The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 23, 1928, Page 1

-] — THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Ho For a Labor ur Week Party nd-class matter at the Poxt Office at New York. N.Y. inder the act of M Vol. V., No. 278 Published dail: ssoclation, Inc. 26-28 Union Sa., New York, N. Y. except Sunday by The Nat fona! Dally Worker ‘NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1928 SOFIA MAY FALL AS MACEDONIAN: TROOPS ADVANCE Army BelievedFriendly | to Approaching Forces | See Peasant Outbreaks Refugees Leave Towns | Fearing Battle VIENNA, Nov. 22—With Mace-| donian regular forces reported) marching on Sofia today, a meet-| ing of the Bulgarian cabinet was hur- | riedlv called despite the general knowledge that the majority of the cabinet are favorable to Ivan Mich- ailoff, the Macedonian leader. Refugees were reported abandon- | ing the route of march in fear of} a battle in the neighborhood of the| Bulgarian capital. | All public buildings were imme- diately occupied by troops, altho it} is commonly believed that the troops may desert or refuse to fire| at the approach of the Macedonians. Many army officers are under-) stood to be sympathetic to the Macedonians. All streets were deserted thruout Sofia at half-past six last night. The continuance on the throne of the present Bulgarian dynasty seemed precarious last night as ru- mors of the proximity of the ad-| vancing irregular ‘forces were| brought into the city by refugees| abandoning their holdings and vil-| lages along the roads to the south) and west. Outbreaks of peasantry in many parts are expected to follow the| success of the Macedonian forces. | BORAH TO FIGHT FOR LARGE NAVY Former Liberal Lines) Up With War Crew WASHINGTON, Nov, 22.—Wil- liam E. Borah, former so-called lib-| eral and critic of Coolidge capital- ism, but lately completely aligned with the government war machine indicated today that he would be- come the chief spokesman for the| navy big war bill when it is brought up in the coming session of con- gress. Borah is said to be slated as| the next secretary of state. * * * Liberal Sells Out. WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UP).-- Passage of the naval cruiser build- ing bill in the senate early in the coming session appeared more cer- tain tonight with an announcement by Senator Borah, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, a critic of the measure, that he would not oppose its early consid- eration. This bill, proposing construction of 15 cruisers of 10,000 tons and strongly urged by the administra- tion as necessary to-bring our navy nearer to parity with Great Brit- ains, has passed the house. PLAN TO INSURE BOSS PROSPERITY ‘ ' Hoover Has Scheme for 3 Billion Fund | By JOHN L. SHERMAN. ‘ What is undoubtedly of the great-| est significance in the economy of) the American capitalist class since) the establishment of the Federal Re-| serve Board is the proposal an-) nounced yesterday on behalf of} President-elect Herbert Hoover to establish a so-called construction re- serve fund as “a stabilizer of pros- perity.” | The plan for the creation of a $3,000,000,000 public fund to be used “in time of plenty against the lean year that is to cong” was made pub-| lie Wednesday by Governor Ralph O. Brewster of Maine at a confer- ence of governors held at New Or- leans. Seeks a “Stabilizer.” Under the proposal, government construction work will be undertaken Continued on Page Three LAUNCH, WAR PLANE ASHINGT N, Nov. 22 (UP).— Calvin ( dlidge bestowed“the ee of Christopher Columbus yes- terday upon the flagship of an air fleet the Pan-American Airways, Inc., plans to place in service be- tween Miami, Cuba and Havana, * Make Way for the Telephoto above shows President-elect Hoover took him to the U. S. S. Maryland, on wHich he is v Wall St. of the boat under the Stars and Stripes*of American imperialism. % isiting the Central Admiral Pratt, owner of the launch, is shown in the center. King! Hoover Visits American Empire aboard the launch in Los Angeles harbor which and South American domains of Hoover is standing in the stern PATERSON MASS VESTRIS CREW FORCED MEETING TODAY National Textile Union Rallies Unorganized Preparations for the big mass meeting being called by the National Textile Workers’ Union here for Friday night at 8 o’clock are completed, according to a statement from that organ- ization. The meeting will be held in Lithuanian Hall, Sumner and Lafayette Sts. Albert Weisbord will be the chief speaker. To this meeting all unor- ganized workers in the broad- silk, ribbon and _ hat-band manufacturing industry are called. Thousands of circu- lars are being distributed throughout Paterson and the meeting is arousing a storm of interest among the unor- ganized as well as organized workers. ee Site) (Special. to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 22.