The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 2, 1928, Page 1

1,000,000 Articles at Half Price at Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar at Mad | For a Workers-Farmers To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Labor Party Government Week Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, 1 Nie Worker under the act of March 3, 1879. | Vol. V., No. 233 Published dally except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥- RATES: 1 le New Yor NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1928 | |OFFIGIAL GREW THE COMINTERN DECISION FRENCH TEXTILE REPUDIATED BY ON AMERICAN QUESTION WORKERS CALL OWN UNION VOTE Workers Follow Lead of T.W.U.: Spurn U.T.W. Betrayal Excitement Is Intense August, Police Victim, Given 4 Months | (Speciul to the Dail: Worker) ) NEW _ BEDFORD, Mass., | Oct. 1.—Following the lead of} ! the Textile Workers’ Union, mill | strikers affiliated with unions} of the New Bedford Textile Council today posals to end their 24 weeks of campaign in accordance with rules of procedure to be prepared | struggle by vote showing four unions for rejection. and three for acceptance, of the five per) cent wage cut which was the| hosses’ bribe for the conclusion of, the tie-up. The vote showed a great’ drop in the membership of these unions. The result of the balloting came as a terrific surprise to the textile barons and officials of the Textile | Couneil..who- refused to believe, ap, to the moment when the actual re-| turns were in, that even the mem-| bers of their reactionary otganiza- | tions would follow the lead of the! New Bedford Textile Workers’ Union. 7 Unions Take Part. Seven unions participated in the) voting with the proviso that the majority vote of four unions, for or against, would be sufficient to swing the decision either way. A flurry of consternation. among: the Textile | Council officials greeted the failure of this device ‘to end the strike. Balloting began at ten o'clock this morning and continued until five in‘ the afternoon. Tension ran high among the men as they went to cast their votes and early canvasses of | strikers outside the polling places} showed a sentiment overwhelmingly | against acceptance of the wage cut. | Out of fifty men interviewed in| one place only two could be found who favored the cut. A committee from the New Bed- ford Textile Workers’ Union at every polling place distributed leaf- lets urging the members of the re- actionary unions to defy the at-) tempt of Batty and their officials to) sell out their heroic struggle of | twenty-four weeks and to reject the wage slash. Reply to Batty. Great excitement was created among the voting workers by the official statement of the New Bed-/ ford Textile Workers’ Union that| leaders who have no opinions are not | fit to lead strikers and that William | Batty must be repudiated by the) workers. The statement was the union’s reply to Batty’s persistent refusal to express his opinion on the balloting and assertion that the! strikers must decide the issue for themselves. The vote ot the Weavers’ Union, the first to be recorded, showed 462 strikers opposed to the wage slash. | Only 299 favored the cut. Other | unions participating in the ballot-) ing, whose individual votes are not yet available, are the loom-fixers, | warp twisters and carders who | | | [ voted solidly against the cut, and the ring-spinners, flashers and mule ‘piners. Sentence Striker. While the strikers were rejecting the sell-out proposals at the polls, Judge Millikin, favorite of the mill owners, sentenced Frank August to four months in prison, August, who was beaten unconscious by sergeant Velho recently, was released on $1,000 bail. TO BUILD NEW ZEPPELINS. BERLIN, Oct. 1 (U,P).—Negotia- tions have been started between a German firm and the Good Year Rubber Company at Akron, Ohio, in connection with plans for Germans to build two Zeppelins for the Ohio company in behalf of the United States navy, it was reported here. Workers Party Central Committee Declares Full Support of International’s Action FOREWORD. We herewith publish the following documents : 1. Paragraph 49 of the Theses on the International Situa- tion and the Tasks of the Communist International unanimous- ly adopted by the Sixth Congress of the Communist Interna- tional. 2. Supplementary decision of the Political Secretariat o the Executive Committee of the Communist International. 3. Statement of Comrades Cannon, Aronberg and Costrell. 