The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1928, Page 2

b. ) ¥ Confer Tomorrow to CONNECTICUT Ammunition Workers Know War Danger NEW HAV N, Conn., (By Mail). —Workers in the war industry of | this city to William Z, Foster, candidate for president of the Workers (Communist) Party, with the greatest interest here Sat- urday. Held in the huge Musig Hall, the meeting was preceded by a parade with placards demanding “Down With Child Labor,” “Fight the Im- perialist War,” ete, These are vital issues in Connecticut, where tens of thousands of child workers, from eight to ten y of age are ter-| ribly exploited in the factories, Here in New Haven is also the| center of ammunition manufacture, the Winchester Arms, for example, listened | More Coolidge “Prospe: coy has been increasing production of shells and ammunition rapidly the| last six months. This brings home| the danger of war to the workers| of New Haven. | Foster was greeted at the meet- | ing with an ovation lasting several minutes. In~his speech he gave a} brilliant analysis of the republican) and democratic parties, the boss} parties, and the socialist party, the| straw-boss party. He showed howethe socialist par- ty has aided the blackest reaction- | ary elements in the labor movement | and aids to preserve the present| capitalist system. He proved that only the Communist Party fights capitalism on all fronts. RUBBER WORKERS FIGHT WAGE CUT Cambridge Police Try to Break Strike CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 2, (By Mail). — Two hundred workers, striking against wage cuts, formed the mass picket line at the Cam- bridge Rubber Co., this morning as their reply to the edict of the chief of police that more than twelve pickets would not be allowed. Forty police were on the job to do the bid- ding of the bosses. After about two hours of the mass picketing the police began breaking up the lines and making arrests. Twenty-six were arrested and taken before the court, includ- ing the strike leader, V. Haig. After considerable rummaging through the law books no other charge but that of loitering could be dug up. | Those arrested were released with- | out bail and the trial was set for| November 9. The arrested pickets were cheered by the remaining strikers as they | left for the station in four trips of the patrol wagon while they them- selves shouted back singing “Soli- darity Forever.” Due to the active efforts of the I. L. D. all the ar- rested were released by noon and they were met with wild cheers as they returned to the strike meeting from the jail. | Early in the week the workers } had turned down the A. F. of L. organizer who tried to assume lead- ership of the strike in order to be- tray it. Now that the strike lead- er of the workers’ choice was in jail new efforts were made to disrupt the ranks of the strikers by the | A. F. of L. bureaucrats. But the | workers stood firm and are deter- | mined to carry the fight to the end. | Wage cuts ?~e also announced in the Hood Ru_ver Co. at Water- | town, Mass., where nine thousand | workers are employed. Strike sen- timent is reported to be very strong and it is expected to bring these workers out within the week. Form Workers’ Soccer League in New Jersey, A conference of representatives from soccer clubs in the state of New Jersey will be held tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. at 37 Sixteenth Ave., Newark, for the purpose of organ- izing a state workers soccer league. All workers’ clubs interested in,| soccer on a purely amateur basis should communicate with the secre- tary of the conference, Walter Burke, 15 West 126th St., and also Mrs, James McHugh and her nine chil ation. The father, an unemployed truck dri from. Whom did Mrs. McHugh vote for? If sh dates, who voted for more starvation for hePxclf ren, shown above, are dest nd family! rity”; Mother and Nine Children Starve r, left Wis family in despair and has 7 voted for anybody but the THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, * NOV. 7, 1 928 itute and on the v@ge of starv- been heard Joufmunist candi- |Miller to”Teach Class| on ‘Party Organization’ | at the Workers School) FRENCH CABINET PIONEERS TO TELL RESIGNS IN ROW Poincare in Plot With “Radical” Ministers | (Wireless to the Daily Worker) PARIS, Nov. 6.