government’s interest in the strike has been dramatically dis- closed in the terms which Commis- | Continued on Page Three WORLD CONGRESS HITS OPPOSITION \ Terms; Demand | | Seore: Protskiyists ats Communist Meet _ MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Aug. 26.— The forty-third session of the fifth! World Congress of the Communist International opened here yesterday | with Bela Kun acting as chairman. The discussion opened on the sub- [ject of ‘the speeches of Varga on the situation in the Soviet Union and a speech by Manuilski on the problems of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Thaelmann, of Germany, then proposed that both speeches be pub-, lished in a brochure as an answer to the social democratic slanders, and followed the proposal with a reading of a declaration in the name of the Communist Parties of Ger- John F. Gilghrist, chairman of the;many, Chechoslovakia, Poland, Aus- Tammany transit commission. tria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Den- The 17th victim of the wreck,;mark, Lithuania, Latvia, Esthonia | Miss Elizabeth Seibold, an employe|and the Young Communist Interna- | of the Union Carbide Co., 30 E. 42nd tional, completely approving the po- |St., died yesterday. She had board-|litical and organizational line of the! |ed the train a few minutes before the wreck, enroute to the summer home of her parents at Rockaway Beach. At the same time the ‘ borough Inter- is’ expected a capitalize the impending damage suits in its efforts to increase still further its huge profits by foisting the seven- jeent fare on the New York riding | public. Mayor Walker, who has served the I. R. T. ‘campaign for the seven-cent fare, Continued on seated Five TO LAUNCH NEW MILL COMMITTEE PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 27.—At/ so well in its @ mass meeting of textile silk work- ers held here yesterday in Carpen- ‘and members of the Board of Trans. ters’ Hall by the Workers Interna- portation have already let it be tional Relief, Paterson silk workers known that the suits would involve heard Albert Weisbord and Selig} $1,500,000 or $2,000,000 and that Pitkowit, former organize of the, this would create a new financial Associated Silk Workers Union, an- Continued on nued on Page Five TM. 6. DEMANDS PARADE PERMIT (Special to the Daily Worker) nounce the imminent‘ launching of a_ new national union of textile work- lers at a convention in New York in Sept. 22. After pointing out to the workers that the new wage cut drive now be- ing inaugurated by the silk manu- facturers here and in neighboring cities was not being combatted by the Associated Silk Workers, offi- | NEW BEDFORD, Mass:, Aug. 27. | cials of that union were concerning |—-A committee chosery by the New | themselves with carrying thru an | Bedford Textile Workers Union of amalgamation \the Textile Mill Committees will with the defunct! United Textile Workers Union of | visit Mayor Ashley tomorrow toask the A. F. of L. which is no better | Continued on Page Three Continued on ‘age Three | A 2 es i Greed Now Claims Its eaventecnth Victim Another straphanger, the victim of I. R. T. gre ed, died yesterday. This brings the death toll to seventeen, Above the multilated bodies of victims b emg brought to the surface after Friday's wreck. MOSCOW, Aug. 27.—From the detailed report of International Press Correspondence we can now give a clearer and more objective picture of the estimation of the American Workers (Communist) Party situation as given by the Sixth World Con- gress of the Communist International than the short and sometimes unclear and distorted wires con- taining speeches made at the congress. The closing remarks of Comrade Bukharin, the official spokesman of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, clarified all issues related to the American Party situation. Internal and External Contradictions. Comrades of the American opposition, Foster and Bittelman, and Comrade Lominadze who devi- ates from the official line of the Russian Party, criticized the theses of Comrade Bukharin from the “left.” They made the criticism of the theses and of the American Central Executive Committee, that they underestimate internal contradictions and lay too much emphasis“on external Contradictions of imperialism. Bukharin said on this point the fol- lowing: “The basic thing today is the war danger. If we separate external contradictions from internal contradictions it: is, equivalent to diminishing the significance of this fact. From an objective point of view such an underestimation of the war danger is not a left position but quite the contrary, it is the reflection of right wing dangers in the Com- munist International. The principal danger that threatens us today is the underestimation of the War Danger.” @ Reserve Powers of U. S. Imperialism. The speakers of the opposition, Comrades Dunne, Bittelman and Foster, charged that the Central Executive Committee overestimetes the power and growth of American imperialism and overlooks the fact that “the reserve powers of American im- perialism are diminishing.” Bukharin said on this question as follows: “J absolutely disagree with the argument ad- vanced here by many comrades to the effect that the internal possibilities of American imperialism have been exhausted. They have not been ex- hausted and in general I am in principle opposed to this point of view. It is wrong both in theory » and in principle. It is the Luxemburg theory.” New