The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 7, 1928, Page 2

PES m Page Two Earl ly Mo POLICEMEN CLUB MANY WHO STAY TO GET CLOTHES Structure ‘Was Ancient Variety A fire which d floor of the Hotel Annex, - a-night lodging h e on the corner of Fulton and Clinton Sts., early yesterday morning drove 150 men, mostly unemployed workers forced a to resort to the abominable condi tions imposed on them by the squalid “hotel” management, into the street. The blaze was discovered shortly efter 2 a. m., when most of the workers, tired from their long day of seeking jobs, were fast asleep lodger on the third floor discovered the fire. Other lodgers, roused by the fire, ran to the nearest alarm boxes and turned in three alarms. the Meanw! workers, by this time all awake, re running around frantically, scantily dressed.in the early morning cold, trying to gather their few personal belongings. Each one went for his clothes, practically 2ll he owned. They were progressing very .calmly, and in a few moments would have had their entire belongings un- der their arms and safe from the fire, when policemen, running into the building, began to strike right and left among the workers with their clubs, prodding the shivering men into the street. Many of them had their tattered clothes, which were safely clutched in their hands, | grasped by the police, who used their clubs and blackjacks on the workers. When finally driven into the street by the frenzy of the police, many of the workers were attired only in their night clothes. Others had bed sheets around them trying | vainly to keep warm. Although the tinderbox hotel was only slightly damaged almost the entire possessions of the unemployed | workers were lost. COLOMBIA YIELDS TO OIL MAGNATES Native Indians Revolt! Near Barcos Tract | ' BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 6 (UP).| ring o—_______ Fire A Group of American Visitors Bound for the Soviet Union 5,000 CHILDREN é | THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1928 in Twenty-five Cent Hotel Endangers Lives of 150 MOVE TO HELP MILL STRIKERS Plan for Relief for the Textile Workers More than 5,000 workers’ and| farmers’ children throughout ~ the! country, members of organizations | | affiliated with the National Work- ers’ Children’s Relief Genter, 799} Broadway, are being enlisted for in-| | tensive relief 4vork for the. embattled \textile strikers of New Bedford and| Fall River, Ann Thompson, secre-| tary of the Center said yesterday. | |The Center is affiliated with the! Workers International Relief, which Over 1,000 Americans are expected to visit the Soviet Union this fall. A large number of these -will is doing the relief work in the tex-| tile strike zone. Robert Dunn, writ-| make the trip in tom tne Eleventh Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, under the aus- | er and labor economist, is chairman| pices of World Tourists, Inc., 69 Fifth Ave., which i; the authorized representative of Sovtorgflot, the | o¢ 4 ti ite | official Soviet travel bureau. Photo shows part of a group which left New York City on the “Aqui- | °F the executive committee. | tania” bound for the Soviet Union, July 9. Young Pioneers of America, school | SUPPORT BAZAAR, DRESS TUEL CALL Urges Workers to Aid: ‘Daily” Affair Continued from Page One struggle, they must constantly de- pend on the support of the, class- conscious workers. Upon us falls the burden of aiding and maintain- ing our press. “Affairs are the chief source of | income for our proletarian pr The annual Daily Worker-Freiheit bazaar is the greatest of all these undertakings and upon it the finan- cial security of, the two papers de- pends to a large extent. To Have Booth. “This year the bazaar will be held Oct. 4, 5, 6 and 7 in Madison Square Garden. Less than four weeks re- main to prepare for this colossal undertaking. The Daily Worker and the Freiheit are our newspapers and the bazaar is our bazaar. We must by all means make it so overwhelm- ing a success as to give our enemies little joy. “The dressmakers’ section of the Trade Union Educational League calls upon all dressmakers to join actively in the work for this bazaar. | The dressmakers must have a booth with the best dresses and for this it —Secretary of Industry Montalvo|is necessary that every dressmaker told the United Press today that he| sew at least one good dress for the Relief Contributions _ for Textile Strikers Pouring Into W.I. R. Contributions for the relief of the New Bedford and Fall River textile strikers continue to pour into the offices of the New ‘York local of the Workers International Relief, 1 Union Square, Harriet Silverman, | §4.000 far velit ducing the minebat local secretary, said yesterday. | pee | Branch 421, Workmens Circle of! Swinging into an offensive, the| During November workers’ chil-| Paterson, donated $166.57; D. Lei-/73 strikers who have completely | ‘ | bowitz collected $25 from some paralyzed the shoe factory of the |4*en conferences, affairs and mass) Peekskill campers over the week- end and the Co-operative Trading Association gave $50 yesterday, Miss Silverman said. U.S. PLANS ARMS ALLIANCE NOTE Struggle With Britain Is Sharper WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (UP).