—The “Radical Socialist” party congress meeting at | Angers decided that “the realization of the radical minimum program is impossible in the na- tional unity coalition.” Consequently | four radical socialist members of the Poincare cabinet have resigned, in- cluding Herriot and Sarrault. As a result, the whole cabinet of | Poineare has resigned, | | The Angers congress expressed middle class discontent with the Poincare government, and a cabinet crisis is the reply of the big bour-| geoisie. Poincare is probably plot- ting with the radieal socialist min- isters to intimidate the masses and strengthen his own position. He is pointing out the dangers possible from the collapse of the national socialist | unity coalition. Hees (On the stock exchange prices took! tTict of the Workers Party must see | a sudden drop. The national unity ‘ it that at least one member of jcelebration of the 11th anniversary policy continues even if personali-| the unit takes this class in “Party |of the Russian Revolution and the ties change. Poincare will probably be re-instated with a socialist party | increase as a pseudo opposition. The | Communist Party declares it will! fight capitalist rationalization, im- per’:...st war and the right danger | in the party. | Tuckers’ Union Meet) Will Launch Drive to Rebuild Organization’ | First steps toward mobilization of | the membership in the projected | drive to rebuild the Tuckers, Pleat- ers’, Hemstitchers’ and Novelty Workers’ Union, Local 41, were tak- | en yesterday when leaders of that organization announced a general | day, Nov. 13, immediately after | ters, 16 West 21st St. | The officers of the union will at this magne report on the plans | they ha¥e under consideration for | first steps toward reconstruct- ing the union that was wrecked by | the attacks of the socialist officials | and the bosses. The work in this local is being planned with the lead- | ers of the National Organization | Committee, which seeks to reestab- | yi unionism in the industry nation- ally. Chicago Plans Relief. Bazaar to Aid Workers in the Strike Regions CHICAGO, Nov. 6.—A gala relief bazaar is being arranged by the | Chicago Federation of Working | Women’s organizations in the North- west Hall, North and Western Aves.. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, for the benefit of the victimized strikers in the mine regions as well as the textile centers. Many. of these workers and their families and children are still in| need of warm clothing, food and fuel for the winter. Every Chicago be represented at the conference by two delegates for each team in the club, | worker is urged to attend this bazaar and help thcse struggling workers, The entire republican state ticket ——_ in New York was elected; returns; LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6. (UP).— from all parts of the state showed) The first 99 precincts to report in that the G. O. P. would also dom- this county gave Hoover 14,026 and inate the legislature. ‘Smith 6,290, it PEASANTS FLE iE LAVA Eruption Wipes Out Sicilian Towns CATANIA, Sicily, Nov. 6. (U.P).—| The most fertile vineyards and or- | Moving at the rate of 1,000 feet an chards in Europe had lain at the hour, the 14-foot thick stream of | base of the mountain, but nothing lava pouring from Mount Etna|can be found of them now wherever reached the little town of Mascall| the molten lava has. passed. and crushed or swallowed up all; Although damages are expected to | houses which stood in its path. be enormous, no casualties are re- | Tron railway bridges, steel rails | ported, the inhabitants of all danger of the railroad cncircling the vol-|sones having cvacuated. Along the tano melted long before the wall of | paths and roads leading from the the first mass reached them. Tele- | district, peasants, weeping by the | ohone poles, trees and vegetation | roadside at the loss of all they pos- | were swallowed up by the mass of | sessed in the world, were seen by | avaand no traces of them could be,| the United Press corresn” ‘nt who, " afterward. All was burned, advanced to within a ma! * ards | to fine cinders. _ “tat the front of the stream, | Loe martes (AMAR AR IN ERROR Bert Miller, organization secre- tary of the New York District ofthe Workers (Communist) Party, will begin his course in “Party Organ- ization Problems” this Thursday. Nov. 8, at 8:30 p. m, This course will be a practical course in Communist organization, dealing with the chief problems con- | fronting party organizers in the units, sub-sections and sections. The lessons will center mainly around the following t Lenin, “On Or- ganization”; Piatnitsky, “Organiza- tion of a Worl@ Party”; Jenks, “The Shop Nucleus,” as well as the pro- ceedings of the various organization conferences of the Communist In- ternational. This material will be closely linked up with the first-hand experiences in the day to day work of our Party. This course, which will take up such matters as how to organize mass meetings, how to arrange conferences, how to launch campaigns, how to build up and de- velop shop nuclei, how to issue shop papers, is an essential course for all party functionaries. All units in the New York Dis- Organization Problems.” LEWIS CALLS OFF ‘HIS’ CONVENTION No Opposition, Union Wreckers Declare (Special to the Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Nov. 6.