The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1928, Page 1

| THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS | For a Workers-Farmers Government | To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥. under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V., No. 252 Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sa., New York, N. ¥. EW YORK, .WEDNESDA Y, OCTOBER 24, 1928 Price 3 Cents_ STATE COURT RULES COMMUNISTS OFF NEBRASKA BALLOT FOSTER IS GIVEN Ble WELCOME AT CLEVELAND MEET Many Negroes Attend | Communist Rally in Ohio City Stresses War Danger | To Speak in Pittsburgh Sunday (Special, to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 23.—More than a thousand workers enthusias- tically applauded William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for president, last night. It was the finest meet- ing held in this city for some time, and shows that Cleveland, at one time a strong socialist town, has be- come a Communist fort. Norman Thomas, socialist candi- date, was here a month ago, but ) drew a crowd of only about 350, mostly bourgeois liberals, but no ) workers. A large number of Negroes were present to hear the Communist mes- sage of racial equality from the lips of the Party’s candidate for presi- dent. N. Shaffer acted as chair- nan and I. Amter, candidate for . S. Senator, was the first speaker, followed by Betty Gannett, district organizer of the Young Workers League, and Flora Jaffe, of the Pioneers. Foster stressed the danger of a new and more murderous world war as a result of imperigist conflicts, He also emphasized the importance of the Negro question and stated that the Communist Party, was the first party to go into the heart of the south to raise the issue of Ne- gro equality. Foster was met at the station by 40 autos with banners and a parade was held throughout the Negro and ° Continued on Page Five CHICAGO PARADE TO MEET GITLOW Monster Mass Meet for Friday Night CHICAGO, Oct. 23.—One of the biggest workingclass demonstrations ever held in Chicago will take place when Benjamin Gitlow, candidate of the Workers (Communist) Party for vice-president of the States, arrives at the North Western Station, Canal and Madison Street, on Thursday, October 25. At least one hundred automobiles and trucks, filled with workers and covered with signs, will be ready at the station to conduct Gitlow thru the city in a monster parade and demonstration. After the workers’ caravans from all parts of the city | have arrived at the station and Git- | low has been received, two Red bands will take their place at the head of the parade and announce the arrival of the Communist candi- date to the whole city. Monster Mass Meeting. As a part of the election campaign and the celebration of the 11th anni- versary of the Russian Revolution a mass meeting will be held the follow- ing day, Friday, 8 p. m., at the Ash- land Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren Streets. Gitlow will be the main speaker. On October 27 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 | | | United | | blood by Detroit fas- Victim of Fascists Dying Tony Barra, a De- troit worker, is ly- ing at the point of death from a bullet wound in his stomach. Barra was one of two workers shot down in cold cists who fired into @ group of anti-fas- cists during a Co- | lumbus Day parade. . The National Organization Com- mittee for a Cloak and Dressmakers’ | Union has sent a letter to all its out-of-town members calling them to| attend a full meeting of the commit- tee on Saturday and Sunday. The meeting, which will start at 9 o’clock Saturday at the office of the N. 0. | C., 16 W. 21st St., has been arranged to lay plans for the calling of a na- tional convention that will officially launch a new union in the ladies’ garment trade. | The letter, which is signed by Louis Hyman, chairman of the N. O: C., and Rose Wortis, secretary, | follows in part: | “Five months have passed since the formation of the National Or- ganization Committee at the Boston | conference. During these five months it has become clear to us} that the only way for the workers| in our industry to organize and fight for better conditions is to form-a new union on the ruins of | the company union. Foundations Laid. “During this period we have al- ready laid the foundation of our new | union in the most important gar- ment centers, and now the time has come when the various local organi- | zations must be weltled into one} powerful organization. “In line with these developments the sub-committee of the National Organization Committee has during | the past few weeks considered the | question of a convention for the es- | Continued on Page Five INew Bedford’s Police |Chief- Now Terrorist NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 23.