The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1928, Page 1

SERS AEE, | | | | | | | See Indust | All Workers Who Have Not Registered Yet Must Do ‘So Today to Vote for Red 1 Ticket | THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS | | For a Workers-Farmers Government | To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week | For a Labor Party under the act of March 3, Worker 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N.-¥- SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by New York, by mail, $8.00 per year _ Price 3 Cents Vol. V. No. 240 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1928 Outside 00 PATERSON SILK WORKERS WILL STRIKE TODAY Mass Meeting on Eve fe of Walk-Out Is Enthusiastic ry Tied Up Look for Response to Call PATERSON, proximately ten thousand workers in this’ city’s Unanimous N. J., Oct. 9.—At} ten o’clock Wednesday morning ap- | silk manufacturing for governor of New Hampshire.| mills will walk out in general strike |Iram has been active in exposing For Governor ps f oe ”) Henry C. Iram, who is the Work-| ers (Communist) Party candidate with the demands that the §-hour)the roles of the two big capitalist | day, 44-hour week and a wage raise | parties, be conceded and that their organ-| socialist party, and expects many ization, the Associated Silk Workers |New Hampshire workers to rally | as well as their ally, the) Union, be accorded full recognition. |around the Communist program in| As the great majority of the silk |the coming elections. TEXAS SLEUTHS workers expected, the manufactur- ers’ association failed to reply to their demands for recognition and improvements of working standards. They therefore have busily engaged themselves in perfecting theystrike machinery and rallying the non- union members around the organiz: tion, so that when the strike call is issued the response wili be unani- | mous. Rank and File Militant. Full reports of the mass meeting of the union, held till late last night, in its very beginning, succeed in tieing up the entire manufacturing end of the industry. was held in Turn Hall, the prospec- tive strike headquarters, at Allison, | forgetting, corner of Cross St. | HOUSTON, Tex., TRAIL GITLOW in California By DENIS MALONE. the honor of the force. They have gone into a huddle, under the pressure of | the present crisis, the current quo- | | workers to the traditions of revolu- |Last Seen ci Somewhere and the silly pacifist-capitalist mes- (By Mail).—)it was felt that not only had the) shows clearly that the strike will, | The best “minds” of the Houston po- spirit of revolution not died down lice department have been called| among the needle workers, but has| from the dangerous labor of whist-|cropped up with greater force than The meeting, | ling at traffic rule violators to save|in the days of Debs. which was crowded beyond capacity, | NEEDLE WORKERS Jingoes, Will DELEGATES HAIL S Tod RED CANDIDATES ©”. By PAUL CROUCH. ae. Times Square is to be bombed Big Shop Conference Represents Many from the air today, but it will have little resemblance to actual warfare. From 9 to 10 p. m. tonight thou- sands of people are to be shown that Thousands the country is helpless—that. addi- —— tional appropriations of millions of Show Great Enthusiasm dollars for armaments are neces- sary. Starting at 9 o’clock tonight a huge attempt will be made by the imperialists to hoodwink the work- ers into preparing for the attack on the Soviet Union. The war man- euvers tonight are aimed to build up the army and turn the workers against the first workers’ and farm- ers’ government. A feature of today’s military dem- onstration will be a parade of Na- tional Guardsmen. The Guardsmen will march to music, presenting a very different appearance from the actual war for which they are being prepared. Today’s military demonstrations are only a part of the greatest mili- tary shows in the history of Amer- ica. Similar affairs are being held /all over the country. At the prov- ing grounds in Maryland, the new- est and most deadly instruments of warfare are being exhibited. On October 15, more than 6,000 soldiers will be forced to take part in a military tournamen_ tin Square Garden. The arrest of I. Peltz, a member of the Young Workers (Communist) \League, is significant. Peltz was arrested for distributing League leaflets to servicemen at the mili- tary exposition at the War College Many Delegates Turned Away | in Washington, D. C. No law exists The representatives of the needle | against anti-militarist propaganda, shops turned out in far greater|so Peltz was held on charge of “dis- numbers than even the committee | orderly conduct.” The authorities Workers Called to Vote Communist Ticket The devotion of the needle trades tionary ideals and the magnificent support they are ready to give to the | Workers (Communist) Party in the present campaign was last night manifested in the fiery spirit which delegates of hundreds of shops of the |various needle trades of New York \displayed-at