The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1928, Page 2

Page 1wo .ALL OUT, LAST STOP! \E.R-T. | | RAILROAD | CO me | niles | The traction worker waiks bent under the heavy burden of innumerable long hours around his neck, hung there by the treacherous hand of the A. F. of L. labor fakers with the help of their master, Frank Hedley. And added to the burden te. UNMENTIONABLE BESTIALITY BY POLICE CHARGED Youths’ Finger Tips Burnt With Fire Morris “M ‘i Rdbert. Echs, men Workers (Com because they I demonsiration rist show at Ma last. week, were 1 ison to- day. The story they have to tell of police brutality rivals the most lurid tales of official a in strike areas and brand: w York po- licemen as the e tiality of his con and mining regions 1 in refined bes- 2 in the textile Forcible lodging toilet, burn- ing of the finger tips with fire and certain excesses which cannot be de- seribed in the colur of the Daily Worker for fear of suppression at the hands of the same department of justice which collaborates with the police, are among the cruelties charged by the released workers. The youths were arrested when they threw leaflets denouncing the preparations which the imperialists are making for the next war from the galleries of Madison Square Garden onto the drill floor wheré heridreds of soldiers eagerly picked them up. Because one of the throw-aways ing to hit an officer on the he: Workers were cha and battery. A policeman who he would call a the ri quest of the you 1 to do so, or was not perm se The young were sen. tenced to five day: the work- house cn Welfare id their possessions were were forced to shovel coal g their incarceration. Directors of Women’s Work to Hold Meet in Workers Center Today Communist organizers of women’s work, fraction secretaries and lan- guage organizers of women’s work will meet today at the Workers Centre, 26-28 Union Square, at 2 o'clock in the aftexnoon. The conference, called by the Dis- triét Women’s Committee and the Red Campaign Committee, will dis- cuss nroblems of women’s work in this district and will lay the bas! for the huge Red Election Rally for women to be held at Irving Plaza Hall on Nov. 1 In a statement issued last night, Rebecca Grecht, state: campaign manager for the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, urges that “all women’s work functionaries in the Party lay aside all other business to attend this most important conference. €The growing importance % wamen political being recog- ™ niged b: he said. “Even A. gréater is ed by women “V in’ the of the the workinge Pon; in greater oe shops and mills, Ably exploited. MOV ¥]t is the Communist duty of all veloyomen’s work functionaries to bend no! ass, nu every effort to make the be! mass | | meeting of Noy. 1 a su 3 = a “The Crowd” Will Be Shown at Finn Lyceum Psychology of the white collar slave which is portrayed jn the mo- tidn picture,.““The Crowd,” will be shown by the Finnish Workers Club, copoperating with local New York Workers International Relief for the benefit of the struggling textile workers. } Jay Lovestone and Albert Weis- hord will speak. The motion pic- ture performance, which will be combined with a mass meeting, will take place Thursday, Oct. 25, at the Thugs ‘ —remme | Flourish, bo ts The t gangsters and thugs left shows ganq found and he DEMAND POLISH GENERAL. STRIKE Lodz Walkout Spreads ‘to Other Districts ¢ Continued from Page One paralyze the strike. The workers demonstrated before trade union buildings. The police disperse demonstrations but encounter tho increasing stance of the workers The strikers are suffering pov- erty, and the rations given by the city, consisting of 5,000 bread tion id ten thousand dinners dail are only a drop in the ocean. The scab organizations, which have recognized their powerlessness in Lodz are now concentrating to prevent the strike from spreading to Petrokov and Czenstochau. Import of Strike. MOSCOW, U. R., Oct. 19.-- The “Pravda,” official organ of the Communist Par of the Soviet an article today points out ance of the Lodz general strike from the point of view of the development of the class struggle in Poland and the inter:. abor movement. “Stabilized capital strives n vain to stem the ‘revolutionary tide,” Pravda says. “The Lodz strike was caused by frightful working condi- tions, such as from 12 to 16 working hours per day, the discharge of ex= pectant mothers, the inhuman and despotic treatment of workers by the employers, and the inquisitorial pen- alty system?” “The bourgeoisie is now alarmed that one class has arisen against an- other. On one side there is the en- siastic textile workers, on the other side the