The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 7, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Entered as sccond-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act ef Mareh 3, 1878, Published daily except 6 Vol. V., No. 212 Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. __ NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New York, by ail, 68.00 per ye Outside New York, by mail. $6.00 per year. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cente FIGHT JINGO PLOT TO BLOCK COMMUNIST ELECTION DRIVE ai= fla — Py ’ J emeiceeeitancnnileaponny ela pia Tei EE SUS! a Sc Jim Reid, Textil Senne” Filles th Hic | ae im Ketd, lextile Leader, Denounces “Executioner” Fuller in the Governor’s Office « _ & — ——— ® io A F L PL ANNING | Freed; Heroes of the Soviet Republic of Bavaria WATT Ty ‘HEY | aT ia alels inca ; 5 uv Mi ° e id | or TO BETRAY Bie sssue appeaL MMulitarists ry to eep orkers _ TEXTILE STRIKE TO DISTRICT 1 m | | ° | | arty rom baliot in Six States : Mill Barons Aiming at [Eee ING WW CET VCC Ea @ es e : j 3 Fake Settlement With to Open on Taxi Chauffeur Illumines Sewer Graft Jail Leaders, Break Up Batty and Co. Sunday ee —— Open-Air Meets tc —_ —_—— : r it : ! : in Kansas : Strike Ranks ‘Stiffen| New Boss Offensive | eat a : — | '3. P. Is Not Molested 4 Workers Demand Boss Build Union Wrecked | — 4 Capitulation by Lewis Machine Mill Barons Back Anti- ? (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 6.— Communist Drive 4 BOSTON, Sept. 6—Jim Reid, With the National Miners Conven- eet 3 a. leader of a delegation of textile tion for the purpose of building a | Having succeeded in placing : strikers to demand from Governor New Union in the American coal { seventeen states on the Com- e Fuller the immediate termination of industry but three days away, an |munist ballot and with the & the police and court terror, yester- open letter has been addressed by m sick that no less thea day denounced the murderer of Sac- the Convention’s Arrangements probability we nO ee te 8 co and Vanzetti in Fuller’s own of- Committee to the membership of thirty-five will be put in the fice, when the latter began to up- District 1, the anthracite region, as i : “ x red column in this election cam- J braid the delegation for putting for- well as to the officials. th nies ie a the Loree 4H ad Matrices bes eaten |paign, the Workers (Commu- vard a di a ‘ . i ‘ hat the last time he saw William L. D’ + mysteriou ere! . : goes . A : 2 Vaiasteee daria New euieicd sin Bearing the signatures of John| sanitation engineer, who figures in the same case, was July 3. Walter nist) Party is now fighting in owners’ wage cut. “We came here to talk and not to listen to a lecture,” Reid shot back at Fuller when the governor em- barked on an oration in which he criticized the delegation for not be- ing ready to make a concession to the bosses in order to end the strike. The session with the mill owners’ agent in the State House ended soon| after he had shouted to the workers’ Bavaria shown above. charged with “terrorism.” as Greiner. Auer, leader class war prisoners by the Amnesty Act. Among: those freed were Georg He was After a long and difficult struggle the German working class finally forced the release of its leaders of the Soviet Republic of They are top row, left to right, Rudolf Greiner, a leader of the Bavarian Soviet in 1919, sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, released after eight and a half years in jail. He was Gustav Streidl, sentenced to 12 years for high treason for his activities in the Bavarian Soviet government; he was jailed seven years. i Huber jailed on the same charges In the front row left to right, Georg Lermer, also jailed on the same charge as Greiner. Alois Lindner, who, enraged at the murder of Kurt Eisner, made an attempt on the life of Erhard of the right wing Bavarian social democrats. Next to him is Johann Kick sentenced with Greiner on the same charges. sentenced to 14 years in prison. leader: “I'll have you put out of my office.” ra acu rr SUPPORT BAZAAR, Cév2! War Vet, COOK ATTACKS Watt and Pat Toohey, chairman and | secretary, respectively, of the com- mittee, the open letter calls on the miners to make a final effort to establish a new and powerful na- tion-wide Miners Union beside the wreck of Workers. The letter further calls on Mc- |Garry, Hermanson and Harris to jaid in the move to build the new | organization and demands that they |cease playing into the hands of the operators by imploring recognition from John L. Lewis. is sure Lowe, taxi driver, however, gether Aug. 16. with his machine. he saw D’Olier and Connolly to- D'Olier is the third man whose death in the sewer scandal points to murder because “he knew too much.” PACT WITH CRITICISM MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Sept. 6.