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

19) :) Pi } Fal THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party matter at che 1 ON fice ae New turk Sv. under the act of March 8. 1 in Line for the Big Red Parade Saturday at 2 P.M. to Welcome INT9. E Vol. V., No. 260 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker 1% Association, » 26-28 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1928 FOSTER, GITLOW TO BE WELCOME ST BSCHIPTION RA GERMAN METAL LOCKOUT HITS RUHR WORKERS Half Million Workers and Families Are Under Attack “Socialists” Mislead Communists Demand a Genuine Struggle (Wireless to the Daily Worker) BERLIN, Nov. 1.—The lockout of the metal workers producing and working iron in the Ruhr valley is complete. There are 213,000 work- ers locked out, although the social democrat labor minister, Wissel, de- clared the arbitration award bind- ing and that award granted only a small part of the workers‘ demands. The lockout affects more than 600,000 people, including the work- ers and their families. All workers employed by the members of the employers’ union of the northwest metal industry are discharged, with a probable result of the stoppage of the Ruhr coal industry. Bosses Brutal. The brutal measures of the em- ployers are shown by their docking the men even for the coal and potato advances from their last wages, and the refusal to take the formal steps which would allow the unemployed to obtain the usual unemployment benefits. Even the bourgeois papers ‘state that the employers are to blame and that the wage raise is necessary. The reactionary ‘“Nachtausgabe” states that the arbitration award caused-a~ disagreement. inthe Ger- man cabinet, the majority being against recognition of the award and favoring the employers’ brutal meth- ods. Socialists Fake Fight.- The “Vorwaerts” and other social- democrat and democratic press dis- tracts attention of the workers from the real meaning of the employers’ attack by calling the industrial of- fensive a rebellion against the state and state arbitration. These social democrats propose that the workers should sue the employers for com- pensation and for violation of the arbitration award. This means the placing of the settlement in the hands of class justice. The Communists and the revolu- tionary trade union opposition in the social-democratic-led trade unions are appealing to the workers to stand out for their original wage demands and not the miserable raise granted by the award; also to fight for the eight-hour day. * Reds Demand Real Struggle. The trade union opposition and the Communists also appeal for the election of a revolutionary strike committee, for a solidarity strike of the miners, railwaymen, stevedores and all workers in key industries of the Ruhr district, and as a prepa- ration the strike of all metal work- ers of Germany with their own de- mands. The revolutionary trade unionists in their appeal demand the abolition of-arbitration, a fight against the reformists’ strike and coalition tac- tics, a fight against the capitalist government and the reformist trade union bureaucracy, for exposure of the social-democratic nonsense about “economic democracy” and_ nation- alization of the key industries by the capitalist state, and for conquest of political power for a workers’ and peasants’ government. * * * (Editor’s Note: An earlier dis- patch concerning the Ruhr lock- out appears on Page 3, giving other details of the struggle.) Young Pioneers Will Hold Protest Meeting in the Bronx Tonight The Young Pioneer group of Junior High School 61, from which Harry Eisman and Bernard Kaplan were recently suspended because of their militant Pioneer activities, has called a mass children’s protest meeting to be held today, 4:30 p. m., at 1400 Boston Road, the Bronx. Speakers will trace the long per- iod of intimidation against the mem- bers of the Young Pioneers in the school prior to the final suspension of the two young militants, and ex- pose the jingoist activities of Ma- guire, principal of the school, who ,has threatened to call the Veterans of Eoreign Wars and the American Legion to aid him in his tactics of sin the school. eeu suppression against the Young | Pioneers i} co The Ku Klux Klan has siarted a terror campaign in Neptune, N. Ku Klux Klan Yelps for Blood of Jailed Worker J., demanding the life of Joseph Farrugio, 54-year-old Italian worker, who shot Harold Johnson, rich young high school student who | seduced Farrugio’s 16-year-old daughter, Marianne. Farrugio is now in jail awaiting trial, while his | family of 11 has been left in a starving condition. | the Klan staged demonstrations and threatened workers. Photo on the left shows Johnson’s funeral, at which On the right is Marianne Farrugio. KLAN DEMANDS LIFE OF TAILED ITALIAN WORKER | @ FREEHOLD, N. J., Nov. 1— With the Ku Klux Klan yelping madly for blood and threatening all foreign-born workers, the Monmouth County Grand Jury today began its | investigation into the case of Joseph | Farrugio, 54-year-old Italian worker |of Neptune, N. J. Farrugio is be- ling held for shooting Harold John- son, wealthy young member of one of Asbury Park’s “first families,” who seduced Farrugio’s 16-year-old |daughter, Marianne. | | After testifying for 20 minutes |before the grand jury, Marianne; | Farrugio hurried to the hospital to) | visit. her mother who collapsed this | ‘morning. Doctors pronounced Mrs. | Farrugio suffering from lack of SRED RALLIES IN CITY TONIGHT Wdrkers to Hear Red Candidates Three of the biggest Red Night | election demonstrations ever held in| the gity will take place tonight when | workers will rally to the slogans of the downtown bast side section of | Manhattan, in Harlem, and in the} | coda. |Lower Bronx. Communist speakers | |will explain the program of the | Klan Threatens , Murder. Workers (Communist) Party at Neptune and neighboring towns meetings in these three sections, are seething with sharp class feeling |Stressing the workers’ demands. A as a result of the Farrugio case. A|list of the open-air meetings that terroristic demonstration by the Ku| Will be held and the speakers at each Klux Klan at young Johnson’s| meeting follows: funeral. yesterday ‘has aroused! Downtown East Side District—All | tremendous resentment among work-| sneakers report at 7:30 p. m. to 60 jers here, particularly those of|st, Marks Place. The following is jforeign birth. The Klan is openly) a list of the speakers: Weinstone, | information COURT TODAY Charge “Murder,” Not “Manslaughter” William Shifrin,. the left wing worker who was caught in the toils of the frame-up machine that is trying to railroad him to a life term in prison because he heroically and successfully defended himself against six armed thugs sent by the socialist officials of the Butchers Union, will today appear in the Bronx County Court to answer the the Party of*the class struggle in |cuestion whith the judge will put to | him: “Guilty or not guilty?” After the formal pleadings the judge is expected to set the date for trial, and then counsel for the William Shifrin Defense Committee will put in immediate application for Shifrin’s release on bail. Charge is “Murder.” In a statement issued yesterday George Z. Medalie, chief attorney for Shifrin, corrected the erroneous given out yesterday which had it that Shifrin was in- dicted on a charge of manslaughter | demanding Farrugio’s conviction on Trachtenberg, Lifshitz, Mille r,| a charge of murder and threatens to|Grecht, Hendin, M. Epstein, Wat. | murder him, should he be released’ tonberg, Bimba, Midola, Gussakoff, | on bail on a manslaughter charge. |Milgrom, Rose Rubin, G. Welsh, | Several hundred Klansmen)Chernenko, Aronberg, Costrell, Mc- |marched in the funeral procession! Donald, Julius Cohen, Biedenkapp, | |yesterday and threatened a group Blum, Hy Gordon, Silber, Kate Git- jof Italian workers with violence if low, Magliacano, B. Gussakoff, Hel- |they dared to approach. “We’re the|/fand, W. Herberg, F. Gordon, M. |Klan, you know,” boasted one of Silvis, H. Rubin, Zukowsky,’ Sazar, | their leaders. So determined was|Koretz, Winogradsky, Selkowitz, the Klan to make a display of its| Ph. Goodman, Kudrinetsky, Taft, I. power that the marching Klansmen | Glazin, E. Jacobson, H. Davis, Horo- even threatened reporters and photo-| Witz, L. Cohen, Zimmerman, Wortis, graphers of the capitalist press. Potash and Cibulsky. Klan Unhampered. The wind-up meeting will be held ee ¥ |at Second Ave. and Tenth St. The authorities are making no ef-| Harl Red Nii ht. forts to curb the terroristic activities | Aten ight. of the Klan. Foreign-born workers | _ Harlem—All speakers report at are finding it difficult to go about) 7:30 p. m. to 143 E. 103rd_ St. their usual duties for fear of ‘attack Speakers will be: Lovestone, Minor, by members of the fascist organiza-| Poyntz, Huiswood, Moore, Ballam, tion. | Ed. Welsh, A. Markoff, Blake, Sta- |chel, Codkind, Moreau, N. Napali, With Mrs. Farrugio in the hospi-| williams, Alexander, Grace Lamb, tal, Marianne has become the vir- tual head of the family. The te: Continsted “on Page. Two in the first degree. The charge, the statement showed, was far more erious than that—murder in the econd degree, and carries with it a entence, if found guilty, of from 0 years to a life imprisonment. A special appeal was issued yes- terday by the Shifrin Defense Com- mittee for workers in the New York | shops to collect from their shop- mates all the money they can pos- sibly contribute immediately. This urgent demand for funds is made, | defense work leaders explain, be- cause of the problem of procuring a | sufficient amount to obtain bail if such will be granted in court today. | The committee therefore appeals ty all workers here to collect money and bring it in immediately to the cffice of the Defense Committee, 28 Union Square, Room 603. . 