The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 8, 1928, Page 1

} | For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Entered as second-class matier at th Post Of at New York, N. ¥ FIN under the net of March 3, 1879. Pabti Publi Vol. V.. No. 265 ished daily exrept ishing Asnocintion, Suoday by The Nutionsl Daily Worker inc,, 26-28 Unteom Sq., New York, N.Y. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVE COMMUNIST PARTY DOUBLES V OTE IN NEW ELECTIONS OVER; ARRESTS BEGIN IN SILK. STRIKE Defends Girl Striker Against Strikebreaker, Is Jailed ' Poyntz Speaks at Rally Services of Communist Shop Papers Shown (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 7— Bearing out fully the predictions made by the left wing workers in ‘the silk strike here, that a drive of police suppression can be expected after the elections were over, police here yesterday arrested Fred Koo- dary, a picketing striker, even be- fore the election returns were fully known. As is the custom of the bosses’ police agents in labor struggles in periods immediately preceding elec- tions, sharp action against strike activities was somewhat slackened because the bosses do not want the workers to express their resentment at the polls. This contention was borne out in the arrest this morn- ing. Where Attack on USSR Is Being Prepared ARGENTINE HOLD PARTY CONGRESS Policy of the Central Committee Approved; Discuss Youth Will Aid Soviet Union Penelon Group Admits COMMUNISTS OF Seek War to MOSCOW LABOR Keep ‘Peace,’ Urges Jingo CELEBRATES AS . 70,00 ARCH BREAK WITH The best way for the United States to keep out of war to try |to get into one as energetically as ‘. | | possible, : Soviet Next to U. S. in| This was the profound dictum| fi r enunciated by Major Gen. Hanson) ~" E. Ely, noted militarist, at a dinner and dance of the New York chapter of the Military Order of the World | War, held at the Hotel Astor. m Put in Industry | During Past Year fee Y. Wom | An Immovable Citadel EDITION AL CITY WORKING CLASS SECTIONS — “SOCIALISTS” ote for Foster and Gitlow Approves Party. .With Program of Class Struggle an and Negro Candidates Receive More Than 10,000 Ballots in City | The general as well as the many other jingoes present, had just con- sumed a hearty meal and so every- With reports thus far available for New York City only, hy s estimates last night indicated that the Communist vote here | fore Factories Start | has been doubled over the figure secured four years ago. Nearly Errors; BUENOS AI the reading of . the Poland and Rumania, under inspiration from the British and Reinstated RES, Nov. 7.—The Eighth Congress of the Argentine Communist Party opened here with the declaration sub- mitted by the party fraction of Jose Penelon, desiring to be reinstated in Communist International and acknowledging past errors. one was in the mood for an excursion | into the higher metaphysics. “All our wars since the revolu (Wireless to the Daily Worker) tion,” continued the great patriot,) xoscoWw.-. Nov. 7—With the “were fought because we did not great Red Square as the center of have a decent army and navy. The the celebrations of. the eleventh an- next war will be fought for the same niversary of the October Bolshevik reason.” He called on all those Revolution, the Moscow proletariat, present to support all efforts for a over 750,000 strong, bearing thou- bigger army and navy in order to) sands of red banners, marching in French imperialists, have entered a pact of aggression against the Soviet Union. The Czechoslovakian government has agreed to supply munition. If this attack is successful the treaty would give Poland Soviet Ukrainia, and Rumania would get Odessa on the Black Sea. The workers and peasants in the Soviet Union know this and are determined not to allow it. HOOVER VOTE BOOMS STOCKS ON EXCHANGE Koodary was arrested Lecause he| refused to stand idly by while one} of the scabs was approaching to} assault a woman picket. The scab| had already pushed Becky Salzberg in the face when Koodary inter-| fered and defended the woman striker from the scab’s attack. He was immediately arrested and is now out on $100 bail, facing charges | of assault. and battery. He is to) come up for trial in a few days. Hundreds of strikers, crowding Turn Hall, strike headquarters, this morning greeted with an enthus- iastie ovation the introduction, as a speaker, of Juliet Stuart Poyntz, prominent labor leader and Commu- nist. Introduced by the chairman as a comrade from New York who had put pep into the 1924 strike of Pat- erson silk workers, Poyntz imme- diately took the opportunity to state that “this strike needs some pep put into