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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
WEST SIDE RED
RALLY TONIGHT
Communist Speakers to
Address Workers

The lower West Side will have a
huge Communist Election Campaign
Rally tonight, for the first time,
when squad Of over % speakers of
the Workers Party State Election
Campaign Committee, including
many candidates on the Communist
ticket, will be sent to cover eight
open air meetings that are being
arranged in this section. This ter
ritory, which has been relatively un-
touched by the militant working
class movement, contains thousands
Of American, Irish, Negro, Italian
and Greek workers, who are engaged
in various important industries, es-
pecially those connected with the
waterfront.
This Red Night Election Cam
paign Rally will mean that thou
sands of workers for the first time
will hear the message of the class
struggle and what the Workers
(Communist) Party stands for in
the present election campaign. All
speakers will report to 101 w. 9th
st. at 1880 p. M, headquarters of
Sections 2 and of the New York
District Of the Workers Party, and
then will be assigned to various
corners along 7th and 9Th Aves., ex-
Continued on Page Two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
SWELL THE WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN FUND
Powerful Mass Communist Party the United States America

workers supporting it, have done splendid work Pburghs rally
address Mellon
prevent will long inspiration oppressed and
this workshop of the world Chcagos welcome
for Gow proof of the the
workers Communism The anwar demonstrations of New York
and Ceveland the energetic election Detro the fight
Arona breaking the solid South;
comrades in New Bedford tribute the vitality
growing influence Party
the American working class
But need greater effort up
fitting The remaining five days
translated into five months of activity this
work and still money-much money!
We asking much We
for the workers who will support
from whom alone ask help. We
that be raised effect wnd-up campaign
that will be crownng good has
been done far
The republicans openly admit
lion dlars far The democrats boast
to date The socialist liberal hurchmen
Continued Page FiUs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
POLITICIAN
HAS SACCO FACTS
True Criminals Known
to EX-Gunmen

The true facts of the South Brain
tree robbery and killing of April Is,
1920, for which Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti were framed
and murdered, are now in the pos
session of a Philadelphia politician
who was formerly gunman.
This is the intimation of Jack
Callahan, Boston newspaper man, in
an article in the current issue of
"The Outlook" bourgeois liberal
magazine, which publishes import
ant documents adding further proof
of the innocence of Vanzetti of the
Bridgewater hold-up of Dec. "a,
1919. It was Callahan who con-
Quoted the investigation for "The
Outlook" in an effort to find the
true criminals responsible for the
Bridgewater and South Braintree af-
fairs.
Withholds Politicians Name.
Callahan withholds the name of this
Philadelphia politician. He records
the following conversation with the
man:
"'Those New England dicks cer-
tainly gave those two poor wops the
Continued on Page Five
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
PARADE TO Greet
FOSTER, CITL 0 W
ON ARRIVAL HERE
Permit for Red March
Forced by Growing
Strength of Party
Weinstone Issues Call
Expect Overflow Crowd
at Garden Sunday

Under the pressure of the grow
ing power of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party, Joseph A. Warren, COM
missioner of police of the city of
New York, yesterday notified VIM.
w. Weinstone, District organizer,
that his demand for permit to par
ade at the greeting of Foster and
Gitlow at Grand Central Station on
Saturday, $3.50 p. M, had been
granted.
The parade will be show of pow
er of the working class of New York
and is prelude to the monster
mass meeting in celebration of the
18th anniversary of the Russian
revolution which will be held the
following afternoon, Sunday, at
Madison Square Garden.
First Parade in Years.
This is the first time since the
World War, according to Weinstone,
that the working class will demon
strateFits power in a street parade
Hitherto, said Weinstone, all eff
forts to parade have been ruthless
ly clubbed down. This sudden re-
versal of policy is seen as an off
cial acknowledgment of the evident
and growing strength of the Work
ers Party throughout the country.
In his letter to Warren, dated Oct.
2S, Weinstone wrote:
"As many thousands of New York
workers will be anxious to meet
their candidates at the station and
escort them to the headquarters of
District of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party, 26 Union Square, we
herewith ask for a formal permit to
parade from 43rd St. and Lexing-
ton Ave-, to 18th st. and Union
Square, the exact route to be deter
mined later"
Warren Answers. q
Yesterday in reply to this demand
Continued on Poge Tmo
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....: ". wa; YORK. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 81 1928
Kentucky Nine
Strike Is Led
By Neu Union

