The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 11, 1928, Page 1

CALL FOR END OF U. S. FACTIONALISM AT RED YOUTH CONGRESS a THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS y) TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FINAL CITY FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ EDITION 4 GOVERNMENT ae ; } Entered as a¢cond-class matter at the Post Office fat New York. N. Y., under the act of Mareh 3, 1878. SDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1928 by The National Daily Worker Union Sq., New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Outside New York, Published daily except Sunday , $8.00 per year. Publishing Association, Inc., 86.00 per year. Vol. V., No. 215 NON F' Keller and Dawson, New Bedford Leaders, Ousted from United Textile Conven tion MILITANTS BARE. & STRIKEBREAKING OF UT.W, CHIEFS McMahon, Campos in Frenzied Attack on T. M. C. Oust Passaic Delegates | Comes on Eve of Plans for Real Union Eli Keller and Ellen Dawson, among the leaders of the present | New Bedford strike and of the Pas- | saic struggle of 1926, were yester- day arbitrarily excluded from the strikers. of the Textile Mill Committees. a Hi % New Bedford textile strikers are now in the twenty-second week of their grim struggle against the mill bosses, and they are as determined to win as ever as was demonstrated over- whelmingly by the parade and mass meeting held last Saturday under the auspices of thea New Bedford Textile Workers Union Above, organizer addressing convention of the United Textile Workers’ Union which opened in the morning at the Great Northern Ho- tel here. Officials of the union who ordered the ouster did not even trouble to offer an explanation for their actions, despite that both Kel- Jer and Dawson are accredited dele- | gates from Locals 1618 and 1619 of | the Passaic U. T. W. | The entire morning session of the| convention was devoted to eulogies interspersed with hymn-singing. in» BOSSES ADMIT POWER OF TMC Employers, AFL, Push Sell-Out Plans (Special to the Daily Worker) | BRIAND ATTACKS USSR AT GENEVA Delivers Vicious Speech at League Meet pide seas Textile Pickets and Grates BIG COMMUNIST a a sa VOTE EXPECTED DESPITE JINGOES Signature Drives Ex- ceed Hopes in Many States Miners Rally to Party Fascists, Bosses Put Obstacles in Way The great industrial state of Ohio and two southern states, Ken- tucky and Tennessee, are now on the Communist ballot, bringing the total up to nineteen. The comrades in Ohio collected 20,000 signatures tho only 14,500 were required. The signatures were all collected by voluntary effort, the comrades visiting the homes after working hours and also collecting at the shops during lunch hour. Expect Big Vote. Ten thousand of those signatures were collected in Cleveland alone. |The steel cities of Youngstown and Warren contributed a good percen- GENEVA, Sept. 10.—A bitter at-| tage of the necessary names. A heavy Communist vote is ex- Stella Correia, above, New Bed- ford textile striker is now in New York City seeking relief for her fellow strikers. She is addressing unions and fraternal organiza- tions nightly. Mrs. Correia and her little daughter, Mary, are familiar figures on the New Bed- ford picket lines. Both have been repeatedly clubbed and jailed by the police. (Photo by the Work- ers International Relief. CALL FOR END OF FACTIONALISM National Organization Launched; Greatest Enthusiasm of Delegates Representing All Coal Mine Fields * Sheriff Again Orders Meeting to Disperse But Not. Before Miners Have Completed Historic Task of Convention Watt Is Named President; Boyce, Negro Miner, for Vice-l’resident; ‘ By JACK LEE. Weisbord Rece*ves Ovation for Textile Workers (Special To The Daily Worker.) PITTSBURGH, Sept. 10.—The New National Miners’ Union which is to unite the forces of nearly one million bituminous and anthracite coal diggers of America for the coming era of struggle against the oppressor coal barons was born here today. The union with the great- est tradition of militancy and heroism in American labor history, built through the life sacri- fice of hundreds of coal diggers, in the end, torn apart and finally wrecked by the treacher- ous policy of the Lewis machine, was reborn here today under a new form, a rank and file leadership with a program of battle which promises a new era for the courageous miners. Evading the continued onslaughts of the police and the Lewis gangsters who yesterday raided the first meeting of the convention, over seven*hundred delegates met hastily at the | memory of S. A. Conboy, the late] NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept.|tack on the Soviet Union which has | ini f union secretary, and the Qe err. | 10.—Feeling against the attempt to| constantly advocated lete dis-|Pected in the mining region of ession was given over to villifica-| a < jeonstantly advocated complete dis- Peake , A 3 Ks s f i betray the strike by granting a ‘ ked th hee Ohio where the bituminous strike » tion of the Textile Mill Committee | need-up system to the mill owners, | 27 = amens marke by fe speech of) . 