it.” She then expressed re- grets that opportunities were not made by the union to weld into greater solidarity all the sections of workers in the industry, referring to the fact that steps toward mak- ing the strike more general were prevented by the union officialdom. In speaking of the elections which had yesterday sent to the presidency Herbert Hoover, whose platform was to “continue pros- perity,” the speaker asked the strik- ing silk workers ironically whether they weren’t jubilant over the con- tinuation of “prosperity.” She then spoke of the problems facing the silk workers by warning them to build a strong national textile work- Welcoming the election of Hoover) as an insurance of profits expected’ from imperialist investments and loans throughout the world, the stock exchange yesterday went wild on a bullish market, taxing its ma- chinery to such an extent that the ticker was behind the buying 45 minutes at times. In one of the heaviest buying rushes of history, 1,300,000 shares changed hands in the first hour. Meanwhile, before Judge McAn- drews in the West Side Court, stood ‘CLOAK WORKERS Endorse Amalgamation With Furriers Several hundred shop chairmen, representing many thousands of Oscar .Parlie, an unemployed draughtsman from California. He stood, but wavered somewhat, be- cause he was penniless and weak from lack of food. He was charged with snatching a woman’s purse. He! was only one of the 4,000,000 unem-| ployed of the United States who) have not shared in the upward) swing of imperialist, prosperity. Capitalism’s Solution. While the stock exchange was a! scene of wild joy at Hoover's elec-! tion, Parlie stood there, representa- tive of a social problem for which! capitalism has no answer. Or per-| haps Judge McAndrews thought he) answered this problem when he sen- tenced Parlie to jail, remarking that} this was “as much a kindness as a punishment.” The bullish movement in stocks) was aided by the loosening of the money market, call loans being cut to 6 per cent. The buying movement centered precisely around those industrial is- sues with which the interests of im- perialist ventures are most closely bound up. Oil stock, copper stocks | were at the head of the list. Chile Copper, Pan-American Oil, American workers in New York City’s cloak and dress manufacturing shops, met in Webster Hall, lith St. and Third Ave., last night and planned with remarkable © efficiency, considering the size of the meeting, the detailed structure of the new national needle trades union that will soon be established. Cheer Amalgamation. Tt was with great enthusiasm that |, they received the official announce- ment of the union leaders that an invitation had been sent to the Pro- visional National Executive Com- mittee of the new National Fur Workers Union to join with the cloak and dressmakers in the forma- tion of an amalgamated needle trades workers organization. This announcement was made after Joseph Borachovich, speaking for the National Organization Com- mittee, had laid before the meeting the proposals of the N. 0. C. cn the Continued on Page Two HOW COMMUNIST ELECTION Continued on Page Three ‘and Foreign Power, American Smel- \ters, Atlantic Refining and Standard “LITTLE CAESAR” FOU): were! the: sont activerat all. | much in demand, were the issues of motor, steel and public utilities. Os- jear Parlie will read about all this | prosperity while he sits behind bars Broach Digs Into Funds at what is cailed by some ironic twist The policy of the Central Com- mittee in its fight against Penelon- ist opportunism was approved. The various problems, the national situ- ation, the war danger, the workers’ and peasants’ question, the organ- ization of the working class youth and working women were discussed. Imperialist Restrictions. It was indicated that imper' jpressure makes impossible the nor- mal development of the country by establishing restrictions on Argen- tine products in the British and | United States markets, and that the |national bourgeoisie will endeavor |to solve its difficulties by attacking |for American imperialism with the, PLAN NEW UNION |the interests -of the workers and peasants of Argentina. In the struggle against imperial- |ist war and for the defense of the oviet Union, the slogan, “Not a ound of meat, not a bushel of wheat” for the anti-Soviet armies, was approved. It was resolved to give every effort to strengthening |the anti-imperialist league and the organization of “Friends of. Sovie Russia.” es The representative of the Com- | munist International spoke upon the |party’s internal crisis, condemning | |the opportunism and splitting policy lof the partisans of