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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
PUBLIC SPEAKING. FIRST MOVE BY
COURSES At THE AMERICAN TRUST
WORKERS SCHOOL in WORLD OIL WAR
u. S. Trusts Consider
Combine

The first indication of stronger
American oil combination to offset
the British Royal Dutch oil and
chemical trust alignment, which has
already been countered by an United
States-German oil-chemical COM
Line, occurred here yesterday with
the meeting of the Pan-American
Petroleum and Transport Company.
The company is controlled by Stand
ard Oil of Indiana, which is reported
TO be considering a closer affiliation
with the Sinclair Consolidated Oil
Corporation.
Colonel Robert w. Stewart, chair
man of the board of directors of the
Standard Oil Of Indiana, one of the
Rockefeller strongholds, is here con-
ferring with principal persons rep
resenting various financial and in
dustrial interests.
Stewart, who figured in the Tea
pot Dome Oil scandal, is rumored
to have been offered the chairman
ship of the Sinclair Consolidated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
WAR LORDS Get
FOREIGN ARMS
German Munitions Up
Yangtze River

SHANGHAI, (By MaiD.-A sec
ond consignment of huge orders for
war munitions given by one of the
Szechuan province militarists to for
eign firms will, upon its. arrival
here, be taken up the Yangtze by
a foreign ship, according to one of
the leading Chinese papers, the
Eastern Times.
This installment consists of 10000
rifles, four field batteries, num-
Der of machine guns and two air
planes. The first installment, which
arrived some time ago, was seized
by the local military after a bitter
protest had been made by Szechuan-
csc living in Shanghai, who pointed
out that for many years their pro-
vince had been ravaged by sense
less militarist struggles and that
these supplies would merely pro-
long such conditions.
1t is rumored that the supplies are
of German origin despite the Off
cial prohibition" which that gov
eminent was reported to have made
against the further expectation Of
war materials to China.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
FOSTER HITS At
RACE INEQUALITY
Big Crowd in Frisco
Greets Red Nominee

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, (By
MaiD.-William z. Foster, Commu-
mist candidate for the presidency re-
ceived an ovation when he rose to
address an audience estimated at be-
tween eight hundred and one thou
sand workers in the Civic Auditor
ium, this city, on Friday evening,
September 81.
The meeting was more than twice
the size of that addressed by Nor
man Thomas, the socialist candidate,
few days previously and in con-
trast to the Thomas meeting which
was attended mostly by liberals and
small business men, the Foster
meeting was one hundred per cent
working class.
Exposes U. S. Imperialism.
The most significant characteristic
of the meeting was the large num-
Der of Orientals and Negroes pres
ent. The speaker exposed the i'm
perialist role Of the United States
government in China, its war
against the Chinese revolution in
conjunction with Great Britain and
Japan, and how the United States
is now bolstering up the reactionary
Kuomintang regime, that betrayed
the revolution to the foreign i'm
perialists and slaughtered hundreds
of thousands of Communists and
militant workers and peasants.
Foster pointed out that the Work
ers (Communist) Party, the only po-
litical party in the United States
having for its aim the overthrow of
capitalism, was a section. of the
Communist international, the leader
of the struggle of all workers and
oppressed colonial peoples, regard
less of race or color to throw off
the yoke of the imperialists.
Champion of Negroes.
The speaker dwelt on the perse-
cution of the Negroes by the capt.
talists of the United States and de-
clared that the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party stood for full social and
racial equality for the Negroes in
contradistinction to the capitalist
parties, the parties of lynching and
segregation, Jim Crowism and dis
elimination. He urged the white
workers to fight for the rights Of
the Negroes declaring that the rul-
ing. classes nourished race and color
prejudices in order to weaken the
fight of the workers against the
capitalists, the common enemies OF
all workers.
A collection of $4,000 was taker
up for the Communist election cam
paign. Unemployed workers were
admitted to the meeting free OF
charge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
SCHIFFRIN HELD
FOR GRAND JURY
Socialists Back the
F'rame-Up Crew
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
privately, and in the presence of De
tective Wabbenhorst who acted as a
witness, they told me that Schiffrin
had not advanced to attack them as
they were getting out of the auto
mobile, as they said yesterday, but
that Schiffrin backed up to the wall
and remained their while the three
of them, and three others who were
in the car with them, got out and
approached Schiffrin."
Despite this astounding statement,
the judge granted Markewitch the
floor to announce that the three had
confessed to the prosecutor were
again ready to deny the confessions.
He asked permission of Judge Dodge
to call in the three referred to. This
permission was i'm m ed lat Y
granted. But the frame-up machine
of the socialists lawyer was so
clumsy, that when they appeared on
the stand again, they were unable
to withstand the cross examination
of the defense, and they again ad-
mitted that Schiffrin did not get
away from the wall.
Under cross examination from the
district attorney the business agent
of the right wing Butcher Union
even admitted that Andrew Jansen's
testimony of the day before was
correct. Jansen stated that all six
had encircled Schiffrin and closed in
on him. The business agent Suss-
kowitz, confessed that all six of them
had advanced on Schiffrin to "take
away his knife"
The William Schiffrin Defense
Committee, thru it's manager s..
Lipzin, yesterday declared that the
workers here and from out of town
were rallying to the defense of the
framed W worker by sending in con-
tributions to its offices at the
Workers Center, 26 Union Square,
Room 603.
Many workers organizations an
nouncing their intentions of partici-
pating in the conference Sunday
afternoon where plans for a broad
defense campaign will be launched.
The conference will be held in Irv-
ing Plaza, 18th st. and Irving Place.
The Defense Committee is empa-
sizing in its appeals to the workers,
broadcast in leaflets, that partic-
ularlE important is it to have direct
representation from workers in the
shops. All workers are appealed to
choose their delegates from among
their shopmates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
PHILA. POLICE TERROR
Arrest Workers at Communist MEETINGS

