The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 28, 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 = Matered as second-ciam matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 3, 1978. Vol. V., No. 230 Publishing Association, Inc., Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Ys NEY YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1928 | SCHIFFRIN IS HELD FOR GRAND JURY | BYFRAMEUP CREW Judge “Changes Mind” About Dismissal of Militant Socialists Want Blood Defense Body Rallies | Workers | The wheels of the capitalist | frame-up machine again moved sprightly yesterday afternoon} when Magistrate Dodge in the} Bronx Homicide Court an- nounced his decision to send William Schiffrin, left wing trade unionist, to the grand jury for in- dictment on charges of homicide. | “Socialist” leaders of the right) wing in the Jewish labor unions here are not only parti¢tipants in the} framing up of Schiffrin, but are| leading the pack that is trying to} fasten a long sentence on a militant | worker who defended his life against | knife- Aids Fascist March Chancellor Seipel, of Austria, is willing to completely capitulate to the fascists of the Home Defense Corps in the matter of the tenants protection measures in order to pre- vent the provocative demonstration scheduled for October 7. He will arrest Communist leaders and back the fascists against the workers if the demonstrations take place. U.S, SENDS NOTES High Light In RED CANDIDATES TO WARN OF WAR _ DANGER TONIGHT | BigCommunistElection Rally at Central Opera House 'To Expose Fake Treaty ‘Speakers to Show Role One of the strongest compe Spartakiade was the Uruguayan strongest fights against the tean Spart the goal tender of the Soviet team takes a header. akiade Soccer titors in the soccer game at the They put up one of their Above, team. n from the Saviet Union. of Boss Parties a ce ae LEIN: SPIES EXPOSED BY YOUNG COMMUNISTS perialist war for the redivision of the world’s markets among the robber capitalist countries will be stressed by Robert Min- or, editor of the Daily Worker and Communist candidate for U. S. senate from New York at the huge Communist election campaign rally |to be held at 8 o’clock tonight at the Central Opera House, 67th St. . TO MEET FASCISTI Minor, who has just returned|2,000 Rifles, 4 Machine from an, upstate tour during which | Guns Given to he presented the Communist plat: | : form of unceasing class struggle! (wireless to the Daily Worker.) VIENNA WORKERS. AS SEWER GRAFT EVIDENCE GROWS Five young women workers, em-|D’Olier Not a Suicide, ployes of Klein’s Department Store, 3 Union Square and 14th St., were Jury Holds unmasked as stool pigeons for their ae employer following their attempt to D’Olier, an im- © William L, been conducting organization activ- ities within the store. At the same time, it was learned | that the girls are employed as house detectives for the open shop, now going on, who was found time before he was scheduled Workers Party Ruled Off Ballot in Nebraska; Will War Against Jingo Verdict WILL STRESS WAR DANGER AT BIG COMMUNIST RALLY TONIGHT FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents MURDER VERDICT ixca-taiters, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Start Drive Against Party Communists Will Launch Vigorous Fight to Keep Ticket on Ballot Responding’ to a campaign of the red baiters of Nebraska led by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and other fascist ele- ments, Secretary of State Frank Marsh ruled the Workers (Communist) Party ticket off the ballot, according to a report zs é received at the headquarters of the National Election Cam- gain entrance into the Young Work- portant witness in the $30,000,- paign Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party yester- ers (Communist) League which has/99Q Queens sewer graft trial day from Roy Stephens, Party representative in Nebraska. While the secretary of state threw the Communist ticket the Veterans of Foreign Wars dead on a lonely road a short off the ballot on technical grounds, the gist of the protest of was that the Workers (Com- ®*munist) Party was “un-Ameri- ON NAVAL TREATY to testify, was murdered, the Queens Cotinty Grand Jury re- he deadly attack of five vielders, With appalling brazenness, the|[mperialist Wrangle in slave factory. They sought to join the League, it was learned, in order to prevent unionization of the store. can.” The to the workers of a dozen upper New York industrial centers, will) VIENNA, Sept. 27.