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OIN YOUTH DAY CELEBRATION TONIGHT N. Y. WORKERS WILL THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR FOR A WORKERS’ A GOVERNMENT PARTY ND FARMERS’ Emtered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the net of March 3, 1878. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V. Ne 218 Sites S Seen eee ree NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER M4, ie Sse Pee Illinots Miners Vote Overwhelmingly to Repudiate the Lewis-Fishwick Wage Cut : MANY THOUSAND “tetine rare Denounce Scho Temas FOSTER [S GIVEN Fascists Jail WILLSTRESSNEW Farm Leader, WILLJOINMOVE TINDIGATE WILL Zr BIG WELCOMEAT “/even More Wan QaNger aT 22ventor, Js cop NEW NATL TO HOLD RANKS Miners Believed to Be) Following Decision | of Convention | Vote Is Four to One. Predict Other Fields | Communists .—Al- GORIZIA, Italy, Sept. 13. Red Candidate (Special to the Daily Worker) YOUTH MEET HERE ST, PAUL MEET Is Striking Contrast to. Freeze-Out for Thomas Red Candidate Riddles leging that they have discovered the “source of a vast Communist organ- ization” police arrested eleven pris- oners kere and have charged them with complicity in the assassination of a fascist on August 22. Unrest throughout large sections Exposes Kellogg Pact of the populace, that has arisen out Pioneers to Graduate of the suppression of trade unions and unfavorable economic condi- tions, has led to the arrests and the Under Joint Auspices of Workers Party and Y. W. Ly EATHERFORD, Texas., Sept. 13 —Neither the great masses of the American workers nor the hun- dreds of thousands of impoverished farmers have anything to gain by supporting the B Es parties and the twin candidates Will Be Held at the TEXTILE UNION A.F. of L. Organization Branded a “Mill Boss’ Company Union” two old, corrupt T aud T.M.C. Movement of Wall Street, McMahon Fumes at the “ j strengthening of pclice and gen- ry Hoover and “ Rie, NEF ac v7 Will | Follow | : Boss Parties SO SEeCneNTE Se Irving Plaza Hall oie 4 Daily Worker SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Sept. 13.—| Striking parents with placards denouncing the transfer of 560 By PAT DEVINE aioe International Youth Day will be This is the con-- Branding the United Textile Voting overwhelmingly to repudiate} of their children from public school 50, in Brooklyn to a school where ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 13.—A celebrated at a mass meeting to be viction of John Workers’ Union of t American the wage cut agreement entered into| they have to walk long distances thru dangerous traffic. The strikers, | procession of automobiles, draped REFUSE BAIL T0 held at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. D: Rust of this) Federation of Labor as “an organ- | between the Lewis-Fishwick ma- chiefly the mothers of the children, are endeavoring to persuade other jin red and carrying Communist | * and Irving Place, tonight at 8 SNES town, candidate ization that is a sai ng the mill chine and the coal operators, two of | parents to keep their children from attending the school. signs, welcomed William Z. Foster, o'clock. At the meeting, which is| John D. Ryst of the Workers wwners as a company union,” four the largest districts of Central Il- linois today showed their determina- tion to maintain their living stand- presidential candidate on the Work- jers (Communist) Party ticket, on MINE LEADERS RAP |his arrival here last night to address SAVE UNION FUND being jointly arranged by the Work- ( C ommu nist) rs (Communist) Party and the|P@rty for U. S. senator from Texas. e Young Workers League of District] delegates, acting in behalf of six local unions, walked out of yester- reactionary U. T. W., and declared “Only the Workers (Communist) day’ ore Ja h s ay’s convention sessi the | Spear ; |a mass meeting in behalf of the na-| _, |2, speakers will stress the imminent| Party, which has the fundamental|Great Northern Hotel, signified | Tatomaplete, renorle.. give, the y tional election. 