The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1928, Page 1

eo THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor ‘Party FINAL CITY EDITION Worke ander the nev ot March 3 1 Daily Entered as secon __NEW YORK, WEDN cline matter at the nt Daily Worker Sq., New York, N. ¥. except 81 Publisbing Assectation, t RIGHT WING LEADS POLICE PARADE To eREET IN BRUTAL UNION ATTACK FOSTER, GITLow 00 per year per yeur. RULE RED TICKET OFF Val. V., No. 258 ‘Kentucky Mine WYOMING MINERS 4,000 Leather Strike Is Led Workers Walk By New Union REPUDIATE LEWIS Out in Boston Cards”. found: on- the Socialists Call Out Police Sluggers After Own) Gangsters Are Repulsed | Invading a meeting of the Retail Grocery Fruit and Dairy | Clerks’ Union at 220 E. 14th St., with drawn guns and black! jacks, a squad of detectives, policemen and gangsters, led by} the right wing socialist officials of the United Hebrew Trades, | ; last night launched a murder-¢——————— ous attack upon the member- ship after the right wing crew with its thugs had been re- pulsed by the militant clerks in their first attempt®to break up the work- ers’ meeting. Over a score of the union mem- bers, including practically every leader was severely beaten up, some of them so seriously that they were taken to the hospital, Each of the leaders and the most militant of the members, as he was pointed out by A, Heller, the head of the right wing scab outfit, was immediately pounced upon by the cops and detec- tives and mercilessly slugged. The meeting was called in cele- bration of the city-wide victory won by the grocery clerks in the just concluded general strike. One of the incidental results of the victory was the complete discrediting of the right wing strikebreakers. Last night in a final gesture, Heller led a number of thugs into the mem- bership meeting for the purpose of breaking it up. The right wing gang had evident- ly forgotten the militancy of the grocery clerks. The right wing gang was immediately repulsed by the membership. Following this, the right wingers called for the po- lice and the murderous attack fol-) lowed. | About eighty o¥ the union mem- bers were taken to the 5th St. police} station where the cops headed by Lieutenant Raely, again beat up| some of the workers. The cops tore off Communist campaign buttons, and destroyed “Vote Communist members? They are being held without} charges. “300 HEAR BISHOP. SROWN IN HARLEM Declares Church Tool of Capitalism “Soviet Russia is the rock upon which imperialism will wreck it- i | | the Daily Worker and Communist PHILA, POLITICIAN HAS SACCO FACTS True Criminals Known to Ex-Gunmen The true facts of the South Brain- | tree robbery and killing of April 15, |1920, for which Nicola Sacco and |Bartolomeo Vanzetti were framed and murdered, are now in the pos- session of a Philadelphia politician who was formerly a gunman. This is the intimation of Jack ; Callahan, Boston newspaper man, in jan article in the current issue of |“The Outlook,” bourgeois liberal magazine, which publishes import- ant documents adding further proof of the innocence of Vanzetti of the Bridgewater hold-up of Dec. 24, 1919. It was Callahan who con- ducted the investigation for “The Outlook” in an effort to find the true criminals responsible for the Bridgewater and South Braintree af- fairs. Withholds Politician’s Name. Callahan withholds the name of this Philadelphia politician. He records the following conversation with the man: ““Those New England dicks cer- tainly gave those two poor wops the Continued on Page Five MINOR EXPOSES 3 BOSS PARTIES S. P. at Symposium “The three speakers who preceded me represent three branches of the same party, worshiping the same god, American ‘democracy.’ ” Thus did Robert Minor, editor of candidate for U. S. senator from New York, characterize the repre- sentatives of the republican, demo- ON ARRIVAL HERE Invade Grocery Clerks Meeting With Drawn Guns and Blackjacks; Beat Up Members ‘Permit for Red March) Foreed by Growing Strength of Party Weinstone Issues Call) Expect Overflow Crowd | at Garden Sunday Under the pressure of the grow- ing power of the Workers (Commu- |} nist) Party, Joseph A. Warren, com-| missioner of police of the city of| New York, yesterday notified Wm. W. Weinstone, District 2 organizer, that his demand for a permit to par- ade at the greeting of Foster and Gitlow at Grand Central Station on Saturday, 3:30 p. m., had been granted. The parade will be a show of pow- er of the working class of New York and is a prelude to the monster mass meeting in celebration of the llth anniversary of the Russian revolution which will be held the following afternoon, Sunday, at