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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
Restaurant to Donate
to Mill Relief Fund

The scientific vegetarian restaur-
ant, 1900 Madison Avenue, between
10th and 108th Streets, is coopera-
ting with Local New York, Workers
International Relief, and a group of
comrades, to contribute 10 per cent
of its income for three days, to-
morrow, Friday, and Saturday, for
the benefit of the textile strikers of
New Bedford and Fall River.
Workers are urged to check up in
their units and sections the matter
of raising relief for the strikers. The
need is urgent, many clothes and
shoes must be collected. These
must be turned in promptly to Local
New York. Workers international
Relief, / Union Square, New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
NEW BEDFORD MILITANT TRADITION
Fugitive SLAVE Latus in 1851 and Textile Struggle of 1928

ticaily tolled the warning bell on
the old hall, now look complacently
on the thousands of hungry strikers,
who have withstood the mill owners
for the past "a weeks.
One stands on the broad steps of
the Merchants National Bank and
watches depositors going in. Lardy
business men, prim stockholders in
the textile industry, many and sun
dry of the middle and upper classes.
Do they toll bells to warn that some
of Samuel D. McLeod's gunner in
police uniform are about to assault
and fire upon a 60-year-old textile
striker? They do not. When the
National Guard whip their saw
edged bayonets out of their scab-
bords and march on the massed
pickets in the south end do they
run frantically down the street to
warn the victims of the ruthlessness
of capitalist Justice? If so one
has not heard of it.
For "a weeks the Workers In
ternational Relief has been strug-
Cling to keep the 10000 heroic strik-
ers going while they fight against
a 10 per cent wage cut. Everybody
in New Bedford knows what the
Workers international Relief is.
The thousands Of workers that eat
at our soup kitchens know of our
work. The merchants and bankers
know of our work Do these wealthy
parasites offer aid to the striking
slaves Of the New Bedford mills.
No, it is easy to be sympathetic to-
wards a victim of a competitor as
was the case in 1851. Now these
smooth owelled business look with
a calm and cool eye on the in
describable suffering of the striking
textile slaves.
Yes, for "a weeks the w. I. R.,
has been giving relief. Where does
this relief money come from? 1t
comes from militant and class-con-
scious workers from all parts of the
country. 1t comes from textile
workers, from miners, from shoe
workers, from clothing workers, but
always from workers. 1t comes
from workers because only work
ers cnn realize the suffering of
workers in revolt. 1t comes from
those who know that the master
class waits patiently for Hunger
and Winter to break all revolts
against its power.
The depositors of the Merchants
National Bank are sleek and warm
cut the strikers on the picket line
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27

1t is believed, to the fact that he is
currying favor on all sides to secure
job as dictator" over the indus
try, his present chief ambition in
life.
Big Open Shoppers.
Among the companies represented
at the luncheon were the Standard
Oil Company, the Auto Cab Mu-
tual Insurance Co., the Cahco Agen-
cy Corporation, the Firestone Tire
and Rubber Company, the Pitts
burgh Taximeter Company, the Cen
eral Tire and Rubber Co., the Para
mount Cab Manufacturing Cons any
and other open shop concerns. The
Yellow Taxi Corporation was "un-
officially" present and is understood
to have been one of the chief NOV
ers in the luncheon to Car Rutten-
berg.
The recently formed Taxi Chauf-
feurs' Union is conducting a v.gor-
Gus campaign for organization of
the drivers to fight all the evils in
the industry.
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are many of them without shoes.
The executive offices in the granite
bank are snug and warm, but now
that the autumn nights are windy
the workers homes are cold. The
eyes of the depositors in the bank
are self-satisfied and complacent
but the strikers look with harried
eyes to approaching fall and winter.
No one knows of the courage of
the New Bedford and Fall River
strikers better than the workers of
the Workers international Relief.
They have braved the bayonets of
the National Guard, they have stood
against the revolvers of Chief of
Police McLeod's thugs; for "a
weeks they have lived on short ra-
tions, for nearly six months they
have frightened their belts and "car-
ried on" valiantly.
But winter is coming. They can
not fight against hunger and cold
They will fight on if the workers of
American can feed and clothe them
So far food was all that was needed.
Now comes insistent cries for shoes
and clothing. At six in the morning
all hands are needed on the picket
line; but at six in the morning when
the chill winds blow in from the
New Bedford harbor coats and stout
shoes are sorely needed.
Words seem so inadequate to de-
scribe the many needs of the New
Bedford strikers. One feels like
rushing out into the streets and
shouting and pointing to heart
rending letters and pictures of hun
Try kids and cold print seems. fu-
tile medium with which to convey a
burning call for help.
Workers of America! You must
not allow cold and hunger to break
the New Bedford and Fall River
strikes. Victory is near. The strik-
ers are heroic beyond description,
One more week, another and maybe
one after that and our comrades will
compel the mill gates to swing open.
II you are working and have just
enough to eat you must give these
loyal fighters succor. Give what you
can; but give. Give money; give
shoes, give clothing, but give some
thing. Do not wait for collectors to
come around and wheedle dime or
dollar out Of you. Give now. l
appeal to every worker who has the
cause of striking workers at heart
to send his contribution directly to
the Workers International Relief
lr'on, Square, New York City or
40 William St., New Bedford, Mass
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
$4,000 PAID TO
SEWER PIPE KING
Tammany Graft Ring
Trial Under Way