and Old Unions. The speakers of the opposition and Comrade Losovsky accused the Central Executive Committee of obstructing the execution of the Profintern reso- lution because, laying the main emphasis on or- ganizing new unions, the Central Executive Com- mittee stated the necessity of maintaining and increasing our work in old unions, too. Bukharin took the following position on this anesnpn? \ BUKHARIN ON U. S. PARTY SITUATION At Sixth World Congress of of the | Communist ‘International “A dangerous tendency was also revealed in the course of the discussion, namely a tendency ‘to deny the necessity for working in the reactionary unions; and attempts were even made to develop a theory for the purpose of fortifying this attitude. Sometimes this tendency is observed among the rank and file and arises from difficulties which the work in reactionary trade unions encounters. The tendency to leave reactionary upions is fostered also by the fact that large numbers of workers in many countries are still unorganized. This is the case in the United States of America and also in France. It is absolutely clear that the task of or- ganizing the unorganized is one of our main tasks at the present time, but this is no reason why we should abandon our work in the reactionary trade unions even in countries where dual unions exist.” No Big Political Differences. Speakers of the opposition, especially Comrade Bittelman, accused the Central Executive Commit- tee that it is advertising American-imperialism and that it does not see the possibilities for Communist mass work in America. Bukharin’s speech rejects categorically both charges: “Take the American Party. Quite lately—at least so it seemed to all of us—the American Party appeared to be overcoming the internal friction, but now we find that the controversy is flaring up again. The internal Party struggle has ‘revived’ to such an extent that attempts are being made to utilize the present conjuncture for the purpose of continuing the struggle in the acutest form. Are there really any big political differences in the American Party? No. They are petty. Are the erences so important as to warrant the forma- tion of fractions? I believe they are not. For instance, take the question concerning the attitude towards American capitalism. Some say American imperialism has grown stronger. Their opponents declare that they are advertising American im- perialism. Such an expression should not be used. No good can come of it and it does not help clear up the question. I must confess that I do not enter- tain any hopes of a revolutionary situation arising in the United States in the near future. I say this quite frankly. In no country in the world is capi- talism so strong as it is in the United States of America, where it has reached its zenith. Is it a terrible thing to say that there is little likelihood of an immediate revolutionary situation? It is if this is used to back up the argument that there is positively no ground for activity among the Amer- ican masses. As far as I know, however, no one has made such an assertion. Unemployment is a fact. Changes in American industry is also a fact and so also is the growing discontent among the unemployed workers. Is there any ground for the growth of the.Communist Party? Yes, there is. Does this furnish any justification for an acute factionary struggle? Of course not. All steps must be taken to avoid such a struggle.” STATE A. F. OF L. OKAYS DUPONT AL ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 27.— Tammany Al Smith, who has re- ceived the support of Raskob, Du Pont and other representatives of Wall Street, will in all probability receive the unqualified endorsement of the State Federation of Labor, whose convention opens here tomor- row. The convention will be addressed | by Senator Robert ~ |Postpone World Meet of Young Communists Special Cable to The Daily Worker MOSCOW, Aug. 27.—The fifth world congress of the Young Com- munist International has been postponed until the adjournment of the sixth world congress of the Communist International which is now in session. Tammany politician, and Attorney General Ottinger, who will very likely head the republican state ticket. The action of the convention will probably serve as a precedent F. Wagner, for the federations in other states. MANY RECORDS FALL AT LABOR SPORTS MEET In spite of a slow track, soggy bad weather that for a time threat- with a three-day downpour of rain, |ened to halt the meet, the worker- | 650 athletes, representing labor and | athletes succeeded in hanging up fraternal organizations throughout | several records that will be remem- Ex- | the United States, met in a two-day | bered as marks to shoot at by par- | track and field meet at Wingate | ticipants in future meets. Field, Brooklyn, Saturday and Sun- The outstanding record of the day |day, in the second annyal athletic | was established when Arthur Kir- meet of the Labor Sports Union of ton, a young Negro worker & America. New | | York, running unattached, wing- Although hampered by the slow- footed his way to a double victory | ness of the drenched field and the |in the 100 and 200-metre dashes, ‘Arthur Kirtin, Negro Athletic St Star, Scores Double Victory in Sprint Events 11.7 in the shorter pie and 24.4, in the 200-metre dash. Although the outstanding sprint | performer of the Labor Sports opolized the double victories of the | day. E. Hakkila, running under the ‘colors of the Yritys