The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1928, Page 2

Page Two 1928 $250, 000,000. Theatre Merger Looms as Warner Bros. Gets Control of Stanley Co. MILL STRIKERS McMAHON MAKES Sine 250 PLAYHOUSES ACCOUNTS WEEK STANDING FIRM, PLEA TO “SOULS. FALL INTO LAP FOR DISTRICT 2, W. I. R, REPORTS WORKERS PARTY OF EMPLOYERS” OF BIG COMBINE Workers are Grateful Part Makes Vicious Attack ‘Iss THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12, \First Conference of the| NeedleTradeCampaign | Committee for Tonight New Miners U |Right Wing Thugs are Held in Stabbing Continued from Page One ing the attack are developed as fol- lows, according to testimony. Six members of the Butchers’ Union| were expelled from membership be- cause of their demand that the fi- nances of the union be investigated. |The expulsion was followed up by Jnion Is New Hope to Them The first meeting of the Needle Trades Election Campaign Commit® tee—elected out of the large mass meeting held on August 29th which was addressed by Benjamin Gitlow, | Communist candidate for vice-presi- dent, will be held tonight at 8 o’clock for Relief A relief i Workers Party Roll to Be Taken The week of September 24-31 is at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, Room 601. In a joint statement issued last on Militants Continued from Page One an immediate attempt to remove them and all other from their jobs. left wingers Movement Is Spreading Thruout U.S. ee Gi 2 4 aut ae night Rebecca Grecht, Campaign | Thugs Attack. A move toward the most extensive ig into the ‘ond to be set aside as a week of inves- Manager of the Workers (Commu-/ merger with the independent reac- I A * . merger in the hist of the the- # Bete ; ; * Pts oH Nha Pi | n conduct - e ie SORe, ee ecto tigation into the activities of every nist) Party and H. Sazar, Secretary | tionary union in New Bedford. And paigernige recs tene eaad “put.{atre business was made yesterday, ne. seebers yewterday’ reported tleysy of ge crea a ork of the Needle Trades T. U. E. L., even this gain is now being lost be-| cher shop of A. Oxman, 598 Prospect | When Warner Brothers acquired a espi e twenty-one weeks ers (Communist) Party, when a roll urged all members of the Needl y Bedford union has “ ¢ ing i i Stanl Of struggle the textile workers will Wall will ba ten of: attendatos and | qos proper ook are: come | cates Sen ee Ave, to order the employer to de-| controling interest in the 50 hold out until victory Trades Campaign Committee to at- already lost mbre than two-thirds! prive Louis Lassowitz, left winger Company’s chain of more than 250 wool eS Party activities, according to @ tend this meeting. “A special op-|of the members that it had at the| i ivelil theatres in the east Fred Beidenkapp, national secretary statement by John J. Ballam, act-| portunity exists for the carrying on| time of the merger by the dafection| sinib te Bek a etinsies (SWhIIb’ it: waarengt. Atnounesd 90k of the Workers International Relief, ing district organizer. The state-|o¢ the Communist election campaign of strikers to the ranks of the Tex-| whereupon the gangsters thratened|ficially, officials of the Warner who acted as head of the committe: ment follows: ha i ' | see ; # “ eters among the needle trades workers,” | tile Mill Committees. the workers that if they came back|Company yesterday admitted that Visit Workers’ Homes. “To all units in District 2: the statement reads in part, “but Waticuixemen. Acconate, |later to find him still at work “he|the merger had “come to a head.” “We visited scores of homes and Pay He ee gan ioen a if we are to take advantage of this) yesterday's entire session was| Would be carried out.” At the same time the giant the- eoGoe beau vetwatedls ciples of procedure in a Bolshev ; ‘ y's sion | ‘ ; i : Fits th Eaten ten ei tend he Party is the strict accountability | eee ae anes toe aH work) almost completely taken up with the| Lassowitz then called up several co ee ieee tae bad Textile Mill ¢ arr every Party member, from the high- | Nesdle trades workers have through OVTWhelming wordy report of the friends of bis and William Schiffrin) ye huge combide will total. $250;- Mul a 3 , z A + i x ager, butcher worker, Naha rapes wage-cut no wn and [est to the lowest. Therefore we have | sitter experience learned that their President. A short but very tell-/i U0) Og t0°h “shop to protect |0,000, reaching its tentacles to all A substantial increase in wages is [catablished, © period from Bement: bin dustrial demands (cannol We aep-| aco ott \esiqae neaiae he Fen. |thale fellow-worker from the right {Parts of the United States, won,” Beidenkapp said. ‘ ber 24 to 31, during which all units arated from