The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 1, 1928, Page 1

—— — Hug National Daily ~ Worker-Freiheit Bazaar Opens at Madison Square Garden Thursday THE DAILY WORKER | For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party nder the act of Mare! Published daily except Sunday by The Nati Vol. V., No. 232 Worker h 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION ATES: In New Yor New York, b mall, $8.00 per your 86.00 per year. Publishing Association, In NEW YORK, MO} HUGE CAMPAIGN TO SAVE SHIFRIN Many Organizations Pledge Support at Big Meet Denounce Right Wing To Form ‘Nation-Wide Defense Groups At an enthusiastic conference in Irving Plaza which rang with de- nunciations of the murderous activ- ities of the right wing Jewish Daily Forward clique, 167 delegates, representing 91 organizations and the Soviet Union in a Pioneer Camy the other at school in the Crimea. Mary Adams, American Negro delegate to the World Congress of the Communist International is shown above with her sons, Charles enlarged at left, and Neil. The boys have been snending their time in ‘CHARGE WALKER KNEW OF $75,00 CAMPAIGN ‘GIFT Insiders Reveal Deal Between Phillips and Tammany Big Boys “Played Safe” Supported Both Walker and Connolly Jimmie Walker, jazz-dancing Tam- jmany Hall mayor of New York, knew of the secret expenditure by John M. Phillips, late sewer pipe |king of Queens, of $75,000 to secure p. One of them is now in Moscow, Ihis nomination, it was stated yes- | many shops, yesterday afternoon pledged fullest moral and financial support to the efforts to save Wil- liam Shiffrin, Igft wing worker, | from being railroaded to the electric chair or a long jail term. The conference, Shifrin Defense Committee, laid the) Three more. days—and the great; 3 DAYS TO BAZAAR--- ~ WORK IS SPEEDED U. called by the & basis for a nation-wide campaign in which thousands of workers and| workingclass organizations will be enlisted to save Shifrin. Right Wing Thugs. Shifrin is now behind the bars as a result of having defended himself | against five knife-wielders, sent by the right wing machine of the Butch- ers’ Union which is under the dom- ination of the Forward and the re- actionary United Hebrew Trades. As a result of this attack, in which Shifrin succeeded in saving his life only by a desperate struggle, one of the would-be assassins was mortally wounded. The conference yesterday was an eloquent answer to the provocations of the yellow Forward, which has been yelping for the blood of this | innocent worker. The Defense Com- mittee had engaged a small hall on National Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar will open in all its glory at Madison Square Garden. This means that the next three days will be days of feverish prep- aration on the part ‘of all individ- uals and organizations who are ac- tively working to make this great bazaar a success. Council Meeting Tonight. Tonight at 8 p. m. representatives of all the councils of the United Councils of Workingclass Women will meet at. the organization’s of- fice, 80 E. 11th St., to make final plans for their booths, A call has been issued by Kate Gitlow, secre- tary of the organization, urging all the councils to send representatives to this meeting and to bring all moneys for greetings, Honor Roll the top floor of Irving. Plaza, think- | names and tickets to the council’s |terday by those on the “inside” of |the activities during the 1925 pri- mary campaign, in which Walker | ran against Hylan. | These _ statements |charges made repeatedly in the. Daily Worker that not only Maurice E. Connolly, former Queens Berough president, on trial in the $30,000,000 Queens sewer graft case. but those confirmed |The sarne charges were made in con- nection with the street cleaning graft exposures which were made this summer. Involved in Scheme. Mayor Walker, in spite of his de- nial of knowledge of the secret con- Mine Misleaders Aid Reactionaries By GEORGE SAUL. DENVER, Colo., Sept. 30.—The | of the expenditure, it was stated in Workers (Communist) Party elec-|the same quarters, but the move tion petitions have been filed with | Was part of a well organized scheme the secretary of state and from now in which the Tammany Hall ma- on until election day in November |‘hine, Phillips and a number, of SeorneG nist campaign will | Queens political and business lead- be aed on in this state of in-|¢TS took part with the purpose of dustrial feudalism, where the state |insuring the victory of Walker and governiment is controlled ‘by. the| "De. ousting of, Hylan. Connolly, sce + |president of Queens a‘ the time, mining magnates and particularly P Etat aut: by John D. Rockefeller, of the no-|Suppotted Hylan, it was pointed out. }torious Colorado ¥Fuel and .