The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1928, Page 1

oy ‘J prmmse — ——w ig/ 4 For a Labor THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week Party CENTRAL COMMITTEE, WORKERS PARTY, HAILS “DAILY” ON FORTHCOMING 5TH ANNIV Daily Entered as second-class at New York. N. ¥ under the act of March Vol. V., No. 279 ye abing Asspciatio lay by The National Dally Worker Ine. 26-28 Uniom Sa., New York, N. ¥. ~NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEM HOOVER MAKES CHANGE IN HIS. MANAGUA PLANS: Fear of Nicaraguans, Keeps Imperialist in Corinto Marines Will Remain (Will Arrange Central / America West Point | MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Nov. 23. -—A sudden change in the plans of Hoover now makes clear that the revolutionary national independence | movement led by General Sandino| is judged so popular and strongly| by the recently elected president of | American imperialism, that it is not | safe for the future head of the | United States to set foot on Nica-| raguan ‘soil. . | It was formerly planned that Hoo- ver leave the battleship Maryland at) the western coastal town of Cor-| into, and travel by rail to this city,) the inland capital, Managua. Large forces of U. S. marines and marine | controlled constabulary were being | located along the railway line and) particularly put in guard of the railway bridges to prevent attacks | on the Hoover train by Sandino’. ‘revolutionary army. Fear Attack From People. However, with all these plans ir. readiness, the bootlicking conserva-| tive and liberal Nicaraguan leaders | and their boss, Admiral Sellers, can-| not assure the Hoover party fron: attack, and a sudden wireless zon the Maryland stated that Hoover would not set foot on Nicaraguan soil. ‘Vhe excuse given, an excuse which’ is aimed to cover up the real reason | for avandoning the trip ashore, is that it is found that there exists) oniy = small hotel at Corinto in| which Hoover can be received. That ‘his excuse is a lame one can be seen by the fact that no one -thoucht)«¢ thiss factor ofa ‘small hotel being decisive béfore this. It | is pointed out that there were no! more and no larger hotels in Cor- into a week ago than theré are at preser t, a fact that should have been obvious to the all-wise U. S. marine commanders previously. Will Stay on Battleship. | At any rate, Hoover is not going ashore, and plans aye now that the Nicaraguan puppets, Diaz, the pres- ent conservative president, and Mon- cada, the liberal president-elect, will be received by Hoover on Admiral Sellers flag ship, the ‘“Rochester,” lying off the coast at Corinto. It is rumored that some of the marines who have been “supervis- ing” the farcical elections will be taker w:th Hoover on the Maryland. “6 8 Nicaraguan West Point. | MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Nov. 23. —The establishment of a military academy, along the lines of West Continued on Page Five WOLFE TO SPEAK | ON TROTSKYISM’ Expect Big Audience at Workers School The largest crowd of the year is expected at the Workers School Forum tomtrrow evening when Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the Workers School, will speak on “American Varieties of Trotsky- ism.” The lecture will take place at the Workers School auditorium, 26-28 Union Square, at 8 p. m. The lecturer is the author of “Trotsky- ism: Its Significance for American Workers.” “What Trotskyism is; why it is a danger to the worker class, and how it must be fought,” will be pointed out by Wolfe in his talk, which will emphasize various Amer- ican manifestations of Trotskyism as exemplified by Lore, Salutsky, Max Eastman and the latest addi- lames P. Cannon. Freed by Sympathizers After 19 Days of Prison Given 19 days in the Kenosha jail for defying the boases’ the struck Allen-A hosiery mill, the nine girl strikers above we at a protest meeting recently. Me: tences by remaining in the jail. MACHINES AND injunction to prevent them from picketing re liberated by funds raised by sympathizers m pickets refused to receive similar bail, prefering to protest their sen- MEN IN THE MARINE INDUSTRY EXPOSE FORWARD “PEACE” PLOTS Left Wing WarnsCloak Workers in Call Stating that the whole elaborate plot of the Schlesinger Internation-| al Ladies’ Garment Union gang was exploded by its ex- posure, the left wing National Or. ganization Committee of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union yesterday workers in the industry would spurn any of the fake maneuvers thé scab union may make. All de- a new attack on the left wing union was exposed by the left wing or- ganization. woes statement issued by the . O. C, warns 3 rs_in. the. ladies” pies ah eae of the fake maneuvers the Schlesinger gang is trying to launch. The final stage of this plot is where Schlesinger issues another of his fake manifestos calling for the | workers to come back to his scab Continued on Page Two MINEOLA APPEAL HEARING MONDAY 9 May Go to Jail, Or Get New Trial ALBANY, N. Y., Nov. 23.