The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1928, Page 1

i We | N. "THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS | | For a Workers-Farmers Government | To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party aily nx matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, Entered as xecond 1879. orker Y. WORKERS! DO NOT FAIL TO REGISTER TODAY FOR ELECTIONS — FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V. No, 239 Published dally except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union 8q., New York, N. Y. EW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1928 _ SUBSCRIPTION RAT Outside New Yor! “Price 3 Cents A.F. OF L. MOVE TO SMASH TEXTILE STRIKE IS A FIASCO DEMAND EXILE OF bie. Jobless COMMUNISTS IN POLISH STRIKE Police Fail | to Break) 15,000 Czech Miners Demonstration | Pole Walkout Spreads | Clashes Occur in Lodz and Zdierz (Wireless to thal Daily Worker) WARSAW, Oct. 8.—As the Polish | textile strike spreads, and two ma- | jor clashes between police and work- ers have already occurred, the con- servative press is demanding the ar- | rest and exile of Communists and | the Seym deputy, Bittner. Clash With Police. All the Lodz textile workers. com- | prising 80 per cent of Poland’s tex- tile workers, are striking. A clash occurred yesterday at Lodz, when | police attempted to disperse a mon- ster street demonstration led. by | Communists. Twenty of the leaders were arrested. A second clash took place in Zdiers, when the strikers entered a mill and removed the scabs from the factory. In the collision with the police three policemen were wounded and strikers were injured, but the mill was forced to close down. Demand Exile of Communists. Workers Are Robbed by Unserupulous Sea Sharks | Photo shows a small part of New York's jobl ess, looking over positions advertised on agency bulletin boards. intended only to get a fee. Swindling employment agency sh arks force applicants to pay $5 to $50 fees, which the worker receives nothing. Jobs advertis ed on these bulletins are for usually non-existant, ADVISE WORKERS ON REGISTRATION ‘Warn Voters Not to Sign Blanks | Register today in order to vote on November 6! Throughout the city workers will The bourgeois press has raised an|have to appear this week at the alarm, stressing the active partici- | various registration booths to estab- | 13 victims, mutilated beyond recog- pation of the Communists in the |lish their right to vote for the plat-| nition, have thus far been recovered. strike organizations and demanding |form and ¢andidates of the Work- | Arms and legs were found | scattered the arrest and exile of the Com-/ers’ (Communist) Party, both ma- thruout the ruins, munist leaders. | tional and local. Until Saturday The strike, which started on Sat- | the registration places will be open urday with the walk-out of 100,000 | from 5:20 p. m. to 10:30 p. m., and textile workers in Lodz, is spread-}on Saturday, the last day, from 7 ing to other textile districts and) other branches of the industry. The strike was caused by the wretched condition of the workers, who re- ceive a weekly average wage of from 17 to 18 zloty (eight to nine dollars). * (Wireless to the Daily Worker.) PRAGUE, Oct. 8—At Rozdelov, near Kladno, police attacked strik- ing miners after a quiet meeting. Several cases of brutality and mal- treatment were recorded, both in the streets and in the houses. Dozens of workers were wounded. A gigantic demonstration of strik- ing miners was held in Kladi Fifteen thousand workers parti pated. Police and soldiers cut off the demonstration from the crowds of workers around it, and everything passed off quietly. © Office Workers Will Hold Meet at Labor Temple Tonight at 8 As the first move in its cam- paign to organize the vast army of unorganized office workers, the Of- fice Workers’ Union announces a mass meeting to be held tonight at 8 o’clock in the Labor Temple, 14th Street and 2nd Ave. _ Prominent labor speakers will ad- dress the meeting. All office work- ers‘are urged to attend. © | | Unless you register you can- not vote for the Workers (Com- munist) Party ticket on November 6. This is a very important duty which you must not neglect. Dur- ing this week from yesterday October 8 to October 18, every voter must register. The hours for registration are as follows: Monday, October 8, to and in- cluding Friday, October 12, from 5 p.m. to 10:30 p. m. On Satur- 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. On Satur- day October 18 from 7 a. m. to Do not fail to register! a, m. to 10:30 p. m. It is impera- tive that every voter get his name on the Registration Books in order, to be able to cast his vote for the | candidate of the Party of the Class Struggle, the Workers (Communist) Party, on Election Day. Workers should not confuse regis- tration with enrollment. When one goes one’s name is taken down by the registration officials in the Regis- tration Book and in that way one’s right to vote on Nov. 6 is estab- | lished. At the same time a registra- tion official gives to each worker an enrollment blank which contains the | names of the republican, democratic and socialist parties. The workers | are told by the officials to sign a Continued on Page Two ® UNITS MUST CALL MEETS All units of the Workers (Communist) Party must meet this week and take up as the only subject for con- sideration the political letter of the Central Executive Committee on the tasks of the membership in the elec- tion campaign. Among the questions to be taken up are the following: 1. Reading of the political letter of the C. E. C. 2. Discussion of the letter. 