The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 5, 1928, Page 2

“Mayor Hylan of } Page Two Hylan, G: $15,000,000 IN HUSH’ MONEY A YEAR IN N. Y, 6, Higher-Ups lvolved in Graft Ring That the police force of New York is putrid with ereft and corruption and definitely linked with the rum ring and eraft-ridden police force of Philadelnhia, whose $10,000,000 graft activities were exposed t days ago, was r revea ina former yes nm city Hylan, whose o adminis- tration was shown several times to be a hotbed of cor speaks authoritatively on the graft tion, admitting that he f offered a bribe to partic n the graft activities. This offer, the ex- mayor vows, he declined to accept situa- Situation Bad. "The situation in this city as re- gards officiel countenancing and aiding, directly or indirectly. all sorts of illeeality, including boot- legging. gambli extremely t it is going from o worse, aided by the unwillingness or inabilitv of the local authorities to check it.” Hylan’s statement charged that the rum-ring of Philadelvhia, which had been able in a single year to deposit graft profits to the extent of $10.000,000 in the hanks, was definitely connected with the New York police force and city adminis- tration, reaching out to several high officials of New York City. Protection graft given to the New York police force by speakeasies and other illegal businesses in New York has reached a total of almost $15,- 000,000 annually, it is charged. In this matter, the entire force is im- plicated, led by the highest police officials, who lead the entire force in corruption and graft. Recent disclosures of graft among the members of the narcotic squad of the New York police department, the ex-mayor interpreted as a sure indication of graft higher-up and an » attempt to cover up existing rotten- ness among the higher officials of » the department. * pretty quickly,” Speaks From Experience. “You can make up your mind said the former mayor, under whose administration the graft and corruption at the hack licence bureau on West 57th St. un- , der Commissioner Drennan was *ghown up in the winter of 1924-25, “that when cops are getting razzed, there’s something to be hidden among the higher-ups. When a lit- tle man is ‘broken,’ particularly when there’s a lot of public cere- mony about the process, you can be Sure that a neck a whole lot more important than his is being saved.” TO PICK CALLES SUCCESSOR SOON Provisional President to Serve One Year MEXICO CITY, Sept. 4 (UP).— Congress is expected to select a provisional president to succeed President Calles in two or three weeks, instead of waiting until No- vember, as originally planned It was indicated today that the provisional president would serve for one year, when an election would be held. Among those prominently men- tioned as possibilities for the office are War Minister Joaquin Amro, General Jose Gonzalez Escobar, Gov- 4 ernor Manuel Perez Trevinc and Minister of the*Interior Emilio Portes Gil. French Flyers Forced Down in Morocco Town LE BOURGET FIELD, France. Sept. 4 (UP).—-The Yellow Bird landed at Casa Blanca, Morocco, at 4.40 p. m. today, it was announced here this evening. The plane, in which Jean Assolant and Rene LeFevre started a long distance flight at 7.05 o'clock this morning, was forced down by a leaky oil pipe, a message said. Cal to Return to “Labors” Next Week SUPERIOR; Wis., Sept. 4 (UP). —President Coolidge will leave the summer White House for Washing- Sergeants A aft Expert, Say Militari t sm and / THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, W s Police Department Is . F. of L. Betrayal The complete sell-out of the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor has seldom been more graphically portrayed than in the above picture of “Labor Day” celebrations at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn! The celebration was held under the auspices of the Central Trades and Labor Council, the cabinet of reace tionary labor tsars who have consistently betrayed the workers of New York City to the bosses, and who have grown, in many cases, enormously rich in doing 80. “BIG SECTION | MEET SATURDAY Banner Ceremonies to Be On Program The ceremonial ouet which will eecomnany the awarding of the first District 2 Flection Campaign Ban- ner will be held at the headanarters of the Downtown Workers Club, 35 E. °nd St., this Saturday at 8 p.m. The banner will be awarded to the members of Section 1 in recognition of the good work of members of that section in nvtting across the first assembly distriet in the citv.—the Fiehth Assembly District of Man- hattan. For the occasion. 