The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1928, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, con Vaan 11, 1928 4 Lenin Memorial Meetings Will Protest for U. S. Miners and Nicaraguans' | CITIES PLANNING. oa LENIN. MEMORIAL DEMONSTRATIONS Strike Zone Centers to Join More than 100 Lenin memorial méetings will be held throughout the equntry during Janu In the view of the coal strike Nicaraguan cris these meetings will become mass pro-| test demonstrations inst the bru- tality of the coal operators and their | police forces and against the policy of | the Coolidge admi ration in aragua, according to the New York Lenin Memorial Committee. From Philadelpt an announce- ment was received rday that the workers in that will fill two large halls at the Labor Institute for Lenin memorial meetings Jan. 27. Meetings For Strikers. | Fifteen of Lanter s | BELIEVE ‘LONDON FLOOD NOW OVER LONDON, Jan. 10. — Government Speakers at the Quaker City meet- ings will include James P. Cannon, | isecretary of the Inter 1 Labor | Defense; Harry M. of the! DAILY WORKER; Herbert Benja- min, Mary Adams and Herbert Zam. A musical program will be presented by the Freiheit chorus. | In New York City a mass meeting will take place at Madison Square Garden Jan. 21. It is estimated that 25,000 will take part in the meeting, Cities where similar demonstrations will be held include several in the coal strike regions of Pennsylvania, Qhio and Colorado, such as Picsburgh, Denver and Pueblo. Revolutionary Pageant. In addition to nationally known speakers who will addr New York demonstration, a m revolu- tionary pageant will be presented in which nearly 1,000 worker-actors will take part. The pageant wili depict seenes from the lite of Lenin and in- cidents from the 1917 Russian Revo- lution. Delega.ions from nearby cit- ies will attend. Among the speakers will be Jay Lovestone, William Z. ivos- ter, Robert Minor, M. J. Olgin, P. 'T. Lau, John Williamson. William W. Weinstone, secretary of the New York District or the Workers (Communist) Party, will preside. No Food, Heat Nor Clothing for Family; _ ian ‘takes to Crime JERSEY CITY, N. J., Jan. 10— When Christopher McBride, 28, of 343 E, lzznd Street, New York City, Was caught in possession of a sate blowing outfit in back of a jewelry store here, and arrested he told police that three months’ unemployment had caused him to take to crime, this be- ing his first offense. Even police, skeptical at first, were moyed to take up a collection when he told them that his young wife and Shree children were starving and suf- Yering from cold in the Last 12Znd Street address. When ¢ ar- Fived at the 122nd Street address to investigate Mciride’s story, they found his wife and a 7 year old boy, 2.5 year old boy, and a 17 month old girl without food, fuel, and sufficient flothing, shivering in a hovel which building authorities had condemned. The house is soon to be demolished, and McBride’s family was living there without the owner’s knowledge. Mc- Bride is held in $2500 baii for the Grand Jury action. Grim Prank Piayed On Hickman by Prisoners LOS ANGELES, | other and another. Calif., Jan. 10.— A photograph of William E. Hick- man, confessed slayer of Marian Parker, about the neck of which a hangman’s knot had been tied and which had been suspended above the accused boy’s cell is called the work| of prisoners in the jail, by offici However, it is believed that the job | was done either with the aid of the jailors or through the maneuvering | of “trusties” with the consent of the guards, since it would be almost im-! % ible for the caged prisoners to wineer the job by themselves. | Clubs, fashioned out of broom, handles are in the hands of the) prisoners, and jail guards say that violence is planned against Hickman. | Hickman entered a plea of insanity. The trial is scheduled to open Jan. 25. No! No! Official Replies to LaGuardia Charges WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 10.—| In reply to Rep. Fiorello F. La- Guardia’s charges that liquor is be- ing imported into New York on a} wholesale scale by a syndicate under cover of cancelled custom stamps, Seymour Lowman, assistant secretary | of the treasury in charge of prohibi-| tion enforcement, declared that they, were without foundation. LaGuardia | asserts, however, that conclusive proof | ‘was put in the hands of the customs officials here. ;ment to send marines to Nicaragua to WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Stanley K. Hornbeck, a Harvard Professor, to- | day was appointed chief of the, Far Eastern Affairs Division of the Sta‘e| Department. He will take office| February 13. |to pick machine runners. even been estimated, the mouth of the engineers said today they believed that London is safe from further |floodings. This morning’s high tide subsided without doing any further damage. As the waters of the| Thames rose towards the top of the | reinforced embankment hundreds risk- ed their lives to watch the stream. A crowd spent the entire night along the rived side. Lord Lesborough, chairman of the Thames conservation board, suggests the construction of a $40,000,00 levee to protect London from similar inun- dations in the future. - | BOSSES RACE FOR PROFITS KILLS 21 | Illinois Miners Charge Safety Disregarded (Continued from Page One) | ery is installed. Among the other concessions made by District President Harry Fishwick, however, was one giving the coal companies the right * * Women Wait and Suffer. WEST FRANKFORT, IIL, Jan. 10. — Before the number of the dead had shaft was fringed deeply by women— typical miners’ women of typical mine disasters. During the terrible hours of wait- ing, there was tenseness; there was bleakness of face and the unseeing staring of eyes; forms were rigid un- moving, but there was no crying out; no sobbing; no hysteria, They can wait and hope—and ac- cept the inevitable, these women of the mines, The first lift with the first of the) rescued men rose into the dull wintery | daylight. The miners reeled uncer- tainly off the elevator platform. They glanced with some surprise at the cir- cle of women folk, One woman de-} tached herself from the gathering and | in uncertain steps advanced and took) the arm of her man. Ehe led him silently away, the encompassing body opening a lane to let them pass. An- other woman advanced. She, too, re- claimed her husband. And then an- But 21 men came up only corpses. Miner Hurt, Loses Home PITTSBURGH, Pa. Jan. 10.— Stolean Santino has a wife and four ildren. He was hurt about four or years ago while at work for the one Coke and Coa] Company and was laid off. He asked for free coal and free house rent until he could find a job. He was refused both and he and his family are now starving to | death. Jolin Toth, a stoolpigeon for the | Keystone Coke and Coal Company is | string and capable of performing hard |work. He has two houses, but pays no rent and has not worked for sev- ‘eral years. DISAPPROVES OF ATTACK ON “DAILY” War Vet Tells Rowdy Truth About Nicaragua, in in Letter Editor, DAILY WORKER: In response to, Haedrich Reid’s let- |ter in which he makes dire threats against you, and which appeared in last Saturday’s issue, let me state that I am also a veteran of the World War, but I must take issue with Reid’s statement regarding your stand on Nicaragua. It is just because of the attitude of thousands of such bozoes like Reid that encourages the U. S. govern- act as a police force for Wall Street and to slaughter people without even a declaration of war. If Reid and the other sapheads intend to tear to pieces the plant of Poor Drown; Photo (abpve) | shows London bus | stalled in Canter- bury when Thames waters rose. Fifteen of London’s poor, trapped in tene- ments, were un- able to escape fey the flood. An im- . provised town carry-all is shown (right) removing baby from upper story of cottage just outside of London. Irate workers attacked frock- | coated swells who morbidly peered » into the basement where the fifteen drowned. Police were called out to disperse the workers, Hundreds of London’s poor are still homeless as » a result of the * flood. ‘Trapped In Tenement Cellars Lenin’s Activities in London Are Recalled in Biography N. L. Alazeyev writes about Lenin’s activities while he lived in England in his book “V. I, Lenin in London.” Russian revolution carried on when he Lenin memorial meetings for this?o month are being planned in all cen- ters. The death of Lenin will be observed at Madison Square Garden Jan. 21, by New York workers. Alazeyev writes as follows: In the Reading Room. “Viadimir Tlyitch worked in the reading room of the British Museum or in his own room. Simetimes he went out into the country, or visited the London museums. The excellent} Natural History Museum in South| Kensington did not produce much im- pression on him, but the London Zoo- logical Gardens pleased him very} much; live animals attracted him| more than the stuffed ones. “Sometimes we succeeded in get- ting Lenin and Krupskaya to attend some English meeting or other. “As Vladimir Ilyitch greatly valued | |his time, he was not very fond of Russian visitors from abroad who did | ideration. i| ‘action with the daily visits of the late comrade Leitei- sen (Lindov) who came from Paris and frequently visited him. ‘Anyone would think we had holidays every day,’ complained Iladimir Ilyitch afterwards. Conducted Circle. “With all Lenin’s) endcavor to econ- omize time, proposal to conduct a study circle of | Russian worker emigrants which 1} took a direct part in organizing be- | fore the ‘Iskraites’ arrived in London. On many’ occasions he went with me to Whitechapel to explain to the circle the program of the Russian Social- Democratic Labor Party which had been drawn up by ‘Iskra.’ He read out the program to the circle line by line, explaining to the students every word that was not understood. “This workers’ circle was like a he willingly accepted a| pa | to an arti little International. Its members in- eluded a Russian - Englishman, advise him first to do likewise to the plants of the liberal daily newspapers who are also opposing the attack on Nicaragua (but for other reasons obviously—Ed,). He might also get his crowd to go to Washington and| beat up a number of senators who are fighting the administration policy in Nicaragua, —JOHN LYONS. Brooklyn, N. Y. * * ” Editor, DAILY WORKER: I wish to thank the unknown work- er who was kind enough to send me a copy of The DAILY WORKER which contained some fine articles dealing with the withdrawal of the The DAILY WORKER, I would also U. 8. marines from Nicaragua, If he He tells of the work the leader of the was in the British capital. Urge “Daily” Readers| To Intreduce Friends. To Only Labor Paper In addition to congratulatory cables, telegrams and other mes-! sages greeting The DAILY! WORKER at the beginning of its fifth year, the special Anniversaty Edition on Friday, Jan. 43, will) contain articles by individuals ac- tive in the Workers (Communist) Party, militant labor unions, and sympathetic fraternal organiza- | tions. Readers of The DAILY WORK- ER are urged to utilize this oppor- tunity for acquainting their friends ' with the only national labor daily | !in the United States. See that |they get a copy of the Anniver- | sary Edition. 5 @ Roberts, a young fitter who was born and brought up in Russia and had arrived in London from Kharkov; a Russian-German Schiller, a book- binder from Moscow who worked on ‘Iskra’ as a compositor; Segal, a tim- ber cutter from Odessa; the fitter Mitchasloy from St. Petersburgh, and others. Afterwards, they nearly all went back to Russia and worked in organizations. “On one Viadimir oceasion, in a talk with yitch, I jestingly referred e in the London ‘Justice’ about the imminence of the Revolution. inappropriate occasions). “Lenin was discontented with my irény. “But T hope to live to see the So- said, deter- minedly, adding a few unkind epithets cialist Revolution’ he aboat cs.” would send me his name and address. I cortainly should appreciate it, for T agree with his opinions about the 1 of the people in China, agua and other countries, ship by the brave General Sandino. Al! workers should at once demand the withdrawal of marines and battle- ships from China and Nicaragua. My name was incorrectly spelled as “Gra- ham.” Fraternally, —-STEPHEN M. GRAHOVAC, 635 Park Pl, Brooklyn, N. Y. P. S.—Your cartoon of the revolu- tionary leader, Sandino, which ap- peared in the paper. is grant, Social (‘Justice’ liked to make | ; such forecasts on all appropriate or It ms to me that your paper is the only one that dares publish the truth about the miseries and struggles of the Nicaraguans, and of their leader- ‘COOLIDGE GANG WORRIED ABOUT TARIFF ISSUES Work to Prevent Debate On Any Cut In Rates WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—The new self into a battle of words today over the wording of the McMaster resolu- tion, which proposes a downward re- vision of existing rates. Administration leaders, supported by a handful of Democrats, predicted they would muster enough votes to strike out the ‘downward’ before the resolution is adopted. This would put the senate on record as favoring a simple revision of tariff rates with- out any expression of opmion as Lo whether the revision should be up- ward or downward, The administration, besides the reg- ular Republican, iarge industrial policy of “protective tariff,” has to eonciliate banking interests, many of which are anxious to provide markets for their European debtors. The need lof these same banking groups, how- ever, for a big navy, prevents their advocating a very drastic cut in tariff, and their American interests | move in the same direction. So Cooi- \idge regards tariff revision as a thing to be cautious about. Even the Democrats are not a unit in the mat- ter, PARTY DOUBLES IN CONNECTICUT Fights Ruthless Slavery In Brass State (By a Worker Correspondent). HARTFORD, Jan. 10—The Work- ers (Communist) Party in District 15, Connecticut, has more than doubled its membership in the last 4 months. New proletarian elements have been drawn into the Party, vitalizing its activity. Masses of Connecticut workers are ruthlessly exploited by the U. S. Rub- ber Co., the American Brass Co., and @|the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., which control the state. Low wages, merciless speeding up, the 10 and 12 hour day, bonuses, percentages, com- pany unions, industrial espionage and terrorization are the lot of the work- ers in the brass state. The workers are almost totally un- ; organized. There is nothing left of the A. F. of L, but weak, ineffective unions, limited almost entirely to the building trades. They are controlled ee Ps tariff war in the senate resolved it- ticians, part of the Catholic hierarchy who work hand in hand with the| | powerful Connecticut Open Shop Con-} ference. | The central task that the Party in| Connecticut has set itself, is to pene-| trate the mass of workers in meta),! {rubber and textile industries, to or-| ganize the masses of workers in the basie capitalist industries, the war industry. The state of Connecticut, especially Bridgeport, New Haven. Waterbury, Hartford and New Lon- don form the most important center for the production of light arms and airplanes in the country. U.S. Farmers Gouged by Machine Trust, Charge WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 10—A resolution to reduce the protective tariff introduced some time ago by | Senator W. H. McMaster, was again attacked in the Senate yesterday. Me- Master charged that the present tariff caused the farmers to be “gouged by the machine trust” who fix prices of farm machinery annually, in secret. Ban New Ford Because Of One Set of Brakes WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 10.