Especial to the Daily Worker)
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (By MaiD. =
Three hundred miners, employed at
the Morgan Mine Of the Pacific
Coal Company, with operations in
Mercer, Kentucky, are striking
against the discharge of the check
weighman and the demand of the
company that the miners shall only
trade in the "pluck-me" company
store maintained by the coal COM
pany. The men, all organized and
members of Local 701 of the Ma
tional Miners Union, declared a
strike Oct. % after their committee
had been refused it's demands.
The demands of the miners are
for the reinstatement of the check
weighman and for the right of the
men to trade in whatever store they
please. These demands were re-
Continued on Page -Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
Weinstone and Moore
at Negro Meeting in
Brownsville Toni g hit

William W. Weinstone, district or
ganizer of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party, and Richard B. Moore,
Negro Communist candidate in the
21st congressional district will be
among the speakers at huge cleo
tion rally for Negro workers of
Brownsville to be held tonight at
154 Watkins st.
Other speakers will be Edward
Welsh, Negro Red candidate for as
sembly in the 21st, ,district, Harlem,
and Joe Polchick of the Young
Workers (Communist) League.
The keynote Of full equality for
Negro workers will be struck by the
speakers tonight, and at the same
time they will expose the hypocrisy
of the stand taken with regard to
Negroes by the other political par
ties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
MINOR EXPOSES
3 BOSS PARTIES
Shows True Role of
S. P. at Symposium

"The three speakers who preceded
me represent three branches of the
same party, worshiping the same
god, American democracy.
Thus did Robert Minor, editor of
the Daily Worker and Communist
candidate for U. S. senator from
New York, characterize the repre-
sentatives Of the republican, demo-
cratic and socialist parties at po-
litical symposium held at the Civic
Club, IS E. 10th St., last night.
Three Servants of Capitalism.
In a speech lasting about half
hour Minor traced the histories of
the republican and democratic par
ties and showed that they have both
become the servants of the finance
capitalist oligarchy that controls the
country. He also pointed out that
the socialist party was equally the
servant of the American capitalist
class. Hoover is the prophet of
capitalism openly" Minor said;
"Smith is its servant in disguise and
Thomas wishes to serve it in still
another disguise.
All Three Imperialists.
"The democracy of America is
democracy for the capitalist class.
There is only one real democracy in
the world today, the widest demo-
cracy in human history, and that is
the proletarian democracy of the
Continued IN Page TMo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31

'didates were placed on the tick
ct of the farmer-labor party of
Oklahoma several months ago.
1t had been made impossible for the
ticket of the Workers Communist
Party to appear in that state. The
conspiracy to eliminate them had
been going on since that time.
The reactionaries got 100 sigma
lures to petition protesting against
the Communist names on the farm
er-labor ticket, and the secretary of
the State Election Board rejected
the signatures of the Communist Pc
tltlons, demanding that 1000 new
signatures be submitted from at
least 10 different counties to over
rule the protest. This despite the
fact that many of the 100 sigma
lures on the protest petition were
not those of members of the farmer
labor party, as required by law.
The reason given by the signers
of the protest petition was that the
Communist filing was frivolous and
not made in good faith" The Okla
homa News reported that the con-
test was based upon the fact that
a hyphen had been omitted between
the words farmer-labor.
The Party had put up sufficient
bond money $3.50 for one elector).
but the election board refused to
accept it, alleging that it was too
late. If the money had been ac-
cepted, it would have been forfeited
unless the candidates received 10
per cent of the vote of the farmer
labor party in the primaries. BY
such devious devices does capitalist
democracy seek to make impossible
the campaign of working class
political party. The law requires
that each of the 10 electors in Ok
lahoma receive 5000 signatures, a
requirement that is obviously aimed
at small working class parties.
many of whose followers are not
citizens.
Hugo Oehler, district organizer Of
the Workers (Communist) Party,
who has made many tours of the
state to get the Party on the ballot,
is now organizing a campaign to
reach every worker with directions
to write the names of the Commu-
mist candidates in on the ballot when
the voters go to the polls.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
POWERS freed
IN FRAME-UP
Case Against Organizer
Topples

