The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 27, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Entered as second-cians matter at THE DAILY WORKER. the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 3, 1870. FINAL CITY EDITION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, b Vol. V. No. 22. Outside New York, by mail, 36, y mall, $8.00 per year. 00 per year. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1928 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents SIX “RED DAYS” IN INTENSIVE DRIVE FOR NEW DAILY READERS Will Distribute 100,000 Copies of The DAILY WORKER in Mammoth Campaign Speakers Will Visit Trade Union Meetings; to} Extend Newsstand Circulation One hundred’ thousand copies of The DAILY WORKER are | to be distributed in New York City within the next few weeks in addition to the regular circulation. to the trade union meetings, news stands are to be system: ically visited and news stands® not now handling the “Daily” Editor Jailed are to be induced to handle them; at- tractive posters will be distributed thruout the whole city with the idea ef attracting new readers. These are some of the major deci- sions made on Wednesday evening at an enthusiastic meeting of the section DAILY WORKER agents last night. Plans were made to carry on the drive for 10,000 new readers for the paper in New York City, which also is part of the nation-wide campaign to secure 5,000 new members of the Workers (Communist) Party. Speakers are to be one | Six Red Days of Work. | The drive for increased subscrip-| tions to the “Daily” and an increase in Party membership by 5,000, began with the New York Lenin Memoria! meeting last Saturday night, and will continue until the Ruthenberg Memo- rial on March 2. During this period six “Red Days” are to be set aside for widespread distribution of the) paper and an intensive drive among the new readers gained to induce inem to regularly buy The DAILY WORKER on the news stands. | Big Meeting Monday Night. A big meeting of all the unit, sub- section and section DAILY WORKER agents is to be held Monday evening at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th Street, to complete the final plans | and receive instructions for effectively continuing a drive. SHOE STRIKERS WIN CONCESSION Wage Slash E Eliminated by Decision HAVERHILL, Mass., Jan. 26.— Shoe factories completely tied up by strike. A citizen’s committee of seven after a meeting with the representa- tives of the employers and the work- ers here, to-day made the recom- mendations that the heavy wage cut decided upon by the arbitration board shall not be enforced. The recom- mendations will be voted on by the strikers at several mass meetings to be held to-morrow. The committee recommended that the 9,000 striking shoe workers re- turn to their benches and to continue being paid on the 1927 wage scale. This means that the wage cut of from 10 to 85 per cent decided upon by an arbitration board shall not be in ef- fect. They said however, that a com- mittee of six, three from the workers and three from the bosses will meet to make permanent arrangements. CHINESE BALL 70 BE HELD TONIGHT ‘Workers and students from all col- onial and semi-colonial countries will greet Socrates Sandino, brother ot | Gen. Augusto Sandino, chief of the Nicaraguan army of liberation, when the former appears at the Chinese “Peasant Carnival” to be held tonight at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. The affair is being held under the auspices of the Hands Off China Committee, 39 Union Square. Chinese, Latin American, Filipino,|; Korean, Hindu, Indo-Chinese, Egyp- tian, as well as European and Ameri-| can members and friends of organ- izations affiliated with the organize tion, have announced that they wi. be present. Chinese Entertainment. The entertainment of Chines magic, songs, instrumental music and other features is being donated by several Chinese organizations. The hall will be decorated in Chi- ’ nese fashion by members of the Chi- nese Workers Alliance, the Chinese Seamen’s Association, and the Left Wing Kuomintang. The costume ball which will follow the entertainment will take on an international char- acter. John C. Smith’s Negro Jazz Orchestra will furnish the music. “cus itm.’ Esthonian Communist weekly, was arrested on deportation charges for condemning the murder of Sacco | and Vanzetti. - Kove, editor of DETECTIVES JAIL “UUS ILW? EDITOR Because he wrote two cles in | the August 28, 1927, issue of “Uus ‘Tm,” Esthonian Communist weekly, \eriticising the legal murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, A. Kobel, its editor, was need Tuesday morning and taken to Ellis Island on deportation pro- ceedings. He is charged with being an anarchist and favoring the over- throw of the United States govern- | ment. Kobel was released yesterday | afternoon on $1,000 bail furnished by | the International Labor Defense. | Isaac Shorr appeared as counsel. Seek To Deport Editor The first sign that the United States government was prone ee 2 deport Kobel was seen when he visited by a federal detective in el beginning of November. He was} questioned minutely about the issue of “Uus Ilm” containing the articles about the murder of Sacco and Van- zetti. The same detective visited Kobel on two other occasions shortly thereafter. Among the questions he asked was one as to when the Com- munist editor had entered the United States; if he had written the articles (Continued cn Page Two) Lovestone to Debate Patriot on Revolution Jay Lovestone, executive secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party will debate with George Hiram Mann, of the National Security League at j Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. Friday, Feb. 24, at 8 o’clock, ‘Does America Need A Revolution,” will be the subject of the debate. Lovestone will take the affirmative position in the discussion, and Mann the negative. |John D. Denies Death; Plays Golf in South A rumor that John D. Rockefeller, oil king, was dead, gained rapid cir- culation in the Wall Street finan- cml district yes- terday. Standard Oil officials at 26 Broadway denied the report, and in- quiries by worried stock-brokers and bankers to Ormond Beach, Florida, where Rockefeller is sojourning while workers freeze, brought the state- ment that Rodéke- feller was "N playing golf. traces of worry was found on the faces of the many thousands of un- J.D. Rocketelter Not Dead Yet cial district. derpaid workers slaving in the finan- | { | UNION OFFIGIALS | | | | FEAR EXPOSURE « BY PROGRESSIVES \Miners Wives ives Challenge| | Reactionaries | By JACK RODGERS. | PITTSBURGH, Pa. Jan. oe Several auto loads of the state con- stabulary cooperating with fifty or! sixty henchmen of P, T. Fagan, the reactionary president of District 5 of |the United Mine Workers last night | broke up a meeting in Mollenauer |which was called by the women of | the striking miners to discuss mat-! ters affecting the strike and particu- | larly ways and means of providing relief for the destitute families of the | striking coal diggers. When Caroline Drew of the Penn- | sylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Com- mittee who was invited by the min-| \ers’ wives to address the meeting ar- women who informed her that an or- | ganizer by the name of Higgins, aj} cousin of Fagan’s, was present with a gang of supporters with the object of preventing a meeting from being | held. Denouncing Progressives. | A large crowd composed of Hig- | gins’ followers stood in the darkness | cutside the store over which the meet- | | ling hall is located. There were also | present two truck loads of miners |from Coverdale who came to the meet- ing, they said, to find out how many of the local miners were specially favored by-Higgins and the reaction- ary machine in the matter of relief. Gang leaders of the Fagan machine could be heard denouncing John Brophy, Powers Hapgood and other progressive leaders in the miners’ union. Organizer Higgins peremptorily or- dered the Coverdale miners to return to their homes and said that there would be no meeting. The state troopers, who were there at the re- ogieenen rage | on Page Three) LAUNCH ATTACK ON LABOR LAWS | ALBANY, N. pty Jan. 26.—The | wholesale attack against labor legis- lation which has been predicted for several months was launched here yesterday in the form of a bill intro- duced in the state legislature by As- semblyman Jencks of Broome county. Party Program. Jencks, a republican, is believed to be carrying out the official policy of his party machine which is controlled ; | by the manufacturing interests of the state. His bill would provide that all restrictions as to hours, night work and other provisions should be made the same for women as for men. The result of the bill if carried, will be to revoke the conditional 48-hour law enacted last year and all other such restrictive legislation for women. Another bill purporting to be drawn up in the interests of labor likewise eminates from the republican camp. Republican Assemblyman Louis Lef- kowitz, carrying out the instructions of republican chairman of New York county, Samuel Koenig, has intro- duced a bill which would declare “against public policy” and void any agreement drawn up between work- ers and.their employer if under its provisions either party agrees not to Join or remain a member of a labor | union or employers’ association. lf passed, this law, it is believed will have the effect of enabling em- ployers, members of associations, to break their agreements with labor unions. Million Workers Live In New York City Area New York’s new Metropolitan dis- trict, which includes all territory with- in a 40-mile radius of city hall, has 925,000 wage earners, the Merchants Ass'n. figures. These workers earn $1,400,000,000 annually in wages to produce goods worth $8,000,000,000. There are 32,- 000 factories and shops