The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1928, Page 1

Ito, Famou THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government | To Organize the Unorganized | For the 40-Hour Week | For a Labor Party Published daily except Sunday by The Nat! Vol. V., No. 234 Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Unton Sq., New York, N. Y. fonal Daily Worker — NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBE R 3, 1928 _ SUBSCRIPTION RAT Outside New York MACDONALD GAGS WAR SPEAKER AT LL. P. CONGRESS # % Relief for New Bedford Textile Strikers LOVESTONE I REPORT ON VI C1, CONGRESS s Japanese Dancer, at Opening of Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar Tomorrow FINAL CITY EDITION | New York, by mail, $8.00 per year by mail, $6.00 per year. Posaabie nian B ATTY AND CREW PLAN NEW BALLOT TO FORCE Price 3 Cents ' THRU TEXTILE SELLOUT Leaders of Textile Workers’ Union Laugh at Reactionaries’ Despair Pleads for End of All Fractionalism as War Danger Looms “TRON DISCIPLINE” Smothers Talk of U. S. | British Conflictin | Pacifism MAY JOIN LIBERALS || Attack Communists as Brand Dying Council’s Story as Falsehood of Desperate Officialdom he Simon Is Endorsed BIRMINGHAM, England, Oct. 2. — With police guarding all doors to prevent the entrance of Communists, one delegate, J. M. Kenworthy, lieu- tenant commander of the British army and indiscreet delegate, de- clared before the officials of the La- bor Party at it annual conference here, that the governments of Great Britain and the United States are marching towards a conflict com- parable, if not more disastrous, than the forefront of labor’s struggl: of relief headquarters. port of every American worker. be sent to the Workers International Relief, 39 Williams St., New Bedford. Above, a scene in front twenty-fifth week of their heroic struggle against the wage-cut of the mill barons. les in the United Relief is vital to the succcess of th Relief, and more relief, is the urgent need of the New Bedford textile strikers as they enter the Fighting in States, the textile strikers deserve the united sup- eir strike. Contributions should that between the Central and Allied powers in 1914. Ramsay Mac- Donald immediately attempted to destroy the effect which this speech produced and with the aid of George Lansbury, president, soon had the conference passing measures to curb the growing strength of the Commu. nists. U. S.-British War Inevitable. “War between Great Britain and COMMUNIST MEET | Nearing WasScheduled the United States and between | to Speak France and Italy is inevitable,” | ~ lieutenant-commander Kenworthy, (Special to the Daily Worker) prominent parliamentary member of | Id. W.V: the Labor: Party warned the as-| WHEELING, W. Va. Oct. 2.—Po- sembled delegates. | lice today broke up a meeting of the “The danger is as real as was the) Workers (Communist) Party held danger of war between -Great at Warwood, near here, at which Britain and Germany in 1906,” Ken- Scott Nearing, well-known Commu- worthy said, “we are heading |,: . . i nist writer, was to have spoken. straight for th : youd om the Same tragedy 85 The police visited the’owner of the A profound silence followed Ken-| hall, threatening the arrest of all ‘worthy’s address, the most mem-| who attended the meeting. Citizens place were terrorized by an orable moment in the conference s of {ors Blamsai--MasDanald.astantiy ditiacsctonrarsmeetats ‘of “te leaped into what seemed a temporary| meeting place. No one was per- breach in the solid front of the La-| mitted to enter the hall bor Party officials who crammed | I he would demand in the house of | mines of the Constanzzo Coal Com- commons next month that the .s . pany by a committee in charge of British government publish | the local Communist campaign. The ‘white paper” giving the text of the if | terrorism by the police is taken as naval agreement with France. a confirmation of the dictatorship MacDonald's address was at once of the coal barons and the steel a shrewd blow at the sentiment of | trust, which the miners have learned alarm which followed Kenworthy’s | to know so well. speech and an adroit political man-| Police authorities, it is learned euver against the existing govern-| here, are making intensive prepara- ment party. The aging political | tions to break up the Nearing meet- tactician, who for years has been | ing scheduled for Wheeling on Oc- British business’ best guarantee that |tober 5. the Tabor Party will “behave,” re-| A telegram of protest was sent Continued on Page Four to the governor of West Virginia, , in which the attack on the meeting Roosevelt Named for | 5 reported, and a demand made en |upon the governor that he declare Governor; Is Picked to |himselt in the matter of the terror- Cloak Tammany Graft \istic acts by the police. ROCHESTER, Oct. 2—Franklin Report Finding of D. Roosevelt of Hyde Park was | Gold Mine Manager’s chosen by the democratic party in s es convention heré as its candidate for, Body in Nicaragua MANAGUA, Nidaragua, Oct. 2.