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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23
Pledges Loyal Service
to Big Business
Plans to Pull Down
Unorganized Shops
Are Cheered
w. Weinstone Speaks
Line Thrown Around
Salzburg Shop

PATERSON, N. j., Oct. 22-Mili-
fancy was the keynote of the mass
meeting of silk strikers who crowded
the Turn Hall at Grove and Chris
tian Streets yesterday morning to
elaborate plans for extending the
two weeks old strike of textile work
ers to include new ranks.
Suggestions to pull down the un-
organized shops were greeted with
cheers while plans for broadening
the strike were made. They include
meetings of the weavers at the
same hall at p. m. on Wednesday
and a meeting of all the young
workers in the strike at Turn Hall
on Thursday.
To Force Bosses.
The strikers also expressed their
determination to force the bosses
of any settled shop to live up to
their agreements.
The meeting was addressed by
Fred Hoelsher, organizer of the As
sociated Silk Workers Union, Will
liam w. Weinstone, organizer of
District 2, Workers (Communist)
Party and Gertrude Miller, a men,
ber of the strike committee.
eve do not like injunctions, "
Hoelsher stated definitely, "but if
we have to chose between the right
of the workers to picket and in
functions, we will fight injunctions 3"
Calling on the workers to extend
the strike, Weinstone warned them
against the attempts of the bosses
to break the backbone of their
struggle. He further urged mass
picketing and warned them to stand
firm in shops after settlements.
"The Associated Silk Workers
Union must widen and strengthen
itself during the strike" Weinstone
declared, "for the textile bSons are
doing everything in their power to
prevent the formation of national
Textile Workers Union. You must
help build such a union"
Signs of the spread of the strike
to include other ranks of workers
were apparent today in the grow
ing sentiment for organization
among the unorganized dyers.
Strikers declared that they would
picket shops despite the police and
the incident is told of a picket who
was ordered from in front of mill
but stood her ground and was
backed up by her fellow pickets.
The police withdrew discomfited.
A line has been thrown around
the Salzburg shop following their
refusal to take back a militant
striker.
At the same time the shop COM
mittee decided that a union organ
izer must be present at the shop
whenever a settlement is made.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23
WORKERS.
HIT REF0RMISTS
Socialists Continue Be
trayal Policy

wireless to the Daily Worker.)
WARSAW, Oct. 22.-The Lodz
textile strike is now stronger than
ever and the general strike conti-
nues as workers from other centers
continue to join the walkout. The
reformist tactics of the socialist
trade union officials became more
evident to the workers, as COM
plete general walkout is prevented
or partially successful in many
places due to the sabotage of the
reformist trade union officials.
The textile workers at Bielostok
and the metal workers Of Warsaw,
despite the attempt of officials to
restrain them, have joined the strike.
Socialist Sabotage.
Systematic sabotage of the strike
has been carried on by the reformist
trade union officials especially on
Continued on Page TOo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23
CITLOW SPEAKS
IN MINNEAPOLIS
Discuss Problems of
Working Glass
Especial to the Daily Worker

Especial to the Daily WORKER
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 22.-Ben-
jamin Gitlow was enthusiastically
welcomed by five hundred workers
at meeting here yesterday. The
anxiety about the welfare of the
Communist vice presidential candi-
date showed itself in the unprece-
dented outburst of applause which
marked his entry to the meeting,
place. 81
"In spite of police and government
oppression, the Communist Party
has entered the solid south and
will remain there until we have
realized our demand of full freedom
and equality for the Negroes" said
Gitlow. He displayed full page
Hoover advertisement from a capi-
talist newspaper with the heading:
"a chicken for every pot" Gitlow
exposed the fake prosperity slogan.
eyes, we have prosperity, but not
for the working class" Gitlow de-
clared. Andrew MELONS daughter
gets a million dollar wedding while
the workers get unemployment. A
good square meal would be much
more tangible than the mythical re-
publican chicken in every pot"
In his speech, Gitlow spoke of the
preparations for new imperialist
war, pointing out that the war dan
ger is one of the greatest issues in
the election. He also dealt with
social insurance and with the prob
lens of the exploited farmers, who
get only promises from the capitalist
parties.
A Red banquet was given in the
evening in honor of Gitlow, at which
more than two hundred workers
were present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23
new TAXI ORDER
AIMED To DRIVE
OUT 10000 men
Police Gar Condemns
Upholstered Cabs in
New Scheme
Cab Makers Dictate
New Union Plans Fight
on Issue

