The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Worker wc tered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, 1879. D: AY, OC TOBER 15, 1928 Published dally except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Ines 26-28 Unio: New York, N. ¥ mail, $8.00 per year .00 per year. “MON : SUBSC RIPTION RATES: In New York Outside New York, by mail, aa Vol. Ves No. 244 FEAR BEN GITLOW MURAI KIDNAPPING PLOT ADMITTED NEW Y ORK, Price 3 Cents GENERAL STRIKE Hold Dept. of Justice Responsible Reactionary Phoenix Paper Hints Violence Done; IN LODZ TO HELP ., TEXTILE WORKERS Walkout “May Spread Thruout Poland, Gov't Fears | Protest Move Spreads | May Turn Into Anti- Pilsudski Protest WARSAW, Oct. 14.—All workers in the city of Lodz will strike to- morrow in sympathy with more than 100,000 textile workers who have already walked out in their strug- gle against recent wage slashes and the attempts to increase speed-up. Government officials fear that the strike may take on nation-wide pro- portions. The order for a general walkout in Lodz tomorrow was issued by the Central Labor Councej! at its meet- ing yesterday.’ The order was is- sued as the result of the demand of workers engaged in virtually all of the industries in the city. That the. strike may take on .a.|. political complexion and form into a huge labor demonstration against the Pilsudski regime, is a fear widely expressed in semi-official circles. The huge gains made by the Communist Party in Lodz and other industrial centers in the recent na- | tional elections have clearly indi- | cated a general swing to the left among OUsh Wort workers. FOSTER P EXPOSE — Seeretary of Workers Party to Governor Hunt, TAMMANY GRAFT Shows “Liberal” Myth | Trickery Exposing the “ ‘iberalism” of Tam- many Al Smith as a myth, in the light of Smith’s corrupt record as official in New York State and in view of Smith’s anti-labor record, William Z. Foster, Workers (Com- munist) Party candidate for presi- dent, addressed the militant work- ers in Richmond, Virginia, on Fri- day, Oct. 12. Foster’s speech fol- lows: “The myth that Al Smith is a lib- eral is a clever political trick, like Smith’s appeal to the farmers, to the wets, and for religious toler- ance. On the votes he gets by such political chicanery does Smith’s election depend. His attempt to get votes from those disgusted with the corruption in the republican party was a failure because every intelli- gent voter knows that there is noth- ing to choose between Teapot Dome and Tammany Hall with its present sewer scandal, and its recent street- cleaning and milk scandals as well as its long record of corruption against which Smith has never pro- tested, and to which he is a party, Just as Hoover is a party to the} oil graft. “Smith is a machine politician, a regular Tammany man. He got his} start from Tammany in its worst | days, and has always been intimate- ly connected with, in fact the leader of .this reactionary political ma- chine. Smith was Murphy’s lieut- enant as speaker in the assembly and could always be relied upon to serve Tammany and thru Tammany, the ruling class, the employers and | capitalists. “Monopoly of finance capital in industry and government, central- ization of power in this imperialist period in the hands of a few has caused the renovation of Tammany. | and thrown in jail because they tried Today it is not only an organization | to steal a can of milk on Saturday. thru which New York politicians se- | | They were John Apma, of 311 East ith St., | refused to give his address because his wife was ill. tection, but it is also a powerful |ing away a ten gallon can of milk from the Purity Coffee Shop, 45 Third Ave., when they were arrested. cure the “spoils of office” in the | form of contracts from the city gov- ernment and graft from criminals, | bootleggers and prostitutes for pro- | weapon in the hands of the big capi- | halists.” \ | |Starving; “Jailed 1 for to the United States Attorney-General Demanding that John G. Sargeant, United States At- tor General, reveal the role that his agents played in the kidnapping of Benjamin Gitlow, Workers (Communist) candidate for vice president, the Party has sent the follow- ing telegram to Sargeant: United States Attorney General John G, Sargeant, Washington, D. C. The New York Herald-Tribune of October Fourteenth reports following dispatch: “Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 13. Ben- jamin Gitlow, candidate for viee president of the United States on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket, is locked up in the city jail at Nogales on the Mexican border, ac- cording to information received by federal officials in this city today from the chief: of police of Nogales. The police chief said he was holding Mr. Gitlow but did: not say whether any charge had been made against him.” On the basis of this report we demand the following information: (1) What information have you secured from your representatives regarding the date and cause of Gitlow’s arrest? (2) What extent have your officers aided and abetted this unheard of arrest of a Communist candidate for vice president of the United States? (3) Did any of your officials collaborate with agents of the Ku Klux Klan, the American Legion or municipal officials in forcing this arrest? The Workers (Communist) Party brands this arrest as an infamous high-handed outrage against fundamental interests and