3 117 Year Old Textile | war danger, and point out the im./@PProach to the problems of the their complete severance with the Springfield vote as 2,071 against | BR ji HY |_ The cordial greeting that met portance of the working class youth| reat masses, represents their in- ; f Strikers Arrested ] and 555 for the new scale; but it is | Foster was in striking contrast to | in industrial and revolutionary|terests. The platforms of the re. i dongles | thought likely that the real vote| v : : [the coolness with which the Rev. peices Aegeclen. | publican, democratic and socialist no” mention of participating in | was far more greatly opposed to the { (Special to the Daily Worker) | Norman Thomas, the socialist can-| (Special to the Daily Worker) Celebrations Thruout World. | Parties are based on the program yi) Comenitiees tue the. Textile agreement by which the Lewis-Fish- PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 13.—| didate, was received when he arrived) NEW BEDFORD, Mass Sept.) The sttnch on the Vomre Wrark:|0f Derpetuating the present system Mill Committees for the establish- wick machine is seeking to complete | e attack on the Young Wark- ment of a new national union of te: The National Executive Board of | here last Saturday. 12.—Charges of assault and battery {of exploitation. The program of the its sell-out of the miners. | the National Miners Union which is Workers Crowd Hall. were preferred against Joe Costa |r ite wrens Call he ect wit | Workers (Communist) Party—the ile Workers. The T. M. C. conven. ‘| In the Taylorsville district 2,645 ‘ : | uithed saneateAcnacietion lidiie, ina A. Werancia. cers savedtecucveie: Ss rs will be dealt with | program of the class struggle (tion will eld here on the 22 an A | in session here today to complete} » and A. Francis, two seve! year-|The fight t 1 = 1s ge! 3 Ss. > i votes were reported against and y “é % e fight against imperialist jingo-| gims at th a 23 of Sept. in Irving Plaza Hall 2 5 i he technical ents ‘dele- | “here Foster spoke, was crowded to |old strikers who were arrested yes-| ism will be the central point of the| s/s St the overthrow of the pres-|""5y Leak came when Gustav 1,894 for the wage cut. Here again Veet.) the technical arrangem *le- | capacity. The audience was 100 per |terday in the neighborhood of the DEgeawh ites “aunouniads: ent system and the substitution of i ? b ea rere n ne ay the actual vote is believed to have * |gated to them by the convention | cent working class and applauded | Paige Mill. They had accosted a The meeting tonight is one of|~ Workers’ and Farmers’ govern- ia tee es Lat : ‘ % been more overwhelmingly opposed Attends Funeral Of | which met Sunday and Monday in| frequently while the speaker ex: | seab on his way to work and in-\ many held in various cities of the | ment: o4 a 7 Bet bes sce the ha ae SA ier eco Oe Slain Miner |defiance of police and United Mine |ploded the prosperity claims of the |quired if he knew that a strike was \United “States. and working clasg,.RUSt is a native Texan mechanic {UUO¥S, \nade delivered by. Presi- in rep ing the Lewis sell-out, Workers’ gangsters, issued- the: fol-|7¢Publican. party, exposed te hol~/in progress. “A ‘fight ensued’ re- ‘centers thruout the world as part|@"d Skilled ‘operator of big farm’ yr ver for tho ate hase the miners are-believed to have re- emery lowness of the promises maas to the sulting in the arrest of the two jmachinery: He is » va+~ ~ "the | Warker for the comments in its acted to the decision made by the convention of the new National Miners Union to fight against the wage-cut agreements which the yeme machine has inaugurated since PITTSBURGH, Sept. 13—Stand- ing at the grave of George Moran, militant miner of Bentleyville, who was assassinated by Louis Carboni, a spy for John L. Lewis, the secre- fight in which Moran lost his life. ‘lowing statement declaring their ‘opposition to John Brophy’s policy of surrender published in the