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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
Worker Killed by
Electric Current;
2 Others Injured

His body writing and twisting
as 10000 volts of electricity passed
thru it, Frank Anderson, an cleo
trician employed by the open shop
Bell Telephone Company, was killed
Saturday afternoon when his hand
accidentally touched a live wire.
Two other workers were injured,
one seriously.
Anderson had been compelled to
work overtime in the laboratory of
the company at 463 West st. With
him were two other electricians,
Stanley La Roche and Arthur Conk.
AS it was late, all three were hur-
rying to get thru as quickly as pos
sible.
Andersons hand touched the sup
ply wire with the full current on
and he was thrown away from the
transformer to the cement floor. His
body struck a ladder on which La
Roche was standing and the latter
was thrown down, hitting his head
against the hard cement floor. He
was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital
and is reported in a serious condi-
ton. The third electrician, Conk,
was also burned severely about the
hands before he was able to turn
the current off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
Furious Gale Sweeps
Over England, Scotland

LONDON, Oct. 21.-The furious
gale which swept over England and
Scotland yesterday resulted in nu-
merous scattered wrecks and an oc-
casional fatality. Narrowing exper-
fences are being told today. The
small GLASGOW steamer, st. Bren-
don, was wrecked on reef. The
sailors We're rescued after hours in
an open boat. The Irish trawler,
William Castle, was wrecked on the
Wigtonshire coast. One of the crew
was drowned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
Election Symposium
in Williamsburg to
Be Held October 26

A political symposium participated
in by the Workers (Communist)
Party, the republican and democratic
parties, will be held on Oct. 26, 8
pm, at Miller's Grand Assembly,
at the corner of Havemeyer and
Grand SITS, in the Williamsburg sec
ton of Brooklyn.
The Workers (Communist) Party
will be represented by A. Bimba,
organizer of Section 6 of the Work
ers (Communist) Party and Com
munist candidate in the 18th as
sembly district.
Anthony De Piano and P. Nathan
son, republican and democratic can
didates in the 14th assembly dis
trict respectively, will speak fol-
their parties. The socialist party
has been invited to send a speaker
but has not responded. The sym.
postum is being held under the aus.
pieces of the Brooklyn Citizens Com.
mittee.
Hundreds of workers Of Williams
burg are expected to attend the sym
postum. The issues of the 1928 cleo
tions are recognized by them as be
ing of the utmost Importance tt
their daily lives, both in the shol
and at home, and they are anxiou:
to hear the platforms of the variou:
parties presented by their candi
dates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
WALL. ST. MEETS
LANDLORD BLOC
Stimson Works Hard
for Sugar Interests

MANILA, Philippine Islands, Oct.
21.-Three separate bills introduced
into the lower house of the Philip
pine legislature, having as their OBJ
iect the alteration of the land laws
to allow the leasing of large areas
in order to encourage larger sugar
plantations, are now under discus
sion and have led to the organiza-
ton of conservative opposition on
one hand and radical bloc on the
other.
The bills have been introduced by
the American governor-general,
Stimson, and aim at the loosening
of the land laws in various degrees.
The most insistent of these laws
demands that no limit be placed on
the area subject to lease, while an
other of these laws, said to be sup
ported by senate president Quezon,
would amend the land laws so as to
increase the area a corporation may
lease from the government from
1924 to $4,000 hectares (2,500 to
10000 acres).
Since the evident purpose of Slim
sons proposed measures is to grant
more freedom to American sugar
interests, the conservative national
lists, who represent native landown-
ers, oppose the bill. They have de-
manded the formation of blocs in
the senate and in the house, lead by
Senator Jose Clarin and Senator
Pedro Rodriguez.
Quenzon has already indicated his
willingness to cooperate with Sim
son in changing the land laws and
he is reported to be pushing one of
the three bills in the house. Two
others who are known to have
pledged Simson their support are
Senator Osmena and speaker Manuel
Roxas, who are threatened with q
split in their party.
The minorities in both chambers
are reported to have pledged sup.
port to the insurgents of the nation
alist party, and it is expected that
Simson will meet with some diff
Guilty in having his measures passed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
RALLY ON OCT. Is
IN BROWNSVILLE
Many Red Candidates
Will Speak