After being out three hours the
Jury in the frame-up case against
George E. Powers, organizer for the
Architectural, Iron, Bronze and
Structural Workers Union, was yes
terday forced to render verdict of
mot guilty" on an obviously trumped
up charge of felonious assault.
The two-day trial, which ended
yesterday, followed an indictment
brought against Powers last spring
based upon a malicious and false
Identification by Max Tanenbaum,
a foreman in the Garman Iron and
Bronze Works, So Davis ST., Long
Island. Tanenbaum tried to make
it appear that Powers had led an
attack on him during a strike at the
scab plant.
Obvious Frame-Up.
Evidence that the case was a
frame-up was so clear that even the
jury, consisting of hostile business
men, were forced to find him mot
guilty" The case was tried before
Justice Francis Mancuso.
Though the Garman shop had
been a union shop for more than
twelve years prior to the strike,
which was brought about by the
attempt of the firm to break down
the union conditions and run on an
open-shop basis, Tammany Judge,
Justice Burt Jay Hunphries of the
supreme court of the State of New
York, issued a permanent injunc-
ton last spring forbidding pickeHng
at the Garman shop and appointing
referee to assess damages upon
the union.
The Powers frame-up was con-
tinuation of the attempt of bosses
to injure the union. When the case
first came up, on April &c, in the
Magistrates Court, the scab, Tanen-
baum, was represented by Proper,
a lawyer of the Allied Building
Metal Industries, notorious OPEN
shop association. Proper had Sc
cured two previous injunctions
against the union, the Grossman and
the North American.
Powers is the Communist candi-
date for president of the Borough
of Queens.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31

last night launched murder
Gus attack upon the member
ship after the right wing crew
with its thugs had been re-
pulsed by the militant clerks in their
first attempt to break up the work
ers' meeting.
Over a score of the union mem
bers, including practically every
leader was severely beaten up, some
of them so seriously that they were
taken to the hospital. Each of the
leaders and the most militant of
the members, as he was pointed out
by A. Heller, the head of the right
wing scab outfit, was Immediately
pounced upon by the cops and detec-
tives and mercilessly slugged.
The meeting was called in cele-
bration of the city-wide victory won
by the grocery clerks in the just
concluded general strike. One of
the incidental results of the victory
was the complete discrediting of
the right wing strikebreakers. Last
night in final gesture, Heller led
a number of thugs into the mem
bership meeting for the purpose of
breaking it up.
The right wing gang had evident
ly forgotten the militancy of the
grocery clerks. The right wing
gang was Immediately repulsed by
the membership. Following this,
the right wingers called for the po-
lice and the murderous attack fol-
lowed.
About eighty OF the union mem
bers were taken to the 5th st. police
station where the cops headed by
Lieutenant Raely, again beat up
some of the workers. The cops tore
off Communist campaign buttons,
and destroyed "Vote Communist
Cards" found on the memberss
They are being held without
charges.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
BOSTON WORKERS
TO HEAR GITLOW
Workers Expected to
Overflow Hall

BOSTON, Oct. 30.-Benjamin
Gitlow, candidate for e-president
on the Workers (Communist) Party
ticket, will address what is expected
to be one of the biggest Red Elec-
tion Campaign meetings ever held
in this city when he speaks at the
Franklin Union Hall, Berkeley and
Appleton Sts., at 7:30 p. m. We'd
nesday evening. All the apparatus
OF the Workers (Communist) Party
Of Boston has been put into action
for this meeting. and the class-con-
scious workers of Boston are ex-
pected to crowd the hall to capa-
city.
In the afternoon of the same day
Gitlow will speak before the Lib
eral Club of Harvard University in
Cambridge. This meeting will be-
gin at 2:30 p. m.
Continuing his tour from Boston
tomorrow evening, Gitlow will travel
to New Bedford, where the workers
who participated in the huge tex
tile strike are preparing for an
overflow meeting on Thursday eve
ming. Throughout New Bedford, re-
ports state, the workers are an
xiously awaiting the arrival of the
candidate of the Workers (Commu-
nist1 Party, which militantly led the
textile workers throughout the
months of their struggle. The New
Bedford meeting will be held at the
Montepio Hall, 81 Wing st.
On Friday Gitlow will speak In
Wooster, Mass, where he will ap-
pear at the Belmont Hall, and Sat
urday to Providence, R. l. where the
A. C. A. Hall has been procured for
the campaign meeting.
The workers throughout Massa-
chusetts have for long time been
awaiting the Communist candidate,
whose Party has been the leader in
all of the working class struggles
in the reactionary open-shop state
in which the ruling class murdered
Sacco and Vanzetti. They are an
xious to hear the platform of the
class struggle which the Workers
(Communist) Party represents. Be-
cause of this fact the attendance at
the Gitlow meetings scheduled for
this state are expected to break all
previous records.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
RAIL WORKERS
DEMANDS DENIED
Mediators Recommend
Terms of Bosses
SpeciaL to the Dailu Workerl

