The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 1, 1928, Page 1

! . } | , recently occurred. It is announced that French capi-} { Membership Meet of “Working Women Will Demonstrate Their Sup | THE DAILY WORKER. FIGHT | | For a Workers-Farmers Government | | To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week | For a Labor Party | | Entered an second-ciaas mat 1 the Post Office at New York NY. under thi orke 1 of March 3. 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. ¥., No. 259 Published datly except Sunday by The National Dally Worker xbing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. 4 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1928 “per y mail. $5.00 per year Pri THOUSANDS WILL PARADE WITH RED CANDIDATES HERE Foster, Gitlow. Will Be) Met at the Grand Central Station 3 Bands Will March MadisonSquareGarden Rally Sunday To the tune of three crashing brass bands several thousand New York workers will march down Fifth Ave. from the Grand Central Station following the demonstration of greeting which will be ac€orded to William Z. Foster and Benjamin Git- low at the station on Saturday at 3:30 p. m. The tumultuous’ mass welcome and the, Red parade will be the trib- ute to the Communist standard- bearers preparatory to their appear- ance at Madison Square Garden the| following day, Sunday, where they will wind up their national election campaign. The Garden meeting will be in celebration of the 11th anni- versary of the Russian Revolution. Following th ance of a parade permit, under pressure of the grow- ing strength of the Workers Party in New York, Communist headquar- ters at 26 Union Square was a J scene of intense activity. | Calls have been issued to all work- and workers’ organizations to | make this parade the most spec-| tacular street event in the eee | Yew York labor movement. the first parade sihce the World War, It shows the growing power of our Party. We must dem- onstrate the strength of the workers Cortinued on Page Two BRITAIN UNITES ANTLUSSR BLOB, In Pact With Japan, Afthanistan, Poland | India, Oct. 31.—The | Soviet bloc, sponsored | by the British and French govern- ments, has actually been concluded and connected by a series of trea-| tiés with the military bloc along| the western frontier of the Soviet | Union, according to official reports received from Afghanistan today. The Afghan dispatches state that Sardar Mahmud Bek Khan Tarzi,} Afghan foreign minister, has just signed tr with ¢ ¢ Britain, Japan, Persia, Turkey, Egypt; Fin- land an® Poland. | The contents of the treaties are not revealed, but it is highly prob-| able that-they constitute a military | understanding, directed against the _ Soviet Union in the east, and con-| solidate Britain’s reactionary policy | towards the native masses of the| respective countries. It is understood that negotiations | are now going on between Afghan-} istan and the Nanking. regime to| conclude a similar pact. At the same time a joint commission of | British and Afghan officials has! been appointed to settle all differ-| ences along the Afghan-Indian bor- | der, where peasant uprisings have | talists will build railroad lines in Afghanistan, both in the \north and} south, which sin the time of war would serve as a means of mobiliz- ing troops along the border of the Soviet Union. In addition, foreign capital, be- lieved to be British, will train a na- tive air department, while airdromes are now in the process of construc- tion and airplanes have already . been bought. The ministry of fi- nance will engage a foreign ad- viser, also believed to be either Bri- tish or French, to organize its fi- nances and currency. The $22,500,000 received by King Amanullah from the powers during his European trip played no little role in winning the native monarch over to the designs of the British Continued on Page Three District 2 Tomorrow A call issued by William W. Weinstone urges all members of District 2 of the Workers (Com- munist) Party to attend a mem- bership + meeting tomorrow eve- ning at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., immediately, after work, Only those who bring their Party membership cards with |in New York. | Nearing, Red candidate for governor » While Joseph Farrugio, 54-year-old Italian worker of Neptune, N. J., sits in jail awaiting trial on a charge of manslaughter, his family of 11 has been left to starve. Farrugio shot Harold. Johnson, the pampered son of a wealthy Asbury Park family who after seducing his daughter, jeered at the father’s grief. Photo above shows Mrs. Farrugio with eight of her ten children. WORKING WOMEN IN HUGE RALLY TONIGHT FOSTER TOURS CONNECTICUT Follow With Newark Meeting Sunday HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 31— William Z. Foster, candidate for| president on the Workers (Commu- nist) Party ticket, will speak in Hartford, on Friday at 8 p. m. in| ity Hall, 64 Pratt St. On Sat-| Hall, New Haven, Conn. | A rousing reception will be given} Foster by the Communist workers and sympathizers in both ef these cities when he arrives, Signs and plagards with appropriate slogans -in-.