The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1928, Page 1

er COMMUNIST CANDIDATES TO SPEAK AT RED NIGHTS IN HARLEM AND MANHATTAN * ee Ng TONIGHT THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government | To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour | Week For a’Labor Party Entered as econd-cinas matter at the Post Office at N ew York, N. ¥. under the act of Mar Worker FINAL CITY EDITION | : ch 3, 1879. Vol. V., No. 249 Published daily except Sunday by T! Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. National Daily Worker NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCT OBER. 20, 192 ' | Communist Party, Under Reactionary Fire On All Fronts, Pushes "TEXAS WORKERS Police System MEXIGAN FARM . "assis Murder Worker: Another Is “Splendid” WORKERS STRIKE | | "J RALLY TO AID OF FREED MILITANTS Kelly and Lawrence, Released on Bail, Start Red Tour Issue Call for Funds, Nation-Wide Attacks, Must Be Answered HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 19.—Kelly and Lawrence, two of the six work- ers arrested “here a few days ago while defending the right of Ben- jamin Gitlow, Communist vice-presi- dential candidate, to speak here in the face of the concerted efforts of | the reaétionary city administration | and the local jingoist organizations, | were today released on bail. Their temporary freedom gained through the militant activities, they are now demanding a jury trial. Lawrence, at the time of the ar- vests, was charged with disturbing | the public Peace, and Kelly with | vagabondage and Carrying a sign in| violation of a city ordinance. The two arrested workers report that “we are taking them on down the iine. We are traveling so fast | thot we cannot write much now. We | chall give a full report as ‘soon as we can ¢atch up with ourselves. We're on the front pages cf the papers right along now.” * The above is only one of many reports reaching the national office | of the Workers (Communist) Party, indicating how courageously the | Tarty members and sympathetic | workers are waging the election | campaign. But it also emphasizes | the immediate and urgent need of | responding to the emergency fund | fcr $10,000, which the National Elec- tion Campaign Committee of the Varty is carrying on to enable. it to continue the election fight and to conibat the caritalist terror which is trying to smash the campaign. The police terror in Wilmington, Del.y and in West Virginia, Ohio, | California, New York, etc., have at- tempted to cripple the election cam- paign of the Communists. The prin- cipal aim of this terror is, of course, | to keep the Communist election message from reaching the exploited workers and farmers, white and Ne- gro. Since the courage and perse- verance of the Party comrades and sympathizing workers have made this impossible, have even used .it as a means of spreading their agita- icn, the capitalist terrorists hope to do the next best thing—to cut | For Socialists The police system of America is O. K.! If you are a needle trades worker whose head has been split while on picket duty by one of gentle members of the Industrial Squad, recruited from the gunmen, thugs and degenerates of the un- cerworld, that in no way reflects against the police system. You have Albert Grzesinski’s word for it. “I hear to, my regret,” writes “Comrade” Grzesinski to the New York Times, “that the statements made by me to the entire press im- mediately upon my arrival at Lake- | hurst concerning the happenings | subsequent to the landing of the “Graf Zeppelin,” have been inter- preted in Germany and here in a way which is neither in conformity with my intentions nor with the words’I actually said... . “T am happy to say that the splen- did impression which we always had of the American police forces, and which is especially based on the ex- cellent relations between the police and the police of Berlin, has even Continued on Page Four 682 FACE TRIAL IN NEW BEDFORD Court Determined ta. IN CALIFORNIA Pea Pickers Demand Higher Wages; One Is Jailed | Worst Exploited Class Other Workers Refuse to Seab on Strike SALINAS, Calif., Oct. 19.—Five hundred Mexican pea pickers, part | of the worst exploited class in Cali- | fornia, have gone out on strike here, demanding higher wages. The strik- ers consist of beth men and women. Pea field owners and their agents among the county and state officials are already active and have suc- ceeded in arresting Elias Relles, member of the strike committee, on charges of disorderly conduct. His) \disorderly conduct consisted in do- ing his duty as a striker and pick- eting. The majority of the workers are Mexicans and the bosses are at- tempting to bring race prejudices to their aid in breaking the strike. | Their attempts have So far met with no success, other workers in the dis- |trict having refused to scab on the |pea-pickers. The field owners are | \threatening to import