—As October expose the fake Kellogg “peace”|7 draws near, the date set for the of the McMAHON AIDS representative istrate who had declared | i «"| ported late yesterday. Veterans Porei Jars w: same magistrate who had declared) "A ymament Race treaty, which serves but to cloak provocative demonstration of the _ The stool pigeons are Bessie POT’ © bees edie arene of Koreien ae we Egg dhe Sinan beh care g ’ the feverish war preparations of all i pias Blitz, Freida Schwartz, Evelyn D’Olier did not die by his assisted by an attorney. ~Ste- that he was quite satisfied that the ‘i eA Austrian fascist organization, the 3 J ¥ Pr : és testi showed Schiffrin to have|_ WASHINGTON, SEPT. 27.— the imperialist powers for another Hi Def C eer | Schafer, Isabel Rosenfeld and Lil-/own hand, the presentment phens stated the case for the ended iene ze world war. He will cite the secret Home Defense Vorps, “100 me lion Brown, handed in by the grand jury Workers (Communist) Party. defended himself against attack, to-|TWo notes, in which the United day rasped a decision that the left| States Government is said to have winger must face the grand jury rejected unqualifiedly the secret | Anglo-French agreement as a basis This store, which claims to cater to the needs of the “poorer classes at cheapest prices,” exploits ‘ts treaty between England and France | from the Kaiserebersdorf arsenal jas an illustration of capitalist di- have been secretly distributed to plomatic hypocrisy, and will point|/the fascist forces, who seemed to At the hearing before Secre- tary of State Marsh, the attor- read. The first report by the Tam- Departs tae Help Batty in Sell-Out ee ha daa eae bel tor renewed naval arms “limitation” | out to the thousands of workers! have gained the full co-operation of Young workers in a most brutal) many controlled police was that ney for the objectors, stated Hi Sil hireling of the ri nt | discussions, were sent to the Ameri-| gathered to hear the platform of!oponcellor Seipel and the social- fashion. The average wage for the|D’Olier had committed suicide. NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Sept. that the Communist ticket was oes ies in is|their class that on only one point P ‘ beginner is $12 a week. The high-| Graft, concealment, intimidation of | Figen Sey ole disqualified for a plac wing Butchers’ Union who led the|°®" embassies in London and Paris is y Point | democrats against the workers of ‘ ; sah Oi fer have 27-—Thomas F, McMahon, president (184 r a place on the | yesterday. are all capitalist governments united | 3 est wage is $16. witnesses and finally murder have tthe United ‘Textile’ Workers’|Dallot on the ground that @ gang of assailants. | Vienna and of Neustadt, where the been the methods of the Tammany Although not identical, the notes —that of suppression of all attempts | ay Workers Respond. Union, yesterday hopped into the sufficient number of | y scat supen: sopcuniatonass ajee- | understood to parallel each other | at militant organization among | demonstration is to take place. These conditions have created a S@N& to defeat their exposure. Paid cs oud poaty somaediaid'ta Tie dhiisbered vokaies che = tates, defendant and aitindanae=t lth all essential respects. They go| Workers in their own countries and) four rapid firing guns on lorries great deal of discontent. When the cies ie ie resus local chiefs, who are straining every signed the roster of the Workers a united imperialist front against ernment’s stand on naval disarma- the Soviet Union, the first workers’ ment.as regards cruisers and sub- and farmers’ government. marines. : i Working Youth Conference, in con- junction with the Young Workers (Communist) League, began to-issue . “ieaflets and raise demands, the young workers responded excellent- Judge Dodge sneered when the pro-| ito considerable detail on this gov- testing defense attorneys pointed to his remarks yesterday: “Well, since | will presently be handed over to the |Home Defense Corps, according to reliable information. Fascist-Socialist Coalition. = resource to sell out the strike as it, (Gommunist (Bu United. Press) completes its 24th -week. ey sake |-John M,..Phillips, late Queens _As.was-predicted, the reactionary nomfitiated: jsewer pipe King, forced Joseph L. Textile Council officialdom made Panstaies Palidoa