The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 18, 1927, Page 5

_ noski, the young carpenter, were then |Yelled the Coal and Iron police, then| THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1927 Page Five SS aE PITTSBURGH TERMINAL CO. GUNMEN KIGK OUT EYESIGHT OF STRIKER Coal and Iron Police Kidnap Five Workers and} “Work Them Over” in Company Barracks BULLETIN. | Ayella, Penn., Oct. 17.—At Six o'clock last Sunday night, thirty | drunken coal and iron police in the employ of the Aurora mine of the Duquesne coal company here, attacked four lecked-out miners on the public highway, beating with blackjacks, George Harko, Albino Galginni, Angelo Simonetti, and Joe Lazar. All were seriously injured Simonetti and Lazar are under hospital treatment. George Harko was returning from the picket line and Albino Gal- | ginni was going to the drug store for medicine for a sick child when | attacked, | ee ey CASTLE SHANNON, Pa., Oct. 17—Several illustrations of | the complete abrogation of civil rights in the mining camps where | the coal war is on, come from Castle Shannon No. 2, one of~a! group of three adjoining mines near Pittsburgh, belonging to the} Pittsburgh Terminal.Coal Company. Here are the facts in full! as I got them from the five boys, four striking miners, and the | fifth a union carpenter, who were the victims of a planned and} unspeakably brutal attack last week on the part of the Coal and Tron Police in the hire of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company; supplemented by the account given by Squire George H. Beltz- hoover of Castle Shannon Borough, and one of his constables, who, unlike so many of the officers of the law in the coal region, happen not to be company men and resent the company terroriza- tion of the people in territory for which they are responsible. and | At about seven o’clock, October 8,/of Mount Lebanon township—a hun-| two of the five men who were as-!|dred percent company man—Squire| saulted were walking along the tracks | Guilty” the miners said they call him, belonging to the Pittsburgh Street;because when any union man _ is Railroad Company, and off company|brought up before Edmunson he} property. Two Coal and Iron police|knows in advance he will be found who had evidently been lying in am- | guilty before he gets there. bush, sprang out of the weeds along, Carry Off Picket. | the roadway with blackjacks ready} The miners’ picket chief stationed | and arrested them. Then, further|John Benick, at a distance from the along the tracks, at Cooley station,|Coal and Iron Barracks, out on the the car stop for No. 2 mine, the Coal) public highway, to see who it was and Iron police whistled for more ofthe police were taking along in their) their gang to come, and made two) machines. As the machine passed} more arrests. him (on the public highway, remem-! The four men, Christ Dilla, Peter| ber), John Benick asked the police} Karkhalla, and Lawrence Reiter, all| Where they were taking the men. | striking miners, and Samuel Mulle- None of your damned business, | taken up to the barracks of the Coal|We jumped out, pulled Benick into} and Iron police on the company prop- | the machine, and took him along up erty, and a guard of three placed|t¢ Edmundson, the Pittsburgh Ter-) over them. After about an hour of|™inal squire. Benick was left in the} Waiting and general abuse, the com-|C@t, when the others were taken in- pany thugs warmed up to their job, Another miner came up to the ide. PARTY ACTIVITIES NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY City Engineers to Demand Raises at | Protest Tomorrow Mitchell, H. Schreimel, Max Sacht-| Municipal. engineers ‘through their man and Pat Devine, speakers. union will protest the action of the Pieter ieee ; New. York board of estimate in set F. D.4 8. 