8 6 I. L. D. Denounces Indictment. The New York Section of the In- ternational Labor Defense, whose Continued om Page Two SHIFRINUPIN REAL DANGER OF WORLD WAR, SAYS FOSTER AT ERIE Britain and America Struggle to Rule Entire World Conflicts End in War \Covering Connecticut; Weisbord at Trenton ERIE, Pa.. > Nov. 1—William Z. |Foster. candidate for president on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket, in speaking here on the is- sues of the elections, pointed out the danger of wer and the contradic- jtions of American capitalism lead- ing to 0 worsening of conditions of American worker He said, in part: | Heading for a War. “The export of capital since the war by American capitalists has been characterized b; rst, the rushing of revolutioi proleta- rian and colonial uprisings, as in Europe immediately after the war. and, secondly, stabilization of Euro- pean capitalism, and, thirdly, in the | present period, strengthening of the competitors of American capitalists. | Such is the contradiction of*capital- ism. This great export of capital thus develops conflicts among the rival imperialist powers. “The export of capital to indus- trially backward countries places American imperialists in a position to dominate their industries so that goods can he manufactured there at lower costs than in the United States... This. enables them to reduce wages in the United States or to reduce the number employed. Thus Continued on Page Five GITLOW ATTACKS BOTH OLD PARTIES Speaks at Mass Meet in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 1. “Smith's liberalism is a myth,” de- clared Benjamin Gitlow Tuesday eve- ning at a meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party here. The Com- munist candidate for vice-president after denouncing Hoover as a “reac- tionary tool of Wall Street,” argued |that Smith is not any more pro- gressive than the republican candi- date. “Smith is the leader of the new Tammany, which always has been and still is a corrupt and re- actionary machine. Smith up with some of the most powerful corporations in the U. S. His record shows that he stands for more power to these financial interests thru stronger, more centralized and autocratic government, further re- moved from the masses, and more efficient in every assistance to the big corporations in exploiting labor. “Smith stands for lower taxation for big business for the vicious sys- LoL. D. Defe a —® is tied| Strikers in SHOW ISSUES IN ELECTION DRIVE Anti-Imperialist Group in Statement Struggle against r 1 war, a demand for t withdrawal of Am an mar s from Latin ‘ar East and for America and the complete independence of all colo- nies and protectorates of the United |States, are included in a program len the imperialist issues in the elec- tion campaign, issued last night by the United States Section the All-American -Imperialist League, through Paul Crouch, act- The of statement am follows: today stands out as the most aggressive of the imperialist countries. During the jelections campaign in this country the United States has used armed force to control the Nicaragua, bas barred jposed to American imperialism from |participation, has taken part with laGier imperialist nations, aiid by |the treachery of Chiang Kai-Shek, in the effort to crush the Chinese The Philippines, Porto Hawaii are today under le of American imperial- ism. Haiti has been made a vassal country of Wall Street. American \ecapital helped to create and support |such dictatorships a in Venczuela, Ib: {Leguia in Peru. New World War Looms. “The conflicts between the major imperialist, nations are leading to a new world’ war. between the elections of those op- Revolution. |Rico and the iron in Chile and ez United States and |Great Britain is especially acute. The-danger of an imperialist war |against the Soviet Union is continu- ally increasing. “It is the right and the duty of the masses of this country to ex- amine at this time the platforms, | statements and records of the polit- ical parties and candidates on the issues of imperialism and danger of war. It is the job of the masses to ‘organize for struggle against American imperialism. Program. ited States Section of rican Anti-Imperialist League presents the following pro: Continued on Page Three tem of compulsory arbitration which would be a weapon of employers concessions to the labor bureaucrac; and skilled aristocracy of labor; fo; the iron heel against the masses workers led by the Workers (Com- munist) Party.” Gitlow will speak at the Belmoht Hall in Worcester, Mass., on Frida: evening, and will continue to Provi- dence, R. 1, where he will address the workers of that city at the A\| C. A. Hall on Saturday. |children are reported to be in a) starving state in a miserable hovel on, First St. the most poverty- stricken section of the town. Membership Meet of District 2 Tonight in Manhattan Lyceum A membership meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party, Di: trict 2, will be held tonight, im- mediately after work, at the Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., ac- cording to a call issued by William W. Weinstone. A statement