The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 25, 1928, Page 1

- — | Special New York State Communist Election Campaign Issue THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS | TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT atered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of Marek 3, 1879. ED | FINAL CITY | | ITION Vol. V. No. 227 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Outside New York, by mail, by mail, $8. 00 per ye New York, _.__ NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1928 Price 3 Cents COMMUNIST STATE ELECTION RALLY HERE FRIDAY NIGHT! For Governor NEEDLE WORKERS CALL CONFERENCE FOR RED DRIVE Shop Delegates Will | Lay Plans for ® Campaign Open-Air Meets in City | Gold, Zimmerman. and Liptzin on Ticket ‘-“c William F. Dunne, who is can- For U. 8. Senator POOR FARMERS — RALLY TO RED ELECTION DRIVE Robert Minor, candidate for the In a ringing statement denouncing the united front of the socialist party, Smi Tammany Hall, re- publican officials, American Federa- tion 6f Labor bureaucracy and the didate for Governor of New York State on the Workers (Commu- | | | nist) Party ticket. He is a mem- | ber of the Central Executive Com- | mittee of the Party and associate editor of its central organ, the \aeees? | Daily Worker. Dunne has been for years active in the American labor movement. needle trades manufacturers against the militant needle workers, the Needle Trades Campaign Committee for support of the Workers (Com-| } munist) Par! meeting in Aj to all needle workers in the city of | New York to elect representatives to a shop delegates’ conference to endorse the Communist ticket in the elections, to be held on Tuesday, October 9, at 6 p. m., at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 42nd St. It is| expected that hundreds of shops will | send delegates and establish shop | campaign committees. | U.S. to Lay Down Law to Europe Workers Enthusiastic. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. (U-.P.) Great enthusiasm among the|—Final touches were made on the workers in the needle industry fol-|TePly the United States will make lowed the announcement that a/t? England and France on the so- needle trades campaign committee | Called secret naval accord, at a pro- had been formed. The militant | tTacted conference at the State De- needle workers have learned through | Partment today. bitter struggle what Al Smith's | Participating in the conference |U. S. Senate from New York. Mem- jof the Central Executive Committee |of the Workers (Communist) Party |and editor of its official organ, the Daily Worker. HOLD BUILDING <2: REPLY TONAVAL TRADES RED MEET An election rally to endorse the working class platform and candi- dates of the Workers (Communist) Big Communist Vote Is| Expected in Many Sections Is Sixth Farm State Non-Partisan League! Now Dead The Foster and Gitlow nominat- ing petitions for the state of North Dakota have been filed in Bismarck, |the state capital, ‘by Arthur Starr, | Workers (Communist) Party rep- resentative, and the campaign to put the national ticket of the Party on the ballot is completed, according to a telegram received at the head- “democracy” and. republican. “pros- | W°Te Secretary of State Kellogg perity” means. They have wit- nessed the complete degeneration of the socialist party and its open col- \. laboration with Tammany and the Ti | manufacturers to bring back sweat- | shop conditions and destroy union organization. They have learned Continued on Page Two MANY BARGAINS AT HUGE BAZAAR Urge Workers to Buy at Big Event Many workers are postponing the purchase of necessary articles of clothing until the great National Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar at Madison Square Garden Oct. 4, 5, 6 and 7. They realize that the bar- gains that will be offered at the bazaar will mean a great saving on everything they buy. An appeal was issued last night by the National Daily Worker-Frei- heit Bazaar Committee, 30 Union Square, urging all workers to*do their buying at the bazaar. “Even if your old coat or suit Continued cn Page Five BARES POLAND'S ANTLUSSR PLOT MOSCOW, Sept. 24.