The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1928, Page 1

SRR eNO RT RE op ERNE Se | CHARGE QUEENS SEWER GRAF “TERS MURDERED D’OLIER, WITNESS THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT aily = Published daly except Sunday by The N: Publishing Association, Inc., 36-28 Unie: Vol. V., No. 210 nal Daily Worker 1 New York, N. ¥. _NEW* "YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEME FINAL CITY | EDITION WORKERS [COMMUNIST PARTY GOES ON BALLOT IN OHIO 98.00 per year. year. Price 3 Cente p British “Labor Le Leaders” Ap Appeal for Police Protection Against Starving Welsh Miners EXPEL SEAMEN'S UNION FOR HELP TO COAL MINERS Jobless Men March Past | Hall; Hold Open Air | Meet in Park | Crocodile “Turner Cries | LONDON, Sept. 3.—Fear of the} officials of the sixteenth annual con-| vention of the British Trade Union) Congress which opened here today} that a large delegation of unem-| ployed Welsh miners would try to invade the hall and present their| case to the conference caused them| to appeal to the police for protec-, tion and heavy guards were held in The armies are perts, the marines will be their present rate. subdue the army of independence readiness to repel the starving| workers. | campaign in. The map shows the The miners, however, marched | quietly past the Congress building | “still advancing” Experts contend that it will take many more thousand marines than the United States now has in Nicaragua: to _Stronghold of Army of Independence The Sandino Nationalist army has sale and een lured the marines back into the jungles and the torturous Nicaraguan valleys. “still. advancing.” In the opinion of military ex- until the end of time at while it has a friendly population to feed it and to recruit from, and a rugged, defensive country to scene of the latest operations, the Coco River country, fever-swamp and jungle. and held their meeting in a park. Following the appeal to the po- | lice, Ben Turner, president of the Congress, said: “Unemployment is a perpetual nightmare of the work- ers. It is breaking down the physical standards of the nation.” MORGAN GRIP ON MEXICO TIGHTENS. Control of National Railways Looms MEXICO CITY, Sepk's (UP) —|Pobert Zahn Rehabilitation of the National Rail | All of that organization’s locals, ways cannot be accomplished unless | branches and affiliated bodies, all they are administered as a private trade unions and other sympathetic | enterprise, Luis Montes De Oca,’ societies are called upon to send| secretary of treasury, said in his} delegates to the conference which annual report to congress today. He urged that statutes be changed so will be held here Sunday, Sept. 23, .; in Paine Memorial Hall,| that the railways could progress|at 10 a.m,, comparably with those of other|9 Appelton St. countries. The appeal broadcast and the in- structions it gives are in part as BOSTON, Sept. 3—A call rally-| ing all working class forces in New fense of the hundreds of victims of the court and police terror in the bitter New Bedford and Fall River ‘textile strikes; "was issued by the’ New England District of the Inter- | national Labor Defense over the sig- | nature of its Secretary-Organizer, . * * | The recommendation of Luis) Montes De Oca, Mexican secretary follows: of treasury, that the railways of “The records of the New Bedford (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 3. preparations that were being made during the last few days for the textile strikers’ parade today, special attention was being paid to beginning with tomorrow. Reliable reports have it that the mill barons intend to launch an intensified drive | to build up a “sizable” nucleus of strikebreakers by sending special agents to the homes of mill opera- tives. Never was an army of tens of | thousands of strikers more unani- mously adamant in its refusal to | England for a conference to build | up substantial machinery for the de-| plans for strengthening the picket- | ing of mills, and particularly homes, | TO HOLD CONFERENCE FOR MILL STRIKERS GENERAL MOTORS Partner: Backs” Smith; | Win Either Way | Alfred P. Sloat 33 Jr., president of the General Motors Corporation, yesterday announced his support of Herbert Hoover, republican presiden- tial candidate, in a statement which! at the same time endorsed the G. O.! P. platform. John J. Raskob had previously | officially announced his “resigna- hee as chairman of the finance Continued cn Page Two MINOR TO