The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORK FOR A LABOR TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT ER FIGHTS PARTY rene Daily ~ — ca — Emtered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. a Vol. V., No. 222 Published daily except Sunday by ‘The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y- NEW YORK, WEDNESD AY, SEPTEMBER orker der the act of March 3, 1878. FID A EDITION Li. City 9, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by n Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. , $8.00 per year. Price 3 Cents 7 CITIES SEND DELEGATES FOR NEW MILL UNION All Sections of Trade, to Be Represented at | Convention Only 42 Cities at UTW Credentials for 250 Already Filed With preparations in full swing) both in New York City and in tex- | tile centers throughout New Eng-| land and the middle Atlantic states, the coming national convention of textile wrkers to be held at Irving Plaza, New York City, on Sept. 22 and 23 will undoubtedly be a great success. Delegates are expected, judging from reports sent in from the different textile centers and from credentials received—trom 57 cities covering all sections of the industry—cotton, silk, woolen and worsted, knit goods and miscellan-| ee eee Two important problems face the arrangements committee of the new national textile union which is to convene at Irving Plaza on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 22 and 23. These are: (1) Accommodations for over 250 delegates who will arrive in New York soon, and (2) the demand for a large number of volunteers | to assist at the sessions cf the convention. | All who want to aid in the formation of a genuine textile workers’ union are urged to get in touch at once with I. Zimmer- man, at the local office of the Trade Union Educational League, Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square. Saree taeeen a teeataaanaen ee eous’ sections. The 250 delegates who have been already ‘elected will) make this convention a fully repre-| sentative one, covering a much big-| ger territory than the 113 delegates who attended the convention of the) United Textile Workers held last week, which represented only }42| cities. Many Cities. In“ Massachusetts the following) cities will be represented by dele-|tinues to leave death and destruc-| gates coming from woolen, worsted) and cotton mills: Lawrence, Lowell, Fitchburg, Maynard, Blackstone, Children of New Bedford Textile Strikers Children of the 30,000 New Bedford mill workers who are now striking against a wage slash in the face of police terror and the treachery of the Batty clique, need food. greatest danger which ths fighters must face. Help them win their Starvation is the struggle. 149 KNOWN DEAD Levis Toots USSR FORMALLY IN FLORIDA GALE 76 Negro Workers are Among Victims Latest reports coming here from the storm-stricken area in Florida indicates that the total death toll to date may reach the figure of 250. Verified reports, however. stated that 149 people were definitely known to be dead, and over 150 others injured. Of the dead only eleven have been identified. The other 138 remain unidentified. Seventy-six of the known dead are Negroes, who had been em- ployed on the fields in Florida previous to the disastrous storm. The hurricane, which is con- sidered now to be far more severe than that which hit Miami two years ago, is expected to hit New York City today or tmorrow. It is travelling northward at a tre- mendous speed. It is thought, however, that most of the force of the storm will have spent it- self before it reaches New York. Pei A JACKSONVILLE, Fila., Sept. 18. —Sweeping north along the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, the hurricane which has been raging in Florida and the West Indies con- tion in its wake. Much éf its orig-| inal fury, however, seems to have | been spent and the storm is expect-| Horn of Big Boss Hoover (Special to the Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Sept. 18.—In a statement taken to be a confirma- tion of a secret agreement with the republican -presidential nominee, John L. Lewis, arch-wrecker of the miners’ union, today endorsed ‘the hypocritical labor address made by Herbert Hoover et Newark yester- day. i It is genreally believed that Lewis is slated for a fat job from the re- publican administration of Andrew Mellon for whom he has just broken the miners’ strike. In some quar- ters it is stated that Lewis may be- come secretary of labor under | Hoover should the latter be elected. | * * #* Endorses Open Shop Candidates. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Sept. 18. (U.P).—“Herbert Hoover penetrates ROCEPTS TREATY Ratifies Kellogg Pact With Sharp Criticism MOSCOW, Sept. 17.—The resolu- tion passed by the Praesidium of the Central Executive Committee, ac- cepting the Kellogg pact, while severely. criticizing it and condemn- ing the British and French reserva- tions, amounts, to formal ratification of the treaty, according to a state- ment issued today by Tass, official news agency. | The resolution was passed by the Praesidium between sessions of the Central ‘Executive Committee and according to the constitutior is valid. SMITH TRIES TO TO DEFY WKASE OUTLAWING RED DRIVE SPEAKERS Martins Ferry Mayor Tries to Ban Nearing Jingoes Back Move “Free Sneech But Not for Communists” WHEELING. W. Va.. Sept. 18.— The vresent citv administration of Martins Ferry living up to the precedents set bv all former admin- istrations of that trust owned town. The present flunkey of the steel trust, Mavor Duff. has issued a ukase prohibiting Communist cam- paien meetings. When approached for a permit to hold a meeting at which Scott Nearing was scheduled to speak on Oct. 14, the mayor said: “Neither Seott Nearing nor any other Com- munist can speak in Martins Ferry as long as I am mayor of the city.” It was explained to the mayor, who had prohibited a Sacco-Van- is zetti meeting and arrested scores of workers when they attempted to hold it, that the Workers (Commun- ist) Party was on the ballot in Ohio and was as legal as the democratic or republican parties. “Don’t you believe in free speech?” he was asked. “Yes, I believe in free speech,” was his reply, “for the other par- ties and their candidates but not for the Communist Party.” The police chief of this steel cor |poration city has notified all hall- ‘owners to refuse to rent their halls to all “reds.” Meetings of miners the International Labor Defense and) other workers’ meetings are branded as a “menace to public safety” and prohibited. The chief of police, Muhleman also promised that if Scott Near- ing were to appear in the city he would get a “reception” from the | police. When it was made public that the Nearing meeting was to be held in spite of the orders of the mayor jand the police, organizations like ‘the Junior Mechanics, a group of strong 100 per centers, sent resolu-| tions to the mayor and to the police} commending them on their work of “clearing the city of reds.” | |to the very heart of America’s in- \dustrial and “economic problems! | when he declares for full and stable | employment for the workers of the| nation,” John L. Lewis, president | FOOL MID-WEST of the United Mine Workers of| Opens the Presidential America, declared today in com- | Drive in Omaha menting on the republican presi- dential nominees speech delivered] Maya. § | , Sept. 18—Just as Her- int Nerorio Nias last night .|/bert Hoover, the republican candi- “His Newark address reveals his “Mother” Bloor, who has been touring the country for the new | miners’ union, reports that noth- ing can stop the march of the miners. ‘MOTHER’ BLOOR SURE OF VICTORY Says Nothing Can Stop March of Miners® Ella Reeve Bloor, “Mother” Bloor to the thousands of militants in the labor movement who have heard and seen her in action during the many years of her sacrifice for the working class, appeared at the of- fice of the Daily Worker yesterday with a stirring report of the con- vention just held at Pittsburgh for the formation of a new National Miners Union. “Say that in the face of the great- est sacrifices, in spite of hitherto | unbelievable terrorism, in spite of the united attacks of the police, the | Lewis gangsters, and the coal op-| erators, in spite of hunger, starva- tion and death itself the new miners union lives!” With these opening words, Mother Bloor, one of the charter members of the former United Mine Workers | jef America, who, with the develop- iment of the reveliion against Lewis, Continued on Page Three MINERS’ RELIEF intimate and comprehensive grasp of the economic factors which are an every-day concern of the average Holyoke, Florence, Leeds, Waltham, ed to pass out to sea over Cape Hat- | American,” Lewis said. Taunton, Forge Village, Salem, New Bedford, Fall River, Adams and Easthampton. A delegation of 56 workers will represent the 56 mills on strike ‘in New Bedford, fully demonstrating the overwhelming! support which the National Textile, Mill Committees has among the| workers there. Twenty-five workers) from Fall River will represent that center, proving that the