At g Red rally to be held in
Brownsville at the Hopkinson Man
sion, 428 Hopkinson Ave, Brooklyn,
on the evening of October 26, the
Communist platform of class strug-
gle will be presented by Commu-
mist candidates in the 1928 elections
and other prominent Red speakers.
The workers of Brownsville, a
lcrge section of whom are needle
trades workers, have responded
enthusiastically to the Communist
campaign thus far at the open air
meetings held in that section and in
the signature drive to put the Work
ers (Communist) Party on the bal
lot, and large and enthusiastic
mass meeting is expected to be held.
Those who will speak on what
the Workers (Communist) Party
stands for, in the factories, mines
and mills as we'll as in the 1928
elections, will he Fl. M. Wicks, of
the Daily Worker staff; Scott Near
ing, candidate for governor of New
Jersey; Bert Miller, candidate in the
14th Senatorial District of Manhat-
tan and organization secretary of
District 2 Workers (Communist)
Party; Ben Gold, Communist candi-
date in the Esd Congressional Dis
trict; D. Benjamin, candidate in the
Tth Senatorial District; Ray Rago-
yin, running in the 23d Assembly
District and Samuel Liptzin, Red
candidate in the 22d Assembly Dis
trict
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
S. P. Is Truly
American, Says
D. A. r. Speaker

WHEELING, w. Va, Oct. I'll
"The socialist party is also an
American party"
For this not altogether new dis
covery you have the authority of
Mrs. P. A. Reymann, prominent
blue blood of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.
And who more than the d. A. R
members are to judge what is
"American"-the good kind Of
Americanism, mind you, not the var
iety of 1776 or that of 1912.
Speaking before the twenty-thirc
annual convention of the D. A. R
held at Bluefield, W. Va, Mrs. Rey-
mann launched a spirited attack
upon the Workers (Communist)
Party, its candidates, its program
and its militancy. "The Commu-
nists openly state that they fight
in the class struggle" she said
"That is un-American. 1t is the
duty of a national defense commit
tee to combat un-American institu-
tions. The republican, the democrat,
the socialist party may be classed
as American, but not so the Com
munist Party"
The good lady's TRADE was caused
by the calling of a recent Commu-
mist meeting at Wheeling, at which
Scott Nearing was scheduled to
speak. Nearing and other Commu-
mist speakers were arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
Bar Kansas City Negro
Aviator From Airport
Because of His Color

KANSAS CITY, Kansas, Oct. 81.
The officials of the Fairfax flying
field, the airport in this city, have
barred Doctor A. Porter Davis, a
Negro physician, from the use of
the field because of his color The
reason given by the field authorities
for this discrimination is that white
pilots and plane owners have OBJ
jected to his being allowed on the
field. They further state that his
presence on the premises greatly
retards the property's development.
Davis, who purchased plane last
spring, experienced the same condi-
tions in Missouri at other flying
fields, and therefore came to Kan
sas to find place where he would
not be Disseminated against. DR..
Davis hopes to establish an aviation
school for Negro youths, as they
are unable to study aviation at
schools sponsored either by the gov
eminent or by individual whites.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
To Ask Death Penalty
for Obregon Assassin

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 81 (UP).-
The death penalty will be asked for
Jose De Leon Toral, assassin Of
President-elect Alvaro Oregon,
when he goes to trial next month,
according to a formal notification
which has been presented to judicial
authorities. 1t is understood the
Trial may start November S, but no
official date has been set.
Lesser penalties will be asked for
the dozen alleged accomplices of the
assassin, only one of whom will be
tried with Toral
Juan Cores Nieto, federal district
prosecutor, said Madre Conception,
the nun who is charged with being
the intellectual instigator" of the
crime, will hear demand for the
maximum sentence for her when the
trial opens. The maximum for wo-
men is twenty years in prison.
Nieto will recommend to the court
that the ether eleven men and wo-
men implicated in the assassination
be held for prosecution on lesser
charges.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
Prizes for Shabbiest
Garments to Be Given
at |. L. D. Fall ReveI

Workers whose clothes have long
since lost their innocent bloom and
freshness will be in their element
Saturday night when the annual
Proletarisn Autumn Revel of the
New York section of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense is held at Web
ster Hall, 119 East 18th st. At this
affair the more frayed and tattered
ones clothes are the better, for
prizes will be awarded to those
wearing the oldest and shabbiest
clothes.
This is expected to produce spirit
ed competition amongst New York's
tattered proletarians, many of whom
are planning to don garments of
venerable age. A committee of we'll
known proletarian artists and writ
ers will judge the respective merits
of the costumes" and award the
prizes accordingly.
or Entertainments of various kinds
will be provided during the course
of the evening and dancing will con-
tinue until the early hours of the
morning. The proceeds of the Au-
tumn Revel will go to defend work
ers now under attack by the CAPT
talist courts. Tickets are so cents
in advance and rs cents at the door
and are on sale at the office Of the
|. L. D., 799 Broadway, Room 422.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
WORKERS PARTY
OPEN AIR MEETS
Many Candidates to Be
Among Speakers

