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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15
HARLEM CHEERS
RED CAMP AICN
Over 1000 Workers at
Huge Red Night

Last Friday night Harlem rang
with the revolutionary doctrines
which form the platform Of the
Workers (Communist) Party in the
election campaign.
Beginning precisely at 8 p. m. at
eight different corners in the work
ing class districts of Harlem, the
Workers (Commupist) Party Red
platforms were erected and Com
munist campaigners expounded the
platform of the class struggle to the
quickly gathering crowds of work.
ers. At 10 p. m. these meetings
we're adjourned and the speakers,
taking. with them a great number
Of the workers who had for two
hours been listening to them, accom-
panied by two Red trucks and many
banners and slogans, marched to
10th st. and Fifth Ave-, to partici-
pate in the huge wind-up meeting.
Over 1000 Attend.
The mass attendance, estimated to
have been we'll over a thousand,
the many militant slogans held aloft
on sticks, and the spontaneous en-
thusiasnl of the workers in the audi
ence, gave the meeting more the as
pect of a demonstration. Speaker
after speaker was greeted enthusi-
astically by the crowd. Denuncia-
tions of the socialist party's labor
treachery we're cheered. Hoover
ard Smith were fully exposed as
the tools of Big Business. The
class struggle platform Of the
Workers (Communist) Party was
cxpcunded by the Red campaigners.
Many Give Talks.
The speakers at the wind-up
meeting were Nat Kaplan and ST
Rady of the Young Workers Com
munist) League; Joe Cohen, A. Mar
lloff, Rebecca Grecht and Alexander,
Negro worker. "A. L. Fishman, of
the Harlem section of the Workers
(Communist) Party, presided. A
collection of over $50 was taken by
Rebecca Grecht, state campaign
manager of the Red campaign.
At II o'clock the meeting adj
iourned, and huge torchlight pa
1ade formed and marched to the
Harlem headquarters at 143 E. 1O3rd
St., singing revolutionary songs.
Most of the workers who had been
listening joined the parade, illumin-
ated by red torches and made pic
turesque by the banners and Red
slogans. At the Harlem headquar-
tiers a short and spontaneous meet
ing was held by popular demand. A.
Markoff and Mania Reiss speaking.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15
GROCERY CLERKS
TO STRIKE TODAY
Affects 1000 Grocery,
Fruit, Dairy Workers
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
pletely shut down. Active picketing
was announced by the officials of
the union to begin promptly.
The grocery, fruit and dairy clerks
are among the most underpaid and
overworked in the city. For this
reason as we'll as because of the
militant and successful struggle put
up by the union during the past year
it is believed that they will come
out 100 per cent.
The union was formed followin. a
battle against the strikebreaking
methods and open betrayal of the
right wing in the United Hebrew
Trades. 1t has succeeded in organi-
ling about 200 shops, in reducing
hours for its members in some
cases by 10 and Is per week and in
cIeasinr WAGES from So to 500 per
week. All this was accomplished in
the face of strikebreaking cam
paign conducted by the right wing
collaborating with the courts and
the police.
Union officers yesterday expressed
the greatest confidence in the out
come of the strike. As an indica-
ton of their strength they predicted
that within short time several
hundred shops would be signed up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15
KUOlNINTANG BANS
UNIONS IN PEKING

large army at Peking for exactly
what reason does not seem generally
Known conducted a strong propa-
ganda for the right of popular as
sembly. This was all the more re-
markable inasmuch as Pal has been
dubbed the Communist killer" be-
cause of his terrible repression of all
mass agitation in the territories un-
der his control. incidentally, it must
be remarked, that in China every
person who dares to oppose or in
many cases, even criticize the mill
tarists is promptly labelled Com
munist" and numerically handled.
A clue to PATS attitude is seen, how
ever, in the fact that it was anti
foreign sentiment he sought to stir
up. 1t is thus evident that this was
tactic closely connected with his
position as a leader in the Kuangsi
clique and the relationships of the
latter with the foreign imperialists.
Another fact showing the clash
of factions in the Marking Govern
ment is this, that it was reported
from Marking officially few days
after Yen Hsi-shans's order that the
Central Kuomintang had given in
structions that under no circum-
stances should public organizations
formed in accordance with it's regu-
lations be dissolved by local author
tiles. 1t was ordered that the clos
ing instructions should be i'm
mediately countermanded. On the
other hand an official Reuter- dis
patch from Peking few days later
unequivocally stated that instruc-
tions had been wired from Marking
instructing General Yen not to al
low the unions which had been dis
solved to reopen.
On August 25th, the General La
Dor Union (Council) was organized
at Tientsin. Up to the present rs
unions have been formed here since
the capture of the city. In accord
ance with the Kuomintang policy
these unions are strictly subject to
the party. They are organized in
order to place exclusively in the
hands of the Nationalist militarists
the control of the masses. The fac
ton in the Kuomintang advocating
this policy has thus shown its clever
ness over the feudal militarists Of
the North whose policy was to pre-
vent absolutely the organization of
unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15
POLICE TERROR
FAILS TO HALT
HUGE RED NIGHT
Workers Defy Police;
Hear Red Nominees

