The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1928, Page 2

rk IN WASHINGTON | SEND GREETINGS. or, Montana and Tresca Speak | Several hundred workers, filliing Wvebster Hall, 119 E. 11th St., yes- terday afternoon denounced Musso- lini’s international terror and de- manded the release of all class war prisoners in Italy | The meeting, arranged by the} ‘New York section of the Interna- tional Labor Defense and the Anti- Fascist Alliance North America, was called especially to protest against the recent execution in Italy of Michele Della Maggiora, Italian Communist, and the murder in De- troit of Tony Barra, anti-fascist worker, by agents of Mussolini. “Telegram From Jailed Workers. The three speakers, Robert Min- or,,editor of the Daily Worker, V. Mofttana, national organizer of the’ Italian Bureau of the Workers (Communist) Party, and Carlo Tresca, editor of the “Il Martello,” | each pointed out the international | character of the fascist terror and) called on the workers to fight re- lentlessly against it. Minor spoke in English, while Montana and Tresca addressed the audience in Italian. Cheers greeted the reading of a telegram ‘of greetings from 29 workers who were arrested at a demonstration in Washington. The telegram follows: “Twenty-nine workers, arrested at a demonstration before the War Department for the release of John Porter and against the imperialist war, send greetings from the Wash- ington jail to the New York work- ers assembled to protest against fascism in America and abroad. The workers of America will realize the significance of the fact that today, Armistice Day, when the United States government is making mili- tary displays, workers demonstrat- ing against imperialist war are in prison. “Signed for participating organ- The war-mongers have taken geant York, who yesterday spoke at the Arm him on the left with—of course—Mayor Walker. one of those “peace”-loving organizations, the TWO BIG SOCCER GAMES NOV. 23 Gold, Zimmerman to, Kick Off For the first time in the history of labor sports in this country wor: ers will have an opportunity to wit- ness an inter-league workers’ soc- cer game. With three workers’ soc- cer leagues now in existence in t eastern district of the Labor Sports Union, the L. S. U. is now able to stage such an affair. | This tri-league soccer contest will | consist of two games, the first be. | tween an all-star team of the Brook- lyn Workers’ Soccer League and an| all-star “B” division team of the Metropolitan Workers’ Soccer League, and the second all-star team of the “A” division of the Met- | ropolitan Workers’ Soccer League and an all-star team of the ewig] Press Agenting ,| American Civil Liberties Union, | This |against the Pennsyivania policemen Workers Denounce Fascist ee “HE DAILY WORK K, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1925 Terror in Italy an Next Imperialist e a “hero” out of t tice Day celebration On the right is W ‘oreign Legion Post. Broken, Worker care to preser 3 Ribs Mine | Sues Trooper A suit f Baldvino, ges by Angelo ania ing through att the fourth in Pittsburg suit brought is in recent month: tality in the coal stri It of bru- the | Slaughter he last filthy mess. He is Ser- in Carnegie; Hall. Photo shows alter E. Godfrey, commander of SILK STRIKERS |8-Hour Demand 4s Be- ing Pushed | Continued from Page One laboration policies of the union offi- cialdom. The issue of collaboration with |the silk manufacturers caused a clash between the fighting and pow- erful left wing in the union and the officialdom at the last meeting of the strike committee Saturday af- | ternoon. | i | \ PLATFORM WAS PREMIERSHIP TO, SPREAD IN WEST PEASANT LEADER California Refinery|Loyal to King and to Employes Reached Rumanian Capital (By a Worker Correspondent) | (Special to the Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, “alif. (By| BUCHAREST, Rumania, Nov. 11. Mail).—The Crocket, Calit., sugar |—Juliu Maniu, leader of the Nation- refinery workers heard their .'rst|al-Peasant Party, took office as Communist speakers in their history |Premier yesterday after swearing HOW COMMUNIST RUM...IASHIFTS' 2 Enthroned On Blood AMERICAN. AUT FIRMS HOGGING “GERMAN MARKET ‘Can’ Beat Germans at Speed-up System BERLIN, Nov. 11.—That Ameri- can auto manufacturers are “clean- ing up on Germany” can be seen \at the international automobile show |now going on here. Also, the PLAN PARADE Criticize “Call” Article. At this meeting a resolution was introduced sharply criticizing an ar- Baldvino, according to informa-| tion supplied by him to the Inter- national Labor Defense, was stand- | ing in front of the Export post of.