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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
TWO MILLINERY
WORKERS FINED

The capitalist courts again won
the victory yesterday in their cam
paign of intimidation of militant
workers. Ida Shorr and Diana Len
ken. two millinery workers, were
yesterday morning fined SIS each
for distributing leaflets. They were
charged with violating city ordin-
ance.
The two workers were arrested
last Thursday while distributing
Trade Union Educational League
leaflets on Sixth Ave., between Beth
and 9th SITS. Magistrate Abraham
Rosenblut of jefferson Market
Court postponed the case until this
morning. When they appeared this
morning before Magistrate Jesse
Silverman of the same court, he
fined them SIS each, tho they had
caused no disturbanc eand inter
fered with mo one in their distrihu-
ton of leaflets.
The workers were defended by
Jacques Buitenkant, representing
the New York section of the Inter-
national Labor Defense, which also
paid the fineA
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then postpone the strike? Why did
you then submit to Mr.. Green's 'ad-
vice2' Why do you still trail meek
ly and supinely behind the Amer
lean Federation of Labor? OBJ
viously there is no need for this if
you are assured that you are suf-
ficiently powerful to win your
struggle without their aid.
A. F. l.. Betrays Workers.
Furthermore, Mr.. Randolph, are
you blind to what is happening
under your very eyes in the labor
movement? Do you not see that
Vim. Green, John L. Lewis, etc.,
have aided the employers in wreck
ing the United. Mine Workers of
America, in defeating the strike of
the miners of Pennsylvania and
Ohio, thousands of whom are Negro
workers. Do you not see that this
same reactionary officialdom is
playing the same role of betrayer
in the strike Of the textile workers?
And are you not aware of the
complete disaster brought to the
workers of the marlborough Rapid
Transit Company by these very la
Dor misleaders? The A. F. of L. Of
ficialdom took control of the trac-
ton workers strike. They assumed
the leadership of the old union, of
the Consolidated Traction Workers
Union. What did they do? They
ditched the former leaders who had
built up union, and they dallied
around with Mayor Walker and the
Tammany Hall politicians, and
completely betrayed the struggle of
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ernor's commission, which tried to
force the cloak and dressmakers into
submission to the bosses, of the in
functions against the cloakmakers
handed out by Tammany judges, of
their Industrial Squad and anti-la-
Dor activity not only in the strug-
giles of the needle trades workers,
but In the subway and elevated
strikes, in the strike of the paper
box makers, ct cetera. We must tell
them also that this policy is in line
with the appointment of Major Ber-
ry, who broke the pressmen's strike
in New York several years ago, to
head the Labor Bureau of the demo-
cratic national campaign committee.
G. O. p. Is Anti-Labor
When the republicans will come,
we will remind them not only of
the republican judges who have
thrown innocent strikers in New
York into prison for the crime of
fighting for better conditions for
themselves and their families. We
will also tell them that we, know
that the republican machine has
done in Pennsylvania, in the bitter
strike of the bituminous coal min
ers, where the most vicious injunc-
lions were issued, where hundreds
of workers were brutally beaten up
and arrested, where political offici-
ais openly cooperated with the coal
operators to break the strike and
destroy the union. We will add also
that we are not ignorant of what
is happening in New Bedford, where
10000 textile workers, engaged in
strike for many, weeks, are being
daily arrested, thrown into prison,
and the republican political forces,
with the aid of the National Guard
and their bayonets, are using every
means to help the textile barons
crush the strike, Nor have we for
fotten, that the republican Governor
Fuller ordered the execution of two
brave and noble fighters in the
workers cause-Saceo and Vanzetti.
The needle trades workers in New
York and other cities, militant fight
ers, cannot support either the re-
publican or democratic parties-the
parties of Wall Street, ruled by the
House of Morgan, trying not only
to crush the workers of America,
but to enslave the peoples of Mica
ragua, China, ct cetera.
Must Repudiate Socialists.
As for the socialist party--for
them, our answer must be, when
they come to us pretending to be a
party of the working class, clear
and emphatic Reputation. The So
cialist party has betrayed the needle
trades workers, is in fact the party
Of the needle trades manufacturers,
as it Is betraying the entire work
ing class. The socialist party has
become party Of the petty-bour-
geois. 1t no longer believes in the
class struggle, but has become, like
the capitalist parties, advocates OF
peace and harmony" in industry
between the workers and the bosses.
The socialist party toda. fights the
progressive movement everywhere
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
1000 EXPECTED
AT LOCAL 3 MEET
Electrical Workers to
Fight Breach

