The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1928, Page 4

DAY, J . SABOTAGED = OF COMMITTEE FOR THE MINERS Labor Unity 28, uca- ABOR UNITY, February 1 Pub ished by The Trade Union League, N. Y, ‘20 cents. t wing in the American labor | rhe DAILY WORKER is in re ceipt of the following letter from novement begins to respond to the | Harry Meyers, who until recently &@¢P-s¢ in which the unions| was the organizer of the Colorado {nd es. The keynove at the Miners’ Keiief Committee of New Third National Conference of the | York. in asking The DAILY .\?78¢e Union Educational League was | WORKER to puolish the letter, |“Save the Trade Unions, ane this} Sieyers asked that it be made piain bic deat bae ee hosdaellbbes scale reap that he speaks only in his own sentative of workers in all in- name and not in the name of tne CUStries of any so Tar, votes ie oe committee with which he was tor: ,™OUS!Y to® Issue are eta g ac the text, the letier reiaies w ime alytical and informative monthly @itorts which the Workers (Com- |Journal, under the auspices of the/ mianist Party and others have been -| League. “Labor Unity” published by 4 The Labor lL Publishing Co. was to escabiish a united fare making 1 taken over, and made the organ of trent of ail iorces c.asmung worsing ; : | har ce, Lune ade Union Educational League, wiass character, ior whe complete 07% Atco MRT EC EHR nae | support of the striking and lo _ |and its format changed from a news-| ug coai miners, buth of te United | Paper to a magazine style. Mime Workers in (ennsyivania, we “ ‘ % Hn aud West Virg nd of the |, Phe February issue is the first in do coal fies, where tne 1, the new make-up, and for a beginning aeuebaes el is excelle: te.of the*haste W. W. ts tne union inyeived in the |! ellent n spite of the haste te ressure under which it was pro- i eg ag ie ee do not wait. ; : i carefully and a adequately analyzed by that old : horse in the wesiern labor move- ment, Bill Dunne. The motives and | objects of the present terrific at- | phasiz responsiv-e hur of vaineu Dew. i say this su tnat ticre will ve no ‘on organized labor, Dunne idea t COMMMILtcS 18 1wuLCcn. under three hea (1) that ag ete oe government, especially through ities. Fur.ner, 1 am no longer cun- ome of the latter of necied Win the committee sv L am prohibit strike action | iree tO siace ceriain Ln concern- Gee ght: (2) the ault of the em-| wig the benavior of ceruun “puwuc- | blove far successful ' Spiced” personanties when tacy Sohn ts eee ce tO assist in relle® Wor<| Bailey had spoken for the Golorado| Ree Buon @ unied ieAl winers, It is true he had not been| Seipmnittec tor the Molorady m.nérs: (enthusiastic about the strike. He ad- Le Neth pbatah Diab ul Til y"tted at this meeting that he could Beane (muring bie cary part of No- i not’ be very enthusiastie about any had been formed. The bye Noowithstanding the cold-blanket| committee was a libgral commitiee ou = 7 peech I went to his office and fifth Avenue who were appeaing tor } e, - i broached the conference and the mass the strikers of Pennsyivenia, Uhi 2 pe Sap ce = ing. 1 asked him if he would and, as an afterthougni, Coivrade. An | a representative so that the i. W. W. Commitee was couceting |" Civil Liberties Union would money for Colorado. Some of us fear AMerCan — IV) “lined to speak that the liberal committee was ei-| 2° “epresen ac the mass meeting, but gave me permission to use his name and said that he would take up at a mcoting of the Civil Liberties Union the ad-} visability of sending a delegate to the conference. The next day I received the following letter: “Dear Mr. Myers: “When I agreed yesterday to al- low. you to use my name on the new jot committee in the interest of the Colorado strikers, I supposed | that this committee was a united front of various labor groups .. . ‘fective ior soliciting money from tne liberals, but that a new commit.ee Was needed to work among the trade unions and the workers in general. + Call Conference. With this thought in mind a call Was sent by a cer.ain preacher who game from Colorado urging all trade timions and radicai parties io send vdeiegates to a conference. Among ‘tne organizations appeaied to was the {. W. W., the Worsers Party, League for Industrial Democracy, American Civil Liberties Union, and others. The |the “higher {Harry Pollitt of the Brit | statisti s to show that it is bad and | tion \May Conceal Smith Girl | | entertainment and dance for the strik-| “lbe given Jan. 29, at 7 date set for the conference was No-| Rot an agency for collecung funds. Vember 25th. At th ne time a Since f am already treasurer of a fnass meeting was arranged in Union| committee... 