The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 20, 1928, Page 1

WATT THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR FOR A WORKERS’ A: GOVERN PARTY ND FARMERS’ MENT AND TOOHEY WILL ily Matered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. Pub. Vol. V., No. 223 lished daily except Sunda by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. 928, under the act of March 3, 1878. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1 Outside New York, by mail, $6,00 per year. mail, $8.00 per year. NEW BEDFORD POLICE USE WILL TELL STORY OF MINERS’ UNION AT MEET TONIGHT Central Opera House Will Be Scene of Rally Gold, Bloor Will Speak | Leaders to Describe| Heroic Struggle More than 3,000 workers are ex- pected to crowd Central House, 67th St. and Third Ave., to- night to hear John Watt, president, | and Pat Toohey, secretary-treasurer | of the new National Miners’ Union, | give an official, first-hand report of | the epoch-making convention held in Pittsburgh last week. j To Describe Struggle. Both Watt and Toohey have been in the forefront of the miners’ struggles and their speeches will cover every phase of the coal dig-| The bitter 17-| gers’ great fight. months’ strike in which the work- ers had to combat the black alliance of the bosses, the police and the cor- tupt, reactionary Lewis machine, the attack on the Pittsburgh con-} vention by 200 paid thugs of the! Lewis bureaucracy, the desperate struggle of thousands of miners and their families against starva- tion, eviction and disease and many other dramatic episodes of the dig- gers’ heroic fight will be described by the two outstanding leaders of the new National Miners’ Union. The solidarity of the rest of the American working class with the fighting miners will be emphasized by other militant workers’ leaders at the meeting. Among the speak- ers will be Ben Gold, general or- ganizer, Joint Board, Furriers’ Union; Hyman Koretz, general man- ager, organization department, Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union; Gladys Schechter, organizer, Millin- ery Workers’ Union; Martin Abern, assistant national secretary, Inter- national Labor Defense; Harold Williams, secretary of the Negro Committee for Miners’ Relief and speakers from the Youth Confer- ence for Miners’ Relief and the Chil- dren’s Relief Scout Groups. “Mother” Bloor, veteran of many labor battles, who “has just returned from organization work in Indiana for the new union, will also be one of the main speakers. FOOD WORKERS ELECTION RALLY Members of the Grocery, Fruit and Dairy Clerks and of the Hebrew Butchers’ Unions, who have bitterly fought the reactionary policies of the Socialist-controlled United Hebrew Trades Council, are mobil- izing for the Food Workers’ Elec- tion Rally to be held Friday night, Sept. 21, 8 p. m., at the Manhattan | Lyceum, 66 East 4th Street. The mass meeting is called by the Food Workers’ Section of the Trade Union Educational League, so that} all food workers may hear the issues of the presidential campaign ex- pounded by the only workingclass party in the country, the Workers) (Communist) Party. speakers will be John J. Ballam, ac- ting district organizer for the Work- ers’ Party, New York, and prom- Continued on Page Five FUR UNION DUES | DRIVE BROADENS As the organization drive to, build up the new union of fur workers here gathers impetus, and as the Joint Board gains greater control of the industry here, surer measures are being resorted to in getting the masses of workers to join the union again and become good standing dues paying members. A letter il- lustrating the new spirit that has entered in the campaign to ov@j- come the open-shop conditions that still largely exist in the fur trade due to the destructive war carried on the last years by the A. F. of L. scab union was yesterday sent to all Conttened on Page Two |Taking the High Opera | | Helgensen, Swedish worker-at: the high jump event at the wor' Sports Meet hlete, making the leap that won ld labor sports meet in Moscow several weeks ago., Thousands of workers participated in the Sparta- MINE REVOLT WILL ®@ GIVES OUT FALSE. INFORMATION ON SIGNATURE DRWE Amter Brands Move as ¥rame-up Against Militants Oehler Case Up Monday Organize for Fight on) Syndicalist Law (Sneciol to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Sept. 19.