— Sharply criticizing the imperialist =m eet OSSR SIGNS KELLOGG ASSERTS SEWER | Above, Lowe | | {several states the attempts of the black forces of reaction to throw the Party off the ballot in their effort to prevent the only revolutionary political | party in the field to bring its |program of militant class struggle before the exploited masses and organize them politically and industrially for the |fight against the capitalist system and their political instruments. chair- —_— ‘On, ‘ i Alexander Trachtenberg, tives, poorly clothed, presented a St Ke | The text of the open letter fol-| Powers, the \Soviet government to- tander, ‘Trachtenberg, _chait: striking contrast. to. the.c1 1d ‘ T 2 i OF. 4 | lows: ‘ day announced. officially its adher- sont soe Seley a, Hlction a slickness of the Governor of the State of Massachusetts, and to the! waxed mahogany fittings of the of-| pl 81, DRESS THEL CALL. Foster, Gitlow ~ MOND SCHEME { “In order to place once more be-| fore you the seriousness of the pres- ent condition of the United Mine ance to theKellegg “peace” pact.| The note of adherence was handed M. Herbette, the French ambassador GRAFTER- ALIVE | Political Committee’ of the Workers | (Communist) Party yésterday stated that in the states of Nebraska, Okla- Workers of America, we declare homa, Texas, Kan: Massachu- setts, and New Hampshire, fascist organizations and employers, work- 'Reformists Endorse Collaboration | fice. With quiet dignity the spokes- y7., . | man of New Bedford's and Fa Urges Workers to Aid (Special to the Daily Worker) | j man of New Bedford’s and Fall River’s workers began to talk of the. “Daily” Affair AYS, No. Carolina, Sept. 6.—-A - \** veteran of the Civil War, 81 struggle against the wage cut. e Phillips Not Buried, Says Doctor that the great fundamental prin. >Y Assistant Commissar for Foreign |ciples once established by the rank | Affairs, Maxim Litvinov, together and file membership of that organ- | with a note containing the criticism atmosphere soon underwent a rapid) change as Fuller began to assert his | fear and hatred of labor. Confident beforehand that the mil- lionaire manufacturer, Fuller, would Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar to be | never take any step toward ending the vicious terror of the police and troopers in the strike area, the dele- gation of leading strikers neverthe- less decided to seek an appointment with him in order to expose further the strikebreaking role of the city and state authorities. | The first clash between Fuller and) the delegation came after Reid had) described the unbearable sufferings’ of the 28,000 strikers. Fuller kept | interrupting insolently. Reid then calmly told the governor that he was “worse than Chief of Police Feeney of Fall River,” whose vicious at- tacks of picketers was responsible for the drowning of a six-year-old| child driven into the river to his| death by a.trooper. ee (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 6. —Feverish preparations are now be- ing made by the mill owners to lash out in a renewed offensive against the 28,000 strikers through the me- they are trying to reach with the| officialdom of the reactionary Unit- | ed Textile Workers Union. Although | denials of intentions to “settle” the} strike are still forthcoming from the president of the manufacturers as- sociation, the employers’ trade jour- | nals print predictions that the strike | will be “settled”’in about ten days. These “predictions” and rumors of settlements are merely a new strike- breaking maneuver of the mill own. ers, leaders of the Textile Workers Union of the Textile Mill Commit- | tees declare. They also warn the! workers that the bosses are now des- perate enough to consider using tha American Federation of Labor union as the chief agency for smashing the strike. Batty Sell-Out. As evidence.in support of this con- tention they point to the fact that Batty & Co., the U. T. W.' leaders here, are the real sponsors of th plan to grant the mill owners the “Labor Extension System,” which is one of the most vicious speed-ups ever devised. The Citizens Media- Continued on Page Five A call has been issued by the dressmakers’ section of the Trade Union Educational League to all dressmakers to supprot the great held in Madison Square Garden Oct. 4, 5, 6 and 7. The call states: “The Daily Worker and the Frei- heit are the only two newspapers in English and Yiddish that serve faithfully the interests of the work- ers and take the leading part in al} the struggles in which we