85 F. 2nd St will be festively decorated and a hanauet will be given by the Section Campaign Committes. of which A. Gussakoff. District Titerature Ag- ent, is. in charge during the absence of S, Milgrom. An unusually fine musical nrogram has been arranged, to be followed and preerded by re- freshments of a substantial nature. A nominal charee of fifty cents is being made for admission, to defray the cost of the musie and food. The bancuet is not restricted to members of Section 1.. All members of the Workers (Communist) Party and progressive workers throughont the city are invited to attend. Should the atterfdance he large enough. the receipts above the cost of the ban- quet will be given to the Communist campaign fund. The work of members of Section 1 has been charactarized by a splen- did attention to the propaganda work which secompanied the secur- ing of signatures to put the candi- dates of the Workers (Communist) Party on the hallot. According to the report of the Section Campaign Director, party platfgrms and other literature were sold to fullv half of! the workers who attached their sig- natures ‘to the petitions. A special effort is being made by the Communist campaigners of the downtown section to complete the Sixth Assembly District by the time the banquet will be held, thus mak- ing the occasion a doubly festive one. Co-operative Branch of Bronx to Mobilize for Final Signature Drive In a statement issued last night by Spencer, campaign director Branch 6, Section 5 of the Bronx— Sections 2 and 3 Plan Red Sunday in Harlem The members of the Red Squads Sections 2 and 3, r splendid work in the Bronx will mobilize for the third time on Sunday, Sept. 9, for campaign work in Harlem. The two Red Squads will meet at 9 a. m. next Sunday at the Harlem headquarters, 143 East 108rd St.,, and will make a gallant effort to| put across the seventeenth, eight- eenth and twenty-first assembly dis- tricts. According to Bessie Gussakoff of in line with thei and Brownsville, RED CANDIDATES TO TALK IN BRONX Banquet Is Scheduled for Sunday A Bronx Communist Campaign Banquet at which all the local Com- munist candidates will be present, will be held at 2075 Clinton Ave., the Bronx, at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday Sept. 9. The banquet will celebrate the placing on the ballot of the candi- date running on the Communist tick- ESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 1, LD, APPEALS TOWORKERS FOR | MORE SUPPORT Urges Branches to In-| f : tensify Work | 1 | With the conclusion of the sum- mer season, the New York Soction| of the International Labor Defense, | 729 Broadway, is planning to inten- sify the activities of all its branches. An eppeal, signed by Rose Baron, secretary of the New York Section,| has been issued to the branches and! to all class-conscious workers, urg- ing more active co-operation and aid in order that the I. L. D. may be able to continue its work. The ap- peal states: | “The summer months, always dif- ficult months financially for the In- ternational Labor Defense, have this year -been unusually hard upon us. | Our annual outing, which is usually | a source of considerable income, fell ‘far below expectations because of postponement and rain, Throughout the summer money was constantly) being paid out to defray the ex- penses of the many cases that we handled, while very little was com- ing in. Without Funds. Linked With Phila. | Comptroller, which is scheduled to Graft Ring <aanniaenceenietaata Painter Has Narrow Escape in Fall eee Manuel Martin had a narrow escape yesterday when he fell from a scaffold at 245 Degraw St., Brooklyn, and dropped three storys to the ground. He suffered bruises on- ly. Falls from seaf- folds are frequent BURKE TO LEAVE Bansuetof Progressive Delicatessen Clerks in Red Campaign Friday |802, Delicatessen Countermen’s | Union, will have a banquet and con- cert this Friday, Sept. 7, at the United Workers Co-operative Res- taurant at 2731 White Plains Ave., the Bronx, for the benefit of the election campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party. The banquet is scheduled to begin at 8 p. m. The banquet will be one of many courses and a fine musical program has been arranged. Owing to the fullness of the program, only two speeches will be made, Rebecca Grecht, district campaign manager, will speak on the importance of the Will Cover 10 Towns on Trip Preparatory to the election cam- paign tour for the Workers (Com- munist) Party to be made by Robert Minor, Communist candidate for U. S. Senate and Lovett Fort-White-| man, Communist candidate for start at Poughkeepsie on Sept. 4, Donald Burke, Red campaigner, to- day begins his upstate tour, cover- | among ing each of the cities at which Minor 1928 elections to workers and link MILL STRIKER'S WIFE COMES TO THE “BIG CITY” Slaved 22 Years in Textile Mills After twenty-two years in the gray textile mills of New Bedford, a thin, undernourished little strik- jer’s wife, Mrs, Stella Correia, left her husband and three little chil- |dren and came to New York yester- |day to help raise funds for the fighting, hungry New Bedford strik-§ ers. This is her first time in this city. As Fred Biedenkapp, national secretary of the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief, brought her from the Grand Central station, the noise and bustle of the traffic and the glit- tering shop windows on Fifth Ave- nue left her a little breathless. “How is it possible,” she asked, “that while our people are working for starvation wages in New Bed- ford that there is so much wealth in New York?” Mrs. Correia will attend union meetings for the purpose of raising funds for the textile strikers and on Saturday, September 15, at 1 p. m., she will