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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
AUTO WORKERS
IN FLINT, MICH,
OUT ON STRIKE
Several Hundred Join
in Walkout

FLINT, Mich, July 11.-Several
hundred auto workers have walked
out on strike in the Fisher Body
Plant here. The spontaneous strike
developed out of the speed-up sys-
tenn and She general S75rsening OF
working conditions.
The men are determined to put up
"a strong fight and are calling upon
the rest Of the workers in the plant
to stand with them in the fight be-
cause it is a fight of all workers
in the industry.
The strike and picket line have
been organized under the leadership
of the Auto Workers Union. Philip
Raymond, the organizer of the un-
ion, is in the strike field directing
and leading these workers in their
struggle against the open shoppers.
Mass meetings are being arranged
and all indications show that these
meetings will be successful. 1t is
the general feeling among strikers
that the only way to stop General
Motors from cutting their wages is
by having all the workers organized
into an Auto Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
SMITH IN PLEDGE
TO BIG BUSINESS
Pick Morgan Bankers
to Lead Drive

Governor Alfred E. Smith, in an
interview given out to the press
yesterday, boldly declared that the
campaign of which he is to take
personal direction will be based
upon a determined effort to win the
support of the big business inter
ests of the country
Sn conformity with this plan the
Tammany leader announced his
choice of John J. Raskob, chairman
Of the finance committee of the
finance committee of the General
Motors Company, as head of ths
national committee of the demo
cratic party and Herbert H. Leh-
man, head of several Morgan-con-
trolled banks of New York City, as
the treasurer of the committee.
Raskob, who is a republican, in
a public declaration intended OBJ
viously for G. o. P. consumption
yesterday assured them that Smith
would not disturb the present status
Of the tariff.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
FUR union WAGE
RAISE DRIVE ON
Wkr's in Right Wing
Shops Join Campaign

The first repercussions of the
drive for July wage raises now be-
ing conducted by the Joint Board
Furriers Union, were heard yester-
day when, as result of the suc-
cess the campaign is so far regis
tering, the workers in two shops Of
the Associated Fur Manufacturers
went out on strike after their de-
mand for wage increases had been
refused by the bosses.
Despite the fact that the shops
of the Associated all have so-called
agreements with the right wing
Joint Council and do not recognize
the Joint Board, the ability of the
Joint Board to call and win several
shop strikes in other shops caused
the workers here to put up spon-
taneously these demands to their
own bosses. In prosecuting the
drive the Joint Board had thrown
out the slogan to all workers in the
trade to fight their bosses for the
July raises.
The two shops in which the wor-
kers struck are Bloom and Gerber,
144 w. 9th ST., and Brownstein
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
Minor G1gct at Union Squarg Protest Tomorrow at P NJ
JAILED WORKERS
TO SPEAK UPON
TOMBS RELEASE
Kate Gitlow Assails
Vicious Judge

| When the five cell doors in the
Tombs swing open tomorrow, lib
Grating the workers who were Mon
day sentenced to serve a five-day
term for participating in the anti
imperialist demonstration at Broad
and Wall Sts., July IS, crowd of
workers will greet them outside of
the prison to escort them to Union
Square.
There a monster protest meeting
will be held at 4 o'clock. The speak
ers will include Robert Minor, edi-
tor of The DAILY WORKER and
Workers (Communist) Party can
didate for U. S. senator, Harriet
Silverman, secretary of the New
York branch of the All-America
Anti-Imperialist League, which ar
ranged the meeting; Rebecca
Grecht, candidate for assembly and
state campaign manager of the
Workers (Communist) Party; Rob-
ert Wolf, novelist and poet, and
Emanuel George, striking miner
from Ohio.
The meeting is expected to draw
thousands of workers who will at
tend as protest against the bru-
talities of Tammany's New York po-
lice and the vicious prejudice shown
by Magistrate Gottlieb in the trial
of the five militant workers dur
ing the farcical trial.
The huge protest Friday, which
is being held under the auspices of
the All-America Anti-Ipaperialist
League, will be the beginning of a
vigorous campaign for members
among all workers and sympathiz-
ers for the fight against American
Imperialism.
A letter was last night addressed
to Magistrate Gottlieb by Kate Git
low, head of the United Council of
Workingclass Housewives, an or
Continued on Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
POLICE ARREST THREE
DETROIT COMMUNISTS

