The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 8, 1928, Page 2

rage Two WORKER, FACE His face swollen and blue, Mich- ael Intravator, an American-bor: worker of Ita 1 descent, od in the office of the New York Section of the International Labor Defense, 799 Broadway, yesterday, an quent witness to police and alo. boss UNITED HEBREW TRADES FAKERS SPLIT OLD UNION Militants Will Begin Organization Drive A large section of the membership of the Jew: Butcher Workers Un- fon, which is affiliated with the re- actionary United Hebrew Trades, revolted against the union wrecking tactics of their socialist officialdom and called upon the six progressives expelled from the old union several days ago, to form a new and genu- inely democratic organization which will conduct an honest fight for the betterment of working sti This was formally iplished yes- terday when the establishment of the Progressive Butchers Union was an- nounced. When the campaign of disruption carried on for the past few months by the right wing leaders of the old union reached its climax by the ex- pulsion of the progressive work- ers at a membership meeting early this week, a large section of the membership decided to call a halt to the reactionary policies of the right wing leaders. But when the expulsion of the six workers was followed up by attempts at removing them from their jc by threatening violence to the m tants involved, two reactions took place. One was the driving away of the right wing official who came to order the dismissal of the militant from his place of work, at 14 Rut- gers place and the other was the crystallized decision to cut away from the nest of grafters that com- pose the decayed United Hebrew Trades Union. With the beginning of the new week the leaders of the new union movement declare thy expect to have enrolled more than half of the pres- ent membership of the old union. In a few days, the progressive leaders announced, the new union will choose . Permanent officers for the prosecu- tion of the contemplated organiza- tion drive. The ousted workers were ed. because they were chosen las a committee to investigate the “finance accounts kept by the socialist bureaucrats. In taking this step the butcher workers become the second organiza- tion to launch an open struggle against the United Yebrew Trades. The first was the Retail Fruit, Groc- ery and Dairy’Clerks Union, whose bitter struggle with the U. H. T. thugs ended in their gaining com- plete control of the industry. ndards. i Big Mass Meet Here Plans for a mass meeting of all taxi drivers throughout New York City and vicinity were discussed at @ meeting of the newly formed Taxi Chauffeurs Union, held at the La- bor Temple, 84th St. and 3rd Ave last night. A number of new members were taken into the union, which is now conducting an organizational drive SE BLOOD brutality against all sus pected of radical sympathics. story He had been 3 a cleaner at the Pennsy lr and had been laid off som me ago, but was told by Superintendent Japanese Workers Suffer in Heavy Tokio Floods Hundreds of wor have inundated the s blocks and blocks. Y AND SWOLLE Tracy that he might come from time to time to see f there was any work. On Wednesday travator came to the of! und asked for work, He was told by Moloney, another member of the department, to report at 1 a. m. for work on the night shift. in Tokio, Japan, have been left homeless as the result of heavy rains . Above, a partially submerged quarter. Se joyed at getting a job again, |and the three of them began drag- reported promptly at 1|/ging Intravator away. Superin- - m., ready to start work. Near tendent Tracy and Moloney watched the Pennsylvania Railroad office a/the proceedings, but did not inter- Pp fere. The three guardians of “law and order” dragged Intravator to ennsylvania Raliroad policeman stopped him and began talking in a threatening manner to him. Soon two plain-clothes men came along ISSUE CALL FOR WORKING YOUTH MEET INN. Y. G. Unions, Clubs ‘Will Be Represented The Provisional Committee of the Working Youth Conference, which j will be held in New York City on the 29th and 80th of September, yester- ‘day sent out thousands of letters to ‘young workers throughout the city jand vicinity, calling upon them to attend the conference. The call, which is sent out to all unorganized as well as organized young workers, to all local unions, and to all working youth clubs, reads in part as follows: “A General Working Youth Con- which sections stretch for | Sunday, Sept. 29 and 30, at the La- |bor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave. The conference