The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1928, Page 1

; Vol, Vi. No. 248 . i a rs iW « THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS | For a Workers-Farmers Government | To Organize the Unorganized | For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party ily Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker _ Publishing Assoctation, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1928 _ n k, Co ILMINGTON POLICE THREATEN WORKERS PARTY SPEAKERS FOR ADVOCATING NEGRO EQUALITY Crouch and Moore Released as Attempts to Intimidate Them Fail Communists Refuse to Guarantee That Red homas in WYOMING STRIKE. WALK OUT WITH aoe, NGAINST PAY CUT. LODZ STRIKERS MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 18.—Wil- liam Z, Foster, Communist candidate for president, received almost five times as many votes as Norman Thomas, the socialist candidate, in a straw vote conducted today at the University of Minnesota. Foster’s total was 96 votes as against 20 for Thomas. As expected, the great majority of the sons of well-to-do business| men and farmers studying at the| university cast their ballots for! Hoover and Smith. Hoover received 750 votes and Smith 520. A Foster-for-President Club has been organized at the University of| Minnesota and the members plan to carry on vigorous campaign work | OustTreacherousLewis|Police Ban Communist Officials Working Meets; Search for With Operators Leaders Demand New Union|City Employes Join. Wage Cut Average Is Social Democrats Lose $1.20 Per Day + Contact With Masses (Special to the Daily Worker) (Wireless to the Daily Worker) ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Oct. 18—] WARSAW, Oct. 18.—The general Three thousand miners are on strike| strike in Lodz, called in support of nee Artec tae eee has |the 100,000 textile strikers who are ihe: 16,000. students, Just been put through with the sane-|/demanding a 20 per cent increase among the 16,000 students. tion of the officials of the Lewis ma-|in wages, is complete and spreading jchine. The cut averages about $1.20'to the outlying provinces. The tex- per day. _. |tile districts of Kaliszh, Konstanty- Resentment and rage of the min-'noy, Alexandrov and Tomaszov have WALL ST. BACKS |ers is unbounded. joined the general walkout. A i j ual ? AL WOLFE SHOW t 2 meeting last night the coal!’ jaz seems to be in a state of —— working with the coal barons to put| {Tied to prevent Communist meet- ‘ Socialists” ings, while seeking for the Commu- % | ization” policies. 0 flict betw. h Business Men’s Party | There is a strong sentiment here|OR conflict between the workers lfor any union independent of the)&%d Police has occured in which some Sine of the strikers were injured. diggers ousted District President siege with police everywhere. The L Are -.Also | ‘trough the speed-4p and “rational-| 72+” Geouties ‘Resisk and Bittner. The significance of the fact that Lewis machine. Agitation for the (Special to the Daily Worker) | the democratic campaign fund| {speech to the workers of Minne- Meets Will Be Stopped WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. 18.—After failure of their at- tempts to force a promise that no further Communist meetings released Richard B. Moore, Negro candidate for congress from the 21st district of New York on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket, Paul Crouch of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, candidate for congress from the 2nd district of New Pull Down Speakers. bie Pa ee Moore was arrested by the police | after he had spoken for more than} an hour at an open air meeting at police pulled Moore off the stand, Paul Crouch got up and continued} thé meeting, but was arrested almost . immediately. Then the police ar- OR of the meeting, and Jennie Fornaro, | a Secretary of the Young Workers Red Nominee | (Communist) League here. On the way to the station, police! Crouch, declaring: “We told you sce in| CUUaL 3 republ that -no -more* Red meetings would Pins, of a squad of police, in-| proving that,big business is. support- be permitted in. Wilchington:” The | ling a lieutenant and a sergeant, ing both parties, was shown by Ber- fact that an attorney and workers | failed,to intimidate more than 500|tram D. Wolfe, Workers (Commu- ready with bail were on the spot| workers who gave William Z. Foster,|nist) Party candidate for congress and insisted on accompanying