The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1928, Page 1

HOOVER, CHOICE OF WALL STREET, ELECTE THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party second-class utter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879, FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V., No. 264 Published daily except Sunday by The Nations! Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 26-28 Union Sq. New Y: N.Y, "NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1928 SUBSCRE Oe New Y. Price 3 Cents 7 matl, $6.00 per ye: BIG COMMUNIST VOTE; SOCIALIST PARTY LOSES HEAVILY EARLY RETURNS 4.000 Anii- INDICATE LARGE RED INCREASES NY Workers Repudiate Yellow “Socialist” Vote Seekers Betrayers’ Loss Heavy Tammany Steals Many Red Votes ‘The complete discrediting of the socialist party before workers of New York was best indicated when the final re- turns in ‘the 23 assembly dis- _ Fascists in _ Jail Attack | BASTIA, Corsica, Nov. 6— |Nearly 4,000 anti-fascist workers | stormed the prison here tonight, de- manding the release of comrades who had been arrested a few hours before. The arrests were made during a demonstration outside a building |where fascists had held a banquet. | after the banquet the Italians sang | fascist songs and a crowd which |had gathered nearby drowned them cut by si.ging the Marseillaise. The blackshirts threw money to the anti-fascists and, after a heated exchange of words, the demonstra- tion grew into a melee in which the Italian consul general was injured MOSCOW HAILS TWELFTH YEAR OF SOVIET RULE Surpasses All Countries of Europe in Activity Big Electric Projects Great Increase in Oil) Production (By Wireless to Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Nov. 6.— The final preparations for the 11th anniversary celebrations of the Bol- shevik Revolution are now com- plete. Moscow is decorated appro- Berlin Meet Hails USSR Anniversary (Wireless to the Daily Worker) BERLIN, Nov. 6.—In line with the conferences and demonstrations going on throughout the world in celebration of the eleventh anniver- sary of the Soviet Union, a confer- ence of German workers was held today in Berlin. Celebrations are taking place on Nov. 11 in Paris, Brussels and Buenos Aires, on Nev. 26 in Prague. Even countries where white terror is in power show great workers’ demonstrations. At today’s Berlin conference there were many delegations from Berlin fagtories, including 35 socialist party members and 58 Communist Party members, as well as a great rumber of non-party workers. Speeches were made on the ad- vance of socialist economy in the RED MEETING I ‘PHOENIX, ARIZ Hold Rally in Open Lot Despite Jingo- Inspired Attack Bloor, O’Brien Speak | To Defy Official Ban. at Meet Tomorrow . (Special to the Daily Worker) PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 6.—Police. acting under pressure from the American Legion and the Ku Klux Klan, last night broke up an elec- tion campaign meeting of the Work- POLICE ATTACK ‘Man PLAN TO JAIL B62 STRIKERS Massachusetts Mode of Hailing Hoover U.S. COMMUNISTS WORKERS PARTY MAKES Foster, Gitlow Ahead of Socialist Party in ‘Many N. Y. Election Districts Southern States, Barring Negroes From Polls, Give Vote to Smith Herbert Hoover, member of the Harding-Coolidge “dynas- ty,” favorite son of Wall Street, chief spokesman of blatant American imperialism, has been elected president of the United | States. For the next four years the man who more than any = other now symbolizes Ameri- can efficiency exploitation of the working class will carry out the dictates of his masters he has served throughout the w Ww FOUGHT TERROR { t t | PRESIDENT: . « when he attempted to restore order | priate to the occasion. Buildings |Soviet Union and against the war : Smith Loses New York. ( tricts a New pee eouaty, Police arrested a number of are illuminated and public places or- | danger. In the afternoon session |ers (Communist) Party held on the (Special to the Daily Worker) | i : The early loss of New York State gave Thomas 8,088 as com-| Frenchmen in ‘he anti-fascist group. |namented in a manner graphically |the conference approved the found-| Plaza here. A permit for the meet. NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Nov. 6. Defied Legion, Klan, upon which the Tammany forees pared to the 46,434 votes|Comrades of the arrested men met representing the rapid economic de- | ing of a national committee of the |:.. had been revoked at the last Tain Boss Pai; had banked so confidently was the Which that party received in/at Saint Nicolas Place and marched |velopment) during’ the past year, | Society of the Friends of the Soviet | iinute through the influence of the |. hens Peatne, saloway OSs Folce |first clear evidence of the landslide ; 1924. $ to the Italian consulate, thence to | The industrial exhibits are eloquent | Union, A Berlin committee was jiigo organizations. Pit jailing of all the most ac-| yy oe ; .