Penelon, point- ling out the necessity_of “argentin- | | izing” the Party, and giving greater | attention to the interior of the coun- | try. | The basic slogans of the congress are the fight against imperialism, | greater work among the masses of | workers and peasants, the work of | trade union reorganization and} unity. | It was resolved to issue a call to} those workers continuing in the Penelonist fraction and to reinstate in the Party the elements who have repudiated the Penelon position. A broad Centrél Committee was | elected with representation from the interior. Large delegations from the interior, including both workers | and peasants, attended the congress. ensure “peace.” RECORD VOTE FOR REACTION Smith Lends Support to “Hooverization” | Herbert Hoover will take up his | job next March 4 as the spokesman | largest vote ever cast for any candi- | date for the presidency. | yesterday afternoon gave him over | 17,500,000 votes against 12,500,000 jfor Al Smith, with about 25 per lcent of the, votes still to be counted. Up to that hour it appeared that |Smith had carried only Alabama, |Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Mississippi for a total of 87 electoral votes. Utah was still doubtful, with Hoover leading. If Utah should go for Hoover, as seems likely,-he will have 444 electoral votes as against 404, the previous record made by Harding in 1920, Among the illuminating evidences of the sham nature of the contest between the two big business favor- ites was an interview given to re- porters by Smith in which the Tam- many governor expressed his satis- faction with the “eminent fitness” of Herbert Hoover thereby lending his own support to “Hooverization,” the Wall Street program of world domination and of exploitation of the working class. is ‘The Workers (Communist) Party demands a tederal tnw tor social in- surance in the case of sicknens, acei- age, md pnemployment for all wage earners: adminintration to be in the hands of the workers, the expenses to be covered by the state und the employers. Returns tabulated at a late hour % three great columns that converged in a human river, flowed thru the |Red Square, before the Kremlin and | |the tomb where Lenin rests, a liv- to BERGER’S DEFEAT ‘APPEARS CERTAIN Socialist Is Repudiated by Workers jing answer imperialist plots) (Special to the Daily Worker against the First Workers’ and| MItWAUKEE, Nov. 7-—Victor Peasants’ Republic. L. Berger, socialist congressman, | Participating in the parade, in ad- chairman of the socialbe side and cheered dition to the workers, by the working mas: were all branches of the Red my, exem- r y in arms, morale and trait ing. Uglyanov, a metal worker, opened the celebration, welcoming the Red Army in behalf of the Moscow} proletariat. | A Tower of Strength. Kalinin stated that the enemies f the Sc rophesied its | downfall ce its birth, but the Soviet Union continues, the! immovable citadel of si ism. he foes of the Soviet Union, said Kalinin, “think that the di: culties, natural within the rapid so- cialist development, are a hopeful sign for them, but in reality our tional committee, according to the latest reports, has gone down to de- feat. Berger was trailing W. H. tafford, running on the republican icket at a late hour last night. The “liberal” whom voters ¢ to campaign apparent ference between his pr that of the democrats, failed to sup- port ‘the so-called man. In addition he pudiated by the worke cient numbers to make his defeat | e hi Incomplete returns s' tively large vote 01 and labor ti ported by the Communists. Many times during the campaign | y ceived e|running for lieutenant-governor re- Berger’ made appeals for a third | party and to the “progressives” ex- | Pollowi ; ae _|clusively without even mentioning | iene Trias ee ae socialists. Recently the Daily lcarrying red banners, artistic sym-| Worker reprinted one ae Bevest |bols of the industrial achievements | Whieh spresred ee eee and clever caricatures of imperial-|@ader,” Berger's own paper. ist figures such as Hoover, Bald- |win, Chamberlain, Poincare; and| similar devices ridiculing the social-| | democrats. | Hour after hour the workers poured thru the historic Red! Square. Continuous cheering greet-| ing the Soviet leaders as the | masses marched before them, the last fo-mations of the workers pass- ing in review barely before the early| All Workers Urged to |dusk began to fall over the Kremlin) Send Immediate Aid towers. Get Seven-Hour Day. “Dear Comrades: I read in our The city of Moscow is brilliantly| South Slav labor paper, where you illuminated. appeal for fund of $10,000 for the In other towns throughout the| benefit