The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 17, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Daily Eatered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1873. FINAL CITY EDITION Publi prob V., No. 220 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker ishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. 7, 1s rice 3 Cents STRESS NEED FOR NEW MILL UNION AT W. |. R, MEET Weisbord Emphasizes | Importance of New | Bedford Strike | 138 Delegates Present) Formulate Plan to Aid | Textile Strikers The necessity of the formation of | new textile union for the exploited workers in the industry throughout the United States was the major point of most of the speeches de- livered at the Textile Relief Confer- ence of the Workers International Relief, held Saturday afternoon at/ the Irving Plaza Hall. One hun- dred and thirty-five delegates, trade unions, fraternal organizations, | workers clubs, workmen circles, ‘women organizations and shops were present. Decisions on the work of the con- ference were passed unanimously. They included plans for a big tag day in October, a Workers Song Festival, the formation of a New York City clothing and shoe station, house-to-house collections for textile strikers relief, and the sending of collection lists and speakers to union and other labor and fraternal or- zanization meetings. Albert Weisbord, militant textile workers leader, spoke after the opening of the conference. He stressed the importance of the New Bedford strike, the need for a new union and the necessity of holding a Textile Mills Committee Conven-| tion soon. | Fred Biedenkamp, national secre- tary of the Workers International Relief, emphasized the necessity of a huge national Workers Interna- Continued on Page Two TO EXPOSE SMITH IN RED CAMPAIGN Big Communist Rally j September 28 4 The candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party who will speak at the first large election campaign rally to be held in New York this year at the Central Opera House on September 28 at 8 p. m. will expose the political role played by the so-callgd “progressives” who with the socialists backed the can- didacy of Robert LaFollette four years ago. With the formation of the “Prog- ressive League” by heads of the La- Follette movement, press purpose of campaigning for Al Smith, the delineation of the political forces becomes clearer. More clearly than ever is brought out the identity of the socialists; the “progressives,” following a vacillating policy with regards to affiliation with either the socialists or democrats, bring home to work- ers the essential fact that as far as the workers are concerned there is Continued on Page Two NEW DRESS UNION IN PHILADELPHIA Police Arrest Workers for Picketing PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 16.— A new office has been opened in Philadelphia, a branch of the Na- tional Organization Committee of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union. There will be an official conference on Tuesday evening, Sept. 18, con- sisting of delegates from shop com- mitteés for the purpose of building up a militant union for the work- ers. The meeting will be held at the new office, 42 North 9th St. In spite of the fact that the Philadelphia branch is new and is only in the process of organization hs yet, the office is busy day and night with many workers in the Continued on Page Two Nine Dead as Result of Rockford Storm ROCKFORD, Ill, Sept. 16 (UP). —Death toll of the tornado which swept this city Friday was brought to nine today with the recovery of the body of Olaf Larson, 27, from the ruins of the Rockford chair and furniture company factory. Larson was caught unde? the factory’s water tank and crushed to death. His body was the first re- covered since Friday. Five bodies ‘femain in the wreckage. Soviet Arctic Heroes on “Krassin” Continue Search for Amundsen ES Left to right: Capt. Egge, Commander of the Soviet Icebreaker “Krassin,” Prof. Samoilovich, in charge of the Amundsen rescue expedition; and an officer on the “Krassin.” With the rescue of 13 of the Nobile crew to their credit, the Krassin crew has again put out to the Arctic regions, deter- mined not to give up the search until some trace at least of the Amundsen crew is found. The Italian fascist government recently ordered its ships to discontinue their search. Amundsen, lost explorer, is shown at right. MCGARRY FORCES Foster, Gitlow STORM IN PORTO To Speak in- FRED BY LEWIS. 