The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 1, 1928, Page 2

PRISONERS OF STARVATION!” THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1928 — WARS Eace You yaya D101 vay By Jacob Burck , VOTE COMMUNIST! FOR THE PARTY OF THE CLASS STRULE Poyntz Flays Three Capitalist Parties in Barnard Symposium THOUSANDS WIL PARADE TO GREET FOSTER, SITLOW Thousar Will Meet Red Candidates Declaring that there are over eight orking women in the States today who are ex- orse than men Juliet Stuart oy Communist candidate for attorney-general of New York, in a debate h Jessie Wallace Hughan of the socialist party, appealed to the students of Barnard College to support the Workers (Communist) Party at a mass meeting in Bar- ard Hall yesterday afternoon. his debate between the Commu- ist spokesmen was of the symposium ploited wo Poy One ee F P, Cont ‘om I of the el to the the cit: id nuation stone, district 1 r New Wednesday when Mrs. York. D. Roosevelt: spoke for the Unde : “Mobilize (democratic party and Miss Ruth at once Saturday,” | Morgan for the republican party. Weinstone following in-| Juliet Poyntz, who returned yes-| Fears terday from a speaking tour of De- troit, Cleveland, Chicago, Minnea- < Ss are > report oe ; "No. polis and Omaha for the Workers eeeee Gre Sta-| Party, asserted that the republican, bien tes and democratic and socialist parties all me the fol. tepresent the point of view of big : business and the middle class, and the Workers Party is the only party omobiles, aS MANY | of the workers. cos- NEW FRAME-UP 3 Bands Engaged. ert Miller, rict secretary of the Worker ‘onist) Party,| Three Grocery Clerks yeste ced that three ; bands ngaged. on Heavy Bail Rain or r d, the par- Continued from Page One fact is that two hundred members, who attended the union meeting at 220 E. 14th St. are witness that the three were active in conducting announced that formation would be ade will be the order of line as follov First i Central Worker lowed Committee and Benjar of Negro wor the members of the nmittee of the time the attack was made. Fifty-four others of the 59 ar- rested were discharged outright. . Six are being held on a nominal charge of disorderly conduct in or- tions from w i n 4 membership © ng Workers der to provide the police with an (Communist) I followed by excuse for the attack made by them more tre unic elegations, the When they invaded the meeting with entire membership the Young wn guns and blackjacks. The Pioneers of Am he full mem- it is expected, will be released. ler and a number of right wing gangsters entered the meeting, which was called to celebrate the f, victory by the union of its general ike, for the purpose of breaking it up. According to some reports two detectives had already secreted themselves in the hall. When Heller and the thugs entered on their mis- sion of housecleaning they forgot only one thing—-the grocery clerks. ’ of the Wor Internati: branches, the Seamen’s Union, v of the Worl Pa other crys of hundreds of thousands of New York Milkigney Saree workers who will line the route of} ¢°js reported—-and there is no Piarch reason to doubt the repoft—that the While the exact route has not yet clerks gave a good account of them- selves. They have become respected as a first-class militant yorthy of the left wing tradition. ned it is known that the at Lexington Ave cegd down Fi: been deter parade wi and 43rd Ave, It w e the lower| nia the detectives make the mis- Past. Side. a1 several! oke of forming the core of the| Wasting cla discussion?” No one seemed to On § They themselves insisted on following th: | sion of the affair when they and Gitlow 2 princi d in court. speakers at } where they will tell of Members of the clerks’ union ex- sed the opinion yesterday that eee een the worker the right wing will stay at home will take in fight uinst the| hereafter. execution c Vanzetti. The parade itse ude to the apr race impressive ic ebration sympathizer! The trucks, according of the lith the Rus-' to _ Gertrude Mueller, will carry revolution. rs in the streamers reading: “We are Pater- ners announe- Square Rally at Garden. son Silk Strikers on our way to at- tend the celebration of the 11th An- ary of the Russian Reyolu- rs Paterson St 150 Pattersor Ik come in a body Ma 2 local office of the Workers Garden, it was anr t yesterday a unced that all Dawson yesterda Th Paterson silk strikers who show in several truck have been|union cards will be admitted to donated to the str by a locali Madison Square Garden free of cost. 