The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 5, 1928, Page 1

Great Throng Greets Opening of Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar at Madison Sq. Garden Daily C Entered as necond-ciass matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Yo THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government | To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party FINAL CITY EDITION under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1928 COMMUNISTS WIN FIGHT IN STA IHUTCHESON GANG EXPOSED AT BIG (CARPENTER MEET osen Denounces Union | Wreckers; Delegates Cheer Militants Attack Made on ‘Reds’ Strong Arm Squad Ousts Progressives , by mail, $8.00 per year $6.00 per year. Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sa., New York, N. Y. — Vol. V., No. 236 SUBSCRIPTION RAT Outside New Price 3 Cents E OF WASHINGTON t Communists I se 8s Call 60,000 . Austrian Troops — WORKERS RALLY | «oe AGAINST RISING FASCIST MENACE Social- Democrats in| Treaty With Black Shirts July Days Are Recalled Rail Strike Scheduled | to Figh LEMS HLLER (COURT DECISION COMPELS PICKED STATE SECRETARY 10 FILE PORONER'S JURY TICKET IN LUMBER DOMAIN Murder of Moran Is f Whitewashed After | workers (Communist) Party Now on Ballot in Faked Inquest 31 States; Total May Soon Reach 35 Red Hysteria Worked Witnesses Intimidated | Victim of Czecho-Slovak Terror Above the head of the| worker Timko, slugged by the police in the Commu- Active In Campaign nist village of Boronov, . reer Czecho-Slovakia, 7 4 tack on Timko was one| incident in an orgy of | Peet -ernaiehied by the Masaryk police against the workers. Many workers, both men | and women, were beaten senseless with horse -| State-Wide Protest of Thousands of Workers Forces Tools of Bosses to Back Down (Special to the Daily Worker) LAKELAND, Florida, Oct. 4.— Speaking for one hour at the con- | vention of the Brotherhood of Car- | whips. Militant workers thruout Czecho-Slovakia are aroused by the police State of Washington ruled yes- penters and Joiners, Morris Rosen, militant carpenters’ leader of New York City, delivered a stinging ex- | posure of the corruption of the Hutcheson machine, its betrayal of the membership, its frame-up meth- | DAILY WORKER BAZAAR OPENS UP WITH A BANG officialdom by rallying to strong- | | | 9ds and violation of the constitution | [f the union. In spite of the tremendous ap- «lause which greeted Rosen at the | conclusion of his speech, which | threatened to carry the delegates with the progressive program, the arm squad and after a most ven- | emous Red-baiting attack succeeded in driving Rosen and a dozen other | delegates from the convention. | } Force Hearing. Mass pressure of the progressive delegates present forced a hearing for Rosen, who appeared on behalf of former Local 376 of New York, which the Hutcheson machine | wrecked several years ago. Peter Wimmer, a delegate from Chicago, moved that the representatives of Local. 376 1 na hearing. se as Srothevieod Ph Duffy, sensing the feeling of th convention, favored the request. | vers days previously had been eaten up by a number of Hutche- son thugs, delivered his scathing de- nunciation of the corrupt Hutcheson machine. The embezzlers of funds of Local 376, whom the progressives in that local had fought against, were cleared by Hutcheson in order te frame-up the progressives, Rosen showed. Exposes Hutcheson. Hutcheson is not only irrespon- sible and treacherous, but a delib- erate liar when he ordered that Lo- the brotherhood, Rosen showed. The local and its officers were perse- _ cuted because Rosen had opposed Hutcheson for the presidentcy of the international. “I challenge anyone to disprove one statement contained in our booklet of appeal,” Rosen declared, referring to a printed statement of the local’s case which has been cir- culated among the carpenters. Ro- sen urged the delegates to support the appeal of the New York local. Continued on Page Three "FREIGHT HOIST - FORYOU SLAVE Needle Workers Must Use Rear Elevator (By a Worker Correspondent) The workers employed at 247 W. B8th St., mostly needle trade work- ers, are denied the right of using the passenger elevator entrance but are forced to use the elevator where rhage and freight ‘are carried. jis is an ukase by the order of the bosses and the building chief. The passenger entrance is used only for tthe bosses and their lackeys. It may also be used by the secret sweet- fess of the bosses—but not by the A | | | orkers. The workers have the right to slave in the shops and produce