The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 23, 1928, Page 2

rage iwu HEROISM OF THE VESTRIS CREW HAS That the Vestris disaster, in its spect « ie, has grasp. i the im the Negro orking cla t them to xpress solidarity the Negr reeting held last Wednesday 1 nder the auspices of Ar legro Labor Congress 5 fallin Harlem A* new truck and it evoked a t @sponse. When it w hat ‘members rere heroe: hey save @ ers, but because note on whit if they had forced to chose, they would have acted correctly as workers if they |had chosen to save a fellow worker jrather than a passenger, there were cri hear, hear” and “that’s right” from all parts of the hall and spontaneous applause. Negro Crew Present. » seventeen Negro members of the crew p ent at the meeting evi dently were getting thir st lesson in working class solidarity and the lirect “ethics” gle of the class strug- They had qualified for such a ars of toil and the cli- k, and they were tak- lesson enthusiastically. max of a wi their ing THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBEK 23, 19z3' AROUSED When the chairman, Huiswood,| their fellow workers demonstrated | shovel coal to provide the power for| immeasurable—he was picked up by|talist press. The slander, the ly- pointed out that the fake investiga-| enthusiastically. | the radio, and when finally, finding the Wyoming. He woke up on the ing, the utter disregard for the tions carried on by the United) When Joseph Bauxill, fireman on|that he was the only man left in| Wyoming’ with his belly so swollen “common” crew as given by the that “he could not see his feet.” Another Hero. Archibald Bannister, Negro boat- swain mate, who saved 15 members of the crew and 6 passengers, told in a few modest words how he helped to lower every boat only to find that there was no boat left for himself. He swam out to an empty boat floating out on the water, fished for some oars, and picked up 21 survivors. An important aspect of the meet- ing was the evidence of a lesson well learned in respect to the capi- the Vestris since 1926, explained) simply all the circumstances of the | wreck, the suppression of the crew, the “understanding” of the sea that the crew*was to perish, he struck a! cord that found immediate response. | He had worked in the hold until the| “Vestris shoved her keel up for bot- tom,” and stood around waiting for orders which never came, at the “mercy of the deep sea.” He had no food since Saturday! He had tried to save two of the night, only “work and some more officers while floating around. on a work and nothing to eat,” had been| piece of raft, and then afterward, and | chained in the hold so that he could|he knew not how long—time was the hold, he came on deck only to be ordered back into the hold. By some ironical chance he had put on his good suit just before the ship went down, anticipating his hours of rest. He stood by his station at life-boat No. 4, and only left the ship when in order to jump into the water he had to walk along the up- turned side of the vessel and jump off the keel, States prosecutor, Tuttle, only at- tempted to “make scapegoats of the crew in order to whitewash the Lamport & Holt Line” and that “if it were not for the crew they (the passengers) would all be kissing Jesus tonight” there were again shouts of approval and tremendous applause. In fact, every time the “right” of the crew to live, to save themselves, to demand séfe ships, to have livable quarters, to have suitable food, to overthrow the slave traditions of the sea were both the seamen mentioned, capitalist reporters was and resentment found expression in the d»:ire for organization, with the ultimate aim of overthrowing the master class. - keenly felt, The Daily Worker reporter had an intimate insight into the psy-| chology of these reporters for the capitalist press. tions on board the:Vestris and the almost unlivable quarters of seamen working on every ship were scribed, one of these reporters re- matked, “They don’t have to sail on those ships.” When the condi- de- THE NEGRO WORKING CLASS TO NEW SOLIDARITY Another said, “This is nothing but a common, low-down meeting | Let's go.” With such a psychology, trained into them by their newspapers and by the class for which they work, it is hardly surprising that they viewed the wreck and the crew as they did. When, however, the Daily Work- er was mentioned and its treatment of the wreck cited, there was great applause. The reporter only had to mention “Daily Worker” to get a member of the crew to speak freely. And at the end of the meeting many workers asked