The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 15, 1928, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, i SEPT. 15, 192s 4 Workers Communist) Party Protests Ban on Open Air Meetings in Yonkers ——— MOORE CALLS TO NEGRO YOUTH TO JOIN CONFERENCE Bosses Foster Prejudice | for Own Ends Two Puppets and Their String-Puller rena % Richard B. Moore, national organ- izer of the Amerian Negro Labor | Congress, has issued a statement on the Working Youth Conference that | will be held in New York on Sep- Andrew Mellon, secretary of the treasury, and his satellites, Calvin Coolidge, and Wall Street's heir apparent, Herbert Hoover. They are shown following their conference on the New England campaign situation at which Coolidge received instructions to cam- paign for Hoover in Massachusetts. | (a EXPLANATION IS DEMANDED FROM MAYOR ON AG? Writers Must Know | Reason for Exclusion | | | Demanding an immediate reversal |of the ban on Communist meetings yissued by acting Mayor John S. | Davis of Yonkers, District 2, of the | Workers (Communist) Party, yes- |terday challenged this official of |tember 29 and 30, in which he said “The Negro young workers have |to bear more abuses ‘and are even more exploited than are the white | 821 SIGNATURES H |that city to explain to the workers E | R ST ELE T N |of Yonkers why he was discriminat- \ing against the Party which is their rue representative. young workers. | Double Grievances. | “The young Negro workers have the additional grievance of being | IN HARLEM DRIVE |abused as young Negroes. It is ai Red Squads Active in well-known fact that, for instance, here in New York white elevator | operators receive on the average EDL 3 de about $80 per month, while the| AS @ result of the activities of young Negro elevator operators re-|the Red Squads of Sections ae ceive on the average only about $60. \3 and the Red Campaigners o: Sec- In the factories, young Negroes are |tion 4 of the Workers (Communist) Many Sections RALLY HERE SOON Communist Candidates Will Speak The first large Communist elec- tion campaign rally to be held in New York this year will take place at the Central Opera House, 67th t | In a statement making public a |letter to Mayor Davis, Bert Miller, lorganization secretary of the dis- |trict, included the following notice | which appeared in the Yonkers Her- jald last week: “Acting Mayor John S. Davis this | morning denied an application made |for a permit to hold a series of |Communist meetings on Larkin Plaza. The applicant told the act- |ing mayor .that local people inter- {given mere menial tasks; they are |Party in Harlem last Sunday, a to-/ St. near Third Ave., Friday, Sept.| ested in the Communist Party pro- 4 ptPORT EGUAD R German Militarism, Aided by Reformists, Tests Its Cavalry NATIVE INDIANS IN BIG REVOLT Slaughter by the Gov’ | . Troops Large GUAYAQUIL, Feu 14 —A revol na with much The : High jumping is a regular feature of German cavalry training. Militarist preparations in | jes : Germany, tho hampered by the reatrictions placed on them by the other continental powers, are | 1 carried on to an ever increasing degree. The German Communist Party is leading an energetic H WA TQ SPE K struggle against the militarist preparations of the cabinet led by the reformist Mueller. Above, i ] i German cavalrymen, taking high hurdle. | HERE THURSDAY SCHOOL DAYS ARE SAD QLDEST UNION t eae i 1 cia DAYS IN NEW BEDFORD Mine Leader Will Give. fia es winters fi 2 ti 2 rn er tO Hho me Report of Struggle What happened at the National m i sburgh? a new of the brutal a by 200 paid achine? rous other ques- wered by John ident of the new Union, at a big Solidarity Mass Meeting in Central Oper2 House, 67th St. and Third Ave, next Thursday evening at 8 dork. First Hand Report. ‘Weis. one of the outstanding lead- ers of ihe progressive miners’ union, feared and hated by the corrupt Lewis cique, is coming here to give workers of New York an offi- cial, first-hand report of the great ‘convertion and to tell them the story the coal diggers’ desperate strug- lem. Taree hundred thousand coal dig- gers are unemployed, thousands to- gether with their wives and children are v2 the verge of starvation, many are in jail for their devotion to their Watt will have an important 2 for the workers of this city aud an important call to action. i fight of the heroic ; m8, cause. leaders of labor battles in fields will also speak at the great solidarity meeting. Ben Gold, Gexerzl Organizer, Joint Board, 8 mn, whose name is a tant struggle, will be of them. will include Hyman Kor- al manager of the Organi- zation Department, Cloak and Dress- , d Union, Gladys Schechter, tl Millinery Workers Union, , secretary of the D Negr» Committee for Miners Relief fl ged speakers from the Youth Con Y fetemce for Miners Reltef and the }i Chitray’s Relief Scout Groups. The ir National Miners Relief Committee, a 79) Besadway, and the Shop Dele- ii gates Comference for Miners Relief are arranging the meeting, ni rere » DENTAL WORKERS w w : TOWMEET TUESDAY oi A *+igseous campaign to organize t} al the dewtal mechanics in