The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 6, 1928, Page 2

Page lwo Miners T | BITTNER, PAL OF LEWIS, FAILS TO DUPE DIGGERS Freeman Thompson Leads Militants Sept e beer PITTSBURGH, Now that locals ized throughout under F n tion, ner ballyhooing state with thugs, state “yellow dog: the miners’ 2 the new union, and revive the tinct U. M. W. A The trouble with meetings,” is lacking in mas arrived in Riv his thugs out to round up ers for a meeting. But the coal dig- gers of West Virginia have been Pp. a nO: an equippa police Bitt they are totally When the “mas ASTORIA JINGOES betrayed too often to be duped by come. A handful of men did. how- ever, gather several hundred feet nae away from the he to watch the Fail to Compete With Communist Meetings show. While state police d “vel. low dogs” looked on, Bittner’s lieu- tenants tried to herd the men into the hall. The first man who refused the invitation was viciously punched in the face. The police did not in- terfere. Loud Speakers Used. In Monogah, Bittner used methods. There al curious enough to watch the- spec- tacle from a distance, or others un- fortunate enough to live in the neighborhood of the “m meet- ings. To reach them, Bittner bel- lowed into loud speakers. Even at that his gang was not successful in getting more than a small handful close enough to take a picture for the U. M. W. Journal, which re- ports great triumph. Since Bittner is so openly pro- tected by the same police who have always sided with the operators and fought the miners, it is commonly believed here, that Bittner’s scheme is to trick the men into a company union and break the rapidly grow- ing new Miners’ Union which Tecognized as a menace to the op- erators. A strong delegation is coming to the National Mirers’ Convention in Pittsburgh, September 9th, to help build the new union. Wages are low as $3.50 a day. In many places, the companies pay wages in com- pany-coined counterfeit “scrip” money, which is exchangeable only in company-owned stores, at from 25 to 35 per cent loss. SECTION 7 IN ELECTION DRIVE To Gather Signatures Beginning Sunday Continued from Page One regularly in competition with Communists. Meet Their Waterloo. the other attac munist open-air meeting was frustra by the attendance of over 1,000 workers from Astoria, Long Island City and other indus- trial centers. The first radio talk delivered un- der the auspices of the Tammany gang was made by Harold Lord Var- ney, a renegade I. W. W. and stool- pigeon, who proudly described him- self as “a personal labor aid” to the late lamented oil-smeared G, Harding. Referring to the tants in the American unions, Var- ney said: “It is time for our patri- otic: and veterans’ organizations to take the offens: against this dis- loyal force at work in the he the nation.” ys were a few ass” is Red Meeting Tenight. Tonight’s meeting, to be held at the usual storm-center, Steinway and Jamaica Aves., Astoria, will be addressed by Max Shachtman, editor of the “Labor Defender”; Powers, Rock, Heder and Meuller. BUTCHER UNION CHIEFS OUST 6 Militants on Committee to Delve Finances The right wing officialdom of the Jewish Butchers’ Union pried them- selves out of a highly, uncomfortable position just before the rank and file ‘committee elected by the member- ship had an opportunity to probe the finances of the union. The officials came to the union membership meet- ing and railroaded through the ex- pulsion of six left wingers, several of whom were at the same time members of the rank and file com- mittee which was to investigate the treasurer’s accounts. The six left wingers, Sam Sivak, Eli Werner, M. Malamud, M. Teitle- baum, Sam Marcus and S. Portnoy. were the leaders of a struggle against the union leadership, which has been active in the support of the campaign of the United Hebrew Trades to destroy any Jewish union ‘ The Election Campaign Commit- tee of Section 7 of the Workers (Communist) Party, located in Boro Park and taking in Bath Beach, Coney Island and the Brighton sec- tion, is preparing for an intensive signature drive starting Sunday, Sept. 9, and lasting for one week. There is a growing determination in the section to put the ninth as- sembly district on the Communist election map by September 16. A special cal] has been sent to the Jewish Workers’ Culture Clubs of Boro Park, Coney Island, Brighton and Bath Beach to participate in the signature drive. The Boro Park Jewish Workers’ Culture Club, con- Ds 4 showi signs of militant policy fident of its ability to outstrip the ee ee oe ena hen ‘these other clubs in the signature race, j.