—The case of the nine fur worker victims of the Mineola frame-up comes up before the judges of the Court of Appeals here Monday morning at 10 o'clock. If the Court of Appeals sustains the decisions of the trial of the la- bor-hating Long Island court, eight of the fur workers will go to prison to serve sentences of from two and a half to five years and one goes to the infamous Elmira Reforma- tory to serve a one-year prison term. If they do not sustain the out- come of the trial, the nine prison- ers are to get a new trial, which will rehear all the mass of framed- up evidence provided by the social- ist provocateurs, their A. F. of L. henchmen and the bosses. The case grew out of the 1926 general strike of the furriers. These nine workers, leading figures in the strike, were framed on the charge of having assaulted a scab shop in Rockville Centre, L. I. Many labor fakers, as well as bosses, appeared in the role of provocateurs and stool pigeons, In fighting the case thousands of dollars have ben con- tributed by workers for legal de- fense. George Z. Medalie is the at- torney handling the case. Chicago Employes Get No Wages for 2 Weeks Workers’, ad | (This is the fourth of a series of jarticles on the sinking of the Ves- tris, and how it is connected with the life and conditions of the seamen. | Thru an error, this installment was |not published yesterday.. Look for them each day.—Editor’s Note) * * By HARRISON GEORGE The Vestris is an example of the way the Steamboat Inspection Ser- vice allows any old tub to put to sea that can be used to make prof- * | its, | Only because passengers lost their lives is such a fuss being made over \it, and even then the crew is held {to blame. But we'll bet you never | declared itself confident that the heard about the death sof fourteen |workers when on Aug. 9, this year, they were swept overboard from the | |steamer “William A. McKenney” on \tails of an elaborate plan to begin the way from San Pedro to the Pan- |ama Canal. Why 14 Workers Died. | Fourteen workers died and the U. S. Inspection Service, under, Her- bert “Hoover's “éfficient” department | of commerce, tried to hide the guilt of the ship’s chief officer, who had not seen that the No. 3 hatch (cov- ering the entrance to the hold) had been properly battened down, and had not required that the rails alongside the hatch were secured. men were washed against the rails, the rails gave way and the men went to their death. At the “inspector’s inquir, in | Boston the chief cook insisted, jagainst the inspector's desire, on giving evidence. He was fired for | “talking too much” and the wages jdue the drowned workers have not jyet been paid to their mothers and | wives. Old Tubs Slave Ships. | These are the sort of facts re- vealed by sailors at the Seamen’s Club,"28 South St., and they tell you how old tubs like the Vestris mean hell for the seamen, especially be- cause such ships are competing with modern or “rationalized” ships. What is “rationalization?” What does it mean when translated into labor conditions? Rationalization; What It Is. | “Rationalization” means, for the employers, a reduction of costs. It is carried out in a number of ways; Continued on Page Five Bedacht at Ridgewood Open Forum Tomorrow Max Bedacht, national agitprop director of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, will speak on the results of the recent election campaign at the Queens County Labor Lyceum, 785 Forest Ave., Ridgewood, tomor- row at 8 p. m. When a big sea came over and the | DAVIS SPEAKS ON LABOR “PEACE” Just Like Spirit of the Kellogg Treaty NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 23.