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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
U. S. WAR PLANS
TO Be EXPOSED
AT GIANT MEET
Thousands Expected at
Union So. Saturday

Speakers will expose the war pre-
parations of American imperialism
the huge anti-militarist meeting to
to be held in Union Square Saturday
at l o'clock.
Thousands of workers are ex-
pected to demonstrate against the
war plans of the American Empire,
and the meeting will serve notice on
Vail Street that the masses are
wake to the real meaning of Kel-
Pgg's peace" talk while military
preparation is being rushed forward,
new warships, airplanes and muni-
tions manufactured and the youth
militarized by the "Citizens Military
Training Camps" National Guard
camps, and other institutions.
The meeting will be under the
joint auspices of District 2 of the
Workers (Communist) Party and
the Young Workers (Communist)
League.
League Worries Jingoes.
This meeting is being held only
two days before thousands of young
workers and students from New
York leave for the "Citizens Military
Training Camps for the August
terms. The Young Workers (Com-
munist) League recently has con-
Quoted working class propaganda in
the c. M. T. G. so intensively that
the Department of Justice has an
Punced that special laws will be
Presented to the next session of
Congress to stop the anti-militarist
work of the League. Phil Frankfeld,
District Organizer of the League,
and Paul Crouch will tell of these
anti-militarist activities, and of the
fight for John Porter, young sol
dier court-martialed because he de-
serted from the army when he be-
came conscious of its anti-labor role
and became active in the textile
strike and the Communist youth
movement.
Gitlow and Minor to Speak.
The Workers (Communist) Party
will be represented by many pro-
minent speakers, including Ben Git
low, Communist candidate for vice
president, Robert Minor, editor of
the Daily Worker, and Albert Weis-
bord, leader of the Passaic textile
strike.
Other Speakers.
Other speakers will be M. J. Oh
gin, Communist editor, Richard B.
Moore, organizer of the American
11egro Labor Congress, Ray Rago-
:; n, in charge of Women's work, Ben
Cpld, militant leader of the furriers,
Kebecca Grecht, Campaign Manager
of the Workers (Communist) Party
Bert Miller, Organization Secretary
of the Workers (Communist) Party.
and D. Benjamin, Director of the
Workers School.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
MOVE TO CRUSH
INDIAN CRISIS
British Send Army
Against Peasants

BOMBAY, India, Aug. 1.-Ad-
mittedly fearing outbreaks ali over
India, especially in the textile mills
in Bombay, as a result of the con-
fiscatory measures of the Bardoli
peasants in seizing and blowing the
ground despite government orders,
two British regiments, two squad
rons of cavalry, twelve armored
cars and an air force SQUADRON have
been dispatched to quell the situa-
tion in the northern Bombay dis
tfict.
A population of $4,000 Indian
peasants. men and women, has been
modified to offer passive resistance
TO the government forces, while g
detachment of six hundred has been
detailed as an intelligence depart
rnent to report the movements of
the governments troops.
Despite the policy of non-resist-
ance affected by the leaders of the
movement in the Bardoli district,
the arrival of the government squad
rons is believed to presage the
opening of possible mass hostilities.
The authorities are frank in admit
ting that they fear, and are taking
measures to cope with, armed out
breaks throughout the country as a
repercussion from the struggle in
Bardoli.
Drastic measures are planned
against the Bardoli peasantry whose
mass movement has for months pre-
vented the approach of single tax
collector into the district while the
peasants took over the lands de-
clared confiscatory by the govern
ment and sowed them themselves.
Any attempt to remove the ripen-
ing crops will be met with military
resistance, Collector Hartshorn of
the Bardoli district declared today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
SACCO MEMORIAL
MEETS PLANNED
Will Link Case With
Mooney Fight

