The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 21, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1923 3 Page Thre Mussolini Regime of Oppression Strengthene din Face ? jag GOVERNMENT 10 : ‘| COUNCIL MADE ‘PROTECT SCABS: SUPREME BODY IN AUSTRALIA Reign of Terror iCall f or “Volunteer of Workers’ Demonstrations mes DUTCH POLICE KILL 1, WOUND 1 TIN STRIKERS All Leaders Jailed in Rat-Infested Homes —- Perfecting Air Attack In Preparation for : Imperialist War Workers Live In in} Italy to Grow ROME, Sept. 20.—The formal in- corporation of the grand council of | the national fascist party, which, under the direction of Mussolini, has always directed the government into | the regime, and the declaration of its function as a dictatorial body, ‘was “approved” by the grand coun- cil om the “advise” of Mussolini hint- self. The new law provides that the grand council shall be the supreme ruling body which shall direct, and coordinate all the activities of the government and give advise on all matters pertaining to the govern- ing of the state. Its meetings shall be secret, and none of its members can be arrested or tried without the authorization of the grand council. In this way, all power is guar- anteed to Mussolini, who by this means has given his own im- mediate followers, chosen and ap- pointed by himself, a legal and for- mal status as the dictating and rul- ing power of Italy. The senate, the chamber of deputies and the min- istry can only do what the grand council decides, for members of the former bodies are also members of the council. The suppression of all dissenting Air attacks in the coming war have been facilitated by the perfection of emergency platforms such as that shown above. The main runway is 1,440 feet long. WORKERS FLOC TO HEAR GITLOW |Poor Thruout Country Rally to Red Drive Continued from Page One who recently put over a sell-out agreement on the coal miners, tho it is clear that a majority of the coal diggers voted against it. Gitlow linked up Fishwick, president of the U. M. W. of A., Illinois district, with Frank Farrington, former Illinois miner, now the $25,000 official of the Peabody Coal Company. ‘Soviet Union Trade With Latin America Triples in 2 Years MOSCOW, Sept. 20.—Soviet trade with Latin America. is more than| three times as large as it was two| years ago, Boris Aevsky, head of} the Soviet trading organizations in | Latin America, declared in an in- | terview. | ‘South American exports to the |Soviet Union’ are principally ni- | trates, sheep and some machinery. |The Soviet Union sends to Latin | America furs, manganese, lumber |seeds and crude drugs. The| speaker told of the National Min-| jers’ Conventidn in Pittsburgh to take} DETROIT LABOR TRAITOR HIDES Martel Exposed Taking $500 Bribe Continued from Page Cne covering the retreat of his client. | Martel is “doing work for the labor |movement outside the state,” the lawyer stated. According to the at- |torney, Martel will be gone for two weeks. The plan, no doubt, is to provide time to “fix” things so the labor faker may come back in safety. Martel, who is a member of the Labor” on Docks | MELBOURN Sept. | | 20.—A bill providing protection for | | the scabs to be employed by the ship- |owners in an attempt to break the |dock workers strike will be intro- duced into the house of representa- |tives by Premier Bruce of Australia. | Following the decision of the ‘board of arbitration, created by the new anti-strike legislation, against the dock work who had protested its previous decision which provided a “two pick-up” system, that the strike is illegal, the shipowners im- mediately advertised for “volunteer workers.” Australia, At present workers in nearly all the ports have refused to go back to work on the two-pick-up system, under which the employers choose workers from the applicants twice a day instead of once a day as for- merly. Leading business men in all the port cities are urging their employ- ees to enroll as “volunteer work- ers,” and both municipal govern- ments and shipowners are making appeals to the population to scab on the dock workers in the name of “saving the welfare of the country.” Mary Dalton, 2 bandaging Mary's an attack on the four children of wounds, were Keap St., Brooklyn. slave Workers ar , to dwell in rat-infested Continued from Page One fited from this piece of outrageous | legislation.” Foster also condemned Hoover’s stand on the use of injunctions in years old, and her sister Katherine, 7, labor disputes, sion. The Workers which he said was the same as Smith’s, and which the Communist characterized as an eva- (Communist) shown severely bitten when rats made Francis Dalton, a worker of 810 e forced by poverty, due to wage tenement fire-traps. IS EXPOSED BY FOSTER the Communist petitions is well un- der way and that there is no doubt that the Party ticket will be on the ballot. The prospects for building the Party in Indiana are bright, Early says. The miners are dis- contented with the reactionary lead- ership of the United Mine Workers of America and the sentiment is East Indies Walk-out BATAVIA, Dutch East Indies, Sept. 20.