DETROIT, Mich (By Mail).-
The first open air meeting in the
Workers (Communist) Party cleo
tion campaign was broken up by po-
lice the other night and three work
ers arrested. They are Alfred E
Goetz, Philip Bart, district organ
izer, Young Workers League, and
Morris Fleishman. They were tax
en- to the police station and at mid
night were taken out of their cells
by Detectives Delesle and Pender-
grass, who were both under the in
fluence of liquor, and severely beat
en- up.
The workers later declared that
they were taken to the fourth floor
of police headquarters sand before
questioned, were beaten up. They
were beaten until they were uncon-
scious, then forced to stand up and
take another beating. The work
ers were then held incommunicado
for two days. when they were freed
by the court without having had any
charges preferred against them.
The Detroit campaign committee
plans to take up the whole matter
and will get out a complete policy
on open air meetings in relation to
the campaign. The committees will
proceed with meetings on the street
corners in spite of the police terror
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
ACTION BEGINS
Np0RTER CASE
Shorr, LID. Attorney,
Goes to Ft. Adams
By PAUL CRoUCH

John Porter. imprisoned in ar
army jail for his militant strike ac.
tivities, membership in the Young
Workers Communist League and or
the technical charge of desertion
will sonn be brought before court
martial or a civil court.
The National Office of the Inter
national Labor Defense, so East
18th ST., has announced that Isaac
Shorr, the attorney retained for the
defense, is leaving today for Fort
Adams, R. l., to start action on the
case to attempt to stop the brutal
methods being used in an effort to
crush Porter's spirit.
Information was received yester-
day that the military authorities,
who have kept Porter in solitary
confinement for almost week, are
resorting to the most extreme mea-
sures in their attempts to break
the militant revolutionary stand of
the young soldier worker, although
it is more than month since John
Porter was turned over to the mill
tary authorities.
The International Labor Defense
has decided that the authorities will
not be permitted to continue their
brutal treatment of Porter, and
Shorr will demand that the case be
brought to trial Immediately. If
this is refused, action will be started
in the civil courts.
On his visit to Porter in the prison
cell, Shorr will be accompanied by
Porter's sweetheart, Theresa Va
lente, New Bedford strike leader
and secretary of the National Com
mittee recently formed to mobolize
the young workers of the country
for PorLer's release and to expose
the role of the army.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
N. Y. COMMUNIST
CAMP AIGN Is ON
First Sprint For Big
Signature Quota

Evidence that the election can9-
paign of the Workers (Communist)
Party in New York State and par
ticularly in New York City was
swinging into mid-season form was
had yesterday with the announce
ment through Bert Miller, organiza-
ton secretary of District 2, that a
number of successful meetings have
already been held in the drive to
secure $4,000 signatures to put the
local candidates of the Party on
the ballot.
Running Start
While the full force in the cam
paign may not get under way be-
fore next week, it was announced,
various sections have already be-
gun with the house to house cam
paign to secure the necessary sig
natures. Those in charge report
greater degree of enthusiasm and
interest in the present political cam
paign than was manifest in previ-
Gus years when the value of politi-
cal activity had not yet been so
fully realized.
AT a section meeting held in the
Harlem headquarters Of the Party,
lab E. 103rd ST., last week prelim-
mary plans were laid for the car
rying out the campaign in that
district. Signature squads were ap-
pointed under a program of activi-
ty which includes seven-day drive
until the necessary quota is secured.
Every member is to report daily at
7 p. m. for work in the evening.
Continued on Page FiUe)
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Program of
Big Concert
Is Announced

At last the details of the program
- of the great concert to be held
at Coney Island Stadium Saturday
pight have been completely worked
out. And the program indicates
that the committee in charge has
done itself proud.
The first Part of the program will
consist of concert by Arnold Volpe
and his symphony orchestra of so
musicians. The orchestra will open
with the Coronation March from
Meyerbeer's opera, The Prophet.
Then will follow the famous Rienzi
Overture of Wagner, Caucasian
Sketches by Ippolitow- -Ivanov, Fan
tasy from Bizet's opera, Carmen,
and the ever-popular Marche Slav
by Tschaikovsky. All of these num-
bers are among the most popular
in the symphonic repertoire.
Ballet's Program.
After an intermission of Is min
utes, the noted Roxy Ballet, under
the direction of A. nellie, former
partner of Pavlova, will present it's
program. This will consist of a
Gypsy Dance and Mazourka from
Delibes' ballet, Coppeia, and dances
from Gounod's opera, Faust. The
dancing of the ballet is certain to
be revelation to all those present.
Following an intermission of 10
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PARTY In CALL
FOR BIG CONCERT
NJ a SIS Demonstration
Urged Saturday