Continued from, Page One
meetings by the Breach machine. 1t
is estimated that there are three
hundred of these workers who are
being shut out and many of whom
have been slugged because of their
criticism of the destructive Breach
policies. Breach has said that only
a. few are being kept out, and the
plan, it is understood, is to show
by actual numbers that hundreds
are Disseminated against.
1t was learned yesterday that
following the publication Tuesday
in the columns of the Daily Worker
of complete exposure of the
Breach methods, a series of frantic
conferences were called by Breach
in which his business agents and
other members of his machine par
ticipated.
Some of those present, among
whom are Jake Solomon, who are
alleged to have reason to be con-
cerned over past occurrences, are
said to have urged moderation"
May Call Off Meeting.
1t is understood, however, that
Breach is determined to go through
with his "reign of terror" and that
he is planning to call off tonight's
meeting if the members insist on
their rights.
Five thousand copies of the Daily
Worker containing the expose were
placed in the hands of the members
of the union. Breach is said to be
"at his wits end" over what to do
in order to stem the rising opposi-
ton of the membership against his
terroristic tactics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
SCOTT NEARING
TOURS SOUTHFOR
WORKERS PARTY
Communist Ele tion
Drive in South
ContinMed from Paae on

Continued from Page One
written numerous books and PAM
phlets, and is ore of the most popu-
lar speakers on the labor platform.
Nearing was member of the
socialist party until he became con-
WINGED that the socialist party had
turned its back completely on the
class struggle. While the great
majority Of the socialist party lead
ers never missed an opportunity to
Islander the Soviet Union, Nearing
was always strong supporter and
defended of the First Workers Re-
public in history.
Visited y. S. S. r. and China.
Nearing has recently visited Chi
ma and the Soviet Union and has
spent some time studying labor con-
ditions in several European coun-
tries. lie will speak in the follow
ing cities:
Sept. 9, Reading, Pa; Sept. 10,
Newark, DEL; Sept. II, Baltimore,
Nd; Sept. IL, Richmond, Va; Sept.
10, Norfolk, Va; Sept. Ia, Raleigh
Or Greensboro; Sept. Is, Charleston,
S. c.; Sept. 16-11-18, Jacksonville,
Fla; Sept. 10, Tallahassee, Fla;
Sept. 20, Mobile, Ala; Sept. 81,
Montgomery, Ala; Sept. %, Bir-
mingham, Ala; Sept. 1924, Allan
ia, Ga; Sept. %, Chattanooga,
Tenn; Sept. 26, Knoxville, Tenn;
Sept. 81, Nashville, Tenn; Sept. 2S,
Louisville, Ky; Sept. 80, Coving-
ton, KY; Oct. 1, Huntington, KY;
Oct. 2, Logan, W. Va; Oct. 3,
Moundsville, w. Va; Oct. A, Wheel
ing, w. Va; Oct. 5, Bellaire, Ohio;
Oct. 6, Steubenville, Ohio, Oct. 7,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
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START DRIVE FOR
Chinese LABOR
Tag Day for Saturday
and Sunday