New taxicab regulations which, il
is charged, have been issued at the
direction of the cab manufacturing
companies and as part of the present
drive to eliminate 10000 cab drivers
from the industry have been an
nounced by Fourth Deputy Police
Commissioner, "Czar," Nelson Rut-
tenberg, to take effect Nov. |.
Chief among the new orders by
the police dictator who recently
openly admitted favoring the large
interests in the industry, is one
aimed at the class of cabs which
have been converted from pleasure
cars. The order condemns the up
holstery with which the majority of
these cabs are furnished on the pre-
text that it is "insanitary." In ad-
dition the new order lays down GER
tain provisions for widening and
generally increasing the size of the
cab interior.
If put through the new regula-
tions will have the effect desired by
the large fleet owners and partic-
ularly the Yellow Taxicab Corpora
ton of eliminating about twenty
thousand cab drivers from the in
dustry.
At the same time, at the orders of
Tammany Gear" Ruttenberg in
charge of the Hack Bureau, the
raids against taxicabs throughout
the city has been viciously increased.
Scores of cabs have been stripped"
in the Bronx, in Manhattan and in
Brooklyn over the weekend as part
of the same move of forcing out
drivers, it is charged.
Coincident with the insuance OF
the new regulations has appeared
the announcement by large cab
manufacturers of new cab to be
nut on the market Nov.1 which will
7 in every detail conform with the new
regulations. In this fact, drivers
see an absolute confirmation OF the
charge that the new orders were
dictated by the cab manufacturers
Drivers have been able to avoid
paying from $4,000 to $4,000 for
cabs built by these companies by
converting the regular passenger
cars into taxicabs. In this way q
saving of between $1,000 and $4,000
was effected.
Officers of the new Taxi Chauf-
feurs Union of Greater New York
announced yesterday that the union
would fight the issue to the end.
eve will defeat this move just as
we have defeated the move for the
uniforming of the drivers" Secre-
tary Kroll yesterday declared. I'VE
are now making plans to call a huge
mass meeting at which the drivers
of the city will be enabled to express
themselves on this ISSUE"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23
new Mine union
IN HARD FIGHT
Appeals for Solidarity
and Assistance
Especial to the Daily Worker

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. 22.-The
National Miners Union, in an ur-
gent call to every militant worker
nationally, requests immediate as
sistance in the struggle of the union
against the joint attacks of the op-
orators, the Lewis bureaucracy. and
sthe capitalist government which has
intensified within the past several
weeks.
In a long statement to the militant
labor movement the union sets forth
the present situation and requests
immediate aid to help stem the at
tack levelled against the union.
"The employers, the government
and the Lewis bureaucracy are joint
ly attacking our union on all fronts.
These forces are denying the miner
the right to organize into the union
of their choice. A whole series of
new prosecutions have been report
ed. New evictions are under way.
The Lewis bandits are following a
policy of guerilla warfare against
our people, shooting and numbering
them with the apparent sanction of
the capitalist politicians, judges and
venal district attorneys. Wholesale
victimizations, discharges and perse-
cution of supporters of the National
Miners Union is already evident.
There is unanimity and cohesion be-
tween these forces of reaction in
their latest assault on the militant
National Miners Union. To repel
those attacks, we are compelled to
once again call upon our supporters
in the labor movement who have aid
ed us soyplendidly in the past, to
come to our aid again.
Servants of Bosses.
Estate officials, corrupted judges
and district attorneys, in a host of
counties, have denounced the Ma
tional Miners Union and have util-
lied their positions to openly and
flagraptly serve their masters, the
Continued on Page F'iUe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23
PLAN ANTI-WAR
PROTEST ocT.27
Demonstration to Be
Held on Union So.