The Red Night arranged by Sec
ton l of the Workers (Communist)
Party and held Saturday evening in
the Downtown section of Manhat-
tan, was one of the most success
full undertakings of its kind ever
held, Six street corner meetings
were held, after which big wind-up
meeting took place on the corners
of 10th st. and End Ave.
The six meetings were held at
10th st. and End Ave; 9th st. and
End Ave-; 7th st. and Ave. A; 9Th
St. and Ave. B; Sheriff and Riving-
ton Sts.; and at Rutgers Square. At
7th st. and End Ave, Congressman
Sirowitz and a big Tammany gang
were holding meeting. One MEM
Der of this Tammany gang chal-
lenged the Workers (Communist)
Party to debate. The challenge was
Immediately accepted, and Max
Shachtman mounted their platform
and was about to speak. But the
Tammany gang backed out imme-
diatcly and did not permit him to
speak.
Police Aid Tammany.
One worker in the audience asked
Sirowitz a question, but instead of
answering it, he Immediately began
to shout for police. In a few sec
onds, 20 police were on the spot, and
Immediately began to terrorize the
workers who wanted to ask the reac-
tionary congressman questions. AS
soon as the police began their in
timidation, however, the workers
raised their banner which carried
huge "Vote Hammer and Sickle"
After Alexander Trachtenberg,
candidate from the 14th Congress
sional District, and Bert Miller,
Communist candidate for senate
from the 18th District, had spoken
at 10th st. and End Ave-, several
hundred workers marched en- masse,
with signs and torchlights through
End Ave. The police attacked them
while they were parading, brutality
beating up several. The workers,
protesting loudly against this, con-
tinued for another block to the COR
ners of 7th st. and End Ave-, where
Sirowitz was speaking. Over 1000
workers had now gathered.
When Miller began to speak, p0-
lice. attempted to drag him from the
platform, but the workers, protest.
ing and cheering the Workers (Com-
munist) Party, demanded their
right to hold an open air meeting.
In the face of this overwhelming
sentiment, the police were forced to
allow them to continue. The Com-
munist candidates unmasked capt.
talist democracy" and the police
terrorism against the working class.
Eighteen workers joined the party
during this Red Night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15
OPEN AIR MEETS
FOR THIS week
Out-of-ToWn Cities on
List

The following open air meetings
have been arranged by the Work
ers (Communist) Party to take
place throughout the city during the
following week:
TODAY.
Rutgers Square. Wright, Spiro,
Milgrom, Blum, Wattenberg, S.
Hurwitz.
2Sth st. and Lexington Ave. Pow
ers, H. Davis, I. Zimmerman, James
Cork.
LIST Ave. and 49th St. Baum,
Frank, SLIDER.
Grand St. Ext. and Havemeyer,
Brooklyn. Midola, Fam, Gertrude
Welsh, NJ. Reiss, j. Cohen.
Stanley and Patterson. (Noon.)
Markoff and Y. w. L. speaker.
TOMORROW.
Suffer and Williams, Brooklyn.
Aronberg, Primoff, Spiro, julius
Cohen, S. Freeman.
Prospect and 163rd st. Grecht,
Taft, Severino, Cibulsky, j. Cohen.
9Th Ave. and 125th st. Stachel,
O'Flaherty, B. Friedman.
Eagle Pencil. (Noon.) Gussa-
koff, Sumner, Anna Block.
39th st. and 9th Ave. Joe Cohen,
Bydarian.
142nd st. and Lenox. Williams,
Fishman, Alexander, Lloyd.
133rd st. and Lenox. Frace Lamb,
Braverman, Richard Moore, Cod
kind.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15
miners WELCOME
red CANDIDATES
Kruse Tours Southern
Illinois


