The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 25, 1928, Page 2

Bronx Parents CONFERENCE TO SCORE TAMMANY HALL AND 6, 0. . Squabble for Contracts Causes Delay THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1928 Association Will Protest Against Bad School Conditions on Friday | HOLD BIG RALLY a IN RED CAMPAIGN ON FRIDAY NIGHT Party Nominees to Be Speakers Rebecca Grecht For Congress 'Anti-Japanese Riots Incited in Hawaii on Kidnapping Case SIGNATURE DRIVE HONOLULU, Sept. 24 (UP).— Myles Yutaka Fukanaga, 19-year- |old Japanese student who confessed ! | Saturday night to the kidnaping and NEGRO WORKERS Sst Stet Ports = RESPOND TO RED ELECTION DRIVE Workers Party Calls for Full Equality i Continued from Page One | where have heard the campaigners of the Workers (Com i ly + slaying of young Gill Jamieson, was || held under heavy guard today while authorities sought to prevent dem- i onstrations against Japanese mer- |chants and colonists. The first instance of anti-Japan- «se feeling was seen in the invasion of a Japanese restaurant by a mob which destroyed furniture and fix- tures of the establishment. i p f y Many Obtain Totals of | 100 One of the outstanding features of the election campaign waged in New York . City by the Workers | | | Continued from Page One “paradise” in which the Americar worker lives, 4 Oe (Communist) Party is the drive Socis y | and liste: tat f the} i casey see ee | Coaiiuelt proper wie Gee | tures t& put the uatiorel, statetned| ,<°eceTiey TIEN following the strument of the middle class, the mands for Negro workers. For the ai gees eerat re ie ieee am youth’s confession, 20,000 persons small business man. All pretence first time, the Negro workers have jPallot, (as twov crags chats ca. stormed the front of the city jail | : at representing the workers was met a political party that) took a sults of the signature campaign|2"? Were dispersed only when the | Assembly in the dropped at its last convention when firm, four-square stand on full so-|4 | been productive: the rasponse of the|{i7@ department turned streams of | District, Bronx. New | it repudiated the class struggle. The cial, political and industrial equality : Lang |water upon them. Kufanaga later _ Mana Socialist Party is in open alliance State candidate for Attorney-Gen-| Party membership generally which ger for | of the Negroes. was removed to the penitentiary, if ; 2 i Es the W. D .| has by far exceeded the responge in rt , (Communist) Party.| with the trade union bureaucrats As a result, many Negro workers (70, Head of the Women's Depart.’ ious campaigns, and the pfpa,|t2 await appearance before the extent n are en- organizer and to crush all attempts at militant, | who have attended Communist open-/ ment of the Workers! (Communist) toi oe earried on by the Red/@Fand jury tonight. an a haat n the recent minere unionism. The fact that Louis Wald. AS air meetings and bought Communist pirdsueeiacsend oF salsa miscaburs eA thabers iy sections: cess to other labor struggles. ™an, the Socialist candidate for a Jolf'e, candidate for| literature, have joined the Workers| “ve Committee of New York. For iB | . nools is « ave toreedocemmelil aa strict Exerutive @overnor of New York, finds hims|.,véviram De Wolfe, candidate for st) Party, ready tovfignt "any ears active in the labor | Due to the work of the Commun Red Night Saturday out ten to P. S. 89 every Committee of the Workers (Commu- Self in agreement with the republi-| 7.07 f° ent is tig de with their white com-| movement in this city. Well known |} bake Gates ein ata seated i ili morning, erossing on their way such| ci) Periy of Now York, can presidential candidate's views on District of Brooklyn. | Member of rsdeg against the exploitation of the|¢Peaker and teacher ser of slgpainaren wil have heen| in es dangerous highways as White Plains Ls government and business furnishes | ‘*¢ Sea ae Cr enaene nuareee: & TREES TE con | Gobained. Fy ie One ot the. ceive, bosses. ers are among the most exploited class struggle platform of the Work-| : PLUMBERS’ MEET Many Aid in Drive. ers (Communist) Party of vital im-) | portance to them. Negroes | who have joined the ranks; (Special to the Daily Worker) The signature drive has been vig- peach OU eager aang ta? sot ae ATLANTIC CITY, (By Mail).