The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1928, Page 2

Page Two WORKERS PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SCORES A. F. OF L. “LEADERS” FOR AIDING ATTACK Urges Mass Struggle Against New Offensive of Capitalist Class SHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 14—William Z. Foster, Workers (Communist) Party candidate for president of the United States, who is here on his own national cam- paign tour, ued the following statement regarding the terror against Benjamin Gitlow, vice-presidential candi- date, who was kidnapped in Arizona and has not been heard from since last Tuesday night: “My running mate on the Workers (Communist) Gitlow Abduction Is Another Link THE DAILY WOR! The “Unofficial” Campaign of the Sociali k™P NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1928 st Party in Chain of Capitalist Terror, Says W. Z. Foster ‘by Jacob Burek SEARCH JAILS, BARRACKS AN ; AMERICAN LEGION QUARTERS IN EFFORT TO FIND BEN GITLOW Phoenix Attorney Says ,Gitlow May Be Held Prisoner in Legion Barracks PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. torney of Phoenix, whose se: | Searching Jails, Barracks and American Legion Head- } | quarters For Gitlow. (By Long Distance Telephone to Daily Worker) # a 14.—Thomas J. Croaf, an at- rvices have been procured to | take care of the necessary legal work in the Gitlow case, has sent to the Executive Secretary of the Workers (Com- Party ticket, Ben Gitlow, has been made the victim of a sinister capitalist plot. We napped, but his whereabouts remain unknown. that he has been kid- An As- know sociated Press dispatch states that Gitlow is held in jail in Nogales, A zona, but the Chief of Police of Nogales denies “Socialist: starting out to use some of the ca ist “agitation- al” methods to retain their hold on the treasuries of the Jewish labor unions. Representatives of the third capital- party campaigning for “social- For successfully defending his life against the brutal attacks of the “socialist” gangsters, William Shif- rin is facing a charge of homicide for fatally wounding one of his as- munist) Party at New York the following facts: “The information of the New York Herald-Tribune from Phoenix which stated that Ben Gitlow is in the City jail of Nogales is incorrect. The editorial office of the Ari- zona Gazette, which is connected with the N. Y. Herald- any knowledge of his imprisonment. Under such condi- tions there ‘s ground for our fear that Gitlow has been murdered. “While the details remain obscure, the outstanding fact glares in the face of the whole working class. The fact as stated in the Arizona Gazette (Phoenix Ariz.) is that police officials, labor bureaucrats, ‘hundred percenters’ of the citizenry and other reactionary elements made an attack on Gitlow when he arrived by train at Phoenix, Ariz. on Oct. 10 to address an election campaign meeting of our Party. The Gazette expressly declares that the purpose of the attack was to save Arizona from a campaign on behalf of the militant workers’ revolutionary program. Link In Terror Chain, “The attack on Gitlow is not an isolated incident. It is a link in the chain of anti-working class activities carried on in these United States. Where federal and state injunc- tions, federal and state military forces are utilized to break the workers’ struggles for a better life; where the Klu Klux Klan’s crimes are openly encouraged; where raids on mili- tant labor unions are an everyday occurence; where workers’ election meetings are forcibly broken up by the American Legion fostered by the government of the United States; where the oppression and lynching of Negroes are taken to be a matter of routine and even civic duty, and where labor bureaucrats shamefully cooperate with the re- actionary forces against the working class—these attacks on militant leaders in a state like Arizona, notorious for the brutal treatment of over 1,000 miners in Bizbee in 1917, is not at all surprizing. Trade Union Bureaucrats to Blame. “On the labor bureaucrats rests, next to the govern- ment, the guilt for the hideous attack on the vice-presi- dential candidate of the workers. It is the labor bureau- crats who, by resorting to the power of police, detectives and sluggers to protect their jobs whenever workers mani- fest a militant spirit, by taking to their bosom