the Needle Trades Shop |Delegates Conference at Bryant Hall. Flay Socialist Role. When William W. Weinstone, or- ganizer of District 2, speaking in the name of the Workers (Communist) Party, at the close of the conference, compared the messages the fiery rebel Debs used to bring to the work- ers in the campaigns before the war | sage the “fool of a minister” is bringing to the protestant churches, and pointed out the role of the so- cialists in America and in Europe, Many of the most active union-| tations on beer joint protection or|that has organized the conference, | state that Peltz Pelbseuer ibe: be deported. ists were heard to criticize the at-| just who ought to be hijacked for) titude expressed by Fred occa burial fund contributions. when acting as” chairmart of +! union. Hoelscher ‘s chief organizer of the Associated. In conducting the meeting, he stated confidently at various times that a large num- ber of employers will be ready to settle with the union by next Mon- day morning. This method of approach to what shows signs of being a real strug- gle is deplored by the workers, who say that instead of creating illu- sions the union leaders should be very strong in emphasizing the necess of organizing for an ag- gressive struggle through. mass picket lines, ete. In calling the meeting last night, Herman Clemens, a member of the socialist labor party, was invited to be a speaker, as was also Lena Chernenko, a leader of textile work- ers and member of the Workers (Communist) Party. When Clem- ens rose to speak he started by say- ing that political questions and dif- Continued on Page Three Shoe Workers Mass Meet Tomorrow Eve Under the leadership of the pro- gressive unionists, New York shoe workers will hold a mass meeting to- morrow evening, 8 p. m., at Lorraine Hall, 790 Broadway, Brooklyn. This will be the initiation of a big organizational and membership drive. Ben Gold and Irving Potash will be the principal speakers. ‘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 en 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. © ae The emergency arose this week when police discovered some 24} nist) Party had distributed 10,000 | “Abolish Lynching” leaflets through the Negro districts under the very nose of the protectors of the peace} and pay off. | Bravely the courageous police- |men rallied to defend the city against the Reds. Nobly they swore| a mighty oath to track down the | miscreants and hurl them behind | Continued on Page Three hours after it was over that white| members of the Workers (Commu-|acted as chairlady. expected, so that many delegates could not get into the crowded hall, | which was packed with hundreds | of delegates. Rose Wortis, of the Dressmaker: Speeches pet made by A. Zukowsky, of the Mill- inery Workers, Silvia Bleeker, of Continued on Rage Two CALL POLISH GENERAL STRIKE ‘Textile Mills Almost | CONFER TONIGHT ON FREIHEIT BAN Will Fight Céniadian Gov’t Decision Inaugurating a campaign that will be extended to every section of | ie country, representatives of vari- us workingclass organizations | | San meet at 8 o’clock tonight in the | Workers Center, 26-28 Union Sq., to | consider plans for fighting the ban Madison | THAELMANN IS REINSTATED BY INTERNATIONAL Charges Suspension as Aid to Right Wing Elements Leader’s Motives Good Socialist Forward Is Caught in Lie (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. ?.—The Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International has rein- stated Ernst Thaelmann to all posi- tions he held in the Communist Party of Germany and to the posts he held in the Communist Interna- tional, reversing the decision of the Central Committee of the Commu- jnist Party of Germany in suspend- ing him and accusing the German Central Committee of taking a posi- tion contrary to the decisions of the Sixth Congress of the Communist International against the right dan- ger. Comintern Issues Decision. The Presidium of the Communist International issued today its de- cision on the Hamburg affair, where the secretary of the Hamburg sec- tion of the German Conmanist Party, Wittorf, embezzled money o' the Party. Thaelmann knew “ie first, but kept silent regarding the affair because he feared damaging the Party in the midst of great mass campaigns. As a result of this Thaelmann was suspended by the German Central Committee. Tilegally Suspended, The Central Committee of the German Communist Party sus- pended Thaelmann without inform- \ing the Executive Committee of the | Communist International or consid- ering the damaging efféct on public opinion such a move would have. The Executive Committee of the Communist International, in now judging the decision, states that the German Communist Party was right in expelling Wittorf, and states that ‘Thaelmann committed a grave er- ror in keeping back the knowledge Continued on Page Two POLICE BREAK UP Mill Workers Defy Terror Loosed by Bosses, Frantic As Batty Betrayal Fails ~ Brutally Slugged Jack Rubinstein, organizer of