The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 4, 1928, Page 1

i i Thousands to Attend Opening of Huge Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaa | For a Workers-Farmers } THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week ia For a Labor Party | Government | ' Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the net of March 3, Worker . 1879. r at Garden Tonight Publ Publ Vol. V., No. 235 ished ishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker hy New York, N. Y- NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1928 ‘SUBSCRIPTION RATES RAID COMMUNIST PARTY QUARTERS IN MELBOURNE AustralianGovernment Moves to Break Dock Workers Walk-out Exports Tied Up at All Ports SIDNEY, Oct. —The police raided the offices of the Communist Partv in Melbourne today and seized all the documents and literature they could find, in an attempt to break the militant backbone of the dock workers strike. This action confirms the charge of the strikers, gathered in a mass | meeting yesterday, that the Aus- tralian government is cooperating with the shipowners in an endeavor to force the strikers back to work. Today 400 waterfront strikers paraded in the streets of Mel- bourne, and they were prevented from holding a demonstration by a | large force of police. The strike is beginning to have} ts effect upon the business of the country. With all the ports vir- tually tied up, export is practically | curtailed. Nearly $5,000,000 worth | of wool for export was held up at Adelaide. M'DONALD CREW FOR WAR PLANS To Provide Finances for Military BIRMINGHAM, England, Oct. 3. —The financial program of the British Labor Party, to be fully outlined at tomorrow’s session, will fr provisions for the army, avy and air force, despite the an-| jouncement of George Lansbury | yesterday that he was in favor of Soviet Russia’s total disarmament plan. This was indicated at today’s session by Philip Snowden, high in the ranks of the Labor Party. Pressure From Left. At today’s session the Labor Party adonted its program for the coming general elections after ver- bal contortions participated ine by adherants of the right and left fac- tions. On the domestic field the Labor Party will attempt a liberal coalition on the protective tariff, | and in foreign relations it “prom- ised” to work for resumption.of | diplomatic relations with the Soviet | Union, on pressure from the left,| headed by James Maxton. } As previously outlined, in order | to appease the more radical of its followers, the program declares it- self in favor of disarmament and | abrogation of the Anglo-French) naval pact. | Program Attacked. | In the discussion on the program, | [ee left group claimed the Program | was too moderate. A dramatic} ‘climax was reached when Ramsay MacDonald, former premier, shook his finger in the face of James Max- ton, accusing Maxton of trying to “queer the party.” “I hope Maxton is not going to clear his nest by giving me and my colleagues difficulties in our consti- | tuencies,” he said. FOSTER SPEAKS TO BIG MEETINGS Chicago WorkersFavor Red Program CHICAGO, Ill., Oct. 2 (Delayed). | —Two mass demonstrations of Chi- | cago workers greeted William Z. Foster, candidate for president on| the Workers (Communist) Party| ticket here yesterday despite every effort on the part of steel bosses | and local labor fakers to prevent the holding of the meetings by de-| priving the Party of a hall. | Fifteen, hundred steel workers punctuated Foster’s talk with out- bursts of the greatest enthusiasm at a meeting held in South Chicago in the afternoon. In the evening over two thousand workers assembled in an overflow meeting at Schoenhofen Hall to hear the Gommunist candi- date expose the role of the reaction- ary old parties and that of the mis- leaders of labor who in practically every case, Foster showed, are serv~ { | Lifshitz, Herbert Zam, George Pri- Speaker .:. ddressing Fall River Workers practice against their Fall River militant as ever. recent picnic near the city. In spite of the terror with which the police and textile barons mill slaves, the workers are as Above, a speaker addressing the workers at a BOSSES GREET “FAT BOYS” OF CARPENTERS (Special to the Daily Worker) LAKELAND, Florida, (By Mail). —This small city is decorated as if for a holiday in honor of the dele-| gates to the carpenters’ convention which opened here Saturday. Amer- ican flags, campaign posters, 4 Smith and Hoover pictures look out from gaudily dressed windows