|ticle appearing in the Paterson Call, fice when the police drove up in an|4 capitalist paper, which claimed au bile. One of the officers,|that the workers’ interests were Bruce Kunkle, grabbed Baldvino and | identical with those of tpe™ silk struck him again and again with a|™@nufacturers. This article was in- at a meeting, held under the aus- pices of the Workers (Communist) Party, Oakland Sub District Elec- tion Campaign Committee. Accord- | ing to the Party instructions of or- | ganizing four Red Sundays before the elections, the Oakland Sub Dis- trict Election Campaign Committee is attempting, for the first time, to| reach some of the neighboring in-| dustrial towns, in order to make con- tacts with workers and farmers— this has never been done before. Saturday morning, a group of comrades with Comrade A, Whitney, |candidate for United States senator {on the Workers (Communist) Party |ticket, organized themselves with \machines and Party posters and |banners on their machines, for the purpose of reaching neighboring | towns with Communist propaganda | Our experiences were as follows. We first went to the Pullman shops at Richmond, Cal., posted Party posters on poles in strategic places, for the workers employed in the shops to |read. At noon we went to the fac- | tory gate at the time that the work- | Jers were coming out, distributed | |Party leaflets, entitled “Vote Com- j|munist,” Party Platforms, and ac-| ceptance speeches, which were fav- | {orably accepted by the workers. We | were unfortunate in being unable to | |organize a meeting as the workers | |hurried home. : | We went through the main streets | of Richmond as far as the Sante Fe railroad shops. Here we were un- able to reach the workers, so we put [leaflets and Daily Workers in all workers’ cars. We attempted to post |posters on the telegraph poles so} jhigh that no one who wished to re- loyalty to the regency and the seven-year-old king Michael. Maniu promises reforms such as freedom of the press and elections, downward revision of customs and stabilization of the currency thru foreign loans now being negotiated. In addition, he promises to Ruma- nian capital that the concessions given to foreign capital by the Bratianu brothers will be revised to allow native capitalism a chance at sharing in the exploitation. Par- liament is dissolved and new elec- tions ordered for December. Promising the cleaning up of cor- ruption so flagrant under the Bra- tianu regime, Maniu reveals that the deficit for the current year is $40,000,000. Also an Italian loan must be paid along with other amounts to a total of $60,000,000. All diplomatic offices will be changed and a thorough reorganiza- tion effected, it is said. In swearing loyalty to the regen- cy, Maniu condemned Prince Carol. Maniu is the first Roman Catholic to rule Rumania, which is Greek!P- ™.; “Program of the Communist William W, Wein-| Catholic, FURRIERS AGREE “ Americans are cleaning up on Eng- With membership in the Com-)land, it being seen that during the munist Party punishable by death| past four years imports of cars from and thousands of workers and peas- England have been very small com- ants jailed by the Tanaka terror, the Japanese ruling class on Satur- day turned to the diversion of en- throning a new emperor. Photo above shows the new emperor, Hir- chito, and his wife, Nagoka. Many New Courses to Begin at the Workers School During Week Several important courses are School this week. Among them are: “Historical Materialism” by Ber- tram D. Wolfe on Thursday at 8:30 p. m.; “Party Organization lems,” Bert Miller instructor, day, at 8:30 p. m.; “European His- tory Since 1789," Juliet | Poyntz, instructor, Friday at 8:31 International,” stone, instructor, Friday 8:30 p. m.,; and ‘‘Fundamentals of Communism,” | Rebecca Grecht, instructor, Friday at 7 p.m, All these courses, with the ex- ception of “European History Since 1789,” are part of the curriculum in- ane | Stuart with skilled labor. cluded in the “Party Evening Train- ing Course” that has been recom- ON CLOAK MERGER Answer Invitation By ‘The courses in “Historical Material- jism” and “Program of the Commu- Acceptance nist International” are among the i ‘most advanced courses and only enna tro Hate One |furctionaries or those who can show gates called for steps to be taken | some previous training will be per- {mended to all Party functionaries. | |pared to those from the United | States. In 1927, England imported only one-twelfth of the number sent. |from America. | German manufacturers have been |trying to beat American competi- tion which overcomes even the high | protective tariff. They have at- ‘tacked the wage and hour standards | ot the workers and