-preperation,... All “the. -pr tarian automobiles will be mobilized to meet Foster at the station, from where a parade will take place to the headquarters of the Party. * 117 Court St., ae In Newark Sunday. NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 31—Wil- liam Z. Foster will speak at a Red election rally .and celebration of the 11th anniversary gf the Bolshevik Revolution at the Ukrainian Labor Hall, 57 Beacon Street, Newark, N. » at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Foster is scheduled to speak at} the Newark rally before he appears | at the huge ‘Madison Square rally} Other speakers will be Scott} of New Jersey, and Albert Weisbord, Communist candidate for U. S. sen- ate from New Jersey. A splendid} musical program has been arranged, | with revolutionary songs and work- ing class compositions played. GITLOW IN NEW BEDFORD TODAY Will Address Textile Workers NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 31, —Benjamin Gitlow, candidate for vice president on the Workers (Com- munist) Party ticket, will speak be- fore the militant textile workers of this city Thursday evening in what is expected to be one of the big- gest election campaign rallies of his tour. The New Bedford workers, conscious of the militant and un- flinching leadership of the Workers (Communist) Party during the tex-| tile strike, are expected to rally in unprecedented numbers to hear the Communist vice presidential candi- date. F The Montepio Hall, at 52 Wing St., has been procured by the’ work- ers of New Bedford for the meet- ing. Following the New Bedford meet- ing, Gitlow will go to Worcester, Mass., where he will speak at the Belmont Hall on Friday évening be- fore the workers of that city. The A. C, A. Hall has been ob- tained by the workers of Providence, R. IL, for his campaign meeting in that city, which will be held on Sat- urday. ‘ | Membership Meeting of Section 1 Today An important special membership meeting of Section 1 will be held at 60 St. Marks Place, at 6:30 p. m. today. All members of the section them will be admitted. must attend without fail. at 8 p. m. he will speak in}. Tonight at 8 o’clock at the Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Pl. and 15th Si woman workers and working c hou: ass ives and mothers will dem- onstrate their support of the class struggle platform of the Workers (Communist) Party. The rally, to be held under the auspices of the Workers (Commu- |nist) Party, District 2, will be the first huge election meeting called for woman workers in any Commu- nist campaign. Woman workers of New York, em- |ployed in ever-increasing numbers in the many large bakeries, candy factories, needle shops, radio factor- ies, automobile factories and count- less other industries, working under | worse conditions and for less wages than even, the exploited men work- ETS, 071 uupport the Communist platfoum, which ineludes specific de- mands for working women. Women's Solidarity. Commenting on tonight’s rally, | Rebecca Grecht, state campaign manager for the Workers (Commu- nist) Party and candidate for as- sembly in the Fifth Bronx Assem- bly District, said last night: “Women workers will demonstrate their working class solidarity and will vote Communist because throughout the year, in the shops and at home, the lesson of the class struggle is driven home, Their votes are not merely ad matter of electioncering. Women workers, exploited under |the capitalist system, find in the class struggle platform of. the Workers (Communist) Party their only hope.” List Women’s Demands. Chief among the demands to be voiced at tonight’s mass meeting are the establishment of a 40-hour, 5-day week; prohibition of night work and overtime; equal pay for equal work; vacation with pay six weeks before and six weeks after confinement for working women. and the abolition of child labor and state maintenance of all children now employed. “Scheduled to speak