The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1928, Page 1

| | y Agee, SOVIET VESSEL RESCUES 6 MISSING RUSSIAN FLIERS IN ARCTIC THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT aily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Offire at New York. Vol. V., No. 221 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq. New York, N. Y- So NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SE 2,000 ILLINOIS MINERS STRIKE AGAINST WAGE CUT PTEMBER 18, 1928 Many Are Dead and Injured, Hundreds of Families DEATHS MOUNT IN PORTO RICO. STORM DISASTER Thousands of Peasants Homeless; - Great Suffering Many Mad of Hunger | Great Destruction Is) Reported JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. | 117—A large number of per- /sons are dead, and hundreds in- ijured as a result of the hurri- cane which swept across Florida, according to frag-| mentary reports from. the storm-swept east coast today. West Palm Beach, across Lake Worth, was believed to have been the hardest hit on the basis of these reports. Hyndreds of injured and} homeless were crowded in temporary hospitals and shelter. The entire section is without light, | power, gas and sewerage facilities, and suffering is obviously greatest in the working class districts. The food problem was reported} especially serious in West Palm Beach. at mans MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 17 (UP).— Late reports placed the death list in the Florida hurricane at twenty- seven. Eleven persons, including seight Negroes, were repofted killed in the area south of west Palm | Beach. ! A report that fifteen persons were drowned at Lake Okeechobee reached the United Press in a roundabout manner from Tampa. But with wires in their present con- dition it was impossible early to- night to accurately check the re- ports. ei ota SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sept. 17. (UP).—Porto Rico has been devas- tated. Hundreds of thousands have been made homeless by Thursday’s hurricane. Thousands of country people are walking the streets of the partly- wrecked towns, begging for food. Some have gone mad from hunger and terror. Communications have not feen restored, but apparently no part of the island.escaped. A hundred houses were destroyed in San Juan and the same in most cities. Some towns were heaps of ruins, notably Las Tiedras and Yabucoa. Destruction Everywhere. No trains are running and no tltelegraph lines have been estab- Dlished yet. Automobiles move with extreme difficulty over roads choked with debris. Road gangs are work- Continued.on Page Three GALL PARLEY TO HELP SCHIFFRIN Worker Organizations Will Meet A preliminary conference of all working class organizations has been called by the Progressive Butchers and the Grocery Clerks Union for tomorrow at 8 p. m. in the main hall of the Workers Cen- ter, 26-28 Union Square, it was an- nounced yesterday. The official call to the conference jhas already been sent to all labor unions, labor fraternal oranizations unions, labor fraternal organizations tc send delegates to the conference, the purpose of which will be to lannch a vigorous campaign to se- cure the release of this militant worker who is in danger of being sent to prison for many years, _ A special appeal was made by the committee to the yarious defense committees already in existence to come to this conference. Schiffrin is now under a charge of- homicide for defending his life against a squad of five “committee- men” sent by the right wing Butchers’ Union, who attacked him with kni The leader of the i when Schiffrin de- with a penknife. & : squad | Textile Pickets Fight (0) 3 n Despite Police Terrorism Scenes like the above are daily occurrences in New Bedford, where 30,000 tex- tile workers are on strike for a living wage. Pickets are shown being attacked by police. Despite brutality, workers are de- termined to fight bosses to the end. police The textile workers, dis- satisfied with the mis- leaders of the U. T. W., will build a new militant union. The convention will be held in New York, Sept. 22nd. NEW CONFERENCE Police Drive SWEDEN ELECTS ON RAIL WAGES Misleaders Work for Sellout CHICAGO, Sept. 17 (UP).