The huge anti-war demonstration
and protest meeting called for Union
Square next Saturday at p. m. by
the Workers (Communist) Party
will mobilize thousands of class-con-
scious workers of New York and
New Jersey.
The struggle against the i'm
perialist war danger actively waged
by the Workers (Communist) Party
and embodied in its platform of
class struggle in the 1928 elections
has been forcibly brought to the at
tention of workers of this country
lately, with the nationwide staging
of war maneuvers and intensifying
of war propaganda generall. y
Workers are becoming alive to the
danger and must organize to fight
it.
The official setting aside of Oct.
27 as "Navy Day." with the definite
aim of popularizing the navy and
propagandizing for building larger
and more powerful fleet, another
step leading up to the next i'm
perialist war, calls for concerted ac-
tion of protest on the part of all
militant workers, according to Dis
trict 2 of the Workers (Communist)
Party.
Wilbur Urges Bigger Navy.
Wilbur, imperialist secretary of
the navy, in calling on all to observe
Navy Day Oct. 81, speaks of the
Continued on Page TUo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23

Hoover Speech Here
Pledges Aid to Bosses

ciples of our American political and
economic system, upon which we
have advanced beyond all the rest
of the world, in order to adopt
methods based on principles de-
structive of it's very foundations ?"
he asked early in his speech. "Our
people," he said, "have a right to
know whether we can continue to
solve our great problems without
abandonment of our American sys-
tenn"
Then in more open admission of
the political dictatorship imposed by
the ruling class than has yet been
stated, he warned against those who
by granting any economic conces-
sions to the workers generally
would Immediately threaten the poll
tical domination of that ruling class.
Economic freedom cannot be sacri-
ficed if political freedom is to be
preserved" he declared. His Wall
Street listeners undoubtedly had no
difficulty in understanding that it
was their economic freedom which
Hoover was promising to preserve.
Quotes Samuel Gompers.
Calling upon the shade of S;xluel
Gompers to support him in his
declaration of principles for his
capitalist masters, Hoover quoted
the late labor misleader in his
pledges, of loyalty to capitalism.
Hoover again repeated his pre-
vious emphasis on the republican
myth of prosperity and vaguely
promised some sort of agricultural
consideration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23

Before an audience which included
many of the leading financiers of
Wall Street as we'll as some of the
prominent personalities of the re-
publican party including vice-presi-
dent Charles Dawes, Herb er
Hoover last night brought to a
climax one of the most sordid and
unprincipled campaigns in Ameri-
can political history in a speech at
Madison Square Garden in which
he assumed the chief role of phil
ospher of Wall Street Imperialism.
Previous to the opening of the
meeting thousands of leaflets ex-
posing the record and activities of
the candidate of big business under
the caption "Who Is Hoover?" were
distributed by members of the Young
Workers League. The leaflet like
wise announced huge election rally
to be held by the Workers (Com-
munist) Party at the Garden on
Nov. 4. William z. Foster and Ben
G1tlow, the Communist standard
bearers, will be the principal speak
ers.
Brushing rapidly past the various
trumped-up issues which the repub,
lican and democratic party speakers
have been using as campaign fod-
der, the favorite candidate of big
business expounded for nearly an
hour, although in disguised Ian
guage, on the main issue which
faces the world today, capitalist i'm
perialism or Communism.
Which Way?
"Shall we depart from the prin-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23
On October 27
the
pailu 81 mnrker

will issue a special edition of
100000 copies of the Daily
Worker. This is part of the
election campaign program.
1t will be enlarged in size,
with special articles and fea-
lures by leading members of
the Political Committee. 1t is
absolutely necessary to give
this edition the widest possible
circulation.
Send in your bundle order
Immediately, attaching a re-
mittance for same at the rate
of Sc per thousand. Have your
unit and organization send in
a greeting to the Daily Worker
on the occasion of the 18th
Anniversary of the Russian
Revolution.
Workers are reminded that
Thursday is the last day when
orders and greetings for this
special edition can be accepted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23
FURRIERS BACK
WORKERS PARTY
Call Ratification Meet
Thursday

