The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 12, 1928, Page 1

Workers Must Register Today in Order to Vote for Foster, Gitlow and All Red Candidates Baily , Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, Vol. V., No. 242 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCT } THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government | To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week | For a Labor Party FINAL CITY EDITION ER OB In New York, by mail, $8.00 per Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents A.F.OF L. OFFICIALS BREAK STRIKE OF EXPRESSMEN © SILK WORKERS’ STRIKE GROWS AS SHOPS JOIN Groups From Factories Come to Hall and Sign With Union Rallies " Enthus Picketing of Struck Mills in Force PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 11.—The ending of the second day of the strike of silk workers here finds pic- ket lines already in full operation at nearly all the silk manufacturing plants tied up or crippled by the strike. Fully four thousand work- ers were registered as striking at the close of the days registrations at the strike headquarters in Turn Paterson Silk Workers on Strike ay MILL STRIKERS TO BUILD UNION DESPITE TERROR FORCE MEN BACK _| AS “ARBITRATION’ DEAL GOES OVER Union Head Threatens | Violence Against Strikers Put Over Trick Ballot | Wide Resentment by Workers One of the most brazen and ab- ject. sell-outs of the workers yet | committed was yesterday added to | the long and shameful list perpe- trated by officials of the American | Federation of Labor, when George | M. Harrison, grand president of the | Brotherhood of Railway and Steam- | ship Clerks, issued the strikebreak- | rr 7 ee UE Workers Report Speed Up, Big Wage Cuts in All Factories | Arrests Still Continue To Perfect Committee Structure in Mills NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 11 —Fearlessly gathering in thousands to attend a huge mass meeting of the Textile Workers’ Union, despite the police terror still in full force, New Bedford’s Textile strikers yes- terday gathered in thousands to pledge whole-hearted support to the union they have built during the sierra astic Ten thousand epressmen struck as one man Wednesday, in their fight for union recognition, for @ wage increase, and for many rights which the reactionary A. F. of L. union officials had forfeited. The strikers’ solidarity tied all New York City depots up. Teamsters showed their militancy at many depots by defying the strikebreaking officials. Photo shows strikers as they downed tools at Pennsylvania Station, Eight Ave. and 33rd St. Un'on misleaders later sold strike out. 50 SPEAKERS IN. LEWIS THUGS SHOOT ; 7 3 < im y resolved to . ing order by which the 10,000 strik- | ’ strike, and unanimously re: ed $3 Scant er Bs Ra 2 ke on Wed- | Hall. a express workers were forced | MINERS OR GAI VIZ E R continue to build up thru Mill Com- Over 5,000 silk workers in Paterson went out on ae m } s al a arse | ee 4 mittees its membership in the fac- nesday, determined to fight to the end for an 8 hour day, 48 hour Every hour of the entire day yes- back to the: mbuman speed-up ea ® seals nee ! week, union recognition, and a living wage. Mary Sommers, militant |terday found pickets walking into intolerable working conditions of | (suecistto ihe Dea Woe FRO as ths response of, the strike leader, is. shown above posting a strike proclamation, while the hall, leading groups of workers the union-hating American Express | Company. No vote was taken on the sell-out and no speskers Tron | Will Bring Message of the floor were permitted. | Nearly five thousand strikers | Class Struggle | _ Fifty speakers will be sent by overflowed the main hall of Cen- tral Opera House, called together | the NeweVork State wieation ‘Gata: who had not answered the original strike call. Most of these were either workers at the crafts until now not taken into the union, or former union men who had dropped their membership. some of the strikers look on. TRY TO PREVENT COMMUNIST MEET workers, whose six month struggle against a wage cut had been be- trayed by the officials of a bank- rupt A. F. of L. union here, and whose resistance to this betrayal is still being fought by an inhuman WORKERS FORCE LODZ WALK-OUT PITTSBURGH, Oct. 11.