The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1928, Page 1

—] -derson, Y. W orkers Must THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government | To Organize the Unorganized | For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office ut New York, N.Y. under the act of March Published daily except Sunday by The Nat Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. fonal Daily Worker NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1 928 orke Gitlow and All : Red Candida tes : FINAL CITY EDITION 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE Outside 28,000 MILL STRIKERS FIGHT A. F. L IMEELING PNT IPE Leaders of New Bedfe fle ‘Work WHEELING POLICE ie 0S rs reste war he ie 3 3 ATTACK MEET OF | WORKERS PARTY Nearing, Henderson, Carreno Jailed on Platform 900 Workers Attend Plan More Meetings Thruout State (Special to the Daily Worker) WHEELING, W. Va., Oct. The police of this city broke up a meeting of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party held at Arian Hall Fri- In face of the sell-out of the Textile Council, the New Bedford on the 26,000 workers still out to continue their struggle against the UGS mill barons. of the Textile Workers Union. 1,000 strikers affiliated with the Textile Workers Union is calling Above, William T. Murdoch, and Fred Beal, organizers day evening, and arrested Scott Nearing, candidate for governor of New Jersey on the Workers (Com- munist) Party ticket, Frank Hen- of the Young Workers (Communist) League, and Fred Carreno, Communist campaign manager. Nine hundred steel workers and coal miners attended the meeting while several hundred other work- W. P. OPPOSITION ALL WORKERS MUST REGISTER TODAY! Today is the first day on which voters can register for the coming elections. Throughout the city they | will have to appear at the registra- tion booths to establish their right ers, terrorized by the display of gas bombs, riot guns and squads of city and state police, stood outside on the street to watch the dramatic display of the dictatorship of the Wheeling Steel Corporation and po- lice terrorism. There were iniense moments as the meeting opened. Carreno and Henderson were on the platform. Just as Carreno, the chairman, be- gan to open the meeting, a squad of police rushed up to the stage and Carreno was immediately placed | under arrest. Nearing attempted to speak at this point, but -two poli Lovestone Replies for IN DECLARATION |to vote on November 6 for the can- didates of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, both national and local. At 5 p. m., the registration places Central Committee will be opened throughout the city, We herewith print the declaration | and will continue to be open until made by Comrade Johnstone in be- the end of the week. half of the opposition in the Workers| or the first five days the reg- (Communist) Party of America at|istration places will be open from the Sixth World Congress of the | 5.80 Gs A eer Dee and on Communist International. We also | t See a er age aL WA ta + the telegraphic digest of the ~~Registration Imperative.- men dragged him down and roughly | declaration made by Comrade Love- handled him. Chairs were upset as| stone to the Sixth World Congress he was escorted out of the hall. | in behalf of the Central Executive Henderson, trying to speak after Committee of the Party. The full both Nearing and Carreno had been| declaration of Comrade Lovestone arrested, was brutally handled by) will be printed as soon as it arrives the police. | —Note. At present the police and’ the * mayor are trying to pass the buck “The minority of the delegation as to who was responsible for the|of the Communist Party of the bréaking up of the Workers (Com- United States of America agrees munist) Party meeting. | with and has voted for the theses The International Labor Defense of Comrade Bucharin but registers has announced that it will handle | jts disagreement with the section on the cases of the three arrested mili-/ the USA—paragraph 49—for the tants. Through their efforts, Car-| following reasons: x 8 | Workers of New York City are strongly urged not to fail to reg- ister during this week. It is im- |perative that every voter get his |name on the registration books in order to be able to cast his vote for the candidates of the Party of the ‘class struggle, the Workers (Com- |munist) Party, on election day. | Only in this way, workers must real- ize, can the Workers (Communist) Party be assured of the biggest vote that the workers of New York can cast in the coming elections. In cities and villages of more than | 5,000 inhabitants outside of New reno, Nearing and Henderson were | Continued on Page Five “(a) The section fails to emphasize | York