The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1928, Page 6

“So €2 Oe ~m cco at oe = : Page Six 2. THE DAIL’ Baily =: Worker A ~~ eS “ Y WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1928 Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Published by National Da Ass’n., Inc., Daily, Except Union Square, New York, Stuyvesant 1696- ROBERT WM. F. DUNNI 4 MINOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail (in New York only): $4.50 six mos. By Mail (outside of New York) 50 three mos, $8 a year $6 a year $3.50 six mos. $2.00 three mos Address and mail out ch to The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union § » New York, N. Y. For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER - Wm. Z. Foster For the Workers! VOTE COMMUNIST! Q | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! CZ For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW i Ben Gitlow Socialist Party Bankruptcy Every public utterance or written article of the Rev. Dr. Norman Thomas, the socialist party candidate for president, revea new form the anti-working class cha that organization. It has long been evident that the socialist party at its last convention threw overboard even the suggestion of a class. struggle in order to clear the ground for a direct appeal to the middle tlass elements that supported LaFollette in 1924. On Thursday night over the radio the Rev. Thomas urged his hearers to vote the so- *cialist ticket in order “to build up a progres- sive party of opposition.” Such a demand indicates two things. First, that the socialist party does not even pre- tend to make a class appeal to the workers against the capitalist parties, even in the insipid reformistic fashion that usually char- acterizes social-democratic partie: Second, that the leaders of that weird assortment of political bankrupts have abandoned all hope of becoming other than a minority opposi- tional party. A third aim is indicated by the radio speech of Rev. Thomas. He wants to claim for his party the dubious credit of having influenced the old parties to place “social legislation’? upon the statue books of the state. Says the socialist presidential can- didate : “It was the growth of the socialist party in New York which forced most of the social legislation for the credit of which Governor Smith and the republicans are now wrangling.” That cheap boast reveals the utter de- pravity of the socialist party, and convicts it of practising the most shameful and un- principled deception in this campaign. In- stead of exposing the fact that every so- called piece of social legislation in New York state is a fraud, a deliberate swindle against the masses, this pulpit-pounder disputes with the democrats and republicans the credit for deceptive practices against the working class under the guise of social legislation. What are the real facts regarding social legislation in New York? Take, for instance, workmen’s compensa- tion. Does not Rev. Thomas know that the state bureaus work hand in hand with the employers and the insurance swindlers to prevent workers receiving compensation for injuries suffered in industry? Is it pos- ‘sible that a man professing to be interested in the welfare of the working class could be 's0 abyssmally ignorant of actual facts as not ‘to know that a systematic bribery of physi- ‘cians engaged in. industrial accidents pre- ‘vails? Does he not know that less than eight per cent of compensation claims are actually settled in favor of the victims of preventable industrial accidents? That the law itself is a weapon against labor? Certainly one must either a_ plain ignoramus or an agent of the employers not to know that the fire inspectors, factory in- spectors, labor commissioners and the whole retinue of pay-roll patriots alleged to be en- gaged in enforcing such legislation are merely so many grafters collecting bribes from pro- prietors of fire-trap tenements and factories. No one but a dolt or a conscious agent of the employers would speak of social legislation in a state where child-slavery under sweat- shop conditions are rampant as, for instance, in New York City. : But, then it is no novelty for the socialist party leaders to play the game of the master class. A party whose leaders in New York have for years conducted in collaboration with Tammany Hall, a campaign of strike- breaking, terror, gangsterism and police col- laboration against the militant section of the trade union movement is only living up to its record when it claims credit for influencing fake social legislation. The fact that the so- cialist party claims credit for the legislation of the democratic and republican parties in New York State proves that, if in office, it would do exactly as do the other two older parties of capitalism. It is not accidental that Communist can- didates are arrested and Communist meet- ings broken up by the police and other agencies of reaction in those identical places where the socialists speak unmolested. The capitalist class knows its friends. This campaign is of deep significance to the working masses because it proves that the one Party that invokes the fury of the capitalist class is the Workers (Communist) Party; the one party that not only has a pro- gram of social legislation that means some- thing to the working class and the exploited farmers, but that also is aware of the road the masses must travel toward their emanci- pation from