— Continuing its function of safe- guarding the silk strike here, the left wing strike committee yester- day announced a series of mass meetings for the different nation- _alities, where the strike committee’s stand on the question of differ- ences in strike policy with the Joint Board will be thoroughly dis- cussed. Postpone Meet. Later, at the mass meeting this morning, the representative of the Sgint Board at the daily strike Continued on Page Five HILLMAN MAKES NEW BOSS DEAL Prepares ‘Referendum’ on Piece Work With the swiftness of an animal of prey, the reactionary Hillman administration of the Amalgamated | Clothing Workers Union is forcing the speed-up system of piece-work down the throats of the workers in the shops of the vest-making con- tractors, Only a few days ago Hillman re- fused to affirm to the press that he contemplated granting piece-work to the cockroach manufacturers, such as the vest and pants contractors ace. Yesterday he already an- nounced that one of his so-called | referendums are to be held this Monday and Tuesday. These “Hill- man referendums” are notorious for the efficiency with which they per- mit the right wing Hi!!man-Pecker- man gang to attain any ends they have in view. After he had overridden the mass protests of the workers in the men’s garment industry against his policy of giving the bosses the sweat-shop piece-work system, through the ter- ror of hired gangsters, Hillman pledged that only responsible large firms were being permitted to use it. Now he frankly grants this sys- tem to any fly-by-night contractor. The most overwhelming sentiment that can be registered is being ex- pressed by the workers in that trade at the news of the new betrayal. Put the Hillman gang, whose be- trayal policies have wrecked a once powerful organization and degraded the working standards of the tail. crs, are caimly preparing their “referendum.” TO LEAP IN That the white officers on the | |Vestris were criminally negligent | jean be seen by the stories of the | crew, Below, the Daily Worker prints the statement of Charles Harris, a Negro young worker, 17 years old, who was deckhand on the Vestris. Harris was born at George- jtown in British Guiana. His story | follows: ee, ee | I was working for about 18 months jon the Vestris as a deckhand. At | 7:45 on Sunday night the ship went down a little on the starboard side. The cargo from No. 1 hatch broke the bulkhead and injured some of the sailors. This put the ship a lit- tle lower to starboard. | The weather continued to he bad of the captain getting the men to lower couldn’t see the sense of bailing the water for it was only a waste of time. After throwing cargo away |for about an hovr some of them were told to lower the boats. Separate Crew and Passengers. | The passengers were called to one side of the ship and the crew to the other. No, 4 boat was lowered first |to the premenade deck. The pas- sengers, all women and children, | were seated in the boat. The men/ were called to lower another boat, which contained women and chil-| |dren also. What happened to the | passengers after, 1 do not know. | I went to my boat, which was No. 7). I was stationed forward fall |The boat started to lower be- \fore $ could go any further I saw |the danger and I held on to the life- line. I left the boatdeck and went \off trying to lower No. 12 boat, but |it was impossible. In the meantime |No. 13 capsized, Lifeboats Fail, Leaps Into Sea. Five men who were with me \until Monday morning and instead | the boats ie tid them to| |throw the cargo overboard and {some to bail the water. But I TO THE SEA TAMMANY HIDES HUGE DOPE RING Rothstein Headed Big Criminal Gang Confirming charges moda in the Raily Worker that the “failure” of the Tammany administration to run down the murderer of Arnold Roth- stein. millionaire cambler, was due jfo the fact that Rothstein was the head of one of the largest dope and murder rines in the country whose principals Tammany was shielding. evidence uncovered yesterdav showed nolice denartment might hour rnn down. One of the methods hw which Tammany is seeking. to hide its own crooked conrections is the veiled charge that Rothstein had “fixed” strikes under Communist leadership. As a result of these forced new revelations, it is now clear that Tammany Hall is shielding those higher up who are undoubtedly closely connected with the Tam- many machine. Shield Dope and Murder King. (United Press) Arnold Rothstein’s last joke on the police—who so far failed sig- nally te find the man who mur- dered him on the night of Nov. 4— came to light today. Authorities admitted, after a cas- Continued on Page Two NEARING SHOWS jumped overboard to catch the boat | and I jumped after, but they couldn’t | come to my assistance because .of the wreckage. After swimming for |ebout half an -hour I was rescued |by the same boat. We never saw a light until about one o’clock. We | rowed towards the light, but never | reached it. it reached us it was the Berlin, the | aboard in a horrible condition. We! were then told that it was 8 o'clock. More Women to Seek Parliament Seats LONDON, Nov. 22 (UP).