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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-21
PHILA. BOSSES BOW TO
NE " FURRLERS UNION
Especial to the Daily Worker

Especial to the Daily Worker
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Sept. 90
An event that will crash into the
camp of socialist and A. F. of L.
trade union fakerdom here and in
the other needle trades centers of
the country, took place here today
when the left wing Furriers Union
accomplished the renewal of the old
agreement with their employers or
ganization. This was effected de-
spite tremendous pressure from the
New York fur bosses association.
chiefs of the A. F. of L. and the
heads of the right wing Interna-
tional Fur Workers Union from
which the Philadelphia union had
broken away.
Despite the tremendous gains
made in recent months by the work
ers in the fur industry in their
campaign to drive out of existence
their right wing betrayers, most of.
the past victories can be considered
as negligible in comparison to this,
inasmuch as this break they have
succeeded in making in the hitherto
united ranks of the employers. The
true Importance of the victory can
only be estimated when it is con-
sidered that the Philadelphia en-
ployers' association was compelled,
by the unanimous belligerent deter
mination of the workers there, to
sign 3-year contract with an in
dependent left wing union, that
has split away from the A. F. of
L., and affiliated with the move
ment to build left wing national
union of fur workers.
Edward F. McGrady A. F. of L.
ambassador" the president, secre-
tary and chief organizer of the In
ternational Fur Workers, Union,
and special agents and communica-
tions from the New York bosses as
Continued on Page Tso
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POSTERS TELL
OF BIG BAZAAR

A number of working class CEN
ters in New York City have broken
out in rash of green posters. The
Workers Center, the Proletcos Co.
operative Restaurant and other
places now being investigated by
special representatives of the Daily
Worker are sporting these hand
some green posters announcing that
100000 articles will be sold at half
price at the great National Daily
Worker -Freiheit Bazaar, to be held
at Madison Square Garden Oct. 4, 5,
6 and Z.
The verdant youthful color Of
these posters is in thorough keeping
with the spirit that will animate the
bazaar. The Daily Worker ard the
Freiheit are young newspapers and
the Workers (Communist) Party is
a young party. Moreover, revolu-
tionists never grow old. The bazaar
of the two great proletarian dailies
will therefore be an affair of youth
and JOY, where old will feel young
again.
Meanwhile old and young are
working for the bazaar. That is.
Continued on Page Fire
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MEET HITS
FRACTIONALISM
Discuss Colonial Work
at 10th. Session

Wireless to the Daily Worker.)
MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Sept. 90.
The problems of the international
working youth were taken up by
Schueller when he made the report
for the Work Program Commission
at the twentieth session of the Fifth
World Congress of the Young Com
munist International, which opened
under the chairmanship of Gorkic.
Schueller declared that the youth
showed great interest in the theory
of the Y. c. l., and that they must
be encouraged ana organized. "The
Congress must combine theory with
the daily political and economic slo-
gans. The program shows that the
working youth are fighting for the
world dictatorship of the proletariat.
1t does more than complement the
Communist International"
Program of Work.
The program emphasizes the So
cial character of the revolution and
deals effectively with the colonial
youth. A chapter is devoted to the
Continued on Page T1Oo
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; MORE Sent ON
BIG DAILY tour
Will Cover Anthracite,
Eastern States

The Election Campaign Drive of
the Daily Worker for 10000 new
readers, now being carried on on
an extensive scale throughout the
United States, will have three pow
erful additions in the east, now that
John Kaspar, A. Sokolov and Anna
Herbst have been dispatched to tour
new districts in the interests of the
paper.
John Kaspar will cover Pennsyl-
vania and West Virginia; A. Soko-
low will tour Eastern Pennsylvania,
Maryland and Delaware, and Anna
Herbst will take care of the an
thracite district.
The three veteran Daily Worker
agents believe that their tours will
be productive cf concrete results,
inasmuch as the territories mapped
Continued on Page FiUe
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AL TRIES TO STOP
OKLAHOMA SPLIT
ShadowboXes Against
Klan in Speech
Especial to the. Daily Worker)