capitalism. Thus far the Communist campaign has been magnificent. It must not be permitted to slow down in. face of the savage assaults made against it. Instead of crippling our campaign these wholesale attacks must be met with such fierce resistance that we will emerge from every struggle with greater power and greater support than we could have obtained otherwise. But in order that we may effectively wage the last weeks of this historic struggle, funds are necessary. Let every worker rush funds at once to the National Campaign Headquarters of the Workers (Communist) Party at 43 East 125th Street, New York City. be Against the Capitalists! THE FULL DINNER PAIL By Fred Ellis ' Polish White _ Terror Grows URING the past years Polish fas- cism, which has intensified the white terror against the revolution- ary working class, has attacked the working class youth with especial ferocity. The number of young prisoners who are incarcerated in Pilsudski’s prisons is steadily grow- ing. The sentences passed by the courts are becoming more and more severe, whilst the “technique” em- ployed in the Polish torture cham- | bers to extract “confessions” etc., is being “perfected.” | This article contains a number of | facts which have happened in Poland during the last three years, facts which are known personally to the author. Mass Arrests. In general arrests amongst the | working class youth are carried out indiscriminately and for reasons which are no reasons at all. The ar- [rested are held under arrest for months at a time. | | The following is a typical case: | was held under arrest for 6 months as “a dangerous agitator.” Finally the authorities were compelled to release him on account of a total lack of any evidence against him. The Polish police spies have be- | come experts in collecting “evidence” against the arrested young workers. Torture, In the prison of Bendzin the young . | prisoners are brutally beaten and Shop Papers and the Election The taking of the message of the class struggle, the platform of the Workers (Communist) Party of America right into the factories and shops has been one of the most im- portant developments of and a most important feature characterizing the | present election campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party in New York City and vicinity. Thru the issuing of shop papers and the hold- ing of noon-day factory gate meet- ings the New York district organi- zation of the Workers (Communist) Party has taken its campaign to the tens of thousands of workers right at the point of production where the attention of the workers can be called to the problems confronting them in their every-day work life. Factory Meetings. Take the Message of the Class Struggle Into fighting party of the working class, workers was broken down after the system of capitalism in which both | the Workers (Communist) Party. The meeting in the Wall Street dis- trict last week assumed the size of a large demonstration. All the liter- ature that was on hand was bought eagerly by the office workers in that section, while knots and groups of young workers vigorously discussed the issues of the election campaign after the meeting was adjourned. Eagle Pencil Factory. In the case of the Eagle Pencil Co., where the city Tammany Hall police with the aid of the company speakers and candidates of the Workers Party explained the issues of the campaign. Hattie Carnegie Paper. Another important feature of the election campaign in New York City has been the issuing of more factory newspapers which the attention of the workers is called both to their immediate problems and to the broad er issues of the election campaign. | tortured in order to force them to \sign the protocols of the “examina- tion.” Upon the basis of these _protocols they are then sentenced. | The Lodz prison competes with |the prison in Bendzin in its treat- | ment of the young prisoners. Cor- Workers Party. “The Challenge,” | poral “punishment” is a daily oc- has already had two issues that have | currence, dealt mainly with the problems of | The prison in Warsaw which had racial discrimination and the inequal-| previously not used these methods ity and poor housing conditions that! found the process to be valuable | confront the Negro workers ee |and also commenced to use these dis- out that these are the result 0: e gusting methods of “examination.” The terrible brutalities of the police against young workers arrested in |connection with a demonstration in ore Pagers Soon: the end of January 1928 are gener- coseial leatletesiinve Veen danset ee ee Special leaflets have been issued} ; to workers of various other factories) BY, means of torture the “Defen- as in the case of the Eagle Pencil | Sive,” the Polish political police, at- Co., the National Biscuit Co., etc.