The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1928, Page 2

LRT. Officials in ) New Frame-l me Move Against Worker Cleared in Subway Wreck INABILITY TO PAY BIG BAIL CAUSED PRISON SENTENCE IRT Afraid Own Guilt | Will Be Revealed Determined to continue the frame- up proceedings towerman h recent Times s subway wreck, District Attorne Bafiton--carryng the orde: he guilty traction efficials, y tday announced that he would seek new means of indict- ing the innocent worker. King was yesterday acquited when a grand jury, on which a number of workers served, refused to become a part to the frame-up proceedings to shield the guilt of the I. R. T. traction of- | ficials for the wreck. | King has been in the Tombs since his confinement, because of his in- | ability to obtain bail of $20,000. The criminal responsibility of the traction officials has beén exposed a number of times. Unfit equip- ment, failure to make necessary re- pairs, merciless speed-up of its workers and other such conditions for which the officials are respon- | sible have been shown to be the causé of the numerous wrecks dur- ing the past year. 7 8 Acquit Worker. (United Press) Harry King, the towerman who was held responsible for the wreck of a subway train under Times Square in August, when 18 persons were killed, was exonerated of blame today by a grand jury. After four days’ investigation the grand jury reported it was unable to substantiate the manslaughter charge against King and dismissed the charge, ‘The towerman had been held re- sponsible October 4 by Magistrate Corrigan after a hearing in the west side court. He had been held in the Tombs prison because of inability to give $20,000 bail. F Sailors of the U. S. S. Wyoming gave up odds and ends of their clothing to the five women who were picked up by the Wyoming. survivors of the “Vestris” women, from left to right, Mrs. ate LSS Photo shows four of the five Oelrich, Mrs. Norman Batten, Fernandez Rua and Dolores Posceli. VESTRIS OFFICER | HIDES SHIP LOG \Rap “Efficiency” Hoover Inspection of Continued from Page One being gone over to check up thetr | condition and that of their gear. | “That's the first time in three years | we have seen such care being taken | on any boat in New York Harbor! | They’re checking up things now | for a little while until the Vestris scandal is forgotten!” The sailor, a big fellow who works on the lines making the West | Indies and Central America, con-| tinues his story of steamer “inspec- | tion” and “life-boat drill,” a story | verified by others who also inter- ject ironic laughter at the alibis of | the government inspectors and com- pany agents, | Both® “Jolly Good Fellows.” “You see, the captains and the in-| spectors are good friends. They all! CLOAK CHAIRMEN © IN PARLEY TODAY Discuss Dress Strike; Amalgamation All shop chairmen and shop rep- resentatives from the factories of the ladies’ garment manufecturi: industry here, are called to attend a conference tonight in Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 East 4th St., immediately after work. The conference is to| take up some extremely vital prob-| lems facing the workers in that in- | dustry. | So that:the workers in the shops may, thru their chairmen and dele-! gates, get exact and clear informa-| tion, the conference will consider the question of the recently decided gen- | eral strike in the dress industry, the | imminent amalgamation of their | ur.cn with that of the fur workers | and the structure of the new amal- gamated national union, Although these problems have each | heen spoken of before at mass meet- | ings and at delegates’ cor*-“ences, detailed discussion has not been in- dulged in. That such a conference is necessary and timely is attested to by the response of the workers to this announcement. All workers favor unquestioningly the amalgamation program, but a clear picture of its organizational structure is not yet general. The structure of the new union will be buiit in such a way that’ the rank and file can always be assured of absolute control, The general strike preparations in the dress industry will also be accelerated if a clear understanding of the chaos in that trade is more speed realized. belong to the Maritime Exchange, | over on Broad Street. Even Silas B. Axtell, lawyer for the Interna-| tional Seamen’s Union, is connected |with that outfit, along with ship- | | owners, chandlers and god knows | what else. “It’s a little maritime edition of Mattie Woll’s Civic They’re