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THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1928 etl sare, A wait By Jacob Burck sar FOSTER, GITLOW WHO IS M. FEINSTONE? PLAN RED NIGHTS TO BE GREETED AND WILL HE RESIGN? Two poROUGHS HERE TOMORROW Great Parade to Show Forces of Militants Continued from Page One Party is an ever incr On to Grand Central S Prosper Goopfert, Local 164, F. W.: sing power. | tation!” A. “The powerful work novement in ‘America will make street sh of power tomor All mem- bePS of the Amalgamated Food Worke: will be there. Long live the Workers (Communist) Party.” Gladys Schechter, Millinery Work- ers® Union: . @fomorrow’s parade and the 11th anniversary celet n of the Rus- Secretary of the right wing, cen- tral strikebreaking exchange, the United Hebrew Trades, at $100 per week, member of the executive board of the Central Trades and Labor Council, “socialist” politician by day and supporter of Al Smith by night, a representative of organized labor who actually represents no one, a gentleman in fact whose only con- nection with the workers besides that of strikebreaking is the draw- ing of his salary—this is the proud role of Morris Feinstone, Mr. Feinstone has recently chalked up two marks on his right wing tablet. The most recent is the attack which he engineered against the Re- tail Grocery and Dairy Clerks’ Union meeting Tuesday night at which the police led by one of Feinstone’s henchmen, carried out a brutal at- tack against the workers. One Form of Just before that Mr. Feinstone to- committee. Feinstone at the meeting of the executive board, as well as in the general membership meeting of the central body held October 18 voted to endorse Smith. Feinstone is a delegate to the Central Trades and Labor Council from the United Hebrew Trades. He is a delegate to the United Hebrew Trades from the—, but there is where the thing fails down. Once he used to be a member of the Handle Makers’ Union. This organization no longer exists. Is the gentleman a member of the United Umbrella and Handle Makers’ Union, a later merjver between the Handle Makers and Umbrella Workers? There is no evidence of the fact. He has at- tended no meeting of this union this year nor has he paid any dues. What Morris Should Do! Mr. Feinstone should really resign from the Central Trades and Labor Council! His more ethical friends, FOR TOMORROW ‘Bronx and Brooklyn Workers to Rally Two huge Red Night election cam- paign rallies have been arranged by the New York district election cam- paign committee for the Bronx and Brownsville, to be held tomorrow evening. The following is a list of speakers for the Bronx Red Night. All speakers must report to 1400 Boston Road at 7:30 p. m: Lovestone, Weinstone, Grecht, Nessin, Ed. Welsh, Alexander, Stachel, Frankfeld, Grace Lamb, Le- Roy, Poyntz, Ballam, Gussakoff, Nat Kaplan, Gil Green, Crouch, Eli Jacobson, Gezigian, Glazin, B. Rubin, | victims of the capitalist courts and \eapitalist ‘justice.’ Only a huge Shifrin, Militant, Goes| / ORKERS MUST REPLY | cntmun Ton ris ow» | LUN ANTI-TERROR DRIVE) funetion it is to defend workers com- | itali | sees oeute tines cetie| Only $363 was received yesterday | tions received was $50 from Youngs- sua” otarbaee is i |by the National Election Campaign) town, 0. The Buffalo District sent ies, yesterday issued a statement | Committee in its $10,000 Election| in $30, and Nucleus 24 of Los An- en the case of William Shifrin. It | rive Anti-Terror Emergency Fund,|geles remitted $13.50. From the bg bringing the total collected so far to Slovak Workers Society, Branch 12, “The Tammany grand jury has | $3,212, with five more days to go| Detroit, $10 was received. declared that the militant worker, | before election day. This small sum| Letter From Worker. William Shifrin, must face trial on| was -a considerable drop from the! A letter enclosing $1 was received, a charge of manslaughter. This | $951 received Monday, and in order| which showed how Coolidge pros- decision was reached with the aid of |to raise the necessary sum in time,|perity has pervaded the country: every reactionary force in the Jew-/| workers throughout. the United|“Dear Comrade: Enclosed please ish labor movement, for at the time | States must concentrate more of find the small amount of $1 for the of Shifrin’s arrest even the police |their efforts on the campaign for| Election Emergency Fund to fight admitted that he had struck in or-/| funds, in order to equal the pace set! our oppressors. I will mention to cer to save his life after being mur- | during the first few days of the! you that Iam just barely making an derously attacked by five gangsters | drive. : \eistence. For the past two months, sent by the reactionary officialdom| yyst Fight’ Efforts to Rule Off] all the