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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
INTEREST RISES
IN DAILY AFFAIR
Sunday Carnival Will
Draw Thousands

With the huge International Cos
tune Carnival of the Daily Worker
at Pleasant Bay Park only two days
off, active preparations are now
being made at the park to handle
the largest crowd that has ever Wis
tied there.
Many workers, it was learned, are
postponing weekend vacations
which they had planned in order
to attend the carnival Sunday. 1t
will be the first outdoor costume
event that the working class in this
country has ever held. Various ma
tional groups are planning to attend
in their national dress. Pictures
will be taken of the best groups,
as well as of the best individual
costumes, and later published in the
Daily Worker.
Great interest has been aroused
by the announcement that the edi-
torial staff of the Daily Worker
will engage the editorial staff of
the Young Worker in a mortal base
Continued on Page T10o
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
IS MINERS DIE
IN GAS BLAST
Coal Operators Admit
Negligence

COALPORT, Pa, Aug. 16.-Thir-
teen miners were killed here in the
No. Mine of the Irvona Coal and
Coke Company late yesterday when
a gas explosion went off, due to
the criminal failure of the company
to rock dust it's mines.
One hundred and fifty-nine men
were in the mine at the time of the
blast. The thirteen who were killed,
and one other miner who survived,
were working together in one Sec
tion and were trapped by poison
Gus fumes following the explosion.
Marina Coccia, the survivor, gave
the details of what occurred just
preceding the blast.
Officials of the mine admitted
their failure to rock dust the dig
gings, precaution which is known
to, be a fairly certain preventative
against explosions. Thousands of
miners have been killed during the
past few years due to the increas-
ing and criminal neglect of the
open-shop operators.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
EXPECT $4,000
AT SACCO MEET
Workers Will Crowd
Union Square Aug. 22

That the Sacco-V -Vanzetti memorial
demonstration on Union Square
Wednesday, August % at 5 p. m.
will be an unprecedented mass gath
ering is proved by the number of
kilograms, letters and messages
which continue to pour into the of
fices of the New York section of
the international Labor Defense,
Rose Baron, secretary, said yester-
day. Labor unions, fraternal or
CARNATIONS and branches of the l..
L. D. are hourly pledging their sup
port of the memorial demonstra-
tions.
Organizations which have an
swered the call to take part in the
demonstration include the Furriers'
Union, the international Ladies'
Garment Workers, Locals % and
43; Architectural Iron and Bronze
Workers Union; the Hand Millin-
cry Workers Union, Local 43; the
Amalgamated Food Workers, Bak-
ers' Local %; United Council of
Continued on Page Five
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
MILITANT Miner
IS Sent TO JAIL
Steve Jacobs Framed
by Court

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, Aug. 1e.-
The Guernsey County Court, before
going on vacation, climaxed a busy
term of persecution against the
striking miners by sentencing Steve
Jacobs to one year at the Colum-
bus Penitentiary. Jacobs, tricked
by the complicated machinery of
the state and fooled by the beauti-
full promises of the Judge, changed
bis plea of not guilty to guilty,
thinking in this way to get free.
Jacobs was framed on charge of
possessing dynamite.
Jacobs was approached in his cell
and induced to change his plea on
Saturday afternoon, one day before
the time of his trial. Since he
pleaded guilty, the defense was pow
erless to defend him. Jacobs's case
is another attempt to silence strike
leaders and put an end to their ac-
tivities. However, the miners march
on to a new organization, new
Continued ON Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
FORCE MILLS TO
CLOSE UP AGAIN
Invited to
Work, Stay Out

Especial to the Daily Worker
NEW BEDFORD. Mass, Aug.
16.-Abandoning all hope of obtain
ing scabs with which to resume op-
Grafton, the Pierce, Soule, Taber,
Sharpe and Booth mills changed
their gates shut after keeping them
open after vain standing invita-
ton to the strikers to return. The
So cotton manufacturing plants
here had demonstratively reopened
the gates several weeks ago and had
kept them open in the hope that the
strike would be broken. The ges-
ture of opening and the subsequent
police terror was a miserable fall
ure. Not more than a few score of
petty foremen returned to work.
The mill closing today was hailed
by the masses of strikers as evil
dence of a coming split in the ranks
of the employers.
Eli Keller, union organizer, in a
statement issued today answered
the charges levelled against him by
Thomas F. Mcmahon, reactionary
head of the United Textile Workers
Union. Keller, who is also lead
ing member of the Passaic local of
the U. T. W., was charged by Nc
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
Special CEC Meet
on Negro Work to
Be Held Tomorrow