—Infor- mation of an attempt to murder Joe Polka, National Miners’ Union O-- ganizer in the Staunton, Illinois area, was reported today by local Workers Determined. by the local union officials, who yes- terday openly joined themselves with the sell-out which Harrison had arranged with the officials of the Express Company. Misleader Threatens Force. | Resentment and indignation of the workers at times arose to such heights that the union officials re- sorted to open threats: handled many outlaw strikes,” Har- vison at cne moment-of frenzy de® clared in open boast of his well- known strikebreaking record, “and if you keep on with this one I will now how to act. I’m not saying it I will let a house fall down on ou, but you can draw your own onclusions.”” | The meeting began at about 2/ o'clock yesterday afternoon. Earlier | in the morning Harrison, who had | arrived here from Cincinnati, with- out waiting to get the opinion of the men, had met with the officials | of the Express Company, headed by L. R. Gwyn, its vice-president. The terms worked out at this conference | and presented to the mass meeting in the form of a letter from the company, signed by Gwyn, gave no guarantees to the workers, and, in fact, revealed the real character of the betrayal in the declaration: “The company policy has _ not changed. The company is, as be-| fore, always ready to meet the rep- | resentatives of its employes.” No discussion by the rank and file was permitted. “There will be no discussion from the floor,” Har- rison declared. “We have this hall only until 4:30 and we must cut the meeting short.” At the end of the meeting, the grand president of the union warned the men to walk out yuietly “and be sure to behave | yourselves.” The workers game early for the meeting and it soon became evident that the sentiment was overwhelm- ingly against the proposed calling off of the strike which had been foreshadowed by a published tele- gram sent by Harrison from Cin- cinnati, ordering the men back to work. Previous to the appearance Continued on Page Three JUNITS MUST CALL MEETS All units of the Workers| | (Communist) Party must meet this week and take up as the only subject for eon- sideration the political letter of the Central Executive Committee 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- pajgn into the factories. 5. Canvassing of trade unions and fraternal organ- izations. 6. Selection of Red Volun- teers. 7. House to house can- vassings. % | paign Committee of the Workers % ¥ |(Communist) Party into Harlem to-| been wearing his arm |night to bring the Communist mes-/ since last Thursday night. Anthony sage of the class struggle to the tens of thousands of Negro, Italian, Hungarian and Spanish speaking |workers in the section. Among the speakers will be Rob- Tr: Haye lert Minor, Communist candidate for U. S. senate and editor of the Daily Worker; James P. Cannon, candidate for congress in the 20th district; Richard B. Moore, candidate from the 21st congressional district, and several other prominent speakers. Fifteen meetings will begin at 8 p. m. sharp and at 8.30 p. m. the workers present at all the meetings henchmen. The militant miner dis-| All speakers scheduled for Harlem Red Night must report at 143 E. 103rd St. tonight, at 7.30 sharp. All members of the Harlem sec- tion should report at Harlem Headquarters, 143 E. 103rd St., at 7 p. m. to help carry out the ar- rangement for the open-air uteet- ings. will be asked to march to the big wind-up rally that will be held on the corner of 5th Ave. and 110th St., at which all the candidates run- ning on the Communist ticket in Harlem will speak. Red torch par- ades, cheering and singing by the Young Pioneers, over 50 placards bearing the fighting slogans of the Workers (Communist) Party of America will be but a few of the features of the Red Night in Har- lem. The Harlem Election Cam- paign Committee will distribute thousands of free copies of the Daily Worker and will have on hand for sale copies of the National Plat- form of the Workers (Communist) Party as well as the acceptance speeches by its presidential and vice miners who explained why Polka has in a sling | Minerich, Pennsylvania mine-leader, |who came to Beneld to address a mass meeting was told of the attack. The Illinois miner had sent re-| |ports of the new locals he had or- |ganized to the national office in | Pittsburgh, but had not mentioned | the attempted murder. 2 Worker Without Protection. | According to miners, Polka or- |ganized a strong local for the new union in Beneld, in spite of the |threats and frothings of Lewis | dained the offer of a bodyguard, and | after the meeting he hurried off say- | ing he had just enough time to catch the interurban car home, where his |four-year-old son lay seriously ill. As Polka approached the station, Continued o:: Page Three NOMINATIONS IN CAP UNION SOON Left Wing Off Ballot; Rap ‘Czar’ Zaritsky Nominations for officers of Lo- cals 1 and 8 of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union will be held this Saturday |afternoon and evening at the regu- lar meetings of these organizations. |Both meetings will be held at the union office, 133 Second Ave., with Local 3 meeting in the afternoon |and Local 1 at 8 o'clock in the eve- lis reported to have resulted