—Rep- | resentatives of 70,000 railroad con- ductors and trainmen of 55 western | |railfoads” were expected to meet! | with a federal board of mediation | here today in a renewed effort to} | settle a wage dispute which has jbeen the subject of unsuccessful |conferences for more than two weeks, | Sessions of the contesting par- ties failed to result in an agreenfent early this week. The case may go) _to President Coolidge, it was in-| | dicated today. The train service em- | Continued on Page Three | CLOAK CHAIRMEN MEET TOMORROW Boston, Philadelphia Hold Rallies | All shop chairmen and shop dele- | |gates.in the cloak and dress manu- | facturing industry here will meet at |their monthly conference tomorrow evening immediately after work in | Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St., ac- |cording to the announcement made | public from Joint Board headquar- | | ters last night. | The status of the organization | drive, its results to date, and its ex- tension to all sections of the in- |dustry, are to be the chief topics| | of the discussion at tomorrow’s con- \ference. Tentative plans for work ihave been drawn up by the execu- tive board of the Shop Chairmen’s Council, as the monthly conferences are called. Movement Growing. Despite the fumings of the “so- cialist” Jewish Daily Forward, and the leaders of the right wing scab union therein, the movement for a/ Continued on Page Two ‘Section 5 to Hold Membership Meeting | | A meeting of Section 5, Workers (Communist) Party, will be held to- | night at the section headquarters at 2075 Clinton Ave. | Matters of vital importance will | be discussed, | Auto Thru Red Election Meet PATERSON, Sept. 17.—Driving their car right thru a hundred or more workers, police last Friday |night broke up an open air meet- ling of the Workers (Communist) Party. * After bullying the committee in charge of the meeting, the police said that they would not allow any more meetings on that street cor- ner and instructed the chairman to appear before the chief of police the next morning. The brutal chief of police, John Tracey, famous for his treatment of Paterson workers in a decade of class struggle, was visited by a com- mittee from the Young Workers (Communist) League. He told the committee that they were “interfer- ing with traffic” on that corner and would not be allowed to meet there. Boasting about his ability to handle “labor troubles,” he would give no permission for a meeting on a dif- ferent corner and referred the young workers for such permission to Captain Murphy, “who,” the chief said, “is in charge at night, | and whose wishes I don’t want to override.” ISSUE DUES CALL T0 FUR WORKERS Thousands Pay Strike Tax to Build Union The decision of the recent mem- bership meeting of the Joint Board | Furriers Union on the cancellation | of dues arrears for all fur workers | not in good standing, reported here | recenty, was broadeast thruout the jentire fur manufacturing district | yesterday in a printed manifesto distributed by the thousands. Great Response. Inquiries at the headquarters of the Joint Board show that since the decision on the dues question was |made, many hundreds of furriers | day who had not as yet joined the left wing Joint Board,.took advantage of the decision and came to make pay- ments on the $25 tax levied after the victorious strike of 1926. The manifesto distributed yester- day declares that all workers, regis- tered and unregistered and even Continued on Page Two N.Y. Food Workers The platform of the Workers (Communist) Party and William Z. Foster and Ben Gitlow, Communist candidates, were overwhelmingly en- | dorsed by the Hotel and Restaurant Branch of the Amalgamated Food Workers at a special meting held last night at the union headquarters 183 W. ‘41st St. Only two of the workers present refrained from endorsing the Com- ENDORSE RED TICKET Back Foster, Gitlow munist ticket. One of them, a mem- ber of the socialist party, abstained; the other an admittedly republican worker, recommended consistently enough that the branch endorse Smith. Leading Communists and mem-| bers of several food trade unions! will speak at a food workers elec- tion rally Friday evening at the Manhattan Lyceum, 64 East 4th St., it was announced, b COMMUNISTS Social Democrats Lose Thirteen Seats STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. 17. Six Communists gained seats in \the second chamber and the social- | democrats lost thirteen seats pre- liminary results of the elections in- dicate. The fesults for 212 out of the 230 seats show: conservatives, 67; pea- sants party, 25; liberal, 3; social- démocrats, 84; Communists, 6. The | conservatives gained 8 seats and the peasant party 3. The city of Stockholm will hold \its elections on Friday to fill the eighteen seats still vacant. STRIKERS HAIL MILL CONVENTION Batty Begs for Chance to Sell Out BULLETIN NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 17. |--The decisior of the mill owners association in favor of the speed-up system as well as the ten per cent cut, which was again announced, was met with a pleading appeal to the bosses by W. E. G. Batty of the A. F. of L. Textile Council. Batty is trying to convince the mill own- ers that he is still able to sell out the strike. ee a (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. |17.