The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 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 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, ; Vol. V., No. 245 Publishing Association, Inc., Published daily except Sunday by Fhe National Daily Worker 26-28 Union Sq. New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1928 ADorker » under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION GITLOW EVA WILL FAGE ARIZ( | PROTEST MEET, CENTRAL ai HOUSE TONIGHT Against Persecution and Police Terror !Rap Kidnap Attempt) : Prominent Spéakers to Talk New York City will hold the first of the series of meetings through- out the entire county to protest against the efforts of the authori- ties to break up the campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party. This meeting will be held Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 8:30 p. m., in the Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. The break-up of meetings, the at-| |Central Section of New tempts to kidnap Benjamin Gitlow. the break-up of meetings in Texas, Long Island, Bayonne and New Jer- sey, thé arrest of comrades in vari- cus sections of the country,.the ter- ror of the industrial squads of New | Leader J sore SOL ERENBERG. NEW LARGE MINE DISTRICT FORMED : National Union (Wireless to the Daily Worker) PORTAGE, Pa., Oct. 15. — From York, of the thugs and police in| a’ radius of more than a hundred Pennsylvania, the mass arrests. in |miles, delegates gathered here at New Bedford, the shooting of wor! ers in Detroit—these will all be i: sues of the meeting tomorrow. The meeting will point out the, reed of workers organizing them- selves in order to be able to carry on their activities. The Shifrin defense will be part of the issues of this meeting. | Hungarian Hall and organized the | Central Pennsylvania district of the National Miners’ Union to replace he discredited and shattered United | ‘ine Workers of America. The |once powerful union controlled by the Lewis. machine, delegates de- \clared, has been destroyed by the treacherous policies of the Lewis- Prominent speakers will address | Marks officialdom. this meeting, including Robert Build the new miners’ union, was Minor, H. M. Wicks, William W.|the keynote of the convention. Weinstone, James P. Cannon, Ben Charles Killinger, of Portage, who JAIL COMMUNIST | AN LOS ANGELES ANTI-RED DRIVE. ‘Criminal Syaidicalian’ Is Charge Against League C Official Frame- “tp Looming Arrest Four | Young Workers (Special to the Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15.—Sol Erenberg, sub-district organizer of the Young Workers (Communist) League, is being held in prison charged with “criminal syndicalism” jand a general campaign of terror was being started against the Young Workers (Communist) League and he Pioneers. Erenberg was arrested at his |home and all letters in his posses- |sion confiscated by the local and \federal authorities. It is announced that he will be tried for “criminal syndicalism” “or deported. His ar-! rest followed that of two members | |of the Young Workers League and | two Pioneers for distributing leaf-| lets to servicemen at San Pedro. The |leaflets protested the invasion of | Nicaragua, and called attention to the war danger and the attacks on |the Soviet Union. The members of the League and Pioneers arrested at San Pedro were Louis Schneiderman, vice president of the Office Workers’ Union, years old; Abe Zimmerman, 18; Fan- nie Schulman, 14; and Lillian Din- ken, 14, After being held in prison for some time, all were released, Gold, M. J. Glgin and Rebecca | was elected president of the district, | Zimmerman being given a suspended | | sentence on the charge of ihrer aa Grecht. YOUNG WORKERS DEMONSTRATE jas temporary officers of a twelve 5 Arrested at Garden| Jingo. Exhibit presided. Peter Mallon of Cresson was elected vice president, Tom Rodgers. of Portage, secretary-treas- urer, and Thomas McCluskey of Gal- |litzin, the member of the National Executive Board from this district. | All of them have been prominent in the miners’ struggles in this ter- ritory for many years and will serve month period, after which the rank and file will elect the district offi- cers by referendum, John J, Watt, national - president The arrest of five members of |of the new union, made the keynote | the Young Workers (Communist) League was the reprisal speech, calling upon each delegate that | to become an organizer and work! indignant militarism took upon the | tirelessly until every miner in the) district has been brought into the Vice presidential candidate, Charles | Teague’s invasion of its week-long exposition of war preparation at) Madison Square Garden, with leaf- lets denouncing the-jingoshow. Nearly a thousand workers ticipated in the demonstration against the war show, and the war danger which it. represents, | union. An“attempt to imitate the meth- ods used by the U. M. W. A. offi- | \cialdom of Pittsburgh in their gang- | Workers’ ster attack upon the convention hall | proved unsuccessful when a handful Continued on Page Three ing without a permit.” When arrested at San Pedro, the| Continued on Page Three WOLFE EXPOSES ‘PROGRESSIVES’ |Shows GOP “Prosper- ity” as Myth Other| 18) ;CRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per yeat je New York, by mall, 80.00 per year, NES KIDNAPPERS. NA TERROR Price 2 Ys ents Communist Speaks at Houston, Texas, Despite Police Who Raid Meeting Objecting to Negroes’ Presence (By Long Distance Telephone to the Daily Worker) HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 15.