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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
BR0ACH PLANS
new BETRAYAL
Aims to Stifle Power
of Local 3

Members of local No. 8 electrical
workers are considerably aroused, it
has been learned, at the methods by
which international vice-president,
H. H. Broach and the local machine
which he controls are planning to
put over certain proposed amend
ments to the bylaws of the local.
1t has been reliably learned that
the machine is planning to exclude
all those who are even suspected of
being the least opposed to the
machine. The customary strong-arm
methods will be employed, it is
stated.
Among the important changes
which are due to be voted upon are
one to raise the dues, one to abolish
half the regular union meetings and
to dispense with the rendering of
financial and other reports to the
membership.
Progressive leaders of the union
are urging the largest possible at
tendance of the membership and are
confident that the danger which
faces the union will be averted if
only sufficient number of workers
will attend.
The Daily Worker has at various
times in the past predicted these de-
velopments on the part of the
Broach machine, and will carry on
the fight against the labor traitors
in local No. 3. 1t has been reliably
learned that Broach is planning an
attack on the Communists in order
to camouflage the issue of his own
betrayals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
PASSAIC RELIEF
MEET IS HALTED
Police Won't Permit
Weisbord to Speak
Especial to the Daily worker)

especial to the Daily Worker)
PASSAIC, N. j., August 2. =
Echoes of the "Hell in Passaic'
period during the strike here in 1926
were heard tonight when police
broke up a meeting which was to be
addressed by Albert Weisbord
secretary of the National Textile
Mills Committee and Harriet Silver.
man, Of New York.
Called for Relief.
The meeting, called by the New
York branch of Workers Interna.
tional Relief, for the purpose Of
raising funds for the 10000 New
Bedford textile strikers, was sche.
duled for the Ukranian Hall, Presi.
dent Street.
Just a few minutes before the
meeting was to open, and after over
GOO workers were already in the
hall, three policemen entered, ap-
preached Weisbord, roughly pushed
him into corner and told him that
he would mot be allowed to speak
in Passaic." Weisbord replied that
he would have to consult with the
committee in charge. A minute
later he returned, stating that the
committee had decided to put the
question to a vote of the audience.
When Gustav Deak, Organizer of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
MINERS FAIR
HERE SUNDAY
Vivid Strike Film to
Be Shown

The struggles of thousands of
men, women and children in the
mine fields will be brought to
Pleasant Bay Park Sunday when the
miners strike film will be shown
for the first time at the great
Miners Solidarity Fair that has
been arranged by the National
Miners Relief Committee.
This film was taken in the strike
fields, not in a studio, and tells the
story of the heroic struggles of the
miners in scenes that are vivid and
gripping. The early scenes show
the men working in the mines. Then
the strike is called. The men leave
the mines in a body. Picketing
scenes, scenes of women and chill
dren, babies with empty milk bottles.
Evictions, building of barracks. Seab
mine accidents, ambulances, corpses.
Continued on Page Two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
OBREGON MURDER
PLOT IN CONVENT
Morrow Appeals for
"LaW and Order"

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2.-That
Jose de. Leon Toral, the slayer of
President-elect Obregon, was merely
tool in the hands of a well organ
lied clerical society of murder and
violence pledged to. remove him
from its path, was brought closer
to substantiation today following
the announcement of Attorney Gen
eral Correa Nieto, who is supervis-
ing the preliminary judicial exam
ination into the Staying. At the
same time the influence of the reac-
tionary agrarian forces was seen
in the continued attempts of the
government officials to connect the
crime with persons more or less
identified with labor organizations.
The attorney general charged that
the young assassin was member
Of terrorist society called the
Villa de Guadalupe, the head of
which is Mother Superior Maria
Conception, nun now being held.
fHdDle L OOl.
Their meetings were all held in
the convent of the nun and the
deaths of various Mexican leaders
were plotted. The young slayer, it
appears, was merely a pliable in
gtrument in the hands of the nun
and very likely other clericals who
used the easily suggestible boy to
carry out their plans. Aureliano
Toral, father of the slayer, said his
son had turned assassin in obedi-
ence to someone else's suggestion,
because he never before showed
evidence of a bellicose nature"
The attorney general declared
that "the Abbess Maria Conception
is an intelligent woman and has
been trying to mislead justice" ;"
When asked as to why she contin-
ued to meet secretly when converts
and religious orders have for more
than two years been prohibited in
Mexico, the nun refused to answer.
During this time she and other
nuns have worn worldly dress only.
Following the tack taken by pre-
vious reports from the department
Of justice, Attorney General Nieto
sought to convey the impression
that Manuel Trejo, said to be a
member of the Mexican Federation
of Labor, is likewise involved in the
plot.
81 believe that Trejo is the key
10 the mystery" he declared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
RED LABOR INT'L
CREATES BUREAU
FOR NEGRO WORK
American Militants S
Participate

