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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-26
to inability Of officers TO round up soine
OF the witnesses The State Forestry

Two-thirds OF the population In the
Hawaiian Islands are American citizens
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-26
TREE TRIAL POSTPONED.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, January 26.-Trial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
COMMUNIST Meet
IN WALL Street
Red Program Brought
to Morgan Clerks

A Communist meeting was held
yesterday noon on Wall Street in
front of the office of ]. P. Morgan.
Bert Miller, candidate for senate
from the 18th Senatorial District on
the ticket of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party, spoke to an audience of
more than 500, mostly clerks from
the Morgan offices, on the war
preparations, exposed the real pur-
pose of the military shows being
held all over the country, and point
ed out that the office workers have
everything in common with manual
workers end must form united
front against the bosses. The cleo
tion program of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party was presented by
Miller, who urged those IN the au-
dience to form a union of office
workers.
L. Oak was chairman of the meet
ing After Miller had spoken, many
copies of the Party Platform were
distributed. Many groups of the
clerks gathered to discuss the issues
presented by the speaker.
Another Communist meeting will
be. held at the same place on Wall
Street at noon next Thursday, it was
announced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
LEWIS THUGS SHOOT
MINERS ORGANIZER

Especial to the Daily Worker)
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 11.-Infor-
nation of an attempt to murder Joe
Polka, National Miners Union o.
ganizer in the Staunton, Illinois
area, was reported today by local
miners who explained why Polka has
been wearing his arm in sling
since last Thursday night. Anthony
Minerich, Pennsylvania mine leader,
who came to Beneld to address a
mass meeting was told of the attack.
The Illinois miner had sent re-
ports of the new locals he had or
ganized to the national office in
Pittsburgh, but had not mentioned
the attempted murder.
Worker Without Protection.
According to miners, Polka or
ganized strong local for the new
union in Beneld, in spite of the
threats and frothings of Lewis
henchmen. The militant miner dis
dained the offer of bodyguard, and
after the meeting he hurried off say
ing he had just enough time to catch
the interurban car home, where his
four-year-old son lay seriously i'll.
AS Polka approached the station,
Continued Of: PGge Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
WORKERS FORCE
LODI WALK-0UT
Reactionaries Fail to
Halt Polish Strike

WARSAW, Poland, Oct. 11.-More
than one hundred thousand workers
are involved in the general strike
proclaimed effective in the textile
industry of the Lodz district today.
At the same time the Upper Silesian
and Dombrowa miners threatened to
walk out unless the wage scale is
increased by twelve per cent. The
strike is at present affecting the
Upper Silesian, Dombrowa and LODI
districts.
Efforts of the reactionary trade
union officials to prevent the gen
eral strike have been frustrated by
the determination of the workers
themselves to quit the mills in Po-
lands great textile center. At the
same time, the action of he officials
is reported to have resulted in a
struggle that threatens to split the
ranks of the social democrats in
Poland.
In many industrial centers the
workers under the lead of the Com
munists are forcing the union Off
cials to carry out the strike pro-
posal. In Lodz they already have
answered the strike call one hun
dred per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
ZEPPELIN FIGHTS
STIFF HEAD WIND

Another epoch in the development
of transportation by which the far
ends of the capitalist world are
drawn together, is being marked
with the eastward flight of the
giant Graf Zeppelin, ITO feet long
airship which some time within the
next twenty-four hours is expected
to arrive in New York City from
her starting point, Friedrichshafen,
Germany.
By such developments in the tools
of the capitalist world is the ground
work being laid for the erection of
the future socialist system upon the
ruins of the present decaying one.
Messages from cities in Spain
over which the giant dirigible
passed yesterday reported the ship
headed for open water. Late last
night reports by radio indicated that
the ship had met still head winds
and was flying many miles south of
the originally intended course with
her speed down about 20 miles an
hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
SILK WORKERS
STRIKE GROWS
AS SHOPS join
Groups From Factories
Come to Hall and
Sign With Union
Rallies Enthusiastic
Picketing of Struck
Mills in Force