__|by which Hoover was swept into , - Partial honed in to| te Prison. They broke windows | testimony of the great strides made | clected at once. "he police refrained from arrest-\tive members of the New Bedford | __DUting the election campaign power. Incomplete returns at a ae ae 4 rise i TO) and doors in the prison before they |in ‘that field, which simultaneously ————— ing or attacking any of those pres-| Textile Workers Union for their ac-| Which has resulted in the elec-|iate hour last night indicated that j ite stanly Y a ee het Var-| withdrew. Serene fete: eae ielaiee further’ steps wna ue ent, evidently acting under orders |tivities in leading the textile work- | tion of the favorite son of Wall beside New York, Hoover carried ‘ lous New York precincts in-| were arrested. cares oe ee 4 “= WORKERS HONOR to prevent the meeting, but not to/ers here in a six-month anti-wage Street, so well fitted by ex- Ulinois, Penn vania, Michigan, H j dicated an increased Commu- | ae re age oe “hoe pa ade Pa | arouse public resentment by a rep-|cut strike. Perens ere Maneviecn Oh ie aa deat, the coun 4 nist vote over four years ago.| Higreeaieees ak “ta the cemnotede Soe the Warton Parte t NCH) ‘That this is not an exaggeration |perialism in its heyday of power,|sioq Baith’c seteay oy ne enn i At a late, hour it was clear | parts of the Soviet Union. AYWOOD T00 AY against the Workers Party. of intentions of the viciously labor-| the Workers (Communist) Party, division of the other states, Ie na | two dig “g rpm eakad PICKET BOOTHS A bags new factory for the man- ise from hearing the Communist elec-|State District Attorney Crossley, |ever waged for the working class in tte epee ee eer ye se ait pene esa be Pris aca with «| Ashes at Manhattan |tion message, Ella Reeve Bloor,|iho is quoted in the local press as |an election campaign in the United Kentucky and possibly Florida: olay fl York City. Owing to the op-| esas intr’ b abet ty yee jnoted labor veteran; William | saying that he is out to get all the |States against the three parties of have been lost. by the democrai | position of capitalist party ee Watch ereatee trenke too cali caae| Lyceum From 12 to 9 |ovprien, Communist candidate for|Icaders of the left wing New Bed- |capitalism, has of cource sncuniared! "19 ‘elodtion of Hoover. falle i 5 ae : i 5 “Ov ff Ari and Robert stile W Jnion. |the hostility of all el 1 ? Oe § raat officials _ vigil to Jersey at gg) “ “ worth of goods, will open tomorrow. The ashes of William D. Hay: | frasphy ares pag i chad apeal, eae on ssi RA ome ak oa Sauls pleco peainplotely, with the imperialist war . | obtain.an accurate: accounting, Their Class: Vo Many othes "factities have’ also | ood, Commimist tighter and leader | ors, took the crowd to a private open | a4 ty oirtin he weeny oe its government. This Infemee. hoe ee eet CaNet Deere | of votes for the Workers ry ‘ jopened fot the first time, marking | or" \orking class struggles in this|lot donated by # sympathizer. Here district eltornes. added alist of the |tility has been, expressed in various |H00ve? is im-adept at utilizing ' (Communist) Party in New, (Special to the Daily Worker) |a great advatice for the city of Mos- | country over a period of 30 years, (a successful iheeting rae. hill. aaa ates Tedtlers. whose ax. (forte of perdoeution, attempted in. ae ON a extent all ero £ York City were frustrated, PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 6.—/cow alone, i who died at Moscow recently, will! ‘The crowd of workers invited|swerving loyalty to. the. striking |timidation, brutality, legal and ille- pang (Acs ite ee ee - Incomplete returns from Kings Very Polling place in this city was | Data just now published by the be on view to the workers of New 'yiother Bloor to return Thursday |tens of thousands of textile works |£al suppression, and terrorism, some repeatedly shown in his long career Ce Bronk 4 yesterday picketed by groups of Peoples’ Supreme Econontic Council | York City at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 dd hold. stiother- meeting on the h ked th the vic- instances of which are reviewed