the Ameri- can Legion and by supporting all militarist and imperialist activities of Wall Street, have made such actions as the plot against Gitlow possible. It is the labor bureaucrats who, discriminating against our colored fellow citizens and coun- tenancing and encouraging racial and other minority op- pressions, have made terrorism their daily practice. The hand of the labor bureaucrats is also revealed in this, their latest atrocity. Workers Must Rally. “In voicing my own protest and that of the hundreds of thousands of workers supporting our Party, I am con- fident that the working class of the United States will learn the lesson of this plot and will be mobilized in full force, both in the election campaign and outside of it, around the only Party that‘leads the workers in its class battles, the Workers (Communist) Party.” ‘OPEN AIR MEETS GROCERY CLERKS fe 3s a sailants. god a aa own information as contained went straight on. They did correct. gales, and Mr Murphy for t now searching all the jails o1 the United States and Mex) into. the army barracks and i: ing kept there.” Gitlow or anything about ‘him. Tribune declares that they never received such information which said that Gitlow was being kept in the Nogales jail. “The Arizona Gazette maintains that in one point their in the editorial of Oct. 11 was wrong. This stated that Gitlow got off the train at Phoenix, but Gitlow did not leave the train at Phoenix at all. He not know where. In every other detail the facts mentioned in the editorial were “Mr. E. L. Strieds, attorney for the Gitlow case in No- he Civil Liberties Union, are m both sides of the border in ico, but have not yet found The plan now is to look n the American Legion Head- quarters, because there are possibilities that Gitlow is be- WORKERS TO VOTE FOR The “socialist” party, its publicity organs and lawyers providing the capitalist frame-up machine h the “evidence” it needs before it can stifle another class conscious vote. Hail! Hail! The Gang’s All Here!— To the police of Tammany and the republican state troopers, the “so- cialists” have added their gangsters. The answer of the workers must be: D suppression! with all three forces of Vote Communist! SANDINO AT GARDEN POLICE TERROR Over 20,000 class-conscious work- |ers will vote for Sandino on Nov. 4} |at the Madison Square Garden. Be-_ sides being the date of the 11th an-) FOR THIS WEEK Out-of-Town Cities on List TO STRIKE TODAY Affects 2,000 Grocery, Fruit, Dairy Workers MINERS WELCOME KUOMINTANG BANS | *ED CANDIDATES Kruse Tours Southern Illinois BELLEVILLE, Jil, Oct. 14.—The opening gun of the down-state cam- ign of the Workers (Communist) ‘arty in Illinois was fired at a mass meeting held in’ White Parlor Hall, Springfield. The speakers were William F. Kruse, candidate for gov- ernor, and Minnie Lurye, organizer of the Young Workers. (Communist) League. Two new members for the Workers. Party were recruited and the basis was laid for the organiza- ition of a Young Workers League branch. On the following day a noon-day meeting was held in the yard of the Monarch Tractor Works. Kruse be- gan with a group of 15 men in over- alls eating their lunch in the yard. Volunteer delegates ran through the factory, announcing the meeting, and soon the crowd grew to 100 and stuck until after the whistle blew. The same afternoon was devoted to a distribution of literature in the Negro section of the sity, ard the evening to an organizational meet- ing of the Workers Party, together with prospective League members. Livingston Mass Meeting. At [ivingston, the following | UNIONS PEKING, (By Mail)—The labor unions here, which were organized after the capture of Peking have been closed by the military at the order of General Yen Hsi-shan, Gar- rison Commander. This situation shows the divergent policies on the question of mass movements which is one of the factors splitting the Kuomintang. In this connection ob- servers believe there will be a dupli- cation here of the conditions that jexisted in Wuhan after its occupa- tion by the Nationalists. A fever- ish period of the organization of all kinds of labor unions took place un- der the auspices of the Kuomintang but as soon as these unions showed a tendency to independent class ac- tivity a Kuomintang reaction set in. Then was witnessed the scene of former advocates