| tempt to extract statements from Plans are under way to issue three|the young prisoners which will com- more factory papers within the next| Promise them and their comrades. |A favorite method of torture is to the working class as a whole and the| Negro race are exploited and op- | pressed. A new paper has been issued in the ‘Wo weeks thus enabling the Com- Hattie Carnegie Shop, where over ™munist Party to organize the thou- 500 needle trades workers are em-| Sand of workers in these factories |pour liquid into the nose. The fol- lowing are a few facts concerning The number of noon-day meetings! officials tried to prevent and break has been doubled in the past couple | up the meetings of the party several of weeks. At present twelve noon-, weeks ago. Splendidly attended day factory meetings are being held.) meetings are held regularly every On Monday, in front of the Stanley) week with hundreds of workers of & Paterson shop, on Tuesday in| the Eagle Pencil Co., forming the front of the Eagle Pencil factory, bulk of the audience and showing a and one at the waterfront on the great deal of interest in the program west side, on Wednesday before the of the Party as well as in the im- ployed. The workers have responded very warmly to the first two issues. This paper issued by the Communist | workers in the Hattie Carnegie Shop ‘not only raises the question of or- ganizing the unorganized millinery workers in the shop, the need of fighting the right wing and the union bureaucracy, but has also ex- -for struggle against the bosses and | the “Snvestigation methods” of the the capitalist system. The next is-| defensive: sue of every factory newspaper will LEIB SCHATZ, aged 20, tailor, be special election campaign issues, arrested on the 11th November, 1927, ners pearoslive gt ae sin of the | WAS held by the defensive from the latform and work of the eapitalist 11th to the 14th of November. He was parties, contrasting with that the|Peaten up every day, struck in the platform and work of the only anti-|*¢e, kicked and beaten with sticks. capitalist and working class. party! | traction car barns at 99th St. and ‘Lexington Ave., and in the cap and clothing workers’ market at Greene and Third Sts., on Thursday at 101 W. 27th St., in the needle trades market and in Broad and Market ‘Sts. in the Wail Street section where tens of thousands of office workers work, and in front of Edison mediate problems of organization that is such a burning issue with them. All in ail, noen-day meetings have not only been successful from the standpoint of thousands of workers hearing the militant message of the Communist Party, buying its literature and receiving its leaf- |posed the role of the socialist party and Tammany Hall in behalf of the bosses. Issues of the Wright Pro- in the election campaign, the Work- ers (Communist) Party of America. | Sadistic Torture. |. BORUCH DEMBSKI, aged 21, | joiner, arrested on the 28th Febru- Militant Exposes Carpenter Misleaders INTRODUCTION. Electric Co., on Friday before the lets, but show the possibility of National Biscuit Co., before the) brining the Election Campaign to |Bliss plant in So. Bklyn., at the the workers in the basic industries | waterfront, foot of 14th St. and in| and in the large factories and link front of the Singer plant, Elizabeth,| up the election campaign with the |N. J. Most of these meetings have|immediate and concrete problems been extremely successful showing) touching the every-day lives of these a great deal of interest on the part) workers. In many cases the early | of the workers in the program of the/ hostility and indifference of the peller for the workers of the Wright Aeronautical Corp., in Paterson, N. J., of the Rolls Royce “Mascot” for the workers of the Rolls Royce plant in Long Island, have come out with emphasis on the necessity of form- ing shop committees, of organizing the workers and showing the work- ers of these plants the relation of ‘their specific problems to the prob- [lems of the working class as a whole. | Negroes Have Paper. The neighborhood paper for the | Negro workers of Harlem has been issued by the Harlem section of the The results of the shop papers an¢ | 1 . : the noon-day meetings show not only| 2"? 1927 On the day’ of his arrest au A 4 he was beaten up by the defensive. the importance, hae: he immediate | Pe ruse he refused to put his sig- | possibility that could come from this| ti t bia ai |phase of work. It is important that|Pature to a blank piece of paper | the members of factory papers be his hair was torn out. activized within the HERSCH GAKEN, 17 years old, weeks. That special election cam-| woodworker, arrested on the Ist of |paign bulletins be issued to the) March, 1927, on the street. He was workers of at least thirty big shops| beaten about the head by the police ‘in the city and that more noon-day and his arms twisted up behind his meetings be arranged by the var- back causing him great pain. When ious section election campaign com-| the attention of the prison doctor \mittees of the Workers (Communist) | was drawn to the bruises and con- |Party of America in this district. ptusions, he said, “They will go away (on their own.” next three Smith Connected with the Po | By EVE DORF. \ Al Smith has made Water Power jone of the chief issues of the tam FOpose State Develop paign. He tries to play the role| of the savior of the people from the! Water Power Only to Hand It to Bosses clutches of the Power Trust. The facts, however, prove that power interests. It is a plan sim- |ple of the United States in his wer Trust JOSEPH KOLO, aged 20, cap- maker, arrested on March 14, 1927, was “examined” by the defensive on March 15 and beaten about the | face and head, |Co., Consolidated Gas Co. of New| ELI MALKISMAN, aged 18, wood- \Jersey, Empire Gas and Fuel Co.,| worker, arrested on November 11, | Consolidated Gas Co. of New Jersey, 1927. During his examination by the Power and Mining Machinery Co., defensive he was beaten about the Southern Light and Traction Co.,| face and head. lete. Here are a few more heavy) FRANZICHEK