The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 1, 1928, Page 1

| Gs) THE DAILY WORK: ER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Eutered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New Yo: Y., under the act of March ker 3 1878. ED FINAL CITY ITION Vol. V., No. 208 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Uni. » New York, N. Y. EPTE SUBSCRIPTION RATES: I Outuide New Yer _NEW YORK, USSR. TO SIGN KELLOGG PACT WITH SHARP CRITICISM : KAROLYI 1S DUE TO ARRIVE T0- DAY; PLAN MEET Communists Rap U.S.; Expose Karolyi “Liberalism” Plan Anti-Horthy Meet Count Michael Karolyi, one-time | president of Hungary, will arrive at | noon today at Pier 8 on the steam-| ship Cristobal Colon en route from| Mexico to Spain. Later, accompa- nied by his attorney, Morris L. Ernst, he will take an airplane for Washington to confer with the alien | property custodian concerning funds | which Karolyi collected in the} United States and which is held by| the U. S. government. | Karolyi’s arrival will be the oc-) easion for a demonstration against | the Hungarian white terror. Speak-| ers will include Hugo Gellert, Roger | Baldwin, Gustave Meyer and John| Biro, and Dr. Samuel Buchler. | Denounce Hypocricy | The Hungarian Propaganda Com-| mittee of the Workers (Communist) | Party in a statement issued yester- | day denounced the state department | as hypocritical for refusing to permit | Karolyi to remain in the U. S. longer | than 48 hours, at the same time ex- | posing the “democratic” claims by Karolyi and his political associates. | “What is the reason the American | financial oligarchy excludes Karolyi) from the shores of the. United) States?” the statement declares. | “He is not excluded because he is a ‘dangerous revolutionist.’ Karolyi, when he was president of the Hung- arian republic proved by deeds that he is not a representative of the workers and peasants. Under his} presidenty the working class remain- ed an oppressed and exploited class. The October Revolution that is con- nected with Karolyi was not the revolution of the workers and ple- asants, but a petty bourgois mov- ement. Under his regime, revolu- tionary workers were shot down just as they were under the Tsar. “The ‘liberalism’ of Karolyi will never overthrow the bloody Horthy government, which is supported by the landowners and financial oli- garchs. Only the working class, united with the poor peasants and led by a strong and disciplined Com- munist Party, will be able to per- form this job. “Karolyi is not a Communist. He is not fighting for the dictatorship of the proletariat. The American imperialists have nothing to fear from him. The U. S. state depart- ment, with the exclusion of Karolyi, helps the bloody Hungarian govern- ment, which is afraid of the slightest criticism. “When Semenov, former czarist general, the slayer of many thou- sands of ‘workers, came to this country, he was permitted to enter freely. “When in March, 1928, 500 repre- sentatives of the bloody Hungarian government came to this country, they not only received free entrance, but the vaundeville Tammany mayor, Walker, gave them an official rece- ption. But those Hungarian work- ers who raised their voice at the bloody white terror regime of Hor- thy and his representatives, were clubbed and arrested.” | Call Mass Meeting. The Anti-Horthy is calling a mass meeting at Central Opera House, | 67th St. and Third Ave., tomorrow | evening at 7:30. Speakers will in-| clude, besides Karolyi, Hugo Gellert, Roger Baldwin, Dr. Samuel Buchler, | Gustave Meyer, and others. | Gobi Remains May Be Held By Nanking Govt. PEKING, Aug. 31—Roy Chap- man Andrews, who has just returned from the Gobi desert where his ex- pedition has unearthed remains of huge pre-historic beasts that are said to be the best of all preserved remains, expects that the findings will be seized by the Chinese govern- ment. The Chinese Historical Commis- sion has asked the government to prevent their shipment since it be- lieves that they should be kept in China. have also been lodged that the Andrews expedition looked for oil as well as pre-historic fossils. . Postpone District 2 Speakers’ Conference The weekly Speakers’ Conference of District 2, which was to have been held at the Workers Center, 26-28 Pelle oo today at 2 o'clock is ed, ace to D. Benjamin, agitprop director. A | J Communist Candidate | i} | | | J. 1. Whidden, candidate for state | representative in Colorado on the. Workers (Communist) Party ticket. Whidden was active in relief work | in the Colorado coal strike of last | year. He is a litergture agent of the International Labor Defense. i SATURDAY, S MB NEW APPEAL OF New Kansas LEWIS MACHINE WOODLAWN CASE COMES UP SOON 8 Workers Face 5-Year Jail Terms; Charge “Sedition” I. L. D, Leading Fight (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, August. 31.