Especial to the. Daily Worker)
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 90
Faced with a split in the ranks of
the "solid SOUTH" where his whole
political career has been under fire
from that section of the democratic
party that formerly supported the
late William Jennings Bryan and
w. G. McAdoo, Tammany AL Smith
tonight launched into a typical tir-
ade against his enemies in speech
here.
Assails ku Klux Klan.
Infuriated because the forces of
Sen. Owen have deserted the demo-
cratic party because it's middle class
element was swamped by the Nor
gan-dominated Tammany Hall sec
tion of the party, Smith tried to
connect the movement with the Ku
Klux Kan. Senator Owen has en-
phatically denied that he had any
sympathy with or respect for the
Kluxers.
Smiths advisers seem to thrive on
Continued on Page Ta0o
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FOSTER EXPOSES
LABOR" BUNK IN
HOOvER'S SPEECH
Communist Candidate
Cites Facts
Unemployment Grows
Indiana to Go on Ballot
Soon

, PORTLAND, Ore, (By MaiD y
In his speech in Portland last night,
1William 2. Foster, candidate of the
yWorkers (Communist) Party for
president, gave the Communists
answer to Hoover's Newark speech
on labor. Foster charged willful
misrepresentation, stating that
Hoover knows very we'll that the
army of unemployed has not been
reabsorbed into industry as he
claimed.
There are still at least 100000
workers without jobs, and the pro-
cess that is creating prosperity for
employers results in unemployment,
a vicious speed-up system, wage
cuts and the smashing of the trade
unions" Foster said.
"In 1927 the factories of the
United States produced 26 per cent
more than in 1919, with IL per cent
fewer workers. Neurological i'm
provement together with speed-up
has resulted in the creeping paraly-
sis of unemployment for which
neither Hoover nor Smith offers
any cure or even relief. In 1919,
for instance, according to the An
nalist' for March, 1926, there were
10,689,000 employed in the big in
dustries; in 1926 this had decreased
to 9,850,000.
Opposed Social Legislation.
Hoover cynically condemns any
sort of social legislation to relieve
the acute situation"
He had the audacty to praise
the Fordney-M Cumber tariff bill
in a section where the textile
workers have carried on long and
bitter struggles for decent wages
and working conditions against the
textile mill barons who alone bene-
Continued on Page Three
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SPORT EVENTS AT
I. U. E. |. PICNIC

A large number of sport events
and athletic contests will feature
the sunual 7. q. E. L. workers fes-
tival, which will be held tomorrow,
at Ulmer Park, Brooklyn. These
are scheduled to begin at 3 o'clock
in the afternoon and will last until
4:30, at which time the "eats" pro-
gram will be put on.
Militant New York workers who
follow the progressive policies of
the Trade Union Educational
League in their daily struggles
within their unions and in the for
nation of new unions will test their
ability to play on Saturday. Should
the progressives play as hard as
they fight out their union struggles,
all indications are that it will be a
tired, but exceedingly happy army
Continued on Page Two
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SCH|FFRIN CASE
IN COURT TODAY
Defense Opens Office,
Raises Funds

Two judges in the 16lst st. court
house will today conduct hearings
in the case of William Schiffrin, left
wing trade unionist, who faces a
charge of homicide; two of his com
rades, and three right wingers who
were part of an armed squad, whose
attack on Schiffrin resulted in the
death of the right wing leader of
the knife-wielders. One hearing
takes place in the Homicide Court
before Judge Smith, the others ap-
pear before the Magistrates Court
in the same building.
Workers Agitated.
When Schiffrin was arrested by
police, who later admitted in testi-
mony that Schiffrin was valiantly
defending his life single-handed
against the onslaught of five men
attacking him with knives, they at
the same time arrested three mem
bers of the right wing squad" and
two militant workers who we're
some distance from Schiffrin, who
had his back to a tenement wall.
The local Jewish labor movement
is tremendously agitated over this
case, with the right wing and all
their organs of publicity mobilized
to the straining point to send Schif-
frin to long term of imprisonment.
Opposing this frame-up force
there stands almost the entire Jew
ish working class here who are or
Continued on Page Two
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new DRESS union
l0RCAN|zES PHILA.
Shop Delegates Launch
New Organization