be- | 7°? ry she ong Meares ee ene silk strikers carrying signs appeal- are highly gratifying and show that |, Fourth St. today from 12 noon “7d held ano Sis tes ta ee lows jof systematically starving whole more than 40,000 votes as compare¢e to 1924 while the Communist vote was more than doubled. “ First indications of the rising | strength of the Communist vote came when 15 election districts in _ing to the city’s workers to “vote Soviet Russia's jas of the bosses.” Groups of three and more strik- production and i they strike, against the parties dustrial capital is increasing faster than any of the older industrial | countries of Europe. Soviet indus- ers, which were assigned to each of (try is also participating more in| |the twenty-five voting stations in world industry. Total production | jto 9 p.m. The urn containing the ashes will then be conveyed under escort to | Chicago, stopping at demonstrations in Pittsburgh, Cleveland and De- troit, Plaza, despite the police ban. accepted the invitation. | Workers of this city are stirred up at the official persecution of the Communist Party and are deter-| | mined to go threugh, with the meet- ing Thursday. tims of capitalist vengeance, Strike Leaders, They are: Eli Keller, general or- ganizer; Fred E. Beal, organizer; Ellen Dawson, vice-president and women’s organizer; Jack Rubinstein, é : | populations in the interest of imper- Arrest. Candidate. |ialist aggression. In Wilmington, Del., the Commv- | nist candidate for president, William Z Foster, was arrested together with three other comrades, charged with inciting to riot, when he advocated Reports being sent in by wire”as Wwe go to press indicate that the Communist vote, running far ahead of its vote in the last presidential : : 5; ; : : ee nares ° 1 lections, will be large. The Com- , town, came in the morning and pa. |exceeds pre-war mark by more than| In New York, guards of honor youth organizer; Elizabeth Donnel- | ull equality electi ! z ‘F ° . ae K | y > ‘ - | full equality for Negroes. The fol- * pa aah ae reported | trolled the polls till late in the day. 40 per cent. Over one billion was will be maintained, consisting of | : ley, children’s organizer; all picket |iowing night, Paul Crouch and"! condiiatess! national aa ai Communist standard-bearer, ang.|, Planned and carried out by the | expended last year for factory build- | Communists and representatives of | Floral offerings will be received any | leaders and captains and members Richard Moore and several’ local ®&2, 82 leading the socialists, in Norman Thee imt|left wing in the Associated Silk ings, Production costs have de-| other workers’ organjations. many election districts of New York only 394 for Norman Thomas, so- cialist candidate. | Workers’ Union against the opposi- c:eased five per cent since last year, tion of some of that union’s con-| while labor productivity has © in- f |hour while the urn is on view at All workers are invited to pay | the Manhattan Lyceum. their final tribute to the memozy| At Chicago a joint memorial of *the strike committee, among | Communists were arrested. Continued on Page Five After that the Wilmington police backed City. * *# « Early reports indicated a Smith e |down from their threat to breal: up| servative officials, the successful creased fifteen per cent and wages of Haywood, true rebel fighter, | meeting will be held Sunday in hon- uP] — victory in New York state, but this was gradually cut down as the Hoover returns came in. At nine o’clock Smith had carried the city by a plurality of 400,000, with but 93 districts missing. Up to this time crowds gathered outside of riewspaper offices were sure that Tammany’s Smith would carry the state; as the up-state returns came | in the deluded masses began to re- alize that the heavier of the Gold Dust Twins was the first choice of ‘Wall Street. Kings County incomplete reports show that the Communist vote is| doubled as compared to 1924. In Bronx County the vote for Communist candidates is more than doubled. Smith failed to carry the city by 2 to 1, as had been hoped by his campaign contributors. At 9:45 the city vote was? Smith, 1,065,579; Hoover, 667,415. Towards 11 0’clock Smith’s plurality was cut to less than 350,000 and it became clear he had lost the state. WORKERS RELIEF MEETING TONIGHT Will Plan Tag Days .for Nov. 17 and 18 \picketing of the voting booths | shows still further that the strikers jare rapidly adopting the militant |tacties advocated by, the left wing. | Since last Saturday, when the union |membership