Madison Square Garden. First Parade in Years. This is the first time since the World War, according to Weinstone, | that the working class will demon- strateyits power in a street parade, | Hitherto, said Weinstone, all ef-| forts to parade have been ruthless- ly clubbed down, This sudden re- | versal of policy is seen as an offi-der the auspices of the Workers! cial acknowledgment of the evident and growing strength of the Work- ers Party throughout the country. In his letter to Warren, dated Oct. 28, Weinstone wrote: “As many thousands of New York workers will be anxious to meet their candidates at the station and escort them to the headquarters -of District 2 of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, 26 Union Square, we herewith ask for a formal permit to parade from 43rd St. and Lexing- ton Ave.,.to 15th St. and Union Square, the exact route to be deter- mined later.” - Warren Answers. 6 Yesterday in reply to this demand, Continued on WEST SIDE RED RALLY TONIGHT Communist Speakers to Address Workers "The lower West Side will have a huge Communist Election Campaign Rally tonight, for the first time, when a squad of. over 25 speakers of |members of Local Page Two ; (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa. (By Mail).— Three hundred miners, employed at the Morgan Mine of, the Pacific Coal Company, with operatio in Mercer, Kentucky, are striking against the discharge of the check- weighman and the demand of the company that the miners shall only trade in the “pluck-me” company store maintained by the coal com- pany. The men, all organized and 701 of the Na- tional Miners Union, declared a strike Oct. 22 after their committee had been refused its demands. The demands of the miners are weighman and for the right of the men to trade in whatever store they please. These demands were re- Continued on Page Four WOMEN TORALLY HERE TOMORROW Speakers Will Present Workers Platform The fight of women workers for the Red program of class struggle will be crystallized at the mass meet- ing for women workers to be held Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, un- (Communist) Party. The anti-labor role played by the republican, democratic and socialist parties will be stressed by the speakers. The “liberalism” of Gov- ernor Smith, who advocates more} “equality” for women, but makes no| mention of specific social and labor legislation for the woman worker will be exposed, and the arrests and in New York under Smith’s adminis- tration will be cited. | “The hypocrisy of the democratic | the speakers,” a statement of the, Workers (Communist) Party said, continuing with: offer any hope to the woman work- er,” the statement continues. “In republican Massachusetts women are doubly exploited in the textile mills and in the leather goods factories. The same with the women silk work- ers of republican Pennsylvania.” The statement points out that at) election times only do the republican, | democratic and socialist parties angle for support from women voters | by singing their praises, but that woman workers, aware of their posi-| tion in the class struggle, must or-| wanize to fight their bosses polit- ically as well as in the shops. for the reinstatement of the check- | tomorrow, 8 p. m. at Irving Plaza) party’s platform will be exposed by, WAGE CUT PACT Vote Down Agreement Despite Efforts of Machine New Mine Union Active Miner Leader Killed in Rock Fall By R, SHOHAN. (Special to the Daily Worke ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. Wyoming coal diggers ov ingly rejected the new wage rwhelm- cut agreement signed for them by the Lewis machine. Despite the inti- |midation and vote-stealing methods \@mployed by the operat and |Lewis henchmen, the mi voted |down the cut with 20 out of 25 lo- cals balloting. Suspect Machine. That the Lewis machine and the joperators will make further at- tempts to nullify the will of the} | miners appears certain, according to |those who know the lengths to | which the labor traitprs will go. With only the northern field not voting, the coal diggers, even on the basis of the announced vote,| have shown how bitterly they are opposed to the wage cut. The total reported, with 2,000 to 1,500 against the cut, is only a small indication of the real sentiment. | The Reliance local voted 130 to 60 |against; Blairtown, 130 to 50; Su- |perior 400 to 100; Winton 214 to 13; Elko 24 to 1; Frontier 100 to 37. Other locals voted similarly. Bosses Intimidate Miners. Officials of the Union Pacific Coal Company rode about in com- pany automobiles hauling miners clubbings of women on picket lines| out to the polling places and forcing | them to