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. 20
With great confidence and an en-
thusiasm for the future of unionism
among the clothing workers in this
notoriously open shop city, the dele
gates assembled at the conference of
shop committees in the dress indus
try, yesterday officially launched
the Waist and Dressmakers' Local
of the National Organization Com
mittee for a new Cloak and Dress
makers Union.
Many Delegates.
Eighty-nine delegates, repre-
senting the shop committees in 20
factories, and many individual
workers, attending for shops where
committees have not as yet been es-
tablished, participated in the con-
ference and thru their decisive ac-
ton supplanted the corrupt right
wing Sigman local here, with new,
energetic, and honest union, that
will organize this overwhelmingly
non-union center. Later bouquets
Of flowers were sent to the confer
ence by the workers in the Phila-
delphia factories.
Charles S. Zimmerman, one of the
leaders of the National Organiza-
tion Committee, came from New
York to speak to the conference and
to report the tremendous progress
being made by the movement for the
new union thruout the nation in all
centers of the ladies' garment manu-
featuring industry.
Unanimous adoption was accorded
resolution condemning as strike
breakers and union wreckers, the
clique in control of the right wing
local here. The resolution also
charged the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union officials
with refusing to organize the many
sweat shops here, instead of carry
ing on campaign of persecution of
, Continued on Page Three
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1000 HAIL new
MINERS union
Watt, Toohey Receive
Big Ovation

Hailing the formation of the new
National Miners Union in one of
the most enthusiastic demonstra-
tions in the recent progress of the
New York labor movement, over two
thousand workers crowded Central
Opera House last night to hear John
J. Watt, president and Pat Toohey,
secretary-treasurer of the new
union, give an account of the events
attending the formation of the or
ganization.
"The miners have struck the first
blow for freedom" Watt declared.
"The needle trades workers, the tex
tile workers, the steel workers-the
workers of the world must rise to
deliver the blows which will make
them free" Watt received an ova-
tion when he came to the platform.
Toohey Gets Hand.
Toohey likewise received a great
hand from the New York workers
who have watched closely the record
of his heroic sacrifices in the great
mine struggle, his numerous arrests,
imprisonments and sluggings by the
mine police. Nothing can stop the
building of a great and militant
mine union which will carry on the
fight for the organization of the
half million coal diggers," Toohey
declared.
The stage was decorated with
signs of welcome, one of which
read: Vail National Miners
Union!" Throughout the meeting
Continued on Page Two
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sented by delegates they have sent
to the convention. The United Tex
tile Workers Union of the A. F. L.,
decayed with corruption, had
representation from alleged locals
in only AZ cities at their recent con-
vention.
Inquiries made as to the probable
plan of work to be followed at the
two-day convention disclosed the
| following efficient and business
like agenda; After several leaders of
the militant trade union movement
among whom are to be the leaders
of the new left wing needle trades
unions and of the newly formed
National Miners Union greet the
convention, Albert Weisbord, head of
the Textile Mills Committee will
give an exhaustive report on the
work of the T. NJ c..
Following this a credential com
mittee will be chosen which will go
into immediate session, and will
Continued on Page Three
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Labor FaRey IN
Racket Graft
.Sklbs Detroit
Especial to the Daily Worker)

Especial to the DGuy WorbeT)
DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 90
Frank x. Martel, president of the
Detroit Federation of Labor, red
batter and champion labor betray-
er, is now lodging a warrant issued
for his arrest on charges of extor-
ton.
Martel is charged specifically
with having received from Manuel
Jacoby, brother of Charles Jacoby,
head of a large cleaning establish
ment, the sum of $500 which the
labor misleader forced the firm to
pay him. The $500 charge is be-
lieved to be but a small part of
what Martel and his companion la
Dor takers have received.
Goes Into Hiding.
Knowing that the warrant was
about to be issued, Martel hurried
ly left the state and is now in hid
ing. His attorney, John F. Sim
mons, is busy issuing statements
Continued on Page Three
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PLAGUE AFFECTS 100000.

