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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
Cooperative Branch of
Bronx to Mobilize for
Final Signature Drive

In statement issued last night by
Spencer, campaign director of
Branch 6, Section of the Bronx-
known as the Cooperative House
Branch Of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party-ali Bronx Communist
campaigners and members of Sec
tons and are urged to report
at 2700 Bronx Park East for parti-
cipation in the signature drive.
The members Of Branch 6 have
already obtained 1000 Of the 1900
signatures required to put the Com
munist candidate in the Sixth As
selnbly District on the ballot. This
work is to be especially commended
in view of the fact that the Sixth
Assembly District is the largest in
the city, and many sections Of it
are very sparsely populated.
Splendid work has been done, in
the matter Of selling party plat
forms by the members of the branch.
According to report made by
Spencer. the branch has received
very little assistance from the mem
hers of Sections 2 and 3, who are
supposed to participate in the sig
nature drive in the Sixth Assembly
District. This has been largely due
to the Red Sundays these sections
have been arranging in other sec
tons of the city
In his statement Spencer declares
that unless all comrades Of the
Cooperative Branch, comrades of
other Bronx branches and those
comrades of Sections and 3, who
are supposed to report at the Co.
operative Branch, unite for one con-
certed effort, there is danger that
the Sixth Assembly District may
not be put across. This we must
not allow. The next two weeks
must finish our drive in the Sixth
Assembly District, and with the CO.
operation of all of us this can be
easily accomplished"
The Cooperative headquarters is
open every evening, with Spencer in
charge. All members are urged by
the District Campaign Committee to
cooperate with Branch in its sig
nature drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
BURKE TO leave
ON TOUR TODAY
Will Cover 10 Towns on
Trip

Preparatory to the election cam
paign tour for the Workers (Com-
munist) Party to be made by Robert
Minor, Communist candidate for U.
S. Senate and Lovett Fort-White-
man, Communist candidate for
Comptroller, which is scheduled to
start at Poughkeepsie on Sept. a,
Donald Burke, Red campaigner, to-
day begins his upstate tour, cover
ing each of the cities at which Minor
and Whiteman will later speak.
Burke's first stop will be Pough-
keepsie. at which he will speak to-
day. The rest of his itinerary in
cludes. Troy, Sept. and z; Albany,
Sept. s; Schenectady, Sept. 9 and
10; Utica, Sept. IL; Syracuse, Sept.
IL; Rochester, Sept. 10 and ID; Buff
falo, Sept. Is, 16 and II; jamestown,
Sept. 18, and Binghamton, Sept. 10.
Besides making preparations for
the Minor Whiteman tour, Burke
will hold open-air meetings on the
platform of the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party and wherever possible
will speak at factory gates at noon.
Burke is already familiar figure
in many upstate localities due to his
fine work during the Red Essex
tour, during which he and George
Pearlman accounted for putting
fourteen upstate counties on the bal
lot for the Workers Communist
Party. The expenses of the tour
will be paid by Burke himself out
of collections to be taken at the var
ious meetings, and he confidently
expects to raise sufficient funds to
considerably swell the Communist
campaign fund after paying the
costs of his tour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
Sections 2 and 3 Plan
Red Sunday in Harlem
on Sunday, Sept. 8

The members of the Red Squads
of Sections 2 and 3, in line with
their splendid work in the Bronx
and Brownsville, will mobilize for
the third time on Sunday, Sept. g.
for campaign work in Harlem.
The two Red Squads will meet at
8 a. m. next Sunday at the Harlem
headquarters, lab East 109rd St.,
and will make a gallant effort to
put across the seventeenth, eight
zenith and twenty-first assembly dis
tricts.
According to Bessie Gussakoff
and H. Bydarian, campaign man
ayers of Sections 2 and 3, special
registration is being taken at every
unit meeting of volunteers for the
Red Squads. 1t is expected by the
campaign managers that the Red
Squads which will report in Harlem
next Sunday will greatly outnumber
the squads that worked in the
Bronx and in Brownsville.
1t has been proposed by Bessie
Gussakoff that a special banner be
awarded to the Red Squads of the
two sections in recognition of their
work in the signature drive thru
out the city, and the proposal is
being looked on with favor by Re-
becca Grecht, district campaign d.
rector.
Should the work of the Red
Squads in Harlem equal that done
in the Bronx two weeks ago it is
certain that no opposition to Gus
sakoff's demand will be met.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
DAILY SUB drive
EFFORTS URGED
Agents Must Intensity
Work in All Cities