City, registration will be con- sufficiently the growing contradic- Leads Militants yet N. Y. WORKERS AT RALLY PLEDGE AID TO SHIFRIN Thousands at Meet Under Auspices cf Defense Ignore Socialist Meet | Open Air Mass Meet in Rutgers Sq. Eli Keller, general-organizer of Jewish workers here Saturday |the New Bedford: Textile Workers’ demonstrated thelr sympathy with | Union, has bitterly denounced the the hercism of William Shifrin, who tae moet pease Ee [faces a charge of Homicide vertiy (tion they had loft in the Textile | showed the Minkruptey of the so. |Council. Resentment among the ialist party’s influence among the| Strikers over the vote-steal has ee Sure oe reached an intense pitch and many | ‘The William Shifrin Defense Com- Wo7kers, from the small Batty out- ries ae eee COM | Fit flocked to the meetings which Saute aakars to fight We the |the New Bedford Textile Worker: freedom of the man who deferided | *¢4 to protest the sell-out. himself against six right wing knife-wielding assailants, announced the holding of an open-air mass meeting on Rutgers Square, near the building of the right wing Jew- ish Forward. Workers coming to the site of the meeting on Saturday morning were surprised when arriving there to find a truck occupying the corner usually taken for these purposes. The truck was all covered with ‘signs of the socialist party an- 5 (Wireless to the Daily Worker) nouncing that they would hold a) (770 ess Co Ul meeting there. Not a worker stayed |__VIENNA-NEUSTADT, Oct. 7.— near the socialist truck to wait for|Thanks to the gigantic military their meeting. preparations and police superin- Instead they congregated on the | tendence of railways and transports, senare and in the neighboring park | the Heimwehr held its demonstra- till the truck of the left wing De- | tion today unhindered. Action com- \fense Committee came to begin their | mittees of the social democrats, meeting. In spite of being com- | combined with the Christian trade \pelled to take a less advantageous | unions and fascisjs, helped the po- corner, the truck was immediately lice. | surrounded by a huge mass of thou- The night before Sunday, the first \sands of workers who cheered joudly trains arrived containing the mem- when the chairman opened the meet- bers of the Heimwehr. These troops ling. camped in the southern town. The After the left wing meeting was |first trains with the social demo- opened, the yellows opened theirs, | cratic and republican defense troops |but at no time did they have more | followed. than several score of workers to at-| Only 8,500 Heimwehr troops came |tend their meeting. And even these instead of the 18,000 expected. Two | workers made it exceedingly uncom- | thousand of these were from Dona- fortable for the three right wing vitz, the upper Styria headquarters speakers who kept speaking in re- of the Alpine Mountain stronghold lays because they had no others to | of the fascists. speak. Constant heckling and shout- ing of embarrassing questions kept TROOPS ATTACK ‘VIENNA WORKERS Social Democrats Help Fascist Parade The number of workers in Vienna- neustadt were much greater than e 3 Cents Lie ric OFFICIAL BETRAYAL UNION LEADER IN TEXTILE WORKERS UNION VOTE COMMUNIST CALL TO WORKERS Gold, Popular Unionist, | Endorses Red Parley of Needle Workers Conference Tomorrow Calls on Furriers to Elect Delegates Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board, has issued a call to all fur workers to elect shop delegates to the needle trades conference for the NEW BEDFORD, Mass., the bitterest part of their hero Communist election campaign to- the call of the New Bedford T. morrow at Bryant Hall. ok Seas RE ae me BS 4 “The fur workers,” Gold states, “have through their experiences in the strikes of 1926 and 1927 learned their enemies and their friends. “During the strike of 1926 the furriers were attacked on the picket line, arrested and beaten up by the Tammany police. During the same strike they have had to fight the socialist betrayers and the yellow Forward. The Communist press, the Daily Worker and the Freiheit, PATERSON STRIKE MEETING TONIGHT All Silk Workers Will Meet at Turn Hall PATERSO N.. J., Oct. gave the fur workers their fullest support and have helped us win. The Fur. Strike of 1927. “During the attack on our union_ in 1927, when the blood of the fur workers was shed on “the sidewalks of New York” every day, we have again learned that the republicans, Tammany and the socialists are our bitter enemies. The fur workers were sent to prison by the hundreds by demo- cratic and republican judges and were attacked by gangsters hired Final instructions will be issued to the membership of the Association Silk Workers’ Union on the general strike which the union is