The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 21, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORK TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT ER FIGHTS PARTY Ba ily Eatered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1878. FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RA1 In Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. | Vol. V., No, 224 FOSTER EXPOSES “LABOR” BUNK IN HOOVER'S SPEECH Communist Candidate Cites Facts | Unemployment Grows) Indiana to Go on Ballot, Soon PORTLAND, Ore., (By Mail).— In his speech in, Portland last night, ‘'qWilliam Z. Foster, candidate of the ‘Workers (Communist) Party for President, gave the Communists’ answer to Hoover’s Newark speech on labor. Foster charged willful misrepresentation, stating that Hoover knows very well that the Hundreds of Terrified by the dis- aster, the exploited na- tives of Porto Rico had little chance of escape when hurricane swept over island, demolish- ing huts in which these workers, ex- ploited by Wall Street, must live. Photo shows outskirts of San Juan, where heavy toll was taken, CONVENTION 10 9,000 HAILNEW Labor Faker in STORM VICTIMS MINERS’ UNION Watt, Toohey Receive Big Ovation Hailing the formation of the new army of unemployed has not been National Miners’ Union in one of reabsorbed _ into industry as -he|the most enthusiastic demonstra- claimed. tions in the recent progress of the “There are still at least 4,000,000 New York labor movement, over two workers without jobs, and the pro- | thousand workers crowded Central cess that is creating prosperity for | Opera House last night to hear John employers results in unemployment, | J- Watt, president and Pat Toohey, a vicious speed-up system, wage-| secretary-treasurer of the new cuts and the smashing of the trade Union, give an account of the events unions,” Foster said. attending the formation of the or- “In 1927 the factories of the | Sanization. : United States produced 26 per cent| “The miners have struck the first more than in 1919, with 11 per cent blow for freedom,” Watt declared. fewer workers. Technological im- | “The needle trades workers, the tex- provement together with speed-up! tile workers, the steel workers—the | has resulted in the creeping paraly- Workers of the world must rise to sis of unemployment “ neither Hoover nor Smith offers | them free.” Watt received an ova- any cure or even relief. In 1919, | tion when he came to the platform. for instance, according to the ‘An- | Toohey Gets Hand. nalist’ for March, 1926, there were | Toohey likewise received a great 10,689,000 employed in the big in-| hand from the New York workers for which | deliver the blows which will make | dustries; in 1926 this had decreased to 9,850,000. Opposed Social Legislation. “Hoover cynically condemns any sort of social legislation to relieve the acute situation.” “He had the audacity to praise the Fordney-McCumber tariff bill in a sectidén where the textile workers have carried on long and bitter struggles for decent wages and working conditions against the textile mill baronsWwho alone bene- “Continued on Page Three NEW DRESS UNION FRENCH TEXTILE )ORGANIZES PHILA, Shop Delegates Launch New Organization PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 20— With great confidence and an en- thusiasm for the future of unionism among the clothing workers in this notoriously open shop city, the dele- gates assembled at the conference of shop committees in the dress indus- try, yesterday officially launched the Waist and Dressmakers’ Local of the National Organization Com- mittee for 4 new Cloak and Dress- makers’ Union. Many Delegates. Eighty-nine delegates, repre- senting the shop committees in 29 factories, and many individual workers, attending for shops where committees have not as yet been es- tablished, participated in the con- ference and thru their decisive ac- ,tion supplanted the corrupt right | wing Sigman local here, with a new, energetic, and honest union, that will organize this overwhelmingly non-union center. Later bouquets of flowers were sent to the confer- ence by the workers in the Phila- delphia factories. Charles S. Zimmerman, one of the leaders: of the National Organiza- tion Committee, came from New York to speak to the conference and to report the tremendous progress being made by the movement for the new union thruout the nation in all centers of the ladies’ garment manu- | facturing industry. Unanimous adoption was accorded | a resolution condemning as strike- breakers and union wreckers, the clique in control of the right wing local here. The resolution also charged the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union officials with refusing to organize the many sweat shops here, instead of carry- ing on a campaign of persecution, of Continued on Page Three (No Attempt to Kill Trotsky; Soviet Union Nails New British Lie MOSCOW, Sept. 20.