The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 29, 1928, Page 2

CALL I$ ISSUED DENOUNCING THE 3 BOSS PARTIES To Lay Definit at Meet Plans Workers in the needle trad G y of New York were - day, called to elect delegates and representatives labor or @anizatio an s to a con- ference called 2 presi- dential candic n the fall elections ket of the Workers (Comn t) Party. The call was distribute he thousands in the markets x places of needle t Needle T tee. It w leader of the chairman, and I of the oakmakers Joint Board a: secretary. Cites Bitter Struggles. After showing in its appeal the anti-workin; ¢ r of the three boss parties, repu , demo- eratic and socia the conference evening Oct. 9, at Bryant Hall, 42nd A The appeal dec “Within the will be called ur “We, the needle work have gone thru a Guring the past few years gle in which we had tc eombined hosti S eialist trade union bure hosses and the cay st its democratic and judges; a s n which we have feen the i e workers sold out to the bi by the mi leaders of the and every attempt of 0 de- fend their 1 union condi- tions was met with the full power of the brutal po force of the lemocratiec alker and Gov- érnor Smith, whom the bureaucrats trade bitter s a strug- neet the where of ithe Am n Federation of La- bor have er ed as “the friend of Tabor.” | Socialists Are Enemies. € nce of the past few have demonstrated to the workers that the socialist part (under whose leadership the pogrom against the needle trade workers) \- was launched), t as the big capi- thlist parties only an instrument Of oppression against the workers. The struggle has thought the yvork- ers of our industry to distitiguish their friends and their enemies. It has taught them the need for aed real unions, controlled by rank and file. It has taught them the need of a real political party of the working class which will stand ready to defend the in- terests of the mass of workers @gainst the bosses and their agents. “Now the time has come when the workers of our industry must trans- Tate these lessons into definite ac- tion. Dur this coming presiden- tial campaign the needle trade workers will have an opportunity: to demonstrate heir bitter e ri- ences of the Ww years h: not been in vain, that as a class-con- scious worker they will throw t entire support to that party whi has championed their interest, that party wh has always been the first to support every effort of the workers of our industry as well as other ind to improve the conditions Workers (Commun- ist) Part “Let t conference be the an- sSwer of the needle trade wor to fall the acts of treachery of {eialist party, the instigator a ‘leader of the present struggle. Let *this conference in no uncertain sterms tell all the enemies %f the EAGLE PENCIL SLAVE THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPT. 29, 1925 Seems Sure “Trial” Will Whitewash Him ns, after he state He doe get off wer graft charges wa d the other day that the jury “try- “blue-ribbon” jury, and per- t appear worried about the out- capitalist political grafters always WARN OF WAR PERIL AT :BIG COMMUNIST RALL Continued from Page One treacherous of the socialist s\ party, whi Moore showed, was not different from the other cap- talist parties in its program for the Negro masse: Poyntz Stre: es Campaign. Juliet Stuart Poyntz, candidate for attorney general and national secre for Women’g Work of the Party, stressed the ih portance of the _present npaign in Americ: and showed its relation to the grow- ing left movement of the mna- tional proletariat. Rebecea Grecht, election campaign manager of the district, spoke on the old parties and their betrayal of local issues in the city. She made an appeal for financial support for the campaign which netted several hundred dollars. An appeal for new mem = to the Party resulted in bout fifty responses. ; Phil Frankfeld, district organizer of the Young Communist spoke on Youth in Indust on of the Youth. A Pioneer, Bernard Berner, poke on the Pioneers and the Boy Scout movement veague, and the Final Sisnature Drive to Be Held Tomorrow Tomorrow, the last and decisive day of the intensive campaign waged in New York for signatures to put the candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party on the ballot, will witn the final mobilization of Party members in all sections to ed qu-ta. complete the r Ww and the Co-operative le Willimsburg, Brownsville 