SPEAK AT RIDGEWOOD | Election Rally Called by German Conference Robert Minor, editor of the Daily | Worker and Communist candidate hates the U. S. senate from New York will be the principal pee e ead election rally of Brooklyn Queens to be held at the vcs County Labor Lyceum, 785 Forest | Ave:, Ridgewood on Friday, Sept. |7, at 8 p. m. Joseph Berg, well- |known German speaker: will deliver | Saenger, secretary of the German | Language Bureau of the Workers (Communist) Party will chairman. This election mass meeting is be- Rad called by the German Election {Campaign Conference, organized some time ago by the German Language Bureau of the Workers | (Communist) Party. Several Work- |men’s Sick and Death Benefit | branches, German singing societies, the Arbeiterbund, the German HEAD FOR HOOVER be the} SPEED ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO MINE MEET Arrangement Commit- tee Issues Appeal to All Locals Piatentba & Days Off | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 3.—As every day brings the National Con- vention to build a new Miners Union closer, the speeding-up of the elec- | tions of delegates to participate in the momentous rank and file meet- ing is requested by the Convention Arrangements Committee. Over the signatures of John J. Watt, chair- man and Pat Tooh secretary the following appeal ha. been issued: To all Local Unions and Progres- | sive Groups: | Dear Brothers: When you receive this letter there will be only a few days left before the National Miners Convention con- | venes in Pittsburgh, Pa. We ex- pect; that you have already made the fight in the local unions to secure delegates to this convention and/ made a successful fight. However, should you have failed in these ef- forts, due to being blocked by the remnants of the | progressive group immediately get ‘together in a regular meeting and select your delegates. - Secondly, make all arrangements Issel for collection of finances |for your delegates as well as ar- rangements for transportation by automobile, bus or whatever is con- venient and cheap. Thirdly, please remember that we} jare already now in the process of | building the New National Miners’ | Union in the place of the one which has been wrecked by the joint ef- forts of the coal operators and the corrupt Lewis machine. It is there- fore necessary that we go to work immediately to prepare to have all your local unions affiliate with the new union. Make arrangements ‘to have your local union go on record for securing charter and dues cards from the New National Miners Union. A successful convention means speeding of the good work to build Continued on vod Five HILLMAN HOLDS FAKE ELECTIONS | Left Wingers are Ruled | Off Ballots With stianat ie Hiibeay the New| —Simultaneous with the extensive | an address in German, and Erich R. | York Joint Board of the Amalga-) ee Clothing Workers Union will hold its election farce today and to- morrow in several: sections of the city in order to put the “demoeratic seal” on the reactionaries appointed by the Hillman-Schlossberg machine at the last national convention of the union, Disregarding the mass demand for the elimination of Beckerman, Joint Board czar, from the ranks of organized labor—this demand com- ing even from workers not profess- edly left wing—Beckerman and his |entire coterie of henchmen are on | the ballot to fill positions of man- reactionary | machine, it is essential that your’ Mexico be taken out of state con-| police already show more than 500 trol ia regarded aaa spaneayer de- | arrests in that city alone in their} signed to place the Mexican rail- Continued P Three ways under control of J. P. Morgan spain aici i and Co., thus more effectively tying | Mexico to the apron-strings of | American finance-capital. Last year when Mexican tivances| were in an unusually low state, an} international bankers’ committee | LINES STRONGER headed by Thomas W. Lamont, of | J. P. Morgan and Co., considered some method of settlement of Mex- | ican debts to them. It was, unof- | Expose Falco Federal | ficially reported that one of the, recommendations of the committee! Mediation’Scheme was that the railroads become a| cea ea private instead of a state monopoly. The report of the Mexican secretary of treasury to congress is thus in compliance with the wishes of this Morgan-controlled committee. | Labor Fakers Fawn Before Bosses (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Sept. 3.