The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 11, 1928, Page 2

Page Two A. F. L. Fur Misleaders, CALL STOPPAGE FOR MASS RALLY Underworld at Funeral of Slain Gang Leader. Bosses Plan to. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1928 Wreck Ph KELLER, DAWSON EXPELLED FROM iladelphia Local; Workers Mobilize Boro Park Red Week | | Features Contest for Ballot Signatures Beginning yesterday and lasting thruout the week, a three-cornered WORKERS WILL = Danr “Worker-Frehet pr (Bazaar This Thursday HOLD TEXTILE © weg All delegates to the last Daily Worker and Freiheit Bazaar which ‘contest will mark the signature was held on August 28 must attend drive in the Boro Park section of the |the second conference called by the Workers (Communist) Party. Prep- | Executive Committee for Thursday, y 2 pes a arations for an intensified drive to asia eos, 18, UME Gan a the Jorkers Jj Ness we Pe a “ put the candidate of the Workers’ “ ” ‘orkers Center, 26-! nion Sq. Boston Workers Win Expose Strikebreaking (Communist) Party in’ the on) LO Show “The Crowd,” "it's hoped that all organizations Skirmish With Fakers | Misleaders Kings County Assembly District on | Distinguished Movie which were not represented at the ls —- | the ballot have been widespread and nat conference boi ce see i PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10. | Tontd ; |a lively comretition is anticipated ee |this one, since the work for the 4 Seer am dniwnoad: ti th ; | iy athe ae et LN NL) periedie members of the Boro! Thousands of textile Workers | First National Bazaar is in full n orkers ngege in the fur manu- appeared before the convention toi Park Section of the Communist | demonstrated their solidarity with | progress, and much must still be a Resvuring industry here ere rally report, they recothmended that | Party, the members of the various thé textile strikers and their Mill) done in the short time left. % Berge “hais, Zorcen- tor, an ipend- Dawson, Keller, and John Di Santo| Workers’ Cultural Clubs and the| Committees in the monster parade) p ing struggle which may terminate \Beitehibd heats an Gulewates: | members of the Women’s Councils in held in New Bedford on Sa yr) vs i ge ’ t because of a | i | B k. ‘Brigh Coney While preparations were going for- in a general walkou ¢ of a Di: Sante: is délepate & Li the foro Park, righton, Coney in N York fe threat of their employers to break Photo shows crowd at burial of Frank Yale, sl Brooklyn g F Niel | Di Santo is a delegate from Lo-|, 11.4: and Bath Beach sections, | Ward full speed in New York for | of loyers to break crowd at bi d a we, slain Brookl, gang leader, Many political leaders | 628, Passaic. dw k i in holding a mass conference for re-| im ate Contract “with she ‘union!kad reputed to have been connected with Yale’s gang. cal 1623, Passaic, and was marked! ‘The signature drive this week in it Th GCN adi Ween. cent broke! e Be ic ai ee lel sediment BA i cae al ea |for exclusion because of his mili-|Boro Park will be enlivened not|Tief, The call Nas DUM ser TR. N Y SHOE SHOPS s sig 3 : |tancy. It was only after Keller rose only by the competition existing C@8t oy Moc : vpalnorenct el) {ba IY t actionary officials of the A. F. | i i: 5 4 ‘ontt to all labor unions and -working| |to protest at being denied the right |@mong the organizations as such, | 1 izati Where the ed y L. Fur International. To this end da e S O O es | “ “ S but also by the inner competition. cl@8s organiza ‘ions. ere ose . i i4 @ mass membership meeting will be Nn mM to represent his union, and after he | Every Workers’ Culture Club has|delezates cannot be elected the call/ City-Wide Meeting to | { tod § had demanded reasons for his ex- | chall d ev ther, thi ils Tequests workers to sen eir * held today at 4 p. n Boslower pins Sora Tae sehw Cee challenged every other, the councils * ‘ B 8 ie alee ae aaa Seer ; clusion, that McMahon, U. T. W.|of the United Councils of Working-|TePresentatives from shop unions, e Held Tonight " all, 7th and Pine Sts 3y BERT MILLER. appeared, a new issue has developed of industry and finance, But the| president, assigned John Campos of |<lass Women, are each sure of beat-|fratetnal societies to the W. I. R-| afobitization of the shoe workers ¥ | Mass Demonstration. Fcisaraey that divides all America into capitalist class will not forezo| Fan River, Mass, to state “ren. |iDg the record of their sister organi-| Réllef Conference, Saturday, Sept. i¢ Greater New York for the organ- Mee aciiing af ihe time for four : ; 1 camps, as yet without lightly the advantages gained from PA!) iver, Mass, to state "rea-|) tions and among the Red Cam-|!5 at Irving Plaza Hall, and toi, tion of a poorly unorg@ized trade ‘ ‘dick in the afternoon was done| Within the democratic party, we ames. They are the radi-/the bi-partisan game of buncombe. §0ns. |paigners of Section 7 a spirited make the conference a 100 per cent and also for the support the strik- age f dem, Witness the same process going on. | cal camp and the conservative camp, | Only under the threat of some rising “Young Workers Party.” rivalry exists. jdemonatration of solidarity with |i. workers in the Brooklyn shoe with the express intention of “dem-/ Sjowly but surely men like Bryan,| and within each c oie te tdé| & rec ehin aa . 