all jolly good fellows with | ome another and the inspectors) wouldn’t do anything to spoil the business of these masters of sailing | coffins.” | Hoover “Efficiency.” | The hull, engines, boilers, pumps, | and life-saving and fire-fighting ap- paratus of the Vestris were “in- spected” by Inspectors Edward Kean, Frederick F. Dennis, and ‘Frank N. Browning. They gave the Vestris clearance as seaworthy. Their chief in Washington is N. D. | | Hoover, supervising inspector gen- | jeral of the Steamboat Inspection Service which is a part of the De-| partment of Commerce under no! les¥ a person than Hefbert Hoover, | president-elect. We have heard the world tol 1a that Herbert Hoover was a shark | for “efficiency.” But what of his own department that for years has | allowed unseaworthy tubs danger- ous to the life of all aboard to sail out of every American port? | How “Efficient” Inspection? Hoover's “efficient” inspector said \that the hull of the Vestris was sound, But she was sinking when| she sailed out of the harbor at New York, and the further she went the more leaks opened. Hoover's “efficient” inspector of | pumps gave the Vestris his 0. K., but the day afterward, out at sea, the pumps wouldn’t work and the sailors were put to the impossible | task of bailing the ocean out of her | with buckets! Hoover's “efficient” inspector of Newark § Section of the) Workers School Will Open Classes on Dec. 1 life-saving apparatus gave official approval to the Vystris’ life-boats, yet it has been proven that they were leaky, wooden affairs; that the lavits’ gearing from which they hung was clogged (the sailors call jit “frozen”) with rust so thick they | Wednesday evening, Dec. 5. | money is badly needed for organ-| |to organize the unorganize shops, Federation. ia U. Ss. Supreme Court t ° Textile Workers Union|f to Hold Benefit Show | of “Singing Jailbirds” | The National Textile Workers’ FORUM TODAY Union announces that a benefit per-} | formance of Upton Sinclair’s “Sing- | ing Jailbirds” will be presented at TakkeUp Amalgamation | the Provincetown Playhouse on| With Cloak Union Continued “om Page One | Furriers Union with the union of labor ever written in Am it |the cloak and dressmakers at the is stirring and full of action, One close of that convemtion, which will of the special feature will be tne be held practically simultaneously mass singing of ten labor songs, | with that of the other organization; several of them Russian, And a | secondly the pressing problem of Chinese worker, one of the charac-|forcing the manufacturers to sign ters in the play, sings to the au-|agreements with the left-wing Joint oe in Chinese telling them how | | Board for the coming year. “get pie in the sky” when they | The agreement between the Asso- |e. jciated Fur Manufacturers and the Tickets can be bought-at the of- |Scab union of the A. F. of L..—the fices of the National Textile Work- Joint Council, is about to expire, ers’ Union, Room 1707, 104 Fifth |9nd since that organization is prac- | Ave. Workérs are asked to buy tically non-existant, the Joint Board their tickets as soon as possible as |'s swiftly going forward with plans This dramatization of the Califor- | nia marine workers’ strike of 1923 | is one of the few great plays o The workers in the industry are demonstrating great enthusiasm about the coming amalgamation be- tween the two great organizations of needle trades workers, neverthe- \less these forums are being arranged so that thru rank and file discus- sions, the whole question can he | clarified organizationally in the | minds of the workers. | ization oe ee ‘Tc FARE STEAL CASE POSTPONED Supreme Court Orders Bedacht to Begin Class | New Argument \in Marxism, Leninism’ WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. (UP). at the Workers School ordered the I. R. T. ‘Seven-cent sub-| Max Bedacht, national director of way fare case from New York City the Agitprop of the Workers (Com- reassigned next January 14. |munist) Party of America, who has This means that the case will be | j:.' been added to the faculty of the re-argued on that date, with a de- | Workers School, will begin his course cision perhaps not until two or three | jin “Marxism-Len ih,” this Thurs- months from now. |day at 8:30 p, m, at the. Workers The Interborough Rapid Transit School, 26-28 Union Sq., fifth floor. Company must file cee before Dec. |. This course, which is open only to 17. | those who have taken the elementary The City of New York must file | ang