The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1928, Page 1

= THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGAYIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR FOR A WORKERS’ A. PARTY ND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Matered a second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. wi der the act ef March 3, 1879. NATIONAL EDITION Vol. V., No. 209 Publis 4 daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker _ Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. Outside New Yer k, by mail, $6.00 per year. SEPT. 9 AT PITTSBURGH, PA. Committee Warns That Vital Meet Is Only Week Away Must Stop Lewis Dues} PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 2— With the day only one week away when the rank and file coal miners from every mining region of the United States will send delegates to| Pittsburgh to participate in a con- vention for the purpose of building a new miners’ union in place of the wreckage of the United Mine Work- ers left by John L. Lewis and his machine, the National Miners Ar- rangement Committee has issued the following appeal: “The most important task before you at this moment is to elect dele- gates to the National Miners Con- vention to be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 9-16, 1928. “Only one week remains until this important convention takes place. “Make it your duty to have your local union represented! Hold your local union meeting, get into action today! “On to the National Miners Con- vention! Build a new, powerful, honest and militant national miners union, Break with Lewis Machine. LL TO NATIONAL o— _NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1928 -reatperemetinannee i gascapeocomma CENTRAL STATES Stachel Returns From * Tour; Reports On Progress On Lynching (Special to the Daily Worker) JONESBORO, Ga., Sept. 2.—In a speech in which he warmly support- ed the candidacy of Al Smith for president, Ex-Governor Tom Hard- wick of Georgia upheld the lynching of Negroes here Friday night. RED TICKET WILL Ex-Governor SQVIE PTEN CET | A eunaiiar y (us His O.K SOVIETS REPORTED SET Price 3 Cents MINERS’ UNION CONVENTION” IS C UP IN INTERIOR CHINA; — RED ARMIES SWEEP ON ; Four persons were injured and many were thrown into a panic ‘bound track, at Jackson Ave., sideswiped a subway train from the Bronx and crashed thru a wooden coach. Fearing another Times Square catastrophe, the passengers nearly rioted in panic. Above, the debris of the wooden coach. ‘Great Enthusiasm” | The great mid-western states—in | which some of the biggest industries of the country are located, great mining communities and centers of transportation—will be on the Com- when a work-train on the north Hardwick, who has posed as a| “liberal” ists, said it was alright to lynch Negroes if the public thinks they are guilty Appealing. to every traditional prejudice of his au- and a friend of the social- of a crime. SHANGHAI, Sept. 2—Wit anking Rushes 20,000 to Fight the Worker- Peasant Advance Communists Gain Honan, Kiangsi; Distribute | Land h the area of virtually two pro- ZOU IS KING; SEE BALKAN WAR Fascists Now Masters | of Country | |ent Assembly, while a delegation of | deputies waited upon Ahmed Zogu | to inform him of his elevation to the throne, according to a dispatch from Tirana. With the assumption of the | kingship by Ahmed Zogu is seen the final triumph of Italian influence in “Sept. 9 will mark a new mile-| Albanian and hence in Balkan, af- stone in the history of the American | fairs. coal miners. We will break away Canton Steel — | Strikers to | | Organize Aid CANTON, Ohio, Sept. 2.—The Central Alloy Steel Mill Committee | ing ways and means to raise relief |for the striking steel workers who | |have been out for four weeks. A number of organizations, be-| |sides those sponsoring the confer- lence will participate in the relief |meeting, and it is expected that | agencies will be established within a | week to alleviate some of the most / RR MISLEADERS « MAY HALT STRIKE 70,000 Workers Are. for Walk-out: | VIENNA, Sept. 2.—The kingdom|@nd the International Labor De-| CHICAGO, Sept. 2.—Despite the| of Albania was formally established | fense have called a conference for | fact that an overwhelming majority | Central Executive Committee, after | yesterday by the Albanian Constitu-| Sept. 4 for the purpose of discuss-|of the 70,000 railroad trainmen on|a@: tour of Pennsylvania, Michigan, | Western roads are expected to vote Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, | fe or a walkout in the vote being head of the Brotherhood of Railway | Trainmen, and other réactionary) union officials announced their de- termination to resort to drastic ac-| tion to avert a strike. A mediation) plan agreed upon by the union mis- munist ballot in this election, and the workers and exploited farmers ‘who have grown tired of the mis- leading propaganda and false prom- ises of the capitalist parties will this year have an opportunity to protest against the capitalist system by vot- \ing for the national