Continued from Page One
ness men chosen specifically for the
purpose in mind, was sworn in prac-
tically without objection on the part
of the defense and within record
time.
Among those on the jury is an
employe of ]. P. Morgan & Co.. a
large corporation secretary, and a
wire chief
Numerous indications have been
apparent of the cooperation between
Max Steuer, head counsel for Con-
molly, and Emory R. Buckner, as
sistant attorney general and prose-
cutor of the indicted grafters. At
the trial yesterday, Steuer waved
the usual opening address for his
client, and other signs are indicative
of the intention to rush the case
through as quickly as possible.
Gang Worked Under Cover.
In his opening remarks, Buckner
disclosed that Connolly and Phillips
studiously avoided being seen to-
gether but "they worked" together
quite effectively just the same. eve
will show" Buckner declared, chat
in 1917 John M. Phillips received 80
per cent of the profits of a certain
contract awarded to Joseph L. ST.
gretto, although Phillips did no
work.
"W will show that when Phillips
didn't want a man to get sewer
job he would simply name a ridicu
lous price for his pipe.
Ninety per cent of all the sewers
built in Queens were built of precast
pipe and 100 per cent of all the pre-
cast pipe used was Phillips lock-
joint pipe.
Got Huge Rake-off.
I'VE will show that Phillips sold
his pipe for two times, three times,
five times its value.
How could he get away with
this? Through the power that Con-
molly had in awarding the con-
tracts"
Buckner added that the specifica-
tons on precast pipe were copied
word for word from the catalog of
the lock-joint pipe company.
"Other pipe companies could not
meet these specifications. That's
another way Phillips, Connolly and
Seeley got and kept their power"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
BARE FRAME-UP
UPON SCHIFFRIN
Right Wing Witnesses
Tell Conflicting Tales
Continued from Pace One

Continued from Page One
drew his pocket-knife and backed
against the wall, at the same time
trying to ward off his assailants
with his foot. I saw Silver and
Rurus close in, one from the front
and one from the side. I saw Sill
yer raise his arm with the knife in
it. Schiffrln also raised his arm.
Both struck downward at the same
time" This was the graphic descrip-
tion of Schiffrin's struggle for life,
as Jensen saw it. The courtroom
was tensely silent. The reporter
from the right wing Jewish Daily
Forward and its lawyer, Samuel
movement in America-they will be
the shock troops of the proletariat
in its struggle to overthrow the CAPT
talist system.
The T. U. E. L. pledges its hearty
support to the Youth Conference
and urges all left wingers to give
substantial aid to these young
workers.
The Working Youth Conference
which will be held Saturday and
Sunday promises to be tremend-
Gus success. Already a number of
Unions and Shop Committees have
endorsed and elected delegates to
the conference, among whom are the
Joint Board of the Cloak and Dress
makers Union Furriers' Joint
Board; Window Cleaners Union;
Sports Club of Local 43, Millinery
Workers Union; Local Al fuckers
and Memstitchers' Union; Wasser-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
WORKERS PARTY
Will. HOLD MANY
OPEN AIR MEETS
Speakers Will Cover
Entire City
Thursday, Sept. 81.