— Virtually admitting its utter bank- ruptey, the Lewis machine has called off its mext scheduled conven- tion and is preparing again to im- |membership meeting for next Tues- | Pose itself, without even the for- mality of an election, upon the em- | work in the Joint Board headquar-|nant of the organization which it/ still controls, The old officers are unopposed for election, the Lewis machine has announced, and accordingly there need be no ballot. The coming con- vention will be too costly, therefore a “referendum” will be sent out to the “membership” on a proposal to dispense with the convention alto-| gether. The miners are fully ac- |quainted with the methods of the | organizations to malte money on the fake Lewis ballots. Having lost all_its support among the membership, due to its treacher- ous activities, the Lewis' machine, it is pointed out, fears to expose itself further at a convention which is bound to display its utter bankrupt- cy. Together with the operators, it is now seeking to perpetuate its company-unionized organization in the mine fields by its usual meth- ods. The new National Miners’ Union, organized on the basis of fighting the coal barons, is steadfastly gain- ing strength and influence among the coal diggers. 1,000 Bronx Children Hit Oustings at. Rally At a children’s open-air mass rally held on the corners of Wilkins and Intervale Aves., Bronx, Monday night, 1,000 children unanimously | adopted a resolution urging the im- mediate reinstatement of Harry Eis man and Bernard Kaplan, ousted Young Pioneers, Among the. speakers were Harry Eisman, Bernard’ Kaplan, the ex- pellel pupils; Jessie Taft gnd e member of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party. Carpenter Killed in Fall of Two Stories Gus Anderson, 42, a carpenter, of 51 Johnson St., Brooklyn, was killed yesterday when he fell to the back yard at 161 Exterior St., the Bronx, from the second floor of a building under construction. Before the fatal fall, he had been adjusting beams, NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 6. (U.P). —The Nashville Barner, a Smith Tis. Workeen paper, over radio st-’"> “T, con-| fights for the & ceded Hoover's ele essee | hh by 7,000 votes, OF PERSECUTIONS: Hearing of Two Ousted| Pioneers Tomorrow Tomorrow afternoon, at 3 o’clock, Harry Eisman and Bernard Kap- lan, Young Pioneers who were ex- peiled from Junior High School No. 61,.the Bronx, for their militant Communist activities, will appear before district superintendent of |schools Wade. | They had been aided in their | struggle by other pupils, also mem- | bers of the Young Pioneers, and the jopinion of the majority of the pu- |pils had coincided with theirs. They {had published a school’ bulletin, |“The Young Spark,” in which they |attacked the negligent administra- | tion of the school, | Several weeks ago, however, the persecution of these pupils by prin- cipal Maguire, which had been go- ing on for months, sharpened, and both' Kaplan and Eisman, who had led the pupils in their demands, | were expelled from the school. At the Madison Square Garden ;Communist election campaign on | Sunday, a resolution was passed condemning the action of the jingo | principal and demanding the imme- |diate and unconditional reinstate- ment of both Eisman and Kaplan. New Masses Ball Will |Be Held at Webster. ‘Hall on December 7 Movement, according to an an- |nouncement from the New Masses, | will be the motif of the forthcoming |"New Masses ball, Friday, Dec. 7, at Webster Hall. Tne announcement reads: “Movement, not of the revolution vet—but of the people who are mak- ing it, will be featured at this year’s hall. “The annual New Masses hall at | Webster Hall is the occasion when | workers and writers and artists of the revolution meet in one revel of proletarian fun-making and relaxa- | tion.” | Natalie Gomez, business manager |of the publication, offers reduced | rates on tickets which are bought in blocs of 15 or more. This method, |she says, enables unions and other | deal. |\Cutter Welfare League T0 LAUNCH DRIVE Organizers Assigned to 9 Districts Organizers. for nine districts were assigned at the fist meeting of the National Executive, Committee of the National Textile Workers Union, assigned at the first meeting of the union, at 104 Fifth Avenue. All but one of the National Executive Committee were present, the mem- bers coming in from New Bedford, A monthly newspaper, the first issue to appear not later than Jan. 1, was decided on. Some news bulle- tins will be gotten out before then, the first number within a week, to textile workers throughout the coun- higher wages, 2. Against the speed- up system in all its forms. 