BELLEVILLE, ILL.,, Oct. 14.--The
opening gun Of the down-state cam
Daign of the Workers (Communist)
Farty in Illinois was fired at mass
meeting held in White Parlor Hall,
Springfield. The speakers were
William F. Kruse, candidate for gov
ernor, and Minnie Lurye, organizer
of the Young Workers (Communist)
League. Two new members for the
Workers Party were recruited and
the basis was laid for the organiza-
ton of a Young Workers League
branch.
On the following day a MONDAY
meeting was held in the yard of the
Monarch Tractor Works. Kruse be-
gan with a group of Is men in over
alls eating their lunch in the yard.
Volunteer delegates ran through the
factory, announcing the meeting,
and soon the crowd grew to 100 and
stuck until after the whistle blew.
The same afternoon was devoted to
distribution of literature in the
Negro section of the sity, ard the
evening to an organizational meet
ing of the Workers Party, together
with prospective League members
Livingston Mass Meeting.
AT LIVINGSTON. the following
night. a mass meeting was attended
by 100 miners and so youngsters.
Bill Matheson, sub-district organ
izer of the Workers (Communist)
Party, acted as chairman and de-
scribed in intimate detail the local
conditions under which the miners
were now working. The miners
were reminded of an incident in Liv-
ingston ten years ago when, under
the impress of war hysteria, the
town officials vainly sought to break
up a Kruse meeting and then re-
sorted 20 a mob attack on the speak
ers as they We're leaving the meet
ing. All the worst conditions in the
industry and union then predicted
had come true, and the remedies
outlined by the. speakers--Commun-
ist political support and membership
in the new National Miners Union,
met with great acclaim. A recently
organized group Of Pioneers" did
yeoman service in advertising the
meeting.
Plan Other Meetings.
Meetings will be held in Stanton,
Belleville and Benld, after which a
week will be spent in the Franklin
and Williamson County district.
On Sunday, Oct. "a, function
aries meeting will be held in St
Louis at the Labor Lyceum, 1243 N
Garrison st. A general member
ship meeting will be held in the
same hall in the evening, where a
report will be given in the work OF
the Sixth World Congress of the
Communist international.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15
SEARCH JAILS, BARRACKS AND
AMERICAN LEGION QUARTERS
IN EFFORT TO FIND BEN CITLOW
Phoenix Attorney Says .Gitlow May Be Held
Prisoner i'm Legion Barracks
Searching Jas Barracks and American Legion Head
quarters For GitlOw.
(By Long Distance Telephone to Daily Worker)


PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 14.-Thomas j. Croaf, an at
toey of Phoenix whose services have been procured to
take of the legal work in the Gow
has sent to the Executive Secretary of the Workers Com
munist) Party at New York the following facts:
"The information of the New York Herald Tribune
from Phoenix which stated that Ben Gitlow in the City
Jail of Nogaes incorrect The editorial office of the Ar-
Gazette which is connected with the N Herald
Tribune declares that they received such information
which said that Gtlow being kept in the Nogaes JAIL
The Arizona Gazette maintains that in point their
information contained in the editorial of Oct II
wrong This stated that Gow got off the train at Phoenix
but Gitow did not leave the train at Phoenix at ALL He
went straight They did not know where. In every
other detail the facts mentioned in the editorial
correct.
Mr E. L. Streds attorney for the Gitlow in No
gales and Mr. Murphy for the Civil Liberties Union
searching all the ias both sides of the border in
the United States and Mexico but have not yet found
Gtow anything about him. The plan is to look
into the barracks and in the American Legion Head
quarters because there possibilities that Gow is be-
ing kept there
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15
Volunteers Needed at
'Daily" Office Today

Volunteers are needed to dis
tribute copies of the Daily Worker
today. All those who want to vol
unteer should report to the Business
Office of the Daily Worker, 1928
Union So, on the second floor, as
early as possible today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15
Flynn, Terrorist Red
Batter, Dead at 60

LARCHMONT, N. Y, Oct. a.
William J. Flynn, former head Of
the United States Secret Service,
and terrorist who engineered the red
raids in 1919 against the left wing
workers, died here early today Of
heart failure. He was 80 years old.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15
Greek Fraction of
Party Meets Tomorrow

The Greek fraction Of the Work
ers (Communist) Party will hold a
special meeting at 101 W. 9th st.
tomorrow at $50 p. m. The organi-
rational secretary of the district will
report. All members of the Greek
fraction must be present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15

