The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1928, Page 2

Sap GET ON THE MAIN THOROUGHFARE! Contrary to the beliefs of Park Avenue swells who wail against the high cost of taxi rides, the cab driver is far from clipping cou- pons and s ng big black cis If he is not an employe of the big Yellow i co! tion (and 57,000 out of 60,000 New York cabbies aren't) he is shoved off from the main avenues into the side streets, by the big club of a Tammany policeman. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1928 Besides having to contend with Tammany bulls and unbearable working conditions, the cabby has still other evils to deal with— the hack inspector, Only a substantial hand-out, when the cabby has it, is any guarantee against this creature which menaces the driver’s existence from morning till night. When he turns in his “lead of tin’ at night or in the morning without the required “tw opound” it’s the gate for the cabby. oa Gere YouR' pure Boog), Pan wos, ($10.00), it’s an even chance that Tammany is not alone responsible for the drivers’ troubles. There is the republican state legislature which is always trying to pass laws for increased insurance to benefit the big insurance trusts and ine! the hardships of the cab pilots. There is only one main thoroughfare which the cabby can safely travel, a road he will have to take to get out of the ditch in which | he now finds himself. That is the | are now taking. Cabbies, unite with the milita) | ing class. Join the Workers (Com: road which all intelligent workers nt organized section of the work- munist) Party! _ Vote Communist! Mitchell. Power Trust Head, Received “Bonus” of $359,000, Investigation Reveals NO DENIAL FROM UTILITY LEADERS; HINT MORE GRAFT Other Huge Payments Discovered WASHINGTON, Oct $359,000 “bonus, been paid by the E Share Company to § . chell, president of the same firm the Federal Trade ion today. Although two other officials o same corporation state h would defy the Comm to go through the ec official financial not deny the cha ward by the disclo: _ By direct data, which, it w: losed by dicated, were backed by d tained from the company’s files be- | fore they were closed to investiga- | tors, attorneys plainly stated that such payments had been made to Mitchell from year to year. Other officers of the corporation had also | Teceived such “bonus it was re- | vealed. The company of which Mitchell is the-president controls over 200 gas | and light utilities throughout the United States, and is one of the big- gest contributors to the power lobby. With spokesmen from the Insull and Doherty interests and several other power interests, he has shaped the industry's political course, swindling mil s of dollars from the national treasury and from the consumers in those districts where he controls the power works. The investigation revealed a secret code used by the power interests when putting shady transactions across, and when direc action against c owned utilities; illegal plans in correspondence of the power heads, and several other practises designed to cheat both the jumers and the advocates of public control of utilities. Booby Prize for Best Dressed Man at Labor Defense Autumn Revel A booby prize will be awarded to the best-dressed person at the An- nual Proletarian Autumn Revel of the New York Section of the Inter- national Labor Defense which is be- ing held at Webster Hall, 119 East lith St., this Saturday evening. All the other pr’ will go, as previ- ously announced, to those wearing the oldest and biest clothes. The fact that old clothes w' the fashion at the I expected to make this que affair of the year. degrees « the prol 8 j by a committee of well-known ar- tists and writers, who, it is rumored, are planning to appear in clothes that will make all the others look new by comparison. | The old-clothes contest will be! only one of the many interesting | features that will enliven the even- POLL Must Protect Communist Votes Nov. 6 The urgency of trained watch-,of Communist watchers in election | union, during which time conditions |the union in the Gilt Edge Mill, ers at the polls on election day to | polls in the Bronx, where large num-|of the workers were driven down|which has never been touched be- guard the results of the Red cam-|bers of needle trades and other | below the subsistence level, a move-|fore in the history of textile strug- rkers live, and where the Com-| ment for a real union began even in| gles in Paterson. it vote is expected to be larger | the right wing Local 70. This move- |are now signed up in the union. |than in any other county, There the| ment crystallized into the United| are needed in | Red watchers will have to be