25 recently called off by John L. |, in which the two ousted progressive | }.,5 risen to such a great pitch since Foreign Minister Briand of France Lewis. Owing to the activities of delegates @re taking a leading part. the two anti-sellout demonstrations at this morning’s session of the the Communisty during the strike Plan Sell-out. of the Textile Mill Committees, that League of Nations assembly. the miners are very sympathetic to Commenting sarcastically on the the Party and many c< them joined joining of the pact to “outlaw” war * Workers Center at East Pittsburgh last night to carry out the second and successful session U.S. Negro Presides at at which the full plans for the new union were formulated. Meeting again this morning ——————the business of launching the new organization was all but completed when it was again interrupted by police and the sheriff of Allegheny County, who ordered the delegates to dis- perse and issued a proclamation forbidding the further holding * of meetings. While these sessions were in progress further develop- Red Youth Congress MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.; Sept. 10. —Bucharin reported on the results The expulsion of Keller and Daw-|the columns of the capitalist press up. of the Sixth World Congress of the son from the epnvention comes here are compelled to admit their 5 Southern States. simultaneously w,... the bitter fight | doubts as to whether a “settlement” which the 28,000 New Bedford tex-| With the A. F. of L. officials -will tile workers are waging against the Tesult in a return of the textile U. T. W. to sell out the struggle | Workers to the looms. which is now in its twenty-second| First the picketing demonstration week. It also comes on the eve of Of hundreds of strikers at the New the formation of the new national | Bedford Hotel, where the bosses and textile workers’ union which will be | the Textile Council leaders were in organized at a convention to be held in New York City on Sept. 22-23. When the credentials committee Continued on Page Two PLAN FOR MINE RELIEF MEETING Watt to Speak at Big Meet While the delegates of the rank and file miners continue their con- vention at Pittsburgh to build a new Miners’ Union despite the police and Lewis thug terror, preparations are being speeded in New York City to make the monster Solidarity Mass Meeting on Thursday evening, Sept. 20, a tremendous demonstration of the workers of this city in support of the thousands of coal diggers who are throwing off the yoke of the treacherous Lewis leadership. The meeting, which will be held at Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., under the auspices of the National Miners’ Relief Com- mittee, 799 Broadway, and the Shop Delegates’ Conference for Miners’ Relief, will have as its chief speak- er John Watt, chairman of the Na- tional Convention Arrangements Committee and one of the leaders Continued on Page Three Coolidge Heir Obtains His First Position With “Friends of Family” In return for services rendered by his papa to the Morgan interests which control the railroad, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad yesterday announced that it had given a position to John Cool- lidge, son of Calvin. True to the traditional bunkum, it was announced that. Young Cool- jdge will begin “at the bottom” with a $30 a week wage. His father is expected to get a job either with the U, S. Steel Corpora- tion or unother Morgan erpiration of his term. | conference, and then the tremendous parade demonstration of 35,000 | strikers and sympathizers on Satur- \day, showed conclusively that the capitalist press far understate their “doubts.” Not only has the great “no com- | promise” movement, begun by the |T. M. C., taken hold among the vast majority of the 28,000 strikers here, but even the membership of the | Textile Council who have not as |yet severed their relations with the A. F. of L. union, frankly declare |that they will fight Batty and his | | gang in their locals. Speed-Up Plans. The first full membership meet-_ |ting of the Cotton Manufacturers | Association held in many months | will take place tonight to consider | Batty’s offer to settle the strike if |the bosses would exchange the wage lcut for the Frieder Plan, a speed- up system whereby the workers will | produce much more for a pay small- er than even the wage cut pay. | Realization of Batty’s impotence barons negotiating committee gave jinterviews to the nress, which de- \in getting the strikers back to work, jis, however, dawning on the mill, owners, and their action at tonight’s |meeting is expected to reflect this |knowledge. Hitherto, the mill Continued on Page Three | to 4 PRISONERS ESCAPE. SALEM, Mass., Sept. 10 (UP).—| Four prisoners in the Essex Coun- | ty jail escaped tonight by sawing | the bars of the prison dining room.) by the Soviet Union, he did not stop to answer any of the trenchant cri- ticisms that accompanied the Soviet note of adherence. He said: “While this country’s signature has been placed on the anti-war pact, renouncing war of aggression, I do not know if it has of war which some regard as ‘holy war.’ renounced another kind Some think they and the}: alone un- _derstand and trust and they desire on other impose their views countries by force of arms. Such a war may be inspired by sentiment In addition to Tennessee and Ken- tucky there are now on the ballot in the’ south, Texas, Arkansas. and@under Maryland. The Communist ticket was never before on the ballot in those states. The National Election Campaign Committee now claims that the Communist ticket will be on the bal- lot in thirty-five states instead of the ‘thirty originally set as a goal. | With two months more to go before election day, the Party has five more states on the ballot than it had four years ago at the end of Octo- and may be more respectable than | ber. Continued on Page Two 3 CONFERENCES ON BIG BAZAAR Call Bronx, Brooklyn, | Jersey Meets Three important conferences the New