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THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT 4 Worker . Se Eatered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y.. = the act of March NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1928 _ Price 3 Cents n New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. k, by mall, $6.00 per year. Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATE Outside New ¥ ? Vol. V., No. 216 IZE IN ALL FIELDS ‘NEW UNION CALLS MINERS TO ORGAN Misleaders BOSSES & BATTY "<2 TRYING TO MEND A. F. OF L, FENCES [Is Preliminary Step in| Attempt to Break Big | Mill Strike Strike Lines Tighten) Council Rank and File Joining T. M. C. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 11.—In order that the approaching sell-out agreement expected to be) Eli Keller, general organizer of reached soon between the mill bosses|the New Bedford Textile Workers and W. E. G. Batty, secretary of|Umion of the Textile Mill Commit-| the A. F. of L. Textile Council,| tees, and general manager of the} should ‘not appear too blatant, a| district council of textile workers of | little play was staged here today the United Textile’ Workers of with Batty as chief actor, The|America, Passaic Local 1618 of manufacturers’ association “made a| which he is president. Keller has | proposal” to Batty yesterday that|just been excluded from the Na- the workers accept the wage cut and | tional Council of the U. T. W. in in addition to that permit installa-|New York City on the grounds tion of the Batty-endorsed Frieder | that he was a member of the “Young speed-up system. Taking his cue,|Workers Party,” which does not} Batty issued a statement refusing| exist, and of the Textile Mill Com- “unconditionally” to accept the|mittees. Ellen Dawson, an or-| bosses’ demand. | ganizer of Textile Mill Committees, | secretary of Local 1619 of the U. T. This is recognized by the workers | , was excluded at the same time. here as an attempt on the part of the employers to assist Batty in re-| gaining at least some of the follow-/} ing the Textile Council had lost to} the Textile Mill Committees. | At the full meeting of the em-| WORKERS CHEER Club, representatives of all the 56) $165 Is Collected mills tied up by the strike signed the statement demanding both the . Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 11—| wage cut and the speed-up system. Even the “progressive” elements Five hundred enthusiastic workers | among the bosses, as the Batty union termed them, in several public listened. intently while William Z. Foster, Communist presidential can- | statements. Batty and his numer- didate, called on them to support the | ~ "Continued on Page Three election campaign program of the) Workers (Communist) Bahn Frei Hall here last night. Foster’s appearance in the hall was the signal for a tremendous demonstration which lasted several in Conference for Giant Press Bazaar Will Be Held Tomorrow Night The Executive Committee of 25 elected at the last Bazaar Confer- ence which was held on August 28|minutes. The workers responded | is calling all delegates to a second|generously to an appeal for con- conference to take up the tasks of|tributions to the Communist cam-| the Grant Press Bazaar which is|paign fund and $165 was collected. only three weeks off. All the dele-| A large number of Party platforms gates from Workers Party Units,) was sold and several membership Labor and Fraternal Organizations | applications were filled out. that were present at the last con-| ae Sot Sega ference are urged to attend the con-| CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT. ference tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the) YUMA, Ariz. Sept. 11 (UP).— Workers Center, 26-28 Union) Edward Ballough, Chicago, was lap Square. , i |leader for the second consecutive The Executive Committee urges|day when he led the flyers in the all organizations that were not| Class B trans-continental air race represented at the last conference/| into Yuma from El Paso, Tex., to- to send three delegates. ‘day. He arrived at 10.04 a. m. Executive LOVESTONE AND ‘gamma FOSTER MEMBERS FROM U. S, PARTY Ben Gitlow Candidate; | Weinstone in Control Commission Red Youth in Session Young Communists Gain in Britain The list of members and candidates of the new Exec- utive Committee of the Com- munist International and the International Control Com- mission, elected at the Sixth Congress which has just closed at Moscow, includes four members of the Work- ers (Communist) Party of America. These are: | Members of the Executive | Committee of the Commu- nist International—Jay