at Plans for Walkout. to} their staunch supporters among the fat labor bureaucrats who are bus- ily engaged in exploring the best speakeasies. Bosses Taste Cash. The little and big shopkeepers are licking their chops in anticipa- tion of the thousands of dollars, mostly filehed from the rank andj, file, which the carpenter misleaders | will spend here. Why otherwise the huge sign displayed before the Lake- land Chamber of Commerce: “Wel- | come Delegates To The Carpenters’ Convention!” Yesterday the delegates were all taken in buses to the old age home of the Brotherhood, two miles from the city. Here the credentials com- mittee sat in session and here. the| convention will be held. Smiles and Scowls. Glad smiles greeted the Various reactionary delegates as they made) their appearance before the Hutche- son Credentials Committee. Ugly scowls, foreshadowing trouble soon, greeted the progressive delegates. © Events began to develop with the appearance before the committee of | Morris Rosen, militant carpenter | Continued on Page Three PLAN MANY RED NIGHTS HERE Torch-Light Parades to Follow Meets A series of rallies—“Red Nights” —will take place tomorrow and Sat- urday in Brownsville, Williamsburg and the Bronx. Many _ open-air meetings have been arranged by the Workers (Communist) Party, to be held at corners throughout these three boroughs. Speakers will ad- dress workers at these places for | a period of about 20 minutes, after | which all meetings will be simul- | taneously adjourned, with all par- | ticipants, speakers and eos meeting at one central spot in Red Torch parades. A list of meetings that will be held previous to the parades fol- lows: FRIDAY Red Night in Brownsville, speak- | ers report to 154 Watkins Ave., 7:30 | p. m.—Speakers: Benjamin, Rago- | zin, Liptzin, Richard Moore, Paster- | nak, Chernenko, Julius Cohen, Geo. Powers, Mania Reiss, I. Zimmerman, Edw. Wright, P. Shapiro, Williams, | Mrs. K. Gitlow, Hendin, Frank, L. | Sisselman, Suskin, Halfand, H. Gor- don, SATURDAY Red Night in Williamsburg, speak- ers report to 46 Ten Eyck St. at) 7:30 p. m.—-Speakers: A. Bimba, A. Trachtenberg, H. M.* Wicks, Ben | |moff,. Morris Yusem, Edw. Welsh, | Magliacano, Vera Bush, P. Midola, | John Sherman, Grace Lamb,. Vera | Smith, Gertrude Welsh, Pruseika, Surba, Louis Sisselman, D. Davis, Geltman, Frances Gordon. Red Night in Bronx, speakers re- port to 2075 Clinton Ave, at 7:30. p. m.—Speakers: Robert Minor, | William W. Weinstone, Ben Gold, Sasch Zimmerman, Rebecca Grecht, | James P. Cannon, Rose Wortes, A. | Markoff, Sam Nessin, Jack Stachel, | Continued on Page Two | IMPERIALIST “RESTS,” | BURLINGAME, Cal., Cict. 3 (UP) —Austin Chamberlain, foreign sec- retary of Great Britain, today started what he said would be two weeks of “complete relaxation,” as | the guest of William Ji. Crocker, | “beg the boss parties, \ California financier. ‘censnaseamameatnate PATERSON MILL STRIKE LOOMS Be Fixed Today PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 3. (UP). —An impending strike of 10,000 workers faced Paterson silk mill owners today, the result of differ- ences over the eight-hour-day agree- ment and other union demands. A date for the proposed walkout will be fixed Thursday night by a strike committee, appointed by the silk workers’ union, Fred Hooel- ss secretary announced. e demands of the union are for strict adherence to the hour agree- ment, recognition of the union, and a wage increase. The first already has been agreed to by the manufac- turers, but the final decision on the latter two has not been announced. Berlin Reports. Big Imperialist Plot to Invade Soviet Union BERLIN, Oct. 3 (UP).—The Berliner Tageblatt, in an article which the newspaper said was from “the best informed sources,” charged tonight that negotiations for a military alliance between Poland and Rumania are nearing completion, The atticle said the alliance was for the purpose of promoting an armed invasion to sever Ukraine from Russia. Connecting the visit of Marshal Pilsudski of Poland to Bucharest with the alleged negotiations, the article. said the agreement pro- | vided. that Northern Ukraine should be annexed to Poland and the southern part of the state should be made an independent buffer state between Russia and | Rumania. Pilsudski Wafsaw today. Tageblatt charged that France was interested in the severance of Ukraine and cited the recent visit of General Lerond, former right-hand man of General Foch, to the Balkan states as sustaining the allegations. France is inter- ested in including Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia in the alliance, the article charged. “Worker” Will Post World Series Scores The Daily Worker will show the returns of each World Series game, inning by inning, at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, beginning today. returned to HUDSON BOATS STOP ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 3 (UP).