The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 13, 1928, Page 1

TEXTILE WORKERS ELECTING DELEGATES TO BUILD NEW UNION THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Emtered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., ander the rker t ef Marek 3, 1973. FINAL CITY EDITIO Vol. V., No. 217 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker DAY, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mai BIG AUSTRALIA |. HARBOR STRIKE DESPITE GOV'T Premier Threatens t Use Crimes Act to || Jail Leaders Tie-up Is Complete Wool Growers May Call | in Seabs CANBERRA, Australia, Sept. 12. —Premier Stanley Bruce today threatened to invoke the crimes act | to break the strike of the dock | workers, which is tying up every | port in the country. | The crimes act involves a year’s imprisonment for organizers con: victed of “agitation” and deporta- tien of those not born in the Com- monwealth. As many of the labor | leaders are alleged to come from| cther parts of the British empire | the government plans to make’ a| drastic step towards destroying the | strike in this way. Reports from virtually every har- hor in Australia tell the same story of a complete tie-up of shipping. | Scores of vessels are lying idle in| workers on the death wagons. Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. Victims of the Kuomintang Terror Loading the mutilated bodies of Cantonese revolutionary Cantonese officials of the Kuomintang to carry away the bodies of the workers they have murde NEW MINE UNION 4 TO CARRY FIGHT TO ALL FIELDS National Board Holds ‘Binal Sessions of Convention Moran’s Funeral Today /Tony Carbonari Still in Crave Danger | NEW YORK, THU es (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Sept. 12.—The | National Executive Board of the newly formed National Miners’ | Union continued its sessions through- out the day, finishing up the vari- jous tasks in connection with the launching of the organization. In addition to the organization drive planned for all fields, the new |union will hold a series of mass meetings in the various districts, at \which reports of the convention will \be made by the delegates who at- tended. It is planned to follow these meetings with conferences in each district, at which delegates will be lelected from the local unions. The \eonfererces will choose the district officers and administration. . * Heavy trucks are used by the d, Funeral of Moran. every large port. |< The wool-growers of Australia, who are preparing to ship their crop, have announced their intention of employing strikebreakers and loading their wool on the idle ves- FORWARD” PITTSBURGH, Sept. The funeral of George Moran, militant miner of Bentleyville, who died yes- terday as a result of wounds in- flicted by Louis Carboni, a Lewis jspy, will be held in Bentleyville GUILTY OF The present strike began follow- ing the refusal of the dockers to accent the award of the arbitration court. providing for two pick-ups a Cay instead of one. The term pick-up is used to desig- nate the employers’ practice of hir- ing a shift of men from among the first applicants in the morning. The two-shift system would mean | that, sxorkers- in. the-morn- |. ing would receive only half a day’s wages, whereas under the one-shift system they would work all day. | D'OLIER FEARED “BUMPING OFF” \Followed a Conference With Connolly Gang ete ee ae “Somebody is going to be bumped off before this thing is over.” That is what William L. D’Olier, ‘sanitation engineer, told a close |friend in connection with the $29,- 500,000 Queens sewer scandal, just ;a few days before D’Olier’s body | was found with a bullet through his |temple near a cemetery in Maspeth, LIL BLOODSHED, IS CHARGE oe six armed with CRISIS LOOMING Nationalists and Folks. Party Bloe Seen BERLIN, Sept. 12 (UP).—The| nationalist party executive has de-| manded an immediate convening of | the foreign relations committee of | the Reichstag in view of develop-| ments at Geneva where Chancellor | Mueller has been discussing evacua- tion of the Rhineland with France. Belcium, England and Italy. The executive has recalled all na- tionalist members of the Reichstag to Berlin and it was believed the party is planning a drive to force German's retirement from the League of Nations. Such action, it was said, might result in a domestic crisis since the folks party is disappointed by the Geneva conferences and might join with the nationalists. a Lodgings Needed for | 250 Textile Delegates Lodgings are needed for the 250 delegates to the National Convention of Textile Workers which will take place September 22-23, at Irving| Plaza, this city. All workers who can accommodate one or more dele-| gates for Saturday night, Septem-| ber 22, are urged to send their names and addresses to the Daily Worker, with information as to how | many people they can accommodate and whether men or women, Quick action is needed since the delegates are preparing to come. Help to make the textile convention a success and let us hear from you immediately! Stinnes, Manipulator of War Bonds, Resigns BERLIN, Sept. 12 (UP).