The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 18, 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 | FINAL CITY EDITION Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sa., Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker » New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, THUR DAY, _OCTOBER 18, 1928 year. POLICE FIGHT COMMUNIST NEGRO EQUALITY PLATF ORM Ben n Gitlow Speaks in Phoenix Tonight; Workers’ Defense Corps Guards ds Meeting RUSH CINCINATTI WORKER GUARD TO DEFEND RED NOMINEE FROM KU KLUX AND LEGION TERROR Denver, Salt Lake City Organizing Corps for Communist Defense Protest Meetings Thruout the Country Brand Persecution PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 17—A squadron of the Workers Defense Corps, composed of militant rank and file members of the Workers (Communist) Party and other class conscious workers, left Cincinnati, Ohio, today to come to this city, where Benjamin Gitlow, vice presidential candidate of the Workers (Communist) Party, will rng tonight. They will surround ose Oe os wer "CONNOLLY GUILTY OF SEWER GRAFT date from the attacks contem- plated by the jingoes of the American Legion and the Ku} Klu Kian. Word has been received here that | | Gets veur. ~ Sieaihitanes: Gitlow has already arrived in| M | Phoenix. The City Commission, ay Never Serve which last week refused to Brant) yoiice Connolly, former | the members of the Workers (Com- | Queens Borough president and Fred munist) Party a permit to speak at | erick Seely, soe Horougle en. where | gineer, were yesterday found guilty any of the meeting Places Wit’; |in the Queens’ $80,000,000 Tammany political speeches are usually sewer graft case, but as was pre- here, has now retreated in, the face | dicted, the hand of Tammany “jus- of the growing national protest of | tice” fell lightly on its own hench-| y of | man. Connolly one of the leaders of | the workers, following. Cea g | the innering of Queens grafters with the plot to kidnap Ben Gitlow. It a rake-off variously estimated at no longer refuses to grant the Work-| from five to twenty millions yearly, | ers (Communist) Party permits for was sentenced to one year imprison- | its right to hold political meetings. ment and $500 fine. A permit procured last night from | No one believes that Connolly will : y ree ’Brien ever be put behind bars or if, like the City Couneil by William O’Brien) Mrs. Florence E. Knapp, he should | grants the Workers (Communist) | he sent to “jail” that he will have! Party the right to hold a meeting anything but a rollicking time of it tomorrow evening at the Plaza, with| —until parolled by some kind Tam-| the principal || many Commission. | ; Already appeals have been filed | |and it may be years before decision | According to the leaders of the is made. A motion to set aside the Workers (Communist) Party injverdict in the case of Seely was Phoenix, the terror methods against] taken under advisement advisement by the court. | Gitlow may be resumed at any mo-} KILL ANTI-WAR Benjamin Gitlow as speaker. ment. It is because of this poss bility that the Workers Defense | Corps, militant vanguard of the| | union members, the Newark division workers in this section, will attend the meeting here tomorrow evening. ‘eer oe Throughout the United States, the indignation of the workers against} SHIP PETITION the jingoes who instigated the ter- 12) 00, 000 eee Is Few) ror against the Red candidate has/ been constantly growing. Meetings) for Reich ‘Socialists’ BERLIN, Oct. 17.—After the so- have been organized in all sections) jcial democrats, with the government of the country, for the purpose of protesting against the dirty jingo- ist activities and of pledging im- mediate aid in case any such terror is attempted again. In Denver, Colo., a mass meat ing to protest against the attemp to kidnap Benjamin Gitlow will b held at the Grace Church on Fri- day, Oct. 19, beginning at 8 o’clock in the evening, under the auspices of the local Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers (Communist) League. George Pershing, a relative of the militarist, General John J. (Black Jack) Persh- ing, is to be one of the speakers. Salt Lake City in Utah is also mobilizing its class conscious work- ers for the defense of Gitlow. A mass protest meeting has been ar- ranged there for the evening of Oct. 21 to take place at the Labor Tem- ple. WORKERS HEAR OF RED CONGRESS Weinstone in Phila, Pittsburgh At membership meetings held Fri- day in Philadelphia, and Saturday in Pittsburgh, William W. Wein- stone, organizer of District 2, Work- ers Party, reported on the Sixth Congress of the Communist Interna- tional, Both meetings adopted reso- lutions in regard to the work and decisions of the Sixth Congress. The meetings were very well at- tended and the workers showed great interest in the work of the congress. Shows War Danger. Weinstone pointed out that the war danger has been the center of the work of the congress. He pointed Continued on Page Three |machinery in their hands, has used every means possible to prevent the Communist Party of Germany from |reaching the workers on the ques- tion of the plebiscite directed against he construction of new cruisers, |they have decided that a