The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 30, 1928, Page 1

Nw identifying credentials. THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS | For a Workers-Farmers Governm: cut To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour For a Labor Party Week Daily Entered as second-class matter at the Pe Office nt New Vork N.Y. ander the act of March 3, 1879. Pani Vol. V., No. 257 shed daily except Sunday by The Na Publinbing Association, Inc, 26-28 Untfon Sq. New York, N. ¥, nal Dally Worker _NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1928 WORKERS OF Miners Fight ‘SILK STRIKERS MIDDLE WES] HEAR GLOW Communist Candidate | sgainst the wage cut agreement in Whirlwind Tour of Three Cities Draws Big Audiences | Soviet Atiniversary Is Held in Chicago DETROIT, Oct. 29.—Benjamin Gitlow, candidate for vice-president | on the Workers (Communist) Party | ticket spoke at a successful -cam- paign meeting here. He stressed the fact that the Communist Party is the only organization which will or- ganize the unorganized workers in the auto industry. Gitlow further explained the io: gram of the Party in regard to the Negro workers and called upon both white and Negro workers to join in a unified organization in order to fight the capitalist cless. He also called attention to the war dan- ger among the imperialist nations and especially against the Soviet) Union. Twen the Party. Fake Socialism, Gitlow referred to the charge of | Hoover that Smith advocates social- | istic measures as ridiculous. “The | §. P. has abandoned the principles! of Marxian socialism for vote-catch- ing maneuvers and ‘liberalism,’ that re very similar to the tactics of Smith. In fact there have been Am many who at the outset of the cam-|é paign said they would yote for! Smith who are n upporting Thomas, the socialis ster paci- fist who is playing such a disgrace- ful role. And there are many for- mer socialists who favor Smith now The water power program of Smith is in many ways similar to Thomas’ program, and the platform of the! socialist party is one of advocacy of liberal reforms that Wilson, Roose. | velt and Smith have <!] advocated.” | Eee lS rag Miah pba Draws Crowd at Pontiac. A big campaien meeting was held at Pontiac, Michigan, on Saturday. at which Gitlow spoke to about 175! Continued e~ Page Three MINE “FAT BOYS” IN FAKE RALLY Coal Diggers to Hear Real Program | WILKES-BARRE, Oct. 29) “Mitchel Day,” in memory of the | one time head of the hard-coal miners’ union, was celebrated to- day in the anthracite region, Every | mine was shut in commemoration. of the man who started as a militant union leader and died in 1919 as a} millionaire capitalist politician. The celebrations, which should have been utilized to mobilize the miners for the coming struggles, were transformed into democratic rallies. At the Plymouth Armory, Phil Murray and Thomas Kennedy were the main speakers together | with John H. Cesey, the honorary | president of the State Federation of Labor, running for reelection to eon- gress. Big Faker for Hoover. John L, Lewis did not speak at any of these fake commemorations. He is in “sharp disagreement” with Continued on Page Three All Red Guards for Poll Duty Register at District Office All members of the Workers (Communist) Party and sympathi- zers with its platform in the 1928 elections are urged ‘by the District Campaign Committee to act as watchers at ‘he polls on election day, and also to station themselves at points near the polls as official representatives of the Workers. (Communist) Party, according to a) ¢eall issued vy the District Campaign Committee last night. Militant workers who volunteer for service as watchers on election day are urged to register their names and addresses at the District Office of the Party, 26-28 Union Square, before election day, or to report at their section headquarters early in the morning on election day. | Members of sections 2 and 3 are to. report at the headquarters of the section where thsy live. There they will receive instructions as to their duties and privileges as official watchers, as well as badges and |and crushed. Lewis Gang In Wyomin, (Special to the Daily Worker) | ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Oct. 29. Diamondyville, —The meeting at called on the basis of the fight jsigned by the Lewis machine, al- |though banned and threatened by police, wes held in the open air. Miners from ten locals attended and pledged to fight the Lewis ma- chine and to support the new Na- | tional Miners’ Union. An attempt | by the operators to have the N. M. U. organizers arrested failed. They had planned to kidnap the N. M, U. organizers but had to give it up be- |cause of the protection the miners gave to the militants. At a conference and mass meet. ing in Superior, Wyoming, on Sun day Freeman Thompson spoke, and | the foundation was laid for a rea) union. The Megeath local has stopped dues payments to the cor- rupt machine and all miners are de- termined to reject the agreement. 