The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 28, 1928, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1923 . ard CITY WALLOWS IN GRAFT; HIGHER- UPS INVOLVED Almost Entire Force Have Taken Bribes PHILADELPHI —John and superintendent training school, w: day by District Attorney John Mon- + aghan as the grand jury investiga- tion of vice conditions here contin- €¢ Sept. 27 (UP) spector Stuckert, police of police oned to- s qu 1 ued to involve members of the po: lice departmen Stuckert, Monaghan said, with a salary of $2, annually, has de- posited $37,000 in banks since March, 1926. The inspector spent ten hours be- fore the grand jury early today and was scheduled for another appear- ence later in the day. Monaghan, however, said the second question- ing had been further examir counts. The district attorney intimated a warrant would be sworn out for Stuckert Friday, unless he could ex- plain satisfactorily the source of his prosperity. Stuckert, it was pointed out, was @ppointed inspector of the northeast district, in which two captains and several detectives were arrested in March, 1926. Bank deposits for large amounts, in his name, were made soon after the appointment SECRET TERROR BY GOAL BARONS “Night Riders’ in Ohio ST. CLAIRSVILLE, O., Sept. 27. —John Eberhart, a coal mine fore- man, was released yesterday on a $1.000 bond following his arrest on a charge of riotous conspiracy. Eber- hardt s charged with being one of the leaders of a “Night Riders” geng which has been conducting raids on homes. Recently two wom- en end three men were dragged from their homes. An attempt made to hang them was frustrated. Pau! V. Waddell, notorious prose- cutor of Belmont county, who several months ago imprisoned 51 women pickets, announced that he has the names of a number of the gang but did not indicate that he would pro- ceed against them. In some quarters, it is believed] that the move is a scheme of the coal operators to conduct a secret terror against the coal miners of the section. postponed pending ion of his bank ac- Gang Spanish Workers Paper in Subscription Drive The militant paper of the Span- ish workers, Vida Obrera, has be- gun a drive for subscriptions among the Latin American and Spanish workers in the United States. Vida Obrera (Workers Life), is the monthly organ of the Spanish Lan- guage Bureau of the Workers! (Communist) Party. ‘The first issue in its new form will appear tomorrow, when it will be on sale at a ball to be held by the Bureau at the Spanish Workeys Club, 55 W. 113th St. Typical South and Central American dances, revo- ¥ationary songs and costumes will ‘feature the dance. Ne Phila. Police I nspec Russian Workers, Peasants to Celebrat e October Revolution Soon “ asics Photo taken during celebration of October Revolution last year, shows Bolshevik soldiers who will defend the Soviet Union when the inevitable attack against the first Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic is made by the imnerialists of the World. On November 7, the Eleventh Anniversary will be celebrated. Thousands of visitor: States, the World T Mauretania” Octob ‘om other la rists, Inc., Inc., 69 Fifth Ave., , and arrive in time nds are expected to view arranging for for the celebrations. Insert at Left, Unschlicht, Soviet Assistant Commussar for War. famous Soviet Cavalry hero. SCHIFFRIN HELD Mil’. Striker, FOSTER HITS AT FOR GRAND JURY Socialists Back the Frame-Up Crew Continued from Page One pri y, and in the presence of De- tective Wabbenhorst who acted as a witness, they told me that Schiffrin had not advanced to attack them as they were getting out of the auto- mobile, as they said yesterday, but that Schiffrin backed up to the wall and remained their while the three f them, and three others who were n the car with them, got out and approached Schiffrin.” Despite this astounding statement, he judge granted ki floor to announce that the confessed to the prosecutor were again ready to deny the confessio’ He asked permission of Judge Doc to call in the three referred to. This three had permission was immediately granted, But the frame-up machine of the socialist’s lawyer was so clumsy, that when they appeared on the stand again, they were unable to withstand the cross-examination of the defense, and they again ad- mitted that Schiffrin did not get away from the wall. Under cross examination from the district attorney the business agent of the right wing Butcher Union even admitted that Andrew Jansen’s testimony of the day before was correct. Jansen stated that all six had encircled Schiffrin and closed in on him. The business agent Suss- kowitz, confessed that all six of them had advanced on Schiffrin to “take away his knife.” The William Schiffrin Defense Committee, thru its manager S. Lipzin, yesterday declared that the workers here and from out of town were rallying to the defense of the framed up worker by sending in con- tributions to its offices at the Workers’ Center, 26 Union Square, Room 603, Many workers organizations an- nouncing their intentions of partici- pating in the conference Sunday afternoon where plans for a broad defense campaign will be launched. The conference will be held in Irv- ing’ Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. The Defense Committee is empa- sizing in its appeals to the workers, broadcast in leaflets, that partic- ularly important is it to have