of unionization heartily approving the militarist butchery of the recently organized | workers and peasants. Peking has evidently reached this point of reaction very quickly. A taste of the methods used is seen in the instructions by Yen Hsi-shan that the unions were to be dissolved |by force, if necessary, and their leaders warned of ere penalties |for disobedience. At the same time {all public assemblies were pro- | hibited. Some Kuomintang Leaders The. local Kuomintang issued a night. a mass meeting was attended | statement in consequence of this The following open air have been arranged by the Work- ers (Communist) Party to take meetings Continued from Page One pletely shut-down. Active picketing was announced by the officials of place throughout the city during the following week: TODAY. Rutgers Square. Wright, Spiro, Milgrom, Blum, Wattenberg, ’ S. Hurwitz, 28th St. and Lexington Ave. Pow- ers, H. Davis, I. Zimmerman, James Cork. 1st and 49th St. Baum, Frank, i Grand . Ext. and Havemeyer, Brooklyn, Midola, Zam, Gertrude Welsh, M. Reiss, J. Cohen. Stanley a rson. (Noon.) Markoff and Y. W. L. speaker. TOMORROW. Sutter and lliams, Brooklyn Aronberg, Primoff, Spiro, Julius Cohen, S. Freeman. Prospect and 163rd St. Grecht, Taft, Severino, Cibulsky, J. Cohen 5th Ave, and 125th St. Stachel, O'Flaherty, B. Friedman. Eagle Pencil. (Noon.) Gussa- koff, Sumner, Anna Block. 89th St. and 9th Ave. Joe Cohen, Bydarian, 142nd St. and Lenox. Williams, Fishman, Alexander, Lloyd. 133rd St. and Lenox. Frace Lamb, Braverman, Richard Moore, Cont kind. Nine Classes to Begin | at the Workers School | The following classes are sched-| nled to begin at the New York Workers School this week: | History of the U. James Cork instructor, Thursday Furia 7 p.m mentals of Communism, H. the union to begin promptly. The grocery, fruit and dairy clerks are among the most underpaid and overworked in the city. For this reason“ as well as because of the militant and successful struggle put up by the untoh during the past year, it is believed that they will come out 100 per cent. The union was formed followin. a t le against the strikebreaking hods and open betrayal of the tht wing in the United Hebrew Trades. It has succeeded in organi- ?00 shops, in reducing for members in some 10 and 15 per week and in- weees from $5 to $20 per ll this was accomplished in the face of a strikebreaking cam- paign conducted by the right wing collaborating with the courts and the police. Union officers yesterday expressed the greatest confidence in the out- come of the strike. As an indica- tion of their strength they predicted that within a short time several hundred shops would be signed up. Fox, instructor, Wednesday, 7 p. m Marxian Economics 2, J. Mindel instructor, Tuesday, 8.30 p. m. Socialism, Commun- Olgin, instructor, Mon- ism, M. day, 7 p. m. Principles of Marxism 2, A. Mark- off, instructor, Wednesday, 8.30 p.m. English 2, Serby, instructor, Tues- day, 8.30 p. m. English 3, Fields, Thursday, 7 p. m. English 5, Brooks, instructor, esday, 8.50 p. m. Fnglish 6, \.right, ‘Twesday, 7 p. my by 100 miners and 50 youngsters. Bill Matheson, sub-district organ- izer of the Workers (Communist) Party, acted as chairman and de- scribed in intimate detail the local conditions under which the miners | were now working. The miners were reminded of an incident in Liv- ingston ten years ago when, under | the impress of war hysteria, the town officials vainly sought to break | up a Kruse meeting and then re- sorted to a mob attack on the speak- ers as they were leaving the meet- ing. Ail the worsc conditions in the industry and union then predicted had come true, and the remedies outlined by the. speakers—Commun- ist political support and membership in the new National Miners Union, met with great acclaim. A recently erganized group. of “Pioneers” did yeoman service’ in advertising the | meeting. Plan Other Meetings. Meetings will be held in Staunton, Belleville and Benld, after which a week will be spent in the Franklin and Williamson County district. On Sunday, Oct. 24, a furction- | aries meeting will be held in St.) Louis at the Labor Lyceum, 1243 N. Garrison St. A general member- ship meeting will be held in the seme hall in the evening, where a report will be given in the work of the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International. |Volunteers