— When President Coolidge returns here state department officials will being preparing a note setting forth |the American attitude toward the Anglo-French naval agreement, it was said in an authoritative quarter today. Published London reports that England is about to denounce this agreement because it has offended the United States are not credited | ts ~ —__________. —— | children, Relief Scouts and children’s | | clubs are now mobilized for textile| ‘SHOE STRIKERS relief work, according to Miss) | Pledges are coming in| | from all parts of the country and| | PUT UP DEMANDS 10,000 textile meal-ticket relief books | Thompson. are being prepared for distribution | Workers Where Three Lost Lives in Tenement Fire Ree Emerse and his wife were trapped in the top of a blazthy tenement at 1968 7th Ave. They climbed out along a one and one half inch ledge and reached, she, the next. building, and he, a fire ladder a floor below. The arrows in the picture show the route taken by the Emerses in escaping. Three less fortunate were burned in the fire-trap. DREAD MINE DISEASE; MINERICH BEGS RFLIEF and sale, Miss Thompson said. ) | Recognition of Union | will be remembered that members of ¢ . | Relief Cent ised thi | Is Chief Requirement the Relief Center raised more than S. Liebermann Co., Hope St., Brook- | meetings will be held in many cities) len; for ovessa weak seutsrany put | © gece up: children’s textile relief forward three main demands the | WOR employers will be compelled to ac- cede to before they will resume |work in the shop. Recognition of |the Independent Shoe Workers Union, reinstatement of general |chairman A. Mershon, and the re- turn of the-6 per cent wage cut en- |foreed several months ago, are the |demands unanimously voted for at eae {he Sera meses resterday | Hundreds Expected to morning in Arcadia Club, Hope an 4 | Attend Meeting Rodney Sts., Brooklyn. | From the beginning of the strike, as : | the craftsmen, who comprise 100 per |_ YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Sept. 6 |cent of the plant's working force, | The Workers (Communist) Party of |had simply asked the firm to re-| this city has arranged a mass meet- instate the general chairman, whose | ing for Sept. 10 in the Rayon As dismissal for union activities had| Auditorium, at which Benjamin} | first precipitated the walkout. Since | Gitlow, candidate for vice-president | the firm stubbornly decided to chal-|on the Workers (Communist) Party llenge the workers organization, | ticket, will be the principal speaker. even indulging in a vain attempt to jreplace the styikers by scabs, the workers decided to increase their | strike demands. the militant working class leader, | |2 Badly Hurt, Taken to > | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 6.—Ac- | cording to Dr. G, A. Parker, who has made a medical survey of twenty typical mining towns, the dread Pel- lagra and beri-beri may be expected if the lack of essential food con- tinues. sae | The National Miners Relief Com- to send as much as possible to its headquarters at 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.; to meet this desper- A gas explosion which sent a man-| ate situation. Hospital mittee appeals to all sympathizers | | St. up into the street last night in- jured four men and a woman who | were on the street at the time. Two “Relief committees! Your task is not over,” is the appeal of Anthony Minerich, secretary of the Relief |Committee. “Hunger, disease, ex- treme hardships are being suffered RED CONVENTION TO OPEN SUNDAY Jersey Campaign on in Many Cities NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 6—The Essex County Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party will |open here on, Sunday morning at 10 o'clock at the Workers Progres- | sive enter, 93 Mercer St. All labor \and fraternal organizations are in- vited to send three delegates each to the convention. | A county campaign committee | will be elected at this time, and ways | and means of conducting the cam- | paign will be the order of business, |A speaker from District 2 will out- line the national policies of the | Communist campaign. This is the first of a series of city and county |New Jersey. | es |__ Irving Freiman will talk on “The New Jersey Issues and the Cam- | paign” at the semi-monthly Speak- ers’ Conference at the Newark Workers Center, 92 Mercer St., next Sunday, Sept. 9, in the morning at 10 o'clock. TCHICHERIN ON ~ VISIT 10 BERLIW (By United Press) BERLIN, Sept. 6.