meeting, by an over- |whelming majority, voted -support | of the left wing proposals arid cen- the officialdom, the strikers are carrying out the fighting plans the left wingers are formulating for the jconduct of their strike. Show Militancy, The sentiment expressed among |the workers shows that they ap- | plaud the resourcefulness of the left wing in planning the picketing of |the polling booths. They declare that the strike of the silk workers is thus brought to the attention of the entire city. Militant workers Continued on Page Five Pellegra Rampant in Southern Mill Towns; Children Poorly Fed WASHINGTON, D. GC. (By Mail) ~-The United States Public Health Service has just disclosed the fact that pellagra is rampant among the Scuth Carolina mill towns, and that this condition is directly due to poor food. The report states that fluctuations of the disease are bound up with fluctuations in economic conditions. eleven per cent. Electrification Rapidly Advances. The volume of electric current generated is two hundred and forty- three per cent over pre-war. Sev- enty-seven new undertakings have opened this year, among which were sure of the “compromise” tactics of ; great oil pipe lines from Baku, Ba-| tum and vicinity. Seventy-eight are partially opened, that is to say, working part capacity, but not yet ready for full capacity production. Seven-Hour Day Spreading. On the last anniversary 28 fac- tories, employing 125,000 workers, introduced the seven-hour day. This anniversary a law is to go into ef- fect exempting 35 per cent of the million roubles have been appropri- ated for housing and many other drastic innovations to improve the poor peasants from taxation. Fifty | proletariat. jagainst cappitalism in the interest or of Haywood and the Haymarket jof the international |. ' victims, CASUALTIES: CORRUPTION DEATHS AND “DEMOCRACY” _ BAYONNE, N. J.—Robert C. Ring, republican boss, was arrested lice, who said he gave a false ad- |dress, took him to the jail and |charged him with illegal voting. Ce sa CAMDEN, N. J.—Clarence Ar- |thur, Camden policeman, was ar- rested today and held in $5,000 bail on a charge of electioneering with- |in 100 feet of a polling place. A |warrant has been issued for an- living and working conditions of the |masses have been introduced. CLOAK CHAIRMEN ‘MEET HERE TODAY | Will Plan Form of New Union Addressed to all the workers in other policeman on a similar charge. * 8 * CHICAGO.—Chicago, where the dead. are summoned from their graves to vote the republican ticket, |was the scene of graft charges in the elections today when William McDermott, alleged republican, and alleged also to have been buying votes in the 27th Ward, was arrest- jed. Police said McDermott was passing out $1 bills to voters stand- ing in line. He had nearly $200 in |dollar bills when arrested. +“ 8 «© PHILADELPHIA.—Warrants are today as he and his wife voted. Po- | |the state’s attorney general was LL.D. CALLS FOR TEXTILE DEFENSE |Urges Solidarity With .» New Bedford | thrown out of an election booth by @ policeman, | _ * * | PHILADELPHIA. — Among 15) persons against whom warrants are issued for election frauds today, is Windon Bryant, a city councilman. | He was released after promising {o stay away from the polls, ~ + * Aboard Coolidge’s Special Train enroute to Washington.—To show the democratic tendencies of the president of the nation, Coolidge went to the polls at Northampton, | Mass,, today wearing a high silk | hat, * * *. COVINGTON, Ky.—Fred Lyons, of Covington, was shot to death to day during a dispute at the poll. hills. » ee NEW YORK.—To show that dem- ocrats are really democratic, the democratic party has its New York State headquarters at the magni- Calling upon the working class, particularly the militant and left wing forces, to mobilize for the defense of the indicted New Bed- ford textile workers, the Interna- tional Labor Defense yesterday sued a statement in which the or- ganization urged the calling of pro- test demonstrations, the passing of resolutions and the collection of funds in support of the workers of whom the capitalist class is seeking to make an example. The statement follows: Biggest Trial Yet. “To all working men and women, and all friends of the International mass trials in the history of the American working class movement is ing place, His assailant fled to the about to take place at the bar of |lack of space. the superior court in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Six, hundred and sixty-two strikers, who participated