—From |70 to 80 women candidates will run for parliament in the general elec- tions next spring. It was estimated |that the next parliament will con- |tuin at least 14 women, compared |to eight at present. In the i924 election, only ‘women stood for parliament. Of the women candidates for par- Tiament, one-fourth are married, 41 ‘The Communist Party ix the par- ty of the liberation of the Negro race from all white oppression, wars. ' IMPERIAL CLASH Predicts Coming World Revolution ern hemisphere and Europe, and its German ship. We managed to get | head on clash with British imperial-| ism leading to a world war, Scott Nearing, well-known Communist lec- turer, last night predicted that out thet a dozen clues exist which the | in one} MANY WORKERS HURT IN BLAST AT SCAB PLANT [16 Injured: Others Are Buried Underneath Fallen Timbers \Many Expected to Die Glass Company Kept Open Shop | BARBERTON, Ohio, Nov. 22.— An explosion in the local plant of the scab Pittsburgh Plate Glass | Company resulted in the injury and |possible death of at lzast sixteen workers. Many others buried under fallen timbers and debris are un- doubtedly injured if not actually killed. Many of the injured are ex- pected to die. The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company has carried on repeated and vicious drives against organiza- |tion and has forced its workers to work under the most dangerous con- | ditions. | * * | BARBERTON, Ohio. Nov. 22. | (UP).—An ammonia tank explosion |partially wrecked the Columbia |division of the Pittsburgh Plate |Glass Co. plant here today, injuring jat least 16 men. Others were be- lieved buried beneath the debris. | The tank exploded when a safety | valve failed to function. Forty men | were working in the process depart- |ment at the time and were among the injured. Physicians and ambulances were summoned and firemen and _ police- men began digging into the wreckage in the belief that several bodies | would be found. | A small panic ensued after the blast and due to the confusion, com- pany officials were unable to deter- |mine who was missing. Cause of the blast was not learned immediately. Police and fire depart- ments were summoned and am- bulances were sent to the scene. First reports said a good many of the injured were expected to die. They were removed to hospitals. The men removed to hospitals were bady burned, interns told the United Press. Names of three of them |were given as Orin Gainer, Walter |Gezerlack and J. Brothers. | They were burned about the hands ‘and face, and were reported dying. | The impact of the blast was felt |for several blocks. Other buildings |on the grounds were rocked and win- dows were shattered. * quiry, said they were convinced sev- eral bodies would be found in the ruins. GITLOW TO SPEAK ‘Big Meeting Sunday at Irving Plaza A meeting against the danger of enother imperialist war will.be heid with Ben Gitlow, member of the Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, and its vice- presidential candidete in the recent elections, as the main speaker. The festations, and its significance for United States se ke Picturing the rising domination of place is the Irving Plaza, 15th St the American workers” will be the from his illn At daybreak we saw a ship. When | American imperialism over the west-|and Irving PI., and the time, Sun- day afternoon at two o'clock. |throughout the country, ON THE WAR PERIL Czech Fascist | | | The U. S. from cist government, Ferdinand Vev- erka. ambassador to the Czecho-Slovak fas- new A.F.LHAILS BOSS PROSPERITY PLAN May Take Brookwood | Under Wing NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 22.—Of- ficials of the American Federation lof Labor in convention here today | almost literally fell over each other in a frantic effort to assure news- papermen that they were in favor of the Hoover proposal to create a $3,000.000,000 government construc- | tion fund intended to stabilize boss prosperity. Leading in these ecstatic out-| bursts was John P. Frey, secretary | lof the Metal Trades Department, which has just endorsed the govern- ment bigger war navy bill. The} proposal, Frey said, constituted “a |turning point in the history of American industry.” British Bureaucrats Talk. Two fraternal delegates from the | British Trade Union Congress made addresses. These are John March- bank, assistant industrial general secretary of the National Union of |Railwaymen, and Ebby Edwards, financial secretary of the Northum- \berland Miners’. Union. The dele-| |gates declared that the British La- |bor Party was winning in the by-| jelections in England, but did not} note that this was due to the left-| ward swing of the masses in which the minority movement and the! Communist Party were gaining far more rapidly than the reactionary so-called labor party. In reply William Green, president of the A. F. of L., repeated his Police, after a preliminary in-| usual dissertation that “conditions |S°Viet circles here today. |in America are not suited for a la- |bor party.” May Take Over Brookwood. There are indications that A. J. Muste, head of the Brookwood La- | bor College, who came here to fight |against the recent condemnation of |his institution by the labor bureau- crats, will subside and that the mat- ter will not be brought on the floor. | Rumors are current that Muste is considering a proposal to turn over ‘Pesadhdes to the official control of the labor fakers. |Wolfe Will Lecture on “Trotskyism” at the | Workers School Forum “Trotskyism, its