The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1928, Page 1

wer THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Baily Exatered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 3, 1878. FINAL CITY EDITION = Published daily except Sunday by The Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Vol. V., No. 206 Datly Worker Sq., New York, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New Outside New Yer 38.00 per year. KELLOBG NOTE Mos. Knapp Is REVEALS ANTI. A2/l Sick’; Will Be Freed USSR ALLIANGE Symons se Izvestia Declares Pact Move to Hide SYRACUSE, Aug. 29.—A malig- nant illness, conveniently discovered by her enterprising lawyers just |after she was convicted of grand |larceny and embezzlement of the War Plans state census funds of 1915, may save Mrs. Florence E,. S. Knapp, former republican secretary of state from a Kellogg Let's Cat Out "iii: WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—That| This was revealed today with the the Kellogg pact is designed to per- | announcement that a a result of this petuate the relations entered into by| “illness” George Z. Medalie, the powers in the Treaty of Locarno, | prosecutor, will m and designed as a bloc against the| of her sentence. Soviet Union, was confirmed here to-| The lady’s ailment took a sudden day when the text of the note of|turn for the worse, it was found to- invitation sent to 48 nations to ad-|@@¥, when it was announced that she here to the pact was made public) Would have to come up for sentence here today. The negotiations pre-| i" Albany next Tuesday. Her per- ceding the signing of the treaty as-|S0nal physician immediately an- sured the maintenance of the bloc nounced that so serious is Mrs. against the Soviet Union. |Knapp’s condition that he has re- The conditions laid down for the| fused to risk for her an “operation adherence of the Soviet Union to the | for goitre.” pact are’such which would not allow| Solicitous friends, many of whom of any change in the original nature] were on the “dummy” payroll of the of the treaty. They reveal that the| census bureau during Mrs. Knapp’s special Powers were determined not to coun-| efflorescent administration, will be- | ticularly that of the peasant youth. | tenance the demand of the Soviet! gin a campaign to obtain a pardon POINT TO WAR DANGER AT RED YOUTH CONGRESS 'Young Communists in Fourth World | Meet | Urge More Sport Work MOSCOW, Aug. 29.—Stressing the danger of imperialist war, the | second plenary session of the Fifth World Congress of the Young Com- qye for suspension | runist International opened here to-| |day under | Blenkle. | Chitarov, in his opening speech, | spoke at length on the danger of | war, pointing out the chief tasks of | the Young Communist International. “The broad masses of the working class youth are still under the in- fluence of the bourgeois,” he said. |“The Socialist Youth International |is following a reactionary course | and is steadily losing ground. | “The economic situation of. the | youth of the world is very bad, par- the chairmanship of | The role of the youth in factories NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1928 Heat Wave Hits City, To Stay; Many S u ter Great discomfort, and in many sections of the city, much suffering was caused yesterday by a late sum- mer heat wave and humid condition which struck New York. The city’s shops, factories, and subways were more sweltering than they have been for several weeks as a result. | Nus nmediate relief is in sight, according to the Weather Bureau, | unless local showers develop. The heat is expected to continue for another day or two. The temperature at 2 o'clock yes- terday afternoon was 88 degrees and 61 degrees humidity. This was just | two points below the record for the date, which was 90 degrees in 1895. HOLD WORKERS SPORTS MEET |47 Delegates Present | at Convention The second National Convention Government that it be allowed to/ for her if the prosecutor’s motion|is rapidly growing on account of of the Labor Sports Union opened participate in the negotiations. Reports received here from Mos-| overruled, cow state that an article in the Iz-| ee as vestia, official organ of the Soviet) Government, points out that as long) as the powers continue to arm and| * assign a major part of their budgets | to the army and navy, and as long} as they refuse to adopt a plan of! tem, etc. The organization youth is weak, and even declining. | Fighting Spirit Grows. | “The responsibility for this situa- tion rests with the Amsterdam In- ternational which tries to rob the |for suspension of the sentence is|the introduction of rationalization, Monday, Aug. 27, at the Progressive | in the factories, the speed-up sys-| Hall, 15 W. 126th St., with 54 dele-| move on the part of the government “of | fates present, representing 33 clubs.