Pitts-| having deserted the class struggle, burgh Press. | with being as hostile to the Soviet “The National Executive Board of | Union as the big capitalist parties, workers and poor farmers by Al Smith, scored the, socialist party for tries to defend in an interview pub-|ing hauled down the red flag of |young strikers. A representative of the Interna- \tional Labor Defense, coming to jail liater to bail the boys out, was told Brooklawn Park, was crowded of the 13th anniversary of Interna- tional Youth Day. The program tonight will be an elaborate one, it is announced. feature will be the graduation of 20 | World War anu in organizing the wea. 1 arty in of the cotton picker, the first suc jcessful picker which farmers in gen- addition will be a special program | Kansas City. He is also the inventor #4 his shoal of orga news columns on the large expense accounts chalked up by McMahon Attacks Reactionar‘es. Deak rose to speak and was im- its official abandonment of the | tary of the new National Miners’ | ; ; ; | wi ‘ ‘ by the prisoners that they preferred Young Pioneers into the Young | ..4) ff -* é be Jacksonville scale several months | Union, Pat H. Toohey, urged the| ‘h® National Miners vee meee pening soars bs hog ag pent to stay in jail overnight in order to) Workers League, to the strains of |" °2" ® ord to buy. mediately met with a barrage of { | ity of th : joining the | tat John Brophy, formerly chair. i bureaucracy against |... the union the eight dollars bond|the Youth Chorus, which will make = He aD WEE. shouts. to “sit down ‘or 0) ‘Saee | oa new wittinend q continuation of the | man of the National Save.the Union \(he left wing in the trade union | a5 its initial appearance tonight. In you cut,” from MeMahon, who was | new union and a continuation of the committee has taken the position he | movement and in general with hay- ¢ ? URGES SUPPORT in the chair. When the proiects of MINOR TO SPEAK Defies Doctor; Attends Funeral. lished in the press today. We agree | revolt against capitalism and hoist- with three thousand strikers who arranged by a Youths Sports Club. Deak and many other delegates that i y he b ted to speak we : A dramatic figure at the funeral with Brophy when he says: ling in its place the white flag of came to the meeting called today by Speakers. iecAni La MGMishon: Dene ae was Charles Glovak, with a bullet Lewis Exposed. | surrender. bay Mepila ww ovkere: UAiony of the) i el te dc atade gobo a, Bal T peace Megissnciau aries i i through his abdomen, who attended | ‘John Lewis, in. addition to | Foster stressed the outstanding Textile Mill Committee, Over one), OPS GS Wi ee ee er of . lint © alaehing soaker te cae |the funeral in violation of the doc-| pursuing a labor policy that | difference between the election cam- hundred English merbers and for) nt 0S Woo ere (Communist) eas ry pol |tor’s orders. “If I cannot attend) finally wrecked many districts, | paign of the Workers (Communist) tia Caeuall alas attended the riset Party; P. Frankfeld, acting district | 4 D f _, | fi Jom in oan t abor Defense Issues faz Communist Candidate | the funeral of the man I have been fighting side by side ,with I am Continued cn Page Two brought low wages to the miners |Party and of the parties of capital- and lost 300,000 members in the/ism. “Our campaign,” he declared, Continued on Page Three |“has for its object the rallying of Y the masses of workers and exploited | Starts Tour | farmers for the struggle against ing. organizer of the League; Morris | Yusem, representing the N. E. C. of d now, reaucrats were try: Enthusiastic applause greeted every pointed remark condemning the Frieder Plan, a speed-up sys- the League; Ed. Welsh, a young Negro worker; a girl wérker, and Statement 22 week old strike, and continuing to show, despite the incessant in- In an appeal issued last night, the | ieee Ces ams a representative of the ‘Youn, eruptions, thet ile wore POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Sept. L T UR DATES capitalism. The Communists insist tem endorsed by the A. F. of L. Pie Gael Winters will act ae New York section of the Interna- ns ae pan get bgt 18.