The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1928, Page 1

| THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS | | For a Workers-Farmers Government FINAL CITY EDITION To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party aily Entered as second-class matter at the Poxt Office at New York. N. Y.. under the act of March 3, 1879. Vol. V., No. 267 Publighing Aucoctation, Ines 26-28 Union Sa, Me NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1928 _ Price 3 Cents Outside New York, by m ELECTION STEALS FAIL TO MICHELIN PICKET CONVENTION CALL HOQVER ON BATTLESHIP. TO LINE DEFIANT AS cau tor sixth Regular Convention of Workers s ; ? a Districts Make Good | Showing» Dirwicee Hieli Fail COMRADES: eS Le ings al It is now over a year since we have held a national Party | to Smash Line of 500 © convention. During this period there have occurred im- by Beating, Arrest portant new developments in the objective conditions con- | fronting our Party. Our Party has spouse ay ee of | 4 : | leadership in the struggle of the working class and the op- /One Picket Is Jailed pressed masses in the United States against the exploitation ‘Hundreds Meet in the and oppression of the American imperialists. Z ‘ ee Our Party is no longer a mere Communist propaganda |Woods; Promise Relief society. Our Party is today an active Communist organizer | (Special to ike Daily Worker) of the working class and oppressed masses. | MILLTOWN, N. J., Nov. 9..@The Very urgent tasks confront our Party: The problem of | assault of plain clothes thugs, under, fighting the war danger and American imperialism; of or- | county sheriff Hanna, on this after-| ganizing the unorganized; of winning away the masses from eee mass picket lines of 500 men) the reactionary trade union and sociajist party bureaucracy; peel Tugen Berurara at the: Michela. of developing a powerful revolutionary movement among the Tire Co. here failed completely to} ‘destroy the demonstration of the| Negro workers; of sharpening the fight against the Right | | 17 Workers Die In Huge Factory Explosion South America, Mexico Ordered to Receive Wall St. Ruler | Defeat “Socialists” in| Workingelass Areas | Watchers Report Ma Vote Steals «Maintaining forecasts of sub- stantial Communist election gains throughout the country, returns from a number of cities and sections reported yesterday | show that the red ticket re- ceived several times the votes re Ott ee workers or their determination to, danger and its crassest manifestation, Trotskyism, which ing, al fight until their demand for wage) i i * i proleta in sections confirm the) Lucy Parsons, widow of Albert| increases has been granted. Desnite| pee hors me oe paras: ot “sea bs cate pats claims made for the Party of the! Parsons, one of the victims of the|the sheriff's orders for all leading} OrSanization through improving its socia! composition, actiy- class struggle. In many of these Haymarket frame-up who was hung |Pickets to “get out of Milltown and) izing its units and rooting the Party more firmly in the Sechions' the Workers Party ran-de-). ta heel athe |stay out,” a meeting of the Strike| factories, especially with a view of preparing our ranks to cisively ahead of the socialist can-|" © teago Nov. 11, 1887. Mrs.| Committee convened quietly in the| organize the increasing resistance of the workers and to beat oe Parsons is a member of the National atmosphere of incipient company and] pack the wing attacks of the capitalist class; the com- Increasing evidences of election| Committee of the International La-| county terrorism. Word over long} leti re eee ificati Thi 1 t steals no less uniform than the Com-| bor Defense and spoke at the Na-|‘istance telephone that the Strike Pleting of the y unification. ese are only amongs munist election gains are accumula- | Committee meeting was convening is| the leading problems pressing for solution. ting. Devices to deceive the voters, : jthe latest news received from the rder to mobilize all ergies, resources and best lefacement of ballots deliberate vote| Workers (Communist) Party last) scene of the strike struggle. mes Pee epee resource Coolidge Fixed Tour Before Election “Official” Trip Like Royal Tour PALO. ALTO, Calif., Nov. 9. —wWith the pomp of an emperor