direct representation from workers in the shops. All workers are appealed to choose their delegates from among their shopmates. PHILA. POLICE TERROR Arrest Workers at Communist Meetings “Lawless repression and petty] persecution” by Philadelphia police in dealing with Workers (Commu- nist) Party election campaign meet- ings and striking garment workers, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, have followed a decision July 16 by Judge Alessan- droni of the Superior Court, who ruled that the police had power to regulate assemblage even in pri- vate halls. An appeal against this decision is being taken to the Penn- sylvania Supreme Court by the Civil Liberties Union. Typical recent cases still pending are those of speakers at Workers Party street meetings duly author- ized by the police, Dominick Flaini was arrested July 28, charged with violation of the Pennsylvania sedi- tion act, and held in $800 bail, when | he told voters that they should not support the republican party be- cause “President Coolidge was a strikebreaker and had suppressed the police strike in Boston.” More “Sedition.” Emanuel Epstein, who went to the police station to ask the charges against Flaini, was quizzed by the) police captain as to whether he “ lieved the same things Flaini did. When he replied that he did, he too| wi arrested, charged with “sedi-_ tion,” and-held in $800 bail. So far) promputors have been unable to get (\ indictments returned against these two men, At an authorized street meeting held Aug. 14 Herman Pinsker pre- sided and introduced Benjamin iss, a high schcol student of 14, told his audience that Ger- many and England had gone to war to protect their imperialistic inter- ests and that America had entered the conflict for similar reasons. Al- tho the meeting was entirely dr- derly, both were arrested upon the ipstigation of world war jingoes. Young Weiss was released after be- ing detained three days, but Pinsker is held in $500 bail, charged with “inciting to riot.” He did nothing but introducue the boy. No indict» ment has as yet been found against him. Israel Lazaar was arrested for “making seditious remarks” wher he addressed a Workers Party out- door meeting on Aug. 28. Lazaar’s bail, at first set at $5,000, was re- duced to $1,000 when his attorneys | refused to put up the first sum and started habeas corpus proceedings. Herbert Benjamin, district organ- izer of the Workers Party, was ar- rested for “disorderly conduct” and fined $10 because the sergeant at) the police station disapproved of his “attitude” when he appeared and. demanded a copy of the charges ainst Lazaar. the impres sive ceremonies. In the United a party, which will leave on the Insert at right, General Budenny Hungry, Faints On the Street FEW BEDFORD, Sept. 27.—Ed- ward Karza, 21, of 183 North Front St. a striking textile worker formerly employed at the Bristol Mill, was taken to the city infirmary following his col- lapse near his home recently. Karza has been on strike for the past 24 weeks and has. been living with his father, Antonio Karza. For the past three weeks, Karza told Workers International Relief workers, he has lived on two loaves of bread. As he was leaving his home the other day the street suddenly seemed to re- volve and he collapsed with weak- ness, W. I. R. records show that Karza has not ‘applied to the re- lief stations here for help. When asked why he did not avail him- self of relief, he said that he did not want to deprive more needy strikers of food. Karza is single. The city officials here were re- luctant to admit Karza to the municipal infirmary when it learned that the starving man w; a striker. Mr. Poirier, secretary of the Board of Public Welfare, said: “If they went back to work they wouldn’t be wandering around the city dropping from malnutri- tion.” as Members of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League who are minors are being threatened with arrest for “vagrancy” for distrib- uting leaflets and aiding in relief work in New Bedford, Fred Bie- denkapp, national secretary of | the Workers International Relief, said yesterday. The young work- ers, he said, are threatened with terms in the reformatory. Dance Tomorrow at the Greek Center to Give Funds to Daily Worker A dance, arranged by the Greek Progressive Center, will be held to- morrow evening, beginning at 8 m. at the Center, 101 W. 28th St. All workers have been invited to attend the affair, 25 per cent of the proceeds of which will be donated to the Daily Worker, which is now! campaigning for 10,000 new read- ers. The Greek Progressive Center, situated as it is, in the heart of the fur and millinery district, expects to draw most of these workers not only to the dance tomorrow evening, but to the activities which will be! part of its daily work. STORM FREAK BUFFALO, Sept. 27 (UP).— After a severe hail storm, accom- panied by terrific wind and light- ning today, a waterspout sighted on Lake Erie, four west of Buffalo. Thousands of per- sons in office buildings in the down- RAGE INEQUALITY Big Crowd in Frisco Greets Red Nominee SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (By} Mail).