The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Weck For a Labor Party Daily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N.Y. under the a Worker of March 3. 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Published daily exce; Publis — Vol. V., No. 285 jown! Dally Worker New York, N. ¥. 1, 1928 EW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER Workers in USSR € HOOVER STATUS QUESTIONED BY ‘LATIN: AMERICA Argentina Raises the * Issue, Disturbing ail Imperialists Hoover Dodges Policy Finishes Big Meal and “Prosperity” Report | WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Dis- atches from Latin American coun- cries on Hoover's tour indicate that some Latin Americans have mental reservations on the “good will” fairy tale advanced as the reason for the trip of Yankee imperialism’s out- standing figure. White House officials here were forced today to perform some diplo- matic dodging when a cable from the U. S. minister to Argentina, Mr. | Bliss, arrived, stating that president | Irigoyen, of Argentina had inquired whether Hoover was on an official mission or not. After much scratch- cow carrying posters. Monster demonstrations and parades marked the celebration by the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union of the eleventh anniversary of the revolution. Photo shows a group of paraders in Mos- 0 The poster in the center attacks British imperialism in China; the one on the right attacks the French alliance with Poland and Rumania for war against the Soviet Union, and the poster on the left exposes religion as a weapon of capitalism. ing of imperialist heads it was de- cided not to decide, and leave it up to Latin American governments as) to whether they wished to accord) Hoover official welcoming cere-| monies or not. | Argentia Sool. | » That Argentina even raised the. tion was an unpleasant indica-| } ‘ u : ie that the Argentine government ay iy ge ‘i not overcome with awe before| American imperialism. In an effort | to help Hoover without making any, SHANGHAI, Nov. 30.—Further decision, it wae une eiey recognition of the Chiang Kai-shek jointed out that Hoover receive a ; The presidential salute of 21 guns per apa gti ed to English when he boarded the Maryland, and |" merican imperialism was that it was “felt obvious that a/ given yesterday in the announce- president-elect has risen above the | rent of appointments of C. C. Wu status of a private citizen.” as minister Washi Meee nivel bed to dodketiistees Qa’ Cn een one ee jssue when visiting San Salvador, in-|"20-X¢ ted Sze as. minister to cidentally dodging the still greater London. question as to his future policy ‘to-| Wu has been foreign minister of ward Latin America. the Nationalist government during A Salvadorian reporter from “the the period of the persecution of Daily Salvador” asked Hoover if he) Chinese labor unions and peasant would change the present U. S. organizations and has lent a ready BOW TO WALL ST. policy toward Latin American na- ear to all imperialistic demands re-| Continued on Page Five \cently. His appointment to Wash- ‘ington isnot a demotion, ‘Chinese officials made clear in comment on \the move, but is a recognition of the importance to the new govern- ‘ment of close relations to the U. S, capitalist government. st | Closely connected with this ap- ‘pointment is the announcement that GITLOW TO SPEAK AT FORUM MEET j i be made an embassy, il! al; es gh soll bo A bier categ ag ony Belgium Supports Chiang. Banjerin Gitlow, member of thd| 28 # memns’ of eupport to” Gis eagees 4 ‘bloody Kuomintang rule, various the Worker: eae ee aoa Piety ome rank ait |small countries under financial dom- om ; lination of either U. S. or England ‘orum, 26-28) 4 “An Analysis of the American Fed- | ies with Nanking in the near fu- eration of Labor Convention.” ture. In announcing the lecture, D.| The Belgian treaty is also signed, Benjamin, assistant director of the} and provides for a possible revoca- Workers School, said: rion of extra-territoriality, which “Gitlow will show how the New shall, however, not come into effect Orleans convention just as the De- | before dan. 1, 1930. The treaty troit and the Los Angeles conven-|says: “Before such date the Chinese tions of the past has betrayed the|government will make detailed ar- ‘American workers; how the bureau-|rangements with the Belgian gov- crats are serving American imper-|/ernment: for the assumption by \the Washington ministry will soon | jalism and are acting as agents of China of jurisdiction over Belgian the American capitalist class both