The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 25, 1928, Page 1

NAVY DAY DEMONSTRATION AGAINST WALL STREET WARS SATURDAY, 2 P. M..UN UNION SQ. ‘THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS — a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Entered as second-class matter at the Pont Office at New York, N. Y., under the’act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION ‘Vou. V., No. 253 Published daily except Sunday by The Publishing Asm National Daily Worker lation. Ine. 26-28 Union Sq. New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RA Price 3 Cents POST OFFICE STOPS DAILY WORKER ELECTION EDITION; ADMITS ATTEMPT 10 CRIPPLE COMMUNIST ( CAMPAIGN LABOR FAKERS OF CHICAGO REFUSE, RADIO T0 GITLOW Ravoke ‘Contract a | Permit Talk of | Red Nominee Greet Gitlow Tonight) Will Speak at Huge! Rally Tomorrow "(Special to the Daily Worker) CHICAGO, IIL, Oct. 24.—The Chi- cago Federation of Labor, once the | stronghold of the progressives in the labor movement, has joined the ies Militant ue TO FREE DUNLOP. MILL PICKETS Urge Full Power to Strike Committee ‘Must Control Funds Spread of Walkout Is Vital to Success L. Himmelfarb, left wing progres- | sive worker of the Deligatessen Counterman’s Union, local 502, who Brag of Slave Made Profits Naked account of prodigious wealth accumulated for American capitalism by the crushing toil of |Speakers at at Mass Meet millions of slaves featured the fifth annual conference of representatives | of American major industries at Columbia University today. Convened thru the initiative of Nicholas Murray Butler, president of the Univerity, and the Institute of American Meat Packers, the Chamber of Commerce of the State) of New York and the Merchants) Association, the gathering was in-| JUDGE 1S FORCED ‘Trust Leaders \NTLWAR MEET IN UNION SQUARE THIS SATURDAY Workers Will Answer Militarists on “Navy Day” Lovestone Wi Will Speak Thousands of of Leaflets: Being Distributed MOVE IS CLIMAX OF REACTIONARY DRIVE ON PARTY \Part of Terror Wave | Now Sweeping Over Many States Party Will Fight Back Immediate Aid Needed | to Save Paper | | | | | pack of Red-baiters and jingoes who | was brutally beaten up at a meet- have launched wholesale attacks on| ing of the same body when right| the Workers (Communist) Party in| wing gangsters, acting in ‘collusion’ a frantic effort to keep its election | with police, attacked a group of left PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 24.— Saturday, October 27, set aside as | With the frightened silk bosses be- ginning to fight the imminent dicative of the close association be-| tween higher education and big busi-|“Navy Day” by proclamation of the | With an arbitrary order is- ness in the United States, as well | militarist rulers of this country, will | d . : sued yesterday by authorities as of the part which Butler essays|he observed by militant workers of | esti Soto xe of the Post Office at New wing workers. This was a con- stration thru the city’s principal . streets. campaign message from reaching the American workers. The Federation, after contracting | to turn over its radio station for the ‘use of Benjamin Gitlow, Communist candidate for vice-president, on Fri- day night, has revoked its contract | nd’barred the Red nominee. Join Reactionaries. ' By this action the labor fakers of the Chicago Federation align them- selves openly with every reactionary | agency that has been persecuting| Workers Party in this city. It is| significant that socialist party} speakers, as well as speakers for the two big capitalist parties, have} been welcomed at the Federation radio station. Despite this action by thes ens hetrayers, the workers of Chicago are determined to hear Gitlow: and are making elaborate preparations) for a huge mass meeting Friday night. As a prelude to this meeting | one of the greatest workingclass| demonstrations ever held in this city | thas been arranged to greet the Com-| munist standard-bearer when he ar- rives tomorrow night at North western Station, Canal and Madi-} son Sts. 100 Autos. spread of the strike here thru their tinuance of the policy of gangsterism against the left wing workers re- re- cently inaugurated by the tools, the police, the authorities to-| day arrested the entire line of work- ers mass picketing the Dunlop Mill, actionary Central Trades and Labor | Council. FOSTER ATTACKS. ConpeaniataAlmel ood oye there was no st a Workers. : He Shows | e mass picketing was goii in. | He was compelled to free fifteen of | 5 the workers, tha-not until they had) (Special to the Daily’Workery ~ AKRON, Ohio, ‘suffered the discomforts of the “sta Oct. 24.