One Hundred and Thirty eighth
st. and st. AIMS Ave, Bronx
Powers, Spiro, Suskin, Jessie Taft
Fortieth St. and Eighth Ave, N
Y. C.--Bydarian, Cibulsky. Kagan
Steinway and Jamaica Ave-, AS
toria, L. Wright, Chernenko
Mcdonald, Burke, Heder.
Friday, Sept. 70.
National Biscuit Co. (noon)-
Bert, Miller, P. Frankfeld.
Bristol and Pitkin, Brooklyn
Ragozin, Lipzin, Aronberg, Julius
Cohen.
Fifth Ave. and 10th St., N. Y
C.-Ballam, Codkind, Gillgreen, Mo.
reau.
Varet and Graham Ave. Brook.
lyn-Reiss, VIM. Frank, LilIienstein
Fiftieth st. and Fifth Ave.
Brooklyn-Markoff, DeLeon. Cha.
lupski, Valentine (chairmanN.
Market Plaza, Newark, N. I'M
Taft, c. Martin.
Seventh st. and Ave. A, N. Y
Sumner, Pasternack, Alderman
Goliger (chairnan).
Bliss Factory (noon)-B. Lif-
schitz, H. Gordon.
Saturday. Sept. 20.
First Ave. and 10th St.-Baum,
Yusem, Ed. Welsh.
West New York, N. ]. Oath st.
and Bergen Line Ave.)-Ben Lif-
shitz, Pearlman.
Paterson, N. j. (3Os Elm ST.
Mcdonald, R. Duke, Honig, Cava-
tez.
Elizabeth, N. J.-Padgug, Fret
man, A. Markoff.
Bryant Ave. and 174th St., Bronx
jacobson, Castrell, Spiro, Gozi-
gian.
Williamsburg, Red Night report
at Dc Ten Eyck St.)-Weinstone,
Benjamin. Bimba, Grecht, Bieden-
kapp, Nessin, Primoff, Leroy,
Wright, Vera Bush, Frankfeld (Y.
w. L..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
new YORK UNIONS
Send DELEGATES
TO ATTEND MEET
Shop Committees to Be
Represented
By JOHN ]. BALKAN.

The Working Youth Conference
waica will be held Sept. 29 and 80 at
the Labor Temple, 14th st. and
Secord Ave, will mark a tremend-
Gus step forward in the general
work of organizing the unorganized
which is now the central task of the
Trade Union Educational League.
In New York particularly, the
young workers make uD large per-
centage of the working class. There
are over 100000 office workers, of
which So per cent are between the
ages of Is and 25 years. Depart
merits stores and shops employ large
numbers of youth. Candy factories,
radio assembly plants, telephone,
telegraph, food textile and needle
trades, ETC., employ large numbers
of young workers. New York is a
city of diversified and light indus
try in which young men and women
are mercilessly speeded up and ex-
plotted, working under unsanitary
conditions at starvation wages.
This Conference of the Working
Youth will be the first big step for
ward toward organizing the thou
sands of young workers in this city.
The general attitude of the average
trade union official is to ignore this
tremendous problem. The young
workers should constitute a source
of strength to the organized labor
movement. Their enthusiasm, cour-
age and vitality would infuse new
life into the American labor move
ment.
The naturalization of industry
makes it possible to supplant adult la
Dor with youth and woman labor due
to the Increasing division of labor,
the simplification of the processes
Of production the increasing use of
machinery replacing hand produc-
ton, the introduction of efficiency
schemes and the speed up, all this
throws the adult skilled worker
upon the scrap heap.
The Working Youth Conference
will discuss the problems of the
working youth. Many trade unions
are sending delegates. Young work
ers delegates will attend from or
gaRized and unorganized shops from
many industries.
The T. U. E. L. greets these
youth delegates as the advance
guard of the left wing and pro-
gressive labor movement.
All forward looking labor organi-
cations should help these young
workers morally and financially in
t heir determination to organize
themselves to resist exploitation and
for the emancipation of the work
ing class.
These young workers will soon be-
come the backbone of the labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
By FRED BIEDENKAP
National Secretary Workers In
te111ationuL Relief