8. Organization for Red Sunday, Oct. 14. 4. Plans to bring the cam- paign into the factories. 5. Canvassing of trade unions and fraternal organ- izations. 6. Selection of Red Volun- teers. 7. House to house can- vassings. | -8. Distribution of leaflets. TO HOLD DRESS RALLY-IN PHILA. New Union t to Launch Organization Drive PHILADELPHIA, Oct. &-—The real work of organizing Philadel- | phia’s thousands of unorganized workers in the ladies garment in- dustry is to be begun here soon by | the new union recently established by the waist and dressmakers. The first step in this campaign was an- into the registration place | 17 Prisoners Burned Alive In Ohio Blaze JUNCTION CITY, 0., Oct. 8—At jleast 17. prisoners were burned to death in a fire which swept thru the brick plant. dormitory of the Ohio State Penitentiary early this morning. The bodies and skeletons of only Many Injured. Fifteen prisoners, three of whora | were burned critically, were taken |to the penitentiary hospital in Col- |umbus. Five others were burned |seriously, while seven sustained | either minor injuries or burns. When the fire was discovered, a Continued on Page Three McGARRY FORMS SEPARATE UNION Demand Unionof Hard, Soft Coal Mines (Special to the Daily Worker) WILKES-BARRE, Pa, (By Mail). —The “insurgent” officials of Dis- trict 1, U. M. W. A., headed by Frank McGarry, have launched a new and separate anthracite union. At a meeting held Saturday evening at Carpenter's Hall about 80 picked followers endorsed the formation of the “Anthracite Mine Workers Union cof Pennsylvania” and in- structed the officials to cal! mass + meetings, to visit locals and to carry lon the necessary steps for the build- ing of their new union. The decision did not come as a surprise to anyone. The formation ‘of a separate union was the logical | | step for the once powerful insurgent ‘movement, double-crossed by founders, Brennan, Isaacs, etc., and deserted by the rank and file be- cause of this unprincipled leader- ship. Since the Scranton conven- tion, at which the majority of the were represented, Dishonest Job Hunters. The insurgent movement was the jresult of a mass revolt against the ‘unbearable conditions existing under the Lewis-Cappellini machine. The rank and file, misled by the mili- tant phrases of Brennan-Harris- | McGarry-Isaacs, at first flocked to- | Continued on Page Five locals its | 3 COMMUNIST | LEADERS JAILED \Charge Austrians With High Treason (Wireless to the Daily Worker) VIENNA, Oct. 8—Three mem- bers of the Central Executive Com- mittee of the Communist Party of Austria were arrested today charged with high treason in connection with| social-democrats Sunday. The so- to prevent the fascist demonstra- tions, staged their demonstration four hours after the fascists dis- played their forces. * * * VIENNA, Oct. 8.—The press here is full of comments and after- thoughts as the fascists are leaving Vienna-neustadt, returning to their factories grumb-| ling, and the Austrian government is patting itself on the back for its) effective use of artillery, bayonets, grenades and barbed wire entangle- mxnts in protecting the provocative parade of Chancellor Seipel’s Heim- wehr. There are two outstanding faéts which the conservative press stress; first that the Austrian troops have displayed their efficiency in being able to cope with demonstrations which might eventually lead to civil Continued on Page Three 'Skvortzov, Noted | Marxist, Editor of “Izvestia,” Dies | (Wireless to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, Oct. 8. — Stepanov Skvortzov, director of the Lenin In- stitute and editor of the Isvestia, famed as a Marxist author and one of thesfirst Russian translators of Marx’s famous work, “Capital,” died yesterday of typhus in: the Cauca- sian resort, Soschi. | Skvortzov was 58 years of age ‘and had participated in the revo- lutionary movement since his early) youth. The history of his life is | Practically a repetition of the vicissi- | |tudes suffered by all'the old guard of the Bolshevik Party in its years of illegal, semi-legal and its short period of legal work in the Russia of the former czars. Since 1904 Skvortzov was a member of tHe Bolshevist fraction of the Russian social-democratic