The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 26, 1928, Page 1

| } t eT "PROTEST DEMONSTRATION I For the 40-Hour THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS | | For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For a Labor Party Week Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y¥. ander the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY ° AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR DANGER IN UNION SQUARE TOMORROW Vol. V., No. 254 Published dally except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1928 Price 3 Cents SIGMAN RESIGNS POST AS PRESIDENT OF SCAB UNION Post Office Maintains Ban Denying Mails to Election Editions of the Daily Worker LOCAL OFFICIALS EVADE ISSUE IN NEW STATEMENT Washington Ignores) Protest Wire of | Wednesday | Paper in New Danger, — | Appeals to Workers to) Meet Challenge | - Officials of the New York City, i post office yesterday persisted in maintaining in force the order by which many thousand copies of the! special election campaign edition of | The Daily Worker were caenny) night held up in the post office and/| denied the second class mailing] privileges. No reply whatever has} been received from post office head-| quarters at Washington to the wire) communication sent Wednesday de-' manding the rescind’ of the order) under which The Daily Worker was! admittedly being withheld from the| mails because it is the “organ of a! political party.” The Ict!2r from the local post of-| fice signed by Postmaster J. J.) Kiely is manifestly an attempt to} camouflage the whole issue by im- jecting a‘new question, that of the} price at which the special edition) was put out. The letter obviously intenued merely to stall for time re- frains from all mention of the i reason for the withholding of the, pape? from the mails and wh'zh was! the subject of the letter written to Yocal post office officials Wednes- Hay. That the new excuse is merely ja subterfuge is further evident from the fact that the local post office) admits that it is waiting for advice, from Warh‘ngton in a matter which| it earlier claimed is only one of or-| cinary routine. The condition providing that the price and other conditions under which the special editions are put out, be specified, have been met, nothwithstanding the statement of Kiely. In one part of Kiely’s letter this fact is practically admitted. The complete brazenness of the deception being practiced, the pres- ent attempt to camouflage the real reason for the attack on the paper. the arrogant bureaucratic tyranny of the Washington officials in ignor- ing the telegraphed demand of The Daily Worker for immediate action in a situation which is threatening the very life of the working class paper, ccnfirms the charge made yesterday that the new order és an attempt to strangle The ily Worker solely because it is a mili- tant working class paper. » Aimed at Election Campaign. { The move is a part of and the slimax to the country-wide attempt which has been made to suppress the Workers (Communist) Party election propaganda exposing the hypocritical character of capitalist democracy and the politicians who do the bidding of the big bosses. The working class must respond to this new attack with renewed ac- tivity in the Communist election campaign. The Daily Worker and the Communist movement which have passed through many serious crises during the past few years will not be forced back by this new attack. m Every class-conscious worker, every militant who understands the meaning of the struggle and the need to maintain our paper and our movement must respond to this new eall for added sacrifice. It is true Continued on Page Two NEGRO CLUB DANCE. The Negro Social and Educational lub has arranged a dance for Sat- day, at 154 Watkins Ave., Brook- All workers are urged to at- tend. — GREETINGS from New York Units and Or- ganizations will be printed in the Nov. 3rd issue of the Daily Worker, This issue will be @ Special Russian Revolution issue Send your grectings and ‘swe order (ct the rata of $6.00 ver thowend) to the Buily Bes Worker 26 Union Squure Wednesday. October Sict ia tha inst duy for. taecriing © |Sabatelli was arrested by company | tention on the Daily Worker, as the {foil | Veteran for Governor | | | | | i | | William M. Patten, 70-year-old la-| bor veteran, who was a member of the old Knights of Labor, is candi- date for governor of Iowa on the| Workers (Communist) Party ticket.| FOSTER, GITLOW s AT MANY MEETS Announce Dates for Rest of Campaign | The National Election Campaign Committee of the Workers (Com- -munist) Party annoynces the final meetings the great nation-wide tour made by Foster and Gitlow in! which each spoke in over 50 cities. By means of the radio, auto dem- onstrations, parades, receptions, demonstrations at railroad stations, picnics, banquets, ete., it can be safely estimated that, between} them, the two standard bearers of the Party have reached at least a half million workers with the mes- sage. of the class struggle during the course of the last two months. The following is the list of meet- ings concluding the tours of the two standard bearers of the Workers! (Communist) Party. FOSTER MEETINGS. Saturday, Oct. 27—Youngstown, Ohio, Eagles Hall, Rayen Ave., cor. Holmes, 8 p. m. : Sunday, Oct. 28—Pittsburgh, Pa., details announced later. Monday, Oct. 29—Erie, Pa., For- ward Hall, 2502 Peach St., 8 p. m. Tuesday, Oct. 380—Binghamton, N. Y., High School Auditorium, | Main Street, 8 p. m. } Wednesday, Oct. 31 —Scranton, Pa., Labor Temple, 125 Franklin Ave., 7:30 p, m. Friday, Noy. 2—Hartford, Conn.,| Continued on Page Three GIRL JAILED FOR = GIVING OUT DAILY Silk Workers on Strike | in Mine Town (By a Worker Correspondent) OLD FORGE, Pa., Oct. 25.