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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
NAVAL OFFICER.
ATTACKS YOUNG
WORKERS LEAGUE
San Francisco Jingoes
Furious as Sailors
Get Leaflets
Police Investigating"
Leaflet Urges Defense
of Working Class
Especial to the Daily Worker

Especial to the Daily Worker)
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept.
16.-The militarist authorities in
San Francisco, thrown into a furore
by the distribution of over a thou
sand leaflets by members of the
Young Workers (Communist)
League to sailors of the Pacific
Fleet during its recent visit to San
Francisco, have begun campaign
of suppression of all Communist
activities in the city.
Captain Black, jingo in command
of the U. S. S. California, yester-
day sent a letter to Mayor Rolph,
demanding that the activities of the
Young Workers (Communist)
League be investigated in connec-
ton with the distribution of these
leaflets, which were received by
sailors on board every one of the
At warships in the Pacific Fleet
while moored in San Francisco
Bay.
Jingoes Hold Lectures"
So panic stricken were the naval
officials, that lectures" were hur-
riedly arranged on board every
ship. In these lectures the mill
tarist officials urged that the
sailors "pay no attention to the
Bolshevik literature" that they had
received. An attempt at intimida-
ton was seen in the announcement
by the jingo speakers that the War
Department of the United States
was Investigating the matter"
Immediately after the receipt of
the letter from Captain Black,
Mayor Rolph issued an order to the
police department of San Francis
co, commanding them to investigate
the activities of the Young Work
ers (Communist) League. with the
purpose of taking drastic action
Continued on, Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
MINERS union
ISSUES POLICY
Adopt Militant Plan Of
Class Struggle

EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa.-The
first convention of the National
Miners Union which met here Sep
tember 9-10, worked out and adopt
ed the following statement of the
policy the new organization expects
to pursue in it's efforts to make the
coal fields fit for a miner to work
in, raise wages, shorten hours, and
block the open shop drive and the
treachery of the U. NV. A. ma
chine.
The deep crisis in the coal in
dustry has become ever more acute
The ranks of the hundreds of thous-
ands unemployed miners are swell
ing with the rapid advance of labor
saving loading machines, conveyers
and mechanical devices. A terrific
speed-up system is being put into
practice.
While the profits of the coal
operators have grown into stagger-
ing figures, the misery and want
among the coal miners is appalling.
Yet the operators pursuing their
Continued on Page Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
POLICE BREAK UP
OPEN AIR MEETING
Napoli, Red Candidate,
Speaks

Police Saturday broke I'D an open
air meeting of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party at 10th St. and
First Ave. at which Napoli, Work
ers Party candidate for state sena-
tor was speaking. Napoli was as
sailing the democratic and republi-
can parties as tools of big business,
when someone in the audience, said
to have been member of the Amer
ican Legion, began to interfere. The
fascist walked away and returned
with two policemen, who ordered the
meeting to stop. The audience of
about 100 workers were angered by
the action of the police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
10 LEFT WING
BUTCHERS MEET
FOR NEW union
Pass Resolution for the
Defense of Framed
Militant
Score Knife Committee
Charge Corn Intends
to Levy S25