at tonight’s rally are workers outstanding in the splendid services to the working class as labor agitators, organizers and working class teachers. Among them are Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker and candidate for U. S senate; Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Communist candidate for attorney general; Rebecca Grecht, Rachel Ragozin, running in the 23rd assem- bly district of Brooklyn; low, Rose Wortis, Eva Shafran, | Pauline Rogers and Sylvia Bleecker. labor movement, known for their: Kate Git-| 1, CW. OFFICIALS HOTFOR AL SMITA Complete Sellout of Rank and File The “socialist” trade union bureaucracy in the New York unions continues to fall into line in support of the Tammany Hall candidates in the coming elections. The latest de- velopment along this line took place when a letter carrying the signature of Philip Orlofsky, manager of the Clothing Cutters’ Union of the Amalgamated’ Clothing Workers Union, was obtained which endorsed tke candidature of Al Smith for president and the Tammany candi- dates for governor and lieutenant- governor. The letter, which was signed by Orlofsky, was sent by him to the chairman of the Citizens’ Commit- tee for Roosevelt and Lehman, Tam- many. state candidates.. This. chair- man is now circularizing labor unions with copies of Orlofsky’s let- ter, multigraphed on non-union paper by non-union printers. The publication of this letter fol- lows by a few days the exposure made in the Daily Worker and other Communist publications of the fact that Benjamin Schlesinger had ac-| cepted help from Colonel Lehman in raising a $100,000 fund with which to fight the left wing. Lehman, a banker, who had served on Governor Smith’s notorious governor’s commis- sion in the cloak industry, and who is an open-shop ,textile mill owner, had supplied $50,000 vf this “fund,” on the stipulation that Schlesinger, a “socialist” leader, would help the Tammany election campaign. Now the “radicals” of the Amalgamated Continued on Page Pwo Eight Countries in Int’] Wine Trust Ivy Lee, publicity director of the Standard Oil Company and other corporations, issued yesterday the text of a treaty signed by eight European countries to carry on jointly a campaign, presumably throughout the world, to promote the sale of wine, Lee said the treaty had been registered with the League of Na- | tions Aug. 29, but never published, although it went into force Oct. 29, | 1927. {he Workers (Communist) Party favors the repeal of the Volstend act and the eighteenth amendment and |nat the same time energetic propa- ganda against alcoholism an one of [the most malignant social diseases ‘under capitalism, MASS PICKETING IN PATERSON Settled Shops Strike Again When Bosses Break Contract Hundreds in Parade Being Organized PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 81.—To-| day the silk strikers of Paterson} demonstrated their desire for the spreading of the strike and for a} more militant policy in an un-| deniable way. For the first time in the Paterson strike a mass picket | line encircled a whole city block con- taining six large mills calling upon the workers to join their brother strikers. Three hundred pickets mustered at the mill gates on Pitman Street and marched around the solid block of mills, all of them working since the beginning of the strike. The ef- fect of such a display of militancy upon the workers of the working shops will be great, according to the picket leaders, and results are to be | expected. Militant Parade, If anyone was in doubt as to the real militant sentiment of the ers he would have been reassured by | the parade which followed. Leaving 100 of their number to guard the mill gates, 200 of the pickets, wal ing two abreast, paraded through the mill section amidst a tremendous volley of singing and cheering. Police tried to stop this outbreak of vigor and strike determination, but they did not succeed. They mi calculated entirely when they thought that intimidation and threats of arrest would stop the strikers. The police came up against a stone wall when they told Sophie Strechman, secretary of the Relief Committee and picket captain, that they would arrest her if she did not stop the parade. But Sophie Strech- man did not pay any attention to the ' poli .