—George Vassi- lievich Tchicherin, Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs, is visiting Berlin to recover from his recent illness, but political specula- tion tonight centered on a report that the Soviet minister is seeking |an interview with Foreign Minister Stresemann. | The possibility that Russo-German OF ESSEX COUNTY. conventions to be held throughout | 1 | of the men were injured so seriously! in the mine fields. Babies are born, | Telations may be greatly strengthen- - | that they had to be removed to the| but doctors refuse to attend because! ed by such a meeting has created a | Roosevelt Hospital. The other three \injured were taken home. The four men, all workers, had just emerged from a lunch room nearby when the blast hurled the manhole cover into the air on the there is no money. There is no bread for the children. “In the open-shop mines accident after accident occurs. Over 1,200 ‘miners were killed in the first half of this year. Only in union mines are there pit committees that have street. the pavement and badly bruised One of them, Fred Wenzel, of 848 11th Ave.. was hurled by the explo- sion into the manhole itself, and had Workers of this city have for a |to be lifted out with ropes by work- | long time been awaiting the visit of ers employed in the vicinity. and extensive preparations have /§5 years old, of All four were knocked to/the right to demand safety precau- tions. Thousands of miners are stil] fighting for such committees. Our |relief helped many hold out until ‘this demand was won.” Remember, our task is not over! Call your com- | mittee together, tell them about the Mrs. Mathilda John.) great need, and help all you can!” 835 Ninth Ave., fell The woman, The Joint Council of the Shoe- was submitting to the senate a new. oil law based on “the open door na- tionalization policy.” The new law, it was hoped, would meet the objections of foreign oil interests that the revised Colombian oil policy was confiscatory. The government was investigating today reports that oil men had in- vaded the former Barrcos concession territory, entering from the Vene- zuelan border. The Barreos conces- sion to American oil interests recent-| ly was ordered invalidated by the! government. Border garrisons will be reinforced. It was reported from Cucuta today that 200 natives of the Motilone In- dian tribe were within a few miles ef Puerto Villamizar on the Barrcos concession and were hostile. Bert Miller Speaks at Jersey Meet Sunday NEWARK, , Sept. 6—Bert Miller, organizational secretary of District 2, Workers (Communist) Party, will speak on “The History | and Records of the Republican and Democratic Parties” at a special New Jersey sub-district conference to be held at 93 Mercer St., Newark next Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. All Party and Young Workers Leagud@ speakers and functionaries are requested to attend. The meet- ing will open promptly, it is an- nounced. INDIANA TRAIN WRECK. MOUNT VERNON, Ind., Sept. 6 (UP).—Eleven cars of a Louisville and Nashville freight train fell through a bridge near here today. bazaar. Get Bu “A great many tickets must be sold. Many greetings and names for the Red Honor Roll must be se- cured. No time must be lost; in- tensive activity in behalf of the ba- zaar must be started immediately. “Get busy sewing dresses, collect- ing names for the Red Honor Roll and selling tickets. Everybody on the job for the bazaar of our Daily Worker and Freiheit.” Delicatessen Clerks’ Progressive GroupPlan Election Feast Tonight The long and éarefully prepared- for Red Election banquet of the pro- gressive group of! the Delicatessen Countermen’s Union, Local 302, will he held today at 8 p. m. at the United | Workers Ci rative Restaurant, 2781 White Plains Ave., the Bronx. According to I. Himmelfarb, one of the leading members of the pro- gressive group which is arranging this banquet for the benefit of the Communist election campaign, the spread to be offered at the festive board will be exceptionally appe- tizing and satisfying. There will not be a preponderance of delicates- sen food, according to Himmelfarb. The two speakers at the banquet will be Rebecea Greecht, campaign manager of District 2 of the Work- ers (Communist) Party and candi- date for assembly from the Fifth District of the, Bronx, and P. Yu- ditch, labor editor of the Freiheit, who will speak in English. LINK FULLER, KELLOGG AT FRENCH MEMORIALS PARIS, Sept. 6. — In three great meetings held on successive nights | in working class districts of Paris, thousands of workers