issued yesterday reads as‘ follows: “All members must attend to- night’s membership meeting where the final directions in re- gard to the election campaign will be discussed. This meeting must be attended by every Party mem- ber in order to learn what part he is to play in the final arrange- ments in the big windup of the campaign. The meeting will dis- cuss the parade and the Madison Square Garden rally and what to do on election day.” Admission will be by Party membership cards only. ‘ ism means poverty, unem- wage alnvery and imperial- int wal for the workers: Fight for the abolition of cantialiam! them. Our meetings have in with our campaign. FOSTER URGES A STRONG F By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER Workers (Communist) Party Candidate For President With the greatest Communist election campaign the Party has so far conducted, entering upon its last few days, members of the Workers Party. and workers sympathizing with it must gird their loins for a final spurt. The workers I have spoken to thruout the country have listened eagerly to the message of class struggle cur Party has brought to the main been splendidly at- tended, and our election campaign literature has reached larger numbers of workers who never before came in con- tact with Communist propaganda. PARTY DEFIED TERROR. We have defied the systematic terror directed against us. Despite arrests of our speakers and campaign workers, the closing of meetings halls to us, the ‘denial of the radio, press and other means of publicity at the disposal of the party of small business men, the respectable socialist party, and of the two parties of big business, we have gone ahead One hundred thousand signatures were secured- from qualified voters, a very difficult task when one considers that so many of the workers who follow our Party have ~ been unable to become citizens. The Party is on the ballot INISH TO ELECTION Calls Upon Workers to Put Over $10,000 Campaign Fund in Last Five Days election of 1924. tion literature put out. The campaign has been last few days. y \ in 34 states, two and one-half times as many as in the A million copies of the Party press have been printed and distributed and millions of pieces of elec- PERMIT NO LET-UP! a great success from every angle so far, and there must be no let-up at the last moment. The Party needs the money necessary to carry it thru these As yet only one-third of the $10,000 Elec- tion Emergency Fund has been raised. The failure to raise the minimum necessary to carry the campaign thru to a successful conclusion is handicapping our work at a time when nothing should prevent a whirl-wind finish. We realize that the workers who support the Communist ticket have done a great deal to carry the campaign so far, but we must urge them to strain every resourse during these last few days to raise the money which the campaign committee must absolutely have. ‘ Workers, do your bit to bring this campaign to a suc- cessful conclusion. Contribute to the $10,000 fund as your blow at the capitalist terror, which has tried to cripple the Communist election campaign. days before election day—send in your contribution at once, and the campaign will go over the top. You have only five more ew York, by mall, 8 of | those of Gomez | he danger of war | against workers for certain minoj ¥ : Mass Tnal The large in the count to take place few days when nearly orkers appeal sent uring the recently ended ke. The International Labor I appealing which were meted a orke cheduled in New Bedford in a 700 textile fen: worker: total 344 months (11 and fines totaling $5,690. The I. L. D. 4,800 bail for the } and Fall River textile w the face of bri ice terrorization waged such a stub- born struggle against a ten per cent wage reduction and against the speed-up ‘System. , who, Some of the 662 strikers facing y ested as there the courts have been ai Foster and FINAL CITY +] Foster, al, corrupt and po-| Gitlow DITION D HERE TOMORROW nds 662 Mill RaRDEN' RALLY TO WIND UP BIG RED CAMPAIGN -araders to Meet on 42d St. & Park Ave., S. W. Corner Candidates End Tours Gitlow to Get Rousing Reception nds of New York ganized and unorganized, Thou k workers and un- Party members and none Party mem are rallying to the many as twelve times, and : eieeedys 2: are 888 separate charges against|°4!! to participate in the first Red them. The cases are to be tried in parade in the h ry of New Yorks the November session of the Su- perior Court im New Bedford. The I. L. D. has secured legal defense and is supplying the funds for the conducting of the cases. The sen- tences meted out by the district court, at the request of the employ- ers, are in some cases for as long as two years’ imprisonment. The New Bedford and Fall River textile workers’ strike was an event of great importance to the workers of America. The strike took place in an industry employing more than Continued o~ Page Three BIG SILK STRIKE MEETING TODAY Pickets Massed Around Large Plant PATERSON, N, J., Nov. 