—Chief of Police Samuel Mc- Leod, tool of the textile bosses, the picket lines during the recent strike, is continuing his useful- ness to his employers with raids on children’s organizations. He yesterday announced the discovery of an organization known as the “Young Pioneers of America,” which is being led “in Lenin’s way.” Sleuth work carried on by the police chief was disclosed hy his announcement that he had suc- membership in the organization. “Discovery” of the pledge taken by the workers’ children is causing particular consternation to the chief of police, who has given it to local newspapers to print in full. “I pledge allegiance to the work- ers’ Red Flag and to the cause for which it stands. Our aim thruout our lives, freedom of the working class.” Similar persecutions have been going on in Fall River. Sovkino Presents Film of Italia Rescue Feat 15th “Sovkino” issued first copies of the movie picture “Searching for the Italia’s Crew.” The picture is rjunted on the material taken frdm the icebreak- ers “Krassin” and “Malyguin.” tablishment of our new union, as/| of Workers’ Children | notorious for his terrorism against | ceeded in securing a list of the | MOSCOW, Oct. 28—On October | local New York W. I. R. announces. | right of eviction b CALL NATIONAL CLOAK (CONFERENCE SATURDAY “MEDIATION KILLS : ‘EXPRESS STRIKE {Union Officials Stage | New Sellout There will be no railway express strike, according to the expected an- |nouncement of union officials. Government mediation in the case of the express workers against the \union-hating American Express Company which was early branded as a trick maneuver to drive back the workers, has resulted in a com- plete betrayal of the men’s griev- ances. — In a joint statement “issued |by L. R. Gwyn, vice-president of the company, and George M. Harrison, |strikebreaking president of the | Brotherhood of Railway and Steam- ship Clerks, credit for the “settle- ment” was given to George A. Cook jof the United States Mediation Board. Everything Now Rosy. “All differences between the American Railway Express Com- | pany and the Brotherhood of Rail- way and Steamship Clerks have Continued on nl eee Five ‘SEAMEN STRIKE IN MARSEILLES ‘Owners Ask Govern- | ment Intervention MARSEIELES, France, Oct. 28 | (UP).—On behalf of the chamber of | |commerce, Edgar David telegraphed | | to Premier Poincare today asking i in- | tervention «in the seamen’s. strike. | He emphasized the disruption of the | mail service and the inconvenience | to thousands of travellers stranded | because ships could not sail. j ime ee | The seamen have been on strike for a number of days against con- ditions which they declare are in- tolerable. Lovestone to Speak at Finn Presentation of ‘The Crowd’ Tomorrow Jay Lovestone, executive secre- tary of the Workers (Commufist) Party of America, will address the workers who attend the perform- ance of “The Crowd,” which the Fin-| |nish Workers’ Club, together with | the Workers’ International Relief, will present at the Finnish Labor Temple, 15 W. 126th St., tomorrow} evening. The proceeds of the event will be sent to aid the textile strikers, the The meeting and motion picture performance will begin promptly at 8 p. m. We demand the abo! ion of the lords against wage earning: ten: MOTORMAN Had Been Employed by I.R. T. 28 Years Brooding and despondent over a minor accident which injured him and two others when a Third Ave. Elevated train of the Interborough immediately, attaching a re- mittance for same at the rate of $6 per thousand. Have your unit and organization send in a greeting to the Daily Worker on the occasion of.the 11th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Workers are reminded that Thursday is the last day when- orders and greetings for this edition can be accepted. ‘old, of 1465 Mayflower Ave., the Rapid Transit collided with another two days after the Times. Square disaster, Edmund Sydner, 52 years Bronx, Ikilled himself with a single- barreled wvhotgun. He had been motormas of one of the trains, both of which were empty. Snyder liad been employed by the I. R. T. for 28 years, first as track- wakler, then at various other jobs KILLS SELF ately forgotten by the I. R. T, offi- cials after the accident, and they* demoted him to the post of train checker.. He objected at the time to accepting the position of guard, and the company “compromised” because of his 28 years in its em- ploy. According to Snyder’s wife, he had been under a physician’s care for nervousness and depression until he took his life yesterday. He could not stop working, however, and the company refused to grant him a LEAGUE EXPOSES - ‘NICARAGUA LIES". Sandino Calls on U. S.