¢¢ wingers were also elected to has issued a challenge to these delve the accounts of the or- clubs. : ganization, the socialist chiefs decid- The signature work in the Boro oq they must get rid of them and many interesting experiences met thereby the danger of a public re- with by the Red camnaigners. A one-page leaflet issued by the Sec- tion 1 Campaign Committee, called of the union’s income and ex- n committee was “The Lighter Side of Signature ing before the Gathering” contains droll and seri- expulsions toc ace, the expulsion ous anecdotes related by the Com-: meeting ha been held Monday munist campaigners. night in the Fo 1 building. The Section 7 was the first section to Swing into line on the signature drive, and hopes to be the first to complete its job. D. Weitz, section campaign manager, has sent com- munications to every unit of the section urging participation in the intensified drive of next week, and looks forward to considerably in- creased signatures as a result of the drive. The workers’ clubs who will also take part in the drive have resolved to obtain more signatures than the Bombers of the section themselves. Section 1 Workers to Pennsylvania Club, 35 E. 50th St. Hold Banquet Saturday Pevy'vanie clus, 95 P50 Se | poration, whose records mysteriously | “disappeared” during the sewer in- vestigation were also questioned yes- election was brought about when the officialdom came to the members with the demand that they pay in- creased dues hereafter. SEWER GRAFTER ‘KNOWS NOTHING Continued from Page One on another occasion, a man who he is convinced is D'Olier, coming from the same direction, hailed him and directed him to drive him to the The members of Section 1 will gather at a banquet this Saturday at 8 p.m. at the headquarters of the " a a terday as to their relations with! egal Workers Club, 85 East) nojier’s corporation. It is gen- Sect: %. erally known that the firm held| aie halal een in saat sub-contracts from the Awixa in the awarded by the district for its work|eduiping of two sewage disposal fn procuring the highest amount of | Plants in Queens. (mm to place the Workers) Save this copy of the Daily for ) Party candidates on i | n2 of the 40,000 traction workers. | THE DAILY WORKER, 1W YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1928 Victims and Potential Victim in the Sewer Gr nia aft Case John M. Phillips (lezt), reputed head of the sewer construction grafte in Queen I., whose body will be exhumed following the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of William L. D’Olier (right), sanitation engineer, also alleged to have been in the graft riag. It is possible that Francis Phillips (center), son of the sewer graft king will be the next person who “knows too much.” It is now relieved that not Phillips but some one still higher up in a graft line is the key man in the case. To date Phillips, D’Olier and George Redding, bond salesman, about to testify for the government, have conveniently “died.” Graft Smell Hovers Over Fat Bank Books of Philadelphia Police PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5—Huge bank accounts owned by' high police officials are believed to have a di- rect connection with the $10,000,000 bootleg ring now under grand jury investigation here. District Attorney Monaghan, who represents an opposition faction within the republican machine, also expressed himself as skeptical of the effectiveness of the so-called “clean-up” ordered by Mayor - | Mackey. GUNS T0 PROTECT FASGIST MEETING Seipel’s Challenge to Be Met by Workers SIGMAN AGENTS IN WILD DASH As Forward Says, ‘They Get Warm Reception’ After enduring for two years the r ation of reactionary union- wrecking officialdom of the Inter- |national Ladi Garment Workers’ Union, the workers in the cloak and dress manufacturing trades are de- monstrating their determination to drive the agents of the employers out of whatever control they still possess. Again the workers in a right wing shop defied the Sigman dues collectors and drove them out of the shop. The “Collectors” Arrive. A business agent from the com- pany union, reinforced by the usual “dues. collecting” underworld com- mittee, came to the shop of Skwirl- HUGE NEW YORK ‘Welcomee RED DRIVE RALLY PLANNED SEPT. 28 Minor, Dunne to Speak at Big Meet Continued from Page One liam W. Weinstone. District Orean- izer of the Workers (Com~r~ist) Poerty, will officiate as chairman. The rally will b> bold im euare- after the completion of the up- state tour of Robert Minor and Lo ett Fort-Whiteman, whose last meet? ing will be held at Binghamton on Sept. 25. Workers clubs and fraternal and! benefit associations throughout the city are cancelling whatever other | activities were scheduled for the! night of the meeting and are ex- pected to attend the Red Campaign Rally in a body. Increasing unem- ployment, drastic wage-cuts, lay- offs, and the growing reactionary policies of the socialist party mis- leaders aimed at all progressive workers which have characterized the past four years and especially the past year, have taught the workers of New York that their in- | dustrial and economic demands can-| not be separated from their political affiliations, and as a result the huge) rally of the Workers (Communist) | Party on the 28th of this month will | assume an unprecedented mass char- | acter. | FLAY SOCIALISTS: ON YOUTH WORK ‘World Youth Congress Raps Reformists (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Sept. 5.