The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1928, Page 2

Page Two «HE vaILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1928 Reve CHARGE |. R. T, WAS AWARE OF BAD EQUIPMENT uf i Persons Treated by Doctors Criminal negligence ox the part of the Interborough Rapid Transit, on whose subway and elevated lines three accidents, claiming almost a score of lives and injuring over 200 others, have occurred within the last two weeks, was yesterday blamed for the fire in the East River sub- way tunnel which caused a panic among 300 passengers trapped with- in the smoke-filled car. When the final check-up was made this morning of those who had suffered injury in the latest disas ter, it was found that 111 persons had been treated for suffocation and injuries. Many of the injured had been trampled as the passengers, still fresh with the horrors of the Times Square disaster, made a gen- eral rush for the exits. So indisputable is the guilt of the I. R. T. in the most recent train accident that even the Transit Com- mission of New York, which has continually shielded the company and perverted the facts of different accidents to exonerate the officials from all blame, was forced to re- luctantly admit that the entire blame for the East River tunnel fire lay on the criminal negligence of the Interborough. The report of the Commission dis- closed the fact that a Flushing train which had passed through the tun- nel which goes under the East River from the Grand Central terminal to Long Island City, just preceding the train in which the fire and subse- quent panic had taken place, had ar- rived at the Jackson Ave. station in Long Island City with eleven con- tact shoes ripped off. The Transit Commission admits that Interborough had made no at- tempt to investigate how the shoes had been torn away. As a result of this failure to investigate, the Astoria train was sent over the same tracks a few minutes later, with dis- astrous results. The three accidents on the I. R. T. lines, coming within so short a per- iod of time, have served to arouse the anxiety and the anger of the workers who are forced to use the inefficient and out-of-date cars sup- plied by the I. R. T. on their ways to and from work. A movement is growing steadily to demand the im- mediate investigation of I. R. T. facilities, wages, hours and assets -by a committee composed of work- WORKERS PARTY OPEN AIR MEETS Speakers Will Entire City Open-air meetings throughout Greater New York have been ar- ranged by the agitprop department of District 2, Workers (Communist) Party: Cover Today. “Grand St. Ext. and Havemeyer, Bklyn., Frank, Rosemond, Shafran; Sutter and Williams, Gklyn., Taft, Lipzin, G. Welsh, Julius Cohen; Longwood and Prampect, Bronx, N sin, Frishkoff, Blake, Leo Margolies; Lenox Ave. and 138rd St., N. Y. C., R. B. Moore, McDonald, H. Williams. Tomorrow. Twenty-eighth St. and Lexington Ave., Baum, Suskin, Abern; 2nd Ave and 10th St., N. Y. C., Gussakoff, Hendin, Goliger, I. Cohen; Union Square, N. Y. C., Powers, Blake, Ross, Caplan; Wilkins and Intervale, Bronx, Padgug, Gold, LeRoy, Alkin, Sumner; Flect St. and Flatbush Ext., Bklyn., Yusem, Vera Bush, Midolla, Jessie Taft; 7th Ave. and 131st St., N. Y. C., Padmore, Pasternack, Ed. Welsh, Schalk; 7th Ave. and 137th St., N. Y. C., R. Moore, Lamb, Lioyed; Passaic, N. J., Ed. Wright, Ida Starr, Evelyn Blacker. Thursday, Sept. 6. 188th St. and St. Ann’s Ave., Bronx, Codkind, Peer, H. Williams, Wm. Margolis; 40th St. and 8th Ave., N. Y. C., V. Smith, Joe Cohen; Bryant Ave. and 174th St., Bronx, Chas. Zimmerman, Wortis, Harfield, Weitz, Spiro; 25th St. and Mermaid Ave. C, I, Ben Lifshitz, Shapiro, Magliacano, Chalupski; Steinway and Jamaica Aves., Astoria, L. I. Powers, Rock, Schachtman, Heder, Mueller; Stone and Pitkin Ave., Bklyn., Benjamin, Kagan, Sumner, J, Cohen. Friday, Sept. 7. National Biscuit Co. (noon), Grecht, Ross; Bristol and Pitkin, Bklyn., Ragozin, Castrell, Lillien- satein, Wilson; 5th Ave. and 110th St., N. Y. C., Markoff, Lloyed, Grace Lamb, Lyons, Rodriguez; Varet and Graham Ave., Bklyn., Bimba, Rose- _mond, G. Welsh, Midolla; 50th St. and 5th Ave., Bklyn., Reiss, Yusem, I. Zimmerman, Donaldson; Market Plaza, Newark, N. J., Vera Bush, Szepesey, L. Duke; Patterson, N. J. (8 Governor St.), Baum, Freiman, Laurence Elkind. Saturday, Sept. 8. Ast Ave. and 116th St. (Italian), Auerbach, Napoli, Rolfe; 1st Ave. and 79th St., V. Smith, Moreau, Ma-| no, Lloyed; West New