the New Bedford Textile Workers Union, was brutally beaten by the police thugs acting to smash the strike of the thousands of workers who are carrying on the struggle under the leadership of the militant union. UNIONS URGED T0 BACK RED TICKET Issue Resolutions for Workers’ Groups Declaring that the only candi- dates ‘in. the national elections that stand for the interests of the work- ers are* William Z. Foster for presi dent and Benjamin Gitlow for vice| president, the Workers (Communist) Party yesterday called on the work- ers to bring up the following reso- lution in their trade unions, work- ing class fraternal societies and other organizations of a working class character. The resolution reads, in part: “The organized bosses act in a united way through their monopol- istic trusts, their government, and their own political parties, but the forces of the working class are scat- tered and disorganized. The major Questions and Answers workers to register in order to be \the registration place and gives the Slugging, Arrests, Deportation Threats, Leave Striking Thousands Unyielding 25 Leaders of the New Bedford Textile Union Seized, Instantly Given Jail Terms, Fines BULLETIN NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 9.—William T. Murdoch, Organizer of the Textile Worke Union, was atrociously beaten up in the cell in which he was lodged after being arrested in the intense police terror going on here, since the A. F. of L. — officials betrayed the 6-month- old textile strike. Eli Keller and Fred E. EXPLAIN POINTS Beal, two other chief organizers, being charged with “vagrancy” as were finally arrested after being searched for by the police all day. All the leaders of the Union are a preparatory measure for railroad- ing them out of town, if not for handing them long prison sentences. A representative of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, arriving here from New York in order to arrange for bail bonds was threatened with arrest. James Conway, till now the president of the South End strike hall of the A. F. of L. Textile Coun- cil, who joined T. W. U. ranks when the reactionaries sold out, was also arrested and charged with vagrancy and with being disorderly since July 1. to Guide Worker for Four days remain militant able to vote for the Communist Party ticket and platform on Nov. 6. In view of the fact that many inquiries have come in to the New York State Election Campaign Com- mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party on the question of registra- tion, some of the typical questions ee a Worker it was stated that a period of two years residence in the county was a necessary qualification to vote. This is incorrect. Only four month's residence is necessary. (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 9. —Faced with the utter failure to re+ sume operations of the mills, after their attempt to smash the strike with the aid of the A. F, of L. offi- cialdom, the mill barons here have launched a fiendish reign of terror that is still continuing against the are noted below, amswers to them: togetherwith the Answer on Enrollmeat. . ‘ a 11 leaders of the militant Textile 1. Are registration and enroll- woryers’ Union and its active mem- ment the same? Ae No. very simple matter. The act of registration is a The outraged tens of thousands of One goes to S textile workers, sold out by the United Textile Workers’ Union lead- ers after having suffered and fought in a six months’ struggle against the wage cut, are still obdurate in their intentions to stay out, in spite of two days of incessant beatings, innumerable arrests, threats of de- portations, raids on peaceful mass registration official his name, ad- dress, occupation and a few other facts in answer to questions asked of him by the registration official. The act of enrollment takes place when one takes the enrollment blank given him by the registration of- |and militant and not corrupted with @/ graft as is the present one. |clections are to be held this Thurs- CALL LOCAL 10 TAILORS TO VOTE. Progressives Urge Men | Poland as a result of the failure to Oust Grafters ~ | of negotiation between textile | employers and workers. . rome (Wireless to the Daily Worker) Completely Tied Up BULLETIN. WARSAW, Oct. 9 trade unions have decided | to pro- claim a general strike throughout The reactionary officialdom of the |Children’s Clothing Workers, Local 10, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union is preparing the yearly theatrical performance of holding “elections” of officers, but the fast growing progressive ele- {ments in the local are earrying out | an agitation campaign to rally the workers for the election of an ex- ecutive board that will be honest trial strike. the textile workers in the city are | now definitely out. The day at 5 p. m, in Manhattan, Brook- lyn and Brownsville. Thousands of circulars were dis- tributed in the past few days by| left wing members of the union who | went to the big shops and to the| markets