A special meeting of the Central
Executive Committee subcommittee
on Negro work is called for tomor-
row at p. M, at the National
Office.
AS the work of this committee
has been much hampered in the
past because Of failure to attend
these meetings, the CEC is requir-
ing that all members shall attend
punctually. The committee has just
been reorganied and it is of the ut
most important for the effective
prosecution of this work, especially
in connection with the present cleo
ton campaign, that every member
participate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
CHINESE LABOR
union AID URGED
Jeng Tells of Marking
Anti-Labor Tactics

Reports from China arrive daily
describing the want and privation
under which the Chinese people are
forced to live. The workers are suf-
fering through the suppression of
their labor unions; the peasants
through the unprecedented greed of
the landowners. Besides these in
ternal instruments that hang over
the heads of the Chinese people, the
prsence of foreign imperialist ma
rines in China are used as instru-
ments of intimidation and murder.
The reactionary Marking regime,
born of the counter-revolution that
betrayed the millions of Chinese
peasants and workers, is slaughter
ing thousand upon thousand of
militant Chinese workers, suppress
ing the labor unions, butchering
their leaders.
Photos reaching the outside world
Continued on Page Teoo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
"BeIt" Claims
18th Victim at
Packard Plant

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 16.-The
"belt" at the Packard Motor factory
took another victim here today
when James Wheeler, 55, dropped
dead while at work. Doctors said
that his work in intense heat was
responsible for his death. Wheeler
is the eighteenth to die while at
work this summer.
Workers in the Packard plant
have on a number of occasions pro-
tested against the terrific speed-up
which has been forced upon them.
A large number of those protest
ing openly have been summarily
discharged after their names were
turned over to company officials by
hired stoolpigeons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
KELLOGG NOTES
BACK FRUIT CO,
HondurasL dispute
Is Fruit .Feud

TEGUCIGaEPA, Honduras, Aug.
f6s-The Honduran government has
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Secretary
Kellogg which, it is generally be-
Iieueds states categorically that the
Honduran-G Guatemala boundary dis
pute must be submitted to the Cen
traI-American Arbitration Tribunal,
which the Honduras government re-
fuses TO do.
The disputed land contains large
fruit plantations which are being
contested by the United Fruit and
Cuyanel Fruit Companies, the for
mer of which has branches through
out Central America. The Cuyamel,
with it's center in Honduras, has
consistently refused to submit the
dispute to the Tribunal because the
United Fruit would have a stronger
representation and thus get the bet
kar--jr1 the decision.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
CLOAK CHAIRMEN
TO HOLD PARLEY
Russian Workers and
PresSers to Meet

The first shop chairmens' and
delegates conference to be held
since the new union of cloak and
dressmakers was launched, is to be
held next Tuesday, Aug. 81, in Web
ster Hall, 18th ST. and Third Ave.
Immediately after work. This an
nouncement was made yesterday
from the headquarters of the Ma
tional Organization Committee.
Leaders of the N. 0. C. will de-
liver report on the progress of the
organization drive Plans for ex-
tending the scope of the drive viii
be discussed and decided on. Scores
of non-union shops have already
been brought under the banner of
the new organization since the last
conference of the shop chairmen.
All executive boards of the New
York locals in the ladies' garment
manufacturing industry will meet in
joint session tonight at the N. o. C.
headquarters, 16 w. 21st St. at 6
p. m. The local committee of the
N. O. c. will also take part in the
joint executive meeting. This meet
ing will take up in detail some of
the problems encountered in the or
ganization drive.
In the same building meeting of
the Russian Polish Branch of the
New York Cloakmakers Joint Board
will also be held, the branch secre-
tary, Olga Lvoff, announced.
A general membership meeting of
the Pressers' Local 35 is to be held
Monday, Aug. 20, according to a
letter sent out by the union office
yesterday. Louis Hyman, chairman
of the N. 0. G. and Joseph Goretsky,
manager of the local will be the
speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
COURT FAILS TO
TERRORIzE FALL
RIVER STRIKERS
Deportation Threat Is
Made to Pickets
by Judge
6 Months Jail for Nine
Especial to the Dolly Worker)

