The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 8, 1928, Page 1

COMMUNIST PARTY GOES ON BALLOT IN. KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE THE DAILY WORK ER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Matered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥. ler the act ef March 3, 1878. Vol. V., No. 213 Published daily except 6; Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union al Daily Worker New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, S ATURD. Y, SEPT é MINE WORKERS PARTY ON BALLOT IN. 2 MORE STATES Kentu cky, Tennessee Have Candidates on Red Ticket Rally Negro Workers Foster and Gitlow Will Tour South The Communist Election Campaign | has scored another great triumph | in the hitherto solid south, having succeeded in placing its national | and state tickets on the ballot in| the open-shop mining states of | Kentucky and Tennessee, bringing | ~_ the total number of states on the Communist ballot up to 19, five of Communist Nominee | | Edward Welsh, Workers munist) Party candidate twenty-first assembly district, New York City. (Com- CHIEFS REJECT LABOR UNITY Defeat Move to Resume Relations With USSR Unions Men Condemn Decision Effect of Cook Speech Is Profound | | |the British Trades Union Congress | in. session in Swansea, Wales, today in the| succeeded in defeating the desire of the éverwhelming majority of the rank and file unionists to resume re- | lations with the Soviet trade unions. Leaders of the Congress who two LONDON, Sept. 7.—Officials of Against Knapp To Be Dropped A maining indictments against Mrs. Knapp in connection with the em- bezzlement of thousands of dollars . of the 1925 mil- lion-dollar census funds, will be dropped, it was revealed today. At the same time lawyers for the former re- publican secre- tary of state an- nounced that she has definitely de- cided to abandon all legal moves to secure her re- lease from a theo- |retical sentence of 30 days in the Albany County Jail. Mrs. Knapp |was sentenced on Monday, and until Mrs. Knapp days ago were active in expelling today she rested leisurely in the oe ee ee eee ae Communists and members of the private home of the county sheriff. Dixon line. KENOSHA WRIT The Workers (Communist) Party | ticket is now on the ballot in the| following states: Kentucky, Ten-| nessee, West Virginia, South Da-| kota, New Jersey, Delaware, Penn- sylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Michigan, Towa, Ilinois, Nebraska, Kansas, | Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, | Texas, and Arkansas. This is five | more than the total on the ballot | in 1924. Open-Shop Mine Center. Kentucky, known as the Grass State, is a great open-shop mining center in which the United | Mine. Workers of America-/never | succeeded in making much bendiay; | because of the failure of John L. Lewis to send capable organizers | into the state and the semi-feudal conditions that prevail there. Blue | | The output of the open-shop coal | Jerre in Kentucky helped consider- | ably to break the great bituminous | strike that raged in Pennsylvania | and Ohio for over a year, ending | with the surrender of John L. Lewis to the coal operators. The advent of the Workers (Com- | munist) Party in Kentucky is cer- | tain to give fresh impetus to the miners in that state. Already or- | ganizers have been sent into Ken- | tucky by the arrangements commit- | putting across a successful frame- | tee of the New Miners Union, | whose national organizing confer-| homes of strikebreakers, agents of | ence in Pittsburgh opens tomorrow. | the employers still continue to ar- | The miners in the Blue Grass State | are anxious to join a union that will | fight for their interests, but they | refuse to have anything to do with | the U. M. W. A., officered by reac- tionary tools of the republican and | democratic parties. No Party Organization. There was no Party organization | in Kentucky and only a few Party | members when Comrade Judson of the Cleveland district was sent into he state a few months ago to or- anize the campaign for placing the | ‘ommunist ticket on the ballot. | rough the few Party members he was able to make contact with sev- eral sympathizers who joined the or- ganization after consenting to act as electors. Several more have Joined the Party since then. , Tennessee is also bidding for fur- | ther fame by having a Communist | ticket on the ballot for the first | time in histo Like Kentucky, | Tennessee is an open-shop coal min- | ing state. The president and only official of District 19 of the U. M. W. A., William Turnblazer, has a post-office box address at Jellico, but, though his name sounds hot, that gentleman has done