The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1928, Page 2

PageTwo ~ i THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MUNDAY, SHPTEMBEK 3, 1928 Dismissal OUSTED FOR HIS UNION ACTIVITY, MEN RETALIATE Hires New Men, But They Join Union Because the m facturing firm of S. Liebe Co., 67 Hope St., Brookly to chi lenge the strength of the union by discharging general chairman Abe Meishon, for his union activities, the bosses are now ith an empty factory due to the immediate walkout of the entire force of 73 workers, At yesterda Joint ouncil meeting of the Independent Show Workers Union of Greater New York, the str ers in the factory ike of the was unanimous! santioned and Organizer J.. Ma cano put formally charge of the situation. Demand Reinstatement of Chairman. At the last meeting of the work- ers strike machinery was organiz- ed and systematic pickteing was instituted. The demand put fe ward by the workers at their meet- ing is the reinstatement of the gen- eral chairman. A strike committee chosen from among the workers in the shop, was also elected as the official body to decide any questions that may come up. The remarkable unanimous de- monstration of solidarity shown by the workers when they walked out of the factory augers well for a successful termination to the strike. A complete defeat was suffered by the factory owners when they tried to break the strike by insert- ing advertisements for ftsmen to take the strikers place The ads Were answered by applicants, but not only did they refuse to work when they saw a strike in effect, but nearly all of them immediately went to sign up with the unio: Independent Shoe Workers Union of Greater New York was only recently established and is now about to launch a city-wide cam- paign to recruit members. Union Growing. “This union, professing a policy| of unswerving struggle against the employers for the improvement of working standards, is growing by leaps and bounds in influence as well as membership. A statement issued by that organization requests’ the publication of a warning to all shoe workers to keep away from the strike-bound shop of Lieberman and Co. DEFY POLICE BY SAGCO MEMORIAL Jail 6 Martins Ferry Workers CLEVELAND, Aug. 31. ix workers were arrested and jailed, amid the jeers of a crowd of thou- sands of workers, when a Sacco- Vanzetti meeting was held at‘ Mar- tins Ferry on Aug. 25 in spite of the orders of the police and mayor that the meeting was not to be held When the Martins Ferry local of the International Labor Defense an- nounced that they were going to hold their meeting the chief of po- lice immediately issued orders against “any Sacco-Vanzetti meet- ings being held in Martins Ferry.” Carl Hacker, State Secretary of the I. L. D., announced immediately through the same papers that a meeting would be held in spite of the orders of the police. By seven o'clock a thousand work ers had collected at the corner of Main and Center Streets. The entire police force of Martins Ferry, a number of railroad detectives and special deputies who had been sworn in for service that evening were also present. When Hacker mounted the speak- ers’ stand he was immediately ar- rested by the police. Frank Sepich the next speaker, was not even al- lowed to open his mouth. © Frank Henderson, John Cicci, Charles Guynn and Ken Trysech, who were selling Sacco-Vanzetti litera- ture, were also rushed into the pa- trol wagon. The crowd was partial- ly dispersed and the speakers were hurried to the Martins Ferry jail. The crowd collected about the jail and began to sing revolutionary songs together with the prisoners who could .be seen through the bars of their windows. Finally the police “considered the crowd so menacing” that a special night court was called and all the prisoners were arraigned and charged with “inciting to riot,” “unlawful assembly,” “attempting to hold a meeting which was a menace to public safety,” and a few other charges. They were taken to the county Jail, followed by two carloads of deputies armed with sawed-off shot- and rifles in full view. At the jail the men were held until sb yy noon, when they were re- ‘on bond of $1,000 each, pend- ing action by the County Grand Jury which convenes Sept. 17. Every new reader of The DAILY WORKER is a potential - soldier in the coming battles of So tte MOSCOW-BIZARRE CAPITAL OF USSR of Shop ‘sa a Chairman in B Plane That Traversed British Empire in Africa The piane in which Lady Heath, British aviatrix, flew from London to South Africa has been pur- chased by Amelia Earhart, American woman who flew the Atlantic. She is shown here with the plane which pioneered along the British imperialist air- ways U.S.S.R. Archeological Society At Work On Old Grecian Army SIMPHEROPOL, (By Mail).