The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 30, 1928, Page 2

Page Two * National Textile Workers Union Gro THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1928 F. of L. Closes Doors wing as A. REPORT MANIFOLD ACTIVITIES OF THE GROWING LOCAL Foster and only two to Thomas. | 1828, the socialists with 18,000. | — Bunn In several Pullman and South! Arrests in “Socialist” Center. | andi Chicago precincts, Workers Party| | Labor FakersHaveLost Workers Confidence A report to c An enthusiastic meeting of the | cialists. ; O. Smith Co., was raided by the po-| Several of the defendants in the of the National wor'sers of the Wiz Manufacturing | The same was true of the residen-/ji¢g because a crowd had been trial of the 662 New Bedford strik- Union in Ne Co:# any, makers of “Knight” ra- tial districts populated mainly by! formed around the speakers and|ers and strike leaders will be fey Cl dios, was held Wednesday night im- industrial workers on the northwest | traffic was “impaired,” as the capi- lamong the speakers at the big pro- ere mediately after work at Irving side in Chicago. The best precincts | tajist press put it, Those arrested | test meeting to be held Monday eve- iver und New Radford show Plaza Hall, Despite the fact that With respect to size of the Party) inciuded: B, Sklar, sub-district or-|ning at 8 o'clock at Irving Plaza, swift growth of the local the bosses, getting word of the fact | vote cast were the following: No. 28, -anizer, S, A, Herman, YWL sub-| 15th St. and Irving Place, under the | Pier: chat a meeting was to be held, tried Hammond, 16 votes; Nos. 8 and 82, district organizer, John Srebny. and| auspices of the New York section | Maint cthes strom hart Amen ein to prevent it by making the men | Hammond, 6 votes each; Nos. 48 and | pine} Stevens, young workers. Com-|f the International Labor Defense | Federation o so-called un A. F. of L. U Union in no strike would Textile Oper , got the ited Te’ ves, of the suin pawns, Juliu Maniu, head of ional Peas: Fi i | This time, patrol wa were 7 gain wages cut tinal boceet ah ih are ie Nirios a Pes ant Party, has ob- sult of the success of the spontane-! The vote in Cook County (Chi- called to aera the speakers | tempt on the part of the mill, New Bedford 1 haage Ghirol of the parliament building im Bucharest (above). A ous strike which broke out last Fri-| eago) as reported immediately after and the very large crowd of work-|>afens’ courts to outlaw militant trike, From authentic sources it| umanian workera und peasants; fascist tortures aid downtrodden day when an attempt was made to|the election by the capitalist press ers who had just come out of the|wmonism and to railroad the best ae bets ancertattud that the Ui. T.| . g6/on.en the Bumanian Gunsesde ohne Geammane oe murders still fore the men to begin work at 7:30 did not come up to expectations | plants to go to the polling places|fshters in the great textile strug- W. offices bond Yosbe:waraied,| dnaprinoniad geons, where thousands of Communists are | a, m. instead of at 8:15 a, m., thus,|based upon reports received from! were furnished with an excellent |!¢ to long jail terms. Among the | ‘ while the N. W. gains greater - — " ae! are ee hay adding forty-five minutes to the |the precincts where the Party had | example of much vaunted Amencah other speakers will be William Ww. f confidence from the workers. working day. watchers, These precincts reported |“democracy,” especially in this town Weinstone, district organizer of the ' Organizer Reports. IRISH PEASANTS CHICAGO BANKS At the meeting it was unani- anywhere from five to twenty votes| which for many years has always Workers (Communist) Party; cll i f The report of the organizer fol- lows: “The silk workers of Fi are joining the Nati Workers’ Union. L: local of silk workers wa at a meeting and an committee River Textile Saturday a organized ganization ted. There are six silk 1 n Fall River, the Elgin, Liberty ppa, Bay State, Willibur and Irving, and the Las- In one of these mills all the all already signed up|; : wound up its tenth annual conven- | tant spirit. The work of the meet-|°VerY Polling place. | ‘i nore palteady eter oe is generally no possibility of separa- tion here today by electing Williom ing was carried on in an efficient | This is