The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 22, 1928, Page 1

TEXTILE WORKE 70,000 Polish Mill Workers Win Strike THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT —— Published daily except Sunday by The N Publishing Association, Inc., Vol. V., No. 225 Daily Worker New York, N. Y. NEW YO jer the act of Worker March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RAT RK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1928 _ > GOVERNMENTIS — DEFEATED IN A ONEDAY STRIKE Pilsudski Arbitration Move Goes Down in Failure Men Win AML Demands Strike Against Speed- Up, Wage Cuts BULLETIN. (By United Press) LODZ, Poland, Sept. 21.— The strike of 75,000 textile workers here ended today when the government an- nounced that regulations to which the workers objected would be withdrawn. Two workers wnom vnc steel to jail in the Woodlawn “sedition” fice on the labor Party ticket in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Peter Muselin, (left) a barber, is candidate from the 26th congressional dis- trict; Milan Re. 47th congressional district. The backing both of these candidates. Class War Victims Nominated on Labor Ticket trust has been trying to railroad ” case have been nominated for of- ‘ar, a clerk, is candidate for the state senate from the Workers (Communist) Party is “eae WARSAW, Poland, Sept. 21— More than 70,000 textile workers in| Lodz have joined a strike which promises to assume the proportions of a nation-wide walkout. The Pilsuds’:i regime has appoint- ed an arbitration committee with a} “Food! Clothing!” This is the view of stopping the strike. This/| insistent cry of the heroic textile move is interpreted as an attempt | strikers of New Bedford and Fall on the part of government to inter-| River, according to William T. Mur- yene in favor of employers. | doch, militant Textile Mill Commit- The workers went. on strike to|tee strike leader, who dropped into fight against the introduction of| the offices cf the Workers’ Inter- speed-up, recent wage cuts and/national Relief, 1 Union Square, working conditions. | yesterday. Police forces. are being concen-| The young Scottish labor militant trated in Lodz and troops, it is) has arrived in New York to attend rumored, are being held in readi-|the textile convention which is to ness for an “emergency.” be held today and while here con- | FLAY RIGHT WING | said, “but if we can clothe and keep the strikers warm we will win the oa, Gk i. | strike. We have started mass pick- McGrady Is Coming to |eting again. ‘This is rainy weather Aid Union-Wrecking and many of the strikers are actual- (Special to the Daily Worker) ly barefooted. Last Thursday one old striker, 60 years of age had to TORONTO, Sept. 21.—With only | © from the south to the north end one dissenting vote, the membership |0f the city to attend a mill meet- meeting of the Toronto Furriers’ Lo- ing. It was raining and when he cal 40 last night passed overwhelm-| arrived at the meeting his shoes ingly a resolution condemning in Were sodden and his soles were flap- the strongest terms the action of the A. F. of L. officials of the Interna- ping.” The youthful strike leader said tional Fur Workers’ Union in sus- pending their left wing business tional relief problems. Warm Clothes Needed, “The bosses are waiting for their old ally, cold weather,” Murdoch secretary, that the effect of this week’s shoot- ing doubled the militancy of the agent Englander and their chair-| workers. “On the night picket man and secretary, Dordok and line,” Murdoch said, “the pickets Klieg. were doubled. The workers know where the A. F. of L. and the bosses stand, they know just where we stand and they are with us 100 per cent.” Turning to Biedenkapp, he said, “Now it’s your job to feed us and keep the strikers and their kids clothed.” Biedenkapp then issued an appeal to all labor in New York and else- Edward F. McGrady, special emis- sary of the A. F. of L. to destroy the furriers’ working conditions by breaking their unions, is to come here to a secret special meeting which the right wing has called es- pecially for the members of the formerly existing Gentile locals. The calling of this meeting was kept completely secret from the where to respond to Muardoch’s Jewish workers who compose the | piteous story with money, shoes, great majority in the trade. The clothing. honest workers here, however, an- nounce that they are aware of the plans to try to arouse racial an- tagonism among the workers here and are prepared to fight the, cligue’s union-wrecking tactics thru | the Trade Union Educational | League. | Business Agent Englander re-| vealed a letter written by the right | wing supporter Currie several) weeks ago in which Currie advised McGrady and his gang to adopt their present tactics. “The winning of the New Bed- ford and