|to the monster demonstration and | In addition to the regular delegates, | |two representatives of the striking | young textile workers of New Bed- |ford, Jack Rubenstein and Joseph Tarvis, were present. Paul Cline, National Secretary, re- RED TICKET BY NEEDL : Price 3 Cents ENDORSED E WORKERS BAN COMMUNIST ° PARTY IN LATVIA: OFFICES RAIDED Action Follows Strike | Demonstration * Aug. 22 | Suppress Newspapers RIGA, Latvia, Aug. 29.—The Com- munist Party of Latvia has been de- clared illegal by the Ministry of the Interior and police are now sup- Millinery Workers Aid Miners epledac our solely. A wings wie | ner Wm 3 ~ LOCAL 43 Millinery workers of Local 43, shown above, have pledged their GITLOW ATTACKS ‘GREEN-TAMMANY HALL ALLIANGE Socialists Exposed as | Traitors to Workers Workers Party Lauded Crowding Irving Plaza Hall de- | spite the inten dreds of |needle trade: st night presiden- heat, work heard the Commun ; : ar i tial candidate, Ren Gitlow, assai pressing the party and its press| aid for the relief of the striking miners who are continuing their | tye iment pe voncthon, anal |throughout the country. Today all| struggle in spite of the betrayal by the Lewis machine. | cratic and “socialist” partieg, alt eee the Communist Party offices were joined in an effort to destroy their raided, literature confiscated, the press suppressed, and the police are looking for the functionaries. | This action came as a counter PLAN FOR BIG general strike called by the Com- munist Party for August 22, when in spite of the arrest of 400 workers and the continued attack of the po- {lice the demonstration proceeded to | protest against the arrest of Com- 76 Organizations Send Delegates onions. The meeting unanimou: en- |dorsed the platform of the Work- ers (Communist) Party and its can- didates in the corcing national elec- tions. Speakers at the meeting, which |was held under the ausrizes of the National Cummittee of the Needle Trades Section of the Trade Union Educational League, included Com- mittee Secretary H MINOR, WHITEMAN WILL TOUR STATE Communist Program to Be Presented complete disarmament, such as was proposed by the Soviet Government at the Geneva disarmament confer-| ence, the Kellogg pact wil be inef- fective and will amount only to a re- alignment of powers. The text of the note to each of the forty-eight governments follows: I have the honor to inform you Continued on Page Three RESUME SOVIET. ~ GERMAN TRAD Relations ._Broken at Shackta Tria) BERLIN, Aug. 29 (UP).—The youth of its rights in the unions. In PREPARE PARADE | the young workers has been growing 3+ in recent years. Many strikes of Nasa Sa ae workers have occurred in | Ore Le ~G | various countries. the Communist youth in the trade NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 29. | unions is constantly growing. —Fearful of the consequences out-| “Since the last congress, the Com- right refusal would bring, since|munist young workers have partici- nearly all of the 28,000 textile strik-| pated in armed struggles in Poland, | ers are adherents of the New Bed-|China, Indonesia, Bulgaria, and ford Textile Workers Union of the! Greece. The French Young Com- Textile Mill Committees, Mayor|munist League fonght actively Ashley yesterday announced that| against the Moroccan and Syrian spite of this, the fighing spirit of | The influence of | porting for the Executive Board on) munists and the banning of the rad- the past year and a half of work, ical unions. pointed out that the Labor Sports | Although anti-Communist legisla- | Union had made great progress | tion had already been enacted in the | Since its first convention. A total|form of the decree banning the rad- of 67 clubs have been brought under] ical unions, which were rich in Com-| jthe organizational control of the|munist members, and the govern- | Labor Sports Union. These 67 clubs| ment had been persecuting the Com- | have a membership of 4,500 to 5,000. | munists, having arrested many fune- | Of these 67 clubs, the majority are| tionaries, the latest move brings the | located in three centers, New York,| government out openly in its posi- Chicago and Detroit. New York has tion against the Communist Party. |15 clubs, Detroit 9 and Chicago 13.