clearly shown by a com- or ay Gnu ae AME oe Se tend the protest meeting in a state Meee ats Neckcerdl swhol are anol: | Meets oe ; R. Dawes, banker, head of the Chi- | manner. parison of the vote cast in congres- |) 0704s of industrial deeuipabionas ment issued by Ben Gold ast night. tare of the National Textile Work. ,,ccrReze, 8pPears to be either com. cago Chamber of Commerce and |” An interesting discussion took |*ion#l districts, the two in which we that is, accidents, diseases affecting| ““en*tnone™s Cedares: ers’ Union. plete ignorance or total disregard of | second cousin of Vice-President q 3 also had candidates four years ago. | . Z “The fur workers have their The silk mills are being covered with leaflets. A dance under the auspices of the Silk Workers’ local Du will be held in December. to the crganization drive that in ied on it is expected that all the silk workers of Fall River will soon be members of the silk local. Cotton Workers Meet. “Peter Hegelias, o National Textile Workers’ Union, with headquarters at 381 Columbia St. Fall River, stated that three mill meetings of cotton workers are Z that of children. Using the more prosperous of the Rumanian peasants as his IN STARVATION DEMAND SEAPORT Thousands in Kerry|Dawes Agrees Rails Barely Alive | Can Keep Freights Up Continued from Page One ing, and it is questionable if day clothes are discarded at night. There ST. LOUIS, Mo., ppi Valley Nov. 29.—The Association the most elementary sanitary regu- lations. Animals are frequently found in living rooms, and, probably of necessity, their welfare apy ears to be considered more precious than Windows—if there are any—are generally nailed up or fixed so that they cannot be opened.” It was in Kerry that the ciyil war between the republicans and the Free Staters was the most intense. Here the battle for land was motive force of the rebellion.: Today these Kerry peasants remain alone and isolated as if they were far removed Dawes, president of the association. General T. Q. Ashburn, head of the government-owned: river barge line, announced to the association that he would negotiate Dec. 11 with representatives of all railroads con- cerned to make joint tariffs for rail and water transportation, under the Dennison act, passed at the last ses- sion of cong With the rail- roads assured that high rates would still prevail, the bankers and indus- trialists who make up the Missis. sippi Velley Association believe that a big program of improvement of ORGANIZE ASS'N IN WIZ FACTORY Employes Meet After Strike k overtime, about fifty men at- tended and most of the others had pledged themselves to abide by the decisions of the meeting. The meeti gf was called a$ a re- decided to organize the first tion of radio workers in New The name chosen was “Radio Workers Association.” A president and secretary-treas- urer were elected by acclamation. An executive committee of ten, rep- resenting all the departments in the shop, was also elected. Although most of the men were young and not experienced in or- ganization, they showed a fine mili- place on conditions in the shop, fu- ture tactics to be used and other practical points. Many from the floor took part. The meeting ended with three rousing cheers for the new organ- ization, the Radio Workers Associa- tion, PARASITE PRINCE RUSHING TO KING “vi Same ver for Labor RADI WORKERS COMMUNIST VOTE IN PROTEST TEXTILE THE WEST INCREASES Continued from Paae One jnist vote pwas 150 and the socialist which cast the heaviest vote for the | 339. In Wisconsin the unofficial to- minority parties, gave 16 votes to/ tal credits the Workers Party with A number of arrests of: Commu- nist speakers marked the election in Milwaukee. “A Communist street watchers reported’ from 12 to 17} votes for the Communist candidates as against five to eight for the so- 50, Gary, 6 votes each, The total vote, however, in these towns was as follows: Gary, 68; Hammond, 40; |Bast Chicago, 35. | The Vote in Chicago. rade Stevens had been arrested for street speaking on the previous Monday but had been released on bail after a few hours. each, yet the total credited to Foster | heen more or less under social demo- | and Gitlow in the whole of Cook | cratic rule. \ County was only 1682, less than one! | to a precincts While this is an increase of 45 