The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party aily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.. under the act of March 3, 1879. f <] HE WORT ss are TS FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V., No. 275 jed daily excep Sanday by The Nationa) Dally Wo Img Association, imc. 26-28 Union Sq. New rh, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1928 Outside New York, by mall, $6.1 , York, by mail. $8.00 per year Price 3 Cents GREEN PLEDGES A. F. L. SUPPORT | TO AMERICANISM Makes Vicious Attack on Communism at Convention Proud of War Record) ‘Sells Blood for Bread Repeats Fake Slogan | to Fool Unorganized seeped | ; NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 19.! —Tuning up the reactionary A. F. of L. band of mgchine-| picked delegates to th@ well-| known note of denunciation of | the Communists, William Green, | president of the Federation, today | opened its 48th annual convention | in session here with the expected blast against all things progressive | and militant. | Seeking to prove that the offi- cialdom of the Federation was the greatest force for Americanism in| the country, Green in his opening address before the convention, de- fended the organization against the! usual ‘attacks made by the National | Association of Manufacturers. “Glorious” Was Record. “We are not a menace to Amer- ican institutions,” he said, pointing| to the “glorious” war record of the} A. F. of L. during which the labor | bureaucrats became one of the lead- | ing arms of the U. S. war machine. | “While we were fighting to uphold | American institutions, some of the! manufacturers were profiteering,” | he ended in an outburst of patriotic | fervor. | The Communists, he said, were the greatest menace to these insti- | tutions, and the A. F. of L., in car- | rying out an uncompromising policy | of expulsions of the militants, was | the greatest bulwark of American-| ism. In his speech Green continued | the emphasis laid on the slogan of | organize the unorganized contained | in the report to the convention of} the Executive Council. “Double the| wae membership in the next year,” said, “is our watchword.” © In the same breath, lest this phrase be | taken literally by the labor move- ment, he warned the delegates against any display of militancy. “Labor must cooperate with’ indus- | try,” he said. “It must bear in mind | that discussion and conference are| better than a fight.” Fake Slogan. Careful observers at the conven- tion have remarked that the stress placed on the phrase, “organize the | unorganized” is the response of the| A. F. of L, bureaucracy to the or-| ganization drives launched by the! Continued cn Page Five FLOODS IN WEST CAUSE 17 DEATHS | | | | Mississippi Rises;Farm Lands Inundated CHICAGO, Ill., Nov. 19.—Raeing streams were overflowing . their banks today in five states, destroy- ing lives and homes of poor farmers _ and workers caught in the path of | the torrent. The Mississippi itself had overflowed its banks along the | \ borders of Missouri and Illinoi~. Many Negroes are reported to have been killed. Rainfall aggravated the condition, | many inches falling in the areas, raising the level of the al-| ready-overflowing streams. chis| condition, it was pointed out, could | have been avoided completely had | the relief activities of the last creat | Mississippi flood been properly | handled. With three more deaths in Ken- tucky and two additional deaths ‘a Kansas, the total number of lives lost in this flood is now placed at 17. The land of hundreds of poor farmers has been inundated, with water flowing fiercely through th. faulty levees and breakwaters. Com- plete property damage was estimated late tonight at $10,000,000. one Shee PINEVILLE, Ky., Nov. 19° (UP). -—The Cumberland River overflowed its banks yesterday. drowning three miners at Telijay, Ky., and forcing “many workers’ families to abandon ‘their homes in surrounding towns. » The miners were drowned while crossing a bridge which was car- Paris Raymond Briez, who, unable to earn a living from | the miserable wages he ‘eceives as| a laborer, is forced from time to time to sell his blood to hospitals. worker, | In all, Briez has undergone 264| blood transfusions during the past few years, and 60 persons now walk the streets whose lives he saved. SILK STRIKERS TO MEET THURSDAY Membeérship Will Have | Say on Ousters (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 19.