sought to ration- alize their production system. They \have adopted the belt conveyor sys- {tem and cut the number of types from 146 to 67 and the number of scheduled to begin at the Workers|Small shops from 68 to 27. | But the Americans are still ahead jin the game, since they excell in | speed-up of the workers. American | firms who have assembly plants in Germany, using unskilled labor, get 30 per cent more labor out of these |workers than the German makers In 1925 only 426,000 cars were in use, but early this fall the million |mark had been passed. Germany produces 125,000 cars annually and has exported only about 4,000, so American firms feel that they have ja fine field. The Graham-Paige |Company will soon open an assem- \bly plant near Berlin, the seventh American plant in Germany. THREE WOMEN ATTACKED. | LAKE FOREST, IIL, Nov. iW d United States at Big Meet “ i} 4 (UP).—Lake county authorities and © the fashionable North Shore district, approximately 40 miles north of Chi- ‘eago, were aroused today over at- tacks on three young women Satur- < 7 < a ek-jack. cin: ie ted by the publicity manager) } s 1S aan : organized New Jersey Workers’ | l@ck-jack, breaking three of his |Serte¢ ee eee move them could not reach them.|toward the amalgamation of the | mitted to take the courses. |day night. eaten oe ee Asem Soccer team. "The ‘gaties “will be | ribs. ; who tilent tee oe 2 with phe tn the mean time a company “bull” | needle trades workers’ organizations | ‘é Seiet Gave: National Textil Wark played Thanksgiving Day, Nov, 29,|_ Baldvino, who was bleeding pro. Riera 4 os pas aire jne|eame around and tried to force us |into one mighty union. | 5 ers’ Union, William Danrnes: All |2t the Steinway Oval. fusely from the many cuts, he:-had eee thie octinle vetocthe crime |te remove the posters by telling us| “Therefore,” concludes the letter, | ad Anierica Anti-Imperialist League, Paul Crouch; American Negro La- bor Congress, Karl Jones; Workers (Communist) Party, Herbert Benja- min; Young Workers (Communist) League, Clarence Miller; Young Pioneers, Helen Colobny.” ,Mussolini—Yellow Socialist. “Mussolini started as a yellow so- cialist,” Minor said in his speech, “and he stands today as an, example to the wor! of what yellow so- cialism leads to. The Italian work- ers in 1920 seized the factories, but they left the government and the | army intact. Mussolini was able to mobilize all the strikebreaking ele- merits and with the financial help of the American ambassador, crushed the workers’ revolution and established his bloody regime. The Italian workers will never make that mistake again. When they Seize the factories, they will also seize political power; they will over- throw the capitalist state and estab- “lish the rule of the workers and peasants, “The election. of Hoover and his. visit to Latin America are indica-| tiong of the period of reaction and oppfession to be expected by the American and Latin American workers. All the forces of the working class must be organized to meet this reaction in the world war | that is coming. The interest of the | working masses of the United! States will be to defeat the United | States government in the next im- perialist war.” _Resolution Against Terror. A: resolution was unanimously | passed protesting against the Mus- e received, was held in the police car | Charles’ Zimmenfian, one of the sor angut three hours. He was ear of the National Organiza- |) ken finally to the barracks in tion Committee for a Cloak and | ( . er: ‘ ~ 1 ee | Greensburg, county headquarters of Cae ee ae a tite | the police. When he arrived at the while Ben Gold pe er of th | barracks he was so weak from the ss a: newer », | beating that he was unable to wash oint Board, Furriers Union, will | blood his) Seen when the kick-off the ball for the second and| OV. 00 Caered him to do en. He the Tain game Gt fie efterno0n. wes then taken to. the (Greensburg Twenty-five per cent of the pro-| Hospital, where he lay for twelve ceeds of these games will go for| days in a serious condition. He has the defense of the textile workers |}con unable to work since the beat- of New Bedford who are now being | ing. tried for their activities during the | recent strike, police ordered him to do so. Kunkle, the trooper who attacked Baldvino, is believed to have been * - im cated in the arrest of Fred- Co-operative Clothiers erick £. 