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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
CONNOLLY GUILTY
OF Sewer CRAFT
Gets Year Sentence;
May Never Serve

Maurice E. Connolly, former
Queens Borough president and Fred
erick Seely, former Borough en-
gineer, were yesterday found guilty
in the Queens $30,00O,000 Tammany
sewer graft case, but as was pre-
dicted, the hand of Tammany Gus
tice" fell lightly on its own hench-
man. Connolly one of the leaders of
the innering of Queens grafters with
rake-off variously estimated at
from five to twenty millions yearly,
was sentenced to one year imprison-
ment ard $500 fine.
No one believes that Connolly will
ever be put behind bars or if, like
Mrs. Florence E. Knapp, he should
be sent to Gail" that he will have
anything but rollicking time of it
until parolled by some kind Tam
many Commission.
Already appeals have been filed
and it may be years before decision
is made. A motion to set aside the
verdict in the case of Seely was
taken under advisement by the court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
POLICE FIGHT COMMUNIST NEGRO EQUALITY PLATFORM
Gou Speaks Phoenix Tonight Workers Corps Guards Meeting
RAID WORKERS PARTY
OFFICE IN LOS ANGELES

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17.-Con-
tinuing their campaign of terror
against the Workers (Communist)
Party, police have raided the Party
headquarters and arrested Oliver
Calson and Aaron Grossberg. Both
are charged with criminal syndi-
calism" and "alien anarchy"
Ten other workers were also ar
rested, but were released after being
held five hours.
The police in their raid crashed
thru every obstacle in their way
Furniture, shelving and windows
were broken and the place was COM
pletely wrecked. A truckload of
books, magazines, leaflets, campaign
material, records and pictures was
confiscated and the entire stock of
the book shop was taken away.
The raid on the Workers Party
headquarters is part of a series of
anti-Red raids in this city as re-
suit of which many active militants
have been arrested, among them
Frank Spector, sub-district organ
izer of the Workers Party and Sol
Erenberg, sub-district organizer OF
the Young Workers League.
The Los Angeles raids are re-
garded as part of the official ma
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
KILL ANTI-WAR
SHIP PETITION
200, 900 Names Is Few
for Reich Socialists

BERLIN, Oct. 17.-After the so
cial democrats, with the government
machinery in their hands, has used
every means possible to prevent the
Communist Party of Germany from
reaching the workers on the ques-
tion of the plebiscite directed against
the construction of new cruisers,
they have decided that referen-
dunn will not be granted because the
100000 signatures collected fell
short of the arbitrary 100000 re-
quired by German law.
The Communists had proposed a
law which would forbid the con-
struction of battleships in order to
counter the action of the govern
ment and the social-democrats who
are carrying out naval construc-
tion program. In order to have a
plebiscite on the proposed law it was
necessary to obtain one-tenth of the
qualified voters.
With the use of radio and other
direct means of reaching the work
ers granted to the ocial-democrats
but forbidden to the Communists,
all the signatures were obtained by
demonstrations, tours and house to
house canvassing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
Workers Party Issues
Call for Red Election
Guard to Watch Polls

A call for Red election guards
was issued last night by District
2 of the Workers (Communis)
Party.
A conference in which detailed
and full instructions will be given
to all Communist watchers will
be held at S p. m. tonight at the
Workers Center, 1928 Union So.
This conference is of the utmost
importance to the Red election
campaign and should be attended
by all Party members and SYM
pathizers.
1T is not enough to have placed
the candidates of the Workers
Communist Party on the bal
lot" reads the call of the District
Office of the Workers (Commun-
isD Party, "nor is it enough that
we are carrying on an intensive
campaign in the way of distribu-
tion Of literature and house to
house canvasses of workers in
their homes. We must be ready
to guard the practical results of
our campaign. We must be on
watch at the polls constantly dur
ing election day and see that no
Communist ballots are destroyed
or in any other way invalidated.
''The destruction and invalida-
tion of opposition ballots has long
been practice of esteem in the
capitalist parties. This year. our
campaign has continued to reach
thousands of workers despite ter
rOristic attempts to stop it, the
capitalist politicians will be on the
alert for Communist ballots. At
tempts will be made to void them
To guard against this is the Com
munist duty of every member of
our Party and the working class
duty of every sympathizer."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
SILK WORKERS
FIGHT FASCISTS
New London Strike to
Prevent Frame-up
By TOM DE FAZIO.