—In one|tion house. Two of the pickets were| ofthe most’ stirring speeches deliv-| given suspended sentences by the | ered in the present election cam-/court, apparently to show that it} paign, William Z. Foster, presiden-| was serving its masters as much wf tial candidate on the Workers (Com-/it could in so bad a case. munist) Party ticket, last night Union Attacks Arrests, launched an attack on the deceptive Whe. Associated “Sik. “Werke programs and tactics of the demo- A ;, ‘ d all ..| Union has issued a statement at- oo republican and socialist par. |tacking the. acon “of the. police | oe \Charges of brutality, which have | Over five higioed workers, many been made from time to time by of them from the rubber mills of) the pickets against individual offi- the city in which the excessive speed- | cers, are being enlarged to cover the at 220 Straight Street. Arrest Whole Line. | The workers had been peacefully the -police seized them and hauled | |17 to the station house where they | were charged with disorderly con- pats lof the American Telephone to play in the politics of big busi-'this city in a huge protest meeting | ness. jand demonstration against Roll Call of Trusts. perialist war danger at Union The conference will assemble such Square at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. the im- | leading capitalists as Myron C. Tay- |lor, chairman of the finance commit- tee of the United States Steel Cor- poration, Harold H. Swift, vice-- picketing in front.of the mill when| president of the Swift Packing Co., |C. F. Kettering, president of the General Motors Research Corpora- tion, Walter S. Gifford, president and Telegraph Co., Charles E. Mitchell of the National City Bank of New Continued on ped: on a oae Two SMITH SOCIALISM, IS “SOCIALISTIC” | Which Explains Denials in Both Camps Considerable anxiety if not con- sternation is noticeable here within the ranks of the Al Smith forces as a result of the Hoover charge that Many Small Meetings. Before the Union Square meeting begins, smaller protest meetings will be held indoors and outdcors in various sections of the city. These meetings will® adjourn at a given time and all participants will mount trucks and automobiles and with placards announcing the nature of the procession will proceed to the Union Square demonstration. Thousands of leaflets are being |distributed throughout the city by {the Workers (Communist) Party, | ford whose auspices the demon- ir 3 ion will be held, calling on all es conscious workers to partici- pate in the meeting. “Down with the Navy Day Pay-triots and War Mongers!” is the rallying cry of |the leaflet, to which slogan work- ers of the city will respond with a rousing demonstration. Lovestone to Speak. The demonstration will be ad- dressed by leading members of the Workers (Communist) Party, cluding Jay Lovestone, executive | in- | In the center of the group is William Z. Foster, candidate for | slogans. | The following telegram to the Postmaster General at Washington |was sent yesterday by the Daily Worker as the first move in the fight to prote¢t the paper in the new attack which the government jand the capitalists have launched. “October 24, 1928. “Postmaster General, “Washington, D. C. “Daily worker being held up in New York post office and denied second class mailing privileges. Reasons given that it is special California edition and is printed purposely to support political or- ganization, viz, Workers (Com- | munist) Party of America. We president of the United States on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket, receiving the greetings of the workers of Cleveland. ing population of Cleveland turned out in large numbers to mect their candidate when he arrived, and large posters, carried by an automobile and truck caravan, announced the Communist election “HANDS OFF DAILY WORKER!” IS DEMAND a York, the United States gov- ernment took the first step in a plan to exclude from the second class mails the special election editions of 300,000 copies of the Daily Worker, at- tempting thereby to cripple the election campaign of the Work- ers (Communist) Party in the presidential election. After holding many thousands of copies of the special California ,edition mailed the night before, ‘the Post Office authorities yes- FURRIERS RED RALLY TONIGHT sorsr ater, notte he | these papers would be sent to |Help Workers Party, their destination. Says Statement In the discussion which fol- = lowed, the authorities admitted The Joint Board of the Furriers’ the fact that the Daily Union yesterday issued a fiery call Worker is acting as the organ {to all fur workers to rally around of “a political party.” the Communist ticket tonight at