—One of those “boners” for which second rate politicians sometimes become notorious was pulled off here today by Secretary of Labor James W. Davis, when he announced blandly |to the delegates of the American |Federation of Labor in session here |that the spirit which animated the signing of the Kellogg peace treaty is creeping into industry., To this there should be no objec- tion from those who know about the “good will” being created by the |Kellogg war maneuver. Speaking as the honor guest of the afternoon, before the labor fat boys who have just lined up behind the Hoover scheme to maintain boss prosperity, the so-called labor secre- \tary argued that through concilia- tory measures and through discus- sion labor and capital are coming’ to an understanding. Keeps Straight Face. Force cannot be used satisfactor-| ily for the settlement of disputes,| the millionaire labor secretary said without batting an eye. Some of} the less hardened labor bureaucrats, | perhaps recalling the part the poli- |tician has played in attempting to) break many recent labor struggles particularly the Passaic textile! Continued on Page Three | | ADMIT VESTRIS WORKERS HEROIC Negro Cleverly Raps, British Empire Compelled to retreat from his) threat to hold the Vestris crew re- sponsible for the sinking of the ship, | and deeming that the Vestris offi-| cers coached by company lawyers | while they hid from questioners had obseured in mystery the guilt of the} company, U. S. District Attorney} Tuttle late Thursday admitted that} the Negro firemen were heroes and |not cowards. He said: “They showed courage, not cow-| urdice. They stayed in that stoke- hole under terrible conditions. They \showed heroism in drawing people from the water and in saving, life.” Officer Tries to Unload. | Ye&terday, however, Chief Engi- ineer Adams of the Vestris tried to escape from the general condemna-_ |tion piled upon the officers for their) ‘complete incompetency and criminal negligence, by alleging that the Continued on Page Two ! Communist Party Hails “esvesk on Na Peri Anniversary of “Daily” On January 13 the Daily Worker will be five years old Through storms of persecution, post-office chi economic crisis, it has stood its ground. Arres' tion of the business and editorial staff of our Daily could not , but rather solidified its revolutionary character. The Ku Klux Klar and the American Legion, banner bearers of American fascism, and the extra legal instruments of reaction of American capitalism tried in vain to terrorize our Daily into submission. The instrument of capitalist censorship of the American “free” press, the U. S. Post Office, found that its weapons of intimidation and chicanery could not penetrate the armour of revolutionary determination of our Daily. For five years it has continued with increasing vigor to give voice to the battle-cries of the workers in their daily struggles. Leader, Teacher, Fighter. In the great conflicts in the mining, the textile, and other indus- tries, the fighting workers have found in our Daily a leader, a teacher and a valiant companion in arms. The cries of protest of interna- tional and of American labor against the legal murder of Sacco and Vanzetti found in our Daily the most concrete expression and the most purposeful leadershin. The voices of the victims of capitalist frame-up-justice, of Mooney and Billings, of the Centralia victims, and of countless other clas r prisoners were formulated in the Daily Worker into the most pe: tent demand for the organization of work- ers’ defense of persecuted militants in the cl truggle, and for the freedom of those now in the dungeons of American capitalism. The battle for racial equality, the struggle for the emancipation of the masses of Negro workers from racial and class oppression, which in America is such an indispensable prerequisite for a unified struggle of the whole working class has always had in the Daily Worker a most persistert agitator ond fiehter. Exposes Labor Traitors. In the conflict of militant labor with the agents of the bourgeoisie within its own ranks, in the struggle azainst the Greens, the Sigmans, Schlesingers, the Daily Worker has be-n an untiring combatart. The poison of Trotskyism which is spread by enemies of our World Party, the Comintern, has found a deadly antidote in the systematic Com- munist educational campaign carried on by the Daily Worker day by day. The Daily Worker has been the only consistent spokesman in the most serious battle against capitalist armaments and imperialist war. This work becomes the more necessary at present and in the im- mediate future since the imperialist war danger raises its head more threateningly now