3 3 ror sectior are those most in need of signatures, the drive must be continued with increased vigor ng to the District 2 Cam- paign Committee, All bers are urged to report at their headquar- Sunday at 9 a. m. The Bronx branches of the Young Wo in o sections, rs (Communist) League will report at > 75 Clinton Ave. drive in the Third Br District. : the the final nx Assembly working class that just as we are ready to fight them on the eco- nomic field, just as we are ready to fight aga their des we deeds, their treachery and provocations on the picket line, just so are we ready to fight them on the political field.” S i. L. D. Protests Police Attack on Meets § Charging direct collaboration b itween the Tammany police and of Hicials of the open shop Eagle Pen- teil Compan York section iof the Int« 1 Labor Defense, £799 Broadw a statement issued ‘last night, denour tion in interfering with meetings of ithe Workers (Communist) Party, in Hfront of the Eagle company, 14th #St. and Ave. C and demands that there be no interference with fu- ture meetings. The statement, signed by Rose Baron, secretary, follows: “The breaking up of the Worke (Communist) Party meeting in front of the Eagle Pencil Company early this week was one of the most brazen acts of police-boss terror fagainst workers that have recently occurred in this city. : Aiding Bosses. ‘Every action of the police gavé evidence that they were working Upon orders from the officials of this viciously open shop company. The ¥elaves of the Eagle company, work- jing long hours for miserable wages under unendurable conditions must he kept in subjection and their minds must be drugged and guarded against receiving any message that would enlighten them as to the rea- “sons for their misery. This is the ew rna the police ac- f [legal rights of c s the program of the Tammany po- lice, long notorious for their terror against workers, the of the Workers Party was an election campaign meeting which aimed to expose the role of the capitalist parties in keep- ing the workers enslaved. Had it been a meeting of the democratic or republican party, would it have been broken up? Not only did the police forbid the meeting, but find- ing themselves unsuccessful in com- pletely pting it, they drove the workers of the Eagle Pencil Com- pany who were listening to the speakers back into the factory to prevent their minds from being ‘polluted’ by this ‘Red’ propaganda. “The New York section of the In- ternational Labor Defense strongly denounces the abrogation of all the ens of this coun- try in the attack upon this meet- ing. We charge this to be part of the general drive against the mili- tant working class in which the Ta y police is helping the bosses to keep the workers in com- plete subjection. ‘ “We demand that the police cease from inte:fering with Workers Par- ty meetings in the future and pledge our fullest support in fighting against the attacks of the boss-con- |program of the company and this| trolled police and courts.”” 4) NEEDLE TRADES IN BRONX RALLY Three More Meets Are Scheduled Today The Red Election Campaign of the Needle Trades Campaign Com- mittee was opened with a bang Thursday night, when at the corner of Intervale and Wi Bronx, one of the la meetings ever held for the Workers (Communist) Party was held by needle trades workers. Chief among the speakers were Ben Gold, prominent leader of the left wing furriers and Communist Red candidate for as- y in the Fifth Bronx assembly t and manager of the Dress Department of the National Organi- zation Committee of needle trades pite the chilly weather, hun- dreds of Bronx workers erdwded around the Communist platform and listened to the platform of class struggle of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party. The speakers were greeted enthusiastically and re- ceived large ovations, Other spéakers were Rose Wortis, of the Dressmake: Union; Wino- gradsky, Furriers’ Union, and Sil- kowitz, Cloak and Dressmakers. S. Hertz, of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers, was chairman. Three more open-air rallies will be held today by the Needle Trades Campaign Committee. In East New York, at the corner of Williams and Sutter Aves., L. Cohen, Liptzin, Ta Jones, Lena Charnenko, Nat will speak. Ostrinsky will rman. nder the chairmanship of H. Sazar, the following needle trades workers will speak in Brownsville, ; at the