In letter distributed throughout
the country by the committee in
charge Of the Daily Worker Election
Subscription Drive, Daily Worker
agents were advised to participate
more strenuously in the big cam
paign. The letter follows in part:
"To all Daily Worker Agents:
"This is the first week of the
Election Subscription Campaign to
get ten thousand new readers for
the Daily Worker All the neces-
sary material has been sent and
should be in your hands by this time.
The success of this campaign will
depend on the amount of organiza-
ton done by our agents in the vari-
Gus districts, cities and units.
"The Daily Worker Agents should
work to fill their quotas not only
for the various prizes that are be-
ing given to the cities and district
but also as a means to build the
Party press.
"The various city agents should
sub-divide the quotas among the
units in their cities. You should
arrange to have a bundle of Daily
Workers lat the special price of So
per thousand) at all meetings and
for the purpose of getting new con-
tracts and new subscribers to the
Daily Worker. You should take
steps to organize systematic distri-
buttons in front of the large shops
and trade union meetings. Visit
the various fraternal and sympa-
thetic organizations in your city and
see that their members subscribe to
the Daily Worker"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
RED CANDIDATES
TO TALK IN BRONX
Banquet Is Scheduled
for Sunday

A Bronx Communist Campaign
Banquet at which all the local Com
munist candidates will be present,
will be held at 2075 Clinton Ave,
the Bronx, at $3.50 pm. on Sunday.
Sept. 9.
The banquet will celebrate the
placing on the ballot of the candi-
date running on the Communist tick
ct in the Fifth Assembly District of
the Bronx, and, if a final drive this
week can do the job, will also cele-
brate the putting across of the
Fourth Assembly District of the
Bronx, for which only three hundred
additional signatures are needed.
The Bronx banquet, at which elab-
crate food and musical programs
will be given, will be the first affair
of its kind to be held in the Bronx
during the present campaign, and
should be attended by all Bronx
members of the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party as well as other progress
sive workers who recognize in the
election platform of the Workers
(Communist) Party the expression
Of their own political and economic
demands.
The banquet will be filled with
militant needle trades workers who
have recently endorsed the platform
and candidates of the Workers
Community Party, since the Bronx
may be called the home of these
militant left wing needle trades
workers who have fought the reac-
tionary policies of the socialist par
ty misleaders consistently.
All of the Communist candidates
running in the Bronx will be present
at the affair. While the details Of
the musical and other entertainment
to be provided have not yet been d.
vulged, the banquet will be an affair
long to be remembered in the minds
of those workers who will be pres
ent, according to Jacob Yakovleff
organizer of Section 5, the Bronx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
Banquet of Progressive
Delicatessen Clerks in
Red Campaign Friday

The progressive group of Local
500, Delicatessen Countermen's
Union, will have banquet and con-
cert this Friday, Sept. 7, at the
United Workers Cooperative Res
taurant at 2731 White Plains Ave-,
the Bronx, for the benefit of the
election campaign of the Workers
(Communist) Party. The banquet is
scheduled to begin at p. m.
The banquet will be one of many
courses and fine musical program
has been arranged. Owing to the
fullness of the program, only two
speeches will be made, Rebecca
Grecht, district campaign manager,
will speak on the importance of the
1928 elections to workers and link
up the splendid fight of the progress
sive delicatessen clerks in ousting
the right wing leaders from the
union with the political fight of the
workers, and P. Yuditch, labor edi-
tor of the Freiheit, Jewish Commun-
list daily, will review the struggles
of the militant, left wing members
of the union against the reaction
airy officials of the United Hebrew
Trades Council, with which the
union is affiliated.
The workers who have arranged
this banquet in support of the candi-
dates of the Workers (Communist)
Party have made a reputation for
themselves by the spirit with which
they combatted all right wing lead
ership in their union. AS delegates
to the United Hebrew Trades meet
ings, several of these workers have
taken the floor in opposition to the
concerted reactionary forces mar
shalled by the corrupt leaders and
have often run gauntlet of blows
after their militant speeches. Ac-
cording to I. HimmeIfarb, one of the
leaders of the progressive group,
this group is extending it's influ-
ence widely thruout the union with
fine results in drawing the mem
bership away from the misleaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
S15,OOO,OOO IN
HUSH MONEY A
YEAR IN N. Y. C.
Higher Ups Involved
in Graft Ring