Fall River strikes is sim- | ply a question of relief. The Work- Continued on Page Two T. U. E. L. Picnic at Ulmer Park Today The annual picnic of the Trade Union Educational League, long awaited by workers in New York and vicinity, and several times post- weather, will be held today at Ul- mer Park, Brooklyn, from 2 p, m. on. és ‘felved with Fred” Biedenkapp, na-! poned, on account of unfavorable} NEED OF MILL S TRIKERS oe POGROM RAGES IN BESSARABIA Government Declares It Is “Powerless” they could find, a dispatch from Bucharest says. The outbreak started yesterday |after an inflammatory speech had been made to peasants by a lawyer, Solowenke, who accused the Jews of responsibility for the shortage of grain. It was feared that this in- cident might start a general anti- Semetic progrom, The Roumanian government has let it be known that it can no longer “control” the, peasants, who are \restless due to crop failures four years running. RED RALLY WILL HIT A F. L. LIES Candidates to Present. Red Platform | The huge Red rally, to be held next Friday, Sept. 28, at 8 p. m., at the Central Opera House, at which Robert Minor, William F. Dunne and other, state and local Communist | candidates will present the platform of the class struggle of the Work- }ers (Communist) Party, will pro- vide information to the “investiga- tors” of the open-shop National |Civie Federation, of which Matthew ington and all thru the northwest. 1; | Woll. vice-president of the Ameri-|The Seattle Union Record, once a pyro GREAT CROWD AT FOSTER MEET IN ABERDEEN, WASH, Says the Daily Worker Is Only Militant Labor Paper * Exposes “Peace” Pact Urges Fight to Free Frame-Up Victims ABERDEEN, Washington (By Mail).—The largest crowd present at any meeting in this election cam- paign gathered last night in Work- ers Hall to listen to William Z. Fos- ter, presidential candidate on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket, explain the program and aims of the Party in this campaign and expose the big parties of capitalism and| the reformist socialist party as ene- mies of the work‘: class. The audience showed its erthus- iasm by frequzaz cpplause and the | speaker was at his best. In homely phrases and characteristic gestures, he drove home his points with tell- ing effects. Foster declared that |the only political party appearing before the masses in this election campaign with a solution for the problems that confront the working \class and the exploited farmers is freedom, but insisted that the work- |ers must free themselves from the ‘misery of their condition under capi- |talism by an intensified class strug-| |gle fighting on the political and in- dustrial fields and perfecting their organization for the final struggle \to overthrow capitalism and estab- lish a Workers’ and Farmers’ Gov- ernment. The place for every mili- tant worker was in the ranks of the Workers (Communist) Party, he said. War Danger. Foster dwelt on the danger of im-| perialist war that confronts the) workers of all countries and showed that the United States was leading in war preparations while talking | world peace, The Kellogg Peace Pact, he pointed out, was an Amer- ican imperialist maneuver, which would not stop war or even postpone it. "i The speaker declared that war was the greatest curse that capital-| ism has saddled the workers of the world with, and that only a revo- lution which would take govern- mental power out of the hands of the capitalists and which would ini- tiate the construction of a socialist society was the only solution of the war problem. Lauds Daily Worker. Foster dealt with the collapse of the old radical movement in Wash- : In New ¥ Outside New York. by mall, 86.00 per year. FIN k, by mail, $8.00 per year. Three of the leaders of the New Bedford textile ers’ union. They are, left to+right: leaders of the new union movemer PEASANT REVOLT IN RUMANIA SEEN Many Die in 4th Year of Crop Failure VIENNA, Sept. 21.—The Ruman- ian government fears revolutionary outbreaks among the peasants, who have been made desperate by the crop failure, a report received from Bucharest here today says. Reports told of great suffering in Rumania because of the failure of the crops for the fourth successive year, Bessarabia suffered worst and many are reported on the verge of starvation there. Supplementary reports from Bu- charest said many peasants already had died of starvation and others VIENNA, Sept, 21.—Anti-Semites the Workers (Communist). Party,| Were subsisting on acorns and sim- | pillaged the synagogue of Ismail, in/te did not offer any short cut to /&t substitutes. on relief | Bessarabia, and beat all the Jews | YOUTH CONGRESS HEARS REPORTS Chinese and Colonial Theses Approved (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Sept. 21.