-Iron “Phillips, as was his custom. ‘played AY, tribution by Phillips, not only knew | pennoeded when questioned as to the ing that this would be sufficient to hold the crowd of delegates and visitors. But when hundreds of workers of all trades kept pushing into the hall, overflowing into the aisles and filling the front and rear, office. ‘ | Company. In no state of the union have the} |workers been more subjected to the) liron rule of the capitalists than in |Colorado. It is safe to say that there have been more workers killed and wounded in the class struggle} | Last year the United Council of Workingclass Women succeeded in | raising $3,000 at the Daily Worker- | Freiheit Bazaar, and this year the | Continued on Page Four | OCTOBER 1, 1928 Communists in Clash with Berlin Fascisti BERLIN, Sept. 30 (UP).—Seven persons were reported seriously in- jured tonight in a street battle be: and Hitlerites developed after a meeting at which Adolphus Hitler spoke for the first time in Prussia. tween Communists which WORKERS PARTY BATTY MILL UNION VOTES TIGKET BARRED ON 50 WAGE-CUT OFFER; STRIKERS DEFY SELL-OUT Real Textile Workers Leaders Calling Huge Mass Rally to Fight Scab Scheme IN WASHINGTON Gitlow Denounces New “Outrage” at Huge Protest Meeting Both sides fired pistols during the Many States Bar Party Press Gets Orders to Keep Mum on Textile Workers’ Union Strike Activities rioting. Hitler was the initiator of the 1923 political coup at Munich. The German National Freedom movement championed ultra-nation- alism, opposed the Weimar constitu- tion, and was favorable to restora tion of the monarchy., MILITANTS FORCE 40-HOUR DEMAND. Gesture by Building Trades Misleaders , Reacting to the increasing resent- ment of the building trades work- ers aroused by unemployment, non- union conditions on the job, loss of job control, building trades labor officials have made am gesture to-| secretary of state is but another |Communist-led army Communists. Organize to Fight Decree (Bu Wire to the Daily Worker) TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 30.—Ben Gitlow, candidate for vice-president on the Workers (Communist) Party | ticket, speaking at a large protest mass meeting here today, denounced the action of the state authorities in barring the Party from the ballot in this state. The announcement denying the right of the Communists to run their election ticket was made yesterday by J. Grant Hinkle, secretary of state. Denounces Verdict. After attacking this conduct as “outrageous” before the meeting, which repeatedly cheered the Com- munist vice-presidential candidate, Gitlow declared: “The high-handed action of the NEW BEDFORD, of the United Textile group of followers the acceptance or rejection mise offer of the employers. Mass., Sept. 30.—The Textile Counefl Workers will’ put before their small question of voting thru secret ballot of the five per cent wage-cut compro- The meeting of the Council itself late Saturday decided not to speak for or against WORKER,PEASANT ARMIES ADVANGE Gain in South China as Nanking Split Looms SHANGHAI, Sept. 30.—That the of Chinese wards the 5-day, 40-hour week, ac- proof of the sham democracy that | Peasants and workers is gaining cording to a statement issued by|covers up the autocratic, despotic control of the entire provinces of the New York Building Trades Gitlow likewise spoke on the ac- |Roswell D. Tompkins, secretary of | and dictatorial rule of Wall Street.” Hunan and Kiangsi, instituting So- viet governnents there, is again Council, who announced that a de-|tion of the pardons board which at| confirmed by reports received here. mand had been “filed” with the Em-| ployers’ Association for these de-| mands. Pressure of the militants and the rank and file had forced the action, labor officials of the New York Building Trades Council, reluctantly reason for the move. Also Wage Increase. Increases of wages for building both’ ends against the” middle’ bys trades workers from $12- to “$13.20 supporting Walker,” it was de- clared, “and at the same time lent his support to Connolly.” Walker defeated Hylan in the primaries of that year, while Con- | nolly was overwhelmingly victorious Continued on Page Five the capacity of the hall. Shifrin Defense Committee, who was | worker had been caught, and) Power and Traction Ben Gold, general organizer, Joint Hyman, chairman