little or nothing to bring the coal diggers inside the ranks of organized labor. Pioneer Work. Judson, who organized the drive to put the Communist ticket on the ballot in Tennessee, had to do fmm work. Outside of a few jommunists and sympathizers, here was hardly any party organ- ization, but the sentiment for th program of the class struggle wai so strong in that opem-shop, low- wage state that within a few weeks he had succeeded in holding a state convention and complying with the legal requirement for getting the ticket on the ballot. The National: Election Campaign Committee is now working to line uv Virginia, Georgia, Alabams, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi, and several organizers sent fromn headquarters in New York are busily engaged collecting signatures and lining up Communist sympathizers. Continued on Page Three - | up NOW PERMANENT ‘Scabs Still Planting «: Bomb Frame-ups KENOSHA, Wis., Sept. 7.—The in force against the striking hosiery minority movement from the hall in | Today, evidently as a result of the an effort to silence criticism of their| ridicule heaped upon the authorities policies today fought the propesal to resume relations. proposals to convene a world con- | ference to discuss the formation of \a single, all embracing international |temporary anti-picketing injunction | trades union. The collapse of A. J. Cook yester- Following close on the heels of wholesale flouting of trade union opinion, the officials blocked because of their obvious efforts in coddling the G. 0. P. embezzler, Mrs. Knapp has been transferred to the “hospital” of the jail. Here, it is believed, she will receive the same lavish attention that has been be- stowed upon her by the prison au- thorities since she arrived here. knitters here since last March was| day while making a single handed | DARD IL declared permanent by a ruling | made yesterday Milwaukee. In the strike, which be- gan last February when the Allen-A Company tried to enforce a speed- system, the knitters defiantly violated the strikebreaking writ, de- spite sentences meted out for “con- tempt of court.” In addition to granting per- manence to the injunction, Federal Judge Geiger-awarded the company permission to sue forlegal costs and damages allegedly suffered by the hose mill owners. A new batch of strikers, who are charged with} “injunction violation,” were ordered | brought to trial at an early date by | Geiger. It is expected that the early in October. Although unsuccessful as yet in up of strikers for “bombing” the Continued on’ Page Five D'OLIER FEARED MURDER ATTEMPT | Brother Charges Sewer | Grafters Responsible William L. D’Olier. imvortant witness in the Queens’ borough | sewer graft investigation who was found shot to death under mysteri- ous circumstances last Sundav, was “marked for death,” according to two witnesses before the grand jury investigating the $29,500,000 sewer | scandal. Gilbert C. Waldron, long_a_busi- ness associate of D’Olier, and Henry D’Olier of Bridgeport, brother of |the dead man, were responsible for | onslaught on what he characterized \ 5 A ‘spread condemnation in | quarters. TO RENEW POWER TRUST HEARINGS by Judge Gieger in| as policies of betrayal has had al |profougd affect upon the member-| ‘ship of the unions, and today’s ac- | tion of the officials has met wide-| many ee | Democrats Get $500,000 in One Month Edward S. Harkness, financier and | high official of the Standard Oil |Company yesterday announced his | support of Tammany Al Smith. He | accompanied his endorsement with a | check for $10,000, which, democratic WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UP).—| campaign leaders hope will be but An open session of the Federal Trade|a prelude to larger sums before the work of organizing the non-union| workers will be haled into court | Commission’s investigation of the presidential election takes place in | power industry will be held Sept. 13 November. | sion announced today. presented at the initial commission’s possession without having been formally entered in evi- dence. mission developed that the press, the theatre and elsewhere. No date has yet been set for heqr- when documents on utilities propa-| ganda will be offgred, the commis- Witnesses will be called on Sept. |17 to testify regarding documents hearing. Most of these are already in the! miniion dollars—$438,919. In earlier hearings, the com- utilifies | placed their propaganda in schools, ings on propaganda work in West , s Coast states. After this phase is donations made by powerful Ameri- | Coincident with the announcement |of Harkness’ contribution, the “of- | ficial” monthly report of donations | received was made by