York district will take place this week tq consider plans for | making the Daily Worker-Freiheit | bazaar in Madison Square Garden! Oct. 4, 5, 6 and 7 the greatest event of its kind ever held. Representatives of \Bronx trade unions and fraternal organizations will meet tomorrow night at 8 o’clock at 1472 Boston ‘h Road. Preparations will be made to organize on a broad scale thruout the Bronx the work of collecting ar- ticles and other activities in connec- tion with the bazaar. On Thursday night at 8 o’clock a similar conference will be held by Continued on Page Three in} sympathetic 100 MOTHERS STRIKE concern up- Rebelling against the tyranny of |the petty officialdom of the New York school system which compels children to go long distances over |dangerous street crossings in order to get to school, 100 working class mothers gathered at the corner of | 50 and demonstrated against the efforts of school authorities to eject their children from that school. The mothers, grouping their chil- Won’t Send Children to Distant Schools dren about them, declared that they would not send their little ones to other institutions to which they had been transferred. These are at long distances from the children’s homes, they pointed out, necessitating crossing streets where trolley cars §. Third Street and Briggs Ave.,,and hit-and-run drivers place the Frooklyn, in front of Public School | children’s lives in constant danger. | Overcrowded Schools. Overcrowding, a chronic pheno- menon in the New York school sys- Continued on Page Three As the Communist campaign is developing strength, the authorities in several states are beginning to put on the screws and in the west fascist organizations like the Amer- ican Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars are protesting the ap- pearance of the Communist ticket on the ballot. In Nebraska and Kansas those patriotic societies, acting as the tools of the employers are attacking the Workers (Communist) Party, and in conjunction with the authorities trying to throw the ticket off the ballot. Oehler Under Arrest, In Kansas, Comrade Hugo Gehl- er, the district organizer and sev- eral other comrades were arrested for holding meetings in front of the Cudahy Packing Company plant. The International Labor Defense is ooking after the legal rights ‘of e comrades. The- secretary ‘of state for Ne- braska has granted a hearing to the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars on their protest against permitting the (Communist) Party ticket fo stay on the ballot. The hearing is set Continued.on Page Three DOCK STRIKE IN SYDNEY COMING SYDNEY, N. S. W., Sept. 10, (UP).—-A prolonged labor struggle | qn the Sydney waterfront was pre- dicted when the waterside workers’ federation refused to accept the new industrial award which went into effect today. Workers | Commun‘ + International at the twelfth ses.ion of the Young Com- munist International which was held the chairmanship of Phil- ipps, American Negro. The Congress adopted the reso- lution approving the decisions of| the World Congress of the Commu-| nist International and adopting its decisions and program as a basis for the work and decisions of the Young Communist International Congress. The resolution assures the Com- munist International of the un- shakeable loyalty of the Young Communist International above all in regard to the war danger and the the defense of the Soviet Union. “Under the banner of Lenin the Young Communist International will lead the masses of working youth to victory.” The resolution was greeted with storms of applause and the singing of the International. The Congress then elected Agita- tion and Pronacanda, and Organiza- tion Commissions. * * «& . MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Sept. 10— The eighth session of the Congress of the Young Communist Interna- tional continued with the following speaking: Szuets, Hungary; Con- treras, Mexico; Rossing, Bulgaria; Gallopin, France; Ackermann., Lat- via; Don, United States; Matagu, China; Kaplan, United States; Vor- ings, Greece; Mariot, Canada, and Sulimoy, Korea. Contreras declared that American imperialism has penetrated Latin- Ameria. ‘The youth and children are being terribly exploited,” he said. “The youth represent an ac- tive factor in Sandino’s movement. The fight against clericalism is im- portant as is also enlightenment work among the young workers. We intend to found an anti-imperial- ist militia as a defense organiza- tion.” Don dealt with the effects of ra- Continued ‘on Page Four Daily Worker Agents Hold Meeting Tonight To consider plans to gain 10,000 new readers of the Daily Worker) and to make further preparations | for the Daily Worker Bazaar, all Daily Worker agents will meet to- night at the Workers Center, 28 | Union Square. | The sub drive is in full swing and lit is expected that the New York JAILED MINERS Red Baiter” Upbraids Delegates “ (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Sept. 10.—Penn- sylvania “justice” ran true to form here today as the 112 miners taken in the police and Lewis gangster raid on the mine convention were arraigned before Magistrate Orie. Disregarding the evidence in the case and the almost unprecedented violations of all so-called civil liber- ties by the police, the judge began immediately to upbraid the delegates for their militancy and branded them as being “Reds,” our government.” Miners pointed to the attitude of the judge as a further conrmation of the obvious cooperation between the Lewis machine, the police and |coal, operator justice to prevent the organization of a real union. 