The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1928, Page 1

/ } THOUSANDS TO ATTEND THE DAILY WO RKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Uno For the 40-Hour For a Labor Pa ganized Week rty Entered an second-class matter at the Pont Office at New York N NAVY DAY, ANTI-WAR DEMONST . Pub STRONG PROTEST FORCES FEDERAL OFFICIALS’ HAND Notice Evades Mention | Of Real Reason For Barring Paper Danger Still Imminent Labor Urged to Keep Up Support Officials of the Post Office Department at Washineton yesterday, countermanded the ‘order of the New York post of- fice which Tuesday held up the big special election edition of the Daily Worker. In a wire signed by Postmaster General Harry S. New, severa! hundred thousand copies of the Cali- fornia and other special edi- tions which have been denied the mails are restored to second class privileges. At the same time certain new and peculiar specifications are laid down which indicate that the issue is by no means closed and may again be revived at any moment thought favorable by the govern- ment. officials. Emp'oy Subterfuge, As was foreshadowed yesterday. post office officials have sought to camouflage the original reason for *wlding up the paper because it is wpe “organ of a political party” in the “denied the mails because of a ques- tion over the failure 8 report the price at which the special editions ‘were put out, “Your post office has been ad- vised,” the wire states, “to accept them\(the copies of the special edi- tion) at second class pound rates.” Then follows the significant pas- sage which may be used in the fu- ture as a new pretext for holding up the paper: “In similar cases in the future,” the wire reads, “you should furnish your postmaster with evidence of purchase of copies and amount paid for them.” May Be Trick. This new provision which aay be interpreted in various ways accord- ing to the whim of the post office officials may at any time be used as the excuse again to bar the paper. The provision “evidence of purchase |¢idate in the 6th assembly district;| draped in yellow, will be carried t of copies” and the “amount paid for them” are obviously impossible | of fulfillment in most instances since | 7° Paper can be expected to secure edvance evidence of purchase par- | icularly when the question of what constitutes “evidence” is to be de- cided by the post office. The added burden ané expense which have been placed on the Daily Worker es a result of the new at- tack, as well as the unusual c ndi- tion set down for it in the future forces the paper to continue its ap- peal for financial aid to members of the Workers Party and its sym- pathizers, Workers are urged to continue their support of the paper and to send in contributions in order that a very serious crisis ::ey be averted. Discover Lithium Ore in Soviet. Territory LENINGRAD, Oct. 25.—Ore of micaceous lithium, from which lith- ium is obtdined, has been found in the Soviet Union for the first time in the Transbaikal provinces. Join the Party of Party, 43 East 125th Strect, New Name .. Address. ssvivcccpctive. Occupation new claim that the paper was! Join the Workers (Communist) Party Fill out blank below and mail it to the Workers (Communist) 1 want to join the Workers (Commun: Par Please send me x information. if Publixhed daily except Sunday by The National Dail Iikbing Aanociation, (nc 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥, y Worker “NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SOCIALISTS GET T Post Office ia orced to Restore Dai ly ‘OCTOBER 27, 1928 AMMANY “FUND” TO orker under the act of March 3, 1879. RATION, AT UNION sQUAss. ODAY | FINAL CITY EDITION In New York. by mail, ork, by mall, $6.00 per 00 per year Price 3 Cents FIGHT LEFT WI NG Worker to Mai ls; New Provision . S uggests Trick | { | i Y Goimanist candidate f. William Z. Foster | picketing in front of the Splendi MILL PICKETS DEFY ATTEMPT TO SMASH LINE 195 Seized In Paterson, Freed; “No Law Violated”: Judge Oakley Hall, Sat. (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 26.