The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1928, Page 2

pee sie m0) fix sti Ci ol de npOoOx,rvws VUNG OARYPSEUR G 1 \ 1 i 1 Vage Iwo THE DALLY WORE KER, NEW YCRK, TUES DAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1928 International of Labor Unions Appeals for Aid to German Metal Workers Red 4 URGES A STRONG UNITED FRONT OF INT'L WORKERS Solidarity Is Keynote of Message In the center, in full-dr torturer of thousands of wor officially ape ope and his agents are bu ISSUE CALL FOR i unions i the cap German pr trade union | strike committee compulsery ist explc st'To Establish National Amalgamated Union x Continued from Page One _|try and apportions to the various istriets the number of delegates y are to elect and the methods to be used in the election. Call For Fighting Union, The call states: “The National Organization Com- mittee gave their consideration to the problems confronting the work- ers in our industry, and unanimous- ers and the on bureaucrats. PLEATERS RALLY BEGINS CAMPAIGN Meeting Tonight Starts Organization Work union mem- |* tion of all locals affiliated with the N. 0. C., to take place in New York y, on December 29th, 30th and 28, and January 1st, 1 nion workers Where we will mold the separate local organizations into a powerful national organization that -will be able to cope with the numerous dif- a ,|ficult problems and lead the work- be held to- Mobilization bership and the meeting to ers in the struggles that are ahead > Joint Board headquar- | of us. ters, 16 W 21st St., immediately; “Brothers and sisters! For two after work lyears a devastating war, brought After an exhausting but never- theless suce¢ ul fight against the socialist leaders of the right wing union, who together with the bosses have been making vain attempts to|raging in our union, For two years destroy the union, the left wittg or- | the clique, thru its united front with ganization feels that the time has/|the bosses, has sold out the condi- come when it can go forward in an|tions of the workers, and has offensive to rebuild the union, or-| brought back the sweat-shop sys- ganize the trade once more and thus tem, low wages, long hours, abject regain the union conditions lost by | slavery for the workers. All our the workers during the struggle. proposals for submitting the issues The drive to unionize the tucking | of the struggle to a referendum vote and. pleating trade is to be carried |of the membership, for uniting the on.ynder the leadership of the Na-|ranks of the workers, and making tional Organi ee, and/an end to the pogrom, were met by is to be de an integral part of|the bureaucracy with new deeds of the N. 0. campaign to reestab-|terrorism, treachery and provoca- lish union conditi the entjre | tion. upon us by the Sigman-Schlesinger clique, under the leadership of the reactionary A. F, of L, bureaucracy and the socialist party, has been ladies’ garment manufacturing in- “Thru our bitter and determined dustry. i struggle of the past two years we| Despite all the enemies, this small have exposed the treachery of the reactionary bureaucracy, which has completely lost its footing and has but staunch union has been facing, it has been able to retain control of a large portion of industry; been reduced to a mere handful who nothing the bosses nor: the dual/ have sold themselves to and are at right wing seab union could dolihe complete mercy of the bosses. could wipe out the organization the workers were able to establish after many years of bitter struggle. Thru our heroic struggle we have brought about the disintegration of the International clique (as evi- denced by the recent resignation of Sigman, the first to initiate the ex- pulsion policy in the American la- bor movement), and we ‘are today in the process of building our new union as a powerful instrument in defense of the workers’ interests, on a basis where all artificial craft di- visions and antagonisms, prevalent When Freight Train Hits Student Group SOUTH BEND, Ind, Nov. 12— A crowd of Notre Dame students, waiting on the railroad tracks for Torturer of ‘Thousan BIG CLOAK MEET ly decided to call a national conven- | the return of the football team which had been victorious over the Army eleven on Saturday, were thrown into pandemonium last night when a freight train ran into them, killing John Gleason, 20, of Canandaigua, N. Y., and seriously injuring 4 others. More than twenty other students were hurt slightly. | Four thousand fans had massed | about the railroad station waiting for the return of the team. Some of the students had dragged a baggage truck across one of the tracks, A half dozen girls climbed on it to await the train. Half an hour before the football special was due, a freight train struck the baggage truck, throwing it into the air into a crowd of stu- in the old unions, will be wiped out, and the rank and file of our mem- bership will be the sole rulers; a union free from expulsions and per- secutions, where all members, re- gardless of their political views and affiliations, will have equal rights and opportunities, Release | Wheeling Men After Robbery Charge WHEELING, W. Va., Nov. 12 (UP).