American Federation of Textile Operatives,| which organized only a handful of | skilled workers there, and betrayed | even these few, has no hold upon the workers of Fall River. Pennsylvania will send delegates, from Philadelphia, Chester, Easton Allentown, Bethlehem, Wilkes- Barre, Scranton, Nanticoke, Old Forge, Edwardsville, Luzerne and| Reading. The industries represented from Pennsylvania wil be woolen and worsted, cotton, rayon, silk throwing, silk weaving, hosiery and| other knit goods and dyeing. Large Delegations. From New Jersey, delegations teras, N. C. Working class families, and poor | farmers are reported suffering the most. Their homes, poorly con- structed and often flimsy, have been swept down like houses of cards. | The total of deaths in Florida and) Continued on Page Three NEGROES JOIN WORKERS PARTY Election Drive Warmly | Greeted in Harlem The campaign activities of Har- | lem members of the Workers (Com- | munist) Party, with headquarters at |143 East 103rd Street, has procured | |many new members for the ranks | of the only working class party in HOOVER'S LIES TO SWELL RED RALLY Expect Workers to Fill “Central Opera House Hoover’s campaign in the east to win the workers over to the plat- form of the party of Big Business, opening with his Newark speech in which he fancifully fabricated facts and theories concerning American workers will have the net effect of considerably swelling the attend- ance at the first huge Communist campaign rally, to be held Sept. 28} at the Central Opera House, accord- ing to the District Campaign Com- mittee of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party. The candidates of the Workers date for president, tried to befuddle the wage-earners of the east with dishonest statistics and evasive | promises, so Al Smith, the Tam- many product who heads the demo- eratic ticket, tried to work a confi- dence game on the farmers of the middle-west by pretending to ap- prove the McNary-Haugen bill. In his opening speech of his presiden- tial campaign here tonight, Smith said in part: “As I read the McNary-Haugen bill, its fundamental purpose is to establish an effective control of the sale of exportable surplus with the cost imposed upon the commodity benefited. For that principle, the (democratic platform squarely stands, and for that principle I squarely stand. Mr. Hoover stands squarely opposed to this principle by which the farmer could get the benefit of the tariff. What remains of the McNary-Haugen bill is a mere matter of method, and I do not limit myself to the exact me- |chanics and methods embodied in | that bill. “Here is a cleancut issue, which the farmers and the voters of this country must decide. It remains but Workers are getting ready to ap- pear en masse at the Nearing meet- ing to test their right of free speech and assemblage, while the local press talks of an “October revolu- tion in Martins Ferry.” CLOAK CHAIRMEN ~ TO MEET TODAY | Sxecutive to Present ‘Vital Plans Shop chairmen and representa- tives in the New York cloak and dressmaking industry will meet in monthly conference here today to survey full month’s activitv in the organization drive to build a new union. The conference will be held in Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St., immediately after work. 7" Preliminary announcements frot the headouarters of the local body of the National Organization Com- mittee declare that special plans of vital significance to the workers in the country, according to A. Moreau, (Communist) Party who will speak| to work out the details by which campaign manager of the Harlem at the Central Opera House rally|the principle shall be put into ef- section. Especially among the Ne- | wil] expose the gross misstatements fect, and I have pledged myself t gro workers has the message of the| made by the republican candidate|name a non-partisan commission of class struggle found root. At every | as well as the democratic party’s|farm leaders and students of the will be present from Passaic, Pater- Continued on Page Three New York are to be considered to- ight. The N. Y. local of the N. 0. C. is the executive committee of the shops chairmens’ monthly confer- STANDING FIRM Police Fail to Stop Its Activities (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Sept. 18. — A third attempt to disrupt the Na- \tional Miners’ Relief Committee was defeated yesterday when the local district attorney failed after a per- sonal effort to secure a subpoena au- thorizing him to take over the hooks and records of the committee for jexamination