Love- stone and William Z. Foster. Candidate to the Execu- tive Committee of the Com- munist International — Ben- jamin Gitlow. Member of the Interna- tional Control Commission— William. W. Weinstone. ee es (Wireless to the Daily Worker.) Committee of Communist International Is ‘Chosen andidate 1 DELAY TRIAL OF ‘OEHLER GROUP TO AID IN FRAME-UP ‘ \Proseeutor Seeks Time | to Strengthen Case | eat Hand of Armour Co. John D. Rust, of Weatherford, | — Texas, is candidate for United Cyiminal Syndicalism States senator on the Workers \ (Communist) Party ticket. Rust is Is Charge (Special to the Daily Worker) a charter member of the Workers Party. He is a native Texan me~| (: chanic and skilled operator of big} KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 11.— farm machinery, tractors and com- In an obvious effort to get more bines. A world war veteran, he took |time to strengthen its flabby case, an active part in organizing the| the prosecution today asked for a Workers Party in Kansas City. Rust postponement of the trial against is also the inventor of the cotton, Hugo Oehler, Workers Party dis- picker with which he is shown in the trict organizer, and seven workers picture, the first successful picker | held on a charge of having violating which farmers in general can af- the state criminal syndicalist law. ford to buy. They were arrested upon the instiga- tion of the Armour Company here} at a Sacco-Vanzetti memorial | McMAHON PLEA demonstration on Aug. 22. : The defense has already presented TO BOSS’ SOULS ment on Sent. 24. Lawyers for the | ed |defendants today put in a motion sat, to dismiss the indictments on the \Makes Vicious Attack ground of insufficient evidence, and on Militants | | ij request for the delay having been granted, he will present his argu- its case, and with the prosecutor’s Judge Gates took it “under advise- - ment.” “Appeal to the soul of the people,) The prosecution introduced in |to civic, social and fraternal or- evidence copies of the Workers ganizations; appeal to bankers and (Communist) Party platform; “The business men for the forty-hour Life and Death of Sacco and Van- |week,” preached Thomas F. Mc-|zetti," by Eugene Lyons; several | Mahon, president of the United Tex-| copies of the “Labor Defender”; \tile Workers Union, while he was a leaflet, “We Stand Firm,” issued | delivering his report to the conven- by the Communist nucleus at the |tion which last night finished its) Armour plant; and copies of the MOSCOW, Sept. 11—The new second day in the Great Northern | Daily Worker containing special ar- Party at | Executive Committee of the Com- | Hotel. |munist International elected at the | ticles and photographs on Sacco and The rest of McMahon’s report, be-| Vanzetti and a speech by Bukharin. Killed by Lewis Thug George Moran above, a delegate to the National Miners Convention to Build a New Union, was shot by the revolver of Louis Carboni, a Lewis agent, on the eve of the big convention. He died as the result of his wounds. Frank Kovac, also a delegate, and Kovac's young son were wounded at the same time, REPUDIATES WAGE CUT AGREEMENTS: DISTRICTS FIGHT LEWIS CHECKOFF 'George Moran, Bentleyville Militant, Dies of Wounds Inflicted by Lewis Gunmen |Release Last of Those Arrested in Raid by | Pittsburgh Police; Calamari Recovers (Special to the Daily Worker) BENTLEYVILLE, Pa., Sept. 11.—George Moran, well known militant miner, died here today of bullet wounds in- flicted by Louis Carboni, a Lewis hireling who last Friday shot Moran and Frank Kovac, another miner, because they supported the call to a new union. By JACK LEE. (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Sept. 11.—“Lewis and his corrupt clique can no longer speak in the name of the coal miners. We call upon the rank and file in all fields to refuse to recognize any wage cut agreements signed by this discredited clique and to fight against the check-off thereby destroying the possibility | of this group keeping the coal diggers enslaved to its company | union. In these ringing words the general executive board of the newly formed National Miners’ Union today sent broadcast its BRITISH ARE FOR “WILITARIST PACT Defends Anglo-French FURRIERS ISSUE —®message of encouragement to the thousands of coal miners through- out the country who are awaiting the outcome of the convention pro- ceedings. now winding up. in this i city. | DUES MANIFESTO Draw Up Constitution. | Today’s session of the general | executive board was concerned Held Membership Meet chiefly with completing work on the new union’s constitution drawn up Sixth Congress follows: Americoldo,| sides being a vicious