| Jt is an assured fact that mem- | Cline stressed the importance of or-| hers both of the Communist Party ‘ganizing workers’ sports clubs in all| and the Independent Socialist Party, Seventy-six organizations, repre- sented by 149 delegates, outlined plans for the National Daily Worker and Freiheit Press Bazaar, at a conference held at the Man- hattan Lyceum Tuesday night. Speaking in behalf of the Central Executive Committee of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, Alexander Trachtenberg urged a nation-wide drive for the bazaar as a means of building up the press of the Party. He pointed out that the need of a militant press\ was greater than Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker and Communist candidate for U. S. Senate and Lovett Fort- Whiteman, Communist candidate for Comptroller, together with a repre- sentative of the Young Workers (Communist) League, will begin a state-wide election campaign tour of New York on September 14th, in re- sponse to demands made by workers of many cities for an opportunity to hear the Communist candidates speak on the issues and significance of the 1928 elections. The itinerary of the tour will in- Sazer, Charles S. Zimmerman, ieader of the Cloak- makers Union; A. Jukow a lead- ing left winger in the Millinery Union; H. Ziebel, Rebecca Grecht, and others. Scoring William Green’s endorse~ ment of Smith, Gitlow declared: “By making a statement tanta- mount to an endorsement of Alfred E. Smith, Mr. William Green caps the climax of his career of betrayal of the labor movement and identi- fies himself completely with notori- ous open-shoppers like Raskob, Woodin and Du Pont who are be- | the left wing union could parade on | Labor Day “if the Chief of Police | concurred.” Permission to parade | was first granted the A. F. of L. | Textile Council, the application of | the T. M. C. union being held up in jorder to give them less time for | preparations. The mass pressure of the tens of | thousands behind the T. M. C; or- wars. The British Young Commu- | cities, and making the Labor Sports) nist League has fought against | Chinese intervention. The Scandina- | Continued on Page Two | York, Massachusetts districts. | i | In carrying on its athletic activi- | | ties the Labor Sports Union has held Labor Sports Union have been set |up. They are Chicago, Detroit, New | Ohio, Pennsylvania and the| 2 o which, co-operated’ in the demon- Union a real national organization.| stration of August 22, will be fol- Five functioning districts of the jowed up closely by the police and arrested in masses. BETHLEN BEGS \ever in view of the tremendous \struggle in whieh the American workers are now engaged. The fact that only five weeks re- | }main for the bazaar was stressed by many speakers, who urged the intensification of the organization | drive. Delegates to the conference reported that bakers, jewelry work- foreign office delivered a note to| ganization was responsible for the the Soviet embassy today express-|wariness of the mayor who tried to, ing Germany’s readiness to resume | avoid a baldly discriminating deci-| NEARING CLOSE trade relations with Russia. Relations were broken off because of the arrest of Germans in the Donetz Basin mine conspiracy cases. me I hr Se In the trial of the sabctagers against the Soviet Union operating in the great industrial and mining man engineers, connected with Ger- man firms, were accused of taking part in the conspiracy and espion- age for their firms and former own- ers. FRENCH TEXTILE UNION TO STRIKE | Bosses Reject Wage J Raise Demand PARIS, Aug. 28.—The Northern | France textile syndicate, a mill own- | ers association, in an official state-| ment issued yesterday rejected the demands of the left wing textile workers syndicate that the wages of women workers be increased. This action makes almost certain the call-| ing of a general strike by about Sept. 2. Even though the wages of men textile operatives are miserably low, the exploitation of the women workers is almost unendurable. In addition to this the workers organi- zation aims at strike action also in order to shatter the existing laws and regulations curtailing strike ac- tivity. Workers in other textile centers are also threatening walkouts as are most of the large centers in Germany. sion to grant a permit to one and| not to the other. Preparations for the parade on the part of the mili- |tant union, however, are going full | speed ahead, and they will parade not. | | leaders of the masses of strikers. | Reliable opinion here states that if |the A. F. of L. officialdom could \have foreseen