—Al- though the Workers (Communist) Party has just been placed on the ballot in the state of Pennsylvania, a vicious campaign to drive the Par- ty underground is being pushed in! this section of the state. Three Workers Framed. Three workers of the little steel town of Woodlawn near here are | facing five-year prison sentences. Arrested in a “red raid” on Armis- tice Day, November 11, 1926, Pete Muselin, Milan Reseter hand Tom Zima will go to the state workhouse soon as a result of the energetic efforts of the combined forces of the local, state and private police of the Jones & Laughlin steel corporation, unless the workers of the United States join in the campaign for their release which is being conducted by the International Labor Defense. Argue Appeal September 24. On April 16, 1928, the superior court affirmed the judgment in the case of the three workers. An ap- peal against the decision of the su-| perior court was made to the su- preme court of Pennsylvania, and the case will be argued on Septem- ber 24. Several workers but five were held for court charged with violation of the Anti-Sedition were arrested, | Drive Against Communists KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 31-— An attempt to drive the Workers (Communist) Party in Kansas un- derground is seen in a series of new criminal syndicalism charges that are being started in Kansas. The charges are being made against workers and members of the Workers (Communist) Party in the state. who were arrested at the Sacco-Vanzetti meeting held in the city on the anniversary of the mur- der of the two martyrs. Hugo Oehler, district organizer for the Workers (Communist) Party; Mat- thew Cushing, young packing house worker and a member of the ex- ecutive committee of the district Young Workers (Communist) | League, and nine others were ar- rested either for speaking or at- tending the meeting. Of these, leight will be charged under the criminal syndicalism law. All eight are members of the Workers (Com- | munist) Party. Meat Interests Caused Arrest. The arrests were, made at che in- stigation of the Armour Company officials, who called on the police Continued on Page Five PLAN HUGE RED WEEK END DRIVE |Wk’ers to Carry Boxes with Them to Camps Today, tomorrow and Labor Day will mark the close of the intensive Red Week Campaign, extended from last week as the answer of thou- | sands of class-conscious workers to BETRAYS MINERS IN DYING MOVE \Agrees to Reduction Of) $2765" In Wages Men Are Incensed CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 31.—With the new miners union looming as the one hope for the men in the coal fields, the Lewis-Fishwick machine, | acting in the name of the wreck they have made of the former United Mine Workers of America, yester- day agreed with the coal barons to accept a contract by whose terms a reduction of $1.65 will be effected in the wages of the already impover- ished miners. Six dollars and thirty-seven cents will be the new scale for shift men and $5.85 for top men. The Jack- sonville scale called for $7.50 per | day. The agreement has been reached after negotiations drawn out by the participants to six weeks’ duration. Expressions of intense resent- | ment are reported from all sections (of the Illinois fields where news of the new settlement has penetrated. Denunciation of the settlement and open scorn for the machine on the part of the miners are about equally mingled. The settlement. is believed to have given a tremendous impetus to the \feeling for a new miners union | among the miners in Illinois. FUR UNION DRIVE ER 1, 1928 | law of Pennsylvania. Of these, the | URGE: WOMEN TQ Sz" Snins SS SS. ecec.s WIDENS IN SCOPE dropped, and another has left the | ment of Welfare in banning Red | AID COMMUNISTS. | Hit Capitalist Parties On Statement Urging working women to sup-| port the Workers (Communist) | Party, in the elections, the Chicago) Federation of Working Women’s Or-| ganizations, representing 12,000 women, issued the following state-| ment: At the November elections all working women and working class/ housewives must vote. i The program of the Federation| states the following: “to propagate | for the participation of all working) women’s organizations in the public | affairs of labor, particularly on sueh | ‘issues as pertain to the interest of| working women. to develop political consciousness and activity among working women and to sup- port labor candidates.” In order to fully carry through, in all its phases the work of our Federation all members of the Fed- eration should take part in the elec-| tion campaign and should become | fully posted on all election issues| Continued on Page Five PHILA. WORKERS FLOUT POLICE To Hold Red Election | Rally and Picnic PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 31.—De-| claring that it will continue its open-air meetings in spite of the terrorization and persecution of the police, who have broken up meeting after meeting and arrested many speakers, and that it will continue with its preparations for the huge election campaign picnic cn Labor Day at Schuetzen Park, where Ben- jamin Gitlow, vice-presidential can- didate of the Communist Party, will speak, the Eastern Pennsylvania Campaign Committee has issued a statement here today for the press. The statement declares: “The arrest of Irving Lazar on Tuesday, August 27, on the charge of making seditious utterances at an open-air meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party at 13th and Reed Sts., Philadelphia. shows to what extent the Philadelphia polit- ical machine serves the capitalists by suppressing the meetings