|chine in the discredited United Mine|led by the right-wing Pesite tie peat Gare ot fel Although severely injured, Nelson . tinued to the great delight of the marching strikers. Yesterday three shops, which have recently. settled, walked out on strike again when the bosses slashed wages in violation of the agreement, again demonstrating the determination of the workers to carry the strike to a |successful conclusion. The struck |shops are Korn and Stein, 358 Streights. Street; Weisler and Son, 220 Streights Street; and Chain and | Continued on Page Five |Milk Driver Dies in Accident, Was Former Milliner Simon Zabinsky, a milk driver, of 2700 Bronx Park East, was killed | early yesterday morning in an acci- dent while at work. dress, was injured, Zabinsky, ‘formerly a millinery worker, had been blacklisted a year before and became a milk driver, due to his militant activities. His funeral will.be held from his residence to- morrow. Discover 50 Sticks of Hiza Owen collected kindling to start a fire for breakfast this morn- ing and congratulated herself when she found a number of smooth, round sticks. She called in the neighbors to in- spect her find One of them identi- fied: the “kindling” as dynamite— fifty sticks. Abrahdm Burmer, of the same ad- | ‘Wood’ to Be Dynamite | CHICAGO, Oct. 31 (UP).—Mrs. | Growth Shows Soviet Power (Wireless ta the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 31—A_ leading article in the “Pravda” today states that the eleventh anniversary of the October Revolution is being cele- brated a nportant achievements for Soviet economy and reconstruc- | ion. Among the great industrial under- | akings finished, says “Pravda,” are | t ‘ia, the electrical works and tex- | mills of Moscow and many oth- ers that can be cited. The situation on t! eleventh an- niversary of the Soviet power, “Pravda” states, “shows the revolu- | tionary importance of the prole-| tarian dictatorship as the foundation ! of socialism.” Frame Apt Slogans. The article continues, showing the class enemies of the prole- tariat violently; resist the advance | lof Soviet economy. The slogans | | most apt to the present are, says Se h “Pravda”-—“Against the Kulak! Against the Nepman! Against the ms Bureaucrats!” And, it adds: “We can only repulse the attacks of imperialis md international, by party diseip- ine d by combati: | especial ‘ht dev The Soviet press hing the data on economic sta! s for September. This sho’ ses during the | month w cent highter thar | September, nd represents, a otal of 9 per cent of the gross in- dustrial output. | tice jth LEWIS MACHINE —— INVOTE STEAL |Puts Over Wage Cut in Indiana | officials of the John L. Lewis ma- | Workers’ Union here today an- |nounced that the new wage cut pact which the rank and file has bitterly fought has been carried in the ref-| erendum which the thachine has just! completed. | Uniting with the coal operators’ association of Indiana, the Lewis of-| ficials have put over another of the vote steals for which the machine has become notorious. Local unions report that their members voted overwhelmingly} |against the cut, yet the new count| ‘as announced by the union officials) is 7,827 to 4,469. The new National} Miners’ Union is fighting the wage cut policy which the Lewis machine jis seeking to put over. $26 Collected for the | ‘Daily’ Aboard Vessel | } |lected $26 for the Daily Worker while on board the steamer Paris. This was turned over to Seilowonitz to be given to the Daily Worker. This sum has now been sent in to the Daily Worker office by Seilo- | | witz, who recently returned from | abroad. The delay was caused by} his protracted stay Union. in the Soviet FINE JINGO. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 31 (U.R).—Commander Douglas G. Jef-| frey of the British Naval Reserve, | today was fined $25 and costs and | sentenced to 30 days on the Indiana state farm on a charge of issuing RIGHT WING IN and its ally, the sec-| —_ STRKERS START leven Years’ SHIFRIN IS. INDICTED BY | TAMMANY GRAND JURY ‘Militant Is Faced With Life Imprisonment; Defended Self Against Right Wing Thugs District Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party Urges Active Defense Acting under pressure fro the naphtha pipe-line in the Grozny | Forward and the officials of the reactiona oil fields, the copper works in Cau-| Trades, Tammany Hall’s grand jury yesterd. Silk Dye Workers Are |° ri dictment against William Shif NEW FRAME-UP 'Three Grocery Clerks ° on Heavy Bail Fulfilling the highest aims of its strikebreaking mission, the right wing officialdom of the United He- brew Trades yesterday set in mo-) tion the forces of a new frame-up— Jewish Daily United Hebrew y returned “an in- n, left wing worker, on a charge of first degree manslaugh- ter. The