— The archeological expedition of the Moscow Fine Arts Museum which is working already a second summer on the Taman Peninsula (Crimea) in the locality where in ancient time was situated Greek colony Fanago- rie has discovered traces of a en- World Tourists Plan Aniversary Visit Moscow, visi is one of agree, - the most fasc’ i jes in the ; ihe, most fascinating cities in ©! armous, antig theatre. e the melting-pot of nations. Here 4, t for the history of antic cul- East meets West; Europe mingles with Asia. Arriving in the suburbs, with their wooden structures, the newcomer might believe that he was entering a large village; but this error is soon dispelled. The wooden houses give way to beautiful stone mansions, six or seven stories high, —whole streets of them—and church spires and towers rise everywhere— all dominated by the Kremlin, which guards the city like a huge fortress. ant Aspect. In Moscow there is a mingling of nationalities such as sts in few great cities of the earth. For ex- ample, the representatives of Asiat- ie tribes in brilliant or ornamental ture in Scythia. The expedition found also series of ancient Greek, Hebrew and Mus- ulman tombs and remnants of old ramparts and monumental construc- tion. FUR UNION DRIVE WIDENS IN SCOPE To Call 27th St. Block who employed over 20 furrier crafts- | men. Workers here were compelled to work 48 and more hours a week at extremely low wages, thus com- peting with fur trimming workers in the legitimate market’s Joint Board controlled shops. After the 100 per cent walkout had been in effect sev- eral hours the emplayers were forced to terms, and a settlement was reached calling for the reestablish- ment of the 40 hour week and giving substantial wage raises, Next week, an announcement from the Joint Board declares, a meeting of all the workers employed on 27th St. will be called to the headquarters of the union to a “block meeting.” A similar meeting called this week for those employed on 29th St. was turned into a spontaneous demon- stration for the Joint Board when several thousand workers jammed the Joint Board building and the street outside in answer to the meet- ing call. PHILA, WORKERS FLOUT POLICE To Hold Red Election Rally and Pienic Continued from Page One a copy of the charge against Lazar. | “This is clear evidence that the police go to any length to victimize | the leaders of the workers, who | want to organize the workers for | struggle against their class enemies and against the parties of business, | PIGNIC SUCCESS Herbert Benjamin, district organ- izer of the Workers (Communist) | CHICAGO, Sept. 2.—The Press Picnic held at Chicago for the bene- Union of Soviets are held in Mos-! cow; thus the delegates come here from distant regions, wearing their national costumes. Also, Moscow has become the chief city of Russia in the matter’ of parades, demon- strations and celebrations. There is a particular evidence of gaiety on the revolutionary anniversaries. The buildings are decorated and the streets are illuminated. An official declaration once said: “The com- bination of the Russian spirit and | that. of the Orient with socialist in- ternational traits gives to the city aa inimitable indivduality and a new| aspect.” Red Square. At the Red Square, opposite the Kremlin, three of the principal thor- oughfares run parallel and are the chief arteries of trade, making what is known as “The City.” Many of the bus lines and trams meet in Red Square, and in this connection it will be of interest to note that Mos- cow has as fine buses as New York, London or Paris. “See Soviet Russia for Yourself,” is the watchword which many Amer. icans are adopting lately. The World Tourists, Inc., is arranging a new popular tour to the Soviet Union, via London, Copenhagen, Helsing- fors, Leningrad, Moscow. Return- ing, passengers will visit Minsk, Warsaw, Berlin and Paris. The party will sail on the S. S. “Mauretania” on Oct. 17, leaving in , time to witness the celebration of the 11th anniversary of the Novem- ber Revoltion. The World Tourists, Inc., are agents of the Travel Bu- reau of the Soviet Government, and every assistance is thus available for American travelers, Party, has issued a statement on the wholesale arrest of Philadelphia Communists whenever they hold an open-air meeting, for which they fit of the working class press of |*Te granted permits by the police this country has resulted in consid- | department. The statement declares erable donations to all the language |that “the Mellon-Vare republican | papers of the Workers (Commu- |Party machine in control of the