The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 15, 1928, Page 1

an ~« = - y —_ i ite * EXTILE RELIEF CONFERENCE AT IRVING PLAZA, T¢ Baily orker Exmtered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥., am@er the act of Published daily except Sunday by The National Datly Worker pares rely dione ny girly mare: re SEPTEMBER. 15, 1928 Federal Police in Raid On Miners’ Relief Office At the Request of Lewis gRansack Headquarters; Intimidate Workers, | Gather Up All Records of Work Raid Is Broken Off When Federal Judge Is Forced to Declare Aets Illegal I TODAY AT 2 P.M. THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT FINAL CITY EDITION tT Marek 3, 187% NEW YORK, SATURDAY, Vol. V., No. 219 Outside New York, by mail, 96.00 per year. Price 3 Cents PALIGE RESIIME ‘Communist Candidate TERROR IN MILL STRIKE; JAIL 11 oe Seen as Preparations 2 for Launching of | Sell Out | Attack Mill Pickets. strikers Rally Horces| to Fight Betrayal Workers Party Goes on h New Hampshire, Mass. Ballot in Red Campaign |Workers in Strike Centers Rally to Support of Communist Ticket Cantoa Officials Murder Workers Chester P. Bixby, candidate for| governor of Massachusetts on the| ticket of the Workers (Communist) Signatures Gathered in Spite of Terrorism by EW BEDFORD, Mass., (Special To The Daily Worker.) PITTSBURGH, Sept. 14—Continuing the vicious cam- paign to smash the miners’ resistance to the coal operators’ | drive, federal officials in cooperation with the Lewis machine | today carried out araid against the National Miners’ Relief Committee, ransacked the premises of the organization, in- timidated relief workers and stopped in their work of destruc- ordered the vandals to stop. The raid was conducted by postal inspectors and the local} federal marshall, who descend-| ed on the headquarters of the! relief body at 611 Penn Ave-| nue displaying an obviously shadowy subpoena which con- tained no specific charges for the drive. The subpoena was os- tensibly issued by a federal grand jury although its authority to do so has been thrown in doubt. Later it was found that the jury had dis- solved without following up its pro- | cedure. Requested By Lewis. | The raid, it was learned, was con-| ducted at the request and with the cooperation of John L. Lewis, arch- | wrecker of the miners’ union, who had sent a letter to the local post office inspectors. shown to Alfred Wagenknecht, di-| rector of the National Miners’ Re- lief Committee, about two months ago. No action was taken at the time by the federal officials. Inspectors Brown and Craighead appeared at the headquarters of the organization and demanded that ‘Wagenknecht turn over all records | to them. When Wagenknecht re-| fused, on the grounds that the move was a frame-up against the sending | of relief to the starving miners, and | that the names were intended to be| used as a blacklist by the coal op-| erators and the Lewis gang, two} plainclothes troopers from Green-| burg took. possession of the office. | Rig Up Order. | This morning a subpoena was hurriedly rushed through the grand jury ordering the turning over of all lists, records and data to the fed- eral officers. The inspectors ap- peared on the scene with a truck and armed guard and proceeded to ransack the entire premises, packed up all papers, scattered records over the floor, intimidated the staff with the use of profane language and otherwise continued its vicious tac- tics. Everything was dumped in great disorder into mail bags before the order from the district attorney to cease the raid was obeyed by the officers. Previously they had disre- garded a telephone message from the relief committee’s attorney, Henry Ellenbogen, reporting that Federal Judge Schoonmaker cancelled the subpotna. TORNADO. BRINGS DEATH IN WEST 230 Rockford Workers Buried, May Die \and a thorough search of the strick- pn area may raise the death toll, it was feared. i re ae, ea ROCKFORD, Ill, Sept. 14 (UP). ously late today when a tornado swept through the southeastern sec- tion of the city. First reports stated that two brothers hiding in # tool shed were killed when the roof was torn off the structure by the twister, , A score of men was buried in the \ Gontinued on Page Three \ tion only when a federal judge, forced to admit the act illegal, ons TYPOGRAPHICAL OFFICIALS KILL 40-HOUR WEEK Annual Meet Defeats 3 Militant Proposals CHARLESTOWN, S. C., Sept. 14.