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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23
Left Wing leaders to
Greet Workers at Trade
Union League Festival

Two Of the best known left wing
leaders Of this city, Ben Gold, mill
tant leader of the furriers and
Louis Hyman, leader of the left
wing cloakmakers, in a statement
issued last night greeted the annual
Workers Festival to be held by the
Trade Union Educational League
next Saturday at Timer Park, and
urged all left wing workers of New
York to support the picnic by their
attendance.
Both Gold and Hyman will be
present at the picnic and will speak,
but only if requested to. John ].
BALKAN, secretary Of the New York
T. U. e. L. will also be at the fes-
tival
One Of the outstanding events Of
the picnic will be the Red Poets
Forum. Those who will read their
revolutionary poetry include Michael
Gold, A. B. Magil, Edwin Rolfe,
Henry George Weiss, H. T. Tsieng,
Henry Reich, Jr., and Beatrice Sis
kind. After these poets have read
their works, there will be an i'm
promptu reading of poetic attempts
by those present who wish to read,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23
4 FUR LOCALS IN
NEW UNION VOTE

Continued from Page One
of town locals also falling before
the bosses A. F. of L. drive.
Before the week is over, it is I'M
derstood, meetings of many other
locals in the United States and Can
ada will be held with those remain
ing arranging for meetings for next
week.
BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 22.-At a
crowded membership meeting of
Boston Local 80 held here Tuesday
night, a resolution of endorsement
of the new union launched by the
international United Front Commit
tee, was carried enthusiastically by
a unanimous vote.
A. Winnick, representing til e
United Front Committee addressed
the local in it's name. Leaders of the
local, business agent Perlman and
president Meddoff who are also
members of the International Com
mittee then told the workers that a
National Executive Committee was
to be elected which will serve as an
executive body for the organization
till the national convention elects a
permanent central executive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23
Funeral of Leo Strauss,
Young Militant, Today

The funeral of Leo Strauss, &c.
year-old member of the Young
Workers (Communist) League, who
was drowned last Sunday when he
ventured beyond his depth in the
water near Pleasant Bay Park, will
be held today at 142 Ludlow St.
Delegations of Young Pioneers,
from which the dead youth had re-
Gently been graduated into the
Y o u n G Workers (Communist)
League, will assemble before the
procession and take part in the
simple exercises.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23
LEAGUE SCHOOL.
NOW IN SESSION
"a Young Workers are
4 Attending Courses

Twenty-four members of the
You ng Workers (Communist)
League are attending full-time SEES
sions of the League school which is
now in session at the Workers
School, 1928 Union Square.
Composed of workers from the
anthracite, textile and needle trades,
the students, half of whom are girls,
are spending eight hours daily in
lectures and discussions on subjects
which include American history,
economic theory, imperialism, pub
lie speaking, workers correspond
ence and youth problems and the
history of the youth movement.
The course is organized for the
purpose Of giving the leading
Leaguel functionaries training in
the principles of the class struggle,
and to train them for leadership in
all struggles of the young workers"
Instructors include Gil Green, ma
tional agitprop director of the Young
Workers (Communist) League; Hy-
man Gordan, district agitprop direc-
tor of the League; Philip Frankfeld,
acting district organizer of the
League; Sender Garlin, of the staff
of the Daily Worker; Karl Weis-
berg, and others.
Open-air speaking, signature col
lections in connection with the
Workers Party election campaign
and activity for the youth confer
ence comprise some of the work en-
gagged in by the students after the
school sessions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23
SACCO- VANZETT MEET
AT UNION SO. TODAY