30 INJURED IN SUBWAY FIRE ‘y-tive workers Joine!’ A Teohol Can Explodes | on I. R. T. Train Thirty passengers were injured in an explosion of a five-gallon can of liquid believed to have contained |aleohol which was in transit near 59tth St. on a southbound I. R. T. train. Four were taken to tals. vs, less seriously in- ed, were able to ride home in cabs. 5 The explosion, which was followed by the spread of suffocating sulphur fumes, caused a panic. Over a dozen men and women were trampled Others were injured in attempting to break through win. dows and doors to freedom. Train Stops. The train was stopped by Motor- man Charles Griffin when the shouts and screams.of the passen-. chante. ne followed by the pulling of the emergency signal to stop the train. Guards for a time refused to open the doors and the passen- sers fought with them for an exit. The exact contents of the can could not be ascertained, but it is believed that the substance was an alcoholic mixture which is believed to have exploded from a spark Sent off by the wheels scraping the rails. The owner of the can was not lo- cated late last night. Too Many Accidents. The increasing number. of acci- dents which have occurred on the traction lines of the city emphasize menace which faces the city as a result of the growing impairment of the roads, which the traction trust is doing practically nothing to correct. While this explosion cannot be drectly traced to the negligence of the officials, it nevertheless shows ithe utter lack of precautions taken | by the company against any emer- geney. 2,000 French Textile Workers Join Walkout PARIS, Oct. 26 (Delayed).— Two thousand textile workers on, strike since Wednesdzy at Darne- tal, were joined Friday by 2,000 at Rouen. The strikers demand a wage raise of fifty centimes per hour. Strike sentiment and discontent over similar wage conditions is increasing among the 50,000 tex-. tile workers of the lower Seine district. . Marseilles Seamen Strike. PARIS, Oct. 29.—The strike of orseilles seamen against com- pulsory arbitration continues with the seamen standing solidly for their position. thee § Swiss Communists Win Votes, Socialists Lose (By Wireless to Daily Worker) + BASLE, Switzerland, Oct. 29.—In the elections to the Swiss National Council the early returns show that the Communists are winning votes ever;‘where, while the social demo- erats are losing. ‘Membership Meet of Workers Party Friday A membership meeting of the | Workers (Communist) Party will be held Friday evening, Nov. 2, 6 p. m,, at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Ath St., immediately after work, ac- cording to a call issued by William. W. Weinstone, district organizer, Admission will be by Party mem- bership cards only. _ ‘There are three headquarters for ~ the Bronx,—-one of the most im- Continued on Page Five We demand the prohii of night over-time work for working women, | g N PATERSON URGE MILITANCY Workers of Madison Silk Company Go on Strike ‘Sing “International” Huge Mass Meetings Are Held (Special to the Doily Worker PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 29.— Despite the refusal of the strike committee to accept a more militant |nolicy in conducting and spreading the strike, the course of events dur- ling the last two days has demon- strated the growing sentiment among the workers for a strong and | consistent policy recommended by the left wing. An enthusiastic ruass meeting this morning stressed the need for spreading the strike and building a strong national union. Madison Silk Workers Join. The spreading sentiment of mili- | tancy was further demonstrated this | morning when from 40 to 50 workers jof the Madison Silk Company joined the strike. The mass meeting this morning started with the lusty singing of the “International,” whose message of solidarity found a ready response among the strikers, The chairman jthen announced that 2,000 new | workers had joined the union, “Only Class Justice.” C. Brown, publicity director of the strike committee stressed the need for publicity. He also sharply scored the activity of the police on the picket lines, and declared: “So far the courts have given the strik- er3 an even break, but as soon as the strike becomes more militant then you will have a taste of capitalist justice, which is class justice.” He also announced that the Paterson Silk Strikers Bulletin would make jits appearance on Wednesday and he appealed to the workers to make | its chief feature workers’ corre- spondence. When Lena. Cl 9 arose to speak She was greeted with en ova- Continucd on Page Three CLOAKMAKERS IN BIG MEET TONITE Schlesinger’s Tammany Deals to Be Exposed Schlesinger’s deal with Tammeny | will be exposed tonight. at Coon | Union by leaders of the Joint Board of the Cloak and Dressmakers Union. The chief of the scab union was exposed in the Daily Worker last