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. g.
Today's session of the executive bu-
reau of the Red International of
Trade Unions was held with partici-
patton Of Negro delegates to the
World Congress of the Communist
International, representatives from
the Trade Union League, the Con-
federation Generala de Travaille
Unitaire and other organizations in
order to discuss the organization of
the Negroes.
The executive bureau decided to
form an international trade union
committee for Negroes composed of
two Negroes from the United States
and one each from Latin America,
Guadaloupe, Martinique and Cuba.
Later on representatives from
Haiti, East Africa, Portuguese East
Africa, Congo, Liberia, French Af-
rica and those Latin American coun-
tries where many Negroes are pres
ent.
The committee aims to organize
the Negroes in trade unions either
together with the white workers or
in extra unions when the white
workers prevent the acceptance of
Negroes in the trade unions.
The committee aims to establish
relations between the Negroes of
the world and to organize the broad
masses of Negroes on the basis of
class struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
MOSCOW CHEERS
KUN ON ARRIVAL
Workers Line Streets
to Greet Leader

MOSCOW, Aug. 2.-Greeted by
the cheers and songs of thousands
of workers, Bella Kun, formerly
Communist leader of Hungary, ar
rived here today from Austria.
Representatives from trade unions
throughout the city, and workers
and farmers from the outskirts of
Moscow, gathered at the railway
station to greet the leader who had
been freed from the clutches of
Austrian and Hungarian imperial
ism by the mass protest of the work
ers all over the world against the
attempt to send him to his death.
He was given a big ovation when
he appeared later at the Sixth Con-
gress of the Communist Interna-
tional.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
MOBILIZE ACTIVE
CLOAK WORKERS
To Launch Intensive
Organization Drive

Preliminary mobilization steps
for the great drive to build a cloak
and dressmakers' union were COM
pleted last night with the holding of
an enthusiastic meeting of the ac-
tive workers in Manhattan Lyceum,
66 E. 4th st.
In his opening remarks the chair
man of the meeting, Sascha thinner
man, of the National Organization
Committee, declared that the drive
for a union would be officially
launched next week with the holding
of the huge mass meeting of all
cloak and dressmakers in Bronx
Stadium Wednesday night. The first
stage of this drive, during which
an intensive organization campaign
will be waged thruout the trade, will
last about five weeks. All the ac-
tive cloak and dressmakers will have
to serve as volunteers in this drive,
devoting at least three days to the
work, he said.
Right Wing Frantic.
In a speech full of irony and
humor j. Boruchovich described the
sad state of the pirate right-wing
clique and pointed out the tasks that
Continued on Page Two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
FOSTER, GITLOW WILL
MAKE NATIONAL TOUR

William 2. Foster and Benjamin
Gitlow, presidential and vice -presi.
dental candidates of the Workers
Communist) Part, respectively, will
tour the country from coast to coast
and from the Canadian border to the
Rio Grande, carrying the message
OF Communism to the workers and
poor farmers and organizing them
for the struggle against the capital
ist and their government.
This announcement was made
yesterday at the headquarters of the
National Election Campaign Com
nittee of the Workers (Communist)
Party, 43 E. 125th St.
The tentative date for the begin.
ming of the tours is September 1st
the campaigners starting in the
East and covering the United States
in a wide circle that will touch
Portland, Oregon, in the Northwest
and Houston, Texas, in the South.
east.
Both Fine Speakers.
Foster and Gitlow are two of the
best campaigners in the Workers
(Communist) Party and splendid
speakers. Both have many years OF
agitational work to their credit.
Foster is a member of the Cen
tral Executive Committee of the
Workers (Communist) Party and
has been in the revolutionary move
ment % years, having joined the
socialist. party in 1900. He was
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
order Investigation
Into Canal Disaster