calling Wednesday, at a mass meeting of broad silk workers tonight in Turn Hall, which will also serve as strike headquarters. The call to the meeting to night, issued Saturday by the union at the same time that they announced their decision to set date for October winders, 10, also invites quillers, warpers, twisters and other aux- and protected by the yellow For- ward. Again, during the struggle, the Comntunist press, the Daily was elected recently, announces that Worker and the Freiheit, gave us jt intends to make out a list of prices their full support and have helped for these workers which they will us beat the McGrady crew. present to the employers. For this “The furriers cannot support the purpose a special meeting of these Continued on Page Two workers is contemplated. 6 aes ai “Although the Associated Silk Bazaar Ticket Money) Workers’ Union did not enroll into | | | membership all crafts of workers in Must Be Turned In) fhe'industry, it is generally admitted The Daily Worker-Freiheit Ba- Continued on Page Three zaar cannot be considered a suc- cess unless all money outstand- | | liliary workers. The strike committee of 50, which IRON WORKERS MEET. An important meeting of the Ar- ling for tickets is turned in im- | mediately. chitectural Iron Bronze and Struc- TO THROW THOUSANDS OF PICKETS AROUND MILLS Majority of Batty Union Members Joining T. W. U. at Gates; Bitterly Denounce Officials Crowds Rip Extras Announcing Sell-Out to Shreds; British Operatives Furious Oct. 7._Twenty-eight thousand textile workers on strike for six months will tomorrow begin ic fight, when they will answer ‘extile Workers’ Union to throw ®picket lines around the 56 mills, to prevent a handful of scabs from making the first break in the ranks. More than ten thousand strikers are expected to turn out in the early morning to surround the mills in a mass picket demonstration that will demned their own officialdom as traitors and are ready to continue the anti-wage cut struggle under the leadership of the new and honest T. W. U. To Smash Strikebreaking. Leaders of the Textile Workers’ Union, seeing that developments in the last two days pointed inevitably ‘ to the sell-out attempt of the Tex- I tile Council, were prepared with an elaborate machinery to smash the strikebreaking schemes of the mill owners and their A. F. of L. agents. The city awoke yesterday to find the town plastered with thousands of stickers, bearing the following | declarations:. “The Strike. Is Still On; Don’t Scab!; Fight the ‘U. T. W. Sell-out!; Join the New Bedford Local of the National Textile Work- ers’ Union.” | A taste of the coming intensified terrorism, which the mill owners are preparing thru the police lieutenants to the A. F. of L. strikebreakers, was felt today when fourteen mem- bers of the T. W. U. were arrested on suspicion of having pasted the stickers during the night. It was also learned that the police depart- ment issued warrants for the ars rest of the leaders of the T. W. T&, who have not as yet been taken. Angry crowds of textile workers gathering in the streets to obtain in- Continued on Page Two tural Workers’ Union will be held tomorrow evening, at the Rand School, 7 East 15th St., at 8 p. m. Very important trade questions will be taken up, it is announced. |the Forward speakers in misery. i || Workers who have not as yet Gai the other hand: the Jerk watic: those of the Heimwehr and much . greater than the number that had turned in their money for these | eeting was attended by @ crowd /een expected since the social dem-| | tickets are urged to do so as soon eka ocratic party restrained many work- | | 95 possible. 1 ers from coming. The main square oe Continued on Page Two Mobilize District 2 for Election Drive formation about the second yote count ordered by Batty and his scab gang, ripned to shreds the extras is- sued by the capitalist newspapers announcing that “Batty declares the ¢/Fight on Employment |,, \Sharks to Be Launched NEARING SCORES |of tremendous proportions, | overflowed into the park and staye in: ay till the meeting was officially close¢ j pe i a ae SRT pasar beta se oi POLICE TERROR | The foll i” Mass Mering Teeny be Chstenat Lipsin sey ad of the isd Se be cubiats camp, filled with . . ° . strike off.” | © following statement has| | sat . i tte : eavily armed troops. ati 7 r A | ,ftatement has! pians for abolishing private em-|Defense Committee. Speakers at : Presidential Registration Week|” veitsn workers Furious y ogee tapsed’ by. Welliam We Wein: ployment agencies will be outlined | the left wing meeting were: Irving Rumsro tee workers (werk arrented Partciularly furious were the stone, Organizer of District 2, Workers (Communist) Party, re- garding mobilization for the