The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1928, Page 2

Page Two a SSDAY, CCTOBER 17, 192 Grocery Clerks March Th rough Second Da y of Big Strtk e; Most of the Bosses Settle 6 1 @ i) Ty ” Beer a 1 a i: 4 ae oe aK SOCIALIST SCABS WORKERS SCHOOL “""P SIPPYALKS oF NEW Yori By Jacob Bure VOLUNTEERS TO WORKERS HOLD WORK WITH DICKS HAS CLASSES IN | | : TOUR MICHIGAN RED DAY DAYS [} | Lf TO FIGHT UNION TRADE UNIONISM INGAMPAIGN © NOV.20 AND 21. | | ‘ Over 100 New Members Foster, Gitlow Amor ‘ al : F Join Organization Taatietor ee | Workers Will Speak in| Mass Collections Will n Organizat 4 | Many Cities Usher in Red Week. With a large number of both the| William Z. Foster, Beniamin | nA Rhicaxi| old and new with the |Icw, John J. Ballam, William F. pe SU ET AUTL, Oct 16—The District! On Saturday and Sunday, October union, wit an 100 new|Dunne and Robert W. Dunn, are | Hlection Campaign Committee, which | 20 and 21, thousands of members of member organization, scheduled to give courses in Trade |is very active here, laid out elabo- the Workers (Communist) Party of with rigt nt intimi- | Unionism es ne Workers Sc.ool lrate plans of immediate work at | New York and class-conscious sym- } ation « secon 2e Union Sq. ti r ‘ 7 . «| Pathizers will intensify ths'r on. ' Be ik Se ces {| The courie tn fiHouny. and Prat its last meeting. At this meeting |‘: ities to swell the Communist cler | Frait and rks mn yes-| tice "in 1 Union Work” to be a schedule for a, state-wide tour tion campaign fund by participating | Sérday took another to- | fiven on Thursdays from 8.30 to 9:50 was outlined, covering the principal|in the Tag Days dri is wil giver os t Pp _Tag Days drive. This wil Beek the victory |B. m. with Joha J Ballam, as in- ; Jean |industrial and agricultural towns|usher in Red Collection Week, dur- en is a three month coy re onts, . mine! slums pinbors of the. m elas Fi S + ahi, inj vhich = mili R i officers t sts and officials al De Sie us rhereye upeuncre thedihe oar cent Rbig” restgeatial ‘seediouee 7: sec opre Sea ine tour will begin’taday. end will \canrpaien fund in thelr slope: avd fe already pect Meets } pr a! é of his wages on rent, continue to Oct. 30, a period of two| factories, in their local unions and a Ae t¥¢ development a: roblems of the la- | rganizati mee on th : or movement. This course will take weeks, About a dozen members of /fratemal organizations. : ‘esterday these officers declared the class struggle; ie ie . | v ID e most im- pcre, Deescarts dealazed e class struggle; jare expected to volunteer here be-/ portant workingclass districts, which that were it not for k the unorganized | wi f , Gcaking activit ee oe bake at Paka edite fore the group starts off. Those | will function during the Tag Days ; United Hebrew 1 A the ie i political struggles; the histori- that are signed up for the tour/a® stations for the Red collectors. He sirialic Ais eteike | ls slevelopminnel biti tins far aze: John Schmies, acting | These stations will include section would now be won. As it is there trade unions; the role of the unions istri i ty and| muni Sac is a strong likelihood all the under imperialism and the effect of clog Shee: a eee | munist) Prada | yupky aig Hates will have ¢ eraeriallae defstvenee Wanton bor candidate for presidential elector; workingclass fraternal organiza- this’ end of the wee movement; the trade unions during William Reynolds, candidate for gov-| tions, and those of left wing local | unions. a period of intense political activity; during a general strike; during a workers are cut for a long ba Yesterday 15 stores were revolution; and under a proletarian | | by the dictatorship. | Pee Short four-session courses will be | member aa given on the Problems of the Amer-| past ye: > against | ican Labor Movement; on the Work- the bos ght wing is ¢ts’ Trade Union Movement, and the ae pr vaine, Yes./Communist Party in Trade Unions, terday it » open intimi-| by William Z. Foster, Benjamin