work I could find was unload- of the Jewish Butchers Union. Party. ing a freight car of cement for one Class “Justice” Victim. It was a real achievement to get| day for $4, and one week I worked “Shifrin is only one of the many | 34 states on the ballot, besides two|putting down concrete floors for more which are still being fought| $26.50. Everything is dead here- \for. Unless the contributions re-| abouts. “And no such thing as or- ceived for the $10,000 Emergency) ganization. Workers are airmlessly the country, and particularly of| Drive reach that sum, it will be in-|trudging the highways between New York City, can force the boss | creasingly difficult to contest the| Frisco and Eureka—in pursuit of 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, Nov. 4. The splendid red poster by Fred Ellis, advertising the meet- ing, must be placed in every win- f 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. Throughout the week, every Party member is to carry on per- sonal agitation in his shop about the meeting. Every Party mem- ber should bring not elss than ten workers from his shop. All Party members are’ in- structed to attend the Party membership meeting promptly protest movement of the workers of sian revolution at Madison Square| gether with other such “socialist” Garden on Sunday should be attend- lights in the Central Trades and La- ed by every ous worker} bor Council, as William Kohn, presi- in ‘New Yor ery work-|/dent of the Upholsterers’ Union, ers*who a versed with the} Abraham Lefkowitz of the Teachers’ after work, at Manhattan Ly- { ceum, 66 East 4th St., on Friday, f Nov. 2, 6.30 p. m., to receive im- portant last minute instructions in connection with Election Day M. Silvis, A. Stein, E. Epstein, Vosk, | courts to free him. The New York | very possible attempts to rule the! any kind of a job. Nothing is to be Jy Gerson, Joe Cohen, I. Cohen, P.| Section of the International Labor | Workers Party off the ballot in some/had. The ranchers and farmers are Shapiro, Bydarian, Peer, B. Guss-| Defense, which led the fight to save |of the 34 states which already have|the regular type of hundred per kaoff, Kagan, Blake, Moreau, Rees,| Sacco and Vanzetti, Greco and Car-|@ Communist ticket. |cent dollar-mad exploiters. Should z | The largest contribution received |I ‘strike oil,’ or get regular employ- for instance, Norman Thomas should tell him that he has no right to be there. He should give up his $100 job with the United Hebrew Ss con: The re well “blessings” bosses’ government | Union (to be sure not a “real” so-| Trades! He should consider giving] Zimmerman, Boruchowitz, | Gold,|tillo and other victims of the capi- ved | © ; ; are: with ‘and Gitlow. We cialist!) and various others voted to| up his strikebreaking activities—all| Liebowitz, Wortis, Winogradsky, talist frame-up system, calls upon | yesterday was from Los Angeles City | ment, I'll do my part in helping the |) t:0) Campaign will be there!” endorse Al Smith at the recommen.|of. which, of course, will never be|Potash, Bleecker, Sazar, Schiller, {ll workers to smash this new| Committee of the Party, which sentjcause. Fraternally yours, W.|| “yy Reap ake eles aan Peter Darck, Window Cleaners’ dation of a non-partisan political) done voluntarily by those who act) Zweiben, E. Shafran, N. Wilks, Sil-/frame-up and set William Shifrin |" $150. Among the other contribu- Quealey, Ukiah, Cal.” ilies AEXOIG4 BS Hurtsot inde Union. |campaign committee. Lefkowitz was, the part of socialists by day. and kowitz, Wise, Cibulsky, Koretz, Taft, | free. mittee of 1,000 to have charge of “While I am not empowered to| himself a member of the Queens support Al Smith by night. FOSTER, GITLOW PARADE speak in the name of the union of! which I am a member, I know that| the majority of the window clean- ers will turn out in the only work- ers’ parade since the w We win- dow cleaners have felt the brutal hand of capitalist oppression and ex- ploitation. There is only one work- ers’ party in America, that’s why we workers will vote for Foster and Gitlow. There is only one workers’ and’ farmers’ government in the World, that is why we will attend the 11th Anniversary celebration of the Russian revolution at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.” Michael Gold, Editor, The New Masses: “We'll be there.” (Ed. Note: Gold means the staff of his magazine.) i ee I. L. D. Issues Call. The New York Section of the In- ternational Labor Defense. last night issued an appeal to all its members and all other class con- scious workers to take part in the huge welcome and parade that has been arranged by the Workers William Z. Com- (Communist) Party for Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, munist standard tomorrow at 3:30 -p. m. peal, signed by Rose Baron, s , States: “Tomorrow afternoon the militant workers of Ne’ in a mass wel w York will take part ne and parade in honor of their presidential and vice presidential candidates, William Z| Foster and Benjamin Gitlow. This is the first time the working class of New Y: has been permitted to parade since the World War and the International Labor Defense, which has fought for the right of the workers to parade, joins it un- qualifiedly. “The Workers (Communist) Party is the only political party that sup- ports the work of the International Labor Defense and co-operates with it in every possible. way, and the I L. D. therefore welcomes the oppor- tunity to take part in this mass demonstration arranged by the Workers Party. The parade must be made the occasion for the rais- ing of the slogan of the immediate release. of all c war prisoners and the cessation of the attacks of. the capitalist courts on the work- ing class. The N York section of the Internationz abor Defense therefore calls upon all its members and every other class conscious worker to strengthen our work by taking part in the big parade to- morrow.” * * T. U. E. L, Local 9. Local 9 of the Trade Union Edu- cational League yesterday issued a * call to its entire membership to at-| tend in mass the demonstration to greet Foster and Gitlow at the Grand Central Station. “After the greeting at the station,” the call reads, “our entire membership will march with our two standard bearers to the Workers’ Center, in prepara- tion for the huge demonstration in Madison Square “ * Pocketbook Workers Will March. In its call to the membership yes- terday, the Progressive Pocketbook Workers Club stressed the fact that since “we progressive pocketbook workers have endorsed the Workers (Communist) Party as the only Party that fights for our interests, we must follow up this endorsement by an active participation in the wel- come demonstration and the parade.” Young Cloakmakers to Rally. “Tl members of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League who are members of locals 2, 9, 10, 22, 35 and 41 will gather tomorrow, not later than 2:30 p. m. in front of the head- quarters of the Cloakmakers’ Union, 36th St. and 7th Ave.” reads the call of the militant left wing cloak- makers. “After the meeting,” the n on Sunday.” | statement continues, “we will pro-} ceed to the Grand Central Station to participate in the welcome to Foster and Gitlow, the standard bearers of 1 Party of the Class Struggle! rae Co-op Will Participate. The Unity Cooperative calls upon all its members to participate in the Red Parade tomorrow, at 2:30 p. m., at the Grand Central Station, to greet the candidates of the Workers (Communist): Party, William Z. Fos- ter and Benjamin Gitlow. “Let us join this demonstration of working class solidarity” the Cooperative statement reads, “by marching through the streets of this great WHAT TO DO DURING LAST 4 DAYS OF THE €AMPAIGN |, a Iss) Immediate tasks for all Party member: gto ¢ 1, Cut out the contribution blank printed in the Daily Worker today. 2. Send immediately Jar, to the EMERGENCY FUND. Election Campaign Committee, 43 the Emergency Fund at once and 7. The Red Election Sundays Terror Emergency Fund. our contribution, of not less than one dol- COMMUNIST ELECTION DRIVE ANTI-TERROR 8. Send the money without any delay DIRECT to the National East 125th St., New York City. 4. It is the duty of every Party unit to take up a collection for to send the money DIRECT to the National Election Campaign Committee. 5. Every unit must assign comrades to take up collections in the trade unions, fraternal organizations and factories. 6. It is the duty of every Party member to collect as much money as possible in the shops, trade unions and fraternal organizations. and the house-to-house canvassing should be utilized to establish the Communist Election Drive Anti- NATIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, Workers (Communist) Party 43 E. 125th St., New York, N. Y. stronghold of Wall Street. Let this be a gathering of all militant work- ers who are fighting to make a co- operative commonwealth of the en- tire world!” * Red Truck From Williamsburg. The members of the Williamsburg section of the Workers (Communist) Party are urged by the executive committee of the section to be at the headquarters, 56 Manhattan Ave., no later than 1 p.m. A huge truck, decorated with “Vote Commu- nist” signs and placards, and draped in red, will carry the members to the scene of the parade. * * Automobiles Needed. All workers who have either auto- mobiles or motorcycles are urged to report to the Workers’ Center, 26- 28 Union Square, tomorrow at 1 o’clock in the afternoon. All vehicles should be brought along. eos Red Worker-Athletes. A call issued by the Labor Sports Union last night urged