—Des- perately fighting the spread of the silk strike here, the agents of the bosses, the police today again ar- rested an entire picket line of 25 workers and three young strikers | distributing leaflets calling out the dyers. The seizure of the pickets. which is the second time, the police have arrested a whole line since the | strike began, and the arrest of the three strikers took place within an hour or so of each other. Defy Police, The pickets were arrested mass id Silk Co. plant on Ramapl Ave. The pickets asked the first police officer who appeared if everything was all |right and the officer said, “Go jahead.” Another officer than ap- peared and ordered the line to dis- perse, The pickets then defied the offi- sident of the Uniled’ States. RALLY TONIGHT i Highest Point The final Red Night'tlectfon cam- |paign rally of the Workers (Com-) | munist) Party, schedul for the! | Williamsburg secti, 1 take lace | tonight, ©. | Among those scheduled to speak! are A. Bimba, candidate for assem- | bly in the 13th district; Alexander | Trachtenberg, candidate in’ the 14th| congressional district; Richard B. | Moore, candidate for congress in the| |4ist district; Herbert Zam, candi- date in the 14th assembly district; | D. Benjamin, candidate for senate |in the 7th district; San Nessin, can-| George Primoff, candidate in the 6th, assembly district. This is expécted to be the biggest Red Night in the history of Wil- liamsburg. Preparations are being made to have red torch parades a| fleet of autos and trucks, squads of | (che-zing and singing Pioneers, as | well as scores of placards bearing | | the slogans and the platform of the| Continued on Page Two Nearing to Speak At | Irving Plaza Tonight | Scott Nearing, Communist candi-| date for Governor of New Jersey, will be the principal speaker at a| Red Rally to be held at Irving | Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15th St., to- night. Bert Miller, Organizational Secre- tary of District 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party and Red candi- date in the 14th Senatorial District jand Alexander Trachtenberg, run- \ning in the 14th Congvessional Dis- ‘trict will speak, presenting the Com- ‘munist platform in the 1928 elec- tions. the Class Struggle York City. Fee een e sete span eee eeeeas neces Feces een ene eeeeeseneeteees land with rent clothing and pour |ashes over their heads in mourning jat the “loss” of this valiant “lead- | SIGMAN ‘BURIAL’ INWILLIAMSBURS ON -NOVEWEER 4 & Election Drive Hits Funeral Planned at the| Madison Sq. Garden Carried by six prominent pall- bearers, the political body of Morris Sigman will cfficially be buried in| effigy at Madison Square Garden on | Sunday night, Nov. 4. The pall-| bearers will be, in all probability: Matthew Woll, Norman Thomas, Benjamin Schlesinger, Al Smith, William Green and Herbert Hoover. The occasion will be the celebration of the 11th anniversary of the Rus- sian! revolution. As the mournful strains of Chopin’s Funeral March fill the monster meeting hall, a coffin,| the last resting place of the labor faker. This spectacle will be part of the much-heralded “Pageant of the Class Struggle” which is one of the features of the celebration, Irish comrades will hold a wake | over the body and place blessed candles at the head of the coffin as Sigman lies in state. Jewish com- | rades will sit “shiva,” barefooted er.” Workers who have been sold and re-sold- in the late-lamented’s | commercial activities will, your cor- respondent learns, laugh with glee. | From Adolf Wolff, who is staging the pagearit, we learn of the follow- ing stage direction: Before the “body” is carried into Continued on Page Two A vote for the Hammer and Siekle Is a vote for militant rank lee 's right to disperse the line and | P€muced to stop marching. They were ested and taken before Judge |Joelson, charged with disorderly papas and blocking the sidewalk in front ‘of a shop which was not struck. The pickets pointed out that this was untrue since there are workers qutin the Splendid plant anil Judge elson was forced to free the pick- ets in absence of real charges and he admitted that here had beer no violation of the law. _ ‘It’s Time to Do Somethi: The three strikers arrested while distributing to the dye » "ors a Nathan Liss, Harry Farodsky and | Meyer Kirschtaum. They were ‘fined $2 each. «They later described the exger- ness with which the dyers seized Continued on Page Two Many Workers to Frolic At I. L. D. Affair Tynight New York’s workers will frolic tonight at ome of the most unique affairs ever held in this city—the annual Proletarian Autumn Revel of the New York Section of the In- ternational Labor Defense at Web- ster Hall, 119 East 11th St. This is so far as is known the first thor- oughly proletarian dance ever ar- ranged, as the older and shabbier one’s clothes are the more fashion- able they will be. In fact, prizes will be given to those wearing the sorriest-looking outfits, and lively competition is ex- pected. A committee of judges, consisting of Michael Gold, editor of the New