5 aR E. Woltman, secretary of the gered the chances of victory and might do immeasurable harm to the strike. Steps were also taken by the strike committe to change the | publicity head and place this work more in the control of the strike | committee. When the followers of the offi- cialdom sa wthe impending adoption by a majority of the strike com- mittee of the resolution of criticism, they embarked on a dangerous jcourse of intimidating the militants jon the committee. Before the vote |was put, they walked out of the |meeting. But the left wing dele- |gates to the strike committee were |by no means intimidated. After a declared this article greatly endan-| |that he was an officer and would | not permit any such posters to be put on company property. We told him that this was an election cam- |paign and if he didn’t like it he | could remove the posters himself, as |we wouldn’t mind seeing him do some work. He then started to try to remove the posters and it gave us a big kick to watch him. He took a stick and tried it, but this was of Inc avail. He then found one long |enough for him to remove the poster ) with, but when Comrade Whitney }approached him and spoke to him, | he was man enough to accept our! \leaflet and literature. | On our way to Crockett, while | will be held in New York. \Use Third of Funds Pittsburgh branch of the union, who was arrested and charged with “in- |thorough discussion, they passed | Passing villages and farmers’ homes, | |the resolution and the decision to|we posted Party posters in impor- for Educational Work | citing to riot” while watching the state police break up a picket line One-third of all earnings of the|at White Valley on May 9. Wolt- Co-operative Clothiers, Inc, 872|man last August filed a $50,000 Broadway, the latest workers’ co-| damage suit for false arrest against operative venture in New York, is|State Trooper John G. Russell. This |reconstruct the publicity depart- ment, Workers Become Militant. More and more Syrian workers are coming to clearly understand jtant places. When we reached | | Pinole, a small town, where the | |Union Oil Company refinery is lo- | leated, we stopped on the highway and attempted to do some propa- gandizing among the workers. We \bership for a drive to force all the +|do more than merely cater to work- used for class-conscious educational | work in workers’ organizations, ac- | cording to John Biazzo, president of | the co-operative. The other two- thirds of the earnings is put into a reserve fund and apportioned to all customers in proportion to their purchases, Biazzo called attention to the fact | that clothing purchased from capi-| talistie factories helps swell the funds with which to fight the labor movement. “It is our conviction,” said Biazzo, “that a co-operative venture should ers and share its profits with its suit is still pending. the policy of their own leaders.|found a Negro worker and some | They give evidence of the fact that they know their leaders to be camp followers of the officialdom. And Enrollment at Workers “ : School Co-operative scrercly damaged by their leaders, Branch Almost Doubles |who try to isolate the Syrians and juse them as a voting bloc for their The co-operative branch of the |OWn private interests. Workers School, the largest branch| The Syrian workers realize that of the school, has started what | they, just as the workers of the promises to be the most successful |°ther nationalities, must give sup- |port to the left wing and the mili- year in its history. The co-opera- | 2 tive branch, which conducts classes |t@nt tactics they propose. As part development among the at 2700 Bronx Park East and which |f this n ; had a registration last year of over | ¥™@n workers, is the speed with 200 individual members taking one | Which -Potica, the eae ae the or more courses, offers this year |S¥Tians is losing his influence. that the interests of the strike are | consumers. It should go further, It solini terror and demanding the re- lease of all class war prisoners, the holding of all trials in the oper. | and the right of legal existence i. | the Communist Party and all other political and labor organizations in Italy. William Murdoch, one of the lead- ers of the New Bedford textile strike, who is among the 662 work- ers now facing trial for militant ac- tivity in that great struggle, acted as chairman of the meeting. Special Meet Of Iron, Bronze Workers ‘Tues. Workers Notice. hip meeting of the Iron and Bronze Workers’ Union| will be held tomorrow evening at - Hand School, 7 East 15th St. at 8 De Tron, Bron | A special me m, At this meeting the discussion of the demands will be continued, and tf will, be decided as to which are ‘o_be presented to the bosses. You no doubt, realize how neces~- sary it is that évery member should ) yarticipate in working out the de- mands to be presented to the bosses. We are sure that you will not fail ‘o attend this meeting. Be sure A union is reminding