Reactionaries Fail to Halt Polish Strike WARSAW, Poland, Oct. 11- than one hundred thousand workers lare involved in the general strike proclaimed effective in the textile industry of the Lodz district today. More ~~ PAt the'samie time the*Upper Silesian’ and Dombrowa miners threatened to walk out unless the wage scale is increased by twelve per cept. The strike is at present affecting the Upper Silesian, Dombrowa and Lodz districts. Efforts of the reactionary trade union officials to prevent the gen- eral strike have been frustrated by the determination of the workers themselves to quit the mills in Po- land’s great textile center. At the same time, the action of he officials in a struggle that threatens to split the ranks of the social democrats Poland. | In many industrial centers the j workers under the lead of the Com- munists are forcing the union offi- |cials to carry out the strike pro- posal. In Lodz they already have answered the strike call one hun- dred per cent. CONNOLLY PUTS SELF AS ANGEL Never Knew of Graft (ning. The headgear section of the Trade | | Union Educational League is calling | all the workers, members of these | in Borough that Supremely confident the presidential candidates, William Z. locals, to come to the meetings of Tammany-controlled court would do Foster and Benjamin Gitlow. All speakers are instructed to re- port at 143 E. 103rd St. at 7:30 p m. shatp, where they will be as- signed to the various street meet- lings. The following is a list of the speakers for Harlem Red Night: Minor, Cannon, Stachel, Moore, Markoff, Grecht, Ben Gold, Napoli, Codkind, Edw. Welsh, Padmore, Moreau, Alexander, Abern, Balke, Nat Kaplan, Magliacano, Amie Reiss, Gil Green, Vern Smith, John Sherman, Lustig, Candella, Leoni, Severino, Stenzer, Zukowsky, Syl- via Bleecker, Valentine, Suskin, Cibulsky, Shafran, Lloyd, A. Thomp- son, Fishman, Braverman, Anna Lyons, P. Shapiro, Kagan, Harfield, Gertrude Welsh, Sol Auerbach, James Cork, Miriam Silvis, Jacob- son, Paul Muller, B, Halperin, Jos. Cohen, 3 Textile Workers | Die in Accident UTICA,.N. Y., Oct. 11 (UP)—) Three of four Polish mill workers | were killed today when a car col-. lided with another machine. The dead are: Charles Masczak, his wife Nellie, and his wife’s broth- er, Raymond Bysewski. Alexander Masczak, Charles’ ‘brother, suffered an arm injury which may cause am- putation. Three Italians suffered minor cuts and bruises, | their locals to fight for the right to put left-wing candidates on the! slate. The reactionary officials of the union decided about a year ago that no left wingers be Permitted on the ballot by the simple device of | ruling that for a nominee to go on | the ballot he must be successful in | securing 2 majority vote at the nom- ination meetings. Since the clique in control use the steam-roller as a method of obtaining favorable vot- ing results, they have succeeded in |thwarting the majority of members | |at their meetings. | Letter Ignored. | Last year, when this measure was first put into effect by President | Zaritsky’s gang, the left wing sent | |an open letter demanding the recall} |General Executive Board, to no avail, however. They were not an-| “swered, Since that time the ral ist officialdom embarked on a cam- _paign of wrecking the union and the union conditions. Three left wing leaders in New Continued on Page Two REGISTER TODAY, Four days of registration have passed. Two more remain. Reg- ister today in order to vote for the .candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party. Registration places are open from 5 to 10:30 p. m. today and from 7 a. m. to 10:30 p, m. tomorrow, the final day for registration, 4 nothing seriously to upset the even tenor of his ways, Maurice E. Con- nolly, corpulent former president of Queens, took the stand yesterday in his own defense and smilingly av--red that in no way whatsoever, not even so much as by the slightest contact, had he been tainted with the great sraft operations which have made his borough famous. No. he had practically nothing to do with the spectacular “See Jack” Phillips, late sewer pipe Kinge who, as was shown, went about town with a key to the city hall in his pockets and whose indirect financial explorations of the borough treas- ury netted the Queens gang some £10,000,900 during a period of about half a dozen years. Connolly was by the yard, by the hour, all day. Paints Picture of Angel. Under the skillful guidance of his attorney, Max Steur, who speaks in| |a gentle, almost inaudible and earn- | lest tone, the voluable Queens’ cor- \ruptionist and incompetent, painted a picture of himself as the tried and true and busy borough executive, | buried in the details of his enormous labors, listening to scores of com- (plaints from his beloved