1 must therefore tquare to protes: against the Col-| ask yeu to leave my name off your | urubine re. With these two un-. list. ii ski ii okt peat ng (Signed) “Forrest Bailey.” j tine Spea see uf the Why the sudden change? | wou.d b: the n The fine hand of the Rev. Thomas | the -orga ions invited. Together reveals itself. Myr. Bauey in his letter With diaz of the [. W. W. i went | Says “i have since learned.” How ha: about.my task he learned it? Few people knew of | Havin ia great deal of the/tne formation of the committee, | generosi D pirid of Nor- among them the Rev. Thomas. While} a man Thomas, he the first I went no tangibie proof exists it is easy to} to see. Being abseni, Dr. Laidler told deduce the source of Mr. Bailey’s in-| me that Thonias would write me. A | 4exmation. | day passed and [ received the follow- but ir. Bailey also wrote a letter ing letter: to the preacher who was sending out| My dear Mr. Myers: the call and in this letter Mr. Bailey | i : writes that the Civil Liberties Union | “ft have tol . Laidle ha . ‘gat ave told “Dr. Laidler that I | .i be unable to participate because | vigorously object to the formation . * : 4 new mittee would dupl of a special cummitiee on the Colo- ae mie dave i overlap the committee on Fifth; Te onaat least to the L. | ave, Almost the same language that Visite peri end used in the letter above- | ped tu found and | °°"" Os erae j es | the Emergency Committee for See ue est | kere: Rel Gite poeatibuesle ; arrived and the conference accor to its best juag- Was on. ring the conference the] Sien tribute the funds it raises |e¥. Chaffee who had helped us! in different mine areas—emphaiie- by contributing his audi- ally including Colorado. it musz (trim gratis called me out. He told be assured that relief can and will |™e t he would be unable to serve be administcred in Colorado and :83 treasurer and showeti me a copy that the funds will be used for the |°f the letter he had sent me. There- purposes designated.. ‘To this end | Pe, he was compelled to decline. The} * Miss Pax haa ly made |S4nctimonious hand of Rey. Thomas} : eden) in E y, the |Showed itself again. | ©). L. 1. D. cannot help to create or | A. committee was selected at the| ; conference and we proceeded to work. i ¢ates in some measure work which | We had hired the Community Church a committee of its own organization | for Dee. 4th. Dy. Huimes had given ; is doing. { say this with the utmost. | ¥5S the-charch fur $60. But,de and eagerness to see the proper relief | behold, a ievier arrived in which we _ given to Colorado. fare told by the Rev. Holmes that he| suppert a committee which dupli- Biicerely yours, regrets he cannot let us have the (Signed) “Norman Thomas.” Church. Once more a_ liberal had | i. This letter was writien on the sta- vee bsfbkgies rid ones Rev. ttionery of the League strig i Lea on vee ‘We and igh League for Industrial) phomas kept on showing itself. We © Democr did not know then that) cot a owngenial woman to act a é lette vere wri 7 | og es j fee letters were written to prom-|(ossurer and behold, she resigned inent liberals. ne next day some- reper Becta bli Gne in, his office ‘phoned and ieft a| ‘Uddenly- Misuse that Thoma bast iis If wish.to emphasize the fact that no tipevate Bis: Shy Wag sel ish pio. | organization is responsible for this stands. way except tv raise) statement. In view of the serious- ness of the situation in Colorado I be- lieve that now is the time to expose the weak-kneed policy of some of our liberal and socialist tin-gods. Realiz- ing that a committee would find it inconvenient to do this, now that | am no longer connected in any capacity with the Colorado Miners Relief Com- mittee of New York, I take this op- portunity to do this on my own initiative. Notwithsianding that I am with no committee [ shall con- | tinue to support the work of the committee with which I was con- nected and help in any way the! miners of Colorado, Pennsylvania and | * Knowing th jfor us a mont! “peal t Thomas had spoken ago 1 called up, re- the message and asked him if ’ a speak at the m meeting Gip Union Square. Instead of answer-| jing. he growled and hung up. Imagine ea man of the Christ-like spirit of ja! Rev. Thomas growling when asked to “speak. That was my experience with Nor- man Thomas. I believe that he has : co more to embarrass the work of ¢ committee I was connected with nm any other single person. Calls on Bailey. e SA then went to another celebrity. | Ohie. At one of four past —HARRY MEYERS Upton Sinclair in their plan to crush the largest and strongest unions one by one, thus breaking the back of labor organiza: tion in America. and (3) the indus- trial