Sanco-Vanzetti memorial meet
ings, under the auspices of the vari-
Gus sections of international Red
Aid, will be held throughout the
world during the week of August
10 to &c, 1928, The national office
of International Labor Defense, 80
East 11th St., New York, is in re-
ceipt of many communications and
cables from the Red Aid lRote
Hilfe) of Germany, the Canadian
Labor Defense League, the Inter
national Glass War Prisoners Aid
Of England, the Red Aid (Mopr) of
the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-
publics and many other sections,
outlining plans for the commemora-
tion of the memories of Sacco and
Vanzetti, labor's martyrs. Interna-
tional Labor Defense is organizing
the meetings in the United States.
Linked With Mooney Case.
The Sacco-Vanzetti memorials to.
be held on an international scale are
being linked with the frame-up
against Tom Mooney and Warren
Billings. the two American class
war prisoners about to begin their
18th year at San Quentin and Fol
som, Calf.
"The case of Sacco and Vanzetti,"
pointed out Martin Abern, assistant
national secretary of International
Labor Defense, Cannot be treated
isolated, but it is necessary to COM
hine it with the special occurrences
of terror and class justice en each
country and to demonstrate that the
Sacco and Vanzetti case is only
link in the chain of class justice
and international white terror.
Mooney and Billings were framed
up and imprisoned by the powers
of the open-shoppers in California
and the consent of American inn
perialism. Labor throughout the
world sees this and, therefore, the
Saeco-Vanzetti memorial meetings
will be utilized to demonstrate for
and demand the freedom of Mooney
and Billings"
The Canadian Labor Defense
League, writes Florence Custance,
Canadian secretary to the /. L. D.,
IS organizing Sacco-Vanzetti meet
ings and is conducting campaign
for the Centralia prisoners and
Mooney and Billings.
"When Governor Fuller of Massa-
chusetts," writes H. B. Lowell, sec
retary Of the international Class
War Prisoners Aid of England, Wis
Continued on Page Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02

"Hell is again breaking loose in
the textile industry" This is the
warning issued yesterday by the
Workers International Relief which
is providing food and clothing for
most of the $4,000 New Bedford
mill workers who are now entering
the 10th week of strike.
Calling attention to the new reign
of terror instituted by the mill
barons, made desperate by the
united front of the strikers, the
w. l. R. is making an appeal for
funds with which to continue its
vital work in New Bedford.
The call reads in part:
Workers! Friends!
Stand by the fighting textile
workers.
'Hell is again breaking loose in
the textile industry
"This time it is in New Bedford.
Mass, where for sixteen weeks 28,-
000 men, women and children have
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
A r [ POsTpONEs
ACTION ON SMITH
Officials Make Gesture
at Organizing

ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 1.-The
executive committee of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor in session
here announced the postponement
of its expected decision to endorse
Al Smith for the presidency. The
reason given out by William Green,
president of the Federation in a
guarded statement was that the la
Dor bureaucrats would prefer to wait
until after the acceptance speeches
of the candidates.
1t is known, however, that mem
bers of the executive council have
been divided over the endorsement
Of Hoover and Smith and the present
announcement, it is believed, repre-
sents temporary compromise be-
tween these officials.
ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 1.-The
executive council of the American
Federation of Labor in session here
made a crude gesture towards or
ganization work by announcing that
it would organize the aviation work
ers before the company unions would,
get on the job. A similar announce
ment was made in regard to the
auto workers two years ago, but
nothing was done. No informed per-
son really believes that the Green
Woll crew is in earnest in its new
announcement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
STRESS the WAR
DANGER AT Meet
Discuss Campaign at
Party Rally

eve must use the election cam
paign to fight the war danger" !"
John ]. Ballam, acting organizer of
District declared last night at a
membership meeting of the Work
ers (Communist) Party held at Man
haitian Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St.
Ballam discussed the antagonisms
between the bourgeoisie and the pro-
letariat, between the exploited col
onies and the imperialist countries,
between the imperialist nations
themselves and the struggle between
the capitalist countries on one, hand
and the Soviet Union on the other.
"At the present time there is an
economic depression due to the ra-
tionalization process, with more than
100000 unemployed in the coun-
try" said Ballam.
Discussing the use of the National
Guardsmen in New Bedford, Ballam
said that as the class struggle be-
comes more acute the soldiers will
be called upon to shoot down the
workers.
Rebecca Grecht spoke on the in
creasing rehabilitation of the work
ers and the role of the Workers
(Communist) Party in the growing
economic struggles. She urged the
fullest support of the election cam
paign Of the Workers (Communist)
Party in its fight against the parties
Of the capitalists.
Bert Miller, organizational secre-
tary of district 2, was chairman of
the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
GREET FREED WORKERS
Messages Urge Fight for Total Amnesty