1—Spir- ited discussions are now going on among the striking silk workers and the other union members about the {general membership meeting which vill be held tomorrow cvening. the meeting at which the membership will be called upon to discuss the statement made by left wing members of the strike com- |mittee, in which the union officials are sharply criticized for their tac- ties of compromise and in which proposals are made to spread ‘the strike and ‘conduct it ig more | militant lines, Although reluctant in finally | agreeing to call this meeting, the membership, are bout the |pressure from the }greater numbers of whom Guickly being disillusioned “Sonservative” way of carr: \tfle strike, forced them to the demand for the meeting. Left Wing Influence Grows. But ihe left wing in the organ- |ization, whose influence is growing |with tremendous rapidity the ttlements” being made by ‘the of- |ficials turn out to be fake settle- |ments, fear that the conservative {leaders will combine with the reac- tionary ¢lements in the union to use the meeting as a means of ousting the left wingers who are functionar- ies in the strike machinery. \. Sentiment among the majority of Page Five 1 “Continued on REWARD OF ELECTION. torial today the Evening Standard mentioned Hugh Gibson, American minister to Geneva, as a likely suc- cessor to Alanson B. Houghton as | American ambassador to London. “The post is more likely to | given as a reward to someone played a big part in the pres’ election,” the editorial conti~ | mitting that it was early a guess, be vazard HAIL, THE PARTY OF THE CLASS | STRUGGLE! HAIL, THE. Bh Fines | ANNIVERSARY OF 1) FIRST (WORKERS REPUBLIC! LONDON, Nov. 1 (U.P).—In an edi-| The parade will follow the mass greeting of William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, Workers (Com- munist) Party candidates for pres- ident and vice president, at Grand Central Station tomorrow at 3:30 p.m The arrival in New York of the Communist standard-bearers, and the parade which will follow their enthusiastic g: ing is preparatory to their appearance the following day, Sunday, at 2 p, m., at Madi- son Square Garden, where they will wind up one of the most in- tensive campaigns ever waged by a revolutionary p in America. pectacular Event. y the offices of District 2, (Communist) Patry, 26 Union yuare, was besieged by clamorous workers who were anx- jous to secure information about. the parade. Tickets to the Madison Square Garden event were sold by the hundreds and from all appear- ances, both the parade on Saturday, and the mass meeting on Sunday will be two of the most spectacular events in the history of the militant working class movement in recent years. In order to clear up any possible misunder ding about the parade, the district committee of the Work- ers Pa ave out the following informatio: That workers who are to march in the parade will gather promptly at 2 p,m. at 42nd St. and Park Ave. southwest corner; that wor! are vear as much red articles of iz (caps, etc.) as *possi- that all are we me to parade; that there will be three brass bands to provide stirring revolutionary nusic; that horns, w les and con- ti are excellent welcoming appar- atus; that the parade will be held |rain or shine Following the greeting of the can- didates at the station the parade will fall in line on the west side of Park Ave. at the corner of 42nd St. After the preliminaries the parade will march down Park Ave., down 4th Avi to the local headquarters of the Workers Party, after which the parade will disband. Police “Protect” Parade. | At the offices of the commission- er of police reporters were informed that eral hundred police would be offered” to police the parade. The |streets will be cleared and policed “to prevent any confusion.” | So far no complaints have been received by leaders of patriotic so. \cieties protesting against the par- ade. Workers’ representatives here interpret this as a “democratic” ‘gesture intended to mislead workers, ;Communist leaders point out that the evident growing power of the Workers Party compelled the recog- nition of its strength, Leaders Urge Attendance. Interviews with prominent trade union representatives revealed that there is an enthusiastic labor sup- port of the parade tomorrow and the Madison Square Garden, mass |meeting on Sunday. The following ‘are typical: George Powers, | Workers Union: “The bankruptcy of the three capitalist parties, the republican, |democratic and the socialist will jbe the reason why thousands of New | York workers will take part in te | morrow’s parade.” |. Rose Wortis, N. Y. Joint Board, . L. GW. UL: 3 New York workers who have been clubbed by democratic police (clubs on the picket line, who have been starved by republican unem- |ployment and have been attacked | |and slugged by socialist gunmen will, rally to the mass greeting to Foster _ and Gitlow, The parade will be the — proof that the left wing mo led by the Workers (Commi Continued on Page Two Architectural — ii)