are en-| gaged, both with the bosses and the | trade union bureaucrats. Look to Workers’ Aid. “Because of the fact. that the Daily Worker and the Freiheit fol-| | low rigorously the line of class Continued. on Page Two. Banquet to Celebrate | Opening of Progressive |- GreekCenterTomorrow years old, is actively supporting the Communist election campaign and the candidates for president and vice - president, William Z. Foster and Ben Gitlow. He is I. Milas Crouch, father of the young Com- munist ex-soldier, Paul Crouch, who was _ sen- tenced to serve 40 years at Al- ecatraz following his conviction be- fore a court mar- tial on a charge that he and Wal- ter Trumbull or- ganized the Com- munist Youth League among ] U. S. soldiers stationed in Ha- waii, Wide pro- The Greek Workers Progressive tests resulted in their sentences be- Center, situated in the heart of the ing commuted. fur and millinery district at 27 W.| | 28th St., will be the scene of a big) dium of a fake settlement which banquet tomorrow evening, held in| celebration of the official opening of the center, The program of the evening will include music, dancing, a big meal for all those present, and many new “Workers and farmers who sup- port Hoover and Smith are voting for the capitalists and for a con- tinuation of their own enslave- |ment,” the elder Crouch says. “I hope that the Workers (Com- munist) Party will soon succeed in getting on the ballot in this state |features that are being held secret so that the exploited workers and LONDON, Sept. 6.—Dramatically denouncing the class collaboration plan of Herbert Mond, which offi- | cials of the Trades Union Congress in session at Swansea, Wales, yes- terday forced thru the congress, A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain fainted from emotion and had to be carried | from the hall. Cook’s denunciation and the taking | of the vote on the Mond plan were the high points in this session of the Congress. Speaking to an assemblage that had presumably been denuded of ‘Communists and minority move- ment leaders as a result of the ex- pulsion proceedings of the official- |dom two days ago, Cook’s voice ery- ing “Halt!” to the ruinous policy |of the Congress heads had a pro-| found affect upon the convention and deeply stirred the hall. In the midst of pointing out the path of destruction to which the |Present leadership is directing the trade union movement, Cook fell un- conscious from the effort he was making. Following passage of the resolu- tion accepting the Mond plan, Ben Turner, president of the Congress, reverted to the unemployment situ- \ation in Great Britain which he called a “perpetual nightmare.” until the time of the banquet and| farmers can vote for the Commun-|Ptactical measures for combating dance, The Greek Workers ‘Progressive Center, it is expected, will be the gathering place for the many mil- ist program and said. candidates,” he RUBBER WORKERS STRIKE. this situation were not brought by Turner before the Congress. linery and fur workers who toil all! 3 ur y SYDNEY, Sept. 6.—About 25 em- day in the vicinity. ployes at the Barnet Glass Rubber | Company, Ltd., at Melbourne, ceased GERMAN PLANE-CRASH. |work on’ Monday as a_ protest _BERLIN, Sept. 6 (UP).—The against one of their number being pilot and two passengers were killed| transferred to another department | today when a plane crashed while |in the works, and his wages reduced | _, en route to Munich from Erfurt. | by 18 shillings per week. |Jingoes Plan to Stop “DAILY” SUB DRIVE ON Anti-War Meet Pittsburgh Responds With 14 New Subs “Your subscription drive is a won- TO USE GUNS ON PARIS, Sept. 6 (UP).—Govern- to prevent an anti-militaristie de- monstration scheduled to be held in the suburb of St. Denis next Sun- day. \ tensive drives in the history of the | Meh FRENCH WORKERS | ment officials have perfected plans) derful idea, and although the quota for the district is high, you can rest assured that District 5 (Pittsburgh) will be on the top when the Daily Worker Election Campaign drive for Norway Discontinues Search for Amundsen _ OSLO, Norway, Sept. 6 (UP).