ATHENS, Sept. 20 UH.-The
Dengue fever epidemic, now subsid-
ing, affected 100000 persons in
Athens, Piraeus and environs, it
was estimated officially today.
Athens authorities have decided to
build modern incinerator and ac-
quire 80 motor trucks for garbage
disposal to combat future epidemics.
Two cases of plague have been
found at Piraeus.
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STORM VICTIMS
RIOT FOR BREAD
Troops Called Out to
Terrorize Negroes
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla,
Sept. 20.-The complete death
toll which the Florida hurricane
has left in its wake, was today
estimated to be between 700 and
500 With the destruction of all
sanitary appurtenances, disease
continues to spread throughout
the stricken area at a terrific
pace.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2o.-Refu-
gee riots, hunger and threats of
disease increased today the horror
of the hurricane-stricken region
around Lake Okeechobee, Florida,
according to reports received here
from relief workers in the field.
Rioting by Negro refugees in the
devastated town of Pahokee caused
officials to ask for troops which are
intended to terrorize the starving
Negroes.
Another report said that the bod
les of go Negroes and two white
persons had been recovered at Pa
hokee. Nearly all the homes in the
town, on the shore of Okeechobee,
were ruined, and debris blocked
roads hampered relief workers ir
getting foods and supplies to the
town.
Fear of epidemics in the Okee.
chobee region compelled relief
worker to dispose of bodies with
out Identification.
The death estimate still was 4cS
but with strong probability of it
being increased. Some sources hav,
estimated the deaths at from 600 t.
300.
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sept. q
(UP).-The menace of fire among
fallen trees which have dried ou
until they are almost like tindel
was added to the perils which beset
this storm-ravaged island today.
More than 100000 persons-hal1
the population of the islands-are
homeless.
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Terrified By the dis
aster, the enpLoited na-
tives of Porto Rico had
little chance of escape
when hurricane sl0ept
over island, demoIish-
ing huts IN 10 h ich
th e s 6 t0orkers, en-
plotted By WaU Street,
must liUe. Photo shoaOs
outskirts of Sqn Juan,
tOhere heaUy toll Was
taken.
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FOOD WORKERS
MEET TONIGHT
Speakers Will Expose
Old Parties

Food workers of New York-bak-
ers, cooks and walters, cafeteria
workers, grocery, fruit and dairy
clerks, butcher workers-are expect
ed to turn out en- masse tonight to
hear the program Of the Workers
(Communist) Party at Manhattan
Lyceum, 66 E. 4th st. The meeting
will be opened at p. m. by the
Food Workers section of the Trade
Union Educational League.
"Food workers especially have
good reason not to vote for Bread
Continued on Page Tro
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NO Attempt to Kill
TrOtsky; Soviet Union
Nails New British Lie

MOSCOW, Sept. 20.-Reports
published in the London press al
leging that attempts had been made
to assassinate Leon Trotsky are
completely without foundation, it
was stated here today.
The Izvestia has never published
any statement Gas the London press
al)eges) declaring that an investi-
gating committee has been sent to
Turkestan, and the foreign office
has issued a statement denying the
existence of any such commission.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-21
Big Dance to Welcome
Young Textile Workers

The Young Workers (Commun-
ist) League of District has ar
ranged dance tomorrow night at
the Workers Center, to welcome the
youth delegates to the National Tex
tile Union which is being formed
tomorrow and Sunday in New York
City.
Fifty young textile workers as
delegates from New Bedford, Fall
River, Passaic and many other cities
will be present.
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BEATING OF OLD
STRIKER Anglers
CITY POPULATION
Workers Pouring Out
to Picket Lines
(speeial to the Dailu YORKER