| —Working fast in order to crush all opposition, the annual conven- tion of the International Typo-| graphical Union, packed with hand- | Picked trusties of the Morrison-| The letter was 10ward machine, defeated by large majorities three progressive resolu- tions which would have given a fighting edge to the union’s policy. A resolution introduced by the New York delegation, which in- cludes a number of well-known militants, calling for a 40-hour week, was overwhelmingly voted down, The I. T. U. bureaucracy thus went on record against any lightening of the toil of the thou- sands of printers which would at the same time have gone a long way towards remedying the widespread unemployment that exists in the in- dustry. The machine also squashed a proposal to permit local unions to call a strike without the approval of the Executive Council. The con- vention further hogtied the rank and | file by defeating. a resolution to per- mit local unions to strike without first notifying the International president when a boss refuses to ar- bitrate. Attention All Newark Members of the Party! All New Jersey comrades are to report without fail Monday, Sept, 17, between 4:30 and 7:30 at 93 Mercer St., Newark, for important Party work. JOHN J. BALLAM, Acting Dist. Org. Dist. 2. Scores of workers thruout advance of the Worker-Peasant fallen victim to the terrible vengeance which the Nanking officials | in Canton have exacted in their fury and alarm at the relentless Above, bodies of workers lying unburied after official massacre. Sept. ointing definitely to a new |police terror campaign to he , |launched because the A. F. of L. | mill boss sell-out is about to be put across, two voung girl strikers |Marian Botelho and Zermaine Madieros, while walking home from a strike committee meeting, ‘|were brutally handled by Sergeant Velho who held warrants for their the provinces of Kwantung have armies in the interior of China. (Wireless to the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Sept. 14.— A report on the work in the colonies by Fokin, of the Executive Commit- |tee of the Young Communist Inter- tional, marked the thirteenth ses- |sion of the Young Communist Con- gress, which opened under the chair- manship of Zam, of the. United States. | ment plays a role which is a supple- | mentary force for the world revolu- of the working youth in the colonies. Leagues in Colonies. “Leagues exist in most colonies, but only in China is the League a mass organization. The working conditions of the youth in the colo- nies are terrible and a basis exists for the ment. The young Communists must also win the left wing of the intel- lectual youth. The national revolu- tionary youth movement only de- velops where no basis exists for Young Communist Leagues.” Ferrat, of France, then made the co-speech, chiefly concerning the Latin-American countries. “Inten- sified class struggle in Latin-Amer- jca caused insurrections led by the petty bourgeois, which, however, was incapable of carrying the rev- olution to its logical end. The pro- Jetariat ‘must therefore win hege- mony. Work Among Peasants. “The situation of the working youth is bad,” continued Ferrat, “and the conditions of the working young peasants are worse. Our tasks in Latin-America are the cre- ation of supplementary mass organ- izations, Continued on Page Three ” FIGHT THE REACTIONARIES! In Nebraska the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign arrest. Zermaine Madieros was struck Party. Bixby has a long record aa a militant worker and leader of shoe workers’ organizations. An or- ganization meeting at which Bixby was scheduled to peak to the shoe workers of Lynn recently was for- Officials in Both States By ALEX BAIL (Dist. Organizer, Dist. 1, Workers (Communist) Party) BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 14. Massachusetts and New Hamp- bidden by the city and police author-|Shire have been added to the long list of states where the ities. GITLOW SPEAKS | workers and exploited farmers have raised the banner of Com- munism in this election campaign, and succeeded despite the |many obstacles placed in their way by the ruling classes, in collecting the number of signatures necessary to qualify the “The national revolutionary move- | tion, but during the course of its R development,” Fokin declared, “it/15th St. and Irving Place, at two | plays a directly revolutionary role. The task of the Young Communist. International is to win the masses Communist ‘youth move- | particularly among the Wars have protested against the filing by the secretary of state of the petitions of the Workers (Communist) Party ticket. These fascist organizations, acting und ler the direction of the capitalists, admit that the Communist ticket cannot be LEGALLY thrown off the ballot. But they claim that since the Communists are opposed to the capitalist system, they have no MORAL right to be on. The “immorality” of the Workers (Communist) Party lies in the fact that it would rob the capitalists of their LEGAL right, held by FORCE, to rob the workers and exploited farmers of the fruits of their labor, and thru their ownership of the machinery of pro- duction and distribution, the right of the millions of unemployed to have access to a means of livelihood. The make the workers and farmers owners of Communists propose to all land and machinery and place