The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 5, 1928, Page 1

ne | | | OF RAIL STRIKE } THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Pub! Pub! Vol. V., No. 211 lished daily except Sunday by Th Hshing Association, Inc, 26-238 Union CRASSA UE ily Emtered nu second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N.Y.» FINAL CITY EDITION yal Daily Worker + New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1928 ‘OF FICl ALS M F ET | | Workers (Communist) Party Candidate TO PLAN SELLOUT Aim to Ignore Vote of 70,000 Workers for Walk-out Consider “Peace” Plan (By United Press) CHICAGO, Sept. 4.—Committees | of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railway | Conductors met today to consider a | mediation proposal which may avert a strike among 70,000 employes of 55 Western railroads. Although the majority of train-| men and conductors have voted to strike, the walkout will not be called if the peace plan drawn up in Wash- ington last week by representatives | | of the railroads, brotherhoods and J | the federal board of mediation should prove satisfactory to the brotherhood committees now in ses- sion. # High officials of the two organiza- tions said it might be two or three days before the committees could reach an agreement on the media- tion proposal. Until then they arg withholding the final result of the strike vote. The strike vote resulted from failure of previous conferences which lasted over a period of sey- eral months. A 7% per cent wage increase was asked by the train- men. The roads offered to meet the salary demand in part, but held out|- for working conditions which the unions were unwilling to grant. DRESS WORKERS MEET IN PHILA, Sigman Rushes ‘There to Save Henchmen PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 4.—Waist | | | | | | William Patterson, candidate southeast. on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket. Patterson will conduct a speaking tour bringing the platform.of the Workers Party to workers in all parts of Ohio. He will spend the longest period among the in- dustrial wogkers of northern and eastern Ohio E LEADER for governor of the state of Ohio and the miners of the | LONDON, Sept. 4.—Complete en- and dressmakers here will rally at|dorsement of the Lord Mond plan| | a mass meeting to be held tonight in Garden Hall, Seventh and Morris Sts., for the purpose of establishing a local branch of the National Or- ganization Committee of Cloak and Dressmakers. Louis Hyman, Joseph Borachovich, Rose Wortis and B.| Kaplin, leaders of the National Or-| ganization Committee, will come here from New York to address the workers. ~ Careful preparations were made, the committee arranging the meeting declares, to assure the assembled workers that no organized squad of right wing hirelings can disturb the meeting. A similar mass meeting held last week was ordered to dis- perse by the police who were openly doing the bidding of right wing officials. The Sigmanites first be- gan a disturbance in order to pro- vide the police with an excuse for breaking up the meeting. Sentiment among the workers runs so high since the interrupted meeting last week, that the right wing officials have sent a hurry call to New York for Sigman to come to Philadelphia. * eo 8 Reliable , information received states that Morris Sigman and Jul- ius Hochman, the discredited ‘heads, of the defunct International left yes- rday for Philadelphia, where the waist and dressmakers are to hold a mass meeting under the auspices of the National Organization Com- mittee. Section 3 Daily Worker Agents Meet Tomorrow A conference of all Daily Worker agents of Section 3 will be held to- morrow, at 6:30 p.m. at 101 West 27th St. The purpose of the confer- ence will be to mobilize the members of all the units in Section 3 for work in the Daily Worker-Freiheit Ba- zaar. , All Daily Worker agents are in- structed to attend. a Dismiss Health Workers in South NEW ORLEANS.