THOROLD, Ont, Aug. Q (UP).-
With the death list officially fixed
at eight, an investigation was con-
Quoted today by engineers of the
department of railway and canals
of the collapse of a 5o0-ton steel
gate to the cement bed Of the New
Welland Ship Canal at Lock Six.
The list of injured was set at 21.
All but one are expected to recover.
Many fthe bodies were crushed
almost beyond recognition and iden-
tification was difficult.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
SPIES RULE AT
De LAVAL firm
(By a WORKER Correspondent

(By a WORKER Correspondent
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. (By
MaiD Conditions at the DeLaval
Separator Company here, about
which several of my fellow-workers
have written to. The DAILY
WORKER before this, still con-
tinue to be as miserable as before.
This is true not only within the fac
tories where we work, but in every
moment of our daily lives.
Many times workers have been
fired for no reason at all, except
that they were overheard in CONVEX
sation with their fellow-workers
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
WAR MEETING AT
UNIONISQ. TOMORROW

Union Square, tomorrow, at 1 p.
M, will be the scene of a mass pro-
test meeting and demonstration
against the war danger larger than
any before witnessed in New York.
Thousands of workers will protest
against the gesture of the imper-
ialist, Kellogg, in parading an
"antiwar" pact a. the same time
that secret preparations for a new
world war are being carried on with
feverish haste.
Several workers organizations
will attend the meet in a. body, car
rying their own banners and slo-
gans denouncing the war-mongers
of the imperialist countries.
Anti-War Slogans.
Among the many signs which
militant workers will carry will be
"The Working Class Will Never
Forget the Lessons of August a,
1914" "Down With American I'm
perialism," Socialist Parties Be
trayed the Workers in Last World
War" "Kellogg's Fake Peace Pro-
posal is a Smokescreen for War
Preparations" "Down With Hoover
and Smith, the Candidates of Amer
lean Imperialism" Down With
Capitalism, the Breeder OF Wars"
Hands off China" Hands off
Mexico" Fight Against. Capitalist
Military Training in Schools and
Colleges" "Wall Street is Aiding
Black Reaction in Mexico" Amer
ican Imperialism Oppresses Foreign
Peoples" Coolidge and Wilson
Served War Mongers, Hoover and
Smith Will Serve Them Now" and
other slogans and banners of sim
liar nature.
Many Speakers.
Added to the list of speakers al
ready announced, including Ben
fiitlow, Communist candidate for
vice president; Robert Minor, editor
Of the Daily Worker, and Scott
Nearing, Communist candidate for
Governor of New Jersey, will be
Jack Stachel, organization secretary
of the Workers tCommunist) Party;
Alexander Trachtenberg, Commu-
mist candidate for congress from
the 14th congressional district, and
Ben Lifshitz, Communist candidate
for assembly from the 9th district
of Manhattan.
Workers gathered in Union
Square will be urged by the speak
ers to support the candidates of the
Workers (Conlmunist) Party in the
coming elections as concrete
means of registering their protest
against American Imperialism,
against the war danger and against
the plots against the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03

Carpenters Union; George F. Van
derveer, nationally known attorney
and lawyer for the Centralia de-
fense; 0. P. Allison, president of
the Shingle Weavers' Union, Ho-
ouiam; Elihu Bowles, Of the West
ern Progressive, Farmers, Prosser,
Washington; w. j. Forston, repre-
senting the Everett Central Labor
Council; P. Morris, representing
the Tacoma Central Labor Coun-
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
BURY HAYW0OD'S
ASHES AUGUST 4