the ticket they vote and deredvwhivh besiges proving, how ex-| vit . hireli: fy hi Th Movement Spreading. Srals! hee case of’, Jenene are called upon to examine the rec-/tne pigtform. they support at elec-|Z°™ely well treated the pict ee Schiffrin and Kluger, {fading | That the merger movement will ease of Joseph € ataytaar a are iS ; y 8 ~ | * “ wis y rin an juger, finding a oie . deiros, a striker,” the textile relief i pea A a drcech taah gay Bears lanoeed Ne Tapeeactonine at ea (fe sign of the gang‘near the butcher ae oak ae Lesa pe oe “Medeiros has workec great ray of hope, spur niners ow a4 A < : SS aT ior ‘ Bre Aloe | the vaudevi ield, was also indi- peed a A Mede ros has worked a. 0 q y of hop > spurring on ay miners to new ‘an to Whethkedihiacweeord 4m satice |allegedly national organization. No | Shop, walked out on the avenue to ara senaniay. Ramen” pakniee ee yew Bedtond mills ever since a hae glaemed:. jon the: coal yates ol. tee Lssted, sigan factory or not. The particular rT} 1 |discussion was held by delegates|S° home. On reaching Beck St.) 00" 2° crys interests will be he was a lad, twent} $ ago. he formation of the Miners Union in Pittsburgh. In spite shasea of abticity which will be subs] Foastandag, and Johns Ave. they suddenly saw | (4 when Sen's He is married and has nine children of the terror launched against the rank and file delegates, fibers } he fol eae \a large closed car pull to the curb|beught out in the present waye of ject for review «will be the follow-/ The expulsion from the conven- Even when he was working full time the Lewis agents were unable to smash the Miners Convention. ing: 1. Good standing. 2. Attend- leonsof: tvoumflitant: delbenthe: pene and five of the six men in the car br ig ie peur cena ae 3 ever made wa 0 2 The pol the Lewis ngsters. Above. i ae SE ct ak Ks ‘4 3 j Stanley Company, is the poo he ever made was $20 a a Ac aenig teen ieee, gangsters. Above, typical miners ance at unit meetings, 3. Payment terday served notice that a trumpet |/umPed hi spgear ate eee the laine: fought out: by ‘the: Watear week. He lives in three rooms, one parieaGenen © NE of campai assessment stam, jeall to battle against all progressive |‘WO Workers wi panes ; ti ; of which is a kitchen. Think ee Hot ny emerinl Percy ad pao 3 progressive) iiuger had time to run, but not | Brothers, in addition to its great n is tchen. hink of i | 4. Activity in union. 5. Activity in ‘orces could be expected from the| ?. chain of movie houses, controls First 11 people in three rooms. W. I. R. Helps. "When we asked his wife how he WATT TO TELL WILL CELEBRATE fraternal or auxiliary organizations. Activity in shops. 7. Activity in the election campaign. a Great Enthusiasm at Agents Meeting |officialdom. The expected took | place when McMahon launched a | scurrilous attack on the T. M. C., on | backed away. Schiffrin, who was forced against |thé wall of a building when he National Pictures and is already as- sociated with the Keith-Albee Cir- cuit in New England. thanaged to feed and clothe 11 peo- j 7 “With the increasing menace of |the left wing leaders’ conduct of Protests Himself. OO eon’ $20 a week she smiled MINERS STORY INT'L YOUTH DAY the war danger, with the intensifica- ee; \the great Passaic strike and partic-| Desperately trying to save him- crete ci ch 1a tion of struggles in which our Party Continued from Page One ularly on Albert Weisbord its leader. | self from the ferocious onsiaught of RL P| K T the oldest, sat in a corner of one of ieee members are engaged, with the nu- 2, Workers (Communist) Party, for| This hysterical attack ended with |the five knife-wielding thugs, Schif- | the miserable rooms and coughed|p 1: ¢ f By x merous and direct attacks upon our|having speakers on the Daily | the declaration that all Communists frin drew a penknife and swung it ‘pitifully. ‘Relief Meetin g on|20 Pioneers Graduate Party (Astoria, Bayridge, etc.), it Worker ‘BU every open-air meeting | 244 their bt ckganee ty would be| back and forth before him to keep | BONA when” the ‘tapic- wards + ie ma % becomes necessary to demand of our ‘ j ” | rooted out of the organization. off the rapidly closing circle of cut- | HUNGER STRIKE BF Titernational Raticr sae September 20 September 14 Party membership a stricter re- | *" campaign rally. The tremendous problem of or-|throsts. : | mentioned, the faces of this unhappy sponse to the tasks which are laid Thousands of attractive posters, ganizing the more than a million un- Harry Silver, leader of the atiack- Be ci uuese family \lightedtp endian : h any nt Sie Pioneers wil grad- down by the leading Party commit-| advertising the “Daily,” are being|organized and