—Delib- erately maneuvering to keep the Workers (Communist) Party off the ballot in Ohio, officials of the state today stated that only seven thou- sand signatures had been submitted lin the drive to place the Communist | |Party on the ballot in this state. - | | The Cleveland district of the! |Party which has directed the state | |campaign through I. Amter, district | organizer, today branded as the |move as an obvious fraud. Amter [pointed to the fact that he held in \his possession a receipt signed by the secretary of state for Ohio for 19.000 signatures. The time for offering any objec- tions to the placing of any parties Why Hundreds Perished In Hurricane Hundreds of Porto Rico pea houses like this, perished when the hurricane swept over the island. These tiny hovels, in which Wall Si could not witstand the storm. sants, living in little match-box treet houses its Porto Rican serfs, “LIBERAL” EDITOR IN PAY OF POWER TRUST 500 ARE DEAD IN FLORIDA STORM 80-Mile Gale Hits New York (By United Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—Pay- ment of $500 to William Allen White, famed Kansas editor, by the National Electric Light Association for a speech, was revealed today in the federal trade commission’s in- vestigation of the power industry. White received this sum on Ma 20, 1926, it was said, as compensa- tion for delivering a speech at the GUNS AND CLUBS ON PICKETS as Wave of Indignati Sept. 19.— large deta¢hment of armed with riot guns, tear bombs and gas masks, broke into the — The strike of 2,000 Illinois miners | against the fake ratification of their POLICE GAS FIVE betrayal by the Fishwick machine is only the first step in a strike movement that will spread to every) IN PRIS KE section of the Illinois field, declared | John Watt, president of the new| National Miners’ Union, in an ex-| Serer glusive interview yesterday with a| Men Defy Riot Guns, | representative of the Daily Worker. | "Sitting in the office of the Ne- Tear Bombs tional Miners’ Relief Commitee, 799 — Broadway, Watt, gray-haired- and) BALTIMORE, Md., lanky, talked enthusiastically of the prospects of the new union. He had come to New York to attend the | great solidarity mass meeting to be |held tonight at Central Opera ranting House, 67th St. and Third Ave., Maryland penitentiary, more than | where he and Pat Toohey, secre-| 400 prisoners continued their demon- | tary of the new union, will be the stration against brutal prison con- jchief speakers, — | ditions and the continued refusal of |, Strike Will Spread. the state authorities to investigate Deere oe fone not in| Prison conditions. Five men were | our union, but have remained, in the gassed by the Police, |old United Mine Workers is of the, Fighting against the greatest significance. This spontan-|#tmed detachments of police who at- |eous revolt, starting in Springfield, tempted to club them into submis-| | sion, the half-starved prisoners | Continued on Page Two SPREAD, SAYS WATT on the ballot has long since expired, SEBRING, Fla., Sept. 19.—Condi- Amter further pointed out. That the tions resulting from Sunday’s hur- present move by the representatives ricane are almost indescribable along of the big boss parties is a newly ar-| the upper shores of Lake Okeecho- | ranged frame-up is indicated by the bee. Barricading themselves against al police who, | ler, \in an order for cuts of the election emblems indicating that the Work- ers (Communist) Party would be in- cluded in the elections. An issue will be made of the case, it was announced, and every effort will be made to secure a reversal of into the hands of the attorneys who are now handling it. The hearing against Hugo Oeh- District Organizer, Workers Continued on Page Three | HOT DOGS’ AT ‘DAILY’ BAZAAR the heavily Knit Goods Workers to Have Booth fact that the state had already put) the decision. The case has been put | Suffering and death are every- | where. It is probable that several hundred lives have been lost in the devastated communities about the| lake. Weeks will be needed to de-| terminne accurately the number of dead and injured, so deep is the | debris and wreckage. Colonel L. S. Lowry, Florida Na- tional Guard, in charge of relief work in the Okeechobee area, estim- ated after a survey that “the hur- ricane death list may reach 500.” Because of scarcity of food, shel- ter, clothing and medical supplies suffering is intense. Sanitary conditions are alarming. | The stench from hundreds of dead ‘cattle, horses and other animals is| unbearable. . * * Whipping a cold stinging rain before it, a gale, rising gradually from 20 to 80 miles an hour swept New York City and the entire