—The plot- ting of Petlura officers in Poland Seeretary of Navy Wilbur, and Ad- mirals Charles F. Hughes, .Hilary P. Jones and Andrew T. Long. It is believed the note will go to ondon and Paris within 48 hours. Kellogg will first submit it to) President Coolidge—probably late today—for his approval. Admiral Hughes is chief of naval operations, while Jones and Long | represented the United States at) |Geneva Naval Conference last year. |These three are considered the) | government’s foremost technical ad-| | visors on naval disarmament ques-| | tions. | oo eee | | Secretary of State Kellogg, it is| |believed, will strongly protest |against the Anglo-French pact. The jeonclusion of the pact has sharply brought out the growing differences | |between American and British im-| \perialism and exposes the hypo-_ leritical nature of the “peace” talk, | |with which the imperialist powers | ‘have been attempting to cloak mili- \tary preparations. | Hoover is believed to have con-| ferred with Coolidge on the Anglo- Washington. Hae ae, LONDON, Sept. 24.—The Anglo- French naval pact and the expected protest from the United States was the chief subject before the British Cabinet Council which met today. a sharp one. Premier Poincare in Paris and travelled to London with Lord Cus- hendon, who is one of the principal authors of the agreement. Snow in Jamestown | |Party will be held by the building | quarters of the National Election |trades workers of New York Sat-| Campaign Committee, 43 E. 125th |urday, Oct. 6 at 2 p. m., at the La-|St., New York City. For Congress J | Richard B. Moore, Communist Candidate for Congress in the 21st Congressional District; National Organizer of American Negro La- bor Congress. NEGRO WORKERS bor Temple, 243 E. 84th Street. | North Dakota is the sixth of the | Albert Weisbord, just elected sec-| great agricultural states in the |retary-treasurer of the newly-or-!north and middle west where the ganized National Textile Workers’ Communist ticket has been placed |Union of America and leading) on the ballot and the twenty-second |building trades workers will speak.|in the entire country to be placed Workers who will participate in}in the red column. this rally to support the candidates Expect Big Red Vote. and platform of the only working} The number of states already filed class party in the country will in-/for the Workers (Communist) Par- clude painters, carpenters, bricklay-|ty exceeds by eight the total num- ers, plumbers’ helpers, cabinet mak-| ber on the ballot in 1924, the first grs and others. Even in the build-|time the Workers (Communist) ing trades, once regarded as “safe-/ Party took the field in a national Continued on Page Tuo’ |election campaign. ° aie ARE OLS The states now on the ballot are: | North Dakota, South Dakota, Mon- WOMEN ORGANIZE j tana, Iowa, Nebraska, Arizona, Kan- sas, Arkansas, New Mexico, Texas, j | Tennessee, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jer- sey, New Hampshire and Massachu- —— | setts, Starr reports that the signers of Endorse Workers Party the Communist petitions not only Program |were willing to help put the Party The United Council of Working’ names, but that they are showing Women has unanimously endorsed |the greatest enthusiasm for the cam- the Workers (Communist) | program and ticket. Each city coun-| vote in the elections, bring the mes- cil has formed a campaign commit-|sage of the class struggle to the. exploited farmers of the state and) tee and has arranged discussions on |ticket on the ballot by signing their | Party | paign to roll up a heavy Communist | French alliance when he was in) The Kellogg note is expected to be | | the Communist program and the women workers. Open-air meetings under the aus- | pices of the councils have been held jin various sections. They have | pledged a minimum of $500 for the | campaign, and are now making full preparations for an intensive drive |among working women. | According to Kate Gitlow, secre- | tary of the body, the wives of pro- |gressive needle, food, metal and Premier Baldwin who presided at/ building trades workers are throw- the Cabinet meeting for the first! ing themselves wholeheartedly into time in seven weeks conferred with| the campaign. help to swell the ranks of the Work-| ers (Communist) Party. Non-Partisan League Dead. For several years the non-parti- san league was a powerful factor| in North Dakgta as well as in the surrounding states. Under the lead- ership of Townley huge sums of money were contributed by the farmers, only to see the organiza- | tion drifting into the control of the squandered on wild cat schemes and | big capitalist parties, their money | their leaders engaging in all kinds of get-rich-quick propositions. Other Organizations Also. Other women’s organizations are, The non-partisan league is today HAIL RED TICKET Workers Party Calls | for Full Equality | That Negro workers are becom- | ing disillusioned with the republi-| | cam party, which poses as the friend | lof the Negroes, as