the| Communist candidate for president,|£0m New York, in an_ election prisoners to the station, prevented) 4 rousing welcome here last night. the police from carrying out their nists. “We give jobs to the Negroes here,” declared a police official, in-| timating that if the Workers (Com- ings in this city it must avoid the race equality question and all ef- forts to organize tne Negroes. “Disorderly Conduct. were made against Moore, Crouch,| Esther Markizon and Jennie For- naro. But after being held for sev- eral hours, they offered release on| hold no more meetings not approved by the police. This demand was im- mediately refused, those arrested de- claring that whether the police like meetings in Wilmington. | Finally, the police decided that they did not wish the courts used to expose the terror being carried) ton and released those arrested The Workers (Communist) Party will hold more open air meeting here next week in spite of the police will be held in Wilmington, the police authorities last night York, Esther Markizon and Jennie Fornaro. 8th and Walnut Streets. As the rested Esther Markizon, chairman Many Workers Hear) tried | to intimidate | Moore and) BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 18—The| equals that of the republican, thus| threat of beating up the Commu- munist) Party desires to hold meet- Charges of “disorderly conduct” condition that the Party promise to it or not they will continue to hold on against the workers in Wilming- terror. | BRITISH FLIER LOST, LONDON, Oct. 18—Grave an- | xiety was felt yesterday for the | safety of Lieutenant Commander H. C. MacDonald, Royal Navy, re- | tired, who left Harbor Grace, | Newfoundland, at 11:40 a. m, | Eastern Standard time, Wednes- | day on an attempt to fly across | the Atlantic to Ireland or England | in a tiny Moth plane with a wing- spread of only twenty-six feet. | |called on the workers of Baltimore} lapolis. =F i The meeting was one of the most sMOlis._ Following, are excerpts enthusiastic ever held in this cbr He Sralth is clected:tie ‘will, tak is elected he will take} Many Negroes were present, a lerge|,,;. orders, not from the Pope. in delegation of them marching. de-| Rome, but from the capitalists in| fiantly into the hall despite the| wall Street. He appeals to reli- glowering police. gious prejudice on one hand and Fc:‘er denounced the nation-wide| tolerance on the ‘other. Smith’s terror that has been launched|Program does not differ essentially against the Workers Party and| frem Hoover's. The only reason Smith seems to promise more to the P |farmers and the wets is because his to support the Communist Program| only chance of election is to get and ¢..didates in t.c coming elec- s Continued on Page Four The Communist nominee was loudly applauded. Many workers showed their desire to support all the activities of the Workers Party HUGE RALLY N by subscriviugs wv ‘ine Daily Worker. HARLEM TONIGHT Connolly Serves First Day in Jail; But His Nominees to Speak at Spirit Is Unconfined| Parkview Palace The robust body of Maurice E. The Communist platform will be Connolly may (for a little while) be presented to masses of Harlem imprisoned in the penitentiary on| workers tonight at 8 o’clock'at the Welfare Island, but his spirit en-| Park View Palace, 110th St: and riched by years of inner struggle Fifth Ave. It was at an outdoor against the temptation to retire meeting at that corner that over a young from the Queens sewer graft| thousand Harlem workers listened ring, floats fair and free above the | to Red speakers at a huge election walls of his prison cell. demonstration held one week ago “Maurice Connolly seems to like| and participated in a Red torghlight it in jail,” Max Steuer, attorney for | parade. the convicted former president of} The Red rally tonight is expected Queens borough, said today after a’ to attract hundreds of Negro work-! visit to his client’s cell. ers from the west side of Harlem.