in the great struggle of the textile workers of New Bedford, will be tried before a court of the textile all Communists meetings and ar- rest all speakers. Attempt Kidnapping. The attempted kidnappin® of the candidate of the Workers (Commu- jJamin Gitlow, at Phoenix, Arizona, | was frustrated only by Gitlow’s non- appearance on the particular train on which he was expected. He re- Communist candidate for Governor |of Arizona, that caused him to wait in San Diego for further instruc- }tions as to whether the Phoenix meeting would be held or” not. O’Brien was arrested and could not send word to Gitlow, and the gang of Legionaires, labor fakers, Klans- men and city officials waiting to kidnap Gitlow at the station failed in their plot. However, the local papers had gone to press, and the next morning published the state- ment that Gitlow had been taken to Nogales, Arizona, on the Mexican border, When Gitlow held a meeting in Houston, Texas, it was in the small local headquarters, the only room of Robinson Center, 51 miles south | Labor Defense: One of the biggest | available because all hall owners had been intimidated by the f Hundreds had to be turned a Then the meeting | was broken up and six comrades ar- rested. Two of them, L. J. Kelly }and Harry Lawrence, were’ fined | $100 each. The only charges against them were based on their distribu- |tion of anti-lynching leaflets, and nist) Party for vice-president, Ben=| . ceived word from William O’Brien, | Communist Vote Not Known, Only fragmentary election re- ms have as yet been received as edition of the Daily Worker to press. The vote cast for the working class party, the Work- (Communist) Party, is not yet It is already apparent that election officials have cast out many Communist ballots, or are counting them for one or another of the three parties which uphold and serve capitalism. The results of this elec- tion will register a considerable ins crease in the ever-growing strength of the Workers (Communist) Party, although without doubt thousands of the votes of class-conscious work- ers for Communist candidates will never be credited to them. goe Barred Negro Vote. Reports from. Southern states are that the open and flagrant exclu- sion of all Negroes from the elec- tion booths exceeds all past records, Smith appears to have carried the Southern states generally, although gome exce ms may develop. | * eo Wall Street Favorite Leads. y night it became ap- from even the incomplete re- which came in that the repub- didate of Wall Street, would win, With New York state returns indicating a de- feat for the Tammany governor even in his home state, with Ver- mont, + Ohio, Pennsylvania, New c A * issued here for 15 persons for al- ficently luxurious Biltmore Hotel | p, What is the basis of thi root 4 vertisi Hampshire and Illinois practical); ? Tt is also stated that the disease is| the ladies’ garment manufacturing | i ylolatt if lnee inst M | bosses. at is the basis 0! 18 carrying a placard advertising the pshire : om Pi iy All workers assigned by their | rom two to six times greater than | industry here, a call distributed bye sStdalent pig against A] Smith, who has made speeches | trial? meeting. certain in the republican camp, it units to work on the drive of the Workers International Relief for funds and membership, will meet to- night at Labor Temple, 14th St. and 2nd Ave., Room 82, at 8 p.m her workers who will participate inthis important drive to enable the Workers International Relief to function more effectively and con- tinuously where help is so badly needed, will also attend the meeting, at-which plans will be made for the Tag Days, on Nov. 17 and 18, . Need Funds Immediately Funds must be raised immediately the relief of the sufferers in the textile and mining fields, where our relief stations have to be maintained. usands of strikers still need:help, we cannot fail them. There it be no slackening of our relief physicians report. Children who are for the most part not properly fed, between the ages of 12 and 15, are the victims. The primary cause is clearly traced to the effect of low wages, the existing condition in these southern mill towns. Court of Appeals Balks in Case of Oil Grafter WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. (UP).