Communist can- | didates, Foster and Gitlow; for the state candidates, and for the Com- munist program. In a report made by Jack Stachel, organizational secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, to the Kentucky and Tennessee, he de- | counted here today, A. F. Whitney,|clared that every one of these states would be on the ballot—Michigan and Pennsylvania are already on— in the November elections. Enthusiastic Response. Stachel reported that the mem- dience, Hardwick declared that Tam- many Hall is the friend of the prop- erty owners of the South and called on them to vote for Al Smith. “I'll vote for Al because I am a white man,” he blustered. While inciting the whites of Geor- gia to launch a terror against the Negroes in the name of Al Smith and Tammany Hall, the former chief executive of the state at the same time took pains to dispel any anti- catholic prejudices among his hear- ers by pious appeals for “religious tolerance.” MILL STRIKERS |vinces under the government of Interior Chinese Soviets, the Nanking government is rushing 20,000 picked troops, which participated in the capture of Peking, against the steady and relentless advance of the Wo: ker-Peasant army at Honan and iangsi. The spread of Communism STRESSES TASKS Plans Now for Under- ground Organizations Special Cable to The Daily Worker MOSCOW, Sept. 2.—Concentrat- ing on the present situation of the working youth throughout the world, and laying special emphasis on the ported to have given an ac- celeration to the advance of the Worker-Peasant forces which cannot be overestimated. Soviets tablished. Nanchang lie: y in the path of the advancing Worker-Peasant troops and its capture by the armies is believed to be a question of days only. Reports from the interior confirm the rumors that the Kian and Yunghsin districts, the most fertile |bers of the Workers (Communist) leaders and the federal mediation| Party everywhere. found a ready tasks of the Young Communist In-|in the province, have elected local ternational, the third plenary ses-/8°vernments and are proceeding sion of the Y. C. I. opened here yes- With the distribution of land im- For months past the Italian gov-| needy cases among the strikers and board will be the weapon of the|response to their requests for sig- MARCHING TODAY from the betrayers of our many| ernment has given symptoms of be-|their families. strikes, from the tools of the oper-|ing eager to consolidate its power) ators who have smashed our once/in the mountain country across the| powerful organization district by| Adriatic by legalizing the kingship! We will break with the| of the man who was virtually assum-| district. contemptible and criminally corrupt Lewis machine, that has just com- pleted the most vicious betrayal of all—the abandonment of the Jack- sonville Seale, the surrender of the National Agreement, and instructing each district to go tothe operators and beg for what pittarie. they can get. “The United Mine “Workers of America was once a strong, power- ful organization.. Today it consists of nothing but the corrupt Lewis machine and a handful of support- ers. Even Lewis will soon turn his back uporit. To save his big salary he is now trying to have the coal operators join him in a traitorous company union scheme, to secure the check-off as the rake-off for the Lewis machine. “Stop paying dues to the Le’ machine! Why pay dues to those 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 the action of Tammany’s Depart- ment of Welfare in banning Red collections. Collection boxes and lists will be seen in many camps and beaches around Naw York over the week- end. Workers of New York are not taking seriously the statement of the editor of the United States 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 Election Campaign are supporting | their extreme partisanship hy col- lecting for and contributing to the Red Election Fund of the Workers (Communist) Party, knowing that party affiliations are the only in- dications of the role of candidates in labor struggles. The professed neutrality of the editor of the United States Daily would be punctured were he asked’ whether in his opinion a candidate of the Workers (Communist) Party is as acceptable as a representative of either the democratic or repub- lican machine, . The class-conscious workers for the Red Election Cam- paign agree with him that it doesn’t matter whether the donkey or the elephant delivers the presidential eddress as far as wage-cutting, speed-up system and union-smash- ing is concerned. The Workers (Communist) Party is engaging in its most vigorous campaign drive and the response of 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 ° ing its prerogatives as president of | Albania. A series of gradual but determined steps have led to the es- tablishment of a kingdom in Al- bania. At the same time the Italians were reorganizing, officering and enlarging the Albanian army until today it is potentially one of the most formidable in the Balkans. They are alleged to have been filling ae country with war