One hundred and twenty butcher
workers, all members of the mill
tant group of the Hebrew Butcher
Workers Union, who were expelled
by the corrupt leadership, dominated
by Corn, last night gathered at the
Stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave. and
Ninth St., for the purpose of organ
izing a real militant workers union
among the butchers that will be free
of the corruption and gangsterism
now rampant in the yellow right
wing-controlled leading clique.
A resolution, passed unanimously
by all of the 120 workers present,
reiterated the stand of the expelled
members that Shiffrin, now in Jail
under charges of manslaughter, had
been attacked by Corn's "knife COM
nlittee," {" and that he had been forced
to fight the entire five attackers
with his back to the wall, while they
all brandished butcher-knives.
Warn Workers Against Corn.
1t warned the workers in the
union against Corn's intention to
levy tax of S25, on each member,
and urged them to protest against
| this tax. Geing on to define their
stand in the attack on Shiffrin, the
resolution closed with a pledge that
every possible effort would be made
in the defense of Shiffrin to prevent
his being framed-up by the right
wing gangsters and sent to prison.
While the meeting was in prog
ress, a crowd Of the right wing
knife-wielding gangsters gathered
outside on the streets and att.mpted
to start riot, with the mention
Of blaming it on the militant left
wing workers assembled in the hall.
Finally, Corn, one of his assistant
gangsters and several policemen
broke into the meeting room, intend
ing to reate q riot among the work
ers present. The workers stood
their ground, however, and not only
prevented the rest of the gangsters
gathered outside from entering the
hall. but elected Corn and his pro-
tecting gangster from the meeting
room.
Corn. in an assertion which he
made later in the evening, charged
that he had been struck while in the
hall. This, however, was denied by
the left wing workers present.
During the meeting the progress
sive group of the Bakers Union do
mated the sum of $500 for the de-
fense of William Shiffrin. Two hun
dred dollars were given in cash and
5000 more promised within the next
few days. The Delicatessen Clerks
followed suit with $100 in cash and
pledge of S400 more within the
week. Among the militant left
wing butcher workers themselves,
$1,000 was raised to free Shiffrin.
Among those who addressed the
meeting were Werner and Teitle-
baum of the expelled group of the
Butchers Union; Bronsky, Okun and
Weiss of Bakers Union, and D.
Vacker of the Grocery and Fruit
Clerks Union. Malamud acted as
chairman Of the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
Hoover Will Speak
in Newark Tonight

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.-Her-
bert Hoover, republican candidate
for president of the United States,
will make a two-day campaign visit
to New Jersey. His first stop is
Newark where a torchlight parade
is to be staged in the evening after
day spent engaging in the Gus
tomary stupidities of a presidential
candidate.
In Newark it includes laying a
wreath on the Washington monu-
ment, visit to the birthplace Of
Grover Cleveland, guest at a re-
publican reception. After the par
ade he will deliver his first speech
in an armory hall.
1t will be broadcast by large
hook-up of the stations allowed to
exist under the autocratic domina-
ton of Hoover's department of
commerce.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
Progressive Workers
of Building Trades
Hold ElectiOnd Rally

Under the auspices of a progress
sive group of building trades work
ers, an election campaign rally will
be held on Saturday, October 9Th,
at the Labor Temple, 243 East 84th
st. The meeting is scheduled to
open at 2:30 o'clock.
The issues of the campaign from
the workers viewpoint will be dis
cussed by speakers and the role
played by both the republican and
democratic parties as the eager
tools of big business will be ex-
posed. Workers will be urged to
vote and work for a working class
platform and working class candi-
dates for office, under the emblem
of the Hammer and Sickle.
Several candidates of the Work
ers (Communist) Party are expect
ed to be present to address the
meeting as well as well-known
militants among the building trades
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
NEW DRESS union
IN PHILADELPHIA
Police Arrest Workers
for Picketing

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. 16.-
A new office has been opened in
Philadelphia, branch of the Ma
tional Organization Committee of
the Cloak and Dressmakers' Union.
There will be an official conference
on Tuesday evening, Sept. 1S, con-
sisting of delegates from shop COM
mittees for the purpose of building
up militant union for the work.
ers. The meeting will be held at
the new office, AZ North 9th st.
In spite of the fact that the
Philadelphia branch is new and is
only in the process of organization
hs yet, the office is busy day and
night with many workers in the
Continued ON Page Tuo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
MCCARRY FORCES.
FIRED BY LEWIS
Miners Had Deserted
"Opposition"
Especial to the Daily Workerl

Especial to the Daily Worker.l
SCRANTON, Sept. 16.-Eight
members of the so-called insurgent
group headed by Frank McGarry,
who was named president by the
Brennan-Harris forces at conven-
tion held about two months ago,
were Friday night expelled from
the United Mine Workers follow
ing a seven-hour session of the
Lewis-Boylan executive board. The
charge against them was disloyalty
to the organization for having
formed a dual union.
Included with McGarry are John
Hermansen, vice president, and
Walter Harris, secretary-treasurer
of the so-called insurgent group
and five members of their executive
board.
,Unprincipled Opposition.
The McGarry Brennan Harris
forces refused to take any stand on
principle against the corrupt Lewis
machine and sought to become the
administration for Lewis. Due to
this policy which went contrary tc
the known sentiment of the vast
majority of the rank and file min
ers, the membership rapidly desert
ed the McGarry forces.
The so-called McGarry opposition
rose to power because it earlier had
cooperated with Alex Campbell, the
heroic Pittston mine leader who
was murdered because of his fight
against the Cappellini machine in
District 1. McGarry capitalized his
connections with Campbell and
united with the Brennan group to
form a so-called Opposition" to
the Cappellini machine. The Nc
Continued on Page F5ve
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
STRESS need FOR
new Mill union
At ". |. R. MEET
Weisbord Emphasizes
Importance of New
Bedford Strike
1873 Delegates Present
Formulate Plan to Aid
Textile Strikers