before the Erie grand jury. Two similar attempts made follow- ing the illegal raid on the offices of the committee last Friday likewise had failed when federal judges held; that the demands of postal inspec- tors were too broad and failed to mention the specific charges against |the committee. Exposes Hand of Lewis. Alfred Wagenknecht, relief direc- tor of the committee, issued a state- ment yesterday in which he pointed to the evidence that the raid had been undertaken at the request of John L. Lewis, union wrecker of the former United Mine Workers. Wagenknecht’s statement follows in part: “In the name of the National Miners’ Relief Committee, I desire MASS PICKETING © IN NEW BEDFORD Paige Mill Attempt to) Open Is Resisted (Special to the Daily Worker) | NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. | 18.—While the mill barons, the A. F. of L. Textile Council chiefs, and their flocks of “mediators” are pol- luting the atmosphere with talks of “peace” and “settlements” on the basis of the Frieder speed-up sys- tem, the mill owners are showing definite signs of preparations for an offensive to “open strategic mills with the aid of strikebreakers and police. This is shown by the mar- shalling of scab forces to reopen the big Paige Mills. Following up their policy of warning away the strikers from Batty’s attempt to arrive at a sell- out settlement by granting the speed-up to the Mill owners, the Textile Workers’ Union of the Tex- tile Mill Committees are straining all their energies to resume mass picketing, which will prevent the owners of the Paige and other mills Continued on Page Three 8, | sro workers that the party of the | lers. one of the four open-air meetings, held weekly in Negro Harlem, some | Negro workers join the only party which welcomes all workers. | The firm, four-square stand taken by the Workers (Communist) Party |on the question of lynching, discrim- | ination ss shown in Jim Crow laws, | and segregation, has proven to Ne- proletariat is the party of all work- | cient number of signatures to en- tirely clean up all the districts, con- | gressional as weli as assembly, in| Continued cn Page Two | In a final drive to secure a suffi- | | claim of being the friend of labor and the socialist party treachery) against militant labor. G. 0. P. Glib Phrases. “The glib phrases of the repub- liean candidate, such as the ‘unpa- ralleled service to employes’ formed by the republican. party; ‘foundations of prosperity’; ‘no de- crease in daily wages’ and other such blatant contradictions to facts. | had very little effect on the ears of | those of the workers who suffered in the Passaic textile strike, or on the oil workers of Bayonne. How- ever, if aimed at those defunct and Continued on Page Two MINE MEET TOMORROW Pat Toohey Will Describe Miners’ Fight The revolt of 2,000 Illinois min- ers against the betrayal and vote- stealing of the Lewis-Fishwick ma- chind* will be graphically described by Pat Toohey, secretary of the new National Miners’ Union, at the Min- ers’ Solidarity Mass Meeting in Cen- tral Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., tomorrow evening. John Watt, formerly secre- tary of the Illinois sub-district where he was for many years in the forefront of the fight against the corrupt and traitorous bureaucracy, will also give an official report on the historic Pittsburgh convention, where 600 rank and file leaders from every mining state in the coun- try met and pledged themselves to build a new union that will organ- ize all of the nearly 1,000,000 coal diggers under an honest, fighting leadership. Other prominent militants of Continued on Page Three per- | |problem to work out these details.” Promises Another Investigation. In order to create the impression | that he is gravely concerned about the farm problem beyond the. in- veigling of the exploited and impov- \erished farmers to vote for him, |Smith promised to appoint such a |“non-partisan” commission as soon |as he is elected. “I shall make that appointment,” said Smith, “not when I take the oath of office, but as soon as I am elected.” He did not mention the real ques- ‘tion facing the farmers—the ques- tion of the disproportion between the price of their products and the cost of production. Nor did he pro- pose any relief from the deathly grasp of the mortgage bankers who keep the farm population .in a con- dition of servitude that is in many cases approaching peonage., lican program he, like all other can- \didates of the old parties, did not |refer to the Communist proposals for farm