Needed at ‘Daily” Office Today Volunteers are needed to dis-| instructor, tribute copies of the Daily Worker today. All those who want to vol- unteer should report to the Business Office of the Daily Worker, 26-28 yearly as possible today, closing that illustrates perfectly how “devoted” that party is to the | welfare of the masses. It declares that the military were justified in so far as they suspected that Com- munists were utilizing the unions :s agitational centers. The Kuomin- tang, it continues, is always eager to cooperate with the authorities for the maintenance of “peace and or- der,”—that is; for the delivery to the military of labor agitators. Over 40 unions besides the General Labor Union (Council), were or- dered disbanded and their meetings forbidden. Yen Hsi-shan’s public explanation of the reasons for his order reveal how little fundamental difference the between the Nationalist mili- tarists and their defeated rivals on zation of the masses. “These labor agitators have gone so far, and made things so uncomfortable for the wealthy,” he complains, “that the latter have abandoned their prop- ‘erty in Peking and Tientsin and fled | for refuge with whatever goods they could take along to the foreign con- cessions in the latter city or to the Japanese port of Darien in Man- churia.”. These conditions, un- checked, would completely paralyze Chinese industry in North China \and seriously reduce governmental | revenues, he concludes. In this con- {nection General Yen as a matter of fact announced on his taking of- | | fice as Garrison Commander that he would ruthlessly surppress all “radi- cal” agitation, meaning thereby all | efforts to organize the masses. Nevertheless such agitation im- mediately set in on a large scale, “Communist Killer's” Blood, Yen took no steps for a time to enforce his orders, chiefly perhaps instructor, Union Sq., on the second floor, as because one of his rivals, General! tempt to come to the aid of the | Pai-Chung-hsi,—who had a _ very any question involving the organi- | IN PEKING large army at Peking for exactly | what reason does not seem generally | known,— conducted a strong propa- | ganda for the right of popular as-| sembly. This was all the more re- | markable inasmuch as Pai has been | dubbed the “Communist killer” he- cause of his terrible repression of all mass agitation in the territories un- der his control. Incidentally, it myst be remarked, that in China every | person who dares to oppose or in | many cases, even criticize the mili- | tarists is promptly labelled a “Com- | munist” and unmercifully handled. | A clue to Pai’s attitude is seen, how- ever, in the fact that it was anti-|™unist campaigners expounded the | ment he sought to stir |P!atform of the class struggle to the | thousands of other militant work- ickly gathering crowds of work-|ers thruout the country will cast] st, and Ave. B; foreign sen up. It is thus evident that this was a tactic closely connected with his position as a leader in the Kuangsi clique and the relationships of the latter with the foreign imperialists. Another fact showing the clash of factions in the nking Govern- jment is this, that it was reported |from Nanking officially a few days jafter Yen Hsi-shans’s order that the |}Central Kuomintang had given in- | structions that under no circum- stances should public organizations |formed in accordance with its regu- |lations be dissolved by local author- jities. It was ordered that the clos- | ling instructions should be im- \mediately countermanded. On the other hand an official Reuter dis- |patch from Peking a few days later junequivocally stated that instruc- tions had been wired from Nanking | [instructing General Yen not’ to al- low the unions which had been dis- |solved to reopen. On August 25th, the General La- |bor Union (Council) was organized at Tientsin. Up to the present 25 unions have been formed here since the capture of the city. In accord- ance with the Kuomintang policy these unions are strictly subject to | the party. They are organized in | order to place exclusively in the hands of the Nationalist militarist: the control of the masses. The fac- tion in the Kuomintang advocating this policy has thus shown its clever- ness over the feudal ‘militarists of the North whose policy was to pre- vent absolutely