— Operation of its boats by the Hud- son River Day Line will be discon- tinued for the year on October 15, it was announced today. STATE SPEEDS T0 A”app Freed; BIG MEMBERSHIP FINISH CONNOLLY GRAFT TESTIMONY Sidet racks Important Data;, Tammany Is Shielded New Facts Go to Jury Contractor’s Evidence Minimized New indictments were proriised yesterday in the $30,000,000 Queens sewer graft case in which Maurice E. Connolly and Frederick Seely are now on trial. “The grand jury | has not yet completed its work by far” was the reply made by Prose- cutor Buckner in answer to the question as to new action to be expected from the grand jury meet- ing. It is known that the testimony of certain witnesses has been found to be at variance with earlier sworn statements made by them. This and other minor points is being made to appear as the big issues in the Tam- many graft case in which millions} of dollars have been stolen, scores Continued on Page Two ‘SEIZE CHILDREN IN FALL RIVER | Show Up Batty’s Lies in New Bedford NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 3. | | —Reports from Fall River today | state that police are making house to house searches and are threat- ‘ening workers that their children | will be sent to reform schéols if | they do not leave the workers’ chil- dren’s organizations. Arrests of | Several children are reported to | have been made. | The mill owners are backing this | terrorism in their effort to break the power of the National Textile Workers’ Union. Batty Given the Lie. Statements spread by the Batty, | group that members of the unions | affiliated to the New Bedford Tex- tile Council are declaring that the | recent vote on the five per cent wage cut was unfair and are de- | manding a new poll, were given the | | lie this morning when only the usual | small handful of scabs entered the | mills. | Batty, however, has not relin- | quished his efforts to obtain another | ballot in which he hopes to be able |to oblige the mill bosses by sum- | marily ending the strike. \Four Nicaraguans Are ‘Murdered in Elections; ‘Hand of U. S. Is Seen MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Oct. 3} (UP).—Four liberal party propa-| gandists, including Dr. Juan Carlos | Mendita, prominent Managua law- | yer, were murdered on the night of | | September 30 at San Marcos, 15| {miles southwest of Jinotega, it was ‘reported here tonight. Got Days For Big Steal ALBANY, Oct. 3 (UP)—Gates of the Albany county penitentiary opened for Mrs. Florence E. S Knapp sometime between midnight and five o'clock this morning and New York state’s only woman sec- retary of state, finishing a term-of 0 days for larceny of state census funds, was whisked quietly away in an automobile, accompanied by rela- tives. Her destination is believed to be New Bedford, Mass. “Be Nice to the Lady.” ALBANY, Oct. 3.—Helpful and solicitous to the very last, prison officials released Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp early this morning instead of at 9 o’clock, the customary hour, in order to enable the former secre- tary of state, who stole thousands of dollars of state census funds, to avoid the swarm of newspapermen, photographers and other publicity engineers who have been buzzing around the prison for some time. Mrs. Knapp completed a sentence of 30 days as the guest of the war- den’s wife. The tedium of her stay was whiled away by flowers, candy, special dishes and other little com- forts to make her feel at home. In return for the 30-day sentence the former secretary of state eased thousands of dollars into her own pockets and looked after sundry relatives by padding the state pay- roll with them. Mrs. Knapp is reported to have gone to New Bedford, Mass., where 80,000 textile workers have been striking for more than 24 weeks against efforts to reduce by ten per cent wages averaging about $17 a week, “Misappropriated” 3 Pork Chops; Negro Given 214 Jail Term BOSTON, Oct. 3.