7, Soe je AGO KILLS 1 Miners Had Deserted) 4. prancisco, cal, sept.1e|LOtnado Sweeps Over “Opposition” |—Wm. Z. Foster, Communist. presi Florida Coast dential candidate, will speak on Fri- (Special to the Daily Worker) | day evening, Sept. 21st, at the Civic) SAN KUAN, Porto Rico, Sept. 16 SCRANTON, Sept. 16.—EKight| Auditorium, Larkin Hall, in San | (UP).—With communication service members of the so-called insurgent | Francisco. He will then speak in x ri group headed by Frank McGarry,|Los Angeles on Sunday, Sept. 23rd. | nly party reestablished, estimates who was named president by the|Ben Gitlow, vice-presidential candi-|°f damage in last Thursday’s hurri- Brennan-Harris forces at a conven- | date, will speak in San Francisco at|cane began to reach the capital to- tion held about two months ago, | the Eagles Hall, on October the 5th. | day, adding a large number of deaths were Friday night expelled from/ Election Rallies at which the state |to the disaster of ruined crops and the United Mine Workers follow-/ and local candidates of the Commu- | demolished homes ing a _seven-hour session of the/nist Party speak, are being’ held | ¥ Lewis-Boylan executive board. The | every Sunday night, in San Fran- charge against them was disloyalty | cisco at 1212 Market Street, and in to the organization for having| Oakland at Fraternity Hall, 7th and ee ee Fen | Peralta Street. In San Jose, meet- | included with McGarry are John | ings are held every Sunday after- ; , Hermansen, “vice president, and|noon at St. James Park. Street |Te*ed by information trom the in- Walter Harris, secretary-treasurer| meetings are being held as follows: terior region. Conservative estimates of the so-called insurgent group |In San Francisco, 20th and Mission, | Placed the damage at more than and five members of their executive |eyery Friday night; Fillmore and | $50,000,000. board. |O’Farrell, every Friday night; | Unprincipled Opposition. |Third and Minna, Monday and The McGarry - Brennan - Harris | Wednesday. In Oakland, every Tues- forces refused to take any stand on| day night at 10th and Broadway. More than fifty persons were killed in Cayey and the island of Humacao, it was reported, and the toll is expected to be greatly in- Cayey, which is twenty-five miles thirty persons were killed in that vicinity and more than 100 seriously southwest of here, reported at least | NAVAL OFFICER HY ATTACKS. YOUNE WORKERS LEAGUE San Francisco Jingoes Furious as Sailors Get Leaflets arlem Straw Vote Reveals Negro Workers Rallying to Communist Election Drive Police “Investigating” 120 LEFT WING lace Audiences Greet Red Speakers at the Leaflet Urges Defense of Working Class (Special to the Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 16.—The militarist authorities in San Francisco, thrown into a furore by the distribution of over a thou- sand leaflets by members of the Young Workers (Communist) League to sailors of the Pacific Fleet during its recent visit to San Francisco, have begun a campaign of suppression of all Communist Segre Knife Committee activities in the city. Captain Black, jingo in command lof the U. S. S. California, yester- |day sent a letter to Mayor Rolph, to Levy $25 | demanding that the activities of the |Young Workers (Communist)! One hundred and twenty butcher League be investigated in connec-| workers, all members of the mili- |tion with the distribution of these|tant group of the Hebrew Butcher |leaflets, which were received by | Workers Union, who were expelled |sailors on board every one of the|by the corrupt leadership, dominated |47 warships in the Pacific Fleet|by Corn, last night gathered at the |while moored in San Francisco | Stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave. and Bay. Ninth St., for the purpose of organ- | izing a real militant workers union among the butchers that will be free | So. panic seiken tubal ie they of the corruption and gangsterism | officials, that “lectures” were uur | Low rampant in the yellow right- riedly arranged on board every | ying controlled leading clique ship. In these lectures the mili- F He A resolution, passed unanimously tarist _ caticials "urged that the |by all of the 120 workers present, |raise funds to push the Party’s Ne- | Bolshevik literature” that they had |Teiterated the stand of the expelled | gro work. , they had | embers