—Reports published in the London press ~al- leging that attempts had been made to assassinate Leon Trotsky are completely without foundation, it was stated here today. The Izvestia has never published any statement (as the London press alleges) declaring that an investi- gating committee has been sent to Turkestan, and the foreign office has issued a Statement denying the existence of any such commission. | who have watched closely the record of his heroic sacrifices in the great | mine struggle, his numerous arrests, |imprisonments and sluggings by the | mine police. “Nothing can stop the building of a great and militant | mine union which will carry on the | fight for the organization half million coal diggers,” declared. The stage was decorated with {signs of weleome, one of which voad:. “Hail National = Miners’ | Union!” Throughout the meeting Continued on Page Two of the Toohey WORKERS STRIKE Thousands May Follow Idle Operatives PARIS, Sept. 20.—An enthusias- tic general mass meeting of textile workers in Lille, Tuesday evening, | called by the revolutionary unions, | voted unanimously to begin the | strike for improved conditions in |Northern France. Nine mills in the | Halluin district struck Monday, put- |ting forward similar demands. | As previously revorted, the left | wing unions herehad delivered an |ultimatum to the mill owners de- }manding higher wages for men and |women, with the proviso that re- |fusal means a general walk-out by | Sept. 23. The strike begins imme- | diately. Strike action here was taken de- spite the recent decision of the re- |formist leaders of the National Tex- | tile Workers Federation to sabotage the strike by advising their mem- bers to wait till they “study the ‘wage question.” SOVIET CAMPAIGN FOR NEW CAPITAL No. Big Change Policy BERLIN, Sept. 20.—One of the re- sults of the new Soviet policy to bid for investment capital is seen in the launching of a campaign through Soviet commercial agencies abroad to attract dapital. The change of attitude toward foreign capital as indicated by the Soviet decree of September 15 is the | result of two decisive factors. The first is tHe growth of Soviet indus- try under state control; the build- ing of socialism unaided by other countries. The second is the proved ability of the Soviets to meet their financial obligations as was evi- denced by the recent deposits in German banks of Russian gold to cover a loan that does not fall due until next month, which tremendous- ly raises the prestige of the Soviets among the international financiers. The fundamental principles of Soviet concessions will remain, how- ever, unchanged. After given length of time the industries estab- lished with foreign capital will auto- matically revert to the government and become a part of the socialized industry. in Racket Graft Skips Detroit (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich. Sept. 20.— Frank X. Martel, president of the Detroit Federation of Labor, red baiter and champion labor betray- er, is now dodging a warrant issued for his arrest on charges of extor- tion. | Martel is charged specifically | with having received from Manuel | Jacoby, brother of Charles Jacoby, | |head of a large cleaning establish- ment, the sum of $500 which the |labor misleader forced the firm to pay him. The $500 charge is be- lieved to be but a small part of what Martel and his companion la- bor fakers have received. Goes Into Hiding. Knowing that the warrant was about to be issued, Martel hurried- ly left the state and is now in hid- ing. His attorney, John F. Sim- |mons, is busy issuing statements | “Continued on Page Three YO UTH MEET HITS FRACTIONALISM Discuss Colonial Work at 20th Session (Wireless to the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Sept. 20. --The problems of the international |working youth were taken up by |Schueller when he made the report |for the Work Program Commission | at the twentieth session of the Fifth | World Congress of the Young Com- |manist International, which opened | under the chairmanship of Gorkic. | Schueller declared that the youth | showed great interest in the theory of the Y. C. I, and that they must he encouraged and organized. “The Congress must combine theory with the daily political and economic slo- gans. The program shows that the working youth are fighting for the world dictatorship of the proletariat. It does more than complement the Communist International.” Program of Work. The program emphasizes the so- cial character of the revolution and deals effectively with the colonial youth. A chapter is devoted to the Continued on Page Two SPORT EVENTS AT T. UE L. PICNIC | A large number of sport events \the sunual T. U. E. L. workers’ fes- |tival, which will be held tomorrow, jat Ulmer Park, Brooklyn. These are scheduled to begin at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and will last until | 4:30, at which time the “eats” pro- | gram will be put on. Militant New York workers who follow the progressive policies of {the Trade Union Educational League in their daily struggles | within their unions and in the for- mation of new unions will test their \ability to play on Saturday. Should |the progressives play as hard as they fight out their union struggles, jall indications are that it will be a tired, but exceedingly happy army Continued on Page Two The working class is giving a re- ceptive hearing to the message of the class struggle in this election campaign according to a report sent in to the National Election Cam- paign Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party by Benjamin Gitlow, Communist vice-presidential candidate who is now on the first lap of a nation-wide tour that will bring him from coast to coast, from the far northwest to the southeast, with the program of Communism around which the workers, poor ) MAKE HISTORY RIOT FOR BREAD Announce Agenda for Week-end Parley A highly significant turning point in the long history of the struggles of the nation’s textile workers will Troops Called Out’ to Terrorize Negroes NEW MILL UNION. Sentine Me 1 be reached when the chairman’s WEST peers Fla. 28vel will open the convention of Sept. 20.