The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 6, 1928, Page 1

. Thousands Are Expected to Attend Daily Worker-Freihen =—~zaar Today and Tomorrow For a Workers-Farmers | THE DAILY “WORKER FIGHTS To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Government ‘| Daily Entered as second-class matter at the Pont Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year Outside New York, by mail, _86.00 per yen VV Vol. V., No. 237 | Price 3.C ents 100,000 POLISH TEXTILE WORKERS GO OUT ON STRIKE NEEDLE TRADES PREPARING FOR CAMPAIGN MEET Workers Will Elect} : Shop Delegates to Conference Expect Big Attendance | Cloak, Dress and Fur Workers Join The Needle Trades Campaign Committee has issued a call to all | needle workers to elect delegates to & shop conference for the campaign | Police Terror Cannot Break Spirit of Baron, Bedford textile workers, under the leadership of the Textile Workers’ is a picket line in front of the Sharp Mill, led by Casmieras Lamicras, Olive Raymond and John Jesus. picket captain. Batty Sells Out; Urges’ Acceptance of Cut | P Despite the police terror gnd the attempted sellouts of the officials of the Textile Council, the New Above Beside him are Union, are holding firm. of the Workers (Communist) Party. The conference will be held Tues- | day, Oct. 9, at Bryant Hall, imme- | diately after work. The call, which is signed by \aron Gross, chairman of the feedle Trades Workers Campaign | fommittee, and I. Stenzer, secretary | ff that committee, points out the | role the capitalist parties a played during the strikes of the fur-| riers and cloakmakers in 1926 and | 1927 and the treacherous role | played by the socialist party during these strikes and since the right | wing has expelled the left wing | Joint Boards. “Withir the next few weeks,” the | Needle; Trades Campaign Commit- | tee’ reminds the needle workers, “we will be called upon to cast our vote | fn the coming elections. “We, the needle trades workers, have gone through a bitter struggle during the past few years; a strug- gle in which we had to meet the combined..hostile. forces of the s0+/ » cialist trade union bureaucracy, the bosses and the capitalist state, with its democratic and republican judges; 'a struggle in which we have jeen the interests of the workers lold out to the bosses by the mis- readers of the union, and where \levery attempt of the workers to de- fend their union and union condi- tions was met with the full power of the brutal police force of *he democratic Mayor Walker and Gov- ernor Smith, whom the bureaucrats of the American Federation of La- bor have endorsed as the ‘friend Of labor.’ “Years ago, when the socialist | * party was atill talking about class Continued on Page Two YANKS SPANK ~— GARDS AGAIN * Smaller Crowd at 2nd ‘World Series Game Alexander the Great was not so great yesterday. The 41-year-old Fe one of the really great pitch- 8 of all time, ran into a hurricane hits from the crippled Yankee ‘bats that sent him to the showers 4n the third inning of the second game of the World Series. The final score was 9 to 3, For the gecond time in succession the Yankees played rings around the Cards.; Their victory yesterday gives them more than an edge as the teams entrained for St. Louis where the third game will be played ‘tomorrow. Gehrig Hits Homer. Lou Gehrig started the holocaust in the first inning when he wal- loped a tremendous home run with Durst and Ruth on base. The Cards came back strong the next inning when they evened the count. But the storm broke loose again in the third and with two runs in, Alex the Great retired in favor of the eteran spit-baller, Clarence Mitch- ll. Two more runs that inning ind another in the eighth brought fhe Yankee total to nine. George Pipgras, except for un- steadiness in the first two innings, Continued on Page Five TRAIN KILLS MAN FORT JOHNSON, N. Y., Oct. 5 (UP).—An unidentified man was hit and killed instantly yesterday by the westbound Empire State Ex- press near here. When the train was brought to a stop and the train crew reached the scene, only frag- ments of the man’s body were found. All Workers [Communist] Party Units Will Meet Thruout VU. CHEER FOSTER AT USSR Thvongs Cheer de | ST, LOUIS MEET. i ae ra Flays Exploiters and Labor Fakers (By United Press) td LENINGRAD, U. S. S. R., Oct. 5. By BILL MATHESON The Soviet icebreaker Krassin, after ST. LOUIS, Mo. (By Mail).