The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 7, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS Sor a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Weck For a Labor Party BLAST IN HARLEM “FORWARD” AND GANG my aan? UJ, §, FLEET READY TO INTE FACTORY KILLS 3 ARE EXPOSED; PROVED | AND INJURES 12 FQRGERS, STOOLPIGEONS Workers Mangled in Debris; Gas Fumes Hinder Rescue Faulty Motor Blamed Plant Was “Hell Hole,” Neighbors Charge Three were killed and ten others injured when an explosion in the Kill - All Disinfecting Company wrecked the one-story building at 422 W. 108th St., and the two ad- joining buildings shortly after 12:30 yesterday. One of the adjoining building was occupied by the Acme Furring Company, and the other by a junk shop. The force of the explosion was so great that the blast was heard and felt throughout the entire upper east side vicinity, between 3rd Ave. and the East River, near which the wrecked buildings were situated. Passersby and other workers on the street were thrown to their feet when the explosion occurred, and the win- dows of buildings for two blocks around were shatterer Only one of the dead had been identified late last night. Rescue squads and firemen were then searching the ruins in the eastern corner of the demolished building for the bodies of three workers, be- lieved to be buried under the debris. Of the dead, Harry Freeman, the owner of the Kill-All Disinfecting Company was the only one who had been identified. The bodies of two workers, badly mangled, were still awaiting identification. Among the injured were: Louis Greco, 29, of 330 E. 144th St., removed to the Harlem Hos- pital. Skull fractured. Albert Humphrey, 50, of 1890 Prospect Ave., the Bronx, taken to the Beth David Hospital. Head , injuries. j Lewis Zorado, 70, of 403 E./ 104th St., taken to City Hospital with fractured hip. Louis Larman, 50, was taken to his home at 23 E. 109th St., after being treated for shock. Joseph Arabella, 48, taken home at 662 Fulton St., Brooklyn, treated for severe shock. John Ruocco, 56, of 341 E. 121st St., taken into Mt. Sinai Hospital with internal injuries, the serious- ness of which were not completely determined. Frank Ruocco, his son, 21, of same address, taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital, internal injuries. Louis Bolado, fractured skull, taken to Reception Hospital. The explosion was caused, work- ers in the vi ity said, by sparks from a faulty motor on the top of a bc ‘ler in which the chemicals were mixed. This was verified after pa: of the debris had been cleared away, when it wes seen thet the top of this foiler had been eatirely blown ort, NO FARM RELIEF UP IN CONGRESS Cal’s Sec’y of Interior Sickens Senators WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. — The House of Representatives commit- tee on agriculture today announced that it h: " failed to adopt a program on farm relief for this session of congress. Chairman Haugen states that “very grave doubt as to the possibility of an adequate bill being passed this season was expressed by members of the committee.” This is in line with the recognized unwillingness of congressmen in this session to go on record for what must be, under the circumstances that the capitalist system will be maintained by. congress, a_ useless and fraudulent “farm relief” statute. This short session takes the easiest way out, and refuses to discuss farm relief at all, under the convenient excuse that it would not be fair to the new administration. An attempt to swing the Arizona real estate and power interests in line behind the Boulder Dam_ bill was made today when Senator Hay- den introduced an amendment to change the allocation of water among the lowers basin states to provide the following annual limits: California, 4,200,000 acre feet, Ne- vada, 300,000 acre feet, and Arizona 8,000,000 acre feet. The amendment also would pro- vide that work may not start on the Boulder Dam ‘project until all Interested states have ratified the Colorado River compact. The National Miners Union, through the latest issue of its or- gan, “The Coal Digger,” lays bare one of the most flagrant forgeries ever concocted against the working class in their struggle against the bosses and their betrayers. In exposing this forgery to the world, the left wing Miners Union brands the socialist party and its traitorous sheet, the Jewish Daily Forward, as doing business. with, and being a. part of, the agents- provocateur and forgery rings who ‘OROAN OF THE wile =— “SAVE THE UNION of the Ualtod ing Workers Pie oe ap eget the Jewish unions were proving im- potent to stop the left wing unions from growing. Of no avail also were the high-priced lawyers the Forward paid to defend arrested sluggers. In their great frenzy, the Room 405—526 Federal Street, Sw -* —TaE— { | i A National Agreement A National Labor Party , Oren fad ‘the Unorganized eal “SAVE THE