The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 5, 1928, Page 1

! } THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour For a Labor Party Week Daily = Entered as xecond-clans matter at the Pont Office at New York. N.Y, : Vol. V., No. 262 Publi Publis ing Association, inc., 26-28 Union Sq., d dally except Sunday by The Nation Worker New York N. ¥. 20,000 IN N.Y. RED ELECTION RALLY AT GARDE under the act of March 3. 1879. ON HATES: tn New York Outnide New York SURSERI FINAL CITY | EDITION ? FOSTER AND GITLOW LEAD 25,000 IN GIANT PARADE SILK STRIKERS ENDORSE LEFT WING PROPOSALS IN SPITE OF OFFICIALDOM Demands for Militant Leadership of Paterson | Walkout Passed Incompetent Officials Betray Vote; Refuse to Accept Workers’ Decision (Special to the Daily Worker) PATTERSON, N. J., Nov. 4—An endorsement of the left wing’s pro-| posals for the further conduct of the silk strike, so overwhelming that eveti the present incompetent leader- ship’s betrayal of the vote failed to diminish the importance of the’ vic- tory, rocked the huge general mem- bership at Turn Hall here Saturday night. Only the officialdom’s re- fusal to accept the vote, and their | recourse to rioting in order to pre-) vent its registration, saved them) from admitting the overwhelming support of the left wing by the work- ers and their own discrediting, as a} result of their dilatory and defeatist tactics in conducting,the strike. | Crowded Hall. The huge meeting, which the left| wing had asked for in order to bring| the issues of the strike before all the workers, was attended by both the striking broad silk workers, who are on strike, and the ribbon work- ers, who are not out. More than 1,000 workers filled Turn Hall to overflowing. | The.first. outstanding. feature of the meeting was the reading of the’ left wing report by Gertrude Muel-) ler, the chairman of the education) committee. The officialdom, which had relied or the statement of Louis Stein, ) chairman of the strike committee,| that only five per cent of the work-| ers were behind the left wing, saw they were discredited from the start of the meeting and set out to thwart) the workers’ decision. | Fred Hoelsche’s dry, synoptic Te-| port, an effort to justify the slack} policies of the right wing, failed to) induce any enthusiasm in the Hall.) Applaud Left Wing Report. | It was the left wing report which | called out) the first big enthusiasm | from the workers. | Declaring that the immediate pur-! pose of the general membership meeting was to shaw the silk bosses that the workers have a Union in Paterson, Gertrude Mueller pointed | out that the leadership of the strike | must become active, energetic and| militant since the bosses are still| fighting and the struggle would be sharp. That the leadership of the Asso- ciated Silk Workers Union is not meeting the situation in a militant way, the speaker demonstrated con-| clusively by pointing to the condi-| tions in the Settled shops. “What) are the actual conditions in these! settled shops?” she asked and then| showed that the bosses are still ac-' tive and strong, that discrimination is already setting in, that prices are! already being cut, that the union is| not being recognized, and that the bosses’ whole idea is to restore the old conditions as soon as the strike! is over. Right Wing Defeatist And this attitude of the bosses is} a direct result of the defeatist atti- tude of the right wing leadership in| Continued on Page Three jtence of from 20 years to life im-| by Big Majority ‘WILLIAM SHIFRIN IS FREED ON BAIL Will. Speak at Huge! Meet Tonight On Saturday at 12 o’clock, noon, William Shifrin, militant left wing worker, was released on $15,000 bail from the Bronx County Jail. | Thus for the first time the capi- talist courts were compelled to open \the prison doors to this victim of |a frame-up engineered by the reac-| |tionary United Hebrew Trades and the yellow Jewish Daily Forward in cooperation with Tammany Hall. Judge James Barret of Bronx Coun- ty Court accepted the bail agreed | upon by Shifrin’s attorney, George | Z. Medalie, and District Attorney | Adelman, | Attacked by Gangsters. Shif, was arrested Sept. 10 after he ad" been attacked by’ six knife-wielding gangsters sent by the corrupt right wing officialdom | of the Jewish ‘Butchers’ Union un- he WILLIAM SHIFRIN. For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. Ta anccil UNIONS TO MEET Secretariat. R eviews Year’s Work The Trade Unioh Educational League, affiliated to the Pan-Pacific Trade Union* Secretariat, has re- ceived from that organization the official call for the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Congress, as