than ever before. Our Daily Worker during its existence has become the most in- dispensable unifier of Communist activities, a rallying force of the left wing, of the American working class and the recognized mouth- piece of the leader of militant labor in the United States, our Workers (Communist) Party. On its fifth birthday our Daily Worker must become the center of consideration of our Party and of all of its members. A greater circulation for the Daily means more influence for our Party. Every new reader is a certain recruit for the army of the left wing and a candidgte\for the only party leading the American Working class, the Workers (Communist) Party. A Real Campaign. Every member of our Party must present our Daily with several new subscriptions as a birthday present. To insure our Daily economically is to make it more secure against the attacks of capitalism, its state ard its other agents. Every member of our Party, every left wing worker, must greet the Daily on its Fifth Anniversary, by sending in a donation for the Special Fifth Anniversary Edition. Workers Correspondence in our Daily is an expression of e-n- fidence of the Workers in our paper—and also the source of further confidence and interest. Every worker, friend of our Daily, should become a worker corre- spondent exposing in the columns of this only workers’ daily, the tricks of exploitation of capitalism and its agents in the workshops of the ‘country. The Central Executive Committee calls upon the Party and upon all militant workers to take the fifth anniversary of the birth of the Daily Worker as an occasion to rally for a concerted, effective and continuous effort to build, to improve and to circulate the Daily Worker. Long live the Daily Worker! Central Executive Committee Workers (Communist) Party of America. YoungWorkers League} Austrian Postal and Membership Meet Hits Telegraph Employees Trotsky, Right Danger Threaten to Walk Out “The struggle against Trotskyism!| VIENNA, Austria, No and the Right Danger” will be the Court today decided to e: e subject of the special membership Czecho-Slovak Communist Novarak. A REE The decision, however, awaits the meeting called by the District Com-| ait as + saittan of Sh Vag Wotters (Gok sarroboration of the minister of jus- munist) League for tomorrow after- i noon at 1:30 p. m. at the Workers | ; Center, 26:28 Union Square. A telegravh employes have delivered representative of the National Com-|9 Ultimatum to the government mittee of the League will lead the | threatening to strike if their de- distaasion. mands for wage increases are not “The recurrence of Trotskyism in nelly Bourgeois officials lao the Party and League,” said a state-| ited the ultimatum. ment issued yesterday, “the forma-) ——————-——— tion of a Trotsky opposition against of confirming the confidence and the Party led by the three expelled loyalty of the League in the Party members of the Central Committee|and the Communist International.” (Cannon, Abern, Shachtman), places) This membership meeting is one before the League the great political of the most important political meet- task of rooting out every sign of ings ever held by the New York Trotskyism from its ranks, of Communist youth and it is expected Strengthening and developing the that all League members will be Leninist ideology of the membership, present. At the same time the postal and | | (Special to the there has been so much resi: Daily Worker) [ MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 23.—The Minneapolis District, in which | ance to the Central Executive Committee bs to the camp of Trotskyism, The counter-revolutionary nd opportunistic role of Trotskyism, its attitude toward the Soviet Union, the Communist International and towards the Chinese Revolution, as well as towards the peasantry and/| weeks to cut down city expenses. the struggle against war, will be| This was required of them because discussed. The question and dis-| Mayor Thompson demanded “econ- cussion period is expected to be one| omy.” a of the most interesting and stimu-| The department was told it had lating of this year. Discussion will] to cut out $100,000 expenses and the be limited’ to five minutes for each! only way that could be figured out individual so that a maximum num-| was to work without pay. The graft- ber will be able to take the floor. |ers in all sorts of contracts for the Max Bedacht, National Agitprop| city, of course are not asked to econ- Director of the Workers (Commu-|omize, in fact ‘the economy is in CHICAGO, Nov. 23.