5 Fe |the 85,000 workers now engaged in |) 2 ‘ ‘ ‘ rnd hat $f th ‘ ‘ and within each camp there is a wide | spectre which menaces its {nterests, Campos ‘launched into a vicious | pci acelin aes Begs plant of S. Liebermann Co., is the * onstrating to employers that if they with his confused petty-bourgeois | range of thought and feeling, Some | will it consolidate its forces for’more attack against the two delegates, | has life and death struggle. program &nnounced by the leaders t wish production to continue in Phila- | theories, McAdoo, the representative | day, and not a very distant day at|effective defense, Will that force whe he ‘said, were members of MINOR WHITEMAN re nee oem ryan er® | Cr, tus eperenuntne sree: Narenes 2h delphia fur factories they had bet-| of the big farming, cattle and wool that these two groups will evolve |be a party of farmers? That is un- dual union. “I, as an official of 3 |from New Bedford and Fall River| Union. The first step toward this ig terhalt any plans they have about | 8Towing interests ot the West, | into organized political parties with| likely. The present demoralization the U. T. W., was almost mobbed | | will address the meeting. ~ Textile | will be touight’s city-wide meeting ; eitieelling agreements and signing | T°P7eSentative also of the cotton’ names that signify what they stand |of the agricultural elements, the La- by the textile workers due to their workers from Paterson and Passaic of shoe workers at the union head- growing interests of the scab compacts with the A. F. of I cast de. The demo party, fakers,” acocrding to a union state- whi has been historicall¥ the ment. party of the petty bourgeois, and has catered more directly to this class, is sloughing off this impedi- Bdward F. McGrady, A. F. of L. agent in charge of the drive to de- for.” Some Prospects. What are the forces making for the merger of the two old parties into one conservative party as against a so-called radical party? What will be the nature of such a radical party? One of the factors Follette defeat does not forecast a very speedy recovery in that direc- tion. The drift of population from the farms to the cities particularly in the South will tend to weaken them still more. The future lies in the hands of the prole- tariat, which has given numerous propaganda,” he said. McMahon then contributed to the attack o; the progressives, by assuring the convention that he is not afraid of “red scares,” but that Keller and Dawson are both members of the “Young Workers Party” which gtroy unionism in the industry, had menta and is demonstrating its full been discovered by S. Bert, left wing capacity to serve the industrial and union manager, while he was plot- | financial inter ting with the bosses in the office of a leading manufactur Soon after this followed an announcement from the employers association that they intended to sever relations The reason for the attacks on the local was its recent decision to join York union in their with the New drive to build a real furriers’ na- tional organization. Page tere BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 10.—The first attempt of the International to launch g struggle against the Bos- ton Furriers’ Local, which had joined in the movement to build a new union, failed miserably when the workers carried thru a short and vietcorious strike against a firm which decided to break off relations with the local union. Strike Short But Effective. Agents of the A. F. of L. came into Boston last week and ap- proached one of the larger employ- ers here with promises of permit- ting him open shop privileges if he would join them in fighting the lo- cal. The employer, A. Rubin, agreed. Then followed a declaration to the union that the firm of Rubin no longer considers its contract with them valid. This was followed up by an immediate cututing of wages, and lengthening of hours. The workers answered by a strike that lasted no more than four hours before it was won, along with a wage increase. Must, RAE, ose ts of the Northeast, making for a merger is the general of Wall Stree Wilson’s platform, “We must now remove, as far as possible, every re- maining element of unrest and un- WORKERS CLUBS ce inty from the path of the busi ness men of America, and secure for them a continued period of quiet, as- , sured and confident prosperity AlD RED FUNDS One might naturally ask, “Why does the capitalist class maintain ae) two parties? Think of the expense, : inefficiency, wasted effort, con. FOllowers of Trail fusion, etc.” Professor Arthur N. Contribute Holcombe, in his book “The Polit- ei ical Parties of Today” makes the With the election campaign