—In the dis- cussion which closed the seventeenth session of the Young “Communist International, Sothman, of Ger- many, said that the German schoo!) law aims to place the schools under the control of the church. Lynch, of England, stressed the fact that par- ticipation in strikes and elections should be a part of the children’s economic struggles. The eighteenth session of the next day was held under the chairman- ship of Limanovsky of Poland. In his report on the colonial com- mission, Fokin said, “The Chinese Young Communist League must overcome liquidation and strengthen its trade union work, and also in- clude more young workers. The Young Communist League of India is important and requires ideologica! enlightenment and help from the English Young MS League ittle has been achievéd in Negro blems. The United States and |can Federation of Labor, is the head, | militant labor paper, is now dead Jatin America must help. |and which is organizing to “investi- | gate” +’ activities of Communists in the labor movement and_polit- ically. This was announced last night by | and those who were once in the fore- front of the class struggle on the| side of the workers have given up |the fight and gone over to the ene- \my. He declared that the Commu- Colonial These Passed. “These must extend the section on South America on motherland tasks and the role played by the colonies \the campaign committee of the dis-| nist Daily Worker was the only during the war. A commission is , trict. Will Stress Demands. The Communist candidates who | will speak at next Friday’s meeting _will stress that section of the Red militant daily labor paper now pub- lished in the United States in the |American language and deserves the support of all workers. Speaking about the frame-up sys- Many features, including sports platform which deals with “Cap-|tem Foster called attention to the DENY PARDON TO CENTRALIA MEN sisi, it hearin,” |pected at the picnic, according to : | local T. U. E. L. Reactionary Goverhor ‘*”"* Behind Move SSR CANDY AT BAZAAR Bakers Asked to Dona One of the most popular booths|tories of the Soviet Union. Large The Parole Board of the state of | Washington following its hearing | has just denied the power for the| release of the eight Centralia I. W. W.s who were framed up in 1919, and sentenced to virtual life impris- onment. This was the news con- tained in a telegram received yes- terday at the National Office of the International Labor Defense. The hand of Governor Hartley, republican politician, who has just been renominated for office and in whom some of the friends of the defense were deluded enough to see a “friend,” is said to be back of the ou “decision made by the at the great Daily Worker-Freiheit the candy, cigar and cigarette booth. Seveian ‘tn i be the choi mn candies. e choice it Bazaar in Madison Square Garden | Soviet factories in anticipation of a Oct. 4, 5, 6 and 7 is expected to be great demand. This booth will not only contain | will be sold at this booth will also \a full stock of American candies| include choice Soviet products, as and chocolates at various prices, but | well as foreign tobaccos. Connois-_ also imported foreign candies, Many |seurs in such matters (and who is of which will be sold in this country | not?) will find much to delight Included in the | them. | Strikebreaker: The demands of |the Communist campaignefs include the abrogation of government by in- | Continued on Page Two te Day’s Work orders have been placed with the The ‘cigars and cigarettes that It is also planned to construct a Continued on Page Three events, food contests, and poetry |italist Democracy and Government crime committed against the Cen- tralia workers now jailed in Walla Walla. Those militant workers have now been over eight years in jail and the labor bureaucracy has done nothing to help free them, Continued cn Page Five Pyatakoy Readmitted to Communist Party; | Admits His Mistakes (Wireless to the Daily Worker.) | MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Sept, 21— The Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union decided to re-admit Pyatakov into the Communist Party. Pyatakov fulfills the demands of the fifteenth Party Congress of So- viet Russia respecting the Trotzky- ist opposition and openly admits its errors. He demonstrated his sin- | cere wish to compensate for his mis- takes by work. necessary for questions of young workers and peasants.” The colonial theses unanimously, Young then reported for the Com- Continued on Page Two HISS U.S.WAR ON NICARAGUA was passed Paris Workers Protest Lon Chaney Film PARIS, Sept. 21—An American) movie glorifying the American ma- rines provoked a demonstration | against intervention in Nicaragua at the Theatre Madeline last night. | As Lon Chaney, starring in “Tell) It to the Marines” was shown lead-| ing a detachment