Saturday in a deal with Tammany thru which he received $50,000 from Colonel Herbert H. Lehman, Tam- |many candidate for Lieutenant Gov- lernor. There are rumors that the bosses were closely connected with Tammany in this deal thru which they tried to help their company union from going to pieces. The lleaders of the cloak and dress Joint Board promise to disclose more facts about this deal. P In addition to the leaders of the |Joint Board, M. J. Olgin and the leandidates on the ticket of the | Workers (Communist) Party will | talk about the connection of the so- {cialist party with Tammany and | will give reasons why every’ worker | should vote the Communist ticket. /200 Miners Attend Red Election Rally at Nakomis, Illinois (Special to the Daily Worker) NAKOMIS, IIL, (By Mail).—Two hundred miners and a number of women cheered the proeram of the Workers (Communist) Party at an enthusiastic meeting held here at | Miners’ Hall. William Matheson, the main speaker, said that the miners have learned from their own experience the part played in their struggles by the republican, democratic and so- cialist parties, The miners espe cially should vote the Communist ticket, he said. Charles Curtis, speaking for the Young Workers (Communist) League, urged the young miners to join the organization which fights with them for their immediate and ultimate demands. Red International Aids Lodz Strikers (By Wireless to Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 29.—The Red In- | ternational of Labor Unions has sent (10,000 roubles strike relief to the Lodz workers still fighting against the treachery of the social demo- erats, who betrayed the general strike. _ Planned Holdup for Which Vanzetti Was Coavicted, Laying Basis for Workers’ Murder | REVEAL DETAILS OF CONFESSION Silva, Gangster, Tells| lof Bridgewater Holdup | “T might add that he stated he is not any more impressed with this| confession than with the confession of Madeiros.” Thus Herman A. MacDonald,’ secretary to Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts, murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti, wrote on Oct. |24 to Francis Rufus Bellamy, editor {of The Outlook, a bourgeois liberal 'magazine, which yesterday published | the confession of Frank Silva. ne ster, and other documents of added proof of what the wor world have long known: the com- plete innocence of Bartolomeo Van- ‘zetti of the Bridgewater holdup of | Dec. 24, 1919, | Sacco was also accused of tak- jing part in this holdup, but his alibi. showing he had been at work that day compelled the Massa- | chusetts inquisitors to be conterit with framing Vanzetti alone and getting Sacco later. Vanzetti was) condemned to 15 years in the Charlestown State Prison after a} trial presided over by Judge Web-| ster Thayer, in which he was be: trayed by his lawyer, John Vahey.' | Vahey later become a law partner of Frederick Katzmann, the district jattorney who prosecuted Vanzetti| and later played one of the l2ading {roles in framing and murdering the| two Italian workers fér the South | Braintree robbery. | Silva, in his confession male un- : oath Aug. 10, 1928, and printed in The Outlook, describes the prep- vater hold- | s to go | Bridgewater to pull the job, I asked the boys, one by one, I s , |I says, ‘how are you fi Continued on Page Thre 'Spargo, Socialist | Renegade, Announces | Support of Hoover | WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Jobn |Spargo, socialist renegade who be- |trayed the working cl: movement jin 1917 and who has since been on| the payroll of various big corpora- | | tions, including, it is said, the power interests, has come out for Herbert Hoover on the power issue. Spargo at the same time expressed his admiration fér Al Smith because he is a “liberal.” While Spargo was always one of the leaders of the right wing in the | socialist movement, his course is be- lieved to be no different than that scheduled for the present socialist leaders, who, like Spargo, have abandoned the class struggle and \the program which distinguishes a | workers’ movement. Defent Wall Street's war In Nica- Crime of Fuller Is Crime of C Three of these four actually took part in the Bridgewater holdup on Dec. 24, 1919. Frank Silva, alias Paul Martini, on the left, was the leader of the gang and made the confession which adds further proof to the innocence of Vanzetti. “Doggy” Bruno, (top center) the man who cdrried the sa off shotgun. tti was accused of being this man, Ta the right of Bruno is Joseph San Marco, another participant in the attempted robbery, and on the is James Mede in whose underworld hangout the holdup was originally planned. Mede himself was in prison at the time it took place. (Photos by courtesy of The Outlook.) FINAL CITY | EDITION apital's! Government Documents Add Further Proof of Vanzetti’s Innocence; Fuller ‘Not Impressed’ ‘Statement of Central Committee, Workers (Communist) Party of America To the Toiling’ Masses of America: Governor Fuller’ of Massachusetts, who sent Sacco Vanzetti to their innocent death, stands once more ex- posed as a deliberate and cold-blooded murderer of the workers, He knew that Vanzetti was mnocent of the Bridgewater robbery for which Vanzeiti convicted. Fuller helped to utilize this conviction to murder Sacco and Vanzetti on the South Braintree case. This was again made clear in new con- fessions made by those who committed the Bridgewater robbery. Fuller, the governor, and Thayer, the judge, have committed a dastardly crime against the American working cl: But this crime, along with many others, they committed in the name of and with the power of the American capitalist government. CRIME OF CAPITALIST CLASS AND GOVERN Fuller’s crime, which has been made even more rev ng by these new confessions, is the crime of the capitalist government of the United States. It is the crime of the capitalist c! the ruling class. The courts and the entire governmental machine of the United States are giving daily evidence of their role as means of p 2 and oppressing the working masses in the inter f th ‘These are class courts, Their ‘justic is a class government—for the capitali: masses—a dictatorship of the capitalist class. GOVERNMENT AGAINST WORKERS. Remember the injunctions and the exploits of the courts, the police and the state troops in the miners’ strike! _. Remember the brutalities.of the goverfiment agémeies in. the Pas- » Saic strike! , Remember what the courts and other government ‘agen: NT. state of Governor Fuller. Nearly 700 workers and their leaders are scheduled for trial in November for their struggle against the wage cut and for daring to organize a militant union. Remember the increased armaments, the’ bigger army, navy and air fleet, the more intensive militarization of the nment, in preparation for a new war to extend the power of the capitalists and imperialists of the United States. Sacco and Vanzetti were murdered in order to strike a blow at the whole working class. WORKERS’ REPLY—BUILD REVOLUTIOD Workers! You can strike back most effec party of proletarian revolution and by support that party, the Workers (Communist) Party in the c Sacco and Vanzetti were murdered in order masses, to kill their militancy against the bos: the millions of unorganized workers from organizing into fighting, working unions. Workers! 5 That can be seen in the brave struggles of the miners, the textile workers and in the growing mood of resistance among the workers in the automobile, meat packing, steel and other industries. FIGHT BOSSES AND THEIR AGENTS, Press forward in your struggle agai st the bosses Build new unions among the unor rship. The murder of Sacco and Vanz and parcel of a general attack upon the work tio: This capitalist attack is becoming .ever class of the United States is intensifying a In this attack upon the worke of the unions and the socialist par es against the workers. The Greens, the Lewises, Hillqui n Thomases have accepted the capitalist system and are attempting to keep the workers back from revolutionary struggle to overthrow the rule of the Fullers, Coolidges, Hoovers and Smiths. To fight the capitalists most effectively you must fight their agents in the labor movement—the reactionary trade union bureau- erats and the socialist party. * FIGHT IMPERIALIST WAR, Workers! To fight against the murder zetti you must fight against the whole in 1 2 the denger of war, against the capitalist dictatorship in States. You must struggle for the complete abolition of the capitalist system, for the destruction of the capitalist d suip, and for the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat—for a workers’ and farmers’ government. 's of Sacco and Van- CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, MEXICO CITY, (By Mail).—The! “UCSAYA” or “Union of Central and South America and the An- tiles,” which is a group of the great- | est respectability, but opposed to the imperielist policy of the United) States, has begun an open campaign in all sections of the continent where | it has branches, against the movie} films from the United States that insult the Indo-Spanish race. The organization understands that in these days the principal means of propagating ideas is the film. It also knows that the North American! ‘:lists whe make n:vacy from! films, continues, despite repeated. = protests of certain Latin-American| BOYCOTT U.S MOVIES Latin Amevicans Hit Insulting Films | MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 29.