of the only Party of the workers in the present election campaign. The ar- rest of Herbert Benjamin, the dis- trict organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party, occurred on the same night, for the “crime” of walk- ing into the police station at 15th St. and Snyder Ave, and asking for Continued on Page Two | | v4 state. ; | collections. The charges against the workers) Collection boxes and lists will be were quashed on two occasions be-| seen in many camps and beaches cause they were “too indefinite to support conviction,” but they were finally indicted in the court of jnot taking seriously the statement | Quarter Session of Beaver County, |of the editor of the United States | a court controlled by the Jones and Laughlin Steel corporation. Prejudiced Judge, Jury. The case\was tried in an atmos- |around Naw York over the week- jend, Workers of New York are | Daily to the effect that party af- | filiations of a candidate for office do not count; the class-conscious workers who are active in the Red phere of the most frenzied and blat-| Election Campaign are supporting ant prejudice, and the foreman was |their extreme partisanship hy col- Pa. Muselin, a war veteran, is a bar- ber and was secretary of the bar- bers local in Woodlown and known as a militant. Reseter, also a veter- an of the world war, is a butcher | and was secretary of the Croation Benefit society. Zima is a steel worker. CLERICALS FLOCK TO REV. THOMAS Ministers Aids Reformists The pink and bourgeois tone of vative appeal, becomes glaringly evident by the formation of a Min- isters Committee for Thomas and Maurer, socialist candidates for | |president and vice-president, re- spectively. The committee was formed under the impetus of Harry W. Laidler, with the aid of some ministerial and bishopric adherents. The appeal sent out by the Min- isters Committee reveals on black and white the weakness of the so- cialist forces, which cater for cler- ical help for lack of workers’ sup- port and the absolute and uncondi- a notorious klu-kluxer of Ambridge, sagt for and contributing to the ed Election Fund of the Workers | (Communist) Party, knowing that |party affiliations are the only in- |dications of the role of candidates lin labor struggles. | Workers Support Drive. The professed neutrality of the editor of the United States Daily would be punctured were he asked | whether in his opinion a candidate To Call 27th St. Block Meeting Extending the scope of the organ- ization drive recently inaugurated |with such success, the Joint Board Furriers Union yesterday announced |that it had spread the campaign of |organization to the field of “fur trimming departmental factories.” Work in the fur trade proper in the |meantime is going on full speed | ahead. | The “departmental shops” are | those fur trimming factories estab- lished by the Sigman cloak manufac- | turers who are signed up with Sig- | man, and who use fur trimmings ex- [tensively on their product. The fur |manufacturing departments they |have established offer the same in- Swaying “ m New York, by matl, $8.00 per y ik, by mail. $6.00 per yen: A worker declared that according to his own observations the Ninth Avenue L between Tenth and Charles Streets, sways from five to ten inches every time a train passes. He made this statment at the Board of Transportation offices a whom Willing spoke is quoted as sa If you really want you might writ sion. Maybe they'll send men to examine the structure. t 49 Lafayette St. The official to ying, “We can do nothing about it. e a letter to the Transit Commis- JAIL 5 MINERS FOR AIDING IN NEW UNION WASHINGTON, August 31.— Five miners received sentences rang- ing from four to eight months in prison for participating in the new miners’ movement, as was brazenly admitted by Judge Erwin Cummins yesterday when he fumed that the movement “is part of the Commu- nistic scheme to steal union organi- zations and make them communis- tic.” The four defendants were the vic- tims of a frame-up in which they were accused of beating up a scab who worked in a non-union coa company that had been struck by the new union forces. Despite the violent hatred shown by the capitalistic judges in the nu- merous arrests, in which it was dearly seen that they are doitig the bidding of John L. Lewis and the mine operators, the movement for the establishment of the new union is gathering headway. The new mine union convention is scheduled for September 9, in Pittsburgh. PUSH PLANS FOR TEXTILE. PARADE “Conciliation” Faker to Aid Batty (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Aug. 31—wWith a final spurt of activity |the strike committee of the Textile Mass., of the Workers (Communist) Party | tense exploitation to the furriers Workers Union leading the huge is as acceptable as a representative |employed as are forced upon the | textile strike here put the finish- of either the democratic or repub-|cloakmakers in the other depart-|ing touches on their preparations lican machine. The class-conscious |workers for the Red Election Cam- | ments in the shop. The first strike called by the Joint \for the big parade on Labor Day. | Many local fraternal organiza- paign agree with him that it doesn’t | Board in this new drive was called tion sent in requests for permission matter whether the donkey or the | against the firm of Kaminsky, Fried to participate in the parade of the ‘elephant delivers the presidential leddress as far as wage-cutting, Committee | speed-up system and union-smash- | |ing is concerned. The Workers (Communist) Party lis engaging in its most vigorous |campaign drive and the response of |the socialist party, and its conser-| workers is evidence that at last the two capitalist parties have by their own anti-labor acts lost their hold on the exploited workers, and that Continued on Page Two ‘League Will Dodge Monroe Doctrine Issue GENEVA, Aug. 31 (UP).