referen-| |dum will not be granted because the 2,000,000 signatures collected fell short of the arbitrary 4,000,000 re- quired by German law. The Communists had proposed a law which would forbid the con- struction of battleships in order to counter the action of the govern- ment and the social-democrats, who are carrying out a naval construc- tion program. In order to have a plebiscite on the proposed law it was necessary to obtain one-tenth of the | qualified voters. | With the use of radio and other |direct means of reaching the work- lers granted to the social-democrats, | but forbidden to the Communists, all the signatures were obtained by demonstrations, tours and house to house canvassing. Supreme Court Makes Gesture of Legality in I. R. T. Fare Steal WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Argu- ment before the United States Supreme Court on the Interborough Rapid Transit Company plea for an increased fare in New York City centered dround the question of jurisdiction of courts in the case. In a number of questions, so vigorous that to careful observers, they seemed suspicious, various members of the supreme court sought to ascertain why the Inter- borough had failed to wait out the 80 day period required by law be- fore taking its case to the Federal Court from the Transit Commission to which it had submitted its plea for a fare increase. ‘RAID WORKERS PARTY MILL WORKERS IN Eee) 1S ANCELESMESTER, MASG, LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17.—Con- tinuing their campaign of terror! against the Workers (Communist) Party, police have raided the Party headquarters and arrested Oliver) Calson and Aaron Grossberg. Both are charged with “criminal syndi- calism” and “alien anarchy.” Ten other workers. were also ar- rested, but were released after being, held five hours. The police in their raid crashed thru every obstacle in their way. Furniture, shelving and windows were broken and the place was com- pletely wrecked. A truckload of books, magazines, leaflets, campaign material, records and pictures was confiscated and the entire stock of the book shop was taken away. The raid on the Workers Party headquarters is part of a series of) anti-Red raids in this city as a re-| sult of which many active militants have been arrested, among them! Frank Spector, sub-district organ- izer of the Workers Party and Sol Erenberg, sub-district organizer of} the Young Workers League. The Los Angeles raids are re-| garded as part of the official na- PAPER STRIKERS — STANDING FIRM Newark Militants Ask Workers’ Support (Special to the Daily Worker) | NEWARK, Oct. 17.—Appealing for solidarity to its “brother mem- bers of the newspaper and mail de- liverers’ union of New York and vicinity” as well as to other t.ade of the Newspapers Deliverers’ Union on strike here yesterday called for the assistance of “every fair minded brother to rebel against the non- trade union system” forced upon them by their bosses. The appeal of the strikers at the same time denounces the strike- breaking role being played by their \international President Bannon whom they expose as one of the heavy investors in the boss delivery |agencies. Daily Worker Supports Strike. Delivery of New York papers alone have been affected by the Continued 0, Page Three BOSTON FURRIERS SIGN ALL BOSSES. Employers G Give In to Left Wing Union Under the direct guidance of the Furriers’ Provisional National Ex- ecutive Committee of the new Na- tional Furriers Union, the Boston Fur Workers Local renewed the agreements with all the independent shops and thus assured to the Bos- | ton fur workers the 40-hour week end all the other union conditions. In addition to that the associa- | tion, which was organized during the 1926 strike, dissolved and the | former members of the association | are signing independent agreements. The president of the dissolved asso- ciation already signed an _ inde- pendent agreement with the local and with Irving Potash, a represen- tative of the Provisional National Executive Committee. This firm, M. Sussman and Company, signed an agreement after the local called Continued on Page Two tion-wide terror drive against the Workers Party which has resulted in the arrest of William Z. Foster, Com¥.unist candidate for president, in Wilmington, Del., and in a plot to kidnap Benjamin Gitlow, vice presidential candidate, in Phoenix, Ariz. The local Party, aided by the In- ternational Defense, is planning to wage a vigorous fight against the attempts to crush it. SILK WORKERS FIGHT FASCISTS |New London Strike to Prevent Frame-up By TOM DE FAZIO. NEW LONDON, Conn., Oct. 17, | out in solidarity with Vincenzo! Gaudenzie, who was arrested in the shop on Saturday morning. Gauden- zie was accused by a spy employed) | in the same mill with having partici-| | pated in the beating up of some | fascisti during the attempt of the New London black shirts to parade | jin a celebration arranged by the| | Sons of Italy and other fraternal! societies of the city on Columbus| Day. The protest of the workers was | directed not only against the police | but against the boss who cian a fascist spy to work in the mill. their walkout, they demanded i immediate discharge of the black shirt stool-pigeon. The arrests began hours after the demonstration by the police accom- panied by fascisti who pointed them out. Gaudenzie is the sixth work- Continued on Page Four Communist Speakers |to Expose Axtell Lies! at Astoria Meet Tonite Propaganda spread tonight against Soviet Russia by Silas B. Axtell, GET 5%, WAGE CUT Grosvenor Co. Adopts Batty Sellout Program \Is Effective Oct. 29 Wage Slashes Due at Other Mills WEBSTER, Mass., Oct. 17.