BERLIN (By MaiD.--On the
amnesty of the proletar:an political
prisoners in Germany, the Interna-
tional Red Aid received the follow
ing kilograms:
"To the free proletarian prisoners
in Germany:
eve greet you in the name of the
international Red Aid and welcome
your return to the front ranks of
the class-conscious proletariat.
"The energetic battle Of the Red
Aid of Germany has succeeded in
ending your long prison term. Now
it is question of leading the battle
for the amnesty of the remaining
political preletarian prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
COME ERENCE TO
HEAR NEARING
Working Women Will
Meet Tonight

Scott Nearing. Communist writer
and teacher, will be the principal
speaker at the second conference of
the New York Working Women's
Federation, to be held at the Labor
Temple, 18th ST. and Second Ave-,
tonight at 7:30.
n To Discuss War Danger
"The War Danger" will be the
pic of discussion in which repre-
sentatives from large number Of
labor and fraternal organizations
will participate.
Against the futile peace talk
of the pacifists," a statement issued
last night by the organization
stated "the New York Working
Women's Federation has raised the
slogan of struggle against capital
ist imperialism by the united action
of the working class"
Declaring that the federation has
taken the initiative in launching a
campaign to arouse working women
to the menace of the next war, the
statement points out that the world
imperialists are carefully Matching
plot against the Soviet Union.
"The stage" the statement says, sis
set for war, with the first Workers
Republic as the target for attack"
Open Discussion.
The federation cites the activi-
ties of the American empire in Latin
America and China and calls upon
,&orking women everywhere "to join
II the campaign to expose the plans
for a new world carnage"
representatives from all labor
and fraternal organizations are in
vited 20 attend the conference to-
night. Discussion from the floor
will follow the talk by Nearing, it
Is announced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
Il" MOTORMANI is
STILL IN PRISON
Labor Defense May
Take Up Case

Kept in Jail because he has thus
far been unable to furnish the $15,-
900 bail set by the Tammanv au-
thorities, suspended by the Inter
borough officials who have framed
up the case against him in order
to escape responsibility for their
own guilt, Stanley N. Zellig, "L"
motorman, whose train was in
volved in the Sunday wreck, faces
a certain prison term unless mill
tant labor rises to his defense.
The Interborough officials yes
terday maintained silence as to its
procedure following their announce
ment Tuesday that the company
would wash it's hands of the motor
man. 1t became certain, however,
that the so-called suspension an
nounced is actually the discharge of
Zellig. A half dozen cases in the
past provide the precedent for this
action.
In the meantime it was learned
yesterday that the International La
Dor Defense, an organization Gre
ated for the purpose of defending
workers who fall into the clutches
of the bosses courts, has become in
terested in the case. In a statement
branding the case as an obvious
frame-up,. officers of the organiza-
tion declared that they were pre-
pared to take up the defense of the
innocent motorman. 1t is believed
that some steps will be taken to
secure Zellig's release from Jail.
Following the death of one of the
passengers in the Sunday night
wreck, Zellig was arrested ON a
charge of manslaughter. Assistant
District Attorney Pecora in a
vicious attack, which showed evi-
dences of having been pre-arranged
with the Interborough officials,
sought to create the impression that
the motorman was guilty of the ac-
cident.
The whole case centers about the
attempt of the Interborough to cover
up its criminal use of wooden cars,
the use of which have been con-
demned in the past and which have
caused the death of numbers of
passengers.
The Tammany controlled Transit
Commission has issued a report
whitewashing the Interborough Of
ficials and seeking to blame the mo-
torman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
PRIEST and NUN
in 0BREGON CASE

