The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1928, Page 2

age Two MASSACHUSETTS NEW HAMPSHIRE SWELL BIG TOTAL New England Workers Overcome Obstacles rial states New the Communist Hamp 1 mu nine, m ampaign of 1924 now on the ballot in sachuse i New New Jersey, Dela ware, Per ia, West Virginia Ohio, Mic and, Illinois Kentucky, nessee, Texas, New Mexico, Nebraska, Arizona rkansas and y the goal i set by the Natic Election nittee certain to be ability t states wi the time reached the Obstacles. Jn Mascachusetts and New Hamp- shire, the workers had heavy ob- Overcome the election stacles to overcom machinery in several important cities being in the hands of the agents of the mill barons who took tare of every technicality to prevent the y from getting on the ballot. The success of the Work- ers (Com: ist) Party in Ne ng- land was due in a g the prestige gained t the activ ity in the great textile strike in Néw Bedford and Fall River. While thie socialist y is lined up with} the labor bureaucrats who are be- traying the strike to the textile; barons, and fighting the militant Textile Mills Committee with the aid of the police, the Communists are not only fighting the employers but the city and state governments as well as the reactionary labor leaders. The only New England states on the Communist ballot in the last elections were Massachusetts and Rhode Island leave only two states out, Vermont and Maine where there is yet no Communist| organization to speak of. Want Worker-Organizers. Another important election cam- paign development is the inaugura- tion of a drive for 1,000 rank and} file organi to go out into the small industrial cities thruout the country, spreading Communist pro-| paganda and organizing Party units.| Every available vehicle will be} mustered into action to bring the workers from place to place. The} National Office of the Pa will supply the necessary material, litera- ture, viption blanks for Party papers and membership cards. | Workers who speak any of the| foreign languages will work among) the workers of that particular lan | guage. There are hundreds of thous ands of foreign-language-speaking workers in heavy industry, and where ther: no Communist organ- ization they are at the mercy of the employ who use bourgeois politicians of foreign birth or de- seent to keep them tied to the cap italist political chariot Plan Extensive Drive. Women’s organizations, youth or- ganizations and Negro organizations will be pressed into service. This is the greatest organizing plan ever conceived and executed by the Work- ers (Communist) Party and if the tank and file respond as they are expected to, it will build the Party ip sections where the Communist ihessage never penetrated before and will develop hundreds of workers for leading functions in the Party The Communist election campaign is now in full swing. Foster and Gitlow are now speaking in the jorthwest. They are met by enthu- lastic gatherings of workers in every city and each meeting brings in many news members to the Party. Organizers busy throughout the country, doing the necessary work to place the Party ticket on the ballots in the various states. The Negro campaign is making great headway in New York City where great mass meetings are held weekly with Comrades Moore, Welsh <and other Negro leaders exposing the role of the republican, dem- oeratic and socialist parties as tools of big and small business, pointing out that the two big capitalist parties have sanctioned the lynching of Negroes in the south and the many discriminations practiced on them in federal and state institu- tions by both parties. The socialist party, tho pretending not to draw the color line refuses to help in the organization of the Negro masses for a struggle against capitalism. The Workers (Communist) Party alone, as our Negro comrades point out to their people, is the only party that has the program that means freedom for black and white work- ers. are BERLIN, Sept, 18.