— Three thousand textile workers em- ployed by the Grosvenor Dale Com- pany, of this city, are scheduled to reap “the fruits” of the sell-out of | the New Bedford strike by the| Batty-Binns officialdom of the Tex- tile Council. An announcement by the company states that “a similar | plan” to the one by which the mil strikers of New Bedford were | (By Mail)—The workers of the|driven back to the mills will be | Corticelli Silk Mills have walked | adopted, beginning Oct. 29. The “similar plan” is said to in- volve a 5 per cent wage cut, the introduction of a speed-up. modeled | after the so-called Frieder plan, and | other “improvements.” The Slater Mills and other mills in this city are also planning to fol- low the example of the Grosvenor company, in line with the general drive against the living standards | of the textile workers of New Eng- |land that was started at the be- ginning of the year by the Fall River and New Bedford mills. nj Workers Party Issues Call for Red Election Guard to Watch Polls A call for Red election guards was issued last night by District 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party. A conference in which detailed and fuli instructions will be given to all Communist watchers will be held at § p. m. tonight at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Sq. This conference is of the utmost importance to the Red election campaign and should be attended by all Party members and sym- pathizers, ll Arrested in Terror | One of the militant workers who was arrested in the police terror against the Workers Party in Wilmington, Delaware. FIRES SMOULDER IN NEW BEDFORD Speed-upCannotBreak | Workers’ Spirit (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 17. —The spirit of the New Bedford workers has not been broken. The bosses and the labor traitors may be priding themselves on having “set- tled” the issues which for a half year echoed and re-echoed through- out the country. But the workers back at their intensely speeded up looms and frames, many unable to secure work at all, scores blacklisted jand others in the course of being] “framed-up,” have not “settled” | down. | Yesterday fourteen spinners quit} jin disgust at the Nashawena Mill |when they were given eight frames to operate as against six operated before the strike and sell-out by the Batty tribe. A few hired to take | their places also quit when they dis- covered the new conditions under which they were supposed to work. ‘PAUL CROUCH AN ARRESTED AS P NDR, B. MOORE OLICE BREAK-UP SECOND DELAWARE RED MEETING Four Seized Advocating Ne Weare. Equality in Wilmington Negro District Grave Fears Felt for Communist Prisoners Following Official Threats (Bu Lona Distance Telephone to the Dailu Worker) WILMINGTON, ‘Del., Oct. 17.—Police officials of this city city tonight carried out threats they made when they broke }up a meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party here last night by arresting Richard B, Moore, the Workers Party Negro candidate for congressman in t he 21st district, Paul Crouch of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, Esther Markizon and Jennie Foranro at an election mington’s Negro section. Unable to secure a hall, folowing the police persecutions of the pre- ceding night the meeting was held on the open streets in the Negro district. Moore was presenting to the large crowd, most of whom were Negroes, the demands for equality for Negroes issued by the Workers (Communist) Party when the police seized him together with his com- panions. The arrested men and women were hustled to the police station where no further word has been heard of them. Grave fear is felt for their safety, owing to threats made by the chief of police of Wilmington to William Z. Foster, presidential candidate for president of the United States on the Communist Party ticket, who {was arrested last night also while urging equality for Negroes. © At that time the police told Foster that “any other Communist speaking in that city would be lucky to escape with his life.” * * WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. 17.