— The District of Columbia court of appeals failed today to hand down an expected decision in Harry F. Sinclair’s appeal from a_ three months’ jail sentence for contempt of the senate in connection with the Teapot Dome oil investigation. The’ the thousands in the shop district by the National Organization Com- mittee, announced the holding of the regular monthly conference of shop chairmen and delegates .for to- day, immediately after work, in Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave, * The leaflet called upon every worker to see to it personally that his shop is represented at the dele- | gates’ conference, whose monthly meetings have developed into one. of the most popular institutions of | the workers in the labor history of | the industry. | registration. |Judge Sullivan released him, al- ie, Se ae JERSEY CITY, N. J.—John Ken- nedy, democratic ward-heeler, was arrested at the polls today for false But Criminal Court though sending evidence to grand jury. * * * ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Detec- tive Captain Frank Peretti, republi- can, was arrested today at the polls in the 4th Ward, charged with as- sault with intent to kill. Samuel Martino, democrat, accused Feretti Call on Furriers, } After explaining that the confer- ence is to take up for consideration the plans for building, the union. | , when Martino challenged of slugging him with a blackjack persons whom Feretti wanted to vote. Fer- etti is held in $1,000 bail. i a a | {during his campaign about armed forces of the nation being used against Latin American peoples, showed he was against militarism by going to the 7ist Regiment arm- ory to get election returns, «oe MUSKOGEE, Okla., (By Mail).— The registrars of Wagoner and Muswogee counties refused to reg. ister Negro voters during the reg- istration period. This was disclosed _ yesterday by the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Colored | People. After registering white vot- ers only, registrars concealed them- | selves and circulated a report that j they had resigned from office be- fore Negroes applied. The U. S, assistant attorney gen- eral has advised the National Asso- “Workers on the picket line were attacked by the police, without any cause gxcept that they were strik- ers, and were mistreated, beaten up and persecuted in brutal fashion, Not satisfied with that, the bosses’ “justice,” directed by the mill own- ers, now manufactures out of the brutal interference of the police a trial against the textile workers, 888 Fake Indictments, “In 888 indictments the accused strikers are charged with unlaw- ful picketing, with inciting to riot, with resisting police officers, and with not obeying police instructions. “That the prosecutor does not have the shadow of a proof against | mass protest forced the authorities | ers (Communist) Party late last the accused, that he turns the facts Violence in Midwest. In Wheeling, West Virginia, sev- eral meetings were broken up and finally Scott Nearing was, arrested | for “disturbing the peace.” I. Am- |ter and a number of others wer ar- | rested in Martins Ferry, Ohio, ‘after |the police had repeatedly dispersed the workers gathered to hear Com- came evident that the Harding- Coolidge Ohio gang regime had been voted a new lease for four years, Hoover was then running stronger even in some southern states and was actually leading on early re- turns in Vir, aryland and al- most even with Smith in Texas, States in which Hoover was lead- munist speakers and threatened vio- | ing at 9 o'clock are: Connecticut, In- lence against all Communist speak-|diana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, ers who tried to hold meetings. They Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, | wore later forced to back down and|New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsyl- \issue permits for meetings. |vania, Souch Dakota, Vermont, Vir- |. In Arma, Kansas, the Communists | ginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin |had the same experience. After two |-~-200 electoral votes, meetings had been interfered with,| \The National Office of the Work- ‘to give Communists permits. Hugo night expressed confidence that the a t ai ise | f a i upside down, is not pecular in a|Oehler and three other comrades | vote for the Party is larger in all preparatory to the national conven | ALBANY, N. Continued on Page Two next decision day will be the ara Monday in December, Continued on Page Five Y.—In one district ciation to register their complaint | here a deputy from the office of | with the local U.S. district attotney. | trial where the-only “crime” com-|were arrested, however, charged t Continued on Page Five Continued on Page Four Fee. G of ie thirty-four states where : didates appear on the ballot.