materials. | Arms and ammunition in huge quan- tities are reported to have been | stored in strategic forts and at po- sitions on the Greek and Jugo-Slav frontiers. These points are usually | garrisoned by troops under Italian | officers. | Experts here regard the establish- wis | ment of the kingdom of Albania as/| |fraught with the gravest conse-| | quences of war if the Italians con- | tinue their policy of gradual inter- | ference in Balkan affairs, and there | is no probability that they will cease. | While there is every indication | E. C. Smith, superintendent of \the Central Alloy Mill, has an- nounced that he will starve the men |back to work and they are deter- | mined to defeat them on the hunger | |line, in spite of the pinch of want | |that- many of the families are suf- | fering. | The conference will also discuss | | questions of labor defense. Twenty- | jeight strikers have been arrested to| date, three of whom are serving sentences in the workhouse. Means of aiding all these class-war vic- tims will also form a part of the discussion. FUR UNION DRIVE WIDENS IN SCOPE \To Call 27th St. Block! Meeting Extending the scope of the organ- |that the Jugo-Slav government is ization drive recently inaugurated | anxious to avert war, at least until) with such success, the Joint Board | | it is stronger nationally and through | Furriers Union yesterday announced | further alliances, it is believed that! that it had spread the campaign of, jthe Italian dream of turning the organization to the field of “fur! Adriatic sea into a Roman lake with \trimming departmental factories.” jay baad both sno will e| Work in the fur trade proper in the sufficient ring on open hostilities ; ‘ in the not distant future. {peenme ae perne on, fall sneer The “departmental shops” are labor officials in preventing the strike desired by the workers, who are seeking a wage increase and better working conditions. PHILA, WORKERS: FLOUT POLIC To Hold Red Election Rally and Pienic PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2.—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- |natures to place the Communist | \ticket on the ballot. Shaffer, cam-| |paign manager, reported that in | Cleveland, Ohio, alone 10,000 signa- |tures were collected and 1,800 in | Youngstown. Pat Devine of Minnesota reported |to.the organizational secretary.that | ‘nearly the required number of sig-) | natures were on hand and that both | |the national and state tickets would be on the ballot. The farmer-labor |party of Minnesota, once a strong | organization,,is now demoralized and dominated by reactionary elements, who are playing hide-and-go-seek with the interests of the workers and poor farmers and flirting with the republican and democratic par-| ties. | Good Opportunity. In Wisconsin it is not possible to proceed with the task of collecting signatures yntil after the primaries, but there igfno doubt about the abil- ity to collect the required number and get the national and state tick- ets on the ballot. In Indiana, a great coal-mining and manufacturing state, once a so- cialist stronghold and in recent years one of the states controlled | Fakers Working Hard to Betray Struggle NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 2. —With all decks cleared for the amiass-..demonstration of . strength which the textile strikers here are to exhibit in the huge Labor Day parade tomorrow, rumors of unof- | ficial negotiations between the offi- cialdom of the reactionary Textile Council and thé mill owners flood the city. Leaders of the New Bedford Tex- tile Workers Union of the Textile Mill Committees are issuing em- phatic warnings to the masses of strikers to beware of any attempts at a betrayal of the strike. “Conciliator Present.” U. S. Department of Labor “Con- ciliator” Wood, who is known to the workers as the betrayer of several New England strikes and who in a recent speech termed Albert Weis- bord, T. M. C. leader, as a “Commu- nist fiend,” is known to be involved in the latest “settlement” maneuvers. Finishing touches on parade prep- terday under the chairmanship of Mehring. Gorkitch made the report for the Executive Committee of the Young Communist International on the or- ganizational situation. He said: Greek, Swedish Leagues Strong. of Sweden and Greecé dre thé only |ones that are growing steadily. The “The Yonug Communist Leagues | mediately. Land Distributed. Three mou of farm land is the maximum distributed to all male peasants between the ages of 18 and 40 according to reports reaching here. The mou is equal to about one-fifth of ‘an acre. | AS the arniiés advance inetessing forces of peasantry are being Tib- ~ erated by the Interior Soviets and membership of the large leagues in various countries are at a stand- still, and the small leagues are dim- linishing. Tegal leagues are mak- the newly recruited forces are said to be among the staunchest sup- porters of the workers’ and pea- 'sants’ government. by the political apparatus of the Ku|arations were made by the union Klux Klan, the Communist