— With the declaration: “I don’t give a damn for your majority,” Fred Hoelscher, secretary of the Asso- ciated Silk Workers’ Union, and chief of the clique that is trying to oust the constitutional Strike Com- mittee because of its militancy, this morning tried to disrupt the strik- ers’ mass. meeting by ordering Ger- trude Mueller, left wing chairman, off the platform. Despite the fact that the official- dom had come to the meeting rein- forced with a gang of strong-arm men, the determined stand of the overwhelming majority of the mem- bership forced them to allow the left wing leader to make her statement in the name of the strike committee. Membership Meet Thursday. After giving an account of the ae- tivities of the strike committee, of how it was functioning as the rep- resentative of the silk strikers even in the handling of complaints in the shops where fake setlements were concluded thru the officialdom’s pol- icy, Gertrude Mueller, announced to the crowded hall the call to a mem- bership meeting this Thursday night at 8 o’clock in Turn Hail. This was in direct defiance of the decision of the officialdom to call no more mem- ership meetings, for fear of having their expulsion plans vetoed by the highest authority in the organization. The strike committee’s decision goes further than that, according to its official reporter. It makes a demand on the Joint Board to see to it that no violence occurs at the meeting and that Hoelscher as sec- retary stand instructed to send out mail notices to all the members of the union to.come to the meeting. “Thursday night,” Mueller declared, “the membership will have a chance to discuss and officially decide whether the action of the officials in dissolving their strike committee was arbitrary or not and wnether this act was one of a strikebreaking character.” | At the same time she warned the officialdom that the workers are well able'to maintain orders at their own meetings and that strong-arm methods will not be tolerated. Hoelscher in Hypocritical Talk. Hoelscher then took the floor to deliver a speech in which he alter- nately cringed in defense and threat- ened further suppressive measures against the left wing strike commit- tee. First of all he declared that there will be no membership meet- ings and that the dissolution was final. He then apologized for the attacks on the militants by whining, “I am no leader, I am only secre- tary.” He then launched an unprin- cipled and hypocritical attack on the left wing leadership of the heroic Passaic and New Bedford strikes. After. announcing, “They said that Hoelscher can’t fight, I’ll show them that Hoelscher can fight,” he imme; diately proved it by peddling a derous lie that even the bosses he: tated to use against the left wing BIG GUNS ROAR AS HOOVER SA U.S. ISSUES PLAN FOR CONTROL OF NICARAGUA MARINES NOT T0 QUIT NICARAGUA SCHEME STATES Financial. Bondage Is Backed by U. S. Guns anid Troops New $30,000,000 Loan To Train Native Force as Dictator’s Tools The following despatch from a Washixgton correspondent of the United Press, while written in terms not employed by the Daily Worker, is published for the im- portance of .the facts revealed, showing in unusually sharp light thei imperialistic aims of the junket of Hoover to Latin Ameri- ca, especially as regards Nicar- agua. Dict) eke By RAYMOND CLAPPER (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UP)— The best interests of Nicaragua make it advisable for her to ac- cept a material extension of Amer- ican_control over her finances, both as to collection of all revenues and approval of all expenditures, ac- cording to recommendations in the report of Dr. W, W. Cumberland, financial expert, who made a sur- vey of Nicaraguan affairs under the auspices o: the American state department. The Cumberland recommenda- tions, published by thestate depart- ment tonight without comment and as the expert’s own personal view, urged the appointment of two American officials to-he nominated by the American state department and subject to removal by it, one to have complete charge of revenue collections and one to be in com- plete charge of government expendi- tures. Marines to Stay. Dr. Cumberland also predicted it would be a long time before the Nicaraguan native constabulary, now unde? the direction of Ameri- can marine corps officers, would be stable enough to be left under Nicaraguan direction. The state department has given much consideration to the Cumber- land report, but has made public’no Continued om Paye Two SUPREME COURT “SLAPS ATLABOR Throws Out Appeal for Stone Cutters (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov.. 19.—The A. F. of L. officialdom’s method of received another severe jclt today when the supreme court threw out on a technicality the appeal of the Journeymen Stonecutters’ Union and its New York local officials. An injunction against the na- tional officials and those of the New York and the Newark locals wgs issued a number of months ago on charges of conspiracy to keep non-union made cast stone out of the metropolitan district following the supreme court decision about a year ago fn the famous New Bed- ford stone case which made it il- legal for stone cutters to refuse to work on scab material. The union officials tried to prove they were completely innocent of the con- spiracy charge. * * How the Courts Work. ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UP). —The U. S. supreme court appeal strike leaders in those great strug- Continued on Page Three of the Journeyman Stone Cutters’ Continued on Page Four SEVERED HEAD LIVES “fighting” injunctions in the courts | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, workers and peasants. | “Good Will,” Guns and Hoover Sent By U.S. Empire to “Awe Latin Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil are due to receive Hoover. American Peoples Under the great guns of the dreadnought “Maryland”, ready to hurl projectiles of high explosives beyond the weak fortifications of Latin American codstal cities, Hoover, the newly-elected head of American imperialism, is sweeping southward to view the countries domi- nated by Wall Street banks, and ruled, when need be, directly by U. S. Marines. The first stop will be at Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone. The “independence” from the Spanish throne, won by Leroic fighters such as Simon Bolivar a century ago, is passed, and a new fight for independence looms, led by Latin American | | } | | ILS ON WARSHIP; YOUNG WORKERS DEMONSTRATE AS ENVOY STARTS Held Incommunicado as Proconsul Boards “Maryland” iFirst Stop Is Corintc for Nicaragua Canal SAN JOSE, Cal., Nov. 19.— Following a demonstration b; }members of the Workers (Communist) Party and the » FORCE VESTRIS Workers on Stand Are Intimidated Yesterday’s session of the “in- vestigation” into the causes of the sinking of the Vestris, held under the supervision of U. S. Attorney Tuttle, definitely tevealed the act that the crew of the ill-fated vessel has been browbeaten and intimidated | |by the agents of the Lamport and |Holt Company untii many are afraid | to uphold the charges that they |made when the investigation was \first begun. These charges, when \first made, fully laid the blame of |the wreck at the doors of the own- lers of the ship. When it was discovered, sever_! |days ago, that a ‘radio message had |been sent to the L. and H. offices, |advising them about the bad condi-| tion of the Vestris, and that the com- pany had wired back to the Vestris an order that no S. O. S. call be sent out in order to save the salvage costs, the seamen and radio onera- tors had been definite in their ac- cusations against the Lamport and Holt Line. But yesterday the work- er-witnesses could “not remember” | or had “forgotten.” In the interval | since the disaster, it was poizted out, the company agents have had ample time to close the mouths ‘| the workers. Issue Fake Statement. In the lack of any charge from the intimidated workers, the “in- vestigation” has issued a statement saying that it has been proven that no message was sent by the Vestris | to the owners. This has t 2n| seconded by David Cook, senior offi- | cer of Sanderson and Co., agents here of Lamport and Holt. He has| flatly denied that any messa,e was | received from the sinking ship; r a| with the seamen intimidated into | silence, this statement will stand as “official.” | The deck has been cleared by the | moneyed interests that control this so-called investigation; the crew has | been silenced; the complete white- | washing of the company guilt hu. i’- | most been accomplished. From now | on, the investigation will attempt to put the final touches on its frame-up of the workers. Safety Costs Money. | she couldn’t float any longer. “Don’t HIDING VESTRIS’ LOG! NAPOLI SCORES. That the Lamport and Holt|/say. And they add the story of steamship company is hiding the log| how life-saving security -is sacri- CREW TO SILENCE AAP INSPECTION ALIBI cogp yewepapep of the Vestris which would reveal |ficed for profit-bringing space on Communist Assails “Il the guilt of the company and the board the supposed “best” captain in the loss of 111 lives, is| ships. “Look at that ship!” sings out a the charge made by sailors at the! seaman, beckoning the Daily Work-| Marine Workers’ Progressive League|er reporter to the window of the in the Seamen’s Club at 28 South! Seamen’s Club thing the Munson Street. Line’s Pier No. 9. Beside the pier A fireman from the rescue ship lies the liner Munargo, which sails “American Shipper” declares that | between New York and Cuba. The when survivors were picked up by | |ife-boats were all over the side and that ship, the chief officer of the Coittinued on Page Two Vestris, Frank W. Johnson, and the wee - officers to take the log (the ship’s documentary chronicle of every- thing that happens on board) when | any ship is deserted, sailors are cer- tain that the missing brief cases the fact that Chief Officer Johnson, | Board to participate in the special after landing in New York, hid series of open forums the union. is away for two days with the Lam-| arranging for the discussion «! the port and Holt lawyers sand mana- special problems the workers in the gers before