—After anxiously insisting that Interna- tional May Day, the true American Labor Day, is “entirely European in origin and character,” William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, delivered him- self of his annual Labor Day ora- tion at Geauga Lake Park here by thanking the American capitalist government as “having done some- thing fine and noble when it honor- ed labor by creating a national holi- day and designating it Labor Day. Completely unmindful of the “in- signifigant” fact that the working class creates all and should there- fore feel less humble at recciving such “overwhelming honors,”. the Continued on Page Five TUNNEY IN PARIS. PARIS, Sept. 3.—Gene Tunney, yetired heavyweight champion, ar- rived here tonight. keep out of the mills. This and the |branch, Ridgewood, of the Interna: | ager, assistants, trade managers and fact that Labor Day has already | tional Labor Defense, and the Ger- | been reached without any sign of man Language Bureau will par- Continued on Page Three | ticipate in the conference. NEGRO AIDS NEW UNION. Miner’s Wife Will Attend Convention PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 3.—The Indiana Women’s Auxiliaries will be represented at the National Miners Convention by Mrs. Ora Boyce, of Clinton. Mrs. Boyce has been doing excellent wow in both Kentucky and Indiana, speaking at mass meetings and union meetings for the new union. women-folk into auxiliaries. “We must not allow the same mis- made,” Mrs. Boyce says. “The new union is not discriminating against any miner. The Negro miners are all rallying to the new union because they know they will get a square deal. In the delegation coming from Mrs. Boyce, who is a Negro sister, | Indiana, the Negroes will be repre- has been especially useful in organ- | sented. We will take part in build- izing the miners of her race into | ing our union.” locals for the new union, and their | takes the U. M. W. A. officials’ business agents. This despite the |fact that the largest locals in New York voted overwhelmingly not to allow Beckerman on the ballot. Militants Ruled Off. Left wingers, progressives and all other workers who have courage | enough to openly manifest opposi- tion to the sell-out policies of Beck- ruled off the ballot. If the workers’ Continued on Page Two |RUMOR CHAMBERLAIN RETIRE LONDON, Sept. 3.—Rumors that Sir Austen Chamberlain, British im- | perialist foreign secretary, is about |to retire from the political arena, in which he has been instrumental in putting across several of the worst imperialist measres ever per- | petrated on the British colonies, was | voiced in London official circles to- day. erman and Hillman were arbitrarily | For a New Miners’ ‘Union! F ight Cossacks ar 16, but miners from all over the stances of open war used against Cossacks warming up for action in Pennsylvania. Not only the Pennsylvania delegation to the National Miners Convention for Build- ing a New Union which will meet in Pittsburgh from September to country can remember similar in- them by the mine barons with the connivance of the capitalist state and their own reactionary mis- leaders. They are determined to build a strong union. MURDER IS SEEN IN DEATH OF SEWER MAN TRAINMEN VOTE SOLID FOR STRIKE Officials May Prevent Wal -out CHICAGO, Sept. 3 (UP).— Trainmen and conductors of 55 western railroads have voted al- most “one hundred per cent for a walkout,” A. F. Whitney of Cleve- land, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, announced tonight. “The complete tabulation has not been made,” Whitney told the | United Pre: “The result will be close to 100 per cent for a strike, however.” Whitney arrived here today to meet with E. P. Curtis, president | of the Order of Railway Conduc- tors, and other officials and mem- | bers of the “Strike Committee” to tabulate the vote and to consider the tentative proposal the rail- roads have offered for mediation. The committee, numbering be- tween 115 and 120 men, will con- sider the proposal of the roads at a meeting Tuesday and will vote whether or not to accept it. In | event the committee would vote to accept the proposal the strike vote would be set aside, Whitney said. A strike, if called, would affect 70,000 men. The controversy over which the men threaten to strike has been waging for several months. The workers originally demanded increases of from 10 to 18 per cent. The roads offered to meet the wage demands in part but sought to have certain work- ing conditions included in the agreement. The men refused the offer and the strike vote resulted. Young Worker League Dist. 2, Meets Tonight A general membershiv meeting of the Young Workers (Communist) League of District 2 will be held to- | night at the Workers Center, 26-2: Union Square. Matters of immediate importance will be taken uy and discussed at the meeting, and every member of the Young Workers (Communist) | League should be present. FRENCH TEXTILE STRIKE PARIS, Sept, 3.