—Hugo Stinnes, son of the late German in- dustrialist, has resigned f om the di- rectorate of all German and foreign firms connected with the Stinnes in- terests, it was announced today. Stinnes was arrested recently act cused of trying to defraud the gov- ernment through the manipulation of German war bonds. KENTUCKY A. F. L. MEETS. FRANKFOP™, Ky.—The Ken- tucky State “\leration of Labor opens its annual convention in Frankfort September 17. Followed “Conference.” That D’Olier made this statement ‘was sworn to yesterday by Edward ,C. Wallace, a personal friend of the , sanitation engineer, and Gilbert C. | Waldrop, the attorney of the slain | man. Wallace insisted that Connolly kad had a “conference” with D’Olier a few days before he was killed. This statement sharply con- tradicts Connollys testimony that he had not seen D’Olier since July 3. Pious deniai of Wallace’s state- ment was made by Connolly when he was informed of it yesterday. “Tt’s adding nonsense to non- sense,” he commented blandly. District Attorney Listless. Waldrop further informed the district attorney, to whom he gave his deposition yesterday, that D’Olier attended a conference of “Connolly's friends” August 27. The district attorney, thus far, has neglected to go into a thorough investigation of Connolly and his close associates during the week be- fore D’Olier’s death. WEISBORD, OLGIN WILL SPEAK HERE Film Will Follow Mill Relief Conference The cynical threat made by John Sullivan, president of the New Bed- ford Cotton Manufacturers Associa- tion, that hunger, want and freezing weather will drive the men back to the mills, will be vigorously an- swered when several hundred labor and fraternal delegates meet on Saturday at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, at 2. p. m., to discuss ways and means to intensify Yelief for the textile strikers,” Har- riet Silverman, secretary of the New York Local, Workers International | Relief, 1 Union Square, said yester- day. Albert Weisbord and Moissaye J. Olgin will speak. Fred Biedenkapp, national secretary of the W. I. R: will also address the conference. Posters announcing the conference have been displayed at labor union headquarters in all parts of the city. “The New Bedford and Fall River Krassin. strikers are on the road to victory. Continued on Page Two |gang is shouting for the blood of Thursday. A mass demonstration | will be staged, at which miners from the masses of workers in the Jewish |every surrounding section will be labor movement at the socialist | present, The new National Miners hierarchy in control of the United| Union, to which Moran was a dele- Hebrew Trades and its organ, the gate, will send two representatives yellow Jewish Forward, whose pro-|to assist in the funeral arrange- Srams against the left wing reached| ments. The National Executive a climax in the flow of blood that! Board of the anion has sent its resulted in the death of a right Continued on Page Five _wing follower and the wounding of | another, when they led a squad of ‘ r = MAT WOLL FUMES \liam Schiffrin, left winger. | Two years of repeated bloody as-| AT TEXTILE MEET from the Forward, Jewist workers declared in their discussions of the|Boss Agent Splutters case, which is practically the only | | Deepest hatred is expressed by saults on left wing workers and their leaders were perpetrated by under. | world thugs hired by the right wing officialdom with money received Hatred for “Reds” an honest Sanka > wie aii’ Matthew Woll, professional red- handed and with his back to a build-|Daiter and A. F. of L. vicp-presi- ing, defended himself against the | “ent, unloaded his annual “red hunt- combined attack of the six knife-|'"8” speech to the United Textile wielders, who were sent to do their | Workers Union convention in the bloody work by the Forward crowd, | Great Northern: Hotel vestardny. At The facts they were discussing he same. time he blandly offered Continued on Page Two |“hope” as the only solution to the |problem before American workers of being faced with the growing RYAN PUTS OVER |competition of European factories, | established and enlarged by the tides | of gold pouring into Europe by American capitalists. NEW AGREEME |" Militant delegates at the conven- |tion, at the conclusion of Woll’s |speech, declared that the acting topic of conversation. Now that | A | president of the National Civic Fed- Longshoremen A gain [eration had inadvertently contested Sold Out that the Communists have the real | solution for the problems of the | workers which arise under the pres- Longshoremen along the eastern | ent system. coast are today voting on a new) “A social fabric,” they said, “that wage contract which renews for an-|can bring down upon the heads of other year