York, | . J., Leroy, C. Martin; Perth Am- | N. J., Padmore, Covatez; Eliza-_ N. “J., Markoff, R, Duke; ) — N. Y., Wright, Weich. | / Criminal Negligence of In A Re With the signing of the Kellogg “peace” pact the among themselves in their fight for colonies. tarists, are constantly on guard. against the wo they happen to be pointing. Eu drawn closer together for a more concerted preparation of war against the Soviet Union. mon desire to crush the first workers’ and peasants’ republic does not exclude the possibility of a war powers of Above, one of the “guardinans,” al Wall Street “Yacht”; Destroyer Sturtevant rope and North America have Their com- in the meantime, nor does the “peace” pact forbid their crushing weaker populations In preparation for all these eventualities the American, and other mili- whose guns are always levelled -s of Nicaragua, China, the Soviet Union or the United States no matter which way GENERAL MOTORS HEAD FOR HOOVER Partner Backs Smith; Win Either Way Continued from Page One committee of the General Motors Corporation before assuming his po- sition as chairman of the finance committee of Al Smith’s campaign. This move was made in order to dis- guise the role of the Morgan inter- ests, which control General Motors, in the presidential campaign. Wall St. Twins. Pierre du Pont, big . munitions manufacturer and one of the heads of General Motors, had also come out for Tammany Al, backing his announcement .with a $50,000 Tam- many campaign contribution, where- as his brother, Lammot du Pont, has announced his support of Hoover. Emphasizing the fact that the General Motors Corporation has never been so prosperous as under the Coolidge administration, Sloan continues with: “I am confident that Mr. Hoover can be counted up- on to carry forward all the polici and principles which have contrib- uted to this prosperity.” Prosperity for the Boss. “Would the stockholders of any business,” he asks, “the management of which has built up generous pro- fits, made liberal disbursements in dividends, increased prestige and the value of the corporation’s securities brought prosperity to the organiza- tion, be likely to change that man- agement?” His statement, it is seen, clearly defines the stand of big business, which has built up fat profits from the imperialist and reactionary ac- tivities of the old parties, and which is interested naturally, in the con- tinuation of the same state of af- fairs. LEAGUE COUNCIL SESSION OPENED GEN A, Sept. 3—The ninth assembly of the League of Nations opened today. H. J. Procope, for- eign minister of Finland, presided as temporary chairman. The assem- bly then elected Herluf Zahle, Dan- ish minister to Berlin, as president. The assembly was attended by the prime ministers of Germany, Austria, Canada, Lithuania, Luxem- burg and Norway, and the foreign ministers of Belgium, Cuba, Den- mark, Esthonia, Finland, France, Greece, Latvia, Holland, Poland, Portugal, Yugo-s Czecho-slo- vakia, Sweden and Switzerland. It was a record for the attendance of so many high government officials. Chancellor Hermann Mueller of Germany and Foreign Minister Ar- istide Briand of France conferred at length in the corridors before the assembly opened, OS ILL (UP).-—Pre- mier Veni was taken to hos- pital today, suffering from a slight attack of the dengue fever that, as- suming epidemic proportions, has caused grave anxiety throughout the country. VENIZE ept. 3 REPORT ATHE os Put the Party on the Ballot All Party members and a report for duty to collect signatures to put the Party on the ballot at the following headquarters which are open every evening: Section 1—Downtown Manhattan—60 St. Marks Place Section 4—Harlem—143 East 103rd St. Section 5—Bronx—2075 Clinton Ave. Section 6—Williamsburg—29 Graham Avenue Section 7—Boro Park, 1373 Section 8—Brownsville, 154 Watkins St. Underworld Czar Ruled Philadelphia Gangs, Bootleg Ring | | PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 3 (UP).| —An underworld czar who ruled | various gangs with the proverbial iron fist—settled disputes, acted as chief purser of the treasury in pay- | ing out protection money and fixed | prices—has been disclosed in the} grand jury investigation of Phila-| delphia’s gang world. ! District Attorney Mongahan, who | is resting at Atlantic City over the week end, made this disclosure to-| day. The tentacles of the rum ring’s| organized graft payment has in-| volved the Delaware River Bridge | police, according to the prosecutor,|the men’s clothing industry of New| and liquor-laden trucks have passed without interruption from Camden, N. J., to Philadelphia through large payments to certain members of the force, the prosecutor said. GITLOW TO TALK IN PITTSBURGH Opens Workers Party | - Drive in State PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 3.