—The Swedish municipal workers officials have de- cided to break all relations with the Soviet municipal workers, according to a report issued by the Interna- tional Federation of Trade Unions from Amsterdam. The Swetlish rank and file have prain and again demonstrated their | yillineness to co-operate with the _ yorkers of the Soviet Union + Workers (Com MUNIS t Wall When Herbert Hoover arriv were present to greet him were o’cloek Monday G. yed in Newark at 7 a group of Jersey THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, W Newark Politicians O. P. politicians, less than 200 in DNESDAY, SEPT. 1», 1 arty on Ballot in 23 States; Expect 15 More in Six Weeks WORKERS PARTY ARRANGES WEEKS OPEN AIR MEETS Topic The Workers (Communist) Party | evening, the only people t ! has arranged the following open-air | who number At the Essex Armory, later in the evening, he delivered his bombast'c spiel on “prosperity” in the meetings for the current week. at | United States, while hundreds of unemployed New workers listened. While the speech was in which the subdject will be “Negro | progress, members of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers (Communist) Problemes and. ie Siscveny canta League distributed over 10,000 leaflets to the workers of the industrial city. paign.” All speakers must get bul- | WORKERS SCHOOL OPENS FALL TERM The Workers School of New York City, the biggest labor school in the United will begin fall term October 1 at its new headquar- 26-28 Union Square, with classes in English, Trade Unionism, Labor Problems, Speaking, His- Imperial. Communism and Marxian The- Among the instructors sche- States, its 1 ory. duled to give courses are: Jay Love- stone, William Z. Foster, Bertram D. Wolfe, Max Bedacht, Benjamin Gitlow, William W. Weinstone, M. J. Olgin, Scott Nearing, Robert Min- or, D. Benj in, Joseph Freeman, Beatrice Becker, J. Mindel, A. Mark- off, Juliet S. Poyntz, A. Trachten- berg, John J. Ballam, Ray Ragozin, Joseph Brodsky, William F. Dunne, A. Bittelman, Will Herberg, Robert Dunr Michael Gold. Classes will be given every eve- ning from 7 to 8:20 p. m. and from 8:30 to 9:50 p. m. and on Saturday afternoons. Registration for classes is now going ‘on. Plans are under way to take care of the largest registration in the history of the school. From pres- ent indications it appears that over 2,500 workers will study at the Workers School in order to prepare themselves for more effective work in the labor movement. This will practically double the record regis- tration of last fall when over 1,300 workers enrolled for courses in the school to train themselves for the class struggle. The school is now situated at 26- 28 Union Square, where it occupies }the sixth floor, comprising 12 rooms. | For more detailed information write to the Workers School for free cata- log or phone Stuyvesant 7770. HOOVER'S LIES TO SWELL RED RALLY Expect Workers to Fill Central Onera House Continued from Page One imaginative workers whose ficti- tious names are used by the demo- eratie and republican machines of Jersey every year to ‘vote’ ckets, his speech may have been effec Workers’ Party Platform. Contrasted with the rotound phrases used by the capitalist poli- ticlans in an attempt to drag the wool over the workers’ eyes every election, is the concrete platform and demands of the Workers (Com- munist) Party in this as in every election campaign. Specific de- mands are made by the Workers Party on unemployment, the right to strike, social legislation, traction. housing, schools, youth and child labor, Negroes, farmers—in short every social, economic and political matter which at all touches the lives | of the millions of workers, is treated by the Workers (Communist) Party OCTOBER 1 NEGROES JOIN WORKERS PARTY Election Drive Warmly | Greeted in Harlem Continued from Page One Harlem, another Red Sunday will be held there September 23. Accord- ing to M. Nemser, section organizer, Harlem will be entirely through with its signature drive by the beginning ef next week, after which the Har- lem members will pitch in and help other sections. Another feature of the election campa'gn work in Harlem which has met with good results is the noon- day meetings held weekly at the} yards of the Interborough Rapid} Transit and New York Railways companies, at 99th St. and Lexing- ton Ave. One such meeting will be held there today, with John Sher- man, of the Daily Worker, as chief speaker. Many successful distribu- tions of Communist literature have been made among the I. R. T. em- ployes, whose ranks are filled with company spies to detect any irclina- | tion toward honest, militant union- ism among them. | Besides speaking on the platform | of the Workers (Communist) Party | in the election campaign, Sherman will discuss organization problems. aan we Distribute 1,000 “Dailys.” | The election