indictments returned against these
two men.
At an authorized street meeting
held Aug. IA Herman Pinsker pre-
sided and introduced Benjamin
Weiss, a high school student of IA.
Weiss told his audience that Ger
many and England had gone to war
to protect their imperialistic inter
ests and that America had entered
the conflict for similar reasons. AL
tho the meeting was entirely Or
derby, both were arrested upon the
ipstigation of world war jingoes.
Young Weiss was released after be-
ing detained three days, but Pinsker
is held in $500 bail, charged with
"inciting to riot" He did nothing
but introducue the boy. No indict-
ment has as yet been found against
him.
Israel Lazaar was arrested for
making seditious remarks" when
he addressed Workers Party out
door meeting on Aug. 20. Lazaar's
bail, at first set at $4,000, was re-
duced to $1,000 when his attorneys
refused to put up the first sum and
started habeas corpus proceedings.
Herbert Benjamin, district organ
izer of the Workers Party, was ar
rested for "disorderly conduct" and
fined $40 because the sergeant at
the police station disapproved of his
attitude" when he appeared and
demanded copy Of the charges
against Lazaar.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
Hard Working Pi Police Inspector Banked $4,000 Year $1,000 Saar
CITY WALLOWS IN
CRAFT; HIGHER
UPS INVOLVED
Almost Entire Force
Have Taken Brides

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 81 (UP).
John Stuckert, police inspector
and superintendent of the police
training school, was questioned to-
day by District Attorney John Mon
Afghan as the grand jury investiga-
tion Of vice conditions here contin-
ued to involve members of the po-
lice department.
Stuckert, Monaghan said, with a
salary of $1,000 annually, has de-
posted $4,000 in banks since March,
1926.
The inspector spent ten hours be-
fore the grand jury early today and
was scheduled for another appear
snce later in the day. Monaghan,
however, said the second question
ing had been postponed pending
further examination of his bank ac-
counts.
The district attorney intimated a
warrant would be sworn out for
Stuckert Friday, unless he could ex-
plain satisfactorily the source of his
prosperity.
Stuckert, it was pointed out, was
appointed inspector of the northeast
district, in which two captains and
several detectives were arrested in
March, 1925. Bank deposits for
large amounts, in his name, were
made soon after the appointment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28