The New York Joint Board of
the Furriers' Union, Locals /, 5, 10,
Is, at its last meeting endorsed the
ticket of the Workers (Communist)
Party and called upon all members
of the Furrfers' Union to vote the
Hammer and Sickle on Nov. 6.
The Joint Board calls all furriers
to special ratification meeting for
the Communist ticket Thursday
right after work at Stuyvesant
Casino, Second Ave, and 9th st.
Speakers will be Gold, Leibowitz,
Potash and other leaders of the
Joint Board and candidates on the
ticket of the Workers (Communist)
Party.
Vote Communist! as.
In leaflet issued by the Joint
Board, the furriers are reminded
about the activities of the treacher-
Gus socialist party and the yellow
socialist Forward" and of the bru-
tai attacks and prison terms the
workers have been accorded by the
Tammany police and the republican
and democratic judges during their
strikes.
"a vote for either republican.
democratic, or the socialist party is
an act of treason against your own
interests" the leaflet reads. There
is but one party that deserves the
vote of the fur workers-the Work
ers (Communist) Party, whose press
and leaders and active members
have stood by the Furriers' Union
in its trial and are now helping the
fur workers to build their new mill
tant rank and file union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23
NICARAGUA "ELECr ON"
Former Consul Tejeyino Tells OF Farce

An absolute dictatorship is being
maintained in Nicaragua, according
to Toribio Tijerino, former Consul
of Nicaragua to New York, who has
just returned from Central America.
A copy of the election regulations
imposed by the United States, has
been brought to this country by
Tijerino.
The regulations are by decree of
the president of the United States,
and provide that all expenses Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23

election commissions, headed by
American officials as we'll as the
expense of the American super
visor" of this staff, shall be paid
by the workers and peasants Of
Nicaragua. According to the Pro-
visions of Article 8, the ELECTORAL
Commission is composed of three
members, one from the Liberal
party, one from the Conservatives
and president appointed BY the
Continued on Pc-e Three r
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23
BRITISH TORIES
FEAR COMMUNIST
Dismiss Worker in
Naval Arsenal

LONDON, Oct. 22.-Communist
workers employed in the Woolwich
Arsenal and naval dock yards are
faced with the alternative of re-
nouncing membership in the Com
munist Party or loosing their jobs.
According to the Daily Sketch this
decision was made by the govern
ment after it had received a report
of anti-militarist work carried on
by the Communist Party, and was
also said to be due to the open revo-
lutionary aims of the party.
A test was already made when
Percy Glading, a member of the
Amalgamated Engineers Union, re-
fusing to abandon Communism. was
fired by the government. Percy
Glading, backed by the Communist
Party, is proceeding to protest his
dismissal.
Political Issue.
The situation arising from the
dismissal of the worker and the pro-
jected dismissal of others promises
to lead to a nationwide struggle
Workers are watching developments
closely, for at this movement when
all parties are appealing for votes
and political issues are uppermost
the position of the trade union off
cials, officials of the Trade Union
Council and of the Labor Party on
this question is of utmost i'm
portance.
In the meantime the British Com
munist Party is reported to be pre-
pairing for a stiff campaign to bring
the issue before the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23
Seely, Second Sewer
CRATER, Gets l Year;
But Not in ia il

Frederick Seely, former Queens
sewer engineer, last week convicted
with Maurice E. Connolly, was yes
terday sentenced to one year in Jail
and fined $500 by Justice Tompkins
in Supreme Court, Long Island City.
But Seely is again as free as the
Tammany air.
Like Connolly. Seely was found
guilty of conspiracy in sewer graft
deals which are believed to have
netted the ring some twenty millions
of dollars. Like Connolly, Seely was
let off on two counts of the indict-
ment. Like Connolly he was SEN
fenced to one year and fined $500.
Like Connolly he was yesterday
released on a certificate of reason
able doubt and is now free on a
5000 bond, for like Connolly Seely
stole millions and you don't have to
stay in iail if you can prove you
stole millions.
AS in the case of Connolly's re-
lease, Emory R. Buckner VII o
prosecuted" the grafters very
vigorously but not so well, granted
his consent to the order permitting
the release of Seely.
We demand the prohibition by law
of night work, overtime and job
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23
Communist Election
Drive for Emergency
Fund Against Terror