Especial to the Dolly Worker)
FALL RIVER, Mass, Aug. 16.--
Tho overawed, confused and threat
ened with deportation and long
prison terms, blythe judge, and dis
trict attorney and especially hired
Portugeuses flunkeys, scores of Por-
tuguese textile workers to "
stolidly refused to be bludgeoned
into remuneration of the Textile Mill
Committees, the union leading the
strike. Nine strikers and leaders
most articulate in their pledges of
union loyalty were again the victims
of%savage six month Jail sentences
and $1,000 "surety bonds"
Openly speaking as mill owners
agent Judge Hanify brazenly de-
clared that the vicious sentences he
was melting out'were for the offense
of picketing and singing strike
songs
Intimidate' Strikers
The intense campaign of intimi-
dation of the strikers up for trial
was consciously carried thru with
the most fragrant disregard of the
so-called laws the judge presumably
was there to uphold. In a long
vituperative attack on the Textile
Mills Committee, which he later or
dered translated by the Portuguese
interpreter, Hanify termed the
workers. organization as criminal"
and "illegal," membership in which
is punishable by deportation and i'm
prisonment.
Following this fascist procedure,
the editor Of a reactionary Portu-
ga sse paper, and Portuguese law
yei who is the nephew of the priest
WI helped police break up the
ful eral of Johnny Madeires, drowned
boy, then delivered long harangues
against the union.
Completely overwhelmed and con-
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
.JINCO ORDERED PORTER
SENTENCE KEPT SECRET AS
INVESTIGATION PROCEEDS
Whereabouts of jailed Textile Leader Remains
Uncertain
Link Seizure Of League Members Thruout
United States With New Move

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Aug.
16.-The creeping shadow of the
army intelligence service lies over
every soldier who dares even in
thought to oppose the use of him
self and his organization against
his class as the result of investi-
cations which the United States war
department, is making into the ac-
tivities of the Young Workers (Com-
munist) League in connection and
other activities.
The arrest of John Porter, vice
president of the New Bedford Tex
tile Workers Union, and a former
serviceman, is reported to have
furnished the occasion for the in
vestigation and the secrecy which
has surrounded his Imprisonment
and sentence is attributed to the
secrecy with which the war depart
ment is proceeding against the
workers in the army.
1t was Major-General Preston
Brown, commanding the first corps
district, at Boston, under whose
military jurisdiction the case of tie
young textile leader came, who on
his own initiative or that of his de-
partmental chief, requested the
war department to keep secret the
sentence passed upon John Porter
following his sudden transportation
to Rhode Island and subsequent
court martial several weeks ago.
1t was learned that the sentence
Continued on Page FiUe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
FUR LOCALS PICK
NATIONAL HEADS
u. S., Canada Unions
to Hold Meetings