UNION COMMITTEE” = of the United Mine Workers of Anterica | | credit on the left wing movement. They hoped to show that the left |wing in the United Mine Workers Union were getting aid from spies in their fight against John L. Lewis and his sell-out gang. Detective’s Letter. The forgery is reprinted not only COAL DIGGER ig Kaul less Shes 2 anes lig Meg LOL 0, ben DS. Ancl one Cost Wet fetprenten COAL DIGGER ORGAN OF THR wing movement, nationally and in- ternationally. Cheap Forgery. The socialist party and the “For- |ward,” rich paymaster of the under- world hirelings used to terrorize | needle trades workers, are also, how- ever, exposed as desperate with fear at the turning tide, as the |needle trades workers here rally in |greater numbers daily behind the | left wing unions. | The Forward, thereforg came to| the realization that the hundreds of slander the CG ist id left “ommunist and "thugs it hired for its henchmen in| ‘e ae THE ? Ld COMMITTEE” of hearin Basa 2.-1928 Wonk ei ct ta Fil socialist leaders, seeing themselves | impotent while the left wing unions grew, despite the hordes of gang-| sters hired by the Forward, have turned to manufacturing a cheap —@ forgery as a means of throwing dis- | Pittsborgh, Penasyivania Lewis Must Got No Wage Cuts Mo Arbitration No Beckwerd ep Organize the Women’ Organize the Youth ‘4-Hlovr Day—S Day Work by the “New Leader,” the socialist | weekly odor, but by the reactionary sheet, the “Illinois Miner.” Another boss paper, this time the Chicago Lithuanian Daily Naujienos, also | splashes the product of the socialist forgery factory all over its front Continued on Page Two Bedacht to Speak on S. P. at Forum Sunday “The Socialist Party Today,” will be the subject of the lecture at the Workers School Forum, 26-28 Union §q., 5th floor, this Sunday evening, at 8 o'clock, Max Bedacht, national agitprop director of the Workers (Communist) Party, and author of the pamphlet “The Menace of Op- portunism” will be the speaker. The important changes that have taken place in the socialist party since the outbreak of the World War, with special emphasis upon the re- cent and current develop:nents with- in the socialist party will be dis- cussed, together with the many other aspects that have made it a com- pletely bourgeois party. The lec- turer will point out the need of a sharper fight against the socialist party in this country as well as in New Masses Ball at Webster Hall Tonight The much-heralded annual New Masses Ball takes place tonight at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St. That the affair will be an unpre- cedented success is evidenced by the |fact that the advance sale of tick- ets is the heaviest in years, Natalie Gomez, business manager of the | | magazine, said yesterday. dore Dreiser, Moissaye Olgin, Me- | lach Epstein, Michael Gold, Floyd | Dell, H. M, Wicks, Ben Gold, S.| Zimmerman, Rose Baron, William Gropper, M. Hass, Em Jo Passhe, A. B. Magil, Louis Lozowick and the other countries of the world. others, Two Chilean delegates to the Wall Street summoned “International Conference of Arbitration and Con- ciliation,” Manuel Foster and An- tonio Planet, were welcomed by Yankee imperialists Wednes@ay at the Bankers’ Club of New York and honored with a banquet as a sort of bait on the imperialist hook. The list of ixaperialists attending | Hayden insisted also that certain Continued on Page Five , is &n_ illuminating example of | Yankee interests engaged in expicit- | LOOKING FOR LACKEY Banquet a Bait for Possible Satraps | | i} | | | ing both the workers of the United | States and of Latin America. Mr. | Cornelius F, Kelley, president of the Anaconda Copper Company, was the chairman of the meeting. . Others present were, in part: Fu- gene Grace, of the Bethlehem Steel Company; J. H. Senior and M. A. Oudin, of the General Electric Com- | pany; J. H. Senior, of Standard Oil; | H. McR. Jones, of the Westinghouse | Continued on Page Twe f Ay | ‘near julary rushed upon the speakers’ | |with them that the meeting was |a troop of mounted police, ambushed | | nearby, charged full into the meet- and swinging their clubs right and |Dominic Mangini, Frank Maskal |nas, Dominic Lareface, Joe Lorrie, |Steve Kurepa, Raymond Sienna, Joe | Ptasienski, Joe Bracco, Peter Mor- | OF 21 MINERS DECEMBER 137 Charging Into Sacco- Vanzetti Meeting Accuse Miners of Riot First Call It Murder; One Trooper Killed PITTSBURGH, Pa. Dec. 6— | Twenty-one miners will go on trial in the Cheswick case, Dec. 13, charged with rioting and incitement to riot. The International Labor | Defense is defending these men. The Cheswick case grew out of one of the most brutal episodes in the history of Pennsylvania’s noto- rious “state constabulary,” more fa- miliarly known as “The Cossacks.” On August 22, a mass meeting of 5,000 coal miners and members of | their families gathered on a farm} Cheswick, Pa., to protest | against the