NEW LONDON, Conn, Oct. II,
(By MaiD.-The workers of the
Corticelli Silk Mills have walked
out in solidarity with Vincenzo
Gaudenzie, who was arrested in the
shop on Saturday morning. Gauden-
zie was accused by spy employed
in the same mill with having partici-
pated in the beating up of some
fascist during the attempt of the
New London black shirts to parade
in celebration arranged by the
Sons of Italy and other fraternal
societies of the city on Columbus
Day.
The protest of the workers was
directed not only against the police
but against the boss who permits a
fascist spy to work in the mill In
their walkout, they demanded the
immediate discharge of the black
shirt stool-pigeon.
The arrests began hours after the
demonstration by the police accom-
panied by fascist who pointed them
out. Gaudenzie is the sixth work
Continued on Page -Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
Supreme Court Makes
Gesture of Legality
in |. r. T. Fare Steal

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.-Argu-
ment before the United States
Supreme Court on the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company plea for an
increased fare in New York City
centered around the question of
jurisdiction of courts in the case.
In a number of questions, so
vigorous that to careful observers,
they seemed suspicious, various
members of the supreme court
sought to ascertain why the Inter-
borough had failed to wait out the
80 day period required by law be-
fore taking its case to the Federal
Court from the Transit Commission
to which it had submitted its plea
for a fare increase.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
Com m u mist Speakers
to Expose Axtell Lies
at Astoria Meet TOnite

Propaganda spread tonight against
Soviet Russia by Silas B. Axtell,
notorious for his campaign of Sian,
der against the first workers and
farmers republic, in Long Island,
will be answered from a Communist
platform by William w. Weinstone.
District Organizer of the Workers
(Communist) Party, and other Red
speakers.
The Communist opposition meet
ing will be held at the corner of
Steinway and Jamaica Aves., AS
toria, L. l., at the same corner
where a Communist meeting was
broken up and Red campaigners
beaten by the Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
The meeting at which Axtell will
speak is being held under the aus
pices of the John j. Dwyer Post of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars-the
same fascist organization which is
directly responsible for the attacks
on Communist speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
500 IN PROTEST
OF MEAT PRICES

CLEVELAND, Oct. Is (By MaiD
Five hundred women and men at
tended the mass meeting called by
District of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party last Tuesday protesting
against the high cost of meat.
Butchers thruout the city have al
most doubled the price of meat in
recent months. The butchers claim
that the meat trust is responsible
for the recent increase in the cost
of meat and that they had nothing
to do with it. AS proof of this,
they take out their A. F. of l.. char
Continued on Page Five
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18