that Shiffrin, now in jail | “iit pa casted received. An attempt at intimida- | v4or ch ¢ senate, bad | Negro comrades will assigne |tion was seen in the announcement |; "0°" Ci@rses of manslaughter, had | by the district agitprop department re 3 | been attacked by Corn’s “knife com- | j ion ih ae K by; the Jingo speakers that the War | mittee," and that ho-had been forced | ‘212 ‘he Giemesion in os many | Department of the United States 4 r * was “investigating the matter.” saya fe ‘eigeiceas ana | contrades are not pyallble the units Immediately after the receipt of all brandished butcher-knives. Beha a dna ca eae the letter from Captain Black,| Warn Workers Against Corn. Pi ¥ | Mayor Rolph issued an order to the | Collections are to be taken up in BUTCHERS MEET FOR NEW UNION Pass Resolution for the Defense of Framed Militant A decided trend on the pa Negro Harlem. Charge Corn Intends NEGRO WEEK IN DISTRICT 2 BEGINS | Workers Solidarity Dance to Wind Up This week is Negro Week in Dis- trict 2 of the Workers (Commu- |nist) Party, It will be marked by discussions on the problems of the Negro workers and by an effort to Jingoes Hold “Lectures.” Openly resentful at the c publican party, aware of the traditional enmity of the southern with the ex-| principle against the corrupt Lewis | machine and sought to become the | administration for Lewis. Due. to this policy which went contrary to the known sentiment of the vast. majority of the rank and file min- ers, the membership rapidly desert- ed the McGarry forces. | The so-called McGarry opposition | rose to power because it earlier had | cooperated with Alex Campbell, the heroic Pittston mine leader who was murdered because of his fight against the Cappellini machine in| District 1. McGarry capitalized his | connections with Campbell and| united with the Brennan group to form a so-called “opposition” to the Cappellini machine’ The Mc- Continued on Page Five | “DAILY” DRIVE IN HARLEM STARTED 1,000 Copies Will Be Distributed Each. Day A mass canvass of Harlem for the | purpose of getting new readers for |the Daily, Worker in its Election | Campaign Subscription Drive for 10,000 new readers, will be inaugur- | ated today, when 1,000 copies of the Daily Worker will be distributed to the Negro workers in the vicinity. This distribution will be continued daily for the entire week. The distribution will be super- vised by S. Kreiger, of the business office of the Daily Worker, and will be the first big scale attempt of the militant daily to attract the atten- tion of the great masses of exploited | Negro workers. | Kreiger will have as his assis- tants a committee composed of | members of the Harlem section of | the Workers (Communist) Party. These workers will rally and are ex-| pected to be a big and powerful factor in the work of popularizing the only real fighting workers’ pa- | pers in the United States among the | exploited Negro masses. | The following headquarters are open for any worker to get Commu- nist campaign literature, or to sign petitions to place Communist, candi-_ die, dates on the ballot: In San Fran- cisco, 1212 Market Street; In Oak- land, Workers Book Shop, 2123 Telegraph Ave.; In Berkeley, Com- rades Hall, 1819 Tenth Street. MINERS’ UNION Adopt Militant Plan of Class Struggle | EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The first convention of the National | Miners’ Union which met here Sep- tember 9-10, worked out and adopt- ed the following statement of the policy the new organization expects to pursue in its efforts to make the | coal fields fit for a miner to work |in, raise wages, shorten hours, and block the open shop drive and the treachery of the U. M.W. A. ma- chine. The deep crisis in the coal in- dustry has become ever more acute. The ranks of the hundreds of thous-| ands unemployed miners are swell-| ing with the rapid advance of labor) saving loading machines, conveyers and mechanical devices. A terrific! speed-up system is being put into practice. While the profits of the coal operators have grown into stagger- ing figures, the misery and want among the coal miners is appalling. Yet the operators pursuing their Continued on Page Four | 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. injured. Advices from the island of | Humacao placed the death toll above | thirty-five and indicated more might |police department of San Francis- | eo» commanding them to