— The Navy Department decided to- day to discontinue the Arctic search 10,000 new readers throughout the country ends.” Thus does A, Kaspar, Daily for Roald Amundsen, The search along the Norwegian co for further traces of his plene, a pon- toon of which was found last week, will be continued. i] ; Worker agent now engaged in pro- curing subs in the big Pennsylvania |days ago for ono of tho most ax paper, in a letter sent to the Daily | Worker Subscription Campaign Manager. Accompanying the letter is a pack- age containing fourteen new sub- scriptions, gathered among the workers of Pittsburgh. Kaspar in-| sists, however, that this is merely a beginning, and the subscriptions that ho expects to sond before the cam- Continued on Pago Three Continuing their anti-labor policy of throttling and persecuting work- ers throughout France, the reaction- ary and imperialistic French gov- ernment officials, who arrested |more than a thousand Communists in the last demonstration held sev- eral weeks ago, has issued a state- ment to the Fremch capitalist press indicating that the anti-militarist industrial center answer tho call) paign is completed, will far exceed | demonstration scheduled to be held sent out by the Daily Worker a few the quotn eet for Pittsburgh. |next Sunday will be prevented at the point of guns ization has been flagrantly vivo- lated and completely abrogated by jthe officials, who, by hook and crook have managed to maintain themselves in control. However, these great principles have again come to life and are embodied in the movement for the New National Miners Union. “The justified dissatisfaction that |prevails in your district is the in- evitable result of the wrong poli- cies and corrupt practices of the | Cappellini machine, acting for Lewis and the coal operators, the viciout and abusive contractor system, the increased speed-up system which is now made worse by the appearance of machines and mechanical devices and the omplete refusal of the Con- ciliation Board, an instrument of the operators, to remedy any of the in- | dustrial ills from which you suffer. “In face of these facts and against | such opposition as the opefators, of the pact by the Soviet govern- ment. The criticism impugns the motives of the major signatories in drawing up the treaty and indicates that the document is a new maneuver for disguising the militarist plans of the powers. RIDGEWOODHEARS MINOR TONIGHT Will Present Program of Class Struggle Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker and candidate for senator on the Workers (Communist) Party aided by Lewis and Boylan, the busi- | will be the main speaker tonight at ness men and city officials, are you|an election rally going to continue to beg recognition from Lewis, who has destroyed the at the Queens County Labor Lyceum, 785 Forest Ave., Ridgewood. The rally has union in the bituminous fields? Or been called by the German election are you going to do the only sen- sible thing, under the circumstances, and join in with: the progressives in the soft coal fields and help to build | the New National Miners Union! “The anthracite operators are now beginning the same process that the soft coal operators followed to’ in- crease their profits and weaken re- sistance of the miners by crushing their union. The first step is to close the so-called uneconomic mines, Continued on Page Three 7 Midwestern Bankers are Arrested, Charged With Farm Loan Fraud BOSTON, Sept. 6 (UP) —Inves-| tigation of an allegedly bogus farm) loan scheme has caused issuance of have been urged campaign conference of Brooklyn and Queens. Several prominent German speakers will also present the class struggle program of the Workers (Communist) Party. Section 2 Daily Agents in Bazaar Meet Today A Daily Worker agent bazaar conference of all agents of Section 2 who are at present engaged in work for the success of the Daily Worker- Freiheit Bazaar to be held at the beginning of October, will meet to- @ay, at 6 p. m., at 101 West 27th St. Plans will be formulated for ac- tivity in the bazaar work, and all Daily Worker agents of Section 2 to attend this warrants for the arrest of seven meeting without fail. Midwestern bankers on charges of using the mails to defraud New Eng- landers of approximately $1,500,000. Federal Grand Jury indictments were returned yesterday against) Guy Huston, John E. Huston, John) \L. Boyles, and Harold Smith, all of| Chicago; Walter Gravens, Kansas| City, Mo.; and Oran F. Schee and} Vernon U. Signer, both of Des} | Moines, Ia. . | The alleged fraud was in the sale | of stock of the Farms Company df | Massachusetts, the Missouri-Kansas | |Farms Company, and the Farmers Fund of Illinois. SYDNFY, N. S. W., Sept. 6 (UP).