Masses; Fred Ellis, car- tconist of the Daily Worker; Hugo Gellert, noted revolutionary artist; Rose Baron, secretary of the I. L. D., and A. B. Magil, of the editorial staff of ‘the Daily Worker, will award the prizes. This committee will also award a booby prize to the best-dressed person. Tickets for the revel are at the office of the I. L. D. ale and file unionism. XOGERT MINOR Candidate for U.S. Senator from New York. COMMUNIST CANDIDATES IN NEW YORK CAM Seize Dye Distributors Dyers Mass Meet at} NY. WORKERS IN HUGE ANTI-WAR MEETING TODAY Thousands to Protest In Big Navy Day Demonstration Rally to Red Slogans Lovestone, Weinstone, Minor to Speak | | Militant workers of New York will gather by the thousands at Union Square at 2 o’clock this aft- ernoon to demonstrate against the imperialist war danger. The dem- onstration will be in observance of N. Day. J. Lovestone, executive secretary cf the Workers (Communist) Party; Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker and Communist candidate for U. S. senate; William W. Wein- stone, organizer of District 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party, and Scott Nearing, Communist candidate for governor of New Jersey, will lead the many prominent Red speak- ers who wil! address the massed workers. | From every part of the city trucks | and automobiles will carry demon- strating workers to the scene of the huge protest meeting, Red/banners and militant placards denouncing | te: warmongers will be held aloft. ' Under such slogans as “Down With Imperialist Wars!” “Down With | Smith, Candidate of DuPont, the Benjamin Gitlow LEHMAN, BANKER, SMITH HENCHMAN GIVES $50,000 TO SIGMAN UNION Schlesinger, ‘Socialist, Sells Cloakmakers | Votes to'Al Smith ‘Scab Union Now Broke Bankers,. Bosses, La- | or Fakers'In Deal That 41. Smith’s. right-hand man, Colonel Herbert H. Leh- man, of Lehman Bros. bankers, and. candidate: for. lieutenant- governor on the Tammany tick- et, had contributed $50,000, half of a $100,000 fund, which the “socialist” leaders of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union were to use in their campaign to fasten com- pany unionism on-the workers in the industry by fighting their attempts to build a real union of their own, was -revealed yester- day. This money has already been éspent. .Implicated in. this deal to crush the workers in their fight for liveable working conditions and at the same time to sell them and to sell their votes to the Tammany machine are: | Benjamin Schlesinger, who is about Communist candidate for Vice-President ofethe United Siu | Munitions King!” and “Down With Hoover, of the Coolidge Imperialist | Dynasty!” the class-conscious work- jers of New York wili demonstraie their organized resistafice to the preparations for a new imperialist war. * “The purpose of Navy Day,” reads a statement of the Workers (Com- |munist) Party, “is not confined to popularizing the navy. Its purpose | is to makc the minds of worl ceptive to ever-increasing *ex; tures to make the navy a stronger |weapon of imperialist power. ‘To jthis danger workers are awake. | Workers will resist all attempts by |the militarists who rule this coun- try to hoodwink them irto killing ‘kers of other imperialist coun- tries so that the bosses may reap fatter profits. The international solidarity of workers throughout Continued on Page Two RIGHT DANGER FOUGHT NUSSR, Meets Approve Cen-| tral Committee (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Oct. 26.— Crowded meetings of active Party members at Moscow, Leningrad, |Kharkov and other centers have approved the Central Committee de- | cisions on the necessity of a fight | |against the right wing danger and against a conciliatory attitude to- wards the right. The Pravda leader, commenting on today’s meetings, emphasizes that the leading motive in all the | speeches and resolutions is to com- bat the right danger. WM. F. DU Communist candida nor of New York E, for Gover- EDWARD Wisi Candidate for 21st As trict, Harlem, embly Dis- For the Class Struggle! Againsi Imperialist War! For the End of Capitalism! PAIGN of New York state, |to become the new president of the discredited remnant of the I. L. G. |W. U., the socialist Jewish Daily Forward, the leaders of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers’ Union, the leaders of the socialist party | machine, and Colonel Lehman, who got the right wing machine half of this fund. $25,000 From Forward, mated. Twenty-five thousand dollars of this fund was contributed by the Forward and an equal amount was pledged and in due