investigate It warned the workers in the| union against Corn’s intention to levy a tax of $25, on each member, the activities of the Young Work- and urged them to protest against jall units for the purpose of financ- \ing our Negro work. These collec- \tions must be sent to the district \office immediately. Contribution ers (Communist) League, with. the this tax. Going on to define their Purpose of taking drastic action stand in the attack on Shiffrin, the Continued on Page Three resolution closed with a pledge that ea every possible effort would be made |in the defense of Shiffrin to prevent Officials here were of the opinion that at least 100 persons were killed | . on the entire island but full infor- | his being framed-up by the right |mation will not be available until roads and communication lines are | vi te: d tt ii eataked. | wing gangsters and sent to prison. | | While the meeting was in prog- | Ponce suffered terrible iswee BUTTE WORKERS ress, a crowd of the right wing | tion, it is known, but no details were knife-wielding gangsters gathered jayallable tonight. outside on the streets and attumted to start a riot, with the mention Hail of blaming it on the militant -left wing workers assembled in the hall. Finally, Corn, one of his assistant gangsters and several policemen | broke into the meeting room, intend- * o* Militant Miners (UP).—A hurricane probably with- ° | Communist Message out precedent in intensity flung it- self on the east coast of Florida to- | Continued on Page Three | (Special to the Daily Worker) BUTTE, Montana, Sept. 16.—| ing to reate a riot among the work- present. The workers stood i | Here on the battle ground of some |¢rs. | of the most bitterly contested labor | their ground, however, and not only | struggles in American history, the | Prevented the rest of the gangsters jhome of the strikebreaking Anacon-|%@thered outside from entering the in an assertion which he |da Mining Company, the industrial | hall, but ejected Corn and his pro- Costa Kidnapped, But/ | presidential candidate on the Work- ers (Communist) Party ticket spoke made later in the evening, charged | that he had been struck while in the hall. | city that once sent its flaming mes-|tecting gangster from the meeting Later Released | sage of revolt east and west thru-| "9°": jout the country, William Z. Foster, Corn, NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 16. —In an attempt to lay the basis . of. for a Red hysteria drive, police of- | °lection campzign. ficers yesterday virtually kidnaped| It was in Butte that the slaves of | areq dollars were given in cash and Joseph Costa, a young textile the copper kings revolted under $290 more promised within the next striker, and worked for hours in a the leadership of the I. W. W. in| few days. The Delicatessen Clerks vain effort to force admissions from its fighting days. _ | followed suit with $100 in cash and the boy of his “subversive activi-| It was in Butte that the heroic 4 pledge of $400 more within the ties.” Frank Little was taken from his bed| week. Among the militant left Costa, who last Friday was ax. | at night by an army of hoodlums| wing butcher workers themselves, rested on.a framed-up charge of in- | U4er ‘the direction of the Anacon-| ¢1 999 was raised to free Shiffrin. vading a public school, desoerating | @& Mining Company and hanged|" Among those who addressed the the American flag” and “swearing | Continued on Page Three meeting were Werner and Teitle- allegiance to the Red Flag,” was, baum of the expelled group of the seized by Federal Immigration In- | Butchers’ Union; Bronsky, Okun and spector John G. Harberg, who, to- Weiss of Bakers’ Union, and D. gether with two “dicks,” nabbed the | Vacker of the Grocery: and Fruit young striker immediately after the | cf Clerks’ Union. Malamud acted as hearing on his case, which eae post. | Hold Electiond Rally chairman of the meeting. poned to Monday morning. js { Costa pleaded “not guilty” to the| _ Under the auspices of a progres-| charge and although Prosecutor | Sive group of building trades work- Raphael Berracini attempted to | TS; an election campaign rally will| newly appointed American consul, block the postponement of the hear-|be held on Saturday, October 6th, | Howard Donovan, arrived here to- ing the demand was finally granted. @t the Labor Temple, 243 East 84th | duy and took up his duties immedi- Costa, who is a