The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE FOR THE 40-HO UNORGANIZED UR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ A GOVERNM. ND FARMERS’ ENT Matered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 197% Worker NATIONAL EDITION | Vol. V., No. 205 Published daily except 8 Publishing Association, Inc,, 26-28 Union day by The National Daily Worker New York, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New York, by mall, 68.00 per year. Outside New Y by matl, $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cente | KELLOGG FIGHTS CORDIAL LETTER - TOSOVIET UNION Signers of War Pact Send. Evasive Note Feminists are Jailed PARIS, Aug. 28.—After abandon- * ing in terror a half year ago the conference in which the representa- tives of the Soviet Union issued f their proposals for complete world {| disarmament, the powers today de- cided to jnvite the Soviet govern- ment to sign the Kellogg multilat- eral “peace” treaty, although the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the U. S. S. R. had made it suffi- ciently clear that it was participa- tion in the “peace” negotiations that it desired. The invitation to sign was given not by an American representative but by the French ambassador. The suggestion had been made that the 14 delegates signing the treaty affix their names to an offi- cial letter cordially urging Russia to adhere, but Secretary Kellogg and M. Briand preferred that the U. S. S. R. should get the same invitation extended to 44 other nations. The French ambassador at Mos- cow transmitted to M. M. Litvinoff, Assistant Soviet Commissar of For- Continued on Page Three HOLD MEET IN _ SPITE OF POLICE Miners Hold Workers Party Rally WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Aug. 28. —The breaking up by the police of the Workers (Communist) Party Sunday has not deterred members of the Workers (Communist) Party | from continuing their drive in the hard-coal region, ac- eording to a communication from Emil Gardos, sub-district organizer “in this city. The local newspapers printed in full the statement of the Workers (Communist) Party on the police attack, denouncing their brutal methods, and clearly stating that the conference will be held again Friday. As a result of the police terror- ism, the Workers (Communist) Party Campaign Picnie to be held » Sept. 1 at San Souci Park, received extraordinary publicity. Hundreds of workers not yet class-conscious are expected to be present to hear Benjamin Gitlow, vice-presidential | clothing manufacturer with a strike| Win) be endorsed intensive I Wisconsin Workers A truck loaded with food fo families has been sent by the Milwa ‘* Send Miners Relief a r the striking miners and their ukee Local of the National Miners Relief. The signs on the side of the truck spread the story of the miners’ struggle and need all along the route taken by the truck. Beside the truck, at left, is H. Grawert, of Machinists Union No. 66, and next to him, O. R. Zimmerman, who drove the truck into the Illinois coal fields. (Photo by Cora Meyer, Worker Photographer.) SEND $1,200 IN FOOD TO MINERS; MORE NEEDED PITTSBURGH, Pa., Ape. 28.—A| carload of potatoes and another of $1,200 worth of groceries, including flour, sugar and fat-backs, were | sent into Ohio this week, Anthony |Minerich, secretary of the National | Miners Relief Committee, said to- |day. Jack Bell and Jim Vall, chair- man and secretary of the Ohio re- lief committee, wil] distribute the foodstuffs from Yorkville, through committees which will come from mining camps for miles around. More than 500 families of Avella will share the week’s shipment of 20 ‘barrels of flour, yeast, salt and fats to bake bread, 20 barrels of pota- toes, 1,000 cans of condensed milk, 1,000 pounds of sugar, beans, etc. The committee elected by the eight | Avella locals many months ago,| | whicl» includes Fred Siders, Steve |Paich, Philip Giambatista and Mike ‘Coleman, carry the relief out to the Continued on Page Four | | } | | Endorsement Conference here HILLMAN PHILA, ‘DRIVE? FIZZLES ‘Survey Reveals Not a Shop on Strike ‘ | PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 28.—| Complete vindication of the step taken by Domenick Fliani when he | | demonstratively resigned from an | organizership in the Amalgamated | | Clothing Workers Union “special or- ganization’ campaign committee,” | was had today when a thorough) survey made in this city revealed | today not a single Philadelphia) FISHERMEN WIN THEIR STRIKE Bedford Fleet Owners Withdraw Wage Cut NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 28 (FP).