3 Held for Grand Jury. Three of the mine leaders were held for the grand jury on rioting charges. A number were fined $25 each: About fifteen were fined $5 each, Many of the delegates ar- raigned this morning appeared with their heads bandaged and bearing other marks of the slugging by po lice and Lewis thugs. Despite the obvious criminality of the gangsters the few of them arrested were im- mediately discharged by the judge. The miners were closely ques- tioned on their political and indus trial beliefs by the magistrate. “These Reds need _investig: 9 the judge declared openly. ‘ y man who cannot prove his citizen- ship will be turned over to the gov- ernment authorities for investiga- tion, Perhaps some of them will be deported,” he warned. and a “menace to; ments were reported following the fascist raid yesterday by the combined forces of the Pittsburgh police, who led an army MINOR, WHITEMAN WILL START TOUR Will Talk in Cities Up- State The opening shot in the up-state campaign of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party will be fired in Pough- keepsie on Friday, September 14, at an open-air meeting to be held in the evening, at which Rohert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker and Communist candidate for U. S. Sen- ate; Lovett Fort-Whiteman, Com- munist candidate for Comptroller, and H. Gordon of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League, will be the principal speakers. The Poughkeepsie meeting will be the initial one of a number to be keld in the major cities of New York state during this first cam- paign tour to be arranged by the Workers (Communist) Party. On Sentember 15 the second meeting will take place in Albany, at the northwest corner of State and Crown Sts., after which Minor, Whiteman and Gordon will speak at Troy, at Domino Hall, 24 Fourth St., on Sunday, September 16. Schenectady will be the scene of the fourth meeting, on Monday, Au- gust 17, at the Turner Hall, 837 Al- bany St. Much interest has been stirred up among up-state workers by the ad- vance announcements made by the Continued on Page Two LITERACY DRIVEIN USSR 2,000,000 Young Workers Pledge Aid MOSCOW, Sept. 10 (UP).— Every one of the two million ““Kom- somols” or young Communists, has | been pledged by their organization to undertake to teach at least one person, in his own family or outside, to read or write. This is but one phase of a re- newed campaign just announced to reduce illiteracy in Russia. In the early years of the Soviet Oversess and interstate shipown-’ qistrict will show the lead in widen-| revolution, leaders of the new gov- ers said they. were determined to ing the circulation and influence of ernment declared their determina- | maintain the’ court’s award. {the Daily Worker, \ 4 ; tion to end all illiteracy before the. } ( \ aS $$ | old. tenth anniversary of their assump- tion to power. This ambition is still within at least 20,000,000 per- sons of achievement, according to offical statistics. About 6,000,000 of the illiterates, it is estimated, are under 25 years Illiteracy is especially high among the minority nationalties in the Caucasus, Siberia, and other outlying sections. The one excep- tion is the Jewish population whieh has fewer illiterates than any other race in the Soviet Union, s —of over two hundred Lewis thugs in a raid on the first session of the convention at Labor Lyceum Jali{ Three miners were held for the grand jury on $1,000 bail each. Fines were levied on over a dozen others including Pat Toohey, Free- man Thompson. Anthony Minerich, Andy Plechady, and others. Over fifty others were released. Some are still unaccounted for. The fines were paid by the Inter- national Labor Defense in order that the delegates might return to the convention to carry on its busi- ness. Rough handling was made of the miners in jail by the police. Treatment was necessary for a num~ ber in the hospitals. Textile Delegates Greeted. _ Fraternal delegates from the striking New Bedford textile work- ers to the mine convention wate |greeted amid the greatest enthusi- asm last night. Speaking before | the convention, this afternoon, Al- bert Weisbord, well-known militant leader of the textile workers, ‘re- ceived an ovation from the coal dig- gers, who cheered the glorious fight of the battling New Bedford mill operatives. A vote of solidar- ity and support to the new union of the textile workers was carried unanimously. At the meeting last night it was voted to submit the constitition of the new union to the membership for ratification and amendment. Among the unique and characteris- tic provisions of the new constitu- tion is one providing that the sal- aries of officers and wages of minor officials must be based on the pay received by rank and file miners, and members of pit committees, which are also to become grievance committees. Complete democratic procedure throughout its provisions marked the constitution. i Provisions are contained for the easy recall of officers and members of the executive board. Mine dis- | tricts will later be remarked for better organizing purposes, but. for |the present the existing district markings will be maintained, | A strong and nation-wide |ization campaign will be launched. \“The Coal Digger” was ad a | the official organ of the new | Every new member is to take a six months’ subscription. bie The convention voted for the abol- ition of the check-off now going to the discredited Lewis group, De- Continued on Page ~~,