reach- ing a more intense stage thruout the country, marked by “whisper” following enlightening reply, ‘‘That system (the bi-partisan system) has certain incontestabl advantages along with its obvious defects. poke , ects. It\dals in the capitalist parties, the diminishes the violence of social Req Campaign waged by the Work. strife arising out of all the various evs (Communist) Party is daily conflicting interests of the people. Growing more productive of dona. ; + The very evasions of conten’ tions by workers’ clubs to the Com- tiods issues and concealments “of munist war chest. The followers’ of grounds for social friction, which 80 the ‘Trail Club, an organization of many critics condemn, form a part, workers which takes regular weekly and no small part, of the services xeyrsions into the country of bill- which the major parties render. hagedies gapenianaihe Rew. Ronan What is the future prospect for cently collected from its members the two party system? In the days the sum of $37.25 while on an ex- when the LaFollette movement was cursion up the Hudson. ab its Height, Mr Prank 2: Monseys! oinan worure oveuisaviohs to. one of the leading spokesmen of the |, ilses jwornwers organizations te republican party made the following sites : mee ene ee prediction: “In the early days of the ~“ a : rapa ca . y ittee. Workmen’s Republic they (the republican and ™* Yt ; ‘ democratic parties) represented dis- 84 of Plainfield sent a donation of tinet and positive ideas. But with 7 t0 fhe campaign fund and the these great fundamental ideas con-| (> }o Sn on N4. contribated verted into history there are no!) ™e co erence last Saturday. In the words of tendency toward merger in the field’ campaigns and a monotony of scan- | recent proofs of its fighting spirit and militancy in the miners’ strug- gle, the New Bedford strike, the needle trades fight, ete., and a great- er resistance of the unofganized workers. The close and open iden- tity of the two major parties with business has never been more evi- dent. The prospect of severe strug- gles against capitalist rationaliza- tion expressing itself in the form of wage cut speed-up and union smashing will be a strong educative in which the government will again and again show the true char- acter of the major political parties, and will bring to the fore emphatic- ally and forcefully to the workers their interests as a class. Never hi rkers had a bet- ter opportunity to see before them the complete identity of the two major parties with Big Business The so-called new political. align- ments of this or that magnate, the superficial reasons given such as} “prohibition” or “personality,” and the equally hostile front of both par- ties to both labor and farmers, these facts offer our party an unusual and splendid opportunity to be the most powerful factor in exposing the lie behind the sham of the bi-partisan system. | On the basis offered by the pres-| ent developments in American poli-| ties, the Workers (Communist) Par- ty stands cut clearly as the only party which speaks for the workers. The socialist, party with its appeal to liberals and the petty bourgeoisie, with its ignominous~ withdrawal holds meetings at 799 Broadway. “Dawson,” he added, “is also secre- tary of the ‘International Defense League’ which is also red.” Particularly hysterical did Mc- Mahon become every time he men- tioned Albert Weisbord, Passaic strike leader. “Weisbord quit you,” he shouted, despite the fact that the U. T. W. had made public demands that Weisbord leave Passaic - before they would admit the Passaic locals into membership in the U. T. W. McMahon deiivered himself of the prize gem of the day when, in talk- ing about Passaic, he lamented, “these workers had the juice squeezed out of them; I was handed a squeezed lemon when we took the Passaic locals in.” Instead of defending themselves against the “accusations,” Keller and Dawson launched into an attack | against the U. T. W. officials. After | insisting that they could be mem- bers, of the U. T. W. and at the same time be adherents to the pro- gram of the T. M. C., which they termed a_ militant organization movement, the progressives branded U. T. W. leadership in New Bedford as nothing short of, strikebreaking. Refutes Slander. Keller pointed out that when the T. M. C. entered the New Bedford strike the conservative union there had been outside the U. T. W., and that he had a right to enter the trueglé under those circumstances. ‘Only after the leaders of our union joined hands with the Textile Coun- cil there in its reactionary policies, ‘Will Talk in Cities Up-| jannounce the program for the com-| shown at their daily meetings dem- |ing convention to organize the new | onstrates The workers have evinced their in- | performances |terest by questions asked the Red ‘Campaigners who gathered signa-|drawn large and enthusiastic au- tures up-state to put the Workers | diences. | (Communist) Party on the ballot as the benefit of the textile strikers if