—| orously pushed by the various sec- 200 We 186th aeeeat te Bereat | structive. proposal “and progressive | Party in New York. Competition be- ville, many Negro workers visit the|"e8°lution, the Convention of the| tween the Me Tart Re ee headquarters of the Party at 154| United Association of Plumbers and| ii as oe is number of sig- Watkins Street regularly and take al Steam Fitters ‘which closed its ses- | ne pyre ‘nai ae earn an aid deep ‘interest in the work of the, Sions here Friday, made a record | Thects cee aid ot Sabb * With Party. Many have joined. The|for reaction and betrayal of the | oe eee te ee aemtie honeve | same is true in Williamsburg, in the| Workers in the trades. seem to be safely in the capable Workers (Communist) Party con-| federation, Ray Ragozin, is herself| heart of which a Negro section is _ Resoliitions, on phepplogen Tl iands of Jos Kiss, imenber’ of the tains specific workingelass demands|a candidate of the Workers (Com-|@Pidly being build. lief, against injunctions, for the or-| Harlem section of the Party, who on questions which affect the every-|munist) Party in the 23rd assembly| Recently special distributions of ganization of the unorganized and/ himself collected 450 signatures. | day lives of the workers, both in the| district, Brooklyn. issues of the Daily Worker, con-|other progressive measures went! Th the Bronx, where workers, in- The fact that Negro work- A Red Night will be held in in Williamsburg this Saturday, when a dozen Communist campaigners |will present the platform of the class struggle to workers at prom- inent corners in the section. The speakers scheduled are Wil- jliam W. Weinstone, Organizer of | District 2; David Benjamin, Agit- | prop Director of the district; Rebec- ca Grecht, State Communist Cam- paign Manager; A. Bimba, Section 6 Organizer and Red candidate in the 13th Brooklyn Assembly Dis- trict; Fred Biedenkapp, head of the Workers International Relief; Sam Nesen, Red candidate in the 6th Bronx Assembly District; George Preinoff, Leroy, Wright, Vera Bush, and Phil Frankfeld, running in the 8rd Bronx Assembly District. All the speakers will report at the Williamsburg headquarters, 46 | October 1, to put the Communist! candidates of fifteen assembly dis- tricts, eight congressional and four senatorial districts on the ballot and also a Communist candidate for Boro president of Queens, notorious for its sewer scandals. the Workers (Communist) Par and editor of “The Communist,” of- ficial monthly organ of the Workers (Communist) Party. Road, and the Boston Post Road, which are always filled with heavy traffic. fresh proof of the complete degen- eration of the Socialist Party, and exposes it fully as an agent of capi- talism. Only Party of Labor. gia “The Workers (Communist) Par- ty,” the statement concludes, “has faithfully supported the militant struggles of workers against wage- WOMEN ORGANIZE NEEDLE WORKERS PALL CONFERENCE Shop Delegates to Lay Plans No Results from Mayor. The Association has al- h Mayor ard of Education. But they receive ly evasive an- swers, and no ite action or al promises to relieve the s 1 re the answers of both the mayor's s i d by the and the Board York have been have always carried in- definite statements with impossible reservations. The reason for the delay in im- proving the school conditions of the children of the Bronx is believed to be the result of political squabbles among the T: republican factions in the Because of Parents’ ied to negotiate w Harlem Active. In Negro Harlem the number of collaboration policies of the A. F. of | L. The Workers (Communist) | Continued from Page One on of } that only the Workers (Communist) Party supports them in their strug- gles, and is the only political or- ganizat’on that stands with them in their great task of building a new fighting union of all needle work- ers. Outstanding Fighters. Outstanding fighters in needle ¢ x e cecal ES aliooa and fantort d atuhome.| « * : x »_,); taining articles on subjects vital to| down before the steam roller of the | cluding boys and girls from 16 to 19| Ten Eyck St., at 7:30 p. m. ey RRA ene ec ee Tae Ghd grems iaera aaa | Me Werverks (Community Paces Parte” anconding toa seaemmunis') | Negro workers in New York, have|official machine. Instead the labor| years of age--are being exploited z Wolves the control of fat contracts, the furriers in their strikes and bat- the only party which represents the| sued by State Campaign Manager| take Place in Negro Harlem, where|officialdom voted itself an increase] under terrible conditions and for low| FIRE DESTROYS UFA FILMS, they have suffeged from police bru-|in salary averaging about $1,800 per| wages in handkerchief and shirt | tality and been viciously discrimi-|officeholder. President Coefield, | factories, laundries, piano factories, . | nated against. who previously was forced to make large bakeries and others, the Red i i | bef ve f | om ‘ . pane ‘Red csudulaian: senties = ties sta fs thele support The Workers (Communist) Party ends mect on $7,500 a year had him-| platform of: the class struggle has x athe ie eel Jitical aie ain Coweie eandidatae |has chosen three Negro workers as|self raised to $10,000; Secretary-| this year gained the support of in- only expose the other political par- sha : its standard bearers in the elections:|treasurer, Thomas E. Burke, was| creasingly large numbers of work- tles against Tammany injunctions, socialist and A. F. of L. betrayals and are now leading them in buil ing their ncw union, are candidates on the Workers (Communist) Party workers. Rebecca Grecht, “will carry on an Working Class Platform. intensive campaign to place its pro- in the Bronx, nothing has been done! to relieve the bad schooling situa- tion. | BERLIN, Sept. 24 (U.P).