That the police force of New York
Is putrid with craft and corruption
and definitely linked with the rum
ring and graft-ridden police force
Of PHILADELPHIA, whose S10,000,000
graft activities were exposed two
days ago, was yesterday revealed
IN a statement issued by former
Mayor Hylan of New York,
Hylan, whose own city admins
tration was shown several times to
be a hotbed of corruption, speaks
authoritatively on the graft situa-
ton, admitting that he was himself
offered a bride to particinate in the
graft activities. This offer, the ex-
mayor vows. he declined to accept
Situation Bad.
"The situation in this city as re-
CARDS official countenancing and
aiding, directly or indirectly. all
sorts of illeeality, including boot
logging. gambling and other vice. is
extremely bad" Hylan said, "And
it is going from bad to worse, aided
by the unwillingness or inability of
the local authorities to check it."
Hylan's statement charged that
the rum-ring Of PHILADELPHIA. which
had been able in single year to
deposit graft profits to the extent
of S10.000,0o0 in the banks, was
definitely connected with the New
York police force and city adminis-
tration, reaching out to several high
officials Of New York City.
Protection graft given to the New
York police force by speakeasies and
other Illegal businesses in New York
has reached total of almost S15,-
100000 annually, it is charged. In
this matter. the entire force is i'm
plicated, led by the highest police
officials, who lead the entire force
in corruption and graft.
Recent disclosures of graft among
the members of the narcotic squad
of the New York police department,
the ex-mayor interpreted as a sure
indication of graft higher-up and an
attempt to cover up existing rotten
ness among the higher officials of
the department.
Speaks From Experience.
"You can make up your mind
pretty quickly" said the former
mayor, under whose administration
the graft and corruption at the hack
licence bureau on West 57th st. I'M
der Commissioner brennan was
shown up in the winter of 1924-25,
shat when cops are getting razzed,
there's something to be hidden
among the higher-ups. When lit
tie man is broken particularly
when there's a lot of public cere-
mony about the process, you can be
sure that neck a whole lot more
important than his is being saved"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
Big SECTION |
MEET SATURDAY
Banner Ceremonies to
Be On Program

The ceremonial BANQUET which will
"cccmparv the awarding of the first
District 2 Election Campaign Ban
ner will be held at the headnuarters
Mt the Downtown Workers Club, IS
E. Pnd St. this Saturday at 8 p.m.
The banner will be awarded to the
members of Section / in recognition
of the good work of members of that
section in nptting across the first
assembly district in the citv.-the
Eighth Assembly District of Man
haitian.
For the occa sion. 35 f. End ST
will be fsstively decorated and a
BANQUET viii be given by the Section
Campaign COMMITTEE. of which A.
Gussakoff District Literature Ag-
emit. is in charge during the absence
of s. Milgrom. An unusually fine
musical nrogram has been arranged,
to be followed and preceded by re-
freshments IF substantial nature.
A nominal CHARGE Of fifty cents is
being made for admission. to defray
the cost of the music and food. The
BANQUET is not restricted to members
Of Section l. All members of the
Workers (Communistl Party and
progressive workers throughout the
city are invited to attend. Should
the attendance he large enough. the
receipts above the cost of the ban
quet will be given to the Communist
campaign fund.
The work of members of Section l
has been charac' arized by splen-
did attention to the propaganda
work which accompanied the secur-
ing of signatures to put the candi-
dates of the Workers (Communist)
Party on the ballet. According to
the report of the Section Campaign
Director, party platforms and other
literature were sold to fullv half of
the workers who attached their sig
natures to the petitions
A special effort is being made by
the Communist campaigners of the
downtown section to complete the
Sixth Assembly District by the time
the banquet will be held, thus MAX
ing the occasion a doubly festive
one.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
PLAN BIG FRENCH
TEXTILE STRIKE
Delay Date to Make
Walk-out General