Sigretto, contractor, to give him athe expected gesture of tur ing " Party convention ‘at Communist ticket was To Expose Boss Candidates. | . forward answers of witnesses to his| Powerful militant union of steel yesterday I’ve changed my: mind.” | Defense Strengthened. | The decision to send Schiffrin to} the grand jury would not have baal }so shocking to the hundreds of sym-| pathetic workers waiting outside,| jand especially to those in the court-| The rally tonight will be turned linto a demonstration not only of | protest against the anti-labor roles CON IONS of the other political parties of the | country, but one against the whole AT SOss MFG 60 (capitalist system under which work- ' Hers are crushed and enslaved. The | Today Commander Steidle, of the Home Defense, conferred with Chan- cellor Seipel, who was accompanied by Major \Pabst, the murderer of {Karl Liebknecht and Anna Luxem- | burg and participant in the Ratenow in the $14,000 check tendered by John J. Creem, when the latter took over one of the borough’s sewer jobs, according to testimony in the trial of Maurice E. Connolly and Fred- erick Seely in Queens court today. ly to the call to be organized. Let- \ters were sent in, young workers made visits to the offices, and some joined the Young Workers (Commu- \nist) League. Later on, due to the efforts of down the manufacturers’ offer to recall five per cent of the ten per cent wage-cut that precipitated the strike, but followed up this “deter- mined stand” with the astounding announcement from McMahon that Stephens raised the point that the objection as to legal sufficiency of the petition had not been presented within ten days after the original filing was made, as required by law and therefore it could not be con- sidered. Nevertheless the secretary room, if the evidence brought out) murder and Kapp. putsch. Y i as : ey 7 Na a hi 2 ; . ee : : tsch. | Joung workers themselves, the five) The testimony was given by the strikers insist on obtaining the wie! oe meeting is expected to be the largest |The conference was secret, but it i8 Sycs'were discovered. Two of them ‘Thomas F. Purcell, surety bond Frieder Plan, a vicious speed-up ff Spas, “Hed {au 7 cou Sire ened the case of the defendant. Quite | ns : eld in this city. | 2 . - | 5 ane suey * : é y : Be 4b the feck: bh ‘Worker Urges All to iY. | Tense is ready 10 negotiate with the |e? tried to join the Young Work-/agent, who told of the meeting system. — ; es eee ce i Peeheeuel| All of the speakers at tonight's ers (Communist) League, one of the which, included himself, Creem,| The strategy the mill owners If yesterday established beyond all| doubt that Schiffrin acted heroical- ly in self-defense, today’s testimony makes it all the more clear. demonstration are candidates on the Attend Youth Meet Workers (Communist) Party on its (By « Worker Correspondent) state or local ticket. Besides Min- We, the workers of Soss Manu- or, the other Red standard bearers \social-democrats concerning the Oc- |tober 7 demonstrations. | Signs indicate that the police in- tend to arrest the Communist lead- Sigretto, Allen M. Hirsh, president of the Lock Joint Pipe Company, and Phillips. active sponsors of the Youth Con- ference, which opens at the Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave., tomorrow at 2 p. m. ae aes have been using in their efforts to end the paralyzing tieup was to make it appear that they are very reluctant to give the workers the the election commissioners of the county in which the Party nomin- ating convention was held Among the charges made against Rarely indeed does a district at- facturing Co., are the worst ex-| will be William F. Dunne, Commu. |¢Ts before the demonstration. cate Buen Graft Shared. energy-sapping speed-up system as the Workers (Communist) Party torney get up in court to declare to|ploited, working under the most un-| nist candidate for governor of New| Commander Steidle, in ‘an inter- Testimony previously brought out |# concession. during the hearing were the fol- the judge that he had cross-ques-|sanitary conditions, working 10 to|York; Juliet S. Poyntz, candidate] View, stated that intellectual means i at the trial of Maurice E. Connolly| Altho the officials of the Ameri-/lowing: that William Z. Foster, tioned three members of the squad/14 hours a day and under the for attorney general; Lovett Fort- to prevent. the demonstrations were | and Frederick