The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 27, 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 FINAL CITY EDITION Mutered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1973. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1928 mIPTiOg RAT 3 Cents 18: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. York, by mai 00 per year. Published daily except S$: Publishing Association, 1 day by The National Daily Worker +» 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. || WORKERS PARTY GOES ON BALLOT IN CONNECTICUT, "BIG OPEN SHOP CENTER | Expect Big Red Vote as Metal, Textile, Rubber | and Tobacco Workers Rally to Party IVol. V., No. 229 Price * Author of Internationale In U.S. S. R. $50,000 PAID TQ Sn ne TEXTILE BOSSES FRANTIC, SEWERPIPEKING MAKE NEW FAKE OFFER T0 _ BY CONTRACTOR BATTY SELL-OUT BROKERS ‘Phillips Split Graft Huge Mass Meeting of Militant Union Votes With Connolly Gang, Jury Hears Unanimously to Reject “5%” Scheme Work Under Cover j : — Murdoch Arrested on Picket Line; Workers Give Mother Bloor Ovation | 2,000 Negro Workers Have Signed Communist “Blue Ribbon” ‘ | Petitions for Ballot peo g tek ges Called “Safe” be By CHARLES MITCHELL. iif: stesed MUMIRRY RENT GOI Tae Some ch abaee OF Oocncoliont NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 26.—Entering a new hi] NEW HAVEN, €onn., Sept. 26.—The Communist ticket Degeyter, author of the triumphant song of the proletarian | See Jack” Phillips, late Queens on the ticket of the Workers (Com-| Stage in the plans of the mill owners and the Textile Council has been placed on the ballot in the great industrial state of | «dvance, the Internationale, is shown above arriving for a visit in | sewer pipe king, enabled a contrac- munist) Party. She has been a Officialdom to sell out the textile workers’ strike, but never- Connecticut, with the filing of 6,000 certified signatures with _ “/oscow- Lied ats SE EUAN stor who previously had been turned! leader in women's work and tke theless betraying their intense anxiety to end the shutdown ; filing of the Communist ticket BIG CO : yesterday at the trial of Maurice E. ffaven- During the period oj gather, 10% 24 weeks, the mill hd ale | NTER N A TIONAL 4g COMMUNISTS is a direct challenge to the Connolly, former borough president, | ing signatures to place the Work- @SSociation yesterday an- open-shoppers of a state sin which HERE TOMORROW NIGHT and Frederick B. Seeley, former! ers Party on the ballot in Connecti- nounced their willingness to jthe trade union movement has been borough engineer, indicted in the cut, Gertrude Duell herself secured “cut, wages only five per cent,” |so weakened by the attacks of the |bosses and the treachery of the la- The Communist standard bearers IN FINLAND GET LONG JAIL TERMS Gov’t Fears Growing Influence of Party (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) | HELSINGFORS, Sept. Forty-nine Communists have been sentenced to long jail terms for revo- lutionary activities, it was learned today. Taimi, Communist leader, has been sentenced to 15 years; Tuo- minen to five years, Vuori to four, and Halfe, Enne and Latya to two |complete state ticket has been filed. Weinstone, bor bureaucrats that the American Federation of Labor in Connecticut is now merely a shadow of what it was in former days. Connecticut is the twenty-second state in which the Communist ticket is on the ballot. The other states are: File Complete Ticket. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, West Virginia, Texas, Tennessee® Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ne- braska, Iowa, Kansas, New Mexico, Arkansas, New Jersey and Arizona. In addition to Foster and Gitlow, the national standard-bearers, a in the 1928 elections in New York State and city, speaking at the huge Central Opera House Red Election Rally tomorrow night on the work- ingclass platform of the Workers (Communist) Party, will stress the important issues of the use of in- junctions, police terrorism, and the roles of Tammany Hall and the so- cialist party, according to a state- ment issued by the District Cam- 26,— | Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, paign Committee last night. Masses of workers from every part of New York and vicinity will travel to the Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. to hear the unmasking of the fake capitalist “democracy” by Communist candi- dates. The rally, with William W. District Organizer of and a half years each. Only three | The following are the candidates for District 