at home and abroad; what steps must be taken by the American working class to fight against | fraitorist and corrupt leadership of the A. F, of L.; the question of hew unions and the question of orking within the reactionary trade unions; how the A. F. of L. has acted on the important prob-) Jems facing the workers and how the working class must act on these same problems.” The Workers School wishes to call | the attention to those who attend) the Workers School Forum that it) is advisable to come early. Last week the doors had to be closed be- | subjects, Failing such arrangement by the said date Belgian subjects are thereafter amenable to Chinese laws and jurisdiction whenever the majority of powers now having ex- tra-territorial privileges in China shall have agreed to relinquish | them.” District 2 Organizers Will Meet Today at 3 An important conference of all | section, subsection and unit or- ganizers of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, District 2, will be held today at 3 p. m., at 26-28 fore the lecture began, due to the, b9 Union Square, Room 602, accord- capacity crowds, ing to a call issued yesterday by John J. Ballam, industrial organ- izer of the district. Attendance at this meeting is most urgent, says the statement, and no one should fail to be pres- ent. Weinstone Will Discuss. Elections at the Bronx Open Forum Tomorrow \LO JOIN I. L. The District Executive of the | Workers (Cgmmunist) Party, Dis- |triet 2, in a statement issued last j night, urges all workers of the city jto attend the protest meeting against the frame-up of the 662 New Bedford strikers to be held on Mon- day evening, Dec. 3, at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and drving Place, under the auspices of the International Labor Defense. The statement reads: Statement to all Party members, Workers (Communist) Party. Dis- trict 2, to all class-conscious work- ers: Comrades :— The persecution of the capitalist class against the National Miners | Union, the National Textile Work- \ers Union, against the revolution- ary movement in the United States is assuming great severity and bru- “tality. my The capitalist class of America realizes that the new unions, based upon the class struggle, are mobil- izing the workers for a_ struggle the unorganized workers and is a challenge to the bureaucratic re- formist cliques that rule over the |trade union movement. The capi- munist Party is conducting a strug- |gle against the war danger and is |mobilizing in order to fight the | plans of the ruling class to plunge the workers of America into a war against the Soviet Union ana into a struggle with Great Britain to | decide in favor of the hegemony of | American bankers over the world. | Mass arrests in New Bedford, the |frame-up of Biedenkap and Weis- bord, the capitalist conspiracy Continued -n Page Two ‘Seamen’s Club Meet Tomorrow Night to Hear Foster Speak Tomorow night, at 8 o’clock, Wil- liam Z. Foster, once a seaman and | recently Communist candidate for | president, will speak at the Inter- |national Seamen’s Club, 28 South St. Foster ‘will speak on the prob- lems of all marine workers, both on’ ship and ashore. All marine workers are invited to attend. Admission is free to marine workers, but others at the meeting will be asked to contribute 25 cents. Longzhoremen, harbor workers ani seafarers from all departments of | ships are invited. FIND WOMAN’S HEAD. SCRANTON, Pa., Nov. 30 (, —The bloody head of a woman was found in the tonneau of an automo- bile in Old Forge Borough, near the Belvidere Hotel, today. No sign \of the body was found, although the |inside of the car was covered with \ blood. “The Lessons of the 1928 Elec- tion” will be discussed by William | ‘W, Weinstone ‘at the Bronx Open Forum, 1330 Wilkins Ave., tomor- wat 8 p. m. The “prosperity” of Hoover, the ‘progressivism” of Smith, as well is the treacherous role of. the social- ist party, will be crijjcally examined and analyzed. Emphasis will be laid on the lessons the workers must draw from the recent campaign. | Questions and discussion from the floor will follow the lecture. ROB AIR MAIL TRUCK. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 80 (UP).