—The complete death textile mill committees, mill and toll which the Florida hurricane | has left in its wake, was today estimated to be between 700 and 800 With the destruction of all sanitary appurtenances, disease continues to spread throughout the stricken area at a terrific Pace. * WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Refu- gee riots, hunger and threats of disease increased today the horror of the hurricane-stricken region around Lake Okeechobee, Florida, according to reports received here from relief workers in the field. Rioting by Negro refugees in the devastated town of Pahokee caused officials to ask for troops which are intended to terrorize the starving Negroes. Ra union delegates, who assemble to- morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in Irving Plaza Hall here, to launch a new mass national textile workers’ | organization. Latest reports indicate that the| workers in the textile plants of | more than 60 cities will be repre-| | Militant workers of New York: | Over 250 delegates, here to form a new National Textile Union, must be accommodated this Saturday and |Sunday. Aid the struggle of the thousands of textile workers by get- ting in touch immediately with I. Zimmerman, at the local office of jthe T. U. E. L., 26 Union Square. | A large number of volunteers are jalso necessary to help during the essions of the convention. New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. ® ssages That aved Fascist Flyers Ss Exclusive photo of operators of the Soviet ice-breaker “Krassin” who picked up messages in Arctic tinuing its search for a party of fact that Mussolini has stopped a wastes. The Krassinvis still con- missing fascists in -spite of the ll Italian rescue work. PHILA. BOSSES BOW TO NEW FURRIERS’ UNION (Special to the Daily Worker) |and athletic contests will feature) Another report said that the bod ies of 60 Negroes and two white persons had been recovered at Pa-|sented by delegates they have sent | hokee. Nearly all the homes in the|to the convention. The United Tex- | town, on the shore of Okeechobee,|tile Workers’ Union of the A. F. L.,| were ruined, and debris-blocked|/decayed with corruption, had a} roads hampered relief workers ir|representation from alleged locals getting foods and supplies to the|in only 42 cities at their recent con- | ore 2 ; a | vention. | ‘ear of epidemics in the Okee-) iri |chohee region compelled” eliet|_,d¥iries made as to the probable |plan of work to be followed at the |two-day convention disclosed the | The death estimate still was ici folowing “efficient and business. | but with a strong probability of re hike ig Apter ies tpah Ab Aah rashes being increased. Some sources have the militant trade union movement estimated the deaths at from 600 to, 4mong whom are to be the leaders | 800. jof the new left wing needle trades | unions and of the newly formed National Miners’ Union greet the convention, Albert Weisbord, head of the Textile Mills Cogmittee will give an exhaustive report on the workgrs to dispose of bodies with- out Identification. a eee SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sept. 20 | (UP).—The menace of fire among | fallen trees which have dried out) juntil they are almost like tinder | Was added to the perils which beset work of the T. M. C.. | this storm-ravaged island today. | Following this a credential com- | More than 700,000 persons—half| mittee will be chosen which will go the population of the islands—are into immediate session, and will | homeless. Continued on Page Three THOUSANDS TO BE FOOD WORKERS AT BIG RED RALLY MEET TONIGHT ‘Special “Daily” to Be Speakers Will Expose | Distributed Old Parties | The huge Red election rally and) Food workers of New York—bak-, [mass demonstration to be held Fri-| 41s, cooks and walters, cafeteria | |day, Sept. 28, at 8 p. m. at the Cen- | 4 F |tral Opera House will be preceded Workers, grocery, fruit and dairy _by “a city-wide distribution of a clerks, butcher workers—are expect- special issue of the Daily Worker. jed to turn out en masse tonight to | The special issue will contain fea- hear the program of the Workers |ture stories on the present election ; ty at Manhattan | \catnpaiga dealingiwitn eieccdle iat oe eee Manhattan |the parties of big business play with | L¥ceum, 66 E. 4th St. The meeting |regard to labor and the story onthe | will be opened at 8 p. m. by the, |socialist party, including its alli-|Food Workers section of the Trade | ances with the reactionary A. F. of | Union Educational League. | L. officialdom and its support of | “Food workers especially have gangsterism and thuggery in the | good reason not to vote for ‘Bread-| |settlement of labor disputes. Be- Continued on Page Two sides this. material the Daily Worker will contain brief. biographical isketches of many of the local can- Continued on Page Four PLAGUE AFFECTS 600,000. ATHENS, Sept. 20 (U.P).