An appeal to all class-conscious
mrkers of New York to attend the
great concert at the Coney Island
Stadium Saturday night was issued
last night by the Central Executive
Committee of the Workers (Com.
munist) Party. The appeal, which
urges that the concert being ar.
ranged under the joint auspices Of
The DAILY WORKER and the Frei.
heit be made a mass political demon
stration, follows:
Comrades! Fellow Workersl
"The two greatest dailies of our
party, The DAILY WORKER and
the Freiheit, have organized great
concert and rally to take place at
the ConeN Island Stadium on Sat-
urday evening, July ID. This con-
cert is more than an ordinary enter
tainment, just as July IA is more
than an ordinary day.
"July Fourteenth is Bastille Day
This day is written with letters of
fire in the history of the great
French Revolution. 1t is the day
when the masses of France, rising
against their feudal oppressors.
took by storm and partly destroyed
the formidable political prison of
their old rulers, the citadel of Bas-
tile. Our comrades of The DAILY
WORKER and the Freiheit did well
to choose this revolutionary day for
their undertaking.
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
SOVIET FLYER
FINDS 8 LOST
italia" CREW
Braves Great Dangers
On Ice Floe
By EUGENE LYONS.

MOSCOW, July IL (UP).-Three
men of the ill-fated trans-Iolago
dirigible Italia who have been strug-
Cling for AZ days from ice floes to-
] ward land, and who had been given
up for lost, were found today by an
unknown Russian aviator on the
Arctic wastes off Cape Platen
north east land.
The Russian ice ship Krassin re-
ported that Soviet aviator Chuknov-
sky had circulated over the men
Prof. Finn Malmgrem, Swedish
physicist, and Captains Adalberto
Mariana and Filippo Zappi of the
Royal Italian navy, and that it was
hoped they could be rescued tonight
Or Thursday.
Chuknovsly circled over the bed
raggled figures, outlined on the ice
oy the dazzling sun, and sought to
find place to land. Two of the
men were standing and waved their
hands to the aviator. The third was
stretched out on the ice and Chuk-
noVSky was uncertain whether he
moved.
After he had made certain there
was no safe landing place in the
vicinity, Chuknovsky returned to his
base ship, the Krassin, and the Rus
slams began rushing preparations to
rescue the three men, whose con-
dition could be nothing less than
desperate.
While only a short distance
separates the Krassin from the
Castaways great difficulties face the
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AFFAIRS AIDING
Mill. STRIKERS
w. I. R. Appeals For
Relief Activity

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, July IL.
The Workers International Relief,
which has now become the chief
strike relief distributing agency in
the New Bedford strike of 28,000
textile workers has issued an ap-
peal to workers organizations to
undertake activities that will bring
in funds for strike aid. The state
ment enumelates the affairs already
arranged and says in part:
"a smashing defeat was delivered
to the textile corporations on Mon
day, July 2, when the mill gates
were opened for the first time in
IL weeks. Not striker returned to
work. The attempt of the bosses to
Intimidate the workers by calling
out an additional force of mounted
police and the state militia was an
swered by the strikers by mass pick
citing.
State Stops Aid.
The state of Massachusetts an
nounced through the press that
since the mills were opened the state
would no longer aid in giving relief
to the needy. The city of New Bed
ford and the chamber of commerce
who have been doling out charity
will no doubt follow this capitalistic
example within a few days in the
hope that this will defeat and force
the workers back into the mills.
IF. G. Biederkapp of the Workers
international Relief says that the
W. l. R. is arranging to open up ad-
Continued on Page Five)
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TO HOLD CONEY
ISLAND DAN CE