4. Declaration of the Central Executive Committee on the f decision of the Sixth World Congress of the Communist In-| ternational regarding the situation in and the tasks of the Workers (Communist) Party of America. eee This is not. to be construed as the opening of a Party dis-|an ultimatum has been sent to the’ rejected pro- cussion. The Party discussion will be opened after the election employers. by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Com- munist) Party of America. * * PARAGRAPH 49 OF THE THESES ON THE INTERNA- TIONAL SITUATION AND THE TASKS OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL Unanimously Adopted by the Sixth Congress of the Comintern * The Workers (Communist) Party of America has displayed more « lively activity,and has taken. advantage of symptoms of crisis in American industry, the growth of unemployment (due to the ex- tremely rapid rise in the organic composition of capital and in the technique of production). A number of stubborn and fierce class battles (primarily the miners’ strike) found in the Communist Party a stalwart leader. The campaign against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti was also conducted under the leadership of the Party, within which is observed a weakening of the long-standing factional strug- gle. While recording successes, however, reference must be made to a number of right mistakes committed in regard to the socialist party, to the fact that the Part); has not with sufficient energy con- ducted work in the organization of the unorganized and for the or- ganization of the Negro movement, and that it does not conduct a sufficiently strong struggle against the predatory policy of the United States in Latin America. These mistakes, however, cannot be ascribed to the majority leadership alone. On the question of organizing-a Labor Party, the Congress re- solves: That the Party concentrates on the work in the trade unions, on organizing the unorganized, etc., and in this way lay the basis for the practical realization of the slogan of a broad Labor Party organ- ized from below. The most important task that confronts the Party is to put an end to the factional strife which is not based on any serious differ- ences on principles and at the same time to increase the recruiting of workers into the Party and to lend a decided impetus in the direction of promoting workers to leading posts in the Party. SUPPLEMENTARY DECISION OF POLITICAL SECRETARIAT TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE WORKERS (COM- MUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA: Dear Comrades: The Polit-Secretariat of the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International made unanimously the following decision at its session on September 7, 1928: (a) The Polit-Secretariat lays emphasis on the unconditional ob- ligation of all members of the Workers (Communist) Party of Amer- ica to abstain from any. fractional actions, especially during the elec- tion campaign; all the forces of the Party must be concentrated on the election campajgn, and also on other important militant tasks. (b) The Polit-Secretariat is of the opinion that the charge against the majority of the Central Committee of the Party of rep- resentin§ a right line is unfounded. The Polit-Secretariat does not want to-imply hereby that some errors, among them right errors, have not been committed by one side as well as by the other side; it thinks, however, that this as well as’ other contentious questions of the Party can be best examined and decided at the next Party Con- gress of the Workers Party of America. (c) The preparation of the Party Congress must be taken in hand immediately after the conclusion of the election campaign. The Central Committee is requested to bring to the notice of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Communist International, in good time, Continued on Page Two JAY LOVESTONE T0 REPORT TONIGHT ON C. 1. CONGRESS Communist Membership Meeting at Central Opera House, 8 p. m. Jay Lovestone, Executive Secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, will report tonight on the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International and the Election Campaign at the Central Opera House, 205 E. 67th Street at 8 o'clock sharp. This meeting is for the general membership of District 2, and is called by direction of the Central Exec- utive Committee of the Party. ALL OTHER MEETINGS OFF. In order that there may be full attendance at this meeting all other meetings are called off. Admission is by membership book only. All members should attend in order to learn of the world-importance of the congress,én many respects the most significant congress that has ever been held. _ GENERAL STRIKE | Police Launch Brutal Attack on Militants, Injure Many \Socialists Sabotage ‘German Miners Join Big Strike Wave Special Cable to The Daily Worker | LILLE, France, Sept. 30 (De- |layed)—The strike of the textile | workers is spreading. A huge mass meeting held today proclaimed a | general strike to begin Tuesday and While the workers were leaving the meeting, they were violently at- tacked by police. Several workers were injured. No intervention on behalf of the workers/was made by the socialist mayor Salengre. The population of the city is indignant and the fight- ing. ae cee Vote Unanimously. LILLE, France, Oct. 1 (U.P).