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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06
OBSERVE YOUTH
DAY next WEEK
Young Worker League
to Hold Many Meets

While the capitalist countries of
the world are gathering their forces
for new imperialist war, the work
ing-class youth of this country is
preparing to demonstrate against
imperialist war in celebration of In
ternational Youth Day, which will
be observed this year during the
week of September 16. Numerous
open-air meetings and demonstra-
tions, as well as indoor meetings,
will be held throughout the country
during this week under the auspices
of the Young Workers (Communist)
League.
International Youth Day has been
celebrated annually by the working
class youth of the world since Sep
tember 8, 1915, when the historic
conference of youth to fight the i'm
perialist war was held at Bene,
Continued on Page Fiue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06
SEWER CRATER
KNOWS NOTHING
Connolly Called for
Questioning

Former borough president of
Queens, Maurice E. Connolly, who
resigned under fire during the in
vestigation into the notorious $780,
100000 sewer graft scandal, was
yesterday called to the district at
torney's office in connection with
the death of William L. D'Olier,
wealthy sewer sub-contractor. The
body of D'Olier was found near a
cemetery in Maspeth, L. l., Sunday
morning, a bullet having been put
thru his temple.
Takes No Chances.
AS was expected, Connolly gave
little information of tangible sort
which would trace the murderers of
D'Olier. He did, however, succeed
in involving himself in several con-
tradictions and inconsistencies some
of which might prove embarrassing
to him should the authorities do a
surprising thing and penetrate into
the actual basis for D'Olier's death.
Connolly swore on his dubious
honor, when closeted with the dis
trict attorney, that he met the dead
contractor only once, when the latter
was introduced by Robert E. Moore
of the electrical contracting firm of
Fishback & Moore. At that time,
he said, D'Olier was trying to in
terest Moore in a S15,000,000 road
building venture in Kentucky.
This statement by Connolly was
flatly contradicted by Walter G.
Lowe, taxi driver, who positively
identified pictures of the dead man
as man he had seen in conversation
with Connolly in front of Connolly's
office in Long Island City, the after
noon of August 16. Lowe said that
Continued on Page TWo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06
ASTORIA J|NCOES
FORCED ON RADIO
Fail to Compete With
Communist Meetings

Discredited as a result of their at
tempts to break up the open-air
meetings arranged every Thursday
night in Astoria, L. 1. by the Work
ers (Communist) Party, the Tam
many controlled John J. Dwyer
Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, has
resorted to radio broadcasting.
So completely victorious did the
Communists emerge from the battle
waged against the Astoria fascists
when they tried to halt the Party
meetings, that the Post has COM
pletely abandoned its own open air
meetings which they had conducted
Continued on Page Ttoo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06
WOLFE STARTS
ON TOUR SOON
Many Cities to Hear
Communist Speaker

Bertram d. Wolfe, member of the
Central Executive Committee of the
Workers (Communist) Party, head
of the agitprop department and di-
rector of the Workers School, is
scheduled to start speaking tour
in behalf of the Communist election
campaign, that will take him to the
principal cities in the United
States from Cleveland to the Pa
cific Coast.
Wolfe has been active in the Com
munist movement since it was or
ganized in 1919, and prior to that
was one of the leading elements in
the left wing of the socialist party.
He was editor of the Rank and File,
the organ of the left wing in the
Continued on Page Five
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06
SPEAKS AT BIG
ELECTION RALLY
IN ANTHRACITE
Charges Lewis Machine
Wrecked Old
Union
Scores Labor Fakers
Tells Dig gers New
Union Only Hope
Scores Labor Fakers