—The’ rank and file of the other textile unions, head- ed by labor reactionaries, Have joined the strike of textile workers in Northern France, which was call- ed by the Communist textile union which delivered an ultimatum to the| Northern France Textile Syndicate | demanding more wages and threat-| ening a general strike on Septem- |ber 2 if their demands are not met. Because William L. L. D'Olier, pres- ident of the Sanitation Corporation of 420 Lexington Ave., whose body was found near the Mt. Zion Ceme- I, with a bullet rough his temple Sunday morning “knew too much” about graft in Queens sewer contracts, he is now dead. tery in Maspeth, L. During the past 24 hours three things have been established—that an autopsy substantiates the belief that D’Olier did not meet his death by suicide; that the .32 caliber re | volver, with one discharged cart- yvidge, in his right hand was not his own. Finally, that although the body was found with the head rest- ing in sharp rocks, as though it had Continued on Page Two To Report On Needle Trades at Meets of Party Sections 2, 3 The membership of Sections 2 end 3 of the New York Distzict of the Workers (Communist) Party will attend special section meetings tomorrow evening at 7.30 to hear Charles .S. Zimmerman, leader of the Cloak and Dressmakers National Organization Committee, and Irving Potash of the New York Joint Board, Furriers Union, deliver a re- port on “The Present Situation in the Needle Trades.” The reports will be delivered at the section headquarters, 101 West 27th St., after unit me will have been held. All units close their meetings promptly at 7:30 o'clock. According to a statement issued by the sections’ industrial organ- izers the reports by Zimmerman and Potash are of the greatest im- portance at this vital moment in the struggle of the needle trades 20,000 SIGNATURES ARE COLLECTED BY WORKERS Tic 1,000 Volunteers to Be IN BIG OPEN SHOP STATE William Pibticnin am Veteran, Heads Ohio ket Sent Thruout State On Agitational Tours FIND NEW PLOT AGAINST USSR; MANY ARRESTED IG. P. U. Seizes Heads | of Four Moscow Factories War Danger Is Seen MOSCOW, U. S. R., Sept. 3 (UP).—The C. P. U. announced to- day that they had arrested the directors of four large Moscow fac- tories, several technical chiefs, of- | ficials of various. -trusts..and__pri- | vate traders, accused of bribery. It was charged that raw mater- ials, of which there is a shortage, were imported for government use and were diverted to private chan- nels. Cie ee | KOENIGSBERG, East Prussia, Sept. 3.—An unconfirmed dispatch from Moscow today states that directors of four of the largest fac- tories in Moscow, and a number of technicians in various industries, have been arrested by the G. P. U. The prisoners are charged with par- ticipation in plots against produc- tion and for the overthrow of the Soviet government. Similarity of the present arrests and charges to these in the cele- brated Shakhta trial of several months ago have been pointed out and rumors that the present con- spirators were financed by enemies of the Soviet Union outside the country have been made. New clouds of war hovering on the horizon were freely discussed today following disclosure of vhe arrests. Al Smith’s Bed Fellow Makes Labor Day Spiel (Special to the Daily Worker) DALLAS, Texas, Sept. —The usual blarney about the “dignity of labor” was emitted by Joseph P. | Robinson, vice-presidential candi- date on the democratic ticket, in a Labor Day speech here today. He approved the “principle of col- lective bargaining” and shadow- boxed against the “abuse” of labor injunctions. Robinson spoke under the aus- pices of the labor skates of the city. ST IN CHICAGO GAS BL. CHICAGO, Sept. 3 (UP).