B. Seely has shown c8" Federation of Labor Textile Communist candidate for the presi- that assailed Schiffrin, and that vicious speed-up system, which Whiteman, running for comptroller; Useless and that he had resolved on that contractors invariably had to, council have publicly endorsed the dency is an anarchist; that to allow they had completely reversed their means ‘more profit for the bosses Bertram D. Wolfe, : national agit-| effectual means. “Tt the Commu- lgee “Jee Philiine ‘before any Frieder speed-up plan, the contin- the Communist ticket on the ballot testimony of the day before, accord-|#nd less wages for its slaves. |prop director sof the Party and Mists fire the first shot,” he said, IN AUSTRALIA award would be made to them. In| U0US Propaganda for it in the press, | would be snapping fingers at every “the Home Defense will deal with 4 has been an utter failure is so far true American and ex-service man; ing to sympathetic attorneys. And) yet this happened in court yester- day, only to be completely ignored The leaflet which was distributed | Communist candidate for the 10th by the Young Workers (Commu-/ Congressional District; Richard B. nist) League has certainly hit the | Moore, running in the 21st Congres- them.” ‘ Arm Fascists. one case $50,000 was paid to Phil- lips. as the attitude of the workers to- ward it is concerned. This attitude that the Communis S are opposed to military training in the Civilian by the judge. nail on the head, when it published |sional’ District; Rebecea . Greeht,|. Although an official communique Officers Fire on Dock), . meee Continued on Page Three Military Training Camps and in Judge “Changed.” the miserable conditions in the Soss state campaign manager and can-|from the Lower Austrian govern- Weinstone to Speak schools; that Communists call the Uninstructed by those interested | in railroading to a miserable fate all revolutionary workers, the judge| yesterday recognized that the s0-| cialist frame-up virtuosos could not} even get their own followers to tell Manvfacturing Co., and most of all when it put up the demand for a minimum wage of $25, for an eight- hour working day and 1 hour for lunch, These demands can only be re- alized when we, the members of District, and Phil Frankfeld, dis- | trict organizer of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League. William W. Weinstone, district or- ganizer of the Workers (Commu- \nist) Party, will be chairman. didate in the 5th Bronx Assembly} |ment states that Seidle is ready to pene the Home Defense Corps to the | Vienna-Neustadt parade unarmed, other statements assert that exten- |sive arming of the fascists is going /on, even airplanes being provided. * * « Workers . : 3 — at Functionaries Meeting Tomorrow ADELAIDE, Australia, Sept. 27. —Provocative action of*police and strikebreakers today caused disturb- ances th several Australian ports re- sulting in the serious injury of functionaries meeting, all candi- A special which all functionaries, dates’ for office of the Workers ASK PUBLIC TRIAL OF POLICE THUG Soviet Union the fatherland of all workers and that the Communists would * overthrow all American ideals. Assails Red-Baiters. Stephens stated that Foster is not an anarchist but a Communist and. cada and showed that he rec- . Bhisicits c u D (C ist) P id all ‘ognized that, by practically declar- Soss Manufacturing Co., organize ‘ is Workers’ Counter-Demonstration. twelve harbor workers’ here. The (Communist) Party, and all open 2s ee that tha Workers (Ci ; = ing that he would dismiss the charge | Urselves politically and incuatyally, Hevolutignary Musi. (Int'l Press Correspondence) strikers were wounded when officers ait speakers must attend, will be Mill Striker Brutally | ic cpposed to eS against Schiffrin. But today he was Young and adult workers, let's elect 4 five-piece band will play revo-/ VIENNA (By Mail).