address the Work- and H. Bydarian, campaign man- agers of Sections 2 and 3, special registration is being taken at every unit meeting of volunteers for the Red Squads. It is expected by the campaign managers that the Red Squads which will report in Harlem next Sunday will greatly outnumber the squads that worked in the Bronx and in Brownsville. It has been proposed by Bessie et in the Fifth Assembly District of the Bronx, and, if a final drive this| brate the putting across Fourth Assembly District of the| Bronx, for which only three hundred | additional signatures are needed. The Bronx banquet, at which elab- orate food and musical programs will be given, will be the first affair of its kind to be held in the Bronx Gussakoff that a special banner be | during the present campaign, and awarded to the Red Squads of the |*80wld be attended by all Bronx two sections in recognition of their | Members of the Workers (Commun- | “Thus the I. L. D, now finds itself | and Whiteman will later speak. actually without sufficient funds to But this work will not and must not stop. The only weapon which the workers have in their fight against of the boss courts—the International Labor Defense—must not be crush- ed because of lack of support. “The I. L. D. appeals to all branches to intensify their work im- mediately, to start membership cam- paigns, to arrange affairs of various work in the signature drive thru. |!St) Party as well as other progres- sive workers. who recognize in the election platform of the Workers (Communist) Party the expression out the city, and the proposal is being looked on with favor by Re- becca Grecht, district campaign di- rector. Should the work of the Squads in Harlem equal that in the Bronx two weeks ago certain that no opposition to sakoff's demand will be met. PLAN BIG FRENCH TEXTILE STRIKE Delay Date to Make! Walk-out General PARIS, Sept. 4.—Due to the sym- pathetic interest shown by non- union textile workers and even by the rank and file of the reformist unions toward the strike action pro- posed by the revolutionary textile unions, the latter have announced a postponement of the general | strike call from September 2ytill the 28rd, in order to mobilize all the mill workers for a big general struggle. The original demand put forward Red done it is Gus- | wage increase for women textile of their own political and economic demands. The banquet will be filled with militant needle trades workers who have recently endorsed the platform and candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party, since the Bronx may be called the home of these militant left wing needle trades workers who have fought the reac-) tionary policies of the socialist par- ty misleaders consistently. All of the Communist candidates running in the Bronx will be present at the affair. While the details of the musical and other entertainment | | to be provided have not yet been di-/ ‘Grab Levine Plane for | vulged, the banquet will be an affair long to be remembered in the minds of those workers who will be pres- ent, according to Jacob Yakovleff, organizer of Section 5, the Bronx. Workers of Panama Score Democratic Anti-Alien Plank PANAMA, Sept. 4.—The General Syndicate of Workers of Panama has sent a letter to the Daily Worker protesting against the reso- lution incorporated in the democratic of by the left wing organizations, a ‘Platform providing that only Amer- ican citizens be employed in posi- known as the Co-operative House | operatives, met with such unanimous tions in the Canal zone above the Branch of the Workers (Commu-| approval that the militant unions |"ank of messenger. The resolution nist) Party—all Bronx Communist | decided to rally the membership of | WS proposed by Canal zone demo- campaigners and members of Sec- Tight wing unions as well as the crats and is regarded as part of the tions 2 and 3 are urged to report ton-union workers around a larger campaign at 2700 Bronx Park East for parti- cipation in the signature drive. The members of Branch 6 have already obtainad 1,000 of the 1,800 signatures required to put the Com- munist candidate in the Sixth As- sembly District on the ballot. This work is to be especially commended in view of the fact that the Sixth Assembly District is the largest in the city, and many sections of it are very sparsely populated. Splendid work has been done in the matter of selling party plat- forms by the members of the branch. According to a report made by Spencer, the branch has received very little assistance from the mem- hers of Sections 2 and 8, who are supposed to participate in the si nature drive in the Sixth Assembly District. Th's has been larg due to the Red Sundays these sections have been arranging in other sec tions of the city. In his statement Spencer declares that “unless all comrades of the Co-operative Branch, comrades of other Bronx branches and those comrades of Sections 2 and 3, who are supposed to report at the Co- operative Branch, unite for one con- certed effort, there is danger that the Sixth Assembly District may not be put across. This we must not allow. The next two weeks must finish our drive in the Sixth list of demands, before the strike is put into effect. 