PARIS, Sept. 4.-Due to the SYM
pathetic interest shown by non
union textile workers and even by
the rank and file of the reformist
unions toward the strike action pro-
posed by the revolutionary textile
unions, the latter have announced
a postponement of the general
strike call from September 2still the
23rd, in order to mobilize all the
mill workers for a big general
struggle.
The original demand put forward
by the left wing organizations, a
wage increase for women textile
operatives, met with such unanimous
approval that the militant unions
decided to rally the membership of
right wing unions as we'll as the
non-union workers around larger
list of demands, before the strike
is put into effect.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
|. |. D. APPEALS
TO W0RKERSFOR
MORE SUPPORT
Urges Branches to In
tensify Work

With the conclusion Of the sum-
mer season, the New York Section
of the international Labor Defense.
79s Broadway, is planning to inten-
sify the activities of all its branches.
An appeal, signed by Rose Baron,
secretary of the New York Section.
has been issued to the branches and
to all class-conscious workers. urg-
ing more active cooperation and aid
in order that the l. L. D. may be
able to continue its work. The ap-
peal states:
"The summer months, always diff
ficult months financially for the In
ternational Labor Defense, have this
year been unusually hard upon us.
Our annual outing, which is usually
a source of considerable income, fell
far below expectations because Of
postponement and rain, Throughout
the summer money was constantly
being paid out to defray the ex-
penses of the many cases that we
handled, while very little was COM
ing in.
Without Funds.
"Thus the |. l.. d. now finds itself
actually without sufficient funds to
go on with the defense of workers
under attack by the capitalist courts.
But this work will not and must not
stop. The only weapon which the
workers have in their fight against
the frame-up and the other devices
of the boss courts-the International
Labor Defense-must not be crush
ed because of lack of support.
1.-THE |. l.. D. appeals to all
branches to intensity their work i'm
mediately, to start membership cam
paigns, to arrange affairs of various
sorts and to do everything possible
to enable the local office to continue
its indispensable work in behalf of
workers caught in the legal machin-
cry of the capitalist courts.
Autumn Revel.
"The |. l.. ID. also appeals TO all
conscious workers to join in
this work by becoming members of
the International Labor Defense and
supporting it to the utmost.
"All branches and all workers
should also make preparations for
our Autumn Revel, which will be
held Saturday, Oct. 27, in Webster
Hall. 119 E. 18th st. Branches and
other workingclass organizations are
requested not to arrange affairs for
this date"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
MILL STRIKERS
WIFE COMES TO
The BIC CITY,
Shaved 22 Years in
Textile Mills

After twenty-five years in the
gray textile mills of New Bedford,
thin, undernourished little strik-
er's wife, Mrs. Stella Correia, left
her husband and three little chill
dren and came to New York yester-
day to help raise funds for the
fighting, hungry New Bedford strik-'
ers. This is her first time in this
city. AS Fred Biedenkapp, national
secretary of the Workers Interna-
tional Relief, brought her from the
Grand Central station, the noise and
hustle of the traffic and the gilt
tering shop windows on Fifth Ave-
nue. left her a little breathless.
How is it possible" she asked,
chat while our people are working
for starvation wages in New Bed
ford that there is so much wealth
in New York;"
Mrs. Correia will attend union
meetings for the purpose of raising
funds for the textile strikers and
on Saturday, September Is, at 1
p. M, she will address the Work
ers' International Relief Conference
at Irving Plaza Hall.
At the offices of the Workers In
ternational Relief, l Union Square,
Mrs. Correia told a pitiable tale of
hunger and suffering among the
textile workers of New Bedford and
Fall River. She also told of how
she and her children have taken part
in all mass picketing demonstIa-
tions and how on several occasions
she and her oldest girl, Mary, were
arrested and brutality manhandled
by the New Bedford police. Her
youngest child, Charlie, she said, is
chronic victim of pleurisy, con-
tracted during winter when the
family could not afford coal.
When hers husband and herself
are at work they both make $21.45
for a full weeks work, Mrs. Correia
said. The children are left with
neighbors and have to shift for
themselves as best they can.
when are you going back to
work." reporter asked.
Mrs. Correia stiffened and
snapped. back; when we win the
strike"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
To Protest Porter
failing at Meet in
Milwaukee Sept. 16