lcwship of Reconciliation; Benjamin
Lipshutz, secretary Jewish Lam
guage Bureau, Workers (Commu-
rist) Party; Louis Baum, secretary
Photographers Union; Mike Gold,
editor New Masses; Leon Rostov-
sky, editor vi Elore, Hungarian
Communist Daily; Morris Taft,
manager international Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union, Local 41;
Martin Abern, acting national sec
rotary, international Labor De-
tense; ]. BALKAN, acting organizer
Dist. 2, Workers (Communist) Par
ty; W. Van Valkenburgh; Kate Git
low, secretary United Council of
Working Glass Women; D. Benja-
min, assistant director, Workers
School; Rebecca Grecht, state cleo
ton campaign manager, Workers
Party; Carlo Tresca, editor II Mar
tello; Max Shachtman, editor Labor
Defender, official organ of l. L. D.;
Nina Siracusa, II Lavoratorie, Ital-
ian Communist daily and John Pep
pan; Anthony Bimba, editor Laisve,
Lithuanian Communist Daily; Pat
Moore; l. Zimmerman; Jos. J. Pad
gug, of Commercial Telegraphers
of America.
Representing Young Workers
(Communist) League: Phil Frank
field, Carl Winter, M. Yucen, Knox
Helfand.
Representing N. Y. Working
Women's Federation: Paulina Rog-
ers, Gertrude Welsh, Ellen Yush-
kevich.
Representing Independent Shoe
Workers: Giuseppe Magliacano,
Stephen Gerard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23
GROCER TRAPPED
HELLER, LEADER
OF WAR ON REDS
Doublecrosses His Meal
Ticket, Boss Assn.

Always outstanding as one of the
most boisterous shouters in camp of
the socialist" trade union official
dom here for the blood of all Com
munists and left-wingers, Samuel
Heller, manager of the right wing
Grocery Clerks Union, Local S98, Of
the A. F. of L., was yesterday held
in $500 bail for a hearing August
% when arraigned in Bridge Plaza
Court yesterday on charges of at
tempted extortion.
Among the raucous cries for "war
to the death on Communists, that
filled the air at Mondays meeting
of the United Hebrew Trades Off
cialdom, the voice of Heller could
be heard to buster, 81 demand that
a new fight be begun against the
left wing Grocery Clerks Union"
This union, In a recent struggle for
the confidence of the workers and
their allegiance, had compelled the
Hebrew Trades to withdraw from
the field.
Now, Barney Cantor, grocer, of
367 South Third St., Brooklyn, has
taken out warrant for Heller's ar
rest because the yellow labor
Header" Is said to have demanded
a large sum in cash graft if he
didn't want his store picketed by
right wing hirelings.
The grocery store owner stated
he had been threatened by the store
owners association of Brooklyn to
get out of business or join their
organization. Upon his refusal to
do SO, Cantor said, the employers
association had sent the so-called
union official to him to make the
threat more graphic. After threat
ening to drive the store owner out
of business, Heller is said to have
demanded money if Cantor wanted
to avoid becoming member of the
bosses association. Heller is alleged
to have declared that he had the
power to protect him from the other
employers.
The grocer, however, knows that
the right wing grocery clerks union
not only has no members, but is no
union, being merely racketeeripg
outfit. He therefore defied the
"Comnunist-eater" and arranged for
his arrest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23
Charging Segregation
in Civil Service,
Negro Bolts G. O. p.

WASHINGTON, Aug. "a.
Finley Watson, grand exalted ruler
of the Negro Elks, today refused to
serve on the republican national
committee in an advisory capacity,
stating that under the republican
administration his race had '1ost
civil rights, political representation
and political leadership" He
charged that there was "humiliat-
ing segregation within the civil SER
VICE"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23
S5OO,O00 SUIT
AGAINST 3D. JR.
Bright Still Figh t S
Corruptionists

A new suit for 100000 against
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., together
with applications for injunction re-
lief against the psalm singing oil
magnate as well as Federal Judge
Augustus Hand, Supreme Court
Justice Mitchell May, Edwin P.
Hesse, police superintendent of
Washington, the Morgan controlled
Equitable Trust Company, John j.
McKelvey, Charles P. Rowland,
George Gordon Battle, Rockefeller
attorneys, was yesterday begun by
Charles Bright, who has for years
been carrying on a legal battle
against the combination.
Bright, who is the son of John
Bright, the famous British COM
moner, is known to have been de-
frauded by the Rockefeller gang of
several millions of dollars he had
expected to realize out of public
utility and other concessions in
Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
Through their control over the state
department and through the forgery
of documents, these concessions
were cancelled. Bright has won a
number of legal suits against the
Rockefellers but they have thus far
succeeded in preventing a final ac-
counting.
Bright has been engaged in the
past ten years in exposing the cor
rupt judges and public officials of
New York City and other cities who
do the bidding of the big capitalists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23
CHINA UNIONS IN
new AID APPEAL
TO us. WORKERS
Bishop Brown J DIN S
Committee