— After threatening a violent recep- tion if he ever appeared in Wilming- ton again, the chief sargeant of de- tectives released William Z. Foster, candidate for president of the Work- ers (Communist) Party early this morning, The police official at- tempted to grill Foster, warning him to get out of town and stay campaign meeting held in Wil- cs — - — favoring the abolition of laws for- bidding intermarriage, your white hair will not save you. You will be taught a lesson you will never for- get.” The front pages of the Wilming- ton newspapers on Monday carried stories announcing the meeting, tell- ing about the distribution of the Negro leaflet with the Workers’ Party platform advocating full rights for Negroes and the abolition of discrimination against them, with an interview prior to the mecting | with the chief of police on the sub- ject in which he said that although he would rescind his order to pre- vent Foster from speaking he would send police to prevent the discussion of the racial question, and that Fos- ter would be arrested if he disobeyed the order. Yesterday’s papers prin- ted Foster’s speech in full on the front page. Republican Party “Anti-Negro. Foster told his audience of 500 en- thusiastic workers which included many Negroes, of his tour, dwelling particularly on his experiences in the South. He predicted a: large vote for the Communist ticket in the southern states, which would be much larger if most Negroes were not disfranchised. “The republican party,” Foster said, “no longer even pretends to up- hold the rights of the Negroes, drop- ping their promises to colored work- ers because they hope to eapture several southern states. The solid out, but was assured by Foster that South is not so solid for the demo- notorious for his campaign of slan. | der against the first workers’ and farmers’ republic, in Long Island, | | will be answered from a Communist platform by William W. Weinstone, | District Organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party, and other Red | speakers. | The Communist opposition meet- jing will be held at the corner of Steinway and Jamaica Aves., As- toria, L. I, at the same corner |where a Communist meeting was broken up and Red campaigners | beaten by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The meeting at which Axtell will | speak is being held under the aus- | |pices of the John J. Dwyer Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars—the same fascist organization which is directly responsible for the attacks jon Communist speakers. CLERKS’ UNION WINNING STRIKE Consistent progress toward win- ning their general strike, in spite of continued right wing strikebreak- ing methods, was reported yester- day by the Retail Grocery, Fruit and Dairy Clerks Union. One hun- dred per cent of the shops previously under agreement with the union have signed up, granting a wage increase of $5 per week and other demands and a considerable per- centage of the new stores, estimated at 75 per cent, have likewise con- “It is not enough to have placed the candidates of the Workers | (Communist) Party on the bal- lot,” reads the call of the District | Office of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, “nor is it enough that we are carrying on an intensive campaign in the way of distribu- tion of literature and house to house canyasses of workers in their homes. We must be ready to guard the practical results of our campaign. We must be on watch at the polls constantly dur- | ing election day and see that no Communist ballots are destroyed } or in any other way invalidated. “The destruction and invalida- tion of opposition ballots has long been a practice of esteem in the capitalist parties. This year, our campaign has continued to reach thousands of workers despite ter- roristic attempts to stop it, the | capitalist politicians will be on the alert for Communist ballots. At- | tempts will be made to void them To guard against this is the Com | munist duty of every member of | our Party and the working class duty of every sympathizer.” ceded to union demands. As a result of the city-wide vic- tories being recorded by the union several hundred workers find them- , selves with a wage increase of $5, a guaranteed number of hours, time | otf during the week and a growing union to protect’ them—all due to three days’ militant activity on | | their part—and the year-long etrug- | gle and sacrifice made in thgir be- half by the workers who have built the bid estas | | All joined together outside singing | songs they had learned on the picket | lines which for months ringed the | mills as with impassible steel. | Does anyone believe that the New Bedford workers with their newly intensified solidarity will long en- dure the fearful {Speed~ -up which is being put across? Pemaquid operators, for instance, |have been forced to tend four sides |to the previous two. Spinners must tend twenty-four frames in place of the previous twelve. Weavers are speeded up on fourteen draper looms even though the eight previously op- lerated by a single worker was as much as he could do. Similarly card |room workers have been speeded up Continued on Page Three ‘300 IN PROTEST | OF MEAT PRICES: CLEVELAND, Oct, 15 (By Mail). —Five hundred women and men at-| tended the mass mecting called by! District 3 of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party last Tuesday protesting against the high cost of meat. Butchers thruout the city have al- most doubled the price of meat in {recent months. The butchers claim | that the meat trust is responsible for the recent increase in the cost of meat and that they had nothing |to do with it. As a proof of this, Wis take out their A. F. of L. char- Continued on eahietiauie es Five WORKERS PARTY APPEALS TO SILK “STRIKERS Warns Heroic Paterson Workers They Must Spread Spread Strike; Militancy Wins The Executive Committee of Dis- trict 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Executive