announced by the,secretariat meeting on Oct. 27th and 28th. The congress will be held in Vladivostock-next Aug. 1 Since the constituent congress of | the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secre- |tariat (PPTUS) at Hankow, China, | May 1927, it has attracted great at- | tention amo pressed peoples of the East, and has | worked tirelessly to drive home to the working class of th imperialist powers the fact that thpir own in- terests are closely bound up with the tremendous struggles of the workers and peasants of the Orient oy higher standards of living and na-| tional independence. Work of Past Year. By being formed in China and at| a time when the Chinese Revolution was at its height, a great part of the work of the PPTUS has been devoted |to the aid of the Chinese trade unions, which were savagely at- tacked by the white terror following the betrayal of the revolution by imperialists. accomplished as well, such as de- veloping the trade union unit? move- ment and revival of the Filipino trade unions, linking up the trade unions of India, which is little less than a huge prison of British im- | Continued on Page Four | der the inspiration of the Forward and the United Hebrew Trades. In defending himself against his as-| sailants, Shifrin mortally wounded | one of them, At the trial the evi- dence against the militant worker was go flimsy that Magistrate Dodge was at first disposed to dis- miss the case, but after the right wing had brought pressure to bear on Tammany Hall, he held Shifrin | |for the grand jury. | Indicted For Murder. The grand jury, after a so-called investigation lasting six weeks, re-, | turned an indictment of second de- gree murder, which carries a sen- prisonment. Shifrin will make his first pub- lic appearance at a huge protest Continued un Page Two |PROMPT ELECTION RETURNS) URGED BY WORKERS PARTY | The National Election Campaign Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party has issued the following instructions, regard- ing election returns: “All City Committees of the Party are instructed to wire the election returns of our candidates to the National Office, 43 E. New York City, as soon as these are obtainable at the, If unable to get the returns at the elec- tion board on election night or the following day, get definite in- | 125th St, various election boards., formation from the board as to gotten. Get the earliest editions of the morning papers on Wednes- day and take returns from these if official election board returns are not. yet available. Check these with official returns as soon Get details as to our presiden These telegrams are not to be sent “collect.” They can be paid for from local contributions, which will not in- as possible. candidates’ votes. the earliest time these can be |, state and local COMMUNISTS WIN Chiang Kai-shek, supported by the! However, other results have been A Glimpse of Thousands of N. Y. Workers in Red Parade Saturday PLAWLOUD-SPEAKER TO DROWN OUT CZECH REDS PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Noy.|tremendous cry 4.—There are 48 Communist depu- ties in the Czechoslav chamber so |the government has installed 9) soiones and other musical instru- |loud-speaker in the parliament in lorder to drown the opposition | voices, Since the Communists have re-| is raised by the Communists, and some even charge that they use trumpets, fifes, sax- ments and the singing of the Inter- national to sabotage the measure. The therefore government is the. exploited and op-| turned +6 the. chamber in, stropg’ forced to install a. loud-speaker in} to | Lorees a number of bills introduced | order to make its spokesmen heard. Thy the government have failed of Every speaker will talk thru the Whenever the reaction- micraphone henceforth. It is not yet known what counter- passage, jaries attempt to railroad one of |their bills through the chamber a_ steps the Communists will take. ‘YANKEE DOODLE’ PENN FRAME-UP FLYERS KILLED CASE EXPOSED Mangled Bodies Found |Deportation Trial of Near Broken Plane Militant Ends PRESCOTT, Ariz., Nov. 4. UP). By W. J. WHITE —Capt. C. B. D. Collyer and Harry! (Special to the Daily Worker) Tucker, pilot and owner respectively! oncpuRGH of the monoplane, Yankee Doodle, 2 j : went to their deaths here Saturday | S¢cution at the second day of the night when the famous plane was|trial of S. Topalschanyi, charged torn to pieces as the aviators at- with sedition and threatened with |tempted to land at Venizier, a min deportation, completely discredited ie pak rans of the avia-| itself when its leading” witness, M. tors were found, torn almost beyond | F. O’Brien, formerly an immigration recognition, today after an all night| inspector in the Pittsburgh district, search by forest rangers and citi-| was revealed in a particularly stupid ‘ov. 4.