—The League of Nations will refuse to in- terpret the Monroe Doctrine, it was understood on good authority today. The League Council was reported to have drafted a reply at a secret meeting today to Costa Rica’s de- Continued on Page Two 300 White Plains Mill ‘Strikers Continue to Hold Firm On Demands WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Aug. 31. —The strike of 300 carpenters here, which has tied up almost the com- plete industry in the city with the closing of twenty mills, continues to be as strong as when the workers stopped work last Monday. The men have all declared their intention of continuing their strike until the manufacturers agree to grant their full demands. . The strike was called when the 300 cabinet-makers, joiners, benchman and machinemen walked out with the same wages that they have been tional negation of the principles of| mand for an interpretation of the | Setting for the five and a half day the class struggle. The ministers appeal to the “re- ligious people of the country” to Doctrine’s application. The reply in- dicates that it is impossible for the council to comply with the request | Week. | After the strike had been declared, |the manufacturers met to “negoti- \strikers. These organizations in- | cluded: the Cape Verdean Suciadade, Santo Cristo, Suciadade Catolica, | Progressive Club, Susiadade Con- tinental and Monte Pio. Textile | Mill Committee units of Providence, Teunton, Pawtucket and others intend to send delegations. The | Fall River strike committee voted las’ night to senc delegation. The lines of march have already been announced. The start will be| from the Hope St. Lot, and the South Sailniers Lot. The parade| will then converge in a march to| the Commons where a monster mass | meeting will be held. Three bands have already been secured, with others optional. (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. |31.—Completion of the twentieth week of the great textile strike of Continued on Page Five GRANTHAM, England, Aug. 31 support the socialist party candi-| because the Monroe Doctrine con-|ate” with the workers. Due to their (U. P.)—Pilot officer Edward John- dates who represent the “intellec- cerns only the states directly inter-| anxiety, an early victory is expected stone was killed today in the crash tual and moral forces in politics.” ' ested. | by the striking workers. | of a royal air force training plane. LAUNCH ‘NEW “DAILY” SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE Central Committee Workers (Communis Today, September 1, the anniver- sary of the founding of the Commu- nist party of America, begins the drive for securing thousands of new readers for the fighting revolution- ary daily organ of our Party—The Daily Worker. This is an appropri- ate choice of the day to begin a @ new and vigorous effort to give our Central Organ the mass circu- lation that it ought to have. The Daily Worker is ot only the sole revolutionary working class news- paper published daily in the Eng- lish language, it is the builder of the Workers (Communist) Party of America and the press organ of leadership of the workers in every conflict. The Daily Work- er holds always before the eyes of t) Party Urges Support of Campaign jthe indispensable leadership of the Workers (Communist) Party, the American section of the Communist International. In every dispute between the em- | ploying classes and the workers the |Daily Worker is found fighting on the side of labor. In the great jing their slogans. In the textile strike of New Bedford, where 28,000 mill workers have been defending their already low standards of living for several months, the Daily Work- er alone of all the dailies printed in the English language stands by the strikers and wages an _ incessant the working class the revolutionary strike of the bituminous miners the fight against the textile barons. goal of the working class movement, the historical role of the working class as the revolutionary class t * r Daily Worker has shown itself the defender of the battling coak dig- and gers, voicing their aims and gSund- | In this election campaign, while the capitalist press is glutted with Continued on Page Two ny ELECTION MEETS Workers Party Scores Terror Evidently acting on the instruc- tions of the coal operators who con- trol the politicians of the democratic and republican parties in the anthra- cite regior of Pennsylvania, Chief of Police Taylor of Wilkes Barre, \broke up a meeting of workers called to endorse the candidacies of William Z. Foster and Benjamin Git- low, presidential and vice-presiden- tial nominees, respectively, of the Workers (Communist) Party, on the afternoon of Aug. 26. In a statement issued by Emil Gardos, in behalf of the Anthracite sub-district, the police chief and Mayor Hart of Wilkes Barre aye! taken to task for their action aa charged with resorting to every means to destroy the workers’ or- ganizations. The statement follows: The Subdistrict Executive Com- | mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party of America, protests most vig- orously against the breaking up of the Conference called to endorse William Z. Foster and Benjamin Git- low, the standard bearers of the |Party during the November elec- Continued on Page Five IRISH WORKERS - SCORE KELLOGE ‘Refuse to Participate In Welcome DUBLIN, Ireland, Aug. 31.