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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
CHARGE WALKER
knew OF $4,000
CAMP AIGN Gift
Insiders Reveal Deal
Between Phillips
and Tammany
Big Boys "Played Safe"
Supported Both Walker
and Connolly

Jimmie Walker, jazz-dancing Tam
many Hall mayor of New York,
knew of thu secret expenditure by
John M. Phillips. late sewer pipe
king of Queens, of $4,000 to secure
his nomination, it was stated yes
terday by those on the "inside" of
the activities during the 1925 pri-
mary campaign, in which Walker
ran against Hylan.
These statements confirmed
charges made repeatedly in the
Daily Worker that not only Maurice
E. Connolly, former Queens Borough
president, or trial in the $50, 100000
Queens sewer graft case. but those
higher up in Tammany Hall. includ-
ing Walker himself. are involved
The same charges were made in con-
rection with the street cleaning
graft exposures which were made
this summer.
Involved in Scheme.
Mayor Walker, in spite of his de
NAL of knowledge of the secret con
tribution by Phillips, not only knew
of the expenditure, it was stated il
the same quarters, but the move
was part of we'll organized scheme
in which the Tammany Hall ma
chine, Phillips and number. o
Queens political and business lead
ers took part with the purpose o
insuring the victory of Walker ant
the ousting of Hylan. Connolly
president of Queens az the time
supported Hylan, it was pointed out
phillips, as was his custom. 'playe
both ends against the middle b
supporting Walker" II was de
clared, "and at the same time len
his support to Connolly"
Walker defeated Hylan in tn
primaries of that year, while Con
molly was overwhelmingly victoriou
Continued on Page Fiue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
COMMUNISTS FILE
COLORADO TICKET
Mine Misleaders Aid
Reactionaries
BY GEORGE SAUL.

DENVER, Colo, Sept. 30.-The
Workers (Communist) Party cleo
ton petitions have been filed with
the secretary of state and from now
on until election day in November
a rousing Communist campaign will
be carried on in this state of in
dustrial feudalism, where the state
government is controlled by the
mining magnates and particularly
by John D. Rockefeller, of the no.
torious Colorado YFuel and Iron
Company.
In no state of the union have the
workers been more subjected to the
iron rule of the capitalists than in
Colorado. 1t is safe to say that
there have been more workers killed
and wounded in the class struggle
than in any other state and two of
the most outstanding episodes in the
class struggle have been staged on
this industrial battlefield in the
Rocky Mountains.
The great strike of 1913 against
the Rocky Mountain Fuel and Iron
Company, under the leadership of
the Western Federation of Miners,
then led by William D. Haywood,
constitutes glorious chapter in the
history of the class struggle in the
United States. The story of the
Ludlow massacre is known to every
student of labor history and the re-
cent murder of several miners and
strike sympathizers at the Column
bine mine of the Rocky Mountain
capitalists who are exploiting the
workers in this state are today as
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
COP CONVENTION
C0NCEALS ISSUE
Power and Traction
Gang in Control
Especial to the Daily Worker

topeCtut " tfte Dutty w OfhtT/
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. 3d.
Sidetracking the burning issues be-
fore the working class, the republi-
can convention meeting here in the
John D. Archibald Stadium of
Syracuse University, built by the
notorious Standard Oil Magnate of
that name, worked out a platform
worthy of the auspices under
which it was meeting, and in keep
ing with the purposes of the power
and traction interests which con-
trolled the convention.
The slate of candidates drawn up
by the controlling machine was
jammed through with practically no
opposition. For governor, the party
named Albert Ottinger of New
York, now attorney general, for
merly assistant to the notorious
Harry Daugherty of Teapot Dome
fame, and a member of the Water
Power Commission of 1926 which
in that year all but legislated the
Continued on Page Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
WORKERS PARTY
TICKET BARRED
IN WASHINGTON
GitloW Denounces New
Outrage" at Huge
Protest Meeting
Many States Bar Party
Communists Organize
to Fight Decree