the possibility of a \rival parade by the T. M. C., they would never have announced one. Substantiation of this is had in the fact that they always tried to avoid calling mass demonstrations on picket lines and to meetings. | The T. M. C., however, has already \ealled two parades, both of which |were broken by vicious police as- | saults, children’s strike clubs here was dis- |missed from court when she came up for trial on a disturbing the peace charge. She had been lead- ing 800 children in singing strike songs at the park, when she was arrested. About 100 children fol- lowed her and her police captors on the way to jail, and demonstratively hours at the police station. in Boston Explosion BOSTON, Aug. 29 (UP).—Scores of lives were imperiled, four per- sons were severely injured, and sev- eral others slightly hurt, here to- day, when two terrific explosions occurred in a manhole in a Back Bay street. . The manhole cover was hurled 45 feet into the air by the blast, which shattered windcws within a radius cf a block and which was felt for many blocks around. Elizabeth Donnelley, leader of the| shouted for her release for several | Many Lives Imperilled Increased Activity to Mark Sept. 1, 2, 3 |city will serve as centers from The Labor Day parades are ex-| which, on September 1, 2 and 3,| were: center of the Don Basin, three Ger- | Pected to show all those watching! thousands of Red Campaigners will | Workers Soccer Leagu Communist Campaign Fund. | “The excellent recruiting device | of Tammany’s Commissioner of Pub- lic Welfare, who issuec his papal bull against such Red collections, has succeeded in |army of collectors by many workers | Continued on Page Two | BURKE TO 60 ON CAMPAIGN TOUR Will Arrange Meetings in 12 Cities Continuing its energetic election activities, the Workers (Commun- ist) Party Election Campaign Com- mittee for New York State has de- cided to send out a speaker to tour jin advance of the state-wide tour to begin Sept. 14 when Robert Minor, Communist Candidate for U. S. Sen- ator, will go on the road. ~ While the first trip will confine itself to street meetings, arrange- ments are being made for mass meetings in a dozen cities of the Continued on Page Five ANCONA, Aug, 29 (UP).—The steamer Sento was badly damaged by fire today. Militiamen and fire- men helped the crew fight the flames. two big indoor meets and two Olym- |pie meets. In the meet just con- | cluded, about 600 athletes took part. | Walter Burke of Detroit was elect- ed chairman of the convention and Al Steele of New York, secretary. Theodore Maki, of Brooklyn, N. | was unanimously elected president. sate} ; | In addition to Burke and Maki, whether permission is granted or, Thirty stations throughout the |fifteen members of the Executive | |Board were elected. I. Sapperstein, Metropolitan ers, white goods workers, workers’ clubs and progressive clubs have al- ready elected delegates and are busy preparing booths for the bazaar. | Harry Fox, campaign manager of WALL ST, HELP hkeepsie, Albany, Troy, Sehenectade, Ssuavueo,-Utiek, Rech: ind the Smith candidacy. ester, Buffalo, Jamestown and Bing-| “His ‘action is fully ‘in-line “with, hampton. Reports made by up-state that of Mr. Woll of the executive Continued on Page Two Communist campaigners, engaged in didates of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party on the ballot, indicate the interest of masses of workers in the Communist platform and principles. Whiteman will stress the role of the capitalist parties in betraying Negro as well as white labor, and A ie; E. Austin,| who strike developments who are the real/ cireulate throughout the city with|M. W. S. L.; Al Steele, Eastern Dis-| Its Alarmed by Visit of Karolyi In order to counteract the effect The fifteen of the visit of, Count Michael Karo- former president of Hungary, will arrive in New York on Saturday, Premier Bethlen, virtual lyi, collection boxes, working for the | trict L. S. U.; Arne Myntinnen, Paa-| fascist dictator of Hungary, has is- veo Jokinen and Emil Miller, Vesa,| cued a statement through the New N. Y.; Frank Kern, of the German- American Club of the M. W. S. L.; | J. Bruney, of the Falcon A. C. of the |M. W. S. L.; Milton Weich, of the increasing the | Co-operative Sports Club; Jack Ru- | benstein, Eastern District; Joe Shan- |dler, Harlem Progressive Youth; | Frank Forslund, Scandinavian Work- York Times, calling upon “American | citizens” to show the “great Amer- ican spirit” and aid the Hungarian | reaction. The statement bases its plea for support upon its attack on the | working class which seized power | the Daily Worker, was elected | chairman of the meeting and R. Go- liger, of Section 1, Workers Party, secretary. A committee of 25 was elected which will hold its first meeting |today at 6.30 at 26-28 Union Sq. HUNGARY POLICE TORTURE WORKER BUDAPEST, Hungary (By Mail). ers A. C.; Murray Singer, Plumbers |in March, 1919 only to be over- —The police here have continued Helpers; Milda Toivenen, Vesa A. C.