8, 2-A, ; Ung aside what they characterize Be Die djs 8: Bio: Alimcaed tonight, | 2” entirely inadequate sum for alary | 6:30 p. m., at 100 West 28th St. | increases at a mass meeting tomorrow * * * |night. at the Society of Engineers’ Night Torkers Meet Today. | Building, 29 West 39th. St. A general membership meeting of Ks Pacis oot. Abe. ee the the Night Workers Section will take unionized engineers, said the 90,000 place today at 3 p. m. at 108 East | Voted by. the Tammany admi stration 14th St. All members must attend. for salary increases in the municipal ’ * * | engineering service would not amount to more.than a..7 per.cent. increase even if equitably distributed, whereas the Civil Service Commission recently recommended a 35. per cent. increase. The engineers’ unionis the Union of | Technical Men, whieh is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. To Demand 15 Per cent More. The immediate granting of a gen- eral 15 per cent wage incr use of the $600,000 forlo 2 er than favored workers will be urged | jat tomorrow’s meeting. At the e| time a conference with Charles Kohler, | director of the budget, will be ranged before Thursday, when the al- ‘lottment of the salary incre be officially announced. Open Air Meetings Tonight. Second Ave. and 106th St., Abraham | Markoff, George Primoff and Joseph | Malicanico, speakers. | Yonkers Meeting Every Thursday. The Yonkers International Branch meets every Thursday, 8 p. m., at the Laber Temple, 20 Warburton Ave. Members should bring dues books. Cee. Sans Postpone Philips Lecture. The lecture which has been sched- uled for Thursday with J. V. Phillips as speaker is postponed. At the meet: ng Thursday a discussion will take : | place on the situation in the Y. W. L. and its immediate tasks. After the discussion delegates to the district convention will be elected. en eer Daily Worker Agents Meeting. ference ill be held next Wednenioy | ite Potart masting wil e 4 a | . si 3 * e: ednesday, / sed by Dudley Babcock, pre 8 p. m., at Inving Pl i hehe P..m- at Irving Plaza, Irving’ Place | the Union of Technical. Men, and E and 15th St. | |L. Gunter, president of the architec- Setile ‘For Tickets, | foal aaasia eine of the board of edu All comrades are instructed to set: | tle for The DAILY WORKER-FREI- | wgahy f HEIT Bazaar tickets at once. | Although if is upon engineers \ ployed by the city that the respon bility falls for planning and desi ing subway projects, the salaries } | by the city ave in sharp contrast te/ \those paid by private subway contr (Conti dite jing companies, according to a state- ‘ Aah i nae ve Ons) | ment issued by the Union of Technical pected to register immediately before Men’s Association last night. more classes are closed to registra-| tion. 1 Contractors Pay Mor Worker School Courses “Section engineers receive nual salary from the city of 200, whereas subway contracto: the workers active in the trade unions |-2™e class of See 8,000 a year are: Present Tactics of Employers, {2° Stetement said; “Ass Robert W, Dunn, instructor; Historie | "ets Teeeive from the city Struggles of American Labor, Davia | Title saUbrny: eetieertors pA J. Saposs, instructor; Public Speak. | The annual: salaries paid by the an- Courses Are Varied. Other courses of special interest to ty for Celebration of Tenth Anniversary Here Oct. 30, The New Yor 2lebration of the tenth annive of lution will be f i motion . E. Ruthenberg, f the Workers and other general secreta (Communi: films of Soviet They will be shown § 30 from 2 to 9 p. m Irvin Place Junder the auspices of the New | York district of the Workers Party. | | Admission will be 50 cexits. Arrange Big Indoor Meetings As Labor Campaign Develops . Plans for many large indoor rallies to be conducted by the Workers (Com- munist) Party in connection with the present election campaign are being - | continued, The first meeting will be held at Bry xth Ave. and 43rd Tow, the Party canc of the court af gener Manhattan. The following Sunday two large |rallies will be held in Bronx and | Harlem. The Bronx ‘meeting will be held in the large: .|Hunts Point Pal 163rd St. and .;Southern Boulevard. The Harlem meeting will take place at Finnish Labor Temple, 15 West 126th St. Indoor meetings in Brownsv Williamsburg, the East Side a are also other working class cente’ being arranged. Plans are g ing pre ous wo: A serie! in Will “Ben the court of general s dress open air meetings y 110th St. and Fifth Ave.; 106th and Madison Ave. and 116th St. anc ny hall in the boro, |” and frets pre 1 dom of th act in the Controller Berr; chosen for ecutione for his cc ing the inte an addit of the nev For the » people Ur will lose. The driving force behind all that has happened in the situation so fa is the conflict between the Cha traction properties of the city understand this conflict it is n ga to