—One striker was killed and seven strikers were wounded when police attacked a group of pickets before the tin works on the island of Billiton, 100 miles north of Batavia. The strike was called when the company refused to grant better working conditions and higher wage very effort h een made to break the 1 the strike leaders were arrested the moment the strike was called, but the strik- ers persisted in their walk-out and effectively picketed the mills. All picketing, strike meetings, and even small groupings of strik- ers have been banned by the goy- ernment. Police Shoot Negro; Refused Liquor Pay Police last night shot and serious- ly injured William Ward, 23 years old, a Negro, who is said to have refused to pay the proprietor of @ speakeasy at 2641 8th Ave., posing as a revenue officer. Police are being held in readiness at all the ports to protect the scab labor and disnerse the strikers. The lack of provisions, due to the strike, is beginning to tell in the interior, Cooktown, Queensland, being re- ported as short of food. Typographical Union, is a delegate to the coming American Federation of Labor convention and part of the Ward and his’ companion were chased down the street by a police- man whom the speakeasy-owner summoned, and shot after he re« fused to stop running. He was tak- en to the Harlem Hospital for treat- ment. voices and the crushing of all op- the place of the U. M. W. of A. ney) position is thus fully guaranteed in Wrecked by the treachery of Lewis,) a “legal” manner. All those “elected” | Fishwick and Company. | SEDITION LAWS to any governing body are first) “Fishwick falsified the returns in| Morrison machine in the Federa- . the recent vote on the agreement| |tion, Frank Morrison, secretary of roposed by the grand council and} 8 - SAS . i the voteré can only vote. “yes” ox Submitted to the coal miners,” Git-|T, I, D, Conducts Drive |the Federation, and a leader of the Party advocates the abolition of the injunction altogether. ih strong for joining the new National Miners’ Union, organized recently at Pittsburgh. Indiana To Go on Ballot. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 20. —The state of Indiana will be on the Communist ballot, according to a report received at the National The socialist party is practically dead in Indiana and its leaders have gone over to the trade union rf i \T. hical International, alt! “no.” Tt also has full power to fill 1% declared. “There is no doubt| Hor Mineelad Worlcais noe eee an altho PEA with tee Ceeetie fer ar 4h ; < but the sell-out policy of the fakers| ‘he has been informed of Martel’s ee ae eee at Springfield was repudiated by the| * In addressing the grand council, Mussolini stated that he had already laid out the course that the govern- ment must follow, not only during the coming year, but as far ahead as 1930. BIG MILL MEET great majority of the coal diggers. The miners of Illinois must build a PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 20. The local section of the Interna- activities, has continued to shield Martel. Recently Morrison admitted that he knew of Martel’s “crooked- | powerful section of the National| tional Labor Defense is conducting | ness,” but has refused to take Miners’ Union,” he said. | Unemployment Grows. Gitlow assailed the miserable con- ditions of the workers in St. Louis According to the police, unemploy- ment is rampant, four thousand ap- plying for jobs last week and only four hundred jobs available. |a campaign on behalf of the mem- | bers of the Workers (Communist) |Party who have been arrested at outdoor meetings during the course of their election campaign. Among those arrested are Dom- inick Flaini, Emanuel Epstein, Her- tion against his henchman. POLICE CONTINUE NEW DRESS UNION ORGANIZES PHILA, ‘Shop Delegates Launch | ontinued from Page One Election Campaign Committee head- quarters of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, from D. E. Early, who is now working in the Hoosier State, former stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan and once a center of socialist activity. Early reports that the work on pesogee ee sais eee ns Huge Airships Built Secretly for Social he writes. Those that did not, have dropped out completely. Indiana, is a great industrial and farming state and the conditions of the workers are as bad as can be found any- where in the country, : William Z. Foster, Communist presidential candidate, speaks in In- dianapolis on Oct. 3. CONTINUE TRAINING. CALSHOT, England, Sept. 20 (U,P).—Final plans were completed today for a British attempt to break the world air speed record. After speed tests today in a reserve machine, Flight Lieut. Greig in- tended to make final tests in the machine which will be used in the record-breaking attempt. TEXTILE JAILING pet Organization | Democrats War Fleet FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, left wingers. After enumerating more reasons of a similar nature, the resolution announced that the| SeieaN jman Pinsker, Herbert Benjamin, OPENS § ATURD AY tn the speaker urged solidarity be-| Benjamin Weiss and Israel Lazar. | pevcen. tne Nero. aio. Wanke. Work: -John. Rymnay. sseretary. of | the ‘ ers for the common fight against philadelphia I. L. D. local, states| TWO Thouand March in —— the employers. Picket Lane u ti in its of | Despite a tremendous