"Lawless repression and petty
persecution" by Philadelphia police
in dealing with Workers (Commu-
nist) Party election campaign meet
ings and striking garment workers,
according to the American Civil
Liberties Union, have followed a
decision July 16 by Judge Alessan-
droni of the Superior Court, who
ruled that the police had power to
regulate assemblage even in pri-
vate halls. An appeal against this
decision is being taken to the Penn
sylvania Supreme Court by the Civil
Liberties Union.
Typical recent cases still pending
are those of speakers at Workers
Party street meetings duly author
lied by the police. Dominick Flaini
was arrested July %, charged with
violation of the Pennsylvania sedi-
ton act, and held in $500 bail, when
he told voters that they should not
support the republican party be-
cause President Coolidge was a
strikebreaker and had suppressed
the police strike in Boston"
More "Sedition."
Emanuel Epstein, who went to the
police station to ask the charges
against Flaini, was quizzed by the
police captain as to whether he "be-
lieved the same things Flaini did"
When he replied that he did, he too
was arrested, charged with "sedi-
sion,' and held in $500 bail. So far
pros cutors have been unable to get
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
Final Mobilization
Turnout the City in
Red Signature Drive

The signature drive in New York
City, which members of the Work
ers (Communist) Party have been
vigorously pushing for the last two
months, will be finally ended on
Sunday, Sept. 80, when each section
of the city will have final mob
ilization for the putting across of
all assembly districts for which a
sufficient number of signatures
have not yet been obtained.
Tomorrow and Sunday are the
last two days of the signature drive.
Four thousand signatures more are
needed throughout the city, accord
ing to the District Campaign Com
mittee, and those 1000 signatures
will have to be obtained by Red
campaigners this weekend.
In every section of the city men,
bers of the Workers (Communist)
Party are urged to respond to the
call of the section campaign direc-
tor and report for the final mob
ilization drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
SECRET Terror
BY COAL BAR0Ns
Night Riders" Gang
in Ohio

ST GAINESVILLE, O., Sept. 81.
John Eberhart, a coal mine fore
nan, was released yesterday on a
$1,000 bond following his arrest on
a charge Of riotous conspiracy. Eber-
hardt was charged with being one
Of the leaders of a Might Riders"
gang which has been conducting
raids on homes. Recently two wom-
en- and three men were dragged
from their homes. An attempt made
to hang them was frustrated.
Paul V. Waddell, notorious prose-
cutor Of Belmont county, who several
months ago imprisoned 81 women
pickets, announced that he has the
names of a number of the gang but
did not indicate that he would pro-
coed against them.
In some quarters, it is believed
that the move is a scheme of the
coal operators to conduct a secret
terror against the coal miners of
the section.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
Many Special Classes
in Fall Term

During the summer months the
Workers School laid out many plans
for the Strengthening and improv-
ing of it's public speaking depart
ments, and as result will offer
three courses in that subject during
the coming fall term which begins
Monday, Oct. /, at 1928 Union
Square, fifth floor. The courses are
as follows;
Platform Speaking, Beatrice Beck
er, instructor. Monday, 7 to $40
p. m.
Speech Improvement, Dora John
son, instructor, Tuesday, $3.50 to
$50 p. m.
A special course in Public Speak
ing for women workers and work
ing class housewives only, V. l. Jer-
ONE, instructor, Wednesday, Z to
500 p. m.
Classes Already Held.
During the past summer many
brief neighborhood and section
speakers classes have been held
throughout the city in the different
sections of the New York organiza-
ton of the Workers (Communist)
Party of America, with the cooper
alton and aid of the Workers
School. Many Of the students that
have attended these classes will be
eligible for, and are urged to attend
the course in Platform Speaking
that will be given at the Workers
School on Monday evenings.
Due to the present election cam
paign a great deal Of interest has
been aroused among the militant
workers for courses in Public
Speaking. The offering of these
courses in the Workers School is a
result of these increased demands.
The formation Of new unions, the
great participation Of the rank and
file workers in the work of their
unions, as well as the development
in the building up of shop and mill
committees thruout the city, have
been other factors that have made
it imperative for the Workers School
to offer more and better courses
this coming term in Public Speak
ing. The Working Women's Fed
Grafton and the United Council of
Workingclass Women have request
ed special course for their mem
bers.
Courses For Foreigners.
Foreign speaking workers with
an accent who wish to improve their
voice and speech for all speaking &C.
casions will have a special class to
meet their needs in speech improve
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
Mil Striker,
Hungry, Faints
ON the Street