of the National | Sidetracking the burning issues be- out that the attempts to railroad | Syracuse University, built by the it was found necessary to remove a Pies Super. OOP CONVENTION Speaker after speaker, beginning chairman of the meeting, laid bare the entire network of provocation pledged the support of their /or- : ganizations in thwarting the machin- Gang in Control (Special to the Daily Worker) Board, Furriers’ Union and Louis | Organization Committee of the fore the working class, the republi- Cloak and Dressmakers, were given | can convention meeting here in the Shifrin was the last resort of a cor-| notorious Standard Oil Magnate of rupt and discredited gang who had | that name, worked out a platform partition in the rear, thus doubling with Sam Lipzin, manager of the! CONCEALS ISSUE and assault in which this innocent Wee ations of the right wing clique. SYRACUSE, N, Y., Sept. 30.— tremendous ovations. They pointed|John D. Archibald Stadium of been repudiated by all honest| worthy. of the auspices under workers. _which it was meeting, and in keep- Other Speakers. ing with the purposes of the power Other speakers were Joseph) and traction interests which con- Boruchowitz, of the National Or-|trolled the convention. ganization Committee; Irving Pot- | ps ash, of the Furriers’ Union, who! The slate of candidates drawn up gave a resume of the-entire case;|by the controlling machine was Harry Matskin, representing ei ijaniaed through with practically no progressive group in the Fruit,| 0pposition. For governor, the party Dairy and Grocery Clerks Union;|named Albert Ottinger of New Okun, of the progressive bakers; | York, now attorney general, for- Chazanoff, a cloakmaker whose face|™erly assistant to the notorious was recently slashed by a vight| Harry Daugherty of Teapot Dome wing official; and Max Rappaport,| fame, and a member of the Water of the Grocery Clerks’ Union. Power Commission of 1926 which Rappaport brought to the meeting| in that year all but legislated the . Continued on Page Two Continued on Page Four FIRST RED ELECTION SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 All Party Units To Meet During Week of October 8 to 13 To Mobilize the Party For the Election Campaign. - The Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) than in any other state and two of) the most outstanding episodes in the | class struggle have been staged on this industrial battlefield in the| Rocky Mountains. F The great strike of 1913 against the Rocky Mountain Fuel and ren A CE CONTINUES Company, under the leadership of the Western Federation of Miners,| then led by William D. Haywood, | constitutes a glorious chapter in the French Not Alarmed by Note history of the class struggle in the! | United States. The story of the — Ludlow massacre is known to every) PARIS, Sept. 30.—With the ar- student of labor history and the re-| rival of the American note on the cent murder of several minerg and Franco-British naval pact, although strike sympathizers at the Colum-| the note expresses nothing that has bine mine of the Rocky Mountain|/not been expected by both the Fuel Company, proves that the British and French, semi-official capitalists who are exploiting the | government newspapers express the workers in this state are today as opinion that +1] chances for a dis- Continued on Page Three \* |armament conference in the near future are not dead and that there is still hope that some agreement may be reached. \ British nor the French govern- HEAR COMINTERN | REPORT TUESDAY Bo will concede anything of the naval provisions set forth in their | pact, and that the American gov- i ernment will not agree to limitation nah} i \of large cruisers, which it contem- Membership Meeting Is ‘i,t: building, and the unlimited Called production of light cruisers and submarines, for which the naval A call for a general membership | pact provides. ‘meeting of District 2, Workers} There are statements current that (Communist) Party, for tomorrow | Boncour’s plan, based on limitation night at Central Opera House, has | of classes by tonnage and _per- been issued by William W. Wein- stone, district organizer. The call|for future negotiations, but it is follows: ° |generally thought that such sug- “By directions of the Central| gestions are made with the purpose Executive Committee of the Work-|of saving both the British and ers (Commusist) Party the District | French fronts in face of a complete Executive Committee is calling a|failure in a “disarmament” confer- meeting of all members of the dis- | ence. | trict