Gitlow's meeting, and safe
guard the Communist candl-
date from the attacks contem-
plated by the jingoes OF the
American Legion and the ku
Klu Klan.
Word has been received here that
Gitlow has already arrived IN
Phoenix. The City Commission
which last week refused to grant
the members of the Workers Com
munist) Party a permit to speak at
any of the meeting places where
nolit;cal speeches are usually held
here. has now retreated in the lace
of the growing national protest OF
the workers, following discovery OF
the plot to kidnap Ben Gitlow. 1t
no longer refuses to grant the Work
ers (Communist) Party permits for
its right to hold political meetings.
A permit procured last night from
the City Council by William O'Brien
grants the Workers (Communist)
Party the right to hold meeting
tomorrow evening at the Plaza, with
BENJAMIN Gitlow as the principal
speaker.
According to the leaders of the
Workers (Communist) Party In
Phoenix, the terror methods against
Gitlow may be resumed at any mo-
ment. 1t is because of this possi-
bility that the Workers Defense
Corps, militant vanguard of the
workers in this section, will attend
the meeting here tomorrow evening.
Throughout the United States, the
indignation of the workers against
the jingoes who instigated the ter
ror against the Red candidate has
been constantly growing. Meetings
have been organized in all sections
of the country, for the purpose of
protesting against the dirty jingo-
ist activities and of pledging i'm
mediate aid in case any such terror
is attempted again.
In Denver, Colo, mass meet
ing to protest against the attempt
to kidnap Benjamin Gitlow will be
held at the Grace Church on Fri
day, Oct. 19, beginning at 8 o'clock
in the evening, under the auspices
of the local Workers (Communist)
Party and the Young Workers
(Communist) ague. George
Pershing, a relative of the militarist,
General John J. BLACK Jack) Perish
ing, is to be one of the speakers.
Salt Lake City in Utah is also
mobilizing its class conscious work
ers for the defense of Gitlow. A
mass protest meeting has been ar
ranged there for the evening of Oct.
21 to take place at the Labor Tenn
pie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
WORKERS PARTY APPEALS TO SILK STRIKERS
Warns Heroic Paterson Workers They Must Spread Se Ian Wins

The Executive Committee of Dis
trict 2 Of the Workers (Communist)
Party and the Executive Commit
tee of the Workers Party of Pater-
son have issued the following ap-
peal to the striking silk workers
of Paterson, calling for the spread
ing of the strike and warning them
against certain dangerous policies
which are now being pursued. "Silk
Workers Of Paterson" the appeal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18

mlngCOn Negro SecClOn.
Unable to secure a hall, following
the police prosecutions of the pre-
ceding night the meeting was held
on the open streets in the Negro
district
Moore was presenting to the large
crowd, most of whom were Negroes,
the d emands for equality for
Negroes issued by the Workers
(Communist) Party when the police
seized him together with his COM
panions.
The arrested men and women
were hustled to the police station
where no further word has been
heard of them.
Grave fear is felt for their safety,
owing to threats made by the chief
of police of Wilmington to William
2. Foster, presidential candidate for
president of the United States on
the Communist Party ticket, who
was arrested last night also while
urging equality for Negroes. AT
that time the police told Foster that
"any other Communist speaking in
that city would be lucky to escape
with his life"
WILMINGTON, Del, Oct. IT,
After threatening a violent recep-
tion if he ever appeared in Whining
ton again, the chief sargeant of de-
tectives released William z. Foster,
candidate for president of the Work
ers (Communist) Party early this
morning. The police official at
tempted to grill Foster, warning
him to get out of town and stay
out, but was assured by Foster that
although he is scheduled to speak
elsewhere during the rest of the
campaign, he would return to Will
mington whenever the Workers Par
ty will arrange another meeting for
him there, and that Communists are
not cowed by police threats.
Forbid Talk of Negro Rights.
The grilling was done not by the
policeman but by Foster, who forced
from him the inadvertant admission
that the charge against the Commu-
nists arrested, which was "inciting
to riot" was entirely without legal
basis. Foster extracted from the
sargeant the admission that the ar
rest was made because the Commu
mist presidential candidate advo-
Gated full social, political and econ
omic equality for Negroes, and had
urged the organization of new in
dustrial unions in which Negro and
white workers should unite against
their common enemy, the capitalist
class. The police official explained
that it was his opinion that this
would incite the Negroes to riot.
want Your Daughter to Marry
Nigger?"
Turning to G. Newcombe, Work
ers (Communist) Party candidate
for governor of Delaware, he fairly
spluttered in rage.
AS for you," he shouted, eff you
distribute any more of these leaflets
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18