—The| Workers (Communist) Party Elec-| | vote was | favor of a left winger in the nomina-| tion primaries the Hillman gang or-| HILLMAN HOLDS FAKE ELECTIONS | Left Wingers are Ruled Off Ballots Continued from Page One too overwhelmingly dered that “objections” be found) against him and he was then re-| moved. The Trade Union Tducational League, Tailors section, yesterday issued a statement to the workers in York regarding the present elec- tions. The statement declares in part: “The Hillman company union holds elections this week.- A pre- tense at ‘democracy’ will be made. They will ask you to vote for offi- cials long ago appointed by the Hill- man-Schlossberg clique at the tional convention, who were appoin ed in return for their votes of en- dorsement of Hillman’s policy of betraying the workers by forcing the piece-work system on ‘them. Attacked Workers. “Those who received three and four times as many votes in the primary elections which the official-| dom were compelled to hold at open local meetings, were not permitted to go on the ballot. This was done in| “HERMITAGE” IS ‘VISITED BY MANY -IN SOVIET UNION World Tourists, Plan New Trip The Hermitage Art Gallery in | Leningrad is one of the richest and most famous in the entire world. |Despite the disorganization caused the World War and years of | l’ war, the Soviet Union has |guarded zealously the art works {which are now enjoyed by all the | workers and peasants. Famous Art Gallery. Inc., | art-lovers is comparable to |Louvre in Paris, the National Gal- | drid, or any of the other extensive | collections in the world. On the | roof of the original Hermitage, this mighty Semiramis of’ the north, as she is called, created a huge garden of flowers, shrubs and trees, heated in winter by subterranean vaults and illuminated in summer. After the October Revolution some Of the collections were moved |to the Winter Palace (now the Pal- ace of Art), thus affording space for the acquisitions, some of which came from other museums and oth- ers from private collections that were expropriated by the workers ad peasants republic. Treasures. In the Hermitage the Dutch art seums in Holland and are perhaps unequaled save at Dresden. The Spanish collection is comparable to that at Madrid. Rubens may be are over 1,500 pictures, many of them masterpieces of world-wide |fame. The collection of coins and med- als contains over 300,000 pieces and jit is said to be equal to all the col- llections in Paris combined. There |are 400 antique marbles and about 1,700 vases. In the section of antiques ara Greek and Roman sculptures and a rich collection of terra cottas, vases and cameos, tke collection having \started with. Peter the Great, who t./ Purchased the Venus of Taurida. | tional up to 1924, and a prominent The collection of Egyptian antiques lis of sufficient variety to afford a lcomplete impression of life and manners of ancient Egynt. Visitors Enthusiastic. Visitors returning from the U. S. S. R. report that there museums and art galleries are found everywhere, |and are frequented by thousands of | workers each day. | The Worid Tourists, Inc., 69 Fifth tion Campaign in western Pennsyl-/hecause they fought the official-|Ave., is arranging a popular tour to vania will be opened with a huge! dom’s planned sell-outs to the em-| the Soviet Union on the S. S, Mau- mass meeting at 8 p.m., Sept. 7, in| the Fifth Ave. High School Audi-| ployers. “Tailors!. At the same time the |retania, which leaves New York on \October 17. The trip will consume torium located on the 1800 block of officials were planning ‘democratic’ #5 days, and tourists will visit Lon- Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh. elections, they were organizing don, Conenhagen, Hensingfors, Len- Ben Gitlow, candidate for vice- squads of thugs who came in auto-|ingrad, Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin and president of the United States, will; mobiles to butcher your fellow work- | Paris. be the principal speaker. Gitlow,| ers. An example of this is the Inasmuch as the World Tourists, who is well known in western Penn-| attack on Abe Jacobs in William P.