—Jenny detectives for distributing the Daily Worker and leaflets to striking silk workers before the Duchess Under- wear factory of this city. Mary Kelleher, organizer of the United Textile Workers Union, was a wit- ness ‘to the arrest, but she was watching it from a great distance without trying to defend the ar- vested worker. After being kept in the company. office for a few hours, Jenny Saba- telli was taken by car to Scranton and. put under $500 bail and charged with distributing seditious litera- ture. Later on, she was fined $17 for distributing leaflets on company ground. ‘The afrest has creatéd a great stir and has helped to crystalize at- paper fighting for all of the work+ ers, Low Wage and Speed-Up. The strike started one week ago, against the very low wages and speed-up system prevailing in the This is the first mill in this regi manufecturing knitted silk co on Baye Tuo NAT'L MILL UNION Police Attack French TO ORGANIZE THE PATERSON DYERS Workers; Arrest 1,200 | PARIS, Oct. 25.—Massed gend-|is not known how many were in- larme squads, mounted police, an|jured, but the attack of gendarmes jarmy of heavily armed police cars and armed motorcycle squads at- in battle formation, reinforced horse land automobile squads, gave a tone \Mass Meet Saturday! | pointed out that the dye workers of | tacked a huge demonstration of | workers in the’suburbs of Vincernes |today at the funeral of 19 workers |killed in the collapse of a defective building here last week. Twelve hundred workers were arrested. Defied Order. The demonstration took place ‘in spite of the order by police that no Associated Is Asked to Cooperate in Drive | MS Sall Move Important to |demonstration be held. Strike Success PATERSON, N. J., Oct. Pointing to the vital importance of e silk strike to the organization the dye workers, the National /of employes. Textile Workers Union today an-| The funeral procession, which nounced its intention of organizing |turned into a mass protest against these workers. At the same time, |capitalism and against ‘the suppres- the National Textile Workers Union |sion of Communist activities in intimated that it expects every pos-|France by an ever increasingly sible co-operation from the Associ- | fascist government, was peaceful un- ated Silk Workers Union. |til the appearance of the army sent Suggestions to organize the dye |by Police Chief Chiappe of Paris. It calling upon the working class to fight the “rationalization” system that takes no account of the lives 25.— The work- | lers, called to demonstrate by the}, Communist Party, carried slogans} of war brutality to the scene. The mass arrest of 1,200 workers recall to many here the scenes of ac- tual warfare and the prisoners are being compared to war prisoners. | {The Communist Party of France, |through working class organizations and its press, “Humanite,” is now \taking up the fight against govern- ment repression and declares that it | will strike blow for blow. f Struggle Intensified. It is pointed out that the fascist | character of the Poincare ministry is becoming more evident from day to day and does not hide its intention to combat the working class follow- ing of the Communists. Instances that are indignantly cited are the. intervention of the Paris government in the Communist suburbs of Paris, |the banning of Soviet films, and |plans recently revealed to fight the | Communists. workers were originally made b; the National Union over a week ago, : LEGION URGES but were not immediately acted upon by the Associated. In their original offer of assist-| ance in organizing this strategic AN ON RALLY section of the Paterson workers, the National’ Textile Workers Union! this city dye 85 per cent of all. the silk goods produced in the United States... “This section will insure victory for you and make Paterson entirely under union control,” their offer states. Replying in the name of the As- seciated Silk Workers Union,’ Fred | Hoelsher, its secretary, answered | Lawson, 57 West. 58th St., County that the associated did not find time | Commander of the American Le- Madison Square Meet Is Threatened meeting.” te act upon it immediately. } The National Textile Workers | Union then announced its purpose | to organize the dye workers and re- | quested the aid of the Associated | Silk Workers Union in this vital | fere with the celebration of the 1ith anniversary of the Russian revolu- tion, Sunday night, Nov. 4. An- “We stopped them using the San- |" dino, stamps and we will stop’ this | tice. walked out.on sttike