murder of Sacco and | Vanzetti, who were going to the electric chair that night. Among the speakers at the meeting was Anthony Minerich, now scheduled for preliminary examination next Friday on a framed-up dynamiting charge at Pittston, Pa. Ride Down Miners. Hardly had the meting started | when officers of the state constab- platform and forbade the meeting. The chairman and speakers argued perfectly legal and, apparently sat- isfied, the police withdrew. Immediately thereafter, however, ing, riding over men, women and children, hurling tear gas bombs | left. They also menaced the crowd with their revolvers and fired an occasional shot. “ Trooper Killed. Indescribable confusion resulted, and when the crowd broke up the police chased and clubbed the min- ers across the field and onto the road, But during the shooting one state policeman, one of the most eager to club and ride down min- ers, was discovered lying on the field, shot dead by someone un- known. Twenty-one prominent miners were arrested and charged with murder. The charge was afterwards changed to rioting and incitement to riot, ete, It is on this charge, more than a year after their arrest, that they are to go on trial. Following are the names and ad- dresses of the workers arrested in the Cheswick affair: Mike Marakovich, Pete Mangini, reti, C. P. Liberator, James Mer- curi, Ercole Morretti, Tony De Ber- nardeni, Joe Paloni, Dominic Pa- loni, Emideio Gaspari, John Barna- bei, Nazzano Feretti, Ilano Mar- cure, RUSE TO JAIL MILL LEADERS City Elections Shows Gains for Reds | NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1928 ok Case of State Police 2 ‘United States Navy Perfecting War snc nage for Wall Str PTION RATES: Im New York, by mall, $8.00 per year ide New York, by mail, 86.00 per year. eet 4 \ \ The U.S. S. Defender, the latest in submarine war machines, receiving its finishing touches before it mounts its guns and begins testing its war efficiency off Bridgeport, Conn. The Defender is equipped with special salvage devices which will permit it to submerge and carry on rescue or salvage work on a submarine or warship struck by a torpedo. There are other features, which will make it a formidable war craft, but which are being kept secret by the Navy Department for fear some other im- perialist power wi!! discover these innovations. __ Admits Ce LINK POINCARE TO HUGE GRAFT Thousands Suffer Big Stock Swindle PARIS, Dec. 6 (UP).--Premier Poincare has written to Deputy Chastenet asking him to be more \explicit in his charges that high of- |ficials of the government were in- volved in the financial .. scandal |caused by the collapse of the news- |paper Gazette Du Franc and its | stock-selling schemes. Chastenet announced that he | would interpellate the government jon the matter next Tuesday. Meanwhile police continued their investigation of the Gazette’s af- fairs. Mme. Marthe Hanau, direc- tor of the Gazette, and her former husband, Lazare Bloch, still were being questioned. Police believe iosses running into millions have been sustained by thousands of per- sons in all walks of life through France, PROTEST BALBO ARRIVAL IN U.S Anti-Fascists to Hold Mass Meet Sunday To protest the presence of one cf the chiefs of the fascist gang- sters, Italo Balbo, who will arrive here today as a delegate to the In- \ternational Aeronautical. Confer- ence in Washington from the Ital- ian Aerial Association, the Anti- Fascist Alliance of America will \hold a mass protest meeting at the | People’s House, 7 East 15th St., on | Sunday, Dec. 9, at 2 p. m. Balbo is noted as one of the fore- most of Mussolini’s gangsters and |murderers. He is guilty of the as- |sassination of Don Minzoni, ‘vevolutionary Italian worker. It in (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 6. —TIn an attempt to lay hands on six more of the textile strike leaders against whom a frame-up for “con- spiracy” is being prepared by the mill barons and their police and judge agents, the authorities here Bedford and thereby face arrest on the conspiracy charge. Thenty-five leaders of the big textile strike here are facing this charge, 15 of whom have already been arrested. The oer ten are out of town. } These six workers, officers of the | National Textile Workers Union and, sympathizers are: Ellen Dawson, | Elsie Pultur, Nathan Kay, Eliza-| beth Donneley, Jackson W. Wales) and Joseph M. Cabral. They are now out on bail on an appeal against their conviction and jail sen- tence for picketing during the strike. These appeals were not scheduled to come up till quite a later period, but District Attorney Crossley, eagerly at the service of Continued on Page Five | The program at the Sth Annf- versnry Celebration of the Dally Worker at Manhatinn Opern House consists of the Inndora Duncan | Dancers of Moscow U. S. 8. R. in a xpecial program of Revolution- ary Dances. Symphony Orchestra. Sronkers, Ticketh #14 $1.50, 82, #250 