its mem- | bout the ball which the union anging on January 12, You know that every member is) ta with two tickets amounting ‘9 $1. This is the decision of the| ast membership meeting. The profit| of the ball will go for our unem-|} joyed brothers. | \ND STILL GOING STRONG. | RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 11 (U.R)— vy, Lyon G. Tyler, president emeri- tus of William and Mary College, at 76 heeame the father of a baby hay hong tudav. |—Refusing to accept as final the) several courses in English, as well ® courses in Public Speaking, Fun- iamentals of Class Struggle, Imper- ialism, American History and Civ- ics, Literature, and Principles of the Co-operative Movement. Five English classes have already been started. Though these cla |have already started, registration still open for some of them. The class in “Public Speaking” will start on Sunday, Nov. 18, at 10:30 a. m. All those interested in taking the |course at the co-operative branch of Relatives Seek Word ‘te Workers.School should immedi- a 4 ately get in touch with Sonya Gins- of James Carolides, surgh, director of the co-operative Missing Fur Militant branch of the Workers Schoo!, at James Carolides, a fur worker, left his house at 3056 Alb Dres- | °Ven hind vot been“heavd teow since, School. From present indications it Savolida ; ho ta Gene k more than likely that the indi- tionality. is a. member of the | Yidual enrollment will be doubled Burclere’ deinen; ance tigen |OUTENE: fhe, VENER ear a an active and militant worker in the ean a eres ‘ uees ie iy DT Aissmn ‘petting titeton cin. | United Workers Co-operative, “but cerning his present whereabouts is to all workers living Be the ee urged to get in touch immediately “sPecially in the neighborhood o with his mother, Mrs, Carolides. at |e Scn00!. the same address, 3056 Albany Cres- cent, New York City. should devote a percentage of ernings for the education of wor to the pointing out of the evil he capitalist system of exploita- om and oppression. “We have, therefore, set aside one-third of our earnings this year for propaganda. The ultimate pur- pose of this educational work will be to point the way to a workers’ and farmers’ government in this coun- try.” secretary, who can be found every ine at the office of the éo-op- Photographers Meet in INVESTIGATE FURNACE DEATH| Labor Temple Tonight | LAKE BLUFF, Ill, Nov. 11 (UP).| aes } An organization meeting of the verdict of @ corneror’s jury that El-| Photographers’ Union has been frieda Knauk “apparently died of| called by Louis A. Baum, organizer~ self-inflicted burns,” relatives of th@ secretary of the union, for ton'ght. girl and authorities said today the The meeting will be held at the La- investigation would be continued un-| bor Temple, 14th St. and Second tilyhe “furnace mystery” is cleared.Ave. ~~ 2700 Bronx Park Hast, or with the); | Potica, faced with the Syrian work- \ers’ movement toward militant poli- \cies, likes to pose as a “Red.” A meeting, arranged under the lauspices of the Trade Union Edu- ‘cational League, Paterson Local, is \to be held Monday evening in the | Lithuanian Hall, Summit and Lafay- ette Sts. at 8 o'clock. S| John J. Ballam, district head of | the T. U. E. L., William Weinstone, district organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party and Albert Weisbord of the National Textile | Workers’ Union, will be the speak- jers. All members of the Associat- ed, whether striking or working, are invited to the meeting. Allege Kellogg Said No Sentiment Favors Soviet Recognition Alleging that Secretary Kellogg had said privately that there is no public sentiment for recognition of the Soviet Union, D. J. Cowling, president of Carleton College of Minnesota spoke to the American Society for Cultural Relations with Russia at a dinner Saturday wel- jeoming the educational delegation | which visited the Soviet Union last | summer. Professor John Dewey of Colum- bia University said that “certain ar- tificial barriers,” if removed, would promote better intercourse between the two peoples and that Russia “keeps track of us to an extraor- d'nary degree” in cultural pursuits. The society plans an exchange of educators, | white workers who were very favor- able towards the Communist move- ment and the general public was greatly attracted by the Com- | munist banners, with the hammer | and sickle; some of the workers ad- mitted that it was the first time that they had ever seen such posters. Comrade Whitney and another com- rade, canvassed from house to house in order to reach the workers and succeeded in selling some literature. | |The remaining comrades posted | posters, and while doing this posted jone