—The 0 first robbery of an air mail truck|the Superior Court. in the history of that service oc-] One hundred miners, members of curred here late today when two|the National Miners Union, are masked men riding in an automobile ; either in jail or out on bail as a re- - forced a Robinson Aircraft Corpora-|sult of the attack of the employers tion truck to the curb and escaped |und the reactionary labor ‘union of- with five sacks of air mail destined |ficials on the new militant labor 4 | for Chicago. unions. } The International Labor Defense is beginning this year’s Christmas Fund campaign. At present there are important cases being defended by the I. L. D. There are 662 tex- tile strikers who have already been sentenced in the lower courts in New Bedford and are now up before Calls on Workers to Aid LL.D. CHRISTMAS DRIVE Mill ‘Militants The International Labor Defense is leading the fight to free Mooney and Billings, to free the Centralia victims and to free the Illinois min- ers. The International Defense is helping the dependents of the class- war prisoners. It asks all to jcin the campaign for funds for the prisoners and their families, and it urges all workers to support the organization which is the shield of the working class, the attacks of the employers, against the persecution meted out by the capitalist courts, D. —~—teohopecial talist class realizes that the Com-| WU APPOINTMENT DIST. 2 URGES WORKERS PROTEST REVIEW 5 YEARS ~— OF THE “DAILY” Agents Plan Campaign for Anniversary At the meeting of Daily Worker agents, held last night at the Work- PLAN MEASURES TO WIN STRIKE Broad Silk Dep't Will | Hold Membership Meet Today Foil Plans to Disrupt Nat'l Textile Union Sends Spokesman (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 30. — Despite frantic efforts on the part of the little bureaucrats controlling the Associated Silk Workers’ Union to prevent the broad silk workers from holding a membership meet- ing, the defiant stand of the work- ers increases as each move to ham- per the meeting is checkmated by a countermove of the left wihg Strike Committee. The meeting, called for tomorrow afternoon, 2 |o’clock in Carpenters Hall, 56 Van Houten St., is to be held under the auspices of this committee, which the officials have been vainly trying to dissolve because of its militant’ policies, The latest move of the officials was made yesterday when Fred Hoelscher inserted into the local pa- pers the announcement that the membership meeting called by the Strike Committee is “illegal” and has nothing to do with the Associ- ated Silk Workers’ Union. Unfor- tunately for him, however, the pa- pers also carried the statement of the Strike Committee to the effect that the meeting will be held as announced. In addition to this, the militant strike leaders are carrying on a wide distribution of leaflets calling the broad silk workers to action if Statement Issued To All District Organizers To All Party Units To All Editors Dear Comrades: In acecrdance with the call of issued November 8th, with the approval of the by Workers Party’ the Central Executive Committee xecutive Committee of the Communist International, the Central Executive Committee has decided upon the following rules vention, to be held in New York Cit: The conventio~, originally set xc to February ist because technica change of date. o govern the Sixth National Con- y on February 1, 1929: or January 5th, has been advanced 1 arrangements necessitated the I. AGENDA The agenda for the National Convention follows: 1, Report of the Central Executive Committee (Economic and Political Situation, Activities of the Workers (Communist) Party and Task: 2, Report of the National before the Party.) Executive Committee of the Young Workers (Communist) League. 3. Report of the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International, 4. Report on the Right Danger and Trotskyism. 5. Report on Trade Union Work. 6. Party Organization Problems. 7. Negro Work. 8. The War Danger and the Struggle Against American Imperialism. 9. Election of the Central Central Control Commission, Is Executive Committee and the BASIS OF REPRESENTATION 1. The delegations from the nuclei to the convention shall be based upon the average amount of dues payments during the months of August, September and October, 1928. 