well as with the} | democratic party, whose disenfran-| |chisement of Negro workers in the| | South is notorious, is evident by the ready response of Negro workers of |New York to the platform of the | Workers (Communist) Party at open lair meetings held by the party of |the class struggle in such Negro centers as Harlem, Williamsburg and Brownsville. Policy for Years. The barring of Negro workers from participating in the primaries in Texas by the democrats, as well ‘as the open statement of Senator Carter Glass, democratic. imperialist of Virginia, that “white supremacy | lis too precious a thing to permit, Negroes to vote” is in line with the open policies and practices of the democrats since the Civil War, Negro workers have also been given cause to question republican pledges by the ousting of Mrs. NATIONAL BODY Deak,Dawson,Murdock | Chosen as Vice- Presidents National Council of 33, |Delegates Return to! Centers, Strike Area | mall hours of Meeting into the the early morning, the National Council of the Na-| tional Textile Workers’ Union of America, launched yesterday in this city after a two-day convention, made decisions on questions that de- AT HUGE Workers Party Goes on Ballot in North Dakota New Textile Union Committees Plan Futu ve Work -, ASSIGNTASKSIN RED NOMINEES TO PRESENT DRIVE TO BUILD CLASS STRUGGLE PLATFORM DEMONSTRATION ‘Central Opera House Will Be Scene of Meet; Speakers to Expose Boss Parties, Socialists Will Stress State and Local Issues Affecting Interests of Workers, Poor Farmers The first huge state election rally of the Workers (Com- munist) Party campaign will be between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. held on Friday night, Septem- members of|ber 28, at 8 p. m., at the Central Opera House, 67th Street, New York militants and progressive workers in every in- dustry arg eagerly preparing to crowd the hall to overflowing to hear the leading state and local candidates pr sent the plat- manded their immediate attention|forms of the only anti-capitalist party in America, the Work- and concluded by electing an exec-|ers (Communist) Party, expose the degeneration and betrayals utive committee of 11, which will| of the socialist party as well as to prove that the state and city governments are controlled by the banking, traction, power and act with full authority between plenum sessions of the larger body. Leaders of the militant movement now in New York declare that the closing moments of the tex- tile union ‘ convention were the “most inspiring and hopeful that they had ever seen.” In this they referred particularly hour or so when the election of offi- cers took place. rs | When the young chairman, Fig- uerido asked Weisbord whether he accepted the nomination for the, presidency, Weisbord responded with a speech of declination favor- ing Reid for the chief office. After a great ovation Reid was elected. Weisbord accepted and was elected by enthusiastic acclamation to the Continued on Page Five BERLIN FASCISTS STAGE BATTLE Steel Helmets Demand Black Dictator BERLIN, Sept. 24 (UP).—Thirty persons were wounded during polit- to the last labor | railroad intere ENDORSE ENTIRE RED PLATFORM Campaign Committee Is Formed Formation of a food workers’ election campaign committee repre- senting twenty union, co-operative and other progressive organizations featured the first food workers’ election rally Friday evening, with Manhattan Lyceum crowded by workers from New York bakeries, hotels, restaurants, cafeterias and food stores. This committce will devote special efforts toward the mobilization of all food workers to vote Communist and at the same time will help the defense fight of William Schiffrin, member of the new Butchers’ and Chicken Work- ers’ Union, who is being held by the Booze, a Negro delegate, from an/toa} rioting in Spandau, a suburb of | Police without bail facing a charge official republican conference meet- ing in Washington, D. C., and the| segregation of all Negro delegates at the republican convention. Negro Workers Awakening. Berlin, on Sunday. | Members of the Steel Helmet and Reichsbanner organizations fought they were police. | dispersed by of homicide. John J. Ballam, representing the Workers (Communist) Party, was |in the streets for several hours until | given a big ovation, winning the unanimous endorsement of the par- These actions and a long list of; Buildings were demolished during ty’s 192% election program and its similar ones have begun to dispel the fighting, which developed into candidates. the illusions in the minds of Negro) workers as to the role of the re publican and democratic _ partie: with respect to Negroes. The Ne- Continued on Page Two a real battle. | + * # Demand Fascist BERLIN, Sept. 24.