| “fe is like a child with a new, The intensity of the campaign waged toy,” said Steuer. | by the Workers (Communist) Party Both Connolly and Frederick in Harlem has been such that thou- Seely, former Queens engineer, who|Sands of Negro workers have be- Lwere found guilty yesterday of con-/cOme acquainted with the platform |) spiring to defraud the borough’s tax-/ of the class struggle of the Workers On October 27 |payers in the large Queens sewer| (Communist) Party, which fights) will issue a special edition of 800,000 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 circylation. Send in your bundle order immediately, attaching a re- mittance for same at the rate of $6 per thousaid. Have your unit and organization send in a greeting to the Daily Worker on the occasion of the 11th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. / ‘for full and unqualified equality for | Negro workers, and many of them Continued on Page Two | construction program, spent their first night in jail like “model pris-| oners,” according to the warden. | NEGRO WAGE-SLAVERY Negro in South Most Exploited--Nearing, South is rapidly changing,” Nearing states.” “Industrialization is pro- ceeding very fast. The lowest wages declares Scott Nearing, Communist | and the longest hours of work, par- candidate for Governor of en | Haany for Negrges, anywhere in Jersey, in a report to the Nationdl| the United States, are to be found in Campaign Committee of the Work-|the Southern cities. There is wide- ers (Communist) Party, 43 E. 125th | spread poverty and suffering and St. Mearing has been touring the | corresponding discontent. South and other parts of the coun-| “Communists have a fertile field try since the first of Septémber. of agitation and organization in the “The economic situation in the. Continued on Page Four Wages and working comalltiene for Negroes are worse in the South than anywhere in the United States, | | new National Miners Union and prop- |aganda for the complete solidarity | of the coal diggers is vitally neces- sary here. Such propaganda would be welcomed by the miners, many of whom are class-conscious. 2 RED RALLIES HERE TONIGHT Will Mobilize Workers of Bronx, Brownsville J. Lovestone, executive secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party of America; William W. Weinstone, secretary of the New York District of the Workers (Communist) Party; Robert Minor, candidate of the Workers (Communist) Party for U. S. senate; Ben’ Gold, “militant leader of the Furriers, will be some of the speakers at the two big Red Nights to be held by the Workers (Communist) Pasty tonight in the in the Bronx will please report to the corners they are assigned to at 7:30 p. m. All speakers scheduled to speak in Brownsville will please report to 154 Watkins Ave., Brcoklyn, |N. Y., at 7:30 p. m. Bronx and in the tion of Brooklyn. A list of the meetings and speak- ers who will address them follows: List of Meetings. BRONX—Longwood and _ Pros- pect—central wind-up corner— Continued on Page Two a. All speakers scheduled to =| Brownsville sec- BARBER SLUGGED: BY ORGANIZER Beaten by his unien ofganizer, A. | Pagano, so severely that three stitches had to be taken in his head, a member of downtown Local 752 of | the Barbers Union, named Goldstein, is suffering from injuries today. Goldstein, several weeks ago, had a disagreement with his employer and when Organizer A. Pagano was | called -he struck Goldstein. On the evening of Oct. 17 Gold- | stein was standing in front of the | union, 15] Clinton St., when Pegano came up to him, grabbed him by the arm and proceeded to’ black- jack him. Later, when the matter came up in the union meeting, Busi- ness Manager Greenwald, who is a vice-president of the Forward He- brew Trades, forced the election of a whitewashing committee. The progressive union men declare that they will not rest until justice has been done. The Polish social democrats are depressed at the Lodz situation, but they must remain in*the movement while trying to sabotage it, at the same time recognizing that movement is beyond them. Even the social democrats admit that the gov- ernment sides with the indus- trialists. The Lodz strike is still complete with the tramway workers, metal workers, woodworkers, gas works employees, power station workers, |garment workers, waiters, etc., in \the solidarity strike. All the muni- ciptal workers, except hospital em-} ployees have joined the strike, and {when the Petrokov civil servants struck great indignation was ex- pressed in the bourgeois pres: in Warsaw. The strike committee permits the publication only of the labor press. RED ANTI-WAR ~ MEETING OCT. 27 |Communists Call Big! | Demonstration Calling upon the workers of New York City to join in a fight against the preparatiors for a new im- perialist war, the Executive Com-| | mittee of District 2, Workers (Com- |munist) Party through William