—Reports by, Unable to find work in Germany, |the role of the fake Kellogg “peace | Closely together. Alfred Ross, 16 year old worker stowed away to get to the United States, where he thought he might find work. He found out his mistake when he was arrested here on a charge of vagrancy. The young worker is shown seated above. POLICE AS SHO STRIKEBREAKERS: Fail as New Workers Walk Out Not even the use of police as strikebreaking agents has helped the ormers of the S. Lieberman Shoe factory break the determined strike ot the 73 workers normally employed in that shop. This was demonstrated yesterday when the sergeant and ~-tealman an strike duty near the Hope St. Brooklyn shop, escorted aimost a dozen men up past the pic- to America sky and Son, West 22nd St., to ex- tract tribute from the workers. After the business agent and: his Chancellor Seipel, fascist dictator of | Committee refused to obey the order Austria, today announced his inten-|f the workers that they leave, the tion of protecting the provocative | Workers rose from their machines demonstrations of the fascists|2"d drove them out. The Sigman scheduled to be held Oct. 7 in the|2zent then went to the 30th Street industrial town of Wienerneustadt,| Police Station and came back with |a detective to arrest those he claim- against the counter-demonstrations . 3 mS led had “beaten him up.” No ar- of Austrian workers. rests were made, however. (Special to the Daily Worker) VIENNA, Austria, Sept. 5.— Chitarov and Gorkitch yesterday) Ket lines and into the plant. This opened the Fourth Plenary session] tactic, however, failed to get strike- of the Young Communist Inter#® | breakers, for every one of the men| tional. Young acted as chairman for | taken in walked out of the plant in the day. The following participated | about 15 minutes. in the discussion and business of the! Hitherto, applicants who came to session: answer the employers advertise- Blenkle of Germany; Rust of Great; ments for shoe makers were met at Britain; Botte of Italy; Mehring of the street corner by the striking the Executive Committee of the! workers and were told that the shop Young Communist International;)is strikebound. They then im- Fuernberg of the Executive Commit-! mediately went home, a few of the Seipel’s statement declared that he would protect the fascist demonstra- tions “with all the means within the power of the state.” In spite of the demonstration of the fascists, which the workers know will be “protected” by the presence of thousands of armed soldiers, the workers are rallying strongly and will attend their own demonstration in large ‘numbers as an answer to the Chancellor's re- actionary decree. STAGE WORKERS MAY STRIKE SOON Demand Increase of $10 Per Week in Wages Over two thousand stage hands in New York City theatres may go on strike this Saturday, tieing up the productions on Broadway just as the new theatre season is beginning to get under way. This was revealed yesterday, when Local No. 1 of the Thestrical Protective Union, com- posed completely of workers em- ployed in the heavy work behind the scenes, refused to accept the agree- ment of the theatre owners under! which they have been working for the last few years. The agreement between the Inter- national Theatrical Assbdciation and the union of stage hands expired last Sunday. At the expiration of the agreement, a new one was sub- mitted to the union by the theatre bosses. But all indications point to- ward the refusal of the union to accept the new proposed agreement of the theatre bosses. The stage hands, who received $48 a week under the old agreement, tee of the Young Communist Inter- national; Grossen of Roumania; Pio- nier of China. Blenkle pointed out that the role (of young workers in industry bs n; This shop had been under right | wing control for many months, the {employer himself paying for the company-union membershiy books, |because the workers had refused to increasing steadily and that you do so. The employer, seeing the workers are continually replacing |public disintegration of the right|aduits. “The chief enemy of work wing union, had notified the scab among the youth,” Blenkle said, “was union that he would no longer pay the Socialist Youth International, his workers’ dues. This led to the! which still had some influence in visit of the “dues” committee. |participation of young workers in While events like this are regis-| the recent German elections, with tered in the cloak market every day, | their own program, proved the great workers see much irony in stories possibilities that exist for youth appearing in the right wing Jewish work. bie Daily Forward announcing: “Cloak| Rust declared that the British and Dressmakers Give a Warm Re-/ delegation was in agreement with \ception to the Union’s Campaign for the policies of the Executive Com- Dues.” The cloakmakers comment | mittee of the Communist Youth In- isardonically that the Sigman organ | ternational. The British Young is understating its case, and vouch Communists, he declared, had made that the Sigman campaign is being | ProBress oe Pie ootieh Gottel. i vi . e le’ - received with even greater heat, baariooresy la jolaing 46 the ‘Young Communist movement. The delegates to the congress hon- _ored the memories of the victims of | the International Youth Day in Ber- “Warm Recention. WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UP).