2, presiding, will open at 8 of the Communists tried enmasse were freed. The government has been alarmed | by growing militancy of the work- | ers and peasants. The recent agree- | ments between Finnish and Soviet | trade unions is believed to be partly responsible for the vicious govern- ment campaign against the Com-. munist Party. © - FASCIST ATTACK - ONU.S. NEGROES Mussolini in Speech Calls Them “Peril” ROME, Sept. 26 (UP),—The | dwindling birth rate in large cities was deplored by Premier Benito Mussolini today in an article writ- ten for the press in defense of in- creased populations: Mussolini spoke of the growing number of Negroes in the United States, and warned the occidental white races that they are menaced | by the black and yellow tide be- cause of their failure to increase their populations. Mussolini criti- @ized the modern tendency to drift towards the cities. “That which happened once can happen again, not only as between the city and country but in greater | measure—namely, the occidental white races can be submerged by the colored races, which multiply at a rate unknown to us. The black | and yellow races are now at our) gates, not alone because of their | fecundity, but also because of their | race consciousness and their dreams | of the future. | “While the whites of the United | States have a miserable percentage of births—which would be even worse without the injection: of Irish, Jews and Italians—the Negroes of the United States are extremely fecund, reaching a total of 14,000,- 000, or one-sixth of the population of the republic.” 50 Greet Rev. Thomas; | Socialists Predicted ‘Great Demonstration’ (By a Worker Correspondent) The triumphal return of Rev. Norman Thomas, socialist candidate for president, was signalized last night at Grand Central Station.) ) Despite the friendly publicity of its! house-organ, the New York Times, only 50 weak-lunged “comrades” greeted him. e| Thomas who has just toured sev-| eral western states seemed happy to get back home, and did not show his disappointment with the smal] showing. Youngsters gathered round | the hurrahing group, probably be- lieving a movie actor instead of a salvation peddler was being greeted. Capitalist press photographers were on hand to take pictures of the returning preacher. After sev- eral rounds of pictures, Thomas left in a taxi with Morris Berman, a wealthy supported of the socialist party and the Rand School, whose part in the class struggle consists in the ownership of several “dollar- icy dawn department stores. —N. F. state office: William McKenzie, a_ carpenter, for governor; R. S. Kling, machin- ist, for lieutenant governor; Conrad ke, painter, for United States senator; Gertrude Puel, stenograph- er, for secretary of state; Edward | Mrasko, painter, for state treasur- er; John Gombos, for state comp- troller. The willingness of the workers to sign the Communist. petitions is in- dicated by the success in collecting 6,000 names, or approximately more than twice the number required. This is the first time that the Work- ers to the signature drive indicates a heavy Communist vote in Novem- ber. The metal, textile and rubber Continued on Page Three U.S, SENDS NOTE TO GREAT BRITAIN Await Note of America With Concern WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. (UP). | ~-America’s replies to Great Britain | and France on naval arms questions | were sent to the Americar embas- sies was learned authoritatively. The replies will be delivered to the foreign office of the two gov-| ernments shortly after they are re- ceived hy the embassies * oe LONDON, Sept. 26.—No denial has been made here of charges that Great Britain had negotiated a se- cret air pact with France in addition | to formulating a naval agreement. | According to reports widely cir- culated in semi-official circles the agreement permits France to build any number of aircraft, while France has agreed not to proceed with the London and Paris today, it | o’clock promptly, and the doors of the hall will be thrown open at 7 to accommodate the crowds of workers. & “One of the chief issues affecting workers in the 1928 election cam- paign, in New York City as else- where,” the District Campaign Com- mittee statement reads, “is the in- | junction evil. Government by in- junction has been felt by New York workers™in thé heedle trades, trae: | tion, paper box, boot and shoe and lother industries.” Robert Minor, William F. Dunne, and the other state and local candidates who will speak at Central Opera House, will be heard