—The pro- PLAN HAYWOOD For Vice- President Celebration Marks | the Twenty yesterday afternoon roared a mighty welcome to William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, Communist candidates for BEN GITLOW. respectively, at the greatest warking class demonstration ever held in Madison Square Garden—the celebration in honor of the 11th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and the Red Election Campaign of the Workers (Communist) MEMORIAL HERE Ashes to Be on View in Party. Many Cities Coming on the heels of the great “Big Bill” Haywood, whose bluffjRed Parade of the day befor the voice inspired hundreds of thousands|¢vent was a striking geen iar of workers to struggle against their|°f the growing power of the Work- ¥ ers Party. Enthusiasm knew no bosses, will be welcomed home to his) hounds, breaking forth spontaneous- last resting place when his ashes ly in loud cheers for the Soviet reach New York on Wednesday, Nov. Union, hisses for Hoover, Smith, ath. Thomas and other enemies of the T Sh ott workers, and thunderous ovations yee American rapitalists and|{0T the two candidates and their prison guards, with twenty pi Communist leaders who |years to serve in the federal peni- i Sea of Red. /tentiary at Leavenworth, to Amer- ica’s working class he was a he- huge _ arena. of .. Madison ‘loved’ Sedde and class’ fighter, bone! ss Garden was a sea of surging | of their bone and flesh of their) red splashed with the revolutionary | flesh. slogans of posters carried by work- | Haywood earned the persegution|ers. Horns, whistles and other that was ited upon him by the noise-making apparatus were used |eapitalist court by his unflinching! to give expression to the emotions | struggle for the workers. His twen-|of the great audience. Among those |¢y years sentence, following his ar- in the crowd was Charles Bickford, rest on Sept. 28, 1917, been his death sentence had it been|/the Sacco-Vanzetti play now play served. Haywood found refuge in|ing at the Little Theatre. 1921 under the red flag of the Soviet) wintam W. Weinstone, district or- Shared Workers” Life. ganizer of the Workers Party, was S : chairman of the meeting. For eight years he made his home| “When shortly before the meeting with the workers of Moscow, sharing) fo»mally opened 200 Paterson their privations in the years of fam-|ctrikere marched in ‘they were tne (and, counter-revelation “| greeted with loud cheers. Delega- ested alike in all workers, Ami an *|tions of miners and of Negro and ic Negro a ie dheopeare a eared Oriental workers were also cheered ‘workets-from ‘sll lands 5! as they took their places on the yelcome in his home. found a welcome eee t. platform. Ithough very ill when he lef ASfateat aid never fully recover-| Ovations for Foster, Gitlow. ing, Haywood gave all his strength) The entrance of Gitlow shortly for the labor movement up to the|after the meeting started was the day he was stricken down with his! signal for a tremendous outburst. last illness. Foster did not arrive until the meet- . A Communist. ing had gotten well under way as he As a member of the Communist spoke at Newark earlier in the after- Party of the Soviet Union, he was noon, but as soon as he appeared on scheduled on March 18, this year, tothe platform he was greeted by a make two speeches for the Party to demonstration of the wildest enthus- Mcscow workers on the lessons of iasm lasting 20 minutes. thousand workers} president and vice president, would have'star of “Gods of the Lightning,” | ‘chamber of deputies, a gain of four, | ‘ARABS ATTACK zens. It is believed the plane landed at a high rate of speed and struck a rock, dashing it to pieces. The gas tank had been exploded, but the | bodies and plane were not burned.| IN SWEDEN POLL Socialists ‘Lose Fifteen | Seats | BERLIN, Novy. 4.—Eight Commu- | Swedish | night. Miho crash\wab heata bylaipiguen of the smal] mining town, but owing Pt x |to the wild country, searchers did jand the socialists lost 15 seats, de-/ not find the bodies until late today. tailed reports of the general clec-| "Voice ie 1,000 feet above sea tions show. louds, hanging } Phe cause of the socialist losses| evel and the clouds, hanging, low, was due to an increase in Communist | |nists were elected to the aviators to misjudge their landing prestige among the workers, PRS The government party, fearing at one iL that the Communists would gain too much, mustered as many voters as Call Special Workers |possible to the polls, impressing them with the necessity of “saving Earty Meeting Tonight FE eaten All. members of the District Executive Committee, all section | and unit organizers, all members | of the Workers (Communist) | Party and all sympathizers are called to an important meeting tonight at 7 o’clock at the Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., for election work, according to Willian W. Weiustone, district | organizer. Units of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party that meet tonight FASCIST TROOPS 130 Blackshirts Killed in Encounter ROME, Nov. 4.