going on the stand at |trade are now faced with. A ferum third officer, came aboard with two brief cases which have since been missing, | Where Is the Vestris Log. 4 As it is customary for all ships’ FORUM TODAY TakeUpAmalgamation are deliberately concealed and the .. Be : jog of the Vestris declared lost with| With Cloak Union the ship, in order to conceal the} \_ 7 oF pulltece che Sanaa | Workers in the fur manufactrring This story gains in credence from |industry are called by the Coiat the polite invitation of U. S. Dis- will be held this afternoon at the trict Attorney Tuttle. |Progressive Center, 101 West 27th “Where is the Vestris log?” asked |st, the sailors. “And if it was not in| Among the, many issues that the | those brief cases, what was in them furriers are now faced with, two to cause them to be concealed from | .t4n4 out as the most vital. These investigation?” are: the coming convention of the “Investigation” Shelters Company. | union and the amalgamation of the These questions, which are equal Continued on Page Two to"accusations by seamen who know, alternate with angry ridicule at the “four-flushing” U. 8. district attor- | ney who is “investigating” the dis- aster from the point of view that the Vestris crew must be made to tell “why they are alive.” There is no mystery in arv so"! or’s mind as to why the Vestris sunk, there is only a marvel in their LABORER MURDERED. NORWALK, Conn., Nov. 19 (UP) —Positive identification of the vic- tim of an ax murder here has added to the mystery of the case. The man, whose mutilated body was found Friday afternoon at a road- fi idn’t’ si re, | Side, was Joseph Putrino, Port Ches- rina al ae or rere |ter, N. Y., laborer. A roommate of The case is simple. The Vestris, | the victim made the identification. | Nicola Napoli, editor of the Itali: Nuovo Mondo” In a scathing denunciation of tle s‘rikebreaking and scab-herding tac- tics of the Italian socialist paper, “I! Nuovo Mondo,” which has locked out its union printers and is now engaged in an attempt to operate open shop, n |Communist paper, “Il Lavoratore,” | yesterday “called upon the: militant Italian workers of the city to demon, strate their Sopposition to these strikebreaking actitivities by boy- cotting the paper and refusing it any further support. “The is ue in this case is a clear one,” Napoli declared in an interview for the Daily Worker. “There is no question here of ang anti-fascist fight as the officials of the seub- herding socialist paper pretend. is a case of workers in a union fight against a boss who is trying to break the union and institute the open shop. All workers will recognize the importance of this challenge and will unite to stifle the poisonous rep- tile which many of them have helped to nurse.” Tresca Denounces Seabs. Further developments in the case during the past 24 hours were mark- ed by a spirited attack on the “Il Nuovo Mondo” strikebreaking tac- ties, by Carlo Tresca, well-known Italian radical and editor, who de- nounced the paper’s open-shop meth- ods, and called upon the workers to hoyeot it. “This stand though somewhat be- lated,” Napoli said, “is certainly wel- come, We are glad that Tresca now sees that we were right, the postion we have maintained for over two years.” Declaring that the “Il Nuovo Mondo” was assuming a “reformist, reactionary stand which is against the elementary principles of any re- Continued on Page Two like all the Lamport and Holt ships,| ~ was an old tub that was so rotten tell me that there was any storm to amount to anything,” says a sailor. “Look at the picture in the Times’ Sunday edition, showing the Vestri: tilting over a few minutes before she went down. A big stretch of | PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 19.—Wi NEW ATTACK ON O’BRIEN Would Oust Ariz. Militant from Union It} All-America Anti - Imperialist League against American im- perialism in Latin-America. president-elect Hoover set sail for the southern continent aboard the battleship Mary- land. Six destroyers surrounded the battleship on its outward vovage. from the harbor while the rest of the fleet joined in a 21-gun salute. Besides, the president-elect and his wife, the Maryland also carries 35 members of Hoover’s entourage. Demonstrate At Statien. The anti-imperialist demonstra- tion occurred as the Hoover party boarded their special train at Palo Alto at 7:30 last night. Four young workers, V. V. Dart, of the district executive committee of the Workers Party; James Jones, of the Young Workers League and Johm Arneth, forced their way thru the police lines towards the presi- dent-elect, whowas ‘sttrounded by secret service, newspaper and col- lege men. The workers bore pla- cards calling on the imperialists to gc. out of Nicaragua and urging the American workers to read the Daily Worker. Secret service men immediately sprang at the young workers, seizine the placards