The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED | | { FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT aily Eutered as second-class matter at the Post Office nt New York, N. Y.. ander the set of Marek 3, 1873. Vol. V., No. 228 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sa., New York, N. ¥- ___ NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1928 PLAN BIG TRUST MOVES IN U.S. ANGLO OIL WAR Standard Oil in Bloc With German Dye Trust Increases War Danger Imperialist Struggle Is Sharper } BERLIN, Sept. 25.—Mergers that » are certain not only to revolutionize the oil industry but to sharpen the war between the Standard Oi! Com- pany and the Royal Dutch Shell are underway, according widely circulated in industrial quar- ters. Both of these huge oil cor- porations are planning to absorb chemical and dye trusts in their world-wide struggle. to rumors Forming Bloc. ‘Observers here point to the recent conferences between Walter C. Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and of- ficials of the German dye trust as evidence of a bloc of the American oil and German chemical trusts. While this merger is being con- templated, it is stated, Sir Henri Deterding, head of the Royal Dutch, has been conferring with Lord Mel- chett, head of the huge British chemical trust. The bloc assumes especial signifi- cance in view of the recent efforts on the part of the German dye trust to produce fuel oil through the liquefaction of lignite or brown coal. Oil War to Spread. If the rumors are correct, the oil war between the American and British interests will take place on a much larger scale and will be much sharper than ever before. With the difference between the United States and Great Britain more acute as the result of the Anglo-French naval pact, the com- bines “promise to be fraught with serious political consequences. These Men oe - | | Unschlicht, vice-chairman of th Direct Defense of Soviet Union ‘CONNOLLY e Military Council, and M. Voro- shiloff, yound Red commander and People’s Commissar of War of the Soviet Union. SOVIET COMMISSAR (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Sept. 25.— Full accounts in the press here de- scribe the Red Army maneuvers at Kiev and give a full account of the speech of Voroschilov, Commissar of War for the Soviet Union. Voroschilov spoke before the municipal Soviet of Kiev. He thanked the proletariat of Kiev in behalf of the Revolutionary War Council for its enthusiastic welcome. International Situation. In his speech he discussed the in- ternational situation and especially in relation to the Soviet Union. He pointed out that the relations of the | Soviet Union with its neighbors | were strained. The Rumanian re- |lations, for instance, were not im- | proved. The Polish government, he | said, is determinedly unfriendly and it is only due to the peaceful policy Continued on Page Five NEEDLE WORKERS CALLED 10 RALLY ‘Red Eleetion Meet This Friday Night SCORES WAR DANGER | The Needle Trades Committee of the State Election Campaign of the | Workers (Communist) Party yes- terday issued an appeal to all pro- gressive workers to come to the Red Communists Speak at Eagle Pencil Co. (By a Worker Correspondent) Yesterday noon Tammany Hall police together with officials of the Eagle Pencil Company, fearful of workers in the factory, attempted to prevent the Workers (Communist) Party from holding an open air meeting in front of the factory gates. When informed by William W. Weinstone, secretary of the New York district of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, that the speakers would go ahead with the meeting and talk to the workers on their problems, the police, in order to pro- Ji: the Eagle Pencil Company and to prevent workers from listening ‘Y to the Communist exposition of the tole of the two bosses’ parties, the democratic and republican parties, drove the workers into the factory as D. Benjamin, candidate of the Workers (Communist) Party in Brooklyn for state senator, mount-| ed the platform, | Tammany Police Aid Company. It was obvious to the workers present that the police were coop- erating directly with the company. When the speakers of the Workers (Communist) Party arrived on the scene, they were met by an auto full of police including a precinct captain, a sergeant and five police officers as well as the company po- liceman and many company officials and foremen, The speakers »were told to move on, that they could not hold a meeting in front of the factory or near it, that they would have to hold their meeting a block way. When the committee of the Workers Party protested, defending their right to hold a meeting, the police shoved them on. * The com- mittee then took the platform 20 yards down from the corner but within sight of the Eagle Pencil Company. The police car then drove straight toward the commit- tee and would have demolished the platform had it not been for the quick action of Ben Intrator of the Continued on Page Two LINDBERGH TRAVELS. CHICAGO, Sept. 25 (UP).