AS first steps in following out the
instructions thye received Wednes-
day night at the mass meeting
where a new furriers' union was
launched, the International United
Front Committee of Fur Workers
yesterday announced that machinery
is being set in motion to construct
the Provisional National Executive
Committee of the new national or
ganization.
All the American and Canadian
fur garment and fur dressing locals
that are represented on the Interna-
tional United Front Committee, rep
resenting nearly every local in the
present A. F. of L. International
Fur Workers Union, are to hold
membership meetings in the imme-
diate future and are to choose their
representative to the N. E. c.
The Provisional National Execu-
tive Committee is to function as the
central body of the new furriers'
union till the national convention to
be held within 60 days chooses a
permanent executive body.
Committees of workers from the
locals of fur dressers in surround
ing cities and Brooklyn are coming
into the office of the left wing
Joint Board, which now serve also
as the headquarters Of the newly
launched union, with information of
the open shops that swamp the fur
dressing trade. They asked that
drive be begun to organize their
trade. Since the reactionary A. F.
of L. International officialdom be-
gan their destructive attacks
against the New York Joint Board,
the open shop system gained pre-
in the fur dressing in
dustry. The officers Of the new or
ganization announced that a drive
in that industry will be begun as
soon as plans now being considered
are completed.
The six fur workers arrested yes
terday by the police industrial
(thug) squad, were fined IS each
when tried yesterday in jefferson
Market Court before Magistrate
Goodman. Willie Yacker, the gang
ster who had slashed Meyer Vein
stein who refused to be forced into
the scab Joint Council was held for
further examination till September
4th. The right wing union was
to provide $4,000 bail be-
fore the thug was released.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
COMMUNISTS Win
ASTORIA FIGHT
TammanyThugsForced
to Move on

A cheering crowd of 1000 work
ers who listened for three hours to
speakers of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party last night at pJa-
maica and Steinway Aves., Astoria,
L. l., was the answer to the attack
on previous meeting held last
Thursday night. At that time Abe
Harfield, Communist candidate for
the assembly from the first district
of Queens and George Padgug and
Paul Muller were badly beaten by
hooligan members of the Dwyer
Post of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars. Rebecca Grecht, state cam
paign manager of the Workers
(Communist) Party was arrested on
a charge of ''inciting to riot" The
organization is known to be decoy
for Tamnany local bosses.
Resent Expose.
Resentment at the expose of
Tammany corruption by Harfield
and other Communist speakers at
other meetings was the cause of
the attack.
Stirred by the brutal attack on
the Communist speakers last week,
workers from Astoria and adjacent
towns on Long Island flocked to the
meeting last night. Five minutes
after Max Shachtman, editor of the
Labor Defender" opened the meet
ing, a group of the belligerent "pa-
triots" swept up to the pavement
in car, carried out a platform
and erected it about fifteen or
twenty feet from the Communist
meeting.
At the meeting last night, the
principal speaker for the legionists
was a certain George H. Kent, said
to be a stool pigeon who has been
seen shopping around the Workers
Center in which Communist head
quarters are located with the pur-
pose of spying on the movement.
Cops Are There.
About dozen sullen policemen
from the Astoria station remained
during the entire meeting. While
Bert Miller, organizational secre-
tary of District of the Workers
(Communist) Party was revealing
the long history of Tammany cor
ruption in New York, a bag of
water was thrown.
Several minutes later, painfully
conscious that their audience con-
sisted at most of so persons, the
stalwarts from the foreign wars"
organization modestly removed their
platform down Steinway Ave, and
across Jamaica, where gentleman,
Krump by name, proceeded to de-
nounce the Communist program.
Among the speakers at the meet
ing were Robert Minor, editor of the
Daily Worker and Communist can
didate for u. S. Senator; Abe Har-
field, Bert Miller, Rebecca Grecht,
Philip Frankfeld, acting district or
ganizer of the Young Workers
League, John Muller, Donald Burke
and Pete Shapiro.
Minor told the history of the Cen
tralia frame-up and how organiza-
tions like the Veterans of Foreign
Wars and the American Legion are
utilized by the capitalist class for
"their own dirty work"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
WORLDWIDE MEMORIALS FOR SACCO-VANZETTI
To Hold Demonstrations All Against Class ce

in the United States and Canada,
these meetings will commemorate
the first anniversary of the death
Of the two anarchist bastards"
whom Judge Thayer, Governor Full
Ter and President Lowell sent to the
electric chair. Meetings have been
definitely arranged in rs American
cities and the International Labor
Defense estimates that at least rs
more demonstrations are being
planned.
The Worldwide Sacco- vanzetti,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
PROGRAM is A
WORLD PROGRAM
FOR REVOLUTION
Meet Is Unanimous;
Bukharin Cheered
by Delegates
Stress War Danger