the fafa ‘ s Making no attempt to conceal ication meeting at Stuyvesant their real purposes, post office of- The work- More than 100 automobiles and|Up and low wages are driving the) whole police department, as the the Tammany governor's program is|secretary. Other speakers will in-| gladly admit Daily Worker sup- Casino, mumodiately after work. ficials openly admitted that the rea- trucks, filled with workers and dis-| Workers to action, ‘listened atten-| workers gradually see that they | Sti@listic.” No less consternation |clude $)/t Nearing, red candidate ports Workers Party gf America | “The Fur Union was destroyed by Sons for the new order was that the y ith workers and dis- Ny 's grad ly s a ey | and its candidates, William Z. the brutality of the police and the | Daily Worker is the official organ playing election slogans, will «on- duct Gitlow in a parade and demon-| Two Red bands playing revolutionary songs will lead the march, | ‘The mass meeting on Friday right | will be a joint Red election rally and Jeelebration of the 11th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. It will} be held at 8 o’clock at Ashland Auci- torium, Ashlaud and Van Buren} Sts. In addition to Gitlow, «ther| candidates of the Workers Party will, speak at this huge rally. | crowd is expected to jam Ashland Auditorium, which seats 4,500. | Vote for Foster for president: and Gitlow for vice-president. the Workers (Communist) Party. On October 27 Worker ‘wiJl issue a special edition of 800,000 copies of the Daily Worker. This is part of the election campaign program. At-will be enlarged in size, special articles and fea- ‘tiites by ieading 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- unit and organization send in .® /greeting to the Daily Worker Fon the occasion of the 11th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. -<Workers are reminded that Whtirsday is the last day when | orders .and greetings for this Special edition can be accepted. \ tively to Foster’s talk and applauded bs are fighting the entire police, act- enthusiastically throughout, ling for the bosses, and not indi- viduals. Denunciation of the police and {appeals for the gradual spread of) War Danger Immediate. “Here in this city with its rubber factories, you have one of the im- mediate factors making for the Continued on Page Two coming ruthless imperialist war which is even now in preparation,” the Communist candidate declared. “Rubber, oil, raw materials, increas- |ing production and the vicious strug- COURT EDICT HITS gle for world markets, these are the | forces which make the war danger | AT RED FIGHTERS not a thing of some far off moment) but an issue of the immediate pres- ‘struggles were ahead of the work-| tutional court today issued a decree ing class. “Just as in the past few! ordering that the Red Front Fight- years, so in the future the work- rs be disbanded. The decree came er will find in the Communist Par- $4 result of an appeal by the mili-/ | correct and adequate program to fight capitalist imperialism,” he Federal Court. said. Foster showed that it was neces- declared that the Red Front Fight-|‘hose arrested, sary for the Negro and white work- ers to join in_their common cause. | |The socialist party has abandoned all pretense to leading the struggle |of the workers and is now making} its appeal to the so-called liberals and progressives, he showed. In the future, Foster declared, the workers Will find that only the Com. munists will take the lead in the battles now beginning. industries, he said, can be organized through the initiative and help of the organized Communist and left wing forces. Considerable enthusiasm was shown at the meeting. Young work- throughout. From here Foster leaves to fill aj scheduled engagement at Columbus, SEIZE LIQUOR CARGO. (By United Press) Two hundred bottles, alleged to contain liquor, were seized by pro-) hibition agents today aboard the| steamer France of the French Lines. The basic | ers had “exceeded their statutes by | demonstrations calculated to disturb ‘the public peace.” The Red Front Fighters point out | that the decision of the court vio- | lates the Austrian constitution and |that semi-military fascist organiza- tions are permitted to operate in spite of the fact that they have| strations. Membership Meet of Sections 2, 3 Tomorrow A special membership meeting of | | tonight, will be held tomorrow even- utive committee on account of con- flicting meetings on the original date, The meeting will therefore be held | Frid ay, 8: ee >. m. at the Workers | Conter, “26-28 Union Square. All members of tactatb 2 and 3 must attend, called numerous provocative demon- | ‘munist) Party, originally called for|' jing by decision of the district exec-|' |is conspicuous within the ranks of the so-called socialist party itself in | spite of the uniform chorus of denial {now being sung by both camps. In a campaign such as the prese t |the strike were also heard at this|in which the republican, the demo- |cratic and the socialist forces have |been conducting merely vote-catch- ing maneuvers, it is pointed out, any such charge would be meaningless in a campaign fought on real issues and principles, is fikely to prove more harmful than the politicians |care to admit. Careful inquiries reveal that the havnee are extremely fearful that MEXICO CITY, Oct. 24 (UP).