will get start- ome of these CAMP UNITY GOES OVER 4 UNIONS JOIN THE TOP FOR “DAILY” From an isolated, ramshackle farmhouse in the Berkshire hills to a modern, well-equipped proletarian rest home able to accommodate near- ly 1,000 workers during the swelter- ing summer months—this is the achievement of Camp Unity, at Wingdale, N. Y. Place of Beauty. Nestling in the soft, cool hills, the camp has grown nomenally in one brief year. “When we came here,” Morris Rifkin, manager of Unity reported, “we found practical- ly nothing but scenery.” Since that time a spacious, comfortable, sunny dining hall has been constructed able to accommodate one thousand guests. Built on beautiful Lake (Dilis Camp Unity is one of the beauty spots of southern New York and a pride to the thousands of militant workers whq come here each sum- mer to refresh themselves for in- creased activity in the class strug- gle. Recently “Daily Worker Week” was observed at Unity. More than $1,300 was contributed to the fight- ing daily by both camp workers and guests during that single week. From the workers alone, on jobs in the kitchen, on construction work and ingthe office, the sum of $501 was collected, each one donating at least one week’s wages to the cam- paign of the “Dai Unique methods, curiously enough njoyed by the workers present, were devised for building the fund for the Daily Worker. Various games were arranged. “Prohibitions” were the most lucrative source of revenue for the energetic directors of the cam- paign. Certain activities and luxuries were prohibited in the camp, and all those indulging in these had to pay a tax to the Daily Worker. Judges were chosen and from their decisions FRAME FASCIST FOES Zamboni Is Sentenced to Thirty Years ROME, Sept. 7.—Mammolo Zam- boni and his sister-in-law, Virginia Tabarroni, both on “trial” before a special fascist tribunal in connec- tion with an attempt on the life of Mussolini in October, 1926, were to- day sentenced to 30 yearn each. Ludovico Zamboni, son of Mammolo, was acquitted The sentence ended a long story of personal persecution on the part of the fascist premier, dating from one of a series of “attempts” on his life in Bologna in October, 1926. Anteo Zamboni, young son of Mam- molo, was lynched by a mob of blackshirts immediately after the attempt, altho his “guilt” had never been proved. The mbonis were enemies of the fascist regime. Considerable doubt has been ex- ’ TIONS AND ADS PUT YOUR ARTICLES, DONA- TRAIN AND RUSH TO THE BAZAAR COMMITTEE 30 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK pressed as to the authenticity of the series of “attempts” on Mussolini’s life, and prominent labor leaders have charged that the affairs have been pre-arranged so es to offer an excuse for the fascist terror. No injury has resulted in any of the attempts, but immediately after each severe repressions haye fol- lowed, in which thousands of Ital- ian workers were killed, injured and jailed The trial of the elder Zamboni and his sister-in-law was a farce, in which many witnesses were over- awed who testified as to the ab- sence of the accused from Bologna on the day of the alleged attempt. A few witnesses against the accused, all fascists, were sufficient to frame the Zambonis. there could be no appeal. William Abrams, member of the staff of the Communist Yiddish daily, “The Freiheit,” was the field- marshal in the drive. His ingenious mind and enthusiastic spirit domi- nated the entire campagn. Saturday Nucleus Active. Primarily responsible tor the suc- cess of the Daily Worker Week w the active nucleus of the Worl (Communist) Party at Unity. Bass. the unit organier, was here, there, and everywhere during the entire seven days of the campaign. Sam Daicksel, the sprightly social direc- tor, helped not only with his effec- tive and eloquent announcements at dinner-time, but with concrete sug- gestions for adding to the “fines and punishments” of the campers. Comrade Siegel, secretary of the co-operative which conducts Unity made himself into a popular hero by his ingenuity in gathering funds for the. Daily. Not only did the Com- munists at the camp throw all their energies into the campaign, but the non-Party members, many of them working at the camp, brought much enthusiasm into the drive. Nathaniel Buchwald, dramatic critic of the Freiheit, brought his famous pipe along with him, and his fruitful and witty mind aided the campaign enormously. M. Sultan Harry Fox, promotion manager of the Daily Worker, Dave Lyons of the W. I. R. camp, Sam Dassa, Celia Samorodin, Sophie Kniznick, Com- rades Feldman and Berkowitz—all these threw