—The Cen- of the steamer Hanau used their re ara’ Conten 2 wre Fie Beaten by Velho theory, He branded the objid a changed man. This was imme- diately evident by his hostility to) the witnesses whose testimony was favorable to Schiffrin. By his en- couraging attitude toward Samuel Markewitch, right wing lawyer, who vainly tried to shake the straight-| tiring cross-examinations. Defense Witnesses Unshakable. In the name of the United He-| brew Trades, the Butchers’ Union {organize ourselves. delegates to the Working Youth luti “ _ he Conference and learn how we can pectin eh incladiga ape «an | ternational,” the victorious working \class battle hymn of work thi The Working Youth Conferencalcoaijver | eee will be held tomorrow and Sunday at the Labor Temple, East 14th S| The doors of the Central Opera God econ aves. 2 Onward. fe Phe | retook sharp to accommodate the workers. The Young Workers huge crowds of workers and delega- (Communist) League and the Work- ers (Communist) Party is with us in our struggle. organizations who are expected to attend. ‘House will be thrown open at 7} ‘tions of trade unions and fraternal | ies Committee of the Communist Party of Austria has addressed an appeal to the Austrian working class, declaring the fascist parade which has been fixed for October 7 hin Weinerneistadt to be a decisive Continued on Page Three November 7th |volvers on the men. The number of injured in other cities has not been | estimated. Trouble began when strikebreak- ers employed by the owners and abetted by them, and the police |goaded the dock strikers. 2,000 Strong. Two thousand strong, the dockers turned on the strikebreakers and drove numbers of them from the water front. Many who took refuge William W. Weiystone, district or- ganizer, will speak on “The Next Steps in the Election Campaign.” He will outline the complete plans of work from now on, and show how the members of the Workers (Com- munist) Party must function. He will also bring up the question of the socialist party in the campaign, in New York, which is an outstand- ing issue, taking in as it does the struggles in the unio NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 27. —Charges against Sergeant Augus- tus Velho, of the New Bedford police force, for an unprovoked as- sault on Frank Augusto, 63-year-old textile striker, are being pushed by Jacob Minkin, New Bedford attor- ney for the American Civil Liberties Union. A public hearing on the case has been demanded of the mayor and board of aldermen. Court action as a bunch of red-baiters, declared that he was proud to be a Commu- Continued on Page Three LEWIS KILLER IS ‘NOT GUILTY’ Se ‘ A WORKER. ee: LSE EDITION OF THE i : a ing i ; and the relatives of the deceased TIC =o in the Free Labour Bureau, the = will follow if nothing is done at the ° squad leader Harry Silver, who were | = me Pas BE ate CNET Aaya ; strikebreaking agency were dragged SNOW IN SARANAC hearing. Coal “Justice” Frees his: clients, Markewitch demanded| ARREST BANK PRESIDENT. | SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 27.(UP) Bail Sg: Worker out by the enraged strikers and) SARANAC LAKE, N. Y., Sept.| Velho brutally beat Augusto, ac- qq]. 4 the right to cross-examine the wit-|,, KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. 27|-—Intense electro-magnetic activity’ 4 u< PNET | chased from the harbor. la (UP) --Snow. squalis. greeted |cording to the charges, while the) Slayer of Campbell nesses, in spite of the fact that the | U-P—~Walter Cravens, former Somes the earth’s center is predicted | CELEBRATING "Tis The strikers then turned their at- forest rangers on White Face and striker was lodged in a cell at the —— (Special to the Daily Work WILKES-BARRE, Sept. 27— Ralph Mellarissi, Lewis machine gangster, has been found not guilty | tention to three vessels being loaded ) ‘by the scabs and ordered the men |to desist. Their guards refused to) permit this and the strikers drove lident of the Kansas City within the next 48 hours by the El/ | Stock and Land Bank, surrendered! Salto Meteorological Observatory | | today to arrest on an indictment re-| here. Two huge masses of spots on) turned last month in Boston by a’ the sun’s surface were the cause for Debar Mountains in the Adirondacks police station Sept. 19, after being today. Saranac village also saw its arrested for picketing. Bruised and first snow of the year climax the bleeding, Augusto was removed to unusually cold September weather another cell and later to a hospital. district attorney was prosecuting for the state. He got permission, of course. Protests of defending llth Anniversary OF THE \. counsel were unavailing. 