The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1928, Page 2

Page Two HURRAH! THE THE “SOCIALISTS” ARE COMING! DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBEK ZY, 1928 By Jacob Burck HILL@UIE, COLONEL MANUFACTURER, LERMAN Army Officers Arrest Young Workers for Distributing Anti- War Leaflets to Soldiers PAUL GROUGH, 3 OTHERS HELD IN JINGO ATTACK Service Men Welcome Leaflets |< Continued from Page Oye Jones, by Paul Crouch, and de- u it as material likely to ireyent young men from entering che“army,” but did not know that the author was one of the prison- ers, {Will Know Soon Enough.” The League members demanded to knaw the reason for their arrest. “You will know that soon enough,” the officers replied. An order was given to take them to. Governors Island, but the commandant soon ar- | rived. He tried ‘to threaten the Isague members. Crouch demanded: “What’s your legal basis for the arrest?” “You w distributing literature knocking the army on government property.” “Since when do the military’ author own Bat- tery Park Crouch asked. “Don’t get fresh! You get out and stay cut!” Turning to the military po- lice, he said: “You take these, peo- ple out of here. The League me % were re-| leased after being Id about one, hour by the authorities, in spite of ell the threats about the vengeance of the government and the “power | of the army.” | Many soldiers declared their sym- pathy with the work of the League end approved the papers. “These | papers tell the truth,” declared one soldier to a League member who took part in the distribution but was not with the group arrested. A large number of copies of the Young Work with servicemen’s leaflets were distributed and eagerly received by the soldiers. Other League members who took part in the distribution w Morris Mel- man, Bernie Hart and Harry Eisen- man. Appeal to Ser n. The ieaflets. ed by the Work- ers (Comm and the Young Workers (Communist) League, told of the war prepara- tions, how icemen are used) against the workers, and appealed to them to use their training for their own class, to support the Com- munist candidates (even though sol- diers are deprived of the right to vote) and to fight for servicemen’s demands Ueataag by the League. THUGS ATTACK » PRINTERS’ MEET Wicks Is Slugged at| + Union Session Continued from Page One hole and had te sort to gangster tactics to silence the opposition. A group of thugs rushed to the plat. i ed Wicks, inflict- 5 ds with brass khuckles and chair were soon sabdued by irate me ‘After the attack on Wicks, the uniformed police that had been called by the reactionary officials to aid them stifle the will of the mem- bership, dispersed the meeting. F First Thug Outbreak. This is the first outbreak of gang- sterism and police action in the Typographical Union and there is widespread comment among the printers that this policy should have been inaugurated by those calling themselves progressives. The meeting Sunday was sup- | »osed to have been for the purpose | #f electing officers, but the officials | had arbitrarily ruled their opponents | off the ballot. W. D. Medcalf, pres- | eht occupant of the office of presi- | dent and a fake progressive, was op- | posed by. Vincent J. Costello; John Redmond, vice president, was op-| posed by Charles T. Minott; James MeCoy, secretary, was opposed by | John Simons. There was also a de-| mand that the New York member} of the national committee be elected | bythe membership instead of being appointed by the national “progres- Siva” machine. |fashion, the financial difficulties of | |a short time, 'REMEMBER THE DATE eae NEED MORE FUNDS TO)» FIGHT AGAINST JINGOES « co oo HS OUDLAT ISTS” IN DEAL WITH 6.0.P, Election Drive Anti-Terror Emer- gency Fund have not been what the |Calls Workers to Vote Red Ticket commitee expected. Only $100 was | Continued from Page One received, yesterday bringing the to- tal to $1,177, With but nine days and the bosses of New York City and state. This alliance has been shown more before election day, the $10,000 which it is estimated will just about carry the campaign through is not being received at a pace that. will make it possible to reach this sum. The amount of money sent in had been increasing at a rapid rate dur- ing this week, until the drop of yes- terday, and the most encouraging | quring the needle trades struggle, phase of this increase had been the | when the Sigmans and Forward-ites much greater number of Party units | employed gangsters protected by the and sympathetic organizations re- police, and when the police them- selves were used to break: the strike led by the left wing, and to terrorize the workers and establish the Sig- man-Sehlesinger company union. This deal between the right hand man of Smith Colonel Lehman, a big banker, an exploiter of labor, candidate for Lieutenant-General of sponding. Tammany Hall, with the soci Of the contributions received yes- terday, $15 came from 24 workers follows logically from the fact that the socialist party has become a belonging to a San Francisco branch Party of small business men, a of the Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund. A Brooklyn shop nu- cleus (18 Section 6) sent $2, in ad- dition to a previous collection of $21 Party of opportunism and reformist compromisers, a Party less and less distinguishable from the regular capitalist parties: It follows the and $15 collected at their local union. If other nuclei responded in this the campaign would be overcome in AUTOS NEEDED. All workers who have automobiles |that can be spared any day during | footsteps of all the practices of the |the election period, are urged to re-| capitalist parties of making deals port to the district office of the|for temporary political advantage Worfters (Communist) Party, 26-28 | against the interests of the workers. Union Square. | This united front of the socialists, | Tammany Hall and the bosses will not succeed aganist the m: s of ers of the needle trades. The workers know the socialists for what they are—renegades from s0-, m, traitors to the idea of the truggle, miserable compromis- clas ers and pacifists, so well symbolized by their nt for the progressive vote, typified by their phrase-mong- ing standard bearer, the ex-preacher, Norman Thomas. The New Leader of October 27 announces that the Brownsville as-| corrupt socialist party. sembly campaign where Louis P.