Git-| dation of the po were sta- | low and William F, Dunne. tidged before all stores, the pickets} With the building up of new ib unions, with more attention being In contrast to the criminal attitude of stugk to their fine militancy. displayed paid to the question of organization of the unorganized; with the im-| wards the housing situation Is the American capitalist government to- in the Soviet Union 1 the care the workers in Early in the of right H z " which the Workers’ Government of the by Willers headed by the officials of | PoTt@nt struggles facing the Amer- Soviet Union takes of the children of the’ United Hebrev cab Jo-| can workers, it is essential that working parents, Day nurseries with nited Hebr enh lb |S meteen BalinginE fo eared trained nurses are provided in the fac- sitle landlords. Rent eal together a of plain 5 en onging +0 a wage tories for working mothers to leave their negligible part of the clothes men rode to the places of | 0" should take one of these children for the day. the land where the e aces preme. Meas of wikny wtruck sidps and |°oues end SHUR prepare himself and his organization for the tasks | ———____— f ¥ class. i ” Paper. Courses Begin Tonight. RAILWAY CLERKS rticle in yesterday’s “For- Two courses that will begin to- ward” urged the b s to the same night, both under the instruction of effect assuring them that the right |D. Benjamin, will be “Elements of wing would help them against the | Leninist Tactics” from 7 to 8.20 Grocery, Fruit and Dairy Clerks’|P. m.; and “Economic and Political Union. History of the United States,” from —— ‘At one store which has settled | 8.30 to 9.50 p. m. Both courses will Rail Worker Exposes be held every Wednesday evening at with the union, Werblow, 51u East the same time. 137th St., the right wing has set up an imitation “picket line.” Union leaders said that the store owner had met all demands of the work- crs and that the impression of a strike which the right wing was seeking to create was false. WORKERS PARTY Union Officials (By a Worker Correspondent) | Today our “leaders” at the head of the local union of the Brother- Veseak $ i hood ‘of Steamship and Railway NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., (By Clerks will go into conference with Mail).—In its first New Jersey! our bosses. It is a great day for State Workers Soccer League game the labor traitors who just sold out the Workers Athletic Club of Perth! our last strike. | Amboy traveled to New Brunswick} Well we know what they will talk Sunday afternoon and played the) about, but nere are a few facts they Liberty A. C. at Buccleuck Park to! will not take up at this fake arbi- Workers Soccer Teams Play to Scoreless Tie Instead of the foul slums, the children homes, and play in the parks established Neither do the workers of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics support para- States, the definite de workers to ive in clean, light every community. er cent of ompulsory 1 working ‘ote Comm is practically a family budget in worker reigns su~ The Party of the workers of the United low rents for workers. }ernor; Sarah Victor, Daily Worker | agent and candidate for presidential \elector; Alfred Goetz; and Phil Bart jand Leo Orsag of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League. The following Michigan towns are included on the schedule of the volunteer group: Pontiac, Flint, Saginaw, Bay City, Lansing, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, Ben- ton Harbor, Grand Rapids, Holland, Albion, Muskegon, and other small- er neighboring towns. Anti-Jingo Pageant | | at 11th Anniversary Celebration, Nov. 4) | A pageant of the class st-uggle. staged by the class-conscious, mili- tant workers of New York in com- memoration of the 11th anniversary jof the Bolshevik Revolution, will an- | |swer the jingoist war show being | held at Madison Square Garden this week. “The widely advertised military | show, containing reproductions of |sctual war maneuvers and fight- jing,” said Bert Miller, organizational secretary of District 2 of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, in com- {menting on the military show last |night, “is put on for the purpose of \ spreading preparedness propaganda among workers so that they can a scoreless tie in a hard fought, rough and bitter game. Rivalry between both teams was at a high pitch and there was considerable cheering from the side lines from the fans. This coming Sunday the Workers A. C. will play the Armenian F. C, of Union City in Perth Amboy on City Field in another League match. Game starts 3 p. m. OPEN-AIR MEETS Intensify the Election Campaign As election day draws near the Workers (Communist) Party is in-| tensifying its election campaign. Many speakers will bring the plat- form of the class struggle to the workers of New York and vicinity at open-air meetings in the next few | Brooklyn — McDonald, _ Chalupski, days. The list of meetings follows: | Frank, Weitz. Today. Saturday. Be dpAve) gai Tenth Stones rae eee din, Costrell, Sumner, Ackerman,| Eyizabeth, N. J.—Lloyd, Szepesi, sen ‘Bauer ;._ | Honig. Union Square- Biedenkapp, Na- Dek ckashoy: No \ideesPadane, than Kaplan, Kagan, B. Friedman. | preiman Wilkins and Intervale Ave—Le-|” paterson, N. J.—B. Miller, Pearl- Roy, Suskin, Koretz, Eli Jacobson.|. 7 , | Myrtle and Hudson, Brooklyn—|™Y" Richard Moore, Pasternak, Mar Yonkers, Manor House Square, at mae Y | Plaza—Wicks and Y. W. L. Bet ceaihy Se) ahd Lexington |, Pmt, Ave And Toth Bt tmatis, ae (Nooh)—Sherman and Y Ne 7. As Hartfield, Kagon. Bic, No oo. Weiett, Stanley, | ivst Ave. and 116th St-—T- Zim Greene and Third St (Noon)— | ™ Sought as Lifshitz and Y. W. L. oughkeepsie—Baum. One Hundred and Forty-fourth Red Nights. Brownsville, East New York and Brooklyn, Saturday, Oct. 20—Minor, Trachtenberg, Bert Miller, D. Ben- St. and Seventh Ave—Williams, Grecht, Edw. Welsh. One Hundred and Twenty-eighth St. and Lenox Ave—Grace Lamb, ‘gmin, Ray Ragozin, Liptzin, Bimba, Peee) Huiswood. Primoff, Zam, Green, Herberg, Pot- Tomorrow. ash, Powers, Blake, Schachtman, One Hundred and Thirty-cighth | Mindel, Wright, LeRoy, Frank, Taft, St. and Willis Ave—Baum, Spiro |Midola, Mary Adams, Sumner, Ac- (joint meeting with the League). |kerman, P. Shapiro, Lawrence Ross, Fortieth St. and Eighth Ave—|Eva Shafran, Silber, Gussakoff, « | Huiswood, Williams, Astoria, | lius Cohen, Popkin, Spiro, Hendin, P. Sha- Wattenberg, Magliacano, Pasternak, Candella, Sender Garlin, Sol Auer- bach, Hy Gordon, Davis, Macklin. Nessin, Joe Cohen, Git Steinway and Jama’ L. L—Weinstone, Crouch, piro, P. Muller. Garfield, N. J—Y. W. L. speaker. Market and Broad Sts. (Noon)—| Harlem (Negro), Friday, Oct. 19, Primoff, Rose Rubin and Y. W. L.| report at 7:15 p. m.—Lovestone, Edison Electric (42nd St. and | Minor, Stachel, Cannon, Markoff, First Ave., noon)—Lawrence Ross,, Moore, Ed. Welsh, Moreau, Huis- Sherman. | wood, Williams, Alexander, Grace Jefferson and KE. Broadway—A.|Lamb, Codkind, Zam, Nat Kaplan, Wolfe. Wright, Spiro, Abern, Vera Bush, Clinton and E. Broadway—B.| Miriam Silvis, Rose Rubin, Max Friday. | Kagan, Lawrence Ross, Crouch, Ger- National Biscuit Co. (Ncon)—|trude Welsh, Ida Dailes. Bronx, Friday, Oct. 19, all speak- ers report to 2075 Clinton Ave. at 7:15 p. m.—Weinstone, Zimmerman, Schachtman and Y. W. L. | Singer Plant, Elizabeth, N. J.| (Noon)—Lifshitz, Pearlman. Bliss Plant (Noon)—Bimba and|Ben Gold, Rose Wortis, Rebecca Yow, L. Grecht, Sam Nessin, Boruchowitz, Varet and Graham, Brooklyn— | Taft, Liebowitz, Primoff, Frankfeld, Baum, Padgug, LeRoy, Eli Jacobson, Gozigian, Eva Shafran, Vern Smith, | Zukowsky, Cibulsky, Koretz, Aron- berg, Sylvia Bleecker, Sazar, Sten- rer, Weisborg, Winters, Kate Git- low, Blake, Sultan, Yudich, Joe Co- hen, I. Cohen, Peer, Sam Don, Mary , Blake, Midola, Mania Reis. Market Plaza, Newark, N. J.