east- ern seaboard yesterday and gave shivering New Yorkers a mild taste of the Florida hurricane. during an examination of A. Jack- son Marshall, secretary of the N. E. L, A. Marshall testified that Harvard received $30,000 annually from the association as a contribu- tion toward research work in utility problems. Checks showing total payments of $30,000 to Northwestern Univer. sity were also placed in the record. SHOW GROWTH OF NEW CLOAK UNION Chairmen Parley Plans Further Progress Reports of remarkable progress, backed up by totals and names of shops, and a spirited discussion from the floor of the meeting, that fin- its different sections which are fighting similar battles today against corrupt leadership in the unions as well as against the at- tacks of the emplcyers. The we jers of New York City are invited |to attend the convention, the first |session of which will open promptly at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Sept. 22, at Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. land 15th St. The convention will be in session all Saturday afternoon and evening; it will open again at Continued on Page Five “Hot Dogs” will blossom in great ished with the adoption of plans of | NANKING SPLIT THREATENS WAR 600,000 Troops Ready, Reported Canton groups and war-lords will attempt to gain power, by institu- ting their own government in Pek- ing, is reported here. barricaded themselves into their cells and attempted to ward off the police attack. Plant Sharpshooters. | | Sharpshooters have been placed | at vantage points in the jail in order |to shoot down leaders of the demon- \stration if the police are unable to | quell it by use of gas and clubs. | The demonstration which began yesterday was renewed this morn- |ing when gongs summoned the men | SHANGHAI, Sept. 19.—A break | to work. jin the coalition Nanking govern-| ment, in which the Kuangsi and) Ignore Ritchie's Order. to severely punish them unless or- det was restored, the men refused to go to work and resumed their demon- stration. Attempts on the part of Ignoring Governor Ritchie’s threat | profusion at the Daily Worker- Freiheit Bazaar at Madison Square Garden Oct. 4, 5, 6 and 7. The deli- catessen clerks whose “hot dog” stand at last year’s bazaar was one of the most popular features of the event intend to outdo themselves | this year. Not only “hot dogs,” but corned beef, bologna, salami and similar flora will be marshalled in large quantities to stop the hunger of the thousands of workers that will crowd Madison Square Garden dur- ling the four days of the Bazaar. | Other organizations are also mak- ing plans for the great proletarian bazaar. The knit goods workers will have a booth where all sorts of knitted articles, sweaters, mufflers, Signs were torn down, windows | work for immediate execution, were broken and trees uprooted by the|the outstanding features of a | gale which was described as being crowded conference of shop chair- on the edge of the Florida hurri-’ men and delegates of the new cloak cane. Part of the support of a sign and dressmakers union held last jon the outside of the Workers night in Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th | School on the fifth floor of the | Workers Center at 26-28 Union) Continued on Page Three YOUTH CONGRESS GETS U. 8, REPORT [Darcy Speaks on Work | | in Schools St. A driving, chill drizzle that lasted all day did not keep these represen- tatives of the vast majority of the workers in the industry from com- ing to their monthly conference, where stock is taken of the past month’s activities in upbuilding the Continued on Page Two Organization Meeting of Shoe Workers in Brooklyn. Tonight REFORMISTS BOW TO FASCIST GANG Make Agreement With Home Defense Corps VIENNA, Sept. 19.—An agree- ment between social-democrats and the fascist organization, the Home |Defense Corps, in regard to the | provocative demonstration the lat- ter is going to hold on October 7, is |probable, and a compromise on the | reduction of the tenants’ protection Among the} Six hundred thousand troops are reported to be in. readiness in| police to segregate the men failed. Szechuan, including 200,000 of the) All food has been refused to best armed soldiers, under the com-| demonstrators by the warden in an mand of Wu Pei-fu and ‘Yang-Sen. effort to starve them into submis- Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yu- | sion. |hsiang may be forced to form an al-| The demonstrations were provoked | liance to meet the troops that are| by the refusal of the Maryland au- | expected to begin their campaign on | thorities to investigate charges of, |the Yangse River and an attack on inhuman cruelty in the treatment of | | Hankow. | prisoners. | NAME CLASS VICTIMS Nominate Two Woodlawn Defendants (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 19.