Elec- tion Campaign: “The Workers Party, District 2, will send representatives to the meeting of the Units daring the week of October 8 to 15 with a Continued on Page Two YANKS WIN THIRD |at a protest mass meeting called for | Potash, of the Furriers Union: Wer- |this afternoon at Bryant Hall, Sixth ner, Butchers Union; Schwartz, Ave. and 42nd St., at 2:30 p. m. | Grocery Clerks Union; Nelson, a left The meeting is being called by wing leader in the A. C. W., and a conference of culinary organiza- | others. \tions recently formed by a number) The size of the attendance at the | lof trade unions to combat the evil |socialist meeting was so devastat- lof the private employment “shark.” | ingly small, despite strict orders is- British workers who in the main have till now made up the member- ship of the A. F. of L, union. They came in the largest numbers since the strike was on, to the mass meet- Continued on Page Three Hits Coal Barons for) Breaking Meets By SCOTT NEARING. (The following statement was made by Scott Nearing, Commu- Starts Today Thruout N. Y. C. Today is the first day of registration. Polling places will be open throughout the city from 5 p. m. to 10:30 p. m. today, tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. They will be open from 7 a. m. to 10:30 p. m. on Saturday. nist candidate for governor of New Jersey after the Worwood, W. Va. meeting was prevented by the police and coal barons and before the Wheeling meeting was brutally broken up.— Editor's Note). eo ee i The Workers (Communist) Party letter which will outline the man- ner in which the letter of the Cen- tral Executive Committee on the Election Campaign is to be car- ried out. “The district representatives are to help the units in planning for mass mobilization for the campaign.” | No collection will be takery up at | the meeting, it is announced, and ad- mission is free. Prominent speak- ers will address the meeting. A good attendance is expected, owing to the vital interest in the subject. It is expected that a practical pro- gram will be worked out to over- come the present evils. is participating actively in the pres- ent political campaign. The Party) is already on the ballot in 28 states. Among these states is West Vir-| ginia. The National Campaign Com- mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party assigned me to speak during the week beginning Oct. 1, in the territory lying about Wheeling, West Virginia. The first meeting in the Wheeling district was held on Monday, Oct. 1, in Taylorville, Ohio, a small min- ing and steel town across the Ohio River from Wheeling. The meeting was held in Miners’ Hall. It was orderly in every respect. Many young men and women were among} the 200 miners and steel workers | who attended the meeting. | I spoke at length about the Work-| ers (Communist) Party, pointing out that it was seeking to represent the economic and political interests of the workers just as the republi- can and democratic parties repre- sent the economic and political in- terests of the business men. | The next morning (Tuesday, Oct. | 2), members of the Wheeling Cam- | Continued on Page Five | tober 14: a get others to register. ticket. All Workers [Communist] Party Units. Will Meet Thruout U. S. TASKS FOR MEMBERS OF WORKERS PARTY The following are the tasks of every party member in preparation for the first Red Election Sunday, Oc- Every Party member must attend his or her unit meeting on the week of October 8-13. 2. Every member of the Party qualified to vote in the elections must register and every Party member must 8. Every Party member must carry on propaganda in trade unions, fraternal societies and other working- zlass societies or organizations for the Communist Party 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. sued by the right wing officials in |the Amalgamated and in the Pocket |Book Workers Union. HIGH COURT GETS -WOODLAWN CASE GAME IN SERIES Gehrig, With 2 Homers, Is Star of Slugfest ST, LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 7.—Before a record crowd of 39,602 freezing fans at Sportsman’s Park, the New York Yankees made it three in a row from the St. Louis Cardinals, defeating the National League | a champions, who played like the Pennsylvania Probes “Foolish Phils,” in a loosely played game. Stee! Mill Frame Up "Atthough he was touched for nine | scattered safeties, Tom Zachary, By W. J. WHITE. ee itnate : southpaw, stopped the Red- PITTSBURGH, (By Mail).