— ) | Powers, Freiman and Y. W. L Waterfront, foot of W. 14th _ (Noon)—Grecht and Y. W. L. } Seventh St. and Ave. A—Radzi, Zukowsky, Radwanski, Sumner, Ac- kerman. Fifti¢h St. and Fifth Ave, St. Schiller. McDonald, Ju- | Adams, Stein, Epstein, Geren c | tration meeting. And these are | what we men are talking about and | will act on sooner than our paid la- bor fakers believe. The American Express Company in the past few days has been hand- ing out red working cards te hun- |dreds of men, most of them old- timers and regular men. Divide Ranks of Men. The red working card is supposed to be given only to new men kept on the extra list. They work a few {hours a day and are never sure of | |their jobs and sre subject to being fired any time without redress. But now hundreds of regular men are | af the; men dalloweng the: eteiks: of [omy cutews aWomeers: | (Cominun. ast week bycaurtne: thie, four of] MY) mere Candiaures acm Pevelneny \the job-in the -htarts ofthe men. land vice-president, at Madison Who's 40 iditme for the advan-| eae Carian om Noy t Thelat tage our bosses are now able to fair wil! be the largest election rally | ldaitev afin? {ever held in the country, according | oh P ., |to the District 2 Campaign Commit- | Last wek we went out on strike Iba \ against the worst kind of working | “> » ‘A | The pageant will contain a grand again be hoodwinked into an im- perialist war. Class-conscious work- ers of New York will not be fooled linto participation in another war |for redivision of the world’s mar- |kets among the chief capitalist rob- |ber countries. This will be proven by the attendance at the 11th anni- ersary celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution. There the determina- ltion to fight the war danger will be | lerystallized into dramatic expres-| sion.” The recent military and naval |tests and maneuvers throughout the leountry will be cited as significant \indieations of the growing wer da \conditions. Nearly 100 per cent} eh) a | |\went out. We demanded union rec- | Perade of 20 floats, depicting vividly | cognition from the scab express |the everyday struggles of the Amer-| jean workers, each one from a dif- | ferent angle. Besides this there | will be an interesting program of | So the company called in the la-|1¢volutionary songs by the Freiheit bor fakers, Harrison, the so-called |Gesangs Verein and a presentation lhead of our union, and the local of Working class music played by the traitors who joined in the same. Polyphcnic Brass Band. game. Big “Brother” Harrison did Tickets for the pageant of Nov. ‘not come to us first. First he went |4 will cost 50 cents and $1. to the bosses. Even after that | {some of the boys still thought that | ex Committee, 26 Union Square, Room he would be on the level. Kick Out Traitors. | 202, and collect funds for the election | How long: will dt:takestor the ex: | Sapp st tea: Werntens (nein \press workers to realize that these ——— | |labor fakers are the same as the | 7. . | iaxces und that. the only, way to/City Wide Canvass of |win against the company is first to| Red Campaigners Will kick out the treacherous leaders. So Harrison and the local leaders Reach Worker Homes |sent the men back to work without | ‘a vote or voice. | A mass meeting will be held at | Now the company is using all the |the Parkview Palace, 110th St. and tricks to break the ranks of the men. | Fifth Avenue, to present the plat- They will try this first. After-|form of class struggle of the Work- | wards they will hot even pretend to|ers (Communist) Party to Harlem |favor arbitration and the labor trait-| workers on Friday evening at 8 ors will be through with the part | o'clock. they are playing in the bosses’ | The meeting is being held under | game. \the auspices of the Unity Arbeiter | We say: No take arbitration! | Cooperative Association, which has |Out with the labor traitors! Build |rendered the workingelass a huge a strong union with a base in all| Service in its pioneer building up |the burns, terminals and stations, | cf a