The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 31, 1928, Page 1

7 WORKERS PARTY GOES ON BALLO THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE FOR THE 40-HO! FOR A LABOR FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNM UNORGANIZED UR WEEK PARTY ENT Hatered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1878, — ey FINAL CITY 1 EDITION? # Vol. V., No. 207 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. — NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Outside New Yerk, by mail. 86.00 per In New York, by mail, $6.00 per: year. year. , Price 3 Cente T IN PENNSYLVANI A World. Congress of Communist International Unanimously Adopts Bukharin Theses LOVESTONE ASKS THE END OF U, S, FRACTIONALIS M U. S. Minority Makes Reservations Upon Comintern Theses Credentials Report (Wireless to the Daily Worker) International Press Correspondence MOSCOW, Aug. 30.—Thael- mann reported on the work of the Political Commission at {\the World Congress of the Communist International. The political theses were then un- animously adopted plus all of the amendments suggested by the Commission. Takes Exception to Theses. Johnstone then made the following’ declaration in the name of the minority of the United States delegation. “The minority of the Workers Party agrees with the political theses except for the passage concerning the United States which fails to stress the United States imperialist contradictions and the progressive radicalization of the American workers and which also fails to condemn the right wing policy of the majority of the Central Committee of the Work Party, » particularly “tpevarling the Rak eaten eG the decisions of the Fourth Con- gress of the Red International of Labor Unions, and Negro and anti-imperialist work.” Majority Supports Theses. Lovestone answered for the majority of the Workers (Com- munist) Party. He said: “The majority of the Workers (Communist) Party approves un- reservedly the political theses presented by the delegation of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. “The unanimous adoption of the theses disproves the accusations of the minority against the majority of the Workers (Com- munist) Party concerning the alleged right wing’ policy, and means that the Communist Inter- national supports the present leadership. The best method to fight against the undoubtedly existing right wing dangers is for the minority completely to accept the theses, abandon frac- tionanilsm and subordinate itself to the majority.” The resolution recommending that all Communist parties support the International Red Aid was un- animously adopted. Honor Horaz. The forty-fourth session of the Congress was opened with Remmele acting as chairman. The delegates rose silently in memory of Horaz, Czech deputy who died here. Piatnitzki then delivered report of the credentials committee. There were 515 delegates present, forty more than at the fifth con- gress. There were 872 delegates with decisive votes and 143 with ad- visory votes. Forty-eight section: of the International, representing 4,024,159 members, sent delegates. The delegates at the Congress from countries not previously represented came from Palestine, Colombia, Syria, Uruguay, Ecuador, Paraguay, Venezuela, New Zealand and Chile. Thirty per cent of the delegates 1929 will be asked by police com-| executive board; (2) financial re- were formerly members of Social Democratic Parties. The report was unanimously adopted. Report on War Danger. The forty-fitth session was open- ed yesterday afternoon with Jilek. Bell reported for the war commis- sion which unanimously adopted the resolution on the war danger and the tasks of the Communists, Police Continue to Harass Cabmen Continuing the police persecution of taxi drivers, 31 more cabmen wera hailed into Harlem Court on ‘Wednesday on charges of “crowding ® public hack-stand.” The charges were made by owners of private Uniformed by the bosses, arm hundreds of young workers are yearly made the victims of American militarism. On page three of this edition is a picture of young Red Front Fighters, defenders of the working class, in-their camp in Ger- defend its profits, wrung from th of profit, new oppression. Militarism Plays the Tune They many. They are workers and will fight for their own interests. Second Company, Signal Corps of Are Marching to ed by the bosses, trained in the bosses’ camps to fight the bosses’ wars, The national guardsmen above, the Brooklyn, are being trained as instruments by which capitalism will e lives of these same workers, or use them in fighting for new sources STEEL MILL BOSS STONES PICKETS Strikers Fight Off At- tack; 1 Knifed | CANTON, 0., Aug. 30.