and hustling them out of range of the president elect’s person. The young workers are being held incommunicado while arrangements for bail are being made. The prison- ers pleaded not guilty to charges of disturbing a public assembly, Their trial has been set for Friday. In an attempt to play the mag- nanimous hero, Hoover today wired the mayor of Palo Alto that he be- lieved the demonstration calling for the withdrawal of United States armed forces from Nicaragua “a college boy prank.” He urged that it be not taken seriously. At the same time, the man who Continued on Page Five | Who Will Nab the Bad Rothstein Murderer? Oh! No! Not Tammany The Tammany comedy between | Jimmie Walker and Police Commis- sioner Warren played with the {Rothstein murder case as back- ground became a slap-stick farce lyesterday as the police head sat |down in conference with the jazz | mayor just before the zero hour | struck yesterday and admitted tra- |gically that nothing, absolutely nothing, had developed in the case, The murderers are still at large. | They refuse, politely but firmly’ to give themselves up and be scorched to death in the patent chair which the state supplies for the purpose. Of course, everyone knows that Tammany is only joking and does not really want to scorch the polite murderers, dope pedlers and silk hat | gamblers who ‘are behind scenes. And the mayor gave the police commissioner (all in the most ser- ious manner) twenty-four more hours to find the, murderers—or there will be the most shakable shake-up of the police department ever. Maybe. Industrial Meet of i | Section 2 Will Be tied away by the river. The nearby | the labor movement, and has brought Other investigations, however, not|sea is shown, but no waves, let) town of Middlesboro was sur- rounded ‘by the flood and in Pines- ‘ville and Harlem many ~ miners’ families were forced to flee from “their homes, _ CAPITALIST POLITICIAN DIES. ,. WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UP).— Representative William A, Oldfield, democrat, died in Emer- Remarkable Soviet Experiment with Dog MOSCOW, Nov, 19 (U.P).—Soviet scientists through an amazing: ser- ies of laboratory experiments, are penetrating many secrets of life and death, . In Moscow the head of a dog has been resuscitated and kept alive on a plate for. three hours after the body to which it once had been at- sound resulted, as the vocal cords had been severed. It opened and closed its eyes, which were as sen- sitive to light and totich as a living dog’s. The bodyless head even swallowed food, despite the fact there was no stomach for it to go into, Artificial Heart. .The experiment was accomplished by the use of an “artificial heart”— Continued om Pana Fina |The plane was under the control of the U. S. Gov-| ernment, continued to pile up the | Continued on Page Five FIERCE GALE PARIS, Nov. 19 (UP).—Interna- tional traffie was suspended today by a 60-mile-an-hour wind. T cargo plane, the only one which attempted to reach London, crashed at the edge of the Beauvais Forcst. wrecked, but the vilot escaped. A th liam O’Brien, candidate for governor | the matter to his local, No. 1089 of Sette eva thet GAIRGE Sion |of,Arlajns on the Warkers..(Cam:| the: BRpehavhood.) Bite tis recent any ship.” port and simply got worse and worse until she went down! Storm! That’s all in your eye, buddy!” Criminal Inspection Practice. “Steamboat inspection?” The sail- ors snort at the- phrase. “No steam. | most reactionary in the Americar ‘errori! Federetion of Labor, has organizes “en Gitlow, Communist vice-presi- and the law is loose enough,” they |this plot to expel a militant from dential cand: date, speak in Phoenix. 4 % M er is inspected according to law. fe | munist) Party ticket in the recent| election campaign, O’Brien er “The st that mak t that | elections, is facing expulsion from|the reactionaries among the -1 there aaa Gen a aiplatn as The | his union, the United Brotherhood of | “patriotic” business men and labor Vestris was leaking when she left | Carpenters and Joiners, because of | fakers, and insisted upon the right his fight againstt he Ku Klux Klan and American Legion, and for the right of the Communist Party to hold meetings in his state, ‘of Communists to hold street meet- ings and present their issues to the workers of Arizo1 ed a number of He was arrest- es for speaking The International union, one of the ‘n defiance of the: authorities and but succeeded in having Held Tonight at 6 “Our Tasks in the Amalgamation of the Needle Trades Union” will be the main subject under considera- tion at the Novem industrial conference of Section 2 of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, which will p. m. today. * John J. Bailam. industrial organ- izer of District 2; K Potash. of the Furriers’ Joint Board, and Wortis. of the Cloak and D rs, will lead the discussion. o be held at 101 W. 27th St. at 6