relief, which propose a moratorium on farm mortgages. The democratic politicians, with demonstrations, packed the auditor- ized a bunch of hoodlums on the outside at so much per head in or- der to create. the atmosphere of en- Continued on Page Two | Attacking Hoover and the repub-_ the aid of Tammany experts on fake | ium which holds 8,000, and mobil-| ences. The workers in the trade have |learnt to look forward to these con- ferences, where reports of the pro- gress of the union-building drive are recorded .and new plans for further work discussed. More sub- stantial inroads on the open shop conditions of the cloak and dress |trade have been made in the last month than have been reported as |the total of any one month's work isince these conferences began, it is | disclosed. \Section Three “Daily” | Agents Meet Tomorrow | The second conference of all Daily Worker agents of Section 3 will be ‘held tomorrow evening, immediately after work, 6:30 p. m. at 101 W. 27th Street. This conference has been called for the purpose of making the final | preparations for the Daily Worker- Freiheit Bazaar. All those who par- ticipated in the previous conference ‘are urged to attend this important | meeting. FIRE IN STRASBOURG. STRASBOURG, France, Sept. 18 | (UP).—Fire destroyed the docks |and burned stores of food valued at ,16.000,000 franes tonight. Coffee sugar and cereal stores were ruined. to state that Post Office Inspector, | George V. Craighead, acted far be- Continued on Page Three 11 Boys Murdered On Farm, Is Charge LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18 (UP) -—Belief that at least 11 smal] boys had been mistreated, murdered and buried on a farm was expressed to- | ret ven 360) PRISONERS STRIKE AS TO PROBE CRUELTY CHARGE 800 Stage All- Night De monstration to Protest Jail Conditions Warden Refuses Food to All in Effort to Quell Growing Protest BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 1 a night of rioting in which 800 The strike and uproar were 4 8 (U.P) —~More than 350 prison- |ers at the Maryland Penitentiary refused to work today, after are said to have joined. gainst the refusal of State Welfare Director Janney to order a public hearing on charges |of cruelty by officials and guards at the prison. in the night the prisoners, all¢— locked in their cells, screamed and shouted, rattled the steel bars, banged on metal walls and threw flaming wads of paper from cell doors facing the street. Starve Stzikers. The showdown came at 6:30 a. m. when the first morning bell rang. Warden Patrick Brady had an- nounced prisoners who refused to work would not eat and at 6:30) guards went through the tiers and| aroused all prisoners. Of 545 convicts in the west wing, 300 refused to go to the shops and remained in their cells. The re- mainder were allowed to march to the dining halls as usual, and were given breakfast. Then they were marched to the shops. In the east wing, 35 or 40 of the 311 men remained in their cells. In| the south wing, housing 260 men, 15 refused to work. Those who remained in the cells will go without food, Brady said, pending a decision by Janney on whether the men will be allowed to state their grievances publicly. Brady said it is possible the men in the cells have food supplies suf- ficient to last several days. Water is provided each in his cell. regarded as probable the men have Jhad a strike in mind for Severd days, and probably laid in provi: from the prison commissary. “If I had a place to confine 40 or 50 ef these men, I could end this outbreak in 10 minutes,” Brady said. The inhuman brutality with which prisoners are treated has led to a number of protest demonstrations |in various jails thruout the country. A number of prisoners were killed last year when they protested against barbarous treatment in Fol- som prison in California. SEATTLE LABOR HEARS FOSTER 1,200 Workers Attend Communist Meeting (Special to the Daily Worker) SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 18.— Twelve hundred workers last night packed the large hall of the Moose Temple to hear William Z. Foster, candidate for president of the United States on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket, present the platform It is of the party of the class struggle. | Foster was given a great ovation by the workers. They cheered re- peatedly as he brought up the dif- ferent points of the Communist platform. Workers and active trade unionists of the city attended the meeting in large numbers. The meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party candidate for president was about three times as large as that which was held under the auspices of the socialist party when Rev. Norman Thomas spoke. The Thomas meeting was attended by a small group composed mostly of middle class residents of Seattle. According to the Seattle Branch Continued on Page Three LIGHTNING KILLS BOY. NAPLES, Sept. 18 (U.R).