The Coney Island Workers Club
will hold a Moonlight Dance, Sat
urday, July Ia. The dance, which
will begin at midnight, will be held
at the Pythian Temple, 1864 w.
21st St., Coney Island.
The affair had originally been ar
ranged to take place on the after
noon of the same day, and notices
had appeared both in The DAILY
WORKER and in other publications
to that effect. But because it would
have conflicted with The DAILY
WORKER concert at the Coney Is
land Stadium at which Theremin,
the noted Soviet musician is to play,
the club moved the time ahead to
midnight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
DRIVE FOR new
UNION SPREADS
Urge Anthracite To
Stand Solid

PITTSBURGH, Pa, July II,
The call for a national
miners convention to be held
at Pittsburgh on September
GIG for the purpose of form
ing a new national miners union.
was forwarded to all local unions
of the United Mine Workers with
request for the election of dele
gates to the convention, according
to an announcement by Pat Toohey,
secretary of the convention arrange
ments committee. Toohey added
that the convention arrangements
committee printed 100000 copies of
the Call for the convention for wide
distribution among the miners in
both the organized and unorganized
sections of the industry.
Warns Miners.
The announcement warns the pro-
gressive miners that the Lewis
henchmen will do everything in
their power to prevent the local
unions from taking action on the
Call for a national miners conven-
ton. Toohey therefore urges the
progressive miners to make sure
that the Call is brought before their
local unions ond that delegates loyal
to the rank and file are elected to
the convention.
In scathing denunciation of
John L. Lewis and the other Off
cials of the United Mine Workers of
America, declaring that they wreck
Continued on Pare Fipe)
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prominent New York attorney. Both
have been deeply interested in the
frame-up case and have been work
ing for the release of Mooney and
Billings since 1916. Clarence Dar-
row and Arthur Garfield Hays, who
have served as counsel in other ia
nous labor trials in past years, are
also active in this latest move for
the freedom Of Mooney end Bill
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
SOCIALIST MAYOR
HELPING SEIpEL
Vienna Communists To
Demonstrate July IA

(Snecial Cable To Daily Worker.)
VIENNA, July 1.-THE social
democratic mayor of Vienna, Seitz
has refused to countermand the po-
lice prohibition of the Communist
Party demonstration July Is on the
anniversary of the working class
uprisings last year. The Commu-
mist Party announces that the dem
onstration will be held on July Il
instead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
DELAY MOONEY APPEAL
Gou Young Must Take Vacation Now

The hearing for the unconditional
pardon of Tom Mooney and Warren
K. Billings before Gov. Young on
July 27, the date originally set, has
been postponed until the middle of
August, according to information
just received BY James P. Cannon
national secretary of International
Labor Defense, in letters from both
Fremont Older, editor of the San
Francisco Call and Frank P. Walsh
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12

tion at Broad and Wall Sts., July 8,
and has been kept prisoner in the
Heckscher Foundation since her ar
rest. Magistrate Levy had refused
the request of Jacques Bruitenkant.
representing the New York Section
Of the International Labor Defense,
that jTJgment be postponed in or
der tn Fanny Plotkin, sister of the
young accused, might have an op-
Continued on Page Taco)
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Soviet UNION
TRIES 10 SPIES

MOSCOW, July II (UP) Trial
of ten Russians and one German
accused Of economic espionage be-
gan today before the military see
tion of the Supreme Court.
The defendants are charged with
spying on behalf of Sweish conces-
sionaires of the Alta Laval and Di-
abolo Separator companies, and
gathering and selling secret agri-
cultural data.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12

