The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1928, Page 1

ee re a | | THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS | For a Workers-Farmers Government | To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a t Labor Party Entered as se aily = nd-class matier at the Vol. V., No. 246 Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Work Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. m New York, by mail, 68.00 per year __Outside New York, by mall, 86.00 per yenr. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 ‘Cents FOSTER JAILED if DELAWARE Communist mist Meeting Will Be Held in m Phoenix, Arizona, Despite Police Terrorism Corps Will Be on Hand Vice-Presidential Nominee and Lauderdale Barred by Dallas Police PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 16.—Benjamin Gitlow, Commu- nist candidate for vice president, will speak at a monster mass meeting here Thursday night. Gitlow is on his way here, it was learned today, to face the united forees of the Ku Klux Klan, the American Legion, labor and city officials who several days ago united in a kidnapping plot to prevent him from speaking in this city. Gitlow and the Communist Party will fight to a finish for the opportunity of presenting their case before the workers of Arizona. CANCELS OTHER DATES. In a communication to William O’Brien, Communist candidate for governor of Arizona, Gitlow stated that he had canceled all his Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas speak- ing dates to appear in the city where he was, prevented from speaking Oct. 10 by a kidnaping gang whom he suc- ceeded in evading. O’Brien and George Saul, Rocky Mountain sub-district organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party, and Com- munist candidate for governor of Colorado, will also speak. The Workers Defense Corps from Denver will be present at the meeting to defend workers against possible attacks. From Phoenix Gitlew will go to Minneapolis. NEW ATTACK LAUNCHED. At the same time information was received here of a further attempt to stop Communist meetings in the cam- paign of official terror which has been unloosed by the forces of reaction and officials of the government. A meeting scheduled for Dallas, Texas, at which Git- low and B. H. Lauderdale, Communist candidate for gov- ernor of Texas, were to. speak, was today barred by city officials. Arthur Reinhart, street commissioner, it was learned, at the request of the loc post of the American Legion ordered that doors of the city hall auditorium be closed to the Communist candidates. TO FIGHT BAN. While Gitiow cannot be there to fight this new issue owing to his departure for Phoenix, Lauderdale, it is known, will wage the campaign to present the Commu- nist program before the workers of Dallas at all costs. Labor officiais of Dallas, it was learned, with the same reactionary spirit displayed at Phoenix, joined in the move to prevent any exposure of their treachery to the working class by refusing to permit the Communist meet- ing to be held at the Dailas Labor Temple Auditorium. Communist Campaign in the “Solid South”! Reverberates Reverberations from many southern cities are noted as a result of the Communist national election campaign. All capitalist elements of the south are roused to fury, and this fury is expressed in a wave of direct. and sometimes violent efforts to close the mouths of the Communist speakers. The reasons are: The Workers (Communist) Party—the party of work- ing class revolution—has broken down the barriers and has entered the “Solid South” with its message. And second—but not least—the ruling class of the south has learned to its dismay that the policy of the Communist Party is always to push to the front its pro- gram demands on behalf of the Negro. Complete political equality, social equality, the organization of the millions of disfranchised, doubly exploited and persecuted Negro workers and tenant farmers—these slogans. in dealing with what the southern ruling class calls the “nigger ques- tion” are the nightmare which destroys the peace of mind of the country of lynching and “democracy.” Telegrams from many cities show the uniformity of the wave. Phoenix, Arizona, became the point of highest tension when a plot to kidnap the Communist vice presidential candidate failed only by a mistake of trains after capi- talist newspapers had already published advance stories of its details. And Phoenix, in the state of copper kings and “deportations,” is not through. Arrangements are made for Ben Gitlow, the intended victim of the gang, to speak in Phoenix under the escort of a Workers’ Defence Corps tomorrow night, Thursday, October 18. At Wilmington, Del,, as these. words are written, the forces of reaction of the “Kingdom of Du Pont” are at- tempting to suppress the meeting of the Communist pres- idential candidate, William Z. Foster. Those who are “against lynching” cannot speak in Wilmington, say the police of the Powder Trust city. Previously the campaign meeting of the Workers Continued on Page Four AT ARMY SHOW ‘Many Anti-War Leat- | lets