-| —Lieut. Keith Anderson left at 6 | ain. today on a pro‘ected flight to | England but was fsrced to yr tucn in ‘half an hour by a heavy ga‘t. i , While the district attorney and Tammany police officials are per- sisting in their refusal to consider the “mysterious” death of William D’Olier, sanitation engineer, as one of deliberate murder, another name, that of John M. Phillips, has again come to the fore. Phillips, involved deep in the $29,500,000 Queens sewer graft, was reported to have died of “acute al- coholic poison” in Atlantic City on July 2. The startling declaration was made yesterday by Dr. Louis H. Taylor that he believes Phillips is still alive, and that another body had been substituted at the time of the funeral services in Long Island City. At that time he had noticed the body did not resemble his friend, Phillips, and had communicated his belief to others present at the funeral. Exhumation of the body presum- ably that of the Queens graft czar, may be made as a result of the present disclosure. The belief recalls the activities of the Queens sewer contract gang which manipulated contracts for work in that district and whose per- sonal was carefully herded and guarded by Phillips who was careful to prevent inquiry into the workings of the “ring.” D'Olier’s Rib Fractured. Meanwhile, District Attorney Newcombe yesterday .continued his listless “investigation” of the death of D’Olier. ing in co-operation with the author- ities, are using every possible means at their disposal to prevent the secretaries of state from accepting the Communist petitions. Thousands Sign Petitions. Trachtenberg called attention to the fact that, whereas in 1924 the Party ticket was on the ballot in fourteen states only, this year it is already on in seventeen states, the great majority of them for the*first time. A small army of organizers was sent out by the National Elec- tion Campaign Committee into see- tions where the masses never had an opportunity before to hear the Com- munist message, and thru the ac- tivity of these organizers thousands of workers and poor farmers signed their names to the Communist peti- tions and gave other valuable assis- tance to the election campaign. Trachtenberg, in his report, pointed out that in no place has the socialist party been interfered with, for the good reason that the plat- form on which Norman Thomas, the Socialist Party candidate, is running is a petty-bourgeois platform, which stands fundamentally for the per- petuation of the capitalist stem and favors the major policies of world “imperialism, including the League of Nations, the World Court, and the imperialist Kellogg “anti- war” treaty. While the socialist Party platform and its presidential candidate, Nor- man Thomas, would only clip the claws of the capitalist beast and trim the Tammany Tiger’s whiskers, the ruling classes of this country The most impressive evidence are aware that the Workers (Com- which brings additional support to | munist) Party aims to abolish the the murder theory was uncovered capitalist system root and branch yesterday, with the discovery on ang build a socialist society on its D’Olier’s body of a fracture of the ruins) under the direction of a cartilage connecting the eighth rib to the breast bone. This, it is pointed out, reveals clearly that a struggle must have taken place before death. BLAST KILLS MINERS 1 Will Die; Other’s Hands’ Blown ADENA, Ohio, Sept. 6.—When a, charge of dynamite exploded prema- turely, two miners at work in the Somners mine near here, were seri- ously injured. Alex Jack, 24-year- old miner, is not expected to live) |according to reports received by the}demand saféty precautions. | Liga RT | National Miners Relief Committee. |i | IMPERIALIST FLIGHT HALTED, | His left hand was ofMpletely blown) precautions in open-shop mines, off, his right hand badly injured, and there are severe lacerations about his face and’ abdomen. Charles Beewn {s suffering severe body in- juries, { “Who'll be next?” into the man-trap, to be carried hun- drews of feet down into open-sho: mines. In union mines, pit committees eak- ing of the extreme lack of safety one miner said, “They fire you if you) complain about no air circulation, but what’s a coal-dust explosion matter to them? It ein’t their kids ‘that'll be orphans and go hungty!”, t ¥ Off 5 grim-faced | miners ask one another as they step Workers’ and Farme: overnment, “Socialist” © S. The socialist candidate holds up as an example of the courteous |treatment the capitalist system would receive under a socialist ad- ministration in Washington the municipalities of Reading, Pennsyl- vania, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Immediately after the election of the ialist ticket in, Reading the new administration announced that the police force of the city would be at the service of the employers. In Milwaukee, strikebreaking on the P| part of the “socialist” police force lis traditional, and in no other city are the employers given more | privileges than in “socialist” Mil- | waukee. In view of these facts it is not surprising that the American Le- gion, the World War Veterans, and other reactionary auxiliaries of the Continusd on Page hg, |