rights of American workers. This takes away last pretext of democracy in United States and ex- poses American democracy as the outright tool of: the big- gest business interests against the workers. “ So-Called Liberal Governor of Arizona Respon- sible for Attack on Gitlow telegram was also sent to the so-called liberal gov- ernor ne Arizona, George W. P. Hunt, demanding the im- mediate release of the vice presidential candidate of the Workers Party if he is still under arrest and holding Hunt responsible for the personal safety of Gitlow. The tele- gram follows: Personal. George W. P. Hunt, Governor, State of Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona. The New York Herald-Tribune of October Fourteenth reports the following dispatch: “Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 13. Benjamin Gitlow, candidate for vice president of the United States on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket, is locked up in the city jail at Nogales on the Mexican border, according to information received by federal offi- cials in this city today from the chief of police of Nogales. The police chief said he was holding Mr. Gitlow but did not say whether any charge had been made against him.” We demand from you, as governor, information: re- garding the following: (1) The veracity of this report. (2) The basis of Gitlow’s arrest. We demand his release if he has been arrested. The Workers (Communist) Party declares we will hold you as chief executive of the state primarily responsible for the personal safety of Gitlow. We insist that you do not interfere with the campaign tour of Communist vice presidential candidate Gitlow in Arizona. We demand that you take vigorous measures to end gangsterism and terror of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Legion. Hundreds of thousands of workers throughout the country join us in our determination to enforce our rights. Please answer promptly by wire collect. Following telegram was sent by Lovestone to the presi- dent of the Arizona State Federation of Labor following the information that labor officials were among those who met Gitlow at the station at Phoenix and forced him back into the train: “President State Federation of Labor, “Phoenix, Arizona “William O’Brien, Workers (Communist) Party candi- Continued 0; Page Three elegram of the Workers (Communist) Party | | Leader Not Found; May Be Spirited to Mexico PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 14.—Fear that insite Gitlow, Workew (Communist) Party candidate for vice-presi- ident, has been murdered somewhere in the vicinity of Phoenix or Nogales, Ariz., is strengthened as a Phoenix news- |paper, the “Arizona Gazette,” admits edi torially, with apparent inside information, that violent means were used to |prevent Gitlow’s entry into the city last Wednesday. | That Gitlow has in any case been kidnaped by a gang composed of loca! business men, city officials of Phoenix, | American Legion members and reactionary trade union officials working with the police, is the inference of the re- actionary newspaper. aaa a -© Benjamin Gitlow GENERAL STRIKE Two thousand fruit, grocery and dairy clerks employed in over 400 shops of Manhattan and the Bronx are expected to join in a general strike today in response to a call issued by the Retail Grocery, Fruit | and Dairy Clerks’ Union which for tke past year bas carried on a bit- te: but successful struggle for the organization of these trades: meral w; re increase of $5 and, in the who will today respond, a reduction lof from five to fifteen hours a week lare the demands which the union is fighting for. All Qut At 10:30 A. M. The general strike call is issued for 10:30 this morning. By noon over 400 shops in Manhattan and \the Bronx are expected to be com- Continued on Page Two Taking Can of Milk Two starving men were arrested and Henry Phillips, who They were carry- Monday. NN rene WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (UP).—|g Based upon radio messages from) dirigible by navy officials, the Graf the Graf Zeppelin, navy officials es- | Zeppelin gave its position as 80 timated tonight that the giant Ger-) miles east by north of Bermuda and man dirigible would reach Lake- | said it had changed to a southwest hurst, N. J., sometime after 8 a. m,,| course to obtain full benefit of At noon today, after several ur- 4 | trade winds. Navy officials charted the prob-, \GITLOW PROTEST OF CLERKS TODAY. MEET TOMORROW New York workers will voice their protest at the terror instituted against Benjamin Gitlow, Commun- ist candidate for vice-president, and demand that it ¢ t a meeting to be held tomorrow night ai 8 o'clock in Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. The meeting has been arranged under the auspi of the Workers 4 (Communist) P: dressed by prominent leaders of the Party. CHOKER KILLS WORKER CHEHALIS, Wash. Oct. 14. Struck on the head by a choker hook, John Kerth, a worker at the camp |of the Sunset Timber Co., was in- stantly killed. U.S. Navy avy Jingoes Irate at Crew’s 's Silence as Airship Forced to Change Course messages had been sent to the| able course of the dirigible as south- east of Bermuda to the Atlantic Coast somewhere near the northern part of Florida and then north along the gulf stream. They expected the Graf Zeppelin to first sight the American mainland off Cape Hat- teras, and proceed northwest along) and will be ad- |” An