at Show By PAUL CROUCH. When members of the Workers | (Communist) Party and the Young! Workers (Communist) League util- ized the occasion of the opening of | the military tournament at Madison Square Garden for the distribution |of ten thousand anti-militarist leaf- lets among the five thousand people | | present, the furious officers tried to | young workers arrested. | Seize Four. At the beginning of the sixth act, a display of ordinary horsemanship by the state police, the thousands of leaflets were thrown from the b-l- jcony and soon reached practically | jevery one in the Garden. As soon jas the authorities discovered the na- ture of the leaflets, the police and plain clothes men made every effort |to find those who participated. They |succeeded in finding four of the |many who had participated. The workers _ arrested, Golding, Robert Albert, | Hart, and Morris Mellman, were | taken to a room in the Garden by | special police and military officials. | There, they were badly beaten up. |Mellman was strapped and beaten | jover the head with the butt of a revolver. The others were ordered | Morris | declaring that they would be killed |if they refused. When they pro-| tested, they were kicked in the Continued on Page Four \Blackmer, Oil Witness |Who Knows Too Much, | ‘Remains Safe in Paris | PARIS, Oct. 16 (UP).—Extrad- | | tion of Henry M. Blackmer, which jhas been asked of France by the | United States in connection with the | oil scandal investigations, has been | \definitely shelved until after the) | American elections next month, the | United Press learned today. It is understood that the Ameri- can request for Blackmer’s extra- |dition, which was made late in the | summer, is still in the Foreign Of- fice, but the documents in’ connec- tion with the case will be turned over to the Ministry of Justice when | the time is considered opportune. | satisfy their rage by torture of four | Benjamin | |to sing the Star Spangled Banner, | rs. Photo shows some of the strikers ion, “Stand Determined to. End Miserable Condition WESTERN WORKERS PLAN FOR HUGE) reap" MEETING TO HEAR BEN, GITLOW, RED : ; VICE-PRESIDENT GANDIDATE, FRIDAY O’Brien, Saul to Speak; Workers Defense Us on the p BEAT WORKERS LOS ANGELES POLICE SEIZE 4 IN TERROR (Special to the D Day Worker) LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16—Frank Spector, sub-district organizer of the | Workers (Communist) Party, Glass- | fuman, and Firestone were arrested! lyesterday in a series of anti-Red |raids against the Communists and are being held in prison on eharge of “alien anarchy.” The co-opera- tive center was raided, and the au- |thorities also ransaeked Spector’s |home. Library books, correspond- ence, ete. were taken to police head- quarters in two big trucks. Jail Young Worker. Edward Marshall, member of the Young Workers (Communist) | League and a student at the Uni- versity here, has been held in prison by the federal authorities since Fri- day on the charge of “spreading sedition in the Reserve Officers Training Corps.” Efforts are being made to obtain his release on bail. Sol Erenberg, sub-district organ- izer of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League, has been released 2 on $5,000 bail. He is charged with |“criminal syndicalism.” | A, Zimmerman, who has been held in prison by the federal authorities since October 7 for distributing |leaflets to sailors, was released on \bail today. Efforts are being made |to deport both Zimmerman and Erenberg. The International Labor Defense jhas bail ready in all cases and is providing legal defense to fight the terror against the workers here. The Party and League are mobiliz- {ing for a counter offensive. The Civil Liberties Union is co-operating. The federal authorities are co- | operating with the Los Angeles “Red squad” in the raids. The officials are making special efforts to arrest |those connected with anti-militarist | work, and to prevent servicemen |from receiving Commynist liteya- | ture exposing the nature of the wi preparations, ear ‘GOODS WORKERS MEET. A preliminary conference of knit | goods workers, held last night, de- cided to call a general conference jof shop representatives for Sunday )evening, Oct. 28, | The meeting, which will be of the utmost importance to all workers in | this trade, will take up the condi- | tions in the trade and the possibili- | ties of forming a new, effective union. Well-known and important speakers will be present. Their names ‘will be announced later. URGE SPREAD OF POLISH WALKOUT. Pravda Calls Workers ta to General Strike (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Oct. 16.— Commenting upon the strike situa-| tion in Poland, the “Pravda,” of- ficial organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, called upon the Polish workers to join the general strike and to combat the false lead- ership of the social dem The editorial declares that the labor movement has not ex- ke for the last years. The strike is becoming 1, it declared, and the bour- » and the government are. be- coming uneasy. Must Become Nation-wide. “The Polish _ social-democratic party is angry that the strike passed beyond its restrictions,” Pravda said. “The social-democrats postponed the} miners strike in all the coal dis- Continued on Page Four (MILLS ADHERE TO SILK STRIKE Bosses Already Calling to Police to Aid ) PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 16.