—Rallying of picket forces to |tneet the approaching sell-out at- |tempt of the A. F. of L. union and | the selection of delegates to attend the New York convention that will |launch a new national textile work- ‘ers’ union, are the central problems occupying the New Bedford strikers jas they enter the 23rd week of struggle against the owners of 56 mills here. Hold’ Big Rally. The huge mass meeting yester- in Saulniers Lot, discussed |chiefly the coming convention, which opens in New York on Sept. 22. Concrete evidence of the ser- iousness with which the strikers consider this important step in their own struggle can be seen by the re- sponse to an appeal by union secre- {tary Eulelie Mendes for money with | which to pay the fare of the dele- gates chosen. No sooner was the |call issued when scores walked for- |ward with their contributions of small silver. Not considering the amounts donated and pledged by sympathizers and many British VER BOASTS OF PROSPERITY AS JOBLESS LISTEN Red Auto Procession Brings Message to Newark Workers Give 10, 00 Circulars 000 Hoover Thugs Attack “Red Essex” NEWARK, .—Flaunting the picture of increasing prosperity of big business before the eyes of thousands of workers who listened to him here and before the millions ._ who probably .tuned’in on the radio, Herbert Hoover tonight delivered a studied bid for the vote of the Amer- ican workers. Although the speech was devoted to the “labor question,” he glossed over or evaded the strug- gles of the workers in many indus- tries for a living wage and the un- employment question. In his speech Hoover cleverly dis- guised the unemployment issue with the camouflage that the several millions who he admitted had been thrown out of work through the in- troduction of “efficiency” methods, jhad been “transferred to our filling stations, our garages, our hotels and our’ restauranté” The speech which was taken to be a sort of counter move to the recent Al Smith bid for the vote of labor was filled with the usual Coolidge-Hoover statistics attempt- ing’ to prove that the republican party had brought about if not exactly the millenium was at least on the way of its realization. The protective tariff, Hoover ex- tolled as one of the pillars of pros- perity. The laws restricting immi- gration he referred to as “the neces- sary and natural companion piece of a protective tariff.” Admitting the lowering status of the farmers, he offered no suggestion for its cure beyond the obscure statement that “one of the large opportunities for the further improvement of labor lies in the further improvement of agriculture.” On the question of injunctions he repeated the Al Smith evasion prac tically in so many words, that “it is necessary to impose restrictions sive use of: injunctions.” s Labor Fakers. He praised the labor fakers in- directly for their class collaboration policies and their “efficiency” union- ism and for accepting “the funda- mental fact that greater efficiency * * * is the road to cheaper costs lower prices,” and again commended them for having “joined in repelling * * * subversive movements.” * * * While Hoover and his cohort of super-politicians paraded up Broad |St. and through Sussex Ave., New- | ark, early last night, in a line of expensive limousines, a counter- parade was being held by workers {of Newark under the direction of the Workers (Communist) Party. Led by the redoubtable Red Es- sex, with George Pearlman, veteran of the New York and New Jersey signature collection tours, at the wheel, almost 50 cars, old clanking Fords, outworn Chevrolets, bedrag- gled cars that wheezed and groaned under the strain of motion, wended | its way through Broad St., Broome St., Mercer St., Clinton Ave., Kin- ney St., Washington St., and Cen- tral Ave. to the Essex Armory, after having left the Newark head- | quarters of the Workers (Commu- | nist) Party at 93 Mercer St. In each little car were packed | | five, ers, crowded inside, hanging on to} |the running boards, sitting across |the fenders. Each worker had pre- | pared for the occasion with a noise- producing instrument; horns and rattles announcing the path of the Communist parade for blocks ahead. Tied to the backs and sides of the | | workers there, the coins alone made a total of $95.66. Every meeting |of strikers for the past few days has devoted considerable time to a) discussion of the sppronching con-| vention, | Continued on Page Three TARANTO, Italy, Sept. 17 (UP). A slight earthquake shock was felt | here today, alarming the inhabitants. | No damage was reported. i cars, in glaring black and red let- tering, were signs reading: “Vote Communist”; ‘“Hooverism means Injunctions and Police Rule for the Workers!” “Hoover and Smith are candidates of Wall Street. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, the candidates of the Party of the Class | Struggle!” Worker . Y, under the act ef Marck 3, 1878. lie FINAL CITY EDITION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In York, New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. ail, $6.00 per year. Price 3 Ce nts Homeless in Florida Hurricane MASS RESENTMENT RAGES Qld Unionist Slashed Ladies Tailors’ Local 38 carries the ledger number 1, was brutally as- saulted by Louis G. Rea, Sigmanite official, speech from the Bryant Hall plat- as he was concluding his form, at a membership meeting last week. the New York hospital, where Chazinoff was taken to by members later, found it neces- the pajors ike wiaunelebes coven | BUTCHERS BUILD THEIR OWN UNION Leave Corrupt United Hebrew Trades Fakers Doctors at sary to take three stitches in chee No longer able to endure the cor- rupt officialdom, whose tight clutch on union machinery the membership | could not dislodge because of a ter-| ror instituted by depriving family men of their jobs and beating up, those who protested, a majority of| the members of the Butcher Work-| ers Union of the socialist-controlled | United Hebrew Trades, yesterday! officially severed their relations with that organization and an- nounced the formal launching of} the Progressive Butcher and Chicken | Workers Union. This was decided upon at a meeting of the seceding] members in the headquarters of| Grocery Clerks Union, 220 E. 14th St. | To Form Real Union. | At the meeting which came to a close late last night, the speakers showed that they are not splitting! an established labor organization. | but they are supplanting the “gold mine” of afew socialist reaction-| aries, with a real organization that will organize the trade and fight to improve the conditions of the work- ers. “Between 400 and 500 workers belong to the right wing union in a trade consisting of many thous-| ands,” declared the speakers, citing additional proof of corruption by pointing out that H. Korn, the right wing manager, was mulcting the few hundred members out of a sal- ary of $125 per week, added ex- penses and an automobile to boot. The beginnings of the breaking away from the rotted United He-| brew Trades organization came re- cently when several members were | Continued on Page Two | ,, OVER NEW VOTE STEAL BY __LEWIS-FISHWICK MACHINE |Frank Farrington, Exposed Crook, Endorses Treachery of Harry Fishwick Coal Diggers Strike Following Overwhelming Vote Against Wage-Cut Sell-Out (Special to the SPRINGFIELD, IH., Sept. Illinois miners against the last machine in signing up for a w. Daily Worker) 17.—The seething revolt of the betrayal of the Lewis-Fishwick age cut followed by the refer- endum steal just put over by the machine broke out today when over two thousand miners went out on strike against the ac- cumulating treachery of the officials. The miners employed at the Capitol Mine of the Peabody Coal Com- Because he was making a plea) pany struck in a body after a discussion among themselves this morning. for unity and democracy B. Chazi-| They had voted overwhelmingly to reject the wage cut put over by the noff, whosé membership book in| Lewis-Fishwick machine and have been enraged to the breaking point since the announcement by the officials which clearly showed that a U.S. ,R, VESSEL FINDS 6 MISSING ARCTIC FLIERS Intended to Explore Siberian Coast MOSCOW, .Sept. 17. — The six Soviet aviators missing gust 22, who were bound on an Arc- tie trip of exploration, were rescued by the Soviet steamship Staropol, a wireless message from the ship states. since Au- The aviators had started on the} plane, Soviet of the North, from Vladivostock in a tour of investiga- tion over northern Siberia on the fringe of the Arctic circle. The airplane was wrecked during a storm near Kolyuchin Bay, Siber- ia, and the six aviators walked more than 200 miles over a desolate and frozen expanse to the coast where the Staropol picked them up. The aviators had