2. Representation from District Conventions to the National Convention shall be based upon the average number of dues paid in the respective districts during the months of August, September and October, 1928. For every 100 members or major fraction thereof in good standing during this period shal] be elected one delegate to the BALDWIN DENIES ADVISES PARLEY ers Center, 26.28 Union Square, it they want to provide the strike| owes Dickenson Tells was decided to make the fifth an- niversary campaign of the paper the biggest yet conducted. Five hundred thousand copies of the “Daily” will be printed and dis- tributed in a mass distribution which will exceed even the mass jeditions of 380,000 copies of the €00 of the May Day number. | Harry M. Wicks, acting editor of |the Daily Worker, spoke to the |agents cn the political significance |ef the paper. Harry Fox, campaign manager, and A. Ravitch, business manager, spoke on the organiza- tional aspects of the campaign. Wicks reviewed the conditions un- der which the “Daily” was born an the campaign of preparation which | preceded its birth. He showed how, jdespite tremendous difficulties, which almost resulted in the suspen- sion of the paper upon a number of occasions, it had steadily kept up the fight for the working class. By its correct editorial and news poli- cies it had under the direction of the C. E. C. won the leadership of every movement of struggle for | unionization and against betrayal of |the interests of the working class, ‘until practically every strike of re- ‘cent years has been led by the left \wing, under the influence of the |Communist Party. with some chances of victory and if they want to gain union condi- tions in the so-called settled shops, where conditions are as bad as they ever were because of the fake agree- ments which the right wing “lead- ers” reathed with the bosses. | The determined comments of hun- section issue and-the 300» dreds of broad silk workers made it} t ‘clear that they will tolerate no at- tempts of the officialdom to use Continued on Page Three the unorganed ore ee he ae. ary os snoaies POLICE SHIELDING | | | ROTHSTEINKILLER Tammany Anxious to Cover Up Own Graft By J. K. Today, almost a month after the murder of Arnold Rothstein, Tam- |many inside man and gambler, the police—under the direction of Mayor Walker, Commissioner Warren and the entire gang of Tammanyites | whose corrupt regime Rothstein supported—have not yet made a |single definite move to apprehend the murderer. Some have been ar- rested, so-called “investigations” of War Danger LONDON, Nov. 30. — Premier Baldwin today denied in parliament that his government was taking any | |. steps to hold naval parleys with the | | United States and France, though | he.gaid that it would “consider any steps that might be considered use- | ful.” He put the Britten proposal of a conference between congress- | men and members of parliament in Canada up to the house, saying that it was a parliamentary and not a cabinet matter. The premier’s reply is taken to indicate that he sees Britten’s note | as simply a maneuver in the big} ‘naval race, to which both Baldwin and Britten and their capitalist masters are committed. In this con- | nection British newspapers are pub- | lishing a letter from G. Lowes Dick- enson, historian and essayist, who declares that a real war danger ex- ists, and criticizes the premier for using about it the very word, “un-/| thinkable” which Lord Asquith em- ployed in discussing a prospect of war with Germany, only two days before England entered the war. Dickenson says, “everybody is thinking furiously about war.” It is axiomatic, says Dickenson, that competition will bring war just as it did between England and Ger- many. ee National Convention. 3. On this basis the respecti districts are entitled to the follow- entation to the National Convention: District Headquarters Number of City Delegztes z Boston 7 2 New York 32 3 Philadelphia ye 4 Buffalo 3 5 Pittsburgh 6 6 Cleveland 6 4 Detroit 6 8 Chicago il 9 Minneapol’s 8 10 Kansas City 2 42 Seattle 4 13 San Francisco 4 15 New Haven 2 Agricultural district, Bismarck, | N. D. B Young Workers Le:_ue 5 4, From the shop and street nu- clei to the section, city and sub- district conventions, there shall be el_cted one delegate for every five members or major fraction thereof of August, September, October, 1928. The election of delegates from the units to the first ¢-tegate body shall ‘be on the basis of their good-standing members during this period. This will be ascertained by Continued on Page Three Ryan Bequeathes Son Pair of Shirt Studs in $300,000,000 Will The filing of the 32 page will of Thomas Fortune Ryan disclosed the so The Communist movements of the and “inquiries” have been made, but Latin American countries, Wicks "0 trace of the murderer has been said, acknowledged the value of the |found, at least not for publication. Daily Worker in exposing the in-| And still the Tammany-controlled | “startling” news that the not LONDON, Nov. 30 (UP).