W. | Weinstone, District Organizer, yes- terday announced its plans for a jhuge demonstration at Union | Square October 27, at 2 p. m. The text of she statement follows: To all members of the Workers (Communist) Party. To all sympathizers of the | Workers (Communist) Party, To the Workers of New York City: Down With War Preparations! Support the Workers Party Cam- paign Against Imperialist War! The imperialists of this coun- try have set aside October 27 as their Navy Day. This will be utilized by the war mongers, ‘by the big capitalists of this country to mobilize the country in prep- aration for a larger navy, a bigger army, for more airplanes and for | more of the deadly instruments in preparation for the next im- | perialist war. The capitalist candidates, Hoo- | ver and Smith, will make this day part of their campaign to support the republican and «democratic party platforms and show that they stand with Wall Street for an army and navy big enough to de- | feat Great Britain, America’s chief enemy in the fight for world | domination and to invade and at- tempt to destroy the Soviet Union. “Socialist” Poison. On this day the socialist candi- dates and the socialist party will put forward its program backing Continued on Page Two ELECTION TERROR EMERGENCY mmunist Party Calls on All Workers to Strengthen Hand in Fight in 3 Foster Beats 300 MINERS IN MORE DISTRICTS Ohio Red Candidate Sadie Van Veen, above, candidate| of the Workers (Communist) Party for State Senator in Ohio, led the unemployed of Cleveland to the City| Council to demand food and shelter, and has also been active in organi- zing the women and children in the Ohio coal fields. URGE SUPPORT OF REICH WALKOUT Soviet Workers Appeal for Shipyard Strikers MOSCOW, Oct. 18.—All European shipyard workers are urged to show their solidarity with the 50,000 strik- ing shipyard workers of Germany by refusing to repair German ships, in an appeal issued by the Interna- FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents New York, by mail, $8.00 per year , by mail, $600 per yenr. 4 States TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR FUND TO DEFEAT BIG WAVE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST COMMUNIST NOMINEES Suppression Can Be Stopped Sa Committee of Party Central Lovestone and Foster Call on Working Class to Respond In the face of reports from many sections of the United States of a wave of violent and suppressive actions against the Communist election campaign, the National Headquarters of the Workers (Communist) Party, 43 E. 125th St., yesterday issued a ringing call to the working class of America for an immediate fund of $10,000. NECESSARY TO MEET TERROR. Jay Lovestone, executive secretary of the Party, yes- terday characterized the statement which was issued in making the appeal as “a political document and not a mere routine call for funds. “We cannot fulfill our duty to the working class in the critical time of this election campaign,” Lovestone said, “without fighting every inch of the ground on which the arrogant American capitalist class declares the boasted principles of ‘democratic election’ do not apply to the Communist working class candidates. REACH BIG TERRITORY. “We have shown a strength already which has as- the tonished our enemies. We have reached a territory already exceeding the area that was ever covered before by a party claiming to be, as the Communist Party actually is, the party speaking for the working élass. “This explains the frenzied effort of the bourgeoisie by every ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ means to keep the Workers tional Propaganda and Action Com- mittee of the Revolutionary Metal) Workers’ today. | The appeal is addressed to the} English, French, Belgian and Duteh | ship building workers and is based on a plea of interna tional working | class solidarity. : | FASCISTS KILL FRAMED WORKER International Protest! Urged by Red Aid GENEVA, Oct. 18—Della Mag- giore, a member of the Communist Party of Italy, who was sentenced to death by the fascist “emergency | court for the protection of the| state,” was executed today. He was | taken before a squad of fascist gun- | men and killed. | This murder has had a tremendous effect in arousing the Italian work- | ers to increased militancy. It is the first death penalty since the estab-| lishment of the fascist dictatorship, and workers throughout Italy now realize