} Workers to Fight Invasion |Marines’ ‘Murder Role Chicago Fire n Flop-House CHICAGO, Oct, Fire swept | through the Eagle Hotel today, tak- jing the lives of six workers who sought refuge from the cold in the in ] flimsy cage bedrooms of one of the) landmarks of South State Street’s “flophouse” district. The five victims were trapped in tiny cell-like rooms on the third | floor of the four-story wooden struc- | ture, To Hold Protest Meet Tonight | Sandino in the capitalist press and | the reports of “terrorism” to inter- | fere with the American’ supervised | “elections” are exposed in a state- ment issued yesterday: by the Na- tional Office of the United States Section of the All-America Anti- | Imperialist League. The statement of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League follows: | “The Herald Tribune carries | |‘news,’ originated in Washington, | that the forces of General Sandino | are deliberately practicing terror- | ism among inhabitants to interfere with the forthcoming American supervised elections. The report continues that’the purpose of this | alleged terrorism is to prevent the inhabitants from registering and taking part in the elections. | Lying Statements. | “The statements of the Herald Tribune are as false as the reports recently published that General San- aino had abandoned the struggle and had fled to Honduras. They are part pf the efforts to deceive the American workers while the armed forces of American imperialism con- | tinue, their, efforts to crush the army | of General lino and to perpetu ate the enslavement of Nicaragua. “A letter received by the United States Section of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League from its representative, who has been with the army of General Sandino since June 22, declares: “In retaliation for the loss that the Wall Street mercenaries suffer, the marines are, ordered to destroy |and assassinate entire families with- | ut any consideration for age or sex. holesale brutalemurder is done | either as they retreat or by drop- ping bombs in the homes of the poor peasants who go about peace- fully. After the retreat of the American marines before the firing line of Sandino’s army, what is left is devastated villages.’ “Through the representative of | the Anti-Imperialist League, San- dino sends the following message to those who are fighting against imperialism: . ‘Only by the action of |the workers and peasants of The two |continents can Nicaragua be freed |from foreign invasion.’ “The United States Section of the All-America Anti-Imperialist Leagpe calls on the workers and farmers of the United States to intensify their fight against American inter- vention in Nicaragua and against the propaganda directed against the Nicaraguan army of liberation.” “oo * * A protest meeting against Ameri- can intervention in Nicaragua will be held this evening at Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave. Roger Baldwin will be the chief speaker. 20 Columbian Students Killed by Police for |Radical Demonstration | BOGOTA, Colombia, Oct. 23 (U.P). —Despatches from the Caracas, Venezuela, correspondent of the newspaper Espectador tonight re- ported that at least 20 persons had been killed in the student disturb- | ances on October, 12. Confirming . United Press des- patches from Cucuta, on the Colom- | bian border, the correspondent stated that the Venezuelan students federation had staged a demonstra- tion against the government, for which about 100 of them were sen- highways. The correspondent then reported that the students, while parading through the streets, were dispersed | by gunfire of the police, in which at least 20 persons were killed. Despatches from Caracas official- ly stated that the students were accused of “hostility” and had been released. CHILE BUYS R. R. SHARES. SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 28 (U.P). —The government has decided to purchase 30 per cent of the Trans- short period for rest because of his until he ‘became a motorman. His ie years of drudgery were immedi- illness, in spite ef his long years in its service. « Andean Railway shares, which still will