demanding the prostration of his subjects before the might of ancient Rome, Hoover it was disclosed late last night, will make a tour of all Latin-Ameri- can countries on a battleship of the United States Navy to look over the territory and peoples conquered by American im- perialism. The battleship Maryland, flag- ship of the Pacific fleet was, long before election day put in shape at Mare Island Navy Yard at Hoover’s tional Nominating Convention of the aling, and brazen refusals to re-| May. The drawing was made sev- | Mass Lines March. | understanding of the Party for the solution of these prob- | request, and will be ready Sunday « fort votes are the chief means em-|eral years after the Haymarket exe-| Following a successful meeting ia lems and energetic execution of these tasks, the Central for the trip which Hoover announces loyed by the boss politicians. cutions. |the woods behind the Michelin plant,, Executive Committee herewith decides to call for the holding he will begin within a week. The « Steel Workers Vote Red. |the picket lines massed in the fields} Of the Sixth Regular Convention of our Party to convene on trip has been secretly planned for more than a month. Another preparation long ago be- gun, with the State Department as- - sisting, has been the “sounding out” of the Latin American governments, or, more plainly, the use of pres- sure of finance and diplomacy to compel the Southern Republics to Incomplete returns from four a the company barracks and, with | January 6, 1929. Net ean 5 pa aro Semel CHICAGO HONORS Lents Soaggetae sa ee The Central Executive Committee issués this call with steel town, q f 7 rt Party including the votes cast for \the corner into Main Street and| the approval of the Executive Committee of the Communist the Labor Party which- endorsed the |passed slowly in front of the red) International which made the following decision on Septem- Communist candidates in this state, HAYMARKET DEAD | brick building while the bosses and| ber 8, 1928: received 40 votes as against 9 for | foremen peeped from the windows. | SS * ‘ the socialists. Twenty-eight votes | Strikers early noticed the presence| ‘The preparation of the Party Congress must be taken were cast for the Workers Party : «of plain clothes detectives and ex-| in hand immediately after the conclusion of the election | give Hoover an official welcome and ticket and 12 for the Labor Party) Loung Workers in Big pected that the Michelin bosses might} campaign. The Central Executive Committee is requested ; : : restrain all possible popular protest i } i i | i i i y i inst this pre-eminent representa- pene Demonstration [attempt to interfere with the mass| to bring to the notice of the Executive Committee of the The total of tead as « result of the big fire and ecplosion in the \tce of Yarkea imperialiem, HE Complete returns from Denver, as |picketing. Sheriff Hanna, with an) Communist International in good time the date, agenda and | factory of the Preble Box Toe Company, Lynn, Mass : i H has mounted to | preliminary “feelers” being put out Colorado show that the Communist| CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 9—Sunday, Waite weanmoned te the cones draft resolutions to the various points of the agenda, and | 17 and more of the injured are expected to die. Siz of the dead jy the State Department received ticket ran very close to the socialists |the forty-first anniversary of the wag Wkige for the demonstration, also to lay before it, if there should be any, proposals of the were members of the family of Harry Blaney, whose house near the | enough response from various Latin- despite the frantic efforts made by|frame-up and murder of the Hay- : ‘i 1 . cae ‘ 4 factory was completely destroyed. Mrs. Blaney was among those ; ts subservient ‘the socialists in Colorado iqaecure market martyrs, will ‘ Ascteapigiet Jine swung past the| Minority or individual Party organizations which differ from |: Saened40deudh” Ppper’ photo shows foar-sereivon) ofoeke Blakey. se ronvince tHe Suaeaall the propvestive and small busines’|t.q by the young workers of this lepartment, the only de-/ the views held’by the majority of the C.E.C.” The Central family, from left to right, Lillian, Harry, Ella and Norman