4 ‘DAILY’ SUB DRIVE EFFORTS URGED Agents Must Intensify Work in All Cities In a letter distributed throughout | the country by the committee in charge of the Daily Worker Election Subscription Drive, Daily Worker agents were advised to participate more strenuously in the big cam- paign. The letter follows in part: “To all Daily Worker Agents: “This is the first week of the Election Subscription Campaign to get ten thousand new readers for the Daily Worker. All the neces- sary material has been sent and should be in your hands by this time. The success of this campaign will depend on the amount of organiza- tion done by our agents. in the vari- ous districts, cities and units. “The Daily Worker Agents should work to fill their quotas not only Assembly District, and with the co- | for the various prizes that are be- operation of all of us this can be ing given to the cities and district “middle of the week. ton the first of next week, it was announced at the executive offices today. While the exact date was not given out, it was learned on good ‘authority that the president will be 4m Washington not later than the easily accomplished.” The Co-operative headquarters is open every evening, with Spencer in charge. All members are urged by the Distriet Campaign Committee to co-operate with Branch 6 in its sig- nature drive. SYDNEY POSTAL STRIKE. The secretary of the Amalgamated Postal Workers’ Union (Mr. E. F. Murnane) stated that the mail) Ambassador to France and James J. branch at the General Post Office, Davis, Secretary of Labor, were Sydney, was seething with discon- among the 1714 passengers of the’ tent, and that apparently the present §.S. Ile De France, who were! superintendent of mails was not in- searched by customs officials for| clined to give consideration to Union liquor, when the liner docked here) representations on behalf of the em- late today. SEARCH HERRICK FOR LIQUOR. | Myron T. Herrick, United States but also as a means to build the| Party press. “The various city agents should sub-divide the quotas among the units in their cities. You should arrange to have a bundle of Daily Workers (at the special price of $6 per thousand) at all meetings and for the purpose of getting new con- tracts and new subscribers to the Daily Worker. You should take steps to organize systematic distri- butions in front of the large shops and trade union meetings, Visit the various fraternal and sympa-! thetie organizations in your city and! see that their members subscribe to |ployes affected. jthe Daily Worker.” | against foreign-born workers, especially those of radical sympathies, in the Canal zone. The letier is signed by Charles R. | Mendoza, executive secretary, and | Jorge R. Brouwer, Jr., foreign sec- retary of the General Syndicate of Workers of Panama. Who wins when you read your bosses’ paper? sorts and to do everything possible | to enable the local office to continue its indispensable work in behalf of workers caught in the legal machin- ery of the capitalist courts. Autumn Revel. “The I. L. D. also appeals to all fourteen upstate counties on the bal- class-conscious workers to join in| jot for the Workers (Communist) this work by becoming members of| party, the International Labor Defense and! wi]] be paid by Burke himself out) | of collections to be taken at the var- “All branches and all workers|ious meetings, and he confidently | should also make preparations for| expects to raise sufficient funds to our Autumn Revel, which will be! considerably swell the Communist held Saturday, Oct. 27, in Webster| campaign. fund after paying the| Hall, 119 E, 11th St. Branches andj costs of his tour. supporting it to the utmost. other workingclass organizations are | requested not to arrange affairs for | this date.” | 'Non-Payment of Taxes | perl) PARIS, Sept. 4 (UP).—Police seized Charles A. Levine’s new |Junkers plane, Queen of the Air, at Cherbourg today, Levine, who had intended to sail | for |Leviathan of the United States Lines, arrived at Cherbourg flanked by gendarmes nad his plane was put under seal. The plane was seized because | ‘Levine, piloted by Bert Acosta, left Le Bourget Field without the au- thorization of customs officials, who previously had ordered the plane to | stay on the ground until the taxes on it were paid. The plane was built |in Germany and imported by Levine. New Job for Hughes? | GENEVA, Sept. 4 (UP).—The | (UP).—Announcement was made | assembly of the League of Nations will elect a successor to John Bas- sett Moore as judge of the world | court Saturday, Herluf ahle, presi- | dent of the assembly, announced to- | day. The election of Charles Evans | Hughes was regarded as certain. week can do the job, will also cele-| 0 on with the defense of workers) Keepsie, at which he will speak to-| of the| under attack by the capitalist courts, | the frame-up and the other devices) ers’ International Relief Conference at Irving Plaza Hall. i At the offices of the Workers In- ternational Relief, 1 Union Square, Mrs. Correia told a pitiable tale of hunger and suffering among the textile workers of New Bedford and Fall River. She also told of how she and her children have taken part in all mass picketing demonstra- tions and how on several occasions she and her oldest girl, Mary, were arrested and brutally manhandled by the New Bedford police. Her up the splendid fight of the progres- sive delicatessen clerks in ousting |the right wing leaders from the | union with the political fight of the Betyg ig BS Yuditch, labor edi- | tor of the Freiheit, Jewish Commun- 10; Utica, Sept. 11; Syracuse, Sept. | ; : 4 i ochiater, Sept, 1 and 14; Buf. ist daily, will review the struggles ; |of the militant, left wing members falo, Sept, 15, 16 and 17; Jamestown, | of the union against the reaction- Set. 18, and Binghamton, Sept. 19.