|Inc., is officilly authorized to ar- sylvania, will speak on the issues in-| volved in the present election cam-| paign and will expose both Hoover and Smith as the enemy of the| workers. socialist party as an enemy of the workingclass. The Workers Party had no diffi- culties here in securing the necessary number of signatures in order to, an organization which will fight bit-| Goldman’s shop. “What have you to gain from these elections? What benefits do we derive from the elections of any He will also expose the|of the sets of crooks that may be) competing among each other? Must Organize! “Tailors! We must organize into left wingers and progressives into range visits of Americans to the U. 8. 8. R., it is able to obtain free \visas for its passengers. Attempt to Hush Up Evangelist’s Fraud LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3 (UP).— place its candidates on the ballot) terly against the continued betrayals A final conference. batween attor- and they were also endorsed by the of the reactionaries who have made| Revs attempting a settlement of the Labor Party of Pennsylvania. The a company union of our organiza-| Suits charging Aimee Semple Mc- names of Foster and Gitlow will ap- pear on the ballots of both the Labor tion. “Only a struggle conducted by |Pherson and others with conspiracy to defraud in connection with a Party and the Workers (Commun- such an organization will put an end|land deal will be held here today. ist) Party. Gitlow will also address a meet- ing in Ambridge at the Croatian to slavish conditions forced upon us in the shops. Only that will end piece work, wage reductions, the E. S. Hahn, counsel for the in- _vestors, said he expected the cases to be settled satisfactorily. Other- Hall, on Thursday, Sept. 6, at 8 p.m, Speed-un systems and further be- | wise, he said, he will file six more These are the only two meetings at which Comrade Gitlow will speak in western Pennsylvania. Comrade Scott Nearing and Fos- ter will speak in Pittsburgh same time in October, it has been an- nouns Peasants Elect Woman Governor of Kaluga KALUGA, U. S. S. R., Sept. 3 (UP),—Serefina Liubimova, a wom- an of 30, has been chosen chairman of the central executive committee of Kaluga province, a position which corresponds to governor the province excit- their “young lady Peasants of edly discussed governor.” A taxi driver would appreciate this copy of The DAILY WORKER. Il sympathizers are asked to 43rd St. trayals.” actions this week. The Hermitage is a name that for | the | |lery in London, the Prado in Ma-| works are rivaled only by the mu- |} seen here as he is at Munich, There | Route Bombing Planes: Will Take ee SOWENECTADY” | | | Cee lh te { | | | The direct air route from Curtis Field and Roosevelt Field, the | army's military plane center, te Canada runs on a diagonal from the Hempstead Plains on Long Island over the low Allegheny ridges in Southern New York to Buffalo. This is the line which bombing planes will use in event of war between Great Britain and the United | States, should Canada participate on the side of Great Britain. It is not for nothing that Mazel Merrill, director of the Curtis Air Service, and Edward Ronne, manager of the Buffalo airport, flew over this | route recently. Their flight ended in disaster at Eddy Pond, Pa., marked E on the chart. PPOSITIONISTS DEAD SEWER MAN RETURN TO RANKS KNEW ‘TOO MUCH Found on D’Olier Not His Own The Central Control Commission Continued from Page One of the Communist Party of the Soy-| fallen forward, the autopsy showed fet Union has received a declaration |" bruises. signed by the following well known) Due to Testify. | oppositional members of the Young| Subpoenaed from Kentucky, where Communist League who were ex-|he was developing a $5,000,000 road | pelled from the Party: Rumiantzev,| project, D’Olier was to have testi- ex-Secretary of the Northwest Bu- | fied within the next few days be- reau of the Central Committee; fore the Grand Jury on what he | Tarasov, ex-chief of the Educational| knows of $29,500,000 sewer graft Department of the Central Commit-| in which the corrupt Tammany ma- tee, and Katalynov, ex-member of|chine is charged with having taken the delegation of the Executive Com-| the lion’s share. mittee of the Communist Interna-| D’Olier was an executive of the ‘Young Workers Admit Gun | Their Errors tional. Sixteen other active ex-| Sanitation Corporation; also