Continuing their drive for the
raising of funds for the relief of the
Chinese workers and peasants now
prosecuted by the Marking govern
ment through the suppression of
their labor and farm unions, the
Committee to Aid the Chinese Trade
Unions yesterday made known the
enlistment Of Bishop William Mont
gomery Brown as a member of the
Committee.
Enclosing a check for the amount
Of $25, for the Chinese trade union
lists, Bishop Brown sent the follow
ing letter to Robert w. Dunn, secre-
tary of the Committee:
Contributes SIS.
"Your letter of July 10Th is just
at hand, though I have not time to
read the appeal Of the dear workers
of China Just now. I know about
their conditions, however, through
what l have read in the daily news
papers, and I shall be delighted to
serve on the American committee
on their behalf.
Enclosed we are handing you our
check for $500 toward the fund to
be raised for them.
Wishing that we could make it
$2,500.00 or more, l am
"Most Cordially yours,
(signed) VIM. Nj. Brown.
Letter From Jeng.
The committee again urged the
participation of workers through
out the United States in their drive
fer raising the necessary relief yes
terday following the receipt of a
letter of appeal from Sou Chao
Jeng, chairman of the All-China
Federation Of Labor Unions, desert
bling the misery and torture to which
the Chinese militants are subjected.
"Do you know" Jeng writes,
that in April of last year Chang
Kai-shek and Ii Ti-sing in Canton
murdered over 1000 workers be-
cause they wished to "reorganize"
the unions, i.e., to dissolve them?
Do you know that since the April
coup d'etat in Kwantung there have
been over 1000 workers killed?
do you know that in Human and
Hupeh 10000 peasants have been
shot for the sole offense that they
did not wish any longer to die of
starvation upon their little plots of
land and to give up the last cupful
of rice to the militarists?
Women Burned Alive.
"Do you know the Canton rebel -
of the workers, directed against he
yoke of the imperialist murderers
has been suppressed? Do you know
that over 5000 workers corpses
were thrown upon the streets Of
Canton? Do you know that work
ing women were tied together in
patches of five and burned alive 2"
Jeng's letter ends with fervent
appeal for aid. Help us in our
struggle" he says, Gin our struggle
for life, for liberty and the loosening
of the yoke that hangs like a sword
over the heads of the millions Of
Chinese workers and peasants
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23
Gil OAK WORKERS
drive BROADENS
Hold Spirited Delegate
Parleys in NY, Boston
Continued from Page Ore

Continued from Page Ore
special resolution was passed giving
the official attitude toward these
threats of the right wing gangs.
Act of Fear.
Frightened out of their wits by
the rising tide of mass resentment
evidenced by the needle trades work
ers thru their rapid adhesion to the
new left wing unions" the state
ment declares, "the yellow reformist
betrayers of the workers buster
publicly about terror with which
to halt the movement"
The statement makes clear that
these attacks will not go I'M
challenged, and that the workers will
know how to defend themselves.
simultaneously with the confer
ence going on here, similar con-
ference of shop delegates was be-
ing held in Boston, the details of
which were brought back by Charles
5. Zimmerman, who acted as N.
Q. c. representative there. The
conference there was the first to be
held in Boston while the New York
parley was the second.
High Spirit.
Remarkable enthusiasm was mani
Tested by the 200 delegates repre-
senting over 81 shops in that city, at
the prospect of finally beginning
the structural work on the new
union that will replace the organi-
cation of the bosses and the Sigman-
Schlesinger gang.
After Zimmerman, Levine and
Yaninsky from the National Organi-
cation Committee had delivered
their reports and after the meeting
had inaugurated the organization
drive, the conference voted unani-
mously to affiliate with the N. 0. G.
An executive committee of %,
elected Immediately, was t h e n
chosen to carry on the work until
the regular elections planned will
have taken place. An appeal to the
workers to pay the voluntary $40
tax was also adopted.
J. H. Cohen, chairman of the New
York Local Committee of the N. 0.
C. opened the conference here and
ootad nc chairman
Signs Up Shops.
Joseph Borachovich, Louis Hyman
and H Korets were the main speak
ers. Borachivich reported on the
general situation, Korets on the
brilliant prosecution of the organi-
cation drive and Hyman summed up
with the concluding speech. Korets
presented figures and names showing
that over 100 shops had been struck
by the union, 46 of which have al
ready signed contracts agreeing to
union conditions.
Borachivich and Hyman, in their
speeches, stressed particularly the
bankruptcy Of the Sigman fake
union, pointing to their impotent
threats of violence against workers
as evidence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23

live on so little,
Philadelphia, conservative though
the town is, believes in equality of
men and women in industry. Con-
sequently 10000 women are hard
at work for an average of Sl6 a
week. In addition majority of the
$4,000 salaried workers employed in
offices and stores are women. Be
cause this classification includes
higher paid executives, the average
salary is $500 year.
This huge bedlam of factories
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23