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Sept. s.
"The National Miners Convention
to be held at Pittsburgh on the 9th
of this month will be the biggest
historical turning point in the his
tory of the mining industry" de-
clared Ben Gitlow, Communist cam
didate for vice-president of the
United States, in his speech here
Saturday as part of the national
political campaign of the Workers
(Communist) Party.
The keynote of Gitlow's speech
was the struggle of the miners. Re-
porting on the smashing of the union
and the wage-cuts taking place in
the bituminous fields, the Commun-
ist presidential candidate called
upon the hard-coal miners to organ
ize themselves under the banner of
the new union to resist the coming
attack of the coal operators.
Fakers Accept Wage-Cutk.
''In Ohio the officials accepted a
$3.50 wage-cut a day, in Illinois
wages were cut to Sc day. 1t is
definite that when negotiations will
be started in the anthracite tri-dis-
trict, the operators will demand the
reduction of wages, further speed-up
and the elimination of union control.
The United Mine Workers bureau
cracy will betray the miners here
too, and the rank and file must turn
for leadership to the new union
which will be organized in Pitts
burgh at the Sept. convention. The
Workers (Communist) Party gives
full support to the rank and file in
building this new union"
Blames Lewis"
John L. Lewis and his policies"
declared Gitlow, "are responsible for
the collapse of the coal strike which
leaves the coal diggers at the mercy
Continued on Page Fiue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06
ADAM MOLESKI
FIGHTS FRAME
UP IN COURTS
Sam Bonita, MENDOZA,
Innocent, But Jailed
in Same Case

WILKES BARRE, Pa, Sept. s.
Under the shadow of the murderers
of Frank Bonita, the same Luzerne
county courthouse that witnessed
the frame-up proceedings against the
latter's brother Sam will see the
further frame-up of Adam Moleski
on similar charges, Sept. 13. Mole
ski is one of a trio of miners, in
cluding Sam Bonita and Steve Mem
dola, framed-up in a conspiracy
which resulted in the death of Frank
Agati, Lewis lieutenant, when he at
tackled the three progressives after
a local meeting last spring.
MENDOZA and Bonita have already
been railroaded to Jail and are serv-
ing terms varying from six to ten
years of hard labor.
Moleski will take an appeal to
fight his conviction in higher
court.
The trial of Moleski and the jail
ing of Bonita and MENDOZA is the
outcome of the fight against the
Lewis-Cappelini machine and the
contractor system in TIE anthracite.
With the opening of the National
Convention for the building of a
new union four days off, the coal
miners from all over the United
States are watching with the most
intense interest the outcome of the
struggle for his freedom which the
innocent miner is waging in the
Luzerne County courthouse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06
Knapp Nearly
Goes to Prison..
life Ruined =

ALBANY, Sept. SIN a gray,
tiny cell in the county Jail here the
wife of a jobless Albany worker is
serving a nine-months' term, follow
ing her conviction on a charge of
stealing some clothes to keep her.
self warm last winter.
In large, airy, sunny and COM
Portable room with wide windows
overlooking great lawns-in the
home of County Sheriff Henchey-
Mrs. Florence z. S. Knapp, former
republican secretary of state sobs
ostenstatiously because she will have
to spend 80 days in these compara-
lively congenial surroundings.
Sky Was Limit. \
Mrs. Knapp was convicted of
grand larceny as result of the
highly informal manner in which
she administered" the $1,000,000
state fund appropriated for the CEN
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06
POLICE BEAT UP MINER
Victim Is Slugged, Fined and Jailed

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. s.
Hundreds of miners are appealing
to the international Labor Defense
for aid against the onslaught of
the operators courts. Rudolph Di-
Piazy brought blackjack which
he declared a coal and iron police
man broke in two over his head, to
the court with him. His case against
the coal and iron policeman was
dismissed nevertheless. Court costs,
amounting to S63 were demanded,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06
RESCUERS COMING SOON
KyaSsln Heroes to Visit u. S. December

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-As
they prepare to set off again into
che frozen north in search of the IL
lost men of the Amundsen and AL
lesandri parties, news has been re-
ceived here by the Soviet Union In
formation Bureau that Prof. Ru-
dolph Lazarevich Samoilovich and
Aviator Chukhrovsky, two of the
leading members of the Krassin res
cue expedition, will visit this coun-
try early in december.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06
CALL DELEGATES
TO RELIEF MEET
Weisbord Will Speak
at Conference