NWlEeieSS o DdIiy NOTheT.J
MOSCOW, August 16-The draft
program of the Communist Interna-
tional, introduced by Nikolai Buk-
harin, chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Communist Inter
national, was unanimously adopted
at the twenty eighth session of the
World Congress of the Information
al.
A storm of applause greeted Buk-
harin when in expounding the pro-
gram he declared, "The Congress
should adopt the program which
aims to unite the proletarian forces
for the coming struggles. The pro
gram is program for world revo-
luton"
Social Democrats Disruptive.
Bukharin in his closing speech on
the question of the draft program,
declared, "The social democrats say
that our program is disruptive, but
facts will show the workers that we
want unity whereas the social dem
ocrats are disrupting the mass or
CARNATIONS of the working class by
expelling the Communists, etc.
"Abramovitch declares that the
coalition policy means handing over
the power of the Party to the
workers. The action of all the So
Continued on Page Ta0o
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17

Mooney-Billings demonstrations will
be conducted by the International
Labor Defense and allied organiza-
tions such as the powerful Rote
Hilfe of Germany, Mopr of the Sow
let Union, Class War Prisoners Aid
of England and Canadian Labor De-
fense League. The Germans have
prepared Sacco-Vanzetti film,
tracing the history of the men from
Italy through their participation in
labor struggles in the United States
until their death in Charlestown
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17

state prison.
Workers at Braintree, England,
are contributing to fund to place
stained glass window in memory
of Sacco and Vanzetti in the Trades
Council Hall. 1t was in South
Braintree, Mass, that the crime oc-
CURED for which the two labor mar
tyrs were framed. When Governor
Fuller visited Braintree this sum-
mer, he was met with demonstra-
tion of several hundred workers to
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
(By Federated Press.)

Yellow-skinned workers of the
Orient, swarthy laborers of India
together with organized masses of
Europe, will mourn with American
workers August 20 for Sacco and
Vanzetti, and rededicate themselves
to the task of freeing Tom Mooney
and Warren X. Billings from life
imprisonment in California.
In hundreds Of cities and towns
of England, France, Germany, Rus
siav and in every industrial center
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (UP).-
The United States has accorded de
jure (or completely recognition to
the government now functioning in
Ecuador, the state department an
nounced today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
Daily Worker Agents
Hold Meeting Tonight

An important meeting of unit,
subsection and section Daily Worker
agents has been called for tonight at
the Workers Center, 1928 Union
Square, at $50 p. m. Attendance
at this meeting is very important,
according to district statement,
and no Daily Worker agent should
fail to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
Series on Automobile
Industry on Page 3

The second installment of eau
tomobile = Symbol of Modern
Slavery by Ben Lifschitz will
be found on page 8 of today's
issue of the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17

BOSTON, Aug. 16 (UP).-Two
heat deaths were reported as Bos-
ton sweltered in the third day Of
heat wave. Yesterday was the hot
test Aug. Is in the city's history
with the mercury at a maximum of
81.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
BUKHARIN'S REPORT

of the
Executive Committee of the Communist
International to the Sixth Congress now
in session in Moscow
will be published in the full official text
Aegnning with next Saturdays issue of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
Great BRITAIN
prep ARES WAR

LONDON, Aug. 16 (UP).-A
great fleet of bombing planes, to
be held as threat against hostile
nations who might bomb London
during war time, was urged today
as defense measure.
British air force maneuvers over
London for three successive nights
have demonstrated the impossibility
of defending the city from night air
raids. Brigadier- General p. r. C.
Groves therefore proposed today
vast increase in the country's bomb
ers. The purpose of the formidable
fleet would be to make enemy ma
tions afraid to bomb London, be-
cause of the more terrible havoc the
British could work in their own
cities in retaliation.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (UP).
"A charge that Rev. William
Thomas Reynolds, fashionable Epis-
copal clergyman, was intoxicated
last February was made in good
faith, Mrs. Marguerite Du Pont Lee
asserted in her answer today to the
minister's 100000 slander suit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED
FOR THE 4O-HoUR WEEK
FOR A LABOR PARTY
FOR WORKERS AND FARMERS
GOVERNMENT