NEW BEDFORD, Sept. 27.-Ed-
~ ward Kara, 81, of 1873 North
Front ST., striking textile
worker formerly employed at the
Bristol Mill, was taken to the
city infirmary following his col
lapse near his home recently.
Kara has been on strike for
the past "a weeks and has been
living with his father, Antonio
Kara. For the past three weeks,
Kara told Workers International
Relief workers, he has lived on
two loaves of bread. AS he was
leaving his home the other day
the street suddenly seemed to re-
volve and he collapsed with weak
ness.
W. I. R. records show that
Karza has not applied to the re-
lief stations here for help. When
asked why he did not avail him
self of relief, he said that he did
not want to deprive more needy
strikers of food. Kara is single.
The city officials here were re-
luctant to admit Kara to the
municipal infirmary when it was
learned that the starving man was
a striker. Mr.. Poirier, secretary
Of the Board of Public Welfare,
said: IF they went back to work
they wouldn't be wandering around
the city dropping from malnutri-
ton"
y
, Members of the Young Work
ers (Communist) League who are
minors are being threatened with
arrest for "vagrancy" for distrib-
uting leaflets and aiding in relief
work in New Bedford, Fred Bic
denkapp, national secretary of
the Workers international Relief,
said yesterday. The young work
ers, he said, are threatened with
terms in the reformatory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
MUST DIE IN CHAIR.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Sept. 27
(UP) William R. Phillips, %, and
Jesse G. Parker, 20, of Delaware
county must die in the electric chair
at the Rockview State Penitentiary
Monday, the State Board of Pardons
decided today in refusing their plea
of communication of the death SEN
tence. Phillips and Parker were con-
victed of the killing of Norman E.
Gibson, son of deputy parliamentary
last March.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
5 PULP EXPERTS
FROM SOVIET
union IN U. S.
Will Study American
Methods, Machinery

G. G. Khramtzoff, chief engineer;
E. G. Goryatcheff, vice-president,
and E. A. Kayatz, consulting engi-
neer of the Government Central
Paper Trust of the U. S. S. R., have
arrived in the United States to COM
plete negotiations for the purchase
Of over 100000 worth of paper ma
chinery for the new Balakhna mill
on the Volga River. The Central
Paper Trust is the largest paper
combine in the Soviet Union, ac-
counting for about 80 per cent of
the total paper and cardboard out
put and for over 80 per cent of the
cellulose production.
"While considerable American
equipment has been purchased for
Soviet paper mills during the past
few years." stated Khramtzoff, head
Of the delegation, "this equipment
has been for handling and trans
porting materials. The present or
der is for the first American paper
making machinery to be bought for
the Russian industry. The Volga
mills, on which work was started in
1926 and which are now nearing
completion, are among the largest
in Europe and have already installed
the largest paper machine in use on
the continent. After the installation
of this machine, which was pur-
chased in Germany, and the Ameri-
can machine we plan to add third
unit which will bring the annual
capacity of the mills up to 10000
tons of newsprint."
Two years ago Khramtzoff WIS.,
tied the United States on behalf of
the Central Paper Trust, while
Kayatz was one of the group of en-
,gineers and workers who recently
made a five months study of the
American and Canadian paper in
dustries. The favorable impression
of American equipment and meth
DDS gained on these visits was UNI
doubtedly instrumental in bringing
about the present purchases.
The Soviet paper industry en-
ployed 10000 workers and produced
267,000 tons of paper and $4,000
tons of cardboard last year. This
year the output is running 8 per
cent ahead of last year. About
S20,000,000 was expended for cap
ital construction in the industry this
year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
Dance Tomorrow at the
Greek Center to Give
Funds to Daily Worker

A dance, arranged by the Greek
Progressive Center, will be held to-
morrow evening, beginning at 8 p.
m. at the Center, 101 W. 28th st.
All workers have been invited to
attend the affair, rs per cent of the
proceeds Of which will be donated to
the Daily Worker, which is now
campaigning for 10000 new read
ers.
The Greek Progressive Center,
situated as it is, in the heart of the
fur and millinery district, expects
to draw most of these workers not
only to the dance tomorrow evening,
but to the activities which will be
part of it's daily work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
Spanish Workers Paper
in Subscription Drive