(Bp Wire to the Daily Worker
TACOMA. Wash. Sept. 30.-Ben
Gitlow, candidate for vice-president
on the Workers (Communist) Party
ticket, speaking at a large protest,
mass meeting here today, denounced
the action of the state authorities in
barring the Party from the ballot
in this state.
The announcement denying the
right of the Communists to run their
election ticket was made yesterday
by j. Grant Hinkle, secretary of
state.
Denounces Verdict.
After attacking this conduct as
Outrageous" before the meeting,
which repeatedly cheered the Com
munist vice-presidential candidate,
Gitlow declared:
"The high-handed action Of the
secretary Of state is but another
proof of the sham democracy that
covers up the autocratic, despotic
and dictatorial rule of Wall Street" Z"
Gitlow likewise spoke on the ac-
tion of the pardons board which at
the bidding of the lumber interests
has worked to maintain in prison
after long years the group of Cen
tralia prisoners. Gitlow called for a
determined effort on the part of the
workers and farmers of Washing
ton and the west to secure the free
dom of these and other class wal
prisoners.
Defends Migratory Workers.
He discussed the low wages paiC
to the migratory workers, and par
ticularly the aumber workers. HI
pictured the manner in which th'
lumber companies used the blacklist
gunmen and state power to smash
and terrorize the workers and calleC
for the organization Of mighty
lumber workers union.
/ AL Shaap, organizer for the Young
Workers (Communist) League, A
Fisherman, candidate of the Party
for governor, Alex Moral, candidate
for United States senator, and others
spoke at the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
MANY DELEGATES
AT YOUTH MEET
Ballam, Weisbord and
Dunn Speak

One hundred and ten delegates,
representing approximately $4,000
youth workers, met on Saturday at
the Labor Temple and yesterday at
Irving Plaza to discuss the forma-
tion of practical plan whereby the
thousands of young workers of New
York City and the 100000 youth
workers of the United States could
be organized. Delegates from 33
shops, representing 1900 young
workers, from "a trade unions,
representing $4,000 young workers
and from nine youth organizations,
representing 1400 young workers,
were present. The American Negro
Labor Congress, the Trade Union
Educational League, and the new
National Textile Workers Union,
each sent one delegate.
The conference was sent off to a
flying start iby contributions to the
Working Youth Conference Sus-
tanning Fund" which with the CO.
operation of the supporters, will be
the only way by which the Working
Youth Conference can exist and
function. Donations from the
Young Workers (Communist)
League, the Milliners, Plumbers
Helpers, Furriers', Office Workers
and Amalgamated Food Workers
Unions, quickly brought the fund
to $100.
Albert Weisbord, secretary of the
new National Textile Union brought
greetings from the new union and
asked for the support of the New
Bedford and Fall River strikers.
Other speakers were Estella
Coria of the Textile Mills Commit
tee, Eric Burroughs, American
Negro Labor Congress, Philip
Frankfeld. Young Workers (Com-
munist) League, and Alexander, of
the American Negro Labor Con-
gress.
A motion was adopted to call a
mass meeting of unorganized young
workers within three or four weeks.
An executive committee of 20 men,
bers was elected to carry out the
immediate tasks of the conference.
The conference went on record as
pledging it's whole-hearted support
to the Shifrin Defense Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
HEAR COMINTERN
REPORT TUESDAY
Membership Meeting Is
Called

A call for a general membership
meeting of District 2, Workers
Communist Party, for tomorrow
night at Central Opera House, has
been issued by William w. Vein
stone, district organizer. The call
follows:
"By directions of the Central
Executive Committee of the Work
ers (Commusist) Party the District
Executive Committee is calling a
meeting of all members of the dis
trict to hear report on the World
Congress of the Communist Inter-
national and on the Election Cam
paign.
"The meeting will be held to-
morrow at s p. m. at Central Opera
House, 205 E. 9th St. Admit sion
will be by membership book only.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
DIES IN FIERY GRAVE
Worker Is Victim of Boss,S Negligence

John Taylor, fireman, is dead.
And the great gray building that
is the warehouse Of Bloomingdale
Brothers in Long Island City has
swallowed another victim and spit
out another corpse that the officials
of Bloomingdale's will soon forget.
A rebuilt roof, poorly constructed
of weak material, gave way under
the weight Of Taylor's body on Sat
urday afternoon and dropped him
into the fiery grave of the incinera-
tor furnace at the Bloomingdale
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01

suited in the sudden ban is re-
vealed to consist in irreverent refef-
ences to the sacred person of god
and in the Freiheit's expose of the
fascist Mobile expedition.
The Freiheit has received infor-
nation proving conclusively that be-
hind the government attack on the
paper is the same black reactionary
clique that, under the leadership Of
the yellow Jewish Daily Forward,
has with the help of the underworld
Continued on Page Fiva
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
NAVY ARMAMENT
RACE CONTINUES
French Not Alarmed
by Note