—William Z. Foster, Commu- nist candidate for the presidency re- ceived an ovation when he rose to address an audience estimated at be- tween eight hundred and one thou- sand workers in the Civic Auditor: ium, this city, on Friday evening, September 21. The meeting was more than twice the size of that addressed by Nor-} man Thomas, the socialist candidate, a few days previously and in con-| trast to the Thomas meeting which was attended mostly by liberals and small business men, the Foster meeting was one hundred per cent! wotking class. Exposes U. S. Imperialism. The most significant characteristic} of the meeting was the large num- ber of Orientals and Negroes pres- ent. The speaker exposed the im-| perialist role of the United States) government in China, its war against the Chinese revolution in conjunction with Great Britain and} Japan, and how the United States is now bolstering up the reactionary Kuomintang regime, that betrayed} the revolution to the foreign im-| perialists and slaughtered hundreds} of thousands of Communists and} militant workers and peasants. | ation tor Banked $37,000 PUBLIC. SPEAKING COURSES AT THE AMERICAN TRUST WORKERS SCHOOL Many Sovecial Classes in Fall Term During the summer months Workers Schoo! laid out many plans for the strengthening and improv- ing of its publie speaking depart- ments, and as a result will offer three courses in that subject during! the coming fall term which begins Monday, Oct. 1, at 26-28 Union Square, fifth floor. The courses are as follows: Platform Speaking, Beatrice Beck- er, instructor. Monday, 7 to 8:20 p.m. Speech Improvement, Dora John- son, instructor, Tuesday, 8:30 to 9:50 p. m, A special course in Public Speak- ing for women workers and work- ing class housewives only, V. I. Jer- ome, instructor, Wednesday, 7 to 8:20 p. m. Classes Already Held. During the past summer many brief neighborhood and __ section speakers classes have been held throughout the city in the different sections of the New York organiza- tion of the Workers. (Communist) Party of America, with the cooper- and aid of the Workers School. Many of the students that have attended these classes will be eligible for, and are urged to attend the course in Platform Speaking that will be given at the Workers | School on Monday evenings. Due to the present election cam- |paign a great deal of interest hes {been aroused among the militant workers for courses in Public Speaking. The offering of these courses in the Workers School is a result of these increased demands. The formation of new unions, the great participation of the rank and file workers in the work of their unions, as well as the development in the building up of shop and mill committees thruout the city, have been other factors that have made it imperative for the Workers School to offer more and better courses this coming term in Public Speak- ing. eration and the United Council of Workingelass Women have request- ed a special course for their mem- bers. Courses For Foreigners. the! The Working Women’s Fed-) FIRST MOVE BY IN WORLD OIL WAR U. S. Trusts Consider Combine The first indication of a stronger American oil combination to offset the British Royal Dutch oil and {chemical trust alignment, which has | already been countered by en United States-German' oil-chemical com- |Line, occurred here yrsterday with |the meeting of the Pan-American Fetroleum and Transport Company. The company is controlled by Stand- {ard Oil of Indiana, which is reported to be considering a closer affiliation with the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation. Colonel Robert W. Stewart, chair- man of the board of directors of the Standard Oil of Indiana, one of the Rockefeller strongholds, is here con- |ferring with principal persons rep-_ |resenting various financial and in- dustrial interests: Stewart, who figured in the Tea- pot Dome Oil scandal, is rumored to have been offered the chairman- ship of the Sinclair Consolidated. ‘Final Mobilization | Thruout the City in Red Signature Drive The signature drive in New York y, which members: of the Work- ers (Communist) Party have -beep vigorously pushing for the last two months, will be finally ended on Sunday, Sept. 30, when each: section of the city will have a final mob- ilization for the putting across of all assembly districts for which a sufficimt number of signatures have not yet been obtained. | Tomorrow and Sunday are the |last two days of the signature drive. |Four thousand signatures more are needed throughout the city, accord- ing to the District Campaign Com- mittee, and those 4,000 signatures will have to be obtained by Red campaigners this week-end. In every section of the city mem- bers of the Workers (Communist) Party are urged to respond to the call of the section campaign direc- tor and report for the final mob- \ilization drive. | ment, which will be given Tuesday evenings. | Those desiring more information |concerning courses to be given at a Yea Red Candidate { George Powers, Communist Can- didate for Queens Boro President; Organizer of Architectural ‘Iron, Bronze and Structural Workers’ Union, WAR LORDS GET FOREIGN ARMS German Munitions Up Yangtze River — SHANGHAI, (By Mail).