textilé barons and the whole hierarchy of fascist violence, from the marshal to secret police and the Polish socialist party with the yell nationalist trade union functio The Polish Commu responsible position ai engthen the positions and extend the strug- ri ists are i they already must s won “The fight must’ be guided by the| political basis of solidarity strikes, contact with the international pro- letariat, and the exposure of the re- formists, The Lodz proletariat fights in the front ranks of the re- vyolutionary struggle, not only in an economic fight, but against reform- ism and fascism. It is the duty of the international proletariat to help the heroie Polish worke Shabby Togs Will Win ‘Prizes at I. L. D. Revel | Webs Elaborate plans are being made for the annual Proletarian Autumn Revel of the New York @Mection of the: International Labor Defense, 799 Broadway. The revel held er Hall, 119 East 11th St. are having a lican officials in Chicago and Philadelphia, and the Tammany democratic machine in New York. Rival factions of these thugs are at present engaged in a war of extermination against each other. Photo at At right is riddled body of Jim Senter, bootlegger king, n eay Brooklyn. These thugs are fighting to settle which will serve the bosses as thugs against the, militant workers, and also for bootlegging supremacy. led by rival in Brooklyn. will be | aturday evening, Oct. 27; in| THE of Jong hours is the starvatic merrily over the head of the traction worker, threatening the lives and health of himself ani side, the picture of the “happy” I.R.T. family, known as the Protected by Capitalist merry old time of it w Grocery Clerks’ Union Launches Intensified Campaign of Picketing Intensified picketing was an- nounced as the program of the Re- tail Grocery, Fruit and Dairy Clerks Union now conducting a general strike for the organization of its trades, wage increases, shortening of hours and union recognition. Orders to every union member not | employed. in a, settled shop have been | ~ sent out to appear this morning at| union headquarters for strike duty. Officers of the union stated yester- day that while the strike has been] practically won: and that while wage increases and improved. conditions have been granted by the majority of bosses the union would not per- mit the members to continue in the belief that a full victory could be won without a real fight by the membership and more strike duty. All unemployed members who fail to appear for duty this morning, union officers declared, would have to answer. for. their failure. About 75 per cent of the bosses have settled granting union recog- nition, a wage increase of $5.00 per week and shorter hours, The right wing “socialist” clique of the United Hebrew Trades has been seeking ot handicap the ike by ‘making a common front with the bosses. Millinery Youth Mass Meet on October 25 A mass meeting of all organized and unorganized millinery young workers will be held at Bryant Hall, 6th Ave. and 42nd St., on Oct. 25 25 at 7 p. m. ' The speakers at this meeting, which is being held under the aus- pices of the Downtown Unit 2 of the Young Workers (Communist) League, will be Herbert Zam, Fanny Rothman and Carl Winters. Max Helfand will be the chairman. Youth Red Rally Meet for Speakers Today A meeting of young workers who| will speek at the Red Rally to be given by the downtown units 1 and 2 of the Young Workers (Commu- nist) League on Wednesday, Oct. 24,| will be held today at 2 p. m. at 60 St. Marks Place. All speakers must attend. ee Waa All Section 3 Members Must Report Today at 1 All members of Section 3 of the Workers (Communist): Party are | Girected to report at headquarters, | 101 West 27th St. at 1 p. m. and/ throughout the day today, by order of H. Bydarian, section organizer. Pioneers Issue Call | - for Red Rally Oct. 28 | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1928 on wage, swinging her scythe | company union, is completed. The common interest of the ; workers 2nd their boss is clearly seen. What would Hedley do without the backs of his workers to ride on? He may have d family. With Hedley at her | to support his understung chest on its own legs. ney | the Tammany tiger has found room enough .to enjoy a nico | free ride. Tammany police and gangsters subsidized by the boss of the LR.T. have been i nstrumental in keeping the-back of the traction worker “comfortably” bent so that Hedley and his little playmates could go bye-bye. Five Young Workers Tell Horrible Tale of Torture at Hands of Police Officials. Politicians : DEFEND PARIS: _ FROM THE ‘REDS’ ‘French Gov't Alarmed | by Communists | PARIS, Oct. 19.