—Col. Charles A. Lindberg, bringing Am- pbassador Myron T. Herrick as a pas- senger, arrived here in an airplane today from Cleveland. POLIGE AT MEET | Rally to be held this Friday evening, |Sept. 28 at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., at 8 o'clock. The Committee was or- | Sanized at a recent mass meeting of workers in the industry, called for that special purpose. + Speakers at the meeting will in-| exposure of rotten conditions exist- | clude Robert Minor, editor of the| ing in the Eagle Pencil Company Daily Worker and candidate for party; E. B. Eastwood, secretary of |son, mayor of Long Island City 30, and the effect of the message of the | U. S. senate on the Workers (Com-|the Kansas City International La-| years ago, Connolly has gone out of Workers (Communist) Party on the | munist) Party ticket; William F | bor Defense; Sam Kassis and Mat- office accused of defrauding tax- Dunne, candidate for Juliet Stuart Poyntz, candidate for | attorney general; Bertram D. W@lfe, candidate for congress from the tenth congressional district; Lovett Fort-Whiteman, a Negro worker and eandidate for comptroller; Re- becca Grecht, election campaign Continued on Page Tw» 'Morning International \Br. Meets Today at 10 A highly important meeting of the Morning International Branch will be held this morning at 10) o'clock at the Workers Center, 26- 28 Union Square, sixth floor. | An active comrade, just returned | fom an extended visit to the Soviet | governor; | FARMER-LABOR IN DEAL WITH SMITH Shipstead Carries Out Final Betrayal (Special to the Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 25.—Dem- ocratic politicians are claiming the | Farmer-Labor vote of this state fol- lowing a deal entered into between the ruling cliques of both organiza- | tions which the so-called “progres- sives” agree to vote for Tammany Al Smith in return for which the other political machine is given the vight of way in the case of state of- ficials. The chief provision of the deal is the voluntary elimination of George Cashman, democratic candidate for United States Senator, who today announced his resignation in favor seeker. The misleaders of the so- Continued on Page Three JURY TO TRY OEHLER CASES Class Victims’ Hearing Ends; Ban Arma Meets (Special to the Daily Worker) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 25.— The cases of Hugo Oehler, district organizer, Workers (Communist) thew Cushing, all charged with vio- lation of the state criminal syn- dicalism law, were bound over yes- terday to the criminal court for _jury trial with the conclusion of the | preliminary hearing. Oehler was |released on a $1,000 bond and the others on $500 bonds. The cases against the three pack- ing house workers who were ar- | ‘rested with them were dismissed. The four workers are victims of |the campaign launched by the Ar- mour and other meat-packing in- terests in this part of the country against all workers and organiza- tions who engage in militant ac- tivity. They were ‘arrested at two Continued on Page Three Upholsterers to Hold’ , HEAD OF GRAFT RING, GOES ON TRIAL | | Tammany Forced to | Act in $30.000,000 Sewer Steal Move Is Only a Gesture Rapid Choice of Jury Confirms Charge The jury in the Queens $30,000,- 000 graft trial was picked yesterday in record time, a fact which con- firmed in the minds of many close observers the suspicion that the Tammany Hall machine has no real intention of pressing the against the chief of the graft ring. Connolly is connected with many of the most prominent and powerful Tammany contractors. The rapid case Grafter on Trial im former E. Maurice Connolly, Tammany Borough President of Queens and head of the $30,000,000 sewer graft ring who yesterday dragged his 250 lbs. into court, red- faced and confident that his Tam- many associates would “let him off easy” while going through the ges- ture of trying him. MEXICO NARES procedure is believed to be due to an between both si “understanding” ides, (By United Press) The $30,000,000 Queens sewer graft case, the most sensational ad- ministrative scandal in the history ef Queens Borough, on Long Island, went to trial yesterday, with former Borough President Maurice E. Con- nolly and Frederick Seeley, his |sewer engineer, charged with de- frauding thousands of taxpayers. fie. oe $30,000,000 Graft. New York’s most gigantic graft seandal of recent years—the $30,- 000,000 Queens sewer case—went to trial yesterday after a year of sen- sational developments which rocked the city’s political circles. In the antiquated Queens County jecourtroom at Long Island City, where Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray heard the death sentence, former Borough President Maurice E. Con- nolly and Frederick B. Seeley, his engineer in charge of sewer design, |faced a special “blue ribbon” jury. They are charged with conspiracy of Henrik Shipstead, nominee of the to defraud thousands of taxpayers Farmer-Labor Party, recently be- in a huge Sewer construction pro- ‘trayéd by this tnprixeipled office ,000. NEW PRESIDENT Portes Gil Will Fill the Temporary Office MEXICO CITY, Sept. 25.—Emilio Portes Gil was today chosen as the provisional president of Mexico. Tortes Gil is now secretary of the in- terior and governor of the so-called progressive state of Tamaulipas. He is a close advisor of Calles and his selection is said to have been made with the approval of Dwight W. Morrow, former Morgan part- ner and U. S. ambassador to Mexieo. * * * Chosen in Secret Session. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 25 (UP). —Emilio Portes Gil, governor of ‘Jamaulipas and secretary of the in- terior, was unanimously elected pro- isional president of Mexico tonight at a joint session of the senate and chamber of deputies. There were 277 votes cast in the election. Portes Gil will take office on the | retirement of President Calles, De- It is authoritatively understood | During the year which has elapsed that he will follow the policy of |since the scandal first exploded, the |case has gathered dramatic ele- ments which set it apart from the administrative scandals which arise every year in dozens of Jarge Amer- ican cities. Mystery, death and a legal skirmish have woven them- President Calles in virtually all FINAL CITY EDITION -SHARPENED BY ANGLO-FRENCH PACT, SOVIET PRES s DECLARES TEX TILE STRIKE sees United States, Great Britain, France in R ace for Huge Armaments RALLY APPLAUDS NEW UNION HEADS Fakers Still Trying to Sell Out BULLETIN. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 25.—Three thousand texti! i ers attended a mass meeting in Elm Rink grranged as a reception to the homecoming national of- ficers of the new National Textile Workers’ Union of America, which was launched in New York Satur- day and Sunday. The union lead- ers wer@ greeted by the meeting with an enthusiastic and pro- longed ovation. Spacious Elm Rink has been hired by the union for an entire week with a special event sched- uled for each night. Tonight a mass dance will be held where mo- tion pictures of the strike will be shown. The results of the trial of the 22 pickets arrested last week, which has been going on all day today, are not as yet obtainable. * + * (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Ma: —Whilt the mill bosses’ association and their “mediation” agents are continuing to set ap “tin soldiers” for the A. F. of L. officialdom to knock down in order to assist them in their attempt to regain the con- fidence of the masses on strike, the workers themselves are demonstrat- ing.their determination to accept no \sell-out settlements by resuming ‘their mass picketing despite the po- lice terror. The officialdom of the Textile Council, wht represent nobody, and | questions of foreign and internal af- the mill owners’ representatives. fairs. were called by the State Board of Portes Gil will remain in office | Arbitration to a new conference for tor approximately 14 months, at | “settlement” of the strike. They are which time a constitutional presi-|to meet at noon today to consider dent will be elected. ‘secret proposals before the State selves ‘into the plot: Connolly, stout, red-faced little politician, who is the central figure in the scandal, was president of the Rorough of Queens—the Long Island residential district. which, since the beginning of the century, has been a golconda for administra- |tive plunderers. | Like other borough presidents | |who succeeded “Battle Axe” Glea- | DELAY SCHIFFRIN HEARING AGAIN Prosecution Stalls for Time; Trial Today 4 i 3 * For the third time in three weeks, |payers. “Curley Joe” Cassidy, first tne prosecution against William to a acti Meh hi EM ag Schiffrin, left wing worker being held on a charge of homicide, again TAXI HEADS PLAN asked for and secured a_ post- | | | UNIFORM SCHEME the guilt of Schiffrin was again| thought to be the reason for the postponement. Schiffrin’s hearing is scheduled to take place in the Board, according to its officials, makes public its investigation as to “who is guilty of beginning and con- tinuing the strike.” Bos: Trick. When the bosses saw the unan- imous determination of the strikers to fight against the proposed speed- up plan, and the subsequent loss of influence of Batty among even his Continued on Page Three SILK WORKERS PREPARE STRIKE Paterson Men Demand End of Slavery PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 25.— ponement of the hearing from yes- terday morning until noon today. Luncheon at Noon for | Police “Czar” The complete lack of evidence on More than three hundred so-called try will feast today at a luncheon tendered “Czar” Nelson Ruttenberg, “representatives” of the cab indus-_ Bronx Homicide Court, at 163rd St.| Unable to endure any longer the open The district attorney’s office, thru| and hidden campaign of the employ- Samuel Markewitch, lawyer for the | ers to worsen their working stand- right wing asked for the postpone-| ards by cutting wages and length- ment on the same grounds given in ening hours from 8 to 11, 12 and the other three postponements,| 13 a day, the thousands of workers jnamely “time to prepare the case.” employed in the broad silk indus- Schiffrin is on trial because he try here are making preparations fourth deputy police commissioner, | heroically defended his life against in charge of the Hack License Bu-| the attack of five men armed with | for the calling of a general strike. Strike About Oct. 1. Following the membership meet- Union, will report on his impres-| slums. Bazaar Meet Tonight The Upholsterers Committee for the Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar is calling a meeting of all uphol- |Urge Workers Children) | to Attend Red Rally cerers tor tonight, immediately _after work, at the Freiheit ‘office, In a statement issued yesterday’ 