Continuing its intensive election
drive and its policy of making the
present election campaign means
of bringing the message of the class
struggle to the workers of New York
and vicinity, the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party has ARRANGED series
of onen air meetings to be held dur
ing the present week throughout the
city and vicinity.
Among the speakers who will adj
dress the workers at these omen air
meetings will be many candidates of
the Workers (Communist) Party,
running for various offices in the
city.
A list of the meetings to be held
and the speakers who will address
them follows:
Today,
Rutgers Souare-Taft, Spochnik,
Hendin, Wattenberg and Blum.
LIST Avenue and 49th Street.-The
Donald, Spiro, and Suskin.
28th Street and Lexington Avenue
-Rees, Primoff and Silber.s
Grand ST. Ext and Havemeyer
Street--Zan. Midola, G. Welsh,
and Joseph Cohen.
Stanley and Paterson (Noon)-
B. Miller and Gussakof.
Tuesday,
Suffer ard Williams-Liptzin,
Bimba, Jul. Cohen and L. Cohen.
Prospect and 163rd St.-Grecht.
Leroy, Horwitz, Lillienstein /.
Wishfsky.
144th St. and 7th Williams,
Alexander and Markoff.
9Th Avenue and 125th St.
Stachel, Gil Green, and Frank.
Eagle Pencil (Noon)-Sherman,
and R. Rubin.
Wednesday.
Wilkins and Intervale-Nessin,
Jackson, Schiller and E. .Shafram.
136th and 7th Ave.-Ed. Welsh,
Wright. and Grace Lamb.
Myrtle and Hudson-B. Miller,
Hinswood, and Midola.
End Ave. and 10th St.-Gussakof
Pasternack, Sam Saroff, md
Hendin.
99th St. and Lexington (Noon)--
BALKAN.
Passaic, N. J.-Padgug.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
Labor Sports Union Activities
Stimulating Worker Athletics

professional athletic fame. 1t is
tired of idolizing the "big shots" in
sporting. 1t is being stripped of the
illusions that it's mind has been filled
with in school, ("everyone has an
equal chance") with the intense ex-
ploitation and unemployment now
rampant. 1t is tired of the bosses
sports, with the Jingoism and anti
working class propaganda that al
ways goes with it, and is determined
to have organized sports under its
own leadership, within the ranks of
the Labor Sports Union.
Need Funds.
The National Executive Board of
the L. S. U. taking note Of the
change taking place in the minds of
the working youth is utilizing all
forces within its means to carry the
message of labor sports to the young
workers and to organize them with
in the ranks of the L. S..U.
To do this organizational work
the l.. S. U. must have funds. To
print leaflets, send out organizers, to
provide clubs with gyms and in
structors requires a good deal OF
money which must be raised The
National Executive Board h a s
created a permanent organizational
fund, to which it asks all workers
and working class organizations
that are interested in building up
a strong labor sports movement and
of organizing the youth into a work
ing class organization, are asked to
make contributions to the Labor
Sports Union Organizational Fund
Send all contributions to the Labor
Sports Union, Is West 126th, St.
New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
You're in the fight aohen you
Write for The DAILY WORKER.
by WALTER BURKE

The Labor Sports Union, since it's
last convention held in New York on
the 9th, 2Sth of August, has shown
real organizational gains in building
itself and in stimulating the work
ers nationally in organizing work
ers sport clubs. Today the workers
in all parts of the country are TAX
ing active steps in organizing sport
clubs. The workers realize the fact
that the bosses sport organizations
are their class enemies (Y. NJ. c. A.,
Y. w. c. A, Industrial Athletic
League, A. A. u and hot-beds for
anti-labor corruptive propaganda.
They are theoretically going ahead
with the organization of their own
sport clubs under the banner of the
Labor Sports Union.
Two Years Old.
While the workers sport move
ment has been in existence in the
European countries for many years,
it is less than two years since the
workers in this country have or
ganized a national workers sport or.
ganization, the Labor Sports Union
1t is true, there were many workers
sport organizations in the large in.
dustrial centers, mostly Finnish, be.
fore the organization of Labor
Sports Union, yet they were not or.
ganized into central organization
and their growth was limited. To
day the l.. S. U. numbers over 7C
clubs with a total of $500 members
within its ranks.
The American working youth is
becoming tired Of the Gene Tunneys
I'll Tildens and Babe Ruths Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
MANY FLOATS TO
COLOR RED RALLY
ON NOVEMBER 4
Pageant Will Portray
Lives of Workers