have private investments amounting to nearly $1.000.000, Tost tion. The propaganda against General |rats in a cage,” The bodies were charred beyond recognition and there was no hotel |register to aid in their identifica- Six other workers were burned |seriously and were removed to a hospital. The hostelry’s street sign “beds, 15 cents; rooms, 50 cents,” escaped the flames which gutted the entire building. When the fire was discovered at 3:40 a. m. approximately 100 men were in the hotel. able to escape. The dead were found lin the back of the building where! No exits were available, One of the injured was found running through the streets a block from the hotel in his blazing under-| wear. When an ambulance reached him, his body was covered with burns. Physicians said he had little chance to recover. The dead men’ were trapped “like according to fire- | men who arrived too late to save the victims. SOCIALISTS IN LODZ SELLOUT Struggle to to Bosses (Wireless to the the Daily Worker) WARSAW, Poland, Oct. 23 oat Polish social-democrats \tod clared the Lodz strike tiquilated.” Without informing the workers |they convened a strike committee.) Since the strike is a general strike, | |the committée includes representa-| tives of all striking trade unions with the result that the left wing is now in the minority. Left Wing Outnumbered. mittee voted to call off the strike. Twelve opposed the action. The workers were taken entirely by surprise. ployers had negotiated the agrec- ment behind the backs of the work-| ers and the new collective agreement | Only the men in| « |the more desirable front rooms were| Twenty-two members of the com-) ANTHMPERIALIST|6 Workers Dic GITLOW ATTACKS: PUPPET JUDGE IN ‘LEGAL’ LEGION TERROR TRAVESTY, DOES BIDDING AT OMAHA MEET QF THE AMERICAN LEGION Nothing ‘Can Prevent Communist Growth, He Declares Many Negroes Attend Mother Bloor, Patton, Others Speak (Special to the Daily Worker) OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 23.—Before a large and enthusiastic audience of Omaha workers, many of whom were Negroes, Benjamin Gitlow, Communist vice-presidential candi- date today denounced the American Legion and bosses’ attempt to keep the Workers Party from the ballot in this state. The meeting was covered” by a number of Legion stool-pigeons who came early es- corted by secret service men. In his talk, Gitlow laid spectal emphasis on the country-wide terror which is being waged against the Workers (Communist) Party. “The growth of the Communist movement in America cannot be stopped by the efforts of the Ameri- |can Legion, carrying out the orders of the big bosses, to keep our Party off the ballot in this state,” Gitlow| said in reference to the news just |made public that the Workers Party |eentaaies would not be permitted n the ballot despite the fact that all teed requirements have been ful- filled. “The. efforts of these jingo or- ganizations cannot hold back Com- munis,” Gitlow declared. “The | movement arises out of the economic | organize a mass meeting of these | Secretary of state. ‘conditions flow developing in this} |country and nothing can stop its | Continued on med on Page Five URES LAUNCH ‘EW GREEK LOCAL | Will Be Established at Mass Meet Friday Greek workers in the fur indus- try will officially launch a_ local | union of their own this Friday eve- |ning at a mass meeting in Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 42nd St. process of organization by the left jwing. The meeting will begin at 8 The | The social democrats and the em-| local will be affiliated with the new | |international furriers’ union now in now imposed by the employers was | 0'clock and will be held under the known to: the socialists beforehand, |8USpices of the United Front Com- The new conditions include a five Mittee of the Joint Board Greek per cent faise for most of the work- | Branch and Local 70 of the A. F, ers, with ten to twenty per cent for | of L. those tending four machines, The| The new local, leaders of the workers delegates will be tolerated. | Continued on Page Two ‘The result is no economic gain} | tageous position and the Widzev tenced to hard labor on the national! for the workers since the manufac- turers are exploiting their advan- Mills have already refused the five an eleven per cent cut instead. The Scheibler Mills has intro- duced a system of penalties. - * 8 Pravda Lauds Workers Heroism. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Oct. 238.