corner of Bristol. Street and Pitkin Avenue, Ph. Goodman, Zeibel, ylvia Blekeer, J. Goretzky and L, Cohen. In Williamsburg, at Grand Street | Extension and Havemeyer Street, ! J. Weisberg, Zirlin, William Abrams, I. Potash, Pinchefsky, Ci- bolsky and Wishnefsky. The chair- man will be Kadrinetsky. Mussolini Calls Meet of Fascist Editors to Dictate News Policies ROMF, Sept. 2! To dictate the policy that all newspapers in Italy must follow in their handling of news and editorials Mussolini has called a conference of the fascist i for October 10 at the Chigi ace. At that time he will also instruct the newspaper corporations to “in- sure” the success of the fascist agri- cultural colonists which will be held on November 3. Mother Bloor to Speak at Boston W.LR. Meet BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 22.—The conference of the Workers Interna- tional Relief to aid the striking tex- tile workers hore will be held Sun- pt. 50. at 2 p. m. at the Credit Hall, 62 Chamber St. Flla Reeve Bloor will be the prin- Plans for a house to tion to help the mill will be taken up at the meeting LONDON MURDER TRIAL, LONDON, Sept. 28 (UP),-The ease of San Dwe, Burmese, Christ- ian Mahout aml former guardian of | the late Pa Wa, sacred White Ele- phant, was resumed in Marylesbone | Police Court today. San Dwe is ac- cused of the murder of his friend, said Ali, Mohammedan Mahout, with whom he liv@ at the London | \ Zoo. 4 | MINERICH NAMED AS A CANDIDATE ON LABOR TICKET Pennsylvania Party Selects Militant (Special to the Daily Worker) | PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28.-—Papers were filed today in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of by Secretary, Max Jenkins, of the Pennsylvania, County the miners strike, and chairman of the mittee, it was announced today by E. P. Cush, State Secretary of the Pennsylvania Labor Party. Minerich was named to fill a vacancy on the Labor Party ticket, for Congress in the 32nd Congressional District, N. | S. Pittsburgh, and a portion of Alle- gheny County along the Allegheny | River, “The County Executive Commit- tee of the Labor Party, has used geod judgment in selecting Tony Minerich,” Cush declared, “as he is one of the most consistent fighters against all those who oppose or- ganized or unorganized labor.” National Miners’ of a fighting miner of Renton, Labor Party, as a candidate at a special election to fill the vacancy | the Flintkote created by the death of the state | turer of asphal senator in the 45th senatorial dis- | trict of Allegheny County. Anti-TrustProceedings | Are Filed Against 8 Leading Cinema Firms WASHINGTO pictures producers and the West! Coast Theaters, Incorporated, Southern California, the Justice De- partment was advised today. Distributors and producers named | include Paramount famous Lasky changes, United Artists Corpora-} tion, Fox Film Corporation, Vita- graph, and Pathe. 100 motion picture theaters Southern California. Red Sanads Will Wind Up Williamsburgh and | ports New Antarct Imperialism’s great fall offensive Labor | against the Antarctic is not confined Party, for the nomination of An-| to the Ford-backed Byrd expedition. thony Minerich, a militant leader in | Britain also is a competitor in the Above, Capt. Sir | Relief Com-| Hubert Wilkins, who has just sailed | for the south pole south polar drive. - Wide Conference of Needle Trade Workers to A ON CLASS ISSUE ‘Baldwin Shifts Strees | at Conferen¢e GREAT YARMOUTH, England, Sept. 28.—Prime Minister Baldwin of England admitted that the real danger facing England now was the “threat” of Communism and the ex- treme laborites and Communists among the British working class, at the conference of the conservative party here today. A. conference had _ previously jadopted a @esolution that would jmake the chief issue in the coming {election campaign the question of LONDON, English oil Eight to nine millions of addi- | tional capital has been added to the company’ by the Royal Dutch-Shell. An effort will also be made to buy up the stock held by American fi- | Sept. 28, (U.P.) Nanciers in Flintkote. The asphalt s Aves. the —Anti-trust proceedings have been |Company will be assured of all its est open-air filed against eight leading motion|t@W materials and petroleum. Capital Sept. Royal BRITISH-U, S, OIL WAR PROCEEDING ‘Royal Dutch Adds _ to | movement, which, he said, MacDon- 28.