| ary officials of the United Heb’ Besides making preparations for ‘Trades Council, with which the the Minor-Whiteman tour, Burke’ nion is affiliated, will hold open-air meetings on the) platform of the Workers (Commun- | ,, The beige who have arranged ist) Party and wherever possible | ‘1S Danquet in support of the candi- Burke's first stop will be Pough-| day, The rest of his itinerary in- cludes: Troy, Sept. 6 and 7; Albany; Sept. 8; Schenectady, Sept. 9 and dates of the Workers (Communist) Party have made a reputation for themselves by the spirit with which they combatted all right wing lead- ership in their union. As delegates to the United Hebrew Trades meet- ings, several of these workers have taken the floor in opposition to the concerted reactionary forces mar- shalled by the corrupt leaders and have often run a gauntlet of blows | after their militant speeches. Ac- cording to I. Himmelfarb; one of the leaders of the progressive group, this group is extending its influ- ence widely thruout the union with |fine results in drawing the mem-| \bership-away from the misleaders. | Tepe oe in | WORKERS WAGES ADVANCE. CHATTANOOGA, “Sept. 4. Milwaukee Sept. 16 | Wages are advanced and better work | conditions secured under a new con- MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 4.— | tract signed by employers of Elec- International Youth Day will be/|trical Workers No. 175 here. will speak at factory gates at noon. Burke is already a familiar figure in many upstate localities due to his | fine work during the Red Essex tour, during which he and George’ Pearlman accounted for putting The expenses of the tour youngest child, Charlie, she said, is a chronic victim of pleurisy, con- / tracted during a winter when the family could not afford coal. When hers husband and harself are at work they both make $21.45 for a full week’s work, Mrs. Correia said. The children are left. with neighbors and have to shift for themselves as best they can. “When are you going back to work?” a reporter asked. Mrs. Correia __ stiffened and snapped, back: “When we win the strike.” FIRE MORE MINERS LONDON (By Mail).—-Eight hun- dred men and boys are to receive notice today at New Blidworth (Notts). The pit was “sunk only two years ago. Depression in the industry is the reason given for the notices. celebrated in Milwaukee with a> mass meeting protesting against the vicious sentence meted out to John} Porter, young textile strike leader, | who has been condemned to two | New York today aboard the and a half yoars at hard labor by | ve You the federal military authorities. The meeting will be held on the} evening of Sept. 16 at Liberty Hall, | | Eighth and Walnut Sts., under the \auspices of the Young Workers | League. Minnie Lurie, a member of | ‘the District Executive Committee of | District 8 of the League, will be the | chief speaker. for |Kroger Grocery Trust | Swallows Competitor | 4! CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. today by the Kroger Grocery and | Baking Co. of the purchase of the | | Bagle chain of 115 stores in Pitts-| burgh which have been owned and operated since 1922 by Banjemin Chait, Joseph Goldstein, Joseph October 4, Porter and Meyer Weinberg. Did You Receive Our Letter? Did You Answer ? If not yet, tax yourself with one day’s wage and do your share to complete the fund VERY PARTY UNIT | | | | | | | Jor the A Day’s Wage | $100,000 COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN FUND! LECT A BAZAAR articles. Solicit ads at $75 per page. No | E e—_—_—__————- ANSWER BEFORE YOU LAY DOWN THIS NOTICE 43 EAST 125TH STREET We Need singles and twos are just as welcome, Send all Funds to Are you unemployed and so badly in need that you cannot send even a single dollar or « two-dolar bill for the Communist Campaign? 5’s, 10’s, 25’s and 100’s but the | ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG, Treasurer National Election Campaign Committee at one dollar a name. i Fall in line to make Just attach your con- tribution to the blank that we sent you and mail it in NOW! NEW YORK CITY 30 UNION SQUARE Working the DAILY WORKER-FREIHEIT BAZAAR 5, 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 New York to Seattle; 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: COMMITTEE to gather for the souvenir program. workingelass 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 the Red Bazaar the biggest success of the year. , HEADQUARTERS National Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar Committee NEW YORK CITY