of the working class election country many demonstrations are| candidates. Therefore I send you my being accompanied with the opening | last dollar for that fund to protect Continued on Paye Two |the workers in the future, and to progress and. achievements are. in-| | contestable.” New York City Workers Double Red Votes While Socialist Party Loses Heavily | Practically doubling the vote of 1924, with outstanding gains particularly in proletarian districts, the Communist totals reflect the approval of the advanced sections of the working class for the Party of the class struggle. At the same time as the facts herewith presented show, the same proletarian sections in large numbers repudiated the socialist party. mt + saye that what the capitalist are trying to destroy with their courts, police, spies, ete. I am very sorry |that I can’t help a little more, but on Seven-Hour Day | 9,000 votes were registered in Greater New York for Foster . - - ©, and Gitlow in Tuesday’s elec- tion as against a little over 5,000 in 1924. The figures are official as given out last night by the Board of Elections through police headquarters. The virtual doubling of the Communist yote has been effected in spite of the known election steals which, it is believed, have deprived the Red ticket of thousands of votes. With the Red ticket on the ballot in 34 states in this election as against 14 in 1924, final returns for the country as a whole, it is esti- mated will show a vote of perhaps three or four times that recorded four years ago. Woman Leads Ticket Juliet Stuart Poyntz, candidate for attorney general led the Work- ers Party ticket in New York City with a total of 10,621 votes. A close second was Lovett Fort-Whiteman, Negro Communist leader, who ran for state controller, with 10,067. t Minor, candidate for U. S. enator received 9,877. William F, Dunne, candidate for governor Te- 9,242. Franklin P. Brill, ceived 9,719, Vote Doubled. The virtual doubling of the Come _ pmunist vote despite the well known election frauds put over by the Tam- many Hall machine henchmen in various election districts in the face of the losses sustained by the so- cialist party is seen here as a com- plete vindication of the program of the Party which fought the cam- paign on the basis of the class strug- gle os against the socialist oppor- tunists. who conducted their drive with the sole aim of securing votes. In a number of working class dis- tricts, the Workers Party ran ahead of the socialist party candidates, showing a breakdown of the old im- fluence of that party of reactio1 4 The tabulated vote by counties follows: . For Foster and Gitlow: Manhattan 2075 | Bronx 3153} Brooklyn 3231 5 Queens 369....* Richmond 21 8849 Robert Minor, candidate for Uy & Senator received as follows: GAINS WERE MADE ¥ | the reason is my sickness for along) Manhattan pe piley, 1 reals er ccoeee "| Broskiyn a & ie sar.) Queens Thus writes a worker from Gar-/ Queens retsville, 0., enclosing all the money jhe has in the world to help the $10,000 Election Drive Anti-Terror Fmergency Fund of the Workers William F. Dunne, candidate for Continued on Page Two 3 The (Communist) Party. Union Cemetery here today. & 22,461 to 17,888, Governor: of logic, “Welfare Island.” Communist gains for president and vice-president over 1924 follow: sd $415 Yesterday. Manhattan ......... 2088 oe Lea ® ets tee FOR aie 4 Y : 1928 «1924 FOR THE OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NEW YORK. | y,¥*sefdt¥ S48 was received by) Bronx 34 7 COUNT 2! pr 7} * a ms * * {the National Election Campaign rooklyn 122, (By « Worker Correspondent) |Shoe Workers Will Foster and Gitlow Manhattan 2,075. 1,859 1928 1926 ‘Gosinitlen’ for thi’ $t0.00n hind |). Quome 487 css) rr tie ae coral Meet at Manhattan oom ee bes | Juliet Stuart Poyntz) (Belle Robbins) | This brings the total received so far) Richmond 46 nh of H. H. , interna’ *. rooklyn 231 7 } Manhattan 2543 1271 to $5,197. There is still much money ae eee, ct, tae Slee Lyceum Tonite at 8. Queens 369 547 Bronx 3393 1604 outstanding which should be sent in, 9242 ie ara lech ai at mass, meeting | of, stitchedown | Richmond s 21 44 bor bes ae | Continued on Page Three Searle candidate for Lieu- ‘ ; } be ‘ 2 MN oases enant-govi 3 3 $50,000. At the last meeting of \Independertt: Shoe Workers of Great-| TOTALS 8,849 5,371 Richmond 32 35 N oe Will Ss k Meahatiic .. 