Club of Nor- wood, Mass., succeeded in hanging up victories in the 800, 1,500 and 5,000-metre runs, — outdistancing ‘fields composed of the choice labor | long-distance runners in the country. P. Ahola won the javelin and dis- cus throws, and H. Ahola led the contestants in the hop-skip-and- | Olympics, Kirton by no means mon- jump and the high jump events, establishing marks coming close to the best amateur performances in the country. Women and junior athletes, turn- ing out in unprecedented numbers, contributed largely to the colorful Continued on Page Two ANTI-KELLOGG MEET ATTACKED After three speakers had ad- dressed a crowd of 2.000 at a meet- ing held at Wall and William Sts., yesterday noon on the fake Kellogg “peace” pact, police attacked and broke up the gathering which was arranged under the auspices of the New York section of the All-Amer- ica Anti-Imperialist League. Before the meeting was. sched- uled to begin, when the stand was being put up by the anti-imperial- ist workers, them from ‘proceeding, on the ground that “the police sergeant had heard nothing about it.” This was denied by the officials of the New York section of the All-Amer- ica Anti-Imperialist League, who said that the police commissioner had been duly notified of the Continued on Page Two FOUR RUM RUNNERS DROWN. KEY WEST, Fla., Aug. 27 (UP). —Four men—part of the crew of a rum runner captured near here to- day—were believed to have been drowned when they jumped over- board as Coast Guard Cutter No. 225 towed the craft into port. No trace of the men has been found. ypolice tried to. keep | SOVIET UNION IS “INVITED” AFTER TERMS ARE FIXED Communists are Jailed by Par Police Humanité Scores Pact (By United Press) MOSCOW, Aug. 27 (UP)—The Soviet Union has been invited to participate in the Briand-Kellogg treaty to outlaw war, which was signed in Paris today by repre- sentatives of 15 powers. French Ambassador Herbette late today transmitted an invita- tion from France to the Soviet Union to join the pact. Ambassa- dor Herbette said Russia would participate under the same condi- tions and privileges of the original signatories. * * * (EDITOR’S NOTE: Despatches to the effect that the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is in- vited to “participate” in Bri- and-Kellogg treaty to outlaw war “under the same conditions and privileges of the original sig- natories” are entirely deceptive. The pact had been subject to ne- gotiations since December last, | and the Note of the United States department of state of June 23 was taken as validating reserva- tions made by both France and Great Britain, the reservations having the effect of strengthen- ing the imperialist character of the pact. The statement to the press of Commissar of Foreign | Affairs of the Soviet Union, Chi- cherin prior to the signing of the pact, was not that the Soviet Union would: sign the pact in ite condition as signed yesterday, but that: “I cam declare that our gov- ernment is prepared to take part i+ these negotiations. The issue will depend upon the content of these negotiations. But the Sovi- et government is of the opinion that the possibility of it, too, signing the Kellogg pact is not excluded. Only if we are served with the official Notes can we take part.in these negotia- tions, and in the event of favorable conditions, also sign the pact. Our Government regurds the intended ‘prohibition of these wars as insufficient in the event of our participation in these negotiations we would also propose alterations in this pact which are necessary from our point of view. ” The imperialist powers delayed the ine vitation to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics until after nego- tiations of their own had moulded the character of the pact, exclud- ing the Soviet government from any chance to propose changes. Only after the imperialist powers | had signed the pact in a form to their own liking, the invitation is sent to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.) rea te (By United Press) PARIS, Aug. 27.—Ambassador Herbette presented the invitation to Foreign Minister Litvinoff and at the same time gave him a copy of the treaty. Litvinoff requested an official list of the governments invited to adhere and a complete file of,the diplomatic correspondence in regard to the pact. He said the Soviet Govern- ment would need these documents in connection with consideration of the French invitation to adhere: At the same time the invitation was made public, the Soviet’s re fusal to participate in the League f Nations Commission to Control Private Production of Arms was an- nounced. That invitation had been | forwarded through Germany. The commission will convene this week. Litvinoff’s letter to the general secretary of the League said the | ‘Swork of the special commission is giving no practical results and can only create illusions, hiding the real situation of disarmament.” He re- called the Soviet proposal at the last disarmament conference to elimi- |nate all arms—which was not even considered. _ oe (Wireless to the Daily Worker) PARIS, Aug. 27—Not six months after they had retreated in con- | fusion before the proposals for com- plete disarmament made by the Sov- iet government thru its assistant commissar for foreign affairs, Maxim Litvinov, at Geneva, the rep- resentatives of fifteen powers in all parts of the world today affixed their signatures to the Kellogg peace pact in Paris in an atmoa | Continued on Page Three