—Due to indus- trial depression throughout Louisi- ana 70 employes of the State Board of Health, which includes the inspec- tors of milk, have been dismissed. The legislature cut the health, ap- propriation in half. of class collaboration by the official- |dom of the British Trade Union Con- | gress characterized the sessions of | that body which opened two days| j}ago, a report from Swansea, Wales, | | states. | It is understood that a measure, empowering the General Council to| collaborate with employers’ organ-| | izations in setting up a so-called Na- |tional Industrial Council with au- |thority to regulate industrial sup- port is to be rammed through the congress. | The gesture of the congress offti- ‘cials in excluding the reactionary |Seamen’s Union whose officials, | | headed by Sir Havelock Wilson, have |for years betrayed the men and gained especial notoriety by his} strikebreaking actions during the British General Strike, has been more than compensated by the alarm with which the march of the Welsh miners to Swansea has affected the congress heads. The officials appealed to the po- lice for protection and the starving men were met by a phalanx of po- Continued on Page Three TRAIN KILLS BRAKEMAN. Hopping from a moving New | York Central train yesterday morn- | ing at 125th St., Edwin Gingras, | thirty-five, a brakeman for the New | York, New Haven and Hartford | | Railroad, fell under the wheels of |a car. His legs were severed and jhe died almost instantly. He is sur- | vived by his wife, Mary, and a} daughter, Kathleen, who dances in vaudeville as Hillie Kalua, He lived at No. 223 Alexander Ave., the Bronx. P State Attorney General Ottinger, who as assistant in the Department of Justice the notorious Harry Daugherty aided in the great oil looting during Harding's adminis- tration, has been chosen as the re- publican candidate for governor of New York, it was learned on reli- able authority yesterday. The selection of the oil-smeared Ottinger instead of some ostensibly “purer” candidate thus continues ) \ BRITISH MISLEADERS BLESS COLLABORATION ANOTHER TRAIN WRECK IN! BRONX First Reports About ’ Injuries Meagre BULLETIN (By United Press) A speeding passenger train en- tering New York City was derailed at 150th Street in the Bronx shortly after 11 p. m. last night and a hurry call was sent for all available ambulances in the dis- trict. First reports indicated that two coaches, neither of which contained any passengers, had been turned on their sides. How the agcident occurred was not at first estab- lished, but one report indicated the wrecked train collided with a freight“ train. One report said one man had a leg amputated and was believed to be dying, but the ‘report lacked confirmation. The passenger train was under- stood to have been a “special” which was being brought into the Grand Central Station without passengers. ° CHILEAN BUDGET SUBMITTED. SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 3.—The 1929 budget which has been submit- ted to congress calls for ordinary revenues of ($409,895,000) and ordinary expend- itures of 1,063,000,000 pesos. SEEKS AL SMITH’S JOB G. O. P. Names Oil-Smeared Ottinger the link of the republican machine of the state with one of the most corrupt administrations in the his- tory of the United States. In addition to his Teapot Dome connections, Ottingér was also a member of the Water Power Com- mission which in 1926 succeeded in putting thru a bill which would have turned over all the water pow- er in the state to the Pioneer Power Continued on®Page Five ¥ WORLD CONGRESS ADOPTS PROGRAM IN FINAL SESSION Seven New Parties are | Admitted to the ‘International Elect New ‘Executive MOSCOW, Sept. 4.—In a speech | reporting the work of the Program | Commission of the Communist Inter- {National Bukharin officially | brought to a close the forty-sixth jand last session of the World Con- | |gress of the Communist Inter- | national, held here today under the chairmanship of Remelle. The pro- gram, in its final form, was ‘unani- |mously adopted by the Congress. “The Program Commission,” Buk- |harin said, “has completed its very |good work. The smaller program | commission dealt with 600 proposals | for amendment. The most important jaddition to the program was the ‘chapter dealing with capitalist de- “ | velopment and concerning the gen- jeral family and social relations un- = 10 BLOCK MEET hardships which every str tion of state power under monopolist capitalism and dealing with the general crisis in the capitalist sys- tem. Addressing Thro f New Bedford textile strikers Workers’ Union of the Textile Mill Committees. eee ee ngs of New Bedford Textile Strikers we JBSCRIPTION RATES: In istening to addresses by leaders of the New Bedford Textile Never flinching in the face of police terrorism and the s, the textile strikers are firmer today than ever before. New York, by mafl, $8.00 y mail, $6.00 per yeni s “~y Foster Leads Straw Vote at Harvester Co ADMIT D'OLIER VITAL WITNESS BP Ite wee? “Great improvements were made | in the colonial question. Great al- terations were made in the chapter | dealing with the strategy and tactics of the Communist International. | Continued on Page Five | 3-DAY TERM FOR POOR MRS, KNAPP ALBANY, Sept. 4.