| tionaries and the socialists are using Goldberg is running is pleased by|the ery as a ieans of keeping the the fact that Congressman Feoria| workers from voting the ticket of LaGuardia will actively support the! the Goldberg candidacy and has spoken) Workers (Communist) Party. with him on the same platform Fri- day, October 26 in Public School 84. LaGuardia republican part Hoover and of Coolidge. The workers of New support maintain the only candidates that the honor of the working class in| Party,” the ¢all states, only | party the workers, and particularly Party of independent working class| the needle trades workers must vote political action, the only Party of | for. this election campaign—the the class struggle. Down with the alliance of the so- cialists with Tammany Hall banker: Down with the company unionism of Sigman, Schlesinger and the so- cialist party. Forward to a powerful militant class conscious workingclass! Vote for and support the Workers (Communist) Party of America! —District Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party, District 2, William W. Wein- stone, district organizer. Get oa Ticket NOW and Avoid the ashe Madison Sq.Garden will be jammed to the roof on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4 FOR THE STUPENDOUS Pageant POLYPHONIC BRASS BAND IN THE CONCERT OF THE AGE OF Class Struggle THE FREIHEIT SINGING SOCIETY MASS PROLETARIAN CHORUS | NEW YORK’S GIANT CELEBRATION of the 11th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution !! BE THERE TO WELCOME WM. Z. FOSTER Red Candidate for President BEN GITLOW Red Candidate for Vice-President The Big Red Rally ot the Campaign |/DOORS OPEN AT 1 P.M. SUN., NOVEMBER 4 Tickets on sale at Workers (Communist) Party, Balcony, 50 Cents. tr s a candidate of the| workers of the injunctions of the of the party of republican and against the workers, York will) ties of Governor Smith’s Tammany en masse the candidates of | police and the prison terms against the Workers (Communist) Party as| the workers. the bosses and the helps to organize the unorganized Rgeshaoriat NEEDLE WORKERS HOSTER, GITLOW W1LL WORKERS PARTY BACK RED TICKET PARADE IN BIG RALLY OPEN AIR MEETS Continued from Page fe One SE ACTER TENE: extended in this case.” The | a parade would be held. The letter| letter was: signed by William W-| Intensive See forta to to the police chief follows: Weinstone. “Dear Sir: When informed by those in opposi-| Wind Up Campaign “On Saturday afternoon Novem- tion to know that the police depart- ber 3rd, William Z. Foster and Ben-|ment rarely grants permits to jamin Gitlow, candidates for presi-| Workingclass parades, members of | Rutgers Square—Hendin, dent and vice-president on the) |the arrangements committee in| Gussakoff, Blum, Shapochnik. Workers (Communist) Party ticket/Charge of the Garden meeting aa, First Ave. and 49th St—Kagan, will arrive at the Grand Central|¢lared that the parade will be held 7, Ross, Frank. Station at 3:20 p. m. to wind up/ Under all circumstances. | eae eighth St, and Lexington tele nA Heoa ean sea at} Bene ve ea EL eg Ave.—Baum, M. Pasternak, Suskin. a political rally at Madison Square) zations have’ declare ir willing- i Garden the following night. |ness to participate in the Saturday) Grand, St. ean ee “As many thousands of New York! afternoon parade. These bodies will PL 2 sa Uecats hine ag Lah workers will be anxious to meet| meet at their local headquarters and |S¢Ph Cohen. their candidates at the station and| will march in a body to greet the) “Stanley Paterson (Noon)—Sher- escort them to the headquarters of| Communist candidates at Grand | jae, Milgrom. District 2 of the Workers (Commu-| Central ee . wae Tomorrow. nist) Party, 26 Union Square, we | Harry Williams, of the Wor! ers | herewith ask for a permit for a/ (Communist) Party Negro Election | Sutter and Williams, Brooklyn— parade back from 43 Street. and| Committee, in charge of the cam-|Liptzin, Julius Cohen, Macklin, Pri- Lexington Avenue to 15th Street and! paign in Harlem will head the dele-|™0ff, Magliacano, A. Mershon Union Square, the exact route to be! gation of Negro workers to greet} Prospect and 168rd St.—Stacnel, determined later. | Foster and Gitlow who carried in|Grecht, Spiro, Taft, Lillienstein. Unions to Participate. | the face of terrorism the slogans of| Fifth Ave. and 125th St.—Mar- “In view of the fact that similar | “Against Race Discrimination,”|koff, Harry Blake, Gil Green, V. requests have been granted to both|“No Jim-Crowism,” “Against Ex-| Smith. the democratic and republican par-| ploitation of the Negro Workers”) Eagle Pencil Co. (Noon)—Bal- ties here, we look to the same rights| into the reactionary South. lam, Y. W. L. Speaker. Call Ratification Meet for Tuesday Night Continued from Page One The reac- Today. Taft, only working class party, the The Joint Board reminds the cloak and dressmakers and all needle democratic judges of the brutali- “The Workers (Communist) “is the only It is the only working class! It is the party that fights traitors and | party. and build miltant rank and file 26-28 Union Square; Arena $1.00, | WORKERS [Communist] PARTY = ELECTION DRIVE = Anti-Terror Emergency Fund Have You Done Your Duty In the Communist Election Campaign? 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