is per cent of two years ago, it is ab-| Chief Cause of Loss solutely clear that many hundreds, | if not thousands of votes cast by workers for the Communist ticket | were not counted, were credited to our enemies owing to our inability to provide sufficient watchers for) ‘Industrial Accidents | of Workers’ Eyesight | Lewis N. Carris, managing direc- tor of the Natinoal Society for the Prevention of Blindness, stated at a banquet for the board of directors | the eye and eye strain, now consti-| } | tute probably the most serious cause dates in 1926. |of blindness and impairment of vi- Triple Vote For Reds. |sion among workmen in America,” In the First District, where a/and that “close students of indus- Negro comrade, E. L. Doty, was the | trial problems are convinced that 98 standard bearer of the Party, our|per cent of industrial accidents are | vote was three and one-half times | preventible, including those which as large as last time, and in the 9th| destroy eyesight.” District, where Hirschler was the| William Collins, an organizer of candidate, it was almost three times | the A, F. of L., pledged the support | as large. Since practically all the | of that organization in a campaign Communist ballots were straight it} to reduce the number of accidents, is evident that large numbers of! but did not explain how the A. F. presidential votes cast for the Com-) of L. leadership, with its present | munists were credited to other can-| policy of yielding to employers’ de-| There were no congressional candi- meeting outside of the plant of A.| First SOVIET Costume TERROR AT MASS MEETING MONDAY Gold Issues Statement to All Furriers . Colorlight and the National Textile Workers’) Union. 7 The meeting will rally the work- |ers of New York in the nation-wide mass movement to smash this at- | , | fred Wagenknecht, national seer tary of the I. L. D.; Norman Tal- lentire, assistant secretary of the |L. D.; Albert Weisbord, secret ax treasurer of the | Workers’ Union; Pat Toohey, seer | tary-treasurer of the National Min- ers’ Union; Ben Gold, mana: Joint Board, Furviers’ Unica; |Paul Crouch, secretary of the All- America Anti-Imperialist League. Gold Issues Call. All fur workers are urged to at- National Tex nd Mineola case and the t-xtile work- ers their New Bedford case. Both cases are the cases of the working class; both ia Mineola amd 11 New Bedford it is the werring class a+ a whole that is being attacked and it is the bosses and the A. F. of L. and yellow ‘socialist’ betrayers that are doing the attacking. Workers’ Solidarity. “When the new National Textile Workers’ Union was launched, the fur workers sent their greetings And now when an attempt t) smash the textile union is being made by held each week and there are fre- ees island in an eee G28 | water ‘transgortation can be put | didates. |mands of every sort, was to com-|the jailing of 662 of its best fignt- quent mass meetings. The big ict) In the cities and towns the indus-/ through congress without _ bei | f , Ilinoi . i i ha rh . sy: Geatiariay-ot dane lo pel Gikeu see. rough congress without being In Lake County, Illinois, a farm- pel installment of equipment that/ers, we furriers who are getting 104 nationalities on the corner of Marlboro ani Spring Sts., which was bought by the union during last summer's strike, has been used continuously for meetings until.a few days ago when the weather got too cold. “When all the Fall River are operating there are about 23,00) workers; now this number has Leen reduced to about 23,000. Vicious speed-up has been introduced, The workers work very long hours—in the American Printing Co., for ex- ample, the usual working day is 12 to 14 hours. For this the workers receive $16 and $17 a week. This is the mill where Mr. Tansey of the A. F. of L. advised the workers to scab when they were called out last summer by the National Textile Workers’ Union on strike against the 10 per cent wage cut. The av- erage wage is $15 a week. There 000,000 to $35,000,000 annually. stitution of monarchy. It states |famous revolutionary artist whose marriage with him. Wycoff should | >. A is much unemployment; workers ac- @ andlude a nine took eharnel ii \that the king has been “over-!murals grace the wall of the Prolet- have known the rules of business, field National Bae