vote for the wage cut. The new National Miners’ Union organize this district under the ban- ner of the new union, .. Emil Shean, one of the most | “Neither does the republican party militant leaders of the district, was | yesterday killed in a rock fall. RAIL WORKERS’ DEMANDS DENIED Mediators Recommend Terms of Bosses (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Con- (Special to the Daily Worker) OKLAHOMA BALLOT - BOSTON, Mass, Oct. 30 thousand workers of the Courts, Election Board bridge Leather tory walked eut on strike yesterday when their S eae demands for better working con- Party ditions were rejected by the com- pany. At an enthusiastic mass meet- ing this morning the str‘ cepted the program of the wing and r of the federal organizer. GUTHRIE, Okla., Oct. nied the Communist candidates lot in that state, taking th officials and supreme court of c- left d the leadership A strike 4 with inuiro, Lame and committee was organ: Ammahien, Ira as the leaders. Workers ‘Expected to Overflow Hall | ie BOSTON, Oct. 30,—Benjamin 7 . j Gitlow, candidate for vice-president |Case Against Or ganizer on the Workers (Communist) Party Topples ticket, will address what is expected |to be one of the biggest Red Elec- After being out three hours the | tion Campaign meetings ever held jury in the frame-up case against |in this city when he speaks at the George E. Powe, organizer for the | Franklin Union Hall, Berkeley and Architectural, Iron, Bronze and | Appleton Sts., at 7:30 p. m. Wed- Structural Workers Union, was yes-|nesday evening. All the apparatus terday forced to render a verdict of | of the Workers (Communist) Party “not guilty” on an obviously trumped | of Boston has been put into action up charge of felonious assault. for this meeting, and the class-con- The two-day trial, which. ended | scious workers of Boston are ex- yesterday, followed an indictment | pected to crowd the hall to capa- |brought against Powers last spring | city. | based upon a malicious and false; [py the afternoon of the same day Max Tanenbaum, |Gitlow wijl speak before the Lib- IN FRAME-UP | identification by Begins State-Wide Every Worker to Write in Candidates’ Names BOSTON WORKERS |a foreman in the Garman Iron an |Bronze Works, 53 Davis St., Long |Island. Tanenbaum tried to make |it appear that Powers had led an attack on him during a strike at the | seab plant. | Obvious Frame-Up. Evidence that the case was a frame-up was so clear that even the men, were forced to find him “not guilty.” The case was tried before Justice Francis Mancuso. Though the Garman shop — had been a union shop for more than twelve years prior to the strike, which was brought about by the attempt of the firm to break down the union conditions and run on an open-shop basis, a Tammany judge, Justice Burt Jay Humphries of the supreme court of the State of New| York, issued ‘a permanent injunc- | tion last spring forbidding picketing at the Garman shop and appointing a referee to assess damages upon |the union. | The Powers frame-up was a con- |tinuation of the attempt of bosses |to injure the union. When the case first came up, on April 26, in the eral Club of Harvard University in |Cambridge. This meeting will be- |gin at 2:30 p. m. Continuing his tour from Boston tomorrow evening, Gitlow will travel |to New Bedford, where the workers who participated in the huge tex- tile strike are preparing for an overflow meeting on Thursday eve- is vigorously continuing its drive to Jury, consisting of hostile business | ning. Throughout New Bedford, re- |ports state, the workers are an- |xiously awaiting the arrival of the ‘candidate of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, which-militantly led the |textile workers throughout the months of their struggle. The New Bedford meeting will be held at the Montepio Hall, 52 Wing St. On Friday Gitlow will speak in Wooster, Mass., where he will ap- pear at the Belmont Hall, and Sat- urday to Providence, R. I. where the A. C, A. Hall has been procured for the campaign meeting. The workers throughout Massa- chusetts have for a long time been awaiting the Communist candidate, whose Party has been the leader in all of the working class struggles in the reactionary open-shop state in which the ruling class murdered and Reactionaries in a Conspiracy to Eliminate the Communists Drive to Inform he Oklahoma courts have de- ight to appe the th r on the bal- tactics of tt 1e Communist can- 1 orf the tick- > dide et of the f; -labor party of Oklahoma several months ago. It had been made impossible for the ticket of the Workers (Communist) Party to appe in that state. The conspiracy to ate them had been going