by large masses of workers \ i from these industries who have felt ers (Communist) Party has been! ca | placed on the ballot in Connecticut, the heavy hand of capitalist demo- | The splendid response of the work-|°T@¢y at their throats. Expose Tammany, “Socialists.” The thousands of workers who crowd Central Opera House will hear the roles of the socialist party and Tammany Hall exposed. The use of Tammany police and spe-ial industrial squads to break strikes by campaigns of terrorism will be emphasized. The part in workers’ lives played by the so-called “so- cialist” party, degenerated to a party of small business men, law- yers and doctors, will also be em- phasized by the Communist candi- dates, The ‘ reactiona: control exercised by the “socialists” over the United Hebrew Trades will be touched unon, and the case of Wil- liam Shiffrin, left wing butcher who was set upon by a gang of right wing thugs will be cited. FARMER LABOR DEAL IS SCORED MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 26. —The withdrawal of George Cash- man, democratic candidate for U. S. Senator in the interest of Henrik Shipstead, nominee the so-called Farmer Labor Party in return for which the local machine is to sup- port Al Smith for the presidency, is characterized here as one of the most flagrantly treacherous polit- construction of a series of aerial ical trades in the history of the bases along the British channel | state. coast. Great Britain, it is said, will That such a trade was being con- air bases near the German frontier. | The arrival of the American note, which is expected to protest against |also be permitted to use the French sumated has been known for some time by close students of the local situation. Shipstead, the candidate of the ‘so-called Farmer-Labor pro- BARE FRAME-UP UPON SCHIFFRIN Right Wing Witnesses Tell Conflicting Tales Testimony rendered by witnesses during the first day of the hearing in the homicide case against Wil- liam Schiffrin, left wing worker, established beyond all doubt the bankruptcy of the right wing frame- up machine. All the witnesses testifying at the hearing, which came up_ before Magistrate Dodge in the Bronx Homicide Court and which lasted until 4:30 in the afternoon, were subpoenaed by the district attorney, and, on their evidence alone, either sharply contradicted the, contentions of the right wing or proved frank witnesses for the defendant. So glaring were the contradictions of those who tried to testify against Schiffrin, and so convincingly simple was the evidence of the. disinter- lested eyewitnesses that the magis- ‘trate was compelléd to the close of the hearing “If I were ‘to have a motion to dismiss I would reserve my decision.” This motion was promptly forthcoming from the defense attorney, Henry 0. Kahn.) and the case will go on today in the same court. After hearing the few witnesses for the defense the judge is to rule on the motion to dismiss the charge of homicide. The district attorney was assisted in the preparation of his case by the official lawyer for the right wing in the Jewish labor movement, the notorious Samuel Markewitch, who has participated in cases that have sent many left wing workers to long jail terms.* In making up the list of witnesses the prosecutor de- cided to call four eyewitnesses and the arresting detective besides the five men, who with Harry Silver, made up the squad sent to attack Schiffrin with knives. Silver was the one fatally wounded by Schiffrin, while the latter was defending him- self. Tell Conflicting Tales. Of the four eyewitnesses and the detective, three swore that they did, not see the fight at all, while the detective and the other eyewitness gave a description of the scene that caused the judge to make his state- ment. The five “squadmen” in their} \testimony told blatantly conflicting | stories. | “A closed car, containing six men, | \stopped on Beck St., five men jumped out and rushed at the de-| | fendant, who was standing across} | the street.” With this simple state-' ment, Andrew Jensen, a repair man! for the Central Union: Gas Co., who| testified that he was directly across’ the street, while the fight was go- ing on, completely shattered the framed up story offered by the right | wingers. They previously on the witness stand had sworn that Schif- fr'n had rushed atetheir car, stab- bing two as they were getting out to “picket” the butcher store from which the dispute developed. The | \right wing tried to remove a left | winger from his job there, after ex- pelling him