—Giovan- night by Sheriff Sweeters of River-|ni Coppola, 9, was killed while side County, who is leading an in- vestigation into the story of San-| ford Clark, 15. watching a football lightning struck some wires nearby. game when telephone SPECIAL BAZAAR EVENT Novelties at | Children’s Day, October 6 Among the special features that | will make the great National Daily | Worker-Freiheit Bazaar at Madison |Square Garden an event without jequal will be Children’s Day, Satur- day, Oct. 6. Children’s Day will be held from 12 noon to 5 p. tm. and everything will be arranged to interest the chil- dren. For five hours the grown-ups | will have to content themselves with second place and the children will ‘reign supreme, \ Special booths are being planned for this day, where articles that will make any normal child’s mouth | water will be sold. Toys will, of course, be much in evidence and they | will be sold at prices that will an- | nihilate any hesitation that may | lurk in the minds of thrifty parents. | Novelty games and dramatic per- formances will also be arranged—_ all for the working class children, Arrangements for the bazaar are Continued on Page Three Soe nt tee eR rN RUD At intervals WORKERS STORM FOOD STORES IN FASCIST ITALY JYemonstrate Against Mussolini (Wireless to the Daily Worker) ITALIAN FRONTIER, Sept. 18.— Aroused by unemployment and the high cost of living discon- tented Italian workers are demon- strating against the fas -control- led unions and the fascist regime. Numerous demonstrations and at- tacks on government centers are re- ported. Demonstrations in the provinces of Emilia, Romagna, Ferra, Imola, Mo- linella and Forli have taken place. Other centers demonstrated against severe the useless fascist masons trade unions. The situation in Bologna is so severe that the workers proposed | storming the food stores. J The fascist leaders promise every- hing to soothe the movement but he workers have no confidence in them, At the Pisteja the police and fas- | cists tried to break up a demonstra- tion by attacking the workers fierce- ly. In spite of the fascist counter- attack the demonstrators charged the emergency MILLINERS HOLD PROTEST RALLY Demand End of Right Wing Terror court. Rank and file members of the Millinery Local 24 yesterday crowd- ed Bryant Hall in a protest meeting against the reactionary policies of their union officialdom, and con- demned unanimously in a resolution the provocation of a bloody attack on the membership at the last union meeting, because the militants there demanded the im- mediate passage of measures for unemployment relief. Workers beaten up at the last membership meeting rose to speak from the rostrum and tell how their demands for an unemployment re- lief fund for the ever growing circle of jobless millinery workers was answered by the officials with an attack on: those leading the fight from the floor of the meeting. Mor- ris Fein, Milton Weich, Victor Chi- bulsky, M. Eitzer and Eva Schaf- fran spoke at the meeting. Attack Misleaders. The last to speak before passage of the resolution was H. Zukowsky. leader of the left wing workers in the union. After pointing out that the last three years in the industry were the most prosperous in the trade, and therefore a time when better conditions can be fought for and easily won, Zukowsky declared that the leadership of the union had not only not won any improvements in working standards but had al lowed the trade to develop the con- tracting system and other evils which were ruining the industry and causing severe unemployment. In proof of this contention he of- fered the fact that the workers won with comparative ease the conces- sion of shorter hours after their officials were ready to give up these demands. Zaritsky, president of the International, has always been and still is openly propagating the re- turn to the 44-hour week and the bureaucrats’ | piece-work system, he stated. 2 TRAIN WORKERS KILLED. COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 18 (UP). --The engineer and fireman of train 2, Carolina and Northwestern Railway, were believed buried under the locomotive and tender of the train when it ran into a wash due to the hurricane, near Suxter.