petitions leaders this afternoon. Weisbord, axe in circulation, and enough sig-| William T. Murdoch and Jack Rubin- natures to put the Party on the bal- |stein will lead the column coming lot will undoubtedly be collected. from the north end. Fred E. Beal Stachel reported that the com- and Eli Keller will head the south rades in the various districts were end division and James P. Ried and enthusiastic over the campaign and/|S. Weissman will march at the head ing fine progress in spite of their subjection to the white terror. “The Young Communist Leagues’ strength, compared to the strength of the Communist Parties, is insuf- ficient, with the exception of the Swedish league, which makes up 4 percent of the Swedish Party's strength. The Young Communist Leagues in capitalist countries are not yet mass organizations. New Leagues Formed. “The following new leagues have been formed since the Fourth World Congress of the Young Communist International: Australia, Palestine, South Africa, Indonesia, Persia, Honduras, San Salvador, and India. One of the most important links is the formation of Leagues in Cen- tral and South America. “The children’s movement is pro- gressing. Twelve new organiza- tions have been formed since the last Congress. Individual countries, |ical machine serves the capitalists | by suppressing the meetings of the |only Party of the workers in the .present election campaign. The ar-| realized what a splendid opportunity it presented to reach the workers with Communist propaganda. “An Continued on Page Five however, are losing in membership as a result of wrong methods. The Continued on Page Three of the Fall River strikers’ con- tingent. Thousands to Join. « Fraternal and sympathetic organ- CHICAGO, Sept. 2.—An injunc- tion was yesterday issued by Fed- eral Judge Wilkerson, restraining \the Musicians’ Union from calling la strike. The order was obtained by | the movie bosses of Chicago, follow- ing the refusal of the bosses to im- | tions. SWIMS ENGLISH CHANNEL. | FOLKESTONE, England, Sept. 2. —After a 23-hour struggle against waves and unusually strong currents, Ishak Helmy, well-known Egyptian swimmer, yesterday achieved the ambition of several years when he successfully swam the English Channel. |those fur trimming factories estab- lished by the Sigman cloak manufac- tu MUSICIAN STRIKE. prove the musicians’ working condi- ers 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-| tense exploitation to ne furriers employed as are forced upon the cloakmakers in the other depart- ments in the shop. The first strike called by the Joint Board in this new drive was called | against the firm of Kaminsky, Fried | Continued on Page Two | + | “AIR RAIL” SERVICE STARTS. The first trans-continental “air rail” trip started at 7 o’clock Satur- day night when the Manhattan Limited of the Pennsylvania Rail- |road left for Chicago, At Chicago an airplane took the first passen- ger of the new service, R. B. Gentles, of New York, to Minne- apolis, thus completing the trip. MINE DELEG Come from All U.S. j PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 2— “Our automobiles have new tir and we're all set for the trip!” writes a delegate to the National Miners’ Convention, from Okla- homa. “We have no money in our treasury because we’ve heen strik- ing for sixteen months,” a delegate from the Allegheny Valley, Penn- sylvania, writes, “please send us a little money if you can for fare. If lyou haven’t got it, we'll walk. Any- ATES READY to Build New Union way, I'll see you at the National | Miners’ Convention!” From the anthracite comes, “The Lattimer Local was sure proud «2 being the first anthracite local to send in crédentials for the conven- tion. We’re gladder still to see the other locals following us!” “I can’t tell you how the boys here are look- ing forward to building a new Min- ers’ Union and throwing out the Continued on Page Five 4 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 cn Page Two | FRENCH MINISTER. DIES IN CRASH Bokanowski Killed as| Plane Burns | TOUL, France, Sept. 2 (UP).—} Maurice Bokanowski, minister of commerce in Premier Raymond, Poincare’s cabinet, and four other | persons were burned to death early | today when their airplane caught | fire and crashed when attempting | to take-off at the Military Airdrome here. ' | Bokanowski had just left the summer home of Poincare, where the cabinet had celebrated the sec- | ond anniversary of the present gov- | ernment Saturday. He arrived here | by automobile early today and boarded a Spad cabin plane, intend- | ing to fly to Clermont Ferrand to} attend the Au Vergne aviation meeting. SUGAR ADDS TO DEATHS. | Increased consumption of sugar is| given as the possible explanation of| the increased death rate from dia-| betes during the past thirty years, in a bulletin just issued by th New) York health department, MILITARY FEAR ANTI-WAR MEET Arrest Cowl of Y.W.L. in Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 28 (By Mail)—Carl Cowl, ex-Natio- nal Guardsman speaking for the Young Workers League at Bridge Square last Saturday night was ar- rested and charged with inciting to riot. This action is known to have been taken in response to the de- mand of the military department that the police “get” those who dis- tributed “inflammatory” literature to the CMTC students at Fort Snel- ling. The meeting called to expose the fake peace proposals of the gov- ernment and the so-called friends of labor in office, was infested with plainclothesmen, detectives, police- men and finally the gun squad itself. Many CMTC students were pre- sent in response to the open letter Continued on Page Five | |MACMILLAN TO SEEK FLYERS. CHICAGO, Sept. 2.