every worker-athlete, every member of the Freiheit, Cooperative, and Bronx Workers Sports Clubs to participate in the Workers Party demonstration on Saturday. All worker-athletes will meet at 1 o’clock at the Work- ers’ Center, 26-28 Union Square. “Bring your club banners and uni- forms with you too, the call urges. ae A special mobilization meeting of unit 1F, subsection 2A of the Work- ers (Cammunist) Party tomorrow at 2p. m. promptly at 26-28 Union Square, fifth floor, All workers must attend without fail. From the meeting, the entire unit will pro-| ceed to the Grand Central Station to welcome William Z. Foster and Ben- jamin Gitlow. ‘The Workers demands a federal 1 surance in the dent, old age, a all wage earn: be in the hands of the workers, the expenses to be covered by the state and the employers. (Communist) for soci Party Bleiman, L. Rosenthal, Weissberg, Wishnefsky, Solomon and Skolnik. The wind-up meeting will be held at Longwood and Prospect Aves.,| the Bronx. Brownsville Rally The following is a list of speakers for Brownsville. All speakers report at 154 Watkins St. Brooklyn, at. 7:30 p. m.: Minor, Benjamin, Ragozin, Lipt- zin, Zam, Bimba, Primoff, Bieden- shitz, G. Welsh, Midola, Hendin, Mil- grom, Rose Rubin, Chernenko, Julius Cohen, Kate Gitlow, Magliacano, Frank, I. Zimmerman, Will Herberg, F. Gordon, Helfand, Hy Gordon, Blum, Silber, Wright, V. Smith, Cos- trell, McDonald, L. Cohen, H. Ler- ner, Ph. Goodman, Colow, Schneider- man, Ostrinsky, Jonas, Kudrinetsky, | Zeldin, Doroshkin, and Aronberg. | The wind-up meeting will be held at Bristol and Pitkin Avenues. RED RALLIES IN CITY TONIGHT Continued from Page One H. Zam, Nat Kaplan, Gil Green, P. | Shapiro, Edw. Wright, S. LeRoy, I. Zimmerman, Frank, Bleiman, Coop- jer, Wishnefsky, E. Shafran, Zwe- |bon, Lerner, Wise, G. Lloyd, Fish- man, Rees, Nessin, A. Lyons, D. Lyons, iarfeld, V. Smith, Kagan, Pinchefsky. This wind-up meeting will be held at Fifth Ave. and 110th St. Lower Bronx Rally. Lower Bronx—All speakers re- port to 715 E. 138th St. at 7:30 p- m. The following is a list of the speakers: Baum, Padgug, Bucken- | berger, Frankfeld, Primoff, G. Spiro, Pasternak, Joe Cohen, I. Cohen, Peer, Bydarian, Lawrence Ross, Lillianstein, A. Stein, E. Epstein, Vosk, Gerson, Crouch, Powers, Sus- kin, Severino. The wind-up indoor meeting will |be held at 715 E. 138th St. 5 Years Daily Worker will be celebrated in Manhattan Opera House | Satu Cd KEEP THIS of the rday, January 5th DAY OPEN! a ‘N-| branches of the League must report kapp, Richard Moore, Otto Huis-|gt 7:30 p.m, to 86 Manhattan Ave, | wood, Williams, Trachtenberg, Lif-| Brooklyn. and the closing days of the Elec- | the floor at the Madison Square Garden and to report on Sunday morning at 10.30 a. m. in the Garden. Poll Watchers Hold _ |Scott Nearing to Talk Special Meet Monday, in Boro Park Nov. 8} According to an announcement,by| Scott Nearing, candidate for gov- | the Communist State Election Com-|crnor of New Jersey on the Work- | mittee, a special meeting of all poll/ers (Communist) Party ticket, will | watchers’ for election day, will be) address a meeting at the Boro Park | held on Monday night at the Work-| Workers Club, 1373 48rd St., Brook- | ers’ Center, 26-28 Union Square. It|lyn, Thursday evening, Nov. 8, at is imperative that all poll watchers| 8:30 o'clock on the War Danger. Williamsburg Youth Red Night Tomorrow The Williamsburg section of the Young Workers (Communist) League has arranged a Red Night election campaign rally for tomor- row evening. All speakers from the Browns- | ville and downtown Manhattan | be present. Youth Club Donates $30 to Red Campaign ‘ | The Young Workers Social Club, A big part of the proceeds will| at a Red Election Dance held last be given to the Daily Worker. All| * & ‘ k at the Brownsville Labor Ly- are gnvited to attend. Othe’ Suomen: oF thet ® ceum, 219 Sackman St., Brooklyn, » 202, and collect funds for the election| We demand the abolition of the | donated $30 to the election campaign League must report at the same | Tiiontcn of the Workers (Commu- | right of eviction by landlords against | § gid lace. ‘ nist) Party. | wage earning tenants, |of the Workers (Communist) Party. if SEVEN LEAGUE _ BOOTS = 20,000 * | Coy, Ss & e ee . 2. are marching On to the Garden — — . are marching DOORS OPEN AT 1 P.M. THIS SUNDAY, NOV. 4 ~~ Giant Pageant of the Class Struggle atthe 11th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution! ! FREIHEIT SINGING SOCIETY : MASS PROLETARIAN CHORUS POLYPHONIC BRASS BAND IN THE CONCERT OF THE AGE Mass Welcome to the Red Candidates WILLIAM Z. FOSTER BEN GITLOW : at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, November 4 Z Tickets on sale at Workers (Communist) Party, 26-28 Union Square; Arena $1.00, Balcony, 50 Cents.