constitu- lency, taking his work home with him at night—in fact, finding no |time, even had he the inclination, ito go graft hunting. | On and on he talked, “directly at ithe jury,” as his attorney had re- i Continued on Page Two in| police and court terror where many were beaten, arrested and threatened with deportation. Realizing as practical and de- voted leaders should, that their union’s thousands of loyal mem- bers would be made the victims of a relentless blackballing edict, even if the mill owners had to go to greater expense to replace the strik- ing craftsmen, the union called upon the workers to build the union. in the mills, perfect their committee system and drive out of existence the smashed remains of the ~cab union of the A. F. of L. betrayers. The betrayal of the labor fakers was one of the most complete in the history of all A. F. of L. sell- outs, according to the stories the Jontinued on Page Three AUSTRIA POLICE CONTINUE RAIDS Arrest Youth Leader; Banish Czechs (By Wireless to Daily Worker) VIENNA, Oct. 11—The Czech deputy Stern, arrested during the demorstration in Vienna-Neustadt on Sunday was conducted to the frontier by police today and re- leased. Stern appealed against the order permanently banishing him from Austria, but his appeal was re- jected, The editor of the “Rovnost,” Czech Communist paper, rested last Sunday, was released and banished from Austria at the same time. Bohl, the secretary of the Aus- trian Young Workers League, has been arrested for an article in the “Proletarian Youth” of which Bohl is the responsible editor. Arrests of Communists are con- tinuing. STIFF HEAD WIND Another epoch in the development of transportation by which the far ends of the capitalist world are drawn together, is being marked |with the eastward flight of the lgiant Graf Zeppelin, 770 feet long of this dictatorial measure to the |not loath to talk. In fact, he talked airship which some time within the | next twenty-four hours is expected |to arrive in New York City from \her starting point, Friedrichshafen, | Germany. By such developments in the tools | of the capitalist world is the ground- ‘work being laid for the erection of | the future socialist system upon the ruins of the present decaying one. Messages from cities in Spain| over which the giant dirigible passed yesterday reported the ship headed for open water. the originally intended course with her speed down about 20 miles an hour. } a also ar- Late last night reports by radio indicated that | the ship had met still head winds) ahd was flying many miles south of | GITLOW MEETING Communist Is Jailed in Phoenix, Ariz. (Special to the Daily Worker) PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 11—The tools of the local capitalists in the city government are leaving no stone unturned to prevent the workers from being “contaminated” by the revolutionary message of Benjamin Gitlow, Communist eandidate for vice-president, who is scheduled to speak here tonight. Jail Communist. William O’Brien, candidate for governor of Arizona on the ticket cf the Workers (Communist) Farty, who is in charge of the arrangements for the Gitlow meeting, was thrown into jail this morning for this heinous crime against the capitalist system. O’Brien is being held without in- dictment and bail has been refused him. All efforts to learn the charge against him have proved fruitless. The jailing of O’Brien comes as a climax to the brazen efforts of the city government ‘to prevent the workers from hearing the Commu- nist nominee. The committee in charge of arrangements had previ- ously requested the right accorded all other political parties to hold the meeting in the City Hall. This was summarily refused by the boss-con- trolled City Commission. So great was the resentment of workingelass elements at this re- fusal ‘that the Central Trades and Labor Council, under pressure from few progressives, was compelled to open discussion of the subject. It was finally decided to allow the meeting to be held in the Central Trades Building. Boss Gang Frantic. The arr of O’Brien on the eve of the meeting, it is generally be- lieved, indicates a determination on the part of the city authorities to go to any extreme to prevent Gitlow from speaking. Workers of this city are, however, preparing to voice their protest at this attempted sup- pression of one of their militant leaders by going thru with the meet ing at any cost. Election Meet at the Workers Center An important conference, to ar- range for un election campaign Red demonstration, wi!l be held tomor- row at Z p, m. at the Workers Cen- ter. All Party functionaries, fraction secretaries, bureau secretaries, lan- guage and trade union fraction rep- resentatives and other active Party | workers are urged to attend with- out