—Aroused by the endurance of the five hun- dred steel strikers and their enthus- |iastic picketing of the Central Alloy Mill of the Stsel Corporation, E. C. Smith, assistant superintendent of the company yesterday provoked a picket line. Frank Perry, strike leader, and Pete Scoventz were ar- rested after the fight. His violence followed unsuccessful attempts to break the peaceful pick- eting of the men with threats of arrest. in lin aie “The whol sectioh in the neighbor- hood of the mill was menaced by the flying rocks while many were | hurt by the missiles. | The Central Alloy Mill Committee, together with certain citizens, is at- tempting to proceed against Smith \legally, but the prosecuting attor- |ney has refused to issue a warrant | for his arrest. | The sole effect of the attack on the steel strikers has been an inten- sification of picketing which has | brought the already full line to a | point where it includes virtually all the men effected by the strike. Joe Allasanni, an active picket, was stabbed at the home of a scab | while attempting to persuade him | to join the strikers. He is in the | local hospital in a serious condition. |The strikers blame Smith for the | assault. A call for a meeting this Sunday |to protest the mill superintendent’s | action has been issued by the Central | Alloy Mill Committee. MILL STRIKERS ~ ASK AID ABROAD |\Cable to Red Union |fight with the workers by ordering | seabs to hurl rocks into the massed | Office Boy, 60, Poverty- Tired, | | Kills Himself | | | | Richard W. Annin, 60, who lives | |at 457 Third St., Brooklyn, yester- | |day got tired of struggling along | " ee i | with his wife on the miserable sal- | ee jecoiaed ce ae eee ary of §25 a week that he earned by | “TKers leaving the city for an ab- venting “ariae tor dike “Port of | Previated vacation over the week- 3 end tomorrow, the slogan “Take a |New York, and jumped from the| Box Along” will be on everyone’s | tenth story of the building at 75 | lips, and the Red Tag Days of Sep- West St. |tember 1, 2 and 3 will be continued It was not the humiliation of his |#* ™any camps and beaches where |job alone that caused him to put an | Yorkers meet. News of the anti-labor action of end to his drab life. His wife, after | |the tragedy, explained that she and| Tammany Hall's Department of \her husband had been struggling to | Welfare in banning collections for “get by” on the $25 which he earned |the Red Campaign Fund of the las “office boy” for the Port of New, Workers (Communist) .Party ha York... ‘ ee. reached al} those.camps.and heaehs | Across the court of the building | Where workers spend their week- lan office worker saw Annin step /ends, and is having the effect of out on the window sill, three floors | instituting a Red Week Campaign |above the Port Authority headquar- ie those places which before did not have one. RED TAG DAYS AT CAMPS, BEACHES Workers Will Take Boxes Along |ters. Five times he stepped to the Tomorrow, Sunday and |sill, hesitated and stepped back Monday, when the Red Tag Days again. The sixth time he leaped. | Will be held, will mark the final) windup of the extended Red Week drive for funds for the Communist campaign. Urging all workers to collect for and contribute to the Red Election Campaign Fund, the District Cam- tem was abandoned and he was|Paign Committee last night issued fired. For months he was without |& Statement emphasizing the urgent work, but recently he succeeded in | needs for funds. After stressing the getting the job as office boy. importance of an appropriate an- is yt swer to the Tammanyites in the form of more intensified collections, S [ Ug MILLINERS |the statement continues: “Capital- jist politicians order political maneu- | vers from Europe by phone, as the \Thugs Halt-Discussion i} ; On Employment | Every bone in Annin’s body was broken, a bland interne from the Broad St. Hospital: announced. From 1915 until last year Annin was a solicitor for a downtown con- cern. Then the old collection sys- tions to the republican boss of Al- |legheny County by W. L. Mellon, |nephew of Andrew W. Mellon, the |strikebreaker, but the workers of |New York do not have to wait for | instructions on how to act when the |democratic machine orders their ; |campaign stopped. The reaction of Because of the determined de-|New York workers is swift and ef- mands of millinery workers, attend-| fective. The campaign for funds is ing a meeting of their Local 24, that| now greater than ever before, and the burning problem of unemploy-| ihe Red Tag Days of September 1, ment be taken up at the meeting in| 9 and 3 will give every worker the order to relieve the suffering of the! oonortunity to strike a blow at the jobless families, a dozen of the most| tammany machine.” trans-Atlantic telephoned instruc- _ Red Candidate MISLEADERS Of = — LABOR ENDORSE — WALL STREET AL New York State Labor Meet Approves Tammany Fakers Retain Jobs ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 30/ | (UP).