them at the throttle of a government apparatus of their own. This is why the capitalists, their government apparatus and fascist auxiliaries seek to prevent the Workers (Communist) Party from bringing by means of the election campaign. the message to the widest possible circles of workers, This is why they are trying to throw the Party ticket off the ballot in violation of their own laws. The secretary of the state of Nebraska has appointed a date for a hearing on the protests made Veterans of Foreign Wars. © by the American Legion and the The Workers (Communist) Party will fight to the bitter end against this attack, This fight will cost money. This is a challenge to every rebel worker in the United States. We are calling on the workers to to wage a victorious fight against the enemies of labor. supply us with the sinews of war This call must be answered IMMEDIATELY. Send in your contributions. because the need is urgent. Do not hesitate to wire funds, Send money ONLY to National Election Campaign Committee, Workers (Communist) Party, 431 Trachtenberg, Treasurer. rd East 125th Street, Alexander RED YOUTH CONGRESS VIEWS COLONIAL WORK ~ | again arrested on a warrant gt 1:30 TEXTILE RELIEF MEETING TODAY |Conference at Irving | Plaza at 2 P. M. Delegates to the Workers Inter- national Relief Conference to con- sider means of aiding the textile strikers of New Bedford and Fall ‘iver will crowd Irving Plaza Hall, |o’clock this afternoon. ..Delegates of strikers from New Bedford "and Fall River, former strikers from Passaic and Paterson, \ference the spirit of the pie tine pees only in the clubs cr “ec po- ice. The conference will hear import- ant reports by Albert Weisbord, na- | tional secretary of the Textile Mills Committee, and by strikers who are |coming from New Bedford especially |for this conference. Fred Bieden- |kapp, national secretary of the W. |T. R., will report on relief rendered |during the textile strike. Moissaye Olgin will greet the delegates on |behalf of the New York militant workers. To Show “Crowd.” Following the conference there will be two showings of the popular film production, “The Crowd,” which created a sensation when shown at the Astor Theatre last spring. These two performances, which will be for the benefit of the New Bedford and Fall River strik- \ers, will be shown at 8:45 and 11:00 |p. m. tonight at the Labor Temple, |14th St. and Second Ave. Olgin and Weisbord will speak before each |performance. A fine musical pro- gram has been ararnged by Alma Loomis, well-known pianist, with strike songs by New Bedford tex- tile strikers. WARN OF WAR AT YOUTH MEETING | /1,000 at International Youth Day Rally The seriousness and proximity of the danger of a world war was stressed by the speakers at a mass meeting held last night for the pur- pose of celebrating International Youth Day. One thousand workers attended the meeting, which was held last night at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, under the auspices of the Young Workers (Communist) League. Frankfeld, district organizer of the Young Workers (Communist) League, one of the speakers, said in part: It will be the task of the young and adult workers to turn the im- perialist war into a civil war for the N. J., and other scenes of militant | "| class struggle, will give today's con- heavily across the breast and Marian Botelho had her arm_ severely twisted and scratched, causing it immediately to swell. Joseph Costa, a young striker was this afternoon, charged with enter- |ing a schoolroom and making dero- gatory remarks about the American flag and swearing allegiance to the Red Flag. Evidence obtained to date proves that the whole story is a fabrication by the police who are seeking every excuse in order to obtain warrants. Further investigation is being made in this case. ee ee, NEW BEDFORD, Mass Sept. 14. —The temporary dormant police | terror is developing swiftly into full |force again, as the mill owners re- jalize that the strikers are over- whelmingly opposed to the A. F. of L. speed-up and sell-out plan. Nine pickets of the Textile Mil! Commit-. Continued on Page Five DELAY HEARING IN SCHIFFRIN'S CASE Hold Big Defense Meet in Bronx Hearings in the case of William Schiffrin, the left wing worker who is being held on a charge of homi- cide for defending his life against the onslaught of a knife-wielding | | “squad” sent to attack him by of- | |ficials of the Butchers Union, and| which resulted in the death of the| “squad” leader, were postponed by Judge Smith in the Homicide Court | and Magistrate Dodge in the 161st | Court, until September 21. At the same time two left wing- ers and three right wingers now out on $1,500 bail. had their hear-| ings postponed until the same date. Hundreds of the rank and file of the Butchers Union and work from many other trades attended a mass meeting held last night by the William Schiffrin