to hear a report on the World| There is also the opinion current It is very well known that neither | Party has decided to issue a political letter to all units of the Party containing instructions on and the masses for the Communist Election Campaign. and most urgent tasks are the following: 1,—Every Party unit must hold a membership meeting during |Congress of the Communist Inter- national and on the Election Cam- | paign. | _ “The meeting will be held to-} |morrow at 8 p. m, at Central Opera, | House, 205 E. 67th St. Admicsion how to mobilize the membership The first that both the British and American governments will continue their naval construction program, in a manner best suitable to their re- spective needs. per day is another one of the de- mands. The action was taken at the last meeting of the Council, it was announced, That the move is an entirely mis- | leading one and intended only to de- ceive the workers, militant labor leaders pointed out yesterday, is in- the bidding of the lumber interests has worked to maintain in prison after 8 long ;ears the group of Cen- tralia prisoners. Gitlow called for a determined effort on the part of the workers and farmers of Washing- ton and the west to secure the free- dom of these and other class war prisoners. Defends Migratory Workers. He discussed the low wages paid to the migratory workers, and par- ticularly the tumber workers. He pictured the manner in which the lumber companies used the blacklist, gunmen and state power to smas! and terrorize the workers and called for the organization of a mighty lumber workers’ union. Al Shaap, organizer for the Young (Workers (Communist) League, A.| In many cities and towns in these provinces the local Koumintang committees have joined the Com- munists as soon as they appeared and fully co-operated with them. Workers affiliated with the Kou- mintang. disillusioned in their lead- ership and disappointed at the, re- actionary character of the Nanking regime, are reported to be ready to | Batty’s this compromise offer, which is found so offensive by the over- whelming majority of the 28,- 000 strikers. Sentiment among the work- ers, even the majority of the members of the A. F. of L. Council, is that they will not go back to work even should alleged referendum show a “majority” for acceptance. Militants Protest. The militant Textile Workers’ Union, which is leading the strike here, announced that it is calling a huge mass meeting tonight in Elm Rink where the masses will voice their real opinion on the strike- breaking offer of the employers. Speakers at the meeting will be Eli Keller, William Murdoch, Ellen Dawson, Fred Beal, Jim Reid, An- tone Samirras and John Pelezar. Priests and Bosses. Every minister and priest in this city today preached that the work- go over entirely to the Communists. ers should accept the fake compro- } less and unsafe to send any armies against the workers and peasants forces. since the troops immediately join the Communist army. Wherever the Red Army has ap- |peared it has declared a workers and peasants government and imme- dicated by a number of facts: (1)! Fisherman, candidate of the Party | diately confiscated all property and the Building Trades Council, as is| for governor, Alex Noral, candidate provisions. The Communes are de- well known, is under the complete control of the bosses, (2) the pres- ent contracts in’ most cases do not expire until December 31, 1929; and while the new “demand”’ is put forth the labor fakers at the same time stress publicly the fact that “the council will adhere at all costs to the terms of its contract”; (3) if the labor misleaders were really honest in their demands for lower hours and wage increases, they would fight against the violation of union conditions on the job, under which, in defiance of the existing agreements, thousands of union building trades workers are em- ployed over fifty hours a week, and in thousands of other cases are re- ceiving instead of $12, as low as| $8 and even $7 per day. Workers Must Fight. Militant labor leaders, while ad- mitting that the new move was forced by the pressure of the rank and file, were emphatic in their declaration that future gains or ‘the maintenance of union standards would be accomplished only in spite of the labor misleaders in the Building Trades Council. KILL BRITISH OFFICERS. HONGKONG, Sept. 30.—Chinese | pirates are said to have killed two} British officers of the China Navi-| The pirates are reported to have! captured the ship with its 1,400 pas-| ‘ors and steered it to Honghai Bay. BAIT FOR FINLAND. GENEVA, Sept. 30.