—Many |valuable motion picture films were destroyed tonight when fire gutted t the copy department of the Ufa’ (German Film Company) building Tammany, G. O. P. Squabble. the At one time creation of an annex was contemplated. But the (i ftt, Sandard Nearers of he chiy |ties, but will present the specific! «The capitalist parties are making| Lovett Fort-Whiteman, candidate| raised from $5,000 to $7,500 and|ers. At nightly street corner meet-|%¢ Tempelhof. Political squabbles destroyed the/7po hn iy *|demands' made Ths rane Workers cvery effort, through postcard cam-| for State Comptroller; Richard B.| other officers proportionally. |ings, workers ‘show by their ques-| js oross in the Twent aA plan, and nothing was done. pepe ag ee sew Of New Yorks The questions of we_|2aigns, apron clubs, housewives| Moore, eandidate for Congress in the| Seven hundred seventy-five dele- tions, purchases of literature and| #¢70ss in the Twenty-secon cael Parents have been offered the| Ben Gold, manager of the New| of New York. The questions of un-| circles, radio and press propaganda,| ist Congressional District and Ed-| gates from all parts of the United|¢ontributions, an ever increasing bly District, as planned, but due, to “opportunity” of transferring their aoe oan Baan of see nes alpen oh acproe ame tee Wer to win over a oe workers, wwho| ward Welch, candidate for Assembly|States and Canada including dele-| Class consciousness. : Beet rere, oe ne is i ti 8. 4 : nion, Communist candidate in the | tion, " j |constitute at least 50 per cent of|4 2 : Nation, | ; a | nine ; n 8, the 1 . . the eee Sor ie Twenty-third Congressional District, | child labor, woman labor, Negroes. 41) the voters of this ay Latimees tei ack Contemuarhi om Hoge Th06 ad ttnent SE ects | bly District will also have a Red foreign-born workers, taxation and| farmers will be dealt with compre- hensively. “The government of Al Smith and The rally will be more than a for-|the republican party of New York mal election meeting. It will be aj state has abolished the 48-hour huge demonstration of workers of) working week for women, and es- New York against the capitalist) tablished by law a 51 to 54 hour parties, against the petty bourgeois) week. Thousands of women and socialist party, against the A. F. of young girls employed in the food L. class-collaborationists who en-| industry in New York City—Na- dorse the candidates of the enemies)tional Biscuit Company, Wards’ : aninuns acl dae site candidate on the ballot. : . in signature work have distribute: The backbone in the signature Seat heteeteagt ty Chicago Shivers literature setting forth the demands| drive in New York has been. sec. IS, Sept. 2 psa Aaber. ANY Oo aa aE . Made by the Communist Party, and| tions 2 and 3. These sections have unusually hot summer, the first} CHICAGO, Sept. 24 (UP).—Chi- | have sold platforms of the class| organized themselves into Red touch. of winter visited France to-|cago shivered today in the coolest! struggle to signers. In section 1,| Squads which have carried on the day. Heavy snows fell in the| September weather in the history of | downtown Manhattan, fully half the| signature drive in different sections Vosges and Alps while Paris shiv-|the government weather bureau.| workers who signed the petitions| of the city. On Sept. 30, the last ered in a chilly drizzle. The cold|Therrnometers registered 86 degrees | bought copies of the Communist na- day of the drive, the Red Squads. was believed to be due to the after-|in the metropolitan district and 22/ tional platform. \will be subdivided and assigned math of the recent tropical hurri-|degrees at the municipal airport, on} In Brownsville, not only has a|thruout the city in a final wind-up Bronx. Samvel Liebowitz, assistant man- ager of the Furriers Joint Board, candidate in the Twenty-fourth Con- gressional District, Bronx. Charies Zimmerman, manager of the dress department of the Cloak and Dressmakers Union, now part of the needle trades National Or- ganization