and other gathering places of the children’s clothing workers. The leaflets are being issued by the Progressive Group of Local 10, and | call the workers to come to the elec- |°VerY day. tions en masse to oust the union| The manufacturers will not agree | officials, who have many times|to the demands of the strikers, but | been publicly branded as grafters of offer instead an cight per cent the most vicious type. The election | raise. The strikers, however, have Continued on Page Two |refused to accept this. have walked out, adding over 100,- 000 new workers to the gigantic strike. Many strikers were injured by po- | lice in conflicts which took place in| |Lodz and Zgierz early today. The | brutality of the police is preci itat-| ing new struggles and forcing the! \strikers into increased militancy Blacksmith Spanks an Irate Ref Reformist WARSAW, Oct. 9.—The militancy | of the textile strikers in the indus-| gles in Toronto and Montreal. city of Lodz continues to} |spread, with thousands of workers | against the Freiheit are believed to leaving the factories to join the huge be the discredited right wing fakers | Ninety-eight per cent of all| whom the Freiheit has consistently Workers from Tolmaschev, Petro- kov and other towns in the district LAUGH IS ON SOCIALISTS BERLIN, Oct. 9. — The sound working class basis of the German Communist movement embodied in the strength of a blacksmith, again disconcerted the social-democrats here yesterday, and was ‘the occa- sion for much hilarity in the gather- ing places of the Red Front Fight- ers on Borsigstrasse and in the beer gardens in the Berlin Red Square, the Lustgarten. When Carl Schultz, Communist | Phin toch deputy in the Prussian Diet and suc- cessful radio “abductor” of Wolf- gang Schwartz, editor of the “si cialist” Vorwaerts, entered the “Un- ter; tion, he was met by the furious a: sault of an over-confident editorial writer of the Vor-~aerts. Herr Schiff d” at a Friedrichsstrasse sta-| | that has been placed on the Freiheit, Yiddish Communist daily, by the Canadian government. The barring of the Freiheit from ; Canada has aroused a storm of re- sentment among the Jewish workers of the United States and Canada. The official charge of “blasphemy” |is ridiculed by the editors of the Freiheit, who declare that the real reason for the banning of the paper | is the militant role which it has | Played in the struggles of the, | Canadian Jewish workers, partic- ularly _ in, the needle trades strug- The instigators of the government action | fought and exposed. | The meeting tonight will be at- tended by representatives of trade | unions, Trade Uinon Educational Leagues, Women’s Councils and other workingclass organizations. e Office Workers Hold |. Enthusiastic Meeting | Several hundred attended an én- | thusiastic mass meeting of the Of- fice Workers’ Union held last night at Labor Temple, Second Ave. and 14th St., at which plans for Tpiild- ing up the organization in this city were discussed. Carl Brodsky, Max Shachtman and Lillian Symes were among the speakers and pointed out the neces- |sity for a strong, militant organi-| zation in New York. | An appeal for members, made by | union resulted in applications from 15 present. Altho the organization has been in existence for only sev- eral months, it already has over 200 members. The next general membership | meeting will be held on Oct. 22. ANOTHER “POCKETBOOK”. CHICAGO. — Another “pocket-| book” has been elected to the demo- cratic national campaign committee. is a loyal social-democrat and a/W. G. Bierd, president of the Chi- trusty follower of his editor, but he suffered the same defeat as his en- Continued on Page Three to the committee. | Jerome Romain, president of the) cago & Alton Railroad, has been ap-| pointed financial director for Illinois | RED MEET IN OHIO Amter and Hacker are Arrested (Special to the Daily Worker) MARTINS FERRY, Ohio, Oct. 9. »-Scores of women and children | |were trampled when police brutally | broke up an election campaign meeting of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party here last night, arrest- ing two of the speakers, Israel Am- ter, district organizer and candidate for U. S. senator on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket, and Carl.