For over one hour, Rosen, who | cal 376 violated the constitution of | action. Sentiment for struggle is rising in the Balkans. Well, it was a grand opening. Everybody who wasn’t tod crippled to crawl ‘was there. Subways, “L” trains, taxis, flivvers and, it is ru- mored, even airplanes were pressed | into service to transport a huge army of workers who swooped down on Madison Square Garden and laid siege to the great National Daily | Worker-Freiheit Bazaar which |opened last night. | As soon as the doors of the Gar- jden were thrown open early in the re: they began pouring’ in. out umps. 4 Many Booths. The great Garden was lined with ; booth after booth, festively decora- ted, selling every conceivable article | at prices that made even the feeb- \lest proletarian pocketbook expand |with joy. Each of the booths had ‘been prepared and the articles col- | lected by one of the many working- \class organizations that are co- operating in the bazaar. And every one was manned by a squad of | workers. The feature of the evening was the performance given by Michio! Ito, famous Japanese dancer. Ito |appeared in a series of three dances | |symbolizing Monarchy, | and Revolution. Fire-Bird The musie for the Continued on Page Two TO START DRESS | New Union Calls Meet | Tuesday (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 4.—Ac- tive preparations are now being ‘made for the launching of a huge organization drive in the local dress lindustry. The drive will be formally | started at a mass meeting of all the workers next Tuesday evening in {Garden Hall, Seventh and Morris | Sts. Since the recent launching of the new dressmakers’ Union considerable activity has been developed. The dressmakers have responded splen- | didly to the call of the National Or- | Continued on Page Two DRIVE IN PHILA, NEEDLE WORKERS : RALLY TOMORROW Red Demonstrations Thruout City Ben Gold, S. Zimmerman, _beeea Grecht, S. Leibowitz, Perlman, Eva Shafran, I. Pinchef- sky, M. Zeibel, F. Cooper and other | strike for Sunday, and arranging a| needle trades leaders will be among | the speakers at tomorrow night’s Red demonstrations throughout Greater New York. Cloakmakers, dressmakers, fur- | riers, tailors, capmakers, millinery | workers, are expected to turn out in great numbers to hear their lead- ers on the issues of the election campaign. Will Challenge Sigman. Sigman, Beckerman, Zaritsky and others of the right wing have come out in support of the Reverend Nor- man Thomas. Mr. Thomas has al- ways been willing to assist the right wing in its fight against the members. The needle workers re- member how Thomas came to assist Sigman at Boston, where the so- called convention of the I. L. G. W. U. was held uncer the protection of Governor Fullar’s police. The right wing is now paying its list” Forward, which has contributed \tens of thousands of dollars towards (the right wing union-smashing ac- tivity. The Zaritsky gang in the Millinery Local 24, which has been yelling itself hoarse against “poli- ties in the union,” has contributed a thousand dollars treasury towards the Thomas cam- paign, The leaders of the left wing to- morrow night will challenge the right wing, which is trying to cre- ate the impression that the needle workers are still supporting the so- | cialist ticket, as they did eight years ago when Debs was the candidate. ‘The needle workers themselves will turn out in big masses tomorrow night and prove that they have turned away from the party of Hil- Continued on Page Two BAC | | | K SHIFRIN DEFENSE I. L. D. Scores Right Wing and Police The efforts of the reactionary; port the campaign to save Schifrin. | profits for the greedy bosses, but | right-wing clique in the Jewish. “The terrorist policy of the right due to the socialist party and its | candidate and to the yellow “social- | from the union | for Sunday VIENNA, Oct. 4.—Sixty thousand Austrian troops, as well as all avail- able police forces, will be entrenched in Vienna-neustadt on Sunday to prevent the Workers Defense League from holding its counter-demonstra- tion against the armed fascist parade of the Home Defense Corps. This open co-operation of the gov- rnment with the fascist organiza- tion came after the complete capi- tulation of the social-democrats, who were scared into a surrender.by the announcement that rifles from \the government arsenal, machine _guns and a few airplanes had been distributed among the fascist pa- raders. Rail Strike Called For. The Workers Defense League, or- Re- | ganized at the time the social-deno- | Gladys | crats first indicated their surrender | and more kept coming until Schechter, M. N. Taft, S. Lipzin, | : G'o’clock one had to watch |S¥lvia Bleeker, Lena Chernenko, H. [has anflounced its determinattyn to |ing on in Queens County Couft. ne’s step in order to avoid the | Sazer, H. Kroetz, I. Potash, Mania prevent the provocative fascist dem- at the party congress last month. onstration by scheduling a_ rail {huge workers’ demonstration in Vienna-neustadt at the same time |that the fascist forces are to hold | theirs. That the negotiations, which have been proceeding for some time be- |tween the social-democrats, the fas- |eists and the government, have re- sulted in the complete retreat of the “socialist” leaders was made evi- |dent today by the announcement of Jontinued on Page Three YANKS WIN FIRST ~ FROM CARDS, 1 ‘Hoyt Is Invincible in Box By HAL JOHNSON. The lusty hitting of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Bob Meusel, com- |bined with the high-class twirling of Waite Hoyt, proved too much for the St. Louis Cards, who went down to defeat yesterday _ before the supposedly to the tune of 4 to 1 in the open- ing game of the World Series Wee Willie Sherdel, slow-ball star of the Cards, succeeded in slow-ball- ‘ing himself to the showers in the eighth, but not until the Yanks had sewed up the game with three runs. Jimmie Walker, dancing mayor of |New York, failed to dance in on time, so Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, labor-hating “czar” of base- ‘ball, threw out the first ball. In- cidentally, the judge knocks down $65,000 a year for looking roman- tic and effectively keeping the lid jon the stench that frequently ema- nates from the inner goings-on of professional baseball. Score in First. The Yankees settled down to busi- ness in the first inning and scored Waite Hoyt are denied the right to enjoy clean | Butchers’ Union, led by the Jewish| wing in the Jewish unions,” the on doubles by Ruth and Gehrig. and decent entrance to their slave | Daily Forward, to railroad William|statement says, “has resulted in| holes and are forced to go through Schifrin, left wing worker, to jail|tragedy in the Butchers’ Union. the elevator where garbage and or worse on a charge of homicide,| Five thugs, swinging knives, at- freight is carried, filthy and drafty. |are denounced in a statement issued | tacked William Schifrin, a left wing An incident happened where a | last night by the New York Section | worker, who in defending himself, girl worker in the morning while hurrying to work, entered the pas- of the International Labor Defense, ‘799 Broadway. The statement, | mortally wounded one of the knife | wielders. All observers agree, in- The Yankee cripples were swing- Continued on Page Five SEIZE OPIUM CARGO. A huge cargo of opium, valued at several hundred thousand dollars, ‘was seized yesterday by customs of- senger elevator, and the operator | signed by tose Baron, secretary, ap- cluding the police, who certainly ficers aboard the Dollar Line Presi- probably forgot for a moment, took | peals (o all class-conscious workers cannot be accused of favoritism to dent Harrison after an all-night Continued on Page Two | All Workers [Communist] Party Units Will Meet Thru ‘and workers’ organizations to sup- H Continued on Page Three search of the vessel. crippled Yankees | Roberta Knight, shown above is one of the most active workers for the Workers (Communist) | election campaign. In Denver, Colo- |rado, she has addressed dozens of meetings of workers in behalf of the Communist candidates $1,000,000 GRAFT ‘IN4 SEWER DEALS Contracts Approved by Connolly | Nearly $1,000,000 in graft from \four sewer contracts totaling ap- proximately two and one half mill- ion dollars was the data placed on the record yesterday at the $30,- 000,000 Connolly-Seely trial now go- Bribery, extortion, wholesale plunder of the city treasury by the Tammany Queens ring headed by the picturesque John M. Phillips, late sewer pipe king, have been dis- closed at the trial during the week lit has been in session, but still no |real efforts to trace the connection {with Connolly or the others higher up in the Tammany machine who jare known to have shared in the | graft. The four contracts which totaled | $2,569,955 were jacked up exactly | $968,722 above the price at which they could have been carried out. The contractors who secured the as- signments split tle rake-off. In all cases the contracts were approved by Maurice E. Connolly, former borough president and Frederick Seely, former city