— Commenting on the betrayal of the Lodz strike today by the social- democrats, Pravda declared that “the heroic struggle of the workers and the social-democratic treachery raise the strike to European importance. “The class war in Europe is be- Continued on Page Two Fascist Police Kill Communist in Terror on Convicts’ Island (Wireless to the Daily Worker.) NAPLES, Oct. 23.—Reports of frightful happenings on the convict island of Ponza were received here today. There are two hundred and seventy Communists on the island, including the Communist leader, | Bordiga. | The reports state that the fascist officer, Memmi, provoked the Com- |munists and that Conti died in the | | hospital as the result of blows, A woman Communist named Mo- dugno has been beaten, it is learned. The execution of Maggiore is re- ported to have caused the incident Dispatches from Rome state that the statue of Cesare Beccaria, the opponent of capital punishment, has been veiled in black and covered with anti-fascist inscriptions. Further reports say that more ex- ecutions of Cofnmunists are re- per cent raise. They have imposed} Millinery Workers The program and candidates of ceived the unanimous endorsement |of Local 43, women, at a well attended meeting held in Bryant Hall last night. explained the pe Vege of the Party. Membership I Meet of Sections 2, 3 Friday A special membership meeting of |the combined membership of Sec- tions 2 and 3 of the Workers (Com munist) Party, originally called for day evening by decision of the dis-| trict executive committee on account Endorse Red Program| the Workers (Communist) Party re-| Millinery Workers | | Union, a local consisting entirely of | Re-| becca Grecht and Sylvia Blecker,| who spoke for the executive board, | tomorrow evening, will be held Fri-| Secretary of State Admits Takin g Orders From Jingo Organization Contributions Needed for $10,000 Fund to Fight Nation-wide Terror Oc LINCOLN, Neb., 23.—Supreme Court Judge Good has ruled that the Workers (Communist) Party candidates in the state of Nebraska cannot go on the ballot. He ignored all past decisions and ruled against the Communists on every point. SPREAD OF MILL STRIKE URGED Paterson Workers Ask Walkout Broadened (Special to the Daily Worker). PATERSON, N. J., Oct. Spreading of the textile strike to include wide ranks of the workers 2! | was the prevailing sentiment at last night’s joint meeting of the wind- ers, fillers and pickers at Turn Hall, Cross and Ellison Sts. Following the acceptance of the union’s wage schedule, the joint meeting made |plans for broadening the strike as far as possible in their crafts. In view of reports that the girls are ready to come out in a number of the throwing mills, the meeting | —— The only witnesses for the sec- retary of state, against whom the appeal was being filed, were American Legion stool- pigeons who claimed that they were present at the Party’s nominating conventions, Secretary of state Frank Marsh presented a fake letter which he claimed to have mailed to Roy Ste- phens, candidate for congress from the 2nd District of Nebraska, notify ing the Party’s candidates as the law required. The Party’s lawyers, I. E. Ferguson and J. A. Brown, caught Marsh in a maze of lies, and made him admit that he had acted under orders from the American Le- gion to prevent the Communists from going on the ballot at all costs. This decision attempts to outlaw the Communist Party as a political party in the state of Ne= braska. Illegally Ruled Off Ballot. The case was held on mandamus proceedings Oct. 19, the Party’s |called upon the Strike Committee to | lawyers calling as first witness the workers. " Ballam Speaks. Betray Workers’ Heroic | progress.” He urged the workers! ohn Ballam, industrial organizer of District 2, Workers (Communist) Party, and J. Sroka addressed this morning's mass meeting at the Turn Hall. Ballam stressed the need of hihi the Associated into a ong union and called upon the pattie to spread the walkout. Alarm of the bosses at the im- |minent spread of the strike to other \ranks of the workers was revealed vi |when police today interfered with | the distribution of leaflets calling the jaquard workers to a meeting { Turn Hall tomorrow. The dis- tributors, members of the Young Workers League, were threatened with arrest. The leaflets were con- |fiscated by the authorities. Plans for further spreading the strike will be discussed at the meet- ing, at which hundreds of jaquard |workers are expected to be present. Success of the workers in settling the Paterson Silk Company has add- ed to their militancy. The Pater- |son Silk Co. proposed