on since that time. fhe reactio ies got 100 signa- tures to a petiti Commu protesting against he farm- cretary of Board rejected 2 ures of the Communist pe- titions, demanding that 1,000 new signatures be submitted from at least 10 d nt counties to over- rule the protest. This despite the fact that many of the 100 signa- tures on the protest petition were not those of members of the farmer- labor party, as required by law. The reason given by the signers of the protest petit was that the Communist frivolous and not made in good faith.” The Okla- homa News reported that the con- test was based upon the fact that a hyphen had been omitted between the words farmer-labor. The.Party had put up sufficient bond money ($250 for one elector), but the ele n board refused to accept it, alleging that it was too late. If the money had been ac- cepted, it would have been forfeited unless the candidates received 10 per cent of the vote of the farmer- labor party in the primaries. By such devious devices does capitalist democracy seek to make impossible the campaign of a working class political party. The law requires that each of the 10 electors in Ok- lahoma receive 5,000 signatures, a requirement that is obviously aimed at small working class parties, many of whose followers are not citizens. Hugo Oehler, district czganizer of the Workers (Communist) Party, who has made many tours of the | state to get the Party on the ballot, jis now organizing a campaign to reach every worker with directions to write the names of the Commu- nist candidates in on the ballot when the voters go to the polls. ‘FOSTER ON AIR cratic and socialist parties at a po- |firming predictions which have been | Magistrate’s Court, the scab, Tanen- self!” Sacco and Vanzetti. They are an- } [ became a Communist. With these words, Bishop William Montgomery Brown struck the key- note of his speech delivered before more than 500 workers, the majority of them Negroes, who filled St. Luke’s Hall, 127 W. 130th St., in Harlem last night. Other speakers were Edward Welsh and Richard B. Moore, both Negro Commuhist can- didates. Otto Huiswood was chair- man. Bishop Brown .told the workers that his attitude toward the Ne- groes has completely changed since Many years ago he had written a book con- demning ‘inter-marriage, but now, he said, “I am opposed to all re- strictions and ~ discriminations against the Negro race, and I am in entire agreement with the Work- Continued on Page Two Boro Park Workers Will Hear Nearing at Nov. 8th Rally Scott Nearing, Communist candi- date for governor of New Jersey,| will speak at a meeting at the Boro! Park Workers Club on ‘Thursday. | Nov. 8. Part of the proceeds will) be donated to the Daily Worker. | Due to an error, the meeting was announced in yesterday’s Daily Worker as being held this Thurs- day. Boro Park workers are urged! gf? note the correct date. | Membership Meet of | Workers Party Friday A call issued by William W. Wein- stone urges all members of District 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party to attend a membership meet- ing Friday evening, Nov. 2, at. the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., immediately after work. A Only those who bring their Party membership cards with them will be admitted. : | POOR WEATHER STOPS FLIGHT. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., Oct. 80° (UP). — Poor weather today caused postponement of plans for a 4Club, 18 E. 10th St., last night. |Great Fall: litical symposium held at the Civic Three Servants of Capitalism. In a speech lasting about a half hour Minor traced the histories of the republican and democratic par- ties and showed that they have both become the servants of the finance- capitalist oligarchy that controls the country. He also pointed out that the socialist party was equally the servant of the American capitalist class. “Hoover is the prophet of capitalism openly,” Minor said; “Smith is its servant in disguise and Thomas wishes to serve it in still another disguise. . All Three Imperialists. “The democracy of America is democracy for the capitalist class. There is only one real democracy in the world today, the widest demo- cracy in human history, and that is the proletarian democracy of. the, Continued on Page Two LABOR ANSWERS CALL FOR FUNDS $951 Received; Day’s Quota Almost Raised | The response to the urgent ‘re-| quest of the National Election Cam- paign’ Committee for the $1,000 needed yesterday was splendid, it is announced. Nine hundred and fifty-one dollars was received, al- most reaching the quota set for the day. The response from City Cen- tral Committees was particularly encouraging. This