—The Dengue fever epidemic, now subsid- |ing, affected 600,000 persons Big Dance to Welcome | Young Textile Workers The Young Workers (Commun- ist) League of District 2 has ar- a-| ranged a dance tomorrow night at r ™ | the Workers Center, to welcome the Athens, Piraeus and environs, it youth delegates to the National Tex- was estimated officially today. | tile Union which is being formed Athens authorities have decided to | tomorrow and Sunday in New York | | build a modern incinerator and ac- | City. quire 30 motor trucks for garbage | found at Piraeus. i will be present. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 20.— trade union fakerdom here and in| the other needle trades centers of Shadowboxes Agaiftst accomplished the renewal of the old Klan in Speech agreement with their employers’ or- NS AL TRIES 10 STOP An event that will crash into the] camp of socialist and A. F. of L.| OKLAHOMA SPLIT the country, took place here today when the left wing Furriers Union ganization. This was effected de- 7 a spite tremendous pressure from the (Special to the. Daily Worker) OKLAHOMA’ CITY, Sept. 20.—| chiefs of the A. F. of L. and the Faced with a split in the ranks of heads of the right wing Interna- the “solid south,” where his whole|tional Fur Workers’ Union from political career has heen under fire | which the Philadelphia union had from that section of the democratic | broken away. party that formerly supported the| Despite the tremendous gains late William Jennings Bryan and) made in recent months by the work. W. G. McAdoo, Tammany Al Smith/ers in the fur industry in their tonight launched into a typical tir-| campaign to drive out of existence ade against his enemies in a speech | their right wing betrayers, most of | here. the ast victories can be considered Assails Ku Klux Klan. as negligible in comparison to this, Infuriated because the forces of inasmuch as this break they have Sen. Owen have deserted the demo-| Succeeded in making in the hitherto cratic party because its middle class | United ranks of the employers. The element was swamped by the Mor-| true importance of the victory can gan-dominated Tammany Hall sec- only be estimated when it is con- tion of the party, Smith tried to|Sidered that the Philadelphia em- connect the movement with the Ku Ployers’ association was compelled, Klux Klan. Senator Owen has em-|by the unanimous bélligerent deter- phatically denied that he had any mination of the workers there, to sympathy with or respect for -the Sign a 3-year contract with an in- Kluxers. dependent left wing union, that Smith’s advisers seem to thrive on Continued on Page Two 3 MORE SENT ON BIG ‘DAILY’ TOUR Will Cover Anthracite, Eastern States The Election Campaign Drive of the Daily Worker for 10,000 new readers, now being carried on on an extensive scale throughout the United States, will have three pow- erful additions in the east, now that John Kaspar, A. Sokolov and Anna Herbst have been dispatched to tour new districts in the interests of the paper. John Kaspar will cover Pennsyl- vania and West Virginia; A. Sok lov will tour Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware, and Anna Herbst will take care of the an- thracite district. The three veteran Daily ‘Worker Fifty young textile workers as|@gents believe that their tours will the disposal to combat future epidemics. delegates from New Bedford, Fal]| be productive of concrete results, takes place in the Homicide Court Two cases of plague have been! River, Passaic and many other cities| inasmuch as the territories mapped before Judge Smith, the others ap- Continued on Page Five farmers and oppressed Negroes are called upon to rally in the struggle against capitalism and the capitalist government. Gitlow’s report was written after that they are in a rebellious mood, | his meeting in St. Louis, Mo. on| against the capitalist system, that| September 16, Where he spoke to|the speed-up system in industry is| over three hundred workers among] driving them into a more militant) those present being a large number | { Rapids, Michigan, Gary, Haute, Indiana, and St. Louis, Mo. of Negroes. | Increasing Militancy. |to the falsity of the claims of the |. The vice-presidential candidate | capitalist parties’ ability or willing- has spoken in Philad@lphia, Am-|ness to bring prosperity to the bridge, Pa., Pittsburgh, Cleveland,! workers and that they are beginning | HOUSANDS OF WORKERS FLOCK TO HEAR GITLO Poor Workers, Farmers Thruout Country Rally to Communist Election Drive. under Communist leadership, can the capitalists and the capitalist government. Hits Mine Misleaders. Bill Mathewson introduced Com- aims of the Workers (Communist) Party sailed into the leaders of the! United Mine Workers of Illinois,| Continued on Page Three , | has split away from the A. F. of L., and affiliated with the move- ment to build a left wing national union of fur workers. Edward F. McGrady A. F. of L. “ambassador”; the president, secre- tary and chief organizer of the In- ternational Fur Workers, Union, and special agents and