—! Because the new model A Ford not equipped with two sets of brakes | licenses will not be granted for their | operation in the District of Columbia, | | it was announced last pret Worker Pounded 10; Death by Machinery ALBANY, N. Y.,—John A. Gwinn, a laundry worker here, was poundea ,|to death by machinery when he at- tempted to adjust a new belt on the shafting. He was caught by jhe re volving shafiing and hurled agains. timber supports, workers im the fac tory declared. y Wire Tapping Probe WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan, 10.— A sweeping inquiry into wiretapping practiced in connection with the en- ment will be made by the Supreme Court, it was learned yesterday. This by decayed and corrupt capitalist poli-| forcement of the prohibition amend- | Aids Aviation Program Ruth Nicholas, society dame who made the first non-stop flight from New York to Miami, Fla., is in New York to talk aviation propaganda to women who are expected to visit the Fairchild monoplane exhibit be- ing held this week. The American war-makers look with a friendly eye upon these activities. Making the country “air-conscious,” they be- lieve, is desirable for future war purposes. Magruder Charges Investigation to End WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 10.— The investigation by the navy depart- ment of charges of extravagance, bureaucracy and graft in navy ex- penditures made by Rear Admiral Thoma A. Magruder, will come to a close tomorrow, and the laying of plans for a $725,000,000 naval build- ing program will begin. Magruder was recalled from his post when articles making graft charges appeared in a magazine, and the Navy Department is desirous of shelving him. Collect $15,000 for Gomper’s ‘Needy’ Pal WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—“Jim” Dunean, vice president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor and “pal” of the late Sam Gompers through a quarter century of labor reaction has been given a sum of $15,000 collected for help in his declining years. The committee in charge of the funds was headed by Daniel J. Tobin, treasurer of the A. F. of L. and president of the Teamsters International. QUICKER SPOILS FOR VICTOR. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—After a five-year struggle, backers of a con- stitutional amendment to abolish “lame duck” sessions of congress and change the date of the presidential inauguration appeared today to have won their right to bring the question to a vote in the house. The measure will go on the calendar within the next two days. TO SEEK LITTLE LIGHT ON WATER "GRAFT CHARGES for $15,000 Unable to remain silent any longer, Mayor James J. Walker has finally ordered an “investigation” into the charges that the Tammany adminis- tration which he heads has given a monopoly on water supply in the Rockaways worth $1,600,000 a year for an annual rental of $15,000 to the Long Island Water Corporation. The facts about this deal were first made publie by William Bullock, direc- tor of the city affairs bureau of Re- j Publican party of New York, in the hope that it might provide a lively issue in the next election. Brewery Bribe. Scandal Bobs Up in New Jersey Liquor Permit Refusal NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 10.—Echoes of the $800,000 brewing bribe scandal in 1923 and 1924, involving prominent New Jersey politicians, both Detjo- erats and Republicans, were heard here Friday when New Jersey Pro- hibition authorities denied the appli- cation of the Rising Sun Brewery Co. for a permit to operate a aleoholiz- ing plant for the manufacture of cereal beverages. It was from this and other brewing concerns that J. H. Foley, prominent in the N, J. Demoeratie machine, J. H. Salmon, Essex County Republican leader, and D. Allen, now running the campaign in northern Jersey of ex-governor Lowden of Illinois for the G. O. P. presidential nomination, were accused of taking $800,000 as protection money for rum-running were state officials at the time, The name of Mabel Walker Willem- brandt, Assistant Attorney General at Washington, was brought into the case, a witness swearing that a would be taken care of, quashed, Worker’s Life is Cheap JERSEY CITY, N. J., Jan. 10.— $3090 was the value placed on a work- er’s life when this sum was awarded at the State Compensation Court here to the widow of Rudolph Kummler, a worker who on November 18 fell down an elevator shaft while in the employ of A. Holthausen, Union City, and was instantly killed. Three hundred weeks at $9.80 and $150 towards funeral expenses constituted the sum. The case was Hail the Fourth Anniversary of the Daily. Worker! 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