yesterday | ‘POLISH PRINTERS JOIN IN WALKOUT \Fascist “Nowy Swiat” Fights Union ix compositors and one ‘appren- against the “Nowy iat,” reac- With these words, Dr. J. Herbert tionary Polish newspaper located at| 24 Union Square. The workers who | recently were unionized are demand- | gion, yesterday threatened to inter- | ing recognition of the union and the| regular scale of wages. cist regime of the Polish dictator, nouncements made by the Workers | Pilsudski. Its methods were aimed) Workers (Communist) Party (Communist) Party that the occa-|at forcing its éompositors to remain /further indications of the fev task. “We wish to inform you and all Continued on Page Two ‘FUR WORKERS IN NOON RED RALLY Fur Union Campaign-| ing for Red Ticket Besides giving formal endorse- ment to the candidates of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, as they did officially many months ago, the Joint Board Furriers Union is ac- tively engaged in campaigning for the Party of their choice. Yester- day, -at noon time, while the thou- sands of fur workers were in the streets during their lunch period, the Joint Board conducted an open- air meeting on the corner of Sixth Ave. and 27th St. With great enthusiasm, the work- ers, who generally congregate in large numbers on this corner, be- cause it serves as a “market,” flocked around the automobile which was covered with signs carrying “Vote Communist” slogans as it drew up to the curb. For a full hour, between 12 and 1) o’clock, the meeting went on, with | the crowd increasing rapidly till traffic found it difficult to pass through. sion would be used for the taking | of a vote of confidence in General| With the union of the other trades | Augustino Sandino caused the Le-|to which its workers belong. These | gionaire to make his threat. include pressmen, stereotypers, mail- When informed by newspaper | ¢TS: etc. representatives that a pledge of] Usual Boss Methods. unity with Sandino could be con-| The men, it was learned yester- strued as treason, Dr. Lawson said:|day, have been subjected to various “J will be on hand personally and | forms of persecution and have heen if I hear one word of treason constantly under the fear of being against our government or its/fired without notice, a practice armed forces I will see that the) which has been common. The pay meeting is stopped.” jof the compesitors is $12 per week When members of the arrange-|lower than the union scale. Other ments committee, who are in charge discriminations were practiced. | of the Madison Square Garden meet-| When the majority of the men had ing, were informed of Dr. Lawson’s Continued on Page Two threat, the committee issued the fol- | Special Edition of lowing statement: “The Workers (Communist) Party | i the “Daily” Tomorrow Tomorrow’s edition of The Daily has received similar threats before Worker will be a special eight- which have been dealt with as they deserve. | “Any attempt on the part of the New York members of the Ameri-| page election edition with articles by William Z. Foster, Ben Gitlow, Jay Lovestone, John Pepper, Nat Kaplan, Paul Novick, W. W. Wein- can Legion to interfere with the | mass meeting on the night of Sun-| stone, Alexander Trachtenberg and others. day, November 4th, will be met with the organized resistance of tens of thousands of workers who will come from their factories, shops and mills The issue will stress.the im- to commemorate the 11th anniver- perialist war danger, the present sary of the Russian Revolution and) Communist election campaign and the commemoration of the 11th anniversary of the Soviet Union. It will be fully illustrated with to hear Foster and Gitlow wind up! photographs of the Communist the Communist election campaign.” | Reports from the arrangements | candidates and special drawings and cartoons. Don’t miss it! ‘committee for the meeting state} “Gas,” Remarkable |the entire seating capacity of the | Garden will be taxed to the utmost. | | Workers are urged, members of the All the speakers were active lead- | committee said, to call at 26 Union ing members of the Furriers Union. | Square for tickets and thus prevent In short, but spirited speeches, they | needless waiting in line on the night Continued on Page Two of the celebration. COAL MIN ERS EVICTED Face Winter of Cold and Starvation, WHEELING, W. Va., Oct. 25.— Coal miners of Blain, Ohio, who for more than a score of years have sweated blood in the depths of the earth, furnishing ‘heat and comfort to others and slaving to increase the wealth of parasitic coal barons in Eastern Ohio, have been served no- tice to vacate the company houses and face the winter with no visible means of support, being refused jobs because they fought for organ- ized labor and their union. The notice to vacate the company houses was served by the Loraine Coal and Dock Co. ‘ich has waged a bitter fight agafhst the militant hpresent strike for better conditions and a living standard of wages. Considerable excitement was caused bythe notices and groups of miners gathered about the village discussing the latest move to crush the spirit of class-conscious coal diggers. As the