A new and revolutionary standard
of pageantry will be achieved at the
Madison Square Garden on Sunday,
Nov. a.
The 18th anniversary of Thu
Bolshevik revolution and huge Red
Rally will contain the most dynamic
presentation of the class struggle
ever given in this country. Accord
ing to Adolf Wolf, under whose
direction and management t e
pageant is being prepared, it will be
taking the pageant of the class
struggle out of the static stage and
irving it powerful, dynamic aspect.
Workers will see and thrill to the
revolutionary movement in full
swing of action"
Picturesque Floats.
All around the Garden picturesque
floats will parade in militant pro-
cession. Twenty different aspects
of the class struggle will thus be
presented. These are "Unemploy-
ment," Gin Memoriam to Our
Martyred Dead" american Negro
Labor Congress, Labor faker and
political float" "Soviet Union
float" Needle Trades Union"
"Textile Union" miners Union,"
"Youth and Pioneers" "Anti-Im-
perialism," Workers International
Relief" international Labor De-
fense," Communist Foreign Ian
guage Press" "Daily Worker"
"Workers' School," Workers Inter
tional Sports" 'Proletcos,"
workers Camps" Omitted Work
ers' Cooperative" and Working
Women"
Great Procession.
Turnout the procession action will
take place on each float, descriptive
of its nature. The whole procession
of class struggle will be the most
elaborate to be attempted. Hum
dreds of workers, white and black,
men, women and children, will take
part in the presentation. Up and
down the entire length of the arena,
north and south sides, the mig
parade will march to the cheering
of 10000 workers and the singing
of the International accompanied by
the Freiheit Singing Society and the
Polyphonic brass band.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
STATE KILLS HICKMAN

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Calf,
Oct. 81 U.P.-The bravado which
carried William Edward Hickman
through one of the most atrocious
crimes in the history of California,
collapsed completely when he mount
ed the gallows today to be hanged
for the murder of Marion Parker.
Less than a second before the
trap was sprung he almost tainted,
but before he could fall to his knees
the trap went out from under him
and he dropped to his death at the
end of hemp rope.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
AUDIENCE CHEERS
MILITANT STAND
OF RED SPEAKERS
Intensive Anti-Fascist
Drive Begun

Over thousand Italian. workers
crowded the hall of the Peoples
House, East 18th ST., yesterday af-
ternoon in a gigantic protest mass
meeting against the murder of an
Italian worker and the wounding of
another in Detroit when fascist
thugs and gangsters fired into an
.anti-fascist demonstration there last
sweek.
,uoThe workers cheered necessarily
oas the speakers presented appeals
fer militant stand of all workers
in the United States against the
bloody hand of fascism which, in COL
fusion with the American lingo or
CARNATIONS, is stretching into Amer
lea to snuff out the lives Of those
Workers who oppose its bloody rule.
saisd Will Fight Fascism.
@ToX resolution passed unanimously
by the 1000 workers present, con-
demned fascism and advocated a
united front of all workers against
-ftAe reactionary blackshirt rule.
Nicholas Napoli and G. Serio of
the Workers (Communist) Party,
addressed the workers who packed
the hall, and called upon them to
fight the underhand and gangster
methods of the fascists. Protracted
applause greeted each speaker as
different points were raised. Men
tons of the word fascism were sig
4 mails for long boos
Begin Big Drive.
Other speakers reiterated the
stand of the two Communist speak
ers, calling upon the audience for
wholehearted solidarity against the
reactionary activities of the fascists.
A motion made toward the end of
the meeting called for another
meeting to be held next Sunday. Ac-
cording to N. Napoli, this meeting
was only the beginning of an in
tensive campaign against the fascist
activities in America. Other meet
ings will carry the campaign fur
Their.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
Negro Segregation
Is Shown Up in
Suburb of Chicago