of the functionaries of the Young Com-| Centrifugal Pump and Machine Co., munist League have associated/ and was also connected with a third |themselves with this declaration of corporation which did work for ee former oppositional elements. | former Borough President Maurice Alexandrov, a former member of; Connolly and John Phillips, head of the Central Committee of the Young the Queens sewer ring, who died in | Communist League and Secretary of Montreal a few months ago under | the Leningrad Gubernia organiza-| extremely suspicious circumstances. | tion, has handed in a special declar- Struggle Revealed. |ation with which Takhanov, a former) That D’Olier was murdered in | Secretary of the Central Committee cold blood by those who feared his |of the Young Communist Interna. | disclosures was substantiated by inent | the fact that his coat lapel was torn, leader of the Leningrad opposition, indicating that a struggle had taken \has associated himself. All these| place. |eomrades renounce all factional ac-| D‘Olier was last seen Saturday tivity, condemn the platform of the afternoon. His body was found i rapeaeay recognize the Se eee | lof the policy of the Central Com- | mittee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and of the deci- |sions of the dea y Party Asal | gress and withdraw their signatures | : |from the documents of the “13” and | els ite eee you read your | “83,” They ask to be reinstated | ~ peth, not far from one of the prin- \cipal sewer plants operated by the |late Phillips, by a baker driver. near the Mt. Zion Cemetery, Mas- | terborough in Third Train Accident in 2 Weeks SHOE STRIKERS — HOLDING FIRM AFTER WEEK Boss Can’t Make Dent in Ranks | The seventh day of the strike of |78 shoe workers, who constitute 100 per cent of the working force of the *S. Lieberman Shoe Co., Oak St., ‘Brooklyn, finds the workers as unanimously determined to fight it |out to the end as they were on the \first day when they left their benches and walked out after their jgeneral chairman had been dis- |missed for union activities. Tempting advertisements were | again inserted in the newspapers by \the factory owners in an effort to |replace the striking workers. Ten |shoe workers answered the adver- | tisements, but immediately made an |about-face when they found the |plant strike-bound. Yesterday, as lon the first attempt to get strike- breakers by ads, several of the ap- | plicants went to the union headquar- ters and signed up as members, An announcement by A. Maglia- cano, organizer. for the Independent | Shoe Workers Union of Greater New | York, says that the strikers are to |hold a general meeting this morning at 10:30 in the quarters of the Ar- cadia Club, Rodney and Hope Sts., Brooklyn. The organizer and sev- eral outside speakers will address the strikers. The strike was precipitated when the boss decided to challenge the union by discharging the general |chairman. The walkout followed immediately. Fires May Indicate Lost Explorers | COPENHAGEN, Sept. 3 (UP).— |Mysterious fires seen on Edge lIsland, off Spitzbergen, a fortnight |ago were believed by meteorologists |today to afford an indication of the | possible presence there of survivors either of the seaplane of Roald Amundsen or the “gasbag party” of jthe dirigible Italia. Already parts of the seaplane, in which Amundsen and five compan- ‘ions started on a rescue mission to jthe Italia, have been found and \taken back to Tromsoe.. Two pon- toons, rusted after long hours in |the northern waters, were picked up. | DENGUE IN EGYPT CAIRO, Egypt, Sept. 3 (UP).— Dengue fever, which spread through Greece in a devastating epidemic, appeared in Cairo today. ‘into the Communist Party of the! | Soviet Union. “Our way can only | | be that of the Leninist Party, we can | | work only within that Party,” is a) | statement contained in the declara- | tion. i ‘Karolyi Leaves U.S. After 2-Day Visit Count Michael Karolyi yesterday | sailed for Europe aboard the Span- ish Royal Mail liner Cristobal Colon following a two-day stay in New York and Washington. | | During that period, allowed him by special dispensation from the U. §. State Department, Karolyi flew to Washington to confer with ‘the Alien Property Custodian about ‘funds which he collected here and which is being withheld, and de- livered a timid speech at the Anti- Horthy mass meeting held at Cen- tral Opera House Sunday evening. 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