exploited mill opera-|ing squad, came in too close and re-| KENOSHA, Wis. Sept. 11—Mer- Papa Medeiros said in his native N@tional Union at the colakeeite te ee Rahs ed tees. The critical period ahead de- | distributed throughout the city, it| tives was considered far less im-| ceived a wound above the heart,|tice Hudson, eighteen years old, and Yanguage, ‘If the relief committee ¢ Pittsburgh convention and the Mian mands that every Party member... reported. Systematic distribu- portant than an attack on those who from which he died later in the Lin-| Amanda Rittmer, twenty-one, both feeds us, we'll strike until we win.’ launching of a campaign to unite all take place Friday, Sept. 14, at 8 p. m., in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. shoulder in a Bolshevik manner the tions in front of the large factories have proven themselves the most|coln Hospital. Another of Silver’s| militants in the strike of the hosiery As members of the committee left of the nearly 1,000,000 coal diggers and Irvi e full responsibilities which such mem- fe sacrificing and the most devoted| men received a cut on the arm when | Te h have e on a hun- ; ¢ ¥ 1,000,000 coa Sha rving Place. These Pioneers, i i and union headquarters are being | i ‘i 4 HU WOrmere Bere, ORS ser ia the house, Beidenkanp said, the little| in this country im one powerful, |having received their training and| eer ont ; being | members of the union. The serious| he, too. lunged forward with his) ger strike following their arrest 14-year-old consumptive said, “Don’t “Every unit is instructed to carry organized, with the co-operation of | problem of perpetual unemployment knife. Monday by police at the Allen-A snization, the monster | education along worki class lines ; : 3 s : A forget my milk.” A IE NS ldo eee Re EE ras jon a complete roll of its membership the Party units and with squads of|in the industry, McMahon proposes! Henry 0. Kahn and Joseph Brod-| factory during a demonstration of The Workers International Relief °°!idarity s meeting to be held | 114 Lengua senbatsi: StS | during the week of September 24 to | Communist newsboys in various sec- | t© Solve by “appealing to the souls sky were the attorneys of the de- | pickets. is-fighting hard to make it possible in New York City T lay eveMins, | | the Pp: oe a i 51 for the purpose of checking UP |tions of the city [Of Bankers eon tueiiess en, dele- | fendants, and Samuel Markewitz,| Mertice Hudson has been arrested for the heroic New Bedford and September 20, becomes an event of e Pioneer graduates will march |the activity of each member. In or- ak hea | gates from the few militant locals! notorious right wing hireling, was |seven times for her strike activities. OSTA é as Mees : up in a body to the platform, in their | g i EES Mass Distributions. bitter! | no’ 3 is rs é 2 F Fall River strikers to. ‘carry on, sail ee a every | Pioneer uniform ee 2 der to insure an accurate report on Aiton: ree itterly remarked. ‘trying to frame up a murder harge The charge against the pickets was Beidenkapp said in conclusion. ; pe fess) gli 7 lar wll eoeate fo the cence there [Coat perie matubeny SUsry Sontag, BSS Are VSO ere eee Condemn McMahon. against Schiffrin and his com- disorderly conduct and both are be- ee eens eGR G A MUIE: Finer SG ACL ea is adi the name of the en-| must attend the unit meeting held’ Worker in working-class sections of| These progressive delegates also| panions. jing held under $50 bail. At this meeting, which will be tire group, and they will be wel-| during this week. All reports are |the city are being conducted each |Condemned McMahon's craven, if not eR Se held in Ce: Opera House, 67th | comed into the League by the chair-|to he sent to the District Office, tol aa ic Gulae & int New Y openly traitorous policy on the in- ' ' St. and Third Ave., John Watt, first man of the meeting, Carl Winters.|the section or sub-section organizer y i , o acquaint New York junction evil which the textile ecek-| Come! Come! dent of the new w workers with their own militant pear to tell the workers of New|there will be quite an interesting |ing.” daily, it was announced at the meet-| gree. McMahon proposed that the| i 9 IN GRAFT MESS York the story of one of the great- | program for the evening. The Amer- | ——___— ing last night. union criticize the “abuse” of the) Motion ¢ ’ est events in the history of the|ican Revolutionary Youth Chorus Speakers emphasized the fact that | injunction, and that it call for its| i American labor movement. Watt, | will sing and then the Sports Club W RKIN YOUTH efforts must be made to buia the| more careful use. Picture —— who bas been one of the outstand-|will perform. There