—The Steel overnment. gro workers of New York and else-| Helmet organization, a fascist asso- ized throughout the industry; ciation of war veterans, has decided to attempt a national referendum Organization of the food workers into industrial unions able to cope effectively with trus- tified industry was urged by Bal- lam. “If food workers were organ- stead of just 5 per cent as today, they would hold in their hands the FOOD WORKERS providing a change in the German power to stop the next world war,” form of government, inclfding the he stated. also taking action to support the, Communist campaign. Lithuanian/ and Finnish women’s councils are) raising funds. Among the groups} affiliated with the New York Work-! Continued on Page Three THREE EARTH SHOCKS EL CENTRO, Calif. Sept. 24 for the overthrow of the Soviet gov-| JAMESTOWN, N. Y.. Sept. 24 | ing Women’s Federation many are|(UP).—Three minor earth shocks ernment in the Ukraine, with the help of Polish government funds and the cooperation of certain pow- erful capitalist countries, was un- covered by Clemeny Voroshiloff, People’s Commissar of War in the Soviet Union, in a speech delivered at Kiev, one of the most important cities in Ukrainia, and the most hard hit by the Polish. counter-revolu- tionary invasion of 1920, Voroshiloff pointed especially to a speech of the governor of the Po-| lish province of Volhynia, showing that government officials them-} national movement against the Sov- jet Union. The commissar pointed out that it was due entirely to the | peaceful policy of the Soviet Gov- Continued on Page Three (UP).—This city was treated to its first taste of winter this morning when snow fell for five, minutes. | The temperature was 39. ' pledged to back the Workers (Com-/were felt by cities of the Imperial munist) Party in the elections. One| Valley yesterday. No damage was of the most acgive workers in the|reported. The tremors were re- Continued on Page Two | posted at 8:05, 9:40 and 9:45 a, m. FOR PRESIDENT FOR VICE PRESIDENT . FOR GOVERNOR . FOR LIEUT.-GOV. FOR U. S. SENATE . MANHATTAN. 6th Assembly District ... 8th Assembly District ... 14th Congressional District SPEEDY WAR PLANES 14th Senatorial District ........... PARIS, Sept. 24 (UP).—The HARLEM. Spanish inventor, Juan De La, Cierva, plans an autogiro plane capable of making 250 miles an hour, he said before leaving for jondon yesterday to get new parts his present autog'ro, which was bed landing last week. 17th Asgembly District .. 18th A: bly District . 21st Assembly District 18th Senatorial District . 20th Congressional District | 21st’ District .. wie . WILLIAM Z. FOSTER BENJAMIN GITLOW . WILLIAM F. DUNNE| . FRANKLIN P. BRILL .. ROBERT MINOR selves were involved in this inter-'FOR COMPTROLLER. .LOVETT FORT-WHITEMAN FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL .. JULIET 8. POYNTZ Alexander Trachtenberg ©. Abraham Markoff ee ee BRONX. 8rd Assembly District . 4th Assembly District 5th Assembly District 6th Assembly District | 22nd Senatorial District 23rd Congressional District | 24th Congressional District ... BROOKLYN. 6th Assembly District 9th Assembly District | 14th Assembly District . Hert Miller oad -Asaesibly District | 28rd Assembly District . | 7th Senatorial District .. 10th Congressional District . QUEENS. ... Philip Frankfeld Charles Zimmerman Rebecea Grecht +... Samuel Nesin Joseph Boruchowitz Ben Gold Samuel Leibowitz .» Boris Lifshitz . Louis Hendin George Primoff lexandra H. Chalupski . Herbert Zam . Samuel Liptzin Rachel Ragozin David Benjamin Bertram D. Wolfe .. Albert Moreau .. Edward Welsh Nicholas Napoli| Borough President ... James P. Cannon \,1st Assembly District Richard B. Moore 2nd Congressional District . +... George Powers . Abraham Harfield + Paul Crouch DISTRIBUTE 15,000 “DAILIES” TODAY Fifteen thousand copies of this special edition of the Daily Worker will be given out today in a mass distribution which will take in sec- tions of New York City where the Daily Worker has heretofore been unknown. The entire city will be canvassed by members of the vari- |ous sections of the Workers (Com- |munist) Party and the Young Work- lers (Communist) League in an ef- |fort to give momentum to the Daily | Worker Election Campaign Drive |for 10,000 new readers. The special edition will aid the Workers (Communist) Party in its |election campaign and its fight to| | reach the masses of workers, in ad- | dition to bringing the Daily Worker | before New York labor in its huge | drive for increased circulation. | Harlem Circulation Doubled. Indications all point to the suc- cess of the distribution today. Last |night, a similar distribution in Har- ‘lem, of only 1,000 copies, proved |that the work of the Daily Worker | in Harlem has been well worth the leffort expended there. The circula-| |tion in the district has doubled, es- ipecially among the Negro woxkers, | since the drive was initiated, © \ scrapping of the parliamentary sys- tem. WANT CANNON FODDER ROME, Sept. 24 (UP).