for the Daily Work- ler at the door. ILAZE SPREADS THRU INTERIOR WOODEN WALLS Workers Escape From Windows, Roof Two firemen were overcome and tenants, workers and their fam- lies, were imperilled when fire »roke out in the basen itory tenement house ett St. at 10:30 < fhe fire, whichis thou, neen caused by the piles of pape and rags that the owner of the build- ng allowed to lie cluttered in the vasement, sent heavy clouds of | ‘moke into the street and the rooms upstairs, terrifyin; tenants The ground the building s occupied 1 and, accord ng to the r th yained headway through the interior structure of the bui which in stead of being mad ick, as the New York state tenement law speci- fies, was entirely bui wooden When the first alarm n answered, and the fire- men still were h ng great diffi- culty with the flames, a second alarm was turned in. Seventy-five tenants in the build- ing found their way to safety by climbing out of windows and wind- ing down the fire-es Others, with children in th arms, fled across the roofs of the building to the adjoining structures to escape from the rapidly increasing fire. es. When the fire was extinguished, one fireman, Edward Larkin, of Engine Company 11, was found to be so badly overcome by smoke that a pulmotor crew had to work over him for half an hour. He was later removed to Gouverneur Hospital for treatment. James Casey, a same company, was found by other firemen in the ‘beck of the building in a semi-conscious condition. He was given f aid and removed to company qu: Damage from mated at $5,000. fireman of the fire was esti- Weinstone Speaks on Elections at Bronx Forum This Sunday William W. Weinstone, New York district organiz of the Workers (Communist) Party, will speak on the lessons of the recent elections, this Sunday night, at 8 o'clock the ‘Bronx Workers’ Center, 1330 Boston Road, nead Freeman Street. He will take Hooyer’s victory—why his “pros- perity” the country like a landslide, and why Smith’s “progres- Sivism” failed. Also the role of the Rey.; Norman Thomas in the elec- tions, and the campaign of the Com- munist Party. Questions and cussion will follow the lecture Classes in English, Communism, and American History will begin at the Bronx Workers Center on Mon- day,’ Dec. 3. Workers are asked to register for these classes as soon as possible. as they are likely to fill up quickly. uy the reasons for swent dis- Wolfe Will Lecture on “Trotskyism” at the Workers School Forum Continued from Page One tional working cl day, its spec fie application to the American sit- uation; the cause for its outbreak in the United States at the present time, its extent and influence in the American labor movement, its role in the class struggle, and th of struggle against Trotskyism will be some of the questions that will ~ be treated by the lecturer this Sun- day evening As the seating capacity of the auditorium is limited to 400 and as an overflow crowd is expected, all are urged to come early. The doors will be closed as soon as the hall is filled. On the following week, Benjamin Gitlow, member of the National Political Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party of America and vice-presidential candidate of the Workers Party in the recent elec- tions, will speak on the A. F. of L. Convention. BRITISH MINE IDLE, ROTHERHAM, England, (By Mail).—The Maltby Main mine has deen idle for three months. Over 3,000 miners were affected. method | ,, 75 Lives Imperilled in Tenement House Fire; Two Firemen Overcome by Smoke Can Dollars Be Jailed? The answer to the above question was given by the jury in the perjury trial of Robert M. Stewart, millionaire oil grafter and chair- man of the board of Standard Oil Company of Indiana. It was an emphatic “No!” The same answe others of the oil grafters. and you're a criminal behind bars. « hero free to roam where you w shaking hands with Frank J. Hogan, his chief counsel. RED SPORTS INTL ™ DOLLAR RULES THE SEA By James Brophy It is the old story: steal a loaf of bread HITS REFORMISTS: AT 4TH CONGRESS. Stresses Danger of, Imperialist War | | Continued from Page One sports organizations, | “Therefore, the Fourth Congress of the Red Sports International draws the attention of working class | sportsmen throughout the world to the hard struggles which are in store for the working class in the near future. | | “The Congress condenms before | | the masses the treacherous role of | the reformist leaders of the Lucerne | | Sports International... Although the |reformist sports leaders have al- | ways done their utmost to prevent | the establishment of international | sports unity, they are going now even further. To divert working class sportsmen from the struggle | against the bourgeoisie and to estab- lish co-operation with bourgeoir |sports organizations (‘Reichsban- |ner.’ National Committee for Physical |Culture, etc.), the leaders of the | | | i r has been given in the cases of Steal a million dollars and you're ill. Photo shows Stewart (right), HOOVER STUDIES MARINE BATTLES Sees Naval Problems Big During His Term Continued fromy Page One the party (the Latin American newspapermen have been excluded by. Hoover’s orders) the president- elect made it clear that, in studying the technical, as well as the general side of naval problems, he is look- ing forward to issues which will arise during his administration. He authorized this statement which was carried by the capitalist press ser- vices last night. The captain of the Maryland is expecting to make Corinto by Sun- day where Hoover will go thoroughly into, the local situation with the heads of the American military and diplomatic forces in the country. as ook Marines to Remain. MANAG Nicaragua, Nov. 2! —Preparations for the conferences between President Diaz, President- | elect Moncada and the American military leaders, General Frank Mc- Coy, Brigadier-General Logan Fe- land, commanding the United States marines, and President-elect Hoover, TAMMANY HIDES HUGE DOPE RING Rothstein Headed Big Criminal Gang Continued **om Page One ual inspection of the 56,000 letters, 1otations and records which the mil- lionaire “gambler” kept in the filing cases in his Fifth Ave. home, that Rothstein v “the man who”—the arch criminal that they have been looking for for years. The lost trails of not one but doz- ens of crimes of every description were found neatly indexed and filed in Rothstein’s cabinets, and out of them arose a whole panorama of xdern criminal “big business,” in hich millions ef dollars in capital latial suites of offices formed ground One of the first revelations was that Rothstein was at the time of his death guaranty for almost §$2,- 000,000 in bail bonds for crooks of every description, some of them dope runners. Other papers revealed details of his actions as mediator between two rival New York gangs. A long and detailed notation in his own hand described a recent attempt to “take him for a ride,” in which the gang- sters picked up the wrong man and released him after a frightful ex- perience in Central Park. Admitting that names, dates and places sre embodied in others, the police refused to reveal their na- ture. A federal narcotic squad, however, was present to examine every notation bearing on Roth- stein’s connection with an interna- itional dope ring. a Tucerne Sports International are adopting now brutal means in their struggle against the revolutionary | opposition in the sections of the| Lucerne Sports International, and are doing their utmost to split the movement, Reformists in Germany are splitting the workers’ sports movement, they expel whole leagues. They do this to pave the way for co-operation with the bourgeoisie. “In view of all these facts the Fourth Congress of the Red Sports | International invites working class AUSTRIA GOV'T TO AID FASCISTI Unemployment on the Increase (Wireless to the Daily Worker) VIENNA, Austria, Nov. 22—A | former decision providing that the | Vienna provincial government con- trol the Viennese police service has been withdrawn by the constitu- tional court, under the pressure of Chancellor Seipel. take up the struggle against: those who, contrary to the old principles icf the workers’ sports movement, are endeavoring to establish co-op- Collective Cartooning at William Gropper Welcome on Saturday eration with the bourgeoisi No Class-Collaboration! | be a victory of the Austro-Marxists, Peay . but now that it is cancelled the po- |8@0isie! No transformation of the federal government. It is import- the social-democratic parties! No ant because of the use that can be liguidation of the class struggle Austrian government against work- “The Congress invites all work- lers’ demonstrations. ing class sportsmen to carry on a; Home Defense Corps, proclaimed to- | formists! ‘ 1 day that the Home Defense will not| “For the establishment of inter- |future, but will carry weapons. The Fer struggle against bourgeois streets of Innsbruck, where clashes | Sport! Against imperialism! Against occurred recently, are now occupied . |by uniformed and armed Home De- Qhoe Workers Union The partial economic uplitt in Calls Operatives to | Austria during the last year hin- on