PARIS, Sept. 30.-With the ar
rival of the American note on the
Franco-British naval pact, although
the note expresses nothing that has
not been expected by both the
British and French, semi-official
government newspapers express the
opinion that al chances for a dis
armament conference in the near
future are not dead and that there
is still hope that some agreement
may be reached.
1t is very well known that neither
the British nor the French govern
ments will concede anything of the
naval provisions set forth in their
pact, and that the American gov
ernment will not agree to limitation
of large cruisers, which it contem-
plates building, and the unlimited
production of light cruisers and
submarines, for which the naval
pact provides.
There are statements current that
Boncour's plan, based on limitation
of classes by tonnage and per-
centage, may be adopted as a basis
for future negotiations, but it is
generally thought that such sug-
gestions are made with the purpose
of saving both the British and
French fronts in face of complete
failure in disarmament" confer
ence.
There is also the opinion current
that both the British and American
governments will continue their
naval construction program, in a
manner best suitable to their re-
spective needs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
Nanking Split Coming.

PEKING, Sept. 30.-The Marking
regime, formed out of many dissent
ing war lords and from the start
split into warning factions. will not
long retain even its apparent unity,
according to reports that are quite
generally known and current here.
Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang, gov
ernor of Shantung province, who
was promised the Peking revenues
if he co-operated with the Nanking
clique in their drive on the north,
and who has the largest and best
equipped army of the war lords, is
said to be the chief danger to Nan
king hegemony. His reported friend
liness with the Japanese, and his
known desire to carve out we'll
paying province for himself in the
north, will soon lead to open war
fare among the Marking adherents,
it is generally thought.
The by no means friendly atti-
tude of General Yen Hsi-shan, of
Shansi province, and the quarrels be-
tween General Chang Kaisheh, the
Canton clique and other elements of
his government, promise but short
.ife for the Marking regime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
~ NONTlAv
Communists
IN Clash with
BeYllnFaSCistl

RERLIN, Sept. 80 (UP).-Seven
persons were reported seriously in
jured tonight in a street battle be.
tween Communists and Hitlerites
which developed after meeting at
which Adolphus Hitler spoke for the
first time in Prussia.
Both sides fired pistols during the
rioting. Hitler was the initiator OF
the 1923 political coup at Munich
The German National Freedom
movement championed ultra-nation-
alism, opposed the Weimar constitu-
ton, and was favorable to restora
ton of the monarchy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
MILITANTsF FORCE
4O-HOUR DEMAND
Gesture by Building
Trades Misleaders .

Reacting to the increasing resent
ment of the building trades work
ers aroused by unemployment, non
union conditions on the job, loss of
job control, building trades labor
officials have made IA gesture to-
wards the 5-day, 40-hour week, ac-
cording to a statement issued by
Roswell D. Tompkins, secretary of
the New York Building Trades
Council, who announced that a de-
mand had been "filed" with the En-
ployers' Association for these de-
mands.
Pressure of the militants and the
rank and file had forced the action,
labor officials of the New York
Building Trades Council, reluctantly
conceded when questioned as to the
reason for the move.
Also Wage Increase.
Increases of wages for building
! trades workers from $12- to S13.2C
per day is another one Of the de.
mands. The action was taken at the
last meeting of the Council, it was
announced.
That the move is an entirely mis-
leading one and intended only to de-
ceive the workers, militant labor
leaders pointed out yesterday, is in
dicated by a number of facts: Q)
the Building Trades Council, as is
well known, is under the complete
control of the bosses, (2) the pres
cnt contracts in most cases do not
expire until December 81, 1929; and
while the new demand" is put
forth the labor takers at the same
time stress publicly the fact that
"the council will adhere at all costs
to the terms of its contract; (3)
if the labor misleaders were really
honest in their demands for lower
hours and wage increases, they
would fight against the violation of
union conditions on the job, under
! WHICH, III uelidiiSe VI IHe eAloIliiS
agreements, thousands of union
building trades workers are en-
ployed over fifty hours week, and
in thousands of other cases are re-
ceiving instead of S12, as low as
So and even 81 per day.
Workers Must Fight.
Militant labor leaders, while ad-
mitting that the new move was
forced by the pressure of the rank
and file, were emphatic in their
declaration that future gains or the
maintenance of union standards
would be accomplished only in spite
of the labor misleaders in the
Building Trades Council
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
WORKER,PEASANT
ARMIES ADVANCE
Gain in South China as
Marking Split Looms