—Frank Irwin, 22,,and Dewey Stephens, 28, both of Wheeling, ar- rested here early today in connec- tion with the $40,000 post office rob- bery at Steubenville, Ohio, last night were ordered released this afternoon mre wm td ae by Postal Inspector C,°C. Void. The men were arrested when they alighted from a trolley car here. | They said they were returning home | after visting friends in a suburb. dents nearby. An ambulance was called, and the seriously injured taken to a hospital for treatment, The others were given first aid and allowed to go home. USSR ICE-BOX IN SIBERIA Plan lo Preserve Men of All Races MOSCOW, Nov. 12.—The Far Museum-Refrigerator must contain Eastern Geophysical Observatory |dead bodies of men of all races and has worked out a project of organ-/also utensils of their daily life, pre- ization of an enormous Museum-|sent food products and specimens Refrigerator in the Far East where |of animals which are becoming ex- dead bodies of men and animals can | tinct. be. preserved undecayed for cen-| The organization of the Museum, turies. |by_ preliminary calculation, will re- It is proposed for this purpose | quire about ten million roubles, Af- to use the phenomenon of “eternal|ter examination of the project by frostiness” widely spread in Siberia|the Central Science Department of and the Far East. Organic elements the Peoples Commissariat for Edu- are well preserved in a frozen, never | ation it is intended to apply to thawing ground. It is quite known scientific organizations of the whole that here were found corpses of|world with proposal to start sub- matimoths with a well preserved scription and thus collect sufficient meat which one could use for food. | money for construction of the Inter- Accordiig to the project the |natignal Museum-Refrigerator, ds of Worke He Mussolini's t Be Mave y attire and surrounded by his faithful flunkeys, stands the murderer add ‘s and peasants, Benito Mussolini. ed a new speedway from Rome to Ostia. in this country intinidating and even murdering militant Italian workers. shown cutting the tape that ‘or machine is of international es | Expose the Sham of | U.S. Anti-War Film BERLIN, Noy. 12.—It was left \to the German League for the Rights |of Man, to stage the only Armistice |Day celebration in Germany, at which the American film, “The Heart Throb of the World,” was shown. The nationalists’ press became in- dignant over the celebration and re- marked that “the film is, indeed, \against war, but only against war jin Europe, and has not a word to say about American imperialism | which finds expression not in fire |and sword, but in money and econ- omic pressure.” DOHENY SELLS Wide Oil War | | Continued from Page One | Oil Interests is being mentioned in | the deal. | . (By United Press) “Doheny Sells Holdings. Edward L. Doheny, one of the most picturesque and probably the most successful individual oil pros- pector in the world, is negotiating with Blyth, Witter and Company, and J. and W. Seligman and Com- pany for the sale of his last huge group of oil holdings—the producing properties in California owned by the Petroleum Securities Company. Announcement of the deal was made by Blyth, Witter & Company today. The properties involved were lie in seven Southern California counties, forming an oil field of more than 40,000 acres. According to the announcement, only a small part of them is producing 17,000 barrels daily. A “Family” Affair. | The Petroleum Securities Com- pany is a family organization thru erties. If negotiations now in pro- gress are consummated, a new com- pany probably will be formed known as the Pacific Western Oil Company. mont, former president of the Cali- fornia Petroleum Company and director of the Texas Company, will |become chariman of the new com- | pany and that the president will be William C. McDuffie, former pro- | Shell group. The new company would be at thé start strictly a producing company. It is expected to take over a con- tract by which all its production up to 