-- Attorneys, acting for William B. Wilson in his contest of William S. Vare's election to the United States senate from Pennsylvania, revealed | Hoy WOH Ses eee today they will protest the entire | vote in all but 400 of the 1,500 elec- | LaFollette Candidate tion divisions in the city of Phila- | Beaten in Primary delphia. Attorney A. B. Hurshman said : Wils s «| MADISON, Wis., Sept. 5.—Al- Ty BOO eben on ntena atc ehiough Seu Robert Wi. Lav ollatta, legheny County, in which Pitts- S0-¢alled “insurgent” leader, won mately 300 election divisions in Al- | burgh is situated. |the senatorial nomination by an |— ke ied bs ah a Sao overwhelming vote in Tuesday’s now demand an increase for each primary, conservative republicans gained a victory when Walter S. Koehler was chosen nominee for gov- ernor. Practically complete returns to- night gave Kohler a lead of approxi- mately 21,000 over Joseph D. Beck, “insurgent” candidate, who had the backing of LaFollette. Gov. Fred Zimmerman, who had a small pro- gressive following and was endorsed worker of $10 a week. A meeting of representati the bosses and workers w-~ » terday with no results. Another is scheduled to be held at 1 1 One of the leaders of ** when asked yesterday whether a strike would be declared if the de- mands of the union are not granted. replied: “Oh, we won't be able to hold the boys back after Saturday.” ves of third. THE PLA’ Make checks and NATIONAL PLATFORM WORKERS (C of the CLASS STRUGGLE 64 Pages of Smashing Facts—Price 10 cents NATIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Workers (Communist) Party of America 43 East 125th Street, New York City of the OMMUNIST) PARTY TFORM money orders payable to Alexander Trachtenberg, Treas. | by the anti-saloon league, ran a poor | even joining up with the Ind |pendent Shoe Workers Union which was only recently formed thru an |amalgamation of several craft unions. Seeing that he would never _get a man to go near the plant the jemployer told the police to escort | applicants up, | The strike grew out of the em- | ployers’ discrimination against ac- workers’ mass organizations. The/|tive unionists, and the dismissal of | |the general chairman. ‘Czech Immigrants Starving in Sydney SYDNEY, Sept. 5.—Several hun- | dred immigrants to Australia from Czechoslovakia are starving and penniless in Sydney. | They say they were misled by im- | migration agents who told them at | Prague there was plenty of work in | Australia at $30 per week, and all jney, would have to do was to walk |off the steamer and tumble into | jobs. But they found record unemploy- ‘ment. Since government immigra- | | their fares paid back to their home- | land. | | Who wins when you read your bosses’ paper? ef \tion agents misled them, they want | Fields Respond to Call for New Militant Union YOUTH TO HOLD HUGE MEETING IN NEW YOR Frankfeld, Perilla and | Gordon Outline Tasks The Young Workers (Communist) League of New York held a very |suceessful membership meeting. Over 275 members were present at the Irving Plaza Halli. The order of business was a re- port on International Youth Day. Frankfeld, acting district organizer, reported on the history of Interna- tional Youth Day, the struggle against the social chauvinists in the Second International on the part of the revolutionary youth movement, spoke about the present war danger facing the working class, discussed pact” as an instrument in the hands of the imperialists to fool the ,masses, the struggle against capi- talist militarism on the part of the Teague, and the immediate tasks of the League during this period. Must Increase Work. “What is most important for the League is to develop a real Bolshe- vik understanding and ideology dur- ing this period cf war preparations. The League must increase its work right within the very institutions of |ment, we can report that we have | sent as many comrades into the ‘Citizens Military Training Camps this year as we did last year plus the year before. We must expose the National Guard, we must show the real class character of the army, |the navy, the Reserve Officers’ | Training Corps, etc., to the masses ,of youth, both inside and outside of \these organizations.” — Frankfeld concluded his remarks by reporting on the joint mass meeting arranged |by the Party and the League for International Youth Day for Fri- \day, Sept. 14. Gordon Outlines Tasks. David Gordon spoke next on the election campaign. He criticized the |League members for not respond- ing energetically enough to the elec- jon campaign. He showed that \while the League had collected 1,000 signatures to date, that it was not sufficient. “The quota for the New York League is 5,000 signa- tures, and the League must go out and get them,” said Gordon. ._ He outlined the immediate tasks of the League in the election campaign. Perilla spoke next on the Work- \ing Youth Conference. He reported | that the League had put out 23 