—A strong detach- ment of Arabs, gathered for a ‘sur-) body. prise attack on Italian native troops, killing an officer and 29 men of the, Report Armed, Forces blackshirt squad, according to ad-| vices received here today. | | on Argentine Border The plane fell at 7:30 Saturday} caused the, role. The trial is being conducted before Judge R. M. Gibson, a rabid red- baiter. In spite of haying rehearsed the case *with the prosecutors, O’Brien testified that he had seen a membership card in the possession of Topalschanyi, when in fact, as has been already proved at a previ- ous hearing, the card was only an application card, previously re- pudiated. No signature whatever was found on the card. /¥rame-up Exposed. When O’Brien was confronted by his fact, he was forced to admi. his ake.” The government agents found themselves “up in the on the issue of the literature air” which they clairhed to have taken from Topalschanyi’s shop in Rankin when it was shown that the litera- ture claimed to have been secured was all in the English language which Topalschanyi does not read. The trial, it is believed, has been brought in order to establis a _pre- cedent to be used in the future against all foreign bern Communists. Topalschany: when he .pok the stand in his own defense told the |court that ‘he liad been a member of the socialist party in Rankin, but ‘had dropped out of that party in must come tothis meeting in a |1920 and had not belonged to any | political organization until he again joined the Workers (Communist) | Party_in 1922. He denied any of the literature claimed by the spies and Continued on Page Five the Paris Commune. The day he- Continued on Page Five EXPOSES LORE AS INSINCERE “Too Much Fuss About Saeco-Vanzetti” (By a Worker Correspondent) If there are class-conscious, German-reading workers who be- lieve that such effort which thé edi- tor of the “New York Volkszeit- tung” may have yut forth to save Sacco and Vanzetti was sincere, the following incident should prove en- lightening. After the murder of the two Italian labor martyrs a_ memorial was held at the Labor Temple on 86th St. In a conversation at a restaurant just before the memorial! meeting which he was to address, Ludwig Lore, editor of the “Vol zeitung,” bemoaned the fact*that “so much fuss” had been made for) Sacco and Vanzetti, and was it “worth while” after all? He smiled at the ire he aroused in a listening | young worker, and tolerantly con-| fessed that he too used to get ex: | cited over “such things,” but that} one gets over them in due time, When he was chided that all of | Foster was greeted great ovation by when he arose another to speak. In a masterly speech of un- usual comprehensiveness, the Red nominee analyzed the issues, both facing national and international, t “The he workers of this country program of the democratic party does not differ in any essentials from the program of the republican party,” he said. “Both parties ave the parties of Wall St., the purties of imperialism, the parties of exploi- poor tation of the farmers.” Exposes Role of S, P. Foster exposed the role of t cialist party as the party of petty-bourgeoisie and of the be ers of the working class. Workers Party is the o tionary party and participat struggles of the workers. reforming capitalism, ku‘ throwing it can we emancipation of the w Foster also laid ¢ the Negro prograr Party and analyz showing how th imperialis’ evitably ¢ and war He appeal. workers and revolu- in all Not by by over sthieve the jing class.” stress on jae Workers war danger } among the leading in- perialist war e Soviet Union. workers to vote Communist in vie elections and to join the Workers (Communist) Party. Vanzetti Revelations, Gitlow began his speech by re- ferring to the revelations published lin The Outlook, a bourgeois libera] magazine, adding further evidence lof the innocence of Vanzetti. “The| After the encounter, the Arabs, BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 4 (UP).