MOSCOW, U,eS. S. R., Aug. g.
The ashes of William D. Haywood
Communist leader and founder of
the Industrial Workers of the
World, who died here several
months ago, will be buried tomor-
row afternoon in the wall of the
Kremlin.
All the delegates TO the sixth
congress of the Communist Interna-
tional, now in session here, and
representatives of many large Mos
COW workers. organizations will par
ticipate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03

the Passaic textile workers union
and one of the leaders of the last
strike put the question to the au-
dience, they thundered a unani-
nous Eyes" Just as Weisbord was
being introduced by the chairman,
about dozen police rushed into the
hall, and swinging their clubs, freely
ordered the audience to leave. when
pressed for an explanation, the law
and order gentry declared that the
meeting was being held in a public
hall and therefore. that "a permit
was necessary"
The audience then marched down
to the Hungarian Workers Home,
rs DAYTON Ave, where the meeting,
with Weisbord as one of the speak
ers, continued.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03

The parole board and Governor
Hartley of Washington have not
yet acted upon the demand recently
made by representative trade union
bodies of Washington, Interna-
tional Labor Defense and other
groups for the release of the Cen
tralia prisoners. The statewide
conference is called as a demon
stration of the wide support for the
Centralia victims framed by the
lumber barons of Washington and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
CENTRALIA DRIVE IN WASHINGTON
Trade Unions and Farmers Organizations Are Big Campaign

A call for statewide confer
cnce in the State Of Washington
for early in Septembes, to develop
the campaign for the release Of the
Centralia /. w. w. prisoners, has
just been decided luron by the In.
ternational Labor Defense and the
Centralia Liberation Committee, is
The announcement just issued by
Martin Abern, assistant national
secretary of the l. L. D., so East
18th St.. New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
SIX GIVEN YEAR
APIECE BY new
BEDFORD COURT
Keller Arrested Again
With Seven Others
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
NEW BEDFORD, Aug. 2-Ac-
cording to reliable information
loom fixers of the United Textile
Workers voted overwhelmingly
today against the acceptance of
arbitration.
Andrew Jzyk, formerly of the
Ioomfixers, now treasurer of the
textile mills, visited the meeting
at the request of the members and
was given the floor in spite of
Batty's protest. He attacked
Batty's strikebreaking policy. The
membership allowed Jzyk to stay
and vote on the question.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Aug. 2
Declaring that the Interpretation
of mass picketing as rioting by the
New Bedford court is incorrect anc
concerns not only New Bedford, but
the whole United States, Robert
Zelms, of the International Labor
Defense, announced today that i'm
mediate steps will be taken to re.
lease the 81 prisoners sentenced this
morning.
Sentences of a year each were
given to Ellen Dawson, Elizabeth
Donnelly, Jackson, Wales, the Har
ward student aiding the strikers, ano
Eli Keller, the general organizer OF
the Textile Mills Committee.
Augusta c. G. Pinto, arrested fol
the eleventh time for picketing al
the Whitman Mill, received eight
months and a fine of $120.
Amy Schecter, press agent for the
Workers International Relief, re.
ceived sentence of two months.
Twelve others were given sen.
tences of from six to nine months
The remaining seventy were sen.
fenced to two months each.
NEW BEDFORD. Mass, Aug. 2
The release of Fred E. Beal, or.
ganizer of the Textile Mills Com.
mittee, Jack Rubinstein and Johr
Pelczar of the same organization, ir
$1,000 bail each, and a majority Of
Continued on Page Fiue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03

now serving terms of 20 to Is years
at Walla Walla, Washington.
Many Giving Support.
Among the groups that are CIV
ing the widest support to the Cen.
tralia campaign are Homer Smith,
Centralia attorney and closest rep
resentative of the prisoners; Char
lotte Todes, secretary of the Seat
tie International Labor Defense and
secretary of the Centralia Liberia
tion Committee; Jake Miller, of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
Daily Worker Agents
to Hold Meet Tonight

A special meeting of all section,
subsection and unit DALI
WORKER agents has been called
for tonight at s p. m. at the Work.
ers Center, 26-2s Union Square. All
DAILY WORKER agents have
been asked not to fail to attend this
meeting, at which many important
problems will be taken up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
Twenty. Are Killed AS
Typhoon Sweeps Japan

TOKYO, Aug. 2 (UP).-Twenty
persons are known to have been
killed in the worst typhoon that has
struck this part of Japan in eighteen
ears.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
MUST PREP ARE
FOR OVERTHROW
OF CAPITALISM
Chief Rivals Are U.s.
British Imperialists