notices were, posted and handed to the miners many were torn to bits and the company defied to do their worst. This militant spirit of the miners, who, after months of starvation and fighting still defy the bosses, shows their willingness to organize and support the New Miners Union, miners who struggled during the) that several thousand tickets have} been sold and that in all probability | Story by M. J. Olgin, to Appear in ‘Daily’ | ‘The Daily Worker will begin | publishing in a few days a re- able story by Moissaye J. ol editor of The Hammer, Yiddish Communist monthly, The story is called “Gas” and is a fan- tastic episode of the year 1940, describing the effects of a deadly poison gas attack on New York City during the next imperialist war, J The story w recently pub- tung, an organ of the German | Communist Party and republished | nist and left wing papers. It at- was used as discussion material in Party nuclei during anti-mili- tarist week, “Gas” has been rewritten spe- cially for the Daily Worker by the author. _ 9 Watch for itt HUGE ANTI-WAR Receive $910 |AROR RETRAYER, PROTEST MEET TOMORROW AT 2 Workers Will Defy Militarists on “Navy Day” Hit Wall Street Lies Thousands of Workers | | Will Join Protest Union Square will again earr, its name of Med Square tomorrow at 2 p. m. when thousands of militant workers will observe the militarist | Navy Day by participating in a huge denionstration against the im- perialist war menace. In a.call issued by the Workers (Communist) Partv, District 2. all class-conscious workers of New York are asked to be present at Union Square tomorrow to demonstrate avainst the imperialist war danger. “On every side we see indications of the coming imperialist war,” the call reads in part. “It is the class duty of every militant worker to take an active part in opposing the coming war among imperialist covn- tries for the redivision of the world’s markets. Workers are made to suf- fer the burdens of war and should) \organize to resist it.” | _ Attention of workers is called to |the significance of Navy Day. as a{ link in the long chain of jingo propaganda of the Wall Street im- perialists to make workers accept war prenarations on the’ sround of “national defense” and “upholding the national honor.” The latest proposed expenditure is cited by the as thorized by Congress going on while the Kellogg “peace' pact lies mouldering in the cabinets of international politicians. This is \the vote of Congress to approve the, spending of $8,000,000 for the con- struction: of two giant Zeppelins for | the navy. The contract has been |awarded to the Goodyear Tire and |Rubber Co., one of the chief ex- |ploiters of rubber workers, through lits subsidiary organization, the | Goodyear Zeppelin Company. | Arrangements are being made (thruout the city for workingclass organizations, both fraternal and trade unions, to hold special protest | meetings in their headquarters, after | which they are to adjourn and come jin bodies to the Red Square demon-| stration with placards and banners denouncing the imperialist war preparations and pledging to defend the U. S. S. R. from attack by the |imperialist powers. District Literature Agents Meet Tonight. |. The district literature agents of) the Workers: (Communist) Party will wind up their election cam- paign with ingreased activity when! |Rebecca Grecht, Bert Miller and Alexander Trachtenberg address a) conference of all literature squads tonight, 6:30 p. m., at the Workers | | Center, 26-28 Union Square. | Definite tasks and problems will be taken up. | WHAT TO DO DURING LAST 11 DAYS OF THE CAMPAIGN for Red Antt- Terror Drive The second installment ributions -received in the ction Drive, Anti-Terror Emer- gency Fund amounted to $650, bringing the total up to $910. The first installment amounted to $260. This increase is distinctly en- couraging but could be much more so if it were not for the fact that a good deal of money is still being held for transmission thru party channels by unit secretaries, or by section and district organizations. If this money were sent directly by these contributors or collectors it would reach the National Election Emergency Campaign Committee a number of days sooner and will help solve the emergency so much more quickly. While money received later will be useful in paying off post- election debts, it is now that the money is most badl; needed. The Campaign Committee needs $1000 today in order to release elec- tion campaign printing that is being held up due to lack of funds. Send money orders, checks or cash at once directly to the National Elec- tion Campaign: Committee at 43 E. 125th St., N. Y. C. Among the contributions received yesterday was $15 from the Arbeiter Manner und Damen Chor of Tren- ton, N. J. which deplored the small- ness of the. amount collected, but hoped that other organizations will make up for it by much larger con- tributions, | Two of ‘the letters accompanying | contributions which will be of in- terest are the following: “Dear Comrades: Enclosed find $1 for my reply to the terror. All I ask is two Communist buttons, one for myself and I got my son to promise, at the dinner table today, | of con- $10,000 The Nowy Swiat supports the fas- to “uphold the national honor” au-'to wear one to high school. Yours for the revolution. “A. M. Rock, Topeka, Kansas,” “Dear Campaign Manager: Am unorganized although it has dealt| haste at which war prevarations are). ging g0 which is all I can spare to help swell the fund, so as to be able to send speakers to tour the country. Fraternally. yours, “J, Schwartz, Dorchester, Mass.” FOSTER EXPOSES SOCIALIST PARTY Will Speak in Seranton October 31 (Special to the Daily Worker) COLUMBUS, 0., Oct. 25.