the miserable ‘wage of|the workers untold suffering through the present agreement expiring on|unemployment caused by _invest- October 1. Joseph P. Ryan, presi-| ments of capital in foreign factor- dent of the International, in a state-|ies, and which chokes the workers ment completing an obvious sell-| with their own production, ought to out of the longshoremen predicted | be destroyed.” that the men would accept the new | Commenting on the boss-agent agreement. | Woll’s statement that the “Commu- Ryan, who is also president of | nists preach a philosophy of de- the Central Trades and Labor Coun- | spair,” militant delegates remarked cil, yesterday headed a committee | that, in addition to it being untrue, which called upon Frederick C. Top-| it is far preferable to Woll’s policy pin, vice president of the Interna-|of continual betrayal of the work- tional Mercantile Marine and leader | €rs. of the bosses’ union-haters, with a | nominal demand for a 5 cents an| Besides Woll’s attack on the Com- hour increase. The proposal was munists, there was one by W. E. G. promptly “rejected” by the bosses| Batty, the secretary of the New on the ground that “the condition | Bedford Textile Council. Batty was Batty Also There. of business does not warrant an in-| furious at the “reds” and the work garment workers and furriers are) crease.” Thereupon completing the they did by: gaining sole leadership Continued on Page Two } Continued on Page Two MOSCOW, Sept. 12 (UP).—The|North and finally returned to the | Russian aviator Chukhnovsky, who|Krassin. After short rest he is accompanying the icebreaker | Started another flight. - * * “and the \ Krassin on its search for the en-| ROME, Se: ‘ ‘ 3, &, Sept. 12.—While the So- velope crew of the dirigible Italia | viet icebreaker Krassin’ ploughs the thadé one Peat Tina Behe | Arctic seas in search of the 12 men! day and has started another. | mysteriously swallowed up by the jice deserts of the north, announce- These are the first flights made| ment was made today by the Stef- on the present excursion of the /ani News Agency that the fascist \Italian government had decided to On the first flight Chukhnovsky | recall all its vessels now in the veconnoitered eastward from Cape, Spitzbergen waters. / SEPTEMBER 1 Radium Victim in the courts After a long fight which, siding with the United States Radium Corporation, sought to with- hold compensation from the women radium victims, the first checks of $150 have been received. Above, Frace Fryer, one of the poisoned women. URGE WORKERS T0 JOIN YOUTH MEET Ballam PledgesSupport of District John J. Ballam, acting district or- \ganizer of Dist. 2, Workers (Com- munist) Party urged New York workers to attend the International Youth Day Celebration to be, held here tomorrow evening Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. in a statement issued last night. The statement follows: | “The (Communist) Party, District feels that it is part of its revolutionary duty as the leader of the entire working class |to explain its attitude on the work- ing youth in connection with the \growing war danger and in connec- tion with International Youth Day. “The young workers are one of the most exploited sections of the working class. The young workers are being constantly drawn into in- dustry. At the same time, we find |that the young workers are mostly unorganized, the wages of the young workers are low, the young workers are to be found among the | unskilled workers, and at best, in the ranks of the semi-skilled. This jis due to the development of machinery which eliminates the need of skill. “The young workers offer the Continued cn Page Two TO HOLD FIRST HUGE RED RALLY N. Y. Candidates Will Speak Sept. 28 The first large election campaign rally to be held in New York this year—which will take place at’ the |Central Opera House, 67th St. near | Third Ave., on Friday evening, 8 o'clock, September “28th—will come |at a time when workers thruout the country are carrying on an inten- sive fight against reactionary union- ism and are forming new, militant unions in the basic industries. The determination of workers who have long suffered the exploi- tation of their capitalist bosses working hand in glove with the bosses’ -political machines to break with corrupt, misleading “labor leaders” is well demonstrated at the mine workers’ convention to form a new union, at which their program of organization was carried on des- pite the murder of delegates and the combined assault of thugs and state ‘police carrying out the instructions of the Lewis machine. In New York City, thousands of at Irving Workers 2. also engaged in the formation of a Continued on Page Two Six Italian subjects, members of the so-called Allessandri party, are among the 12 men being sought. )The other six are Roald Amundsen, | end of the Norwegian explorer, and his five companions. The announcement gave the un- |favorable weather conditions as the veason for the abandonment of the search. It is planned to release the Norwegian icebreaker Braganza, which is under charter by the It: jan government. The Citta di M » 1928 $6.00 per year, Price 3 Cents Rank and File Army of Communist aunteers Will Build Workers Party During Election Campaign MILL STRIKERS PICK NATIONAL UNION DELEGATES Pioneers ‘Flogged for Strike Activity (Snecial to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 12.