campaign.in Harlem jduring Negro Week was opened Monday evening with a mass dis- tribution of 1,000 copies of the special Negro edition of the Daily Worker. The workers who participated in the distribution were gratified b: the friendly response from the } gro workers, who welcomed receiv- ing a copy of a daily newspaper which openly proclaimed its solidar- ity with them and fought against | the exploiters of Negro labor. Lower Harlem is having a dis- tribution tonight, starting from its headquarters at 143 E. 103rd St. The canvass committee elected for this very important election and press activity should appear at headquarters not later than 6:30 p. m. - | in its platform, not fromthe view-| point of the “good of the people” but from that of the good of the workers. Workers of New York and vicin- ity are urged to come early as the! rally will begin promptly at the scheduled time. The doors of the Central Opera House will be open at} 7 p. m. on Friday, Sept. 28. Dele-| gates from various trades in the city are expected to come in a body | organized evidence of the support of the only working class party on the political field by all progressive workers. Who wins when you read your bosses’ paper? SHE CHIDES STRIKERS Washington “Lady” Won’t Aid Relies Fred Biedenkapp, national secre- tary of the Workers International Relief, 1 Union Square, yesterday revealed a letter from Katharine W. Fisher, 21 First Si Washington, C., which the relief secretary characterized as an evidence of “the sour-milk of human kindness.” The letter, which follows in full, was in reply to appeal for funds sent out by the relief organization last week. “Disapproves” of Strikes. “I do not doubt,” Miss Fisher writes, “that conditions are bad in New Bedford, but I so disapprove of strikes as a method for attempt- jing to remedy them that even if I did have money to spare I should not contribute it. | “How can anyone expect to cure conditions in the cotton textile in- | {dustry of New England by the an- | cient method of the strike? People must be fed, of course, but why not let them work. “I would much more be likely to give a dollar for a child whose father is working than to one whose | father is striking. Please remove my name from your mailing list.” Strikers Will Stick. In commenting on the letter Bie- \denkapp said: “I know that a thou- sand workers will give the lie ‘to Miss Fisher’s letter by sending money to help us feed the 30,000 heroic strikers, men, women and children, who are valiantly with- standing the New England mill- barons. And I know that the New Redford and Fall River strikers will give the lie to her by remaining on strike until they have won their just demands.” ACTI 26-28 U | Shoe jones who suffered most of the abuse VE PRESS, Inc. NEW YORK CITY letins at the district Agitprop De- | partment: Wednesday, ‘Sept. 19. Second Ave. and Tenth St., N. Y.| C.—Hendin, Sumner, Alkin, Acker- man, Schatzkamer (Pioneer). | Union Square, N. Y, C.—Bieden- kapp, Alex. Gussakoff, Ross, Cap- lan. Wilkins and Intervale, Bronx—} Raum, Blake, Kagan, H. Eisman| (Pioneer). | Fleet St. and Flatbush Ext., | Brooklyn—Powers, Vera Bush, Mc- | Donald, Rosemond. SHOE WORKERS — MEET THURSDAY Call Lasters, Heélers to Brooklyn Hall The drive to organize New York’s thousands of shoe workers began’ Ninety-ninth St. and Lexington slowly and is now gathering force Ave., N. Y—John Sherman, Charles as the union announces mass meet-} Wilson (Y. W. L.). | ings for the workers, the great ma-| Seventh Ave. and 11st St., N. Y.| jority of whom are unorganized.|C.—R. B. Moore, M. Yusem, Alex- Arion Temple, 21 Arion Place,|ander, Donaldson. Brooklyn, will be the scene of a| Seventh Ave. and 137st St., N. Y- mass meeting tomorrow at 8 p. m.|C.—Markoff, Ed. Welsh, Grace to which all lasters and wood heel-|I.amb, M. Himoff (Pioneer). ers in Brooklyn have been called for Passaic, N. J.