courageous mili- | St. The meeting is scheduled to | ately. This, however, was denied by the left wing workers present. During the meeting the progres sive group of the Bakers Union do- nated the sum of $500 for the de- | Thursday night to a rapt and enthu- |siastic audience on the program of jelass struggle in the National Plat- | |form of the Communist Party in| Progressive Workers of Building Trades NEW WALL ST. ENVOY BAHIA, Brazil, Sept. 16—The fense of William Shiffrin. Two hun- | Hists “will ‘be~ distributed- | member and all must try to g |tributions from their shop mates jand Party sympathizers for this | most important work. Subscription |blanks for the Party’s Negro press | will also be given out and each com- |rade must take a year’s subscrip- |tion in order both to support the work and to keep himself properly informed upon the problems and | outlook of the Negro workers. Negro Week will wind up with a Workers’ Solidarity Dance in Har- lem. Tickets for this dance will be sent to all the units and all com- rades are asked to buy tickets and attend this dance in a demonstration |of the solidarity of black and white workers. Secretaries of all units in the dis- |trict meeting on Monday night are {asked to call at the district office to make sure of getting their in- structions for Negro Week, con- tribution lists, tickets, etc. ‘Hoover Will Speak | in Newark Tonight | WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—Her- |bert Hoover, republican candidate |for president of the United States, | will make a’ two-day campaign visit |to New Jersey. His first stop is Newark where a torchlight parade lis to be staged in the evening after la day spent engaging in the cus- tomary stupidities of a presidential | candidate. In Newark it includes laying a | wreath on the Washington monu- | ment, a visit to the birthplace of |Grover Cleveland, a guest at a re- | publican reception. After the par- ‘ade he will deliver his first speech in an armory hall. It will be broadcast by a large hook-up of the stations allowed to \exist under the autocratic domina- ltion of Hoover’s department of commerce. tant, could not be intimidated. open at 2:30 o'clock. | Even when Harberg produced a pair) The issues of the campaign from | of handcuffs and threatened to beat | the workers’ viewpoint will be dis- cussed by speakers and the role |him up, Costa maintained his com- | posure. Finally, after all efforts to force | Costa into admissions of guilt had REFORMIST BETRAYAL MOORE HITS MISLEADER played by both the republican and | democratic parties as the eager) |tools of big business will be Austria Socialists (Wireless to the Daily Worker.) VIENNA, Sept. 16.—What seems to be the beginning of the complete betrayal of the interests of the Aus- trian tenant farmers is indicated as the congress of the social demo- cratic party opened here on Satur- day. Articles in the social democratic “Arbeiterzeitung” and “Abend” hint that the conjress will decide to partly abandon the tenant’s protec- tion law. The “Arbeiterzvitung” points to the difficult situation in | ences, Fi ighting Peasants teration” in the tenants protection | law is inevitable. | | The Abend declares openly that | | unless the next elections bring a so- | cial democratic majority, which con- tingency is unlikely, the social dem- ocracy will no longer oppose the re- duction of the tenants’ protection measures, The party congress delegates are almost exclusively officials, as the workers have been sifted out in carefully prepared district confer- A big attack of the right wing, ander the leadership of Ren- | the provinces and declares that “al- | ner, is expected. | | of | Union Square, Room 34, at 8 p. m. failed, he was released. Workers Theater to Meet Tonight; Plans for Many Plays The first meeting this fall of the Workers Theatre will take place to- night at the Workers Center, 26-28 | | } | Arrangements will be made to start work on several plays on work- ing class subjects, written by active members during the summer. Boris Glagclin. well-known Russian direc- tor, will work with the Workers Theatre. ex- | posed. ' Workers will be urged to| vote and work for a working class | platform and working class candi- | dates for office, under the emblem | of the Hammer and Sickle. | Several candidates of the Work- ers (Communist) Party are expect- ‘i | i : te Nc aah Riad dics | statement to the press in which you state that Negroes are indignant at and Negro the treatment they have received | workers’ leader, has sent the fol-|at the hands of the republican par- ‘lowing letter to the Reverend S. L.