depression settling over the country. The treachery involved in strategy ‘of labor” put out by the union bureaucracy, ex- posed, and the program of the Trade Union Educational League,—organize the unorganized, save and build the unions, government aid for the un- employed, relief for strikers, world } trade union unity, labor party, is con- trasted with the program of treason | by Green and Woll and Lewis. +, TOES: Vivid and colorful articles on the two miners’ strikes in the Eastern fields and in Colorado are given prominence,—an interview with A. J. a Cook by Earl Browder, an article on). Upton Sinclair, whose new novel \the Pan Pacific Secretariat by Tom| “Boston!” is nearing completion. The Mann; another on the spirit and ac-/ ook is the story of the murder of complishments of Russian workers,|Sacco and Vanzeiti. Because Sinclair | statement by h. Mine Movement make the international se by Carl Haessler; a exposes the class justice of Massa- y| chusetts law and the part of the New i ake a 5 England oligarchy in executing the) tion authoritative and interesting.|two workers, the Rumford Press, The unemployment situation is ex-| hich publishes “The Bookman” has plained by M. Gilbert, who quotes the | yefused to print the current issue of \the magazine in which the first in- stalment of the novel appears. getting worse. The New York trac- strike betrayals are chronicled by Robert Mitchell. In lighter mood, Harry Kweit and Walt Carmon dis- q cuss modern seafaring life, andj UMtford Press Would melon-picking in the Imperial Valley. x 7 ey The magazine is profusely illus- Censor the Sinclair trated. jack Ler, | Sacco-Vanzetti Novel zs K LE The March issue of the Bookmen Magazine in which Upton Sinclair’s novel, Boston, which “is apt to offend the dignitaries of Massachuseets” will appear, will not'be published by the Rumford Press, according to Seward : | |ProsperousBusinessman Possibility that Frances St. John Smith, missing Smith College heiress, | Collins, publisher. may be the prisoner of a “prosperous! Sacco and. Vanzetti are central looking business man” three times her | characters in the novel, it was learn-; age came out of the maze of conflict-|ed..The George F. Willett affair, in) ing “tips” from all over the continent | which a verdict of $10,500,000 was set today concerning the case. The latest | aside by the same court that sent the clue was furnished by Charles L,|two Icalian workers to their doom is Smart, of Kane, Pa., and lends sup-|thinly disguised by the use of fictiti- port to a theory previously set forth |ous mi and figures in the story! that the girl is under the influence | | which so strongly offends the officers | of some stronger mind. lot the Rumford Press. EE, ETT, |. In discussing the controversy, Will- DIES IN FACTORY FIR jam. S.. Rossiter, president of the YOUNGSTOWN, Jan. 25. — Cap- | Press, declared that the Sinclair nov- tain Martin Welsh, who, with two|el “entered into the picture to a minor | other firemen, was crushed beneath aj degree.” However, both editors of | wall of the Lee Tire Service Company | the Bookman, Button Ras¢de' and Col- | building during; a spectacular fire |lins declared thaf they are*convinced early today, died this morning. Fire- | that the substance of the novel which | men Jack Harrington and James Ney- | discredits officials and business inter- ille were seriously injured. | sible for the objection. FOR BUTCHERS AND MINERS. DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 25. — An KILLED ON WAY TO WORK. MOUNT VERNON, Jan, 25. —Ivan ing miners of Colorado and the strik-| O. Shaffer, 40 years old, was killed ing bucchers of Hamtranck, Mich., will! today when he attempted to board the o'clock, under| last car of a New York, New Haven auspices of Meat Cutters and|/and Hartford railroad train which Workmen's Union, Local 539.| was leaving the Columbus Avenue A large crowd is expected. | station here. | \fresh youthful he | youngsters there’s { audience }ests of the Commonwealth, is respon- Attractive Revue and!