SHEPOVSKI, aged contributors among the power in- 24, fitter, arrested on March 12, 1927 order to work up a red hysteria, Duffy quoted long extracts from the Communist International resolutions, from the Red Labor Union Interna- tional decisions, from the Daily Worker, from the speeches of Wil- liam Z. Foster and from other sources. The speech of Duffy is The speech of Morris Rosen, mili- ti “carpenter leader who several yeats ago ran for president against thes strikebreaking William L. Hutcheson, was delivered at the re- eent carpenters’ convention held at Lakeland, Florida. Rosen and other = members of former local 376, the| said to be one of the most scurrilous N charter of which was revoked by the and venemous ever delivered at a 4 Hutcheson machine, sought for workers’ meeting. ° “years to bring the case of the local’ The stage was well “prepared” t as well as the progressive platform for Rosen, just as the attack and ¥ for which it stood before a conven-'the quotations from the Communist € tion of the Brotherhood. sources were carefully selected in four years ago the appeal of local| advance to hide the real issues. T 376 was steam rolled by Hutcheson When Rosen stepped on the plat- v amid a storm of opposition. Since form, Hutcheson, Duffy and other machine henchmen removed chairs and tables in mock deference. By way of introduction Hutche- son, strikebreaker, henchman of the bosses, revoker of charters and all around corruptionists said: “Brother Rosen, please come to the platform and stand here beside the flag which you hate.” (Note.—The speech, excerpts of which follow, is taken from the offi- ¢ cial minutes of the proceedings of the floor. the convention held Oct. 4, and is- Red Baiter Froths at Mouth sued by the Brotherhood. In some Rosen’s speech is printed in part. important respects because of omis- In his “reply” Frank Duffy, vice-| sions and alterations, the speech as president of the American Federa-|veported by the Hutcheson-Duffy tion of Labor and secretary-treas- machine does not tally with the urer of the Brotherhood of Carpen- record in the possession of the Daily n the reinstatement and defense mmittee of the local has carried ‘@ persistent campaign among the and membership throughout the country. So much resentment wna opposition has been aroused at exposure of the illegal and treacherous methods of the Hutche- son-Duffy machine that when Rdken iain appeared at the convention itcheson and Duffy themselves were forced to “plead” that he be ‘ers, evaded the real issues and in- Worker, but for the present pur- | stead resorted to a vicious red-bait- poses the “official” version is attack on Rosen, accusing him printed.) of being a Communist, an agent of Rosen's Speech. the Workers (Communist) Party Mr. President, members of the J of the Moscow Sovernment. In, General Executive Board, aud snem- bers of this delegation—I wish to thank you all for giving me the floor. The fact that you have given me the floor is, in my opinion, a great victory for the democratic and progressive principles which I fought for when I was a candidate for General President during the last election. To my mind the man- ner in which we have conducted the fight, the publicity which we have given it shows that the General Executive Board has had to take no- tice and has had to give me the floor. Perhaps the General Exec- utive Board and the General Offi- cers think that they may discredit me thereby, but I assure you that I the people against the power trust; selves closely connected with the! giant Power Trust which is out to| fleece the working population, The} plan for control of water power, on/ examination, proves to be a fake “public ownership” proposal which) will rob the working masses even) more than is being done at present. For His “Friends.” Smith proposes a program for ewnership and development of: wat- er power by the state only to hand it over to private companies to dis- tribute for profit at monopoly! am ready to stand and defend our prices. This means ultimate con-| case. How much I will be allowed. trol in the power of the private) to say will depend on the decency | and fairness of President Hutche- tion of the Local Union, which the/ Local had engaged. A shortage was found in the accounts of the Finan- cial Secretary, Meyer Rudinsky, of | $1100. Now this Meyer Rudinsky | had appealed on his case to the Gen- eral President and the The pretext of the revocation of the charter of former Local Union 376 is a supposed violation of Par: graph B, Section 10 of the General Constitution. Briefly stated, the General President may take posses- sion of all books and papers for ex- amination within the jurisdiction of the Local Union, and the Local Union has a right for a representa- tive to be present while the books are examined. he stated in that letter, to deter- act thereon. | The Local Union offered the books for examination. We however, un- derstood that the clause, “within the The demand for the books made through the General Exec- utive Board Member Guerin, who suddenly appeared at a meeting of the Local at a time immediately after the books were examined by a|being examined. . . . [public accountant, through the ace (To Be Continuad.) \ was Smith cannot be the champion of jlar to the subway plan in New|speeches. The Power Trust has its| York City. The masses are taxed ‘Smith and Tammany are them-/ directly and indirectly to enable the| ‘state to develop and construct with public money and then let the pri- vate companies reap the profits in| distribution of the power. Smith in the New York Times, March 5, 1928, outlines the plan clearly. He quotes Owen D. Young, the power king, in his analysis of the plan as a scheme, whereby the state can sell the pow-| er yery cheaply to private companies whieh will sell it for profit. “When we speak about furnish- ing cheaper light, heat and power, we mean we will furnish it cheaper to the distributing company than such company is able to buy it now.” (Smith in N. Y. Times, March 5, 1928.) Again a scheme to milk the pub- \lie for the sake of private profit.