indictment carries with it the possibility of a life- term. The grand jury finding thus once again reveals the open collabora- tion between Tammany Hall and the t wing clique in their ad to a long jail worker. Shifrin e d ded him. m the “socia! attac s 2 k by five knife- wielding thugs of the Jewish Bu rs’ Union. In warding off his would-be murderers, Shifrin mortal- ly unded one of the: Sil Judge Changes Front. At the time of his arrest even the Tammany police admitted that Shifrin had struck out in de- fense. On the first of the trial, after hearing’ pr lly all the evi- : dence, Magistrate Dodge declared that Shifrin had struck in self de- i i 4 t Louis Nelson, militant dairy clerk, by a Tammany. cop during the attack officials. was quite enthusiastic over the good account the workers had’ given. of themselves against the right wing thugs. He doesn’t look frightened. “We're just beginning to fight,” he said. this time against three members of the Retail Grocery, Fruit and Dairy Clerks’ Union, whom the “social- ists” are accusing in a stabbing af- fray. The three workers are David Vacker, Hyman Vacker \and Hyman Kowarski, all union leaders who were arrested Tuesday night fol- lowing the brutal attack on the union meeting by police, led by the right wing officials. David Vacker, organizer of th union, is being held on $5,000 bail, a right-wing stool pigeon. Rather Thin. The right wingers, and especially | one Samuel Heller, self-styled pres’ nounce that the altack was made at nine o'clock Tuesday evening at | Avenue C. The only contradicting Continued on Page Two Smith Repeats Promise to Aid Unemployed— “By Collecting Data” Choosing as his text the declara- id fen i that he would probably be compelled to dismiss the case, But the following d: tho no addi- tional evidence on presented, the magistrate nged front com- pletely and decided to hold Shifrin It was evident d second of the t socialist” of- ficials of the ed Hebrew Trades, who had been yelping for Shifrin’s blood, “fixed” things with Tammany Hall, for the grand jury. grand jury “investigation” was drawn out over a month and a half and was filled with post- ponements in order to allow the TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 31.—| who was hit with a blackjack swung yight wing reactionaries sufficient time to-gather “evidence.” Shifrin will come up for a plead- ing tomorrow morning in Bronx County Court. He is being defended by George Z. Meda! Workers Party S The District Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Par- ty last night issued the following statement on the indictment of Shifrin: “The action taken by the grand jury indicting William Shifrin on the charge of manslaughter is a chal- lenge to all class-conscious workers of this city. “This grand jury, stands the entire capit capitalist courts and capi ck of whom ystem, poli- ticia as well as the ‘socialist? gangster officials, has brought in an indictment despite the fact that |there is no evidence to support it, Shifrin was defending his _ life | while his brother and Kowarski are | against the murderous assault of On May 17 a group from the |held on $2,500 each. The three are gangsters led by the ‘socialist’ of- Technical Aid of Soviet Russia col- |Charged with attacking Max Divack, | ficialdom of the United Hebrew Trades, Gangsters Unmolested. . “The capitalist class sees to it that Shifrin is indicted while it |dent of socialist ‘office space, an-|/€aves untouched the gangsters that jare daily committing brutal violence against rank and filé workers. These gangsters work in collusion with the police in New York, as is evidenced by the assault upon the grocery clerks Tuesday night. “These thugs have al!. the privi- leges of attacking and slugging workers while militant fighters who defend themselves against these at- tacks are charged with manslaugh- ter. This is the law of the capital- \ist system. Imprisonment for in- a fraudulent check. The fine and tion of Lincoln that “you can’t fool | nocent workers—execution, as in the sentence were suspended and Jef-| frey was placed on probation. | (By United Press.) CHILDREN’S CITY, ODESSA, U.S. S. R., Oct. 31—Two thousand two hundred boys and girls, the great majority of them former “bez- prizorni”—homeless waifs—are run- ning a self-government and econom- ically almost self-supporting town here along Communist lines. In a gigantic effort to reclaim the wild young wanderers who only a few years ago were a real scourge upon the land, the Soviet govern- ment has established