PEKING, (By MaiT The labor
unions here, which were organized
after the capture of Picking have
been closed by the military at the
order of General Yen Hsi-shan, Gar
rison Commander. This situation
shows the divergent policies on the
question of mass movements which
is one of the factors splitting the
Kuomintang. In this connection OBJ
servers believe there will be dupli-
cation here of the conditions that
existed in Wuhan after its occupa-
ton by the Nationalist. A fever
ish period of the organization of all
kinds of labor unions took place I'M
der the auspices of the Kuomintang
but as soon as these unions showed
a tendency to independent class ac-
tivity a Kuomintang reaction set in.
Then was witnessed the scene of
former advocates of unionization
heartily approving the militarist
butchery Of the recently organized
workers and peasants.
Picking has evidently reached this
point of reaction very quickly. A
taste of the methods used is seen in
the instructions by Yen Hsi-shan
that the unions were to be dissolved
by force, if necessary, and their
leaders warned of severe penalties
for disobedience. At the same time
all public assemblies were pro-
/ hibited.
Some Kuomintang Leaders
The. local Kuomintang issued a
statement in consequence of this
closing that illustrates perfectly
how devoted" that party is to the
welfare of the masses. 1t declares
that the military were justified in
so far as they suspected that Com
munists were utilizing the unions S
agitational centers. The Kuomin-
tang, it continues, is always eager
to cooperate with the authorities for
the maintenance of 'peace and Or
der" that is, for the delivery to
the military of labor agitators.
Over 40 unions besides the General
Labor Union (CounciD, were Or
dered disbanded and their meetings
forbidden.
Yen Hsi-shan's public explanation
of the reasons for his order reveal
how little fundamental difference
there is between the Nationalist mill
tarists and their defeated rivals on
any question involving the organi-
cation of the masses. "These labor
agitators have gone so far, and made
things so uncomfortable for the
wealthy" he complains, chat the
latter have abandoned their prop
erty in Picking and Tientsin and fled
for refuge with whatever goods they
could take along to the foreign con-
cessions in the latter city or to the
japanese port of Darien in Man
churia." These conditions, un-
checked, would completely paralyze
Chinese industry in North China
and seriously reduce governmental
revenues, he concludes. In this con-
nection General Yen as matter of
fact announced on his taking Of
/ flee as Garrison Commander that he
would ruthlessly suppress all "radi-
cal" agitation, meaning thereby all
efforts to organize the masses.
Nevertheless such agitation i'm
mediately set in on large scale.
Communist Killers" Blood.
Yen took no steps for time to
enforce his orders, chiefly perhaps
because one of his rivals, General
Pal Chung hsi, who had very
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15
Nine Classes to Begin
at the Workers School

The following classes are sched-
uled to begin at the New York
Workers School this week:
History of the IT, S.. James Cork
instructor, Thursday, z p. m.
Fundamentals Of Communism, Ii.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15

Fox, instructor, Wednesday, 7 p. m
MARKHAM Economics 2, j. Minded
instructor, Tuesday, $50 p. m.
Anarchism, Socialism, Commun-
ism, M. J. Olgin, instructor, Mon
day, 7 p. m.
Principles of Marxism 2, A. Mark.
off, instructor, Wednesday, $50
p. m.
English 8, Serby, instructor, Tues
day, $50 p. m.
English 3, Fields, instructor
Thursday, p. m.
English 5, Brooks, instructor
Tuesday, $50 p. m.
English g. Wright, instructor
Tuesday, Z p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15

Needle worker! Get n collection
list mt the headquarters Of the Nee
dte Trndes Campaign Committee, ~
Union square, Room 2O2. md collect
funds for the electiO ncTmpnign OF
the workers (COmmunisD Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15

Needle workers! Get collection lists
from the Needle Trades Campaign
COMMITTEES. 10 Union Square. Room
2O2, and collect funds for the election
campaign Of the Workers (Commu-
nisO Party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-30

Mr.. Hoover's idea for farm relief in any
concrete manner He might refer to
Mr.. Hoover's own speech delivered in
st. Louis on November 2. The President
elect at that time dealt with the farm
problem concretely as perusal of his
address clearly indicates. It was about
that time, however, that Senator Norris
was making his appeal to the farmers
OF Nebraska to support the Democratic
nominee for President, and he may
have overlooked Mr.. Hoover's address.
However, the fact that Nebraska gave
Mr.. Hoover 100000 plurality in the
presidential election would indicate that
the farmers Of that State preferred to
rest their case In the hands of Mr..
Hoover rather than in those of Gov.
Smith, who showed himself to be for
the McNary- Haugen farm relief bill "in
principle" without ever being for the
"heart OF the measure" the equalization
fee. Gov. Smith promised to refer the
whole matter to a commission" to out
line plan for farm relief. Yet it is to
be presumed that Senator Norris gave
his support to Gov. Smith because the
New York Governor showed himself an
adherent of concrete" plan for farm
relief. If Senator Norris were not in
clined to deal with public problems
seriously, he might be suspected of
testing in this matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-30