'WHAT TO DO DURING LAST 6 DAYS OF THE CAMPAIGN Immediate tasks for all Party members: 1. Cut out the contribution blank printed in the Daily Worker today. 2, Send immediately your contribution, of not less than one dol- lar, to the COMMUNIST ELECTION DRIVE ANTI-TERROR EMERGENCY FUND. : 3. Send the money without any delay DIRECT to the National Election gampaign Committee, 48 East 425th St., New York City, _ It is the duty of every Party unit to take up a collection for “gency Fund at once and to send the money DIRECT to the Election Campaign Committee. 5. Every unit must assign comrades to take up collections in the trade unions, fraternal organizations and factories. bd 6. It is the duty of every Party member to collect as much money as possible in the shops, trade unions and fraternal organizations, 7. Phe Red Eleetion Sundays and the house-to-house canvassing should be utilized to establish the Communist Election Drive Anti- Terror Emergency Fund 1ONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN sre (Communist) Party ita” PLAN THREE RED NIGHTS THRUOUT CITY TOMORROW Communist ‘Campaign Workers Will Rally-to Three huge red arranged by the W (Commu- |nist) Party for tomorrow evening, to be held in the downtown east side section of Manhattan, in Harlem and in the Lower Bronx. A list of the meeting places and the workers who will address them follow Downtown East Side District—All speakers report at 7:30 p. m. to 60 | St. Marks Place. The. following is a list of the speakers: Weinstone, Trachtenberg, Lifshitz, Miller, Grecht, Hendin, M. Epstein, Wat- tenberg, Bimba, Midola, Gussakoff, Milgrom, Rose Rubin, G. Welsh, Chernenko, Aronberg, Costrell, Mc- Donald, Julius Cohen, Biedenkapp, ve been s SSUES THE CAPITALIST PRESS Harlem Red Rally to Boost the Candidacy of REPORTS LABOR MEET Faward Welsh Tonight INDICTS SHIFRIN what never happened at a place which never exited to people who ChargeFramed Worker With Manslaughter were absent at the time—just read the reports of the New York capi- talist press on labor events. If after} that you are still in the dark, it’s your own fault. You» must have imagination to read the boss papers. For instance, yesterday the great Metropolitan pr ied accounts of the attack on the Grocery Clerks’ be ah Union by right wing officials of the Continued from Page One United Hebrew Trades who led @lcaso of Sacco and Vanzettit-and Sect wee union me¢t|freedom for the executioners, free- have read the report in the Daily pag gener aa Sa, cig ie Nacicee ell rece the reports. | case of the Shifrin case. If Shifrin jose who have not, deserve @8 PUn-|;, wailsoaded to life imprisonment, ieheier oee about what hap-/no militant worker will be safe pened fromm tis Soy ae from the murderous assaults of the Bl eS eee the reds. ip. (henchmen of the ‘bosses and the la- pieea Corinne Ricki in tolan| (te Seas ae , = Square,” is the illuminating head-| “If this frame-up against Shifrin line. According to Pulitzer’s evening |$0eS through without a huge pro- scandal sheet, the meeting was “a|test that will open the prison doors political rally of the Communist|to this valiant fighter, meetings of the meeting from about 7:30 to the | 5 |Blum, Hy Gordon, Silber, Kate Git- |Party under thé auspices of a local/tank and file workers will be in- low, Magliacano, B. Gussakoff, Hel-|of the Grocery Clerks’ Union.” The Vaded, sluggings occur and no end fand, W. Herberg, F. Gordon, M.|meéting was said to have been held |! violence performed. |Silvis, H. Rubin, Zukowsky, Sazar,/at “Union Hall, 14th St. and Union| “Class conscious workers of New Koretz, Winogradsky, Selkowitz, | Square.” York! Come to the defense of this |Ph. Goodman, Kudrinetsky, Taft, I.| According to the New York Tele- fellow fighter and fellow worker! zin, E. Jacobson, H. Davis, Horo-|gram, the cops were apparently! “Show that you understand your witz, L. Cohen, Zimmerman, Wortis, | apparently making a friendly visit class interests. Raise a huge de- Potash and Cibulsky. to the Communists (evidently in re-| fense fund. The wind-up meeting will be held turn for the many calls the Com- Spread Message. at Second Ave. and Tenth St. munists have made upon them at, «po not be intimidated by your Harlem Red Night. , their various reception houses). The! enemies. Spread the message in Harlem-—All speakers report av Readline read: “Riot follows cops’|this election campaign that the 7:30 p. m. to 143 E. 108rd_ St. |Speakers will be: Lovestone, Minor, |Poyntz, Huiswood, Moore, Ballam, |Ed. Welsh, A. Markoff, Blake, Sta- chel, Codkind, Moreau, N. Napoli, |.) By