now on wale at Daily Work- er office. All seats reserved. was he who knifed the young An- tonio Zamboni, who was alleged to have attempted to kill Mussolini. He is the leader of the gangsters of fascism. The his presence in America | Anti-Fascist Alliance calls an insult Many prominent gee artists ‘yesterday ordered bail forfeited on and a challenge and urges all anti- and workers’ representatives will be another case, so that the workers fascists to do their duty by making present, among whom will be Then- Will be compelled to appear in New their protest felt. The chairman of. the.mass_pro- test meeting will be T. De Fazio; speakers, Francesco Coco, Felice Guadagni, Pietro Allegra, Carlo Tresca, Enrico Montuori, Guido Serio. Peruvian Workers Die in Mines During Flood LIMA, Peru, Dec, 6 (U,R).—The ministry of public works announced tonight that a small lake near Morococha, in the Department of Junin, had broken through and in- undated four mines in Which 60 la- borers were working. Probably all of the men were lost, officials said. SHIP SINKS, CREW SAVED (By United Press) The tug Haggerty, owned by a lowing company, sank in the East River near Rike1’s Island yesterday, of the sentence passed in the first “if England and France only want The crew of court is an open letter which Marty to, they after an explosion, five was saved. Captain Coll, Legionnaire, ntralians Framed pm | OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec. 6.—The fight for the release of Eugene Bar- nett, one of the eight men falsely convicted of second degree murder as @ result of a raid by American} Legionnaires on their union hall in| Centralia, Wash., has secured fav- orable action ftom the Washington state pardons board, and since the Barnett case is part of the whole |frame-up hopes are held out that more energetic campaigns by the International Labor Defense and the Centralia Publicity Committee will force release for the others. Captain E. P. Coll of Hoquiam, Wash., himself a member of the | American Legion, has given new ; impetus to the nation-wide fight to free the men by writing an open letter to his fellow legionnaires in which. he defends the action of the I. W. W., in protecting its hall dur- ing the Armistice Day raid. Captain Coll’s letter, which has | proved such a bombshell, states in | part: “The I. W. W. in Centralia, Washington, who fired upon the raen that were attempting to raid the I. W. W. headquarters were fully justified’ in their act. As in the famous Dreyfus case in France, so in the state of Washington, a great wrong has been done and the | innocent party has suffered. Yet, the day is coming when the prison doors will also open to liberate the |innocent Walla Walla prisoners. Yes, and as a Legionnaire I wish to prevent the ‘Shrine of the Amer- ican Legion’ from becoming the |shame of the American Legion, for |a day of justice will yet dawn when the memorial statue on the pedestal in that city park of Centralia will assume the appearance of the torn, battered and mutilated Wesley, Everest, and beneath that statue will beinscribed the terrible indict- ment—'Mobbed and lynched for upholding his Constitutional Rights’.” Look This Way! Have you your ticket for the Daily Worker-Freiheit first Soviet ball at Madison the | Square Garden, Saturday night, Dec. 15? If not, get | it at once. It will be the most color- | ful, jolliest and most vivid proletarian event in many years. Tell your shop mates and friends about it now. Beest the only genuine labor press and assure your- self of a happy time with | your comrades. All roads lead to the first. Daily Worker-Freiheit Soviet Costume Ball! iret by a military court of inquiry PLEDGE AID TO FRUIT STRIKERS. U. S. Anti-Imperialists » Cable to Colombia , Active support in the fight against Yankee imperialism, which is preparing to make a new on- slaught on the Latin-American workers by landing forces to oppress the strike of the 32,000 plantation workers in Colombia, was pledged in a cable sent yesterday by the American Anti-Imperialist League | to the Colombia section of the All- American Anti-Imperialist League. The cable follows: “Colombia Section, All-America Anti-Imperialist League, Bogota, Colombia: “American imperialism is pre- paring to land military forces to protect United Fruit Co. interests in Colombia if the Colombia lack- eys ofg Wall St. are unable to break the strike of workers and peasants, United Fruit Co. inter- ests in Latin America, amounting | to hundreds of millions of dollars, } are trying to crush the militant movement of Colombia workers and peasants. United States see- tion of All-Am A mperial- | ist League is with you in your struggle and calls upon the Col- ombian section of the League*to fight such intervention and pre- vent repetition of the Nicaragua invasion. “Signed: Paul Crouch, secretary; Albert Moreau, director of Latin- American section.” HIBBEN, FRIEND OF USSR, DEAD