Committee, and also chairman of the organization com- Pioneers took place last year, and! parents, remembering this, pre- ferred to keep their children out ot} the school. At the conference Friday evening, extensive plans to carry the fight on to a successful end will be di cussed and formulated. | Rap: Boos Parties. COLD WAVE HITS FRANCE. MANY AT FOOD WORKERS’ MEET Form Election Drive Committee Continued from Page One now known as “father” of the new ittee of the N. 0. C., Workers (Communist) Party candidate for assembly in the Fourth Assembly Distriet, Bronx. Joseph Borochovitz, manager of Local 2, Cloak Operators 0. C., and also viee-chai National Organization Committee, Communist candidate for state sen- ute in the Twenty-second Senatorial District, Bro Samuel Liptzin, a leader of the tailors in New York, expelled by the -| crumbs dropped from the tables of| publican parties, nor the socialist} of the workers, against the use of| Baking Company, etc.—in the cundy, injunctions, thugs and gangsters in| piano, and shoe factories in Long | strikes, and against the whole sys-|Island City, in the numerous de- tem of capitalist government under| partment stores, slaves for the mis-| which those who produce the wealth| erable wages of $10 to $12 weekly.) of the country receive only the|Neither the democratic nor the re- | their exploiters. |party, which omits all mention of| The workers gathered at the Cen-|the women workers in its national/| tral Opera House on September 28th/ platform, offers them a program for) will rally to the support of the plat-| bettering their conditions. form and candidates of the Workers! up,. Workers (Communist) | | Party is the only party fighting for jall women workers, including among | | (Communist) Party, the political in- strument of the working class, will cane. | the outskirts of the city, ‘Communist candidate been put mobilization. 4 BIG 1,000,000 Articles EVERYTHING FROM A THREAD TO A SET OF FURNITURE BIG union. the union bureaucracy from voice their support of the militant! it; immediate demands, equal pay! The strike-breaking role of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers trade union policies advocated by) ¢,, Gaual work for mmle dad -tantale} N United Hebrew Trades was de- Union for his activity in behalf of /the Workers (Communist) Party:| workers, the organization of women| NIGH I S IGH I S seribed by I. Himmelfarb of Deli- the tailors and his uncompromising for the abolition of the injunction) factory and mill workers into fight- at ¥% Price eatessan Clerks’ Local 302. Further struggle against the Hillman-Beck- | evil, for increased struggle against! i> unions, the establishment of the analysis of the socialist mis-lead- | erman machine, candidate for as- imperialist wars, for the recognition | 49 hour, 5-day week, vacation with : ip in the food trades unions was sembly in the Twenty-second Assem- of the Soviet Union, the first work- | nay six weeks before and six weeke given by Sam Kramberg of the | bly District, Brooklyn. ers’ and farmers’ republic, and for! after ebildbirth. is Tél 2 ese 6 os - ‘s” ’ government! .,... A Amalgamated Food Workers, who These candidates and other lead. bates to hide g | Syomen’”” workers, proletarian ing needle trades fighters will be the principal speakers at the open- rallies which the Needle Trades ftressed the need for industrial and political solidarity. “We are with the Communist) c. mpaign Committee has decided to Party and know that it is the only| iid in every. section of the city party fighting against capitalism’s| vere cloak and dressmakers, far- Btesapion, cf. the. colored». and P bs v4 riers, cap and millinery workers, and Oriental nationalities,” declared Ho taiiors live. Two such rallies have Riu Chi of the Japanese Workers’ siready been held in the Bronx and mothers and housewives, should sup- port the party of the class struggle, |and vote Communist in the coming| elections.” SLAYER OF MINE The doors of the Central Opera| House will be open at 7 p. m. Ad- mission is 25 cents. Hold Big Building Trades Red Rally Baily FREIHEIT Worker ci ame ae heat oe in Herlem. Three others are planned Continued from Page One | vty ae the haat co BGs sin to jaturday night, Sept. 29, in ly conservative” by reactionary la- | aaa peel ¥ Sam | Williamsburg, Brownsville and East por Jeaders, the workers’ are show- i ll ere Nee aoe ae addition to these ing their dissatisfaction with the : ; Se Ace street meetings, which will be held |policies of their misleaders and a ; Poet set | . j ' Be One een oe ees mite Progressive movement is well under|Lewis Held Guilty of| ; Pledges and a.cash collection Nights are planned. A committee way. J ' amounting almost to $300 were tak- of 75 speakers has been formed to Rapport Foster, Gitlows Campbell Murder | fi en up af n appeal by Edward ¢atry the program of the W orkers Th sek’ Weahl alse acl is | t Schwartz, organizer of the Grocery (Communist) Party to the needle Set shove sae’ te aan +| .WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Sept. 24 5 1 Clerks’ Un Further campaign | Workers throughout the city, and / Workers, awere of the coarser, (UP).