very|Front Committee that is now call- paign was stressed yesterday in a| we! statement issued by’ the District) Campaign Committee. While watchers ‘GUARDS NEEDE Famous Grafter Convalesces Grafters like cats are said to have nine lives. No matter how life. low they may be | Penna., a physically, the scent | contender of the loot always | title. of lures them back to | American SOCIALISTS I LODZ SELL OUT Betray Workers’ Heroic Struggle to Bosses | Continued from Page One coming more acute and the despic-! able social-democratic agents of capitalism are shrinking at nothing to suppress the labor movement. “The fascist terror, starvation and the machinations of the employers failed to destroy the courage of the Lodz workers. Only the treachery of the social-democrats could effect that. “But the fighting spirit of the worke: unbroken is proved by their refusal to resume work under the wage reduction and the penalty system even after declaring their readiness to return to work on the new collective agreement condi- tions. “However severe the defeat of the | Lodz workers may be, it is neverthe- less of vast importance in exposing the contradiction in the Polish stab- ilization based on the exploitation of the workers. “The strike further unmasks so- ,istrations of the furriers’ union for m cialism as the accomplice of fas 2 ; the immense latent re’ of spirit the working Needle worker! Has y {ributed to the eleetio ur shop con nd of the Collect at the ‘Trades Umion ing. Dancing will, of course, be the chief diversion, with snappy music urnished by a five piece j mu Only a few months ago Senator William S. Vare of RULES RED SLATE OFF THE BALLOT \Follows the Orders of | American Legion | | Continued from Page One | | which shows beautifully the charac-| |ter of capitalist democracy when |applied to a Communist or working \eclass party, was a fact that many | ballots had already been printed and that additional expense would be in.| stituted. guson’s objection to this evidence, yet ruled against the Party in hi final decision. fair throughout the trial and hypo- critically dismissed the appeal when he handed down his decision. | Negro Candidates. | To briefly go over some of the was reported at the |past of this important case, the fol-| point of death. But | lowing should be mentioned: On now the famous lowe 19 the Party nominating strong pirate is on his way convention was held at which candi- for the to recovery and here | dates and electors were nominated. champion | we see him talking |For governor, Comrade Edward L. grafter, to his wife. Schlekau was nominated; for. lieu- Negro comrade; for secretary of state, Dole Talbert, also a Negro comrade; and for congress, Roy | Stephens. Davis, in accepting the nomina- |tion, declared that by nominating [Negroes on its ticket the Party | showed that it really means to carry out its platform, which demands full social and political equality for s | Negroes. This attitude of the Par- Mass Meet Friday ity has resulted in the Ku Kluxers |and American Legion patriots mak- Continued from Page One ing their “democratic” conspiracy movement declare, will admit to its | With the state officials to keep the membership all Greek workers in |Party off the state ballot. the trade, those who were compelled | The Nebraska case shows why. to régister in the right wing dual|the National Election Campaign union, members of the left wing | Committee is urgently pushing the Joint Board Greek Branch, members | of Local 70 and workers who are | FURRIERS LAUNCH NEW GREEK LOCAL Will Be Established at |tenant governor, W. E. Davis, a! NEBRASKA COURT 2#° Spokesman | | AN: Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, curred if new ballots were to be sub-|above, in a statement regarding Navy Day, calls attention to the The judge upheld Attorney Fer-| fact that the foreign commerce of U. S. imperialism has a value of $10,- | 5 | 900,000,000, and demands a navy He pretended to be| Capable of defending the interests of American capitalism. BIG RESPONSE TO EMERGENCY DRIVE Receive $260 on First Day of Red Campaign Continued from Page One from individuals. From Atlantic City came $1, accompanied by the names of a number of workers in other cities who should be ap. proached for contributions. At a meeting gt the Hungarian Home on Sunday night $28 was collected and brought in. The appeal at this meeting was made by H. C. Wil- liams, head of the Negro Commit- tee of District 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party. One of the most interesting let- ters received with a contribution was that from John Urgalinac of Palmer, Mass., to which was attached 2 $10,000 Election Drive-Anti-Terror Poems by