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Sept. A.
International Youth Day will be
celebrated in Milwaukee with a
mass meeting protesting against the
vicious sentence melted out to John
Porter, young textile strike leader,
who has been condemned to two
and a half years at hard labor by
the federal military authorities.
The meeting will be held on the
evening of Sept. 16 at Liberty Hall,
Eighth and Walnut Sts., under the
auspices of the Young Workers
League. Minnie Lurie, member of
the District Executive Committee OF
District of the League, will be the
chief speaker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
Workers of Panama
Score Democratic
Anti-Alien Plank

PANAMA, Sept. 1.-The General
Syndicate of Workers of Panama
has sent letter to the Daily
Worker protesting against the reso-
luton Incorporated in the democratic
platform providing that only Amer
lean citizens be employed in posi-
tons in the Canal zone above the
rank of messenger. The resolution
was proposed by Canal zone demo-
Gratis and is regarded as part of the
campaign against foreign-born
workers, especially those of radical
sympathies, in the Canal zone.
The letter is signed by Charles R.
Mendoza, executive secretary, and
Jorge R. Brouwer, Jr., foreign sec
rotary of the General Syndicate of
Workers of Panama.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
Cal to Return to
"LabOrs" Next Week

SUPERIOR, Wis, Sept. (UP).
President Coolidge will leave the
summer White House for Washing
ton the first of next week, it was
announced at the executive offices
today.
While the exact date was not
given out, it was learned on good
authority that the president will be
IN Washington not later than the
middle of the week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
New Job for Hughes?

GENEVA, Sept. (UP).-The
assembly of the League of Nations
will elect a successor to John Bas-
sett Moore as judge of the world
court Saturday, Herluf able, presi-
dent of the assembly, announced to-
day. The election of Charles Evans
Hughes was regarded as certain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
French FLYERS Forced
Down in Morocco Town

LIE BOURGET FIELD. France,
Sept. (UP).-The Yellow Bird
landed at Casa Blanca, Morocco, at
4.40 p. m. today, it was announced
here this evening.
The plane, in which Sergeants
Jean Assolant and Rene LeFevre
started a long distance flight at
7.05 o'clock this morning, was forced
down by leaky oil pipe, a message
said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
Graft Expert Says Police Department Linked With Pla Graft Ring
Painter Has Narrow Escape in Fall

Manuel N artin
had a narroW escape
yesterday tOhsn he
fell from a scaffoId
at 245 Degra1O ST.,
B r 90 k I'm, and
dropped three storys
to the ground. He
suffered bruises on
IN. Falls from scat
folds are frequent
occurrences among
painters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
Kroger Grocery Trust
Swallows Competitor

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. a
(UP).-Announcement was made
today by the Kroger Grocery and
Baking Co. of the purchase of the
Eagle chain Of 115 stores in Pitts
burgh which have been owned and
operated since 1922 by Benjamin
CHAT, Joseph Goldstein, Joseph
Porter and Meyer Weinberg.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
TO PICK GALES
SUCCESSOR SOON
Provisional President
to Serve One Year

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 4 (UP).-
Congress is expected to select a
provisional president to succeed
President Gales in two or three
weeks, instead of waiting until No
vember, as originally planned.
1t was indicated today that the
provisional president would serve
for one year, when an election would
be held.
Among those prominently men
toned as possibilities for the office
are War Minister Joaquin Amro,
General Jose Gonzalez Escobar Gov
ernor Manuel Perez Trevinc and
Minister Of the Interior Emilio
Portes Gil.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
SYDNEY POSTAL STRIKE.

The secretary of the Amalgamated
Postal Workers Union (Mr. f. F.
Murnane) stated that the mail
branch at the General Post Office,
Sydney, was seething with discon-
tent, and that apparently the present
superintendent Of mails was not in
clined to give consideration to Union
representation on behalf of the EN-
ployes affected
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
SEARCH HERRICK FOR LIQUOR

Myron I. Herrick, United States
Ambassador to France and James j.
Davis, Secretary Of Labor, were
among the TIA passengers of the
SIS. lie De France, who were
searched by customs officials for
liquor, when the liner locked here
late today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
FIRE MORE MIN ERS

LONDON (By MaiD Eight hun
bred men and boys are to receive
notice today at New Blidworth
tNotts). The pit was sunk only
two years ago. Depression in the
industry is the reason given Cor the
notices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
WORKERS WAGES ADVANCE

CHATTANOOGA, Sept. 4.
Wages are advanced and better work
conditions secured under a new con-
tract signed by employers of Elec-
trical Workers No. ITS here.