The immediate call for pic
ket demonstration issued by
the strike committee spread
like wild-fire thruout the city
and resulted in the formation
of a picket line marching 5000
strong, with over $4,000 other
strikers and sympathizers jamming
the entire South End where the Kill
burn plant is situated.
Huge Demonstration.
Then followed a huge all night
demonstration, spQntaneity and en-
thusiasm of which did not diminish
even after daylight had come. The
picket line stretched along Rodney
French Boulevard for several city
blocks.
/ The peak of the demonstration
was reached at about .aitinight, the
mary thousands Of workers then go
ing home, but many hundreds still
stubbornly watched the waterfront
thru which the eight scabs were re-
ported to have entered the mills.
As the hours crept toward the
early dawn, hundreds of men and
women came to augment the picket
line despite pelting rain. Mothers
who had left the Kilburn plant to
take their children home returned to
patrol the Mill gates and the water
front
Spirit High.
The entire city is as one in agree
ment with the belief that this demon
stration did more to display the iron
determination underlying the spirit
of the strikers than any other mani
festationtof strength.
Again the yellow role of the
leaders of the textile council was
shown here when Lieutenant Mann
ing, and Chief McLeed in charge of
the emergency police force called
out, asked the picket line leaders
that the mass picketing and the
singing of strike songs be stopped.
McLeed and Manning asked this of
the picket captains of the Textile
Workers Union of the T. NJ. c.,
Caesare Barbosa and August Con
salves Pinto; and also of the Council
leader Batty.
Batty Aids Bosses.
Batty Immediately responded to
the police request that picket lines
be reduced to six at each gate and
that marching cease. The T. M. c.
Picket captains gave an immediate
unconditional refusal to obey the
police request.
Quits Picketing.
Batty then followed with a call to
the council membership that they
withdraw from. the picket line and
move to an adjourning lot The
council pickets protested saying that
they wished to remain on the picket
lines as long as the Mills Committee
pickets were there. A large
majority of his pickets remained on
the line after disregarding his ex-
press order to withdraw.
At 2 a. m. the 7. NJ. C. captains
collected doughnuts and cookies from
three bakers and handed them out
to the pickets. At a. m. big truck
loaded with sandwiches, milk and
coffee with sept by the 7. NJ. c. Re-
lief Station and distribution to the
Council as well as to the T. NJ. C.
pickets. The Council picket captain
at first hesitated, but then accepted
Continued on Page FiUe)
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PIONEERS RAP C0UR 7
n
Den0unce the Verdict on kose 0tk n

Bitter condemnation of Magistrate
Samuel d. Levy of the Children's
Court who on Tuesday condemned
Rose Plotlin. 13-year-old member
Of the Young Pioneers, to be sent
back to her home town in Indiana
is contained in statement issued
by the Communist youth organiza-
Jion last night.
The young militant was arrested
lat the anti-imperialists' denonstra-
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Fur Shop Chairmen's
Meeting Tonight at 6
"To All Actiye Fur Workers:

"To All Actiye Fur Workers:
"All shop chairmen, Joint Board
delegates, Executive Board men,
bers, and active union members
must be present at to-night's shop
chairman's meeting Immediately af-
ter work at the union office, % E.
22nd st.
JOINT BOARD,
FURRIERS' UNION"
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500 WANTED AT
CENTER TONIGHT

Five hundred volunteers are wan
ted tonight at 1880 on the fourth
floor of the Workers Center, 1928
Union Square. The volunteers are
needed to organize the demonstra-
ton at the great DAILY WORKER
concert at Coney Island Stadium,
aturday evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
$4,000 MARCH TO
kILBURN MILLS AS
SCAB RUMOR RISES
United Textile Worker Rank and File Defies
Batty: Fraternize with Mill Committee
Pickets in Fishermen's Boats Guard Mill Gate
on Waterfront Against Scabs

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, July 1.-THE most dramatic
single event take place since the big New Bedford textile
strike began than II weeks occurred yesterday
when it was meeting of the Textile Workers
Union strike committee that eight srkebeakers had entered
the Kilburrn Mills and had started the looms.
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MARY sORKIN WANTED

Mary Sorkin is asked to communi-
cate Immediately with the district
office of the Young Workers Com
munist) League, at the Workers
Center, 1928 Union Square. 1t is
very important
Evening star., 1928-05-27
MOUNT GILEAD FARM

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la4Hs FBFes yleW 0f Iail Run MpuBtBns
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efsa eDoi lffPlfs Hue afass fialae thfHn atTs
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Evening star., 1928-05-27
RESORTS.
REACH HAVEN N T.

THE ENCLESlDE Beach Haven, n, J..
the Island Resort. The
only resort on the Jersey coast that combines
perfect bathing. always good fishing, with
a modern hotel aud gives sure relief from
hay fever besides Booklet Five tennis
courts Opens June 29ud,
Z. +. ENGLE. Manager.
Evening star., 1928-05-27
Duncanites Garry On.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
parsley training working mems
children in the dance traditions of
ISadora Duncan her friends here hope
to perpetuate in France the work the
dancers death cut short.