—Vern Smith, Ewe- the purpose of launching an organ-|\vn Blacker, Ida Starr. izational drive in these important Thursday, Sept. 20. gata One Hundred and Thirty-eighth | In a call issued to these workers, St- and St. Ann’s Ave., Bronx——Nes- the president of the Independent 87; Padgug, Harfeld, Leo Margolis, Workers’ Union of Greater | Malliken (Pioneer). New York and:its managing organ-| , Fortieth St. and Eighth Ave., N. izer, J. Magliiacano, declare: YC. Ata leky, P9et,, BYGSTIRE Since the bostes have been hav-| , TWenty-fifth St. an¢ Mermaid | ing a free hand our prices and con- Ave» C: 1-—Shapiro, I. Zimmerman, ditions have been reduced to those | Midolla, H- Gold (Pioneer), of slavery days and they will surely |, st™rey, ang Jamaica Avo. ae ree : oria, L. I—Schachtman, Powers, continue to be reduced unless some- thin an hed z Vera Bush, Heder. ig will be done to stop it. |. Jefferson and Henry St., N. Y— “The cause for these conditions is | Joe Cohen, Silber. only due to the fact that while the) Stone and Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn bosses have been united we re-| —Ben Lifshitz, Pasternack, Julius mained divided and while the bosses|Cohen, Mershon, S. Finkelstein have taken advantage of the situa-| (Pionzer). tion, we have done nothing to put; Two Hundred and Nineteenth St. | a stop to their attempt to reduce us;and White Plains Ave—Ben Gold, | to virtual slavery, | 8. Wortis, Weich. Spiro, Severino. | “The time has now come that we|_ One Hundred and Sixth St. and must begin to consider ways of im-| Sumner, C. Nope Gee at proving the deplorable conditions \ Bert: Milley, L: Dake. under which we are working. : | “The Independent Shoe Workers’| . Clinton St. and East Broadway, | Union of Greater New : York has|N: ¥.—Joe Cohen, Silber, “Shate- 4 |kamer (Pioneer). been recently organized by the rank| ae ile aud ie Ue GIS a eat | aves Auand: TEhCSts (NeW: and file and is the only organization | a Tn f which is interested in organizing the |¥tank, Suskin, Goliger (chairman). | shoe workers of Greater New York. | Saturday, Sept. 22. Realizing that you lasters and, First Ave. and 116th St. (Italian) | wood-heelers make up the most im- | | | FOSTER-GITLOW TO William Z. Foster, Workers (Communist) Party candidate for president, and Benjamin Gitlow, vice presidential candi- date, are now on the first lap of a nation-wide speaking tour | which will bring them into every important city in the United Negro and Elections Is) States, winding up with a monster mass meeting in Madison [owa State School. Got Square Garden, New York City, on November 4. 19, Wednesday, Sept. Ore., Swiss Hall, 283% Third St. Friday, Sept. 21, San Fréncisco,| Ave. and Ist St. Calif. Civic Auditorium, San Fran-| | Thursday, Sept. 20, Virginia, cisco. [ea Small Auditorium, City all. Portland, Wednesday, Sept. 19, Duluth, Minn., Woodman Hall, corner 21st Sunday, Sept, 23, Los Angeles, Calif, Whiting Woods, Rosemont,| Saturday, Sept. 22, Bismarck, N. Calif, |Dak. Paterson Hall at McKenzie | Tuntday, Rept: 2esalt Lace Giky [HOD ae Main 8k Frege lilt alt Lake City,| “sunday, Sept. 23, Belden, N. D. Utah, W. O. W. . Ww. | . 6 ae eh remnls arrangements to be an- St., 2nd floor. | Final | nounced. Thursday, Sept. 27, Denver, Colo.) Monday, Sept. 24, Plentywood seen Hall, 20th & Lenin: pane Rereer Labor ecitile, ‘Plen. Xd tywood. Friday, Sept. 28, Omaha, Neb. Wednesday, Sept. 26, Great Falls, Son Theatre, 14th & Farnam Sts. |Mont. Final arrangements to be Saturday, Sept. 29, Kansas City, } announced. Mo. Musicians Auditorium, 1017| Friday, Sept. 28, Spokane, Wash. Washington St. | Final arrangements to be an- Sunday, Sept. 30, Chicago, Ill, | nounced. Final an-|__ Sunday, Sept. 30, Seattle, Wash. arrangements to be sd nounced. pees serangcments to be an- Monday, Oct. 1, St. Louis, Mo.) "°ynce: Final arrangements to be ate ieee Oct. 1, Portland, Ore. noiidads | Final arrangements to be an- | nounced. Wednesday, Oct. 3, Indianapolis,} ‘Tuesday, Oct. 2, Astoria, Ore. |Ind. Fina] arrangements to be an-| Final arrangements to be an. nounced. | nounced. Thursday, Oct. 4, Cincinnati, 0.| Thursday, Oct. 4, Oakland, Calif. Final arrangements to be an-|Final arrangements to be an- nounced. nounced. —Auerbach, Rolfe, Napoli, Maglia- cano. | * |Power Gang Hearing First Ave. and 79th St.—G. Lloyd, | ivitih Moreaic, Alexander, Lustig, J. Ro- Shows New Activities sen (Pioneer). | WASHING’ Walk, Neos Work. New Uereas | TON, Sept. 18 (U.R).— (14th St. -and Bergenline Ave.)— | Resuming its investigation of pro- Markoff, C. Martin. | Paganda activities of public utilities, Pert. Amboy, N. J. (308 Elm St.) |the Federal Trade Commission to- —Edward Wright, Covatez. day discovered new efforts to sway hae ae J—-D. Benjamin, R. public opinion in Iowa, Canada, and . New Jersey. Bryant Ave. and 174th St., Bronx —Chas. Zimmerman, Padgug, G.