/f_ Jessel Film Feature B’way Theatre Program | US EDWARDS has been finding youthful talent for his reviews long before the last war. Maybe even a couple war always been much like this one. Y there .is somethir about — the new faces shows us each This week, is a little can girl on the program at the Broadway who ~ is very. likely to have her ~name- in lights before she is full grown. sings in Spani she imitates an | Americanized M an flapper inj | English, she dances and melkes friends with the audiences that always willing, as Texas Guinan aad say, to “give the little girl a hand.” In the talented group of more to see and A young comedian helps the to some good hearty} Another youngster, repays | for. singing some rank sentimental songs with a pleasing voice. And the | whole company, singing, dancing and comedy is given in an elaborate pre-} sentation surprising in its lavish dis- play of costume and stage settings. Gus Edwards claims also to have} helped George Jessel to stardom. It} would have perhaps been well had he helped also the producers who star Jessel in “Ginsberg.the Great,” a film that’s not so great, which fea- tures Jessel and about which no one, has reason to write home. It’s a lotj of tomfoolery about a kam magician | who is not so good on magic but who turns out a wonder in foiling bad, bad men who have designs on his bosses’ money. Gus Edwarus big | She same hee laughter. | Overplotted and ordinary In photo- |graphy, it is slapstick comedy which ‘is not helped by the work of Jessel (which is also not magic) nor the comely assistance of Gertrude Astor | To be fair it is not entirely hopeless. There were spots of humorous situ- ‘ations and even of hilarious fun. But jin addition to Gus Edwards’ review, “Ginsberg the Great” was just an extra bargain thrown in for good | measure in a full-sized elaborate pro- gram. —wW. Cc. EVEN SCABS’ WAGES CUT. KENLOCH, Pa., Jan. 25 (FP)— Strikebreaking miners working for the Valley Camp Coal Co. are re- ceiving only 3l¢ a ton instead of 51c. which was the open shop rate until} — { WINTHROP JOHN GALSWORTH ESCAP ;dJan. 20. The day rate was cut to $4.20 from $5. The union scale is 7le a ton, and $7.50 for day work. You Still Have a Chance to Transfer Your Money to a Cooperative Institution, Without Any Loss of Dividends Guaranteed dividends are being paid ©% by the ON Noah Office: 69 FIFTH AVE., Cor. 14th St. TELEPHONE ALGONQUIN 6900 ~$250.000.00 $1,000 $500 $300 Gold Bonds are being sold on installments Dividends Are Being Paid From the First of January. we Subsidiary of-the United Workers Cooperative Association Gold Bonds | SECURED BY THE SECOND MORPREGE ON THIS amount draws 6% dividends from the first day of deposit. from the first day of deposit. NEW YORK, N. Y. Second Block of Dwellings of the Cooperative Workers Colony. (Bronx Park East, at Allerton Avenue Sta., Bronx, N. Y.) $100 and the smallest == =Music Note-== Guy Maier will give a program for Young People at Steinway Hall Tues- |day afternoon, January 31. Edna Thomas will give the first of |her three recitals of Negro spirituals | And his reviews have jand Creole songs at the Booth Theo. | tre on Sunday evening of January ~! Dusolina Giannini will make last appearance in this city for an| = entire year, when she gives her song | itn “fe ; recital in Carnegie Hall Wednesday vening, February 1. SURUVORS SCORE TRIAL GROWING FROM SHIPWRECK The Linseed King was unseaworthy, her | charged John Dressler, former relief | skipper of the small ferry boat owned jby the Spencer-Kellogg Co., which }went down with 56 w orkers in the | Hudson two years ago. Dressler was | outspoken i in testifying in the $4,000,- | 000 suit for damages brought by rela- | tives of the drowned workers against |the owners of the boat. The Linseed carried 100 workers aboard | when she went down, which Dressler testified was much above its capacity. | The suit being heard before is Stefan Sopkin, violinist, will give ig Y udge John R. Hazel in the federal his recital at Town Hall on Saturday | aiecnee Route: afternoon, January 28, when he will | present a new sonata by Slavensky, | her deliut at xtemps concerto in D minor and two groups of shorter numbers. | the V Town Hall ‘Thursday afterndbn, January 19. Anna Robenne, the Russian dancer, Alfred Blumen, pianist, will give | makes her reappearance here at the another recital at Town Hall Wednes- day evening, February 2. Rita Neve, Bagtiee Pianist, malice AN EXCELLENT PORTIA. Peggy Wood who is appearing with George Arliss in “The Mer- chant of Venice,” at the Broad- hurst Theatre. | 48th Street Theatre Sunday evening, edie: 22, Edna .Thomas, will appear in re- \eitals at the Booth Theatre Sunday jevening, January 29. | Stefan Sopkin, violinist, will intro- |duce a new Slav sonata by Slavenski |at his Town Hall recital Saturday ‘af- |ternoon, January 28. Guy Maier and Lee Pattison will give their only New York recital on Friday evening, January 27. Ena Berga, soprano, will give a re- cital at Town Hall Saturday evening, January 28. Ena Berga, soprano, at her post- poned recital in Town Hall on Satur- day evening, January 28, will pre- sent an aria by Mozart, and groups of German, French and English songs. Alton Jores, pianist, will give his | recital at Town Hall on February 16. 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