—Governor Alfred E. Smith’s| presidential candidacy was endorsed | almost unanimously today by the 600 delegates to the Sixty-fifth an- nual convention of the New York | State Federation of Labor. Only a {half dozen determined anti-Smith| |men insisted on recording their op- | position. | A resolution advocating renomina-| | tion of Senator Royal S. Copeland jwas referred to a committee and | buried as far as the convention is | concerned. | All officers of the State Federa- |tion were re-elected by unanimous | ballot after a caucus failed to devel. lop opposition, included are pre: dent, John Sullivan of New York;| | vice-presidents, Thomas J. Curtis of | |New York, Emanuel Kovelski of} Rochester, Joseph A. Mullaney of| New York City, John C. Imhof of} New York City, C. F. Conroy of Buf-| Continued on Page Five William J. White, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party and | steel worker, who is running for U. S. Senator of Pennsylvania on the Party ticket. BREAK UP PHILA, CLOAK MEETING Police, Sigmanites In “United Front PHILADELPHIA, 80. — Aug. | WILL WHITEWASH worine frankly as the prearranged) nitely bridged the gulf which the + RN pe ye LONE EM a agents “Sf Hie. veactionary officials) Lewis machine souitht Be-ereate § of the Sigman cloakmakers’ local| deepen between the miners of the) °* the success in placing the Com- here, police here halted a mass | I R, LF ON WRECK | meeting of more than 600 cloak and |dressmakers who had come to Bos- Company Officials District Attorney Banton yester- day continued to go thru the motions in his “investigation” as to the re- sponsibility for the I. R. T. smash- up which resulted in the death of 17 and the injury of over 100 others. Refusing spersistently to take the Interborough officals into account in considering responsibility for the disaster, Banton yesterday heard witnesses consisting for the most part of old employes of the road. Hardly had an hour passed after the accident last Friday night when President Hedley of the I. R. T. threw the responsibility for the wreck from himself and the I. R. T. to the shoulders of William Bald- win a switch repair man. Baldwin is now free under $10,000 bail on a charge of homicide. At the “hearing” yesterday a theoretical “breach” between Ban- ton and the officials of the Transit Commission developed as to their interpretations of the cause of the \the hall howled boisterously wreck. The commission’s report, | Continued on Page Two |take up the question of establishing a local branch of the new Cloak and Dress Makers’ Union. The workers, thoroughly disgusted with the continued betrayals of the | little local Sigmans, had decided to join in the great movement recently launched in New York for the estab- |lishment of a real union in the trade. Thugs Demand Entry. After the hall was well filled, about a score of right wing hire- lings, led by the officials of the local, came and demanded admission |at the door denied them this on the | grounds that only cloak and dress- | makers would be admitted, the offi- |cials and any gangsters they may | bring were not invited, they were told. But the police “guardians” of | the meeting openly ignored the com- mitteemen and helped the thugs force their way in. No sooner did Chairman S. Levin open the meeting, when the small to the meeting. The committeemen| group of disturbers in one corner of | to) the : International militant. workers were beaten up,, NEW BEDFORD, August 30— four seriously, by thugs hired by the Cables urging relief and aid for the Officialdom. The meeting ended | 30,000 New Bedford textile strikers after most of the workers had left) have been sent to the All Russian|in protest against the sluggings.| Trade Unions and to the Amsterdam The four seriously injured are | International by Fred Biedenkapp Milton Weich, Morris Fein, A. Mu-) of the Workers International Relief sin and M. Walitsky. and Albert Weisbord, National See- Was Planned. eget ae oe Committees. That the right wing officialdom sie eciareg: 5 from the alleged liberal Spector iS iene fins halal down to the fascist Hershkowitz in New Bedford and Fall River are| had come prepared to prevent the ow in their nineteenth week of taking up of anything they had not | Struggle against wage cuts and the jdetermined on beforehand was ap- | speed-up system. We appeal to you! parent at the outset by the tense | Continued on Page Five _atmosphere in Bryant Hall, where | the meeting was held. | On Labor Day the Tag Day Drive is expected to go over the top with a bang. All workers are urged to | obtain a box, if their previous box has already been handed in, at one of the thirty stations throughout the city and collect money during | these three days wherever they go. MERCURY HITS G1; FIVE DEAD Heat again took its toll of lives been turned by some one alongside the switch valves beside the track Banton declared himself to be of the opinion that the switch could not have been turned by anyone touching the lever in the signal tower while the train was passing over the track. Reports continue that adjusters of the I. R. T. are still active in in- timidating injured