—Convicted of | grand larceny and embezzling funds | |in her administration of the state census of 1925, Mrs. Florence E. S. Workers in an Shops Get Appeal All furriers working on West 27th St. in the shops of the Asso- ciated Fur Manufacturers, as well as those in shops of the left wing New, York Joint Board, are urged by the union to come to a block meeting in its headquarters, 77 E. 22nd St., Thursday evening immediately after work. é This is the second of a series of meetings called for those employed on individual blocks in the fur man- | ufaecturing district as part of the Joint Board’s drive to unionize the trade and thereby give the final death-blow to the disintegrated right wing Joint Council of the A. F. of L. The first of these meetings called, Commissioner Says “He Knew Much” Police | MILWAUKEE, Sept. 4. — The P workers of the International Har- vester Co. have expressed themselves overwhelmin; |Z. Foster, Rarty candidate for President. a straw vote taken at the plant | the question of which candidate the | Queens Sunday morning. | workers would prefer to address First considered a suicide, it has | them Foster came out on top with| now become increasingly clear that close to 120 votes. Hoover, Smith | D’Olier was murdered. The specific |and Thomas each received only about | reason was casually suggested yes- a dozen votes. tp tee is ly in favor of William yesterday | terday as well as the workers of other|/ond Queens sewer investigation. trades in Milwaukee, will have an) The connection between the Sanita- opportunity of hearing Foster next| tion Company of which D’Olier was Monday night when he will speak president and the $29,500,000 at Bahn Frei Hall, 1120 North Ave.| Queens graft situation was “very Hundreds of workers are expected |important and D’Olier knew ail to hear the militant message of the| about it, admitted Shearn yester- DERED! ~ FIVE BULLETS Commissioner | The Harvester company workers,| Shearn, who had charge of the sec- | __ Price 3 Cente TAKE LIFE OF FRANK BONITA wis Machine Seen as Real Murderer of Progressive Brother of Sam Bonita Shooting on Eve of Big Mine Meet WILKES BARRE, Pa., Sept. 4.—On the eve of the National Miners Convention to build a new union, the bloody corpse of Frank Bonita, brother of Sam Bonita, now in the peni- tentiary on framed char has been thrown down a challenge to the coal miners of the country. Five bullets from the re- volver of a man alleged to have been an agent of the Lewis machine, now under arrest, struck down the progressive leader with a calculated ferocity reminiscent of the murders of Thomas Lillis, Pat Reilly and Alex Campbell, his fellow pro- gressives. as Veil of Secrecy Ross Nilo, alias Roasario Chiodo, continued to | Bonita’s alleged murderer, and Joe ns shadow-box in the “investigation” | Mogentale, a boarder in Bonita’s orkers (Communist) | of the mysterious death of \William |home are in the Mid-Valley Hospital In| 1. D{Olier, sqwer-engineer, whose | with wounds in the hands an¢ thi on) body was found in a lonely spot in| Paul Schellegis, another man, suspected with the killing is under arrest. In spite of the curious veil of secrecy which invests the affair and which the authorities have so far done little to dispel, the bloody and devasted dining-room of the Bonita home is mute evidence of the terri- fic battle which the progressive leader made for his life as well as of the determination of his murderer to “get” him at any cost. Overturned and broken chairs, smashed pictures and bloodstained 1,123,000,000 pesos | Knapp, former refublican secretary | instead of being merely a meeting jof state, was today sentenced to|°f workers in a particular indus- serve 30 days in jail. trial section, developed into a