the organization of | unions. Thue Beats Communist ‘Unconscious While a \Policeman Looks On A vicious beating by a gangster | while a policeman looked on, re- fusing to interfere, was the pen- niversary celebration of the Bolshe- vik revolution and pageant of the class struggle, Nov. 4 is also the \date when the general elections will \be held in Nicaragua. “Solidarity with Sandino” will be jthe slogan of the massed workers vat the huge arena, symbolic of the ppqEes /international unity of all class-con- Over 1,000 Workers. at, iors ics’ ctusgle it Huge Red Night | |country, the pageant this year will |be staged with, an unprecedented Last Friday night Harlem rang | fervor and enthusiasm by the mili-| with the revolutionary. ‘doctrines tant workers. The fight against which form the platform of the | American imperialism is the core of Workers (Communist) Party in the |the fight against the war menace. election campaign. Beginning precisely at 8 p. m. at eight different corners in the work- ing class districts of Harlem, the Worke (Commupist) Party Red platforms were erected and Com- ers. At 10 p.m. these meetings were adjourned and the speakers, taking with them a great number of the workers who had for two hours been listening to them, accom- panied by two Red trucks and many banners and slogans, marched to 710th St. and Fifth Ave., to partici- pate in the huge wind-up meeting. Over 1,000 Attend. The mass attendance, estimated to have been well over a thousand, the many militant slogans held aloft | on sticks, and the spontaneous en- | thusiasm of the workers in the audi- | ence, gave the mecting more the as- pect of a demonstration. Speaker after speaker was greeted enthusi- ically by the crowd. Denuncia- tions of the socialist party’s labor treachery were cheered. Hoover and Smith were fully exposed as the tools of Big Business, The class struggle platform of the Workers (Communist) Party was expounded by the Red campaigners. Many Give Talks. The speakers at the wind-up meeting were Nat Kaplan and Si Rady of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League; Joe Cohen, A. Mar- ff, Rebecca Grecht and Alexander, Negro worker, A, L. Fishman, of the Harlem section of the Workers (Communist) Party, presided, A collection of over $30 was taken by Grecht, state campaign ager of the Red campaign. At 11 o'clock the meeting ad- journed, and a huge torchlight pa- rade formed and marched to the Harlem headquarters at 143 E. 103rd St. singing revolutionary songs. Most of the workers who had been listening joined the parade, illumin- sted by red torches and made pic- turesque by ‘the banners and Red slogans. At the Harlem headquar- ters a short and spontaneous meet- ing was held by popular demand. A. | This will be given mass expression have thousands of workers will rise jat the Madison Square Garden on | Nov. 4 and cast a huge vote for the | Nicaraguan fighter against Amer- jican imperialism. Two days later these and tens of their votes in the American elections for William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, working class candidates on the platform of the class struggle. | The militant workers of New York, while they celebrate the anni- |versary of the revolutionary birth |of the Soviet Union, will express their determination to defend that | revolution, and the workers’ and farme. evvernment it founded, against the attacks of the imperial- ist powers. The existence of the “FAILS TO HALT ~ HUGE RED NIGHT |Workers Defy Police; Hear Red Nominees The Red Night arranged by Sec- tion 1 of the Workers (Communist) Party and held Saturday evening in the Downtown section of Manhat- tan, was one of the most success- ful undertakings of its kind ever jheld, Six street corner meetings were held, after which a big wind-up meeting took place on the corners |of 10th St. and 2nd Ave, The six meetings were held at 10th St. and 2nd Ave.; 6th St. and 2nd Ave.; 7th St. and Ave. A; 5th Sheriff and Riving- ton Sts.; and at Rutgers Square. At 7th St. and 2nd Ave., Congressman Sirowitz and a big Tammany gang were holding a meeting. One mem- ber of this Tammany gang chal- lenged the Workers (Communist) Party to debate. The challenge was immediately accepted, and Max |Shachtmar’ mounted their platform Jand was about to speak, But the Tammany gang backed out imme- diately and did not permit