— Two of the workers whom the steel interests.in this state have been try- ing to railroad to jail in the fa- mous Woodlawn sedition case have been nominated for office on the ‘Labor Party ticket in Beaver Coun- Warden Patrick Brady and .the trict, embracing Beaver, Butler and Lawrence Counties. Milan Resetar, a clerk, is candidate for the state senate from the 47th Congressional District, which includes Beaver and Lawrence counties. Both workers are veterans of the World War. Mary Horvatin, of Ambridge, is hose, etc., will be sold at prices that | Continued on Page Three SELL OUT RAIL- (Wireless to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, Sept, 19.—The condi- | tions under which children of the | working class are forced to work |and live in various countries thru- lout the world formed the pivot of |the discussion that took place yes-| | terday at the seventeenth session of | the Young Communist International, * | which opened under the chairman- CHICAGO, Sept. 19.—A dispute | chip of Dalland of Norway. between representatives of 55 west-| Sam Darcy of the United States ern railroads and 70,000 trainmen | 5oXterOH” ithe \Coramimist’ chile and conductors over wages and | working conditions will pote Pree. | dren's movement. Yent Coolidge for “settement” ic | “Adverse school laws have abol- was announced today after federal ished free materials and food, Dar- mediators had failed to adjust the | °Y said. ‘The workers’ children are differences. ; under-nourished - and tubercular. The mediators confessed failure | Child labor has increased with post- of negotiations after conferences |W! Tationalization. Most child la- throughout the week. |bor is found in agriculture. The The trainmen and conductors have | bourgeoisie fills the schools with taken a vote favoring a strike in| its propaganda in the interest of event of no final agreement. war preparations and rationaliza- Although the strike vote was|tion. The children are imbued with measures is being prepared, as a Show workers, particularly those | result of the social-democratic con- occupied in the crafts of lasters and | gress which was just concluded here. wood heelers, are called to a mass Negotiations Superfluous. meeting tonight in Arion Temple, 21 The social-democrats, in an at- Arion Place, Brooklyn, for the pur-|tempt to come to an agreement with pose of launching an organization the Home Defense Corps, has pro- drive among the shoe workers of | posed’ that the fascist demonstra- that borough. The meeting was|tion take place in the morning, and called by the Independent Shoe |that the social-democratic demon- | Workers Union of Greater New/stration take place in the after- York. noon, RAP N. J. MISLEADERS Score Federation’s Smith Endorsement | (Special to the Daily Worker) ORANGE, N. J., Sept. 19.—Charg- \t akes in printers in Orange, | Montclair and Bloomfield. | ling that neither Herbert Hoover nor| At the meeting of the Typo Union |Al Smith have the interest of the| here, John M. Hague, an official of | working class at heart, Herbert | the union for over 25 years, charged Schaffer, secretary-treasurer of the| that the endorsement of Smith was Orange Typographical Union to- forced thru the convention by the! uN TELL OF NEW MINE UNION TONIGHT Worker FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Ohio Gang Moves to Bar Communists from Ballot WHEN STRIKERS PROTEST BEATING OF LINE LEADER Sgt. Velho, Terrorist, Beats Unconscious Old Worker, After Pistol Shots Fail to Hit Him “Resume Mass Picketing!” Shout of Thousands on Sweeps Thru City NEW MILL UNION CONVENTION TO _ OPEN SATURDAY Nis ie Workers Invited to Attend Bringing greetings of solidarity from other militant sections of the working class, representatives of the following organizations will ad- Atlantic City convention of the as-|4"ess the national convention of sociation that year, the hearing de. |teXtile workers at Irving Plaza this veloped. Saturday afternoon, Sept. 22, at 2 | $10,000 to Harvard. [pom=for the militath<duciere, who Another payment of $10,000 to|Have themselves recently formed a Harvard University was developed N¢W union, Ben Gold; for the gar- |ment workers, S. Zimmerman; for the new miners union, Pat Toohey; for the Workers International Re- lief, which is now playing such a decisive role’ in raising relicf for the New Bedford textile strikers, Fred Biedenkapp, national secretary lof the organization; for the Inter- national Labor Defense, also active n defending the arrested strikers in New Bedford, James P. Cannon. This battery of well-known speak- ers will express the unity of the working class, and the solidarity of (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 19.