employment, but now unemploy- An open forum of shoe workers, ment is on the increase. During the | where the problems of organizing tered unemployed increased from | York are to be discussed, will be held 123,000 to 187,000. this Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, registered there are now 200,000 un-'in the Workers Hall, 154 Watkins employed out of one million two St. The forum will be held under Shoe Workers’ Union. This meeting is one of a series of. \which that union has been holding} in all sections of the city. Great in- ganization camvaign this union is Collective cartooning will be a conducting in this city. given tomorrow evening in Irving terday by that organization, the Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, to| union declares: “Shoe Workers: tionary artist, who has just returned gelyes for the coming season because from the Soviet Union. the conditions in the shops are he- sist of drawings to be made simul- Therefore, all shoe workers who are taneously by several of the best interested in bettering the miserable the direction of Gropper. Among pelled to eydure should attend the |the artists who will take part in forums in their neighborhoods when- Hugo Gellert, Morris Pass and Yos- ers in the Brownsville section ara sel Cutler. called to attend this forum. Well welcome will be a scene from Upton cussion of our problems.” Sinclair’s “Singing Jailbirds,” pre- PRD SANGRE FER. Theatre; American prison songs, sung by the New Playwrights chor. to Be at Masses Ball cot marionette players and selec- The New Masses Ball, which has read by Jacob Mestel. the revolutionary workers and art- Speakers will include Robert Min- ists of New York, will be held this Meilich Epstein, editor of the Frei- Hall, 11th St. and 4th Ave. heit; M. J. Olgin, editor of The) Many of the contributors to the | This enactment was considered to | fo. co-ppeatign with tha | lice legislature is controlled by the Lucerne sections into appendixes of jmade of the Vienna police by the character of working class sport! Dr, Steidle, leader of the fascist |Telentless struggle against the re- Gepend upon police protection in the | National revolutionary sports unity! between the fascists and workers |the reformist disrupters!” |fense patrols. dered the effect of rationalization Bklyn Open Forum last two weeks the number of regis- |the shoe workers in Greater New Including the unemployed not in the Brownsville section, Broollvn, hundred thousand workers. the auspices of the Independent exceptionally well attended forums terest is being aroused by the or- feature of the mass welcome to be In a call to the forum issued yes- William Gropper, famous revolu- Now is the time to prepare our- The collective cartooning will con- coming worse from day to day, ' known revolutionary artists under, working standards they are com- this unusual feature are Fred Ellis, ever they are called. All shoe work- Among the other numbers at the known speakers will lead the dis- sented by the New Playwrights Many Workers, Artists us; several numbers by the Modja- tions from the new Soviet poetry, been an annual event of gayety for or, editor of the Daily Worker; vear on Friday, Dec. 7, at Webster Hammer; Michael Gold, editor of New Masses will be present, among the New Masses, and Gropper him-| them William Gropper, who recent- | self. ly returned from the Soviet Union; Hugo Gellert, who painted the mur- als of the Proletcos Restaurant, and | delegations of workers from many trades, f etl aes We demand the immediate abolt- tion of all vagrancy lnwa: prot tion of unemployed workers from | arrest om charges of vagraney. sportsmen throughout the world to |. WA WY The above drawing needs no explanation. It is the work of a seaman, James Brophy, a member of the Marine Workers Progressive League at the International Seamen's Club, 28 South St. NEARING SHOW IMPERIAL CLASH Predicts Coming World Revolution Continued from Page One hemsphere from Alaska to the Pana- ma Canal, control of the South American countries through keeping them divided and fighting among themselves ,and the subjection of Europe under financial dictator- ship.” “Hoover was picked .to do this job,” he said, “because American im- perialism needed a strong man at this moment.” In outlining the rising domination of American imperialism, Nearing at the same time showed how Brit- ish imperialism was declining and being ousted from its former cen- ters of control. “This is the basi: of the clash between the two em pires,” he showed. The great world force in this world situation, he