|thrown by the invasion of foreign their persecution of revolutionary and a member of Local 43 of the Millinery Workers Union. The convention instructed the in- coming Executive Board to prepare troops. The statement points to the visit | of the 500 Hungarian delegates of the dictatorship who were present |workers and are raiding working |class sections in order to discover | Communist literature. On Aug. 8 | \for the publication of a regular at the unveiling of the Kessuth | the police succeeded in finding such |monthly official publication of the| monument in New York, but fails | literature and followed up the dis- |Labor Sports Union. This publica-|to ‘mention the demonstration of |Covery by numerous arrests. tion is to be issued not later than) American workers which took place | |three months after the date of the | convention. FURRIERS SQUASH ALF, L SGABBERY 'Philadelnhia, Boston | Build New Union | PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29.—Ed- ward F. McGrady, special agent of made an attempt at a reprisal for Local 53’s action in affiliating with the new union movement, and was the A. F. of L, in charge of destroy- | © i ing unionism in the fur industry, industry complete the first week of ing to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, other swimmer would leave here at a general strike for improved work-| were found burned to death near the | midnight to join in the endurance at that time and which exposed the Continued on Page Three 40,000 GERMAN TAILORS STRIKE Industry Is Completely Shut Down BERLIN, Aug. 29.—Fozty-tlou- sand workers in the mens’ clothing | | | | ing conditions today with detertiina- Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar Executive Will USSR RESUMES SEARCH again condemned by the fur work-| tion strengthened to stay out “till ers at a crowded mass meeting in| livable wages are granted.” This is| Boslower Hall. due to the success the workers) After hearing their business achieved in completel} shutting down | agent, Sam Burt, report that he|the entire One of the arrested, Ludwig Si- |mon, threw himself from the win- |dow of the police station and suf- |fered a broken foot. He was |brought back to the inquisition chamber. Simon did not jump from the win- dow without sufficient cause, Un- doubtedly he could no longer stand tortures of the Hungarian police and threw himself out of the window to escape prolonged suffering. MILFORD, Penn., Aug. 29 (UP). <M. M. Merrill, official of Curtiss | Aviation field, New York, and Ed-| |win Ronne, who were flying on |Monday from Rochester, N. Y., to | Curtiss Field in an airplane belong- | wreckage of their plane today. | will shatter the last of the illusions harbored by Negroes that the repub- lican party is their friend, by citing instances of segregation and the ousting of Negro delegates at the Kansas City convention. The second New York State tour to be arranged by the Workers (Communist) Party will be made by William F. Dunne, candidate for Governor, and Juliet Stuart Poyntz, candidate for Attorney-General, | sometime in October. TO DEFY FASCISTI IN SAGCO MEET Demonstration at St. Louis Friday ST. LOUIS, Aug. 29.—Defying the long arm of the Mussolini fas- cist government, by whose orders the local police stopped a Sacco- | Vanzetti meeting last week, the | workers of St. Louis will hold a huge Sacco and Vanz¢tti meeting Friday at Bruids Hall, Market and Ninth Sts. Police, at the order of the Italian fascist consul here, drove the work- ers from the hall with riot guns and gas bombs. Italians and Eng- lish speaking workers will address the meeting. 3 CHANNEL SWIMS ON. CAPE GRIS NEZ, France, Aug. |29 (UP).