themselves might and main into the campaign. A Soviet. |ed Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. York City. The purpose of the the basis for drawing the young workers in this city into the ranks of the general labor movement. The STRIKE AID MEET x 4s + | conference will help to prepare and W.. 1. Re Textile’ Relief | mopitive. the young workers for Call Answered struggle in order to better their working conditions; to fight against wage-cuts; to abolish the speed-up system; and for the unionization of the youth. “This Working Youth Conference will help unite the young workers with the adult workers in the com- mon struggle against the bosses; will help prevent the bosses from employing the young workers at low- er wages than the adult workers and from using the youth as scabs and strikebreakers in times of strikes. The Working Youth Conference will help to bring the young Negro work- ers together with the white young workers; and will fight against the double discrimination of the young ew York unions organizations have they will attend the textile relief conference called by the Workers’ International Relief for Saturday, Sept. 15 at -Irving Plaza, according to Harriet Silver- man, secretary of the New York Local of the relief organization. More than thirty and fraternal signified that In a letter addressed to those unions which have not been heard ‘om, immediate action is asked of militant,union members to see that delegates are elected or appointed at once and the names and addresses sent immediately to Local New York Workers’ International Relief, 1 Negro workers—first as young Ne- Union Square, New York City, room| groes and then as young workers. 604. “Please read this call at your local meeting, at the youth club meeting, at the meeting of workers in the organized shops, and at the meeting of the shop committee. Please read the enclosed resolution. Send in the names and addresses of the dele- gates elected to the Working Youth Conference.” The conference will start the drive for’ 100 per cent support for the textile strikers and their wives and| children, Prompt relief means vic-| tory for the strikers. All workers in shops and factories should also have delegates appointed to repre- sent them. THE DAILY WORKER IN TEXTILE STRIKE By ALBERT WEISBORD. Jand were distributed free to them. The Daily Worker has proved to| This became one of the features of be of really inestimable aid to the|the strike meetings. Almost in no a) dark room in the Pennsylvania sta- | |tion and began beating and abusing the worker mercilessly. While they were beating him they kept asking him what nationality he was and to what organization he belonged. In- travator told them that he was an Italian and that he was not a mem- ber of any organization, but this Brothers of Murdered D’Olier, Smiling had no effect on the three officers, who continued to beat him until he was nearly unconscious. Then they threw him out of the room. Intravator has a brother, Jack Intravator, a member of the Work- | ternational = COMPANY POLICE sible for the brutal police attack on :|him, made with the sanction of the \flunkeys of the Pennsylvania Rail- road. The New York Section of the In- Labor Defense has ers (Communist) Party, and this|started an investigation into the fact is believed to have been respon- | case. Expelled Progressives Lead Members in Launching a New Butcher Workers Union From left to right: Francis D’Olier, Gilbert Waldrop and Henry D’Olier, the brothers of t he murdered L. D’Olier and their counsel, D’Olier is believed to have been murdered for knowing | too much about the Queens sewer graft scandal. FOSTER LEAVES ON U.S. TOUR of Departure Continued from Page One impoverished farmers, the new Working Youth Conference is to lay miners’ union, the New Bedford, strike. The Communist candidates are |now on the ballot in 19 states, in- cluding several backward southern states, Foster said. In response to a question from one of the reporters as to whether or not he expected to win any of the states, Foster re- plied: “Our program is based on a larger perspective than just that. We have no illusions about our ability to win states just at this time. nevertheless carry on an energeti campaign of propaganda and organi- zation among the masses of the |workers and farmers thruout the United States.” Kellogg Pact. Discussing the Kellogg eo" pact, Foster told the reporters that it was a fake gesture, forced by the proposal made by the Soviet Union at Geneva for complete scrapping of armaments. Unmasked by the com- We will) “Our speakers will reach every im- ‘portant