Philadelphia is too poor to provide
decent housing conditions for a
large part of the community. So
bad were conditions that 10000
complaints were made last year to
the Philadelphia Housing Associa-
ton. Defective plumbing, bad san
itation, unsafe structures, insuffi-
cient equipment, poor drainage,
flooded cellars, filthy conditions and
leaky roofs and walls were some of
the reasons why workers appealed,
in last resort, to this private So
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. % (FP).
Along smoke-blackened river
fronts of the Delaware and Schuyl-
kill, 100000 industrial workers toll
in more than 5000 mills, factories
and shops. Philadelphia, hodge
podge of industry, turning out
everything from rugs to locomo-
tives, gets little Of the front page
that shines on Detroit,
Pittsburgh and other centers where
industry concentrates on autos,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23
TRAIN CRASH

HOLBROOK, Mass, Aug. % (UP)
Hundreds of passengers were Sc
verely shaken today when an express
train on the New Haven Railroad,
bound from Woods Hole to Boston,
struck half-ton trolley rail which
had dropped from a truck onto the
railroad track near Holbrook depot.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23

,KERS CONSIDER THEMSELVES LUCKY ON S25

steel or textiles. Yet Philadelphia
turns out products for each of these
Industries and for half hundred
more.
From Quaker City shops have
been spawned many of Americas
greatest fortunes, but her workers
consider themselves lucky to aver
age SIS week. Rotary optimists
boast of the $319,OoO,OOO payroll,
but never bother to split it up into
100000 units and to inquire of
themselves whether they'd like to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23

prides itself on diversified products,
but nevertheless 90,000-more than
third of all her workers-are en-
ployed in some 1900 textile mills
and garment shops. Another $4,000
work in metal and metal products
shops. Chemicals, food products,
leather goods, paper and printing,
and tobacco are other major indus
tries.
Although each industrial worker,
for his $1,000 a year wage, turns
out products valued at $1,000,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23
100 Volunteers Wanted
for Ulmer Park Picnic

One hundred volunteer workers
are wanted by the Trade Union Ed
ucational League to act on commit
tees at the T. U. E. L. Workers
Festival, to be held at Ulmer Park
Saturday.
They are urged to report at the
Workers Center, 1928 Union
Square. Volunteers will be admitted
to the picnic grounds without charge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23

ciety for relief.
Typical of vicious century-old
tenements in which Quaker City
workers must live is one which has
continuous record Of complaints
since 1912. 1t has been inspected
~ times since then, to little avail
This dwelling has only six rooms,
but it is usually occupied by three
families, and at times by as many
as seven. Two of the rooms are in
the attic and have sloping ceilings
and small windows.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23

for participating in the Red Tag
Days, Saturday and Sunday. Only
by means of solid campaign fund
can the capitalist lies be answered
with Communist literature and
speakers thruout the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23

A turi driver Mould appreciate
this copy of The D A III Y
WORKER.
Evening star., 1928-10-26
ROCKVILLE.