workers’ camp,—one of the few | Prepare for the next strike. That's | which have done so successfully. |the only way to win. | Stressing local issues, the Com- | J. McLEAN. | munist speakers who will expound | | the platform of the only working- | POM ERIE wid |class party in the country will be | Moore, Abraham Mark- [dle Trades Campaign Committee, 2a | Richard B. | Union Square, Room 202, and collect off, Mclech Epstein, David Sigel and Losses, a wage increase of $3 (it| should have been $10) and other demards. | Needle workers, get collection lists ‘om the Needle Trades Campaign | Anti-Imperialists in Mass Protest Tonight at the Labor Temple The New York Branch of the All- | America Anti-Imperialist League | announces a mass protest meeting | to be held Wednesday evening, Oct. | | 24 at the Labor Temple, 14th St. and | 2nd Ave., against U. S. control of the Nicaraguan elections. Brigadier-Colonel McCoy, the elec- tions in Nicaragua will be conducted at the point of the bayonet and the gun in accordance with the designs of U. S. imperialism to terrorize the workers with this display of superior American [force. Reger Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, will be the main speaker and there will be discussion from the floor. The New York Branch of the Anti-Imperialist League ing attention on the elections as a signal for intensify- ing the League’s efforts in behalf of the liberation movement of the workers. The false and misleading propaganda in thespress to create the impression that the forces of the army of independence have begun | to desert the ranks, must be com- | batted : vigorously, the League’s statement declares, and support of labor unions and workers generally | swung into line for the benefit of the oppressed and exploited work- ers in Nicaragua. Ceney Island Meet to Ratify Workers Party A meeting to ratify the Workers (Communist) Party program and candidates will be held Friday eve- ning at the rooms of the Coney Island Workers Club; 2901 Mermaid Ave., under the auspices of the Workers Club. Alexander Trachtenberg, candi- date from the Fourteenth Congres- sional District, and Leo Tolmy will | 202 and collect funds for the election at 2 i f the Work (Commu- address the meeting. campaign of the Workers Under | Sunday afternoon between now and Nov. 6 will be utilized in visiting workers’ homes. The Communist campaigners in the house to house canvass will be ceptance speeches of William Z. Daily Worker, foreign language rapers, collection lists for the Red Campaign fund, and application \war footing and every evening and} ermed with copies of the Party pro- | gram, the state program, the ac- | Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, the | | In a statement issued last night, | calling on all members of the Work- lers (Communist) Party to take ac- jtive part in the Tag Days drive, as |well as all other class-conscious | workers, the election campaign com- |mittee of District 2 of the Workers |(Communist) Party points out that ‘with the last stage of the election | campaign at hand, and with the pre- |liminary work of putting our can- didates on the ballot completed, the financial end.of the drive must be stressed. THREE BUTCHER “WORKERS JAILED | Their Shop Had Fired Progressives |. Continuing their active coopera- | tion with the bosses and the corrupt lright-wing machine in the Jewish |Putchers’ Union, police on Monday arrested three butcher workers, Ir- \ving Pellam, J. Reissman and H. |Tullman, while peacefully picketing - in front of a shop in Boro Park. The three workers were arrested for similar reasons only last Thurs- day and taken to Snyder Ave. Court where Pellam was released on $500 | bail. and the other two discharged, When again arrested on Monday, they were brought before Magistrate Dale in Brooklyn Court, who post- poned the case until Oct. 22, while fight for. Munteipal fixing of repairs by the landlords of \Mass Meeting Will Be campaign waged by the Workers