-—Chi- cago’s northwest side was shaken today when three 1,500-gallon tanks of gasoline exploded, shattering windows in nearby homes. Fred- erick Schard, the only worker near workers, and therefore to the entire Party membership in these indus- trial areas. the tanks, was injured probably fa- tally. He was thrown 20 feet by the blast. NEW DRIVEON TAXI MEN Yellow Cab Has Aid of Tammany Hall Actively co-operating with the| Taxi drivers report that bans big open-shop taxi corporation, the | have been placed on a number of the Tammany police has begun a new most profitable hack stands. One of campaign to drive independent taxi|the latest to be abolished has been ‘drivers out of existence. The cam-|the stand on Seventh Ave., between paign has taken the form of a/33rd and 34th St., in front of the gradually widening edict whereby Pennsylvania Hotel, which has been public hack stands are being abol- the favorite hack stand for more \ished. This is in addition, of course,|than 100 taxi drivers since the hotel to the systematic persecution and | was built. | intimidation of cab drivers by the When the hotel owners \ police. Continued on Page Five were CLEVELAND, 0., Sept. 3—For the first time in its history, the Workers (Communist) Party has qualified for a position on the offi- cial ballot in the great mining, manufacturing and agricultural state of Ohio. The placing of the Communist ticket on the Ohio ballot is a big factor for the Workers (Commun- ist) Party and a tribute to the en- thusiasm with which the members of the Party in the Ohio District faced the tremendous task of collect- ing the 20,000 signatures necessary to comply with the terms of the law. Mine, Steel Workers Aid. Of the 20,000 signatures, 10,090 were collected in Cleveland alone. In the mining and steel regions the workers not only signed the Communist petitions willingly, but assisted in the securing of signa- tures. Th*’ willingness is attributed to the atcive part played by the Party in the great coal strike which raged in Ohio for over a year. The Gom- munists stood with the left wing in the United Mine Workers Union against the operators and the Lewis machine which deliberately sought” to break down the morale of the strikers and send them back to work on the employers’ terms. When the strike was finally broken and the union destroyed, the Communists took the lead in Seay to build the new union. Open Shop State. This is a state notorious for its open shop drives, as the birthplace of the infamous “Ohio gang” includ- ing Warren Gamaliel Harding, Har- ry Daugherty and Jess Smith, un- official head of the bribe-collection section of the department of justice. Ohio has contributed more capital- ist presidents ané presidential candi- dates to the nation than any state in the union. It threw up Mark Hanna, the man who put electioneering on a gold basis, and John D. Rockefel- ler, the oily king of gasoline got his start there. Norman Thomas, who is now leading what is left of the socialist party back to Jesus, first saw the light of salvation in Marion, O., the late Gemaliel’s home town. The district organizer, I. Amter, and the Campaign Committee of Party District No. 5, with headquar- ters in Cleveland. under the direc- tion of N. Schaffer, mapped out a plan for all sectiuns of the state and assigned quotas to each Party or- ganization in the district. Workers Remember. The steel workers of Youngstown, Warren and other cities remembered the great steel strike which was led by William Z. Foster, candidate for president on the Workers (Commun- ist) Party ticket this year. They know that today only the Commun- ists are activ engaged propagand- izing the workers in all industries for militant trade unionism, the re- actionary leaders of the A. F. of L. and the socialist party having gone over bag and baggage to the em- ploying classes. Ohio was the first state to send a revolutionist to jail for opposition to the war. Charles E. Ruthenberg, late executive secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, deliv- ered a speech against the war short- ly after it was declared in the pub- lic square of Cleveland and was sent to jail in Canton prison for ong year. Revolutionary Traditions, It was in Canton that Eugene V. Debs was arrested for his famous anti-war speech and sentenced to) 10 vears in Atlanta. The left wing of the socialist par- ty of Ohio was expelled on the eve of the socialist convention in Chi- cago in 1919 with the entire state of Michigan. Ruthenberg, who was secretary of the Cleveland section of, |the socialist party, was the leader! lof the left wing in Ohio and was’ Continued on Page Five *