shite om Williams, Alexander, Grace Lamb, |p” anf vonty cali) a the Conn | Thomases. |we are told: “A skull-eracking rict| Can expect only greater oppression broke up a Communist political rally) and more ruthless exploitation from in Union Hall, Union Square, with\the parties of big and small bus |H. Zam, Nat Kaplan, Gil Green, P. | munist Party, according to the po-| | Shapiro, Edw. Wright, S. LeRoy, I. lice, was attended by members of a Zimmerman, Frank, Bleiman, Coop- | grocery clerks’ union local, of which| er, Wishnefsky, E. Shafran, Zwe-| Samuel Heller is president.” bon, Lerner, Wise, G. Lloyd, Fish-| This is too much! man, Rees, Nessin, A. Lyons, D. Suddenly—the Chairs! | Lyons, Harfeld, V. Smith, Kagan,| According to the New York Sun, Pinchefsky. the whole thing began mysteriously This wind-up meeting will be held | with the hurling of a chair which at Fifth Ave. and 110th St. was caused either by the mentior | Lower Bronx Rally of Benjamin Gitlow’s name or the Lower Bronx—All speakers re- entrance of several detectives: “In port to 715 W. 138th St. at 7:30 | any case, somebody hurled a chair, p. m. The following is a list of the | vigorously and with accurate aim speakers: Baum, Padgug, Bucken-/|from somewhere near the back of |berger, Frankfeld, Primoff, G. Spiro, |the house. . .Instantly, almost the |Pasternak, Joe Cohen, I. Cohen, | air was filled with other chairs. . . |Peer, Bydarian, Lawrence Ross,| while erstwhile friends turned vio- Lillianstein, A. Stein, E. Epstein, |lently against each other.” |Vosk, Gerson, Crouch, Powers, Sus-| According to the New York Times kin, Severino. the mere criticism of Gitlow was The wind-up indoor meeting will | instantly followed by the arrest of |be held at 715 W. 138th St. 63 men, a sort of loyalty on the | part of the New York police which | no doubt will come as a welcome sur-| prise to the Communists. The Times headline reads: “Gitlow @riticized 68 arrested in row. Attack on Work-| ers’ Party choice for vice-president | sti i starts fight at union meeting,” | | The whole question of building) According to the sorrowful Jew- |new unions, the role of the trade|ist Daily Forward, it required six| |unions in this period of the patrol wagons to take to the police, danger, the whole question of work| station the members of tne “Com- within the reactionary trade unions, munist grocery clerks’ union,” a are but some of the questions that union pictured as without influence} will be analyzed and discussed in de-| and with no rank and file. No doubt tail in the important course to be the wagons were all filled with the| given in “The nd Practice of|long “butcher knives” which this Trade Union Work” by John Ballam) paper reports were found at the! on Thursdays, from 8:30 to 9:50 p.| meeting in something less than car-| m. This course, which will also take lrad lots. | up such questions as the role of the i ge pe 48 aa trade unions in class struggle, Com-| UNIV 4-F, SECTION 6, MEET munist work in trade unions, history! Unit 4-F, Section 6, of the Workers of the American trade union move-|(Communist) Party will meet at) ment, the major problems facing the|6:30 p. m. today at 60 Manhattan trade union movement today will) Ave Important business matters have its first session today. ‘will be taken up. L rupt labor bureaucracy. unionism! IN BOOTS = \First Session in Trade |Union Course at the | Workers School Today FOR THE 5 Vears orine’ Giant Daily Worker will be celebrated in Manhattan Opera House Saturday, January 5th A Red Night has been arranged in upper Harlem for tonight for the purpose of boosting the candidacy of Edward Welsh, Negro youth candi- date of the Workers (Communist) Party. The rallies will take place on the most populated corners and streets of the section. A number of open air meetings will be held in Harlem,, ending in a big united rally at 135th St. and 7th Ave. All members of the Upper and Lower Harlem units must report without fail to 200 W. 135th St. at 7 p. m., where arrangements will be ‘made for open air meetings, sale of literature, and the final parade and windup rally. Speakers from the downtown units must also report at the same address. ful rank and file trade union organ- izations! “Let the voice of militant labor ring out in the defense of William Shifrin! “Executive Committee, New York and New Jersey Districts, Workers (Communist) Party of America.” A resolution demanding the re- lease of Shifrin will be presented at the 11th Anniversary. Celebration ‘and Red Election