—Prime | benevolent despot left a pair cf | Minister Stanley Baldwin has re-| shirt studs to one of his sons, Allan. plied to Representative Britten’s| Whom he left the shirt in which he proposal for an Anglo-American | died, is not disclosed. Most of the conference on naval affairs, it was | rest of his fortune of over $300,- rer workings and purposes of police continue to announce that American imperialism in these they are on the track of new “clues,” tl eputiteien: that different people connected with | With the war danger as the great- est one facing the American and world working class, and with im- per‘alist conflicts bringing this danger nearer every moment at great speed, the role of the Daily | Worker in the coming period will |be a crucial one for the entire Com- |munist movement, Rothstein’s Tammany activities are being quizzed. The entire “investi- gation,” which began so slowly and reluctantly on the part of the city |administration, is gradually falling to pieces, lagging, dying out. Roth- stein was killed in the Park Central Hotel, in a room whose inmates were known to the management, but the “law” which finds definite evi- | authoritatively learned today. The message was forwarded through Sir Esme Howard, British ambassador to the United States, who will communicate it to the state | department. Z \Uglanov Named Labor 000,000 was divided up among his family, unto the fourth generation, in true feudal fashion. The old bandit, who exploited New York traction workers, Southern to- bacco slaves, Belgian Congo Ne- groes, and Belgian workers with impartiality, wrote his will like a patriarch of old, decreeing that those of his parasitic offspring, or | their offspring for a couple of gen- _The discussion of the organiza-|dence against workers and petty |tional phases of the fifth anniver-\cases of misconduct in a few hours | Commissar of USSR} (Wireless ia Daily Worker) jerations later, who dared to ques- which defends the workers aga‘nst | sary campaign, which was still go- ing on as the paper went to press, will be outlined in detail in Mon- jday’s paper. | Workers and Peasants ‘Correspondents Open 5th Congress in USSR (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Nov. 30,— |The Sixth Congress of the Workers and Peasants Correspondents move- ment opened here today in the Red |Army House. German, French and Czechoslo- vakian delegates were present. Uli- anova opened the congress, Bucharin spoke on the tasks of the press, and Bell greeted the congress in the iname of the Communist Interna- tional. JUST LIKE CHICAGO BUENOS AIRES, Nov, 30 (UP). ~-One person was killed and one in- jured when three men entered a res- {durant in Avalleneda yesterday and opened fire at the occupants of the tobles. The shooting was believed to have been connected with the re- cent provincial elections. usually, has stopped here. | The entire case has resolved it- self into an obvious and almost un- concealed attempt on the part of Mayor Walker and the Tammany administration to cover up its own rottenness and corruption which would surely be exposed if the true facts of Rothstein’s murder were divulged. McManus, who was ar- rested and charged with the murder several days ago, is taking the case very lightly, sure that the Tammany administration will not allow him to go to the chair or ‘to the prison, ‘in view of the knowledge of Roth- stein’s graft activities which he | possesses. Yesterday, all that was done was \the postponement of what the prose- ‘eutors had promised would be a final \“showdown” on the case. Me- |Manus’s appearance before the Grand Jury was deferred for five hours, under the excuse that a new “witness” ‘had been found. Noth- ling concerning | this new witness, ‘however, was disclosed, and the case ‘was allowed to lag, as usual, for an- other day. Organize the anorganized! Or. ganize new unions in the unorgan- fzed industries: | MOSCOW, Nov. 30.—Uglanov, who until recently was secretary of the Moscow Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, has been appointed Com- missar of Labor of the Union of | Socialist Soviet Republics. tion his decisions, would lose their share of the boodle. “Unfortunate” Allan, whom papa had set up in business, offended him by marrying at a time objected to by his father, and thereby lost. his share. Mamma received no less than three portraits and one bust of the old man, among other things. RYAN ROBBED WORKERS Tobacco, Rail Labor Yielded Fortune By ART SHIELDS. (By Federated Press) | BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 30.