passengers and relatives of victims of the wreck in an effort to force “settlements.” Charge Evangelist In over which the train was passing. | delivered to Banton Tuesday, de- | Wa, clared that the switch which derailed és the last two cars of the train had Believe Report That Amundsen Plane Was Sighted is Groundless | OSLO, Norway, Aug. 30 (UP) — | Apparently groundless reports to- day that the wreckage of Roald |Amundsen’s Latham airplane in | which the explorer and five com- panions were lost while seraching for members of the Polar dirigible Italia’s crew, had been found caused great excitement here. The reports, which were not con- firmed, apparently originated through a correspondent of the | newspaper Aftenposten, who said | PLAN MORE COSSACKS§ An increase in funds for the pol- jice department of $2,000,000 for missioner Warren, it is reported. An addition of over 200 new police- men is also planned by Warren. | The meeting opened with the an-/ yesterday, this time claiming five nouncement that the order of busi-| working men and women throughout ness would be (1) report of the the metropolitan area. a low level of 77 degrees at 4 o’clock in the morning, the mercury gradu- ally rose to a high point of 87 at 2 p.m., where it continued to stay until |port; and (3) the question of the |$12 tax on the membership. The Continued on Page Two Issue Nation -Wide SCHOOL BUT NO SHOE 5 o'clock. Rain, coming early in the evening, | did not do away with the uncomfort- |able heat. While the mercury’ went ‘ers, the humidity increased by leap: |and bounds, drawing the perspir- Mill Strike Appeal |ation from the thousands of work- Rising from | ‘down a bit after the thunder show-| the wreckage had been found on Huge Swindling Game pane one of the three northernmost LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30 (UP).— | islands of the Lofoten group, known Aimee Semple McPherson, interna-|as Vesteraalans. Communist Ticket Now NEW MINE UNION GRANTS CHARTER TO FIRST LOCAL Prepare For National Convention On Sept. 9 Seeking United Front PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 30.— | With the granting of its first char-| ter to the Silverbrook local in the, hard coal region the New Miners, | Unien inaugurated a fresh chapter jin American labor history. | The authorization action has de: f. anthracite and of the bituminous | coal fields. The anthracite miners know that | | Banton Doesn’t Cal] lower Hall at the call of the Na-| it would be fatal to allow themselves most |tional Organization Committee to|to be split away from the soft coal Tequired were secured from, and miners as some company-hired traitors in the ranks are suggesting. They know that one united front of bituminous and anthracite miners under honest and militant leader- ship is the goal of the progressive movement. The tri-district will send a strong delegation to help build the P: 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: Maryland, Ten- nessee, Alabama, Oklahoma, Ken- tucky, the Southwest and the 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 to affiliate them with the new miners union. Miners of both districts are pre- paring enthusiastically for the na- |tional Miners Convention which opens on Sept. 9. Delegates have been chosen and preparations for their departure for Pittsburgh have been made. CHINA WORKERS ARMY ADVANCES PEKING, Aug. 30-—A section of the workers and peasants army of China, led by Communists, is near Tainan-fu, seat of the Shantung provisional government, according to an. official report received here. | The workers and peasants army has made considerable gains in the Honan and Shantung provinces. Its ranks are reported to be well along its route. charged in a damage suit today with using her four-square Gospel and members of her Angelus Temple congregation as pawns in a real ‘estate game from which she netted thousands of dollars. The complaint, entered by S. S. Hahn for Mrs. M. W. Puryear, as- | serted that Mrs. McPherson entered into a conspiracy with H. L. Henry serie yee et ENTUCKY PITSBURGH, Pa., Aug.’ 30. |Thirty delegates representing eight- NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 30.| line. But school and cool weather —The New Bedford textile strikers|coming soon mean that regular are up against a new problem.|clothes and shoes are needed, and} School opens in New Bedford on| therefore the Workers International | Wednesday, Sept. 5, and strikers’ | Relief is sending out a nationwide) children have neither shoes nor appeal for workers and sympathiz-| clothes to go to school in. ers to come to the aid of the strik-| It is alright, the children find, to| ers’ children. These children are| run around barefoot in ragged blue | entitled to workers support not only | overalls during vacation days, al-| because of their striking parents, though it has not been so easy but because they are real fighters tramping up and down the picket | Continued on Page Four c , jand C. E. Kenyon whereby she re- (ceived ten per cent commission for all sales made through her in a Lake Tahoe sub-division. ers employed indoors in New York City. | Seven prostrations were recorded | during the day. Most of these oc- curred to men working in factories | and women engaged: in work at ome. DENGUE EPIDEMIC WANING, ATHENS, Aug. 30 ‘UP).