—Striké sentiment spread from the ranks of 27,000 cotton mill workers, and nearly 500 fishermen —all there are—struck for a better division of the sea’s spoils. Boat owners tried to force fishermen to bear the cost of fuel oil, gasoline, ice and waste in operating fishing ing to the Fishermen’s Union, and staying ashore. When bosses capitulated, fisher- men went back to sea for 60 per +eent of the catch, the owner to pay major expenses except food. Every man joined the Fishermen’s Union of the Atlantic, allied with the In- ternational Seamen's Union, mak- ing New Bedford a 100 per cent union port. 2 TO ENDORSE - RED TICKET TONIGHT Meeting The candidates and platform of Workers (Communist) Party d at a rally of New candidate of the Workers (Commu- | in effect against his shop. Fliani,| York needle trades workers, to be nist) Party, who will be the main speaker. CRASH KILLS EIGHT WORKERS SHELBY, N. C., Aug. 28 (UP). —The debris of brick, plaster and twisted planks—all that remains of | the three buildings which collapsed today, killing eight persons—was searched tonight for the bodies of | }»four workmen still missing Police, firemen, relatives of the. missing, and friends, pulled. and tugged at the mass of wreckage, trying to penetrate its depths. Four Negro laborers remained unaccounted for this afternoon as volunteers dug deeper into the debris. A group of seven had been working in the excavation. Three of them were taken out seriousty hurt but the remaining four were ‘believed trapped under the heaps of bricks and plaster. The four missing men were be- lieved trapped in the basement of one of the buildings, near where a retaining wall they had flung up, gave way, bringing down with it the structures of three buildings in the heart of this town of 4,000 population. BRITISH UNIONS AGREE TO MERGE LONDON, Aug. 28 (UP).— Terms have been agreed upon pro- visionally for an Amalgamation of the Transport and General Workers *Union with the Workers Union. Total membership of the merged ; unions would be 450,000. The move was considered a step in the cam- paign to form a “super-federation” of more than 1,000,000 membership embracing all railway and transport workers. : an active left wing member of the | Philadelphia local, had issued an open letter containing his resigna-| tion and a denunciation of the Amalgamated officialdom for the | fake drive they were carrying on. | Sound and Fury. About two months ago the, | Amalgamated general officialdom, | |from Hillman down to manager Beckerman of the New York Joint) | Continued on Page Five ANTI-KELLOGE ~ 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 | |New York section of the All-Amer- | liea Anti-Imperialist League. Before the meeting was sched- | |uled to begin, when the stand was | New York section of the All-Amer-| fica Anti-Imperialist League, who | |said that the police commissioner ‘had been duly notified of the | Continued on Page Two GreekDengueEpidemic Spreading to Provinces ATHENS, Aug. 28 (UP).— Eighty per cent of the population of Athens and Piraeus have been affected by the epidemic of dengue, it was estimated today. The fever was spreading in the provinces. eral CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 28 (UP).—Authorities took precau- tions along the Greek-Turkish fron- tier today to prevent the spread of the dengue into Turkey. | Trades fraternal! held tomorrow night at Irving Plaza, | 15th St. and Irving Place. Benja- min Gitlow, vice-presidential candi- date of the Party, will be the prin- cipal speaker at the meeting, which is arrange, by the National Needle Committee of the Trade Union Educational League. Besides listening to Gitlow, the progressive needle trades workers will hear their own militant leaders, who have Jed them successfully in jitter struggles against the right ing of the socialist party and A. IF. of L. bureaucracy, and who are | shor | most energetically working for the |15 men sitting before a conference support of the Workers (Commu- Continued on Page Two Raise German R. R. Rates to Pay for War BERLIN, Aug. 28.—An increase in German passenger and freight rates has been forced through the railroad arbitration court, against larranged under the auspices of the | the will of the Reichstag, by Parker | Gilbert, Reparations eral plan. Agent Gen- and co-author of the Dawes tion payments. | The nome will bring 250,000,000 | NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1928 MURDOCH, MILL STRIKE LEADER IS JAILED AGAIN Picket Gets 6 Months, | 8 Women 30 Days, in Court Terror 28,000 Stand V. ery Firm BULLETIN | NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 28./ —William TT. Murdpch, Textile Workers Union leader, who has just finished serving a three-month jail sentence for his activities in the big textile strike here, was again ar- rested for leading a picket line at |the Potomska Mill gates. Marion| Rotelho, sentenced this morning to 30 days was also jailed anew, this being her ninth arrest. Maria Va- lente was arrested for the fifth time in the strike. i Police forced their way into a meeting of Polish women strikers in| the Hops St. Hall, which was being | addressed by Helen Zakowski, and arrested Natalia Przabu on a war- rant charging picketing last week. | eee (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 28. —Joseph Vieira, a textile striker arrested on a special warrant for alleged rioting when he was picket- ing the gates of the Sharp Mill, was | sentenced to a six-month jail term in the District Court today. Marion |Botelho, Casmiro Lamieras, Ger-| maine Madieros and Vincepgia San-' |erafts. Workers answered by rally- | tos, four other members of the New Bedford Textile Workers Union, are} Continued on Page Three | WORLD CONGRESS AWAITS PROGRAM { i } } ‘Czech Delegate Buried | in Moscow | MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 28.