party and has been |for many years a member ‘of the |Communist Party of the Soviet ‘Union. the demonstrations of fascists and cial-democrats, instead of fighting) the workers are| Needle Workers in Election Rally Tonight SPEAKERS WILL URGE SUPPORT FOR RED DRIVE Cloak, Dress, Fur, Cap, Millinery Workers to Attend | Expect Record Crowd ‘Issue Calls to Elect Delegates One of the greatest gatherings of delegates of all trades of the needle industry will take place to-night at Bryant Hall, 6th Avenue and 42nd | Street. | Cloak, dress, fur, cap and mill- \inery and men’s clothing shops will send delegations to the conference for the election campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party which is called by the Needle Trades Cam- paign Committee. Call Militant Workers. Leaders of the Cloak and Dress: |makers Union, Boruchovitch, Zim. merman and Wortis, yesterday is- sued a special call to the workers of all cloak and dress shops to send delegations to the conference at Bryant Hall today. The call points ‘out that for the last few years the cloak and dressmakers have had | many occasions to learn their friends and enemies. The strike of 1926; ‘the thousands of workers arrested and beaten up on the picket line by the Tammany police; the dozens of workers sent to prison by the repub- ican and democratic judges; the in-| junctions secured by the bosses,— |these were sufficient for the cloak | ‘and dressmakers to learn that the | republicans and democrats are the | |servants of the bosses. Score “Socialist.” The cloak and dressmakers have also learned the role of the “so- | cialists,” who have united with bosses | and the police against the workers, and have succeeded in destroying \the needle trades unions. The cloak and dressmakers know too well that | the Sigman pogrom was planned by) | Hillquit and Cahan, leaders of the| socialist party and supported by the “Forward,” which supplied the| |money for the gangsters. The insurance brokers and real estate people like Metz, who are de- Continued on Page Two Political Symposium of Working Women Will Be Held Thursday Eve The New York Working Womens Federation political rally, which will | be held this Thursday at Cooper Union, at 7:30 p. m., will cast a straw vote for the presidential can- didates, according to a statement issued by Ray Ragozin, secretary. The political symposium is sched- uled to begin at 7:30 p. m. and special attention is drawn to this in view of the fact that the hall re- strictions compel the opening of the meeting promptly and the closing {at 11 p. m. The speakers will rep- resent the following parties: Ray Ragozin, the Workers Party candi- date for assembly in the Twenty- third Assembly District,, Brogklyn; Mrs. Anna Moskowitz Kross, demo- cratic party, and Mrs. Alice McKay Kelly, republican party. RUMANIA IN PACT. BUDAPEST, Oct. 8 ‘ (U.R).—The government today cated to Wash- | ington its decision to sign the Kel- logg anti-war treaty.” ‘Police “Rote Fah + 25,000 MILL STRIKERS for ‘Abductor’ STAND FIRM; TEXTILE COUNCIL IS WIPED OUT Miserable Squad of Scabs Runs Gauntlet of Jeers as Police Guard Them BERLIN, Oct. 8.—Offices of the “Rote Fahne,” central organ of the Communist Party of Germany, were | raided last night by the police in a |search of documents and persons which might lead to the arrest of those responsible for the “deten- tion” of Wolfang Schwartz, editor of the social-democratic Vorwaerts, while on his way to the radio sta- tion to deliver a pacifist speech. He was “replaced” Schultz, Communist deputy in th e| Prussian Diet, who spoke into a microphone which denounced the so-| cial democratic government’s naval construction plans to listeners thru- out Germany. The police left without having | open this morning after the offi found any clues to Schwartz's de-| tainers and the foiling of the Ger-| man censor. Herr Zorgiebel, president of the Berlin police has declared that he will severely punish all the Commu- | nists concerned in the episode, but | |thus far he has been able to punish only the radio announcer, who was dismissed for allowing a Communist 0 speak and broadcast Communist views thru a nation-wide hook-up. Carl Schultz, cannot be arrested because he is granted immunity as a member of the Diet. Many news- papers here have expressed the opinion that the matter should not be pushed since a trial on such a sensational subject would mean too a8 publicity for Communism. U.S. WAR MACHINE IN BIG WORKOUT | Demonstrate Against | | British Power by Car \| Militant Textile Wor! | kers’ Union Sole Organi- zation in Field to Lead Struggle NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 8.—The attempt of the 56 cotton manufacturing mills, strike-bound for 6 months, to re- eration of Labor Textile Cou SILK WORKERS IN GENERAL STRIKE Paterson Meet Plans Walk-Out Tomorrow PATERSON, aT, Oct. 8.