—The activities | and growth of the Communist Party lof France has instilled such great fear into the French government and military officials that they have | found it necessary to publish a plan, ‘known as Plan Z, for the defense of | the city should a revolution occur. To justify their action and pre- pare the way for a campaign against | the “Reds” they have let it be known that a secret Communist plan had been discovered, whereby Paris would be captured. They claim to have discovered this plan through a “Red leader” who had deserted the ranks of the revolutionists. to jail after sentence of 1 year. for being militant, and starving, in jail for theft of food, Connolly year for stealing @ huge fortune expected to serve this sentence. nder the protection of the repub- Photo shows former Boro President Connolly of Queens on way While workers get long sentences unemployed workers spend years got the ridiculous sentence of one thru sewer contracts. He is not _| According to the official French Harlem, Brownsville UNCOVER FOREIGN sts: 2esss ocr eaeat OIL CONSPIRACY the front ranks of the revolutionists would be made un of a host of taxi- Charge Secession Plot in Columbia leabs carrying machine-guns, and the workers of the French Street Cleaning Department would turn / ei their huge steel trucks into tanks. gantic mass demonstrations the ar- BOGOTA, Colombia, Oct. 19 (UP) |police and troops. ~Foreign Minister Uribe told the |that the taxi drivers union, com-| president. chamber of deputies in session here | posed of 25,000 members and the) Tuesday, October 30—Harlem. that only unconfirmed rumors have street-cleaning uiion are both Com-| The Harlem meeting. will be held Negro workers of Harlem and artillery squads, according to French Richard B. Moore, Negro candidate military officials, would be to pre- for congress on the Workers (Com- -|vent their opponents from building munist) Party ticket in the 21st |barricades and clear the streets of congressional district, and William The function of these two advance rest by Wilmington, Del., police of munist unions. reached official sources regarding | After publishing this plan for] Luke’s Hall, 125 West 130th St. in revolution, an imposing conference the Negro district of Harlem. It took place under the auspices of the! will be addressed by Bishop William |government, in the offices of Gen- Montgomery Brown, of Arkansas, of .deputies had |eral Gourand, military governor of | Richard B, Mocre, Negro Communist | made n request for information, |Patis. Military and police chiefs candidate for congress from the 21st, corresponding to an interpellation, | Participated in this conference. And congression district; Edward Wels, regarding statements by Colonel | then a counter-plan was published Negro Communist candidate for New) Roberto Fossi that an attempt had /Providing for the defense of York assembly from the 2ist as- been made to involve him in such a|the city; which, curiously enough,| sembly district, and Robert Minor, Fae aioe was based upon the experiences of editor of The Daily Worker and) ) the Paris Commune. Communist candidate for U. 8. sen- Colonel Fossi, who led the recent | According to military plan Z, the ate. The chairman of the meeting abortive political movement in Ven-| French troops will not even bother| Will be Otto E. Huiswoud, a well-) ezuela, is now in prison at Cucuta,|t) defend the city should a mass| known Negro labor leader in the dis-| on the Venezuelan-Colombian fron- | revolution occur, but would im- trict. | tier, and is awaiting Colombia’s de- mediately withdraw to Versailles} | Wed., October 31—Brownsville. | cision on Venezuela’s request for his |and entrench themselves there, just) ‘The Brownsville meeting will be extradition. Fossi, in an interview jas President Thiers did during the’ held the following night, Wednesday, | with the Cucuta correspondent of | Commune of Paris. The plan pro-| October 81, at 154 Watkins St., the newspaper “El Tiempo,” is said | yides for two dozen military posts| Brownsville. Richard B. Moore will| to have declared that the alleged | throughout the city whose function be the principal speaker at that | plot had as its object the formation | would be to combat smaller out- meeting. The other speakers are not cf ‘an independent republic on the |breaks, but they would withdraw as| yet announced. border. Soon as. a mass offensive were be-| NS Minister Uribe declared that Co-|gun. The whole counter-plan is! rads lombia “is prepared to protect her| based on the suppositién that the|cation, Marcel Cachin, as prime sovereignity over the gections and | revolutionary ranks would split once minister, and Paul Vaillant-Cou-| will