industrial and farm center of the United States.” Asked about work among the Ne- groes, Foster said that for the first time in the history of the Party, speakers are being sent into -the backward southern states, and an ference will take place Saturday and! [g Interviewed on Eve | energetic campaign conducted. One of the reporters seemed espe- cially concerned about the Commu- nist campaign among the Negroes. “Do you -have some special reason “The purpose of this conference is Kellogg “peace” pact, the socialist for making an appeal to the Ne- to help in the organization of the! party, unemployment, the Negro,|groes?” the gentleman of the press unorganized young workers in New) prohibition, the present plight of the asked. | Party of Workers. “Our Party is a party of the | working class,” Foster replied. “The | Negroes, being among the most | viciously exploited of the Amevican | workers, we, of course, put special emphasis on, our campaign among them.” The interview ended, the Daily Worker representative happened to descend the stairs of the National Office with a bland young man from the New York Times. “He’s a mild-mannered fellow, isn’t he,” suggested the gentleman from Times Square, “but he’s sure been raising an awful lot of hell all ever the country.” HUGE SILK FIRM. LONDON, (By Mail).—Anglo- French (Verdun) Artificial Silk, Ltd., a public company with a nom- inal capital of five hundred thou- sand shilling, has been registered, | state Jordan and Sons, Ltd., to ac- quire a French company known as | prehensive proposal of the U. S. S.| “Verdun Textile.” R. Foster said, the world imperialists} | are now backing the Kellogg scheme jin an effort to hide their prepara- | tions for a new bloody war. Primarily, Foster said, the Kel- ‘logg pact is intended as a move) “The | | utter insincerity of the scheme,” he against. the Soviet Union. | said, “was conclusively revealed in (WORKER, AGED 13. HELPS TEXTILE MILL STRIKERS Urge Aid for Starving Fighters NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 7. —“I am now in my seventy-third year having been a ‘Jimmie Higgins’ than twenty years. I cannot bear to see the suffering of the textile strikers so I sent five dollars. Sorry I cannot indulge the passion for giving as much as I would like, but I am a worker and nearing the scrap-heap.”- So writes W. N. Pat- terson, aged worker of Zanesville, Ohio, in response to an appeal for funds for the relief of the hungry New Bedford and Fall River strik- ers issued by the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief, 1 Union Square. Heart-rending and pressing calls for food continue to pour into the offices of the W. I. R., Fred Bie- |denkapp, national secretary, said yesterday. “The New Bedford and Fall River textile strike will end in victory if only we can feed the wo- |men and children,” he said. 2 tae eae in the labor movement for more _ BOSTON, Sept. 7—Completing a three weeks’ tour in the state of Connecticut, for the relief of the | textile strikers, Jeannette D. Pearl, field organizer for the Workers’ In- ternational Relief, visited the strik- ers’ zone in New Bedford and ad- dressed two open-air meetings ar- | ranged by the T. M. C. for the strik- ers. Miss Pearl reports a remark- {able labor spirit. The W. I. R. maintains two soup kitchens in New Bedford. More are needed. A drive is now to be launched for shoes for \the picket line. | The W. I. R. is launching an ac- | tive campaign in Boston and vicin- ity for shoes, clothing and food. The | drive will be conducted by the field organizer, with headquarters at 38 Causeway St., Boston, Mass., Or- ‘ganizations are urged to cooperate. the statement which accompanied | Soviet Russia’s adherance to the | pact.” Its Greatest Support. |, The candidates and platform of the Workers (Communist) Party | will get their greatest support in |the coming election, Foster said, in Camp Unity has a Workers Coun-| textile strikers in New Bedford and ‘time the bundles would disappear.