—Starting an election campaign | J+ - that the conditions of the exploited union in their efforts to sell out the chaivinan. tional Labor Defense, 799 Broad- nore to expect from McMahon and tour which will take him into the| most important industrial cities of New York State, editor of the Daily Worker and Workers (Communist) Party candi- | masses cannot be permanently im- proved under the present system, so great question of the wage cut. The most unanimous determina-; way, calls upon the young workers Co., :-nd from: the skeleton of an or- Robert Minor, | William Z. Foster, Workers (Communist) Party candidate for president, and Benjamin Gitlow, vice presidential candi- | they propose to abolish it and build tion in a strike situatiomw is being |up a soecialist society on its ruins. | manifested by the tens of thousands | Workers Must Fight. on strike against the attempt of | LABOR FAKER IN tional Youth Day celebrations this week the occasion for intensified of this city to make the Interna- &2%'‘zation from which he derive a living, Deak denounced the U. T. W. faxers for unseating Ellen Daws un ‘ ‘ si “ 7 ‘ , Batty to put over a sell-out by| anc Eli Kellec en the first ony of Sie cout te Paacibepale ae 8 date, are now on the first lap of a nation-wide speaking tour sian captors Cats Gea: granting employers the Frieder sys- | smrele for the Saperiis ae yok Mie convention “Dery. ead: caam classes will surrender its power over ‘©. The speed-up, even with the oa wT Defense {that he was sathecied to speak fom p. m. tonight at the corner of Mar-) ket and Main Sts. Hyman Gordon, of the Young orkers (Communist) League, will iBiso speak at this open air meet- which will bring them into every important city in the United | States, winding up with a monster mass meeting in Madison Square Garden, New York City, on November 4. the economic lives of the mavses Wage cut rescinded would leave the without a struggle. History has ™ill operatives in a worse condition | |r edebuiad ee Page Meee than that which prevailed when the | cut notices were posted. ernational Labor Defense. The appeal, signed by Rose Baron, secretary of the local I. L. D., fol- lows: ELECTION FRAUD Plays Tricks in Sell-out | the locals they represented. The statement follows: We, the undersigned delegates to the Convention of the United Tex- * #-# of Workers “The New York Section of the tile Workers of America, represemt= ie | | "G 4 EW International Labor Defense greets ing Locals 1614, 1619, 1623 of Pas- 2" Great interest has been aroused|| FOSTER TOUR || GITLOW TOUR DISCLOSE FACTS NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. | nal L se greets ing Loc , 1619, 4 in the Communist election campaign [ Foster Tour | 12Andrew Raeburn, -secretary,| TRENTON, N. J. Sept. 13—|the workingclass youth of this|saic, N. J, and Local 1615 Silk announced that another full meeting | Theodore N. Brandle, labor faker country and its fighting organiza- Workers of New York and Local 55, bates a depend ites blo oe Sunday, Sept. 16, Seattle, Wash. . Saturday, Sept. 15, Terre Haute, of the Cotton Manufacturers Asso. |¢xtraordinary, bosses’ agent, strike-| tion, the Young Workers (Commu- Knit Goods Workers of New York, BET ee ian hodctia a. reat tararie| ey cmmrangements., tobe an-| Ind. Final eprangemnte “tq: be sane ciation will be held tonight. Al-|breaker and union destroyer heads nist) League on the occasion of In-| hereby withdraw from this conven- Ten cael tay. ties cacinalnn. ehion toe | nounced. though the mill owners refuse to as-|a list of 1127 names of those who|ternational Youth Day, the day tion, and declare to the convention the bids Capel ered ‘against | Monday, Sept. 17, Roslyn, Wash.| Sunday, Sept. 16, St. Louis, Mo. aw eh sign any special purpose for the|are accused of violating the New| which annually mobilizes the young that the membership as a whole of Red itators,” in which they are|Final arrangements to be an- Hibernian Hall, 3619 Finney Ave. 