MOSCOW, u. S. S. R., Aug. p
The seventeenth session of the Com
munist International opened here
yesterday under the chairmanship
of Sierra. "
Bell, of Breat Britain. reported on
the imperialist war danger, the sec
ond point on the agenda of the
Second Congress. He declared that
the situation demands that the Com
munist International fix concrete
tasks in the struggle against the
war danger. The present theses
will give a basis for organizing the
struggle and overcoming the theo-
retical weaknesses Of the parties.
War Danger.
He stated further that the idea
that the war danger is not immedi-
ate is dangerous because it leads to
passivity. Imperialist rivalry makes
war Inevitable. Anglo American
antagonism is the chief rivalry in
the present situation. Great Britain
is trying to keep up with the Uni
States in the armament race, but
the latter has more means at its dis
posal. United States imperialism
is penetrating Europe and Latin
America, Canada and India.
The relations between Great
Britain and France form a second
group of antagonisms. Great Britain
has altered its tactics toward
France and has even brought pres
sure to bear on Italy because it aims
at forming an Anglo French bloc.
The relations between France,
Italy and Jugo-Slavia form third
group of antsgonisms. The Mediter-
ranean question is of vital import
ance for the British Empire and can
cause a world war.
The relations between France,
Czecho-Slovakia and Great Britain
form fourth group of contradic-
tions.
War and the Far East.
The relations between Japan,
Great Britain and the United States
form a fifth group of antagonisms
and threaten war in the Far East.
The bourgeois states regard the
Soviet Union as their common enemy
and strive to subordinate their own
differences to this common hatred.
The symptoms of the growing anti
Soviet hostility are the Anglo
French rapprochement. the attempts
at the blockade of the Soviet Union
financially and the rapprochement
between the German and the French
bourgeoisie in their common hostil-
ity to the Soviet Union, vide the
break-off of economic negotiations
between the Soviet Union and Ger
many.
Poland, Rumania and the others
are feverishly preparing for war
under the control of Great Britain
and France.
Hence it is the urgent task of the
Communist Parties to mobilize all
their forces against war.
The significance of the League of
Nations must not be under-esti-
mated. The Soviet's disarmament
proposals are tremendously i'm
portant and Unjust, be utilized az
propaganda
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
ELECTRICIAN KILLED

JAMESTOWN, N. Y. Aug. g.
Carl Sheaff, linesman, was cleo
trocuted by high voltage wire
while at work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
Kellogg Proposals.

The Kellogg proposals leave the
way clear for war against the So
Wet Union and were only accepted
by the capitalist states in order to
gain time. In supporting the dis
armament proposals of the Soviet
Union, the Communist Parties must
never forget that these proposals
are never intended to displace the
revolutionary struggle for the over
throw of the bourgeoisie.
The Communist Parties must not
underestimate the influence of the
reformist leaders on broad sections
Of the workers. The struggle
against the right and left wing Al
Continued OF Page Thrss
Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-03
Valley Citizens
To Hear Johnson
Talk On Coast

Quite delegation of leading val.
ley citizens left this afternoon .or
San Diego to hear Senator Hiram
johnson talk tonight in that city.
The senior senator from Californ-
IA, who is campaigning for rcplec-
tion, will deliver an address at the
San Diego hotel. Dinner Will be-
served at G:l5 and it is believed
the senator will start talking about
I o clock. His speech will be broad
east over kFSD, thereby making it
possible for many residents who
viii be unable to 90 to San Diego,
to hear the Boulder dam champion.
In the course of his campaign
johnson is urging support for the
Republican candidate for PRESIDENT
He IS also attempting to arouse the
people of the state to stand in unit
ed ranks behind the Swing g-Johnaon
bill to compel its passage at the next
session OF congress by the United
States senate.
Among those who left for the
coast are Ira Aten, Earl Pound, W.
Q. Blair, c. w. Brockman and Mark
Rose, directors of the Imperial IT.
rigation district, Judge Vaughn y.
Thompson, \. l.. Kellogg, G. u. JOY,
and Attorney S. p. Williams.
Congressman Swing is already in
San Diego and is a member of the
committee to welcome johnson at
the San Diego county line on his
way south from Santa Ana.