Continued from Page One
rendering real aid to the Chinese
workers.
Workers Suffer.
1--WE address ourselves to you be-
cause we wish to tell you of our
conditions" say the Chinese Trade
Unionists in their appeal to the
American workers. "You know that
the Chinese workers in common with
all the toiling masses in China have
suffered from imperialist powers
which have sent warships and air
forces to fight against the Chinese
people"
The plight of the Chinese workers
vitality concerns US, the workers of
America and in helping them we are
helping ourselves.
Go to the stationt nearest your
home or your work and get a box
and authorization to collect funds
for the relief of the Chinese Trade
Unionists.
Stations All Over.
Downtown stations are: it. Board
of the Furriers, % East 22nd St.,
it. Board of l. l.. G. w. u, 16 West
21st St., Progressive Workers Club,
so st. Marks Place; Workers Gen.
ter, 1928 Union Square; Progress
sive Workers Club, 101 West 27th
St.; Committee to Aid the Chinese
Trade Unions, 96-5th Avenue.
Uptown stations are: Hungarian
Workers Club, $50 East 81st St.;
Harlem Progressive Club, lab East
103rd ST., Finnish Workers Club,
15 West 1875 ST.; Czecho Slovak
Workers Home, BAT East 72 ST.;
Unity Cooperative House, 1900 7th
Avenue, N. Y. c.; Negro Labor Con-
gress, 200 West 135th St.
Bronx Stations.
Bronx stations are: Bronx Pro-
gressive Club, 2075 Clinton Avenue;
United Workers Cooperative, 270O
Bronx Park East; Jewish Workers
Club, 1472 Boston Road; Bronx
Workers Club tbs East 1873 St.
Stations in Brooklyn are: Fin
nish Workers Home, 764 doth St.;
1910 Benson Avenue,
Brownsville stations are: 154
Watkins ST.; GOA utter Ave-
Boxes may be had in William
sburg at 20 Graham Ave, or 46 Ten
Eyck st.
Coney Island 1901 Mermaid Ave.
Brighton, 227 Brighton Beach.
"Come to the Aid of the Chinese
workers in their heroic struggle,
against the suppression of their
unions and the murder of their
leaders,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
The Treacherous Role Of the Socialists and
Their Ally Tammany Hall

mot only in the needle trades, but
among the miners and textile work
ers as well.
Who know, better than we, needle
trades workers, how completely the
socialist party has degenerated
We have seen it working hand in
hand with the bosses. with Tam
many Hall. We have seen it using
gangsters against our best fighters.
We have seen it encourage scabbery
in the industry, break our organi-
zation. The needle trades workers
throughout the countryside cloak
makers, dressmakers, furriers,
tailors, cap and millinery workers,
cannot support the party of the be-
trayers of labor. We can only ex-
pose them, and enlighten the work
ers in other industries as to the
real character of these betrayers.
Workers Party for Workers.
There is another party in the
field, however. A party which is
true to the program of class strug-
gle-the Workers (Communist)
Party.
The Workers (Communist) Party
is today the only anti-capitalist
party in America, the only party
calling upon the workers to inten-
sify their resistance against the
union smashing, wage slashing,
open-shop drives of the bosses, and
to fight against capitalism, with its
imperialist wars, unemployment,
low standards of living for the
workers, and increasing terrorism.
Not only has the party itself,
through its program and support,
inspired US to struggle for better
conditions, but we have found the
members of the party in, the front
ranks of the struggle of the cloak
makers and furriers against the
bosses, the socialist union betrayers,
and the reactionary A. F. of L.
In our past struggles, we saw
clearly how necessary it is to have
strong, powerful, industrial union,
and a powerful political party of the
American workers. We have there
/ fore in the past carried on an agita-
tion for the organization Of labor
party which should include all in
dustrial and political organizations
of labor. But the attempts to or
ganize such party failed because
the treacherous A. F. of L.. together
with the yellow socialists, want to
continue the division In the ranks of
the American worlFing class.
Urge MiIitancy.
We needle trades workers. with
our revolutionary traditions, our
heritage of militancy and opposition
to capitalism, cannot support the
parties of the capitalists, and must
not support the party of the petty
bourgeoisie, the socialist party,
which has been instrumental in de-
stroying our union and working
conditions. We must remain true
to our traditions and to our immedi-
ate interests.
The National Committee of the
Needle Trades, Section of the Trade
Union Educational League, after
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own statements. s. per cent of the
men would have walked off the cars
and they would not only have
walked off, but would have pre-
vented any others from walking on.
and you revealed that you were not
at all prepared for this when you
stated; Il myself was amazed at
the spirit of the men for the strike"
Why should you be amazed, Mr..
Randolph? When you yourself is
sued call to action in which you
declared to the porters. "The war
is onl We must fearlessly face the
fight to the finish for freedom. Our
task now is to stand firm, steadfast
and immovable, and prepare to 60
on through with the fight 10 the
finish, regardless of cost. Now,
men, this is the time for action,
more action and still more action"
Workers Responded.
The men responded like men to
this appeal They were weighed
in the balance and not found want
ing" But you were not prepared
for action. You were not ready to
lead the men forward into the
struggle, into the action, which was
absolutely necessary to protect their
interests.
You have further declared, Mr..
Randolph: "We are certain that
we could win the strike alone, with
out the cooperation of any other
labor organization" Now this is
rather doubtful, but it is remotely
possible. The question which this
raises, which you will have TO an
swer if you can, is: "Why did you
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09