— months spent in the Arctic seeking William Z. Foster, Communist. can- the remainder of the lost dirigible didate for president, was given a |ltalia’s crew, returned here today. | tousing ovation here last night at a | She was given an enthusiastic wel- jmass meeting that packed Hibernian | come by the people. Hall to the doors. The Krassin succeeded in rescu- | Jn the audience were many miners ing part of the Italia’s crew and from Illinois, workers from the | played a most important part inthe Chevrolet and other factories, and |entire search. a large number of Negro workers. | Cheer after cheer went up as Foster | scored the capitalist parties, the so- The Krassin was welcomed by a \cialists and the labor fakers. ‘oar of guns and cheering thousands He ridiculed the claims of Smith |elong the riverfront. It was escorted and Hoover that they were friendly up the River Neva by a flotilla of to labor, pointing out that both are | small warcraft, which met the ice- staunch supporters of the capitaiist | \breaker outside the Kronstadt fort- system and have important posi-| ress and formed a triumphal proces- Great Welcome. 2 some of the most notorious strike- breakers in the United States. Foster attacked the labor fakers |who are transforming the trade unions into organs of class collabo- ration instead of instruments of the class struggle. He declared that the official leaders of the American |trade union movement are allies of | Wall Street and have nothing in [common with the workers. The speaker exposed the socialist party, declaring that it had repu- diated the militant Debs tradition of hostility to capitalism, allied it- imperialism, through its endorse- ment of the League of Nations, the | World Court and the Kellogg pact. His statement on the Negro ques- tion was received with tumultuous applause, when he declared that the Workers (Communist) Party stood | for the emancipation of the Negro masses from the oppression under which they now suffer, not only as wage slaves exploited by American industry but also because of their color. He declared that the Com-| munist platform demanded full so- cial and political equality for the workers to fight militantly for the rights of their black brothers. Italian Imperialism Fears German Growth ROME, Oct. 5 (UP).—Italian shipping circles have become alarmed over the growing conipeti- tion of the German mercantile ma- rine, whose efficiency already is 80 per cent of what it was before the war. It was argued that the com- petition will be increased greatly when the United States pays large sums for ships seized before that country entered the war. self with the trade union !mreau- | eracy and supported the policies of | Negro workers and urged the white | | } | | | | sons tions on their ‘campaign committees, | sion to Leningrad. It was estimated that 100,000 per- lined the river front and crowded on Housetops as the Kras- sin arrived at the mouth of the Neva River. Some persons, anxious to see the vessel, had even climbed into church towers for a better view. When the sturdy vessel arrived the river valley echoed with the din of gun salutes, trumpets, brass bands and cheers. Overhead airplanes circled, the streets were lavishly decorated and the inhabitants were in high spirits. The usually quiet streets of the city were ablaze tonight with Red banners and the brilliant holiday costumes of @elebraters. Since the jremoval of the capital to Moscow | there has never been such a demon- stration. The press and all Soviet officials | |paid high praise to the victorious |vessel and her triumphant crew. Army and navy officers, govern- | ment officials and trade union lead- | Continued on Page Three | Sewer Graft Trial Discloses Unchecked | Reign of Connolly | Evidence of the complete sway | SILK WORKERS TO GO ON STRIKE : que Out in. in Paterson May Affect 20,000 J., Oct. 5—A strike of silk weavers, which may yet affect 20,000 workers in Pater- son was called last night, td. take effect next Wednesday at 10 a. m. This decision was made at a meet- ing of a strike committee of 50, of, the Associated Silk Workers’ Union, elected at a mass meeting attended by: 1,000 workers on Tuesday night. The silk workers will fight for an 8-hour day, a 44-hour week, recog- nition of the union, and a uniform wage of $30 per week for a 44- hour week. Wages at present aver- age little more than $20 per week, running as low in some cases as $18. A mass meeting of the silk work- ers will be held Monday at 8 )..m. at Turn Hall, Ross and Ellison Sts., Paterson. The strike committee will again meet on Sunday at 2 p. m., to form final plans for the strike. A call has been made for a strike meeting of all other silk crafts workers besides the weavers. The conditions of these workers are as miserable as those of the weav- ers. An attempt by some of the ‘offi- cials of the union to jam thru af- filiation with the A. F. of L. was recently overwhelmingly defeated, by the membership. PATERSON, N. HELD FOR KILLING €NEW HAVEN, Con (UP)—William Mayer, 23, of Cen- terville, was held in $1,000 bond to- day after his automobile struck and Killed Miss Laura Dickerman, 74, in |front of her Whitney Ave. home last night. ‘REVOLT SPREADS THROUGH TEXTILE COUNCIL RANKS |Arrest ‘Strikers Distributing Leaflets |Re- Vote Decided Upon Meetings Seethe With | Resentment BULLETIN NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 5.