American mani- subject of the lecture to be given by Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the side New York, by PRAVDA DENOUNCES LIES OF WORLD CAPITALIST PRESS; “PEASANT REVOLTS” FAKED $6.00 per se FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Grain Supply - Last Year’ Shows Tremendous Increase Over s Figures Growing Self-Criticism in the All-Union Party Affords Material to Attacke (Wirel MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Nov. on the calumnious system of ly geois press of the entire world. tematic spreading of rumors of in the Soviet Union and of a®-— movement within the Soviet Republic of the Ukraine. Various similar stor- ies are also cited. separatist The Pravda further states that the healthy Bolshevist self-criticism and constantly growing democracy within the life of the All-Union Commu- nist Party afford material to these calumniators, in their work of wilful distortion. The mighty advance of the state agricultural undertakings has been misrepresented as the failure of the Soviet Policy i the rural districts, the Pravda continues. Moreover the diplomats and journalists living in Moscow do not contradict these lies altho knowing their falsity. The grain supply in the So- viet Union for the first half of November is 560,000 tons as compared with 326,000 tons for last year. USSR OFFICIALS REFUSED VISAS Were to Negotiate a $20,000,000 Deal BERLIN, Nov. (UP).—Two members of the Soviet business mis- sion to the United States have been refused passport visas by the State Department, it was announced “in 99 Two high Soviet officials, V Ossinski-Obelenski, former comm’ sar of agriculture and head of the Russian delegation to the World Economic Conference at Genévea, and V. I. Myeshlauk, vice-president of the Soviet Supreme Economic Council, arrived here on their way to the United States. They intended ‘to sail with A. Scheinmann, president of the Soviet State Bank, who at present is ill in Berlin. Their mission primarily was to negotiate with big Amercan auto- mobile concerns for cooperation in establshing automobile factories in Ru is Ossinski-Obelenski and Myeshlauk were unable to obtain visas, they said, and probably “will return to Moscow at once. It was understood Scheinmann may continue to the lone after he recovers Russian sources said the proposed negotiations involved a $20,000,000 In his election campaign speeches | Workers School and editor of the automobile deal and the eventual Gitlov | “Communist,” at the Workers School placing of large Russian orders in | tates, the most widespread interest Forum, this Sunday Evening, Nov. other industries. was shown by the workers and work-| 25th, 8 p. m., at the Workers School follow up the recent They hoped to $26,000,000 con- of the conflict of these capitalist ing farmers in the question of the| auditorium, 26-28 Union Square, 5th tract between the General Electric powers and the events félowing them would come a revolution and a vietorious world proletariat. Speaki F ..,of British and French imperialism, | nifance for American Worker: Pelee, TE Se cee THoEe he. howed, “were likely to fate ‘up| discuss the role of Eastman, Lore, act rs |into an anti-Soviet war any day,|Salutsky, Cannon, etc., as American Republic, ving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving PI., Nearing outlined the rise of thi American empire from its. begin- nings, through the Spanish American war period, when the present stage of finance capitalism took form, un- til it attained its present period of world hegemony following the world war. “The policy of American imperial- ism” he said, “is domination and unification of the North Amercan Dre: Continued on Page Two |danger of war. The fever spots of | Europe, the Baltic and Balkan coun- | tries, and the other agents or allies jand the workers of the United States | must this time be prepared to meet the emergency in a beti_. organ- ized, more revolutionary manner than was the case in 1914--18. The meeting, which is being helc under the auspices of the Italian | Bureau of the orkers (Commu- inist) Party, will also be addressed |by E. Osvaldo, organizer of the ssmakers’ Union, and by V. Mon- | tana, Italian organizer. | floor. | Bertram D. Wolfe, the author of \“The Trotsky Opposition—Its Si will lexpressions of the Trotsky opposi- tion movements. The ideology of Trotskyism, its position on im- portant problems facing the interna- Continued on Page Two HONDURAS, (By Mail). —- The puppet Honduras government, pup- pet of Wall Street, has refused to distribute more than 2,000 sacks of corn in the wide farm areas suffer- ing from famine. Denouncing the open class collab- | oration policies of the reformist | Lucerne Sports International, the Fourth Congress of the Red Sports International, held in Moscow, is- sued a manifesto calling on worker sportsmen throughout the world to yage an unremitting struggle against co-operation with ihe bour- geoisie, The manifesto also lays emphasis on the danger of imper- ialist war and urges a_ struggle against imperialism and its organ- izations. The manifesto follows: “Comrades, the Fourth Congress of the Red Sports International