3. For a 40-hour, five-day week. 4. Against overtime; where overtime is per- mitted, for time and a half for over- time. Double time for Sundays and holidays. 5. For equal pay for equal | work for women and young workers. Minimum wage $20, 6. Against piece-work and the piece-work rate system. For week work and weekly pay. For a standard scale. 7. Against child labor! night work, especially for women and young workers! 9. For six legal holidays a year with pay! Women’s Auxiliaries. Women’s auxiliaries in the Na- tional Union will be formed im- mediately and books issued to the new members. Ellen Dawson, Sarah Chernow and Sonia Kaross were elected to be in charge of this work. The following organizers were as- signed: James P. Reid, president of the National Union to District 1 (Lawrence, Mass.); Eli Keller, Pizer, Jessie Troya and Francisco Graca to District 2 (New Bedford and Fall River, Mass.); Ellen Daw- son and Lamiros to District 3 (Providence, R. I.); Sarah Chernow to District 4 (New York City); Gustave Deak and William Sroka to District 5, (Passaic and Paterson); William Murdoch to District 6, (Philadelphia); Lena Chernenko to District 7, (Allentown, Pa.); Sonia Kaross and Elizabeth Donnelly to District 8 (Anthracite region); Fred Beal to District 9 (South), District Conventions. District conventions will be held on the following dates: District 1— Sunday, Dee. 23; Districts 2 and 3— Sunday, Dec. 16; District 4—Sun- day, Dec. 23; District 5—Sunday, Dec. 16; District 6—Saturday, Dec. 22; District 7—Sunday, Dee. 3 District 8—Saturday, Dec. 22; Dis- | trict 9—date to be announced later. | The reports given by the Commit- tee members working in New Bed- ford and Fall River, show the work- ers there have not forgotten who led them in their recent militant fight, and are signing up in large num- bers with the National Textile Workers Union. Jury in Mexico Trial Threatened in Riot; Woman Admits Plot MEXICO CITY, Nov. 6. (U.P).— Tension was great today in the little suburb of San Angel as preparations were made for resumption of the murder trial of Jose de Leon Toral and Mother Superior Concepcion after a riot had forced adjournment last night. All spectators have been bai-ed from the court room for the remain- ing days of the trial as result of the riot, and jurors today were asking permission to resign. \to Meet Thursday Eve | A regular meeting of the Cutters’ | Welfare League will be held this Thursday evening in the offices of the Joint Board Cloak and Dress- makers Union, 16 West 21st St., at 7 o’clock sharp, according to an an- | nouncement issued by, the League’s | The riot came during the first night session. One hundred mem- bers of the Obregonista party, which had been headed by Alvaro Obergon, the man Toral is accused of mur- dering, rushed into the court room yelling threats at Toral, the nun and their attorneys. further acquaint the thousands of try with the work and economic de- mands of ‘the National Textile Workers Union. The demands ‘are as follows: ae 8. Against | officers yesterday. .| One of the witnesses at last night's The meeting will hear the report session was Maria Elena Manzano, of Organizer I, Horowitz, on the who admitted she had plottec to/ work that has been accomplished in| kill Obregon and President Calles at recruiting new membership, in its Celaya “to end my country’s suffer- furthering of greater control of the | ings.” The woman, a dancer, de- | trade and in plans for future work. | nied, however, that she had been The announcement of the meeting urged to this action by the mother calls on the members to attend with- | superior, who is accused of being the NEW MILLUNION WORKERS SCHOOL HAS _ ENROLLMENT OF 2,000 The Workers School, conducted by. the Workers (Communist) Par- ty in New York, has begun its sixth year with a registration of about |2,000 worker-students. This ' insti- |tution is now’ the largest workers’ school in the United States. Ac- leording to its prospectus, it “ac- (cepts the class struggle as the driv- ling force of social progress and bends all its energies to the train. |ing of workers for that struggle.” |Its curriculum is “based on the as- sumption that Marx, Engels, Lenin | in their works atrt-teeds™ ven Fall River, New Jersey, Rhode| the proletariat a science of under- Island and Pennsylvania. standing, organization and action To Issue Monthly Journal. which directs it along its march to- wards power emancipation.” A a The Workers School, its prospec- tus declares, is more than a train- ing school for active participants in the labor movement; it supplies speakers for strike meetings, and organizers for unorganized