|those sections where the Party has cil, It meets each week and takes Fall River. In Fall River the capi- |The Daily Worker became the strik- | taken an active, and.often a leading up not only the relations of the talist press simply rotted with ven-|ers’ paper, and because of the fact | role in the industrial struggles. Fos- camp employes with the manage- |that no strike bulletin could be is- emous \poison against the worker: | ter cited the activity of militants in ment, but also recommendations for In the very first day of the strike | sued in the field, became the strike |the mine, needle trades and textile the improvement of the camp. The there appeared a special editorial to | bulletin of the textile strikers in | struggles. Workers Council was in the fore+ front of the campaign. Nearly $70,000 was expended in improving the camp this year, ac- cording to manager Rifkin. A large number of workers, many of them from the native community, helped in the construction. “In spite of the low wages gener- ally paid in this section,” said Riv- kin, “these workers received the union scale. We hired no contrac- tors, whatever. Interesting, isn’t it, but many’ of these workers from the communities joined the Party and are now active. No Special Privileges. No attempt is made to create a utopia for the camp workers, the manager said. “It is unsound for an employe to expect to get special privileges here jyst because we are a workingclass camp. On the con- trary, because we are a workingclass camp, he should be even more con- scientious—he must show the true proletarian spirit.” Two thousand workers co-operate in the management of Camp Unity and in addition to the camp there is also a residence for wo: ‘& wo- ON A FAST Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaa |the citizens of Fall River, telling|the field. Already hundreds have \them to be steady, that the red flag | given their names for permanent of Communism would never fly in|subscription. Because they have Fall River and the strikers would | seen that only the Communist press, |soon be crushed. This open filth |only the Daily Worker could be re- was peddled daily and appeared in|lied on day in and day out to give every news line concerning the the correct news, and to rally all strike. | forces for the defense of the strike. In New Bedford the papers play-| Suppose there had been no Daily jed a more clever role. In many) Worker? I can safely say that the subtle ways by boosting the labor |oss of the Daily Worker to the |bureaucrats, by innuendoes against | strikers would have been a deep |the T. M. C. organizers, by playing |and telling blow which might have Jup the strikebreaking role of the|had the most serious effects upon |socialist party and such persons as|the strike as a whole. | Powers Hapgood and Mary Dono- van, the New Bedford press has | ¢; done its bit all too well to break the resistance of the workers. In this situation the only paper | the workers could turn to was the Daily Worker. The Daily Worker came in big bundles to the strikers All the comrades working in the eld have felt the great support the Daily gives them in mobilizing the masses and wiping out the /poison that their enemies daily try to | spread in the ranks of the workers. The Party and left wing is mov- se dibasic ker8 ing along in mass work. Its effects men at 110th St. and Seventh Ave.|#7e being felt more and more. Now Here 240 girls and women find con-|more than ever we need the Daily genial homes. “The spirit there,”| Worker. It is up to the workers— the manager was careful to point| textile and others in the various s not the Y. W. C. A. spirit.”| centers in the U. S. to get behind Here he said the atmosphere is one| the Daily Worker campaign for 10,- |of proletarian democracy. | 000 new readers. | “Thousands of farmers,” the Com- |munist candidate said, “bankrupt | |and impoverished, and convinced of | thé futility of expecting genuine aid from the capitalist government, will | rally to the banner of our Party.” Declaring that most of the so- called leaders of the discontented and leaflets carrying class struggle to all ploited farmers of the election campaign ye Workers (Communist a : Every class-conscio' to co-operate in this task. Attach One Dollar to this coupon for 10 copies of the new 64 page Party Platform, | distributed by you FREE OF CHARGE. | farmers have been repeatedly bribed | | in one form or another, Foster cited |the case of the McNary-Haugen ; bill. “Curious, isn’t it,” Foster said, |“that McNary, the co-author of the bill, immediately after President Coolidge vetoed the bill; suddenly |announced his support of Coolidge.” In response to another question, Foster said that no issues existed | between the republican and demo- |eratic parties. “They are both par- ties of business,” he said. Foster leited the fact that many powerful corporations are investing in the campaign funds of both parties. is only one of the gang,” he said. Work Among Negroes. Foster told of the campaign tours being arranged by the Workers Party throughout the United States. | “Insull of Illinois, who made hand- | some contributions to both parties, | | Comrades: Enclosed find $1.00 for Party. 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