of American troops against Chinese, shouts of “How about Nicaragua” rose thru- out the hall. It was several moments before, sided. Leaders at Big Meet to SET : Fred E. Beal, William T ‘les: ) Wes 2 ee Murdoch nt will Appear in Woll-Off on a New Hunt tor Terrible Reds Matthew Woll is to depart on an- into the wilds of the hitherto unexplored regions of New York City “and other expedition America, particularly into hat section of it known as Union Square, in search of the dangerous, labor-faker eating creatures known as the “Reds.” The big Florida tornado having subsided contrary to some predic- tions without having stirred up any commotion in New York City, the day being particularly dull and list- Matthew Woll who is acting ident of the open shop National ic Federation in his full time and vice president of the American Federation of Labor in his spare hours, bethoght himself uthat a new Red “investigation” would be just the thing to liven up the dreary day. Girds Himself For Battle. So the brave young labor bucan- eer, donning his favorite fireman’s helmet and strapping himself with his dependable tin sword, yesterday called together his playfellow of the National Civic Federation and hav- ing each drawn a drop of blood from their forefingers swore by their sacred trust (they were meeting in the offices of the Bankers Club, 120 Broadway) that they would never rest until the new lairs of the Continued on Page Three BRITAIN BLOGKS ARMS PROPOSALS League Session Breaks Up in Turmoil GENEVA, Sept. 21.—Yesterday the editorial commission of the league of nations disarmament com- mission submitted a resolution on the disarmament question. Germany disapproved of the resolution pro- posed a preparatory disarmament commission to begin labors next year, but only on condition that powers settle all differences between them. Stage Bitter Quarrel Today the third commission for disarmament held a meeting, but no agreement was reached. Instead there was an exciting discussion during which time the German rep- resentative, Count Von Bernsdorff stated that the resolution was a renunciation of the ideas of the League of Nations and previous disarmament proposals since it de- mands preliminary settlement of differences between powers. Britain Resists Proposals. The demand that disarmament proposals be instantly taken up re- gardless of settlement of differ- ences between all powers was sharply resisted by Britain. In fact Britain made it very clear that it was opposed to disarmament pro- (Special to the Daily Worker) By AMY SCHECHTER NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 21. —Inquiries among workers in the National Spun Silk Company, run here under the Frieder Plan, which W. E. G. Batty, secretary of the New Bedford Textile Council, is peddling to New Bedford mill own- | ers as a basis for strike settlement, shows uf the plan as the worst sort | the storm of hisses and catcalls sub- |/of speed-up scheme, and the Batty, _ [Binns, Riviere, McMahon gang as, New Fighting Union strike, who will many other textile centers at a huge convention in New York City that will launch a new textile work- and Eli Keller. Monday's issue of BATTY OFFERS SPEEDUP meet today with delegates from Pictures of other the Daily Worker. JAPAN READY TO SEIZE MANCHURIA Cireulate Reports of Coups and Bandits SHANGHAI, Sept. 21,.—Dis- patches from Manchuria state that Japan is holding 1,500 troops in readiness to rush into Manchuria, should a “conspiracy” that is alleged to have been discovered in Harbin, materiatize. Manchurian reports say that docu- ments have been seized in raids that indicate that a coup d’etat was being planned by Chang Tsung-chang, former governor of Sharitung, who, it has been repeatedly alleged, is supported and encouraged by Japanese government. Further reports, SCHIFFRIN CASE AGAIN PUT OFF District Attorney Is Stalling for Time For the second time the hearing Schiffrin, left wing worker against whom the right wing is trying to prepare a frame-up on a charge of homicide, the second time the postponement was in the. case of William was postponed. And, for demanded by the district attorney. Judge Vitalie, in the Bronx Homi- cide Court, granted the postpone- rhent until Tuesday; Sept. 25 Time For Frameup. As had happened at the first and second hearings, the district attor- ney pleaded case and to obtain witnesses.” Al- though the attorney for the accused worker protested against the prisonment of Schiffrin, nevertheless denied by the court. The scores of workers who have donated their time and energy to leading a movement for the defense of Schiffrin see something sinister in the ‘constant postponement of a case that is admittedly clear cut and therefore announce their determination to extend the simple. They Continued on Page Two TWO POISONED. PAWTUCKET, R. L., Sept. 21 (UP).