2198 the local Broach stated that the - f ‘ i, | Trek aR earing 1 pea money taken from the general fund |? New York, will be held tonight The gains for the various other offices for which the workers of | a 3 | Bronx 3426 Gt the union would go towards the |S 8 o'clock st the Manhattan Ly-/New York City voted are even more striking, wien compared with re- , 10,621 5188 | on Progress of the Brooklyn 3447 a t of legal expenses incurred |°°%™ . Ath St, F turns of the year 1926, FOR THE OFFICE OF STATE COMPTROLLER OF NEW YORK. i : Queens 604 Te teal i ‘ Pe a! Direae recite be ay FOR THE OFFICE OF UNITED STATES SENATOR. a 1928 1926 Soviet Union Noy. 12 Richmond 44 While Broach was making a ges-| 700 \ermnan of Ne Clialona lees 1928 1926 | (Lovett Fort-Whiteman) (Juliet Stuart Poyntz)| scott Nearing, noted Communist | — ture to explain in detail the nature| sit’ Board; J, Magliacano, organ- (Robert Minor) (William F. Dunne) Manhattan 2234 1235 Hecturer, will address a meeting at | 9719 of the expenses, although he had|ivo. of the Independent Shoe. Work- Manhattan 2294 1096 . Bronx 3650 1608 the Hungarian Workers Home, 350 Juliet Stuart Poyntz, candidate / not the slightest intention of doing ers’ Union, and J. Potash, of the| Bronx 3323 1430 oe 3658 188 |. ist St., next Monday evening at |for attorney-general: so, Business Manager Priess, iors’ Joint. Boas Brooklyn 3455 1716 Jueens 493 28 8:30 o'clock. The subject of his Manhattan .. 2543 Broach’s lieutenant and one of the PL asters pag ate to attend Quosns ahd M40 Richmond 82 87 talk will be “Soviet Russia: Eleven| Bronx 3393 machine, immediately jumped to his | this meeting and join the union, the | Richmond 32 « 29 rnd = Years Old.” | Brooklyn 3708 * So Sud me i motign. hat re headquarters of which are at 51 E.. a aaie aA 10,067 5126 Workers living in all other bor- | Fe ¥ s 4 cprapaa Merits Wh ct wen 10th St. While the Communist vote for New York City shows a large in- cughs, as well as Manhattan, are urupininey 3 eign to the Corals Com- —_—-— | FOR THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK. |erease in comparison with 1924, the soxaline vote shows a complete de- urged to attend this lecture, in| —a Bae B is Would | enab! of oe Fascists Threaten | 1928 1926 | bacle. We give here the presidential vote for Debs in 1920, and the | which Scott Nearing will premint, | 10,621 ittle er fe ciepom of the fs | (William F. Dunne — (Benjamin Gitlow) | socialist vote for LaFollette in 1924, (the socialists endorsed LaFollette statistically, the enormous advances | Lovett Fort-Whiteman, candidate Fae ae aa geces git and the mem-/ Lecturer’s Life on Manhattan 2088 1087 in that year) in comparison with the vote for Thomas in 1928: made by the Soviet Union in the for comptrolier: % 5 my t eleven years towa ialism. q plete ignorance as to the details of ‘Italia’ Expedition Gabeas 487 vty HOW THE SOCIALISTS LOST GROUND. Rah Gs aoe aaa | yo aa Ser d legat iture. reed ‘ i | i bak Ada ccnamhag aaah PRAGUE, _Czecho-Slovakia, Richmond 46 25 Counties Thomas, 1928 LaFollette, 1924 Debs, 1920 | FARMER DYING OF BURNS. | — Brooklyn 3658 We want to'warn the membership| Nov- 7 (UP).—Professot F. Be- : oa ae « Manhattan .........14,806 46,434 46,049 TORONTO, Ont., Nov. 7.—Suf- Queens 493. that unless it takes more militant | hounek, meteorologist on the No- , 924: 4925 Bronx - 8,678 30,594 32,923 fering from critical body burns,! Richmond . steps and demands complete ac-| bile Arctic expedition last sum- | FOR THE OFFICE OF LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.| Brooklyn 23,882 51,906 45,100 [George Ferguson, farmer is fight | Continued on Page Five mer, has received threatening let- 1928 1926 Queens 1,764 17,311 6,143 ing in a hospital today for his life, Peete NR cen ters from Italy, warning him to (Franklin Brill) (Franklin Brill) Richmond 240 2,258 712 which he risked heroically to save KLUXERS CONTINUE ANTICS | discontinue his lectures about the Manhattan 2198 1183 three sons. | ARKANSAS JINGOES PAMMONTON, N. J., Nov. 7] expedition, according to the news- ® Bronx 3426 1548 TOTAL ...... + 49,370 148,503 130,927 ‘LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Nov. ay \. fiery evoss was burned| paper “Abend Zeitung.” Behounek Bi Brooklyn 3447 1782 / BROADWAY GAMBLER BURIED. (UP)—A referendum + night in front of Messena| was ‘onv -of the half dozen sur- Queens 604 395 Thus the decline of the socialist party vote in Greater New York) RIDGEWOOD, N. Y., Nov. 7, —|the teaching of evolution in vee The cross was set ‘up after] vivors of the dirigible Italia Richmond 44 38 from 1920 (Debs) to 1926 (Thomas) is a decline of nearly two-thirds. The body of Afnold Rothstein, slain| kansas schools eppar _ dark and was not discovered until| wreck. He had lectured in Berlin " —_— — Communist increases in congressional districts showed the same Broadway gambler, was buried in|adopted by an : ? ht} and Hamburg, * e719 4946