CHICAGO, Oct. 21.-Negro resi-
dents of haywood, one of Chicago's
most popular and growing suburbs,
are not wanted in the community
and concerted efforts on the part of
white property owners and real es-
tate operators to curb the growth
of Maywood's Negro population,
came to light recently through an
article published in the haywood
Herald, the weekly newspaper of
that town. At the meeting of the
real estate board and the white prop
erty owners, it was reported that
petitions have been circulated
throughout the white residents, for
the purpose of securing signatures
which make it impossible for the
real estate men to sell property to
Negroes. Over 80 per cent of the
whites have signed petitions, it is
said. 1t was further planned by the
board to form a syndicate to buy
up all property now held by Ne
groes.
The Negro citizens of haywood,
however, through their organization,
the Community Welfare Club, will
fight the segregation tactics of the
white residents. In a statement
made public by the club, the Negro
residents say, "The movement car
ries all the earmarks Of race hatred
intolerance and prejudice. 1t sub
jects US to rebuff and insult; it de-
prives us of that friendly, helpful
cooperation which should exist be.
tween the two races, but does not
We will block any attempt to drive
or coerce US from our homes anc
our property"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
N. Y. Giants Lose to
Detroit Wolverines
$50; Friedman Stars

DETROIT, Oct. 81 WlD.-Benny
Friedman's Detroit Wolverines main
tanned their position among the
leaders in the national professional
football league by walloping the
New York Giants this afternoon, rs
to 0. Benny's forward passing and
kicking were the mainstays of the
Detroiters, although he played only
half of the game.
Bruce Caldwell, former Yale star
who played right half for the Giants
did not show to advantage, being
thrown for losses when the VOL.
VERNE linesmen broke through.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-22
1OUm 1000 Italian Workers Attend Protest Meeting Against Ease
HARLEM NEGRO
WORKERS RALLY
AT RED NIGHTS
Hundreds March Be
hind Red Flag

The first of the two Red nights
which the Workers (Communist)
Party has planned for Negro Har-
lem went over with bang on Sat
urday night. Negro Harlem was
thrilled to the core as scores of
Negro and white workers with auto
mobiles borrowed for the occasion,
invaded the district with the revolu-
tionary message of race equality
and workingclass solidarity. Eleven
successful street meetings were held
in the district, covering Lenox,
Seventh and Fifth Avenues, and fin
ally converging in one huge cam
paign rally at 135th st. and Seventh
Ave.
The final rally opened at 10 o'clock
and was soon swelled to huge pro-
portions by the arrival of crowds of
Negro workers who had been at
tracted to the other meetings and
who followed the banners of Com
munism to the final rally at 135th
st. and Seventh Ave. Here, too,
came all the speakers, including
Jack Stachel, secretary of the organ
ization department of the National
Office Of the Workers (Communist)
Party; Ed Welsh, Negro Commu-
mist candidate in the 21st Assembly
District; Otto E. Huiswoud, Negro
member of the National Political
Committee of the Party; Harold
Williams, District Negro Organizer
and member of the District Political
Committee; Alexander, of the Young
Workers League; A. Markoff of the
District Executive Committee and
many others.
Negro Harlem was given concrete
evidence of the nature of the Work
ers (Communist) Party, the party of
all workers, black and white. Hun
drcds of Negro workers thrilled to
the information vouchsafed by Negro
and white comrades of the leading
part played in the councils of the
Party by its colored members, and
joined in the cheers led by the
League members for William q.
Foster, presidential candidate of the
Party; Richard B. Moore, Negro
Communist candidate in the 21st
Congressional District; Ed. Welsh,
Negro Communist candidate for the
Assembly in the 21st Assembly Dis
trict and Lovett Fort Whiteman,
Negro candidate for State Compt-
roller Of New York.
The crowd listened with intense
interest to the reading of the Work
ers Party platform demands for the
Negro, which include full equality,
equal pay for equal work, admission
into the labor unions, and the aboli-
ton of lynching, jim-crowism, seq
legation and all discrimination
against Negroes. And they cheered
Cor the Communist presidential and
vice-presidential candidates, Foster
and Gitlow, as Negro comrades told
how these candidates had invaded
the south with their message of race
equality and how their meetings had
been broken up in many cases by
police and reactionary A. F. of l..
cfficialdom, and themselves arrested
several times for their fearless ad-
vocacy CT Negro rights.