strikebreak- ers from other sections of the west. at a Columbus Day parade. Fascists fired into a group of Italian workers who would not allow the fascist flag of the bloody Mussolini terror to be unfurled ‘omy Barra, a Angelo Leritricchia (above in hospital) was seriously wounded. was killed, worker, By NICOLA NAPOLI. Hundreds of bushels of unpické peas are hardening in the fields and regime has reached into the United The bloody hand of the fascist) BLOODY FASCIST HAND REACHES INTO AMERICA oe | RED TAG DAYS. - CITLOW DEFIES TERROR; SPEAKS AT PHOENIX, ARIZONA iin New York, by mail, $8.00 per ork, by ma’ 6.00 per yen A Price 3 Cents iew Y ee: sais a | to Other Textile Districts Platform While Many Cheer Socialists in Betrayal Force Permit Grant Police Prevent All De- monstrations Department of Justice Agent Present (Wireless to the Daily Worker) ' ee 8 WARSAW, Oct. 19.—The Lodz Alfred Knutson, candidate of the, (Special to the Daily Worker) | general strike now includes most of Workers (Communist) Party and| PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 19.— Des the municipal workers in the city Farmer Labor Party for U.S. Sen-|fying the capitalist police terror land the strike is now spreading to ator from North Dakota. |which two weeks ago threatened the textile centers beyond the Lodz "dis- Sekai tee Soe |safety of anyone who would speak tricts, with workers in Warsaw ready HOLD ) BIR RED here in the name of the working to n the walkout. class, Benjamin Gitlow, Communist The trade unions of Bielostok candidate for vice-president, yester- jhave proclaimed a strike for today, day addressed a large audience at and the workers of the “Zirardov” City Hall Plaza and in stirring factory have proclaimed.-a passive words denounced the political parties resistance policy and the factory of the bosses, the police system, the |owners threaten a lockout. Ku Klux Klan, the American Legion | Demand National Strike. Harlem and Manhattan and the labor fakers who support A number of the Warsaw trade : them, unions demand that the Trade Union| Will Be Covered The natiénwide agitation whe has been condticted since the threat- Seventy-five speakers, including |¢ned kidnapping of Gitlow a week Central Commission should proclaim a general strike for all of Poland to support the textile strikers. The| Jay Lovestone, executive secretary |#80 resulted in the mayor of Phoe- commission has as yet sent no an-|of the Workers (Communist) Party |"/X granting a permit to the Com- | swer, probably in the hope that ar-|of America; WiNiam W. Weinstone, |™unists to hold the meeting at the. bitration will end the Lodz strike. | secretary of the New York District | Very hall for which the city officials The Polish socialists are doing|cf the Workers (Communist) Party; |tWo weeks ago refused to grant the their utmost to prevent the procla-| Robert Minor, candidate of the necessary permission. mation of a metal workers’ strike in| Workers Party. for | Warsaw. Richard B. Moore, candi efor | 4 Gitlow, who had been warned two” wos ri R ers-Support Cdaser Pushes Election Fund : vine WARSAW LABOR ""CSnaaac’"” EXPOSES LEGION, DEMANDS POLISH KLAN, AS TOOLS. : GENERAL STRIKE OF BIG BOSSES Lodz Walkout Spreads Negro Worker Sits on ; |_In two weeks the largest mass|0 not come to terms with the strik- Jail Leaders ; there is a strong possibility that the States. Mussolini is arming his NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 19, entire crop may be lost if the bosses |“squadristi” with guns to be used | against those workers who daré pro- ‘test against fascism even outside of Italy. trial of workers ever held in this|¢rs immediately. country opens in New Bedford. Six The general situation in Lodz is congress in the Twenty-first Con-|weeks ago that he would not b 2 “ Fee: bs a e per- unchanged, except for the fact that! gressional District, will speak at the | mitted to set foot on the soil of pen more workers have joined the strike. | hig Red Night in the Negro Section|zona, talked to several hundred The Vidzev workers are now ON) of Harlem and in the downtown workers, who applauded his speech TODAY, SUNDAY strike. The sick club employes, on night. and showed that they were with him Thousand to Volunteer the orders of the trade unions, have hundred and sixty-two textile work- ers, over six hundred of whom are members of the militant New Bed- ford Textile Workers’ Union affil- iated with the National Textile Workers’ Union organized. at the convention held in New York: City September 22 and 23, will be tried on 888 charges arising out of the New Bedford and Fall River strikes, broken after heroic resistance to the savage onslaught of the mill owners in which mass jailings and police | terror, played a leading role. Workers Must Rally. In an interview given to a repre- sentative of the Daily Worker, Har- ry Hoffman, Boston counsel for the International Labor Defense in