(Ndttoeot Secretary Workers In
ter11ationuI Relief
At the corner of William and
Purchase streets in the city of New
Bedford stands the imposing build
ing of the Merchants National Bank.
1t is an imposing affair built of huge
blocks of New England granite and
fronted with enormous alabaster-
white marble pillars. 1t is a monu.
ment to those in New Bedford who
were not compelled to slave in the
mills of the north and south ends
OF the city. For those who are liv-
ing by the exploitation Of the miser-
ably underpaid mill workers it is a
solid and cooling sanctuary, whose
well-fed officials look askance at the
passing march of strikers and
pickets.
New Bedford's history, however
was not always one wherein the VIC
tins of economic or political in
justice were fired upon by the de-
tenders Of claw and order"
In 1851, and even for years be-
fore, this New England town was
the haven for fugitive slaves from
the South. 1t was one of the centers
of the abolitionist movment for the
liberation Of southern slaves.
A bronze tablet affixed to the
bank building now carried this leg
end
"News of the passage of the Fu-
gitive Slave Laws was brought from
Boston Ito New Bedford) in 1851
by an express messenger who rode
all night and the bell on the old hall
was rung to give warning to fugi-
tive slaves that U. S. marshals
were coming.
"The bell was melted in the fire
of 1854 and a fragment is inserted
in this tablet"
There was "lawlessness" with a
vengeance. Aiding and abetting
'lawbreakers." g. to give warn
ing to fugitive slaves that U. S.
marshals were coming" OF course,
the ruling class in 1851 was feeling
the competition Of southern slave
labor, but there is no doubt that
there we're thousands of liberty-lov-
ing New Englanders who loathed
and abhorred the cruelties of chat
tel-slavery.
Where are there "humanitarians'
today? The middle and upper
classes in New Bedford, descendants
no doubt, Of those who enthusiast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
OPEN SHOPPERS
FETE TAXI CAR
RUTTENBERG
Strikebreaker Brown Is
Chairman
Continued on PAGE Three

the little taxi GEAR" Ruttenberg
himself, who in the year he has
held office has carried on a reign
of persecution against the workers
that has driven thousands of cab
drivers from the industry. This is
in keeping with the boss program
of "rationalizing" the industry and
eliminating as many drivers as pos
sible.
Kill Keep 1t Up.
Ruttenberg, who, besides his po-
lice activities, is also a high mucka-
muck in Zionist circles, referred
with pride to this regime which he
described as public SERVICE" and
declared that he would continue this
policy with even greater vigor in
the future.
Ruttenberg further declared him
self in favor of higher taxi rates
and of the concentration of the in
dustry in the hands of the large
corporations. Both these proposals
were loudly applauded. No profit
could be made, he said, on the pres
ent 15-5 minimum but no one pre-
tended that any increase would be
passed on to the drivers.
"We in the Hack License Bureau"
he said, "have tried consistently to
eliminate the difficulties of the cab
operators. We want to help, not to
hurt the industry"
Ruttenberg referred only casually
to the current agitation to compel
all drivers to wear uniforms, part
of the general program of regimen
tizing the taxi drivers to keep them
more completely in subsection.
Ruttenberg's speech was preceded
by addresses by a number of taxi
chiefs, consisting largely of paeans
of praise to the great man. One of
them referred to the commissioners
heart as being "lined with platinum
gold"
More Speed-Up.
There was also talk of "improv-
ing the efficiency" of taxi drivers
who already slave from IL to 16
hours a day in all sorts of weather
in order to earn from $28 to S35
week. One of the speakers objected
to the fact that taxi drivers are
often mot as clean and as cour-
teous as they should be-" and sug-
gested that taxi companies employ
teacher to more effectively disci-
pline the drivers. The companies
would be repaid for this expense by
securing increased rates, he said.
Chairman Brown refrained from
making any extended remarks, due,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
SECTIONS z, 8 IN
TACT EnTI0N
LhOH - IlUN
DRIvEREDSUNDAY
Red Squads Mobilize
in 2 Boros