— governor of New York State. Roose- | velt is to provide the coat of aris- | tocratie “respectability” to cover the| The body of a white man recently Tammany rule of graft and corrup- |found near Mastawas is reported to tion. |have been identified as that of The nomination was dictated by | George Marshall, of New York, as- Al Smith. | sistant manager of the La Luz Los For lieutenant-governor the Tam-| Angeles Gold Mine, in Eastern Nic- many machine in control of the con- | aragua. vention picked Herbert H. Lehman,| The finding of Marshall’s body treasurer of the Smith campaign, a apparently. confirmed previous re- New York banker, and a director in| ports that the American engineer a ‘number of Morgan controlled cor- | had died of fever while held prisoner porations. by the army of independence. .om, PREPARE NOW FOR THE RED ELECTION SUNDAY On Page 3 of this issue of the Daily Worker is a poli- tical letter from the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party addressed to all Party units and to the whole membership. This letter must be dis- cussed at all unit me@tings which must take place during the week of October 8-13, in order to be able to make the necessary preparations for the first Red Electign Sunday which is to be held October 14. The main feature of the letter are the following: 1. The publication of two million election leaflets. 2. The publication of one million copies of special elec- tion issues of the Party press. 8. A special approach to 100° large factories. in which 250,000 workers are employed. 4. The mobilization of 1,000 Red Volunteers. - 5, The organization of four Red Election Sundays. 6. Canvassing of trade unions. 7. House to house canvassing. First Red Election Sunday of Workers Party to Be Held Thruout Country on Me , The attack by the police followed | the meeting with the assertion that) {he- distribution of leaflets at three | Too Hot for Tammany Al ILWAUKEE, Oct. 2 (Delayed). —Members of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young | Workers (Communist) League staged a recepticn for Al Smith when ke spoke here Sunday which the Tammany Hall politicians did not expect. ‘ The Communists conducted a four-hour open-air meeting in a vacant lot across from the audi- | torium in which the Smith meet- | ing was being held. Cline of Chicago and Sklar, sub-district organizer of this city, addressed about 500 workers from a large | truck ingCommunist__ signs \’arid slogans. The workers _lis- | tened attentively to the speakers. When’ the Smith meeting was over, about 1,500 workers gath- ered about the Communist plat- form. Smith agents, re-inforced by* socialists and wobblies, made several ineffectual efforts to break up the gather‘ng. The workers were sympathetic throughout and applauded the ex- posure of Smith, Hoover and Thomas. The speakers touched on the subjects of unemployment, defense of the Soviet Union, and explained the program of the Communists. Over one hundred copies of the Workers Party Plat- form were sold at the meeting. GERMAN STRIKES ARE SPREADING |Government Considers Suppressive Action . 2. BERLIN, Oct. 2.—Latest dis- | patches from the strike districts in- dicate that the ranks of the ship- yard workers remain solid, tying up ‘all the North Sea shipyards, and that there is a general move among the workers in the textile center of Muenchen-Gladbach and in other centers for a complete walkout. | The first day of the strike in the Silesian coal fields, one of the mtost important industrial centers of Ger- many, sees the 25,000 strikers de- termined to continue their struggle. | The sentiment of the miners who have not yet joined the strike is re- ported to be in favor of a general walk-out, and it is forecast in many sources that in a few days they will join the strike. With the prospects of the ship- | yard, textile and coal strikes expand- | | ing to influde workers in other key | | industries, such as steel and re-| | fining, the government is reported to| ‘be considering measures of sup- | pression and is preparing to meet a very critical situation. It is prob-| ‘able that the government will make | ‘all efforts to avert a nation-wide | | general strike. * BERLIN, Oct. 2. (UP)—Cost of production, and cost of living are} | the issues which will be contested in (connection with the German trade union’s nation-wide campaign for | increased wages. . * * POLICE BREAK UP Red Rally Bit HUGE BAZAAR TO OPEN TOMORROW Expect Thousands at Garden Event Tomorrow is the day of days. When the doors of Madison Square Garden are thrown open in the eve- ning, the greatest working class en- terprise ever attempted in this country, the National Daily Worker- Freiheit Bazaar, will get underway. The bazaar will continue for four days. They wil! be four