Inauguration of President Gil OF
Mexico is an event of happy omen on
both sides of the Rio Grande. The
personality of the man and the circum-
stances under which he accedes to au-
thority alike lend deep significance to
the new reign now begun.
Senior Gil was elected the successor
of President Gales a few months age
at an hour when Mexicans might well
have been tempted to install a militarist
dictator in the executive mansion
Senior Obregon, the duly constituted
PreSident-elect, had just been assaSsi-
mated. There was loud demand for
amendment of the constitution to per-
NIT President Gales to succeed himself
with an iron-hand mandate against
the enemies of the revolution. Senior
Gales, to his everlasting credit, rejected
the crown. Instead, he paved the way
to the selection of provincial school
MASTER Senior Gil, younger man, a
statesman of peace and an apostle oil
government by ballot rather than by
bullet.
Mexican relations with the United
States were not directly involved in the
Obregon- Calles-Gil trinity of circum-
stances. But President Gil inherits the
tradition to which Seniors Obregon and
Gales had become definitely devoted
namely, an abandonment of the poll
cies which kept the well of Mexican
American friendship poisoned so long.
In that happy consummation two
Americans had major hand-Secre-
tary Kellogg and Ambassador Morrow
They, with the rest of the American
people, recognize the implications Of
the now empowered Gil administration
in Mexico City, for whose tranquility
and prosperity the people of the United
States send cordial good wishes across
the border.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-30
Arkansas Is i'm Need
of a New Dictionary

From the Fort Wayne News-SentineI
Arkansas, under the terms of her
anti-evolution law. will bar from the
public schools of that State such stand
ard volumes as WebSter's Dictionary
and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. This
we have on the word of the State
superintendent of public institution.
Can any other dictionary or encyclo-
pedia be founder other volumes of
reference-which will not stand at
variance with the provisions of this
latest monkey law?
We doubt 1t. The Standard Diction-
airy declares that 1.-The theory of de-
scent Is based upon the fact that all
animals and plants are developed by
analogous processes from some form of
primitive germ" The Century En-
cyclopedia and Dictionary AYERS that
the doctrine Is now accepted by most
biologists as conception which most
nearly comedies with the actual facts"
The International Encyclopedia is sure
to be unacceptable in Arkansas, for it
asserts that 1.-The proof of mans origin
from some other primate is now past
dispute; in fact, no scientist now
doubts mans descent from a common
ancestor with the anthropoid apes. "
Where are the folks in Arkansas going
to find a dictionary or encyclopedia
that pleases them? Here's a chance
Tor some publisher to make a little
money by getting out special Ar
kansas edition, and we have no doubt
that one or more publishers will make
haste to take full advantage of that
opportunity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-30
Norris on Farm Relief.

Senator Norris Of Nebraska has writ
ten an unnamed colleague In the
Senate, supposed to be Senator Norbeck
of South Dakota, that he will place no
stones in the way Of the enactment OF
Hoover farm relief legislation. Further,
Mr.. Norris takes the position that such
legislation should be put through II
possible at the short session Of Congress
which opens next Monday.
The Nebraska Senator, who, although
a Republican, announced himself IN
favor of the election Of Gov. Smith. the
Democratic nominee for President, is
gracious in defeat. He uses many words
to say that be believes Mr.. Hoover's
farm relief plan should be enacted into
law promptly, but makes 1t clear he
believes Mr.. Hoover has no farm aid
plan.
To do the Nebraska Senator justice,
it may be said that once he has taken
a position he does not retrace his steps.
He has said in this latest letter that
st believe those of us who favor farm
relief ought to put no stone in the way
of Mr.. Hoover's friends to get this law
passed at the short session." On this
statement, it may be expected, he will
stand. And if he lives up to it. he may
be expected to permit the passage of
the projected farm aid bill provided it
bears the approval of the President
elect.
Senator Norris asserts that no one,
so far as he knows. has ever outlined