on a farmer's barn. The farmer became so excited that he took a shovel and removed the poster while we were across the street. After some discussion among ourselves, we came to the conclusion that we |should speak to him, to find out whether he did it consciously or un- | consciously. After a short talk he) admitted that he was wrong, apol- | ogized and bought a Party Platform, | acceptance speeches, and a Daily | Worker, allowed us to put a poster | |on his fence and assured us that it | would remain there. As we walked across the street we met another | worker and called his attentior to our literature ard the purpose of our campaign. He said that he vas very glad to see us because he was wishing that something would start in that section because he had made up his mind not to vote for either capitalist party. He said that he would vote as we instructed him, bought a Party Platform, accept- ance speeches and Daily Worker and said that whenever he was in Oakland he would call at our head- quarters. It was unfortunate that due to lack of time we were unable to hold a meeting. We reached Crockett where a sugar refinery is located which ex- ploits hundreds of workers with long hours, small wages and miser- able- conditions. We were told by the workers of the open shop system and the stool pigeon system em- ployed by the boses in the factory and immediately started to div'de | ourselves in groups of twos for dis- tribution of leaflets announcing a street meeting. At 5 p. m. we were listributing leaflets at the refinery te as the workers were coming I also must mention the fact ‘ | tesz, a member of our unit who died ‘cause of labor. “the sub-committee of the Pro- visional National Executive Com- mittee accepts the invitation for a joint conference with the cloak and dress workers’ organization, where immediate plans for the amalgama- tion of the unions at the conclusion of the two conventions be formu- lated and carried into effect.” The sub-committee also decided on the immediate issuance of the con- vention call, the approximate date of which will be December 28. The convention of the fur workers, as well as that of the cloak workers, | 5 Years Daily will be ce Manhattan A conference of active workers and shop chairmen, held in the of- fice of the Joint Board last Satur- day, was the first step taken by the Joint Board in mobilizing the mem- employers,in the trade to sign agree- ments with the union. The agree- rents in existence now are about to expire. A statement issued by the Joint Board to the industry warns the manufacturers that the Joint Board alone has control of the workers, and is the only body with the power to conclude agreqments. ~ of the Worker lebrated in : Opera House Saturday, January 5th. KEEP THIS DAY OPEN! Workers Party Unit Mourns the Death of Its Militant Worker Following the death of Malvine Kertesz, Unit 4, section B of the Workers (Communist) Party, of which she was a member, adopted the following resolution: “Whereas, Comrade Malvine Ker- Monday, November 6, 1928, was always an active comrade in the! unit, as well as in the Party as a whole, sincerely devoted to the same “Be it resolved, that the member- ship of Unit B expresses its deepest | regret, conveys to the husband, our Comrade Joseph Kortesz the sin- cerest sympathy, and that this reso- lution be spread upon the minutes of the unit.” that we got a great kick out of watching the company policeman who became violently excited at see- ing a group of “Reds” doing Com- munist work. However, he did not bother us. At 6 p.m. we started a street meeting on Main St., across fiom the sugar refinery gate. We had four speakers and a chairman, and in a short while, we had a group of interested workers who listened to us for the entire two hours of our meeting. Some bought litera- ture and after we were through, ex- pressed their gratitude and asked us when we were coming back again, They informed us that if we had held the meetings in a further sec- tion of the t@wn, we would have had a larger crowd, as some workers did not attend becat they were afraid of being spotted by the company stool pigeons. It is our opinion that the ‘meeting was a very Yair one. Qur general experience proves that many workers are ready to méet the Communist Party favorably. Outside of Baily Worker 26-28 UNION SQUARE, NEW Keep In Step With Thousands of Workers Who Read the Baily Bas Worker The Organ of the Class Struggle Always —FOR the Workers _ AGAINST the Capitalists Up to the Minute —Labor News —Labor Features —Labor Cartoons Rates New York: $6.00 a year; $3.50 six months; $2.00 three months, SUBSCRIBE! 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