state nist) Party and the Young Work- | #nd city government has apparently ers League. The Daily Worker re- determined on a policy of crushing | ceived 20 per cent of all the pro- working-class opposition by means ceeds, which amounted to $84.14, | of police terror.” In addition to the Daily Worker Revolutionary Aims. the following received donations “The Workers (Communist) Party ranging from $60 to 25 cents: makes no secret of its revolutionary eae Worker, Nave Mir, Rovnost aims. We declare and organize for Ludy, Freiheit, Ukrainian Daily a revolutionary reorganization of News, Susnanji, Ny Tid, Amerikas Zihna, I’ Lavoratore, Empres, Labor Unity, Uj Elnore, Young Comrade, Nor Ashkar, Trybuna Robotniczy and the Harvester Bulletin. The to- tal collected was $330.90. Find Slavic Temple Of 6th Century On Baltic BERLIN, Sept. 2. Important finds, dating from about the Sixth | Century, that are expected to re- veal much of importance relative to the silk and perfume trade between Constantinople and northern Europe have been unearthed on the Island of Ruegen, near the town of Gartz on the Baltic by an expedition of| scientists headed by Professor Schu- hardt, of the pre-historic department of the Folklore Museum. nessed this the validity of the claims An old Slavic temple of the time|of our Party, that capitalist law of the Slavic invasions of northern and justice means only persecution ‘ “i was unearthed, jand oppression for the workers.” soci ship of industry and administration of government to the producers, the rs and farmers. “Nor does our Party profess any i ions as to the character of cap- italist democracy. We know through bitter experience in scores of strikes and politieal struggles, through the infamous frame-up of which such valiant working-class fighters as Sacco and Vanzetti, Mooney and Billings, ete., have been the victims, | that capitalist democracy is a cloak for a brutal dictatorship of the | bankers and big manufacturers and jother members of the capitalist | class. | “The lawlessness and brutality of | the police has demonstrated to thou- sands of workers who have wit- v; for transferring the owner- | FASCISTS SEIZE HALLS, HOMES Report Growing Un- rest In Catalonia MADRID, Sept. 2.—Arrests of workers and Communists caught in a police drag-net, nation-wide in extent, have been begun here as the anniversary of the seizure of dic- tatorial power by Primo de Rivera approaches. Scores of arrests have already been made in this city and in Bar- celona, although the police are em- ploying the utmost caution to cloak their activities. Not only police descent upon union halls and the headquarters of labor and fraternal organizations suspected of labor sympathies, but house to house searches and seizures are being made. The police expect serious dis- turbances on the anniversary and are taking every precaution in the disposition of troops and police ef- .| aspect to the street crowds. Nowa- ears alba hit haat sect days, practically all important polit- Continued from Page One Tomy it ned: Deeb OP Rise ical congresses and sessions of the|#nd Maratchnick, 65 W. 37th St.,/nounced that Primo de Rivera nes would utilize the occasion to an- nounce a new program for the com- ing year, it is believed now that he may postpone it. Reports from Barcelona state that section of the country is in a state of general unrest. The strict censorship in Catalonia has pre- vented the sending of more complete | details. Bronx Workers Party to Have Booth at Daily, Worker-Freiheit Fair Daily At Worker-Freiheit Bazaar Conference held by the Bronx Section of the Workers (Communist) Party on Thursday, Aug. 30, which was represented by delegates from every unit in the Bronx, it was decided that the Bronx Section of the Party have a booth of its own. Thruout the discussion the dele- a gates stressed that in view of the! fact that there are only five weeks left till the Bazaar begins, work must be started immediately to col- lect articles for the booth as well as names for the Red Honor Roll. This is the first of a series of Section conferences to be held in this District. Indications are that this year’s Bazaar will surpass that of last year in the number of booths. rooklyn Shoe Factory An ACTIVITIES GROW IN HARLEM RED ELECTION DRIVE Hundreds of Signa-| tures Collected The Red Election Campaign is ad- vancing by leaps and bounds in Har- lem. Section of the Workers (Communist) Party, Comrade Joe Kiss, himself, | obtained three hundred and sixty | Another Harlem Cam-| signatures. paigner, Harold Williams, obtained two hundred signatures, thus giving to Harlem the distinction of contain- ing the two highest scores made thruout the