—Infuriated at the enthusiastic mass picketing demonstration conducted in front of the Paige Mills by over 1,000 textile strikers despite a driving rain, a squadron of police, headed by the terrorist Sergeant Velho, brutally clubbed scores of strikers, and fired shots into their lines in a charge to break up their daily march back to the Potomska Hall. Fifteen were __ arrested, charged with rioting, and obtained their release later only after bail of $500 was provided by the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Seize Strike Leaders. Deliberately ‘rémoving their rain- coats and taking out their clubs. to get ready for “business,” the column of police with Velho in the lead walked up to where the workers were forming for the homeward march. Velho grabbed C. Lamieras and A. G, Pinto, the last having just returned from a rest home to recu- perate from a police beating in jail, and demanded a “parade permit.” When the picket leaders replied, “We don’t need a permit,” Velho shouted to his thugs, “Get the lead- ers!” The two picket leaders were seized by the police as the line be- gan to move, and threw them into the police wagon. Roused to anger by the way Pinto and Lamieras were being handled, the hundreds of strikers surged forward, protesting against this brutal treatment of men who were still sick from their injuries. A concerted dash by the police, who slugged «ght and left with their clubs and blackjacks in- juring many men and women, was the answer to their protests. Pinto’s brother was suddenly seen to fall, bleeding, to the ground. Club Aged Worker. Velho himself was chasing with upraised club after 63-yéar-old Frank August, when the thug lead- er suddenly drew his revolver and fired three shots in the old strik- er’s direction, August dodged and twisted and thereby escaped being hit by the flying bullets. Other po- lice, however, seized him and threw him into the police wagon. At the station house on the South End, the aged worker was dragged out of the patrol and thrown into a cell, where he lay for a few ‘min- utes before Sergeant Velho stalked in, pulled the striker upright, tore the glasses from his eyes, and beat him up till August was unconscious, “We're going to kill you, you bas- tard!” was what Velho told the striker before beginning to slug him into unconsciousness. Strikers Bitter. we'll have mass _ picketing were the exclamations of the 15 strikers as they walked out of the court. At strike headquar- ters, in the streets, everywhere the strikers gather, this slogan was re- peated in giving expression to the tremendous indignation sweeping thru the ranks of the tens of thou- sands on strike. Mass Meet of | Needle Trade Youth Tonight A mass meeting of all needle trade young workers will be held tonight, immediately after work, at the La- bor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave. The meeting is called under the ty. Pete Muselin, a barber, is candi- date for representative in congress from the 26th Congressional Dis- the Labor Party candidate for rep- resentative in the General Assem- bly from the First District of Beay- Continued on Page, Three c ‘ f overwhelmingly in favor of a walk- military and patriotic ideas as well day sent a letter to the New Jersey out the union officials made it clear | a8 propaganda against the Soviet | State Federation of Labor, protest- on a number of occasions that it would sell out and prevent strike action Union. | “The schools support fascist and Continued on Page Two ing the federation’s action at its an- oe convention last week in endors- ing Smith. The Orange Typo body officials of the federation, whojauspices of the Young Workers maintain close connections with the | (Communist) League for the purpose corrupt New Jersey democratic! of discussing and electing delegates machine. Frank Hague, Jerseyto the Working Youth Conference, Continued on Page Three which* will be held Sept. 29 and 30, » ° } He eames 3s 4 ie tam Nir