the trade a, is mow being conducted by the 4 Dexsall Jaboratory Workers Union. in Tite par cent of the mechanics pi are x0t: wuembers of the organization az yet, and about forty per cent 4 be <izops are not unionized, it i ated danigired yesterday. Ia oedey to further the organiza- i“ “Yions| exmpaign the union is catl- m. ing its first mass meeting of the ii fall for Tuesday, September 18, at ¢ Labor Temple, Second Ave. and 14th i , a 3 py m. Deke trate: union caters v will adijzess the meeting, and the a menbypaaip will discuss means of "4 making ¢he present drive successful, } it is sseounced. | Pioneers. So she joined up and had is the fight of workers of all! free,” Goodman said, ED BEIDENKAPP tary, Workers Inter- national Relief) School days are sad day: Bedford. Other children in other cities may look forward to games and some pleasures when hool the question was put made Anna falter for a moment. “Come here,” snarled the teacher. With that Fourniere took hold of the sickly little Anna and beat and shook her until the unhappy child fainted. opens. But in New Bedford, to be| This is but one instance among a striker’s child is to be subjected many. On ail s‘des the children of | to ill-treatment, to mean jibes from|the strikers and the strikers them- teachers, and, most often, not to be|selves are being attacked. On the able to attend school at all! jPicket line, hunger, a venomous Take the case of little Anna Elen-| press. The only bright side of the terio, a delicate 11-year-old striker’s picture are the relief stations in| ° child. Even before the strike. mis-| New Bedford and Fall River. erable conditions in the south end One Bright Spot. of New Bedford were bad enough.| These relief stations must be Then came the strike. |kept going. It is the duty of every Distribute Leaflets. class-conscious worker to keep these On the picket line the children |ptations going. | We must give and would distribute leaflets calling for spe, £0 tte Maren af Re she solidarity. At the relief stations of | , the Workers International Relief, little Anna and hundreds of her comrades would help in the distribu- tion of food or in the preparation |It is a life and death struggle, but jean feed these heroic 30,000 strik- ” ane ne relief station "s na’s work at the relief station! Send all contributions to the | and on ‘the picket lines tmpelled her| workers International Relief, 1 to become a member of the Youns | 1,55, Square, New York. a red scarf and wore it made ina jaunty manner about her thoalders | with “Y. P.” emblazoned on it. With | me several hundred new Young Pioneers she marched in the great solidarity | parade last Saturday. The Pioneers’ | parade was broken up, so the young- | rters marched on the sidewalks of Pleasant St. alongside their elders, | barra Pparclicre. sites: police | AS and Biehara mon otticale i | to expel from their organizations left Pri Penance ne | wingers, and then to deprive their aks eitiant agiall because they had | farnilies of bread by! removing the no shoes, But Anna was fo-tenate; | CxDelled from thelr jobs on tho she had shoes, so she went back, | grounds of their not being union Teacher Attacks Pioneers cca a me, A fey davs ago Anna’s teacher,ai yes pupae certain Miss Fourniere, spoke) Six militants had been thus ex- egainst the Young Pioneers, The Pelled, and the knifing committees teacher knew that Anna was «| hed made the rounds of the city to oe s inf remove a left winger from his job, bee neatly bee cima ame The particular worker they were to “Where is the Mississippi River?” remove had called on some friends she shot at Anna one afternoon, to come to the store to protect ae pee id vel Sth which Schiffrin and one other were within ea Se ee ee © a short distance from their friend's place of work (having gone thers in answer to 8 call for aid) when the * * U.S. S. R, Aids Visits ee te aa ee . ba! 6 0% of Americans, World | aoseq car and leaped at the two men with knives, Ono ran but Tourists Declares chiffrin stayed to defend himself, There are many diffientties in the| And faced the assailants with his way of the tourist desirous of ene OWN penknife, tering the Soviet Unfon, according | Raine Collection, to Milton Goodman, manager of! A eoliection to defray tha large World Te s, Ine. 69 Fifth Ave, expenses needed for Sehiffrin's de- wathorized Russian travel ageney|fense netted the committee $500 here, , and $500 pledges, A committes of “All persons, whether Ameriean | five was clected to carry on tha or- citizens or not, are being sceepted | ganizationsl work attendant on the as tourists to Rass‘a, provided they | defense campaign planned, have not participated in counter Leaders Speak, revolutionary setivities against the} Gamusi Liebowitz, Assistant Man- Seviet government,” said Goodman | eger of the Furriers’ Union, Irving yesterday, | Potash, management committes of “All groups of tourists sent over | the Furriers’ Union, Elias Werner, by World Tourists,” Goodman said, | aetive ieft winger in the Butchers’ “are eaecompanied while in the So-| Unien, and Chas, Nemeroff, of the SCHIFFRIN'S