car- ied on its work with the conviction that it is now more necessary than ever to create a united fighting front of working class sportsmen throughout the world. The imper- ialist powers are making feverish preparations for new wars. The campsign of tke imperialist pow- RED SPORTS INTERNATIONAL HITS REFO RMISTS Calls for Struggle Against Bourgeois Organizations; Points Out War Danger jers against the Soviet Union is he- is carried out at the expense of the, Company and Soviet Russia. ee) ae Trade Envoy Leaves. Simeon Loboff, comm r of trade stry of the Rus: Soviet and three associates, who had been making a study of indus- try in the United States left New York for the Soviet Union today. Wm. Z. Foster Speaks Sunday on Waterfront ee ou may not have heard that the Communist candidate for president in the recent election, William Z. Foster, was once a seama Not only that, but he is still interested in organizing the seamen so they can struggle for better wages and, conditions with some chance of suc- cess. To aid the work of the Marine Workers’ Progressive League, Fos- ter will speak this Sunday evening, Nov. 25, at 8 p. m., at the Interna- tional Seamen’s Club, 28 South St. Admission is free to all marine ing busily prepared. Once more the workers, by means of increased ex- workers, ship or shore, but others | toiling masses are to serve as can-|ploitation and a lowering of the | will be asked to help with a two-bit ‘non fodder for the interests of the| standard of living of the working | piece. The Vestris crew* will be bourgeoisie in a fratricidal war. War Danger. “Owing to the imperialist war |ers’ sports organizations. class. “All this affects also the work- The pro- danger we witness increased bour-| hibition of the Second Spartakiade | geois terrorism against the working|in Prague by the Czech bourgeoisie | class and its organizations. capitalist’ rationalization which accompanying bourgeois terrorism P) Continued on Page Two 1 there. 34,000 LAID OFF IN YEAR. WASHINGTON, (By Mail) 54,000 maintenance’ of way railr The|is the best recent example of the | workers on railroads in the U.S. is| bourgeois attitude to the workers’ |were laid off during the past 12/ months, if to the Dailu Worker) The Pravda today comments ng lately adopted by the bour- It indicates especially the alleged “peasant insurrections” YANSAS DISTRICT HITS TROTSKYISM Votes Suvport of CEC and Comintern KANSAS CITY, Mo. (By Mail.) --The District Executive Commit- tee of District 10 of the Workers (Communist), Party, with head- quarters here, has held a session at which a resolution was adopted con- demning the expelled Trotskyists, Cannon, Abern and Schacht- mann, for their act of be- trayal of the Party in at- tempting to build their anti-Com- munist faction in the Party. The resolution supports the Communist ‘International against the counter- revolutionary movement of Trotsky and supports the position of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, Amer- ican section of the Communist In- ternational. The resolution reads, in part, as follows: “Statement on Trotskyism and the expulsion of Cannon. Trotskyism in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was over- whelmingly defeated -in the~ Soviet Union when the opposition theses were almost unanimously voted down. Since then events in the Soviet Union and the world show that in spite of the predictions of the opposition, events have proven that the Soviet Union and the Com- munist International are progres- sing in their revolutionary task against the enemies of the workers’ republic and of its proletarian van- guard. Today Trotskyism breaks out in the American Party with Comrades Cannon, Abern and Schachtman up- helding the position of the Russian opposition, linking it up with the American question and endeavoring to organize a Trotsky group in the American Party. It may be an American variety, but in the end it Continued on Page Three HOOVER STUDIES MARINE BATTLES Sees Naval Problems Big During His Term WASHINGTO: . C., Nov. 22-— With the battleship Maryland, which conveying him southward, 150 miles off the coast of Mexico at Guadaljera, President-elect Hoover today is interesting himself in naval maneuvers and armament. Hoover spent this morning study- ing sea battles. He visited the plot- ting room where naval officers re- ceive and correlate information re- garding enemy craft during a bat- tle. The mand the is an, who will soon bé com- chief of the navy as well army, showed unusual inter- t in how battles are directed and how gun range and position are di- rected, ‘o the American newspaper cor- respondents who are accompanying Continued on Page Two Describes Krassin Trip in “Worker” Professor R. L. Samoilovitels, leader of the Soviet Krassin ex- pedition, which rescued survivors of the Italia crew in the Aretie, will explain in the Saturday issue of The Daily Worker why the Soviet ice-breaker succeeded. j The heroic exploits of the Sov- iet crew of the Krassin has won the admiration of workers all over the world. By reading Sat- urday’s Daily Worker, workers will have an opportunity to read Professor Samoilovitch’s own + | account. J >—— ee