ee fo areas | tive in the strike are blacklisted the Tennessee River for a distance |worked,” “had no leisure,” and por-|cos Cafeteria on Union Square, and and the lack of business morality its resources to $1,177,00,000. | and many workers have been dis- placed due to the speed-up that has ; FOR BIG NAVY ville with anxiety.” artists. Workers from the trade case, according to his statements, | 200,000. : a been put into effect. The textile The scovvantion Ualab: adopted |. But it fails to remark that right |unions, as well as artists and | he fell for Mrs. Wycoff’s promise) This comes upon the heels of its, workers of Fall River know which rie saa perennial resolution endorsing the |!" England nearly 2,000,000 are |writers, contributors of the New |to hold the property for their joint | absorption of the Mutual Bank fast | organization has had the right pol-| icy and is fighting for their inter- esis, end are signing up in ge numbers with the National Textile Affair December 22 The affair'that the Spanish Frac- | yay, id : . Rdward’s ti | mil “ m, N. Y. Th Communi i tion of the Workers (Communist) aye See aie pesca soe for ee aren ete ue af enk of inper-| were Se eeriet he, Rees a VERY Workers ( unist) | Party of New York is arranging for | threat to rival imperialism. Not Intend to Provide alist reaction at home and over-| Cutter 2364. | . ne | the night @f Saturday, Dec. 22, It is expected that the Lame| exe ee Me Tee Hed showed? thal CHEE Party Unit and Sympatheti promises to be a real international affair, according to the statement of the arrangements committee. Be- sides workers of the standard 21 blocked by the railroad interests. For Nine-Foot Channel. | By resolution the convention unanimously asked congress to do the following: a. Authorize funds in amounts sufficiert to complete the approved | river projects within five years. | On a building job there were thirty unskilled workers called for. Over three thousand applied for the jobs. Yet despite this deplorable state of affairs the unskilled workers who, are organized are able to maintain their conditions. Armistice Day began with a tremendous roar throughout the city| b. at five in the morning. It was the| vey for a nine-foot river channel noise from landmines that had been| from ivittsburgh to Kansas City, placed under various statues to im-|Mo., or Yankton, S. D., and from perialists. the Twin Cities to New Orleans. The hind leg of the horse that) ¢, Immediately liberate the $10,- King William of Orange so defiantly | (00,000 increased capitalization for strode hangs limp with the foot|ihe Inland Waterways Corporation pursuing the back of the head of | a:thorized by the Denison act. King Edward the Seventh, father : of the présent King George. SHORT SESSION Authorize an immediate sur- d. Increase the annual rivers| and harbors appropriations from | $65,006,000 to $75,000,000 and the flood control allotment from $24,- of 648 miles from the Ohio to Knox- Probably Pass Kellogg Pro-War Treaties work of the U. S. army engineers | corps, although opposition to that was presented “in committee by bill, the authorization to the navy department to add fifteen cruisers, as recommended by Coolidge in his NewYorkWorkersWait A report by Walter T. Edgerton, an engineer hired by the Transit Commission, yesterday showed that | the Interborough Rapid Transit sys- Duck session of the senate will also ratify the Kellogg treaty project, the step towards war in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America, for Royal Propaganda In- undates Press pen | Editor of Wall Street. LONDON, Nov. 29.—Behind the veil of official secrecy concerning | the condition of King George, the monarch oppressor of 465,000,000 | “subjects,” the enormous majority of whom are half-starved colonial | peoples, the news that the Prince of Wales is rushing here from East Afriea, reveals the anxiety of the British imperialists that the king may die before the prince can ar- rive and thus lose a lot of good monarchist advertising to be had if the heir to the throne were on hand to receive ovations as the new ruler. The capitalist press is excelling all previous records in agitating slobbering servility toward the in- trays the “population” as “heavy starving in the unemployed army, that thousands of poor and aged workers unable to pay tents are be- ing thrown onto the winter streets, This, while the king, a holder of vveat wealth in many industrial stocks «nd inheriting a salary from eee “Anxiety” for What? LONDON, Nov. from Bombay, India, appear in the 29.