met to honor the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti. L'Humanite, French Communist daily itself, founded by Jean Jaures and Now possessing a quarter of a mil-| lion circulation, devoted three col- “umns of its front page to news, edit- rial and pictures concerning the martyrdom of the two Italian labor organizers, done to death in Charles- town state prison to appease Massa- chusetts’ anti-labor hysteria. In the Parisian meetings, addres- sed by the fiery Vaillant-Couturier, | editor of the labor daily and member of pariiament, the anniversary was made the occasion for protedts against the Kellogg pact. ~-*¥ou cannot be against Fuller and, Stihl past with Kellogg,” said Vaillant-Cout- urier, in exposing pacifist preten- sions of Kellogg. “The same laws which command one to kill Sacco and Vanzetti command the other to shoot down the workers of Haiti and Nicaragua while awaiting bigger game.” Hundreds of young sailors and soldiers, he said, are in military prisons, under conditions of amazing brutality and workers and their rep- resentatives in parliament are con- stantly being harassed by the French police and the government. The Sac- co-Vanzetti case is a reminder to French workers, Vaillant-Couturier summed up, that France also has hundreds of workers in jail, framed up for their loyalty to their class. He called for a world-wide struggle against the Fullers, Thayers. and Kelloggs of all nations. here. Whether or not these reports| workers Union, which had formu- are true, it was intimated that aj|l:ted the demands at its meeting communication on the subject would | Wednesday night, which it later pre- been made for iis arrival. The |into a manhole across the street Rayon Wood Auditorium, one of the from the explosion. It had been re-| biggest halls in the city, has been | moved to let air into the subterran-| procured for the occasion. jean passage. She was badly bruised 4 in| Every class-conscious worker in| and cut, and was sent home. Harry Fox at Speakers Conference Tomorrow be sent to London or Paris and per, sented for adoption to the strikers’ haps to both. Minor to Speak at | Big Finnish Workers’ | Celebration Sunday Thousands of Finnish workers from New York City and vicinity will throng to College Point Field, | College Point, L. L, to attend a| huge all-day picnic and celebration that has been arranged by the Fin- | nish District Committee of Work- ers Clubs for this Sunday. The picnic will open at 10 a. m with an‘ athletic program in which some of the leading Finnish work- ing class athletes will take part. Many other entertaining numbers will also be included in the day’s activities, as well 2s liberal refresh- ments. One of the features of the affair will be the appearance of Robert Minor. editor of the Daily Worker and Workers (Communist) Party candidate for United States Sena- tor. Minor will speak at an elec- tion campaign rally that will be held at the picnic and will call upon the Finnish workers to support the program and candidates of the Workers Part; GORKI MUCH BETTER. LENINGRAD, pt. 6 (UP).— Maxim Gorki, novelist, who has been ill, was reported greatly improved today. | Youngstown is expected to attend | | the mass meeting, at which Benja- | min Gitlow will set forth the plat- |form of the class struggle to the | exploited workers of the big indus- | trial city. meeting, also announced a series of activities which will mobilize their membership for support of the Lie- bermann strike as well as for a gen- eral recruiting drive the union is about to begin. Section meetings of union mem- bers employed in all sections cf Greater New York will be held in the next few davs, with the first | scheduled for this Sunday after- | noon. This will be the Coney Island’ section, which will meet at 2:30 p. m. in the Workers Heuse, 2901 Mermaid Ave., Coney Island. The | $164 for Benefit of the Red Election Campaign Among the 250 guests and iO em- ployees of Camp Wocolona, Monroe, N. Y.. over $500 was raised during | The weekly speakers’ conference ‘Camp Wocolona Raises | crganizer and president will deliver a report. A general membership | meeting of the entire city will also he held the coming Tuesday night, | with the meeting place still to be announced. A call was also issued yesterday | to all members of the organization |Red Week for the Communist Elec- tion Campaign, the Daily Worker, the striking miners, the striking tex- tile workers, and for the general expenses of District 2 of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, in a wind- up drive. The manhole cover was hurled in- |to the air with such force that it | struck the elevated structure twenty |feet above the street level. It nar- rowly missed hitting several pass- ersby as it fell back to the