PATERSON, N. j., Oct. 1.-THE
ending of the second day of the
strike of silk workers here finds pic
ket lines already in full operation
at nearly all the silk manufacturing
plants tied up or crippled by the
strike. Fully four Thousand work
ers were registered as striking at
the close of the days registrations
at the strike headquarters in Turn
Hall.
Every hour of the entire day yes
terday found pickets walking into
the hall, leading groups of workers
who had not answered the original
strike call. Most of these were
either workers at the crafts until
now not taken into the union, or
former union men who had dropped
their membership.
Workers Determined.
Most interesting of all, however,
were the small groups of workers
who came into the hall to tell the
uIAiOii lCS ioII dllI IildJ IliC WOLhClS
of his shop were either waiting in
nearby place to receive word from
the union that they were coming
out at the end of the day or the next
morning. The end of the week will
find we'll over $500 silk workers
out of the mills, the strike leaders
declare.
These unorganized workers came
in and demonstrated the greatest de-
termination for a fight to a finish,
to win decent living conditions and
the recognition of their organization.
Turn Hall, normally capable of
seating several thousand was lit
orally jammed. Balconies and aisles
were packed tight with strikers who
stood to hear the speakers at their
mass meeting held yesterday after
noon and morning. Fred Hoelscher,
union secretary spoke. Lena Cher
nenko leader in the Passaic strike,
Continued on Page Five
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
MILL STRIKERS
TO BUILD union
DESPITE TERROR
Workers Report Speed
Up, Big Wage Cuts
in All Factories
Arrests Still Continue
To Perfect Committee
Structure in Mills
Arrests Still Continue

NEW BEDFORD. Mass, Oct. H.
-Fearlessly gathering in thousands
to attend a huge mass meeting of
the Textile Workers Union. despite
the police terror still in full force
New Bedford's Textile strikers yes
terday gathered in thousands to
pledge whole-hearted support to the
union they have built during the
strike, and unanimously resolved to
continue to build up thru Mill Com
mittees its membership in the fac
tories.
This was the response Of the
workers, whose six month struggle
against a wage cut had been be-
trayed by the officials of a bank
rupt A. F. of L. union here, and
whose resistance to this betrayal is
still being fought by an inhuman
police and court terror where many
were beaten, arrested and threatened
with deportation.
Realizing as practical and de-
voted leaders should, that their
unions thousands of loyal men,
bers would be made the victims of
relentless blackballing edict, even
if the mill owners had to go to
greater expense to replace the strik-
ing craftsmen, the union called upon
tba ,uorka,-c fo bui1d tba ,,,,;o, -,
the mills, perfect their committee
system and drive out of existence
the smashed remains of the -scab
union of the A. F. of L. betrayers.
The betrayal of the labor takers
was one of the most complete in
the history of all A. F. of L. sell
outs, according to the stories the
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
CONNOLLY PUTS
SELF AS ANGEL
Never Knew of Graft
in Borough

Supremacy confident that the
Tammany-controlled court would do
nothing seriously to upset the even
tenor of his ways, Maurice E. Con-
molly, corpulent former president of
Queens, took the stand yesterday in
his own defense and sm;lingly
av0'-red that in no way whatsoever,
not even so much as by the slightest
contact, had he been tainted with the
great graft operations which have
made his borough famous.
No. he had practically nothing to
do with the spectacular "See Jack"
Phillips, late sewer pipe kings who,
as was shown, went about town
with key to the city hall in his
pockets and whose indirect financial
explorations of the borough treas
ury netted the Queens gang some
s10.0J0,o00 during period of about
half dozen years. Connolly was
not loath to talk. In fact, he talked
by the yard, by the hour, all day.
Paints Picture of Angel.
Under the skillful guidance of his
attorney, Max Steur, who speaks in
gentle, almost inaudible and earn
est tone, the voluable Queens cor
ruptionist and incompetent, painted
a picture Of himself as the tried and
true and busy borough executive,
buried in the details of his enormous
labors, listening to scores of com
plants from his beloved constitu-
ency, taking his work home with
him at night--in fact, finding no
time, even had he the inclination,
to go graft hunting.
On and on he talked, directly at
the jury" as his attorney had re-
Continued OIL Page TVo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
WOMEN CHEER
RED PROGRAM
P olitic al Symposium
Makes Hit