—Two attempts to swim |the English Channel were underway | tonight with the prospect that an- | contest. CITY TAXI STRIKE NEAR WAGE GUT DRIVE |Workers There Join Mill Union, ,T.M.C. Word reaches the office of the National Textile Mill Committees from Bernard Herman, Secretary of the Philadelphia Textile Mill Com- mittees, of a vicious wage-cutting campaign being launched by the bosses in the silk mills of the tri- cities of Pennsylvania, Easton, Al- lentown and Bethlehem. On Aug. 18, the first step was taken by the employers in the Arona, a small mill, where a 10 per cent slash was given. Following this wages were cut in a mill in Allen- town. Anticipation is current among the worke: a thoroughgoing ich will hit all mills y, and will drag down the already low wages to starvation level. Coming as they do on top of a sharp unemployment which has hit the tri-cities in the past year, the wage cuts are driving the work- ers to desperation. With the Associated Silk Workers practically ont of existence in this important silk center, the workers have been left helpless to defend themselves against the onslaughts of the employers. The entrance of the Textile Mill Committees into the field, therefore, has been met with an enthusiastic reception by the workers. They, feel that leadership is being given them for a serious organization drive of New German Cruiser Is Launched in Tests for Future Use in Warfare BERLIN, Aug. 29 (UP).—The German navy’s wireless-controlled target ship, Zaehringen, left Wil- helmshaven today for an extensive trial in the North Sea. Details of the ship were kept see- ret, but the United Press learned when it was tried out during the Meet Today, 6:30 p. m. The Executive Committee of 25, elected at the Daily Worker-Frei- heit bazaar conference, will hold its first meeting today at 6:30 p, m, at 26-28 Union Square. Business of an impcertant nature will be tran- sacted at that time, it 1s armounced, TEACHERS WIN PAY RAISE ATLANTA, Ga., Aug, 29.—Teach- ers in Fulton County schools have secured a pay raise through a BERGEN, Norway, Aug, 29 (U, P),—The Russian ice breaker Kras- sin has started its lonely and hu- manitaran search back {nto the frozen arctic area, The big steel prowed craft, which rescued seventeen nien of the Italla and rescue groups, is en route to Kings Lark Tel ec aha today, frem search for the six men Krassin on Way Back to Arctic Wastes who floated away with the onvelope of the Italian dirigible and for the six men of the Roald Amundsen ex- pedition, At Kings Bay the Krassin will pick up the Soviet aviator Chukh- novaky, who will make reconnoiter- flights {n an attempt to find a trace of the twelve men who still are missing after t ill-fated expedi- tion to the pole.’ found McGrady in conference with the bosses’ association whom ho was trying to convince to break off ne- gotiations for a new agreement with Local 58, and after listening to Ben Gold of New York make an appeal to build the new union, the workers here unanimously passed a resolu- ton denouncing the International clique, Refuse to Yield, Due to this situation the employ- ers took advantage and presented the local with demands of a reduc- tfon in wages nnd the power to dis- Continued on Page Two industry immediately | after the strike call was issued. The effectiveness of the walkout and the fact that the annual fall buyers fair has just been vpencd in | Liepzig are looked upon by many as | signs of-the strike terminating suc- cessfully for the workers. Wages received by the mens’ |clothing workers here, union offi- elals show, are below the pay re- eolved by unskilled industrial labor. Discontent and growing sentiment for strike action {s spreading in widely separated textile mapufac- turing centers, | The immediate prospects of a general taxi strike thruout Greater New York will be high up on the agenda of the newly-formed Taxi Chauffeurs Union when it meets at the Labor Temple, 84th St. and | Third Ave., tonight. Organized after active agitational | work among the taxi drivers for | many years, the union says that a ‘strike is the next step unless the owners of fleets of cabs here in the Tonight city agree to a general increase in pay and improvement in working) conditions. Long hours, miserable wages, in- timidation by police authorities, a/ blacklist which keeps hundreds of | workers from getting jobs—these are some of the issues which the| taxi drivers are just about ready to| fight out to a finish, Especially vicious do the taxi m Continued on Page Four ~~ Baltic Fleet maneuvers on Aug. 8 that it is filled with cork, so that shellfire will not sink it. The Zaehr- ingen carries no crew but is manipu- iated by wireless control from @ cruiser. ah It developed that the ship did not function satisfactorily at the maneu- vers, so a new device was installed which will be tried out on the pres- ent trip. i HERRICK SAILS PARIS, Aug. 29 (UP).—-Ambas. sador Myron Herrick sailed for Ni York on the Ile de France. spend his vacation in Chio. 2 2H i |