Rally at Madison call on Communists.” Immediately) workers can expect only frame-ups, | } i- | Sen pol ’ more than 100 men embattled with| ness’ from the Smiths, Hoovers and|0f Shifrin, it is stated. The committee urges all workers | workers the 40 hour week when every SEVEN LEAGUE 29,000 POLYPHONIC BRASS BAND IN THE CONCERT OF THE AGE Square Garden Sunday at 2 p. m. To Intensify Defense Work. The Shifrin Defense Committee last night issued a statement thru its manager, Sam Liptzin, declaring that the work of freeing Shifrin will take on additional energy now that this manslaughter indictment has been returned by the grand jury. Meetings will be called and mass timent mobilized for the defense “Down with-the reactionary, cor-|to bring or send their contributions jat once to its office, 26-28 Union| | “Up with militant class conscious | Square, Room 60. Shifrin defense HOT FOR AL SMITH Complete Sellout of Rank and File Continued from Page One are “doing their bit” toward electing Al and his labor oppressing Tam- many henchmen. The reactionary Orlofsxy, a sup- porter of the Hillman class-col-| laboration administration of the Amalgamated, and the right hand man of A. Beckerman, who is a} power in the camp of the “social-} ists,” was also one of the first of the Hillman officials to begin the} campaign of expulsion of militan from the Amalgamated and its sub-| Workers’ (Communist) Party can-) didate for vice-president im the elec-| tions was expelled by the reactionary gang in control of this local and which is being led by the “labor leader” Orlofsky. In the letter, Orlofsky enthu- siastically lauds Al Smith for his “friendly attitude” and for his “good | public appointments.” Because Franklin Roosevelt stands squarely on record of Smith, Orlofs! Amalgamated leader, endorses him. He also declares in his letter con- cerning the banker and open shop textile mill owner Lehman: “I can- not close this letter without express- | ing my opinion of Colonel Lehman. | IT came to admire him* very much} Governor’s Commission of the Cloak | and Dress Industry.” | This commission had made an ar-| bitrary decision denying the cloak one admitted that the employers ting a long and bitter strike which} Tasks of All Party Members for Nov. 4 Here are the tasks of every Party member in District 2 te make Red Week the reddest in the history of New York. We must distribute in every shop, and home, where workers are to be found, a leaflet adver- tising the Madison Square Gar- den Meeting, Sunday, Noy. 4. The splendid red poster hy Fred Ellis, advertising the meet- | ing, must be placed in every win- dow, meeting hall, in every large industrial building. Every working class organiza- tion, union or fraternal should call upon its members to attend as a body. e, Throughout the week, every Party member is to carry on per- sonal agitation in his shop about the meeting. Every Party mem- sidiary locals. Benjamin Gitlow, the || ber should bring not elss than ten workers from his shop. All Party members are in- structed to attend the Party membership meeting promptly after work, at Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 East 4th St., on Friday, Noy. 2, 6.30 p. m., to receive im- portant last minute instructions in connection with Election Day and the closing days of the Elec- tion Campaign. ‘e Every unit is to elect a com- mittee of 10 to be part of a com- mittee of 1,000 te have charge of the floor at the Madison Square Garden and to report on Sunday morning at 10.30 a. m. in the Garden. when he was giving his time on the! Po}] Guard Volunteers A special meeting of all mem- bers and sympathizers with the class struggle program of the Workers (Communist) Party who volunteer to act as watchers at were ready to give it, thus precipita- the” polls on election day will be held at the Workers Center, 26-28 |stamps and buttons can also be had | ended when the workers finally won| Union Sq., on Monday night, Nov. 5, at 7 o'clock. “Forward to building up power-| at this office. ... . ave marching THIS SUNDAY, NOY. 4 Pageant of the Class Struggle atthe 11th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution !! Mass Welcome to the Red Candidates WILLIAM Z. FOSTER ie .. . . are marching On to the Garden — — DOORS OPEN AT 1 P.M. FREIHEIT SINGING SOCIETY _ MASS PROLETARIAN CHORUS BEN GITLOW KEEP THIS DAY OPEN! at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, November 4 | —————— _soremnerere a ] Tickets on sale at Workers (Communist) Party, 26-28 Union Square; Arena $1.00, Balcony, 50 Cents. 4