—There are 318 employes of the legal depart- ment of the city of Chicago who have worked without pay for two policy of fighting Shipstead as an enemy of the working class and as a conscious aggressive champion of the capitalists, is now subject to determined effort of a handful of Trotskyists to undermine the Com- munist character of the Workers Party. Matters took a sharp turn at the recent meeting of the District Executive Committee, where the Central Executive Committee's ex- pulsion of Cannon, Abern and Shachtman as outright Trotskyists was sustained by a vote of thirteen to five. Thereupon the five who voted for the support of the Trotskyist Cannon, were suspended from the Party by a similar vote of the District Executive Committee, Since then one of the five who voted against the Central Executive Committee has come out flatfootedly and unreservedly in his repudia- tion of Cannon and his Trotskyist attack against the Workers (Com- munist) Party, and has announced himself as being whole heartedly in favor of the Central Executive Committee and its strong policy of uprooting the right danger and its vilest expression, Trotskyism. meeting. . their dough, nist) Party, will be chairman of the} orgler that they may continue to get 1 Things came to a head at the membership meeting held Sunday, where 69 were >resent One res lution, completely endorsing the Cen- MINNEAPOLIS HITS TROTSKYISM, RIGHT DANGE Big Membership Meet Expels Cannonites; Endorse C. I. and Central Committee tral Executive Committee and the District Executive Committee ac- tion in expelling the Trotskyites, was carried by 46 votes for and 9 against. Thirteen abstained from voting on this resolution, Another resolution was presented, dealing with the fight against Trotskyism and the right danger, by the comrades of the opposition in the Party and was defeated by a vote of 61 to 7. A statement made in the form of a resolution on the expulsion of Cantion, Shachtman and Abern and the suspension of Skoglund, Vincent Dunne, Coover and Votaw, was defeated by 53 to 15, with one abstaining. Then there was presented a motion to the effect that all who voted against the exnulsion of Cannon, Abern, Shachtman, Vincent Dunne, etc., by so doing were Trotskyites and consequently should be expelled from the Party. This motion was carried by a vote of 53 to 15 and one abstaining. The Trotskyites had headquarters in the hotel next to the District Office. They were working energetically, through their connections inside the Party meeting. They distributed their organ to all mem- bers after the meeting. It is reported that they are planning organ- izational measures to build a network of Trotsky clubs, to be used for fighting the Party and poisoning the minds of the workers against the Communist International and its American Section, the Workers (Communist) Party. a orker ~ | which SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $5.00 per rear Outside New York, by mall, #6.00 D yeur. BULGAR FASCISTS ASK AID OF U.S," Fear Outbredk to Imminent Be SOFIA, Bul Alarmed by the urbed cor n following ant min United § Bulgaria Beg U. S. intimated on the and terfere in Aid. that verge of a pe threatened the l spectre of B Buroff the coun asant Jnited ies Vill not the United States save Buroff asked, “before our pea- sants embrace Bolshevism.” The peasants are crushed with an overwhelming burden of taxation \and are,virtually carrying the en- | tire cost of the war reparations, the result of the plunge which the Bul- garian leaders toox into the World War. ) They have long been. under- stood to be in a condition in which the least disturbance might precipi tate an insurrection. Sofia looks like besieged town | today. Troops patroiling the streets and there are outposts en- circling the city, The presence out- side the town of numbers of pea- sants and villagers who had fled be- fore the approach of the Macedon- ians, fearing a battle, further ag- gravates the situation in Sofia. Double guards were placed eround all cabinet ministers today following the ination yvester day of former Chief of Police Be- leff. Further precautionary mea- sures were also attempted by the cabinet. The deliberations of the cabinet, however, are torn by the sympathy many of the ministers, in- cluding the minister of war, fell for the Macedonian movement. dy HIT TROTSKYISM