— unanimously today to join the tex- tile strike Tuesday morning, indi- ‘cating that a complete shutdown of the industry in northern France | would result, Several policemen and strikers have been injured in clashes within the last few days. oe OS Big Street Car Strike. Special Cable to The Daily Worker VIENNA, Oct. 1—A tramway strike at Graz has broken out. The so-called Maintenance of Supplies organization of strikebreakers has | been mustered by the town council which is controlled by the social democrats. The social-democrats |could have prevented this Piece of | attempted strikebreaking but have done nothing. . ree | Big Mine Strike in Czechoslovakia. Special Cable to The Daily Worker | PRAGUE, Oct. 1.—The Miners’ | Conference of the District of Kladno Schlan today proclaimed a strike which involves 9,000 miners. The strike was organized by the Miners’ Section of the Red International of ;Labor Unions but all reformist |unions have been forced to join in | with the move and to send repre- sentatives to the common. strike | committee. TAMMANY CREW ~_ IN CONVENTION Al Smith Pulls Strings at Rochester ROCHESTER,.N. Y., Oct. 1.—The whole Tammany wigwam and all the chiefs are here to nominate a | state ticket which, they hope, will | aid the Tammany sachem, Al Smith to secure the presidential electoral vote in New York state. This was the burden of the keynote speech of _the New York lawyer and director | of the open-shop Phelps-Dodge Cor- poration, William Chure! | who delivered the keynote speech at | the opening of what is called the | democratic state convention. } Most of his time was devoted to | a eulogium of the mythical achieve- ments of Smith as governor, much | along the same line of the Smith speech of Oklahoma City where he boasted about his record as a cog of the Tammany machine and how he Continued: on Page Three IMPERIALIST IN AFRICA UAIROBI, Africa, Oct. 1 (UP).— The Prince of Wales and his party, on o “good-will” tour of Africa, ar- rived tonight and were greeted by | European residents here. A num- ber of native chieftains in jewelled robes also were present to welcome the British royal party. Communist textile unions voted. Reject Lewts Wagecut Pact DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 1.— epudiating the wage-cut agree- ment of the Lewis betrayal ma- chine, almost 4,000 Iowa union coal miners hére refused to re- turn to work today on the $5.80 a day basis. The Lewis machine had reached this agreement a week ago with the coal barons. Sentiment in favor of the new National Miners’ Union is re- ported to be growing here daily. ay Repudiate Union Wreckers. DES MOINES, Ia., Oct. 1 (U.P). —Although organization heads reached a wage scale agreement with operators a week ago, 3,000 Towa union coal miners refused to return to work today on the $5.80 a day basis, union officials re- ported. FAMOUS DANCER AT HUGE BAZAAR |ing spirit of the workers is increas- | Ito, Japanese Artist, to > ¥ th Perform The spirit of revolution will be expressed atthe opening Thursday } of the huge Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar in an unysual feature: Michio Ito, the foremost dancer of |Japan, will appear in a series of dances that will symbolize the revolt of the workers against their oppres- sors. The dancing of Ito will be a fit- ting introduction to the greatest en- terprise that the militant working class of this country has ever un- dertaken. Madison Square Garden, where the bazaar will be held, will present an unparalleled sight—a huge department store, owned and controlled by the workers, where ar- ticles of every description will be on sale for four days, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, at truly proletarian prices. eae a Section 2 Appeal. With only two days remaining un- til the opening of the bazaar, an appeal has been issued by Section 2 to all members to speed the work of collecting articles for the section booths. . Last Call For Greetings. Midnight today is the deadline for all greetings and names for the Red Honor Roll that are to be included in the souvenir bazaar program. Bring all greetings and names to the bazaar office, 30 Union Square. Pa ae Bazaar Articles. All articles must be in the bazaar office by tomorrow night, the Ba- zaar Committee announces. No ar- ticles will be accepted after that time. +k Volunteers Meeting. A meeting of volunteers for the bazaar will be held tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. at Madison Square Gar- den. The entrance is on 49th St. +e * Varnishers Wanted. Two varnishers are needed by the Bazaar Committee. «They are asked to report to the bazaar office. REFORMISTS BOW ‘h Osborne, | TO VIENNA COPS Special Cable to The Daily Worker | VIENNA, Oct. 1.