The necessity of the formation of
new textile union for the exploited
workers in the industry throughout
the United States was the major
point of most of the speeches de-
livered at the Textile Relief Confer
ence of the Workers International
Relief, held Saturday afternoon at
the Irving Plaza Hall. One hun
dred and thirty-five delegates, trade
unions, fraternal organizations,
workers clubs, workmen circles,
women organizations and shops were
present.
Decisions on the work of the con-
ference were passed unanimously.
They included plans for big tag
day in October, a Workers Song
Festival, the formation of New
York City clothing and shoe station,
house-to-house collections for textile
strikers relief, and the sending of
collection lists and speakers to union
land other labor and fraternal or
Iyanization meetings.
| Albert Weisbord, militant textile
workers leader, spoke after the
opening of the conference. He
stressed the Importance of the New
Bedford strike, the need for a new
union and the necessity of holding
a Textile Mills Committee Conven-
ton soon.
Fred Biedenkamp, national secre-
tary of the Workers international
Relief, emphasized the necessity of
a huge national Workers Interna-
Continued on Page Ta0o
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
FOSTER TALKS TO
WORKERS
Militant Miners Hail
Communist Message
Especial to the Daily Worker)

Especial to the Daily Worker)
BUTTE, Montana, Sept. 16.-
Here on the battle ground of some
of the most bitterly contested labor
struggles in American history, the
home of the strikebreaking Anacon-
da Mining Company, the industrial
city that once sent its flaming mes
sage of revolt east and west thru
out the country, William 2. Foster,
presidential candidate on the Work
ers (Communist) Party ticket spoke
Thursday night to rapt and enthu-
siastic audience on the program of
class struggle in the National Plat
form of the Communist Party in
election campaign.
1t was in Butte that the slaves of
the copper kings revolted under
e leadership of the |. w. w. in
its fighting days.
1t was in Butte that the heroic
Frank Little was taken from his bed
at night by an army of hoodlums
under the direction of the Anacon-
da Mining Company and hanged
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
REFORMIST BETRAYAL
Austria Socialists Fighting Peasants

teration' in the tenants protection
law is inevitable.
The Abend declares openly that
unless the next elections bring a So
cial democratic majority. which con +.
tingency is unlikely, the social dem
ocracy will no longer oppose the re-
duction of the tenants protection
measures.
The party congress delegates are
almost exclusively officials, as the
workers have been sifted out in
carefully prepared district confer
ences. A big attack Of the right
wing, under the leadership of Rem
rer, is expected
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
Workers Theater to
Meet Tonight; Plans
for Many Plays

The first meeting this fall of the
Workers Theatre will take place to-
night at the Workers Center, 1928
Union Square, Room 81, at s p. m.
Arrangements will be made to
start work on several plays on work
ing class subjects, written by active
members during the summer. Boris
Clagclin. well-known Russian direc-
tor, will work with the Workers
Theatre
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
MOORE HITS MISLEADER
Communist Replies to Smiths Lackey

Characterizing him as a Tick
spittle in the service of reaction
airy party" Richard B. Moore
Workers (Communist) Party can
didate for congress from the 22nd
New York district, and Negro
workers leader, has sent the fol-
lowing letter to the Reverend S. L..
Carruthers, of the Independent
League of Negro Voters, which en-
dorsed AL Smith, Wall Street can
didate for president on the demo-
cratic party;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17