— | The Sixth World Congress of the| Communist International is devoting | |the interval from Friday to Monday! to sessions of the program commis- sion. iN.» Y. Needle Trades) The commission has virtually fin- | | ished its work by now and will pre- | sent the final form of the program to the next plenary session of the | Congress. The burial of the Czech delegate, | | Horaz, who died here suddenly, took | place this afternoon. “Forward” Sputters in| Horror Over Iniquity jof Left Wing Leaders | The “socialist” Jewish Forward, | | organ of the right wing union wreck- ers in the needle trades, yesterday | devoted almost half of its front! |page to an “astounding expose.” | A reproduction of pictures was | printed, showing a group of ee table in Moscow! Two of them! were Charles S. Zimmerman and | Aaron Gross, left wing cloakmak- | ers’ and furriers’ leaders, who had |gone to Moscow and were in this instance pictured in the “Red | Needle” as participating with rep- |resentatives of needle trades unions |from other parts of the world, in |the proceedings of the Red Trade | Union International, held there in April. The captions also declare that both’denied having been in the So- viet Union, and then ask mysteri- | ously... “What were they doing | there?” thus completely ignoring of the city. t Treaty in Wall Street Harry Gannes, secretary of the New York branch of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League is shown dbave addressing the big crowd that gathered to listen to him denounce the Kellogg “peace” pact as an instrument of the imperialist powers to cloak their war preparations against the Soviet Union. The meeting was held at Broad and Williams Streets, in the heart of the American financial district. BUKHARIN ON U. S. PARTY SITUATION At Sixth World Congress of the Communist International MOSCOW, Aug. 27.—From the detailed report f International Press Correspondence we can now ee 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 thap 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 Lomipadze 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 tose much emphasis on external contradictions of imperialism. Bukharin said on this point the fol- lowing: © y . “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 overestimates 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: “T 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 im 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 question: “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 unions 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 differences 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.” STOP COMMUNIST °° * . Wants More Men for Air Army WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (UP).— JAIL AUSTRALIA MEET IN HOLLAND BERLIN, Aug. 28 (UP).—Inter- >- vention of former Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany prevented a meeting of | German and Dutch Communists at| of the Germans at the meeting, but being put up by the anti-imperial-| marks more per year for the pay-|the fact that Zimmerman gave a|Amhem, Holland, on the Rhine, 50 suddenly changed front. ist workers, police tried to keep ment of German reparations. Gil-| public report of his and Gross’ work | Miles southeast of Amsterdam, the | them from proceeding, on the bert had decided that additional| at the Red International Congress |T@dical newspaper Welt Am Abend |added, reinforced frontier police ground that “the police sergeant | revenues were needed in order to/at a meeting in Manhattan Lyceum | Said today. had heard nothing about it.” This| improve the railroads and at the which was widely advertised by was denied by the officials of the | same time not endanger the repara- | posters nailed up in many sections |Dutch and German foreign minis-| attend the meeting, despite the or- « |ters had consented to the attendance | der against it. The newspaper The navy today ordered all available navy academy graduates who have not previously done so to take a physical examination to determine their fitness as aviation pilots. The Dutch, the Welt Am Abend | with regular troops, who halted sev- said that the/jeral thousand Germans seeking .to MANY RECORDS FALL AT LABOR SPORTS MEET Arthur Kirtin, Negro Athletic Star, Scores Double Victory in Sprint Events In spite of a slow. track, soggy | bad weather that for a time threut-|11.7 in the shorter sprint and 24.4 | long-distance runners in the country. the United States, met in a two-day | | track and field meet at Wingate | Field, Brooklyn, Saturday and Sun- | York, 650 athletes, representing labor and| athletes succeeded in hanging up organizations throughout | several records that will be remem-|performer of the bered as marks to shoot at by par- | Olympics, Kirton by no means mon- ticipants in future meets. The autstanding record of the day day. E. Hakkila, running under the |the best amateur performances in | score running unattached, ness of the drenched field and the|in the 100 and 200-metre dashes, ' fields composed of the choice labor | with a three-day downpour of rain, |ened to halt the meet, the worker- in the 200-metre dash. P. Ahola won the javelin and dis- Although the outstanding sprint cus throws, and H. Ahola led the Labor Sports | contestants in the hop-skip-and- UNION LEADER Charge He Intimidated Scabs SYDNEY, New South Wales, Aug. 28 (British United Press).— Jacob Johnson, secretary of the Australian Seamen’s Union, was sentenced today to six month’s im- prisonment on a charge under the Commonwealth Crimes Act of at- tempting, by intimidation, to induce seamen to leave the inter-state steamer Barwon during the recent strike of marine cooks. Notice of appeal was given pend- ing which three other charges against Johnson were adjourned. 3 Dead, Many Injured in Western Tornadoes |opolized the double victories of the |jump and the high jump events,| COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Aug. establishing marks coming close to|28—Three known dead, nearly a seriously injured, several |day, in the second annual athletic | was established when Arthur Kir- | colors of the Yritys Club of Nor- the country. meet of the Labor Sports Union of ton, a young Negro warker of New wood, Mass., succeeded in hanging America. Although hampered by the slow- | footed his way to a double victory |5,000-metre runs, probably fatally, was the toll of a Women and junior athletes, turn- | tornado which ripped through four wing- up victories in the 800, 1,500 and ing out in unprecedented numbers, | southeastern Iowa counties late yes- outdistancing | contributed largely to the colorful | terday. Continued on Page Two Other injuries were also | reported from Phoneix, Arizona. GITLOW BEGINS TOUR SATURDAY . WILL COVER 20 STATES ON BiG CAMPAIGN TRIP Letters From Workers Indicate Growing Interest To Tour the West in the 20 Reports from the c states where Bi presjdential candic ers (Communist) P: speak on his natic tour, show t the the Wo: (Commu and the cons intensely intereste n the program and platform of the class struggle, and are ready to give Gitlow an en- thusiastic greeting. The tenor of the letter: coming in to the National Election Campaign headquarters the Workers (Communist) Party at 43 East 125th St. indicates, according to the committee, that never before have the masses been so rea listen to the revolutionary of the Workers (C unist) Gitlow will star two-month’s speaking campaign tour, which will Continued on Page Four ers that are | AT CLEVELAND Expect Reeord Crowd at Sept. 9 Meet CLEVELAND, Ohio., Aug. 27.— Benjamin Gitlow, vice-presidential nominee. of the Workers (Commu- |nist) Party of America, will be the principal speaker at a mass meet- ing to be held Sunday, Sept. 9 at | the Association Hall, 2105 East 21st St. The meeting will begin at 2 p. m. and a record crowd is expected to |hear the Communist leader. Gitlow’s record in the labor move- ment, as asemblyman in New York, and his imprisonment for participa- tion in the left wing movement of the socialist party, which later be- came the Workers (Communist) Party, has proven his mettle as a labor fighter to the Cleveland work- ers, who look forward to the event. Gitlow will speak on the record of the Workers (Communist) Party for the last few years, and explain its program and aims. 8) le The Labor Day Picnic of the Cleveland local of the Workers (Communist) Party will be held at Lakeland, 14711 Lakeshore Blvd., Monday, Sept. 3, beginning at 10 a, m. DETROIT TO HEAR FOSTER, BEDACHT Two-Day Red Election Picnic Sept. 2-3 Detroit Election Campaign Commit- tee, together with the Daily Worker and the Youpg Workers (Commu- nist) League, have organized a Two-Day Election Campaign Picnic at Welcome Park on September 2 and 3 for the purpose of stimulating the election campaign in the city of Detroit. All workers’ organizations and readers of the Party press are urged to be at this picnic Max Bedacht, member of the Cen- tral Executi Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party and Continued on Page Three SREAT RESPONSE - IN “RED DRIVE” The answer of thousands of class- |ronscious workers to the agtion of Tammany’s Department of Welfare in banning the collections for the campaign® fund of the Workers (Communist) Party will be an ex- tension of the Red Week drive to ‘take in all this week, and an intensi- ‘ication of the drive, the district of- ‘ice of the Party announced last night. The Tammany-controlled Welfare Board’s action has proved a boom- Continued on Page Two