these workers. Their union was
smashed, their strike defeated and
their interests completely betrayed
into the hands of the marlborough.
Today the company union of the
marlborough flourishes, and the
condition of the workers of this
company is miserable indeed
Should not this be a warning to the
betrayers? Should not this keep
them from giving over the leader
ship and control of the union which
they have sacrificed to build up,
into the hands of these same labor
betrayers and union wreckers?
POrters' Fight is Important.
This struggle of the porters is
too important to be passed over
lightly. 1t is too significant for the
struggle of all the oppressed Negro
workers against their exploiters to
permit it's weakening by mistaken
policies or its betrayal by treacher-
GUS labor miSleaders.
And so we must insist, Mr.. RAN
dolph, that this matter be openly
threshed out in order that correct
policy, and an efficient and cour-
ageous leadership, shall be assured
these struggling workers, who are
grooming under the burden of capt.
talist exploitation. We must ask
you to debate this question with us.
We feel that this is a duty which
we cannot escape. We win meet you
at any time and at any place that
you will mention to discuss this
question, which is so vital to the
economic well-being of the Negro
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to the working class with our propa-
ganda and expose the fake officials
and puppets Of capitalism.
We must show there soldiers the
true role they are playing, that they
fight against their own. class, fight
their own brothers and sisters when
they go out to break up a strike and
in their various activities, that they
should instead Of shooting down
their comrades, turn their guns
against their real enemies, the CAPT
talists.
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masses. We will maintain that the
present policy of the leadership of
the Porters' Union, of non-strike, of
cooperation with the employers, and
of trailing behind the prejudiced
and treacherous labor aristocrats,
is a policy which threatens the de-
struction and defeat of this great
movement for the advancement of
the Negro workers.
We trust that you will accept this
invitation to debate in the same
spirit in which it is made--a spirit
of sincere devotion to the cause of
the Negro workers, and we await
your reply.
Yours for a militant struggle in
the interests of the workers.
(Signed) RICHARD B. MOORE.
National Organizer, American Ne
gro Labor Congress.
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Continued from Page One

I continued from rage Ohe
rupters and betrayers. They car
ried on glorious fight against their
sponsors the bosses. From the very
beginning they had to contend with
the hidden sabotage of the right
wing union officials which ended in
open betrayal of the demands of the
workers. Furriers were jailed,
framed-up and dubbed not only by
the Tammany Industrial Squad and
police, but by gangsters hired and
protected by the socialist union dis
rupters. Thanks to the reactionary
united front, the Furriers' Union
has been brought to the verge of
ruin, and union conditions destroyed.
Sigman and AL Smith.
In the battle of the cloakmakers,
the same forces were evident. Sig
man and his gang of supporters,
seeing that their days of betrayal
in the International were numbered,
turned to the Tammany leader, Al
Smith, for assistance in driving the
cloakmakers to sweat shop condi-
tons The tragic results of Smiths
governors commission are we'll
known among the broad masses of
cloak and dressmakers. So, also, the
alliance of the yellow socialist lead
ers and their treacherous organ, the
Jewish Daily Forward" with the
bosses and Tammany Hall, to break
the heroic struggle of the $4,000
cloakmakers in this city. Finally
came the expulsion of the militant
locals from the union, which broke
the organization, resulting in the
establishment of sweat shop condi-
lions in needle trades centers
Throughout the country.
The same socialist party program
of DISQUALIFICATION and betrayal
was carried through by the Becker
man Hillman machine in the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers Union,
reducing it from a once fighting or
/ ganization to mere company
union.
Milliners Also Being Betrayed.
In the Cap and Millinery Work
ers' Union as well, the same policy
of destroying the union in the in
terests of the bosses is being fol-
lowed by the socialist. President
| Zaritzky With the help Of Tam
many police, he is trying to break
Local 43 in New York With the
help of the courts in the republican
state Of Massachusetts, which muir
dered Sacco and Vanzetti, he hopes
to destroy Local in Boston,
through his application for an in
| junction.
Such has been the work of the
reactionary united front in the
I struggles of the needle trades work
ers. Such has been the activity Of
I the socialist, democrats and republi-
cans, who, after all these betrayals
and crimes, will now come to you
! with various false promises, seek
1 ing your support for their candi-
dates.
There can be only one answer to
the capitalist parties and to the
petty bourgeois socialist party.
Must Fight Tanmany Hall.
When Tammang will come,
clothed in cloak Of liberalism, ask
4 ing for support OF AL Smith, So
called peoples candidate, we must
remind them Of Smiths great gov
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09