charge of the strike cases,” em- phatically stressed the necessity of workers and sympathizers rallying without further delay to the defense of these militant mill workers, if they are to be saved from serving the vicious sentences imposed, and the right to strike and the right to picket in the state of Massachusetts, involved in these cases, is to be up- held. down the scope of the campaign by | compelling us to use up for bail and | vourt expenses the money with/ which the Party intends to print | 4,000,000 leaflets. on the issues of the campaign and one million copies of the Party press, and to finance | the tours of its candidates and cam- paigners throughout the country. | The answer of the workers to this JAIL HENDERSON AT OHIO RALLY terror*is to offer eager support to | the emergency fund, if’ one can judge by the first telegrams re- ccived, promising immediate aid. | ‘The Party is not asking for large | cums from each individual. If all Party members, if the working men Continued on’ Page Four On October 27 Baily Sais 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 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. (Special to the Daily Worker) STEUBENVILLE, 0., Oct. 19.— Continuing the campaign of organ- ized police terrorism against the Communists, local police, believed to be carrying out the orders of the coal operators, yesterday broke up the scheduled meeting here of the Workers Party at which the candi- date of the Party for governor, Paterson was due to speak. Several hundred were at the meeting. The police arrested Frank Hen- derson, sub-district organizer of the Young Workers League immediately as he opened the: meeting. Hender- son is now being held incommun- fcado and no word from him has been received. Hold Litttle Hope for MacDonald, Lone Flier | LONDON, Oct. 19 (UP).—The name of Lieutenant Commander H. C. MacDonald has been added to the long list of thos who disappeared as they tried to fly across the North Atlantic. Only slight hope was left that he remained alive. Alone in a tiny Moth plane, Mac- Donald started from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, at 11:40 a. m. Wed nesday, New York time EXPRESS BOSSES WILL FIGHT UNION e The first fruits of the recent be- trayals of the Express Workers |strike by International president |George M ‘Harrison were visible |yesterday when so-called negotia- |tions between officers of the Ameri- ‘can Railway Express Company and union officials ended in the expected |maneuver of the scab express com- |pany to avoid union recognition. |This outcome was predicted by the | Daily Worker last week in its ex- | posure of the treacherous role played by Harrison and local union offi- \cials in calling off the strike of the lexpressmen against the will of the ‘membership and without a vote. | Setting up a “trick” condition without which he would, refuse to |deal further with the union, L. R. |Gwynn, vice-president of the com-| pany, and known to be one of the | most unscrupulously suave boss offi- |cials in the country, yesterday wrote |to Harrison demanding the elimina- jtion of “all reds and radicals” from |among the employes of the com-/; | pany. Under the plan by which the lcompany would eliminate at one |stroke all those workers who have |put up a fight against their bosses, Gwyn suggests the appointment of a committee of three, one by the Chamber of Commerce, one by the Mediation Board and the third to be |chosen by these two open shoppers, all of whom would act as an “im-| partial” red inquisition. Slowly. but persistently the fascist monster has penetrated the Italian communities here and, to some ex- tent, has succeeded in obtaining the support of public authorities, police officials. and influential bourgeois personalities in persecuting and threatening the Italian workers in the United States who have escaped the fascist terror and jails in Italy. Fire on Workers. In Detroit, last Friday, during the Columbus Day parade, in which many Italian organizations partici- pated, an emissary of Mussolini fired on two workers, Tony Barra and An- gelo Lentricchia. These two work- ers, together with other anti-fas- cisti wanted to prevent the display |of the fascist symbol—the littorio— the unfurling of the fascist gagliar- ditto in the streets of Detroit. Barro paid for his protest with his life. Sylvester, the bearer of the fascist flag had fired a mortal bul- let and wounded Lentricchia who is now lying in the hospital in serious condition. Criminal Fascism. But the murder of Barro, at this time, while Mussolini has started a new terroristic offensive against the Italian working class by pressing the danger of Gramsci, Terracini and |other political victims, by putting into practice the death penalty (re- member the case of Michele Della | Maggiore, a Communist, who was executed the other day in Lucca) is indicative of a vast criminal plan which the fascisti have been