— ix textile workers, members of the | Textile Mills Committee, were today arrested for distributing leaflets to} [the workers, calling upon them to] renudiate the new sell-out proposal | advocated by the Batty group. * * * (Special to the Dai'y Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Oci. —Marking another milestone in the ory of treachery and subsers vience to the bosses by the Ameri- can Federation of Labor official- dom, leaders of the Textile Coun- cil today decided to force a new vote on the five per cent wage cut with recommendation to the workers in their affiliated unions to accept. The New Bedford Textile Work- ers” Union immediately began the first energetic measures for a cam- paign against the complete sell-out of the strikers by the Batty official- dom, while rank and file meetings thruout the city made spontaneous protests against their betrayal by the Textile Council. for | Gpen Revolt. Decision to force the re-vote spread thru the city this morning like wild fire and signs of open re- volt azainst the official intention be- gan to show itself at once in the ranks of the Batty unions. Meetings were hurriedly called thruout the city in which the work- ers bitterly denounced the sell-out of their 25 weeks of struggle. Besides these, plans for meetings to be held immediately in both the North and the South ends are being anged by the New Bedford Tex- tile Workers’ Union. Declaration by the leaders of the T. W. U,, that union officials who refuse to express their views of a wage-cut ballot are unfit to lead strikers, forced the Batty officials to show their hand and officially ap- prove the sell-out to the bosses. The Continued on Page Two AUSTRIA AN ARMED CAMP; CLASH LOOMS ON SUNDAY laukoss couragacisdefenssiof his Jive "Free Him! William Schifren, militant worker, | recently against the assault of a |committee sent by the right wing| caused him to be held for the grand} jury. He is shown at the time he was serving the United States navy SHIFRIN MASS MEETING TODAY. Rutgers Sa. q. Gathering to Demand Release in The nation-wide campaign to de William Shifrin, left wing worker, will receive its first mass fend expression in this city today when ) brazenly FASCIST BUFFER AGAINST U.S. §. R. IS THREATENED AS MORE WALKOUTS LOOM 10,000 More Wool sk Workers 2 Join Lille, France, Textile Strike, As It Spreads in vorth |“We Will Fight to a Finish,” Polish Strikers Declare, As Army Is MINERS’ UNION ATTACKS COURT —\Exposes Lewis-Opera- tor Controlled Justice . + (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Oct. 5.—Declaring that murder is being legalized in Washington County, and, instead of prosecuting the killer of George Moran, District Attorney Warren Burchenal has whitewashed and made a hero of Louis Carboni, who boasts of his shoctings, the National Miners Union is taking steps to have the murder prose- cuted and is appealing to Governor Fisher to appoint a special prosecut- ing attorney. Massed in. Barracks WARSAW, , Oct. 5.—More than 100,000 textile workers in Lodz, under Communist leader- ship, joined the central Euro- aay strike wave today when ey walked out, shutting on 90 per cent of the mills. The strike is rapidly spreading to other industrial centers. The textile workers demand a 20 per cent increase in wages and gen- eral improvement of their working and living conditions. The workers through their leaders declare that |tHey will “fight to a finish” to ob- tain their demands. Pilsudski Legionnaires Roused. The government is already taking measures of “percaution” and Pre- mier Pilsudski, who has just re- turned from negotiating a deal with Rumania against Soviet Ukrainia, is reported to be inspiring his legionaires to act as strikebreakers, |hundreds of workers will gather-at | The following statement; printed using as a whi the fact that the a mass meeting at 1 o’clock in Rut- gers Square and demand the imme- liate release ofthis victim of the right wing terror in the Jewish trade unions. Shifrin is now in jail awaiting grand jury hearing as the result of an attack on him by five knife- wielding thugs sent by the right wing: clioue in the Jewish Butchers Union. Fighting desperately for his life, Shifrin succeeded in driving off his assailants, the leader of whom was mortally wounded. Unite With Tammany. Though the testimony in Shifrin’s trial proved his innocence so con- clisively that even the judge was compelled to consider a dismissal of the case. the right wing clique, led by the Jewish Daily Forward, which has been yelping for Shifrin’s blood, succeeded, through its lawyer, the notorious Samuel Markewich, in bringing pressure to bear upon the Tammany judge, who decided to | hold the worker for the grand jury. | Prominent Speakers. The speakers will prominent left wing leaders. Among them will be Ben Gold, Louis Hy- man, Rose Wortis, Kate Gitlow, Werner, H. Maiskin, Irving Potash, Sam Lipz'n, L. Nelson, Max Rappa- port, A. Okun, J, Leibovich and B. include many | Schwartz. (Wireless to the Daily Worker) VIENNA, Oct. 5.