—Hjalamar Procope, foreign minister of Finland and chairman of the last session of the League of Nations Assembly has | been appointed rapporteur for man-_ date questions during the coming) year. for United States senator, and others spoke at the meeting. MANY DELEGATES AT YOUTH MEET Ballam, Weisbord and Dunn Speak One hundred and ten delegates, representing approximately 50,000 youth workers, met on Saturday at the Labor Temple and yesterday at Irving Plaza to discuss ‘the forma- tion of a practical plan whereby the thousands of young workers of New York City and the 11,000,000 youth workers of the United States could be organized. Delegates from 33 shops, representing 2,900 young workers, from 24 trade unions, representing 45,000 young workers and from nine youth organizations, representing 1400 young workers, were present. The American Negro Labor Congress, the Trade Union Educational League, and the new National Textile Workers’ Union, each sent one delegate. The conference was sent off to a centage, may be adopted as a basis gation Company's steamer Anking.| flying start shy contributions tp the “Working Youth Conference Sus- taining Fund,” which with the co- operation of the supporters, will be the only way by which the Working clared the sole owners of all prop- erty and it is their, duty to parcel out provisions for each man, woman and child. Rations are assigned per family, and clothing are reappor- tioned to meet the needs of the in- dividnal, as near as possible. * * Nanking Split Coming. PEKING, Sept. 30.—The Nanking regime, formed out of many dissent- ing war lords and from the start split into warring factions, will not long retain even its apparent unity, according to reports that are quite generally known and current here. Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang, gov- ernor of Shantung province, who was, promised the Peking revenues if he co-operated with the Nanking clique in their drive on the north, and who has the largest and best equipped army of the war lords, is said to be the chief danger to Nan- king hegemony. His reported friend- liness with the Japanese, and his known desire to carve out a well- paying province for himself in the north, will soon lead to open war- fare among the Nanking adherents, it is generally thought. * The by no means friendly atti- tude of General Yen Hsi-shan, of Shansi province, and the quarrels be- tween General Chiang Kaisheh, the Canton clique and other elements of his government, promise but a short life for the Nanking regime. U. S. OIL CO. HIT. Papers still continue full of the same propaganda. Strike leaders declare that even should the Batty gang succeed in manufacturing a “referendum” fay- orable to the cut, no more than 500 of their immediate followers would return to work in the 56 mills now tied up for 24 weeks. This attitude is substantiated by the resentful re- action among the workers against the leaders of the A. F. of L. union. At 7:30 o'clock Monday evening the Textile Council will meet to count the votes of the so-called ref- erendum of several hundred mem- bers, completely disregarding the opinions of the tens of thousands that follow the left wing union, and express their determination to ac- cept no compromise settlements. Militant Appeal. An official statement issued by the New Bedford Textile Workers’ Union in regard to the five per cent compromise offer declares: “The New Bedford Textile Work- ers’ Union at this time appeals to all members of the United Textile Workers’ Union to reject the sell- out offer of the officials of the Council. The mill owners, now on their last legs, are trying to use the officialdom of the Council as a means of breaking the strike and defeating the heroic struggle of the workers. “Although Batty and his col- leagues have not come out openly in favor of the Tive per cent cut, they are giving the plan aid and comfort when they allow it to be voted on without themselves voting its rejection at the meeting of the Council. We urge the U. T. W. members to condemn their leaders,~ break away from that organization, reject the strikebreaking offer and join the New Bedford Textile Work- ers’ Union, the organization which Youth Conference can exist and MEXICO CITY, Sept. 30.