CASE Continued from "Page One s Viet Union by guides speaking both | Cooperative Stores, weve spaakers at Engtish and Russiss who aid in the meeting, Eddward fehwarts, sightseeing and travel tours, This Orgenizer of the Fruit, Grocery and interpreter end guide service is Dairy Cierks Union acted as chair- man, ford, give money to feed them, send | |clothing, send anything, everything. | it will surely end in victory if we} ‘Right Wing Sigmanite Attacks Worker Continued from Page One y ‘vice dfor his 4% years id officer of the Rea, right wing the local executive board, leaped from his seat, which was also on the platform, and with sharp instrument struck the union- full across the face. The meeting had been called for the purpose of securing the mem- bership endorsement of the new zreement just concluded with the employers’ association. The mem- bers hed just voted to endorse the zereement after the officials re- ported that the manufacturers had conceded the clause demanded by | the members that the employers have | no right to discharge workers. A membership meeting Wednesday night had roused the ire of the right wing officialdom because it had | voted by a majority of 700 to 8 to | refect the proposal of the officials | | that employers be granted permis- | sion to discharge employes indis- | criminately. of mbers Wednesday, that would be compelled to concede this point becauss the bosses were too obstinate, the members under the | fighting leadershin of the left wing | jin the union, had told them to go| back to the bosses and insist on the jatriking ont of this clauso, Com- | nelled to obey, the officials had made | the trip and returned to the meet- jing yesterday with the report that | the employers had surrendered, Chazinoff, one of the leaders in | the meeting Wednesday after the amended clause had been duly Ap- day. discriminated against in many ways, | tal of 821 signatures were rolled up| ete. The bosses deliberately en-|for the day, putting across the total courage and provoke race antagon-|number of signatures required for isms between the white and colored | the 18th Assembly District. workers in order to keep them! Great Activity. divided.” In the 18th Assembly District Only One Solution. more signatures will have to be ob- “There is but one way to solve /tained since that district is part of this question. That is through or- | the 20th Congressional District. ganization, the organizing of the! The Harlem headquarters last hes and eee hie 3 ig baa | Sunday presented a scene oe ocae workers into unions and the break- | activity, with many from all parts je eee or es prelaciers snstG | gt ie: Gig clamoring, for icenione We neRe give by the bosses. The) Negro as well as white comrades ; g Youth Conference is astep| stood in lines and waited for the bia Dae vate Nugre § te" [functioning committee to assign Bese : 2 york them to territories. The energies side with the white young workers, | 1#8e", Goldstein and Moreau, were i taxed ‘to capacity. ers. To date over twenty-five Ne- gro members have joined the Work- ers (Communist) Party as a result of the election activities of the Har- | lem section. New Headquarters. Real Battle : jopened this week, at 200 W. 135th BERLIN, Sept. 14 (UP) —Forty | 8t.; this headquarters will also serve men were wounded when mimic war as 4 starting point for the drive in maneuvers of Polish troops near the 2ist Assembly District, which is Krakov accidentally became a real | now being vigorously pushed by Al-| battle, a Warsaw dispatch said to-|berto Moreau, campaign magager of | the campaign distinguished itself by its good work among Negro work- Mimic War Ends Up in| In Negro Harlem a new head- |quarters of the Party has been the Harlem ‘section. During maneuvers between the|* Another phase of the election 28th, at 8 p. m. It will come at a time when workers thruout the country are carrying on an intensive fight against reactionary misleaders and are forming now, militant unions in the basic indus- tries. “The determination of workers, who have long suffered the exploita- tion of their capitalist bosses work- ing hand in glove with the bosses’ political machine to break with cor- rupt, 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 despite the murder of delegates and the as- sault of thugs and state police carrying out the instructions of the Lewis machine,” said ‘a statement is- sued last night by the New York State Communist Campaign Com- mittee. “In New York City, thousands of garment workers and furriers are also engaged in the formation of a militant union, These workers have thru long and bitter experience learned of the anti-labor role played by the political parties of their bosses and are well aware of the so- cialist party backing of the policies of class collaboration advocated by, the A. F. of L. Like the workers’ thruout the country who are follow- munist) Party in the organization! of new unions, the workers of New| party on the political as well as the union | |posed to hold a political rally on |the Plaza every Saturday evening |until election day. “In