20,000 barrels a day will be bought by Richfield Oil Company at current posted market price. Doheny sold control of his Mexi- can properties to the Standard Oil Company of Indiana in 1925, receiv- ing an estimated $38,000,000.. Last May he sold control of Pan-Ameri- can Western to the Richfield Oil Company of California for ap- proximately $7,500,000. Saintly Aimee Grows Holier as Charges of Bribery Pile Higher BRISTOL, England, Nov. 12 (UP) -—Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, California evangelist who has been touring England, denied today that $800,000 had been spent to squash a conspiracy case against her in Califotnia, “There’s not a word of truth in the suggestion made in California,” she said. “It is some political dodge by some party that wants to oust Asa Keyes (Los Angeles prosecutor) and would make a football out of any- one who happens to be in the road.” Oil Blaze Rages; Worker Is Killed WHITTIER, Calif., Nov. 12 (U.P). —Nearly 1,000 men continued to |fight a fire which blazed uncon- trolled today in Bellview oil well Number 1, near here. The blaze, which started Friday, already had taken one life and caused more than $125,000 damage. J. H. Taylor, a workman injured Saturday while fighting the fire, died yesterday, The flames were shooting 200 OIL HOLDINGS: May Re Move in World- which Doheny controls the prop-| It is understood that Jacques Vin-| duction manager of the Royal Dutch-| SERMANY FEARS BARS TO PLAN \fraid Experts Won’t Cut Reparations BERLIN, Noy. —Germany is making moves to get a cut in repa- ations out of the coming council of experts, who have to revise the Dawes plan to make it appear work- able a while longer. In all allied capitals the German embassies. are instructed to notify |the allied governments that Ger- many demands that the experts not |be limited by instructions of: gov- ernments as the original Dawes commission was, The Germans dislike the idea of the experts beirlg told in advance that the allies demand enough repa- vations to pay the allied debts plus the war damages, since’ that would make any great cut in reparations impossible. As it is, Germany can- not lose anything and may gain something by kicking. |. An important phase of the Ger- |man argument is that if the ex- |perts are limited by instructions, | America will not sit in at the con- ference of experts, dnd this will }make it hard to float a big bond issue for Germany in America on the basis of the new plan. ‘N.Y. MILL UNION LAUNCHES DRIVE recently valued at $43,000,000. They| Knit Goods Conference | | Plans General Strike The first step toward organizing the 15,000 knit goods workers and 20,000 silk workers in Greater New York was taken Sunday afternoon ata shop delegates’ conference of knit goods -workers called together by the National Textile Workers Union of America. Albert Weisbord, secretary-treas- urer of the national union, in a speech analyzing the industry, which he de- clared to be far larger in New York than is, generally realized, predicted a general strike in that trade before the workers would succeed in firmly establishing a union of their own. Intensified activicy by the textile workers’ organization was planned at the conference for recruiting the large masses of New York textile | workers into the union. When the |organization gained in numbers, 'MANIU VICTORY LAID TO THREAT OF ARMED COUP Cabinet May Be Short- Lived BUCHAREST, Rumania, Nov. 12, —Rumors were current in Buch- arest today to the effect that if Maniu had been refused the prem- | would | followers and | taken the government by force. Ac- | iership, the peasant party have mobilized its ‘cording to these reports Maniu had |been called to form the cabinet in order to avert the coup d’etat. There are also reports that the Maniu cabinet will be short-lived due to the preparations of the lib- | eral party, headed by former prem- ier Bratiano, the people’s party and the nationalist party to strongly contest all seats in the senate and in the lower house in the elections scheduled for December 12 and 15. Due to the unlimited amounts placed at their disposal by the capi- talist interests, it is expected that they may have the majority again in the legislature, Premier Maniu has begun on ‘his alleged attempt to clear the country | jof fraud and bureaucracy by de- |manding the dismissal of General Nicoleanu, chief of the Bucharest police and by the dismissal of 72 prefects and many lesser officials in different parts of the country. |The Regency has refused to sign jthe decree of dismissal of the po- \lice chief because of his