—For misap- propriating three pork chops, John Flanagan, Negro chef, must spend two and a half years in jail. In court, Flanagan claimed that the proprietor of the restaurant where he was employed had agreed to give him $i3 a week and the left-overs. The defendant claimed the pork chops were left-overs, but failed to convince the judge. PASSAIC MEET TO BE HELD TONIGHT Workers Will Endorse Red Candidates The workers of Passaic will in- dorse the Communist candidates and platform at a conference to be held at the Workers Home, 25 Dayton Ave., Passaic, tonight at 8 o’clock. The Passaic workers, steeled through their activities in the Pas- saic strike and educated during the Passaic election campaign of 1927, will be in a position to carry on an extensive campaign. The Workers (Communist) Party received 1,800 votes in the last city election. The city conference will devise ways and means of carrying on the campaign in Passaic. All labor or- ganizations are invited to send three \deleeates to the conference. The fact that the bodies were not The capitalist organizations are |robbeq led authorities to the con-| clusion that the men had been killed by political opponents rather than | bandits. | There was no official report from | marine headquarters or the Ameri- ‘can electoral commission tonight be- cause of poor communication facili- ties. | BRUSSELS, Oct. 3 (U.P).—Juean De La Cierva, Spanish inventor, landed here today after a successful flight*from Paris in his autogiro : plane. Thousands will be there. Every worker who isn’t maimed or in- capacitated in some fashion will grab a subway, taxi, ‘airplane or other mode of conveyance and make a dash for the vicinity of 50th St. and.Eighth Ave. tonight. The great National Daily Worker- Freiheit Bazaar opens in Madison Square Garden tonight. This is no ordinary event. For more than +a month feverish preparations have been in progress, hundreds of work- ers and working class organizations have been toiling without letup. with this opening night as their goal. Tonight Madison Square Garden | will present the appearance of a |huge department store. But it will be a department store which will be | distinguished by a spirit of festivity | such as is never found in ordinary | |department stores. It will, more- | over, be a proletarian’ department store, run for and by workers, sell- ing all articles at truly proletarian | prices. | For only four days will this de- partment stora be open. For only four days will the workers of New York have the opportunity of se- curing unusual bargains for them- selves and of aiding their revolu-| working hard in Passaaic to break ap the Communist stronghold estab- lished in Passaic during the Passaic |strike and. previous election cam- paigns. The Workers Party of Passaic is holding street corner meetings every Wednesday night. MITCHELL FIELD, N. Y., Oct. 3 (UP).—Two of the three men who were injured in a collision of two airplanes here yesterday were re- covering steadily at the Post Hos- pital today. MEET APPROVES C.L DECISIONS Pledges Su D port to Fight Imminent War Danger N. Y. Members in Vote Resolution Presented by Weinstone The largest membership meeting ever held by District 2, Workers (Communist) Par- ty at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., Tues- day night, adopted the follow- ing resolution endorsing the decisions of the Sixth Congress of the Communist Internation- al and pledging its support to fight against the war danger. The resolution, which was in- trodueed by William W. Wein- stone, organizer of District 2, was passed with only 20 votes ab- staining. It follows: “The membership meeting of the New York District expresses its full agreement with the work and de- cisions of the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International, and pledges itself to carry out whole- heartedly the policies and instruc- tions embodied in the decisions of the Congress. “The Sixth World Congress of \the C. I. means an historic turning |point in the life of the Communist movement. The World Congress gave a correct Marxian-Leninist an- alysis of the world situation and solved the problems before the proletarian revolutionary movement. The analysis of the Congress de- stroyed the illusions about the per- fmanent character of capitalist sta- | imper- hilization and showed how ialism, which in a number of coun- tries is increasing its forces of pro- duction, is developing by the very fact of its technical and organiza- |tional progress tremendous unsur- | mountable contradictions. The World |Congress correctly estimated the present Third Period of post-war imperialism as a, period of catas- trophies, new wars and revolution- ary crises. In this situation it was inevitable that the Congress should place in the foréground the most de- Continued on Page Two GERMAN STRIKES DISRUPT BOURSE All Industries Drop on Berlin Market BERLIN, Oct. 3.