Immediate tasks for ali Party
members:
/. Cut out the contribution
blank printed in the Daily Worker
today.
.. Send Immediately your con-
tribution, of not less than one dol
lar, to the COMMUNIST ELEC-
TION DRIVE ANTI-TERROR
EMERGENCY FUND.
3. Send the money without
any delay DIRECT to the Ma
tional Election Campaign Com
mittee, 43 East 125th ST., New
York City.
4. II is the duty of every
Party Unit to take up a collec-
tion for the Emergency Fund at
once and to send the money
DIRECT to the National Election
Campaign Committee.
5. Every unit must assign
comrades to take up collections in
the trade unions, fraternal or
gsnizations and factories.
6. 1t is the duty of every
Party member to collect as much
money as possible in the shops,
trade unions and fraternal or
ganizations.
Z. The Red Election Sundays
and the house-to-house canvas
sing should be utilized to estab-
lish the Communist Election
Drive Anti-Terror Emergency
Fund.
NATIONAL ELECTION CANE
PAIGN COMMITTEE
Workers Communist Party
80 e. l25th ST.. New York.%N. u.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23
OLD REBEL FIGHTS ON
Friend OF Marx Backs Communist Drive

A veteran of the First Interna-
tional and friend of Karl Marx is
supporting the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party election campaign in
Virginia.
E. J. Housser, of Newport News,
Va, has lost none of his revolu-
tionary vigor despite his 80 years
and gray hair. Together with many
younger workers he went to Nor
folk to welcome William 2. Foster,
Communist candidate for president,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23
PACT SHOWS
.PARIS-LONDON
WAR LEAGUE
Single Front Against
United States Is
Revealed
Cede French Arms
Pact Means Anti-USSR
Military Bloc

LONDON, Oct. 22.-Full CO.
operation in naval matters as
opposed to the United States
position, and the freedom of
France to maintain the largest
army in Europe were two out
standing points revealed in the
publication of the Franco-Bri-
tish naval pact today.
The disclosure includes only the
correspondence and conversations
between the two governments which
bear directly on the naval agree
ment and the position to be taken by
the two powers at a disarmament
conference should it ever actually
occur. Communications and agree
ments relative to cooperation on the
Mediterranean and on the Pacific,
and the policy to be adopted to-
wards the United States on the
question of war debts and German
reparations were not published, al
though it is stated on authoritative
sources that such agreements exist.
1t was said on good authority that
the conservative press will shout
there was no political understand
ing or secret agreement between the
two powers, when the text is made
public.
PARIS, Oct. % UlH.-An off
cial white paper" disclosing cor
respondence exchanged between
England and France in reaching an
agreement on naval arms limitation
was made public by the government
tonight.
1t revealed that London and Paris
agreed to favor limitation of first
line warships, larger cruisers, air.
craft. carriers and Submarines,
Alliance Against y. S.
1t was noted that there was no
formal naval accord, but the basis
of agreement between the two pow
ers was contained in the body Of
correspondence between London and
Paris.
can accord exists between Lon
don and Paris" the white paper
said, "on the following basic limita-
ton, which the disarmament con-
ference is charged with treating, to
include four classes of warships:
First Ships Of the line; that
is, ships of more than 10000 tons
or armed with cannons of more than
eight-inch calibre.
"Second.-Airplane carriers of
more than 10000 tons.
"Third.-Surface ships of 10000
tons or less armed with cannons of
calibre superior to six to eight
inches.
"Fourth.-High seas submarines
of more than 600 tons.
"The Washington treaty limited
classes one and two, so the (dis-
armament) conference would only
examine a method of extending dis
armament in classes and to
powers who are co-signers of the
Washington accord.
"The conference will fix the maxi
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23
Deny Centralia Victims
Pardon; Free Thugs

OLYMPIA, Wash, (By MaiD.-
After refusing to intercede in the
case of the Centralia class-war pri-
soners, Governor Hartley of Wash
ington has issued 81 paroles and dis
charges and Ill reformatory paroles
and discharges under date of Oct.1.
This order releases al: kinds of
crooks, thugs and dope fiends to the
number of POS, yet the Centralia
victims, who merely sought to de-
fend their hall against the legion
aires are kept in Jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23
LOvestOne to Speak
in Harlem Thursday

Jay Lovestone, Executive Secre-
tary of the Workers (Communist)
Party, will speak on Colonial and
National Minorities" with special
reference to American Negro work
ers, at 200 ". 135th St., room 207,
this Thursday evening at s o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23

who spoke at the first Communist
meeting ever held in the state of
Virginia.
Joins Movement At 16.
Housser was born in a French
provincial town near the Swiss
border. When he was ten years old
he was compelled to go to work and
thus began at thi- early age to feel
at first-hand the oppression of the
capitalist class. He learned the
Continued Q, Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23

We demand the prohibition by law
of night work, overtime and job
work for working women.