—The | pirds just as effectively as Hoyt Woodlawn case involving legality of | anq Pipgras had done in the pre- the Communist Party was argued ceding games. The Yanks, employes here yesterday by attorney Henry of our illustrious brewer, Colonel | Wilson of Beaver before the Su-| Ruppert, kept right on with their | preme Court of the state and he was) heavy hitting, driving Jess Haines, answered by the attorney for the’ the last hope of the Cards in the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company | series, from the box in the sixth and the case now is in the hands of | inning with a flock of base hits and the supreme court judges who like-|some brilliant base running. The ly will not render a decision in this| Cardinals, although they collected case until the next term of the court | nine bingles from the offerings of which will meet either here or in) Continued on Page Three Philadelphia. | a The argument of attorney Wilson| SECTION 2 FUNCTIONARIES | was a plain argument that the anti-| An important meeting of all func- sedition law was contrary to the|tionaries of Section 2 will be held spirit and intent of the framers of) at®6 p. m. tonight at the Workers the constitution who declared time| Center, 26-28 Union Square. All after time that the right of free) functionaries of the section are ur-, speech, free assembly and the right| gently required to be present with-| to publish was inviolate to the citi-| out fail as very important business | Continued on Page Five will be taken up. If you are a resident of this city and wish to vote for the Candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party in the presidential election you must register personally during one of these periods, at the polling place for your election district. In Order to Register: You must be twenty-one years old. You must have resided in New York State since November 6, 1927. You must have lived in the same county (each of the five boroughs of New York City is a different county) since July 6, 1926. You must have lived in the same election district since October 7, 1928. (If you move in today you can still register tomorrow.) If yu are a naturalized citizen you must have been naturalized ninety days or more prior to election day, and you must be able to produce your papers, or satisfactory proof of your naturalization. If you becamé a citizen by marriage, you must have lived in the United States for five years. Unless you are qualified to vote before January 1, 1922, you must be able to read and write English; if you are registering for the first time you must produce recognized docmentary proof of your literacy. (If a person cannot read or write only because of a physical disability such as blindness or Joss of both hands he is not debarted). The literacy test is important. Those who possessed all other voting qualifications before January 1, 1922, are not required to be literate. All others are. If you have voted since then in a general election in New York this is accepted as proof that you are literate. Otherwise you must produce proof when you register. The election officials will accept as such proof a diploma or certificate showing that you have completed the work of an eighth-grade elementary school or higher school in which English is the language of instruction. If you haven't got that you must go to the public schools where literacy tests are held—from 6:30 p. m. to 9:30 p. m., on each of the first five registration days and from 12:00 to 9:30 p. m. on Saturday—and secure a Regent's certificate of literacy. The tests are easy—they are such that a child in the fourth grade can pass them. Days and hours of registration given above apply only to residents of New York City. Registration in other cities is on October 12, 13, 19 and 20. In the rural districts there are two registration days, October 13 and 20. But if you are a resident of New York City you must have registered personally before 10:30 next Saturday night or you cannot vote. * A During Week of Oct. 8-13 © HOLD MASS MEET 'To Launch Big Drive for Unionization In an appeal to the workers’ in the shoe industry to put an end to the miserable conditions under which they are forced to work be- cause they are almost totally un- organized, by building a union of their own, the Independent Shoé Workers’ Union of Greater New York and vicinity call them to a mass meeting Thursday evening in Lorraine Hall, 790 Broadway, Brook- |lyn, at 8 o'clock. | The union issued the appeal from its office at 51 East 10th St., and adds in an announcement, that there will be speakers in English, Italian and other languages at the mass meeting. Individual workers, hear- ing of the activities of this organi- zation come to its headquarters to join up. The appeal to organization de- clares in part: “The time has come to act. The Independent Shoe Work- ers’ Union is here to organize the thousands of unorganized workers | in the shoe industry of Greater New York under its banner. We cannot Continued on Page Two =