—A complete stoppage of all manufac- turing activities in the silk piece goods industry is expected here to- morrow when the 10,000 workers in approximately 570 broadsilk shops go out in answer to the strike call set for Wednesday morhing at-10) o'clock. An enthusiastic mass meeting of thousands of silk workers was held in Turn Hall here last night to re- ceive final instructions in prepara- tion for the general strike call. Or- ganizational details of the strike | machinery were discussed and per- |fected by decisions of the member- ship. Turn Hall will the serve Not-to be outdone by the recent | union as the strike headquarters. war maneuvers of British imperial- ism over the city of London, Uncle | Sam’s war machine is this week staging a military demonstration over New York City, which is no doubt intended to inject a few after thoughts into the head of John Bull | whom Uncle Sam is watching more and more suspiciously. All the instruments and agencies of the next war will be mustered in Unless the manufacturers’ asso- ciation announces its acceptance of the demands of the workers that an increased price list be acceded to and that their union be accord-1 full recognition, all workers in Pat- erson’s silk shops, union members as well as non-union members, will walk out at the, appointed time. The other major demand of the a huge pageant in preparation for Associated Silk Workers’ Union is the Military Show to be held in | Madison Square Garden for a week |commencing Monday evening, Oct. 15. | Several thousand members of the ; New York National Guard and Na- val Militia will stage parades thru- | out this week. Today the 102nd Medical Regi- ment will parade. Infantry and |other detachments will deploy later in the wetk. Parades will also be staged in the Bronx and in Brook-| lyn. One of the features of the im- perialist war show will be a massive demonstration of air and bombing craft. The air force will “bomb” Times Square from overhead. The 212th Anti-Aircraft Regiment will repel the aerial attack with search- lights, artillery and machine guns. |Tanks, cannons, machine guns, | bombs, poison gases and other forces of wholesale murder and destruc- tion will be put through the motions of saving “civilization.” OBREGOD S SON WELL. MEXICO CITY, Oct. 8 (UP). Humberto Obregon, son of the late General Alvaro Obregon, was out of danger today, physicians said. Obre- gon was wounded last week by a bullet from his own revolver. nounced tobe a mass meeting for Tuesday in Garden Hall, Morris and Seventh Sts. immediately after work. This is the first official meeting to be called by the new union estab- lished by the workers here to re- place the corrupt right wing Sigman organization. Leaders of the new local will report on the plans de- cided upon in order to successfully | (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 8.— Pointing out the necessity for unity of the white and Negro workers in the struggle against capitalism, William Z, Foster, Communist can- didate for president, in a speech be- fore a large crowd of workers here last night, called for support of the | Communist , Program. Foster riddled carry thru the work of organizing a strong and honest union in this | city. Continued on Page Four the “peace” pretensions of the im- perialist nations and pointed out the | % ¢ Foster’s speech follows, in part: “Here in the South both republi- |cans and democrats have united in disfranchising the Negro, in main- taining peonage wherever possible and in mercilessly exploiting thou- sands of Negro workers, who are in many respects worse off than | they were before the Civil War. But bitter experience is teaching the | Negro workers to realize that only | of the powers. Similarly we are now on the heels of this pact ¢omes 'the|La Cierva's strange auto-gyro or| P ‘i nee b: pee! with their white brothers, | | propagandized that the big powers Anglo-French agreement to prove to| “windmill” ‘orces that were inevitably drawing | and fighting side by side with them | are trying to find a way to disarm all but the most naive that the anta- Headquarters of the National Or-| the workers of the world into a new | can they win complete political and and outlaw war. Re agniiiay ‘imperialist bloodfest. teconomic emancipation, WHITE, NEGRO WORKERS MUST UNITE~ FOSTER ' Points Out Incr Increasing Imperialist Conflicts Lead to War in Birmingham Talk Continued or Page Three WHITE COP BEATS UP TEXAS NEGRO | Papers Refuse to Print News of Assault By DENIS MALONE (Special to the Daily Worker) HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 8 (By Mail).