will be several | Party press in the Negro sections} Other interesting and amusing Sear pentose Charge Treasurer Had : ers against the unholy triple alli-/League. The speakers for the eve- see that a copy of i i s . Grice of. Haasan lice = 5 ‘ . % s py of the paper is|was the speech delivered by A. J. Spent Funds on Girls see 88 abeeme eles gate ee ae oe be on Ballem, R ALLY FOR MEET ise in the hands of his friends |Muste, dean of the Brookwood La- TILE STRIKERS of NEW BEDFORD ewis machine, will bring a re-| Philip Frankfeld, Morris Yusem, land shop-mates during th i 5 i | RUANTA, note Sept. 11 SCE) wey of set reat pee oe Ed. Welsh and Carl Winters, chair- | Scr |the labscineien “ave it Tae ‘ na un Suing ate lies we cee AND FALL RIVER —An indictment charging embezzle- vention, will describe the attack of | man. 5 i ment of $69,000 from the Southern|the police and 200 Lev thugs on Sees. |Shoe Workers Endorse |ferier. as readers of the Daily ein ee cena He pollbae ALBERT WEISBORD, Speaker aptist Convention Home Missior its first session and will discuss in |) * Conf : ¥ 5 a z Rtininnnantine Board was returned today against)detai! all the events deading up to Makes Corrections on »Lonterence eth leiklttn Dube en eg Clinton S. Carnes, former treasurer, ‘he historic moment when the New “Unity Goes Over the | - Stage Play Broadcast |>¥ rsanizer Starr, who unwittingly, | SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15TH of the board, who disappeared Au-| National : igh becawetia yo s er e Joseph Magliacamo, general or- | FARM testified that McMahon was lieing) LABOR TEMPLE. 14TH ST. & 2ND AVENUE gust 15. reality. Top for the Daily’ %\ganizer of the Independent Shoe | by Television outright when he charged Weisbord | | eee eee enn The indictment was returned by the Fulton county grand jury and with the thousands of other rank | Editor, the Daily Worker: vicinity, and H. Levine, the business | SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Sept. 11/strikers. Starr in the beginning of 2 Performances: 8:45 p. m. and 11 p. m. officials in the office of Solicitor/and file miners during their des- agent of the same union, issued a|(UP).—A new world of amusement| his report of activities in Passaic be- 4 ¥ i “General John Boykin, of Fulton perate 17 months strike, will de- I hereby acknowledge the fact/ statement yesterday endorsing the was unlocked for the first time here|gan saying: “When we took charge Auspices: Local New York Workers International Re- county, said it was only the first|scribe the terrible sufferings of the |("2¢ 1 Ted. appreciated and enjoyed | Working Youth Conference. today in an epochal demonstration] after Weisbord had agreed to step! lief, 1 Union Square, New York, Room 604. of a number of indictments expected miners and their families, and their (ne St0r¥, “Camp Unity Goes Over) hey said: “We, thé Independent |f the first television broadeasting| out of the picture.” | a 4 to be returned as auditors continue struggles against starvation, evie- Hie Top tor Chae " which aD- shoe Workers of Greater New York |f @ stage play, in which the im-| The finance report showed that eee their survey of the mission board’s tion and disease—-struggies which peared in last Saturday’s issue of| jnq veinity, were in the provisional 28S and voices of the actors went/despite the comparatively small Show Your Solidarity With the Textile Strikers books. : ane oll etthe a, Ha wel appeal ee ae Rata It mould uun- | committee from the very beginning. |0Ver radio in perfect synchroniza-| salary pulled down by McMahon, | Carnes left a shortage of ap- to the New York workers to back % een a fine report/m. Independent Shoe Workers is | t1n- namely $3,622 per annum, he was Admission 50 Cents proximately $1,000,000 when he dis- appeared, officials of the mission board claim. Much of the money was invested in Atlanta real estate and assets of nearly $20,000 have been turned over to the church by Carnes’ family to help make up the shortage. It was disclosed he aided two young Atlanta girls in their moving picture careers. More than $1: thad been paid the girls in the pas year, it is claimed, and Carnes was to have received a percentage of their stage contracts in remunera- tion. . Two warrants have been issuec @or Carnes’ arrest. One was sworn jout last Friday by Dr. L. R. Christie president of the board, and a bench twarrant was issued today by Judge ; ‘. the North American Continent from kitchen and dining room staff of the| 335 Canal St. are said to have been E. D. Thomas immediately after the ‘ “ap t | 888 al St. are | I ; ; past tol west Unity Camp. They contributed the| injured when they attacked a num-| ; NEWARK, N. iMetment w ened: east We y P. y P injured when they attacked a : o Je Fiend. th was ‘Games is arrested, Weather permitting, the planes | bulk of the sum of money raised,| ber of pickets of the Suitcase, Bag BEACON,N.Y. Phone: Beacon 731 J ae bean wet at will leave here some time between |and they were those who success-|and Portfolio Makers’ Union. OPEN ALL YEAR MOLDERS RAISE WAGES. SEATTLE.