| In Iowa, it was developed, utilities ee Severino, R. Yukelson (Pio- | enlisted the State University and neer). ‘ ; oe Madinen Ave iien O68 Ct the ebb College in their publicity Green, Williams, Kagan. campaign. Correspondence showed Friday, Sept. 21. authorities of both institutions were National Biscuit Co. (Noon)—|friendly to utilities and were anx- Grecht, Ross, B. Gussakoff. ious to aid in their development “in Bristol and Pitkin, Brooklyn—| any way possible.” Ragozin, Baum, Julius Cohen, L. lyn—Primoff, Chernenko, Rosemond, Wellman (Pioneer). Fiftieth St. and Fifth Ave., Brook- lyn—DeLeon, V. Smith, McDonald. Mikell (Pioneer). Fifth Ave. and 110th St. N. Y. C.—M. Taft, Grace Lamb, Jessie Taft, Gamilla, Lyons. Varet and Graham Ave., Brook- GITLOW: TOUR | Market Plaza, Newark, N. J.—M. | UR DATES COLLEGE BRIBED BY OFFICIALS OF POWER TRUST $15,000 WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (UP). —A campaign of Iowa utilities in- terests to retard a movement for municipally-owned power plants in that state was described today as the Federal Trade Commission re- |sumed its investigation of the power | industry. Municipalities where the senti- ment in favor of a publicly-owned plant was strong were circularized with literature designed to persuade citizens against taking such a step, \H. P. Weeks, director of the Iowa section of the National Electric Light Association, testified. In addition, Weeks said, his or- ganization distributd 165 copies of a utilities propaganda magazine each month among. members of the Towa state legislature. Total payments of $15,000 to Iowa State College since 1925 were revealed by other checks placed in the record. The payments averaged ehout $3,500 annually and were imade, Weeks explained, in connec- tion with research into rural power | development. Revenues of his association, | Weeks said, were derived from | Iowa utilities and from the National |EFlectrie Light Association. | A joint legislative committee is jmaintained by Iowa utilities to guard their interests at sessions of the state legislature, Weeks testi- fied. He said the committee rep- sented electric power and railway companies. | 'Brownsville in Final | Drive for Signatures | With the finish of the signature drive in the twenty-third assembly |district of Brownsville, the mem- | bers of Section 8 of the Workers |(Communist) Party are concentrat+ jing all their forces in the twenty- |second assembly district during the last two weeks of the drive. | . According to R. Macklin, cam- paign director of the Brownsville | section, the total number of signa- |tures to be obtained in the 22nd |A. D. will be safely tucked away |in- the safe of the District Office before the drive officially ends, on the last day of September. | All members of Sections 2 and 3 |who live in Brownsville are urged | to report in Brownsville for the sig- nature drive every evening. portant crafts in the trade and the of the bosses, it is therefore calliing | you to this meeting.” SMITH TRIES TO 1,000,000 Articles FOOL MID-WEST Continued from Page One BIG NIGHTS thusiasm. For days the democratic ward-heelers and other professional | politicians who are for sale to the highest bidder have been busy, rounding up a gang to stage the] Smith demonstration. Money for the purpose was plentiful; probably | supplied from the coffers of Mr. Raskob and other members of the House of Morgan oligarchy. At certain obvious and specific signs this corralled aggregation of bought and paid for claquers would stage an imitation Tammany Hall outburst. This menagerie the re- porters of the capitalist press called a “farmer audience.” Avoided “Equalization Fee.” Smith then concluded his speech, which was lengthy and detailed, with his statement upon the McNary- Haugen Bill, which has as the prin-| cipal part of its machinery the much discussed equalization fee. | The fee was not mentioned by the governor. Farm relief leaders call} it “the heart” off the measure. He merely left this question open by saying he is not limited by the bill’s | mechanics, | FLIES ACROSS CHANNEL. PARIS, Sept. 18 (U.P)—The span- ish inventor, La Cierva, completed a flight across the English channel from London to Paris today in his autogiro plane, a helicopter, Daily EVERYTHING FROM A THREAD TO A SET OF FURNITURE at ¥ Price FREIHEIT THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY O BIG NIGHTS BAZAAR Madison Square Garden CTOBER 4TH 5TH 6TH fe i 5 | NION SQUARE BIG DAYS DO NOT BUY NOW, WAIT TILL THE BAZAAR BIG DAYS —