Especial to the Daily Worker)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3O.-Con-
firming predictions which have been
made in well-informed circles, the
emergency board appointed by Presi-
dent Coolidge to investigate the wage
dispute on western railroads today
handed down it's decision denying
the demands of the trainmen and
conductors who have already taken
strike vote.
The decision recommends an al
tentative, straight 61a co increase. or
71a% increase with certain speed
up changes in rules as against de-
mands for increases varying from
1870 to 27fo made by the workers
and for which strike vote has al
ready been taken. The same offer
has at one time or another been made
by the railroads themselves and in
the present recommendation by the
special emergency board is seen a
confirmation of the charge that the
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
WYOMING MINERS
REpUDIATE Lewis
WAGE CUT PACT
Vote Down Agreement
Despite Efforts
of Machine
New Mine Union Active
Miner Leader Killed
in Rock Fall
BY r. SHOHAN.
Special to the Daily Worker

Especial to the Daily Worker
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Oct. 3d.
Wyoming coal diggers overwhelm-
ingly rejected the new wage cut
agreement signed for them by the
Lewis machine. Despite the init
midation and stealing methods
employed by the operators and
Lewis henchmen, the miners voted
down the cut with 20 out of 25 To-
calls balloting.
Suspect Machine.
That the Lewis machine and the
operators will make further at
tempts to nullify the will of the
miners appears certain, according to
those who know the lengths to
which the labor traitors will go.
With only the northern field not
voting, the coal diggers, even on
the basis of the announced vote
have shown how bitterly they are
opposed to the wage cut. The total
reported, with 1000 to 1,500 against
the cut, is only small indication
of the real sentiment.
The Reliance local voted 1870 to go
against; Blairtown, 130 to so; Su-
perior 400 to 100; Winton 214 to 10;
Elko "a to l; Frontier 100 to 81
Other locals voted similarly.
Bosses Intimidate Miners.
Officials of the Union Pacific
Coal Company rode about in com.
pany automobiles hauling miners
out to the polling places and forcing
them to vote for the wage cut.
The new National Miners Unior
is vigorously continuing its drive tt
organize this district under the ban
ner of the new union.
Emil Shean, one of the mos
militant leaders Of the district, wa.
yesterday killed in rock fall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
LABOR ANSWERS
CALL FOR FUNDS
1851 Received; Days
Quota Almost Raised

The response to the urgent re-
quest of the National Election Cam
paign Committee for the $1,000
needed yesterday was splendid, it is
announced. Nine hundred and
fifty-one dollars was received, al
most reaching the quota set for the
day. The response from City Gen.
tral Committees was particularly
encouraging. This was expected,
since special kilograms had been
sent to every City Central Commit
tee, urging them to rush at once, by
wire, every dollar they could pos
sibly collect. Seattle, sent in $500;
Toledo, $50; Portland, Ore, $25;
Great Falls, Mont, $40; Erie, Pa,
SIS; Akron, O., $40 and Milwaukee,
81. Wilmington sent in $27 more,
bringing their contributions during
Continued O. Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
WOMEN TO RALLY
HERE TOMORROW
Speakers Will Present
Workers Platform