from the union for urg- the Anglo-French agreements, is gressives is a careerist who would ing that union finances be investi- being awaited here with a great deal do anything to obtain office. Ernest gated. of concern. . Continued on Page Three PROFS AID POWER TRUST “Public Pays Expense”, Magnate Says weinstone to Speak at WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—That the power trust has brought up three more professors in its propa- ganda campaign in the schools and. colleges was revealed today at the Federal Trade Commission hear- ings. Another feature of the hearing was the introduction of a speech in which M. H. Aylesworth, former ‘head of the National Electric Light Association and now president of the National Broadcasting Com- i pany told power company execu- | tives at a conference: | “All the money being spent is/ worth while. And may I leave this thought with you executives: Don’t quit now. At the next convention | have your young ladies here so as Straightforward Story. Jensen then told the court that he saw Silver and Burus, whose arm | | was cut in the fray, rush at Schif- frin, brandishing knives. “Schiffrin | Continued on Page Two Agitprop Saturday | William W. Weinstone, organizer of the New York District of the v toward | $30,000,000 Tammany graft case. John M. Phillips, the sewer pipe contractor, the cause of whose re- cent death has never been fully re- vealed, was the real power behind the Tammany Hall politicians in control of Queens Borough, the evi- dence showed. As far back as 1917, it was disclosed by Thomas M. Pur- cell, a bonding agent and the first important witness for the prosecu- tion, Phillips was able to have bids by contractors accepted or “tossed out” at will. The contractors in- variably had to “See Jack” Phillips. The graft was shared with the Queens Tammany politicians. In the contract awarded them was al- ways a specification naming a par- ticular kind of pipe manufactured only by Phillips: The pipe king sold this pipe to the contractors at two, three, four and five times its actual value. Only a Gesture. No one who is at all aware of what is taking place behind the seenes believes, however, that there will be any real prosecution of the Tammany grafters now on trial or that they will serve prison terms. | Yesterday a so-called “blue ribbon” | jury composed exclusively of busi- Continued. on Page Two. SWISS ATTACK ANTI-FASCISTS . Mussolini Seen Behind Government Threat EVA, Switzerland, Sept. 26. —The Swiss government today of- ficially ordered all anti-fascist ele- ments on its territory to desist from participating in activities aiming at the overthrow of fascist authority in Italy. The government's action lieved to be the result of pressure from Rome as result of fear of open revolt in northern Italy. Wide- spread unrest kept in check by fas- cist militia and secret service is re- ported from many sections of the Po valley and Piedmont. Groups of Italians here have ex- pressed their intention of carrying their grievances against the fascist government to the League of Na- tions though no action is anticipated on them from that quarter. “he grievances include the exile and sufferings of political prisoners confined to the Lipari Islands and other detention centers and the tor- ture practiced against prisoners in the Italian jails. LOS ANGELES IN ‘DAILY’ SUB DRIVE Pittsburgh, Anthracite Get 26 Subscriptions LOS ANGELES, Cal., is at pres- ent engaged in making extensive preparations for the success of the Daily Worker election campaign drive for 10,000 new readers, ac- cording to a letter received yest day from Frank Forrest, Daily Worker representative in the city. Accompanying the letter is a re- quest for campaign material to be ased in the campaign. Forrest is organizing all units of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers (Commu- nist) League and many othey work- crs of Los Angeles for the drive. Los Angeles has been among the, leaders in previous drives of the Daily Worker, and, according to Workers (Communist) Party will Forrest, it will continue to maintain speak at the next conference of the its position on the top in this drive. | Agitprop, Saturday, 2 p. m. at the| Workers Center, on the Anna Herbst, Daily Worker agent | to do the job right and let off more| party” and “Our Next Steps in the for subscriptions, yesterday ‘sent in | men from the departments so they may come here. Don’t be afraid of the expense, expense. meetings.” * Election Campaign.” 