3) Union Square. by the Young Workers (Commu-| «Tho bazaar is only a week away nist) League and the Young Pion- and we upholsterers have done very eers, all New York workers’ children |jjttle for the bazaar,” says a state- are urged to attend the Red Raily rent of the committee. “The up- to be held Friday evening at the holstery workers must join with the Central Opera House, 67th St. and rest of the workers in making this Third Ave. ‘bazaar a success.” URGE BAZAAR SUPPORT An appeal was issued last tn fel ed enrolled. by the New York section of the In-| The appeal, signed by Rose Baron, ternational Labor Defense, 799) secretary, follows: * Broadway, to all its members and| “The National Daily Worker- ail other class-conscious workers to|Freiheit Bazaar is an event that support to the utmost the National} should be of direct concern to every Daily Worker-Fteiheit Bazaar to be|class-conscious worker. In the day held in Madison Square Garden Oct.|to day struggles of the workers the 4, 5, 6 and 7, The I. L. D. will have| fighting proletarian press plays an a booth of its own at this bazaar all-important role. And the press at which copies of the Labor De-|is the first to feel the hatred of jfender will be sold and new mem- Continued on Page Three I. L. D. Asks All Workers to Aid Event: the Hotel Astor at 12:30 p. m. | put over, is reported to be the chief topic of the luncheon. Ruttenberg | started to work of his program of | regimentizing the drivers more than (a year ago. It is also expected that |ether problems of benefit to the fleet owners generally will be, dis- cussed as well. Open-Shop Friends. Among the “friends” of the cab- men who are expected to be present will be many open-shoppers, finan- ciers, “labor” fakers, taxi-editors, loan sharks, uniform manufacturers, high-pressure cab salesmen, insur- ance agents and other so-called lead- ers who have the interests of the fleet owners at heart. Alex. Fried, former president of {the Luxor Cab Manufacturing Com- pany, now defunct, and one of the biggest boosters of police control, is among them. Fried is now presi- Continued on Page Two AUTOMATIC GEAR SHIFT. LONDON, Sept. 26 (British United Press).—After five years of experi- mobiles. reau. The luncheon will be held at| knives, who attacked him because he prevented the reactionary union of- | Uniforms for taxi drivers, which | ficials from removing a left winger |sion of the the police department is seeking to'from his job. Single-handed Schif-| ors’ Union, at which 1,000 workers Continued on Page Tw | Imperialists Vote to Call New Disarmament '\Conference Some Time | GENEVA, Sept. 25.—The League of Nations Preparatory Disarma- | |ment Commission will meet, again some time early next year, but no definite date was set for the meet- ing. The commission is supposed to be preparing ‘a general disarmament |program and to be arranging an- ‘other conference of the Imperialist nations at which “disarmament” will again be discussed. England | was. opposed openly to a further meeting; Germany pretended to be disappointed that no date had been | to block action. A At the last conference, the Soviet | | Union presented a plan for com- plete disarmament, which nearly arming. ing of the broad silk workers divi- A sociated Silk Work- registered their unanimous deter- mination to enter a struggle against the encroachments of the bosses, the union leadership announced ter- day that strike machinery was in the process of organization. Proba- bilities. are that the walkout will be called on or about Oct. 1. The announcement was made after the representatives of the bosses’ association refused to an- Continued on Page Five Secret Agreement Provides for Espionage in Soviet Union, Is Charge MOSCOW, Sept. 25. That the Anglo-French naval agree- ment is accelerating the “imperialist race for armaments and is bringing the world closer to imperialist war, is the opinion of Pravda, official Communist Party organ. According to the Pravda, the American proposals to build new 10,000 ton cruiser: SIXTY WORKERS ARE POISONED Railroad Dishes Out Decayed Food Sixty workers employed by the Lehigh Valley Railroad came down with ptomaine poisoning early yes- terday morning after eating food dished out at the Wheeler Point Road and Bay Ave- nue at which place they were em- labor camp at ployed. The men were rushed to the New- ark City Hospital for treatment. It is believed that canned frankfurters unfit to eat which have been on the shelves for a long period and said to have been purchased by the rail- road at a reduced price, were the cause of the poisoning. One work- er, Vincent Bamiro of Newark, is seriously ill and may not recover. A patrol wagon from the Newark Third Precinct Station took the workers to the hospital. TRY TO SELL OUT VIENNA PROTEST Reformists Try to Call Anti-Fascist March (Wireless to the Daily Worker) VIENNA, Sept. 25.—Hungarian troops are gathered at the Burgen- land-Hungarian frontier connection in prenaration for the fascist demonstration and the counter- demonstration scheduled for Octo- ber 7. Amidst great alarm in the Burgenland capital, the bourgeois parties have consulted with the so- cialists, with the result that all the parties undertake to maintain| peace. The consultation probably oc- curred on the initiative of the so- cialists, who hope that the danger to Burgenland would induce the fed- eral government to prohibit all parades for’ October 7. + * (Wireless to the Daily Worker) VIENNA, September 25.