—While _ the trolled United Textile Union of the American Federation of Labor continues in convention, dividing its time between unseating militant delegates and “appealing to the souls of employers for im- provement of working conditions,” the thousands of textile strikers here are choosing delegates to the convention for a new national tex- tile workers union to be held in New York City on September 22 and 23. Today’s developments on the at- tempt of the Textile Council and the mill owners association to come to a fake agreement for ending the strike are negligible since one of the chief actors in this strikebreak- ing play, W. E. G. Batty is now in New York attending the U.T. W. convention. No sooner did word reach Batty that Eli Keller and El- len Dawson, two T. M. C. organizers, were unseated as delegates by the MeMahon machine, than Batty and his immediate crowd thought it safe to go to New York. he only direct event in the sell- out plot, was the statement. issued by Charles Mitchell, chairman of the Mediation Committee that “the situation is too delicate for com- ment.” How thoroughly controlled by the Continued on Page Three MANY BOOTHS AT “DAILY” BAZAAR Organizations Prepare for Big Event Preparations for the great Na- tional Daily Worker-Freiheit Ba- zaar are progressing by leaps and bounds. Workers in every section of the country are joining the vast proletarian army that has already begun the march that will culmin- ate when .the workers take posses- sion of Madison Square Garden for four days, Oct. 4, 5, 6 and 7 and hold the huge bazaar that is ex- pected to give new life and new power to the two great working class dailies, the Daily Worker and \the Freiheit. Working class organizations thru- out New York City have already be- gun collecting and making articles for their booths. The Amalgamated Continued on Page Three CampaignCommitteeof City Meets Tomorrow A meeting of the Cit}: Campaign Committee of the Workers (Com- munist) Party will be held tomor- row at 8 p. m., at the Worker Cen- ter, at which problems in connection with the Red Campaign in this city In a statement issued last night by Rebecca Grecht, District 2 Cam- paign Manager, all section organ- izers, section campaign directors campaien managers and other rep- resentatives of industrial fractions end industrial campaign committees are urged to attend without fail. CHUKHNOVSKY RESUMES SEARCH FOR LOST MEN Makes Successful Flights as Italian Government Recalls Sh ips Giving Up Hunt |initiator and ‘leader of the disas- |trous fascist expedition into the north, will leave Spitzbergen at the week, the announcement stated. The abandonment of the search by the Italian government leaves |the Krassin, which already has res- had 16 men, as the only expedition | persisting in the hunt for the lost men. Attached to the Nrassin is the heroic aviator, Chukhnovsky, jlano, base ship of Geueral Nobile, | vho has resumed his ilights. for 1,000 Services Call Is Issued Trachtenberg, Outlines Plans Workers to Give Their to Drive Campaign Committee Chairman to Build Party Marking a new forward step in the development of the Workers (Communist) Party, tee has issued_a call for one th and speakers to offer their ser the Central Executive Commit- ousand rank and file organizers vices to the Party for a fimited time during the election campaign, in order to bring the pro- gram of the class struggle into let in the United States, as w reactionary-con- | 4nd to build the Party in thousands of places where no Com- Workers | munist organization exists at the present time. every industrial town and ham- ell as to the exploited farmers Speaking in behalf of the Central Executive Committee of FOSTER ASSAILS KELLOGG TREATY “Camouflage for War of Imperialism” The presidential campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party) has started with the opening of national campaign headquarters at 43 East 125th Street, and the sending of William Z. Foster, their presidential candidate, and Benjamin Gitlow, candidate for vice-president, on a nation-wide speaking tour. Scott Nearing, candidate for Governor of |New Jersey, is on a tour of the South. He-spoke last night at Balti- more and will address another meet- ing tomorrow at Richmond, on the Communist program of revolu- tionary struggle against the present economic and political order. The Communists have more speakers in the, field than any other political | party. Foster Scores Kellogg Pact. Foster at his meeting last night at St. Paul and yesterday at Milwaukee, and in his speeches at Flint and Detroit on Sunday, out- lined the plans and views of the Communists. He attacked the can- Continued on Page Five EUROPEAN LABOR GREETS MINERS ‘Cables Received From Militant Unions (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Sept. 12.