The fight of women workers for
the Red program of class struggle
will be crystallized at the mass meet
ing for women workers to be held
tomorrow, 8 p. m. at Irving Plaza
Hall, 18th St. and Irving Place, un-
der the auspices of the Workers
(Communist) Party.
The anti-labor role played by the
republican, democratic and socialist
parties will be stressed by the
speakers. The liberalism" of Gov
ernor Smith, who advocates more
Equality" for women, but makes no
mention of specific social and labor
Legislation for the woman worker
will be exposed, and the arrests and
clubbings of women on picket lines
in New York under Smiths admins
tration will be cited.
"The hypocrisy of the democratic
party's platform will be exposed by
the speakers" statement of the
Workers (Communist) Party said
continuing with:
Neither does the republican party
offer any hope to the woman work
er," the statement continues. "In
republican Massachusetts women are
doubly exploited in the textile mills
and in the leather goods factories
The same with the women silk work.
ers of republican Pennsylvania"
The statement points out that at
election times only do the republican
democratic and socialist parties
angle for support from women voters
by singing their praises, but that
woman workers, aware of their posi-
tion in the class struggle, must or
Nganize to fight their bosses polit-
ically as we'll as in the shops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
By JAY LOyESTONE.

Within five days there will of the biggest
and best campaigns Party has wagedthe presidential election
drive
Five million pieces of literature have been distributed Over
three hundred thousand special the Daily Worker
the hands working working Hundreds
OF meetings have been held throughout the country Government
terror has been deied At time when American democracy
dress paadeeectn meetings been broken
speakers jailed halls denied the radio closed the press
the Daily Worker struggling terrific
Odds denied the nails the church, the Kan,
the patriotic Daughters the reaconary
treacherous socialist party entire
capitalist reaconhave been all mobzed against But
have gone forward despite the reactonary attack
Hoover and Smith vyng with each other
lacky of the biggest business interests The La Toilette
Borah forces bankruptcy
ing boot and baggage the big capital
cialst has completely turned its
degenerated into
justice, law and order and fake democracy.
In the face this Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
FOSTER ON AIR
TONIGHT AT 10
Will Use WGBI After
Scranton Rally
Especial to the Daily Worker)

Especial to the Daily Worker)
SCRANTON, Pa, Oct. 30.-After
his campaign rally to be held in this
city tomorrow, William 2. Foster,
Communist candidate for president,
will deliver a talk over the radio.
employing the same medium John
L. Lewis used a short while ago
when talking to the miners in favor
of the republican ticket. This is the
first time the Communist Party has
received permission to use the radio
in the anthracite region.
He will speak over Station WGBI,
wave length 230.6 meters, at 10
p. m. The rally, which will be held
at Labor Temple, will be preceded
by parade which will start at $50
from Lackawanna depot.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
500 HEAR BISHOP
BROWN IN HARLEM
Declares Church Tool
Of Capitalism

Soviet Russia is the rock upon
which imperialism will wreck it
self!"
With these words, Bishop William
Montgomery Brown struck the key
note of his speech delivered before
more than 500 workers, the majority
of them Negroes, who filled st.
I.uke's Hall, 127 w. 130th ST., in
Harlem last night. Other speakers
were Edward Welsh and Richard B.
Moore, both Negro Communist can
didates. Otto Huiswood was chair
man.
Bishop Brown told the workers
that his attitude toward the Ne
groes has completely changed since
he became Communist. Many
years ago he had written book con-
demning inter-marriage, but now,
he said, II am opposed to all re-
strictions and determinations
against the Negro race, and I am
in entire agreement with the Work
Continued on Page TaOo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
1000 Leather
Workers Walk
Ont IN Boston

Especial to the Daily Worker)
BOSTON, Mass, Oct. 30.-Four
thousand workers of the Cam
bridge Leather Factory walked
cut on strike yesterday when their
demands for better working con-
ditions were rejected by the COM
pany.
At an enthusiastic mass meet
ing this morning the strikers ac-
cepted the program of the left
wing and rejected the leadership
of the federal organizer. A strike
committee was organized with
Ammahien, Ncasinuiro, Lame and
Ira as the leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
Return 35 New Poll
Fraud Indictments

Thirty-five additional indictments
were returned by special grand
jury today in connection with the
investigation into alleged irregular
registrations in New York City.
Yesterday the grand jury returned
101 indictments in this same connec-
ton and these were handed to Judge
Koenig today.
Bench warrants have been issued
for all of those named in the indict-
ments, but thus far their names have
not been made public.