(Wireless to the Daily Worker.)
VIENNA, Sept. 16.-What seems
to be the beginning of the complete
betrayal of the interests of the Aus
trian tenant farmers is indicated as
the congress Of the social demo-
cratic party opened here on Satur-
day.
Articles in the social democratic
"Arbeiterzeitung" and "Abend" hint
that the congress will decide to
partly abandon the tenants protec-
tion law. The "Arbeiterzaitung"
points to the difficult situation in
lhe provinces and declares that al
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17

Rev. DR.. S. L. Carruthers,
Independent League of Negro
Voters,
Ansonia, Conn.
Dear Sir: l have just read your
statement to the press in which you
state that Negroes are indignant at
the treatment they have received
at the hands of the republican par
ty and are therefore turning to the
democratic party for relief from
the unfair discrimination against
them.
The action of the Independent
League of Negro voters in endors-
Continued on Page Three !.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
TWO GIRLS WIN
HUNGER STRIKE
Arrested for Picketing
Knitting Mills

KENOSHA, Wis, Sept. 16.-
Amanda Rittmer, and Mertice Hud-
son, two young mill strikers are
free here today as a result of a
hunger strike which they carried
out in protest against repeated ar
rests by local police for their ac-
tivities on the picket line.
The last arrest occurred eleven
days ago during a demonstration of
locked out workers of the Allen
Knitting Mills. Both girls went to
Jail refusing to accept bail and have
forced their release through hun
ger strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
Nine Dead as Result
of Rockford Storm

ROCKFORD, ILL.,, Sept. 16 (UP).
Death toll of the tornado which
swept this city Friday was brought
to nine today with the recovery Of
the body of Olaf Larson, 27, from
the ruins of the Rockford chair and
furniture company factory.
Larson was caught under the
factory's water tank and crushed to
death. His body was the first re-
covered since Friday. Five bodies
remain in the wreckage.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
Attention All Newark
Members of the Party!

All New Jersey comrades are to
report without fail Monday, Sept.
II, between 4:30 and 7:30 at SO
Mercer St., Newark, for important
Party work.
JOHN ]. BALKAN,
Acting Dist. Org. Dist. q.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
BARRIERS ORGANIZE

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept. 16.
The Journeymen BARRIERS Inter-
national Union has issued charters
to these craftsmen in Cisco, Texas
and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
Harlem Straw Vote Reveals
Negro Workers Rallying to
Communist Election Drive
Large Audiences Greet Red Speakers at the
Numerous Campaign Rallies
Workers Party Platform on Negro Question
lmpresses Workers Thruout Country

decided trend the part of the Negro towards
the Workers Communist Party candidates seen in several
straw votes taken within the last fortnight the
Negro Harlem.
Openly resenful at the consistent eachery of the
publican party of the traditional enmty of the southern
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
NEW WALL ST. ENVOY

BAHIA, Brazil, Sept. 16.-The
newly appointed American consul,
Howard Donovan, arrived here to-
day and took ur his duties immedi-
ately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17