work- |ers; its student body and the school |as an institution have participated |in such campaigns as the fight for |Sacco and Vanzetti, for miners’ re- Against wage cuts and for lief, aid to the unemployed, and anti-imperialist campaigns. It stim- julates workers’ education in the trade unions of New York and other cities. | The school has developed rapidly since its organization in 1922, Four | years ago it consisted of only five Jor six classes with a total of 60 students. During the past year it | conducted over 50 classes with more than 1,300 students. This year it offers about 100 classes and its students \ total about 2,000. The school occupies the Workers Square. branches Cleveland, other cities, The school offers this year courses in English for foreign-born workers, public speaking, and work- er correspondence; courses dealing with the history of Europe, the la- bor movement, imperialism, the Russian and Chinese revolutions, the history of the United States, of American imperialism, the Amer- ican working class.’ There are also special courses on the theory and practice of trade unionism, on Marxian economics, the fundamen- tals of Communism, historical ma- terialism, the program of the Com- intern, Leninism, the history of ‘the Russian. Communist Party, party organization, the history of the American Communist movement, and some courses on +the social as- pects of conteyfiporary American literature a rama, The teachers at the Workers School include a number of leading members of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, such as Max Bedacht, Scott Nearing, Earl Browder, M. J. Olgin, Bertram D. Wolfe, William Z. Foster, Jay Lovestone, Robert Minor, William F, Dunne and Will- iam W. Weinstone. In addition to its regular courses, the school conducts special training courses for workers active in the class struggle, as well as a public nter, 26-28 Union The schoo] also conducts in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit and forum attracting many non-Party elements sympathetic with the movement, WORKERS RELIEF ‘MEETING TONIGHT /Will Plan Tag Days | for Nov. 17 and 18 Continued from Paga One work, Efforts to raise money and | to get members for the Workers In- ternational Relief, will be intensi- fied. Relief will be made a stronger, more effective organizetion to function ‘continuously, with a reserve fund for emergencies. This calls for a |larger membership that can be re- | lied upon to carry on the work, not \only during a strike, but between such emergencies. The demands of destitute workers for help are con- tinuous. We. must be prepared to offer them the aid they need, not to send them to charity organizations of the capitalist class, W. I. R. Needs! Help. The W. I. R. has done splendid | Work at New Bedford arfd deserves the support at all times of all class |conscious workers. To the attempt of the textile barons to freeze, starve {and jail the strikers, we have jenewered with food, clothing, and defense. Without our help, the suf- fering of the strikers and their | children would have been absolutely intolerable. Our help enabled them | to fight longer and more militantly. There are still victimized strikers in New Bedford and Fall River that need our help. We must not fail them. In the mining fields many | thousands of militant miners are un- employed on account of their strike ‘activity. We cannot slacken our ef- | forts to relieve their suffering. We | must ‘make the Tag Days on Nov. 17 and 18 a great success. For this purpose the Workers Party will be mobilized. | Factory Girls Strike | When Fellow Worker Is ‘Fired Without Cause TORONTO, Ont., Nov. 6 (UP).— | Because Stanley Lemond, factory |foreman and manager of a girls hall league, was notified his ser- vices were no longer required at the factory, over 200 young women workers walked out in protest. The strike is said to have interfered se- viously with production in other parts of the factory. The girls de- clared they will not return to work unless Lemond is reinstated or un- less some good reason is given why he should beedischarged. | WATER POWER WORKERS WIN LOS ANGELES, Calif., Nov. 6.— ‘and the city officials has resulted out fail since the membership as a) intellectual author of the assassina-| in an increase in wages for mechan- whole should participate in the carrying thru the decisions that will be made at the mecting. |Harlem Unit to Hold Social Saturday Eve An informel social to celebrate the onening of the new Upper Har- lem Unit of the Young Workers (Communist) League, Nov. 10, at 126 131st St. Admission will be free. All young workers, Negro and white, are cordially invited. The | affair'will begin at 8:30 p. m. FOOD PRICES INCREASE. WASHINGTON, D, C., Nov. 6.