ordered to carry out systematically in all foreign countries. Mussolini had a proof of devotion Continued on Page Three (Editor's Note: Today is the second anniversary of the death of Eugene Victor Debs, who for many years was the foremost leader of | the American workingclass. On this occasion the Daily Worker is printing the following excerpt from an article published January, 1911, in the “International Socialist Review” and quoted from “Speech- es of Eugene V. Debs,” issued by International Publishers. Debs raised the danger signal when the socialist party was taking in mid- dle class reformers and_ placing them in the leadership of the party. Altho unclear on several point’, this utterance- of “Debs, made 17 years ago, proved pro- phetic, and thegS.P. today, which glories in a Vanderbilt joining its fold, is nothing but a party of Liberal reform, bound to the trade- union bureaucracy and functioning as a third capitalist party.) * 8 * a Danger Ahead. The danger I see ahead is that the socialist party at this stage, and under existing conditions, is apt to attract elements which it cannot as- similate, and that it may be either weighted down or torn asunder with internal strife, or that it may be- come permeated and corrupted with) the spirit of bourgeois reform to an| extent that will practically destroy its virility and efficiency as a rev-|ary program. No possible good can| with its leaders to secure political ‘come from any kind of a political | favors can only result in compromis- To my mind the working class alliance, express or implied, with! ing our principles and bringing dis- | heada character and the revolutionary in-|trade unions or the leaders of\trade| aster to the party. olutionary organization. nnn | and the cause he represents. for Collections resumed their work as also some unorganized waiters have done, and ithe theatre employes and the unem-) | ployed engaged in public works have | also resumed work. The Lodz engineers are also on, strike and demand a 20 per cent) wage increase. Lodz resembles a| state of siege with police every-| where. The conflicts which have taken place have caused excitement, because thé Polish socialists are try-| Contmued on Page Two | Ratification “Meet of | Down Here Tomorrow Eve A meeting to ratify the platform and candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party has been ar- ranged by the Downtown Workers’ Club. The meeting, which hundreds of downtown workers are expected to attend, will be held at the club |rooms, 35 E. Second St., tomorrow |, | j e evening at 8 o'clock. Among the speakers who will ad- dress the assemblage will be Bert “Red Tag Days today and tomor- row!” The intensive two-day drive to swell the Communist campaign fund in District 2 starts this morning and will continue until late tomorrow night. Thousands of class-conscious work- ers will start the day by the use of Communist collection boxes on their way to the shop. For two days these workers will think in terms of money to boost the election campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party. At the shops collections will be taken up. Lunches of militant workers will be even scantier than usual. Part of the lunch allotment will be set aside for the Red campaign. On the way from work today, and at night in fraternal organizations and in all places where workers con- gregate the Red campaigners will be busy with their boxes. All day tomorrow the intensive drive will be carried on. All speakers scheduled for Seated on the platform with’ Git- Harlem Red Night report to 200 |low, William O’Brien, candidate for W. 135th St. at 7:30 p. m. All |governor, and George Saul of Colo- members of the Harlem Section |rado, was a Negro worker, Logan, report at 6 p. m. |who is a presidential elector for the All speakers scheduled for |national ticket of the Workers downtown Red Night report to | (Communist) Party. 60 St. Marks Place at 7:30 p.m. The presence of a Negro worker All members of Section 1 report |on the platform, as well as the to the headquarters at 6 p. m. |speech of Gitlow on the Negro ques-> : ~~~ |tion, gave the Negro-hating capi- The following is the list of speak-|talists of Arizona to understand that ers for each section: here is one political party which easy Bales penn comes out for the rights of the “ovestone, Minor, Stachel, J. J.