was expected, since special telegrams had been sent to every City Central Commit- tee, urging them to rush at once, by wire, every. dollar they could pos- sibly collect. Seattle, sent in $200; Toledo, $50; Portland, Ore., $25; Mont., $20; Erie, Pa., $15; Akron, O., $10 and Milwaukee, $7. Wilmington sent in $27 more, bringing their contributions during the Workers Party State Election Campaign Committee, including many candidates on the Communist | SUPPRESS CZECH made in well-informed circles, the| baum, was represented by Propper, emergency board appointed by Presi-|® lawyer of the Allied Building |dent Coolidge to investigate the wage) Metal Industries, a notorious open- xious to hear the platform of the class struggle which the Workers (Communist) Party represents. Be- Continued c~ Page Three start of a flight to Rome by the . Rally: aseane the platt of the clans stragglel \aeerwint = ticket, will be sent to cover eight! open air meetings that are being, arranged in this section. This ter-| ritory, which has been relatively un- touched by the militant working class movement, contains thousands of American, Irish, Negro, Italian and Greek workers, who are engaged | in various important industries, es- pecially those connected with the! waterfront. | This Red Night Election Cam- RED NEWSPAPER “Rude Pravo” Banned During Election (Wireless to the Daily Worker) Pravo,” principal organ of the paign Rally will mean that thou-| |dispute on western railroads today | handed down its decision denying |the demands of the trainmen and | conductors who have already taken a strike vote. | The decision recommends ar al- | ternative, straight 6% % increase, or |a 744% increase with certain speed- |up changes in rules as against de- PRAGUE, Oct. 30.—The “Rude mands for increases varying from) 15% to 27% made by the workers Communist Party of Czecho-Slo- and for which a strike vote has al-| sands of workers for the first time | Vakia, was today suppressed by gov- ready been taken. The same offer were returned by a special grand will hear the message of the class |¢rnmment decree on the pretext that has at one time or another been made| 0 struggle and what the Workers the suppression was necessary “for|by the railroads themselves and in (Communist) Party stands for in| the protection of the republic.” The the present recommendation by the} registrations in New York City. the present election campaign. All| Teal reason is that the government special emergency board is seen a speakers will report to 101 W. 27th| Wishes to hinder the Communist confirmation of the charge that the| 101 indictments in this same connec- | St. at 7:30 p. m., headquarters of | Sections 2 and 3 of the New York District of the Workers Party, and| then will be assigned to various |corners along 7th and 8th Aves., ex-| Continued on Page Two Party election campaign. TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS FoR THE CAPITALIST ELECTION ©. PAIGN! WHAT ARE You po TO HELP THE $100,000 COMMUNIST | CAMPAIGN FUND? ; - the Workers (Communist) Continued on Page Three Needle Worker! v funds for the election campnizn of Party. |shop association. Propper had se-| cured two previous injunctions | against the union, the Grossman and | |the North American. | Powers is the Communist candi- | date for president of the Borough | |of Queens. Return 35 New Poll | TRY WORKERS FOR TREASON Fraud Indictments | Thirty-five additional indictments jury today in connection with the Austrian Communists lleged irregular | : Ww fork City, ~~ Face Persecution (By Wireless to Daily Worker) \tion and these were handed to Judge) VIENNA, Oct. 80. — Ludwig | Koenig today. | Schmidt, member of the Central Bench warrants have been issued Committee of the Austrian Commu- for all of those named in the indict-| nist Party and Secretary of the cause of this fact the attendance at the Gitlow meetings scheduled for this state are expected to break all previous records. | | | investigation int! Yesterday the grand jury returned | | ments, but thus far their names have| Austrian Workers Defense Corps, not been made public. SWELL THE By JAY LOVESTONE. Within five days there will come to a close one of the biggest and best campaigns our Party has waged—the presidential election drive. Five million pieces of literature have been distributed, | three hundred thousand special issues of the Daily Worker have been | put in the hands of working men of meetings have ‘been held throughout the country. terror has been defied. At a time when American democracy is on dress parade—election time—our meetings have been broken up, our speakers jailed, halls denied us, the radio closed to