intermediate courses in the its new briefs before January 2, and | school or to those who can prove | lector the I. R. T. must file its reply briefs before January 9. Each side can have the same num- that they have made a study of Marxism-Leninism, will take up the most important works of Marx and MARINES NOT TO. | QUIT NICARAGUA SCHEME STATES: iTo Train Native Force) as Dictator’s Tools Continued from Page One decisions with regard to it. The re- port was prepared Jast March, but publication was withheld at the re- quest of the Nicaraguan govern- ment until after the Nicaraguan presidential election a few days ago, so that it would not be an is- sue in the campaign there. The Cumberland plan mends: A. Creation of an auditor-gen- | eral, to le nominated by the Ameri- | can secretary of state and appointed by, the Nicaraguan president, and | to have complete control of all gov- ernment expenditures, 2. Powers of the American col- general—now confined to customs. collecticns—to be extended to all revenues, the official to be nominated by the American secre- tary of state and be appointed by ithe Nicaraguan president. ; 3. American secretary of state to have the power of removing both | the collector general and the auditor general, 4. Loan of $30,000,000 author- ized, of which $12,000,000 would be issued at once, to retire outstanding cbligations, pay off revolutionary claims, 1928 election expenses and provide paving and sanitation for Managua, 5. Loan of $2,250,000 to Pacific railroad authorized to improve its | equipment. Dr. Cumberland was sent to Nicaragua a year ago, the state de- partment paying his expenses, after resigning as economic adviser to the Haitian government to make the study. recom- U, S. Control. The two American-recommended officials, the collector general of Worker Killed In Movie Arsenal Blast r ee One worker was killed and several were wounded in an explosion of an arsenal at a moving picture studio in Burbank, Cal. shows the ruins of the movie set. Photo 200 ARRESTED AS REDS AT HAVANA To Deport rt All Aliens Without Trial HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 19.—The Cuban police, under orders from the ; Machado government, known the world over as the puppet of Ameri- can imperialism, has raided work- ing class districts in a,general drive against “Reds.” Two hundred per- | sons, many of them foreigners who will be deported at once, have been “detained,” according to statements of the police. No trials are allowed the prisoness under Machado’s fas- cist rule. Among the foreigners are Ar- menians, Poles and Russians. One of these Russians, named Golding, is to be deported with his wife and small daughter. Golding says that he knows nothing about “Reds” and customs and the auditor general, together with the Nicaraguan mitt | ister of finance, would constitute the high commission which would have cherge of the budget and other fiscal matters. As the American seeretary of state would have the( power of nominating and removing |two of the three members of this high commission, American control |of the fiscal affairs of the republic would be assured. While the Cumberland report has peert in the hands of the state de- partment, American officials have held frequent conferences concern- ing it. In some conferences with American bankers the subject of the proposed $12,000,000 loan was dis- cussed and rejected by the bankers because of the criticism in the sen- ate and part of the press of Ameri can interference in Nicaragua and | the depressing effect of such agita- | tion upon the Nicaraguan securities | market. Later it was suggested one house might undertake the project after the Nicaraguan presidential election if the country appeared calm and. likely to enter upon a period of quiet and stability. The Cumberland report said the Nicaraguan revenue service was charges that the Cuban police are “honeycombed with irregularities” and the prediction was made that a more efficient sponsorship of a responsible col- lector-general and auditor-general would stop much of the leaks. U. S. Officers. Commenting on the adverse ef- fects of political upheavals in Nicaragua, Dr Cumberland said: “For the present the constabu- lary, will be commended by officers of the United States marine corps lent to the Nicaraguan government, and these will attempt to train Nicaraguan personnel so that as uickly as possible the latter can assume complete charge of a force adequate to guarantee political sta- bility, However, the