Active in Many Left | Wing Organizations The death of Capt. Paxton Hib- | ben, member of the National Execu- ;tive Committee of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, from pneu- monia on Wednesday night re- moved from the field of activity a strong supporter of the Communist and left wing movements. Hibben died at St. Vincent’s Hos- | pital on his 48th birthday. Tho born of a bourgeois family and trained in the service of the bour geoisie both on the military and diplomatic fields, Hibben, after a visit to the Soviet Union, devoted himself to the campaign for recog- nition of the workers’ and peasants’ government. The publication in 1922 in the New York Times of a picture show- ing him in full military attire in Moscow, placing a wreath on the grave of John Reed, who was his lifelong friend, led to Hibben being Continued on Page Five Marty _ Jailed for (Red Aid Press Service) PARIS, (By Mail)—Before the court of appeals there recently ap- |peared André Marty, who had been |sentenced in April to four years’ | prison because of “rousing the mili- tary to revolt” and “inciting to mur- der with anarchistie spirit.” The basis of the accusation and sent in July of last year to Mar-! EO tt aaa, CALLS BLUFF OF FOCH Correcting Jingoist | shall Foch, Foch a few days before had given an interview to a report- ev of the English weekly ncwspa- per, Referee, a Mr. Heathcote, in which he said, in regards to the in- tervention of the French fleet in the Black Sea in 1919, “I then want- ed to clean out the Bolsheviki, but I was not permitted to do so’; and, ean do it even today.” Continued on Page Two FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents RVENE , IN COLOMBIA PLANTATION STRIKE is RAIL WALKOUT IN FRUIT AREA Government Declares State of Siege in Madgalena Strikers Seize Towns Report 32,000 Workers Directly Involved BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 6. —Hundreds of railroad work- ers in Magdalena province have joined the strike of the 30,000 plantation workers against the United Fruit Com- pany and have refused to transport government forces or- dered to the area in an effort to quell the walkou With the strike steadi gaining in strength and with k in the feudal estates of the United Fruit we Company brought to a standstill, preparations are being made by ne United States squadron sta- tioned. at the Canal Zone to cruise south to Colombian waters. Orders for such a move are believed to have been sent by Commander Collins in charge of the squadron by the state department which finds this new heroic struggle of Latin American workers against Ameri- can imperialist inter ecidedly embarrassing to Hoove tour. Martial Law. Called upon by the United Fruit Company to suppress the strike which threatened the company prop- erty, President Miguel Abadia M dez declared martial law in the de- partment of Magdalena, which a tion was approved by the cab‘net today. The president’s message follows: “4 strike of laborers in the banana region cf Santia Maria has prolonged itself and the government has seen it convenient to declare Continued on Page Five BUILD LOCAL OF SILK WORKERS Plan Member Drive, Relief Campaign (Special to the Daily Wo , N. J., Dec, 6.—Beg ginning tomorrow, Friday night, the Silk Workers Local, Pat- erson, of the National Textile Workers’ Union inaugurat a plan of activity aiming at building a strong silk ,workers’ union in this city. A membership meeting, called on the basis of representatives from the various shops, will r. xct tomor- y night to make out of: ap- tions to membe in the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union and to discuss and act upon the question of their relationship with the parent union body and their role as a lees& of that union. Weishord to Speat Albert Weisbord, national secre- treasurer of the N. T. W., will speak at the meeting on the strue- ture of the National Union and the relation of the local unions to it. Lena Chernenko, local organizer, will then open a discussion on the local problems of the Paterson union and how to adapt it to the national union structure. Phe reasons for such a discussion becomes clear when it is remember- ed that the N. T. W. builds its local units on individual mills, while the silk plants in Paterson vary, in the number employed in one shop, from Continued on Page Two Wolfe to Lecture on Trotskyism at Forum in Harlem Tonight The “arlem Forum, located at 143 E. 1°°+d St., 1 open its sea- sen + ‘ght at 8 o'clock with Ber- tram D. Wolfe speaking on “Amer-" ican Varieties of Trotskyism.” ve direc:or of the V’orl.crs tfe is th2 d ool and editor of “The Commu- nist” and Las written the book “The T tsky Crpos‘.ton, Its Sign’ ticance for the American Worker: In his lezture Wolfe will analyze t' > ideolo> of Trotskyism and will cypose its American exponents such — ‘as Ly-e, Exstman and the latest ad-_ ditidn to the Trotsky ranks, Cannon,