denying the request, Mr, |Davis said that the Plaza was not | built for such a purpose and he de- clared also that the city does not | want any Communist meetings here, Miller’s Letter. The Workers Party sent the fol- lowing letter of protest to the act- ing mayor: “Mr. John S. Davis, Acting May- \or, City of Yonkers. “Sir: From information received here through our representative in Yonkers and thru the Yonkers press I understand that you have refused permission to use the Larkin Plaza or any other suitable corners to speakers of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party. “TI understand that other political parties are not denied the right and that during the election campaign they are permitted to use the streets of Yonkers for their meetings. Plain Prejudice. “The only conclusion we can draw from your action is that you are discriminating against the Workers (Communist) Party, which has a full legal status as a political party « in the state, solely and only because it speaks in the name of labor and jing the lead of the Workers (Com-| makes as its major task in the pres- ent election campaign the advocacy of the demands of the workers dur- | York are backing the only workers’! ing the present period. “In behalf of the-workers of Yon- | After officials reported to the! they | infantry and cavalry, a cavalry de- tachment, making a mimic dash at the infantry, failed to halt at the specified distance of 100 yards from the foot troops and rode into the ranks. The infantry was forced to de- fend itself with its bayonets from | being trampled to death by the! horses, | At the height of the melee, an in- | fantry commander, with presence of campaign work in Harlem which has | met with success is the open air meetings. Now there are eight such meetings held weekly, with large and enthusiastic crowds lis- tening to the expositions of the plat- form and candidates of the only working class party in the country. ‘Negro Students Will) industrial field.” |kers and New York State whom we Among the speakers at the huge | represent, we must insist that you rally will be William F, Dunne,|grant us our legal right, extended Communist candidate for Governor; | to all political parties, to use the Robert Minor, candidate for U, §. | streets of Yonkers for our meet- Senate; Juliet S. Poyntz, candidate | ings in order that we have an equal for Attorney-General; Lovett Fort- | opportunity to present our platform Whiteman, candidate for Comp-|and program to the workers of the troller; Rebecca Grecht, running in| city of Yonkers. the 5th Bronx Assembly District} “We await your prompt action in and State Election Campaign Man-|this matter. mind, ordered a cloud of gas sprayed | on the men. cavalry rush, Talk on Communism “Resolved that Communism is the only salvation for the oppressed and exploited Negro race” will be the) The action checked the ager, and P. Frankfeld, running in the 8rd Bronx A. D. | “Very truly yours, Bert Miller, Organization Secretary.” [proved by the worker, called for WORKERS CENTER OPENS. | subject for debate at the meeting of ths floor, went to the platform, and jefter a short, tmpassioned plea for| Tha International Progressive|the Students’ Literary Association, on Sunday, September 16, 4:45 p. m., at the St, Marks M. E, church, 188th Street and Edgecombe Ave-| nue, There is no admission charge. | wnity made the proposal that a mo-| Center, at 101 W. 28th St. will |tlon be passed at the meeting which | open tonight with a dinner and says: Officers pledge not to take | ance. Tho dinner begina at 8 p,m dineriminatory netion against any {89d the charge per plate is $1. union member for his or her polit. | {eal opinions; and that the saember- | thip pledess to dilleently work for | |the upbuilding of the organ‘zation, | ig Ha was assaulted by the reactionary | jtheg just as he had completed ae Motion ing his motion, Assailant Gloats, Picture The chairman, both of the local | 'EFIT PF | union and of the meeting, while the | horrified protasta of the member- | |ohip wera still being expressed, | shouted shove the turmo!l, “Ife well | jdeserved it; I'm porry I didn't do | At" | Two stitches were taken In the | worker's cheek when he wus at- | tended later in the New York Hos. | | pital. The othar left wingers at the meeting had great difficulty in re- stroining the membership from re- paying tho assailant with a dose of | his own medicine, When a pollee- | |man arrived jater, having been | called by soma member, tho vietlm | of tha brutal assault, aken from the | hospital to tha polices station, de- elared that ha would not press— charges, becauss union men should settle thelr own affairs,” | Come! Come! BENEFIT PERFORMANCE FOR THE TEXTILE STRIKERS OF NEW BEDFORD AND FALL RIVER ALBERT WEISBORD, Speaker SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15TH LABOR TEMPLE, 14TH ST. & 2ND AVENUE 2 Performances; 6.45 p, m. and 11 p, m, — Admission 50 Cents AUSPICES}—Local New York. Workers’ International Relief, 1 Unton Square, New York, Room 604, W. I. R. 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