Defense Com- mittee in the large auditorium of the Workers Cooperative of the Bronx, 2700 Bronx Park, East. The greatest indignation was manifested by the assembled workers last night | at the two years’ campaign of the | “socialist” Forward and its right | wing officialdom in the Jewish) unions, in the organized campaign of bloodshed they were conducting against the left wing workers. A resolution unanimously passed at the end of the meeting voiced this protest and condemned the reac- tionary heads of the Butchers Union for sending squads armed with knives to asault those who dis- agreed with their reactionary poli- cies and which resulted in the death of Harry, Silver, a right wing hire- ling who was leading five more to cut up Schiffrin. The case grew out of a recent adopted policy of the United Hebrew Continued on Page Tuy { young Negro workers.” Other speakers were: John J. Bal- lam Acting District’ Organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party, Dis- trict 2, Morris Yusem, member of the National Executive Committee young Workers Communist League and Jessie Taft, organizer of the | | Young Pioneers. The meeting was | VIENNA MILITANT IN. PITTSBURGH Lewis Tools Come to Break Up Meet PITTSBURGH (By Mail).— Among those present at the elec- tion meeting of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, at which Benjamin EDITOR IS JAILED: president of District 5, of the United| Rote Fahne Is Ordered Mine Workers, and Robertson, vice- : president of the Pennsylvania Fed- Confiscated (Wireless to the Daily Worker) eration of Labor. Both appeared to have come to attempt to break up pele ee VIENNA, Sept. 14—The 1 eee ou Rapesiecn were the) Rote Fahne, official organ of leaders of the gang of 300 Lewis . P thugs brought to Pittsburgh last the Austrian Communist week to aid the police to break up, Party, was confiscated here the convention of the National for publishing the appeal of Miners Union. Had not the meet-| the «Austrian Cémmunist. ing hali been $0 packed with mili-| R tant workers, there is no doubt that| Party, calling upon poesia the labor misleaders would have at-| €rs of Vienna to mobilize a tempted to break up the meeting. counter demonstration Gitlow pointed out the situation) against the fascist march on of the workers, and particularly of Vienna scheduled for October the miners, and the struggles they | 11. The editor-in-chief, Ervin have been carrying on in order to Z ei ri é i d ad improve their conditions. He showed| 4UCKer, Was arrested a \how the reactionary Lewis admin-| handed over to the court on charge of high treason. Sections of even the social- democratic and _ bourgeois press declare that the arrest is an open support of the listration has sold them out, with |the aid of the courts and police. fascists by the government. * I. Amter, district secretary of the Party in Ohio, dealt with the danger (Wireless to the Daily Worker) VIENNA, Sept. 14.—To meet the wf war, and pointed out that while Kellogg went to Paris to sign a provocative action of the fascist or- ganization, the Home Defense treaty to “outlaw” war, the U. S. |congress appropriated $2,200,000,000 for war purposes. Corps, which is mobilizing from 18,- 000 to 60,000 of its armed members for a march on Weinerneustadt, a suburb of Vienna and industrial cen- OLDEST UNION — \ter, on October 7, the Executive Committee of the Communist Party Right Wing Sigmanite |¢; Austria issued an appeal to the Attacks Worker [workers to prepare counter-mea- | sures against the fascist parade. A slash across the face that laid | The appeal calls on the workers his cheek wide open, was the answer |to elect delegates in the factories given by a right wing official to a/ for a national congress to prepare plea for unity in the organization|g general mobilization of the Aus- made from the floor of the mem- | trian working class against the fas- bership meeting of Ladies’ Tailors | cist provocation. Local 38 of the I. L. G. W. U., by! B. Chazinoff, f the oldest mem- bers of the union. The mectine was | Kellogg “Peace” Pact Is Ratified by Mexico held yesterday afternoon at Bryant |Hall, 42nd St. and Sixth Ave. | Active for Years. jing Chazinoff, active in the organiza- | tion since it was first organized in 1909, whose membership book he has always been proud to exhibit to | his friends as marked ledger num- | ber 1, was speaking from the plat- form of the meeting, appealing to the officialdom to refrain from in- dulging in the factional activities that have wrecked other locals of the I. L. G. W. U. at the time of the attack. . While he was making his conclud- remarks, Chazinoff, who is greatly respected by the member- Continued on Page Two WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Mexico has notified the state department of her adherence to the Kellogg- Briand “peace” treaty, it was learned tonight. Olgin to Speak Today at the Workers School M. J. Olgin, Communist writer and lecturer, will speak on “The Soviet Union and its Relation to the | Present Election Campaign” at the today at 2 p. m. LEARN RED PLATFO emancipation of the workingclass. | interspersed with the singing of a) The Young Workers (Communist) Youth chorus. 