—The militancy with which the striking silk workers here are carrying thru their policy of spreading the strike, had their efforts rewarded when the working crews of four silk mills ix Summit, N. J., walked out yesterday to join the strike. These workers too, struck because the bo: have, in the recent past, heen carrying on a deliberate cam- |paign to lengthen hours and slash wages below the subsistance line. The demands of the strikers’ are for an 8-hour day, 44-hour week and for | Continued on Page Five LAKEHURST, N. J., Oct. 16.— Both the crew of the Graf Zeppelin and the throngs who gathered here to witness the end of the trans- Atlantic voyage of the German im- perialist ship were greeted by a de- tachment of U. S. marines who used the traditional methods of American protectors of the peace, the strong arm and the billy, on the crowd. In addition to manhandling the crowd lof curious onlookers, they mis- treated members of the crew and passengers of the giant German dirigible. This soreness was scarcely worn off by the preparations made to welcome them officially to New York when at 3:30 p. m. their boat from Jersey City landed at the Bat- | tery and a motor parade began to the City Hall, where 10,000 people and Tammany’s acting mayor, Mc- | force made by the marines who had Evening News reports from Kee, gathered to meet the Germans. what one bystander said was the! | Marines, who acted promptly to their slogan “treat ’em rough,” managed to manhandle Dr. Albert Grzesinski, German minister of the | interior and passenger on the Zep- pelin; German Consul-General Von Lewinski of New York was struck, as were several others, and the crowd who had come to welcome the |Germans were angry at the show of Nearly 5,000 silk workers in Paterson are out on strike, determined to bring about recognition of their union by the bosses, and to end the miserable conditions imposed on the work icket line. ILLINOIS MINERS HOLD CONFAB ove to Form District of New Union By WILLIAM F. KRUSE BELLEVILLE, Ill, Oct. 15 More than thirty delegates, senting almost every sub-dis- of Illinois, attended an enthusi- stie conference at Dietz Hall as a first step in forming the local sec- n of the new National Miners Union. Practically every part of the state sent delegates, Taylorville, Stan-| ton, Belleville, Collinsvill DeQuoin, | West Frankfort and Harrisburg dis- tricts being particularly well repre- sented. The key ence, to which everyone responded enthusiastically, was the need of building the new union of the coal diggers. Every speaker agreed that the time w than ripe for the practical organization steps, the formation of locals and their ‘unifi- cation into a strong district. | As soon as is thought practical, the temporary executive board, which contains such outstanding militants as Dan Slinger, Luke Cof- fey, Freeman Thompson and George Voyzey, will convene a district con- vention for the formation of the local district. * * © “(EDITORIAL NOTE:—The full report af congitions in the Ilinois | field will be printed shortly in these | columns, written especially for the Daily Worker by William F. Kruse.) Molten Metal Slops From Crane Ladle; Two Workers Dying PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16— Six thousand pounds of molten metal poured over four workers when 2 cable supporting a ladle at the Pencoyd Iron Werks of che American Bridge Company parted early today, Joseph Krocl: » and Frank Zukowski, 38, w burned so seri- ously that they are expected to die. Peter Olszewski, 48, and Anthony Januszek, 50, are in a serious con- dition, Olszewski’s skull was frac- tured by the fall of the heavy liquid, MARINES “TREAT ’EM ROUGH” WHEN ZEP. LANDS Spurred on ed on by German Success Britain and Japan - Japan Are Planning 1 Huge Ships “Nicaragua nerves.” Only a show of pleasantry cov- }ered the ire of the Germans who made this historical flight as part of Germany’s efforts to establish her right to resume a place in the family of imperialist nations. <7 ee Zeppelins Built For War. LONDON, Oct. 16 (WU, Tokio Continued on Page Four (By | ote of the confer- | ‘SPEECH FOR NEGROES’ EQUALITY CAUSES ARREST OF 2 COMMUNIST CANDIDATES IN POLICE TERROR |Communist Candidate for Governor, Three Others Arrested Distribution of Anti-Lynching Leaflet Leads to Persecution (By Long Distance Telephone To the Daily Worker.) WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. 16.