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 1.-As the
investigation of the assassination
of President-elect Obregon comes
to its close, the Catholic clergy has
become involved through the direct
influence of priest and the nun,
Mother Conception, upon the assas-
sin, Torral.
The trial, which is shortly to be
held, will be considerably compli-
Gated by the introduction of third
party" to the prosecution. In addi-
tion to the prosecution and the de-
fense, tho Obregonista party will,
through its representatives, take an
active part in the case in accord
ance with the Mexican law which
provides for this third element.
The Obregonistas, who stand in
opposition to the Federation Of La
Dor and are more prone to be favor
able to the Catholic Church. have
affirmed that Morones was respon-
sible for the murder.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
CLOAK WORKERS
TO MEET TONIGHT
To Mobilize for Huge
Gathering Aug. 8

With the holding of meeting of
all active cloak and dressmakers in
Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St,
at o'clock tonight, all forces will
be modified for the huge mass
meeting in Bronx Stadium next
Wednesday which will launch an in
tensive drive to organize the trade
and build a strong union.
The meeting tonight, which has
been called by the National Organi- I
zation Committee, will be addressed
by a number of the leaders of the
committee and will discuss plans for
the great campaign. All active
cloak and dressmakers are urged to
attend this important meeting.
Rank and File Group Meets
Last night a meeting of all the
units of the rank and file organiza-
Continued on Page Two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02

eve hope that you together with
the R. and the International
Red -. carry on the fight fur
ther against the white terror and
for the freeing of all proletarian
political prisoners in Italy, Bull
garia, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania,
Finland, Greece, as well as in all
the other capitalist countries.
Long Live International Solidar-
ity!
"On with the fight for the am
nesty of all proletarian prisoners in
the iails of the capitalist world
Moscow, July II, 1928.
"The Executive of the International
Red Aid"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
MORGAN BANKERS
''GIVE" TO SMITH
Republicans to Begin
With SA000,000

Announcement of the contrib
utors to the Al Smith campaign
fund has disclosed two of the largest
donners of $4,000 each as members
of firms connected with the Morgan
banking interests. The first of these
came from John D. Ryan, president
of the anti-labor, Anaconda Copper
Company. The second came from
John 7. Smith, counsel for the Cen
eral Motors Company.
Raskob, Kenny and Todd, Al
Smiths immediate multi-millionaire
friends have not yet been disclosed
as contributors. 1t is believed that
ways will be found to conceal large
contributions made by these figures
while they later announce moderate
gifts.
Republican campaign manager
Work, announced boldly that the
sum set as a jumping off figure for
the G. 0. P. campaign would be S4,-
100000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
TO MOBILIZE IN
MEMORY OF JEAN
JAURES SUNDAY
Couturier Is Arrested;
jailed; Fined

PARIS, Aug. Thousands of
French workers will defy the order
of Minister of the Interior Sarraut,
forbidding all meetings of workers
in the district of the Seine, and will
march to participate in the call to
the Communist colors in the suburb
of Garches, Sunday. The call to the
Communist colors is in commemo-
ration of the death of Jean Jaures,
militant French labor leader, mur-
dered on the eve of the World War.
Workers thruout the city of
Paris and its suburbs have affirmed
their intention of defying the gov
ernment's orders to smash the de-
monstration.
Supplementary orders from the
interior department have given
fect of Police Chiappe permis-
sion break up any meeting of
workers py- any means necessary. A
veiled threat to call out the army
is ridiculed by the workers who
claim that it would cause an insur-
rection.
The attempt of the authorities to
smash the huge workers mobiliza-
tion has been ushered in with the
arrest of Valiant Couturier, one of
the editors of L'Humanite, French
Communist daily, whose militant ar
ticles calling upon the masses to
ignore the governments orders ap-
peared recently.
Valiant Couturier has been SEN
fenced to six months in Jail and a
fine of 10000 francs on charges of
provoking disobedience among the
soldiery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
VenizelOs Accused of
Murder by Pangalos