— ‘ecording to reports by the United | States Bureau of Labor Statistics, | retail food prices in the United States were 2 1-3 per cent higher on | Sept. 15 than on the corresponding date in August, Retail food prices have increased nearly 2 1-2 per cent since Sept. 15, 1927. | tion of Obregon, SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 6. (U.P). —First 36 precincts scattered thru- out California gave Hoover 5,156, Smith 2,224; The counties repre- sented were Los Angeles, Marin and | Contra Costa. PRESS, Inc. 26-26 UNION SQUARE NEW YORK CITY ical trades employed in the city de- partment of water and power. The settlement establishes a 44¥hour week with extra pay for overtime. ‘The Commu! Party demands the | compulsory abolition by |Inbor under the age of 1 maintenance of all ehildren at present employ Negotiations between “the unions | WAGE CUT GETS STRIKE ANSWER Jersey Rubber Workers in Walkout (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Nov. 6.—Revolt against continued intensi- yesterday to the Michelin Rubber Company of New Brunswick, when a walkout began because a wage cut of from three to six cents an hour was ordered into effect. Without previous organizational preparations, and practically with- out leadership, according to the in- formation obtainable, the workers who began the walkout today showed at the end of the day a tremendous increase in numbers, Mass Action Likely. Between five and six thousand workers are known to be employed in the tire manufacturing plant; | however, exact figures as to the |number of rubber workers partici- |pating in the spontaneous walkout \were not yet recorded. | Adult workers, generally the sole support of families, are compelled to 5 Years rger quarters in| fication of exploitation was the an-| The Workers Internationahswer hundreds of workers here gave GERMAN METAL LOCKOUT GROWS |Social - Democrats. in Betrayal Role (Wireless to the Daily Worker) BERLIN, Nov. 6.—The effects of | the Ruhr lockout in the metal in- | dustry, affecting more than 250,000 German workers, is being felt throughout the coal districts. There are fewer working shifts in the mines now. Although the Communist fraction in the Reichstag moved for a con- vocation of the Reichstag in order to provide a benefit for the locked- out workers, the “socialist” labor minister declared this “impossible until the right to unemployment benefit is legally settled.” The social-democrats are doifig |their utmost to prevent the work- ers from organizing their own struggle along militant lines, and are setting their reformist hopes on government intermediation. The social-democratic home min- ister has called’the police to his aid, ordering them to maintain “order” in the strike district. The trade union bureaucrats have instructed the workers to keep off the streets, | but all efforts to prevent the Com- munists and Trade Union Opposi- |tion from enlightening the strikers |about the situation have failed. The | workers are crowding the Commu- nists Party and trade union opposi- tional meetings, ~approving their slogans. * * * BERLIN, Nov. 6.—The metal workers lockout in western Ger- many has spread to the Havover |district because of failure of nego- tiations between the trade unions and the employers, The employers immediately served notice that 6,000 | workers of the Pein and Islid iron works were locked out. There is great indignation among the work- ers throughout all western Ger- many. . « * * MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Nov. 6.— The workers of the factories of Leningrad have sent a telegram to the German labor organizations. en- couraging the locked-out workers and promising proletarian aid. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Nov. 6 (UP).—The Philadelphia Public Ledger said tonight that Hoover had been elected by a majority mhich “is rapidly mounting to a landslide.” SW ee The New York Herald Tribune (republican) claimed at 11 p. m. that Herbert Hoover would win New York state by more than 100,000 votes. work at the starvation wages of $14 to $17 a week. Young workers ‘are forced to slave for even less | than this miserable wage. A large number of the workers employed in the tire plant are French and of French descent, oth- ers are Slavic and Hungarian. of the Daily Worker will be celebrated in Manhattan Opera House 4 Saturday, January 5ht KEEP THIS DAY OPEN! x today. working-class. AMERICAN NEGRO PROBLEMS , by JOHN PEPPER The most thoro and clearest analysis of the problems confronting the American Negroes What the Workers (Communist) Party means to the most oppressed section of the American 10 cents Secure your copy from the - WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 43 East 125th Street,