— The relatives and family of Jose De Leon oral, assassin of President- elect Alvaro Obregon, have been ar- Support ty its only leadership with the only, tant workers organization against a/ rested for investigation, but no decision previously made by the|charges have been placed against |them, police said today. Toral’s In rejecting the appeal the court | | mother and father were not among for gona of New Jersey; Rob- ert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker and Communist candidate for U. S. senate from New York; Albert Weisbord, running for U. senate in New Jersey; William W. Weinstone, district organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party; Bert Miller, organizational secretary of the Party, and Rebecca Grecht, state | manager of the Red election cam- paign, and many other well-known figures \class struggle. The Workers (Communist) Party, District 2, in sending out the call tions. AUTO CRASH FAPAL. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Oct. 24 (U.P).—Lawrence Keegan, New York} City, was killed and six other per- sons were injured early today in an automobile accident near here. =| in the militant party of | WHAT TO DO DURING LAST 2 WEEKS OF THE CAMPAIGN Immediate tasks for all Party members: 1. Cut out the contribution blank printed in the Daily Worker today. 2. Send immediately your contribution, of not less than one dol- ‘lar, to the COMMUNIST ELECTION DRIVE ANTI-TERROR EMERGENCY FUND. i 8. Send the money without any delay DIRECT to the National Election Campaign Committee, 43 East 125th St., New York City. 4. It is the duty of every Party unit to take up a collection for the Emergency Fund at once and to send the money DIRECT to the trade unions, fraternal organizations and factories, H 6. It is the duty of every Party member to collect as much money as possible in tfe shops, trade unions and fraternal organizations. 7. The Red Election Sundays and the house-to-house canvassing should be utilized to establish the Communist Election Drive Anti- Terror Emergency Fund. NATIONAL ELECTION EMERGENCY | CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, pe Workers (Communist) Party 43 E, 125th St., New York, N. Y. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow. Nev- ertheless we protest denial of mailing privileges and demand order be rescinded and California edition forwarded immediately. Advise intentions. “DAILY WORKER.” The following letter was sent to the officials of the New York post office: “October 24, 1928. “Post Office Department, “Classification Section, “38rd Street and Eighth Avenue, ‘New York City. “Gentlemen: LONG ISLAND RED ‘MEETING TONIGHT Candidates of of Workers Party Will Speak The Red Night to be held in Long Island tonight under the cuspices of the Workers (Communist) Party of America, will be doubly important in view of the fact that the jingo organization, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, has arranged as in- |door meeting against the Soviet |Union with Silas B. Axtell as the speaker. The Long Island Red Night meet- ing of the Workers Party, will, therefore, be a demonstration for the recognition and defense of the Soviet Union, will give a correct \picture of the development in and | of the Long Island workers to the growing war danger with special reference to the Navy Day arrange- ments being made for Saturday, Oct. 27. All speakers scheduled for the Red Night in-Long Island, and all members of the Long Island Section |report at Steinway and Jamaica | Aves., Long Island at 7:30 p. m. \sharp, | National Election Campaign Head- i of a political party. As a further technical pretext, should this effort be defeated by the organized pro- test of the working class which is expected to result, post office au- thorities gave the excuse that the issue in question was not the regu- lar national edition but a special California edition. Thus the post office officials who are believed to be carrying out the orders of those higher up in the