BRUSSELS, Sept. 16.-The skele-
ton of British soldier has been
discovered in the garden of the Ca
sino at Lierre, near Antwerp.
Evening star., 1928-04-02
MOVES INDEC|S|VE
ON CURbEXCHANGE
Profit. Taking Mixed Witt
Further Bull Operations
Today.
BIZ WILLIAM F. HEFFERNAN.
speclsl ni,ra,ch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star,
NEW YORK. April 2.-For the frs
time in more than a week the curt
market today received a breathing spell
That is, the volume of business was moi
aS large as recent standards and the
market lacked the momentum that car
ried prices for Specialties upward sharp
ly on previous days. The movement OF
priceS was ndecisive. with profit-taSing
intermingled with further operations fof
the rise.
The element still favoring high prices
operated with a good deal more caution,
selecting issues which really had basis
Tor buying in developments in company
afairS Several of the oil stocks which
were able TO report satisfactory earnings
in 1927 were given consideration. Buck
eve Pine Line was case in point ana
was bought at new high prices,
Prairie Pipe Line was purchased
whenever offerings made their appear
ance, the demand rejecting the excep-
tionaily strong cash position and dis
closures in the last balance sheet.
National Transit sold at its former top,
and Reiter Foster stood out at new high
prices for the year among the lnde-
pendent producers.
Chain store issues were again promi-
nent. notably Bohack at fresh top Of
$40. Sanitary Grocery felt the effect
Of profit taking, but the decline was
inccnseouential by comparison with the
recent upturils. Operations for the rise
kept on in st. Regis Paper, although it
was some points under its previous
top.
Such issues as Bancitaly. Newmont
Mining and New Jersey Zinc were SUBJ
ject to realizing, but came back readily
once the selling was completed.
Marconi Co. of Canada was traded IN
actively, but at prices only fractionally
changed from last weeks final.
Evening star., 1928-04-02
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO. April GP1 Omitted States
Department Of Agricultural Hog
Receipts. IS 900 head: market mostly
10 20 IS cents higher than Saturdays
average: heavy butchers showing most
advance; pigs steady: top. ass paid
for choice 200-pound averages. Butch
ers, medium 10 choice. $50 10 $50
pounds. 7.70aS-30 200 70 $50 pounds.
5e0as.55; 100 TO 200 pounds, 7J60aS SIS.
i50 10 $50 pounds. 6.75as.5 so; packing
sows. e1s5a7.5o; pigs. medium 70 choice.
80 10 i30 pounds, 6.25a7.5o.
ie-ReceiptS, $4,000 head; calves.
receipts. 1000 head; general cattle trade
SLOW: steady TO rs cents lower, shipper
demand very narrow owing TO Jewish
holiday later In week. light yearlings
and lower grades Of she stock steady:
slaughter classes, steers, good and
choice, 1900 70 ] 500 pounds. i3.50a
1900; i,i00 To 1900 pounds. I3.25a
1900: $50 10 100 pounds. i2.75ai475:
common and medium. $50 pounds up,
s.50ai525; fed yeatlings, g0oc and
choice, $50 " $50 POUNDS, IL 50ai4.25: T:
heifeYs. GOOD and choice $50 pounds
down, j, i,75Ei5.75. common and medium,
e.50aIi75; COWS, good and choice, S75
ALPS; common and medium, 7,00as IS;
low cutter and cutter, 550a7 90; bulls.
good and choice beef. s.60Ai00 90; cut
Ter 10 medium, T25ae 50: gealeTE, milk
fed, good and choice. i2.00aie.00. me-
oiuno. io.50ai2 90; Gull and common,
Syg0aiO.Sg, stocker and feeder steers.
good and choice all weights. II 90a
IL 50; common and medium, s.25ail 90.
Sheep Receipts, 10000 head. fat
WDoled lambs around rs lower: better
grade clipped lambs and sheep steady,
teeding and siaearing lambs weak
Lambs good and choice Sz pounds
down. j5.15al7 IS; medium. ll75aiel00. (.
Gull and common, I325aI5.75. medium
10 choice, ~ W 100 pounds, I4.b0aI6 81 /.
ewes. medium ~ choice, $50 pounds
down. 750aiG00; Gull and common,
500aS.2S feeder lambs, good and
choice, i5.z5al6.15,
Evening star., 1928-04-02
COTTON PRICE STEADY
AFTER EARLY DROP
Selling Inspired by Favorable View
of Weather News-Cables
Help Buying.
aH ~


BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 2.-The cotton
market opened barely steady today ur-
changed to points lower. and showed
ouick net losses Of TO 10 points under
Liquidation and local or commission
house selling inspired by a favorable
view OF the weather news.
Liverpool cables were relatively steady,
however, and the decline TO 1898 for
July seemed to bring in little more
buying. After initial offerings had been
absorbed, prices steadied up 4 or points
from the lowest.
Private cables reported hedging and
Bombay selling in Liverpool absorbed by
trade calling and local buying on the
strength Of Egyptian. Demand for cot
ton cloths from India was well sus-
tanned and yarn sales were equal 70 pro-
6uctiOn.
The market became more active and
frn1er after the early offerings had
been absorbed There appeared 70
be some buying on the failure OF
the weather reports 10 show rains IN
the Southwest or on expectations OF
buliisn report on boil weevu survival
within the next few days. Covering by
early sellers developed as prices worked
up. july advanced to 1928 and October
10 1890 with the active months show
ing net gains Of Is TO II points at
midday.