leaf- lets, eight bulletins and two gen- eral leaflets. More than 250,600 leaflets had been distributed by the Working Youth Conference Com- mittee, together with the League. “Now the big job is to begin to get ‘trade union endorsements and the election of delegates. The bigger \task is to begin to organize shop \committees in large and small fac- |tories. We must have in mind,” isaid Perilla, “that this conference | will be orly a beginning. The fak- ers will never organize the youth; |the progressives have shown their inability to do so, and only the Com- | munists and left wingers will do the job.” Perilla, in conclusion, called for still greater efforts to put the Working Youth Conference over, \the conference date being set for | September 29 and 30. A discussion followed in which many members spoke. Frankfeld read a cable to be sent to the Con- gress of the Young Communist In- | ternational now in session in Mos- |cow. The cable was greeted with |applausa, and a collection of $17 | was taken up to send the cable there. | It was also anncunced that a former capitalist militarism. At this mo- | ‘Section 2 Campaign Conference to Take | Up Important Work ° The first enlarged Election Cam- | paign Conference of Section 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party! will be | held tonight at the.section headquar- | ters, 101 West 27th St., at 8 o’clock, according to Bessie Gussakoff, Cam- paign Director of the Section. In a statement issued last night, Gussakoff urged the attendance of ‘all unit and subsection campaign |committees of Section 2. The state- |ment reads in part as follows: | “Tt has long been known that Sec- tion 2 is the backbone of every cam- paign that the party undertakes in the New York district and the elec- tion campaign is no exception. This is proven by the work of the sec- \tion’s Red Squad, which is parti pating in signature drives through- out the city. In the last few weeks |of the election campaign it is of especial importance that the cam- paign committee of our section be more firmly knit and work more Many important issues have to be discussed and it is | vital for the whole election cam- | paign in the city as well as for our | section that every member of every unit campaign committee be present ‘at this conference.” The Daily Worker agent, the Agit- prop Director and the literature agent of every unit is the unit’s (campaign committee, according to | Gussakoff, and these functionaries |should lay all other business aside tonight and be present at the con- ference. | A special request has been made by Bessie Gussakoff that the unit campaign committee of every unit | be excused at 8 o’clock from what- ever unit meetings are in progress lat that time tonight. A special | registration of attendance will be | taken. ‘Arrest Taxi Driver On Framed Charge | Issac Cohen, taxi driver, of 80 Allen Street, was arrested on a /trumped-up charge of disorderly ‘conduct and given a summons to the traffic court, because he had stopped on the corner of 29th Street and Fourth Avenue for a prospective passenger. Cohen was proceeding south on Fourth Avenue and was behind a police truck when he saw a pas- senger signaling him. Cohen says the truck was traveling at a low rate of speed and that he passed it and when in front of the truck sig- naled the driver to come. ahead. He pulled his cab up near the curb to pick up his passenger, when a cop who was in civilian clothes, jumped from the truck and gave him a summons for traffic court. Cohen turned to his passenger and told him that he did not think he deserved a summons and would bat- tle the case in court. This irritated the Tammany cop, who half. drew his “gat” from his holster and or- dered the driver to proceed to the police station. There his hack li- cense was “picked up” and he was thrown into jail. In the evening he was taken to night court where he was given a suspended sentence. Returning to the police station he discovered that his cab had been stripped by the cops and that his license had been sent downtown to the hack license bureau. In the meanwhile, Cohen is out his license, which means out of a job. member of the Young Peoples So- cialist League, Joe Freedman, had joinad the League. Freedman was one of the leaders in the Browns- ville Y. P. S. L. The New York mombership of the League was very well mobilized for the International Youth Day campaign which is now in progress. 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 A Day’s Wage » for the $100,000 COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN FUND —__—__——. ANSWER BEFORE YOU LAY DOWN THIS NOTICE 43 EAST 125TH STREET Are you unemployed and so badly in need that you cannot send even a single dollar or a two-dollar bill for the Communist Campaign? We Need 5’s, 10’s, 25’s ‘and 100’s but the singles and twos are just as welcome, Send all Funds to —_—_—_——_———_- Just attach your con- tribution to the blank that we sent you and; mail it in NOW! | —_————- Ui ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG, Treasurer National Election Campaign Committee NEW YORK CITY