process is cer- tain to be lengthy, as par$isan bit- terness in, Nicaragua is the domin- | ating social phenomenon, and years | will be required to develop a con- | stabulary which under Nicaraguan | direction could be relied upon to re- | frain from engaging in political dis- putes or espousing the cause of some political faction.” CORRECTION. | in the liet of those indicted in | New Bedford, the name of Paul Crouch was followed by “alias | argued for seven hours a ces ene ago. \them for the present-day struggle ‘of the working class. In this course NAPOLI SCORES |the theories of those in opposition SCAB NEWSPAPER Le out why such theories mislead | he working class. Max Bedacht will also begin a| supported, F. Renganeschi, secre- tary of the “Italian Republican | Farty,” in a statement issued yes-| Paul Crouse.” This was the offi- lini dictatorship. | statement is false. Communists Expoge Facts. je--——_—___-———__+—_ ber of counsel as when the case WaS enin and will draw lessons from |to the theories of Marx and Lenin, such as Prouhdon and Bakunin, Las- alle, Bernstein, Kautsky and Trot- sky, will also be analyzed so as to “e course on Saturday, 2:30 p. m. in| Communist A Assails Tl | “Critical Periods in Human History.” Nutovo Mondo Continued from Page One volutionary party” and should not be | terday denounced “Il Nuovo Mondo”! cial statement given out by the in vigorous terms. The “Italian Re- | police. As a matter of fact, publican Party” is an organivation | Crouch has not used “Crouse” or seeking the overthygw of the Musso-| any other alias, and the police Napoli pointed out that the Com- the discharge of the fascist was used munist paper, “Il Lavoratore” was; merely as a pretext to launch a érive the first to expose the fact about | for an open shop and a reduction of two years ago that the socialist pa- wages. These socialist officials on |per had hired D. Micale, a fascist, the plea that the paper was in finan- the printer through whose discharge | cial difficulties had already induced | the paper maneuvered to get up a its workers to accept a virtual re- | +, duction in the form of donations of | In the Daily Worker yesterday, | | today. ‘What the Workers (Go: working-class. AMERICAN NEGRO PROBLEMS b JOHN PEPPER The most thoro and clearest analysis of the problems confronting the American Negroes to the most oppressed section of the American 10 cents « your copy from the NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 19.—The | had to be chopped away and cqused Newark section of the Workers the death of many. School will open its classes on or about Dec. 1. The following classes will start: English 1 and 2, English 2 and 4, Fundamentals of Commu- nism and Principles of Marxism 1. The last two classes will have as instructor A, Markoff, instructor at the Workers School of New York City. There are also plans to or- ganize a class in Trade Unionism | and a class in Public Speaking. | The school will have its headquar- ters at 93 Mercer St, Workers Cen- ter, Newark, N. J. Registration will commence immediately. All | those who want to register for any ' of the classes should see either Ir- ying Freiman or Stern at the above address. The Newagk School will be the center for New Jersey. Classes inSEnglish and Funda- mentals of Communism will be or- ganized in many towns, such as _ Elizabeth, Passaic, Paterson, Perth _ Amboy, ete. Phe soctalixt party endorses = of ‘Nations, he tak | (Communist) But the Vestris is only one ship. and the ports of this country every day see hundreds of such ships put- ting out to sea similarly “inspected” and just as criminally unequipped for the safety of passengers and crew. We will tell you some more tomorrow. Benjamin Gitlow to Talk on War Danger Benjamin Gitlow, member of the Central Committee of the Workers Party, and recent vice-presidential candidate of the Party, will speak on the “Menace of the Danger of War” on Sunday, | Nov, 25, at 2 o'clock at the Irving | Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. Other speakers will be Osvaldo, ers Union, and \V. Montana, also Italian organizer. The meeting is under the auspices of the Italian Bureau of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, and it is expected that large numbers of Italian workers wilh attend, scab shop in its plant. “When we first began our cam- naign against the socialist naper,” Napoli said, “voices were raised in certain quarters protesting at the vigor of our tones and suggesting hat we should