give a word of the cked By Morgan Interests. The Morgan int ancing of s are behind th lly! the whol Na- back- ‘Russian Moon Pius |WHAT PRICE TRACTION POLITICS? other others dual to sakable present are passed on roads to manipulat at and i 4 gang the whole Tammany ne then Mayor is own, had y. It became lan in order to r plan, which » néw city sub- increase the fare. ret Meeting. secret meeting was the plan. At this ent Al Smith, gov- stete; the prc Yo mmy Walker; y, the le Frank Hedley, + bor Geb the of Tammany Hall, dent of the Inter- Dahl, chairman of of the B. M. T.; The dbourne, counsel of the BR. M. T., and others. Here it was greed to ditch the obstinate Mr. Hy- and after the ion campaign 5, at which the five cent fare to be held aloft, to lay the plans for an increased fare. Elect Walker. iverything went according to dule. Hylan was ditched. Wal- was elected. John Delaney, rman of the transportation board, out a transit unification e which he “hoped” would save ent fare. Both companies “ac- rd r ional Bank-Dahl-Chadbourne group, |cepted” the plan immediately which owns the B. M. T. and has) Then Tammany Hall got its or- | bought he: into the I. R. T., and | ders! the Morgan interests, who are seck-! qhe House of Morgan cracked the ing to obtain complete control of the |whip and Al Smith began to jig. Im- °| mediately there was instituted the “investigation” by the Transit Com- ion, which v to lay the basis a “real” unification plan. Choos- ing the great inquisitor, Untermyer, e|for the main role, there began what e| was really a complete exposure of the fc J and began “working on” the boys—|sauire's office ip order to post bond |; Gail Brodsky; History of the U, [to Surveyors in charge do not exceed Frau oan the I. R. and a sub-| methods of the traction plunderbund Bee Mey bus 1 tn telling: Sis optorys Ney penile as We rot t6 the door (Sc Uni, Oork:, Mangian Beonaics (eon. Subwen conemautors pay ¢4,- | Madison- Ave. Noa stantial M. T. as well.|in order to wrench from them the This is a good phrase—signifying nota i stay sain on ph eae a Ray Ragozin; Fundamentals of Come '000: to: $4,500." The city holds its rod- Z LES RT TC ase of the B. M. T. its hold-| control of the railroads. an ieee, Behe 1 ais fae Bl the office shouting, “Stay the Hell]™Unism, various instructors, and $1560 ¢ yeLeeb. Sube ie conte tam Playwrights Theatre to Phe Morgan } iri the RE aan ong, deliberate, bestial, and obscene | : aur rs ( Principles of Marxism, Abrah $1,560 to $1,860. Subway contractors | : The Morgan holdings on the I. R. T.,| Rs » torture process, jaway from there” to the man, and) y¢. 14 so. raham | say $3,000. |Raise Flag Here Today |,.”;. customary with this banking (Dig Crowd Expected at | ‘ ‘i then Benick was rushed back to the First thi nigel poate upess | police barracks in their car, taken in- Ns ige & Pees | side—again fi hidden with hand- him through the door into an adjoin- | ecneee lights put out,—“Sock ad ae aS at ape ae and him,” yelled one of them, and when | fendi oe ki hide |they were through Benick lay on the eae es Ay ‘the “lights aka ban floor bleeding and with a rib broken. der 2 = $ h the story enters its After they got through with him, they Steel? plage 6 egal 14 Sander: “worked over” the other three. stood in company towns. This is the |account as it was told me by the con- stable and corroborated by Squire Beltzhoover who came in as the con- stable was talking. (To Be Continued.) It was on the young carpenter, Mul- lenowski, that they did their most perfect job. I saw him when he came into Squire Beltzhoover’s office with his brother in regard to his case. Kick Out Eyesight. | The black glasses he wore looked incongruous in combination with his ' Election and U. $. S$. R. blonde youthfulness, Then he lifted! them, and you saw the reason for the| | To Be Under Discussion | glasses—the ghastly, horribly injured! | as ‘aa asses e ghastly, horribly injure | at Membe | D M | ae ehoeiiaaals —-o ———— eye that was the result of a number of well-directed kicks delivered by the | Coal and Iron police when they had | | to his needs, For information about these or any other of the 50 courses offered by the Workers School, write or call at the school office, Room 2, 108 East 14th Street, New York City. English Dept. Large. | Because the American working class | = Beis is so largely foreign, particularly in | Patrolmen and’ ‘Tirethien have Pe) the basic industries, and because in | "ised 56 per cent and those of teach- | the city of New York the proportion of | TS BS per Seat But rere tive foreign-born workers is particularly’ had ‘only ‘44 ber cent indkaawe cbrough: | high, the Workers School, in its ee out all the rises in the cost of living: | forts to serve the New York labor| At times this increased cost of rn movement, has built an especially has ‘asvented” to nearly double what | large English department. It offers; it formerly'was. Itis now 62 per cent | not one or two, but 18 different | Higher than before the war.” courses of six grades so that every|_. 3 worker, from the one who does not | Ball Will Greet Y...W...L.| Convention Oct. 29th read or write English at all to the worker who merely wishes to com.| A concert and dance to welcome the | ; delegates to the fourth national con- “In providing for salary increases proportionate to living costs, the city | has given minor recognition to the} 3,600 men of. its engineering force. | The city’s mechanics have had a 110/ per cent salary increase and unskilled | laborers 140 per cent. Salaries of | plete his mastery of the language, can { be fitted into the class best adapted |group, is represented by bondholders | [JD Ball Friday Night | who se on the Board of Directors {of the railroad. Under the present; More than 2,000 tickets have been called dual contracts with the city | distributed to 41 International Labor the Morgan control over th I. R. T.| Defense branches in the city for Fri- , |Was unquestioned until about two 7? 7 F he es from the first play called, “We Love | day’s costume ball at the New Star will the be held to: flag of the } re will be raised, to the sound of a jazz orchestra and a chorus singing a song ee lhl athe he Wigincbann.| C23 Park Ave. and 107th St. ur Bo | At that time the Wiggin-Dahl- w - ae, The flag is a bright proletarian red,|Chadbourne, Chase National Bank Sorte, Waa he. Biventss Me ee sections of I. R. TT. stock, holding it,| Py" Sane P. Cano tum as Chadbourne testified, for the|(“"? pipet mare Paar Y Delenae Li 3 i 5, *, | tary, Michael Gold and John Howard Law- | powe ould give them in the com | Kate Gitlow, secretary, United Council jing un In_ this} eS A | \of Working Class Housewives, and n, directors of the theatre, will make d traction plan. ‘ ches. There wi cing | round up of I. R. T. stock irec- , speeches. There will be dancing | Son ok he LRT, wich thas tne [ano Tresca, editor of I! Martello. | bondholders, united with the B. M. T. | eas 7 7 |gang. These directors of the I. R. T., | Socialist Confab Here Next Year it is important to remember, own no| The national convention of the so- , |Stock. themselves in the railroad and/|cialist party for 1928 will be held , have used their position to plunder|here next April 10, it was reported the road by buying from themselves,|!yesterday. Candidates for president at exe ve prices, coal, steel, in-|/and vice president will be nominated. name of the theatre across Ait night it will be illumin- ated by a spotlight. John Dos Passos, with th its fa ie in the Mem of the staffs of The rs DAILY WORKER, the Freiheit, the Blore and other workers’ pape well as leading members and offic of trades unions, were present last hight at an invitation dress rehearsal. The first play of the new theatre is him lying helpless on their barracks floor. The doctor tells him it is prob- able he will lose the sight of the one! eye altogether—perhaps of both. The present New York election| campaign and the Tenth Anniver- sary of the Russian Revolution will | be the order of business at a gen-| eral membership meeting of the} Develops Own Text Books. | The school has found it necessary to | develop its own text. books for the | English work in order that the book | | vention of the Young Workers (Com-| “The Belt,” by Paul Sifton, and is a }vention will open the following day. || munist) Leagué will be held’ Satur-| satirical study of mass production in day, Oct. 29th, at the Harlem Casino,!2 Detroit auto factory and the revolt Lenox Ave. and 116th St. The con-|of the workers against this oppression. The DAILY WORKER and the Joint of the needle ve, Q A. 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