SHANGHAI, Sept. 30.-That the
Communicated army of Chinese
peasants and workers is gaining
control of the entire provinces of
Human and Kiangsi, instituting So
Wet governments there, is again
confirmed by reports received here.
In many cities and towns in these
provinces the local Koumintang
committees have joined the Com
munists as soon as they appeared
and fully co-operated with them.
Workers affiliated with the Kou-
mintang. disillusioned in their lead
ership and disappointed at the re-
dictionary character of the Marking
regime, are reported to be ready to
go over entirely to the Communists,
It is also reported that it is use
less and unsafe to send any armies
against the workers and peasants
forces. since the troops Immediately
join the Communist army.
Wherever the Red Army has ap-
peared it has declared a workers
and peasants government and imme-
diately confiscated all property and
provisions. The Communes are de-
clared the sole owners of all prop
erty and it is their, duty to parcel
out provisions for each man, woman
and child. Rations are assigned per
family, and clothing are reappor-
toned to meet the needs of the in
dividual, as near as possible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
U. S. OIL co. HIT.

MEXICO CITY, Sept 3O.-The
richest oil fields in Vera Cruz have
been inundated by the overflow of
rivers and all communications have
been cut, according to the report of
the ministry of industry. Much
damage has been done, the oil lines
having been broken, and work is dis
continued
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warehouse. That was all.
A fellow-worker stood in the Of
flee of the Daily Worker and told
the terrible story of Taylor's death.
Shaved in TOrrid Heat.
Taylor was about 40 and besides
his duties as fireman at the ware
house, was compelled to look after
the incinerator. He was kept busy
every minute of the day, worked
without rest in torrid heat, and at
the end of the week was given $50
Continued on Page Fips
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
Latvia Police Ban
Militant Journals
(Red Aid Press Service }

BERLIN, (BV MaiD.-Two news
papers which appeared in Riga,
"The Young Guard" and the "Strug-
gle for Justice" were Immediately
suppressed by the police. The pub
fishers of the newspapers, w. Jaun-
tiran and Weidenbaum respectively
who are allegedly known to the
police as Communists, have been ar
rested and handed over to the courts
for trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
CANADA BANS FREIHEIT
Communist Paper to Fight the Attack

The Freiheit, Yiddish language
organ of the Workers Communist
Party, has been banned in Canada.
Charging immortality" the es-
pionage department of the Royal
Mounted Police, the official govern
ment police, has ordered the Can
adian customs department to hold
up all copies of the paper which has
become the organ Of the militant
Jewish workers of Canada.
Hand of Reactionaries.
The Immoral" material which re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
KILL BRITISH OFFICERS.

HONGKONG, Sept. 30.-Chinese
pirates are said to have killed two
British officers of the China Navi-
cation Company's steamer Anking
The pirates are reported to have
captured the ship with it's 1,400 pas
-ars and steered it to Honghai
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
LAY PLANS FOR
HUGE CAMP AICN
TO Save SHIF Rim
Many Org IN zations
Pledge Support
at Big Meet
Denounce Right Wing
To Form Nation-W
Defense Groups