days of feverish activity, of buying and sell- jing in a huge proletarian depart- nt- store, of bargains that even ‘the feeblest pocketbook will be un- ‘able to resist. | Today and tomorrow, until the doors are scheduled to open, will |mark the high points of the work of preparation. The National Daily |Worker-Freikeit Bazaar Cémmittee and the committees of various work- ling class organizations thronghout | \the city are working like beavers, |looking after the thousand and one details that ‘are involved in an af- \fair of such huge proportions. |. The announcement that Michio Ito, famous Japanese dancer, will _perform on the opening night has aroused great interest among thou- sands of workers, and the opening tomorrow night promises to be a “full-house” affair. * * Volunteers Meet Today. All Volunteers for’the bazaar will meet at 7:30 p. m. today at Madison Square Garden. The entrance is on 49th St. * e Varnishers Wanted. Varnishers are wanted by the a | Bazaar Committee. They are asked | (to report to the bazaar office, 30 | Union Square. * oe Settle for Tickets. | All tickets must be settled for to- night and the money collected | turned ir to the bazaar office. Every cent is needed in erder that the Bazaar Committee have enough money to open Madison Square Gar- den tomorrow night. “% * Section 5 Meetings. All branches in Section 5 which were supposed to meet yesterday will meet today. Members are urged to bring all articles and money for tickets to the meetings. or ate Capmakers Meet Tonight. The capmakers will hold their final meeting in preparation for the bazaar at & p. m. tonight at the Workers Center. * * * Sign Painters Report Today, Sign painters are asked to report after 1 p. m. today at Madison Square Garden. The entrance is on 49th St. Workers Club to Hold Meet for Shifrin Aid | A meeting for the purpose of aid-| ing the defense of William Shifrin, | Gi: Fe Program Must Be Carried Out” A general membership meet-| K. Kase, leader of the left wing ing of 3,200 membets of the) the Japanese Seamens’ Union, Workers (Communist) Party,|2h2 has just arrived in New York: % ‘t +! trom Japan. Kase will expose the District 2, filled the Central | White Terrorist regime of the Tana- Opera House to overflowing! ka governmeny the Japanese last night to hear Jay Love- Workers Association mass meeting stone, executive secretarv of i the Labor Temple, 14th St. and the Party, ‘report on the Sixth S#ond 4ve- wea Congress of the Communis' International. Workers were already stand ing in the aisles when William W. Weinstone, organizer of District 2, and chairman of the gathering, opened the meeting by stating that Lovestone would make his report on the activities of the World Con- gress, exclusive of the report on the American situation which will be made at the next Party Con- gress after the election. Tremendotis applause at " JAPAN WORKERS: MEETING TONIGHT Kase, Militant Seaman, Principal Speaker K. Kase, leader of the left wing in the Japanese Seamen’s Union, greeted Lovestone as he rose to make a re-| WhO has just arrived here from port which stressed in succession Japan, will expose the terrible the major features of the program | White Terrorist regime of the laid down by the Communist Inter- national for the present period, He discussed in turn the decisions of the Communist International in regards to the colonial movement, the treacherous role of the social democracy, trade union work, and izations recently suppressed by the the Trotskyist opposition. ___ | government in an effort to curb the PACERS Suis sce ae ergata | | growing radicalization of the Japan- lis the war danger, bovestone -de- |{%¢, masses, when ke speaks tonight lclared. He stated that up to the at the Labor Temple, 14th St. and present time the American Party Second Ave., at a mass meeting ar- has taken too little interest in the "@nged by the New York branch of | problems of its brother parties. “Our ‘he Japanese Workers Association. attitude has been a little provincial,” | “The Tanaka government, which lhe said, and went on to point out |Tepresents the militarists and big that this attitude was perilous, since Pourgeois elements in Japan, is the Communist Parties are threat- | ®'Tiving by every possible «means to lened with the common danger of Suppress the growing and ever- imperialist war and the common sharpening proletarian movement in ; ey Japan,” declared Kase when inter- task of overthrowing capitalism. 6 ae ry ; i Nothing shows the imminence of |YieWed yesterday. “Despite the new Tanaka government and tell of the militant struggle of the workers and peasants to reorganize the Worker- Peasant Party, the Trade Union Council, and other left “ing organ- ipa das ; imperial edict making it easy to an, imperialist | War aes iks early |condemn militant leaders of the than the American note to the Zov-| nacses to death, despite the dis- ernments of France and Great Bri- Continued on Page Two CONFISCATE ROTE FAHNE IN VIENNA Communists Charged With Sedition VIENNA, Oct. 2.