Pioneers. The letter fol- Emergency Fund. This case is cost. | /°WS? either out of union membership or have never belonged to the furriers’ union. Workers in all these sate- gories are ealled upon to respond to the call and come to the meet- ing Friday. ~ The Joint Board issued instruc- tions to all their shop chairmen to notify the Greek workers in their factories to attend their meeting. These instructions to the chairmen jare strict, the letters show, and all | |chairmen are under obligation not to neglect their duty. After being branded “unorgan- izable” by the old right wing admin- many years, the Greeks showed, un- -/der left wing leadership brilliant and heroic capacities for struggle. These organizational fights resulted in the establishment of a powerful |Greek branch of the Joint Board. Demonstrate Militancy. The Greek workers then again demonstrated their militancy: carrying on unflinchingly through 17 weeks of a general strike to vic- | tory in 1926. _|| This powerful Green branch was | later greatly weakened when the A. F. of L. and the socialist labor fak- \ers poined in the campaign to wreck | the left wing Joint Board by estab- ganization, After many months struggle against the A. F. of L. s every ,courity in the city, especial /alert, especially since paper ballots |ing Friday's meeting for the estab- importance was placed on the neces- | sity for watchers where no voting machines will be used, since it is easier to destroy or otherwise in- validate paper ballots. The state- ment, in part, reads as follows: The District Campaign Commit ‘tee further stressed th eimportance will be used there. Section conferences to organize and instruct Red watchers will be held very soon, according’ to the Dis- trict Campaign Committee, All members must attend these confer- ences and take an active part in guarding the Communist votes, |lishment of one independent Greek local. The Workers (Communist) Party |the early morning pickets, fights for Independent political action of the working class, for labor Party based on other Inbor organisations on tae- tory, mill mine committees of unorganised workers, by’ lishing a dual right wing scab or- of bitter |had at first refused to aceept. ab | ‘Salons, Women have announced that coffee the jing the Party enormous sums for “Dear Comrades. I am sending legal expense, and if the Party had you a 50 name list of signatures| been able to finance another appeal|from this state, which I collected in lit would probably have been able| Palmer, Mass., for the Communist |to force the American Legion and) Platform. It might be useful for} |state officials to put the Communist) you. I supplied them all with Com- | candidates on the ballot. |munist Platforms ‘also. And I have Due to the lack of finances, how-| given out 100 books in all in Palmer, ever, for the legal fights and cam-|50 Dailies, and 90 I. L. D. maga- paigning expenditures in the other|zines this year. We also have a 84 states in which we are on the|Permit for Weisbord to speak at \ballot are very great, the prospects| Palmer on Nov. 8 at an open air of our finally compelling the fas-| meeting. I am sending $1 for the jcists and state authorities in Ne-|election drive fund, for I cannot |braska to put our Party on the bal-|8end much money as I am out of} lot are becoming daily more slim.|Work. In this letter you will find| Our comrades there have made a/a check amounting to $1. Yours for| |fine campaign against tremendous|Communism, John Urgalinac.” | odds and will continue the fight even| WILL CARICATURE U, S. IMPERIALISM. AT RALLY NOV. 4 Will Clip Wings of American Eagle The double-headed eagle of Amer- ican imperialism will be trotted out at the Madison Square Garden dem- onstration commemorating the 11th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revo- lution on Nov. 4, The flight this eagle will take at the huge Red rally on that afternoon will not be a vic- torious one, according to Adolf | Wolff, director of the pageant. It will be of short duration. Its wings |end tail will be clipped by militant workers. | The huge gilded symbol of Amer- \iean imperialism will be wheeled out ‘on a truck to the futile accompani- |ment of a few blares of a throaty \trampet vaguely reminiscent of the |Star Spangled Banner. One head jof the eagle will wear a brown derby jauntily and will have the inevitable democratic cigar stuck into his mouth. The other head will wear \a high hat and will have “Big Busi- ness” painted on its crest. Labels will not be necessary. Around the tail of the eagle a brilliantly-gilded halo will glitter and the likeness of A Teen cam- aigning clergyman iscern- we it tails could speak it would shout “class collaboration.” The