—Speak-| ing before an enthusiastic working class audience William Z. Foster, Communist presidential candidate | delivered one of the most vigorous election speeches of the present campaign. In the center in which the socialist party before the war had consider- able strength, Foster delivered a) complete exposure of the degeneracy | which has come over this party. Exposes Socialist Betrayals. “The socialist party has not only abandoned Marxism,” he said, “but it has repudiated the Communist Manifesto, it has betrayed the class struggle; it has done more, par- ticularly in this campaign. “Throughout the 319 pages of its Continued on Page Five lished in the Hamburg -Volkszei- | in many other German Commu- | | tracted so much attention that it | 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. 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 National Election Campaign Committee. 5. Every unit must assign comrades to take up collections in the trade unions, fraternal organizations and factories. : 6. It is the duty of every Party member to collect as. much money as possible in the 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 CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, Workers (Communist) Party 43 E. 125th St., New York, N.Y. BEATEN, LEAVES WRECKED “JNION’ National Organization Committee Meets to Plan New Union Big Conference Sunday Sigman Uses Local 17 Issue to Escape Discouraged and beaten, his’ seab compa’ union on the verge—of bankruptcy, Morri man resigned as president of the ternational Ladic ers’ Union. Sigman’s signation was tendered Wednesday evening to the general executive board of his “union,” which is now in session at the Ho- tel Continental. The resignation was accepted yesterday afternoon. Ends Career of Betrayal. The resignation of Sigman praé- tically writes finis to the career “6f one of the foremost labor betrayets in the country. Starting in 1923, when he became president of the I, L. G. W. U., Sigman carried on a systematic campaign against the rank and file, culminating in the expulsion of the left wing New York Joint Board in December, 1926, It was then that, with the co- operation. of the Tammany police and the underworld, he and his col- leagues launched the real drive against all progressive workers, re- sulting in the wrecking of the union that had been built up after years of struggle and suffering on the part of thousands of workers. “Official” Reason. The “official” reason for Sig- man’s resignation is the decision of a special committee, headed by Matthew Woll, appointed at the fake Boston convention in May, to reissue a charter to Local 17, the so-called reefermakers’ local, Three years ago Sigman revoked the charter of this operators’ local and meanwhile built up a stronghold for himself in Local 2. The decision to reissue a charter to Local 17 was conse» quently a terrible blow for Sigman because it meant the establishment of a strong base for the Schlesinger clique and the destruction of what little power the doting labor faker still held in his own company. His resignation came at the conclusion of a bitter attack on the Schlesing- er-Breslaw clique in the Internas tional. - The Local 17 issue was not, howe ever, the fundamental reason. for Sigman’s exit, it is reliably yéport- ed. It merely served as & con- venient peg on which to hang a res— ignation towards which the d i union-wrecker had long looked eag- erly. The truth is that Sigman’s campaign against-the rank and file, which has ended so dismally and brought his boss-supported seab union to virtual ruin, has left him a very sick man. And since his | amusement park at Storm Lake, Ia.; earns thousands of dollars yearly for this businessman-labor “leader,” he has for some time been only too willing to part with his job as In+ ternational president, especially in view of the fact that it has lost all its attractiveness since the bankrupt Continued on Page Three U. S. S. R. BREEDING STATI VERKHNEUDINSK, U., S. 8, Oct. 25.—The People’s Commis: for Agriculture is organizing breeding place for arctic foxes Lake Baikal. Several specimens arctic foxes have been brought. this purpose from the Commi Islands. ‘Daily’ Must Recei All Available Fu To fight the stoppage of sands of copies of the Worker by the U. S. postal thorities, it is necessary that. have all available funds in « hands as soon as possible, — Daily Worker agents who Ruthenberg Sustaining dues, outstanding — tickets money for grectings, must them in immediately, Greetings for the New special edition will be p on Nov. 3. The Daily W