ROCKVILLE, Md, October 26 (Spe-
ciaD Charging cruelty and drunken
ness, Mrs. Dorothy NJ. Simons of Silver
Spring, this county, through her at
torney, F. Barnard Welsh of Rockville,
has filed suit in the Circuit Court here
for limited divorce from Hamilton A.
Simons, to whom she was married in
Alexandria, Va, August %, 1915. She
also asks the court to award her the
care and custody of the couples chill
dren--Hamilton A., jr., IL, and George
W.. 7.
Miss Geraldine Drusilla Harvey. 18.
of Luke, Md, and James Randolph
Robinson. 81. of Keyser. w. Va, were
married in Rockville Tuesday night by
Rev. S. j. Goode of the Christian
Church.
Licenses have been issued by the clerk
of the Circuit Court here for the mar
riage of Edward r. Whittemore. 30, of
Washington, and Miss Leda M. Tucker,
33, of Rochester. N. Y; George H.
Prather. %, and Edna Frazier, 18, both
of Montgomery County, Md, and Rezie
w. Rhinehart, 81, of Cedar Grove, Md,
and Miss Ida D. WhetZel, %, of Wash
ington Grove.
AS result of an automobile collision
near Middlebrooke, William B. Windsor
of Washington and Clarence Curtis of
this county were before Judge Samuel
Riggs in the Police Court here yester-
day on charges of reckless driving.
Judge Riggs held that Curtis caused
the accident and fined him $40 and
costs and dismissed the case against
the Washingtonian.
Rev. Bertram NJ Osgood of the Bap-
tist Church officiated at the marriage
here yesterday of Roland r. Gean. "a,
and Miss Evelyn NJ. Uhlton. 81, both
of Baltimore, at the home of the min
lister.
Mrs. George B. Allnutt of Rockville
has resigned as assistant to the home
demonstration agent for the county.
Evening star., 1928-10-26
.LAFOLLETTE WARY
OF BOTH PARTIES
Neither Hoover Nor Smith
Supports Progressive Prin-
cipIes, Senator Says.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MADISON, Wis, October 26.-Sena-
tor Robert La Toilette, Wisconsin Pro-
gressive, said today In a signed state
ment in La Follette's Magazine that
"enther Republicans nor Democrats are
On record in favor Of principles for which
the Progressive group has fought"
'The issues have mentioned (water
power, farm relief, labor injunctions.
corruption in public service and abuse
of presidential power in NicaraguaD
are in the presidential campaign not
because of the courage or patriotism of
either of the old parties" he said, but
because the Progressive Republicans
and Progressive Democrats cooperating
as group in Congress have forced
them out in the open and compelled
their consideration at the polls"
He stated that he had "disassociated
myself from the Republican national
ticket and platform throughout the
campaign" and that Gov. Alfred E.
Smith of New York has made public
declarations and definite commitments
which are In substantial accord with
the Progressives' views on water power,
farm relief, the injunction in labor dis
putes, corruption in public service and
abuse of presidential power in Nicara-
gua."
If Mr. Hoover is elected "and under
takes to carry out the Coolidge poll
cies," Senator La Toilette said, or il
Gov. Smith is victorious. 'the people
VIII have to rely on the Progressives In
both parties to guard the national re-
sources of the public domain from such
interests as the power trust, to provide
equality for agriculture and to protect
wage earners from denial of their con-
stitutional rights"
Evening star., 1928-10-26
place No. 2, Roy Cooley and j. W.

place No. 2, Roy Cooley and j. w.
Nichols.
Damascus-Polling place No. /, Floyd
L. Moxley and Emory Woodfield; poll
ing place No. 2, Harry Miles and Harry
Watkins.
Wheaton-Precinct Wv. T. Gray
and Richard G. Birney. Precinct g.
Polling place No. !. Charles Scherrer
and r. A. Palmer. Precinct EPolling
place No. /. Jesse L. Gladmon and
2, r. B. Rosenau and Lewis w. Mooers.
The appointments for polling place
No. 2 of the second precinct of Bethes-
da district, both polling places of the
second Wheaton precinct and of poll
ing place No. 2 Of the third precinct of
Wheaton district were deferred
Evening star., 1928-10-26
MRS. W|LLEBRANDT
DENOUNCES SMITH
Declares Hoover viii Bring
"CocktaiIIess" Days to
Nation if Elected.
By the Associated Press.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, October 26.-
Herbert Hoover will bring "cocktailIess"
days to the United States if he is elect
ed President Just as he brought wheat
less and sugarless days during the
World War while serving as food ad-
nlinistrator, Mrs Mabel Walker WILLIE
brandt told Nashville audience last
night In urging Southern Democrats to
put principle above party"
Mrs. Willebrandt also ridiculed Gov.
Smiths immigration plans and de-
l1ounced his Tammany Hall connec-
tions
Gov. Smiths prohibition plan would
Sput white aprons on the States and
make them serve as bartenders," Mrs.
Willehrandt said.
A food of immigrants from Southern
Europe would pour into this country if
Gov. Smiths immigration plan were ac-
cepted, she said.
Mrs. Willebrandt, who was introduced
by JEFF McCarn as "the most outraged
and cruelty treated woman in America, /"
completely ignored a set of questions
asked her by Nashville Democratic
women dealing mostly with prohibition.