As platform of the Communist of New Bedford and Fall River. | Party. | wage-cuts to which up-state work- Jers in the factories, foundries and| Ave, one performance at 3:45 p. |railroads have been subjected has|m, and the other at 11:00 p.m. Al- |opened their eyes to the role played ‘bert Weisbord will speak ‘by the republican party, which has | each showing. jalways claimed up-state New York las its own, and the anti-labor rec- |ord of Tammany Al Smith is suffi- \eient to show what the workers can ‘expect from a democratic adminis- | | : WILL START TCUR . State Continued from Page One { impending Minor-Whiteman tour. The increasing number of tration. worker, will devote a part of his, Lovett Fort-Whiteman, a Negro campaign talks to speaking of the problems of the Negro workers, the attitude of the capitalist parties to jlynching and race segregation. ‘U.S. Military Forces in Nicaragua Protect Puppet; Ignore Many MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Sept. 10 (UP).—The newly organized con- National Guard assisted in suppres- Several persons were injured and | fouf were arrested. The rioting was started after a are sending their delegations to) greet the strike delegates, to hear) Albert Weisbord relate the newest developments of the struggle, and textile union. | quarters, 51 E. 10th St. The entire working crew of the big Brooklyn factory are still sol- idly out on strike, and the spirit their determination to stay out until their demands are ‘ ‘ |met. The workers ask that their Saturday eventng, ik ieee RE A ae the yrs 4 ‘ ’/union be recognized an at union |Sept. 15 of “The Crowd” which has| conditions be enforced. The dismis- sal of the chairman for union ac- | tivities was the original cause for the walkout. A meeting of all shoe workers ving in Coney Island was held by the union yesterday in the Workers House, Mermaid Ave. The workers pledged their enthusiastic moral and before | financial assistance to the strike. At the meeting tonight General Organizer Magliacano and the union president will render reports on the strike and on the general trade sit- uation. drive will then be formulated. All proceeds will go for | There will be two showings at the li | Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second |Search for Missing _ Soviet Aviator | MOSCOW, Sept. 9.—Al) ships in aes the Siberian and Arctic regions KELLOGG BACK. have been asked to search for the, WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (UP).— airplane “Soviet North” piloted by | Secretary of State Kellogg returned Krasinsky, which left Anadir Aug.|to the state department today from |18. The plane was reported last on | Paris where he signed the so-called | August 19, going westward. Kras-|“peace pact.” Kellogg announced | insky was on an experimental flight | receipt of information that Soviet | across the Northern part of Siberia.' Russia had adhered to the treaty. | Daily Worker - - Freiheit | \stabulary quelled the first serious [election outbreak Inte Sunday. The || N I J 7 i R S EK } a sing an attempt to storm the liberal Li | party campaign office at Rivas. | BA Plans for the organization’ ZAAR_ CONFERENCE WEDNESDAY EVE., SEPT. 12, at 93 MERCER STREET from the path of the class struggle, did we fight the U. T. W.,” Keller | i has eben its utter pa eeuntey 104 said. He then assailed Campos for [eoneeeete party mass Per ane futility as a party of the working- his open declaration to the Fall| Which was held at Rivas. es class. The Workers (Communist) River workers to seab while the T. |Ctowd was aroused by speeches and Party in the 1928 election campaign M. G. was leading a strike there. | finally moved on the liberal office is the one party which clearly and He charged Campos with giving and attempted to rush the doors. without reservations puts forth the direct aid to the brutal police ter- | They were met by members of the) longer any big outstanding issues : , between them that have any place; Previous donations made to the | in our politics. There are, to be sure,|Red Campaign fund by workers’ many small points on which the re- OTSanizations are numerous. The | publican and democratic parties dif- Finnish Cooperative Trading Coop- fer, today. It is their business to erative Association donated $25; | differ, to create differences, to work Ukrainian Workers’ Club, $69.25; ‘AAURTH, NAHKING CONTINUE WAR HONG KONG, Sept. 10.