—Dispatches | \ing district with several large man-| would eliminate such hazards, | ufacturing towns, still the Commu- MagazineExposesHigh | Finance in Own Office) A privileged position in the of- fice of The Magazine of Wall Street | and marrying the editor and foun- | der of that journal of brokerage and stock manipulation was too! much of a lesson for Mrs. Richard | Wyéoff ,the aforesaid editor, says | he, in his suit for recovery of 2,- €00,000 worth of property. Wycoff alleges that his spouse, once his-secretary, “nagged and ca- | joled” him until he deeded the rest | of the paper to her, after giving her | a quarter of it as value received for New Masses Ball Next Friday to Be Colorful. Working Class Event Revolutionary workers and artists are expected to turn out by the hun- dreds to attend the annual New Masses Ball, which will be held next Friday evening, until dawn, at Web- ster Hall, 11th St. between 3rd and) 4th Ave. As in the past, the Masses Ball gives promise of being one of | the most colorful proletarian events | of the year. . | All the decorations for the event have been done by Hugo Gellert, by other distinguished proletarian] around Wall Street, but in this | use, and got swindled thereby, as} |Mrs. Wycoff promptly took full) control of operations and profits. | Masses, will be there galore. 1 Killed, 1 Injured |must stand behind our brother: |, 4 ready to launch a union of cur own, comprising othe SOVIET . and force the capitalist courts to free them. “Furriers, the protest meeting on Monday is your protest meeting and the fight to free these victims of § the textile bosses’ hatred is your fight. Show your solidarity in this great struggle by attending the meeting 100 per cent.” Biggest Morgan Bank AbsorbsAnotherinNew York; Third Recently The Chase National Bank, the sec- ond largest bank in the country and Morgan’s biggest bank, recently \ swallowed another sunfish, the Gar- | Saturday Evening Dec. 15 Garfield Bank had assets of $21,-) year, of the big Mechanics and Metals Bank in 1926, and the Metro- politan Bank in 1921. R. W. Poor, chairman of the Garfield Bank, and) |today when coast guardsmen fired | on their motorboat on Lake Ontario. Anderson and Sahr were half ‘a} | motorboat did not contain any liquor. OPEN-SHOP WAGES. Organization Should Dis- tribute the ; * Tn M George Leach of Mi lis, | So he is now in the courts, with 1 by | “ ] Workers’ Union. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. — The ee een een oe eiraiiace tp jthat in Wales and other mining dis- by Rum Chasers | his pitiful tale. ""|H. F. Poor, its president, will be il! MA A DISON 4 SSS ares prognosis here for activities of the approve a nine-foot channel for the \tricts the miners’ families are dying | pablus, } come vice-presidents of the big Mor-! Spanish Fracti f short session of congress which Upper Mississippi. Failure of the of starvation even though the miner| NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Nov. | Seeutine the rannized! Or- |gan bank. The Poor brothers wil ON OF opens Monday are all in. favor of PPC". Mevent floods did not in (father be working, because the 29, (UP).—Carl Anderson was killed! freq'indastelest n’ “NUTE"™” ‘not exactly starve at their new jobs. S U ARE Workers Party Plans the much propagandized big navy | terest the bankers. wages are hopelessly inadequate. and Edmund Sahr seriously wounded | GARDEN | Auspices Latin American countries, Russians, which the cruisers will be needed,| tem was not maintaining and ade-jcapitalist press saying that—“The| BINGHAMTON, (By Mail).