The final mobilization of the Red
Squads of Sections and 8, known
as the backbone of the signature
drive in this city, will te held on
Sunday, Sept. 80. The squads will
be divided into three patches and
will work in Williamsburg, Browns
vile and in the upper Bronx, in the
cooperative houses section.
Throughout the week units of
Sections 2 and 8 are being visited
by the campaign directors of the
sections and the members urged to
report at IS Ten Eyck ST., the Will
Ilamsburg headquarters; 154 Wat
kins ST., in Brownsville, and POO
Bronx Park East. The fine record
made by the Red Squads both in
the Bronx and Harlem will be sur
passed, according to B. Gussakoff
end ]. Cohen, campaign directors.
Must Continue Work.
In statement issued to members
of Sections 2 and 8, Rebecca Grecht,
campaign manager of the district,
stressed the fact that next Sunday
is the final mobilization drive of the
signature campaign, and urged all
workers to participate. "The good
work of our Party members in the
drive thus far" the statement reads
in part, must not be made to suf-
fer by slowing up on the last day.
The final mobilization is in many
respects more important than pre-
vious ones, as it is the decisive one."
The squads will be divided numer-
ically, according to the requirements
of the sections where they are as
signed, and all Red campaigners of
sections 2 ard 8 are urged to re-
port at the headquarters to which
they are assigned.
Williamsburg Important.
Williamsburg is the most i'm
portant center for mobilization next
Sunday" the statement concludes.
"The bulk of the Red Squads must
concentrate at 46 Ten Eyck st. 1t
is up to sections and whether or
not the Thirteenth Williamsburg
Assembly District will have a Com
munist candidate on the ballot"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
Workers at Farm Give
81 for Mill Strikers

A group of friends and svmpathi-
zers at farm near Camp Nitgedai-
get turned in 81 for the New Bed
ford strikers through j. Mittenberg,
1468 Seabury Place, Bronx. Due
credit is herewith acknowledged for
this contribution in behalf of the
textile strikers. by the Workers In
ternational Relief, 1 Union Square.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27

Markewitch, grew pale. The dis
trict attorneys face showed frank
hopelessness. Tie judge looked I'M
easy.
Markewitch Butts In.
The right wing lawyer, Marke-
witch, tried to interfere with the
proceedings of the trial by asking
permission for a speech in a last
desperate effort to hurt the impress
sion made by the witness. He made
his speech and yet did not dispel the
completely changed atmosphere.
The next witness then clinched
Jensen's testimony. He was William
Wabbenhorst, Detective rs, of che
Twentieth Precinct. He stated that
after Schiffrin was arrested, Schif-
frin volunteered to sign statement
that he had wounded Silver. He en-
phasized that the statement was
made by Schiffrin of his own free
will, and when the statement which
the detective brought with him in
court was read it was found to
match IN every slightest detail with
the testimony rendered by the gas
repairman.
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man Shop Committee; Philip Jones
Shop Committee; International
Handkerchief Shop Committee and
others.
This conference will be a demon
tration of the READINESS for organi-
cation on the part of the large mass
of young workers in New York.
This can be Judged by the response
to. the various leaflets and bulletins
put out by the Conference and the
number of delegates already elected
by the shops, trade unions and
Youth Clubs.
A number of prominent Labor
Leaders will speak at this confer
ence.
Arrangements have been made to
have a fraternal delegate from the
strike fields of New Bedford where
the Young Workers are playing
leading role under the leadership of
the New Textile Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
Gold, Grecht to Speak
at Banquet in Brighton

Ben Gold and Rebecca Grecht will
speak at the Red Banquet to be
given by the Workers Club Oct. 10,
8 p. m. at 227 Brighton Beach Ave.
for the benefit of the Workers
(Communist) Party election cam
paign fund.
Besides the banquet, interesting
concert has been prepared. All
workers are urged to attend the Red
Banquet and thus aid the Workers
(Communist) Party in it's election
drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
Urge Workers Children
to Attend Red Rally

In a statement issued yesterday
by the Young Workers (Commu-
nist) League and the Young Pion-
GERS, all New York workers children
are urged to attend the Red Rally
to be held Friday evening at the
Central Opera House, 67th st. and
Third Ave.