showed, is the Soviet Union. “Out of the coming clash, will come a Soviet govern- ment, first perhaps in the Baltic countries and in Central Europe, perhaps in India, the heart of the British Empire.” “The task before the workers here is to get into the revolutionary Workers (Communist) Party of America and do their part,” he said. The meeting was held under the auspices of The Daily Worker. A collection was taken up to which a hearty response was made by those present, . BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 22 (UP). —The government today approved the projected flight of Lieut. Clau- dio Mejia from Buenos Aires to Sevilla, Spain. Mejia will be ac- companied by Diego Arzeno, a civil- ian pilot and Lieut. Isaac Cadaval, an expert navigator. The flight will be made in either a Bellanca air- plane of 550 horsepower or, a tri- motored Fokker. ‘Believe Disturbances | | Might Follow Death | of British Monarch LONDON, Nov. 22. V., ill in bed with a cold accompanied {by fever, passed “rather a restless day,” an official bulletin issued by his physicians said tonight. The. text of the bul-, letin follows: | “His majesty passed a rather restless day ow- ing to the per- | sistence of fever. | King George There is some | Seriously Ill. congestion in one lung. | (Signed) “Stanley Hewitt. “Dawson of Penn.” 0: oe ede Despite the apparant unconcern of the officials of the royal house- hold, itis understood that the sit- | a more serious than is ad- mitted. e Speculations were rife today as\to | whether or not! the Prince of Wales will ascend | the British thzone within the year. Fears are ex- See pressed in many CJ conservative cir- 4, cles that the A « death of King George may be Bat Wales accompanied by considerable un- te Ae rest in the coun- | try, in view of the widespread un- employment and discontent. Reactionary Mexican Paper Changes Hands MEXICO CITY, Nov. 22.—The Excelsior, which has been one of the chief mediums for reactionary cler- ical propaganda in Mexico, has been bought by a syndicate of Mexicar businessmen headed by Jose Caste- loto, backed by financiers of the | States of Yuvatan, Nuevo Leon and’ Durango. pte ebdbddededteebdbtebebebbebebdbebebebobebe bebo bebabdede dodo iScott Nearing: will lecture on DOLLAR DIPLOMACY ¢ AND THE ROLE OF AMERICAN } IMPER IALISM THURSDAY EVE., NOVEMBER 22 at IRVING PLAZA, 1 RR Ah deh ste aeactlaan htn Aa Ww st Oly | 0 5th St. & Irving Pl. ARGENTINE PREPARES. PLAINFIELD, N, J., Nov. 22 UP).-Bernard McCart, of Eliza- |beth, was instantly killed and sev-| eral others were injured, one seri- terday. The men were pushing their stalled car along the road when they were struck by the other auto- inobile, driven by Weston Williams, superintendent of the Plainfield dis- trict of the New Jersey Bell Tele- phone Company. BOSS OF JERSEY, MAYOR HAGUE IS ~ SEIZED; BAILED 4 Witnesses Strangely Disappear Mayor Frank Hague, democratic boss of Jersey City, against whom allegations of graft in various forms, have repeatedly been levelled was arrested yesterday on charges of contempt. | Hague’s arrest follows his re- | fusal to appear before the Case in- | vestigating committee on Oct. 29, | defending his action with the state- | ment that his summons on the eve | of election was a political maneuver. Following the republican victory |in New Jersey most of the obstacles |to the arrest of the mayor were re- | moved. Counsel for the Case Committee failed to prevent the securing of bail by Hague who was released shortly after his arrest in $1,000 bail. The mayor was furiously angry and repeated many of the counter-charges with which from the first he has met the charges of the Case Committee. * Bice Fa | Witnesses Disappear. TRENTON, N. J., Nov. 22.—Four witnesses were sought by Case In- | vestigating Committee in connection |with its investigation of garbage | contracts. wanted for questioning on the ga |bage contracts; Roger Boyle, chief of the Jersey City fire department, wanted for questioning on an _al- leged slush fund to keep theatres open on Sunday, and Thomas J. Lynch, wanted in connection’ with the Boulevard Bridge contract. COMPRISING UNION Now on Sale at the 26-28 Union ADMISSION 1.00 in advance; $1.25 at door. Auspices: Daily Worker and Freiheit Saturday Evening December 15th First Soviet Costume Ball at Madison Sq. Garden _ PARADE OF 104 NATIONALITIES THE SOVIET © IN NATIVE COSTUMES Daily Worker Office, Square, N. Y. The four witnesses in-. King George |°USly, when their automobile was|clude Mary and James McFeeley, struck by another car near here yes-) eee RRSAAORSRROR Mies