service to the former government by sup- |pressing peasant party demonstra- tions. Should the Maniu ministry suc- ceed in remaining in power no fun- damental change in the policy of tle government is to he expected, according to a preliminary account of his policy. In foreign policy the |new government will attempt to j open the field even more for foreign eat and will continue negotia- tions for the $250,000,000 loan in |the United States, Mooney and Billings Campaign Launched by Liberal Organization A campaign to free Tom Mooney | } and Warren Billings, serving life | sentences in California prisons, will |be launched Friday by the American | Civil Liberties Union. In a letter calling upon “liberals lof the nation to rally to the |Mooney-Billings cause, the organ- ization points out that Franklin Griffin, trial judge who sentenced the men, has told Governor Young |of California that he is now con- ‘vineed of their innocence, | Mooney and Billings have been in |prison 12 years. The chief cam- |paign for their freedom is now be- jing conducted by the International jilizing the support of the working | class as the only method of combat- | tin gthe capitalist frame-up, /200 Young Workers of |Paterson Celebrate the ‘Russian Revolution PATERSON (By Mail).—Two | hundred young workers, many of |them from the ranks of the silk | strikers, attended the celebration of |the eleventh anniversary of the |Russian Revolution, which was held junder the auspices of the Young Workers League at its headquarters on Saturday night. Labor Defense which has been mob- | | Weisbord, asserted, a strike will be | called to improve the terrible work- ling conditions now existing. | The organizer of the Knit-Goods |Local of the N. T. W. U., Sarah | Chernow, gave a graphic picture of. |the merciless exploitdtion of the ‘workers here. She also laid before |the parley the demands of the junion, which were subsequently un- | animously adopted. They are: a 40- jhour, five-day week, a minimum | wage of $20 weekly and the abolition | The main speaker, C. Martin, was enthusiastically received. The, pro- gram, the great success of which was greatly due to the social di- rector, Anna Selick, also included an by Alex Fox and dancing by Joe Mulligan. We demand the abolition of all laws which disfranchise the Ne- wroes. interesting strong man exhibition | | | | | | Secretary Frank B. Kellogg, ensures a new and more terrible imperialist war in the near future, gave another one of his “peace” ta delight of Wall Street. Photo shows him with Mrs. Kellogg and Mrs. Louis Slade, left. | . Wall Street’s “Peace” Dove NEW YORK CITY. DRESSMAKERS IN BIG STRIKE MEET Cooper Union Rally to Mobilize Workers Continued from Page One hoth the bosses, as well as the right wing fakers, were compelled to face the brunt of the attacks of the com- bined forces of the enemies of mill- tant unionism, Considered as a division of the garment manufacture industry, the | workers in dressmaking have the largest youthful element and suffer under such intense exploitation that they give evidence of being ripe to conduct-a struggle for unionization, Issue Call. The call issued for the meeting pstates: “Sisters and Brothers! The Na- | author of the “peace” pact that lks on Armistice Day to the great 350 PERSONS FEARED LOST AS SHIP SINK. Continued from Page One lover the decks and the ship was in dange: of capsizing, Coast Guare headquarters was advised. The Davis, which was nearest to the Vestris was expected to be at |the position last reported by the dis- abled shy at about 5:p. m. | Weather Pureau ot icials believe! the Vestris was caught in the sud- | |den gale which swept up the Atlan- tie coast late Sunday and reached 9 velocity of 80 miles an hour. No in-| timation as to the cause of the dam-| age was received from the Vestris| although Coast Guard officials ex-} ed belief the sudden gale might} shifted the cargo and caused the vessel to list and ship water. | * * * | The steamer Vestris, carrying 140 | |passengers and e crew of 210 from) New York to Rio De Janeiro, was sinking in the Atlantic Ocean yes-! terday, off the Virginia shoals. | Its radio flashing distress signals continuously, the ship was lying on beam-end with the starboard deck| under water. | | Sail to Aid Ship, All information received at Coast Guard headquarters indicated the ac- Alien Registration a ‘Fact; U. S. Violating ‘Vote of Own Congress | At a meeting of the American) |Jewish Committee at the Hotel! | Astor, the Executive Committee in its report called-attention to the fact that by an order of the Depart- ment of Labor, requiring all immi- grants admitted after July 1, 1928, to hold identification certificates, the Labor Department and with it, ‘of course, the U. S. government, is violating by indirect means the vote |in congress which defeated the bill | providing for registration of aliens, |Find Dead Body of Newspaper Manager | The crushed body of Luke M. Mc- |Veigh, 26, assistant business man- ager of the New York Daily News, was found yesterday in the rear of a seven-story apartment house at 39 Turner Place, where, with his wife, Marion, and a six months’ old infant, he occupied an apartment, LINER BATTLES GALE LONDON, Nev. 12 (UP).