—To further} A .».; complete the reported British oil- Mrs. Anna Mondell, militant wife! chemical combine and to complete has’ steps in the trustification of these also been selected to represent the | industries, the Dutch-Shell, company, has bought Company, a manufac- It and other petroleum products, according to the announce- ment of Chester E. Rahr, president jof Flintkote. | At a crowded moeting of the Cut- candidate in the Twenty-third Con-| Distributing Corporation, First Na-|ters Welfare League, held last night | District, and Charles Zim-| tional Pictures, Universal Film Ex-|at the headquarters of the Joint : Board of the Cloak and Dressmak- ers Union, 16 W. 21st St., the re- delivered by The West Coast Theaters operate | showed that the organization is in-| in| creasing by leaps and bounds. I. Horowitz, organizer, reported that many cutters are joining. Rep- resentatives of the National Organ-| proved, Schiffrin fought off his as- | of izational Committee reported on its | sailants and wounded two, one dying |Great Britain, were married today activity in New York and out of | later. j 7 jtown, emphasizing the accomplish- | Bro wnsvi I 1 e Drives ments in Boston, Philadelphia and | Williamsburg will be the chieg | Chicago. scene of the activities of the Red | Squads of Sections 2 and 3 tomor- | row, All members of these sections | are required to report at 46 Ten Eyck St., the headquarters of the Williamsburg section, for the drive | to put across the Thirteenth Assem- bly District. or at 154 Watkins St., the Brownsville headquarters, for work in the Twenty-second Assem- bly District. In sending out the call to the Red Squads cf Sections 2 and 3, the Dis- | trict Campaign Committee urged that emphasis be placed on an espe- cially large mobilization for Wil- liamsburg. Three-Cornered War Looms as Radio Trust Seeks More Control, (By United Press) | The possibility. of a three-cornered | struggle for supremacy in the do- mestic communications field was seen here as a result of the Radio Corporation of America’s request for| 68 new short wave channels in the United States. The company announced its inten- tion of establishing a radio network! over the United States to compete | commercially with the Western Union and Postal Telegraph Com-| panies, | Australian Workers | Leader Is Acquitted -——_ { SYDNEY, (By Mail).—“Jock” Garden was acquitted today of the charge of wilfully inciting to mur- der on which he was arrested on| June 13, under the States Crimes Act following a speech relating to the marine cooks’ strike in which he was alleged to have said: “If scab cooks man vessels our own tactics! may change. We may supply union men even though scabs are aboard. The scabs won’t be good sailors.| They will have to go to the railings | occasionally. They may lose their! balance . . in which case the sea is deep and dead men tell no tales.” W. Allen White, Power | Trust Hireling, Back | NEW YORK, Sept. 28 (UP).— Willim Allen White, Kansas author | and editor, will return to the polit- | ical battlefield “within 24 hours,” he announced today on his return from | a two months’ European trip. He admitted having recdived $500 for a speech to the National Elec- | trie Light, Association convention at | Atlantic City, N. J., before ho | sailed, i t ot|Many Workers Attend \Cutters’ League Meet the officers | “safe-guarding” the coal and iror industries and declared itself in fa- vor of a stronge protective tariff. | Baldwin. in his speech, in part to |save the tories from a split on the | protective tariff, mostly to meet the | opposition of the MacDonald labor | party, shifted the emphasis to the | danger of the militant working class |ald and his group could no longer | control. | The maneuver was largely due, it is thought, to the danger of a conservative party split and the possibility of a MacDonald-Liberal coalition gaining power. Is Called to Prevent Frame-up of Schiffrin Continued from Page One out so that workers in other indus- tries can be told of this vicious at- tempt to railroad an_ innocent worker. The conference tomorrow is ex- pected to be representative of many thousands of workers in New York City. Leaders of the militant labor movement in New York are to be the principal speakers. work are to be passed on. organizations will be Labor reached appraise them of the true facts in the case. Schiffrin had defended his life single-handed against an