engineer. In honor of this particular big haul which was made in 1926, a gold dinner set was given to Phillips at the occasion of his last marriage. | nab el |“Daily” Announces World Series Games While thousands paid fancy prices to see the opening game of America’s most inflated sports spectacle yesterday afternoon, several hundred workers followed the game without cost with the help of the Daily Worker. A | scoreboard displayed from the business office of the “Daily” gave the scores by innings, while the details of the game were an- nounced ball by ball from a mega- phone by Eric Burroughs, young Negro worker and member of the Young Workers League. During the course of the game slogans such as “Vote Commun- ist” and “Read the Daily Worker” were also displayed. The Daily Worker will show the progress of all the other World Series games in the same fashion. Jail Young Worker in $500 Bail for Selling ‘Communist Literature Carl Fricke, a member cf the Lower Bronx Unit of the Young Workers (Communist) League, was arrested last night at an open-air |meeting of that unit, held at the |eorner of Willis Ave. and 138th St. He was charged with selling Work- ers (Communist) Party Election Campaign literature. He was held under $500 bond and is to come up \for hearing this morning. Party! by Court (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Oct. 4. — Louis Carbonia, the Lewis machine killer | who murdered George Moran and | seriously wounded Carl and Theo- dore Glovak, three delegates to the National Miners’ Union convention was released today following a mock coroner’s inquest at Washington, Pa. A trumped up jury of six, all| attaches of the court house, ob-| viously picked for the purpose of effecting the acquittal of Carboni, carried out the will of the coal op- erator justice. Red-Baiting Probe. District Attorney Warren Burch- inal turned the supposed inquest into a red-bating attack on the mili- tant miners. Instead of Coroner Baker presiding the district attor- ney took complete control of the hearing and ruled on every ques- tion. No attempt was made to find the real facts behind the shooting. Three-fourths of the inquest con- sisted in a red-bating attack intend- ed to create an atmosphere frenzy. The jury was urged to be- lieve that Carbonia, the Lewis killer had defended the flag of the United States government. The district at- torney sought to make a hero of the killer. Witnesses were intimidated and their testimony cut off when they showed signs of telling the truth. Adam Getto, Labor Party candidate for congress, and one of the eye- witnesses to the shooting who was himself fired on by Carboni, was questioned as to his belief in God. When the militant miner replied that he did not believe in God, the prosecutor refused to hear any fur- ther testimony. More Red Hysteria. Objections by Henry Ellenbogen, the attorney for George Moran’s widow were followed by a hasty whispered conference between the district attorney and the coroner, and several hours later Getto was recalled for another hearing. This time he was questioned on _ his opinions about the United States government. It became clear that the inquest was used to secure information from witnesses under oath about alleged radical activities and by con- fusing the issues to create the im- pression that the object of the new mine union was to overthrow the government. The questions were not limited to the shooting but were directed to provide a basis for the white-wash |of the killer. Local papers. carry headlines of a red expose. of | The Supreme Court of the Party for filing. terday that the Workers (Communist) Party ticket is entitled Ito a place on the official ballot, overruling a decision of the | Secretary of State, who refused to accept the petitions of the The action of the Secretary of State in discriminating against the only workingclass BATTY RUEFUL AT SMALL VOTE “Arbitrator” Lets Cat Out of Bag NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 4.