Commit- tee of the Workers Party of Pater- son have issued the following ap- peal to the striking silk workers of Paterson, calling for the spread- ing of the strike and warning them against certain dangerous policies which are now being pursued. Workers of Paterson,” the appeal is headed, “be militant and win!” | By coming out in thousands in| have taken up the battle and that The full text of the statement | response to the strike call, you have you mean to fight and that condi- | follows: Fellow workers! jehewn that you understand that Jonly by determined struggle, only tions are ripe for a victory, but, as| arrogant slave-drivers, they show The desperate conditions. existing | by the establishment of a powerful the same determination to keep*you in the silk mills of Paterson have organization of the silk workers can| in the present miserable conditions| driven you to take up a struggle you win union conditions, establish| while on the other hand they are| against your employers. the 8-hour day, the 44-hour week, trying to break your ranks by mak-)| | You are fighting against long secure increased wages and elimi-| ing promises that they will give thet | bearable sweatshop conditions. “Silk | hours, low wages, speed-up and un-| nate the sweatshop system. The bosses understand that you > | workers some of their demands, but) Continued on Page Two | although he is scheduled to speak} elsewhere during the rest of the campaign, he would return to Wil- mington whenever the Workers Par- ty will arrange another meeting for him there, and that Communists are , not cowed by police threats. Forbid Talk of Negro Rights. The grilling was done not by the policeman but by Foster, who forced from him the inadvertant admission that the charge against the Commu- nists arrested, which was “inciting to riot” was entirely without legal basis. Foster extracted from the sargeant the admission that the ar- rest was made because the Commu- nist presidential candidate advo- cated full social, political and econ- omic equality for Negroes, and had urged the organization of new in- dustrial unions in which Negro and white workers should unite against their common enemy, the capitalist class. The police official explained that it was his opinion that this would incite the Negroes to riot. “Want Your Daughter to Marry a Nigger?” Turning to G. Newcombe, Work- ers (Communist) Party candidate for governor of Delaware, he fairly spluttered in rage. “As for you,” he shouted, “if you distribute any more of these leaflets On October 27 the Daily Gis Worker will issue a special edition of 300,000 copies of the Daily Worker. This is part of the election campaign program. It will be enlarged in size, with special articles and fea- tures by leading members of the Political Committee. It is absolutely necessary to give this edition the widest possible circulation. Send in your bundle order immediately, attaching a re- mittance for same at the rate of $6 per thousand. Have your unit and organization send in a greeting to the Daily Worker on the occasion of the 11th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. crats as when it was predominately agricultural section. The industrial- ization of the South is producing new political alignments, and many big manufacturers are turning to the republican party as the tradi- tional party of the big employers and capitalists. So the republicans have become ‘lily white.’ Communist Party in’ South, “The invasion of the South by the Workers’ Party marks a new epoch,” declared Foster. “From now on, we must intensify our work among the white and Negro workers, breaking down the barriers between them erected by the capitalists in order to weaken both. The southern work- ers suffer from the lowest wages and longest hours and worst condi- tions existing anywhere in the coun- try. They are ready for organiza- tion and the Communists must lead the Negroes and white workers in their sharpening struggles. Thou- sands of ‘poor white’ farmers are flocking from the hills to the grow- | ing industrial cities to improve their jstandards of living, only to ‘ind |themselves ruthlessly exploited by the bosses, if they succeed in find- ing work at all. The Negroes are forced to do the hardest and worst paid work and get lower wages than whites even when they do the same work, Speaks in Baltimore. Foster spoke last night at Ralti- more. Whether or not the fascists |made any attempt to break up the. | meeting as was threatened was not known when the Daily Worker went to press. He will speak at Trenton |tonight, at Philadelphia tomorrow |night, and at Rochester on Oct. 20, where he will give a radio talk on | the sat donee | Philadelphia Meeting. | The Philadelphia meeting will be |a huge protest demonsiration |against the terrorism against the | Workers Party on the part of the American Legion, the K. K. K. in |collaboration with reactionary labor Continued on Page Three NEW JAPANESE ENVOY. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UP) — Katsuji Debuchi, new Japanese am- bassador and his wife arrived at | Washington this morning at 9 |o’clock to establish their residence jhere. Debuchi said that he had no special instructions for his mission here. Foe mom ney