—The Austrian government has rejected the proposal of the central commit- tee of the social democratic party which, in an attempt to hide its com- plete capitulation, proposed that the constitution be altered so as to pro- hibit all self-defense organizations from holding demonstrations for the next year or longer, thruout all of Austria. Reformists Pleas Fail. The proposal of the social-demo- crats had special reference to the demonstration of the fascist organi- zation, the Home Defense Corps, scheduled for October 7, with whom the socialists had attempted to make an agreement providing that both the fascist and sociakst demonstra- tions be cancelled. The proposal of the social demo- Continued on Page Three * AN OLD LEADER SPEAKS Bramhall Teils of Texti le Muilitancy 4 “Lawrence, Mass., was the start-) reactionary officials,” he said. ing point for the present move-| dent of the Paramount Cab Manu-| set, At the final vote every nation’s | ment,” Samuel Bramhall, 61-year- facturing Company, whose company | representative voted for a new con- | old weaver and principal leader in | ference, hoping at some future date 7 @re great strike of 1919, said at the convention of the new Textile Work- ers’ Union of America here. “The new union, organized in the blood of the textile workers, will ments, a British firm has evolved! routed the militaristic powers none continue the militent tradition of* an automatic gear shift for auto-| ot wh’ch has any intention of dis- the New England mill workers de- spite the continued treachery oft! Bramhall told of the courageous | battle which was waged by the mill workers in Lawrence nine years ago in their victorious fight to cut down | the hours of work at the looms from 54 to 48 hours a week. As perma-| s is a direct reply to the Anglo-French “agreement. The French, the Pravda believes, will be entire- ly unsuccessful in their at- tempt to convince Secretary of State Kellogg that their agree- ment with Great Britain is in- nocent. Plan Attack on USSR. Commenting on the revela- tions of the agreement, the official newspaper, Izvestia, ex- pressed surprise today at the “amazing patience with which the world’s public, opinion is standing for a revival of pre-war diplomatic traditions.” The Soviet press has also charged that the Anglo-French pact pro- vides for joint espionage in the Soviet Union as well as plans for aerial as well as naval cooperation in case of an attack against the Soviet Union. PARIS, Sept. 25.—The Anglo- French naval pact is accompanied by an agreement which will permit France to maintain her huge army reserves, it has been learned from authoritative sources, The British had formerly joined with the United States and Ger- many in opposing conscription which is building up a huge French re- serve army. Great Britain, in re- turn for French support in the building of cruisers, is now support- ing French conscription, it has been learned. The new British attitude is believed to be embodied in a se- cret agreement concluded at the Same time as the naval pact. WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—That the United States will strongly op- pose the Anglo-French naval agree- ment and stand by the proposals made by the United States at the Geneva conference was clearly in- timated by President Coolidge to- day. Coolidge’s position is probably embodied in the note on the Anglo- French agreement which will soon be cabled to Paris and London. The position of the United States con- flicts squarely with that of Great Britain on the building of 10,000 ton cruisers. The probable reply of the United States to the naval pact will be the construction of new large cruisers. aes GENEVA, Sept. 25.—Representa- tives of the German and Austrian governments today deelared that they would refrain from voting on the resolution providing for a pre- liminary “disarmament” conference to show their “disillusion and bit- terness.” M. Tanczos, of Hungary, declared that any country surrounded by bigger powers would have no chance to come to a satisfactory agree- ment if individual treaties were en- tered into. Count von Bernstorff, of Germany, held essentially the same position. Paul Boncour, of France, made a speech in which he declared that jisaymament was impossible, un- til the security of each country was first assured.” * Section Three Bazaar Conference Tomorrow A special Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar Conference of Section 3 of the Workers (Communist) Party will be held tomorrow, immediately after work, 6:30 p. m, at 101 W. . 27th St. All those who participated in the last bazaar conference must attend. AMUNDSEN WRECKAGE. DUNKIRK, France, Sept. 25 (UP) —The French transport Durance ar- rived today with two cases of debris nent chairman of the general strike believed to be that of the Roald committee weeks of the struggle, during the entire 16) Amundsen polar plane, lost in the Bramhall | Arctic. The debris, which was found proved his skillful generalship on a/ north of Norway, will be examined vontinued on Page Three ond identified in Paris.