—Commander Donald B. MacMillan and his arctic izations will participate in the parade, marching as separate divi- jsions. The New Bedford sections of |the Workers (Communist) Party/ and Young Workers (Communist) |League are to march under their own banners. * * # | Police Charge Strikers. The police charged a crowd of about two hundred strikers besieg- ing a store on Nash Road, where a | scab, Manuel Camara, was seen en- |tering last night. Following a re- port. rendered at the Block Commit- tee, which includes the Paige Mill to the effect that Camara was scab- bing there, strikers volunteered to linvestigate the case. At 6:30 Ca- | mara was seen entering the store by |members of the Strikers’ Children Clubs and it was only until 10:30 that Camara was finally escorted home by police in an automobile. Continued on Page Five BERLIN, Sept. 2.—Policies and ‘Arrest 3 Organizers of | ‘New Coal Mine Union PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 2.— The organization of the unorganized | miners is going ahead so rapidly, that the operators are becoming seriously alarmed. In many com-| pany-owned towns, children are paid | to be on the watchout for strangers | | who might be progressive organi- zers. Although the quarters and| dimes look good to the youngsters, they have learned that such spying is traitorous to their fathers and brothers, and refuse to do this dirty work, The “Yellow Dogs” are on the watch, though. Three organizers for the New Union were arrested for trespassing on company property when they | visited miners’ homes in a company |town in Westmoreland County, and ‘taken before a Greensburg court, GERMAN TAILORS FIRM 40,000 Now in Second Week of Strike ences to settle the strike which has tactics of the rank and file and not| successfully tied up the entire in- of the union officialdom is about to|dustry. News items carried in the be crowned with success in the big/trade papers alluded to, admit that general strike of 40,000 tailors, who/the strike will not be of long dura- are fighting for a ten per cent wage/|tion due to the big Liepzig Fair,| expedition for the Field Museum have been ordered to look in the territory around Greenland for the Be pilots, Bert Hassell and Cramer, and their airplane Greater Rockford. increase, according to admissions in| now in progress. the employers’ trade journals here.| Reformist leaders of the mens’! With the strike barely two weeks | clothing workers’ unions had refused | old, the employers’ associations are to obey the workers’ demand for an already beginning to apply to the immediate strike at the time em- workers organizations for confer- | Continued on Page Five % bia The entire northern frontier of the Honan and Kiangsi provinces are protected by natural formations, and the poor roads make the advance of the counter-revolutiona: Nanking armies a difficult t: involving weeks. This has given rise to the\ belief here that Nanchang and sev- eral other towns will have fallen be- fore the invasion from Peking be- comes menacing. FIND PONTOON OF AMUNDSEN PLANE Death of Explorer Is Deemed Certain OSLO, Norway, Sept. 2.—All hope that Capt. Roald Amundsen and his crew of five might still be alive somewhere in arctic wastes has been given up with the finding off the Fugloe Islands, near Tromso, of the pontoon of the explorer’s sea- plane. The pontoon was picked up by the steamer Brood, which immediately set out for Tromso, where the French consul identified it by means of photographs and other data. The identification makes it practically certain that the Amundsen party met death by drowning in the sea when the float was violently wrenched from the plane. The death of Amundsen brings to a close the career of one of the greatest arctic explorers in history. Amundsen is the only man to have reached both the North and the South Poles and the only one to have negotiated the Northwest Passage by ship. His death and that of his five companions further augments the list of fatalities resulting from the disastrous expedition of the fascist General Nobile. It was in an effort to save, the members of the Nobile party that the Norwegian explorer and his crew lost their lives. MAXIM GORKY SERIOUSLY ILL LENINGRAD, Sept. 2,—Maxim Gorky, famous Russian proletarian novelist, is seriously ill with appen- dicitis. Gorky has just returned here from a tour thronghout the Soviet Union, in which he received great ovations from the workers,