—The | Dengue epidemic, which has affected in the form of cool breezes travel- | Athens and Piraeus, was believed on ling quickly aeross the country the wane today, due to the isolation from the Canadian northwest. of those taken ill MINE MEET Build Up New Union in Scab South Freeman Thompson spoke before more than 500 at a mass meeting after the adjournment of the con- een mines attended the sub-district ference, Many committees from jeonference in Hillside, Kentucky. gistant parts of the state came to ee by mine, local by local, the evening meeting, and told Thomp- situation was gone over. Most dele-| son that they were sent to request! |gates have already been elected. him to come to their sub-districts | From now until the convention, rep- to outline the policies of the new \resentatives from each mine will union and organie them. A large y Relief is expected today, however, 90 per cent of the population of knit their fellow workers more number of miners joined the new nominat closely into dues paying locals affili- union at the end of the meeting. ated with the new union, where this Thompson left today for West Vir- jhas not already been done. ginia and Maryland. | FOSTER, GITLOW PLACED ON TICKET IN COAL AND STEEL KINGDOM OF U.S. William J. White, Steel Worker, Named Red Candidate for Senate On Ballot In 16 States; Plan Active Campaign Another great industrial stronghold, the state of Pennsylvania, the center of the steel and coal industry and the scene of some of the greatest conflicts in American history between the employing classes and the workers, has been placed on the Communist ballot according to a telegraphic report received at the Com- munist National Campaign headquarters, 43 Hast Street, yesterday. With the addition of Penn- sylvania, the Communist ticket is now on the ballot in 16 states, the others being, Delaware, West Virginia, Mary- land, Michigan, Illinois, Texas, Montana, Arizona, New Jersey, 125th Iowa, Arkdnsas, Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico and South Dakota. Strikers Collect Signatures. j One ofthe. outstanding features: — this of munist ticket in reactionary semi-feudal barony the Mellon family in Pittsburgh and the Vare machine in Philadelphia that of the 6,000 is ignatures collected , striking miners, only comparatively few of the being members of the Workers (Com- munist) Party The enthusias with which these embattled workers entered into the drive to place the Party ticket on the ballot was due to the active part played by the Communist arty on the side of th coal diggers in their lon maintain the Jacksonville s the working in previous fights with the coal barons. Not only were the Com- munists active on the picket line, and zing the ranks demoralized treachery of the Lewis- Fagan machine of the United Mine Workers of America; not only were they in the front ranks of the struggle, rallying the men and women to sterner resistance against the employers and the state gov- ernment, but they took a leading part in supplying the miners and their dependents with the necessities of life which enabled then to stand out for fifteen months against starvation and persecution. Communist Party Wins Workers. The National Election Campaign Committee calls attention to this fact and points out that only thru participation in the struggle of the workers against the employing classes can a revolutionary party be built. up. While the Workers (Communist) Party has won the enthusiastic support of the miners in Pennsylvania, the Socialist Party has fallen into a state of complete demoralization as is evidenced by the surrender of his position as president of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor by James Maurer, socialist candidate for vice- president to John Casey, a reaction- ary labor faker and congressman from the anthracite region on the G, O. P. ticket. Though the final filing . of petitions is September 5th Max Jenkins, of Pittsburgh, campaign manager was able to file 6,000 signatures at Harrisburg on August 28th, five hundred more than the needed number. Labor Party for Foster, Gitlow. Not only is the national ticket of the Workers (¢ mmunist) Party on the ballot in / ennsylvania but the ticket is also Slorsed by the Penn- sylvania Lalf o¢eParty, and acknow- ledgement ¢ aghis action has been received fr¢ “he sccretary of state by the Ng Stal Election Campaign Committe The Workers (Com- munist) arty agreed not to y other candidate either for state ’.fice or for congress and to give its support to the ¢ Continued on Page Thr ae i date for the