+The Rote Fahne, official organ of the Com- munist Party of Austria, was con- fiseated today for publishing an | article supporting the Communist | slogan, calling for the arming of the proletariat to resist the fas- cist provocative parade scheduled for October 7. The public prose- cutor charges the editors of the Rote Fahne withv sedition. The government has approved the march of the fascist organ- ization but has prohibited the bandment of the militant labor and political organizations, and despite the mass arrests numbering tens of |thousands of workers and peasants, we are marching forward and our movement is growing larger and stronger day by day. Support Chinese Masses. “We are actively supporting the struggle of the workers and pea- sants of China against imperialism,” |he said in commenting upon the Chinese situation. “We realize that every blow struck by the Chinese proletariat against Japanese imper- ialism helps us in our fight, for Japanese imperialism is our com- mon enemy. The growing war dan- ger in the Pacific cannot be over- emphasized. The working masses in the countries bordering on the Pacific, especially those of America, Japan and China, must be drawn closer together and prepared for their common struggle against im- perialism and imperialist war” Besides K. Kase, speeches will be made by S. Ogino, T. Horiuck and A. Kito, leaders of the left wing counter-demonstration of the movement among the Japanese workers of Vienna and Vienna- workers in this country. All speeches Neustadt. The fascist organiza- | will be translated into English. tion, the Home Defense Corps, American workers are invited to at- will be armed, even having been | tend the meeting. supplied with rifles from the gov- ernment arsenal, machine guns planes. P Important Notice for Needle Trades Drive The campaign to enroll the needle Plans for a renewed and more in- trades workers has now begun in| tensive organization campaign in earnest. Campaign committees are the cloak and dress industry and being formed among the cloak for the calling of a conference of makers, furriers, tailors, milliners,| Workingclass organizations” were capmakers, etc. A complete pro-|made at a meeting of the active gram of activities will be announced | cloak and dressmakers Monday night in the press. im Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., All the needle trades workers and | called by the New York Joint Board IN CLOAK TRADE sympathizers are to watch the cam-| of the National Organization Com-/ paign news regarding the needle mittee. trades and what they must do to The details of the drive will be Starting today with a strike which and to discuss and make plans in| make a mass campaign. P. Novick | further developed at a series of dis- |may involve approximately 100,000| the co ming election campaign, will | who has been associated in the strug- trict meetings, the first of which, | workers, the battle which has been be held today, 8 p, m., at 52 St./ gles of the needle trades workers, consisting of all workers in the “smouldering for weeks burst into! Marks Pl., under the auspices of the | editor of the “Einerheit,” has been cloak and dress shops of 35th and flame, bringing to the front’ the ‘demands of wage-earners and the! counter-claims of industrialists. Joint Progressive Workers’ Club. | All wprkers are invited t8 attend, the meeting. appointed by the campaign com- | 86th Sts., will be held tomorrow mittee as propaganda director for| immediately after work in Bryant the campaign. Continued on Page Five NEW BEDFORD, Mas the mill owners, William E. G. Oct. 2. Abetting the designs of Batty, secretary of the Textile Council, and the group of reactionary officials associated with him, today began a systematic attempt to throw out the re- sults of yesterday’s vote repudiating him and his five per cent wage cut, and to institute a new poll. Preparing one of the most brazen reversals of rank and file desire on record, a campaign to declare that the balloting was illegal, owing to a premature c gun hardly eight hours after the last vote was cast at a few minutes before five yesterday. Twenty-six thousand strik- ers who had no part in the lit- tle voting bee heard with amusement today the despairing charges of unfairness in yesterday’s balloting which emanated from Bat- ty and sources close to him. The notorious manner in which the Batty clique have consistently maneuvered past votes in their own interests and those of their employ- ers, lends a peculiar -piquancy to their accusations of unfairness in what is virtually the first vote which rank and file pressure, and the watchful presence of the New Bed- ford Textile Workers’ Union, vastly outnumbering them, forced to an approximation of fairness. The specific lies which the Batty group are