—William Z. Foster, Workers (Communist) Party candidate for president, George Newcombe, candidate for governor, Liston Oak, of the National Office of the Workers Party, and two work- ers, Esther Markigon and Fanny Cohen, were arrested here tonight when police broke up an election campaign meeting of the Party at Pythian Castle. Carrying out threats that no discussion of the Negro question would be permitted, the police halted Foster when he began to tell of the role of the capitalist class and its two big parties in oppressing and exploiting the Negro workers. Tho workers in the audience protested at this terrorist action, they were driven away by the uniformed thugs. The Communist nominee had spoken for an hour and a half to an audience of about 500, including many Ne- groes. He exposed the role played by the Dupont intere which practically control Wilmington, in the preparations for the next imperialist war and showed how they helped to control both. big political parties. Fifty dollars was con- tributed to the National Campaign Fund of the Workers Party. When Foster was arrested, Oak telephoned to Edith Spruence, whom Forrest Bailey, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, had recommended as the Wilming- ton representative of the union. When informed of the reason for the arrest, the lady declared that she did not _ believe in Negro equality and that the Negro is an inferior race. Foster and Oak are being held in the Wilmington jail, | charged with “inciting to riot.” * * * WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. 16.—Wi r, leader of the steel strike in 1919, and Communist c: sident, devoted his speech in Wilmington tonight to answering the recent speeches of the other parties. “FOR SALE.” “The republicans state that Tammany Hall corruption is an issue of the campaign,” Foster said, “and I agree with them. It is, and so is Teapot Dome. Under the rule of the two old parties, graft is a normal phenomenon, and the voters have become tired of this issue, too apathetic to the corruption that is rife. Under capitalism, everything is a commodity for sale—the labor of little children, the sex of women, and the brains of editors, college professors and preachers. “The republicans claim credit for what they call prosperity, and the democrats maintain that they will continue the policies that have secured this ‘prosperity.’ But in the richest country in the world there are 4,000,- 000 unemployed. In Soviet Russia, the worker does not have this con- stant fear of unemployment, of sickness or injury hanging over him, for he is protected by the world’s best system of social insurance against these dangers. But in America, it is the capitalist class that enjoys the enormous wealth created by the sweat and blood of the workers, who remain even in prosperous times in poverty. Only a small section of the working class, the aristocracy of labor, the highly skilled and or- ganized few, are bribed by good wages, and their misleaders corrupted | so that they will favor class-collaboration schemes.” AGAINST TARIFF. “It is said that the republican and democratic parties will devote the | rest of the campaign to discussion of the tariff. This is their favorite issue. But in this campaign they can only argue about details because they are not in disagreement on the fundamentals. Both favor a high tariff. The Workers Party opposes a protective tariff as a means of protecting trust monopoly, enabling the capitalists to charge excessive prices in the domestic market and to sell below cost on the foreign market in competition with other eat powers. The tariff is a weapon in the hands of the Sapna mt ‘i ROLE OF TARIFF had forbidden the holding of the Workers (Communist) Party elec- tion campaign meeting here tonight and have closed Pythian Castle, 908 West St., the hall in which the meet- ing was to be held. | The reason for the ban on the |meeting, given out by the city au- — | thorities, is that the Workers (Com- munist) Party has distributed leaf- lets entitled “Abolish Lynching.” The chief of police states thet any- one found distributing these leaflets will be arrested and that if speakers mention this tonic in a meeting, they also will be arrested. | It is at least a month since the hall was engaged by the Wilmington section of the Communist Party, and notice that the hall would be closed was given only yesterday. Liston Oak, of the National Of- | fice of the Workers Party, is sche- duled to arrive in Wilmington to- night to assist in carryirg out the plans for the Foster meeting. The Civil Liberties Union has announced that it will have its lawyers at the | meeting. a SEATTLE, Wash. Oct. 16.— |Pointing out that the protective tariff protects no one but the capi- talists and that it is one of the fac- tors making for a new imperialist war, Bertram D. Wolfe, Commu- nist candidate for congress from New York and head of the agitprop department of the Workers’ Party, called on the workers of this city to rally to the Communist program and its candidates in the coming elections. Wolfe is at present on a nation- wide tour and will speak in Oak- land, Cal., Friday and in San Fran- cisco on Saturday. His speech, in part, follows: “The tariff is the traditional and favorite issue of the republican party. Little has been said about the tariff in this campaign, because the democratic party has abandoned its old policy of tariff for revenue Continued on Page Fours