| Hacker, Copjnunist candidate for lieutenant ernor. The zeling Steel Company- police used gas bombs jand riof sticks in uttacking the 400) | worke’., their wives and children, | who’ /ere gathered in the hall. | Yacker next took the platform. | H had spoken for less than ten minutes, when the police, prepared | beforehand for the dirty work, broke |into the hall and violently dragged |him from the speakers’ platform. = |He was “roughly handled and ar-| rested. As the police Continued on WORKING WOMEN MEET TOMORROW The New York Working Women’s Political Symposium, scheduled for tomorrow evening at Cooper Union, | will bring the political party candi- | dates who have been invited to par- ticipate face to face with the chal- | longing question: “Where do you | stand with regard were dragging Page Four leconomie standards of working | women in all industries?” The speakers at the political | |symposium tomorrow evening will be Ray Ragozin, Workers (Com- | munist) Party candidate for assem- bly in the Twenty-third Assembly District, Brooklyn; Mrs. Anna Mos- kowitz Kross, democratic party rep- resentative, and Mrs. Alice McKay \for the republican party. ficial and enrolls with one of the parties, the name sof which are des- ignated on the enrollment blank. Continued on Page Two CONNOLLY ‘LENT’ $90.00 IN A YEAR Salary Never Over $15,000 Maurice E. Connolly, grafting ex- YANKS TAKE 4TH; CAPTUR! SERIES isscttoreat See | quite as financially productve, as Mayor Jimmie Walker of New York. While, as has been revealed, Jimmie was earning $287,000 in one year on a salary of $25,000, there is no record that he loaned $90,000 to his friends, as was the case with Connolly. Something less than $100,000 was handed to various persons all in cash during the year 1926 by Con- task of the working masses of the country today is to conduct poli- tical action independently from the political organizations of the master class, | “The ruthless offensive of the em- | ployers is lowering the standard of |living of the workers. Unemploy- ment, wage-cuts, open-shop drives jare the order of the day. Govern- | ment by injunction is crushing every Continued on Page Three MR vARK, St. Louis, Oct. 9 (UP).—The ‘New York | rere ‘smashed their way through to their fourth straight victory over {the St. Louis Cards and another world’s championship today. Five home runs, three of which were hammered out by the irrepres- |sible Babe Ruth, who was a whole Lall team in himself today, swept nolly in loans and in connection aside the last vestige of Card de : ney >, fense and carried the Yanks to the sich ioh aye eg My peak .¢ the baseball world as they abet 73 won the fourth game ef the 1929 CHILD LABOR. wed series, 7 to 3. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Of 7,000 i children in street trades, newspaper Several hundred thousand dollars; Sellers and carriers form the larg- were poured into the coffers of the est group and peddlers form the next Continued on Page Three largest. NEW HAMPSHIRE DRIVE Workers Wage Wage Vigorous Red Red Campaign gatherings and arrests of strike re- lief directors. Chief of Police McLeod is making announcements in the labor-hating press here to the effect that he will run out of town all those who re- fuse to go back to work. He went so far as to declare, “We are carry- ing on a cleaning and sweeping up process on all elements still strik- ing. We have arrested persons who cannot satisfy us as to a visible means of support.” Fifty police armed with clubs this afternoon raided the Potomska St. strike hall of the Textile Workers’ Union and made many arrests there. Eight o'clock this morning they raided the Relief Store of the Work- ers International Relief. Jack Rubinstein was _ brutally beaten up by the police in the jail cell to which he was taken. His face was horribly swollen by the brutal treatment he received. The Continued on ries Five VIENNA DISARM PARLEY CALLED palies’ tr Che: Daily Worker) VIENNA, Oct. 9.—The fascist march on Vienna-neustadt and the social-democrat retreat seems to be only the beginning of things, for Chancellor Seipel, on the instigation of the “socialists,” has called a dis- armament conference for tomorrow, with the view of disarming both the fascist and the social-democratie or- ganizations. Besides the leaders of the Schutz- to raising the | |—The members of the Workers | (Communist) Party in New Hamp- shire are encouraged over their suc- cess in placing the Communist ticket on the ballot in this state for | the first time and are now enthusi- astic over the prospect of waging a vigorous campaign from now until the votes are cast on November 6. The task of collecting 1,200 quali- ified signatures in this reactionary- MANCHESTER, N. H., (By Mail) | band and the Home Defense corps controlled state was a heavy one, the heads of the parliamentary pars but the comparatively few comrades | ,. ry in number under the direction ties have also been invited. of Comrade Sidney Bloomfield, New| Full reports of the Sunday dem- England campaign manager, went | OnSstrations say that 13,000 fascists about the work diligently and sur- demonstrated, and the social-demo- prised the skeptics who believed the ¢tat press now declares that the job could mot be accomplished. |demonstration was a great triumph, Over eight hundred names were|When a reporter asked the general collected by these comrades in Man-|of the Home Defense corps if his chester alone, despite all opposition.| men were armed he answered, “Yes, Continued on Page Five |but not that everyone could see.” All Units of the Workers | iFommnist| Party Thruout U. S. Must Meet During Oct. etd I i will Il’s air red lew the ake ith dia rit- the dia the ore at- the red ga- its be- ng sit- rot she 1as ost nd f oe