|campaign fund. He is a power king, Senator Moses makes a correct an- alysis when he says, “Is Smith for government ownership? His pro. General Posal in effect is that the govern-| other heavy contributor, hi by f President had sent Guerin down to| Ment will bear all the cost and take’ Brooklyn Edison Company and other ™A@nY Machine 1s comp! letely under investigate the books in order, as, all the risk of building water pow. important power companies. er plants and that it shall then pass |mine the justice of the appeal of them over to the power trust. The) | i nor’s backer: not worried) Meyer Rudinsky and to be able to; governor’s ibs toed Festa aie backing Smith, "| Herbert about this ‘government ownership’ Supported By Power Gang. The workers cannot support the nent members of the Power Trust against which Smith warns the peo- terests: Gerald Dahl, chairman of ‘interests well guaranteed by both Board ee en tre ie capitalist parties. It divides its poli-| *°4 sted gi eamsionn ate? oe eo ee republi-|1.¢) that Smith himself is a director Three of Smith’s biggest finan- nected with the I. R. T. cial backers are important, members) yt js an interesting and signifi- of the Power Trust: (1) Owen D./cant fact that in a democratic ad- Young, head of the General Elee- ministration, electric and gas rates trie Company, controlling the bi¢-| were increased two years ago in gest power company in New York pehalf of the Consolidated Gas and State. He is one of the most pow-| Electric Co. in this city, Also, pe- erful power magnates. power trust man that Smith PYO-| ney for the gas and electric com- poses to make Power Authority for pany in its application for the rate New York State so as to preserve jncreases, is now an attorney for |power for “the People.” What the I. R. T. in its attempt to put hypocrisy and irony! (2) T. F-.| over the seven cent fare steal. The | Ryan is also a big power trust man./ democratic party is organically He was Murphy’s boss in Sulzer’s | bound up with the power interests | \impeachment and ousting. He is al and with Wall Street. heavy contributor to the democratic Tammany and Traction |traction and copper millionaire. He|, The question of traction is close- lis director of the powerful Montana !¥ tied up with power. Tammany P r Co, (3) Ni i _/and traction are inseparably con- Thee heey ates army: $0 | nected in New York City. The Tam- the domination of the traction in- terests. Hylan, a Hearst man, was All Backing Smith. playing for the five cent fare be- A great many other power inter- cause of the suburban real estate There is| interests that he represented. Smith, Lehman, candidate for) Walker, Hedley, president of the I. lieutenant-governor. of New. York/R. T., Gerald Dahl, of the B.-M. T., State, chairman of the Finance|and Olvany, leader of Tammany jurisdiction of the Local Union,’”|Power program of the democratic Committee of the democratic party,|Hall attended a secret conference gave us the right to keep the books! party because it is being financed/a member of Lehman Bros., bank-|in 1925, at which it was decided to in our possession while they were and supported publicly by promi-|ers, who control countless power eliminate Hylan, elect Walker, and companies. I will mention only a| prepare the way for a fare increase few: American Light and Traction| and put over a unification plan to ‘in the Electrie Transport Co., con-' It is this) culiarly, William L. Ransom, attor-| and remained in the Warsaw head- quarters of the defensive until the 15th of March. He was beaten about \the face and head and punched in | the back. After the beating he was placed in chains. On the 16th he | was taken for examination to Bara- | noviteh where he was before the in- | vestigation department of the police \for five hours during which time |he was struck on the skull with the | butt of a pistol and punched in the back. (To Be Continued.) hand over the subways, old and new, under a new management, to the companies, This plan was broken up when the B.-M. T. bought. up shares of the I. R. T. and began to exert influence. The reply of | the Morgan bank interests which control the I. R. T., and of Tam- many, was an investigation by the Transit Commission which discred- ited the B.-M. T. group. Now there is an agreement between the two groups for the seven cent fare, Ten million seven cent tokens have al- ready been manufactured, ready for the inevitable decision to grant the \inerease due to the deal between Tammany and the traction inter- ests, The connection between Tam- many and traction is further made clear when we note that much of the reported income of Mayor Walker last year ($287,000) was made in I. R, T. stock. (To Be Continued.) | Ferocity of | | JOSEPH WINELAND (Lodz 1927). ' |This young worker aged 14 years, /