ATHENS, August 1.-Venizelos.
dictator of Greece, has been charged
by Pangalos, who was recently re-
leased from jail by the dictator, with
the execution of the former premier
Gounaris and his fellow ministers in
1922.
Pangalos thus shifts the cha>:e
from himself to Venizelos, who has
used terrorist methods against the
Greek workers in the recent strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
LUMBER BOSS FRAME-UP
Jordan Urges Ceutyalia Victims Release

received by the national office of the
International Labor Defense, 80 E.
18th Street, New York.
Whitaker in his letter to the Gov
ernor declares:
The continued imprisonment in
Walla Walla of the eight members of
the I.W.W. by reason of the hysteria
of the after war period, is a heavy
handicap upon the reputation Of
Washington. ;. Particularly at
this time the United States is in a
special need of every possible exhibit
of the spirit Of tolerance and good
will. i. +. May | urge that your
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
Workers Party Units
Contribute S100 To
Help Daily Worker

The Daily Worker has received two
contributions from units of the
Workers (Communist) Party, both
of an equal amount. These units
made it a special point on their
agendas to raise specific contribu-
tions.
The South Slav section of the
Party, st, Louis, Mo-, at a recent
picnic held for the benefit of the
Communist press in the United
States, collected $50 for the Daily
Worker.
The same amount, $50, was raised
by the Syracuse, N. Y, unit Of the
Workers (Communist) Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02

Protests against the continued
Imprisonment of the Centralia pris-
oners in Walla Walla, Washington
and demands for their unconditional
pardon continue to pour in upon
Governor Roland H. Hartley and H.
B. Clausen, Chairman of the Parole
Board from labor organizations and
prominent individuals. Robert Viii
taker, author and formerly a min
lister Of the First Baptist Church of
Seattle and Professor David Starr
Jordan, President Emeritus of Le-
land Stanford University, California
are among those who have added
their protests, according to letters
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
Wages of Cottonseed
Workers Average SIS

WASHINGTON, Aug. l. The
average wage of workers in the cot
tonseed oil mills in the United
States was 1888 per week, ac-
cording to figures compiled for
sample weeks in 1927 by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor. The figures were a part of
a study of wages and hours of la
Dor and working conditions in cot
ton gins, compresses and oil mills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
Daily Worker Agents
Will Meet Tomorrow

A special meeting of all section,
subsection and unit DAHL Y
WORKER agents has been called
for tomorrow evening, at 8 p. m,
at the Workers Center, 1928 Union
Square.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
Paris Communists to Demonstrate In Spite of Ban
HOLD NATIONAL!
GUARDS READY
FOR new RAIDS
Women and Children
March in Long Line

Especial to the Daily Worker)
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Aug. 1.
Following the passage by the
New Bedford chamber of commerce
of a resolution applauding the vio-
lence of the police in arresting hun
dreds Of striking textile workers at
the Whitman Mill two days ago,
Commander Charles Davis tonight
called meeting of the local Amer
lean Legion to consider offering the
services of the legionnaires as
strikebreakers.
The chamber of commerce reso-
luton, which was accepted earlier
in the day, demands that all strike
organizers be driven from the city
or jailed The Kiwanis Club has
approved the chamber of commerce
resolution.
Sentiment against the proposed
strike arbitration is strong in the
Textile Council with the majority of
the unions opposed. The first vote
of the slashers' union has already
registered against arbitration.
The New Bedford Textile Union
and the Workers International Re
lief are caring for the children
whose parents have been jailed as
a result of the police raids at the
Whitman Mill.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Aug. 1.
Defiant of the order of Chief Of
Police Mcleod to arrest every
strike leader for law violations on
sight, regardless of the nature of
his offense, d picket line of 300,
which swelled to nearly one thou
sand before police appeared. com
tinued picketing the Whitman Mil
yesterday. Smaller lines formed
also at the other mills.
The order issued to the police ac-
companied the decision of the city
authorities to retain Battery E of
the Massachusetts National Guard
in their armory in preparation for
further raids against the picket
lines. The battery, which Is under
orders to proceed for training to
Fort Wright, Long Island, was or
dered detained by Mayor Charles
s. Ashley.
Determination was the feeling
prevailing on the lines which sur
rounded the Whitman Mill yester-
day and on which women and chill
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