— Continued on Page Three ‘WORKERS HAIL COMMUNIST - NOMINEES AT HUGE MEET ood Minute on ation sila Groote Foster, Gitlows Workers Acclaim Red Program Eleventh Anniversary of the Russian Revolution In the impres greatest and most ive working class dem- onstration held since the world war, 25,000 cheering, wildly enthusiastic workers invaded street of the Park Avenue, ruling class of New York, and marched down toward Union Square Saturday in the parade of welcome to William Z. Foster and Benjamin Git- low, presidential and vice presidential candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party. To the stirring revolutionary ‘air of “The International” the ‘parade marched in a blaze of red between cheering throngs ‘and under-a yer- itable storm of confetti. The boom- ing of flashlights, the tooting «of automobile horns and throaty shout- ing of the masses which lined. the sidewalks punctuated the triumph- ent march as it went on its enthusi- astic, cheering way. Seated in automobiles, placarded | with Commrnist slogans, the candi- \dates smiled and acknowledged the, |roaring welcome. In the rear of jeach car two Young Pioneers stood jat salute as the cars slowly followed the Red Flag which headed the line. | This is the first time since the pas- sage of the infamous Lusk laws of 1919, which barred the workers’ flag from the streets of New York, that it made its public appearance, As the parade boomed its way to Union Square, where it finally disbanded, thousands of workers, prominently displaying red hats, bands, scarves and ensignia, shouted a lusty roar of greeting to the on- on coming parade. Thereafter for more than an hour tens of thousands of w ers staged an impromptu demonstration in front of the head- quarters of the district office ‘of the Workers (Communist) Party, which fronts the square on the exust side. When the candidates. finally ap- peared at a window, the masses in the reet below accorded them a smpestuous ovation which lasted for more than half an hour. At fali, when the tired and hoarse 's eventually dispersed, it was unanimou reed that New York had just witnessed the most, Stir: , ring and successful revolutionary demonstration in its history. Rain No Obstacle. Despite persistent drizzles of rain all day, at 2 o'clock more than two thousand workers gathered in the vicinity of the Grand Central sta- tion in answer to a call to rally ina welcoming candidates. demonstration to their Pretty girls in red tam o’ shanters, workers with red arm= bands, youths with miniature red flags waited ‘about in the face of the most disagfeeable weather in expectation of the appearance of their standard-bearers. In the side streets leading off from Park Ave. unions, fraternal or- ranizat sports clubs and others ood | »rmation The Appear, “Where are they?” the workers ked one another. In the station the ses were informed that the PQRE itlow train was delayed and would be fifteen minutes late. horns tooted, rattles rattled and workers stamped their feet impas tiently. Near the information booth of the station a group of Pioneers chanted, “We want Foster; we want Gitlow.” was due in at 3 “All over to track 42,” shoutedom ‘station attendant. Workers “Tix {the ropes which fenced off the | sage area. Suddenly, up from the ramp, Foster and Gitlow ap) holding enormous bouquets of © | flowers. Like a clap of thunder shout filled the station. « up in correct marching waiting for the order if Candidates ” ¢ een N is in financial difficulty. | lar ten-werd telegram. night letter, which allows you fifty words for the price of a regu- . i \vian and Paraguayan border that Vote tor Foxter for president and |there had been movements of armed itlow for vile mnt. Support the Workers (Communist) Party. forces near there recently. Y We demand the immediate recogni v Vote ax you strike! against the bi ante—vote ag: You strike and their serv= st them, will some day hale them before the | cheers. revolutionary tribunal of the work- Continued on Page Two \“ mn | work f the Unit Bespectacled business men ‘ooked volve great cost, whereas the receipt of “collect” telegrams would withdrew, They had been gathered | Ministers of the interior and war tant Sar "Gieen, Wel i Nuteken A vote for the hammer and Ihe cites Babich ” Tassalds wil ot {fa amazement as the crowd mean a great expense for ve aiatlonal Office ai irae Nps a about 175 miles from the coast for declined today to comment on un- | mal iie" detenne, ot° the weueice |forget the murder of Saceo and Vans mai out toward the entrance. long, send your teleg the attack. \confirmed reports along the Boli- Union. zetti and those responsible for it and) ‘Hurrah for Foster.” Noise, Excitement. young girl worker threw a