—Complete un- \certainty in German industries, due |to the tying-up of the North Sea shipyards by the strike, the Silesian coal miners’ strike, and the ap- proaching strike of 45,000 textile workers, prevailed as the Berlin stock market opened this morning. The course of the day saw a drop in quotations, in many cases much as 6 or 7 points in textiles. The Berlin stock market can be taken as a very certain indication of the far-reaching effects of the | strikes and threatened strikes in al- most all the key industries. The market was jumpy the whole day, very little trading going on, and whatever did take place was at a loss: A complete strike in textiles, steel and coal would completely wreck German industry, economic observers declare. The quotations in textiles bear Continued on Page Three Michio Ito to Appear in Revolutionary Dances at Opening of Huge tionary press, the Daily Worker and the Freiheit. Famous Dancer to Perform. H Opening night promises to be a_ memorable event. Michio Ito, world- famous Japanese dancer, will ap- pear in a series of unusual sym- bolical dances. The dances will be divided into three parts. Monarchy, Fire-Bird and Revolution. The music has been adapted by Michio Ito and the musician, Robert Carr, from Stravinsky’s ‘‘Military March” and the “Fire-Bird.” The “Inter- last two parts. The dancing of Ito promises to be | - 1,000,000 ARTICLES AT GREAT BAZAAR TONIGHT ¢ 4-Day. Event {one of the most interesting of the inany features that the Bazaar Com- mittee has arranged. 1,000,000 Articles. 4 One million articles will be on sale at the Bazaar. These will in- clude men’s, women’s and children’s clothing, furniture, jewelry, blank- ets, towels, linens, carpets, lamps, sweaters, dresses, shoes, trunks, umbrellas, pocketbooks, cigarettes, candy, toys, etc. Among them will be unique art items from China, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Armenia, inational” will be played during the Italy and Germany, as well as ciga- pel’s speech, Continued on Page Three Outside New York, by matl, $600 per yea Leaves on Tour vos ees Me ME: Bertram D. Wolfe, national agit- prop director of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, and Red candidate for Congress in the 10th district of New York.. Wolfe left yesterday for an extended campaign thru the western states. WOLFE STARTS — CAMPAIGN TOUR ~ Communist . Candidate to Speak in Many Cities Bertram D. Wolfe, National |Agitprop Director of the Workers (Communist) Party, left early yes- terday morning on a campaign tour, delivering his first speech in Cleve- land last night. Tonight he is scheduled to speak at Cleveland again, after which he will continue his extensive itinerary | through the following cities: Thursday, Oct. 4, Cleveland, 0. Friday, Oct. 5, Detroit,’ Mich. Saturday, Oct. 6, Detroit, Mich. Sunday, Oct. 7, Chicago, Mich. Tuesday, Oct. 9, Duluth, Minn. Wednesday, Oct. 10, Superior, Wis. Thursday, Oct. 11, Minneapolis Minn. |Friday, Oct. 12, Minneapolis, Minn. Monday, Oct. 15, Seattle, Wash. Tuesday, Oct. 16, Seattle, Wash. Friday, Oct. 19, San Francisco, Cal. Saturday, Oct.20, San Francisco, Cal. Sunday, Oct. 21, San Francisco, Cal. Monday, Oct. 22, Los Angeles, Cal. Oct. 23, Los Angeles, Cal. Friday, Oct. 26, Denver, Colo. Saturday, Oct. 27, Denver, Colo. Monday Oct. 29, Omaha, Nebr. Tuesday, Oct. 30, Kansas Cit Mo. Wednesday, Oct. 31, St. Louis, Mo. Thursday, Nov. 1, St. Louis, Mo. + ee Bertram D. Wolfe was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1896. He was one of the founders of the Commun- ist Party of America in 1919, and editor of their first paper, the “Com- munist World”. He has been active in the labor movmeent since 1920 when he became a member of the San Francisco Cooks’ Union. Editor of Labor Unity, a left-wing union |paper, 1920-1922. From 1923 to 1925 he was in the left wing of the | Printing Trades Union in Mexico City. Deported from Mexico in July |1925 for activities in the general |railways strike. He came to New |York and became a member of the Continued on Page Three “ROTE FAHNE” I AGAIN HELD UP |Vienna Workers Move + Fascists Against (Wireless to th Daily Worker) BERLIN, Oct. 2.