—-The cab- inet, it ~was announced today, will double the tax on bachelors at a coming mecting. WHY THERE IS NO OTHER PAPER THAT IS LIKE THE DAILY WORKER Because our paper is the one publication in the English lan- for the working class. Worker can you obtain facts regarding the great mine struggles, guage that speaks the textile strike, the new unions nish fighting weapons against the Because the Daily Worker is a revolutionary political organ of the working class. No where else can you learn the facts regarding the strike- breaking role of Al Smith, the Morgan-Tammany tool that is run- Every day we publish facts regarding Smith ning for president. that no other paper can publish. Do you know that Herbert Europe as a monster whose hands ing class? These and many other facts other man and woman and child obtained only in our columns. Buy the Daily Worker on all newsstands. Only the Daily Worker publishes such facts. Describe Right Wing Attack. W. Molamund and E. Werner of | the butchers, told of the attack of the gangster-ridden right wing on the progressive, the latter having been a member of the Hebrew Butchers’ Union for 38 years and Continued on Page Two Only in the Daily that are being organized to fur- bosses. Hoover is known to millions in drip with the blood of the work- | of interest to you and to every that works for a living can be Many Other Speakers. Robert Minor, editor of the Daily and candidate for U. §. Senate on the Communist ticket, who has just returned from a tour of’ up-state New York, will be one of the principal speakers. Other speakers at the Central Opera House meeting include Wm, F. Dunne, candidate for governor; Juliet Stuart Poyntz, candidate for attorney general; Bertram D. Wolfe, candidate for congress from the Tenth Congressional District; Lov- ett Fort-Whiteman, a Negro worker and candidate for comptroller; Re- becca Grecht, election ampaign manager of the New York district and candidate for assembly in the Fifth District of the Br Richard B. Moore, candidate for congress in st Congressional Di Philip Frankfeld, district organizer of the Young Workers (Communist) League and candidate for assembly in the Third Bronx District. Will- iam W. Weinstone, district organi- zer of the orkers (Communist) Party, will preside. Parties of Big Business. “In this election campaign the role played by the political parties of the country as open instruments of the classes they represent is more clearly seen than ever before,” reads a statement issued on the Red Rally of Friday by the District Campaign Committee. “Both the re- publican and democratic parties are loudly assuring Big Business that they will obediently obey its will if elected, that Wall Street fears noth- ing from the candidates of either party is proved by the heavy cam- paign contributions made to both parties by those who will profit by the election of either capitalist party—automobile magnates, coal kings, public utility and power magnates and other representatives of big business. Only at election times do the republicans and demo- crats pose as the fricnds of the worker by citing distorted statistics and spreading lies concerning the Continued on Page Two FOSTER VISITS MOONEY IN JAIL (Special to the Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24.—Wil- liam Z. Foster, Communist candi- date for president, visited San Quentin Prison and spoke to three famous class war prisoners, Tom Mooney, J. B. McNamara and Mat Schmidt, who is serving a life sen- tence on framed charges. Foster was warmly received by the three victims of capitalist “justice.” Foster was also given a great ovation lasting five minutes at a banquet and reception in his honor at the Cooperative Center. He | spoke for 30 minutes and urged the intensification of the fight to free the class war prisoners. An appeal for support of the Election Cam- paign Fund of the Workers Party was made and $250 in cash and pledges collected. A number of ap- plications for Party memb<fhip Vontinued on Page Three+