16 subscriptions. This is the first | is be- | 500 names. FUR REPAIR SHOP AT HUGE BAZAAR Women’s Council, Knit Goods Meets Tonight The furriers will have a repair shop at the big National Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar at Madison Square Garden Oct. 4, 5, 6 and 7, it was announced yesterd This will be in addition to their regular booth where fur coats and other fur articles will be sold. The repair shop will be complete and the best craftsmen in the Fur- riers’ Union will be on hand at all times to repair and renovate articles at low prices. Those workers who have any articles to repair are asked to wait until the bazaar and have it done by experts “while you wait.” * * * Turn in Money. With the great bazaar only a ‘week off, the National Daily Work- er-Freiheit Bazaar Committee stresses the importance of intensify- ing activity. All money for greet- ings and for names for the Red Hon- or Roll that will be included in the souvenir program must be brought into the office of the committee, 30 Union Square, not later than Sat- urday, the committee states. Other- wise it, will be impossible for the program to go’to press. All col- Continued on Page Three Young Worker League to Rally in Signature Campaign in the Bronx All members of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League units in the Bronx are being mobilized for a special mobilization this . Friday night at 6:30 p. m. and Sunday morning at 10 a. m. These two days of intensive sig- nature collections is expected to raise the remaining 500 names necessary to put Frankfeld on the ballot in the Third Assembly Dis- triet in the Bronx. The League to date has raised lover 500 signatures in the Third As- sembly District in this manner. During this last week of the signa- ture drive’ every member is i structed to report for duty to the Rronx headquarters, located at 2075 Clinton Ave. OIL GRAFTER FILES APPEAL. WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (U.P).— Attorneys for Henry M. Blackmer, missing Teapot Dome witness now in France, filed an appeal today with the United States Board of Tax Appeals requesting a re-determina- tion and check of taxes assessed against Blackmer totalling $: 935. WOMAN SETS SWIM MARK. LONDON, Sept. 26 (U.P).—Miss Joyce Cooper, of the Mermaid Swim- ming «Club, set a new record of 3:57 3-5 for the 300-yard free-style swim tod: ° and requested of their A. F. of L. allies that the question be put up to their membership at meetings. Again displaying this hypocrisy which the workers charge to be preparations for an elaborate strike- breaking attempt, the mill owners, and their “mediator” tools continue in their attempt to ignore the real leaders of the strike, the left wing Textile Workers Union. A _ true picture of the sentiment with which this latest proposal was received, however, can be seen by the decision of a huge mass meeting of the left wing union held yesterday afternoon in Publjc Park. Workers Reject Plan. To the query of a speaker at this mass meeting, which was also at- tended by large numbers of British workers, whether the workers would even consider the acceptance of a 5 per cent reduction, a forest of hands shot into the air when “noes” were called for. The proposal to cut wages only 5 per cent was made this time by the State Board of Arbitration and by the Citizens’ Mediation Committee, both creatures of the employers, and Was allegedly “accepted” by the ad- visory board of the bosses organi- zation. After the ceremony of “ac- ceptance” was made, Batty and his crew of officials were asked to ac- cept. The union fakers, however, knowing that the thousands of strikers are practically unanimously against any concessions, declared that they will bring it before their membership which consists of small group of skilled workers, who, it is believed, will reject the com- promise. Next will begin, according to the opinions of the workers, the final stage of the sell-out performance. This means that the employers may announce that they are willing to rescind the 10 per cent wage cut pro- vided they get the Freider Speed-up system. The Textile Workers Union is preparing the workers for this Continued on Page Three STEEL WORKER FACES SENTENCE Old Frame-Up Revived by Court (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Sept. 26.