'Eye-witnesses Report meting. it is generally believed | Jersey election laws by registering | workers in the struggle against im- the locals we represent will sever Ba natively dubpatted be he bone nouneed: Monday, Sept. 17, Rock Island, | iY oy 'p! ‘that they will consider the question |as a member of one capitalist party | veridlist. war. its affiliation with the United Tex- vse, A leading role in this cam.| Tuesday, Sept, 18, Aberdeen, |Ill. Final arrangements to be an-/ On Moran Killing of going to official conferences with | and voting in the primaries of an-/ “In the struggle against im- tile Workers, va n is being played by the De| Wash. Final arrangements to be nounced. bd | the A. F. of L. Textile Council for| other. The name of Brandle along! perialist war and against every We are forced to pursue, this be Separator Company, whose | announced. Wednesday, Sept. 19, Duluth,, (Special to the Daily Worker) the purpose of terminating the 22- with those of the 1,126 others has Continued on Page Five course because we are convinced more than 1,000 viciously exploited,| ‘Wednesday, Sept. 19, Portland,|Minn. Woodman Hall, corner 21st) BENTLEYVILLE, Pa., Sept. 13. bi cr strike of the 28,000 textile saan eae Se pe that the U. T. W. is no sc than ‘ é " 7 c " E i vi be vy A 1s at com) nion, ser e - miserably underpaid slaves have |Ore., Swiss Hall, 283% Third St. Ave. W. & Ist St. preety Ahlan ae ane bine ie de-tise'sigcsites. [lative Tngebnigating \Cominitton wt Jersey, was among thofe who voted robeatsrie tha eapioven peta begun to show signs of awakening) Friday, Sept. 21, San Francisco, Thursday, Sept. 20, Virginia, | Oe tes sae hasiove Glovak aati, Contaied on Page: Thres the conclusion of the hearing before in the republican box.’ Brandle is those of the workers, and in support to their interests. | Calif, Civic Auditorium, San Fran- Minn. Small Auditorium, City 4 Bat saat the committee today. one of the strongest supporters of o¢ Gur cortention we cite the fol tant miners and delegates to the Meetings that have been held out- | cisco, Hall. ; : Brandle’s treacherous practice of Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, | |awirg: side the plant and distributions of Saturday, Sept. 22, Bismarck, N.|Convention for a new miners union, i leading werkers into support of vice chairman of the National Dem- ais 5 ae ee , the Daily Worker have met with Sunday, Sept. 23, Los Angeles: 11” paterson Hall at McKenzie |has at last come the full details of capitalist parties is brought to at- ocratic Committee, who has several | aha Mhuaasdeid i Calif, Whiting Woods, Rosemont, 7 ‘ the affair which has ended in the sel be i fa oa heer So : Ks Although the textile industry is an enthusiastic response from the Calif. | Hotel, 422 Main St. death of Moran. tention by the little game of double-| times been on the verge of expo- in as bad condition as any in the | » Th in i - ‘ day, Sept. 23, Stanley, N. a f FF i itali y i ii ivities. . ; 7 } fort'to counteract the influence and|,,TWstday, Sept. 25, Salt Lake City, vinal arrangements tobe. an: |, @ule Carboni was president. of MEET TOMORROW Cee Cee ee ae ee in one ot ther chiet cop. (country. and is rapidly becoming Continued on Page Three Utah, W. 0. W. 168 S. W. Temple nounced. Hees Bansloy tie doce rates on | We | Brandle, who is one of the prom-| porters of Al Smith for the presi- Worse due to wage slashing, length- St., 2nd floor. * | Monday, Sept. 24, Plentywood, |i" the past he had been posing as inent democratic politicians of New dency as is Brandle. ening of hours, and increasing Thursday, Sept. 27, Denver, Colo. Mont. Farmer Labor Temple, |* progressive, but was soon sus- aR speed-up, the U. T. W. officialdom ‘SOCIALISTS’ ASK FOR INJUNCTION Tabernacle Hall, 20th & Lawrence | Plentywood, Sts. Wednesday, Sept. 26, Great Falls, Friday, Sept. 28, Omaha, Neb. Mont. Final