Analysing the conditions OF the
needle trades workers, and the po-
litical situation and parties as we
find them today, finds that in the
present election campaign there is
only one party which deserves the
active support of the American
workers generally and the needle
trades workers especially the
party of class struggle, the Work
ers (Communist) Party,
We have noted the presidential
candidates of the parties - Al
Smith, democratic nominee; Herbert
Hoover, republican candidate, both
business representatives tools of
Wall Street; and Norman Thomas,
a preacher, who has not raised his
voice once against the union
wrecking activity of the socialist
trade union bureaucracy, candidate
of the socialist party. Opposed to
them we find as the candidates of
of the Workers (Communist) Party.
William z, Foster, member of the
Car Mems Union, candidate for
president, and Benjamin Gitlow, a
member of the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers Union, candidate for
vice president, both of them leaders
of many years standing in the
struggles of the American working
class.
Vote Communist.
We therefore whole-heartedly en-
dorse the platform and candidates
of the Workers (Communistl Party,
We call upon all needle trades work.
ers throughout the country to sup
port the Workers Party ticket, ma
tionally and locally. We call upon
them to organize shop and trade
committees for the Communist cleo
ton campaign. We call upon all
the women workers in the industry,
who have so Loyalty and heroically
participated in the struggles, and
upon the wives of the needle trades
workers, who are equally victims of
the treacherous united front of the
bosses, the A. F. of l.. bureaucracy
the socialist union workers, and the
capitalist state, suffering hunger
and privation and seeing their chill
dren In need, to take an active par;
in the campaign, and give every
possible assistance.
Forward in the struggle to re-
establish union conditions in the in
dustry,
Forward 10 militant. united
union Of all needle trades workers
Forward in the fight against gov
eminent by injunction, against he
industrial squad, police terrorism
and brutality!
Forward to the struggle against
the capitalist parties, tools of Wall
Street, and against the socialist
party, betrayers of labor,
Forward in the campaign for the
Workers (Communist) Party. the
Party of the class struggle, the
Party of the working class!
Vote Communist! A vote for
Foster and Gitlow is a protest
against the whole capitalist system
under which needle trades workers
and all other workers suffer.
(Signed)
NATIONAL NEEDLE TRADE
COMMITTEE, T. U. E. L.,
II. SAZAR, Secretary.
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KILLED IN PLANE CRASH.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va, Aug. s
(UP) Sergeant Sidney Hawkins,
Broadnak, Va, was killed instantly
and Lieutenant James F. Walsh,
Farmer City, ILL.,, seriously injured
when Vought plane in which they
were flying from Langley Field
crashed near here today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09

ALBANY, Aug. s. - Volunteer
firemen, impeded by lack of facili-
ties, were unable to fight the flames
which early today burned the Bios
som Heath Inn, midway between
here and Schenectady, to the
ground. y MSHs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
LhUD MILITANCY
or WORKERS IN
URGING STRIKE
Charge Present Policy
Will Wreck Union

The American Negro Labor Con-
gress has sent the following open
letter to A. Phillip Randolph, Special
Organizer of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters:
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Miss Ruth Faust,
George W. Shafer
Wed at Church

Miss Flora Elizabeth Rosenthal,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Rosenthal, 1850 North Meridian
street, became the bride of Jack
Carlton Ottenheimer, New York, at
the home of her parents at 6
Thursday evening in the presence of
the immediate families.
The service was read by Rabbi
Morris M. Feuerlicht before the fire.
place in the living room, which was
banked with palms and ferns. The
house throughout was decorated
with yellow and bronze chrysan-
themums and autumn leave.
The bride, who was unattended,
wore a pink velvet gown, cut low in
back and edged with rhinestones
and pearls. She carried a bouquet
of orchids.
A family dinner was held follow
ing the service and a reception at
for friends. During the ceremony
and at the reception, the Louise
Schellschmidt Koehne trio played.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ottenheimer have
gone to White Sulphur Springs. w.
w., for their wedding trip. They
will be at home at go Park avenue,
New York. The bride was graduated
from Tudor hall and the Finch
school, New York.