—A sec- ond consignment of huge orders for war munitions given by one of the Szechuan province militarists to for- \eign firms will, upon its, arrival) here, be taken up the Yangtze by a foreign ship, according to one of the leading Chinese papers, the Eastern Times. { This installment consists of 10,000) | rifles, four field batteries, a num- ber of machine guns and two air- planes, The first installment, which arrived some time ago, was seized by the local military after a bitter) protest had been made by Szechuan- | ese living in Shanghai, who pointed | out that for many years their pro-| vince had been ravaged by sense- less militarist struggles and that} these supplies would merely pro-| long such conditions. | It is rumored that the supplies are | of German origin despite the offi-| | cial “prohibition” which that gov- jernment was reported to have made| against the further exportation of | war materials to China. . | | WAR MACHINE ON FLIGHT | LAKEHURST, N. J., Sept, 2 | (UP).—The non-rigid dirigible Puri- | ‘tan, which arrived here Tuesday | |from Akron, Ohio, left the naval Foreign speaking workers with|the Workers School this year should gir station at 9:20 a. m. today on| an accent who wish to improw: their | come to the office of the Workers/_ flight to New York City _and| Ecuadorian government today ap- ,cent ahead of last year. ay on $2 800 Salary 5 PULP EXPERTS FROM SOVIET UNION INU, S, Will Study American Methods, Machinery G. G. Khramtzoff, chief engineer; E. Goryatcheff, vice-president, and A. Kayatz, consulting engi- neer of the Government Central Faper Trust of the U. S. S. R., have arrived in the United States to com- plete negotiations for the purchase of over $500,000 worth of paper ma- |chinery for the new Balakhna mill on the Volge River. The Central Vaper Trust is the largest paper combine in the Soviet Union, ac- counting for about 30 per cent of the total paper and cardboard out- put and for over 80 per cent of the cellulose production, “While considerable American equipment has been purchased for Soviet paper mills during the past |few years,” stated Khramtzoff, head of the deleration, “this equipment has been for handling and trans- porting materials. The present or- der is for the first American paper- making machinery to be bought for jthe Russian industry. The Volga | mills, on which work was started in 1926 and which are now nearing completion, are among the largest in Europe and have already installed the largest paper machine in use on the continent, After the installation of this machine, which was pur- chased in Germany, and the Ameri- can machine we plan to add a third unit which will bring the annual capacity of the mills up to /05,000 tons of newsprint.” | | | | Two years ago Khramtzoff vis- ited the United States on behalf of the Central Paper Trust, while Kayatz was one of the group of en- gineers and workers who recently made a five months’ study of the American and Canadian paper in- dustries. The favorable impression of American equipment and meth- ods gained on these visits was un- doubtedly instrumental in bringing about the present purchases. The Soviet paper industry em- ployed 20,600 workers and produced 267,000 tons of paper and 39,000 tons of cardboard last year. This year the output is running 8 per About, $20,000,000 was expended for cap- ital construction in the industry this year. WASHINGTON ARMS MEET. QUITO, Ecuador, Sept. 27W—The |voice and speech for all speaking oc-| School or write for a free copy of| vicinity. The Puritan is one of the|pointed Carlos Arroya del Rio as Foster pointed out that the Work-/casions will have a special class to; the catalogue. Registration is now/ smallest dirigibles in the world and| delegate to the forthcoming arbi- ers (Communist) Party, the only po-| meet their needs in speech improve-| in progress. litical party in the United States having for its aim the overthrow of| capitalism, was a section of the Communist International, the leader | of the struggle of all workers and) oppressed colonial peoples, regard-| less of race or color to throw off} the yoke of the imperialists. | Champion of Negroes. | speaker dwelt on the perse-| of the Negroes by the capi-| talists of the United States and de- clared that the Workers (Commun-} ist) Party stood for full social ands racial equality for the Negroes in| contradistinction to the capitalist parties, the parties of lynching an segregation, Jim Crowism and dis: crimination. He urged the whit The eution * workers to fight for the rights of the Negroes declaring that the rul- ing, classes nourished race and color prejudices in order to weaken the fight of the workers against the capitalists, the common enemies of all workers. A collection of $180.00 was taken up for the Communist election cam- aign. Unemployed workers were admitted to the meeting free of charge. MUST DIE IN CHAIR. HARRISBURG, Pa. Sept. 27 (UP).—William R. Phillips, 22, and Jesse G. Parker, 20, of Delaware county must die in the electric chair at the Rockview State Penitentiary Monday, the State Board of Pardons tence. Phillips and Parker were con- victed of the killing of Norman E. was decided today in refusing their plea| miles of commutation of the death ‘sen-| town section of this city witnessed Gibson, son of a deputy prothonotary | the rare occurrence, “TCOR” FOR JEWISH COLONIZATION Town Hal 113-123 W. 43rd St. RUSSIAN TRIO — NAUM BLINDER, Violinist OSSIP GISSKIN, Cellist EMANUEL BAY, Pianist , CHAIELE TICKETS AT “FREIHEIT,” “DAY GRAND PROGRAM: of the Habima in Jewish, Russian folks songs. Back to the Soil STEINS BOOK STORE, 365 SUTTER AVENUE IN BROWNSVILLE. last March Concert IN THE SOVIET UNION SATURDAY EVE., Sept. 29th VICTOR PECKER and ISAAC ROTHBLUM in original and comedy. 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