pave- ment. ‘Plan Freiheit Gesangs Verein Picnic Sunday ‘at Pleasant Bay Park The annual niecnic of the Freiheit |Gesangs Verein will be held this | Sunday. Sent. 9 at Pléasant Bay |Park. The Freiheit Gesangs Verein, |under the direction of Lazar | Weiner, will render a program of songs. ‘The Freiheit Mandolin Or- \chestra will give a program of clas- The collections were as follows: |Sical numbers. The Russian Work- committee to attend, a meeting to- night in the union headquarters, 51 Worker, $166.50; striking miners, East 10th St. Matters pertaining | g119.41; striking textile workers, to the Lieberman strike and plans |¢¢1 29; District 2 of the Workers for the union membership drive will (Communist) Party, $19.96. be diseussed at tonight’s meeting. ‘The wind-up drives at Camp Woc- PERS |olona were made in accordance with 2 TRAIN WORKEFS KILLED | the general policy of the sar to COLUMBIA, S. C., é . encourage collections among the va- Loge wae See AT eationlate for the benefit of work- senger train of the Southern Rail-|ers on strike and for the campaigns way line ran into a washout three|of the only working class party in miles north of here today. The the country. During the season train was bound for Columbia from| over $3.500 was raised at the camp Greenville. The dead are D. B.| by the class-conscious workers who Ioore, engineer, and J. F, Rateree, spent their short vacation periods fireman. there. Red Election Campaign, $164; Daily TWO COMMUNIST CAMPAIGNERS ° THE VOTE COMMUNIST STAMP Printed over a background formed by the Red Hammer and Sickle with of Foster and Gitlow tastefully worked in, To be posted on envelop grams, shop papers, bulletins, PRICE: Book of eighty stamps, $1 at 10c per page of elght stamps, Quantity lots: 55 books for $50; 90 for $75; 125 for $100, Designed By Fred Ellis ~ THE VOTE COMMUNIST BUTTON A beautiful arrangement of the photographs of Foster and Gitlow within a solid red shield. VOTE COMMUNIST stands out. Can be sold anywhere for a dime. PRICE: in lots up to 100. in lots up to 1000, in lots up to 5000. in lots of 5000 or over. the photographs es, letters, pro- , ete. 00, Can be resold National Election Campaign Committee ‘WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY 43 East 125th Street NEW YORK, N. Y. | ers’ | niki,” will also be a feature. of District 2, Workers (Commu- nist) Party, will be held at the Workers Center, 26 Union Square, tomorrow at 2 o’clock. Harry Fox, |of, the Daily Worker, will talk on “How to Put the Daily Worker Over at Open-Air Meetings.” All Party, Young Workers League ond Pioneer speakers are urged to ‘attend and participate in the dis- cussion. Plan Picnic for ll Lavoratore Sunday Italian workers in New York and vicinity will hold a picnic for the benefit of Il Lavoratore, Italian Communist weekly newspaper, on Sunday. Sentember 9, at Zeman’s Park, Union Citv, N. J. The picnic will start at 10 a. m.) piece orchestra will be the feature. friendly interest in Tehicherin’s visit which otherwise might have passed | without incident. ‘Philly Bootleggers | Buy Up Arsenals PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 6 (UP). -—Six bullet-proof vests and three |hand-operated machine guns were erdashery purchased from him by Max “Boo Boo” Hoff. alleged head of a $10,000,000 alcohol ring, Ed- | ward Goldberg has admitted, Assis- | tant District Attorney Schofield said | today. t | Hie direct linking of Hoff, nation- jally known as a fight promoter be- cause of his connection with the | Philadelphia Dempsey-Tunney | hat- tle, with the recent gang warfare overshadowed other developments of a sensational day in the vice investi- gation. These included the indict- ment of 182 persons for prohibition \offenses by the federal grand jury and the holding of Goldberg on a perjury charge. 'Biedenkapp to Leave | Today for Fall River Fred Beidenkapp, national secre- |tary of the Workers International Relief, 1 Union Square, will leave tonight for Fall River, Mass.. to at- tend the opening of an additional relief station. | ‘TEACHERS WIN PAY RAISE. ATLANTA, Sept. 6.—Teachers in Balalaika Orchestra, “Lapot- Games, and music “by an eight-| Fulton county schools secured a pay | raise. | 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 Jor the $100,000 COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN FUND ANSWER i BEFORE YOU LAY DOWN THIS NOTICE 43 EAST 125TH STREET Are you unemployed and so badly in need that you cannot send even y ” 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 ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG, Treasurer National Election Campaign Committee q Just attach your con- tribution to the blank that we sent you and mail it in Now! | —_——__» NEW YORK CITY among the articles of gangland hab- _