4 | Every year International * 2 peeeie peal Saeeera ae es | Day is made the occasion for grad- |0f workers in the auto industry in and will not be found wanting when the ti uating members of the Young|the city of Detroit are being in- e time comes. C. Alexander, speaking for the Negro workers said that, “the young Negro workérs are beginning to un- derstand their position in society into membership in the Young Com-|class struggle thru the noon-day munist Leagues all over the world, | meetings at the factory gates. The At the meeting last night 20 Pion- | Campaign Committee of the Work- eer were inducted into the Young ers (Communist) Party in this dis- and will stand side by side with the Workers’ (Communist) League by |trict is enthusiastic over the suc- Young Workers (Communist) Morris Yusim, member of the Na- cess of our election campaign among Leagie, the only youth organization tional Executive Committee of that \the workers in the auto industry. that fights in the interests of the| organization, These workers are beginning to Pioneers who have reached the age, formed about the program of the, Intensive Drive Among Auto Workers Youth | DETROIT, Sept. 14.—Thousands , realize that both the democratic and republican party of Wall Street as well as the corrupt socialist demo- cratic party have nothing to offer to these thousands of workers in the auto industry. These workers are being informed as to the program and platform of the capitalist parties as to their stand on the speed-up, wage cuts, unemployment, the or- ganization of the unorganized, recog- Continued on Page Three | M ‘ Workers (Communist) Party for a place on the official ballot. The members of the Party in those two states worked hard to add Massachusetts and New Hampshire to the nineteen jstates already in the red column. They are determined that Rhode Island will be the next state in New England to go over the stop. Strike Centers Respond. Despite numerous difficulties such as holding up certification of signa- tures by some city election author- ities and flat refusal to certify sig- natures as in Peabody, we finally succeeded in filing with the state election authorities 1500 certified | Signatures or 500 more than actually needed to place the Party on the |ballot. The most important fact in the collection of signatures was the “enthusiastic support received by the |Party in New Bedford and Fall | River where our Party has been jleading thousands of textile work- ers in a struggle against the mill barons. Defeat Terror Move. In New Hampshire, the Party filed over 1200 signatures with the secretary of state. There, as well as in Massachusetts, we encountered difficulties, the election inspector in Manchester being employment director of the Amoskeag Mills and that corporation’s senator in the state house at Concord. if While collecting signatures on the streets of Manchester, Comrade Sidney Bloomfield, New England Campaign Manager for the Workers (Communist) Party, was arrested and ordered to get out of the city. This terrorism, however, only had the effect of making our comrades work harder to accomplish the task of getting the Party on the ballot in this great industrial state. In addition to placing the national ticket on the ballot in New Hamp- shire, the Party is running comrades Henry C. Iram for governor and Fred B. Chase for senator. Both are veterans in the class struggle, Chase being at one time state secre- tary of the socialist party of Massa- chusetts. The fact that the Party is on the ballot in Massachusetts is of great significance. In the state where Sacco and Vanzetti were murdered, our Party comes forward with an indictment of the whole frame-up | system of exploitation. In the state | Continued on Page Three BAZAAR WORK ENLISTS MANY Organizations Gather Articles for Booths | ings | More and more workers’ groups lare joining the great proletarian |ship for his many years of volun-| Workers School, 26-28 Union Sq.,| army that will take possession of | Madison Square Garden October 4, 5, 6 and 7 where the huge National Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar will be held. The upholstery workers have de- |cided to have a booth of their own | where all sorts of upholstered furni- ture will be sold. In order that this booth may be planned fashion, a meeting of all upholster- Continued on Page Three in proper Saturday Feature Page ‘on P. 4 of Today’s Issue |. Turn to page 4 for the weekly Saturday Feature Page of the Daily Worker. It contains an article on the Tolstoi anniversary and reyiews jof current books. tN