—The trial of Ralph Mellar- activities will now be carried on by Mobilize them for support of the | of the capitalist candidates by their) i.e: (> pot Cheste Y., on mur- | the special committee chosen, com- | Communist candidates. pponeaane etree pylepacine ia der charges in connection with the i posed of representatives from the Indoor Mass Meetings. will support William Z. Foster for |iitling of Alex Campbell, of Pitts-| bg ‘ ' Mii Giiie organisations: Besides the street campaign ral- president and Benjamin Gitlow for town, and Peter Reilly, of Inker. | j Bakers’ Local 164, Amalgamated Ji¢% indoor mass meetings will be | vice president, as well as the other man, as they were driving along a \ Food Worker, Batches enagamated arranged in various sections of the working class candidates of the| Pittstown street last February was ear, Hotel menatge (Campaign. Vote Communist! is the sls eee jssi was the only person arrested, FRIDAY 5TH > 7, st ope. | Slogan around which usands 0} L Mayor, Fr: ntic at Poad strt ’ mated Food Workers; T. U. E. Lj /cloak and dvessmakers, furriers, “YN Mayor, Frantic Nahe Tela aes bg Be Cot Rant and Fic coment: pean als wit te ated Rumor of Union Drive, wiuxnssnats, sep rhe SATURDAY ! 6TH ; oli e elections, to strike . A ‘BAL . » 2he | i | im tee, Waiters’ and Waitresses’ Local gwainst the Tammany and repub- Threatens Martial Law lewis machine is held to be the real| 7 TH } ™ 4; Proletcos Cooperative; Bakers’ jican machine and the socialist be gh | Sac OF Disa Haar catnate) SUNDAY 7 { Gouncil of Workingclass Women; trayers, who have combined to fight LYNN, Mass., Sept. 24.—Martial | #0 ece Ys Puiliaat mine lead. 1 tf Unity Cooperative Association; as the needle trades progressives, and |!aw will be established in Lynn if Mellarissi, reer ile a ic Fath | | st well as various minority groups int) protest against the entire cap- | Working class leaders attempt to or- auaceba at al ai canes er ; f & food unions. italist. system under which needle |@anize the shoe workers or other iy 8 fan ses ual slaying is} i ng SRR trades ax well as all other workers Workers of this city according to an‘, O (hil toiliy. aioe ot a FASCIST SHIP IN NORWAY. | suffer. pence ace today by Mayor) vine is baited Peat pce hae ce rd SEN, Norway, Sept. 24 (U.P). TAL ee Wi | pate vi conditions to have engineered the UY eee the Gitta Di Milano, fap a ship, | STORM HALTS FLIGHT. The frantic statement by the murder and to have paid the gun- DO NOT B NOW, W. ; _ and base for rescue work in the WATERTOWN, N. Y., Sept. 24) mayor who is also the head of the men who last February riddled the “ * | Polar dirigible Italia disaster, ar- (U.P)—Two of four army airplanes | Public Safety Department was par- car in which Campbell and Reilly T 1. THE B AZ, A AR *® rived today. She was givan an of-, which left Mitchell Field today to ticularly directed against the lead-| rode with bullets fired from a ma- BIG DAYS T IL ? maxt “of winter night. @n Workers’ Union; Grocery, Fruit cit during the month of October. tion day to mobilize the masses of fepare Labor Congres: needle workers for the Communist ficial reception. The search for fly to Pine Camp, were forced down rs of the dirigible crew vir-genroute by a sleet storm. One plane ite ag s abandoned because of the) was slightly damaged, reparts here |said, but no injuries resulted. “Sin ad Workers (Communist) Party. to begin today in Luzerne County} of the Workers (Communist) Party | were riding to the curb and poured a hail of bullets into them. in the election campaign. Mellar- ers of the New Bedford Textile strikers following a rumor that they would ¢ome to Lynn and organize ‘the uneapars shog workers. chine gun. Campbell and Reilly led _ the fight of the coal diggers against the vicious individual contractor asystem, ' ‘FHUR a Dane Clecke. Unnasy ning, The Needle Trades Communist Cam-| It is expected that many carpen- | Court, or ‘ke “ahs Wiauatiys es a; ee ‘ee’ paign Committee will conduct an in- jters’ and painters’ locals will en-| Gunmen in an automobile crowded| , ¥ ances. Workers’ Clabs Anorise, tensive drive from now until elec- |dorse the candidates and platform! the car in which Campbell and Reilly SD AY ae, 8 Bc | BIG DAYS"