attack of \six “committeemen” armed with knives and sent to attack Schiffrin against the wall, as witnesses You're in the fight when you | write for The DAILY WORKER. Conference of Workers | ‘Company. Stool-Pigeon eo ‘ Patrick Connolly, head of I. R. T. Company Union, stool-pigeon among |the traction workers, has been made « director in the I. R. T. as reward for services to company. |Connolly owns valuable real estate lin Yonkers, which seems suspicious \to I. R. T. workers in view of the fact that Connolly claims he gets ‘only 86 cents an hour, just as the | other workers do. WILL DEVELOP USSR UTILITIES ‘Foreign Concessions to ; Be Granted | MOSCOW, Sept. 28.—Following the change in the policy of the So- | viet Government, which is more fa- | vorable to foreign capital invest- ment in concessions, the Concessions Committee has announced that | foreign capital would be welcome in helping to develope the public util- ities in sixty principle cities. The announcement says tha‘ the population in the cities is growing | with great speed and that a 20 per | cent increase is expected during the next five years. To meet this, an | expansion in city utilities, at a cost amounting to about a billion and one half rubles will be necessary of | which foreign concerns are asked to Plans for | inyest about 400,000,000 rubles on a/ | concession basis, These concessions | will be subject to the same restric- through speakers and literature to | tions as previous ones, namely that | |at the end of a certain period all | the developments are to be handed jover to the Soviet Government. “SPLENDOR” OF PAST | TOKIO, Sept. 28 (UP).—Yasu- ‘and Setsuka Matsudaira, daughter the Japanese ambassador of jat Chiyoda castle. The army salute jof 21 guns heralded a new princess |of Nippon as Setsuka was registered jas Princess Chichibu. Aid Red Campaign 1 on October 9 ie Prive TORIES TO FIGHT NEW YORK ITY WORKERS AIDING TEXTILE RELIEF Many Respond to Call of W. I. R. As a result of the Textile Relief Conference held recently by local | New York, Workers’ International | Relief, workers organizations, | unions and individual workers who | pledged contributions, have been sending in their quota fulfilling their promises, according to a state- ment just issued by the secretary, Harriet Silverman. Organizations which were represented are urged to take action immediately if they have not yet done so, and at the same time begin the drive for clothes and shoés. Plans for the opening of the clothing station are under way and announcement of the location will be made within the next few days. In accordance with the program | adopted at the conference, workers |are actively laying plans to raise ;money to meet the needs of New | Bedford and Fall River strikers. Section 4 must be given credit for being the first to put through a plan that of taking a collection at the Vegetarian Restaurant, 1606 Madison Ave. during four days, Sept. 25, 26, 27, and 28. The res- | taurant in cooperation with the workers has arranged to contribute 10 per cent of the prooceeds to the strikers. Jacob Ginsburg is in charge. | Sections in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Harlem, Williamsburg, and all parts of the city should communi- cate immediately with the Local Secretary of the W. I. R. for ar- rangements to give motion pictures performances of “The Crowd.” All workers are expected to do their ut- most to answer the relief call from New Bedford and Fall River. Greek Center Will Hold Dance Tonight A dance, arranged by the Greek Progressive Center, will be held to- night, beginning at 8 p. m. at the Center, 101 W. 28th St. All workers have been invited to attend the affair, 25 per cent of which will be donated to the Daily by the right wing officialdom of |hito, Chichibu-No-Miyra, heir pre-| Worker, which is now campaigning the Butchers Union. With his back|sumptive to the throne of Japan, | for 10,000 new readers. | The Greek Progressive Center, | which is situated in the heart of the |fur and millinery district, expects to draw most of these workers not only to the dance tonight, but to the activities which will feature its | daily work. 4 BIG. NIGHTS 1,000,000 Articles EVERYTHING FROM A THREAD TO A SET OF FURNITURE at Yo Price BIG NIGHTS | THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY BIG DAYS O A CTOBER DO NOT BUY NOW, WAIT TILL THE BAZAAR | ' | i } ; i es A ( [ | | ts a