—With all fac- tories in Vienna and vicinity shut | | workers convoked by the Commu- |nists for today, succeeded in send- ing delegations to all the principal held over the Queens Borough by | down, central Europe in a state of factories of mills to induce the work- the late sewer pipe king, John M. tension, the whole Austrian army lers to strike, before they were dis- Phillips, was again demonstrated ‘ready to march into action, a bri-| persed by the police. yesterday at the trial of Maurice E. , Connolly and Frederick Seely in the | $30,000,000 Tammany graft case. ing his testimony at the Queens | trial, disclosed that after once de- | fying “See Jack” Phillips he later | found it best to make terms with the head of the Queens graft ring, who, it has shown, made at | least $10,000,000 in graft within a half dozen years. gade of Hungarian soldiers on the frontier near Vienna, and ‘the | Czechoslovakian workers announc-|the Communist Party, Angelo Paino, a contractor, dur-|ing that they will hold a_ solidarity | all the leaflets it could find. demonstration on the Czech-Aus- | trian frontier—the working class of Austria has begun its mobilization “against the fascist parade on Vienna with its first stopping point at Vienria-Neustadt. Mayor Shot. The police sent by Chancellor Seipel searched the secretariat of confiscating The leaflets called for all workers to lay down their tools tomorrow, and called upon the workers in Austrian Styria, the stronghold of the fas- cists, and in Vienna to occupy \the railroad stations. The “Rote Fahne,” organ of the Communist Party, was again con- The Shifrin Defense Committee last night issued an appeal to all militant workers to attend this meeting en masse and voice their protest against the attempts of the right wing gang to railroad this in- nocent worker to a long jail term or worse. The fact thaf the demon- stration will be held across the street from the office of the yellow For- ward will give it added weight, it is pointed out. The Shifrin Defense Committee also calls upon all workers and working class organizations to sup- port the n@vement to free Shifrin in every possible way and to send all funds to its office, 26-28 Union | Square,, Room 603. in part, over the signature of Fred Siders, president, and Thomas My erscough, secretary-treasurer of this district, was issued today: Coal Operator “Justice.” Another flagrant example of “jus- tice” has been recorded in the state of Pennsylvania. Again the legal instruments, controlled by the union- smashing coal operators, working in collusion with the decrepit Lewis machine, have been used against the miners, Louis Carboni, lackey of Continued on Page Three WOLFE SPEAKS AT CLEVELAND MEET Deflates “False “Issues of Old Parties CLEVELAND, Ohio, (By Mail). Bertram D. Wolfe, national agit- prop director of the Workers (Com- munist) Party and candidate from the Tenth Congressional District of NewYork, last night addressed the workers of this city on the issues of the present election campaign. Defiating the so-called issues which the old parties have pushed into the forefront for lack of genuine issues, Wolfe attacked the reaction- aty democratic and republican par- ties, saying: “The Catholic Church was at one time a ruling power in its own right. Today it is only one of the most powerful and dangerous bulwarks of capitalism. It is the enemy of the working class thruout the world. The opponents of Smith, also wish- ing to evade the real issues of the campaign, grab the same issue of religious prejudice by the reverse end. The capitalist politcians who appeal to the masses against Smith merely because he is a Catholic, are allied with the Ku Klux Klan and Continued on aeee Five the BIG CROWD AT BAZAAR Thousands at Second Night of Event Madison Square Garden was again , proletarians on opening night, were besieged by a sturdy army of prole-|compelled to’send in an S O S for tarians last night. The second night|more supplies in order that every- of the great National Daily Worker-| body might be satisfied, Kreiheit Bazaar proved to be even ‘Daned more popular than the first, judg- bgphage ing by the thousands of workers who| Dancing proved to be the most popular diversion, the mingling of were present. a Buying