—That Benjamin Gitlow, vice-presidential candidate of the Workers (Communist) Party, did not fall into the hands of the kidnapping gang which claimed to have captured him at Phoenix, Ariz., or |the night of October 10, became known here last night when Gitlow appeared at the Houston Labor Temple to speak jat the meeting arranged by the Texas State Campaign Committee of the Workers (Communist) Par The terror which began in Phoenix was continued here last night when the Houston police raided the meet- POLICE AT HOUSTON ATTACK RED MEETING .- HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 15—At the 15.—At the last moment before the opening of the mass election campaign rally to be addressed by Ben Gitlow, candidate for vice president of the Workers (Communist) Party of America, the police shut the hall and began to drive the crowd away. A large- sized crowd had gathered to listen to the address of Com- rade Gitlow,.for whose condition grave fears were enter- tained by the workers. The reason for the unsuccessful attempt to break up the meeting is to be found in the fact that the Party made a special appeal in Houston to have the Negroes attend the meeting. The Centra] Trades Council, in whose hall the meeting was to be held, clearly stated that it objected to allowing Negroes to enter the hall. The uniformed gangsters did not succeed, however, in breaking up the meeting. When the Labor Temple shut its doors to the work- ers, several hundred of them proceeded immediately to the hall of the Workmen’s Circle. The police were in despair and then they arrested six of the most active workers in the meeting. Those ar- rested were Kelly, Lawrence, Croaf, Mark, Priddy and Friedman. Kelly and Marks are out on bail. Their case will come up imme- diately for a hearing. “The workers had expected police interference because there had been organized attacks on all Workers Party election meetings the last few days throughout the south. DENOUNCES NEGRO PER: SUTION, The meeting was well attended and showed a splendid spirit. Gitlow made a forceful speech, in which he denounced American imperialism and pointed out the imminent war danger. He con- demned-sharply persecution of the Negroes and emphasized the need of the workers of all races and colors to fight energetically for the rogram of the Workers (Communist) Party to secure complete equality for the Negroes in the United States. Gitlow then made a strong attack on the government authorities and their terrorist agents in attempting to break up the meetings of the Workers Party. He went on to say that it was only the begin- ning, but that the Communists will hold their meetings despite all persecutions. HITS LABOR FAKERS, The Communist candidate for vice president made an especially bitter attack on the dastardly conduct of the American Federation of Labor officialdom. He concluded his speech by asking the workers to organize themselves to fight for the full ‘program of the Commu- nist Party and to turn the coming imperialist war into a civil war. ing and attempted unsuccessfully to dri ve > the | Communist vice-presidential candidate out. of the city. Six Houston ° workers, Kelly, Lawrence, Marks, Croaf, Brady and Friedman, while defending Gitlow’s right to speak. were arrested and tl wn into jail The Labor Temple = were closed by police. THREATEN HUGE GERMAN LOCKOUT 190,000Textile Workers Fight Famine Wages BERLIN, Oct. 15.—One hundred anc ninety thousand textile workers of the Rhenish and Westphalian | mills are threatened with a general lockout next Saturday, if they per- sist in their refusal to accent the present wage scale to be effective until the end of 1929. The workers and their leaders declare that they will not accept a wage that means starvation on the present cost of living. In addition, within the next week, the ranks of the striking and locked- out workers may grow to a half mill- ion, as a conference between work- ers in the Ruhr Rhineland and em- ployers, held in Essen on October 12°failed, and the industrialists de- cided to lock out all the men begin- ning November 1. Two hundred thousand irof and steel workers are involved, but probably the miners will also be drawn into the conflict. The mill owners decided to call a | lockout of the Rhineland mills at the | meeting of the turers’ Associations here last night. Strike Sentiment Strong. Strike sentimer.t