capitalist government expect to be able to strangle the only really working class daily paper in the persecution of the courts,” the call states. “They gll worked hand in hand with the bosses and the reac- tionaries of the A. F. of L., Green, Woll, McGrady, together with the underworld and the socialist traitors, Hillquit, Cahan and Co. “The furriers are starving and being exploited in the most miser- able way. All union conditions we have won from the bosses have been abolished. The treacherous politi- cians of the socialist party and the reactionary chiefs of the A. F. of L. have helped the republican and Fifty thousand leaflets announc- | ent,” |for the demonstration, sounds the 9 democratic judges to send hundreds English language at a time when its fng'the meeting have been dis-|” ‘Touching upon the excessive} Bar Niatoaie Militant cialist principles and: with real 0. er ning that the “next world | “We have been advised by Mr.’ o¢ strikers to jail. They have at- *fforts in the election. campaign of , ttibuted and 2,000 posters hung up| gpscr ee eng ee Ivering eve Ute Dene Od eel RE | ceugtiecyig nave ibeing pevparedl | |Mulkner of your department that tempted to break our general strike the Workers (Communist) Party are dn Various parts of the city. In ad-| scales, unemployment which is now Organization ly on the end calls on every militant worker |t"© California edition of our news-| of 1926, ‘They have broken our| beginning to be of the greatesy in: Idition; 18,000 copies of four shop! Sermenent, and the resulting suf. aii | Gontinned on Page Five ty sont the war danger and pre- Continued on Page Two strike in 1927. Thru the hands of fluence. bulletins are carrying advertise- fering of the lower strata of work. | (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) a spare to defend the Soviet Union TET the police, detectives, industrial, As the first move ‘in the nation- ‘ments of the meeting. A capacity o.<° Foster predicted that great) VIENNA, Oct. 24—The consti- SEIZE DE TORAL'S FAMILY | against attack by imperialist na- squads and hired gangsters they| Wide fight which will undoubtedly have to be made, the Daily Worker yesterday wired to the postmaster general at Washington its protest at this obvious political persecution of the official organ of the working class party. Af™ <s Working Class Character. Admitting gladly that the paper supports the Workers (Communist) Party of America and its candidates, William Z. Foster for president and Benjamin Gitlow for vice-president, the wire demands that the order be re ded and that the California edition be forwarded. At the same time a letter expos- ing in greater detail the real na- ture of this new attask was sent to the local postal authorities in which it is pointed out that other news- papers are supporting their particu- lar parties with immunity and are “in fact receiving support from those political parties.” None of Slate Long Planned these papers are being interfered Further details of the events lead- with, the letter shows. : ing up to the action by which the? have attacked the workers on the picket line and have shed their blood every day. The furriers still re- member the frame-up of the strike- breaking yellow “Forwards” during our strike ef 1926, the frame-up abgpt the so-called “Room C.” “Now the republicans, democrats and socialists, the enemies of the workers, have the audacity to come Continued on Page Two MORE DETAILS OF NEBRASKA EDICT Attack on Communist 1 ‘mittance for same at the rate | |€*S Present sang Pioneer songs and the combined membership of Sec-| National Election Campaign Committee. building up of socialism in the So- Nebraska Supreme Court, acting eae Mei Cent ef 86 per thousand. Have your | |® spirit of militancy was manifest | tions 2 and 3 of the Workers (Com- 5. Every unit must assign comrades to take up collections in the || viet Union and will call the attention "Pon orders from the American which, with its national cireulassay Legign, ruled the Workers (Commu- nist) Party off the ballot in that state were received yesterday at the in every state of the union is indis- pensable for the conduct, of the present election campaign and for the organization activity of the Party, comes as the €limax to the campaign of discrimination and ter- ror which have been waged in a dozen states and in a hundred cities within the past few months in a concerted attempt by the capitalist Continued on Page Two quarters of the Party. When Roy Stephens, Workers Party candidate for congress from the Second District of Nebraskr, at- tempted to file the nominating peti- tion with the secretary of state on Continued on Page Flve : %