Col. Herbert H. Lehman, director of finance of |the National Democratic Committee. |Contributions totalled almost half 15 were |formally reported to have been ob- | tained by the committee in the single month of August. |of the goal set by the committee for |the entire campaign. | The contribution by Harkness is jone of a long list of substantial Jended, the commission will have| Can industrialists to both twin par- hearings on the financial aspect of | the utilities organizations. Plan Freiheit Gesangs Verein Picnic Sunday at Pleasant Bay Park The annual picnic of the Freiheit Gesangs Verein will be held tomor- row at Pleasant Bay Park. The Freiheit Gesangs under the direction of Verein, Lazar | ties of Wall Street. | ‘RUMOR BRITAIN MAY VOID PACT LONDON, Sept. 7.—With the ob- | Jections of the United States made | unmistakably clear, the British Cab- |inet is planning to nullify its arms the assertions that gunmen hired Weiner, will render a program of pact with France, according to ru- \by sewer grafters killed the witness rather than that he had taken his have heretofore never been per-| own life. Waldrop said that D’Olier told) him Saturday night before shooting that he was afraid. It also was pointed out that D’Olier had) purchased a revolver—which was | not used in the shooting—for the | purpose of protecting himself. | songs and classics, many of which formed by the organization. To reach the picnic grounds, the the I. R. T. Lexington Ave. train should | be taken to the 177th St. station. | Then change to the Grand Union car to the end of the line, where a bus will take the picknickers to Pleasant Bay Park. FOSTER BE GINS TOUR Interview With Communist Candidate William Z. Foster, presidential candidate of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, left late last night for Detroit and Flint, Mich., where he will open his nation-wide campaign tour on Sunday. He will speak in Flint in the afternoon and in Detroit in the evening. Just before he left on the tour which will take him into a large number of important industrial cen- ters, including as far west as Spo- kane, ‘Wash., and as far south as Alabama and Georgia, Foster met reporters from a number of capi- talists newspapers, outlined the is- sues which he will emphasize on his tour. The interview took place at the national headquarters of the Workers (Communist) Party, 43 E. 125th St, In response to questions Foster told of the energetic campaign now being conducted by the Party. Foster answered questions on the Continued cn Page Two | mors widely circulated here. The rumored action on the part of | the Cabinet in no way lessons the hostility between Great Britain and | the United States, according to well- informed opinion. It merely means British government finds it inad- visable at the present stage to carry {thru its pact. The terms of the treaty leaked out in spite of every | effort on the part of the British and | French governments to keep them quiet. It has also been suggested that the rumored Cabinet decision may be a blind for carrying the treaty into effect. H. Gordon at Speakers Corference Today at 2 The weekly speakers conference of District 2 of the Workers (Com- | munist) Party will be held at the | Workers ‘Center, 26-28 Union Sq., jat 2 p. m. today. Hyman Gordon, | the principal speaker, will discuss the Youth Election Campaign, This is one-sixth | |if the rumors are correct that the | RA BSCRIPTION BRITISH UNION 12 Indictments MILL STRIKERS MASS PICKETING ‘SELL-OUT PARLEY Many March Around) Miners Back Move For New Union New Bedford Hotel as Police Rally UTW Men Join Pickets “Only T. M.C. Can End Strike,” Signs Say NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 7. —Hundreds of striking workers now gathering in picket formation around the New Bedford Hotel where repre- sentatives of the Cotton Manufac- turers’ Association and the official- dom of the A. F. of L. Textile Coun- cil are meeting in conference to sell out the 21 week old anti-wage cut struggle of the 28,000 mill opera- tives. Thousands of pickets are expected to arrive while the police are busily massing reserves nearby. Inter- spersing the crowds of Textile Mill Committee members are also mem- bers of the A. F. of L. union who \are joining in the struggle against a betrayal of the strike. Those picketing are carrying num- erous placards denouncing Batty and his henchmen as_ strikebreakers. Some of them read: “No Com- im New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail. $6.00 FINAL CITY | EDITIO Priee 3 Cente 2 on Verge of Death When Lewis Stool Pigeon Fires as Bentleyville Militants Rally to Build New Union Despite Terror by Reactionary Lewis Machine; Hundreds