at all the booths continued |the latest jazz hits with old-fash- ioned favorites giving everybody an at a rapid rate and many articles . were sold at bargain prices. Some |°Pportunity to exercise their terpsi- chorean talents. The large dance- of the booths, whose stores had been sadly depleted by the assault of the Continued on Page Two The first casualty of what prom- | ises to be a civil war has already) | oceurred when the mayor of Weis-| senbach was shot twice thru the* chest by a social democrat. Crack | Austrian troops are engaged in tar-| get practice in the suburbs of} Vienna. At the same time the Austrian | government with the tacit consent | of the social-democrats has accent- | uated its suppressive methods, hav- ing arrested tne “Safeguard Com- | mittee” elected by the conference of | factory delegates at Baden, as it| had promised to do last week.» The | | fiscated today. * * 8 Czech Workers Unite. (Wireless to the Daily Worker) PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Oct. 5.| |—The workers here, who have fol- lowed the Austrian developments with great anxiety, have announced through their unions that they en hold a solidarity demonstration on the Czech-Austrian frontier on the 6th and 7th bes Pea * tie MN VIENNA, Oct. 5.—Vienna-Neus- | NEARING ON DRYS, Says 18th Amendment Class Legis Legislation VETS (Special to the Daily Worker) | STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Oct. 5.— |Scott Nearing, candidate for gov- ernor of New Jersey on the Work- ers (Communist) Party ticket, last night attacked both old parties on their stand on prohibition in a arrested workers, charged with high | tadt resembled an armed camp with | speech before several hundred work- treason, include two members of the |all the equipment of modern war- | ers here. Koppenig and /fare including machine guns, heavy | lows: Communist Party, Ziegler and also some social-demo- | cratic workers. The meeting of the unemployed | infantry and cavalry brigades and Continued on Page Five ! The speech, in part, fol- “The Eighteenth Amendment is |thousands of gendarmes, and the a piece of class legislation, part of the campaign for greater efficiency | of labor. The employers believe that, to quote Mr. Raskob, ‘they can get more work out of the “under- dog” if he has nothing to drink.’ Some employers, like Raskob, of General Motors, do not agree with! this. But all of them look at the question from the point-of-view, not of workers’ rights, but of labor- efficiency. The employers*consider that they are masters not only of the time workers are on the job, Continued on Page Three strike is being led by Communists and that the Soviet Union borders on the east. It is expected that the government will take a leading role of suppres- sion in the strike, since a loophole had been offered it by an agreement between the mill owners and the Warsaw regime early last month, by which the government promises to equalize shifts in the mills. Held Ready. In view of the general textile strike and the readiness of workers in other textile towns and other in- dustries to strike it is probable that the French financed and officered Polish army will be used to re- inforce the gendarme force. At any rate the soldiers are being held un- der strict orders in the barracks, with orders to be ready for im- mediate service. Buffer State Threatened. The weakening of the economic strength of Poland which would re- sult if the strike spreads, and would greatly effect its offensive and de- fensive power, has caused great alarm among foreign representatives here, and it is reported that both the British and French foreign diplo- mats have dispatched notes to their Army Powers’ home governments regarding the situation. The government has appointed special delegates for a renewal of the negotiations between workers and mill-owners before they take a more active role, but it is considered almost a certainty that these negotiations will fail. sn aba (Wireless to the Daily Worker.) LILLE, France, Oct. 5.—The Lille textile strike has reached Tourcoing Center where 10,000 more woolworkers have joined the strike. The mill-owners are com- bining in an attempt to break the strike. Reformist trade union leaders still continue to advocate the call- ing of the strike, despite the de- termination of the workers to see it through. Working Women of N. Y. C. Plan Forum Women representing working class organizations as well as women workers from unorganized industries |will be urged to participate in the |highly significant discussion which will take place at the coming Po- litical Symposium, scheduled for Thursday, October 11, at Cooper Union, upder the auspices of the New York Working Women’s Or- ganization, — _S. During Week of Oct. 8-13 Pinas Tees