4 Not a single witness, who though | called by the prosecution gave ir-| refutable evidence for Schiffrin, could Markewitch break down after wo court sessions of grueling. Not nly did he not break witnesses down, not a single detail in fact was he able to shake. While on the other side of the} case, whatever witnesses the prose- cution could count as favorable to themselves, contradicted themselves, going so far as to make confessions to the district attorney that they had been lying yesterday. Every one of the statements made by Schif- frin were substantiated by changed _ testimony of the right wingers. “Your: honor,” said Prosecutor Kier to the Judge. “I called in Katz- man, Paizen and Suskowitz, to me federal grand jury. | predictions. SPEED BAZAAR WORK Final Preparations for Event Oct. 4-7 Every worker on the job for the, The bazaar has received the en- Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar will|dorsement of many of the most im- be the slogan during the next few| portant working class organizations, days. These days will mark the|including the International Labor final preparations for the big event | Defense, and many prominent lead- which will be held in Madison Square | ers of the working class, both in the Garden, Oct. 4, 5, 6 and 7. political and the economic field, have They will be days of the most in-|urged complete support for what tense activity when every class con-| promises to be the greatest prole- scious worker and workers’ organ-|tarian undertaking ever attempted ization will be mobilized to make|in this country. the great national bazaar a suc-| Madison Square Garden will be cess. © he é Continued % Page Five BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION Articles from the leading revo- jutionists of the world. We are beginning now in order to make this the greatest single issue of the Daily Worker ever is- sued. It will be one that will be kept and prized as a classic. Begin now to mobilize your ter number tions than wend in forces so that a of workers’ 6rgai ever before will GREETINGS dawn of the twelfth rule of the workers’ ix’ government of ‘inion, But a trifle over one month remains before the edition goes to press, henc it is necessary that every effor: be now made to send greetings from your organizations. Hailing the ir of ‘idamage was reported. them from the ships. During the | if lays. struggle both men and the wool be- beer a ia: sab His arm and nose were broken. {ing loaded fell into the harbor. | Police Powerless. | The police proved utterly power- [less to cope with the solid masses of port workers as they swarmed along the water front. It is believed that lonly at Melbourne did they succeed lin making a number of arrests. Officers of a number of vessels, notably the German steamer Hanau used their revolvers on the strikers. It was here that the greater number of the injuries occurred. GENEVA, Sept. 27.—Little hope | 1s seen in the “universal disarma- ment conference” which is being discussed by the League of Ngtions. | The conference, it is believed’ will | be called by the next session of the league assembly. Although the public pronuncia- | ‘earthquake, lasting four seconds, mentos of the diplomats here ex- | shook the whole Carnia district to- | press pious hopes for disarmament, day. Another sho. lasting four observers here point out that the seconds, occurred at Fabriano. No | powers categorically rejected the r only genuine enxmemant Propo aan | } ITALIAN QUAKE ROMR, Sept. 27 (UP).—A sharp sentatives merrily of on, Continuéd on Page Five TALK ‘PEACE’; PLAN WAR League Assembly Session Closes sals ever made at any league ses- sions—namely those by the repre- the Soviet Union. With talk of disarmament going diplomats ‘planned war alliances and their gov- ernments at home planned for an increase in armaments. While -the secretly jnth assembly, which adjourned today, talked about con- ferences the diplomats of France and Great Britain were busy ce- | Lewis-Cappellinni machine for pay- of the murder of Alexander Camp bell and Peter Reilly, heroic mine leaders of the anthracite in a trial which ended today. Drove Murder Car. Mellarissi was the driver of the car from which the barrage of shot was pumped into the bodies of the mine leaders. The license number of the car, ‘a Peerless, was taken by a police officers previous to the shoot- ing; the. policeman is known to have stopped the machine for speeding. Further evidence of a payment to Mellarissi and the two other gang- _sters who accompanied him of $10,- 000 previous to the murder was like- wise sidetracked. It is known that this sum was drawn out of a Pitts- ton bank by two coal contractors, closely connected with the then ment of the murders.