Mrs. Knapp, who was until quite mighty demonstration in support to recently dean of Home Economics at} the left wing organization drive. Syracuse U: rsity, had hoped to| Workers quit promptly at 5 o’clock avoid even this light jail sentence by| @nd marched to the union building feigning illness. This she may yet) €N masse. accomplish, her lawyers feel confi-| The statement issued by the | dent, when they will attempt to ob-| union calling the meeting pays par- tain a certificate of reasonable|ticular attention to the workers doubt with bail pending appeal from|employed in the Associated shops, Supreme Court Justice Ellis J. Sta-| the owners of whjch are particularly ley on Saturday. vicious in their sweat shop exploita- Mrs. Knapp was convicted on ation, because they are ostensibly specific charge of embezzling $29,-| controlled by the Joint Council. |500, but testimony during her trial) These, as well as workers em- PARA, Brazil, Sent. 4 (UP).— Three Ford shins arrived at the mouth of the Tavajoz River today with engineers, material, machin- ists and physicians to begin devel- opment of Henry Ford’s vast rub- revealed the fact that huge sums,| ployed in the open shops (which of padded payrolls and other meth-| tion) are called upon to destroy |ods of graft. Numerous of her rela-| their membership cards of the scab | having been assigned to jobs. A|last meeting demonstratively tore | step-daughter of Mrs. Knapp testi-| up their right wing cards as they was not even known to her, Mrs. ome oe At. Knapp having endorséd it and pock- | POLICE ATTACK | men’s detention room in the Albany | County jail, where she will remain} MILL STRIKERS | tomorrow, it is anrfounced. Weert Rubber Tract Work) yew sepror?, Mass, sept. 4. |—The committee of forty textile | to keep their appointment with Gov- \ernor Alvin 'T. Fuller, Sacco-Vanzetti | ber concession on the Amazon River.|many by their onslaught. The Ford’s concession for months has Strikers were singing strike songs j id Fall River police terror. many of them charging the gover- | 9” nor of Peru with giving the autogno-|, After the workers were slugged ists. “came too late to see the governor, iy but that he would be willing to hear —The crew of a salvage boat which | DETROIT, Sept. 4 (UP).—Show- searched all day Sunday for the | ing practically the same attitude as today that an oil film on the waters | ing the campaign, little interest was off Cape Flattery apparently displayed and only a light vote cast entirely unaccounted, were stolen| have greatly increased since the A. | tives were on the state census pay-|union and sign up with the Joint fied that @ check for several thou-| ctood before the windows signing eted the proceeds. today. She will be assigned to a \3 Ford Slave Ships Had Come to Boston to strikers, on their way through the murderer, were yesterday attacked been subjected to a severé attack by 2nd were displaying banners de- bile manufacturer privileges which | >Y the police, an announcement was BELIEVE SHIP LOST |them Wednesday morning. missing freighter Florian reported most of the candidates assumed dur- marked the grave of the vessel. (in the Michigan primary 4 under her administration as a result) F. of L. began their union destruc- roll, the majority of them not even| Board. Hundreds of workers at the sand dollars made out in her name yp, Mrs. Knapp was taken to the wo- | regular cell in the women’s section | Reach Brazil; Start See Gov. Fuller Boston Commons to the State House jby a squad of police who injured newspapers throughout Brazil,|™anding an end to the New Bedford were withheld from local industrial. |™@de public that the committee SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 4 (UP).