to Take Part | Delegates From Kansas, Pennsylvania Arrive; Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, West Virginia, Maryland Miners Due Today {Special by: Long Distance Phone to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Sept. 7.Hardly had the riddled body of Frank Bonita, mine militant, been buried in Wilkesbarre, when two more progressive miners, delegates to the National Miners’ Convention which opens here Sunday, were shot by a Lewis stoolpigeon at a local meeting in Bentleyville. MINERS DEFY LEWIS MACHINE. In spite of the terror, miners throughout the country are going ahead with the fight to build the new national union. tion opening tomorrow which will begin the construction of th Headquarters of New promise!, No Sell-Out!” “We De- “ge mand Rank and File Negotiations!”! |. Settlement Without the'T. M: |C. is a Sell-Out!” ‘The T. M. C. Led} | the Picket Lines, the T. M. C. Will Settle For Us!” ; The employers had signified their willingness to meet Batty early this afternoon and the conference for the betrayal were quickly arranged for the same evening, having begun at 7:30 this evening. (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 7. —Acting informally until today in all their strikebreaking attempts to grant the speed-up system to the | mill owners, Batty and Co., leaders of the A. F. of L. Textile Council yesterday pyblicly conceded the vi- |cious “Frieder Plan” system to the bosses in accepting an invitation to confer with them on the ending of | the strike. The invitation was tend- }ered to the Textile Council and to the cotton manufacturers by the Citizens Mediation Committee. Eager acceptance to confer is ex- pected from the employers momen- tarily. The traitorous step of accepting the invitation to the conference wjth | an endorsement of the speed-up sys- }tem, was taken by the A. F. of L. officials at a time when the capital- ist press was compelled to print stories heralding an imminent break in the ranks of the mill owners’ association. In granting the employers the ad- vance privilege of installing an “efficiency system” that would mean a bigger cut than the ten per cent that precipitated the strike, Batty declared, “The Council believes that the interests of the workers, stock- holders, consumers, and the com- | munity is more secure where the in- dustry is scientifically and efficient- ly operated. We understand that a truly scientific plan for operating the industry is impossible without our co-operation. . We sin- cerely hope that the conference will accomplish its object in the greatest possible degree.” The “fly in the ointment” of both the manufacturers and the labor be- trayers is, however, that any sell-out pact reached by them will not result in any wide-scale reopening of the 56 mills closed down for the last 21 weeks. Conclusion of a fake settle- ment will not result in a return of the workers to the mills, but the mill Continued on Page Three Above the headquarters in the south end, New Bedford. giving aid to thousands of str twenty-first week of their w Bedford Strike Relief ba wie a of the Workers International Relief Mass. The W. I. R. has been ng textile workers now in the out. This work requires the greatest possible assistance from all workers thruout the United States and they are requested to send contributions and clothing to the Workers International Bedford, Mass. Relief, 49 Williams St., New PICKET STEEL MILL Bronx Young Workers in Big Signature Drive The members of all the four units of the Bronx sectiog of the Young Workers (Communist) League will |meet tomorrow, at 9 a. m. at the Section headquarters, 2075 Clinton Ave., to rally for the big signature |drive to put the candidates of the Workers (Communist) the ballot in the Bronx. Each young worker will be ex- ‘pected to report, promptly, hecause \the work is the’ most important to | the Party at the present time. DESPITE INJUNCTION Greek Workers Center | Opening Is Postponed Until Next Saturday The Greek Workers Progressive Center, which was originally an- nounced to be opened tomorrow, has postponed its opening celebration one week until Saturday, Sept. 15. On that day, a huge banquet and dance will be held at the new Center, which is located at 101 West 28th St in order to open the activities in a fitting manner. At the banquet next Saturday, dancing to the music of a five-piece professional jazz band will begin im- mediately after the workers have packed the luscious feast away. New features are also promised, but the nature of them will not be revealed until the festive night. RAP ‘TAM DERBY, Conn., Tam- many Al Smith was last night char- acterized as an executive who has burdened the state of New York with a staggering load of taxation by Schuyler Merritt, of this city. Sept. CANTON, Ohio, Sept. 7. — A march to the picket line such as has not yet been witnessed in the pro- gress of the Canton steel strike was the men’s answer yesterday to the Central Alloy Steel Corporation’s attempt to serve injunctions on the strikers. Following the suceess of the cor- poration in securing an injunction specifically mentioning eighty strik- ers by name and permitting only four men ‘to picket the mill at one time, the 500 chippers and grinders who are in the fifth week of their struggle against the powerful steel interests, crowded an overflow meet- ing. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Central Alloy Steel Mill Committee. At the same time, the scabs are leaving the mill and many join- ing the ranks of the strik sti- mates of from 900 to 1100 have been put on the number of scabs imported by the steel corporation to break the strike, but with few exceptions Continued on Page Three FRANKFORT, The annual convention of the State Federation of Labor will convene in the State Capitol on Monday, September 17. SUPPORT BAZAAR, CALL Communist Party Appeals to Workers An appeal to all Workers (Communist) Party and all units of the] tee of the Workers (Communist) Party considers the Joint Bazaar ar- sympathetic organizations to rally| ranged for the benefit: of the Daily behind National Baaar Week, Sept.|Worker and the Freiheit for Oct. 4, League acting as chairman. 10:to 17 was issued last night by the Central Executive Committee of the! | Party. Party on> National Bazaar Week will mobilize all forces for the great Daily Worker-Freiheit bazaar in Madison Square Garden, Oct. 4, 5, 6 and 7. The appeal follows: “The Central Executive Commit-i 5, 6 and 7 at Madison Square Gar- den in New York City an event of | tively unmolested, although the ji At) this particular moment, when large, highest national importance. sections of the American working class are engaged in bitter struggles against the bosses, of betrayal of the workers by the labor bureau- Continued on Page Three Delegates continue to pour into Pittsburgh for the conven- e new organization. Progressives Dying. George Moran and Frank Kovac are now lying at the point of death in a hospital and Kovae’s young son is seriously wounded as a result of a bloody attack made on the pro- gressive miners by Louis Car- boni, who for a long time has posed as a progressive while undermining. the. work.qaof tan | progressives in the building of a new national miners’ union, Immediately after the shooting, Carboni fled to the hills and is new being sought. Rank and File Back Militants. The shooting followed a heated discussion on a motion pushed by Carboni, who was chairman of the meeting, that the delegates chosen to attend the convention should not attend. When the motion was over- whelmingly defeated by the rank and file, Carboni approached the progressive delegates and opened fire. Frantic at the determination of the miners to form a new union, Lewis has been rounding up all his paid thugs and henchmen for a cdm- paign of-terror a t the mili- tants. Rank and file miners through- out the country are answering this attack with added det tion to oust the corrupt Lewis t mas chine and build on its ruins a new fighting organization. PITTSBURGH, Sept. 7.-With the arrival of Tom Wakefield and the first delegation of 10 rdnk and file miners from Kansas yesterday the National Miners Convention to build a new union was launched, though its sessions do not officially open until tomorrow. Tom Wray with part of the dele- gation from McDonald, Pa., where the Pittsburgh Coal Company has been open shop since 1925 and where Lewis last month withdrew the pick- ets, brought another note of militant enthusiasm to the gathering men. The intense atmosphere, in which for the past weeks have been made the final arrangements for receiving the hundreds of delegates, who will tax the facilities of the convention, Continued on Page Five JINGOES ATTACK BAY RIDGE MEET An open-air meeting, arranged by the Workers (Communist) Party at 50th St. and Fifth Ave., Brooklyn, was last night attacked by a group of 15 American Legion jingoes. The police, as is usually the case when Legion attacks on Communist meet- ings are planned, were nowhere to be seen in the vicinity. The meeting opened shortly after 8:30 p. m., with Schwatzberg of the Young Workers (Communist) The first speaker, Reice, was compara- goes shouted and shoved and dis- turbed the meeting in many other ways. It was when I. Zimmerman took the platform to speak that the Legionnaires began to shove for- ward until they had completely sur- rounded the rostrum. <