us, the press shut to us, our own paper, the Daily Worker, struggling against terrific odds, denied access to the mails; the church, the Klan, the Legion, the patriotic Daughters, the reactionary trade union bureaucrats, the | treacherous socialist party, the entire coterie of the blackest forces ‘of ‘capitalist. reaction—have been all mobilized against us. have gone forward despite the reactionary attack. “+ Hoover and Smith are vying with each other as to who is a more loyal lackey of the biggest business Borah “progressive” forces are a sorry spectacle of bankruptcy, hav- ing gone over boot and baggage to cialist party has completely turned its back on the workers. and : merated into an out-and-out party of the apostles of capitalist justice, law and order and fake democracy. de In’ the a of this, our Party Over Hundreds Government and working women. But we - interests, The La Follette-Norris- the camp of big capital. The so- and the hundreds of thousands of ‘Build a Powerful Mass Communist Party in the United States of America workers supporting it, have done for Foster, whose address the Me splendid work. Pittsburgh's rally lion and steel trust forces tried to prevent, will long be a source of inspiration to the oppressed and exploited in this workshop of the world. Chicago's rousing welcome for Gitlow is most encouraging proof of the growing response of the workers to Communism. The anti-war demonstrations of New York and Cleveland; the energetic election campaign in Detroit; the fight in Arizona; the breaking into the solid South; the heroic work of our comrades in New Bedford; are a real tribute to the vitality and growing strength and influence of our Party in the basic ranks of the American working class, But we need an even greater effort to wind up our election cam- paign in a most fitting manner, translated into five months of re; The remaining five days must be gular activity. For this we need more work and still more money—much more money! We are not asking much. We know about the fake prosperity for the great mass of workers who alone can or will support us, and from whom alone we now ask h that $10,000 be raised to effect a elp. We ask for little. We ask wind-up for the election campaign that will be the crowning climax to all the good work that has been done so far. The republicans openly admit lion dollars so far. campaign funds of over four mil- The democrats boast of over three million dollars to date. The socialist party has many liberal and churchmen “angels,” Cosa: on Page Five was arrested today for high treason, although an amnesty decree coming | into effect in a few days covers his WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN FUND offense, In today’s hearing on t of Erwin Zucker, responsible of the Vienna “Rote Fahne” peal Com- J munist paper, against charges of + | high treason, the case was re‘erred to the provincial government, the charges to be continued against the editor. Vote tor Gitlow for the Workers The Eleventh: Anniversary of the Russian Revolution Edition of the Daily 32; Worker will appear on Saturday, Novem- ber 3, 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. TONIGHT AT 10 Will Use WGBI After Scranton Rally (Special to the Daily Worker) SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 30.—After | his campaign rally to be held in this city tomorrow, William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for president, will deliver a talk over the radio, employing the same medium John L. Lewis used a short while ago when talking to the miners in favor of the republican ticket. This is the first time the Communist Party has received permission to use the radio in the anthracite region. He will speak over Station WGBI, wave length .6 meters, at 10 p.m. Th y, which will be held at Labor Temple, will be preceded by a pa : which will start at 6.30 from Lack anna depot. Weinstone and Moore at Negro Meeting in Brownsville Tonight n W. Wein », district or- er of the W (Commu- nist) Party, and Rie! 1 B. Moore, t candidate in the nal district will be at a huge elec- Negro workers of be held tonight at Negro Comm 2ist cong: among th tion rally for to kers will Red be Edward ndidate for as- mbly in the ct, Harlem, id Joe Polchick the Young s (Communist) League. The keynote of full equality for Negra workers will be struck by the speakers tonight, and at the same time they will expose the hypocrisy of the stand taken with regard to Negroes by the other political parte ties. t WwW 3 DEAD IN FIRE, LOGAN, 0., Oct. 30 (UP).—Three. children were burned to death when fire destroyed their fathers home |Mound Crossing near here late to- i day,