Blaney. Department that the vlan could be vote. For one.office, that of secre-| city in a gigantic demonstration ar-| Patment not yet out, the thugs as-- Executive Committee accepts this decision’of the Communist — Lower photo shows firemen searching in the ruins for victitis. The ; " *, * + ry | t th h. tary of state, the Communist candi-/ ranged by the Young Workers (Com. | Saurted the picket line, in which were’ International. origin of the explosion has not yet been determined, tho the usual ws. vesent plans call for the date ran ahead of the socialist. The|munist) League. many women, some with babies in 1 h his Nati 5 efforts are being made to blame the carelessness of workers. aD alarerer: ai Hoot nd ht highest Communist vote recorded in| Jt was in 1886 that a group of their arms. i To help defray t le expenses of this National Conven- battleship, with Hoover x tole jenver is 1,671 for the office of| workers, fighting and leading the, Samuel Brody, labor organizer, and tion the Central Executive Committee herewith decides to bey at ie a seh sesae Bea Nt ra cen ay ia oy aa ics ar sreyccte"" "18 NOW DEAD IN ADD MILITANT AS Scie Sxseac ture. better’ working conditions, were sen-| Stabbed by thugs and pummeled. his detail hal i" ibe at i Foster and Gitlow received 305/tenced by the -boss interests in I]-| Brody was thrown to the ground) The agenda, the details of technical arrangements, basis workers, to visit Mexican ports, ese against 454 for the social-|linois tn te hung to death; two While the thugs Igaped on him. When| of representation, etc., for this convention, will be announced ’ Honduras, ste mn — ists. William Dietrich, Communist |other workers were. sentenced to| they attempted to force him into! very shortly. AY oan the fest coast of Seguy Ria al candidate for representative in| spend fifteen years each in prison, | ‘helt car, however, he escaped them. CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ‘ ica to Chile. Hooygr will then cross Congress received 857 votes with no, The demonstration arranged by | Dettant Bickel Tae: WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA ear - the Andes by traiff to Buenos Aires, report for the socialist candidate.|the Chicago Young Workers (Com-| Hoffman was less fortunate. Al- F . ‘ . Jorkers rade: ; y another battleship George Saul, Red candidate for gov-|munist) League will begin at 2:30|though his beating was less severe) ———— Scores of Workers Are Workers to Parade; te picked up by another battleship ernor received 206 votes as against] clock in the afternoon. The meet-|than that inflicted on Brody, Hoff- Critically Injured All Labor Invited pigadticiat ated psth: fet fis: 802 for the socialist candidate; | ing will begin at Union Park, where|man was forced into the sheritt’s AILS RED V OTE G AINS eae Sr ies turning to the throne of American James Ayres running for Lieutenant| 4 gemonstration will be held before | car and rushed towards New Bruns- Nov. A twisted} PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 9—A imperialism next March. governor on the ne pee resins the statue of the policemen killed in| wick. Fear es the strikers that a SL EE SEIT RAS eft by a permit for a big labor parade, to be F Navy in It Big. 594 votes against ‘or the s0-|186 which was erected by city cffi- Hoffman had been “taken for a ride” | . me | blast that tore and bu ea rranged by the Associated Silk sal aa “ cialist candidate. Helen Dietrich,|cials in celebration of the vicious|and might be found in a ditch by| Weinstone Notes Rising Par ty Power \ciehteen persons and injured scores Workers Union, which is conducting, The trip being made on a battle- Red candidate for aa of aie frame-up of the five workers. From the roadside, Ls to the final dis-| —was still being searched by fire-|a strike here, was granted by the Ship orbit any Pe * received 600 votes while the socialist|thore the young workers will pro-|c@very of the militant picket leader| : : ; : men today for bodies. city authorities late yesterday. All is a visit of “god will.” While un- candidate received only 565. Louis ceed ta tee Waldheim comstersitt the county jail in New Brunswick | Calling attention to the fact that|that our Party is the only one that of Paterso labor unions will be doubtedly the néw spokesman for ‘A. Zeitlin, Communist candidate for| shore the Haymarket victims are, Where he is lodged with no charges|*he Commdnist vote in practically | stands against the capitalist sys-| | Sudden and terrific, a chemical- ~ 34 't5 participate in the demon-| Wall Street will ooze “good will 7 yar ‘ a z | ‘ ‘ every working class section in the tem, and for the elas ds of cellulose explosion yesterday shat- Ae sty: e io G 4 TES auditor 504, socialist 631; James Al- | buried. 