him to jof the world revolutionary move- speak, Police Aid Tammany. ment, the class-conscious workers of, One worker in the audience esked this country realize, is a serious Sirowitz a question, but instead of minace to the imperialist powers,| answering it, he immediately began and those powers will attempt to|to shout for police. In a few sec- destroy the Soviet Union, onds, 20 police were on the spot, and U. S. S. R. as the* foundation head The mats demonstration of No- vember 4th will expross the deter- mivation of the assembled workers to turn any attack by the American |immediately began to terrorize the workers who wanted to ask the reac- tionary congressman questions. As |soon as the police began their in- t | | | alty suffered by a worker in Markoff and Mania Reiss speaking. Ozone Park, L. 1, Saturday at 9 | p. m., for saying that he was go- | | ing to vote Communist. \Greek Fraction of | h in h e can: | yy’ The worker (whose name can- ‘Party Meets Tomorrow not be given for obvious reasons) desiring to register, asked a po- | liceman where the nearest po!ling The Greek fraction of the Work- Before telling him, |ers (Communist) Party will hold a special meeting at 101 W. 27th St. | was going lo vote, and when the tomorrow at 8.30 p. m. The organi- worker replied “Communist” a | zational secretary of the district will six-foot bully, who was listening, | report. All members of the Greek seized him by the neck and began | fraction must be present. to beat him. Meny people were | nearby at the time, but, seeing the cop stand idle, they made no at- | | station was. | the policeman asked him how he ecdle worker! Get a collection N int ‘Trndex Campaign Committee, 28 | victim, at the hendquartern of the Nee- | 202, and collect | 202, The intensity of the present elec- tion campaign, according to the | District Campaign Committee, has! made it necessary to print much! more literature and engage in many more forms of campaign activities | than ever before, and the expenses have been accordingly greater. It is pointed out that the necessary funds must come from the workers} themselves—from those for whom | the Workers (Communist) Party is | fighting politically as well as indus- trially. imperialists against the Soviet | timidation, however, the workers Union into a civil war against the|;aised their banner which carried a Sa teal | After Alexander Trachtenberg, Red Collection Week candidate from the 14th Congres- Will Begin Oct. 20; ;Communist candidate for senate ‘from the 14th District, had spoken Red. collection week will begin | hundred workers marched en masse, Saturday, Oct, 20, and continue until With signs and torchlights through the District 2 election campaign, While they were parading, brutally, committee of the Workers (Com-| beating up several. The workers, The Communist Campaign Fund | tinued for another block to the cors Week will start with city-wide Tag ners of 7th St. and 2nd Ave., where day, Oct. 21. On these two days, the workers had now gathered, hundreds of Communist campaign-| When Miller began to speak, pO in the collection’ of signatures, in platform, but the workers, proteste the distribution of leaflets and in ing and cheering the Workers (Come an army of Red solicitors, and will ting, cover every section of the city for ithe to hold Pre sis oratetaleaties allow them to continue. The Coma munist candidates unmasked capix terrorism against the working class, Eighteen workers joined the party, Flynn, Terrorist Red - Baiter, Dead at 60 William J. Flynn, former head of the United States Secret Service, raids in 1919 against the left wing workers, died here early today of capitalist bosses. huge “Vote Hammer and Sickle.” sional District, and Bert Miller, Plan Mass Activities jat 10th St. and 2nd Ave., several the end of that week, according to|2nd Ave. The police attacked them munist) Party. protesting loudly against this, con Days on Saturday, Oct. 20 and Sun- | Sirowitz was speaking. Over 1,000 ers who have been actively engaged lice. attempted to drag him from thé house to house canvasses will form | munist) ‘Party, demanded thei funds for the Communist campaign. sentiment, the police were forced ta talist “democracy” and the police during this Red Night. LARCHMONT, N. Y., Oct. 14.— and terrorist who engineered the red heart failure. He was 60 years old,