Especial to the Daily Torker)
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Sept.
20.-More than two thousand tex
tile workers, forming a picket line
double the size of yesterdays came
out to the Paige Mill early this
morning to demonstrate their de-
fiance of the police terror of the
past few days. They were again
attacked by a patrol of about 100
police, sent out with the express
purpose of jailing the leaders of the
picketing.
Augusta Pinto, the victim of in
Vulnerable arrests and beatings, and
one of the best loved strike leaders
was today against arrested, as was
Jack Rubinstein, Marion Botelho
and Germaine Madieros. Pinto,
who was arrested yesterday, has
just returned from a Maine farm,
where he was sent by the union to
recuperate from a beating by the
police while in jail.
Demonstrate Before Gates.
Today's demonstration as yester-
days took place before the mill
gates. Those arrested were later
released on bonds put up by the
union, for trial at the November
sessions of the court.
The cry, They've got Pinto"
swept as wave over the tightly
packed workers lining the streets,
then it surged thru the crowds of
hundreds on the sidewalks while the
police wagon passed thru,
= Pinto as we'll as the other leaders
heading the picket line refused to
stop their picketing activities as
they were ordered to do by the po-
lice.
The anger of the strikers grew
as Rubinstein and the others were
pulled into the waiting patrol.
At the Jail Sergeant Mccarthy in
passing Rubinstein's cell rasped,
do you know what they do to your
kind down south? They tar and
feather you'll"
The greatest indignation is now
widespread among the city's popu-
lation because of the viciousness of
the police, disclosed particularly in
yesterdays attacks in which guns
and clubs were employed.
Admits Use of Gun.
After many witnesses had sworn
they heard the shooting in yester-
days police attack, Chief of Police
Mcleod was forced to admit the
charge that Sergeant Velho had
been compelled to use his revolver
in defending himself. He thus re-
versed the positive denial made by
Velho yesterday. Witnesses who
came forward with the shooting
charge were not only strikers but
also members of the right wing
Textile Council and even business
men.
The police chief then asserted that
Velho had fired at 63 year old Frank
August in order ''to defend himself"
This defense was ridiculed in a
statement issued by the Textile Mill
Committee which ironically pointed
out that the massive Velho needed
no revolver to defend himself
against the frail old man.
In a counter statement to justify
Continued on Page Three
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THOUSANDS OF WORKERS FLOCK TO HEAR GITLOW
Poor Workers. Farmers Turnout Country Rally Communist Election

to realize that only thru struggle
on the industrial and political fields
under Communist leadership, can
they wage successful fight against
the capitalists and the capitalist
government.
Hits Mine Misleaders.
Bill Mathewson introduced Com
rade Gitlow at the st. Louis meet
ing. The speaker after stating the
aims of the Workers (Communist)
Party sailed into the leaders of the
United Mine Workers of Illinois,
Continued on Page Three
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The working class is giving a re-
ceptive hearing to the message Of
the class struggle in this election
campaign according to a report sent
in to the National Election Cam
paign Committee of the Workers
(Communist) Party by Benjamin
Gitlow, Communist vice-presidential
candidate who is now on the first
lap of nationwide tour that will
bring him from coast to coast, from
the far northwest to the southeast,
with the program of Communism
around which the workers, poor
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farmers and oppressed Negroes are
called upon to rally in the struggle
against capitalism and the capitalist
government.
Gitlow's report was written after
his meeting in st. Louis, Mo. on
September 16, where he spoke to
over three hundred workers among
those present being large number
of Negroes.
Increasing Militancy.
The vice-presidential candidate
has spoken in Philadelphia, Am
bridge, Pa, Pittsburgh, Cleveland,
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Youngstown, Lansing, Toledo, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, Gary, Terre
Haute, Indiana, and st. Louis, Mo.
Everywhere the masses showed
that they are in a rebellious mood,
against the capitalist system, that
the speed-up system in industry is
driving them into a more militant
attitude towards the employers, that
they are increasingly growing wise
to the falsity of the claims of the
capitalist parties ability or willing
ness to bring prosperity to the
workers and that they are beginning
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Militant workers of New York:
Over 250 delegates, here to form a
new National Textile Union, must
be accommodated this Saturday and
Sunday. Aid the struggle of the
thousands of textile workers by get
ting in touch Immediately with l.
Zimmerman, at the local office of
the T. U. E. L., rs Union Square.
A large number of volunteers are
also necessary to help during the
sessions of the convention.
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JAIL MORE MILL LEADERS
IN NEW BEDFORD TERROR
new Mill union
CONVENTION TO
MAKE HISTORY
Announce Agenda for
Weekend Farley

A highly significant turning point
in the long history of the struggles
of the nations textile workers will
be reached when the chairman's
gavel will open the convention of
textile mill committees, mill and
union delegates, who assemble to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock in
Irving Plaza Hall here, to launch a
new mass national textile workers
organization.
Latest reports indicate that the
workers in the textile plants of
more than so cities will be repre-
Evening star., 1928-11-13

Ethiopia is to have its first automo-
bile highway, the project being backed
personally by His Imperial Highness,
the Prince Regent.