that fascism is determined to secure undisputed power by ter- ror methods. | The measure was taken by the fascists after their alarm because of the effects of economic misery | and the work that the Communist | Party of Italy is doing io organize | the Italian workers to fight against | fascism. # | It is believed that many mere such | executions are contemplated unless | there is a mighty international pro- test from the workers of the world. The International Red Aid is ap- | pealing to the workers of all coun- Party off the ballot and to drive the workers’ candidates off the public platform. “But we are going to meet this attack and defeat it. However, we have never spread over so much territory, never had so many fights on so many fronts, as we have today. Therefore our expenses have been beyond our strength. Additional funds have become a question of life and death to our campaign. i “Therefore our appeal is a_ politi dressed to the American working cla: “A CAPITAL EMERGENCY.” William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for president, who returned to New York yesterday between campaign meetings, told the Daily Worker reporter that the Party meetings at which he spoke in “virgin” fields of the south- ern states were an experience of tremendous significance. “One of the outstanding facts,” he said, “is that our Workers (Communist) Party is breaking into the ‘solid south,’ a ‘solid’ reservoir heretofore of reaction. The po- lice attacks and the extra-legal violence of the ruling class in the attempt to prevent the Communist Party’s yoice being heard by the enslaved workers, black and white, are a tribute to our Party's attainments in this election. MUST FIGHT. “But let no one make a mistake—we will attain noth- ing in this campaign but what we fight for. The appeal of the Central Committee for funds to carry on the cam- paign must meet immediate and big response. The de- pletion of our Party resources is in a very material way a weakening of our Party’s capacity for action. It is a capital emergency. We must go thru and wind up this campaign with a smashing drive for the support of the masses of the workers. “I am confident that the workers will respond.” The statement of the Central Committee appears in this issue of the Daily Worker, occupying a full page. ical document ad- GETS BYRD’S SHIP ON AIR. tries to organize mass protests “ i , ugainst the f ee dag t Mi a i HOLD JAPANESE Bert Puck 17, Cedar e MEMPHI nn., Oct. 18. (U.P)—| Rapids amateur radio operator, re- MeNary of Oregon will reintroduce |: at Wide’ Settle tite. GHGS the MecNary-Haugen Farm Relier | 08 ®* ° & m. today : Pye Bil! in the next session of congress, he said here yesterday. of New York,” Commander Richard Byrd’s South Pole ship. Jiu jitsu exhibition, age old self» defense method of the ancient feu-, COAL BARONS ORGANIZE Plan War on National Miners’ Union By FRANK HENDERSON | (Special to the Daily Worker) WHEELING, W. Va. (By Mail). —Pittsburgh, recently a scene of a murderous attack upon the New Miners Convention by coal opera- tors and the Lewis machine, work- ing hand in hand, now boasts of the birth of a powerful organization of | coal operators, according to the Pittsburgh Press. The article says: “It is plain that lions and lambs ‘of dal warriors and now of the militant workers and peasants of Japan, be one of the main feature: Oriental Nite, dance and ente; ment to be held under the ai of the Japanese Workers’ A: tion, New York branch, ani nae Japanese Branch of the Internation- al Labor Defense, at Manhattan Ly- the bituminous industry have teamed up to pull together.” Commenting ceum, 66 E. 4th St., tonight. further on the organization, the) The hall will be decorated in the paper states that this powerful com-| Japanese manner and Japanese re- bination of coal operators will hold | freshments will be served. A fa- a dominant position among. the coal | mous Negro jazz orchestra will play producers and sellers of the world.|for the dancing which will follow |Vhe former organization of opera-|the entertainment. tors in Pennsylvania was dissolved] All the proceeds of the affair will on December 31, 1925. go to aid the struggling Chinese At that time the operators saw|trade unionists, and also to aid the Continued an Page Four white terror victims in Japan. my Communist Candidates to Speak at Unity Cooperative Mass Meeting in ‘Harlem Tonight will | t t ie] B