—Pight- |), jscues, without which they would Staten Island Finnish Workers’ slogan of “Class against class,” and|ror against the strikers. As for Constabulary and guards, ie NEWARK, N. J. ing between Nanking and northern | to exist as political parties, Club, $10, Through the Jewish rallies the workers to fight political-| McMahon's liking for “juicy” work-| General Frank R. McCoy received | war lords continues and the Nanking the business of each party to Bureau of the Workers (Commu- ly against their exploiters with the crs only, Keller declared that this |® message today from Major Nor- | (fact is already known, not only to ™an Randolph, electoral supervisor | the Passaic workers, but ever-grow- at Rivas, reporting the situation ing circles of textile operatives. | “well in hand.” Reserves are held in After a strenuous but fruitless at- Teadiness. _tempt on the part of the machine) \ to fasten an excuse for expulsion on | TAXI BURNS. | John Di Santo, and after a speech At about 9 a. m. last night the} by Di Santo, in which he condemned life of a chauffeur working for the | the absence of democracy in the or- Yellow Taxi Company was imper- | ganization, the McMahon machine | illed by the burning of the company ra‘lroaded the exclusion of Keller automobile which he was driving on and Dawson. Gus Deak, president Union Square between 15th and |of the Passaic local, and Di Santo 16th Streets. | forces have seized Tong Shan, en- dangering the position of Chang Chung-Chang in Shantung, where he established an independent position | after the death of Chang Tse-Lin, | the Manchurian dictator, and the re- treat of the northern troops north of the Great Wall. Tong Shan is near Tsinan, cap- ital_of Shantung, and the northern atmy apparently has succeeded in slowly encircling Chang Chung- Chang. The latter may be obliged same determination and solidarity which they have so frequently ‘dis- played in the struggle on the indus- trial field. oppose and to fight the acts and | Mist) Party, the Coney Island Work- proposals of the other party. While ¢ts’ Club donated $16; the National this political jockeying has been go- Workers’ Alliance, Branch 3, gave ing on since the great old issues dis- $15; the Brownsville Workers Youth 4 Centre donated $10; and the Young Workers Social Culture Club of Brownsville gave $5. Workers Party Units, Labor and Fraternal Organi zations of Newark, Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Plainfield, Stelton and Roselle, are requested to elect three delegates Export ‘Trade of Soviet Union—Egypt Grows; Cotton Chief Tmpor® BRIAND ATTACKS Many Reservations for World Tourists Visit to the Soviet Union Reservations for the forthcoming visit to the Soviet Union are coming MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R., Sept. 10. .According to statistical figures of to follow the example of thousands of disbanded northern troops and move north. iIt has been reported, however, that hang Chung-Chang was in a strong position in Shantung and de- términed to resist the encroachment of the Nanking war lords. It is be- Meved that his confidence results ftom Japanese support. 4 GERMAN MINERS KILLED BERLIN, Sept. 10 (UP).—Four sons were killed and one is still issing in an explosion in the jophas mine in Upper Silesia. ‘mine belongs to the. American lésche Company. the eastern chamber of commerce of the Soviet Union, the turnover of trade with Egypt for nine months of the fiscal year (October-June) USSR AT GENEVA Continued from Page One amounted to over 33,000,000 roubles, aggressive war, but the effect is having surpassed corresponding just as bad.” figures of the last year. In the same speech he very vig- The USSR is importing from °Tously assailed the views of Chan- Fgypt cotton and exporting to Egypt ¢¢llor Mueller of Germany and cri- ticized his position on national min- orities and the reduction of arma- LIKE HIS PAPA. sail Briand side-stepped the na- ional minority issue by declaring NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 10.— that “the question must not become John Coolidge, the president’s son,'a lever to shake the confidence of will work on the New Haven Rail- peoples in their governments in the road, it was announced today. work of the league for peace.” oil products, flour, sugar, coal, ete. i a in rapidly, M. Goodman, manager of the World Tourists, Inc. 69 Fifth Ave., announced yesterday. “There is a great deal of inter- est,” Goodman said, “in the tour which we are arranging, especially in view of the fact that the party will arrive in the U. 8. S. R. in time to witness the Eleventh An- niversary of the October Revolu- tion.” The entire trip will consume 85 days, and the party will leave on the fast S. S. “Mauretania” on October 17. Free Russian visas are guar- | anteed by the World Tourists, remained as delegates. 2 Officials Indicted in Street Graft Mess. Richard F. Walsh, a district super- intendent in the street cleaning de- partment, and Thomas Owens, a stable foreman were indicted yes- |terday by the Kings county grand |jury of payroll padding and graft in the department. Despite the fact that corruption in this department is known to be | city-wide, thus far only about a half a dozen—and these minor officials —have been indicted. | | | | | | JOSEPH E. ERON, Principal THE LARGEST AND BEST AS WELL AS OLDEST SCHOOL. to learn the Dnglish 1 to prepare oneself for a to College. BRON SOHOOL tn registered by the REGENTS of th: of New York, It ie all the rights of a Government High School. 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