Albert Weisbord, leading figure in
the spectacular Passaic textile strike
and now national secretary of the
Textile Mill Committees, will be the
principal speaker at the Workers In
ternational Conference, Saturday,
Sept. Is, at l pm. in Irving Plaza,
18th Street and Irving Pl. The con-
ference will also be addressed by
Fred Beidenkapp, national secretary
of the Workers International Relief
and by many militant workers who
are now struggling on the New Bed
ford and Fall River strike fronts,
Harry Silverman, who issued the call
for the conference, said yesterday.
The call reads in part.
"Organized labor must respond to
the New Bedford and Fall River
strike with 100 per cent support.
The strike has been on for five
months. The need is great. Imme-
diate and continuous relief must be
sent into New Bedford and Fall
River. The Workers international
Relief has responded to the strike
from the very beginning of the
struggle.
"We count on organized labor and
its sympathizers in New York to
show it's solidarity with the New
Bedford striking workers. Help us
win the strike"
The appeal called upon unions to
discard red tape and to elect or ap-
point delegates to the conference
either by executive boards or by ex-
ecutive members and to forward
names of such delegates to the Of
fices of the Workers International
Relief, / Union Square.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06
RIDCEWOOD meet.
TO HEAR Minor
Candidate Will Speak
On Party Demands

The workers of Ridgewood will
have an opportunity to hear the
Communist program at the mass
meeting to be held tomorrow at
p. M, at the Queens County Labor
Robert Minor, editor of the Daily
Worker, Communist candidate for
U. S. senator, will be the chief
speaker. \
Other speakers are Joseph Berg
and Erich R. Saenger, secretary of
the German Language Bureau of
the Workers (Communist) Party.
All sympathizers of the Connnu-
mist movement are urged to help
in making this mass meeting q sue
cess.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06
COMMUNIST PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE TO SPEAK AT
MEETS IN DETROIT, FLINT
Ford, General Motor Slaves to Get Election
Message of Party
Tour Will Include Chief Industrial Centers of
Country

Invading one of the leading ex-
ploitation centers of the United
States, William Z. Foster, Commu-
mist candidate for president, will
start the first leg of a tour that
will take him into every industrial
section of the country when he
speaks at two meetings to be held
in Detroit and Flint, Mich. Sunday.
Foster will speak in Flint in the
afternoon and in Detroit in the eve
ming at the Danceland Auditorium.
The cities of Detroit and Flint
are dominated by the Ford Motor
Company and General Motors, re-
spectively. Both giant corporations
are business rivals, but they are in
thorough accord on the question of
the open shop and the speed-up sys-
tenn.
Ford Backs Hoover.
Ford is staunch supporter of
Hoover for president, and General
Motors is divided in its support of
the two Wall Street parties, Alfred
E. Sloan, president of General Mo-
tors, being for Hoover, while John
]. Raskob, chairman of the finance
committee of the corporation, is
putting his money and his organ
izing ability behind the candidacy of
Al Smith.
Ford has consistently fought
every effort to organize the slaves
of "The Belt" as his system of pro-
ducing automobiles is known. The
bureaucrats of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, after making sew
eral threats to organize the Ford
plants, did not move muscle. But
the Detroit district of the Workers
(Communist) Party, through shop
bulletins and open-air meetings, has
brought the message of trade union-
ism to Ford's slaves despite the op-
position of the Ford-controlled po-
llCS anu CIIy government O41lCldD-
Flint Strike.
The workers in the Flint plant of
the General Motors Corporation re-
Gently went on strike against q
wage cut at the very moment that
John j. Raskob was lining up
committee of A. F. of L. mislead-
ers to support Al Smith, under the
direction of the notorious strike
breaker, George Berry, president of
the pressmen's union.
Thousands of workers in the Ford
and General Motors factories are
awaiting with keen interest what
Foster has to say on the situation
in the automobile industry. Foster
is known to millions of workers in
the United States as the outstand-
ing figure in the struggle against
the bureaucracy of the American
Federation of Labor. He organized
the packing house workers of Chi
cago and the slaves of the Steel
Trust, bringing 100000 of the steel
Continued on Page Three
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but when the miner, who had not
drawn wages in more than 16
months, could not pay the costs, he
was sent to Jail in lieu of payment.
The coal and iron policeman ran
away Immediately after he and
three of his fellows had beaten up
DiPiazy in the heart of the town of
Bentleyville before many witnesses.
However, when DiPiazy filed COM
plant against the policeman, he re-
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06

as bad as the recent Times Square
l. B.. T. wreck.
The l. R. T. officials have come
to the point where they no longer
bother about repairing out-of-date
equipment and machinery in their
subway and elevated lines, using
the archaic equipment as a man.
euver for the campaign to get an
increase in fare.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06
Daily Worker Agents
Will Meet Tomorrow