has been spread- ing through the Rhineland mills ever since the 54,000 textile workers at Muenchen-Gladbach struck two weeks ago and the walk-out now af- Continued on Page Three SUPERIOR, Wis., (By Mail). |Curtis who spoke in Superior yes- terday afternoon was answered by Bertram D. Wolfe last night rally ever held by Communists in| \this part of Wisconsin. Wolfe also, |exposed the role played by La Fol-| in| Hall before the largest | GENERAL STRIKE | general post office, which was empty | of all employes, in order to maintain | telephone connections with Warsaw. The strike was called by the Cen- | tral Labor Council at its meeting “7 TYING UP LODZ aged in virtually all o! \dustites The readiness of rie wor! a |lette of Wisconsin, Shipstead of the@ WARSAW, Oct. 15.—The general ers to strike for higher wages and Spaiey on the demand “ Neches a GROCERY CLERKS’ STRIKE SUCCESS Textile Manufac-| Reactionary trade union offici labor temple are said to have taken en of the Communists in especially iny the meeting here in Houston, where : just before the opening of the dem vention that nominated Al Smith. be present in the same hall with whit as one reason for the police attack on the r Nevertheless a successful meeting w: ing another hall, »hich. was filled with workers, in control of the on to the action to attend s lynched Negroes w ould given gen neeting. held by seeur- ero ard. white By BEN {JAMIN GIT (By Long Distance Telephone To Worker.) SAN ANTONIO Texas, Ox I was about to take a train from San Diego, California Tuesday on last evening, October 9th, on my w. speak, I received word from munist candidate for governor of Arizona, the police had forbidden the meeting meeting would not be permitted on t hall of the Central Trades had been re the meeting after all arrargements to speak, r O’Brien gave instruc to whether to proceed to Phoenix hat date, or whether to go to the next meeting to be held at Tucson. I therefore waited at San Diego. On the night of the 10th, I decided that I had to leave at once for Houston in order to make the meeting there. I learned on my arrival at Houston that the reason I had not teceived further infor- mation at San Diego was that O’Brien had been arrested. On my arrival in Houston, I got in touch with Arizona through the National Office ef the Workers (Communist) Party at New York and arranged to back to speak at Phoenix and Tucson. Only here in San Antonio did I learn about the mis- erable plot to kidnap me in Phoenix as revealed in the pre- mature editorial in the Arizona Gazette of Phoenix. I am determined to go back to Pheenix and to have a meeting there. ATTEMPT TO STOP , Art O’Brier, telling me that Phoenix, the i and that the 1 us for use for had been made for me to Com- ord as SAN ANTONIO MEETING. The effort is now being made to stop the San Antonio meeting. A Mr. Hood of the San Antonio post of the Ameri- can Legion took up the fight to break up our meeting so At a given moment thousands of With an enthusiasm that has x 1 Q i 8 se ial z leaflets denouncing the preparations | neighboring state of Minnesota and | strike called for the Lodz district)better working conditions has marked the Retail Grocery, Fruit ete Gan wk ces pei! panera = for the next imperialist war were | | Victor Berger of Milwaukee. Other for today was a-complete success, as spread general alarm through offi-| and Dairy Clerks’ Union as a work- . as eae “4 y to sen ps to escor me thrown from the galleries and in, seers were made by Walter ifihigs Seen ees’ ® cial circles here and measures are ation that deserves the} out of Texas. But there were some that took up the fight this way distributed among the | Harju, chairman of the mass meet- | Workers in all the industries of the|heing contemplated to prevent the m of all class-conscious) for free speech. Moody then refused to interfere, and Continued on Page Two ARRIVES iN ll, 8 ing and A. J. Hayes, Communist district walked out end joined the eae or ny general strike into *, its enn ent Hood backed out. But the American Federation of Labor DES Ss ates candidate for governor in this state. | strike of the 100,000 textile workers, | other districts man, stopped work at 10 o'lock this 1 * Shas pA s and -we hi 4 Hayes devoted his speech to the an-| All factories were idle and even’ The split of the “socialist” under ™orning and joined the general hall, the Labor Temple, was then shut to us and we hired another hall—Turner Hall. But this also was taken away from us. We have since taken another hall known as the La Gloria Roof Garden. I do not know whether they will « break up our meeting or not. Local papers are ablaze with the whole Communist issue. stoppage ordered by their union on the expiration of the old agreements with New York’s store owners. While the main purpose of the) stoppage was to secure acquiesance swering of Norman Thomas, who | bakeries, slaughter houses, stores,and |the pressure of strike wave, which meee here recently. shops were closed down. The whole has rendered them practically im- “When Curtis says Tammany cor- | district was rendered helpless, com- | potent under the present conditions, ig Bike is an issue,” declared Wolfe masiawons tthe Coie food sup-|and the increasing influence of jin his answer to the. republican |ply threatened, and there was even Commuist leaders among the Polish ‘ | speaker, “T have to agree with him.