—One man was dead and an- other was believed dying today from carbon monoxide poisoning resulting from the operation of a still in the cellar of a bungalow. posals of any kind. The debate fin- ally ended amidst turmoil and the resolution was referred back to the editorial commission. It is now doubtful if this year’s conference will arrive at any decision regard- ing convening of a disarmament ‘conference. outstanding traitors even among A, F. of L. reactionaries. For excellent reasons all parties | to the attempted sell-out of the strike on a speed-up basis have care- fully kept the details of the Frieder Plan shrouded in mystery. Fortu- nately for their intended victims, the mill strikers, who have fought courageously through 23 weeks of strike the National Spun Silk Com- pany, is right here in New Bedford Continued on Page Three the believed to be of a Japanese source, state that ban- ditry and general unrest prevails “time to prepare his im- because the district attorney kept delaying the hearing, his plea for bail was AL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents RS’ CONVENTION OPENS HERE TODAY NEW UNION WILL BE FORMED AT HISTORIC MEET Delegated: From Many Centers Will Take Part Union Leaders te Speak N. ¥. Workers Invited to Attend A new, powerful, national textile workers’ union will be officially launched in this city today. Delegates coming from all the largest textile manufac- turing centers of the country have been coming into the city for the past two days to participate in the convention called by the Textile Mill Committees to establish national trade union of the natio textile workers. The convention, which is scheduled to contine for two days, opens this afternoon at 2 o’clock in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irv- ing Place. Large Delegation. Approximately 250 men and wom- en, chosen and sent here by thou- sands of exploited mill workers, are to gather for the purp: of forg- ing the weapon of a nation-wide in- dustrial union, with which the work- A large number of volunteers are urgently needed as ushers, clerical workers, etc., during the sessions of the new Textile Workers’ Union which will open at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, this afternoon and continue until late tomorrow night. Those eager to help should get in touch with I. Zimmerman, at the hall, today at 12 o'clock. Accommodations for many of the delegates who will attend the con- vention are also needed, it is an- nounced. ers intend to fight for the improve- ment of their miserable working conditions. After listening to the greetings from leaders of the left wing trade union movement here, including the new national miners’ and needle trades organizations, the delegates will immediately get down to the job of forming the structure of the new textile workers’ union. An- nouncement was made yesterday that Jay Lovestone, general secre- tary of the Workers (Communist) Party, will address the convention at its opening. Albert Weisbord, national secretary of the Textile Mill Committees, will then give a report on the sithation in the in- dustry. Although the convention itself is called together by and is under the auspices of the Textile Mill Com- mittees, delegates to the convention also include representatives from bona fide local unions, either split off from the American Federation of Labor, or sent here by indepen- dent textile unions. A large ma- jority of the delegates, however, are sent here directly by the individual mill committees the T. M. C. has succeeded in establishing in nearly every sizable textile town or city. | New Bedford’s 28,000 striking textile operatives, now in the midst of a brilliant struggle of 23 weeks duration against a wage cut and against the officials of reactionary unions will be represented by a solid block of about 60 delegates. Before the arrival of the New Bed- ford delegation, it was learned that the influence and power of the Tax- tile Mill Committees has grown to such an extent as to be able to have yan officially elected delegate sent here by each of the 56 mills tied up by the strike. A long list of cities, including all New England and middle Atlantic states, reaching as far down as Maryland, will be the territory cov- ered by the organizational arm of the convention even before the new union is formally established. Big Dance to Welcome | Young Textile Workers | The Young Workers (Commun- jist) League of District 2 has ar- jranged a dance tonight at | the Workers Center, to welcome the youth delegates to the National Tex- tile. Union which is being formed tonight and Sunday in New York | City. Fifty young textile workers as delegates from New Bedford, Fal! River, Passaic and many other cities will pe present. ae ae Sor 3 ez a om it we ul