—The _ police _yesterday issued a decree prohibit- ling the parade of the social-demo- crats set for October 7. The social- democratic party committee is de- lighted at this move for which it ‘has worked from the beginning in order to hide its capitulation. The |Dourgeois press was informed by the |social-democratic leaders that they | would obey the prohibition. | The workers in the social-demo- cratic party are highly provoked and indignant and, according to present indications, will probably demonstrate without their leaders, A RS REJECT BATT Towa Miners GITLOW TO DEFY "oem KANSAS BAN ON COMMUNIST MEET Will Deliver Speech at Arma Despite Order of City Council Oehler to Be Chairman Illinois Files Nomina- tion Petitions (Wireless to the Daily Worker) ARMA, Kan., Oct. 1—Ben Git v, vice-presidential candidate of (Communist) Party, will deliver his scheduled campaign speech here on Oct. 19 despite the order of the city council which re- cently refused to permit any further Communist meetings. Hugo Oehler, district organizer of this section, who is now under trial in Kansas for violation of the criminal syndicalist law for speak- ing at a Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial meeting charged that the American Legion and the reactionary officials of the American Federation of La- r are responsible for the action of e city council. Oehler will be chairman of the meeting at which Gitlow will speak. Fictitious Excuse. The Workers (Communist) Party jas been thrown off the ballot in Nebraska ostensibly because 120 signatures on the petition were not those of registered voters. But this is untrue, the Party has complied with the law and the action of Frank Marsh, Secretary of State, is a re- sult of the pressure brought to bear by the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The signatures that were disqualified by the Secretary of State were those voters who lived outside of the city limits and therefore did not have to register. Secretary of State, Marsh, said that in his opinion Foster and Git- low were anarchists, and that they lare opposed to Americanism’ and military training and such candi- dates should not be allowed to run Continued on Page Five MINERICH GASE COMES UP SOON ‘Injunction Violation Cause of Arrest The case of Anthony Minerich, ar- rested in Lansing, O., /juring the miners’ strike for urging defiance of the injunction, comes up in Cin- cinnati for the arrangement of a hearing in the October session of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, ac- cording to an announcement made last night at the national office of International Labor Defense, which is in charge of the case. Minerich has been one of the most active and popular ‘leaders in the miners’ strike, and an outstanding figure in the left-wing movement to build a new miners’ union. He was arrested in Lansing a few months ago for speaking at a meeting of 4 miners, where he urged that they institute mass picketing of the struck mines in defiance of the in- junction prohibiting such picketing, Continued on Page Three Worker-Photographs Wanted by “Daily” More worker-photographers are wanted by the Daily Worker.. Many excellent pictures have been sent in | by readers who own cameras, but |many more can be used, Camera fans have here an opportunity to help their class paper in addition | to the fun they get out of taking the pictures. Moreover, each photo pub- lished will include the name of the | worker-photographer—and who ob- jects to seeing his name in print? - Pictures of any size can be used, | tho the larger ones reproduce bet- ter. Above all, worker-photograph- | ers must remember to include the Continued on Page Three wt fond n New York, by mail, $8.00 per your kK, by n . $6.00 per year NEW RANKS OF WORKERS JOIN EUROPEAN STRIKE WAVE NEWBEDFORD TEXTILE STRIKE Ben Gitlow, candidate for vice- president of the U. S. on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket who will speak in Arma, Kansas, despite the edict of the local old- party politicians to the contrary. Gitlow is getting a hearty reception from thousands of workers thruout the west. WITNESS SHOWS WALKER'S GUILT Confirms Mayor’s Deal With Phillips Further — confirr pn of the charges made in the columns of the Daily Worker that Mayor Walker w of the secret expenditure of 000 by John M. Phillips, late wer pipe king of Queens, was