— | i Italians, Orientals and N will oa the most direct attack on Brit. quate schedule of trains in rush-|ting’s illness is being followed by | With not a labor union in any manu-| ° | DAILY tend. There will be ons of |ich imperialism that Coolidge’s ad-| hour periods and that thousands of |al! classes in India with anxiety.” | facturing industry in this city, wages | or. er | . i Latin American dances, and songs. jninistration has afforded, as well | New York workers were delayed and | There are known to be among the | are lower here than in any other city | WORKER y To acquaint the sympathizers with 4. the most direct menace to the| made uncomfortable by the shortage |cnslaved 300,000,000 Indians a con-| in New York state. Over 85 per cent | h ri 4 the costumes of Latin American | Union of Socialist Soviet Republics | of 400 cars and by the lack of longer | siderable number whose “anxiety” |of the workers in the factories are p workers, every one of the Spaniards will come in the costume of his coun- try of origin. Tickets for this event are on sale at the Workers Book Shop, 26-28 Union Square; at the Spanish Work- ers Center, 55 W. 113th St., and the offices of the New Masses, “Wnion Square. 39 Dry Spies in New York Number 200, Says Chief Two hundred prohibition agents, including some who are privileged to drink in night clubs as part of their regular duties are stationed in New York City, said Prohibition Ad- ministrator Maurice Campbell yes- terday, in an interview. He admitted that some of these agents were con- siderably terrorized over the pros- pect of being discharged soon for failure to pass the civil service tests, but refused to state who and how many, nor did he say what sort of pull would be recognized in new ap- pointments. He said that his office during the coming year would fol- yw the same plans as in the pasty for-| platforms which the company re- fuses to build. The report showed that the service is not getting bet- ter. “On Monday, Nov. 6,” Mr. Edger- ton’s report declared, “the express operation from 7 to 10, southbound past Times Square, was seventeen which his administration has mulated. Boulder dam seems to have a ma- jority, so does the much amended MeNary-Haugen farm bill, that ges- ture towards farm relief which re- publican politieians rely on to quiet the serious unrest among the farm- may be misrepresented by such dis- patches as indicating that they are | anxious for the king’s recovery. | |paid on a piece-work basis. Half of ithe 4,000 women employed receive less than $16 a week. O union meetiug, Workers. Paige =erceamnns eso mesa ral | ee lective organizer event should pass without the distribution of a bundle of Daily E DAILY WORKER, the col- movement is the best fighter for and FREIHEIT affair or labor of the labor trains short of the schedule, and | the organization of the unorganized dl ‘Solidated and put. under a single, | centralized direction, ers by a pretense at keeping cam- M paign pledges made to them. past Grand Central twelve trains short of the schedule. To Consolidate Border Patrol as War Measure WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Under guise of prohibition enforcement and economy, a bill to strengthen and make more efficient the border pa- frol on which American imperialism relies in the next war for preventing any drafted men from i via Mexico and the seapor from | a war which is against their own in- terests, will be pushed for passage at the ccming session of congress. “west side express operation south- bound past Times Square was thir- teen trains short of schedule during the same hours, and a check at Grand Ceutral showed a shortage of fifteen trains.” BelgiumGives Nanking Businessmen Autonomy NANKING, China, Nov. 29 (UP). —The government issued today the text of the treaty with Belgium, Under the proposed bill the immi- | whereby Belgium relinquishes all gration customs, prohibition and ag- extra-territorial rights and recog- ricultura! border patrols will be con- | nizes the right of Chinese tariff autonomy. iJan, 1, 1929 a ys The treaty is effective | JANUARY 5, 1929 | | WILL BE FIVE YEARS OF THE COMING OUT OF THE workers, for militant trade union- ism, against race discrimination and against imperialist wars. ene your bundle a few days in advance of your meeting at the special rate of $6.00 per thousand. \ ADMISSION: $1.00 in advance | $1.25 at the door waccansecsnenneenaqenceesneceenee-sncenenee ly Worker DAILY WORKER | CITLES ARK URGED TO BEGIN MAKING ARRANGE- | : MENTS FOR CELEBRATIONS NOW. ed 26 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY. , ..copies of The DAILY WORKDR sand, Tickets now on sale in i | Daily Worker Office i] 26-28 Union Square Please send mi at the rate of $6. 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