By coming out in thousands in
response to the strike call, you have
shown that you understand that
only by determined struggle, only
by the establishment of powerful
organization of the silk workers can
you win union conditions, establish
the 8-hour day, the 44-hour week,
secure increased wages and elimi-
nate the sweatshop system.
The bosses understand that you
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18

favoring the abolition of laws for
bidding intermarriage, your white
hair will not save you. You will be
taught a lesson you will never for
get"
The front pages of the Whining
ton newspapers on Monday carried
stories announcing the meeting, tell
ing about the distribution of the
Negro leaflet with the Workers
Party platform advocating full
rights for Negroes and the abolition
of discrimination against them, with
an interview prior to the meeting
with the chief of police on the SUBJ
ject in which he said that although
he would rescind his order to pre-
vent Foster from speaking he would
send police to prevent the discussion
of the racial question, and that Fos-
ter would be arrested if he disobeyed
the order. Yesterdays papers prin-
ted Fosters speech in full on the
front page.
Republican Party Anti-Negro.
Foster told his audience of 500 en-
many Negroes, of his tour, dwelling
particularly on his experiences in
the South. He predicted a large
vote for the Communist ticket in the
southern states, which would be
much larger if most Negroes were
not disfranchised.
"The republican party" Foster
said, mo longer even pretends to up
hold the rights of the Negroes, drop
ping their promises to colored work
ers because they hope to capture
several southern states. The solid
south is not so solid for the demo-
Gratis as when it was predominately
agricultural section. The Industrial
ization of the South is producing
new political alignments, and many
big manufacturers are turning to
the republican party as the tradi-
tional party of the big employers
and capitalists. So the republicans
have become lily white
Communist Party in South.
"The invasion of the South by the
Workers Party marks new epoch"
declared Foster. From now on, we
must intensity our work among the
white and Negro workers, breaking
down the barriers between them
erected by the capitalists in order to
weaken both. The southern work.
ers suffer from the lowest wages
and longest hours and worst condi-
tions existing anywhere in the coun-
try. They are ready for organiza-
tion and the Communists must lead
the Negroes and white workers in
their sharpening struggles. Thou
sands of poor white farmers are
flocking from the hills to the grow
ing industrial cities to improve their
standards of living, only to find
themselves ruthlessly exploited by
the bosses, if they succeed in find
ing work at all. The Negroes are
forced to do the hardest and worst
paid work and get lower wages
than whites even when they do the
same work.
Speaks in Baltimore.
Foster spoke last night at Balti-
more. Whether or not the fascists
made any attempt to break up the
meeting as was threatened was not
known when the Daily Worker went
to press. He will speak at Trenton
tonight, at Philadelphia tomorrow
night, and at Rochester on Oct. 20,
where he will give a radio talk on
the war danger.
Philadelphia Meeting.
The Philadelphia meeting will be
huge protest demonstration
against the terrorism against the
Workers Party on the part of the
American Legion, the X. X. X. in
collaboration with reactionary labor
Continued on Page Three
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,eded to union demands.

ceded to union demands.
As result of the city-wide vic
tories being recorded by the union
several hundred workers find them
selves with a wage increase of S5,
guaranteed number of hours. time
off during the week and a growing
union to protect them-all due to
three days militant activity on
their part-and the year-long strug-
gle and sacrifice made in thsir be-
half by the workers who have built
the organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
WORKERS HEAR
OF RED CONGRESS
Weinstone in Phila.,
Pittsburgh

AT membership meetings held Fri
day in Philadelphia, and Saturday
in Pittsburgh, William w. Vein
stone, organizer of District 2, Work
ers Party, reported on the Sixth
Congress of the Communist Interna-
tional. Both meetings adopted reso-
lutions in regard to the work and
decisions of the Sixth Congress.
The meetings were very well at
tended and the workers showed
great interest in the work of the
congress.
Shows War Danger.
Weinstone pointed out that the
war danger has been the center of
:he work of the congress. He pointed
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18

have taken up the battle and that
you mean to fight and that condi-
tions are ripe for victory, but, as
arrogant slave-drivers, they show
the same determination to keep you
in the present miserable conditions
while on the other hand they are
trying to break your ranks by max
ing promises that they will give the
workers some of their demands, but
Continued on Page TWo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
CLERKS union
WINNING STRIKE:

Consistent progress toward win
ming their general strike, in spite
of continued right wing strikebreak-
ing methods, was reported yester-
day by the Retail Grocery, Fruit
and Dairy Clerks Union. One hun
dred per cent of the shops previously
under agreement with the union
have signed up, granting a wage
increase of SIS per week and other
demands and considerable per
centage of the new stores, estimated
at rs per cent, have likewise con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18

is headed, "be militant and win!"
The full text of the statement
follows:
Fellow workers!
The desperate conditions existing
in the silk mills of Paterson have
driven you to take up struggle
against your employers.
You are fighting against long
hours, low wages, speed-up and un-
bearable sweatshop conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18

tion-wide terror drive against the
Workers Party which has resulted
in the arrest of William z. Foster
Communist candidate for president
in Wilmington, Del, and in a plot
to kidnap Benjamin Gitlow, vice
presidential candidate, in Phoenix
Ariz.
The local Party, aided by the In
ternational Defense, is planning to
wage vigorous fight against the
attempts to crush it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
NEW JAPANESE ENVOY.

WASHINGTON, Oct. IT (UP)-
Katsuji Debuchi, new Japanese am
bassador and his wife arrived at
Washington this morning at 8
o'clock to establish their residence
here. Debuchi said that he had no
special Instructions for his mission
here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
On October 27
the
pailg ~, Morker

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 11th
Anniversary of the Russian
Revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
RUSH CINCINATTI WORKER GUARD
TO DEFEND RED NOMINEE FROM
XII kLUx and LEGION TERROR
Denver, Salt Lake City Organizing Corps for
Communist Defense
Protest Meetings Thruout the Country Brand
Persecution

PHOENIX Arz, Oct, ia squadron of the Workers
Defense Corps composed of militant rank file members
of the Workers Commns Party and other class conscious
workers. left Cincinnati Ohio today to to this city, where
Benjamin Gow vice presidential candidate OF the Workers
(Comnnnist Party will speak tonight They will surround
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
PAUL CROUCH AND R. B. MOORE
ARRESTED AS POLICE BREAKUP
SECOND DELAWARE RED MEETING
Four Seized Advocating Negro Equality in
Wilmington Negro District
Grave Fears Felt for Communist Prisoners
Following Official Threats
(Bv Lono Distance Telephone to the DaiI, Worker

WILMINGTON Del, Oct. 17-Polce officials of this city
city tonight carried out threats they made when they broke
UP meeting the Workers Communist) Party here last
night arresng Richard B. Moore the Workers Party Negro
candidate district Paul Crouch Of
the AAmerca Anmperiaist League Esther Marizon and
election campaign meeting held in Will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS

For W0rkers-Farmers Government
To Organise the Unorganized
For the 4O-Honr Week
For Labor Party
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-06-21

Fireworks at Pomfret School Cut
Short.---Aiso Elks Program

The thunder shower that came out
Of the southwest, Thursday evening,
put dampener on the fireworks dis--
play at Pomfret school. Hundreds Of
people crowded fashionable Pomfret
street. Hundreds Of cars we're in a
tangled congestion and the state pol
ice were kept busy keeping traffic
as orderly as possible.
The display Of fireworks was great
" admired as far as II went but the
deIuge Of rain stopped the exhibition.
People who did not have closed auto.
mobiles scampered for any sort Of
cover and crowded the grounds and
porches Of houses along the highway
The officers assigned 70 traffic duty
did not fare 50 well. They had 70 re-
main at their posts and were drench.
ed % the skin.
In Putnam the Flag Day exercises
Of Putnam Lodge Of Elks suffered IN
attendance because Of the gathering
storm. Few appeared 20 participate
IN the program and the exercises were
reduced 70 the Flag Day ritual Of the
order.