—Radio messages from the liner Mauretania tonight reported that a few mem- bers of the crew and a few passen- gers had been injured in a three-day battle against one of the worst At- lantie Ocean gales of recent years. The wind sometimes reached a vel- ocity of 80 mile’ an hour and moun- tainous waves crashed against the ship. / |of overtime, piece work and night =] |work. For a week of from 48 to 56|| EC Pal jhours, workers are now getting | |from $14 to $16. | | Poecnelinectart | Fascist Minister First Soviet Costume ® | Lauds U.S. Banks as | Poland’s Pawnbroker | | SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Nov. 12./ ~Jan Glechanowski, Polish minister | to the United States, speaking here, reminded America of the little- known fact that the Polish Army was organized and mobilized on American soil during the world war, Refuting the charge that America “Ysolates itself” from Europe, he ex- plained that Americans invited by Poland to study finances and econ-| omics of the country, have made) suggestions and given valuable ad- vice. The minister was too modest | to add that the American bankers | had also given a number of valuable | Soviet Union: STEAMER AGROUND WEST KEY, Fa., Noy, 12 (UP).— The freighter Ortega, chartered by the Atlantic Gulf-West Indies Steamship Company, was reported aground off Haiti tonight. feet in the air, ¢ The Workers (Communist) Party is the party’ of the class struggle. loans to support Poland against the} l | BALL Saturday Eve. Dec. 15th AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN AUSPICES: “it / Freiheit tional Organization Committee of |the Cloak and Dressmakers Union, {at its last full meeting, carefully |considered the dress situation and decided that it is high time for the dressmakers to take steps to do away with the chaos, demoraliza- : tion, slavery and sweat-shop condi- cident probably was caused by shift- tions now existing in the dress ing of the traft's cargo. Fecada: Abandonment of the stricken ship] «oy two years the bosses, with came as. Coast Guard cutters and | the aid of the clique, have had a commercial craft were A hurrying | free hand in the shops. Wages and under all steam to aid the vessel. | working conditions in the dress ‘ Radio Operator in Heroic Rgle. shops have been reduced to the low- From messages picked up by est level. Experienced workers, Coast Guard and: other radio sta-|who have been in the trade for tions, those ashore pictured the Ves-| many years, are today compelled to tris’ radio man as clinging to his work for starvation wages. Union post while the vessel listed danger-|control has been wiped out. The ously, and until the radio power was) dress industry is practically ah open- wiped out by the seas. | shop industry today. The name of the Vestris radio op-| “The National Organization, Com- erator, who so valiantly stuck to his| mittee decided that there is but one post, was listed with Lamport and! yay open to the dressmakers to do Holt, the owners of the ship, merely | away with the present miserable _ as “N. Loughlin.” _ |eonditions and organize the indus- * * * try; that is through a general strike NORFOLK, Va., Nov. 12 (UP),—|at the beginning of the next season, Eleven lifeboats have been put off) “This decision and plans for im. the steamey Vestris, according to ad-| mediate preparation for the strike vices here this afternoon. The Ohio|will be submitted by the National Maru and the San Juan were expect-| Organization Committee for your ed to reach the wreck scene soon, approval at a mass meeting.” 5 Ye AS of the Daily Worker | will be celebrated in Manhattan Opera House Saturday, January Sth KEEP THIS DAY OPEN! Koop In Step With Thousands of Workers Who Read the Baily 32s 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 Outside of New York: t $6,00 @ year; $3.50 six months; $2.00 three months, SUBSCRIBE! Baily Worker 26-28 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK. ‘ \ ey