—Police election ‘Communists Jailed in | Minnesota; Socialist (Special to the Daily Worker) broke up a Communist gov-rnments, to present to the world meeting here Saturday and gave Pat |G Latin-American characters as the Devine, district organizer of the most cnt, the dirtiest, begjarly | Workers (Communist) Party, Mor- and, above all, the most cowardiy ris Powers and Florence Hathaway, | Meeting Undisturbed | GARDEN RALLY 10 HONOR VANZETTI Foster and Gitlow Will | Speak Sunday Saceo and keynote of den mass me Nov. 4 nent made public y m W. Weinstone, o: oN n the mon nting on the s we now made put firmation that S murdered ed no further knew that the murder was a Th jon which to con- idence up hem. \th bor movement; , to through their wage-slashing cam- Continued on Page Two Smith, Pledges Morgan “Fair Share of World” LTIMORE, Md., Oct. 29,.—“Be- s I do in the grea’ ‘other- of man under the fatherhood ‘od, I am satisfied that the people will yays be and willing to assume their share of responsibility for the tration of the world,” said Al Smith here tonight. | The above statement was Smith’s way of assuring American imperial- ism that his further talk about the Monroe Doctrine, as administered by the republicans, was only words to e two champions of the | New Vork. by mail, $8.00 per year ide New York, by mail, $0.00 per yen | | 1 Will here was not a MU “The master class wanted the sembly Di carry | ¥' | iS) Price 3 Cents 1,000 CHEER FOSTER IN PITTSBURGH teel Workers, Miners, Hail Red Candidate Strike Leader Pans Labor Traitors Candidate Also Speaks in Canton, O. (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 2 D Over 1,000 kers from the mines, shops and mills of the Pitts- burgh district of whom struck under ip in the crowded the doors and e leader, Wil- Foster, now the candidate of the Workers (Communist) Party for p dent. When the socialist candidate was here he drew not more than one-fourth the number er had, and Thomas’ audience was distinctly middle ¢ Communist Policy. Summarizing ihe anti-worker pro- gram of Hoover and Smith and the ram of the reformists, Foster PI e Communist policy capitalism but to ot to collaborate with , but to wage a mili- against them, and to d struggle of vota to is be (SHOP BROWN TO SPEAK TONIGHT Le) Harlem Workers Addr on campaign st. Lukes under the Nl be held ton 7 W. 1 ices of the We Tonight’s ted to be well at- ude Bishop Brown, whose d published to be deposed Red cat Congressional D ward Welsh, ist ticket in the 2 District, Harlem, Markoff, i rict, Brownsville Mecting Tomorrow. milar election rally for Negro rs will be held in wnsville morrow night, at the Workers Center; 154 Watkins St, Besides Ri ‘d B, Moore and Edward Welsh, the local Negro candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party, William W. Weinstone, district or- ganizer of the Party, will speak, and also Joe Polchock of the Young Workers (Communist) League, H. C. Williams will be chair: At both meetings, the by the Workers (Communis for full equality for Negro work- ers will be stressed, and protests le against the arrests of Commu- candidates for speaking against |lynching and against Jim Crowism in the election campaign. The Workers (Communist) Party fights for the fmmediate repeal of the immigration laws and for the abolition of all restrictions on inmi- capture votes of unwary liberals, | ¢ration. and that under Smith’s administra- | tion, if he is elected, Tammany and ‘od and Morgan will move together na holy trinity to administer “a air share” of the world. That Latin America lies within | llth Anniversary Issue on Nov. 3 The Eleventh Anniversary of people. a free ride in their wagon. |the boundaries of this “fair share | Not long ago there was exhibited| Five hundred workers had gath- | of the world’ was indicated by | in the United States, in Europe, Asia| ered to hear J. O. Bentall, Commu-| Smith when he said that he wanted and in several Latin-American coun- | nist candidate for governor, while | “forward-looking” foreign policy, tries, a film extremely insulting to|in a hall fifty feet away James|a glittering generality which he con- Mexico. In it appeared a North} Maurer, socialist candidate for vice |cretized by adding: Am-crican who was shown as having) president, spoke to an audience of| Would Renovate Monroe Doctrine. entered Mexico on legitimate busi-|75, who seemed more interested in] “Only then can we hope to re- ness. He passed thru inconceivable | reading the Communist state plat-| gain the confidence of our neigh- adventures; he alone, with the power form than listening to Maurer. \bors in Latin America. Only then of his intelligence and his revolver The American Legion, which had can we hope to restere the Monroe overcoming hundreds and even thou-|tried to bresk up a Communist Doctrine to what it once was, and sands of Mexicans, who invariably| meeting two nights before, also left always ought to be. a muthal guar- Conti on Page Two the socialists alone, ‘entee of peace on this hemisphere.” the Russian Revolution Edition of the Baily SRs Worker will appear on Saturday, Novem- ber 8, Greetings for this edition from Party units, trade unions and fraternal organizations will be received until Thursday, Nov- ember 1, at the Daily Worker, 26- 28 Union Square, New York City. Order a bundle of papers for distribution at $6 a thousand, \