downpour) ist, the bers lion and sbexeat sce | Germany, Delegates From Many Cities to Attend Continued from Page One bring in a report on the delegates attending. After a discussion on this question a vote on the seating of the delegates will be the signal for the beginning of the actual work of the convention. Resolutions Committees will be elected and Committees for women, youth, education and con- stitution will be formed to begin hour day “concession” made to the/case of the Woodlawn, Pa., steel their work, while the other delegates | Workers in the steel industry by the workers. In this case, the National continue in congress. This, it is ex-|!ate Judge Gary. Some of the work-| (ffice of International Labor De- pected, will complete the first ses- |S in Gary are working an eight-|fonse has carried {he appeal of the sion on Saturday afternoon. Sessions of the various committees elected the first session, will con- tinue their work into Sunday morn- ing, after completion of which they will deliver their individual reports to the delegates. The rest of the morning session and part of the! afternoon will be given over to dis- cussions of the numerous resolutions reported on by the sub-committees. These resolutions are to range over every phase of interest to textile as well as all other workers. Choice of permanent officers, an National Executive Committee, and all other national functionaries, will then occupy the delegates the re- mainder of the Sunday session. The delegation, composed almost entirely of workers in the mills and leaders of strikes, will then depart for their sections and begin serious construc- tion of the new workers’ organiza- tion. Charlie’s Indian Blood Boils as Farmers Ask Pointed Questions ROSEBUD, S. D., Sept. 20 (UP). After being heckled by a farmer during his speech yesterday in Towa, Senator Charles Curtis, repub- lican candidate for the vice-presi- dency, came to the Rosebud Reser- vation today and took his fellow In- dians to task for drinking, bootleg- ging and other indulgence in mod- ern dances. i In Spence, Ia., Curtis lost his tem- per when a farmer in the audience insieted on popping questions at him about tax reduction and Teapot Dome. “You're too damned dumb ' to understand,” Curtis shot back at the inquiring plowman. Today the candidate was in a more reflective mood and spoke to the Sioux Indians of the reservation as a descendant of their own race. The occasion was the fiftieth anni- versary of the reservation. After praising the pcace-time and war records of the Sioux, Curtis warned them against idleness, liquor and modern dancing. Curtis’s maternal grandmother ‘was a princess df the Kaw Tribe. NEW PLANE WRECKED. PARIS, Sept. 20 (U.R).—The suc- cessful helicopter plane of the Span- ish inventor, Juan De La Cierva, was demolished in making a land- today. eal |of rain several hundred steel work- ers listened to Comrade Gitlow in Gary, Indiana. Great enthusiasm | prevailed and there was a storm of \applause when the vice-presidential | candidate called on the steel work- ‘ers to form mill committees and |prepare for the mighty task of or- ganizing the hundreds of thousands |of steel workers into a militant in- | dustrial union. | Fake 8-Hour Day. | Gitlow ridiculed the fake eight- }hour shift while others work ten | hours. Those on the eight-hour shift _are paid fifty cents an hour while) | those working ten hours only receive forty cents an hour. Thousands are | working part time. The speaker urged the steel work- ler's, white and black to stand shoulder to shoulder against the steel barons. He exposed the illu- \sions of capitalist democracy, de- lelared that the Socialist Party had | desérted the class struggle and no longer had a right to pose as a | party of labor, that a vote for Nor- |man Thomas was a vote for capi- _talism and that the Workers (Com- |munist) Party was the only revoli- tionary political party in the elec- tion campaign that stood on the ‘basis of an uncompromising strug- gle for the overthrow of capitalism |and the establishment of a Workers’ | and Farmers’ government. Still Strong. | Gary was one of the battle grounds jot the great steel strike, led by | William Z. Foster, Communist can- |didate for the presidency. During | the strike Gary was an armed camp | with a great force of military on the |ground ‘under the leadership of |General Wood, the notorious mili- ,tarist who was afterwards rewarded ;for his services to capitalism by a post as governor-general of. the Philippine Islands, In Lansing, Ohio, a mining town, | Gitlow addressed a large audience in| afraid to attend the meeting owing | Owing to the ac-|to threats made by the mill owners | tivities of the Workers (Commun-|that attendance at the Communist Taylor’s Grove, ist) Party in the coal strike, the miners are actively participating in |the Communist Election Campaign. |Forty per cent of those present at \the Gitlow meeting were young |workers and 75 per cent American- born. Big Meetings. The Gitlow meetings land, Toledo and Youngstown, Ohio were enthusiastic for the Commun- ist ticket and its election program. |Those great industrial cities offer | splendid opportunities for Commun-! | ist propaganda and Party organiza- | tion. In