arrangements to be Son Theatre, 14th & Farnam Sts. | announced. Saturday, Sept. 29, Kansas City,) Mo. Musicians Auditorium, 1017 Final arrangements be to an- Friday, Sept. 28, Spokane, Wash. Sa pected of being both an operator’s detective and a Lewis spy. He had placed ten thousand dollars in the New York Unions Send | Delegates | bank which he certainly did not get! Be by mining coal. Carboni when he A Jarge number of New York la-| w his stool-pigeon activity ex- bor unions and fraternal orzaniza-| posed, came out in the open against tions are responding to the appeal, ‘DAILY’ AT THE ‘BAZAAR Issue Miniature Paper at Big Event has done nothing to organize the unorganized. workers, except on pa- per. We submit that the U. T. W. is following the general policy of the A. F. of L. in failure to organ- ize the unorganized and its lack of militancy in union leaders, as for BOSTON, Mass. Sept. 12,—| Washington St. : |Rounced. the Save-the-Union movement and for relief for the 28,000 New Bed- i ‘ Driven by desperation to any means| Sunday, Sept. 30, Chicago, Ill.) Sunday, Sept. 90, Seattle, Wash.|against the National Miners Con- ford textile strikers by sending in| On Oct. 4, 5, 6 and 7 the Daily|are expected at the bazaar will beara er ths Uund Mine Want to stem the successful march of |Final arrangements to be sy fate arrangements to be an-/vention in speeches, and in articles | pledges of support and credentials Worker and the Fueiheit will be able to see the Daily Worker and | the corrupt leadership Of the: A. #8 Boston’s cloak and dressmakers in | nounced. " nounced. in the press. He exercised his usual|for delegates who will attend the | printed at Madison Square Garden. the Frefheit roll off the press com-| of L, in the garment workers pre the establishment of a new union| Monday, Oct. 1, St. Louis, Mo, Monday, Oct. 1, Portland, Ore. iron terrorism over his local union,| Workers International Relief Con-| That is, not the Daily Worker and plete in every respect, including | sirens anioheciin, ell thease. ef there, the right wing Joint Board,|Final arrangements to be an-|Final arrangements to be an-|with threats of gun play and | ference, to be held at Irving Plaza, |Freiheit that are familiar to thou-| news stories, editorials and features, fick’ tha’ militant” Workers: halve under the leadership of “socialist” | nounced. | nounced, : Continued on Page Three 15th St. and Irving Pl., tomorrow at | sands of workers, but miniature edi- but diminished in size. This will be tedken. away fron: their leaders aad officialdom, joined the firm of| Wednesday, Oct. 3, Indianapolis,; Tuesday, Oct. 2, Astoria, Ore.) Se 12 p.m. tions of the two fighting working| only one of the many interesting} on et Galeceataih pric: Cohen and Jacobson in applying for|Ind, Final arrangements to be an-|Final arrangements to be an-| CHARLESTOWN, S. C., Sept.| Included among these organiza-|class dailies. They will be issued at| novelties at what promises to be the [Are ore! ee we i an injunction to notorious Massa- | nounwed. nounced. 18.—The International Printers’ tions are the bricklayers, printers, | the huge National Daily Worker-| most remarkable working class ba-/ In the Passaic situation we cite chusetts courts against the organi-| Thursday, Oct. 4, Cinginnati, O.| Thursday, Oct. 4, Oakland, Calif. | Union decided today at its annual hakers, boot and shoe workers, gar-|Freiheit Bazaar to be held in Madi- zaar every held in this country. the rejection by the U. T. W. offi- ers and functionaries of the new/Final arrangements to be an-|Final arrangements to be an- convention to hold its 1929 meeting, ment workers, furriers, carpenters, | son Square Garden Oct. 4, 5, 6 and 7 Madison Square Garde» ~ill be|cials of Albert Weisbord, militant 5 Continued on Page Two nounced. nounced, in Seattle, Continued on Page Two i | The great crowds of workers that! Continued on Page Three ‘a Continued on Page Three jm

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