Cooper Union was filled last night
at the Political Symposium held un-
der the auspices of the Working
Women's Federation of Greater New
York to hear the representatives of
three political parties present their
platforms and programs in the pres
ent election campaign. Representa-
tives of the socialist party had been
invited, but had refused to partici-
pate.
Rose Wortis, militant needle
trades leader, was the chairman. In
her Introductory speech she stressed
the fact that the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party participated in all the
struggles of the workers, and will
Continued on Page Tuo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
UNITS MUST
CALL MEETS

All units of the Workers
(Communist) Party must
meet this week and take up
as the only subject for con-
sideration the political letter
of the Central Executive
Committee
Among the questions to be
taken up are the following:
/. Reading of the political
letter of the G. E. G.
2. Discussion of the letter.
3. Organization for Red
Sunday, Oct. IA.
a. Plans to bring the CAM
pajgn into the factories.
5. Canvassing of trade
unions and fraternal organ
izations.
6. Selection of Red Volun-
teers.
T. House to house can
vassings.
8. Distribution of leaflets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
NOMINATIONS IN
CAP union SOON
Left Wing Off Ballot;
Rap Gar Zaritsky

Nominations for officers of Lo-
Gals ] and 8 of the Cloth Hat, Can
and Millinery Workers international
Union will be held this Saturday
afternoon and evening at the regu-
lar meetings of these organizations
Both meetings will be held at the
union office, 1873 Second Ave-, with
Local meeting in the afternoon
and Local 1 at o'clock in the eve
ming.
The headgear section of the Trade
Union Educational League is calling
all the workers, members of these
locals, to come to the meetings of
their locals to fight for the right to
put left-wing candidates on the
slate. The reactionary officials of
the union decided about year ago
that no left wingers be permitted on
the ballot by the simple device of
ruling that for a nominee to go on
the ballot he must be successful in
securing majority vote at the NOM
ination meetings. Since the clique
in control use the steam-roller as a
method of obtaining favorable vot-
ing results, they have succeeded in
tbwarting the majority of members
at their meetings.
Letter Ignored.
Last year, when this measure was
first put into effect by President
Zaritsky's gang, the left wing sent
dn open letter demanding the recall
of this dictatorial measure to the
General Executive Board, to no
avail, however. They were not an
swered. Since that time the social
list officialdom embarked on a cam
paign Of wrecking the union and
the union conditions.
Three left wing leaders in New
Continued on Page Tro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12

will be asked to march to the big
wind-up rally that will be held on
the corner of 5th Ave. and 10th
St., at which all the candidates run
ming on the Communist ticket in
Harlem will speak. Red torch par
AIDES, cheering and singing by the
Young Pioneers, over so placards
bearing the fighting slogans of the
Workers (Communist) Party of
America will be but few of the
features of the Red Night in Har-
lem. The Harlem Election Cam
paign Committee will distribute
thousands of free copies of the
Daily Worker and will have on hand
for sale copies of the National Plat
form of the Workers (Communist)
Party as we'll as the acceptance
speeches by it's presidential and vice
presidential candidates, William z.
Foster and Benjamin Gitlow.
All speakers are instructed to re-
port at 143 E. 103rd St. at 7:30 p.
m. sharp, where they will be as
signed to the various street meet
ings. The following is a list of the
speakers for Harlem Red Night;
Minor, Cannon, Stachel, Moore,
Markoff, Grecht, Ben Gold, Napoli,
Codkind, Edw. Welsh, Padmore,
Moreau, Alexander, Abern, Bake,
Nat Kaplan, Magliacano, Annie
Reiss, Gil Green, Vern Smith, John
Sherman, Lustig, Candella, Leoni,
Severino, Stenzer, Zukowsky, Syl-
via Bleecker, Valentine, Suskin,
Cibulsky, Shafran, Lloyd, A. Thomp-
son, Fishman, Braverman, Anna
Lyons, P. Shapiro, Kagan, Harfield,
Gertrude Welsh, Sol Auerbach,
James Cork, Miriam Silvis, Jacob
son, Paul Muller, B. Halperin, Jos.
Cohen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
TRY TO prevent
GITL0W Meeting
Communist Is Jailed in
Phoenix, Ariz.