not attack a~ organ which, they said, was carrying on an anti-fascist fight. We knew better, | however. | “As we pointed out at the time, | the "Il Nuovo Mondo” not only was |all plone indifferent to the pres e| of this fascist in its shop but it was also sheltering another even more | avowed black shirt, one France- schetti, a fascist spy, well known for his activities in Syracuse, N. Y. Frank Bellanca, then editor of the paper was notified of these facts as | WORKERS LIBRA 43 East 12: New about 20 per cent of their wages. | It has been said that fully $400 was | donated the paper by the Italian | Typographical itself. It has also | been stated that fully $1,700 is now | due to the workers from the ‘Il Nuovo Mondo.” mmunist’ Party means RY PUBLISHERS, 5th Street, York. A Tvnical Socialist Agency. The “Il Nuovo Mondo” is under the -control of the socialist party | whose officials in many unions have | carried on an open strikebreaking policy. The‘editor, Vacirca, the busi- | ness manager, G. Valente, and other officials are all socialists. Arturo Giovanitti, head of the Italian’ Chamber of Labor, another socialist, is one of the contributing editors. “Let Giovanitti explain,” Napoli FORE. Subs Italian organizer of the Dressmak- | has since been proven through the said, “how he as a trade unionist can declaration of G. Schettini, president |continue his association with this of the Italian Typographical Uniow, |scab agency which has brought in | from Pittsburgh, | but did nothing. It is true that due | strikebreakers to the pressure of the ‘I] Lavoratore’ Boston and other places—all social- attack, a so-called ‘investigation’ was ists by the wey—to smash the union. started by the officials of the so- The A. F. of L, should also explain cialist paver but nothing was ever why it remains silent while its men | IGN rrihe to the Daily Worker regime under the | working with the Mexican police, STORM SWEEPS THRU EUROPE; 100 ARE KILLED | Worst Gale in 50 Years Hits 5 Countries LONDON, Nov. 19 (UR). — At least eighty-five and possibly more than 100 pergons have been killed in the furious storm that has ‘swept the British Isles and Western Eur- ope since last Thursday, according to the latest figures available today. Hundreds have been injured and damages running into the millions were suffered, The storm was described by me- | teorologists as one of the worst general storms in history and a warning was broadcast that a re- newal of the heavy gales and rains was imminent over the British Isles and English Channel. | who forced the family to leave Mex. | ico, not for any political reason, but | because Golding’s wife was unwil- | ling to receive the attentions of one jof the Mexican government’s secret |police, Valetin Quintana, CUBA SPENDS IN U. S. HAVANA, (By Mail).— Cuban expenditures in the United States for merchandise has spent two bil- lion dollars in the last quarter of |a.century. Three billion has been expended in all other countries com- | bined. We demand the laws which disfr: olition of all ise the Ne- |Corruvt Vare to Sun Himself in Florida ATLANTIC .CITY,;, Nov, 19.— |Senator-elect Vare, notorious cor- ruptor of the ~Mellon machine in |Philadelphia, plans to. spend the winter among_his fellow parasites in Florida. The unusual publicity accompanying his sensational at- tempts to buy his way into the U. S, senate, has probably disturbed him so much that he-needs a few months’ |rest to devise plans to make the 'next attempt more nearly fool-proof. LENIN All of Lenin’s writings zation from 43 EAST 125TH STREET. COMPRISING First Soviei Costume Ball at Madison Sq. Garden ON ORGANIZATION- - A New and Limited Edition on the subject of organi- 1901 to 1922. | 1 indispensable handbook for every Communist | Bound in a beautiful paper cover 75 CENTS WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK CITY. PARADE OF 104 NATIONALITIES THE SOVIET UNION IN NATIVE COSTUMES ADMISSION 1.00 in advance; $1.25 at door. Now on Sale at the Daily Worker Office, Auspices: Daily Worker and Freiheit fs 26-28 Union Square, N. Y. made public.” » Pretext For Open Shop. “The true role of this scab organ | has now come to the surface,” Na- . Poli declared. “It is now clear that | are walking the streets locked out. “We call upon all workers to boy- cott this scab , aper, Refuse to read, or lend any further assistance to the strikebreaking agency.” DIRECT CABLE SERVICE FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. Saturday Evening December 15th