prevent any unlawful exploita-|they got possession of the city and turier, editor of L’Humanite, as tion of the natural resources on the an alleged separatist movement in- volving oil lands on the Colombian- Venezuelan frontier. The chamber begin to exterminate each other. minister of the interior. The French berder.” Then would the government forces | generals insist that as soon as the Unconfirmed from Versailles march victoriously | revolution begins the moving picture reports that the | 8 n byes | Venezuelan government has sold ex-| into the city, says the plan. |houses will be turned into instruc-| tensive oil territory near the Colom-| The French government also sug-| tion houses by the Communists, and bian boundary for 30,000,000 boli- | 8@St8 as officers of Soviet France, that loud speakers, mounted on vares were read by the minister. Henri Barbusse as minister of edu-|autos, would broadcast orders. Following Minister Uribe’s state- | ment, Minister of Industry Montalvo | requested that the chamber meet in| seeret session to hear his explana- tion of several points regarding the | cancellation of the contract of the | Barco concession, consisting of some | 5,000,900 acres, The chamber had | requested information on the mat- The Greatest Selection of Pants —IN NEW YORK cITy— 1000 pair of pants of the best wools and worsted to match any * coat and vest, $4.95 and Up We are making the best pants to order. We have 50,000 dif- ferent designs, im- ported and domestic fabrics, at very rea- sonable prices. 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Lad imauares thom reansttete ™ lgoking garments on the floor. Oct. 28th at 2 p, m. ‘Election Dance to Be Negroes Will Protest Held Tonight at Labor Wilmington Terror Lyceum in Brownsville An elaborate ville Labor Lyceum, 219 Second St., Brooklyn, by the Yourg Workers’ Social Culture Club, Bristol Street, Brooklyn. Part of the proceeds of the dance | will be donated by ‘the club to the| Communist Campaign Fund, accord- It so happens Z. Foster, Communist candidate for ing to Frank Blumenkrantz, an ad- visor of the club. Brooklyn, and especially Browns- n workers are urged to attend the Tuesday evening, October 30, at St dance’ and help the Communist cam- ville paign. BANKERS HURT IN PLANE. ATLAWTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 19 UP).—Five delegates to the con- vention of the Investment Bankers’ Association of America were in- jured here late today when. their airplane went into a tail spin about 600 feet from the ground. ‘ color-light dance Brownsville will protest in two gi- Will be held tonight at the Browns- Ine., of 118 BLOOR TALKS T0 IOWA WORKERS ~IN'BIG RED DRIVE: | Audience Welcomes” Red Platform . SIOUX CITY, Ia., (By Mail).— |Ella Reeve (Mother) Bloor, veteran Communist speaker and agitator, * addressed several hundred workers* | here on Monday at a campaign meet- jing of the Workers (Communist) | Party, receiving an enthusiastic i | greeting and ovation from the work- | ers present, Mother Bloor spoke on the events that had taken place in the mining regions, telling the audience of the cowardly raid by gunmen and Lewis gangsters on the National Miners’ Union Convention in Pittsburgh, and |of the terrorism against the textile | strikers in New Bedford. The work- ers were stirred by her description of conditions of the workers in the Soviet Union, as contrasted to the wage slavery imposed of the Amer- ican workers. Workers to Protest Murder by Fascists Tomorrow at the Peoples House, 7 East 16th St., at 2 p. m. a mass _ meeting will take place to protest \against the fascist murder which oc- curred in Detroit last week during |the Columbus Day parade as a re- ‘sult of which Tony Barro, a worker iwas killed and Angelo Léntricchia wounded. | Among the speakers will be N, | Napoli, G. Serio and C. Tresca. Needle Worker! Ust at the dle Trade Union Square, funds for the election campaign of — the Workers (Communist) Party. Get a collection HUGE COLORFUL MASS Pageant Sunday, Nov. 4, 2 p.m. Doors Open 1:00 P. M. ‘ at MADISON SQ. GARDEN Final Rally of Communist Campaign and 11th Anniversary of Russian < Revolution —BRASS BAND OF 100 PICKED. ARTISTS —FREIHEIT SINGING SOCIETY, 800 Voices Speakers :— WM. Z. FOSTER, . Communist Presidential Candidate _BEN GITLOW, Candidate for Vice President AND OTHERS. RED MUSIC New Unions, etc., ete. RED PAGEANT 20 RED FLOATS Artistically painted and decorated, will portray, the Soviet Revolution, the International Labor Movement, the Communist Press, the Cooperative Camps, the RED SPEECHES Tickets :—Arena $1.00; Baléony 50c; on sale at Workers (Communist) Party, 26-28 Union Square, New York.