Especial to the Daily Worker)
PHOENIX. Ariz., Oct. 1.-THE
tools of the local capitalists in the
city government are leaving no stone
unturned to prevent the workers
from being Contaminated" by the
revolutionary message of Benjamin
Gitlow, Communist candidate for
vice president, who is scheduled to
speak here tonight.
Jail Communist.
William O'Rrien, candidate for
governor of Arizona on the ticket
of the Workers (Communist)
I'arty, who is in charge of
the arrangements for the Gitlow
meeting, was thrown into jail this
morning for this heinous crime
against the capitalist system.
O'Brien is being held without in
dictment and bail has been refused
him. All efforts to learn the charge
against him have proved fruitless.
The jailing of O'Brien comes as
climax to the brazen efforts of the
city government to prevent the
workers from hearing the Commu-
mist nominee. The committee in
charge of arrangements had previ-
ously requested the right accorded
all other political parties to hold the
meeting in the City Hall. This was
refused by the boss-con-
trolled City Commission.
So great was the resentment of
elements at this re-
fusal that the Central Trades and
Labor Council, under pressure from
a few progressives, was compelled
to open discussion of the subject. 1t
was finally decided to allow the
to be held in the Central
Trades Building.
Boss Gang Frantic.
The arrest of O'Brien on the eve
of the meeting, it is generally be-
lieved, indicates determination on
the part of the city authorities to go
to any extreme to prevent Gitlow
from speaking. Workers of this
city are, however, preparing to voice
their protest at this attempted sup
preston of one of their militant
leaders by going thru with the meet
ing at any cost.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
Needle Trades Red
Open Air Meetings

The Needle Trades Campaign
Committee of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party, and all needle trades
workers who are members of the
Workers (Communist) Party, will
meet at p. m. tomorrow, directly
after the election campaign confer
ence.
An intensive wird-up election
drive among the needle trades
workers will be outlined. All Com
nunist needle trades workers are
urged to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
50 SPEAKERS IN
HARLEM TONIGHT
Will Bring Message Of
Class Struggle

Fifty speakers will be sent by
the New York State Election Cam
paign Committee of the Workers
(Communist) Party into Harlem to-
night to bring the Communist mes
sage of the class struggle to the
tens of thousands of Negro, Italian,
Hungarian and Spanish speaking
workers in the section.
Among the speakers will be Rob-
ert Minor, Communist candidate for
U. S. senate and editor of the Daily
Worker; James P. Cannon, candidate
for congress in the goth district;
Richard B. Moore, candidate from
the 21st congressional district, and
several other prominent speakers.
Fifteen meetings will begin at 8
p. m. sharp and at $50 p. m. the
workers present at all the meetings
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
QUESTIONS TO
BE EANSWERED

Every militant worker
should answer the following
questions:
l. Have you registered vet
in order to be able to vote
on November 9th, for the
Workers (Communist) Par
ty ticket?
2. Did you, when you were
given the enrolment blank
by the registration official
merely fold it and drop it in
the box without enrolling
for any of the three capital
list parties that are enumer-
ated on the enrolment
blank, that is the republican,
democratic and socialist par
ties?
3. Have you told your fell
low workers in your shop, in
the union, in the family, etc.,
to register for the coming
elections? Don't forget only
two more days are left to
fulfill your duty to the work
ing class on this important
matter. You can register to-
day from 5 to 10:30 p. m
Saturday from 7 a. m. to 1C
p. m.
Don't fail!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
AUSTRIA POLICE
CONTINUE RAIDS
Arrest Youth Leader;
Danish Czechs
lBu Wireless to DaiIy Worker)

(By Wireless to Daily Worker)
VIENNA, Oct. 1.-THE Czech
deputy Stern, arrested during the
demonstration in Vienna-Neustadt
on Sunday was conducted to the
frontier by police today and re-
leased
Stern appealed against the order
permanently banishing him from
Austria, but his appeal was re-
jected.
The editor of the "Rovnost,"
Czech Communist paper, also ar
rested last Sunday, was released and
banished from Austria at the same
time.
BOIL, the secretary of the Aus
trian Young Workers League, has
been arrested for an article in the
"Proletarian Youth" of which BOIL
is the responsible editor.
Arrests of Communists are con-
tinuing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
FORCE men BACK
AS ARBITRATION
IDEAL GOES over
Union Head Threatens
Violence Against
Strikers
Put Over Trick Ballot
Wide Resentment by
Workers