—The sort of “protection” given here to Negroes by police and federal authorities was again stripped of its false colors when re- porters revealed an unprovoked as- savIt on a Negro mail truck driver by an armed white policeman. The Neero,, Hilroy Wade, didn’t stick out his hand to suit Mounted Patrolman Carl Webber when he stopped his truck. Webber “bawled him out for it,” ‘according to wit- nesses. The Negro did not reply. Vieiously Attacked. Wade then drove to the San Jacinto Trust Company, at which |place he is employed. The police- |man followed him. Again, Wade's method cf, stopping did not please | the policeman, so he rushed into the bank, cursed the unreplying Negro and then attacked him with both ists. Wade fled without resisting, knowing what southern “justice” strikers, ialdom of the American Fed- betrayed the 28,000 turned into a miser- able fiasco when less than 8,000 went to work while the remaining 25,000 strikers stayed out to continue the struggle under the leadership of the militant Textile Workers’ Union. To the call of the Textile Work- ers’ Union strike committee for 10,000 to come out to the picket lines this morning, made at mass meetings and thru circulars yester- day, a huge turnout of over 16,000 textile strikers surrounded the mill sections of the town, despite the importation of the police forces of four neighboring cities. Continuous roars of disapproval and condemnation welled up from the tightly packed masses on the \'sidewalks and overflowing into the roadways when police squadrons es- corted into the mills the miserable dribble of scabs. The most intense bitterness mark- ed the attitude of the strikers in front of the mills toward the po- lice and their tactics to provoke vio- lence. The workers were furious when they saw police forcing num- bers of workers who were picketing jin front of the gates, into the mills. They rushed to rescue their com- rades and in many cases succeeded in foiling this desperate measure of the mill owners. Police Sluggers. Twenty-seven strikers were ar- rested at this picket demonstration, and dragged into waiting wagons to be charged with “rioting.” Police, armed with clubs, slugged right and left at the inescapably slow moving masses of strikers, Many were rt, four strikers were badly beat- en up. In the wild head-on dashes at the strikers, many a policeman’s club found the head of a fellow- thug, and three policemen claimed they had experienced periods of un- consciousness. Despite the mobilization of the entire police strength of the cities of Taunton, Fall River, Dartmouth, Fairhaven and New Bedford, the strikers aggressively demonstrated their intention to fight against the mill owners as well as the bank- rupted and completely annihilated American Federation of Labor or- ganization, the United Textile Work- ers’ Union. Many scabs were later reported as having met with devastating ac- cidents. Strike headquarters of the Tex- tile Workers’ Union later gave proof to show that over 200 British textile workers, members for many years in the A. F. T. O. Textile Council, walked into the strike halls to reg- ister as new members of the New Bedford T. W. U., with pledges of determination to stay out on strike till their demands have been won. Batty Union's Death Kneel. With the taking of the sell-out step, the Batty gang and the union they controlled, sounded the death knell for their organization. The small following they did have, pat ticularly among the textile workers of British descent, was lost when they officially pronounced their be- neil had Jholds for Negroes who resist the ‘Tava! of the sufferings during the “And the Negro workers are also “The conflict between the United beginning to realize that only the | States and Great Britain is sharper Workers (Communist) Party is | today than the conflict between fighting for this unity of black and | Great Britain and Germany in 1914. white workers against the common| Armaments are proceeding faster enemy, the capitalist masters and|than then. While spending more their agents.” |money than ever in preparation for “The last war was preceded by’ the approaching conflict, American protestations of peaceful intentions) politicians hail the Kellogg-pact as on the part of the most belligerent, a great achievement for peace, But Peace talk is loud-| gonisms cannot be negotiated out of | jest when war is near. Continued oi. Page Three | 7 Fi sacred policemen. With his heavy pistol swinging at his side, the in- furiated policeman rushed after the driver and again beat him badly after the worker had climbed into his truck. The pride of the federal authori- Continued on Page Four EXHIBIT NEW PLANE. BERLIN, Oct. 8 (U.P).—Juan De airplane will be dis- | played in the international aeronau- six months of bitter and heroic struggle. The only union in the jfield now remains the militant union which was formerly known af the Textile Mill Committees. Leading a small group of loom- \fixers, who walked with averted faces, Purcell, president of the Loom-fixers’ Union of the Textile Council, walked into the mill a drowning roar of catcalls and jeers. Future of Struggle Bi William T. Murdoch, Fees (chief organizers of the T, W. U., tie exposition which was opened to-| expressed the great optimism for day. | 4 Continued on Page Ay op @AROD st PT Me ei Pees