Warn Against Right Danger at Meet DETROIT, Mich.. Nov. At 2 membership meeting of Section 2 of the Workers (Communist) | Party in Detroit, a resolution was accepted denouncing Trotskyism and the right danger as a counter- revolutionary move and support- ing without reservation the action of the Central Exectuive Commit- tee in expelling Cannon and his outfit, and calling upon the Cen- tral Executive Committee to do likewise with all such elements in our Party. | “Section 2 membership meeting has full confidence in the Com- munist International and in the | leadership of our Party,” the reso- lution stated. “We will go forward in building up a real Bolshevik Party in this country. The mem- bership of Section 2 stands ready to follow the instructions in our struggle against the war danger | and the organization of the un- organized in the auto industry.” Gropper Welcome at | Irving Plaza Tonight William Gropper, revolutionary artist, will be given a mass welcome tonight in Irving Plaza, 15th St. \ond Irving Pl, The occasion for the jevent is the recent return of Grop- |per from the Soviet Union, where ‘he spent almost a year. Among the speakers will be Rob- ert Minor, editor of the Daily | Worker: Meilich Epstein, editor of |the Freiheit; M. J. Olgin, editor of |The Hammer; Michael Gold, editor | of the New Masses, and Gropper thimself? i > ERSARY FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents TOMORROW AT 2 Yorkers to Hear of Looming Conflict at Irving Plaza SR Plot Imperialist Arms Race to Be Exposed To Hit . preparations imperialist re pla gt age against nc anc nst the Sov B ry Gitlow, member of ttee of the Party, will workrrs to- the subject of eeting will the Irving Irving Pl. rganizer f the Dri the 15th St. and Ital organizer the Bureau of unist) Party. * with a reporter rker, Gitlow stated ake up the following h bears lem con- today. of the framework the He will indicate imperialist rival- raw materials, Ids for. the invest- erview speech, the inevitabil: capital its cause for markets and fic ries sources of ment of capital, well as the irreconcilable antagonism between the cap st world and the Soviet Union He will up the antagonism between Great Britain and the United States, brought to a head in the naval armaments rivalry, and the penetration of American capital irto one after another of British col- enies and semi-colon’ The Amer- iean-British-Japane: rivalry inthe and a number of other cen- of potential conflagration bring war nearer every day. Gitlow will ling these up with the immediate problems facing the workers, in- volving preparations for the coming conflict, that when the war breaks, the tragic experiences of the working class in 1914-18 will not be repeated. THREATEN NAT'L TEXTILE UNION Workers Protest Meet Against Legion ake so (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 23.— Despite reported threats of the American Legion and the reaction- ary Veterans of Foreign Wars,* which were iblicly made against the National Textile Workers’ Union, which is preparing to launch a big drive to organize the thou- sands of unorganized silk workers here, at organization is mobiliz- ing to prote ; mass meeting to- night from the interference of the labor-hatiny jingo organizations. The meeting tonight, which be- gins at 8 o’clock in the Lithuanian Hall, at Lafayette and Sumner Sts., was called at the beginning of the week with the invitation to attend extended to all unorganized silk workers in Paterson and vicinity. Albert Weisbord, secretary of the N. T. W., will be the chief speaker. | to the Daily Worker) SON J., Nov, 28.5 e strikers were severely injured ast night, when they were attacked by the owner of the Karl Miller Silk Co. and his three sons, who leaped out suddenly and, armed with baseball bats and iron pipes, assaulted the pickets, many of whom were old men and women Warrants were sworn out later and Continued on Page Three Daily Worker Agents to Hear Minor Tuesday Plans for the fifth anniversary campaiga of the Daily Worker will be outlined at a meeting of Daily Worker agents called for Tuesday evening, November 27, at the Workers Center, 28 Union Square. The hour is 6:30 p. m. All Daily Worker agents from units, subsections and sections have been instructed to attend this very important meeting. Robert Minor, editor Daily Worker, will review five years of the paper’s life. 7 A roll call will be taken, Every agent must attend. of the © 9