4 euiscaameanes ‘ | city has been doubled as compared workers. The iccliliet ‘party uae tered the story-and-a-half, factory Station of ragearad * So hee poe i or be lendar for state treasurer, 573, S0-|" prominent speakers will address) This is the second beating Hoff-| ¥,j ' mati ; : oR Seely, ofthe Brabla Box Toe Co. end threw Fuego, the frowning guns of his . 2 with 1924, while the socialist vote in ducted its electi 30N kK ialist candidate 735. For superin- ‘, A is hi ived. “Hi 1 d hear des ion campaign in the - i . PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 9.—Dem- battleship will look over the harbors cialist ca te the commemoration exercises. Ban-|man has received. He ‘was slugged | these same districts has fallen down spirit of a small business-men’s flame into neighboring houses. : ; ; ‘ ~ tendent of public instruction, Haydee| ners, mass singing, and other fea-| during yesterday’s mass picketing) ; Te Ate i pm Stee onstrating their realization, that| of Latin American ports. ratty ialist 734. F mae ; |considerably, William ‘W. Wein- party, appealing to the “progres-. Mother and Five Children Dead. ilita ruggle against the “ ” iali U. Zeitlin, 271, Socialist Forltures will be a part of the huge | when he successfully resisted three| stone, Organizer of District 2 of the sives,” “liberals”—_ab iol 3 ., Militant struggle against the bosses Monroe” Imperialism. state senator, Communist candidates | memorial. | assailants who tried to drag him in| worters Pi Baty ERIE coke Re ee Mrs. Harry Blaney and five chil-| is the only practical method to adopt, The “good will” pretense is a part Anna Berkowitz, 1285, Anna Gaims, areca oe SOR ‘back of the plant for a further! y; Chee: ere was barely any/dren were burned to death when the in conducting their strike, a mass of Hoover's program to force recog- |interview yesterday declared that the difference in the character of the| flame enveloped their home. Her C. Lewis, 1,023; so- ‘ a Hy 911, Aubrey 5 | vote was a sign of the growing campaign of the socialist party from! husband was reported dying and cialist candidates not reported. Loyestone to Speak | beating. meeting of Paterson’s silk strikers nition of American dominance over yesterday approved the appointment the Latin countries as spheres of | ‘ The International Labor Defense) Co; ist i d ‘i pie 5 toe |Communist influence and a proof|that of the demagogic Tammany t Pp ¥ lave: rate ® Chernenk 7 S ~, cE A at Bebe natn ae a at Workers School Berea, care of the legal end of that the socialists are losing ground | Hall. : SE eae petri bees ee: Ane ea ae sh ih Continued on Page Two Feingo! a elle Hutton, 1,490, loffman’s case. ii " “ > 3 7, of 4 fc hoa % . ae Grower, .B. Hutton, 1,464, Malvina Lowy, Forum Tomorrow! — strike Mecting:in Woods, | one, Te worming class The workers of New York have) Eleven male employes were killed. oTsanizer for the Associated Silk iddon 961, Jewell A. Whiddon| Jay Lovestone, executive secre-/ was crowded by men and women | stone wad Misait evyidende: thatthe. Negro Workers Respond. atrect. by she Djast or had! rum out, | tts ae ieatin held’ in strike 936. Socialist candidates not re-|tary of the Workers (Communist) | strikers, who massed in the woods| Workers (Communist) Party is “The Negro workers, though as their clothing afire, screaming for |). douarters, Turn S Hall bei Ger. ported. Party of Ametica, will make an an-| behind the Michelin plant and con-| growing in strength among the pro- Yet only modestly, have given their| Help, and were found dead. trude Meuller, head of the union’s i‘ Reports from Hartford, Conn.,/ alysis of the results of the presiden- | sidered the progress of their strug-|jetariat of this city. The results Stpport to the candidates of the Beside the Blaneys, four men and | sicational work, as an official de- q show that Foster and Gitlow elec-| tial elections at the opening of the |gle for hours, despite the bitter wind] also show that the socialist party Communist Party. The message of|¢ Woman were in Lynn Hospital ci.ion of the Strike Committee Kr tors received 120 votes each a8|Workers School Forum, that will | blowing from the pond. : jee f ' oom lis losing ground among the workers!