One of the most brazen and alb
ject sell-outs of the workers yet
committed was yesterday added to
the long and shameful list perpe-
trated by officials of the American
Federation of Labor, when George
M. Harrison, grand president of the
brotherhood of Railway and Steam
ship Clerks, issued the strikebreak-
ing order by which the 10000 strik-
ing express workers were forced
back to the inhuman speed-up and
vntolerable working conditions of
the union-hating American Express
Company. No vote was taken on
the sell. out and no speakers from
the floor were permitted.
Nearly five thousand strikers
overflowed the main hall of Cen
trail Opera House, called together
by the local union officials, who yes
terday openly Joined themselves
with the sell-out which Harrison
had arranged with the officials of
the Express Company.
Misleader Threatens Force.
Resentment and indignation of
the workers at times arose to such
heights that the union officials re-
sorted to open threats: 81 have
handled many outlaw strikes" Har-
riscn at che moment of frenzy de-
clared in open boast of his we'll
known strikebreaking record, "and
If you keep on with this one / will
know how to act Pm not saying
Chat l will let house fall down on
you, but you can draw your own
conclusions"
The meeting began at about 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon. Earlier
in the morning Harrison, who had
arrived here from Cincinnati, with
out waiting to get the opinion of
the men, had met with the officials
Of the Express Company, headed by
L. R. Gwyn, it's vice-president. The
terms worked out at this conference
in the form of letter from the
company, signed by Gwyn, gave no
guarantees to the workers, and, in
fact, revealed the real character Of
the betrayal in the declaration:
"The company policy has not
changed. The company is, as be-
fore, always ready to meet the rep
resentatives of its employees"
No discussion by the rank and
file was permitted. "There will be
no discussion from the floor" Har-
rison declared. "We have this hall
only until 4:30 and we must cut the
meeting short" AT the end of the
meeting. the grand president of the
union warned the men to walk out
I Guietly "and be sure TO behave
yourselves"
u The workers came early for the
meeting and it soon became evident
that the sentiment was overwhelm-
ingly against the proposed calling
off of the strike which had been
foreshadowed by a published tele-
gram sent by Harrison from Gin
cinnati, ordering the men back to
work. Previous to the appearance
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
Election Meet at the
Workers Center

An important conference, to ar
range for an election campaign Red
demonstration, will be held tomor-
row at 2 p. m. at the Workers Cen
ter.
All Party functionaries, fraction
secretaries, bureau secretaries, Ian
guage and trade union fraction rep
resentatives and other active Party
workers are urged to attend with
out fail, in call issued last night
by William w. Weinstone, organizer
of District of the Workers Com
munist) Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
GERMAN TEXTILE
STRIKE SPREADS

BERLIN, Oct. 1.-THE German
textile strike which started with the
walkout of $4,000 workers in Muen-
chem -Gladback on October 3 has
spread through the Rhineland until
now there are $4,000 workers on
strike. The strike wave is gather
ing impetus in other textile dis
tricts.
Textile employers meeting here
yesterday discussed plans for lock-
ing out the workers throughout the
textile industry in an effort to an
ticipate a general walk-out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
REGISTER TODAY.

Four days of registration have
passed. Two more remain. Reg
lister today in order to vote for
the candidates of the Workers
(Communist) Party. Registration
places are open from 5 to 1880
p. m. today and from a. m. to
1890 p. m. tomorrow, the final
day for registration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
3 Textile Workers
Die in Accident

UTICA, N. Y, Oct. II W.H.-
Three of four Polish mill workers
were killed today when a car col
lided with another machine.
The dead are: Charles Masczak,
his wife Nellie, and his wife's broth
er, Raymond Bysewski. Alexander
Masczak, Charles brother, suffered
an arm injury which may cause am
putation. Three Italians suffered
minor cuts and bruises.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
REGISTER TODAY.

Four days of registration have
passed. Two more remain. Reg
lister today in order TO vote for
the candidates of the Workers
(COmmunisD Party. Registration
places are open from to 1880
p. m. today and from a. m. to
1880 p. m. tomorrow, the final
day for registration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12

All speakers scheduled for
Harlem Red Night must report at
143 E. 103rd St. tonight, at 7.30
sharp.
All members of the Harlem sec
tiOn should report at Harlem
Headquarters, 143 E. 103rd St., at
p. M. to help carry out the ar
rangement for the open-air uteet-
ings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For Farmers Government
To Organize the UmOrganized
For the 4O-HoHr Week
For Labor Party