city. In the drive recently made by Albert Moreau, Harlem Campaign Director, for the participation of every member of Section 4 in the signature drive, one member, Harry Pollack, excused his absence in the drive by his working overtime, and donated to the Red Election Fund the $13.40 earned by his overtime work. “If I am not working for our campaign in one way, I am in| another,” wrote Pollack in sending the money. At a Harlem Campaign Confer- end held recently at 143 East 103rd Street, at which twenty-one Harlem functionaries were present, a general tightening up of the signature drive, literature sales, and general propa- ganda work was discussed. It was resolved at the conference to double the number of open-air meetings held in Negro Harlem. With the end of the summer vacations at hand, the number of Red Campaign- ers active in Harlem will be con- siderably increased and the results of the campaign are expected to show a much greater number of sig- natures in the next three weeks. The outstanding achievement to the credit of the Harlem Campaign Committee, is the Negro Election Bulletin published by Section 4, called “The Challenge”. Under the symbol of a firm handclasp by one colored and one white hand, the first issue of “The Challenge” is “dedi- cated to the interests of the work- ers of Harlem, white and colored.” The make-up of “The Challenge” days of the drive, the Red Tag Days Sates. i * f dacisnher ad 3h must see have a share in building the new) tember 16th, 7 p.m. at 2046 East is pleasing, and it is enlivened by cartoons showing the discrimination the Red Drive go over the top with Union. n ¢ t against colored workers. The bul- a bang! This is the only effective National Miners Convention him- One member of the Harlem| swered by 100% Walkout Debris in Militarism’s New Air Tra ia ‘ E eastern Pennsylvania Searchers are beginning to piece together from the debris of machines and human bodies the story of the death of Mazel Merrill, manager of the Curtis Air Service whose plane crashed in a north- forest recently. Ronne, director of the Buffalo airport. The plane, part of the equip- ment of Col. Lindbergh, crashed in a fog. sedy STIMSON ACTION SEEN AS RUBBER GRABBERS' MOVE | Form Council to Coerce Opposition |. MANILA, Sept. 2.—Action which leaders of the opposition see as de- | Signed to spike their resistance to the American government’s effort to increase the acreage that in- |vestors may lease under Philippine laws was taken by Governor-Gen- eral Henry Stimson yesterday, with the issuance of an order creating an executive counci!. The council pur- ports to be a means for furthering co-operation between the executive With Merrill was Edward with Them to Camps | Continued from Page One PLAN HUGE RED INDIANA MINERS WEEK END DRIVE AID NEW UNIONS Wk’ers to Carry Boxes Conference Held In @7vva.” jand legislative branches of the | Philippine administration. Though a purely advisory body, critics of the governor-generals ac- tion see in the move an attempt to coerce and silence rather than co- operate, “Talk of co-operation is futile one Filipino leader as- |serted yesterday, “while the ques- tion of complete independence for ‘the islands is held in purposeful 1.—|abeyance by the United States au- Coal Centers PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. |the petty bourgeois socialist party, Mother Ella Reeve Bloor writes that | thorities. by its repudiation of the class strug-|a real progressive movement has “The creation of the council is gle, has shattered whatever work-| been launched among the miners in| merely another way to coerce the ing-class illusions may have still ad- | Indiana. |hered to its slippery sid Counteract Capitalism. | To counteract the heavily smeared | speakers. lying propaganda of the capitalist |parties vezarding the era of pros- perity and the |the economic ture are needed. class-conscious workers of New the Communist Campaign Thousands of dollars are needed, | the workers whose platform of class the candidates of the (Communist) Party. lists wherever you go! 2 of September 1, | York will today, tomorrow and Mon- | attend the Ohio conferences, Free- |day utilize their time in building up | man Fund. Kentucky conferences and Anthony, and can be raised with the help of district conferences. struggle is the election platform of ‘forces for the new union, confer-| ; Workers | ences are being held in Clinton, Bick- In a statement issued last night, have fallen to pieces, they will be, the District Campaign Committee reorganized and elect their dele- 7 | urges all workers to “carry with | gates; where there is no organiza-/ national Youth Day, the holiday of you “and use