communica- tions from the New York bosses as- Continued on Page Two SCHIFFRIN CASE IN COURT TODAY Defense Onene Office, Raises Funds Two judges in the 161st St. court- house will today conduct hearings in the case of William Schiffrin, left wing trade unionist, who faces a charge of homicide; two of his com- rades, and three right wingers who were part of an armed squad, whose ettack on Schiffrin resulted in the death of the right wing leader of knife-wielders. One hearing pear before the Magistrates Court in the same building. Workers Agitated. When Schiffrin was arrested by police, who later admitted in testi- mony that Schiffrin was valiantly defending his life single-handed against the onslaught of five men attacking him with knives, they at the same time arrested three mem- Youngstown, Lansing, Toledo, Grand to realize that only thru struggle bers of the right wing ‘squad” and Terre | on the industrial and political fields {wo ‘militant workers who were some distance from Schiffrin, who Everywhere the masses showed| they wage a successful fight against had his back to a tenement wall. The local Jewish labor movement is tremendously agitated over this case, with the right wing and all their organs of publicity mobilized attitude towards the employers, that rade Gitlow at the St. Louis meet- to the straining point to send Schif- they are increasingly growing wise | ing. The speaker after stating the frin to a long term of imprisonment. | Opposing this frame-up. force there stands almost the entire Jew- | ish working class here who are or- Continued on Page Two Price 3 Cents JAIL MORE MILL LEADERS IN NEW BEDFORD TER BEATING OF OLD STRIKER ANGERS CITY POPULATION Workers Pouring Out to Picket Lines (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., 20.—More than two thous tile workers, forming a pi dcuble the size of yesterda Jout to the Paige Mill morning to demonstra fiance of the police r past few days. They were again attacked by a patrol of about 100 police, sent out with the express purpose of jailing the leaders of the picketing. Augusto Pinto, the victim of in- numerable arrests and beatings, and one of the best loved strike leaders was today against arrested, as was Jack Rubinstein, Marion Botelho and Germaine Madieros Pinto, who was arrested yesterday, has just returned from a Maine farm, where he was sent by the union to recuperate from a beating by the police while in jail Demonstrate Before Gates. Today’s demonstration, as yester- day’s took place before the mill gates. Those arrested were later released on bonds put up by the union, for trial at the November sessions of the court. The cry, “They’ve got Pinto,” swept as a wave over the tightly |packed workers lining the streets, |then it surged thru the crowds of hundreds on the sidewalks while the | police wagon passed thru. New. York fur bosses’ association,|-Pinto_as ysell as the other leaders heading the picket line refused to stop their picketing activities as they were ordered to do by the po- | lice. The anger of the strikers grew as Rubinstein and the others were pulled into the waiting patrol. At the jail Sergeant McCarthy in |passing Rubinstein’s cell rasped, “Do you know what they do to your kind down south? They tar and | feather you!” The greatest indignation is now widespread among the cit popu- lation because of the viciousness of |the police, disclosed particularly in yesterday's attacks in which guns and clubs were employed. Admits Use of Gun. After many witnesses had sworn they heard the shooting in yester- day’s police attack, Chief of Police McLeod was forced to admit the charge that Sergeant Velho had been compelled to use*his revolver in defending himself. He thus re- versed the positive denial made by Velho Witnesses who came with the shooting charge were not only strikers but also members of the right wing Textile Council and even business men. The police chief then asserted that Velho had fired at 63 year old Frank August in order “to defend himself.” This defense was ridiculed in a statement issued by the Textile Mill Committee which ironically pointed out that the massive Velho needed no revolver to defend himself against the frail old man. In a counter statement to justify Continued on Page Three POSTERS TELL OF BIG BAZAAR A number of working class cen- ters in New York City have broken. out in a rash of green posters. The Workers Center, the Proletcos Co- operative Restaurant and other places now being investigated by special cepresentatives of the Daily Worker are sporting these hand- some green posters announcing that 100,000 articles will be sold at half price al the great National Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar, to be held at Madison Square Garden Oct. 4, 5, 6 and 7. The verdant youthful color of these posters is in thorough keeping with the spirit that will animate the bazaar. The Daily Worker and the Freiheit are young newspapers and the Workers (Communist) Party is a young party. Moreover, revolu- tionists never grow old. The bazaar of the two great proletarian dailies will thevefore be an affair of youth and joy, where old will feel young again. Meanwhile old and young are working for the bazaar. That is, Sontives on Page Five \ es werscnrormsesen dentine > ]