editorial of “Arizona Gazette” plot: in Phoenix tells the sinister “Citizens of Phoenix, labor union, city officials and the po- lice department made it very plain to Benjamin Gitlow, Commun- ist candidate for the vice-presidency that Phoenix was too Amer- ican to permit the revolutionary creed of Red Russia to be preached in Phoenix. Gitlow got off the train upon suggestion, we understand, and got right back on again. All united in refus- ing him a place to spread his gospel of World Revolution. He has been three years in prison for advocating revolution in 1919 and how he keeps out of jail now is a mystery. If a Communist was ever elected; lie would utilize the legislative bodiés as a forum to mobilize the working class for militant struggle to abolish the present economic and political order.” FASCISTS FIRE ON ) WORKERS 1 Victim Dying, Other in Critical State (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 14 bloody hand of Mussolini reach out to this city on Columbus Day and as a result one militant Italian worker is dying, another is in a crit- cal condition in the hospital and two others are in jail on framed-up charged. he worker who is dying is Luigi Barra, while Angelo Lentucchia in a critical condition. Both were shot down by f s who fired into | cists who had a black-shirt pa- a group of come to protes rade on Columbu Fas Open Fire. tuechia were stand- li and Barra and [i fig on the corner of F Vernon Higkway with ists. As the parade passed s| ed in Italian various anti-fas- . Out of the mass of pa- rading hi skillfully con- cealed r replied. Barra and Lentucchia dropped, blood spouting from them. They were both rushed to the hospital, where doctors de- el lared that there was little hope for His companion is also in a critical condition and he may be permanently incapacitated. A panic broke cut in the crowd when the shooting started, women children screamed and every- raised a cry that the anti-fascists had done the shooting. Police Aid Terrorists. The police who had arrived on completely the scene co-operated with the blackshi two anti-fa Ruffini and Leon Beccoloni, on the charge that they had fired on their own comrades. EXPECT IMPERIALIST ZEPPELIN THIS MORNING the coast from that point to Lake- hurst. * * * LAKEHURS J. Oct. 14.— While unfavorable wind conditions caused abandonment of all hope that the Graf Zeppelin, the giant imperi-| Continued on Page Three N. Y. NEWSPAPER REPORT SINISTER. A special dispatch from Phoenix, Ar published in the Sunday edition of the New York Herald-Tribune under date of Saturday says that the chief of police of Nogales admits that the Communist candidate is being held by him in the Nogales jail “but did not say whether any charge had been made against him.” The same telegram makes the sinister suggestion that such violence has been used against Gitlow upon his arrival at Phoenix as would cause the local officials to try to keep the matter “as secret as possible.” The inference is clear that “local o: als’ par- ticipated in whatever crime may have been committed against Gitlow. A published report that Gitlow had been taken by his kidnappers to Nogales, Ariz., on the Mexican border is in conflict with the declaration of the chief of police of No- gales that Gitlow is not in the jail in that city. The Asso- ciated Press made an investigation and reported that Git- low is not in the Nogales jail. The possibility that the Communist candidate was spirited through Nogales and into Mexico remains, however, and if this is so the infer- ence is that the criminals had the purpose of violence and perhaps murder. The special dispatch to the N. Y. follows: PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 14.—Benjamin Gitlow, candi- date for vice president of the United States on the Work- ers (Communist) Party ticket, is locked up in the city jail at Nogales, on the Mexican border, according to informa- tion received by federal offi ; in this city today from the chief of police of Nogales: The police chief said he was holding Mr. Gitlow, but did not say whether any charge had been made against him. Herald Tribune is as Members of the Workers (Communist) Party in this state are much exercised at the news. Neither they nor anyone else has been able to obtain definite and compre- hensive information concerning Mr. Gitlow’s imprisonment. it is believed that local officials are seeking to keep it as secret as possible, lest it add to the criticism which has heen made of the far from cordial. reception which Gitlow ~eceived in this state. “Phoenix Gazette’ states that Gitlow got off the rain at Phoenix and was advised to get back on by local abor and city officials. “Phoenix Republican” today pub- lished a report that Gitlow was taken to Nogales on the Mexican border. He needs help. Must have best attorney in Phoenix Mr. O’Brien received a reply in which he was advised to spare no expense in retaining counsel for Mr. Gitlow. Mr. O’Brien had been searching frantically for the viee presidential candidate for two-days when he heard of his imprisonment. “If we can finé“Mrr Gitlow,” said Mr. O’Brien, “we will continue our effort to have him speak in Arizona, for we figure he has a message of import for the laboring class. I believe that he is a big factor in my campaign, and without him my chances for the governorship will be greatly impaired.” The Workers (Communist) Party throughout the Continued oy Page Three fo i