DENOUNCE K.K. K |homes will be made by Red cam- The machinery is at hand. The at N. Y. Meet \ture drive will again be put on a sage given to the audience that filled | of District 2, of the Workers (Com-| audience sounded the note of mili-| practised against the Party, called H. M. Wicks, member of the Cen- | attempts to stop the meetings of Ben and speakers. “We workers must must be prepared to defend ourselves cite when Moissaye Olgin, editor of the Communist Party, lays down No more than 10 class homes in bad condition. Held on Friday Night | (Communist) Party, elaborate house FASCIST TERROR v2: for the duration of the | |members of the party who have “Stand firm on the terror against | the Central Opera House last night. munist) Party acting as chairman, tancy. Weinstone, after telling of) on Harry M. Wicks, of the editorial) tral Committee of the Workers Gitlow, said that the workers must build Workers Defense Corps to in- against attacks of gangsters and Hammer, Jewish Communist month- mands on housing for the oh thely wanes for the landlords? ‘Unity Cooperative Red unint? | For the first time in any election B to house canvasses of workers’ campa‘gn. Demand Defense Corps verticipated in the successful signa~ the Workers Party,” was the mes-| | With William Weinstone, organizer) almost the first words spoken to the ‘the acts of repression and terror staff of the Daily Worker. | |Party, after mentioning the recent \be ready to protect their meetings | sure the safety of our speakers. We terrorists,” Wicks said. ly, spoke. He stressed the need of lationship cards to join the party. Lovestone Will Speak at Election Rally in> Wilkes-Barre Friday WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Oct. 16.—| Jay Lovestone, executive secretary | of the Workers (Communist) Par-| ty, will bring the Communist pro-| gram into the heart of the anthra-| at 7:30 p. m. at an election cam- paign rally at Concordia Hall, 91! S. Washington St. Lovestone will point out the re- the workers were released on $500 bail each. They are being defended | by the New York section of the In- ternational Labor Defense, thru its attofney, Jacques Buitenkant. All three workers are members of | the new Progressive Poultry and Butcher Workers’ Union, which is waging a fight to organize the thou- sands of unorganized workers in the trade into a militant rank and file union. The shop which the three workers were picketing had fired all progressives and was operating with | right-wing scabs. he speaks here on Friday Needle worker! Has your shop con~ tributed to the election fund of the Workers (Communist) Party? Collect funds! Get a collection list at the headquarters of the Needle, Tradex between the coal oper- | defense against the American Le- ators, the Lewis machine and their| Campaign Committee, 28 \ Union | gion, Ku Klux Klan and other fascist | representatives, the two big capi-| Square, Room 202, ganizations, talist parties, and call on the work- | et | or | He was followed by Robert Minor, leditor of the Daily Worker, and) | Communist candidate for U, 8. sena- |tor for N. ¥. State, who denounced gram and elections, ers to support the Communist pro- expected to attend the rally. Needle workers! from the Needle Trades Campaign Committee, 26 Union Square, Room 202, and collect funds fr the election candidates in the coming Many coal miners are Be (Ganaen? aign of the Wo Party. ca nist) the terror against the Party im the} South and elsewhere, The audience was enthusiastic. | Needle workers! Get collection lists. |trom the ‘ile ‘Trades Campaign Committee, 26 Union Square, Room —by M. J. OLGIN —by JAY LOVESTONE | —by ARNE SWABECK —by JOHN PEPPER OCTOBER COMM The Socialist Party Offers Itself America’s Fight for World Hegemony and the War Danger The National Miners Union—A New Con- ception of Unionism— American Negro Problem Latin-America and the Colonial Question —by BERTRAM D. 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