The militant paper of the Span
ish workers, Vida Obrera, has be-
gun a drive for subscriptions among
the Latin American and Spanish
workers in the United States. Vida
Obrera workers Life), is the
monthly organ of the Spanish Lam
guage Bureau of the Workers
(Communist) Party.
The first issue in it's new form
will appear tomorrow, when it will
be on sale at ball to be held by
the Bureau at the Spanish Workers
Club, IS w. 18th st. Typical South
and Central American dances, revo-
utionary songs and costumes will
feature the dance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
STORM FREAK

BUFFALO, Sept 27 (UP).-
After severe hail storm, accom-
panied by terrific wind and light
ming today, waterspout was
sighted on Lake Erie, four miles
west of Buffalo. Thousands of per-
sons in office buildings in the down.
town section of this city witnessed
the rare occurrence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
WAR MACHINE ON FLIGHT

LAKEHURST, N. j., Sept. 27
(UP).-The non-rigid dirigible Puri-
tan, which arrived here Tuesday
from Akron, Ohio, left the naval
air station at 9:20 a. m. today on
flight to New York City and
vicinity. The Puritan is one of the
smallest .dirigibles in the world and
carries a portable mooring mast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28

ment, which will be given Tuesday
evenings.
Those desiring more information
concerning courses to be given at
the Workers School this year should
come to the office of the Workers
School or write for free copy of
the catalogue. Registration is now
in progress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
WASHINGTON ARMS MEET.

QUITO, Ecuador, Sept. 27.-The
Ecuadorian government today ap-
pointed Carlos Arroyo del Rio as
delegate to the Forthcoming arbi-
tration conference at Washington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-12
Blind Logger
Police Break Up Bust
ness; Drinks Delivered
by Automatic Device.
VXT1LL1AM BROs1Us, blind

VXT1LLIAM BROSIUS, blind
w bootlegger, conferred with
his attorney today regarding the
rescue of his pal from the tolls
OF police and about his own i'm
mediate future.
For Sergeant John Eisenhut
and his squad had swooped down
on BroSius' modest home at 1854
w. Twenty-Seventh ST., and
ruined the blind mans business.
They left the place with ten gall
Ions of alcohol and whisky and
took Lloyd Masters, 35, of 43O
Irving Pl., along with them.
Having no warrant for the raid,
they left Brosius behind. Mas
ters was arrested outside the
house, the police allege.
When they entered the place
their search proved fruitlesS until
Eisenhut stumbled across a loose
Doar0 IN rear room floor. Be-
meath was chain and a kind of
block and tackle system of booze
delivery, the officers declare.
BY pulling the chain box came
to the hole in the floor and when
its contents we're lifted it auto
matically slid back by a system
of weights.
Brosius was in on mood to dis
cusS the method of operation to-
day He fears an affidavit may
be issued for his own arrest and
he is anxious to get Masters re-
leased on bond.
He has made his own way in
the darkness since the affliction
descended on his fourteen years
ago. Before that time he had
been running a train, he said.
His system of delivery was
easily operated by touch, the
house is familiar to him and he
has no trouble getting about, he
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-12
Not So Extra
Newspaper Story on
Local Narcotic SenSa-
ton Had Wrong Dope

DRESTO, change, and enough
Il opium TO supply the entire In
dianapolis colony of dope ad-
diets for several months" dwin-
died today to one ounce of NOR
phine, barely enough to supply
one dope addict for three weeks.
Narcotic Agent J. ]. Keene did
the magic work to a wild news
paper story that with the arrest
of an alleged dope salesman, whose
identity has not been revealed,
police cooperating with Federal
narcotic agents Thursday believed
that they had struck at one Of
the biggest narcotic rings uncov-
cred in indianapolis in recent
years"
The story declared that the
dope salesman was arrested in a
Pratt st. house where the huge"
supply of opium was found. It
said Federal warrants had been
issued and more arrests we're ex-
pected at once, Here's what really
happened:
Police found one ounce Of NOR
phine, not opium, in a vacant
house on Pratt st. Instead of
watching the house and arresting
the owner they carried away the
morphine and have no idea
whose it was.
There have been no arrests, no
warrants have been issued and
there is little chance of finding
the narcotic law violator, accord
ing to Keene.