to the strikers |to come back to work at one cent a |yard below the union’s scale, and “special circumstances,” but the workers held out and succeeded in |settling the mill at the union sched- Jule. | At the Salzburg Mill also the firm front of the workers and the picket Continued on Page Two BIG RESPONSE T0 ‘EMERGENCY DRIVE | Receive $260 on First Day of Red Campaign The first day’s returns from the appeal of the National Election Campaign Committee for $10,000 for the Election Drive-Anti-Terror Emergency Fund, amounted to $260. The contributions came from as far away as Bridge, Oregon and Louis- ville, Ky. The largest amount was $24, sent by 38 Finnish workers from Waukegan, Ill. A Denver of conflicting meetings on the orig- inal date. branch of the Workmen’s Sick and The meeting will therefore he beld | Death Benefit Fund, 121, sent $5, Friday, 6.30 p. m., at 101 W. 27th’ and the Workmen’s Circle, Branch St. All members of Sections 2 = 361 of New York sent $5, plus $10 3 must attend. Continued on Page Two SPEED-UP IN LODZ MILLS Restrict Use « of Toilets, Impose Fines (Special to the Daily Worker) using the toilet more than twice a day; and a special fine, the pecun- WARSAW, Oct. 23.—The in-/|iary nature of which is not revealed, geniousness of the Polish manufac-|for spending more than three turers,in enforcing the speed-up sys- |minutes in the toilet; fifty groshen tem inthe Lodz textile mills is illus- is the fine for “improper” conduct trated in a strange system of fines toward women. imposed upon the workers. Some of | The manufacturers’ authority for, introducing the above fines in garded as probable. Maffi Yas been acquitted but exiled. , |hours; seventy-five groshen for, these fines are: five groshen for, combing the hair during working | textile mills is given as a “di Jot the government.” ° ‘ Attorney Fer- guson made him admit that the-nee~ }essary papers had been filed, that | no objections had been made to the sufficiency of the nominating con- vention of the Party on Aug. 19, or to the petitions of the qualified electors which were filed with Marsh within ten days allowed by the statutes. Despite his evasive replies, it was clearly established that no legal no- tice of objection had been mailed to any of the candidates. Marsh ad- mitted that-his opinion of Sept. 29, holding the convention and the nom- inating petitions of 1200 signatures insufficient, was based on his per- sonal investigation only. Legally, objection should have been filed, the candidates notified, and the hearing held at which they should have been given an opportunity to be heard as to. the truth of the matters con- tained in Marsh’s personal investi- gation. It was his duty to accept the nominating papers, unless some- one else filed objections in writing. Legion Men State Witnesses, It was established by , witnesses Stephens and Edward L.' Schlekau, the latter Communist candidate for governor of Nebraska, who were re- spectively chairman and secretary of the Communist Nominating Conven. tion, that both the first convention of August 19 and the second one of September 28 were attended by more than 500 qualified voters and that all legal requirements were complied with. R. A. Kirkpatrick, state chairman of the American Legion, and wit- ness for the state, showed his hos- tility to the Communist Party and his intentions of preventing any way | possible the Communist ticket from appearing on the ballot. R. We Pierce, also member of the Legion and friend of Kirkpatrick, was the second state witness, and was equale ly prejudiced and jingoistic. This frame-up was obvious to all. The state law says nothing about registration being a test of the qualification of electors. On ‘this point the state constitution specifi- cally states that citizenship, age and residence are the only qualifi- cations necessary. All signers were legally qualified, | The frame-up character of this is | shown by the fact that the check-up of the registration list was made on September 25, after the hearing of Sept. 24, and with no opportunity for the candidates to meet this ob- jection. A basic point vai by the state, Continued on Page Two ~ ® Two Thousand Four Hundred Czech Mine Workers on Strike (Wireless to the Di Daily Worker) PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, Oct, — 23.—The strike of Czech miners which was begun several days was complete today, according to Te« | ports from the mines, At least two thousand four hun- e dred miners are out. All the mines in the Rosétiz 7 lait district are tied up. ‘ Om