—In spite of the lavish welcome cere- monies showered upon Frank B. Kellogg originator of the latest |fake “peace” pact, by the Irish jin- goes who have knuckled under to British imperialism for many years, it was learned yesterday that three big parties in Ireland, the Irish Communist Party the Fianna Fail, Eamon de Valera’s party, the Labor Party, refused to have anything to do with the welcome of the repre- sentative of United States imperial- ism. Not a single representative of any of the organizations was present at the pier on Kellogg's ar- rival. De Valera and leaders of the La- bor Party were invited to the wel- coming demonstration by the com- mittee in charge of the arrange- ment. But none of them accepted the invitations, their parties boy- | cotting the demonstration com- pletely. Irish Communists, going one step better than the Laborites and the members of the Fianna Fail, not only boycotted the welcome of the American imperialist servant, but staged a demonstration denouncing the “peace” pact. Hundreds of workers were present at the latter demonstration. Price 3 Cents NO BAN AGAINST WAR, INVASIONS BY IMPERIALISTS Powers to “Use Pact Itself As Imperialist Instrument” Scores “Reservations” Editor's Note:—The following despatch transmitted from Moscow by the United Press is received at the moment this edition goes i> press. As previously made clear by the Daily Worker, the plans of the imperialist powers in respect to the Kellogg Pact are directed against the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics, and to cover up the growing antagonisms between the capitalist powers and their plans for war. The .failure to invite the Soviet Union to participate in the negot tions previous to the signing was @ demontration of this fact. The dis- patch indicates that the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in its struggle against the coming imper= ialist war will utilize the signing of the Pact to demonstrate to the masses of the world the hypocrisy of the imperialist power The future will show that the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is the only power in the world today which in reality struggles against war. * 2 « By EUGENE LYONS. (United Press Staff Correspondent) MOSCOW, Aug. 31 (U. P.) —The Soviet Union today agreed to sign the Briand- Kellogg Treaty to outlaw war. «The deeision of .Mogcow had forward to with some apprehension, and fears of European statesmen were not groundless. In a note accompanying the adherence of Russia to the pact, Soviet authorities voiced scathing criticism of the anti-war decla- been looked ration and of reservations which England, France and other powers insisted upon before they would sign. It had been freely admitted by certain diplomats that the treaty would not be successful unless the Soviet Union ad- hered. While today’s decision may alleviate fear that the peace pact’ would not be sue- essfully concluded, the citicism virtually is certain to -cause wide comment. Russia, frustrated in her desire to be an original signa- tory, was invited to adhere a few hours after the signing of the treaty in Paris. France advanced the invitation. In the note accompanying the acceptance, Litvinoff, as- sistant commissar of Foreign Affairs, recounted the Soviet efforts in behalf of disarm- ament at Geneva and also in a series of bilateral treaties out- lawing war. Therefore, the note said, it is strange that the Soviet government was not invited to participate in the preliminary negotiations for the Briand- Kellogg treaty. Litvinoff re- grets the absence in the pact of any disarmament obligations and protest the indefiniteness # and ambiguousness of the first}? clause of the treaty, which: permits participants to make arbitrary interpretations. Litvinoff remarks that the N clause falls to mention informal wars such as “intervention, blockade, military occupations of foreign territory, or foreign ports.” The Soviet Foreign Minister cited previous interventions in » ’ : 3 | Russia and the present state of ‘ Attention! Members Of [affairs in China in support of ¢ Dist. 2, Workers Party Members of the Workers (Com- | munist) Party, District 2, are in- structed to report for an extremely vital Party task this morning at 11 | o'clock at the Workers Center, “tl 28 Union Square, int his contentions, The Soviet note especially £ attacked the British action toward certain regic It said that if such res Continued on Page Fiv ’ reserya- g |tions concerning freedom of _ ]