| ty and are therefore turning to the Independent democratic party for relief from « the unfair discrimination .against ed to be present to address the meeting as well as well-known | militants among the building trades | workers. BARBERS ORGANIZE INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 16. The Journeymen Barbers’ Inter- national Union has issued charters to these craftsmen in Cisco, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Communist Replies to Smith’s 1 Lackey Characterizing him as a “lick- spittle in the service of a bers 2) Richard B. Moore | Ansonia, Conn. ary party,” didate for congress from the 22nd New York district, Carruthers, of the League of Negro Voters, which en- |dorsed Al Smith, Wall Street can- |* Texas \didate for president on the demo- | League of Negro voters in endors- cratic partys | Rev. Dr. S. L. Carruthers, | Independent League of Voters, Negro Dear Sir: I have just read your them. The actign of the Independent Continued om Pde Three i at Lierre, near Antwerp, e Numerous Campaign Rallies Workers Party Platform on Negro Question Impresses Workers Thruout Country rt of the Negro voters towards |the Workers (Communist) Party candidates is seen in several straw votes taken within the last fortnight on the streets of onsistent treachery of the re- ®democrats, who would be in control of the country in the event Al Smith is elected, and remembering the betrayal of the colonial peoples by the so- cialist parties, the Negro work- ers are welcoming with open arms the aggressive election cam- paign the Workers Party is waging in Harlem to elect three militant Negro leaders on the Party ticket, headed by William Z. Foster for \president and Ben Gitlow for vice president. Speaking to a huge crowd of Ne- gro workers last Tuesday night at Lenox Ave. and 134th Richard Moore, Workers Party candidate for congress in the 21st Congressional | District, after devoting an hour to a graphic exposure of the treacher- Jous role of the bosses’ parties and | their socialist allies, called for a show of hands. To his call for those who would vote the republican ticket in the coming eletion to raise |their hands, not a single hand was seen. The call for a socialist show- ing of hands met with the same lack of response, while the call for a democratic ‘showing netted just three hands of persons who had not yet recovered from the virus ef. the {AP Smith gaff. ‘The call for those who would vote for the Workers Party met with quite a different re- sponse, however. There was a spon- taneous raising of hands, followed by hearty applause. This same method of taking a straw vote is being followed by Ed- ward Welsh, candidate on the Work- ers Party ticket for assemblyman in the 19th Assemby District, and by other speal and meets with prage | tically the same results. And not only in Harlem is this trend of Negro workers towards the Party observable, but throughout the country. The Negro workers Continued on Page Three POLICE BREAK UP OPEN AIR MEETING Napoli, Red Candidate Speaks Police Saturday broke un an open air meeting of the Workers (Com- munist) Party at 116th St. and First Ave. at which Napoli, Work- ers Party candidate for state sena- tor was speaking. Napoli was as- sailing the democratic and republi- can parties as tools of big business, when someone in the audience, said to have been a member of the Amer- jican Legion, began to interfere. The fascist walked away and returned with two policemen, who ordered the meeting to stop. The audience of about 100 workers were angered by the action of the police. TWO GIRLS WIN HUNGER STRIKE ‘Arrested for Picketing Knitting Mills KENOSHA, Wis., Sept. 16.— Amanda Rittmer, and Mertice Hud- son, two young mill strikers are free here today as a result of a hunger strike which they carried out in protest against repeated ar- rests by local police for their ac- | tivities on the picket line. The last arrest occurred eleven days ago during a demonstration of locked out workers of the Allen Knitting Mills. Both girls went to jail refusing to accept bail and have forced their release through a hun- ger strike. BRUSSELS, Sept. 16.—The skele- ton of a British soldier has been discovered in the garden of the Ca- Uy