intended to fly along the edge of the Arctic circle to Leningrad, investigating and mak- ing records of the little known stretch between the Bering Sea and Leningrad. Volunteers, Lodgings, Desired for the Textile Convention Here Soon The arrangements committee for the convention for a new national textile union issued a call yester- day, asking all sympathetic work ers to volunteer to assist at the sessions of the convention to be held | Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 22 and 23. At the same time appeals to all who can accommodate one or more delegates with lodging during the convention, were issued by the com- mittee. Over 250 delegates are ex- pected from many parts of the country, and this problem is most pressing. All who want to assist in the formation of a genuine textile workers’ organization are urged to register their names and addresses with I. Zimmerman, at the office of the local section of the Trade Union six, seven and even ten work- | cxpelled fon the crime of being Educational League, Workers Cen- ter, 26-28 Union Square. I. R. T. DODGES BLAME Officials Pass Buck Jor Subway Wreck Officials for the Interborough Ra- pid Transit Company testifying at | a hearing in Homicide Court yes- | terday into the responsibility for the | Willidm T. Murdoch, Eli Keller,| Vote for a Workers’ Ticket, Vote | Times Square subway wre@k which Samieras and Fred Beal spoke at | Communist!” “Vote for William Z./on August 24 caused the death of 18 and the serious injury of scores of others, sought to divert attention Arthur L. Hess, superintendent of signals, for the company, repeated the earlier theory that “man fail- ure” had caused the wreck. Thus far no one has brought, out the fact that the company in failing to re- place obsolete material, to repair de- fective rolling stock and by work- ing its employees inhuman hours so |from obvious guilt of the company | they become overstrained, is respon- While the ramshackle cars were | itself by propounding theories of the | sible not only for this wreck but for numerous others which have oc- curred during the past few veara. noisily cutting their way through Continued on Page Two possible. guilt of some of its employ- ees. | ®steal had been put over. Crook Endorses Traitor. Frank Farrington, former presi- dent of District 12, who was ex- posed as being in the. pay of the Peabody Coal Company and is now one of its chief directors, recently issued a statement printed inya Belleville daily paper in which he praised Harry Fishwick and at- tacked the new miners’ union. The endorsement of the crooked Farring- ton of the treacherous Fishwick is taken as another confirmation of the utter sell-out which the Lewis ma- chine is putting over. * SPRINGFIELD, Iil., Sept. 17 (UP).—More than 2,000 Illinois coal miners in three separate fields walked out of collieries to- day, refusing to work under the new “Chicago agreement,” which reduced the scale of day workers from $7.50 to $6.10 per day. Six hundred miners in the Springfield district, 675 in the Peoria district and 1,000 in the Belleville district refused to ac- cept the scale adopted last week by a referendum vote of the 90,- 000 miners in the state, and walked out. Miners throughout the state re- opened today, re-employing sev- eral thousand. ea ane Miners Strike in a Body. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Sept. 17 (UP). hundred coal miners working at the Capitol Mine, owned and operated by the Peabody Coal Co., went on strike today. ‘The men refused to work under the terms of the Chicago scale which provides $6.10 a day for day workers. This scale was accepted last week through a state-wide ref- erendum vote. The men had been working for $7.50 a day, the terms of the old Jacksonville wage scale. In the miners’ referendum: last week the miners of the Springfield district cast a heavy vote against the new scale. After talking the matter over this morning the miners decided to go home. ix WORKERS GREET MINOR ON TOUR Red Candidate Speaks Thruout N. Y. State Declaring that prohibition and the tariffs are “fake issues,” and that no real difference exists be- tween the two major parties, Rob- ert Minor, candidate of the Workers (Communist) Party for United States senator from New York, wi applauded by a large audience at Troy. Sunday night. Minor maintained that the real difference of opinion between the wet and dry politicians arose from the dispute between employers who Continued on Page Three ALGIERS STORM. BARIS, Sept. 17 (UP).—A nev series of violent storms was ‘ today from Algiers,