collection boxes and tion, the militants are on the job to/ international solidarity of the work- The last organize n Mass meetings are _held/ opposition to the land lease, increase right along. Mother Bloor and Free-||egislation and to silence opponents man Thompson were among the/of the measure in the house and senate.” The National Miners Arrange-| The new body replaces the old ments Committee instructed each! one broken up in 1928 after it at- neral brightness of district to hold organizational con-|tempted to protest against what it ife of the American ferences in every sub-district to|termed Governor-General masses tons of working-class litera- make final preparations for the elec- high-handed actions. Realizing this, the tion of delegates and affiliation. Wood's Members of the council will in- clude such pro-American Filipinos 38 Manuel Quezon and Senator Os- mena. It also instructed John Watt to Thompson the Indiana an Minerich to go to the anthracite tri- rHaiaval International Youth Day to Be Observed By Cleveland League CLEVELAND, To knit -together the nell and Blandsford. Where locals Sept. 2.—Inter- very mine, and elect dele-| ing class youth thruout the world Every coal digger wants to) will be celebrated in Cleveland, Sep- If he cannot come to the! Fourth Street. Betty Gannett, District Organizer letin, or perhaps it should be called answer to Tammany’s attempt to Self, he wants to vote for a repre-| of the Young Workers Communist a miniature magazine, it containing twelve pages, goes right to the heart of be roblems met daily by Negro worl 4 and cites the platform of the .Workers (Communist) Party which is meeting these problems squarely, urging all Negro workers to support the candidates and plat- form of the Workers (Communist) Party in the 1928 elections. Musicians Want 4 Piece Orchestras CHICAGO, Ill., Sept. 1 (UP)— Approximately 50 outlying motion picture theatres face the possibility of closing after Sunday, when con- tracts with musicians expire. The musicians insist on requiring a mini- mum orchestra of four members while exhibitors are holding out against this clause in the new con- tract. throttle our campaign! MORE BRITISH SUBS. LONDON, Sept. 2.—A submarine carrying eight torpedo tubes, and a number of guns, built on the latest model of destructive efficiency, will be launched by the British navy to- | morrow at the Vickers-Armstrong naval works at Barrow in Furness. Save this copy of the Daily for one of the 40,000 traction workers. The Vege-Tarry Inn “GRINE KRETCHME” BEST VEGETARIAN FOOD MODERN IMPROVEMENTS DIRECTIONS: Take ferries at 234 St., Christopher St., Barclay St. or Hudson Tubes to Hoboken, Lacka- wanna Railroad to Berkeley Heights, N, J. BEKKELEY HEIGHTS NEW JERSEY Phone, Fanwood 7463 R 1, Sr 60 St. Marks PI. 101 W. 27th St. 143 E. 103d St. 1800 7th Ave. As an Answer to Tammany Attacks RIKE A BLOW for the PARTY OF THE WORKING CLASS Contribute and Col- lect Funds for the Election Campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party Extend Red Week to September 3 VOLUNTEER FOR SERVICE ALL WEEK : —AT— 2075 Clinton Ave, 215 E. 138th St. Jewish Workers Club, 1472 Boston Road For Red Mass Collections, September 1, 2 and '3 WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY 26-28 Union Square, New York City 2700 Bronx Pk., E. 46 Ten Eyck St., Bklyn. 1873 48d St., Bklyn. 154. Watkins St., Bklyn sentative. League, I. Amter, District Organi- Gs, | zer of the Party, I. Isaacs, L. Borer, BURY FASCIST FLYER. and other speakers will address the ROME, Sept. 2 (UP).—The body | meeting. A well balanced program of Major Carlos Del Prete, Italian is being prepared. aviator, was brought home from South America today. The body| will lie in state. | You're in the fight when you write for The DAILY WORKER. Are You Working for the DAILY WORKER-FREIHEIT BAZAAR October 4, re 6 and 7 These will be red letter days of the biggest event of the year. Madison Square Garden will be the place for this stupendous expression of proletarian effort and initiative. from Maine to Texas, every workingclass or- ganization sympathetic with the revolutionary movement, every class conscious worker on the job. Here is what you should do: B tem PARTY UNIT from New York to Seattle, articles. Solicit ads for the souvenir program at $75 per page. No workingclass organization should fail to register itself in this manner by taking all or part of a page. No Workers Party Unit should be missing. Gather names for the Red Honor Roll at one dollar a name. Bis A BAZAAR COMMITTEE fo gather Fall in line to make the Red Bazaar the biggest success of the year. 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