Ohio, as elsewhere the so- ‘cialist party ekes out a precarious existence, hardly functioning in an _organizational sense and owing | whatever sign of animation it shows | to a few old lawyers who come to | life during election campaigns. Comrade Patterson, candidate for governor in Ohio, spoke with Com- rade Gitlow at Toledo. The Over- land automobile works in that city employ 15,000 workers. The ,official 7 labor movement barely exit the Who wins when you read your | 4 in Cleve- date of Tammany Hall, Wall Street} |members of the Workers (Commu- |aist) Party are only the first of a series against working class organ- izations. Thé®efore the Philadelphia |local has broadened the base of the | defense by initiating a campaign for | |the repeal of the infamous Flynn sedition act of Pennsylvania, one of |the most vicious pieces of legisla- | |ture used to frame-up workers for their activities on behalf of labor. , This attempt to outlaw the Work- ers (Communist) Party in Pennsyl- |vania is being fought, even as inthe | Woodlawn steel workers to the | state supreme court, where a hear- ing will be held on the 24th. Mexican Congress to Select President Soon about two weeks, it was believed to- day. | The movement in favor of Emilio, | great strength. over to the policy of class collabora- | tion, and making no attempt what- ever to organize the workers. Over two hundred workers at-| tended the Gitlow meeting in Grand! | Rapids, Michigan. In 1924, an elec- tion campaign meeting was attend- ed only by twenty-four. The Party) organization there is growing and the comrades are confident of more rapid growth in the near future. Negroes Attend. In Pittsburgh, the Gitlow meet- ing attracted an unusually large crowd. An important feature of the| rally was the presence of seventy-| five Negro workers. | In Ambridge, Pa., a steel mill) town, | hundreds of workers were | meeting would mean dismissal. “The prospect for building the Party in this election campaign,” Comrade Gitlow declared in his re- port, “are exceedingly bright. The! class-conscious workers are not ‘fooled by the friendship claims for \Iebor made by Al Smith, the candi- and the Negro lynchers of the South. They are equally immune to the \claims of Herbert Hoover, another | favorite son of Wall Street. Nor- man Thomas, the socialist candidate |with his appeal to the liberals, small |business and the aristocracy of la- | bor, and his repudiation of the class struggle is making no headway with the masses. “The workers are learning that their only salvation is in the pro- gram of the Workers (Communist) Party which aims at the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a Workers’ and Farmers’ govern- ment.” Portes Gil appeared to be gaining t Continued from Page Onc Velho’s action the police chief thon arrogantly declared: “Velho from the beginning has been aggressive |in holding down the strikers. I am | standing squarely back of him on that. If the Textile Mill Commit- tee is to dictate who is to be in charge of police details, you might |as well install Pinto in my place.” Workers are inclined to accept this as a suggestion, judging from the remarks about the coming city elec- tions. McLeod also declared that “I put my stamp of approval on the firing |of guns. There are times when an | officer feels justified.” Frank August, the aged worker, is now confined in St. Lukes Hos- |Pital, where he will no doubt be compelled to spend a Yong time. His jtured by the beating Velho gave | MEXICO CITY, Sept. 20 (U.p)—| him after he was jailed. His case Selection of a provisional president | 18 being made the basis of a broad may not be made by congress for |™ass protest movement against the police terror. nose is broken and his arms frac-| representatives of the workers in| Sept. 20.—While the new dirigible conference then were launching a union to replace the old one. Active Organization. Graf Zeppelin is making test flights |in preparation for a cross-Atlantic flight, the Dornier 10, a 12-motored airship, the first of a series of giant In addition to conducting the| dirigibles, is being secretly con- fourteen shop strikes here are at present engaged in car-} rying thru many other organization plans. Executive board members of | the Sigman union are working as scabs in the open shops declared on| strike by the N. O. C. committee, and are entering and leaving the plants under escort of police. Esther Miller, leading militant; here, who was recently arrested for picketing activities was unanimously elected chairman at the conference. Bertha Cantor was chosen as sec- retary. M. Levine, one of the N. 0. C. national organizers and Miller also spoke at the meeting. After an executive board was elected, the members decided to pledge themselves to popularize the| campaign for the $10 voluntary tax. | Initiation in the new union is, as in; other cities, $3.35. eepee 82 THE SAME ADDRESS OVER 75 YEARS 1928 Esme ASSETS EXCEEDIN Deposits mude on or rom the Ist day o' Last Quarterly Dividend pai Ranking by Mail We Sell A. B. ETROPOLITAN;SAVINGS BAN y of the month will draw interest on all amounts from Sn Qln% to $7,500.00, at the rate of Open Mondays (all day) until 7 P. M. 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