—The case of Tony Kovocavich, one of the first defendants in the state to feel the hand of power wielded by the United States Steel Corporation is to come up for sentence on Oct. 1. His arrest followed a raid which was made into the homes of Ko- vocavich and five other steel work- ers employed in the Carnegie mill at Farrell, Pennsylvania. Work Up Foreign Prejudice. In this case as in all such cases the fact that the workers were foreign-born was played up.to the limit and the ignorance of the work- ers in the town played upon; the same thing was done in Mercer where the men were tried. Out- rageous bail was demanded and Continued on Page Five TAXI “CZAR” IS FETED Employers Meet for Welfare Efficiency It was a swell luncheon. And swell people were present. Big chiefs in the taxi industry, men of brains and vision, devoted to the ideal of “service,” gathered osten- sibly to honor Fourth Deputy Police Commissioner Nelson Ruttenberg, “Socialist now touring the anthracite region “czar” of the Hack License Bureau. | There they were, some 250 self- styled leaders of the taxi industry, All candidates, all open air speak- batch to be received from her on her | With well-fed florid faces and port- The public pays the |ers, all Agitprop Directors, Election present tour. Let us continue with big Campaign Directors, and Organi- pected before she returns to | York, zers must attend this conference. . Many others are ex- | New | 2 ly bodies, at the Hotel Astor yes- terday, pouring sweet words into each other’s ears and planning how | to “improve” the industry. Chief of ceremonies was none other than H. A. Innes Brown, taxi editor, strike-breaker, under cover man for the open-shop Yellow Taxi- cab Corporation, above all “impar- tial” and interested only in the wel- fore of the industry which in his paper, “The Taxi Weekly,” he tries to make out is the welfare of the exploited drivers, The real purpose of the meeting was best revealed in the words * Continued on Page Two ‘3 COMMITTEE HAILS NEW MILL UNION Worldwide Textile Body Sees Victory Ahead (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Sept. 26.— Hailing the establishment of the ;new National Textile Workers’ Union, formed last week at the na- tional convention of the Textile Mill Committees, the International Tex- tile Committee of Action and Pro- gress today issued the following greetings to the American textile | workers. “The International Committee of Action and Progress in the textile industry greets the conference of revolutionary textile workers and wishes them success. The Commit- tee expresses the firm hope that the establishment of a revolutionaty class union will r ise the militancy of the textile workers and bring them nearer to victory over their ex- ploiters. “Long live the revolutionary tex- tile workers of the United States!” | SPURN MORGAN'S SHYLOCK LOAN |Interest Is Too High, Says Argentina BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 26 (UP). | —President Alvear signed a decree today instructing the Argentine em- |bassy at Washington to cancel the | 12,000,000 peso loan which falls due | Thursday and which J. P. Morgan and Co., and the National City Bank had offered to renew for six months at seven and one-half per cent. The decree stated that such a high rate of interest was not justified by Argentina’s present credit standing and that the renewal of the loan therefore was impossible. The statement added that President Al- vear considered the present a con- venient time in the interests of the country to liquidate the whole debt and consolidate it with another fund or substitute short term notes for it. ‘Paddy’ Connolly, Head of IRT Company Union Is Named New Director Old “Paddy” Connolly, head of the Interborough Company Union, strike breaker, caller of the famous 1919 fake company strike for a fare increase, a scab whose record dates back to the 1905 strike during which time he was imported as a “fink” from Chicago—Patrick J. Connolly is now a director of ‘the Inter- borough Rapid Transit Company and will sit beside Frederick H. Ecker, multi-millionaire vice-prest- dent of the scab Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, an organiza. tion close to the heart of J. P. Mom gan himself. f Connolly was named to the direc» torship of the company at a meet ing held last night at which time Frank Hedley, president of the com- pany announced that the move =ts “to promote full cooperation between the company and its employers.” Connolly’s last act was to help break the recent union of the Amalg mated. The election of a company w official to the directorship of | open-shop firm marks a new wrin in the technique of union prevel In this case, the move is not \pected to be very effectual the fact that Connolly and /pany union have been | discredited,