attack on pro- Barbe, Bell, Blenkle, Boshkokitch, | gressive forces in the textile indus-| upon by the prosecution Bukharin, Campbell, Carillo, Childi, Chitarov, Dengel, Ercoli, Ferdi, Ferminaraya, Foster, Furubotn, Gomez, Gottwald, Hsing, Humbert- Droz, Jacquemotte, Jilek, Katayama, Kato, Kilboom, Kolarov, Kopelnig, Kun, Kusinen, Lenski, LiKuang, Lo- sovosky, Lovestone, Manner, Manu- ilski, Pieck, Piatnitzki Popescu, niak, Remmele, Rust, Rykov, Sam-| uelson, Semard, Serra, Skrypnik, Smeral, Spector, Stalin, Syphneios, Thaelmann, Thorez, Tchatergee, Tchiuvito, Weisser and Zetkin. The other candidates are: Asano, Billoux, Bosnitch, Darsono, Dimi- trov, Doriot, Evert, Frachon, Gar- landi, Gitlow, Guytner, Guanli, Gus- sov, Hanson, Heckert, Horner, Ruts- | wood, Kavanagh, Lopez, Lovitzki, | Malika, Moira, Monmousseau, Mao- Mickievitch, Molotov, Musso, | Prush- | \try, presented a picture of the al- most complete decay of a so-called Two witnesses are being depended in its frame-up of the militant workers. These are Capt. Beety, of the Kan- International organization. All that sas City police, and R. Ra Maiden, an elaborate and expensive organi- zation apparatus of a union in the almost completely unorganized tex- | tile industry can boast about in two |years is a gain in membership by a Continued on Page Two | RIGHT WING THUGS HELD IN STABBING \Gangsters Who Slash Butchers Under Bail formerly second in command to the chief of the Colorado state police. Maiden is now a federal prohibition agent and strikebreaker. He came to Kansas City to help the Armour interests in their fight against the) growing influence of the Workers Party in the west. | These two worthies, together with other company and _ state stool- pigeons, are exerting all efforts to railroad the eight workers to long prison terms. Workers thruout the city, whose indignation at the brutal police attack on the Sacco-Vanzetti meeting has not yet subsided, are incensed at the arrest of their com- rades and have started a wide pro- War Treaty at Geneva Last Night GENEVA, Sept. 11.—Under cover of a plea for “disarmament” sep- arate agreements and treaties be- tween powers were advocated by Lord Cushendun, acting foreign minister of England, at this morn- ing’s session of the assembly of the League of Nations. Declaring that each state “has a right to judge for itself the level of armaments necessary for its se- curity,” Cushendun stated that great | A manifesto was issued by a membership meeting ‘of the fur | workers held last night in Irving |Plaza, 15th Street and Irving | Place, which was addressed espe- \cially to all workers who were com- pelled to register with the scab A. F. of L, Joint Council, but who are |anxious to resume membership in the Joint Board. A great obstacle |to the joining of such workers has |been the problem of becoming in difficulties would be met in the | good standing by payments of back practical carrying out of disarma- | dues, ment, which, he thought, would The manifesto, voted for unani- never be fully accomplished because |mously by the enthusiastic gather- of. the development of new means of |ing, announced to the registered re. By these he means,es-|workers that the Joint Board is ally air and gas armaments. _/ ready to cancel all arrear dues and “New arms have been developed,” | that an up-to-date book can be ob- e said, “especially in the aerial and | tained upon payment of the $25 tax chemical fields. That presents new levied by general decree soon after RED ELECTION FUNDS NEEDED Having succeeded despite obstacles that appeared insurmountable, in placing the Workers (Communist) Party on the ballot in nineteen states, the National Election Campaign Committee must now fight to keep the ticket on the ballot in several of those states. Since the Party had to be placed on the ballot by petition, having no legal standing, thousands of dol- lars had to be spent on organizers sent out to organize the drive for the collection of signatures. Having complied with all the regulations for plac- ing a new party on the ballot, despite the handicaps imposed by the capitalist governments of the states, the ruling classes in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas, are using every legal trick to throw out the Communist petitions. Where the state authorities cannot do their dirty work under some legal pretense they are using the American Legion ‘and other fascist organizations. In the state of Kansas, our district organizer, Hugo Oehler and several active Party workers have been ar- rested, charged with a violation of the vicious criminal anarchy law of that state. THE NATIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN OOM- MITTEE INTENDS TO FIGHT TO KEEP THE COM- MUNIST TICKET ON THE BALLOT IN KANSAS AND IN EVERY OTHER STATE. Money is needed immediately for this purpose. Wire your contributions. If you are broke borrow. You never borrowed for a worthier cause. Collect everywhere—in shops, from your friends at your union meeting and fraternal organizations. Send all funds ONLY to National Election Cam- paign Committee, Workers (Communist) Party, 43 East 125th Street, New York City, Alexander Trachtenberg, Treasurer. NATIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. |rodshi, Pasqmal, Pollit, Purmann, |Riasho, Schneller, Sillen, Sokolik, | Thoegerson, Tchangpiao, Tchauki, | Tunri, Ulbricht, Varga, Vereik, Vis- | ser, Yaroslavski and Zapotocky. | The following were elected mem- |bers of the International Control | Commission: Angaretis, Anwelt, |Cachin, Codovilla, Eberlein, Flieg, Gorkitch, Hsuyen, Iskrov, Kon, Maggi, Mondok, Murphy, Shargf, | | Sirola, Solz, Stefanescu, Tchengchen, | | Weiss, Weinstone and Tchakaya. | | Youth Congress Meets. | | At the fifth session of the Con- | | gress of the Young Communist In- |ternational the discussion m the i Continued on Page Four PARTY SECTIONS - AlD BIG BAZAAR Bishop and Mrs. Brown Sending Articles | The sections of the Workers (Communist) Party of District 2 are not lagging behind in the prepara- | tions for the great» Daily Worker- Freiheit Bazaar which will trans- form Madison Square Garden on Oc-| tober 4, 5, 6 and 7 into a huge pro- letarian market center. | Four of the sections, 1, 2, 3 and | 5, have already decided to have booths of their own at the bazaar and have begun collecting articles | for them. Other sections of District! 2 are holding conferences this week | and will also make plans for aiding the bazaar. It is planned to mobil- ize every member of the Workers (Communist) Party in District 2, which includes New York City and New Jersey, in the preparatory Continued on Page Four y | test movement demanding that the The holding of William Schiffrin | eight workers be freed. The Inter-| without bail on a charge of homicide, | national Labor Defense is defending and the continuation of the hearing | the workers. of witnesses till Friday in 161st St. < | Magistrate's Court were the latest | events developing out of the bloody | | battle between five right wing thugs of the butchers’ union and Schiffrin, which ended in the death of the thug leader and the wounding of a second} of the underworld squad, when! BIG “DAILY” SUB Testimony rendered by eye-wit- Great Enthusiasm at nesses . who included passersby Agents Meeting neighborhood residents, etc., was so Characterized by tremendous en- overwhelming that Magistrate Dodge decided to hold three of the 3 2 right wing thugs, who were caught thusiasm, the drive for- 10,000 new on the scene of ‘the battle with|teaders for the Daily Worker was drawn knives, under bail of $1,500. Officially opened with a “Daily” They are Louis Katzman, Louis *sents’ meeting at the Workers Posner and Hyman Zlotnikovitz.|Center, 26-28 Union Square, last Two companions of Schiffrin, Max Might. i i | Kluger and Dave Newberg, who| J- L. Perilla, reporting for the were isolated from him ,when the circulation department, outlined the thugs attacked were also held under|Plans for the present campaign. the same bail, to testify in Fridaj’s “We must make concrete gains for hearing. » our Party during the period of the Events leading up to and Inglud.- | electlon et ade by increasing the i: 1 \circulation of our mass organizer— | Continued on Page Tuo” | the Daily. Worker,” he, said. Lively Discussion. | Detailed plans for conducting the drive were enthusiastically discussed |by the “Daily” agents, especially |the arrangement made with the |agitprop department of the District | | Continued on Page Two Political Prisoners | in Poland on Hunger Strike; Demand Trial (Red Aid Press: Service) WARSAW, Poland, (By Mail).— The political prisoners in the war QUAKE HEARD | WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UP). | i lared —Slight earthquakes, apparently Prison at Posen have declared &/>700 miles to the southwest, were hunger strike, which at the time of registeréd on the Georgetown Unk this writing has already lasted thir-| versity seismograph today. teen days. PAN si Tel ee They demand the shortening of the| EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio.—The investigation, which has ‘already National Brotherhood of Operative mz > <: Potters and organized employers re- lasted for months, and the carrying | newed their agreement for two out of their trial. years. \ difficulties. You can count guns, men and ships, but you cannot esti- mate the po¥sibilities of these new arms, which are also imperative for commercial use and development.” As a solution of th difficulties hendun propos separate treaties. He said, “It is necessary for states to reach agreements among themselves, owing to their different ds and their co ue tional, parliamentary, geographical and ovher differences. sitates lo: In t Q generally Continued Four on Page FAS VIF E; Rocea of Italy mobile accident near Bucharest, a mania, today, according to dis. patches received here. His son w: seriously injured. General Rocca had been visiting his son at Buchar- est, where he is employed by a petro- leum company. ST JINGO DEAD Sept. 11.—General That neces- was killed in an auto- | \the big 1926 general strike. | All fur workers not yet members lof the Joint Board are called upon to join up so that a more effective drive can be launched for the or- ganization of the trade thru the new {national union planned. Tank Kills Girl in British War Maneuver LONDON, Sept. 11 (UP).—An |army tank ran over and killed a girl spectator during maneuvers |near Camp Hill today. The accident, first of its kind ever | ; | recorded, oceurred while the Royal Tank Battalion was returning from sc |a mimic battle. The tank emerged from behind a truck and crushed the girl while horrified Speetators looked on. The victim's name was not learned. ERECT TOLSTOY STATUE Is a Symbol of New and Free Russia Special Cable to The Daily Worker MOSCOW, Sept. 11.—The Tolstoi celebration week began in the Soviet Union the members of the Soviet Government, relatives of Tolstoi guests spoke. Lunarcharsky in speaking on Tol- stoi and the revolution analyzed Tol- stoi’s work from the Marxist stand- point and declared that the working class honored Tolstoi as a great ar- tist but rejected his “‘non-resistance” theories as reactionary and Utopian. in big theater where Stephan Zweig, well-known Ger-| men author who analyzed the effect and foreign} ef Tolstoi on European culture, was 11 greeted with applause. The cele- bration concluded with the perfor- | mance of Tolstoi’s favorite pieces in music. ts ee. MOSCOW, Sept. 10.—A placed against the background of a new and free Russia, when the fif-_ teen year old statue of Leo Tolstoy | will be restored to its place on Muis- | iky Square, on the occasion of the! |centenary of the great writer. The statue was made by C. Merk- | Continued on Page Five symbol | ‘of the oppression of czarist Russia and of the Orthodox Church will be | yesterday which will be submitted to the membership for ratification and amendment. No more arrests of mine dele- gates took place today, following the two day reign of unprecedented terror on the part of the Pittsburgh police who Sunday carried out wholesale raids resulting in the ar- rest of over one hundred delegates. The Lewis gangster army still following the convention delegatés around the city in automobiles. Pre- cautions have been taken to prevent further attacks by the Lewis thugs. Moran Dies. George Moran, Bentleyville mili- tant miner who was shot last Friday by Louis Carboni, a Lewis hireling, has died, it was learned here today. Frank Kovac, who was fired on at the same time is still in a critical condition. Tony Calamari of Char- leroi, who was Sunday beaten into unconsciousness by Lewis gangsters and whose life has been despaired of, is said to be slowly improving. Portray Speed-up. In a lengthy analysis of the pres- ent mine situation embodying a statement on policy adopted by the convention, the executive board of the new union has drawn up a ree- ord of the profits of the coal bar- ‘ons, a picture of the speed-up, the unemployment and starvation which the coal diggers are facing. The statement calls attention to the systematic yal of the min- is y the Le hrough signing of sep: istricts and andonment ¢ Jacksonville sulti ctical ex= on Mine of wis and pt no longer Continued on F HARBOR STRIKE. IN AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept. -—A complete tie-up of all Aus- tralian ports was effected today fol- lowing the repudiation by the Wat- erside Workers Federation of the latest decision of the arbitration court. The strikers declare that the de- cision of the arbitration court is not acceptable to them and that they will fight to the finish to secure its retraction. Commerce is at a standstill in every harbor and the owners are al- ready reported to be importuning the authorities to bring pressure to bear on the strikers to return to i work. ti omar

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