—Molders raised their minimum wage to $7.50 a day after Ss short strike. The former minimum The favorite at the start is Art Every new reader of The | injunction against the company. The 69 FIFTH AVENUE — Phone: ALGonauin 6900 | late vas $6.40, but several employers Goebel, who recently flew his Yankee| DAILY WORKER is a potential |injunction expired on September» 1 21700 BRONX PARK FAST — Phone: OLInville 8947. to elect three deleg: fpaid more than this rate. The aver- Doodle plane from west to east oldier in the coming battles of |after which the firm renewed its be increase is 60 cents a day. across the continent without a stop | the workers. lunion smashing campaign. — - pr ion, will ap- ing figures in the fight for the min- Watt, who has fought side by side the new union to the utmost by aid- ing the miners and their families. Leaders of workers’ struggles in other trades will also speak and bring the message of solidarity of ail the workers in their fight against their oppres: "i Nine Planes Line Up for on-Stop Flight Over U. S. ROOSEVELT FIELD, L. I., Sept. 11 (UP).—-Nine of the first air- planes in the country were being tuned up here tonight for a flight only one plane ever has succeeded in making—a non-stop trip across Ta m., Wednesdey. No starting order has been arranged for the race, each plane taking the run- way when ready to leave. m. and 5 p Besides the Pioneer graduation violin selections by a member of the since it bestowed such high praise upen myself, and were it not for a! few oversights on the part of the| comrade who wrote it, the article would have been much better. In- cidentally, the article was excellent-| ly written. | I hereby place the following cor-| rections: David Siegel“did not make! himself “into a popular hero in| gathering funds for the ‘Daily.” In-| stead of Comrade Siegel, the man- ager of the Unity Co-operative, this passage should have been read that: “Comrade Sheck, active comrade of the Freiheit Singing Society, made himself into a popular hero,” ete. Almost the same as to Siegel ap- plies the reference to Comrade Sul- tan. The real driving force in the campaign for the “Daily” was the fully collected from the campers. Comradely yours, Md --WILLIAM ABRAMS. immediately after the unit meet- Workers of Greater New York and out to organize the industry 100 per | cent in New York and vicinity, and | we realize that we will not be able to do this without drawing the young shoe workers into the union. “The Working Youth Conference, | which will take place Saturday and | Sunday, September 29 and 30, de- serves the wholehearted support of every progressive and _ left-wing | worker, not only in the shoe indus- try, but in all industries in New| York.” 'Three Scabs Injured | in Attack on Pickets | | Three strikebreakers employed by | \the Reliable Suit Case Company of | -The company is attempting to operate a non-union shop. Recently | lleaders of the union, against the | will of the rank and file, secured an in Harlem—that every reader must Furthermore, they were perfectly received by a somewhat awe-struck audience of newspaper correspond- ents gathered as the guests of Sta- tion WGY of the General Electric Company and Dr. E. F. W. Alex- anderson, consulting engineer General Electric and chief consult- ing engineer of the Radio Corpora- tion of America. of ers suffer from to a very large de- features of the session yesterday with “quitting cold” the Passaic by-no means suffering real want. His chops and soft quilts were paid for by an expense sheet totalling $5,895.50, thus leaving a plump margin to stow away, even if the Other innumerable “traveling” or- ganizers also received good treat- ment. | Physical and Mental Recreation at Coopera- tive Workers Camp Nitgedaiget RATES: $17.00 PER WEEK New York Offices: — figures given in the report are true. | BENEFIT PERFORMANCE FOR THE TEX- Daily Worker - - Freiheit NEW JERSEY BAZAAR CONFERENCE WEDNESDAY EVE., SEPT. 12, | at 93 MERCER STREET Workers Party Units, Labor and Fraternal Organi- zations of Newark, Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Plainfield, Stelton and Roselle, are requested *BAZA Collec Names forthe Honor Roll Articles Ads for the Benefit of The DAILY - WORKER and FREIHEIT National Bazaar Committee 30 ‘UNION SQUARE NEW YORK, N. Y.