wings of the eagle will re- semble a donkey and an elephant. It will cit on a huge bag of money. Its belly will be contorted into the shape of a dollar sign. In a protecting circle around the eagle will be policemen with clubs, gangsters with blackjacks, judges with injunctions and ministers with bibles and'altar cloths. On the edge of the float, closing in slowly and determinedly, a bunch of militant, class-conscious workers will stand in menacing positions, with clenched fists upraised and the red flag of Communism held aloft. This and similar spectacular floats will. make the demonstration this year the most picturesque yet at- tempted. Sacco Play Benefit to Be Held Friday In an effort to raise funds for the defense of the New Bedford strik- ers, the American Civil Liberties Union, 100 Fifth Ave., has taken over the Little Theatre for Friday night for the play “Gods of Light. ning,” by Maxwell Anderson, said to be based on the Sacco-Vanzetti frame-up. |if the Party should not get on the), ballot. | SPREAD OF MILL STRIKE URGED Paterson Workers Ask, ‘Walkout Broadened Continued from Page One line thrown around the shop yester- day has forced the owners to take |back the militant weaver, whom they of Daily Order Now A Bundle for Distribution Workers | Another victory is reported for All the workers Announcement has been made by the Strike Committee of the regular publication of a strike bulletin twice ja week. The first issue of the bul- \letin will appear this Friday. | In order to lighten the work of the | United Councils of Working Class and cake will be served free to pick- ets ga the early lines. Special 11th Anniversary Russian Revolution, Election Campaign and —800,000 COPIES— SEE PRICES OF BUNDLES, $6 A THOUSAND War Danger Edition—October 27th, Navy Day. Bimba to Speak at Election Symposium in Williamsburgh | Anton Bimba, Workers (Commu- nist) Party candidate in the Thir- | teenth Assembly District of Brook- | lyn, will present the Communist | platform of class struggle to Wil- | liamsburg workers at a symposium | to be held at Miller’s Grand Assem- bly, corner of Havemeyer and Grand Sts., on Friday at 8 p. m. | The republican party of big busi- | ness will be represented hy Anthony De Piano, running in the Fourteenth Assembly District, and its twin, the Democratic party, will be repre- sented by P. Nathanson, also run- | ning in the Fourteenth Assembly | District. According to the Brooklyn Citi- zens’ Committee, under whose aus- pices the symposium will be held, the socialist party was invited to send a speaker, but refused, giving as a reason that a Communist will speak and it does not want to ap- pear on the same platform. Since the audience at the symposium will be composed of workers it is under- stood why the’ socialist party will not present its petty bourgeois plat- form in open contrast with the mili- tant working class platform of the Workers (Communist) Party. Policeman Who Beat | Engineer Gets Term | George Denker, patrolman charged | with severely beating a motorist in| the Holland Tunnel, was yesterday | sentenced to an indefinite term of 6 months to 3 years in prison. James Bernard, Newark, N. J., al- leged that Denker broke both his) jaws and severely injured him in an! argument over a minor traffic viola- | tion, : UNION ENDORSES CANDIDATES OF WORKERS PARTY Local 41 to Vote for Foster, Gitlow Voting unanimously to endorse | the election program and the candi- dates of the Workers (Communist) Party, members of Tuckers, Pleat- ers and Hemstitchers Local 41 at a regular meeting last night set them- selves squarely behind the Party of the class struggle. Speeches both from the platform and from the floor reviewed the ex- periences of the organization during the past year with the treachery of the right wing “socialists” in their union with the bosses to break up the organization. “There isggnly one Party for the working class,” members declared from the floor, “and that is the Workers (Communist) Party.” In addition to endorsing the Com- munist ticket, members ‘responded to an appeal for the Shifrin Defense Fund, Twelve Dollars was collected to help free Shifrin, who is being framed by tKe right wing forces. Six dollars and fifty Cents was also collected in response to ar. ap- peal for the Freiheit, which is fight- ing the ban placed against it by the Canadian government. JINGO RETURNS TO U. S. VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Oct. 23 (U.P).—Fred K. Nielson, American commissioner of the General Claims Commission, and the 17 members of his staff, sailed yesterday for the United States aboard the steamer Monterey. SWING INTO LINE! 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