fail, in a all issued last night by William W. Weinstone, organizer of District 2 of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, REGISTER TODAY. Four days of registration have passed. Two more remain. Reg- ister today in order to vote for the candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party. Registration places are open from 5 to 10:30 p. m. today and from 7 a. m. to 10:50 p. m. tomorrow, the final day for registration. ;pose of the {held all over the count: |now there are 55,000 IN WALL STREET Red Program Brought to Morgan Clerks meeting was held on Wall Street in front of the office of J. P. Morgan. Bert Miller, candidate for senate from the 14th Senatorial District on the ticket of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, spoke to an audience of more than 500, mostly clerks from the Morgan offices, on the war preparations, exposed the real pur- military shows being y, and point- ed out that the office workers have A Communist yesterday noon everything in common with manual worke: end must form a united front against the bosses. The elec- tion program of the Workers (Com- munist) Party was presented by Miller, who urged those in the au- dience to form a union of office work L. Oak was chairman of the meet- ing. After Miller had spoken, many copies of the Party Platform were distributed. Many groups of the clerks gathered to discuss the issues presented by the spea Another Communist meeting will be, held at the same place on Wall Street at noon next Thursday, it was announced, WOMEN CHEER RED PROGRAM Political Symposium Makes Hit Cooper Union was filled last night at the Political Symposium held un- der the auspices of the Working Women’s Federation of Greater New York to hear the representatives of three political. parties present their platforms and programs in the pres- ent election campaign. Representa- tives of the socialist party had been invited, but had refused to partici- pate. Rose Wortis, militant needle trades leader, was the chairman. In her introductory speech she stressed the fact that the Workers (Commu- nist) Party participated in all the struggles of the workers, and will Continued on Page Two GERMAN TEXTILE STRIKE SPREADS BERLIN, Oct. 11.—The German i which started with the walkout of 25,000 workers in Muen- chen-Gladback on October 3 spread through the Rhineland until strike, The strike wave is gather- ing impetus in other textile dis- tricts. Textile employers meeting here yesterday discussed plans for lock- ing out the workers throughout the |textile industry in an‘effort to an- | ticipate a general walk-out, has) workers on) Most interesting of all, however, were the small groups of workers who came into the hall to tell the union registrant that the workers of his shop were either waiting in a nearby place to receive word from the union that they were coming out at the end of the day or the next morning. The end of the week will find well over 0 silk workers out of the mills, the strike leaders declare. These unorganized workers came in and demonstrated the greatest de- termination for a fight to a ‘finish, to win decent living conditions and the recognition of their organization. Turn Hall, normally capable of seating several thousand was lit- erally jammed. Balconies and aisles were packed tight with strikers who stood to hear the speakers at their mass meeting held yesterday after- noon and morning. Fred Hoelscher, union secretary spoke. Lena Cher- nenko a leader in the Passaic strike, Continued on Page Five Needle Trades Red Open Air Meetings Tho Needle Trades Campaign Committee of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, and all needle trades workers who are members of the Workers (Communist) Party, will meet at 4 p. m. after the election campaign confer- tomorrow, directly ence. An intensive wind-up election drive among the needle trades workers will be outlined. All Com. munist needle trades workers aré urged to attend, A is = QUESTIONS TO} BE ANSWERED | Every militant worker should answer the following questions: 1. Have you registered Ket in order to be able to vo on November 6th, for th Workers (Communist) Par- ty ticket? Did you, when you were given the enrollment blank by the registration official merely fold it and drop it in the box without enrolling for any of the three capital- jist parties that are enumer- ated on the enrollment | blank, that is the republican, | democratic and socialist par- ties? | 8. Have you told your fel- low workers in your shop, in the union, in the family, ete., to register for the coming|- elections? Don’t forget only} two more days are left to fulfill your duty to the work- ing class on this important matter. You can register to- day from 5 to 10:30 p. m. Saturday from 7 a. m. to 10 p. m. Don’t fail!