time delivered by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union thru its bank. Morris Hillquit and Norman Thomas, one the chief of the so- cialist party, and the other, its can- didate for president in the coming elections, were both at the last con- vention of the right wing Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment. Workers’ Union, held in Boston last May, where Benjamin Schlesinger received Hillquit’s and Thomas’ backing for \the presidency of the union. Schiesinger’s Price. With the union-2 wreck because ‘of the right-wing’s policy of fight- ing the left wing, who were at that time holding a:sconference in the same city to form a new national union, Schlesinger demanded of his backers, Hillquit, and Abe Cahan of the Forward, that he be guaran- teed a fund of $100,000 before he would take the helm in the reac- tionary drive against the workers in the industry, The fund was pro- | vided, even tho the socialist party ‘leaders had to go to Tammany Hall jto get it. | The whole complicated deal of Tammany Hall, the socialist party, and its trade union bureaucrats, was made at a time when the left wing struggle to build a new union was gathering tremendous! headway na- tionally. It was put thru secretly, so that the work of: tightening the chains of exploitation around the garment workérs may be carried thru by the employers and their ma- Continued on Page Seven Amalga- STATEMENT OF CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY. Workers! Comrades! “Ne Only a few days remain before Election Day. Every member of our Party must increase his activi- ties ten-fold. We have to muster a big Communist vote. We have to prove that the Communist Party of America has roots in the masses of the working class. We have to prove that there is a challenge te the masters of American imperialism. We have to prove that there is a political expression of the working class in this country, We have'to prove that there is at least one strong voice of protest against imperialist war. We have to prove that there is a fearless voice raised against the oppression of the Negro masses. We have to prove that there is a political party of the working class conducting an uncompromis- i ing fight of the proletarian class struggle. The last stage of the’election struggle shows the climax of capi- talist demagogy and hypocrisy. President Coolidge, the “president strikebreaker,” declared in Fredericksburg that “under our free in- stitutions and equality of opportunity the distribution of wealth is solving itself in accordance with natural laws.” He is brazen-faced enough to maintain that “the mansion of the United States is not complete but is already the most comfortable habitation which a nation ever enjoyed.” Hoover, the “efficiency expert” of capitalist speed-up, main- tained: “We, in America, are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. . . . Given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from the nation.” Ambassador Houghton, republican candidate for United States senator from New York, makes the following bold-faced statement: “If the process is neither checked nor thwarted, if we can go as far in the next few years as in the past few, we may be sure that we are approaching that goal which Mr. Hoover has pointed out—the elimination of poverty, of unemployment, of under-nourishment, of fear, of cold, of ignorance.” The republican party, the party of the biggest trusts, of the most highly concentrated finance capital, babbles about “the dis- Continued on Page Four J oe Reading the Daily Worker for First TimeD ; If Se Read This: e |] 1. The Daily, Worker is > only National Labor Daily in this country. 2. The Daily Worker fights at all times in the interests of the workers | and against the bosses. cs || 8. “The Daily Worker fights for the organization of alt unorganized workers. 4. The Daily Worker fights against Negro Oppression and Lynching. || 5. The Daily Worker fights for the immediate Recognition and for the | Defense of the First Workers Republic, the Soviet Union. , | 6. The Daily Worker fights against Imperialist War. . || 7 The Daily Worker fights for the Abolition of the Capitalist System | of Society. YW 8. The Daily Worker is the Official Organ of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, the only anti-capitalist party in America. 9. The Daily Worker is your paper, read it, subscribe to it, write f dublst STUAKL POYNa.L <i sabe Candidate for Attorney Generar Spread it amongst your fellow workers. x DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N.Y. °