A meeting of Daily Worker
agents will be held tomorrow, $3.50
pm. at the Workers Center, 1928
Union Square. The drive of the
Daily Worker for 10000 new read
ers, and the preparations for the
Daily Worker-Freiheit Bazaar
will be on the order of business of
the meeting.
All Daily Worker agents have
been urged to attend the meeting
without fail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06
To Use TelevisiOn in
Directing Orchestra

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 5
(UP).-Fritz Reiner, director of the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will
go to New York to discuss his plan
of directing by television an off
stage orchestra necessary for the
presentation of the second SYM
phony of Mailer, he said today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06
BELIEVE SHIP LOST

SEATTLE, WASH, Sept. (UP).
The crew of salvage boat which
searched all day Sunday for the
missing freighter Florian reported
today that an oil film on the waters
off Cape Flattery apparently
marked the grave Of the vessel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06

The two members of the Soviet
rescue expedition, who covered them
selves with glory in saving 16 men
given up for lost in the Arctic
waters, are coming here at the in
vitation of the Russian American
Chamber Of Commerce.
Continue Search.
MOSCOW, Sept. 5..--Undaunted by
the finding of the pontoon of
Continued dI.. Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED
FOR THE 40-HoUR WEEK
FOR A LABOR PARTY
FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS
GOVERNMENT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08
BIRTH CERTIFICATE
BLOCKS WEDDING
Mother of Dride-to-Be Forestalls
Ceremony by Proving Bridegroom
Is Under Age.

SANTA ANA. Calf tSpeciaD The
romance of Lawrence j. Prindle, II
ycar-old oil worker of Whittier. and
Dorothy Reese. 10. of Hermosa Beach
vas wrecked today to the accompani-
mert Of rousing family squabble at
the very altar
Lawrence and Dorothy were both
willing. So was Lawrence's mamma
and hts grandma and an aunt or two
who backed him in the attempt to
secure marriage license.
But Dorothy's mamma was not will
ing. and as she held the ace card she
took the trick. j. NJ. Backs county
clerk. who acted as umpire, ruled in
her favor when the evidence was all in.
lawrence and Dorothy had slipped
away to this city and filed their notice
Of intention four days ago They were
slipping back again today when
Dorothy's mamma slipped up behind
them
Mrs. Reese started the exchange of
DieasantTies by indicating Lawrence
was not of age.
"You are only II. Your mother per-
jured herself by swearing you were 10,
ana you know YOU can't get married
even with her consent until you are
49," she told Lawrence.
You can't prove I'm not 49," he
challenged. Then Mrs. Reese played
her ace
Aha. but can" and she Haunted a
rortified copy Of his birth certificate.
which showed he was a month under
is years of age
That will be the last Lawrence win
see Of Dorothy" his grandmother NUT
fered sagely as Dorothy's parents led
her away from Lawrence They'll
have her Of 10 Canada right of"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08
.WHAS WILL REVIVE
EARLY DAYS OF RADIO
Program Of Louisville Station VIII
Celebrate It's Sixth Birthday
On July IS.

LOUISVILLE. KY. A1.-Memories Of
many dialed radio receivers and hell-
shaped horns are to be recalled to radio
listeners the night Of July 10, when
WHAS, radiophone of the Louisville
Times and the Courier-Journal, pre-
sents its sixth birthday program.
The station, one Of the first 500-watt
transmitters erected in the country,
plans to bring back before the micro
phones old favorites to take their places
beside the new broadcasting stars.
The original Courier journal Quartet
has been reassembled for the program
and will sing group of the songs OF
Stephen Collins Foster. whose folk mel
odies, especially My Old Kentucky
Home" were standlJys In the early days
Of broadcasting 1t will be their first
air performance in more than four
years.
OF the new day, Miss Esther Nets
and Mrs. Hildred Morrow. sopranos:
Miss Fannie Elizabeth Stoll, vio.inist:
Miss Marion Wells, leading woman OF
the Brown Players and Lester Vail, her
leading man, will be heard in solo num-
bers and radio sketch. A varied IN.
strumental program also is arranged.
AS the evening progresses, so will the
type of program advance from the first
comparatively unpretentious offering to
that commensurate with the present.
day broadcast receiver, embodying all
modern features.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08
RADIO GOSSIP AND NEWS