circulating assert*that the last vote on the wage cut was cast about four o’clock in the afternoon and that between that hour and five, lot. Leaders of the New Bedford Tex- tile Union today stated that the statements of the Batty group are sheér lies, “made out of the whole cloth,” and stated that they had been suggested to the desperate, officials of the dying Textile Council by the wording of the vote call which read that all unions must complete their balloting before five o'clock. They scout as ridiculous the idea that evenya reversed vote of the mori- bund U, T. W. would have’ any ef- fect on the strike since 26,000 strik- ers did not participate in yester- day’s poll. BRIBE TRACED TO SEWER ENGINEER Reward Was Arranged by Connolly Man Frederick Seeley, engineer for Maurice E, Connolly during the years when the Queens sewer graft gang headed by the John M. Phil- lips, sewer pipe king, had it “all their own way,” was yesterday defi- nitely exposed as a bribe taker when Paul Paulsen, a contractcr, testified that details for the handing over of $1,000 to Seeley were worked out between them. Paulsen was one of the witnesses in the $30,000,000 sewer graft case Continued on Page Two strikers were mot permitted to pals losing of the polls, was be- HUTCHESON GANG BEATS UP ROSEN Militant Carpenter on Way to Convention (Special to the Daily Worker) LAKELAND, F ida, (By Mail). Two thugs acting, it is believed, at the orders of the Hutcheson machine in the Carpenters’ Union broke into the stateroom of Morris Rosen, pro- gressive carpenter leader of New York City and brutally assaulted him with a bottle. Rosen was hit on the head and body. His face and head were badly cut up. The attack was made aboard the steamer, “Iroquois” of the Clyde Line, on which Rosen and about 100 delegates were enroute to the con- penters now in session here. Opposed Hutcheson. | Rosen was formerly president of Local 376 of New York City and ran against the reactionary William L. Hutcheson for president four years ago. He was on his way to present an appeal to the convention Jin behalf of Local 376 which the Hutcheson machine had wrecked and a number of whose members it has |expelled from the union Progressive forces on board the ship mostly from New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Massachu- setts immediately began to make contact with the other delegates. A printed appeal of Local was distributed and created considerable interest among the delegates. Members of the Massachusetts delegation reported how Hutcheson had forced the membership in the Newton district to work a 44-hour week even though a 40-hour week was then in force. The case was that of a $2,000,000 construction job, operated by Murch Bros., on which the firm insisted that the |men work 44 hours. When the men refused, the firm appealed to Hutcheson who informed the district |that he had given permission to the boss to increase hours. A protest |by the district was followed by a 376 threat from Hutcheson to revoke jthe district union charter. Rosen was attended by the ship doctor and removed to another cabin where he was watched over by the ship watchman. Ray Clark, of the dock-builders’ local of New York City was recognized as one of the |two thugs who attacked Rosen. ‘DAILY’ IN MILL STRIKE ‘Leader’ Torn; ‘Worker’ Eagerly Read “The workers at the mass meet- ings here are always waiting anx- iously for the Daily Worker,” writes Elsie Pultur, Daily Worker agent in New Bedford, Mass., where 30,000 textile workers have been on strike for 24 weeks. “They read every bit of it.” “In the mass meeting held for the reception of the Convention dele- gates, members of the reactionary American Federation of Textile Op- eratives distributed the New Leader. Eyery worker ripped the copy he received to small pieces and threw the bits on the floor. After that our! committee distributed the Daily) Worker. I watched to see if there was any worker that -would tear that up. But not a single worker did that. Everyone reads it, puts it, in his pocket, and takes it home with him. | “Every striker in New Bedford, by this time understands that the Daily Worker is his only true friend and supporter in the textile strug- gle. I believe that we have laid a real basis for the Daily Worker in New Bedford after the strike is won.” Day after day, every week, 500 copies of the militant Daily are dis- tributed free to the striking work- ers. Many strikers are getting sub- scriptions to the Daily Worker with the little money that. they possess, considering the paper as necessary to them as food and clothes. In addition to this, hundreds of free subscriptions have been given to striking workers. In Detroit, 25 new subscriptions, 20 of which were raised through the efforts of Sarah Victor, Daily Worker agent there, brought the | total for that city up to 62 yester- day. y ‘ 4 October 14 vention of the Brotherhood of Car-