—Today’s issue of the Vienna “Rote Fahne” was again confiscated for demanding the arming of the workers. The government obvi intends to prevent the publ’cation of this slo- gan against fascism until the 7th, the day set fascists. The Austrian Communist Party is taking measures to frustrate the social-democrat government _at- tempts at sabotage of the workers’ | efforts. Renner, interrogated ‘on the sub- |ject of “inner disarmament,” (the for the parade of the arming of ‘the workers’ forces against the fascist mobilizations) declared that=the social-democrats are ready to disband the Workers Defense League if general “inner disarmament” follows. | The reply of Chancellor Seipel was ja fascist provocatory rejection of the suggestion. Seipel defended | |Fabst, who, as the former officer under Noske, had taught him the social-democratic method of fight- ing the workers. Otto Bauer is indignant at Sei- It will be impossible \rettes and candy from the Soviet to hold the workers down after this and 4th Ave, (provocation, Bauer declared openly. | gin promptly at 8 p. m, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents COMMUNISTS FILE SIGNATURES FOR MINNESOTA DRIVE Election Petition Goes Over the Top; Big ted Victory Candidates Are Listed Devine Predicts Record Communist Vote ’ (Special to the Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., Oct. 3 The Workers (Communist) Party todav filed its petition containing nearly one thousand signatures above the number required to place it on the ballot in Minnesota The candidates besides those of the national campaign, William Z, Foster for president and Ben Gitlow for vice president, are V. R. Dunne, for U. S. Senator, J. 0. Bentall for governor, Maurice Powers, Tom Foley, E. B. Ford and 0. R. Votaw as candidates for Congress. Defeatist Propaganda. For a long time the propaganda issued by the business representa- tives and labor misleaders in the so-called farmer-labar party sought to create the impression that the Communist Party. could not be placed on the ballot. The socialists contributed to this false propaganda. The specially difficult election laws of the state, making voters who participate in the primary elections ineligible to sign nominating peti+ tions, was a v big handicap to the Communist campaign. Over 10,000 votes were cast for the Party in the primary. This meant that 10,000 of the followers and close sympathizers of the Party were in- eligible to sign the nominating pe- tition. Redouble Energy. “Realizing the magnitude of the task, the Party in this distriet buckled down to the job in true Bol- shevik spirit,” Pat Devine, district organizer, declared today. “Not only did we obtain the required number but we filed nearly a thou- sand extra signatures.” The election campaign here is well under way, Devine declared. “The workers are beginning to un- derstand who their real champions are. The Communist ticket will re- ceive the biggest vote on record. We are confident that Minnesota will go over the top for our Party.” CITY FATHERS GET CAB CASH Chicago Officials New Racket CHICAGO, Oct. 3.—That nearly every official of the Chicago city government is a stockholder of the open shop Yellow Cab Company and that in most cases this stock came into the possession of these officials for “value received,” rather than for cash, are revelations which have come out of the war of extermina- tion which is being waged by the Morgan-controlled Yellow Cab Com- pany against its rival, the Checker Taxicab Company. a 4 in A raid was today carried out on the offices of the Checker Com- pany and police carted off to the state attorney’s headquarters all papers and records of the company. Officials of the concern were or- dered to appear for questioning in connection with the bombing of two garages and the burning of the Cary, Ill, barns of John Hertz, head of the Yellow Cab Company, with loss of eleven race horses valued at more than $200,000 Monday night. Arthur F. Albert, attorney for Checker Company, issued a state- ment today in which he charged that the subpoenas for the records were not issued by a court but by Robert E. Crowe, state’s attorney, “a stockholder of the Yellow Cab Company.” Symposium of Working Women to Be Held at Cooper Union Oct. 11 The issues of the present election campaign will be discussed at a Politieal Symposium for Workihg Women, arranged by the New. York Working Women’s Federation. The Symposium will be held Thursday, Oct. 11, at Cooper Union, 8th St. The meeting will be-