— | That the industrial south is largely lan ‘investment colony for absentee | Wall Street financiers is again | shown in the obituary of Thomas | Fortune Ryan and the will of Payne | Whitney. Both men were powerful | figures in the great tobacco com- panies that are fighting the unions in Dixie, and Ryan was a promoter of southern railroads. Nearly $40,000,000 of Whitney's $194,324,514 gross estate was in to- bacco stocks inherited in part from) his uncle, Col. Oliver H. Payne, Standard Oil magnate. Payne help- ed Ryan and James B. Duke to or- ganize the tobacco trust. “Walk a Mile” for $11 a Week. About $12,000,000 of this Whitney tobacco money was in the R. J. Rey- nolds Company, manufacturers of Camel cigarets, which the North Carolina labor movement put on the scab list this summer, There are 12,000 Reynolds employes in Win- ston Salem, N. C. If they read the will and are good at figures they will find this one New York sports- Continued on Page Two elebrate Eleventh Anniversary of Revolution SILK WORKERS PARTY CONVENTION PORTES GIL, IN SPEECH, YIELDS TOU.S. BARONS Indicates Surrender of Ideals of the Revolution Lauds Wall St. Agent “North America Will Have No Complaint” | MEXICO CITY, Nov. 30.—Portes |G, the lawyer chosen by the Mex- ican congress for president of Mex- Jico, pending the regular constitu- tional election, made an inaugural speech this afternoon which indi- cated that his administration has | gone over still another step towards subservience to capitalist interests at home and in the United States, Although promising that he would | defend free speech and free assem- |blage, the president put. in very joauivent language the question of | continuing the work of revolution in Mexico, to which his party is pledged and from which it has shown a great tendency to shirk | back, saying: | “The administration will carry | out its interior and exterior obliga- | tions to work for the betterment of the working classes and will live | within the law in its endeavor to |further the realization of ideal, logical and economic conquest of the revolutio: Against “Advanced Ideas.” The power of labor and the mili- | tancy of the poor farmers in Mex- jico is sufficiently strong to make | it advisable for Mexican presidents |to boast of their “radicalism,” but Portes Gil managed to hedge even here. In defining his personal posi- tion in the coming campaign, Portes | Gil claimed that he had been a mem- ber of the “radical- group,” but did not believe that under the present cireumstances it would be proper to carry out the ends of the advanced jideas held by the party. Although he promised a continu- ance of the revolutionary program, and especially the enforcement of, constitution, the president signiii- cantly declared for admitiing an er- r + when oblized by ‘circums Continued on Page Five FRENCH CHAMBER lin good standing during the period | BACKS WAR PLAN “Radicals” Vote for Poincare Reaction PARIS, Nov. 30.—Poincare’s war | budget, which assigns many more | million gold francs to war prepara- tions than in last year’s budget, |which was already considerably above the war expenditures of 1913, sustained the weak and demogogic criticism of the “socialists” and lib- erals in the chamber of deputies | yesterday, and drew a large vote of confidence in Poincare imperialism and reaction, amidst the hisses and strong opposition of the Communist deputies. The voting indicated a split in the so-called radical-socialist yparty, 40 of its deputies voting for Poincare, 40 abstaining, and 40 registering a weak opposition. Painleveywar minister and mem- ber of the”“radical” party, used all his energies to defend the program of extensive war preparations, and declared that neither Locarno nor the Kellogg pact justified an inter- ruption in the construction of arma- ments, but on the contrary made more extensive war preparations necessary. The results of the session indicate that the Poincare war program will have clear sailing and that the Com- munist Party remains the only real opposition to the reaction. |Soviet, Dane, Norway \Seamen in Unity Meet at Copenhagen Dec. 5 (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 30.—A delega- tion of Soviet seamen left Moscow today to participate in a joint con- ference of seamen of the Soviet Union, Norway and Denmark. Thus another step towards inter- national workers solidarity will be inaugurated at this conference which will take place at Copen- hagen Dee. 5. Oppressor of German Workers Aids Nanking SHANGHAI, (By Mail).—Colonel Max Bauer, a former leader of Ger- man militarism, with a notorious record of suppression against the German workers, has arrived here to become military adviser to the murderous Kuomintang government. 1 tie land and labor articles of the’ ae te o-