—Cables of congratulations and international greetings from miners unions of Bel- gium, Austria, and France were re- ceived by the National Miners Union whose sessions have been held here this week. All of them express hone and confidence that the new union means much to in- ternational labor. The officials of the old United Mine Workers of America showed scant concern to the coal miners’ unions of other countries when they were in trouble, and for this reason European labor is doubly interested. Thus the Regional Union of the nothern miners of France states that it “is following with the closest interest the evolution of the miners’ movement in the United States towards fighting policies,” and hones for full proceedings of the convention. And the others are in like spirit: The letter of the Knights of Labor of Belgium de- clares the “hope that this confer- ‘ence will enable the miners to free themselves definitely from the _worst bureaucrats in the world.” |The mine workers’ opposition in the | Austrian Federation of Mine and | Mill workers states that “the strug- Continued on Page Three Meeting of Cutters’ 'Welfare League Today A meeting of the Cutters’ Welfare | League will be held today at 7 p.m. at the Joint Board Cloakmakers’ | Union headquarters, 16 W. 21st St. I. Horowitz, organizer of the League and a member of the Na- tional Organization Committee, will report on the activities of the com- \ mittee at the meeting. the Workers (Communist) Party, Alexander Trachtenberg, *chairman of the National Elec- tion Campaign Committee, de- clared that the election cam- paign offers the best oppor- tunity ever presented to the Party to bring its message to the masses of exploited workers and farmers from coast to coast. Communists Revolutionary Party. “In the early days of the socialist movement,” he said, “when that party based itself on the working masses, when it had as leaders proletarian rebels like Ben Hanford, the creator of Jimmie Higgins and Eugene V. Debs, before it deserted the class struggle and fell into the hands of shyster lawyers and preachers, socialist party members were imbued with the spirit of vol- untary effort and every active mem- ber considered himself an organizer, | Today the socialist party,is a hol- low shell without force or enthus- iasm and the revolutionary tradition of the pioneering days of socialism in the United States has been in- herited by the Workers (Commu- nist) Party. “The members of the Workers (Communist) Party today, unlike the few that still carry cards in the socialist party, are gaged in every struggle of the workers against thé capitalists on the industrial field. They are build- ing new militant unions to take the place of the industrial organizations of the workers that have been re- duced to impotency and, wrecked thru the treachery of crooked labor leaders, and organizing the worke ing class in industries where the fossilized labor bureaucrats could not or would not essay the task of organization. actively en- Must Reach Small Towns. “Our comrades of the rank and file,” Trachtenberg declared, “can be equally successful in building the Workers (Communist) Party. It is |not necessary that they should be experienced orators. Every worker can tell his story and explain his point of view to another worker, “Foster and. Gitlow, the national standard bearers of the Party in the election campaign and the hundreds of candidates on the state tickets can only visit the principal cities, There are thousands of small towns scattered thruout ‘the United States that are almost entirely populated by the working class, and in which there is no unit of the Workers (Communist) Party. “The masses of workers are care- fully watching the present election campaign. The well-informed class- conscio: workers know from ®x- perience that both*parties are ene- mies of labor, that both parties have issued injunctions to break strikes; that both parties wherever in pow- er are equally willing to serve ti capitalists and use the state forces to suppress the struggles of the workers. “During the administration of Woodrow Wilson,” Trachtenberg Continued on Page Three Second Conference for Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar This Evening The conference of the giant press bazaar committee will be held tonight, at 8 p. m, at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Sq. All delegates to the last conference held on August 28 are urged to come. All organizations who were not |represented at the last conference are also urged to send two dele« gates to the meeting tonight. second ) %