| LIGHT MICHIGAN VOTE. | Communist presidential candidate. The meeting at which Foster will speak will also inaugurate Red Week in this city. House to house collections for the election campaign fund will be made and the workers’ press and literature will be brought day. Connolly Speaks Up. At the same time Maurice Con- nolly, deposed borough president of the Queens, who up till now has maiptained an extremely discreet silence on the probable cause of | to thousands of wage-slaves. D'Olier’s death, volunteered the in- SPY EXPELLED Warn Units Thruout U. 8. to Shun Bugna KENOSHA, Wis., Sept. 4—John P, Bugna, former secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party. local Kenosha, has been expelled from the Party, charged with being an industrial spy. It has been dis- covered that he was known as Q-170 in the employ of the Cor- poration Auxiliary Co., one of the largest industrial spy agencies in the country. In a statement issued by Samuel A. Herman, field organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers (Communist) League in Kenosha, branches of the Party throughout the country were warned against Bugna. “Bugna is about six feet tall,” the statement reads, ‘“slenderly Continued on Page Three REORGANIZE UNION. NEW BEDFORD, : Mass.—Fire- |men and oilers employed in cotton | mills have reorganized their local | union, broken in a 1919 strike. formation that the dead sewer man had .been “keenly disappointed by the failure of negotiations to close $15,000,000 paving contract in Kentucky. The “suicide” theory is being |strongly advocated by the Queens graft ring, whose most conspicuous practitioner is Connolly, and all oth- ers who hag business relations with | Connolly during his efflorescent’ ad- | ministration. | This group received a serious jolt when if was definitely established | that D’Olier’s brief case, which he carried when he left his home in | Pelham, N. Y., Saturday afternoon, | was not found with his body. Refute Police. A number of Queens residents who saw D’Olier’s body when it was discovered insist that there was vir- tually no blood on the ground under the body, and disagree fundamen- tally with New York detectives who claim the contrary. Yesterday the theory gained ground. that D’Olier might have been sh®t in an automobile and his Lody then carried to the spot where it was found. TO FLY TO SHANGHAI. LANSING, Mich., Sept. 4 (UP).— Dr. Tien Lai-Huang, Chinese avia- tor, announced today he would take off from San Francisco, probably within two weeks, on an attempted Continued on Page Five SIGMAN'S THUGS COLLECT “DUES” Agents of Scab Union Forget Receipts A squad of “dues collectors,” made up of underworld thugs, sent to all the*cloak and dr kers” shops by the right wing Sigman company union, yesterday collected their real due from the workers in the dress-manvfacturing shop of Bellard Cloak Co., 130 W. 25th St. The workers in the shop were oc= cupied at their various tasks when the door was suddenly pushed open | and the squad of Sigman agents en- two-stop flight across the Pacific| ‘Ocean to Shanghai. PLAN BIG PRESS BAZAAR ‘Daily Worker Affair on Oct. 4, 5, 6, 7 Militant workers thruout the country are expected to make the lon October 4, 5, 6 and 7 one of the biggest affairs yet held in the mili- |tant working class movement. The bazaer will be held at Madison | Square Garden. Labor and frater- nal organizations and units of the | Workers (Communist) Party are \making preparations for the bazaar. Daily Worker and Freiheit Bazaar | The committee in charge has re- quested that all material for the ba- zaar be sent to the Daily Worker- Freiheit Bazaar Committee, 30 Union Square. It is also urged that workers be- gin now to gather names for the Red Honor Roll and that labor or- ganizations and Workers Party nuclei send ads for the souvenir program. ¥ tered. When one of the pressers an- swered the thugs’ gruff demands for money with the statement that he did not intend to pay any more dues to the Sigman union, one of the strong-arm men suddenly pulled a knife. This was a signal for the immediate rising of the other work- ers from their machines to the de- fense of their fellow-worker The arguments presented by the work- ers against dues payments did not subside until after police came and arrested four of the invaders. COLLABORATION’ PLAN IN MINES WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—A new plan to hog-tie the miners of Colo- rado by means of a class collabora- tion scheme was revealed today by the National Catholic Welfare Con- ference, which was instrumental in the scheme. The collaboration scheme, whose object is to bind and deliver the miners to the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, resembles in some re- spects the notorious Baltimore and Ohio plan. It is the outgrowth of the wrecking of last year’s strike in the Colorado fields by the oppor- tunist leadership of the I. Wy W.