|Negro against the discrimination , | townWorkerClub 2atlam, Moore, Huiswood, Edward|that have been heaped on them. Welsh, Williams, Alexander, Rose- Meeting Is Victory mond, Mary Adams, Grace Lamb, ae” A. Markoff, Julius Codkind, Albert | ,,7h¢, olde. of the meeting tn Moreau, Braverman, Fishman, Blea Phoenix is a victory for the Work- Block, Anna Thompson, I. Potash, | °TS (Communist) Party and a defeat Kose Wortis, P. Shapiro, Winters, | £°T the reactionary organizations, G. Spiro, Blake, Ross, B. Friedman | he splendid demonstration of pro- and Simon Rady. |letarian courage given by. the mem- Sitti |bers of the Party in Arizona and Weinstone, Lifshitz, Hendin, Aron- | ‘he wave of Protest cot eae rg, M. Epstein, Wattenberg, Al- |) ere eee ae Four mazov, Bimba, Nat Kaplan, Will Continued or eee Herberg, Sam Don, Helfand, Davis, Communist Election Drive for Emergency \||Fund Against Terror : A. Stein, Epstein, Gerson, F. Gor- lion, A. Gussakoff, Milgrom, Sum- rer, Ackerman, Silber, A. Wolff, G. Velsh, Lillienstein, Wright, LeRoy, ; A serious situation exists. It is Miller, Workers (Communist) Party imperative that the Red campaign] candidate for Senate in the 14th be waged with even greater inten-| istrict; Alexander Trachtenberg, | sity than has characterized it thus|Communist candidate in* the 14th far. This cannot be! done without Gorrcacional District; E. Watten-|!Tank Stenzer, Leibowitz, S. Bleeck- iq sufficient funds. In this emergency|perg, running in the 14th Assembly |!) Cibulsky, Zukowsky, Sazar, Kate |] tumediate tasks for all Party all militant workers must respond|pistrict; S. Milgrom, campaign “itlow, Costrell, Sultan, McDonald, || yombers: 5 4 f generously. |manager of the downtown district; | Midola, Suskin, Taft, Blum, Joo Co-|| "3" "Cat out the contribution} | All week collections for the Com-|M, Perlov and Morris Silverstein of |he™ J. Cohen, Magliacano, Peer. || j1ank printed in the Daily Worker munist campaign fund will continue. the Downtown Workers’ Club, Lef-| Popkin, F. Shafran and B. Gussa- || togq off. : For the rest of the week the activ- ities of Red campaigners will con- centrate in shops and factories and | kowitz will be the chairman. | Send immediately your con- tribution, of not less than one dol- lar, to the COMMUNIST ELEC- Needle workers, get collection lists WOMEN PROTEST iecerdtoiaal orsalcath Toca area fte,, Needle. Trades Campaign organizations and local Committee, 26 Union Square, Room TION DRIV ANTI-TERROR Tana 3 4 ig 202, ect funds for the electt paseo tenet af ag Shop collections will be} 20%, nud continue Workers @comme-| EMERGENCY FUND. made. nist) Party. 3. Send the money without DEBS OF 1911 WARNED OF REFORMIST DANGERS ‘Said Bourgeois Elements Will Kill Revolutionary Character of Socialist Party | tegrity of the socialist party are of | first importance. All the votes of the people would do us no good if we ceased to be a revolutionary party, or only incidentally so, while yielding more and more to the pres- sure to modify the principles and} program of the party for the sake of swelling the vote and hastening the day of its expected triumph. There is also a disposition on the part of some to join hands with re- actionary trade unionists in local be in harmony with our revolution- any delay DIRECT to the Na- tional Election Campaign Com- mittee, 43 East 125th St. New York City. -s 4. It is the duty of every Party Unit to take up a collec- tion for the Emergency Fund at once and to send the money DIRECT to the National Election Campaign Committee. 5. Evdry unit must assign comrades to take up collections in the trade unions, fraternal ors ganizations and factories, ‘ 6. It is the duty of every Party member to collect as much money as possible in the shops, trade unions and fraternal or- ganizations, 7. The Red Election Sundays and the house-to-house canvas- sing should be utilized to estab- HIGH MEAT PRICE CLEVELAND, Oct. 19.—Eight {hundred Jewish lousewives gath- cred in a monster mass meeting lest | night to ratify the strike call issued |by the executive committee elected at the last meeting of the women against the high price of meat. Last . “4 Tuesday a meeting was called by Seems: 1 aa of their own re-/{he Workers (Communist) Party to ah mati support of |TBatize the women in the Kinsman trade unionists, but only of ois op ibe donee a nie WEY: Delleve, dn: Roctallnmn cinditare| Deen of meat, which had increased ready to vote and work with us for| Tage mgm ns from 18 to S82 the overthrow of capitalism. gas " ; Granted a charter from the Amer- els ., ‘ 10 ee ae atte ite Cig ican, Federation of Labor, the butch- | ‘d ers have formed a fake union which Federation to determine its attitude| » ‘ ; |has used all kinds of terror, such as and control its course, is deadly hos- |tear bombs, gas bombs, threats, etc., | unions who are opposed to Socialism and only turn to it for use in some this organization and to join hands Needle worker! | tributed to the | Workers (Communt m1 |tundst Get a collection shop con-|| NATIONAL ELECTION CAM: PAIGN COMMITTEE Workers (Communist) Party 43 E. 125th St.. New York, 3, Y. Campaign Committee, Square, Room 202. emergencies and in certain tem- tile to the socialist party and to any ‘ a lish the Communist Election | porary situations to effect some spe-/and every revolutionary movefient bai pees posed oo Sec- |) Drive Anti-Terror Emergency | _ cifie purpose, which may or may not | of the working class. To kowtow to ee |] Fund. Y