—The i, corducting a militant fight for function. Donations from the Tichest oil fields in Vera Cruz have th. workers and against the mill Young Workers (Communist) been inundated by the overflow of Jvc. g League, the Milliners,’ Plumbers’ tivers and all communications have “The N. B. T. W. U. will continue Helpers, Furriers’, Office Workers’ and Amalgamated Food Workers’ Unions, quickly brought the fund to $100. Albert Weisbord, secretary of the new National Textile Union brought been cut, according to the report of the ministry of industry. Much damage has been done, the oil lines having been broken, and work is dis- continued. to lead the workers against the 10 per cent cut and for the other de- mands of our union. \The mass Continued on Page Four tt is also Feported that if te*wae. Mmise-offer-and. return to..work, The... the week of October 8 to 13, This meeting must be held on the regular meeting night of the unit even tho this week may not be the regular meeting week of the unit. 2,—It is obligatory on every, Party member to attend his unit meeting under pain of Party discipline. 8.—The only order of business of every unit meeting is the letter of the Central Executive Committee dealing with the poli- tical and organizational tasks of the Workers (Communist) Party during the remainder of the election campaign. 4.—October 14 is the first National Red Election Sunday. On this day the whole working class must be mobilized for the election campaign. 5.—District, section and unit organizations must immediately take steps to organize the Red Election Sundays) and the distribu- ion of literature, must appoint captains, organize squads and desig- nate places for concentration and distribution. 6.—Organize special automobile divisions to cover large cities, to reach industrial suburbs, mining camps, mill towns and agricul- tural villages. ‘greetings from the new union and asked for the support-of the New Bedford and Fall River strikers. Other speakers were’ Estella Coria of the Textile Mills Commit-| Worker Is Victim of Boss’s Negligence tee," tric’ Burroughs, American, |Negro Labor Congress, Philip ‘ " , Frankfeld. Young Workers (Com-| BERLIN, (By Mail).—Two news-. John Taylor, fireman, is dead. |warehouse. That was all. ‘ | papers which appeared in Riga,|And the great gray building that|¥ A fellow-worker stood in the of- (unis) League, and Alexander, of |wThe Young Guard” and the “Strug. 8, the warehouse of Bloomingdale fice of the Daily Worker and told | OS ee, re CSRs Brothers in Long Island City has|the terrible story of Taylor’s death. 8™°8S: gle for Justice” were immediately | swallowed another victim and spit] Slaved in Torrid Heat. |__A motion was adopted to call a | suppressed by the police. The pub-| out another corpse that the officials) Tajilor was about 40 and besides | rer bine of unorganized young |lishers of the newspapers, W. Jaun-|°! Bloomingdale’s will soon forget. | his duties as fireman at the ware- Workers within three or four weeks. | 9 : s | A rebuilt roof, poorly constructed house, was compelled to look after | An executive committee of 29 mem- | |tiran and Weidenbaum respectively | o¢ weak material, gave way under| the incinerator. He was kept busy | bers was elected to carry out the) |who are allegedly known to the the weight of Taylor’s body on Sat-|every minute of the day, worked! immediate tasks of the conference. | |police as Communists, have been ar- urday afternoon and dropped him without rest in a torrid heat, and at| The conference went on record as | rested and handed over to the courts into the fiery grave of the ‘incinera- the end of the week was given $30| pledging its whole-hearted support | for trial. |tor furnace at the Bloomingdale, Continued on Page Five to the Shifrin Defense Committee. [will be by membership book only. DIES IN FIERY GRAVE Latvia Police Ban Militant Journals, (Red Aid Press Service) CANADA BANS FREIHEIT ~ Communist Paper to Fight the Attack The Freiheit, Yiddish. language | sulted in the sudden ban organ of the Workers (Communist) vealed to consist in irreverent Party, has been banned in Canada. ences to the sacred person of Charging “immorality,” tha es-| and in the Freiheit’s expose of the > pionage department of the Royal fascist Nobile expedition. Re Mounted Police, the official govern-| The Freiheit has received infor+ — ment police, has ordered the Can- mation proving conclusively that be- adian customs department to hold hind the government attack on the — up all copies of the paper which: has | paper is the same black reactionary become the organ of the militant clique that, under the leadership of Jewish workers of Canada. the yellow Jewish Daily Forward, Hand of Reactionaries. ‘has with the help of the underworld ‘The “immoral” material which t Continued on Page ois, * (ats spo Neen