| Communism, the. struggle for the|Padly. burned, two believed. fatally. | "Another decision of importance against 275 for the socialists. Other ‘ Following speeches by muel| 7s F st ic | libekation of the Ni } ‘j ROSIE IN: “et . Greinuinist candidates received ee cs a bial ac Brody, Vanni Montana, Tom ae pe meer social pei Wail eaaaney is aw ‘dab ge Be Aflame: ‘ Continue: Page: Fae Workers to Protest 2 within one or two votes of this num-|og.98 Union Square, fifth floor... and Harriet Silverman, the mecting| working ‘class sections of the city, ginning to take root there too. This! yermr eves whe escaped burial in | — cs ih Deaths Tomorrow ber uniformly throughout the ticket.|"“.7. the democratic party definitely |clected a strike committee of twenty in all the boroughs, the Communist is the first time that the Communist He an Meg alkane months old; Vivian. Blaney, 15; F Chelsea Vote Strong. shattered as a result of the elec.| Members. The committee agreed to| party doubled its vote while the Party has put forth its candidates bisioprcaaeaeTir er ica ense | Lewis E. Pi of Swampscott!’ «we will stop this terror” will Chelsea, Mass., shows the Com- heat caused by the burning of chem- | Witliam munist ticket running close with the icals kept firemen from re! Clements, of John tions? What is the significance of | meet at 5 p. m. today and secured) socialist party uniformly lost votes @tlong the Negroes. The vote for a room for this purpose at 507 Main there in comparison with 1924 and Lovett Fort-Whiteman ‘for state othe: cy ot severe ea aaa & Wilson, of Lynn; Percy I sey i y the republican party winning in| * others pi: 1 in the wreckage. 4 York workers at a great mass meet- t off the kind: a a . bs hers pinned in the wreckage. yntie od F, 5 i n 5 fa Matoee: atientte tia eee| . | ‘ers Proof. sa he C s y e ns Poe, ame Ne Ait eliotn Italian fascist terror. Th tin; ais WP SP SLP | qimerican government? What does |R&cessity for solidarity and persis- fact that it lost votes in the election| “The vote for the Communist |, ag 7 aed puilding.| seph McCarthy, Everett Lewis, Is-'F'yth St, at 2p. my under the i President 96 159 18 |the recent election show insofar as | tence if the workers are to force| campaign but its own figures in the Party was secured in the face ot|Weows Were Siuvered 1 pulldings rael Clements. auspices of the New York Section “+ Governor 115 189 12 | the development of the American | {he oe baal psig i ay him/current New Leader admit that the the most bitter opposition of the|“!™™ ® NAS MAU MY Pashia Rasp Blaney _(fathe")+ of the International Labor Defense ome work class is concerned?” are | *°¢! the power of the strikers. Me|New York City vote for governor. capitalist class and its political par- Dead and Injured. jHareyuplaney, Jt9.173 orman Bla- | and the Anti-Fascisti Alliance of Lieut. Gov. 259 195 8b at the topics that will be| ° Continued on Page Three hag declined, The socialists lost ties, in the face of terrorism, in-| The list of déad and injured known ney 14; David MeCoy, John Cole- North America. i ane OED RON RR ead be Tevestone dis hin wlactuce, ————_ votes in four out of six, assembly timidation by the bosses and the so far follows: |man, Lewis Rogers, Kenneth E. Ker-| The meeting has been called par- ‘g Treasurer 117 229 61 Z . rf o The Workers (Communist) Party | districts in Queens County, they lost| usual class methods of suppression.| Dead--Mrs. Lillian Blaney, Thel-|Win, Mrs. Annie Gallagher. ticularly to protest against the re- Questions gnd discussions will fol . 