— Leaders of the New Bedford Tex- tile Workers’ Union smiled today over the statement of William E. G. Batty, secretary of the Textile Council, that he is “at a loss” to explain the small vote cast ‘in the | recent balloting on the five per cent wage-cut sell-out. “He has been too busy spreading stories that the workers want a new vote,”.one of the strikers in the T. W. U. headquarters declared, “to find out or he’d know that his or- ganizations are dying.” Similar comments are heard thruout the city today. Campaign Fails. Announcement by secretaries of the seven unions composing the Tex- tile Counucil that they were against a new vote today evidenced the com- plete failure of the Batty group’s attempt to spread abroad a cam- paign of lies discrediting the former poll. The miserable showing of the Batty unions at the polls and their vote repudiating the Batty sell-out, and following the lead of the New Bedford Textile Workers’ Union, are compelling the fakers to try to ex- tricate themselves from their pres- ent position. Canvass of the strikers in the unions affiliated to the Textile Council shows a growing resentment that Batty should dare to question their repudiation of the five per cent wage cut. The workers voted the wage cut down decisively and no substitute vote can serve any other purpose than that of putting over a Sell-out, in the opinion of many workers. A smaller number of voters would turn up should Bat- ty succeed in putting over his new election stunt is the sentiment fre- quently expressed. TASKS FOR MEMBERS OF WORKERS PARTY The following are the tasks of every party member in preparation for the first tober 14: he 2. get others to register. Every Party member must attend his or her unit meeting on the week of October 8-13. Every member of the Party qualified to vote in the elections must register and every Party member must Red Election Sunday, Oc- 8. Every Party member must carry on propaganda in trade unions, fraternal societies and other working- class societies or organizations for the Communist Party ticket. 4. Every Party member must be ready for the first Red Election Sunday, October 14, to distribute leaflets and carry out whatever tasks assigned. 5. Every Party member must help to arrange Com- munist election campaign meetings at the gates of the ’ factory in which he works or at nearby factories. > political party in the election campaign aroused great indig- nation among the masses in Washington and the decision of the Supreme Court is taken by the revolutionary workers as a concession wrung from the rul- ing class by the demonstration of solidarity given by the masses rather than to any in- tention to interpret the law im- partially. Victory Significant. The victory of the Commu- nists in Washington is ex- pected to have repercussions in Montana, Oklahoma and Nebraska where the state au- thorities have refused to put the Party ticket on the ballot, despite the fact that the Com- munist complied with the state laws governing the placing of a yew party on the ballot. In Montana, the secretary of state ruled that because the Workers (Communist) Party did not hold its convention a a certain city in the month of May, it is not entitled to a place on the ballot, but the so- cialist party which followed the same procedure as the Workers Party got on. The Communists in Montana are taking the necessary steps to force the state authorities to accept their petitions for filing. In Nebraska, the protest against the Workers Party ticket was made. by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and tho this protest was not made within the legal time limit the secre- tary of state complied with the Fascist demand. Determined to Fight. In Oklahoma, a group of bourgeois politicians filed a protest against the Communist ticket and the issue is still undecided there. The Workers (Communist) Party in both states is determined to use every possible means to compel the state authorities to file the Commu- nist petitions. The Communist ticket is now on the ballot in thirty-one states, eighteen more than the total num- ber in the last presidential election campaign when the Party succeeded in getting on only in fourteen states, Announcement of the filing of the Commuist ticket in several states was held back until the National Election Campaign Committee learned definitely that the Commu nist petitions had been: accepted by the state officials. On Ballot in Many State: In addition to the state: lready reported, the Communist ticket is now on the ballot in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Utah, Indiana, Florida and Virginia. The states previously announced are: New Hampshire, Massachu- setts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Georgia, Texas, Ten- Continued on Page three Working Class Women Hold Meeting Tonight School and neighborhood condi- tions, food inspection and child la- bor laws will be among the sub- jects to be considered at a mass meeting being held by the United Council of Working Class Women to be held at 461 Lenox Ave. to- night at 8 o’clock. out U. S. During Week o ’ f Oct. 8-13 Leg