|@ partial strike in the hospitals. workers, are factors which are taken | of the nist ed ict er But I ask him: What about Teapot | Troops have been rushed to Lodz to indicate that workers in other i ihe a 3 py Continued on Page Five land have taken possession of the/|certers will join the general strike. | Continued on Page Two | ANT LAAT TINT] mulated at the recent State Convention of the American sa sin og et FOSTER SEES BIG COMMUNIST VOTE IN SOUTH tat ‘incu. insachteitcin seceese ao ‘flight of more than 6,400 miles Bee re eee 4 forces to fight Bolshevism, since the Workers in four days, 15 hours and 48 min- (Communist) Party had succeeded in placing itself on the utes. ‘Red Nominee Finds White, ite, Negro Workers Rallying to Communist Program >aliot in this state, a posse made up of Legionaires, mem- eat: bers of the Ku Klux Klan, business men, local politicians and labor fakers, laid elaborate plans here to kidnap Ben-* jamin Gitlow, candidate of the Workers (Communist) Party for vice-president of the United States. mi The posse boardedjfhe train but failed to find Gitlow. A full description e plot had been sent to the press by the would-be kidnappers in advance.. R. W. Redwine, local representative of the-Phoenix Gazette and also corre- spondent here of the New York HeralgyTribune, was one of HOOVER PLEDEES- osc x. cx IMPERIALIST AID °» "=>! teen \LAKEHURST, N. J N. J, Oct. 15 (UP). —The Graf Zeppelin, the largest |airship ever built and the first to jeross the Atlantic Ocean on a com- PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 15.—Carrying out a policy for- |Assures Wall Street It) Will Be Protected 5. — Speaking here tonight } “a typically con- servative Nev ungland audience, composed entirely of the upper mid- dle class, introduced by Alvan T. Fuller, legal murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti, at a meeting of which the open-shop textile baron, Senator Butler presided, Herbert Hoover de- livered an address fit for the dom- inant imperialist clique which he hopes to lead in its future acts of ageression. Denying that the United States is ‘mperidlistic while giving warning . that American. investments abroad BOSTON, * *« @ Dull grey against a grey sky, the dirigible Graf Zeppelin,‘emissary of imperialist Germany, glided over New York City late yesterday after- noon as thousands of workers eraned their necks thru’factory and oftice windows to gaze. at the huge air monster. 4 The great dirigible appeared over Battery Park shortly before 4 p. m., preceded by more than a score of Foster declared: “The entry of the Workers (Communist) Party is a sign of the new times in the south.” He told of the growing industrial development of the southern states. “Wages are much lower than in the | jnorth, and there is considerable un- | employment.” In Richmond, Va., the labor fak- | \ers tried to suppress Foster’s meet- obtained and the meeting held. | The meetings of his tour were well attended, Foster declared, “and the overwhelming part of the audi- ences were proletarian, while the so- cialist meetings have been poorly attended, with audiences composed largely of petty bourgeois elements. | “One of the outstanding features of the tour was the large number By PAUL CROUCH a large vote inthe southern states,” “The campaign of the Workers | Foster predicted, “but it would be (Communist) Party in the south|much larger if the Negro workers marks a new epoch in the history |were allowed to vote. The Party is of our Party,” declared William Z.|receiving considerable support from Foster, Communist candidate for|the Negroes.” Foster told of the president, in an interview during a|change of front on the part of the few hours spent in New York yes-|republican party, which has aban- | terday. Foster told of the Coin-|doned all pretense of supporting the munist invasion of the centers of |rights of the Negroes and has be- os ; ‘ tho= is believ a would be protected by force of arms.|army and commercial planes which | reaction with its militant program come “lily white.” ing by preventing the use of tho of fi al’cts who heave re- m8 e pte ae y ea ain ie bee by candidate pledged his Wall|circled about like traffic cops of the deans full rights for Negroes.) Diccussing the first campaign of |Inbor hell, which hod beon engaged. | pudiated ¢ 3. P. hetrevcl volicies| Wine, after learn if dere hed failed ta fin i, eTeo | Continued on Poge Three | ‘The Communist ticket will poll \the Communists in the “solid south,” |At the last moment a new hallparan | Continued on Page Thiee ' Col ed 01 Page Three REN ERLE AX