children’s homes of various kinds throughout the Union. This is the largest and in every way the most remarkable of them. About two-thirds of the “residents” of Children’s City are from 4 to 18 years old; the rest range up to 18, but there are not many in the groups. The bright, brisk youngsters who conducted the United Press corre- spondent through their city, bear not the slightest resemblance to the dirt-stained, untamed scarecrow creatures who were until recently a common sight everywhere in the Soviet land. The most astonishing aspect of the city life, to anyone who is at all familiar with the ordinary “orphan asylum” anywhere in the world, is the apparent absence of any re- straint from above, from grown-ups. Although located within easy walk of the temptations of Odessa, there are neither walls nor closed gates around the Children’s City. Escape is as easy as swallowing candy. Children Soviets. In answer to questions, one of the city officials, a boy of about 12, ex- plained that there is no need for walls. No one thinks of going to 2,200 BOYS AND GIRLS IN SOVIET CHILDREN’S CITY Former Waifs Administer Their Own Communes Along Communist Lin mission of the “officer of the day,” tain. The Children’s City covers 1,280 acres just outside of Odessa, on which, there are ninety-two build- ings—living quarters, schools, fac- tories, stables, etc. The whole com- munity is divided into twenty “col- \lectives,” each further subdivided into “communes.” Here the children —Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, T: tars, Georgians—work and play. Every commune has its town Sov- iet, which in turn sends delegates to the Soviet of the collectivy. The twenty collectives choose delegates to the highest Soviet which admin- istrates the life of the city through a series of commissariats. At every stage in this process of government, the welfare of the whole com-nunity and permission is not difficult to ob-| es or girl is emphasized as the guiding principle. | The Soviets not only guide the po- litical side of the Children’s City,! but. its economic existence. Odessa the astoundingly low amount of about 20 rubles a year per child.| The rest of the cost is covered by the city itself, through the farming) on its own land, the production in| its schools and workshops and other organized community effort. Most of the food is raised by the children themselves, who learn scien- tific farming in the process. Practi- cally all the clothes, likewise, are made in the city “factories.” Even the school books are bound in the children’s bindery, which functions so wel Ithat it takes in work from Odessa. rt of Red Ticket at Irving P jall the people all of the time,” Al Smith, political hypocrite par excel- lence, yesterday raked Heavy Herb Hoover over the election coals for charging that the democrats would do terrible things with the tariff. It’s a fake issue, Smith declared. Speaking at Newark where Hoov- er fired the first gun in his eastern campaign with a talk on “labor,” Smith laid down for an hour and Odessa, he said, except with the per-;rather than of the individual boy a half a barrage of political bunkum such as has not soothed the ears of liberals and pseudo-socialists in many months. Smith’s best shots were on the subject of unemployment “relief.” contributes to the institution only|“{ favor the adoption of a govern-| ment program to prevent tisuf- fering and enormous losses of un- employment.” This might mean something. But Smith left no doubt in the minds of his masters higher up: “The Department of Labor should he charged with the duty of collect- ing data.” This is the same “plan” Smith ad- vocated when his New York com- mission last winter stalled off un- employment relief. His other points ba promises were of a similar or- ler. Continued on Page Two STEEL STRIKE IN GERMANY LOOMS BERLIN, Oct. 31 (UP).—The Rhenish and Westphalian metal- lurgical industry lockout assumed | the dimensions of a wide conflict tonight after the owners an- nounced a shutdown upon failure of the government's eleventh” hour arbitration proposals. The lockout, if extended to all branches of the industry would af- fect 220,000 iron workers. S The struggle threaten’ a serious setback to the entire German economic system, unless a swift settlement is achieved, observers said. The employers had been prepar=_ ing for a lockout recently and had reduced production of iron and steel. The trade union leaders an« nounced that their orga was prepared for a strugg! several weeks at least. v ice seen