t already Ii busy working over new scores
and cutting new operas to length suit
able for radio presentation.
Station WEAF Is recognized as the
pioneer broadcaster Of tabloid operas.
For more than three years it has been
| broadcasting condensed versions of
operas on regular schedule. When WEAF
| became part of the N. B. G. in November.
1926. the opera broadcasts were con-
tinued without interruption. Though
other American radio stations have pre-
sented operas from time to time, the
record Of WEAF has not been APP
preached.
The National Grand Opera Co. has
made familiar to millions Of Americans
the names and voices of such artists as
Devora Nadworney. Rosalie Wolf, Genia
zielinska. Paula Hemminghaus, Astrid
Fjelde, Frances Paperte, John Oakley,
Giuseppe di Benedetto. Julian Oliver,
Nino Ruisi Feruccio Coradetti, Theo-
dore Webb. Henry Shope, Justin
Lawre and Ivan Ivantzoff.
Chain Broadcasts Four Years Old.
Edwin F.. Hill, information manager
Of the Chesapeake 81 Potomac Tele-
phone Co, while wandering through
the pages of some old editions of the
Transmitter. official organ of the COM
pany, discovered that hook-up of
radio stations for broadcasting an en-
tertainment program simultaneously
was first attempted July II, 1924. Six
stations formed the original chain.
Mr. Hill reported this interesting
fact in a letter to the radio depart
ment OF The Star. which follows:
I'm this day Of coast-to-coast hook
ups Of radio stations reaching every
section of the country 1t is rather in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08
NAVY TO CONTINUE
PACIFIC RADIO NEWS
Present System Retained
Following Refusal OF Chan
mel to Syndicate.

Ey the Associated Press.
The Federal Radio Commission hav.
ina refused to grant transoceafic short
wave channels TO the Pacific Commune
cations Syndicate, the Navy will con.
tinue to handle news dispatches to aIIc
from the United States and Hawaii anc
the Philippine Islands.
The Pacific Syndicate was organized
with the express intention of special
izins in the transmission of press dis
patches.
The Navy. by authorization OF Con-
greSS, has been handling the radio press
service in the Pacific for eight years
Prior to that the news interchange he
tween Asia and the United States for
more than 20 years came by way OF
London and the British Reuter- News
Service Even the Philippines were de-
pendent for world news service. includ-
ing that of the United States, on British
and japanese agencies.
Navy Radio Authorised.
To correct this situation. Congress In
1920 authorized the use of the radio
facilities Of the Navy for communication
on the Pacific for commercial messages
at commercial rates when and where
there were no privately operated sta
tionS prepared to render the service and
for news communication at the low rate
necessary to maintain an interchange
Of adequate news reports. Under it
news reports were sent to the Philip
pines at cents per word and to Hawaii
at 3 cents per word.
The plan also contemplated an inter-
change Of news reports with China and
Japan and other countries of Asia II
such countries would cooperate through
the use of radio facilities within their
territories. Such a circuit was inaugu-
rated with Japan at 9-cent rate. bat
has been used only for transmission OF
government messages because Of an ex-
elusive contract made by Japan with
the Radio Corporation Of America.
Authority Is Renewed.
In 1927 8 renewal of authority to the
Navy for use of its radio facilities for
news communication was provided By
the radio act. Control Of the matter
was given to the Federal Radio Com
mission, with authority to discontinue
the public service Of the Navy wlen
normal communication requirements are
met through privately operated faciIi-
ties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08
HE'S CANDIDATE ANY WAY

ELMDALE, Kang. (SpeciaD There
is probably not one man In thousands
VINO are running fer public Office that
does not knosy what once he ie rum
ming for but this unusual thing hap
pened 10 Jesse fstarkey. well known
farmer Of this place. when ne vent 10
Cottonwood 10 file his nomination
papers as candidate for county com.
missioner from he district on the
UemocIatlc ticket
When he went into the county clerk s
c-ace he was Informed by the county
* h2i his nomination papers had
already bern FLED, bot for tT4ztee Of
ns township Unknown 10 Mr. 6tarkey
mr. VI Ms ncithbors had filed his
domination papers Under the eircum.
ssI"ss me only thing fof starkey ~
g. ass ~ bsue withdrawal papers IN
tnf go ~ nit - ndidacY Tor trustee.
vrtsn 10 eid ~ lhsn field n0mins
Ton p~per ioI commlsslpntT