At an enthusiastic conference in
Irving Plaza which rang with de-
nunciations of the murderous activ-
tiles of the right wing Jewish Daily
Forward clique, 167 delegates,
representing 81 organizations and
many shops, yesterday afternoon
pledged fullest moral and financial
support to the efforts to save Will
liam Shiffrin, left wing worker,
from being railroaded to the electric
chair or long Jail term.
The conference, called by the
Shifrin Defense Committee, laid the
basis for nationwide campaign in
which thousands of workers and
workingclass organizations will be
enlisted to save Shifrin.
\ Right Wing Thugs.
Shifrin is now behind the bars as
a result of having defended himself
against five knife-wielders sent by
the right wing machine of the Butch
ers' Union which is under the DOM
ination of the Forward and the re-
dictionary United Hebrew Trades.
AS result of this attack, in which
Shifrin succeeded in saving his life
only by desperate struggle, one of
the would-be assassins was mortally
wounded.
The conference yesterday was an
eloquent answer to the provocations
of the yellow Forward, which has
been yelping for the blood of this
innocent worker. The Defense Com
mittee had engaged small hall on
the top floor of Irving Plaza, think
ing that this would be sufficient to
hold the crowd of delegates and
visitors. But when hundreds of
workers of all trades kept pushing
into the hall, overflowing into the
7 aisles and filling the front and rear,
it was found necessary to remove a
! partition in the rear, thus doubling
the capacity of the hall.
Pledge Support.
Speaker after speaker, beginning
with Sam Lipzin, manager of the
Shifrin Defense Committee, who was
chairman of the meeting, laid bare
the entire network of provocation
and assault in which this innocent
worker had been caught, and
pledged the support of their or
ganizations in thwarting the machin-
ations of the right wing clique.
Ben Gold, general organizer, Joint
Board, Furriers' Union and Louis
Hyman, chairman of the National
Organization Committee of tn
Cloak and Dressmakers, were given
tremendous ovations. They pointed
out that the attempts to railroad
Shifrin was the last resort of a cor
rupt and discredited gang who had
been repudiated by all honest
workers.
Other Speakers.
OF her speakers were Joseph
Boruchowitz, of the National Or
ganization Committee; Irving Pot
, ash, of the Furriers' Union, who
gave resume of the entire case;
Harry Matskin, representing the
progressive group in the Fruit
Dairy and Grocery Clerks Union
Okun, of the progressive bakers
Chazanoff, cloakmaker whose face
was recently slashed by right
wing official; and Max Rappaport
of the Grocery Clerks Union.
Rappaport brought to the meeting
Continued on Page Two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01
BAIT FOR FINLAND.

GENEVA, Sept. 30.-Hjalamar
Procope, foreign minister of Finland
and chairman of the last session of
the League of Nations Assembly has
been appointed rapporteur for man.
date questions during the coming
year.
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found so offensive by Lne over
whelming majority of the 28,-
900 strikers.
Sentiment among The work
ers, even the majority of the
members of the A. F. of L.
Council, is that they will not
go back to work even should
Batty's alleged referendum
show a majority" for acceptance.
Militants Protest.
The militant Textile Workers
Union, which is leading the strike
here, announced that it is calling
huge mass meeting tonight in Elm
Rink where the masses will voice
their real opinion on the strike
breaking offer of the employers.
Speakers at the meeting will be Eli
Keller, William Murdoch, Ellen
Dawson, Fred Beal, Jim Reid, An
| tone Samirras and John Pelczar.
Priests and Bosses.
Every minister and priest in this
city today preached that the work
ers should accept the fake compro-
x,nise offer and return to work. The
papers still continue full of the
same propaganda.
Strike leaders declare that even
should the Batty gang succeed in
manufacturing referendum" fav-
orable to the cut, no more than 500
of their immediate followers would
return to work in the Sc mills now
tied up for "a weeks. This attitude
is substantiated by the resentful re-
action among the workers against
the leaders of the A. F. of L. union.
At 1880 o'clock Monday evening
the Textile Council will meet to
count the votes of the so-called ref
erendum of several hundred men,
bers, completely disregarding the
opinions of the tens of thousands
that follow the left wing union, and
express their determination to ac-
cept no compromise settlements.
Militant Appeal.
An official statement issued by
the New Bedford Textile Workers
Union in regard to the five per
cent compromise offer declares:
"The New Bedford Textile Work
ers' Union at this time appeals to
all members of the United Textile
Workers Union to reject the SELL
out offer of the officials of the
Council. The mill owners, now on
their last legs, are trying TO use the
officialdom of the Council as a
means of breaking the strike and
defeating the heroic struggle of the
workers.
although Batty and his col
leagues have not come out openly
in favor of the five per cent cut,
they are giving the plan aid and
comfort when they allow it to be
voted on without themselves voting
its rejection at the meeting of the
Council. We urge the u. T. w.
members to condemn their leaders,
break away from that organization,
reject the strikebreaking offer and
join the New Bedford Textile Work
ers' Union, the organization which
is conducting a militant fight for
the workers and against the mill
owrers.
"Thc N. B. T. w. u. will continue
to lead the workers against the 10
pec cent cut and for the other de-
raands of our union. The mass
] Continued on Page Four