4 . + HE Ng: : ly P i Auditor ..186 348 208 iow the talk. pivaarsi fee {96 Scene ra eh Mey eke |in seven out of eight assembly dis- Communist votes were mutilated ma Blaney, 13; Arthur Blaney, 10; | Most_of this list were workers in’ cent execution in Italy of the Ital- ¥ U.S. Sen. 164 183 Sas | tricts in the Bronx, in cases the loss and the capitalist election boards did Helen Blaney, 7; Harriet Blaney, 6 the ff ian Communist, Michele Della Mag- i iin Perth opie, N. J, Foater and being as high as 66 per cent. |their utmost to prevent the true RICA. | gira, and the murder in cold blood Py ; socialist 16; for Governor, Scott Leadey follows: Vote Steals Widespread. troit on Columbus Day. These two A 26, « ¥ RO, murders are evidence of the inter-. ng 23, socialist, 11. Manhattan 19281926) “In Queens County, for instance national scope of Mussolini's terror Pittsburgh Votes Stolen. Suppressor of India Masses Paid Well Roa, 378 bat the vote for Roster is given only as Try to. Revoke Com munist’s Citizenship machine, | 2070 569'(?) whereas the vote for Bor- i ill ine ot complete returns thus far re- | 8th A. D, 893 1293 uae President, in spite of the bitter Sie Ratert, Minor, edtter, of red from Pittsburgh show that} LONDON, Nov. 9.—Those who|Chemical Industries, a Melchett) 17 A..D. 494 889 contest between the republicans and and Gitlow received 75 votes| ¢,: ates rd in| trust, at $110,000 per annum for| 18 A. D. 441 766 democrats, shows over 500 votes. pale faithfully serve get their -rewa) : n against 27 for the socialist can- ti ‘The Karl of Birkenhead part-time work. Here he will be | Kings County (Brooklyn) } tes. Gross election steals were | ‘Me. R ie ble te continue the work he was| 6th A. D. 985 “Some comparisons of the votes Support of the workers for our i ia oe of Tony Barra, anti-fascist worker, . S. , b 4 B ° ‘ clude Robert Minor, editor of the Whether or not the vitizenship of in Hungary berating him for having Daily Worker; John J. Ballam, sec- i _, a naturalized citizen can be cancelled “joined the white army and shooting retary of the New York local, Trade “The Tammany Hall machine did because of belief in Communism, is down follow workers.” In the letter Union Educational League; V. Mon- 3 1608 its utmost to roll up the vote for! the issu vease now before the|Tapolezyani stated th i i z red ae by Communist elec-| served as HOCtAlAty, of wate. for In- | secustomed to as secretary of state! 14th A. D. 689 1488 Smith, and stole votes from the Com-| federal pais 7 gripes mits Pg pean regen chee ORY he ag Ponape bk eas caleay? ee : and did his bit in subjugating | for India, = | 28rd A. D. 1219 1847! munist candidates. | which the. Amilislean Civil: Liberties | Soviet form of government |munist) Party; Carlo Tresca, edie ms from’ Treriton 'N. J. até|the India masses to the will of the| Birkenhead’s job will be to spend) “In these same assembly districts| What occurred in Queens took| Union is fighting jointly with the The letter was intercepted by tor of “Tl Martello” and Arturo Gio ye? _| British imperialists. a few hours a day seeing that the |/the Communist vote doubled. These place in Bronx, Manhattan and Kings| International Labor Defense, The Hungarian censors and turned over vannitti, secretary of the Italian WP SP SLP’} The of Birkenhead hi deadliest gases are manufactured in | districts mentioned are the prole-| County. ase was heard Nov. 1 and Federa)| to the U. S. Department of Justice. Chamber of Labor. en. .. 67 eived his reward from the hands | sufficient quantity. The rest of his | tarian districts in New York city. “The election of Roosevelt for gov- Judge Gibson has taken it under| The government on March 1, 1916, Karl Reeve, editor of the Labor of Britain’s arch-imperialist, class-|time, if he chooses to work over-| “The election campaign was con-/ernor is a defeat for the working advisement. ‘began equity proceedings to t m1 bu Ghaint : collaborationist and moulder of war, |time and make gn extra $100,000, | ducted by the Workers (Communist) |clars. Roosevelt, like Smit} will] In 1920 John Tapolczyani, a bar- Taploezyani’s ip ‘ he me ’ Lord Melchett (formerly. Sir Alfred tt iting sublimated | Party on the basis of the class strug-|carry on a policy of issuing ‘injunc-| ber of Harmony, Pa., took out hii . ey ra i He has been placed on British imper-| gle. We were able to convince a’ tions and of employing we brutal-| final citize papers. On Oct, 17 oe preater section of the worki n Page i'wo {1921 he wrote a letter to his brot!