yes- terday made at the trial of Maurice E. Connolly and Fredorick Seeley, involved in the $30,000,000 Queens sewer graft cas The same witness, Fred J. Curran, former confidential secretary to Phillips, who last week disclosed the first details of the deal by which Phillips and the Tammany politi- cians entered into an agreement to “ditch” the then Mayor Hylan and support Walker in the primaries, was yesterday forced on the stand further to disclose that Phillips not only supported Walker himself but organized a committee to put Walker over. Walker’s pnse to the revelation that the sewer pipe king had made unreported contributions to his cam- paign was that he knew nothing of the fund. It now develops that a borough-wide Queens committee worked in behalf cf the Tammany Continued on Page Three MOONEY-BILLINGS CAMPAIGN GROWS /Many Organizations Join Drive Growing sentiment throughout the United States, and in various other parts of the world, for the imme- diate release of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, both of whom are serving life terms of imprison- ment in California on framed-up charg s reported by the national office of International Labor De- fense, which is now conducting a campaign in their behalf. A partial list, which is being com- pleted by the national office of the I. L. D., of organizations which have thus far gone on record for Mooney and Billings include: Chicago Fed- eration of Labor; Illinois Federation of Labor; Minnesota Federation of Labor; Amalgamated Food Work- ers; National Miners’ Union con- vention; National Textile Workers’ Union convention; St. Louis Central | Continued on Page Three MEXICAN AIR-MAIL PLANE MEXICO CITY, Oct. 1 (UP).—| The first air-mail plane for the American border left for Laredo on |the Rio Grande at 10:12 a. m. to- day. The plane had been scheduled | | thruout ison Sq. Garden FINAL CITY EDITION : Price 3 Cents Y SELL-OUT ae 60.00 IN GERMAN SHIPYARDS; 25,000 MINERS; OTHERS North France Textile Workers Call Big General Strike Also Out See Upheaval in Many Basie Industries A strike wave of the greatest significance is spreading over the European continent with practically every country in- volved in one or more im- portant walkouts. A_ rapid survey of the rising tide of the movement indicates: 1. Sixty thousand German shipyard workers striking against an award branded as a sell-out to the employers. 2. Forty-five thousand tex- tile Muenchen- Gladback due to go out within forty-eight hours. 3. Twenty-five thousand German miners striking in the Lower Silesian area, - 4. Ten thousand miners on strike in Czecho-slovakia. workers at 5. A mass strike of the tex- tile workers in Northern France, strikers attacked by the police, and a general strike proclaimed for Tuesday. 6. Mass movements of in- dignant workers in Vienna aroused over the betrayals of the Social-Democrats. . * BERLIN, Oct. 1. U.R)— Despatches tonight from Bres- lau said that the lower Silesian coal miners had decided to strike Tuesday morning. The strike will affect about 25,000 workmen, * BERLIN, Germany, Oct. 1. —Following the strike of sixty thousand German. shipyard workers which paralyzing the German ports today, a walk-out of 45,000 textile workers at Muenchen-Gladback is seen as a certainty within the next forty-eight hours. In addition, labor unions Germany, affecting the basic and important industries, are preparing new wage demands on the basis that increase in liy- ing costs during the past nine months has not been equalled by wage increases. Ship Workers’ Strike Complete. The strike of shipyard workers was called when an arbitration board decided in favor of the ship- * * is owners, ruling that the agreement, which expired yesterday, was to continue. The shir workers demanded higher wages and when shipowners insisted on retaining the present agreement, 60,000 workers walked out, virtually tying up all German shipbuilding The walkout in Muenc¢hen-Glad- back, including 45,000 unified work- Continued cx Page Three Protest Tanaka Terror at Mass Meet Tonight. Protest against the White Terror regime of the reactionaty Tanaka government and demand for the re- organization of the: Worker-Peasant Party which was recently disbanded by the hand of Tanaka, will be the key-note of the mass meeting to be held tonight, 8 p. m., at the 14th St. Labor Temple under the auspices of the New York Branch of the Japan- ese Workers Association of America. K. Kase, leader of “Sassinkai,” the left wing movement within the Japanese Seamen’s Union, which re- cently led a successful strike of 60,- 000 Japanese seamen, and who is to depart at 6 a. m., but was delayed \staying in this city for a few days, ' by fog. ‘ will be the principal speaker, “ Ss \ ie) is st R er