in the area. The population and production of this metropolitan area exceed by a con- | Sale Sinks Ol Old Gunboat as Storm Perils oa The Spanish gunboat Dewey, recently raised from Manila Harber, while at anchor in Brooklyn during Wednesday’s fierce gale. The seve Atlantic seaboard forced the seamen, constantly facing great risks at m _Lives, eae Many f went down for the second time nty-mile gale which lashed the eager wages, to work fiercely in an effort to ward off death. Hundreds of workers on land and sea were injured in the storm. WORKERS PARTY FLAYS AMALGAMATED FIRING NEGRO PORTERS Following the dismissal of Harry Rubin, an employee of the Amal- rived in Mollenauer she was met at 8amated Bank, the following letter has been sent by William W. Weinstone, | the car stop by representatives of the District Organizer of the Workers (Commnn) Party to Adolph Held, Press ident of the Bank: Dear Sir: It has come to our attention |through press accounts and through a mass meeting held Tuesday in Irv- ‘ing Plaza Hall that the Amalgamated Bank is discriminating against em- ployees of the bank who are active |union members, and that an employee, Harry Rubin, was discharged because he was shop chairman and in this capacity fought for the maintenance of union conditions within the bank. We also learn that the bank is main- taining a company union arrangement regarding the membership of its em- ployees in the Bookkeepers, Steno- graphers & Accountants Union. As a depositor in the Amalgamated Bank as well as an organization repre- sentative of a section of the labor movement, many of whose members are depositors in the bank, we protest against this condition which exists in the Amalgamated Bank. Labor or- ganizations should be an example to other organizations in the zeal with which they protect the workers and maintain union conditions. This is jmot the case in the Amalgamated | Bank. Such conditions prevailing in an organization that has been formed by a labor union and claiming to serve the labor movement only furn- |ishes a club in the hands of the capi- talist enemies with which to destroy the trade unions. We join in the protest voiced at the mass meeting Tuesday and we demand that the Amalgamated Bank take immediate action by reinstate- ment of the discharged worker and the establishment of union conditions in the bank. Very truly yours,—(Signed William W. Weinstone, District Organizer, Workers (Communist) Party. WORKERS ROUTED BY FIRE Fire broke out early this morning ina three story brick dwelling at 45 80th Street, Glendale, Queens, in- habited by working-class families, all of whom were routed from their beds. (COPS FAIL T0 STOP GITLOW MEETING By HUGO OEHLER. DENVER, Jan. 26.—Benjamin Git- low, member of the secretariat of the Workers (Communist) Party, spoke to workers in Pueblo and Denver on the issues of 1928 and the need of a Labor Party. His first was. held in Pueblo, the Colo. Fuel and Iron Co. stronghold, where Rockefel- ler has his steel mill. The company did everything possible to prevent the holding of the meeting. As soon as leaflets announcing the meeting were printed the campaign against the workers commenced again. First page articles told of the (Continued on Page Two) HALT SEWER QUIZ, IS PLEA T0 COURT Max D. Steuer, high-priced trial lawyer, yesterday spent nearly an hour trying to convince the full bench of the appellate division of the su- preme court that Justice Townsend Scudder should be prevented from continuing the investigation into the $29,500,000 sewer frauds in Queens. Steuer represented Maurice Con- nolly, borough president of Queens, who is charged with having garnered the lion’s share of the cash realized from graft involved in the building of the sewers. The lawyer based his argument on the fact that Scudder | has been examining witnesses in a} preliminary examination, Form Committee of Rank and File Delegation in Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Pa. (By Mail).—A committee of the American Rank and File Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia was formed here at a supper given on January 3rd at the Knights lof Columbus Club House, corner bth and Bellfield Avenues, in honor of Brother E. P. Cush, who recently re- turned from Soviet Russia. The re- ception was arranged by a number of active trade unionists of this city. Brother Cush, who is the president of the North Side Lodge of the Amal- | gamated Association of Iron, Steel, Tin Workers of N. A. and a delegate! to the Central Labor Union, was a member of the Rank and File Dele- gation of Trade Unionists who recent- ly went to Soviet Russia to study la- bor conditions and trade union ac- tivities in that country. Wants More To Go. At the reception ‘supper he gave an extensive report of what he saw in Soviet Russia and expressed hopes that other trade unionists of this coun- try will have an opportunity to take a trip across the ocean, and see for themselves how the workers rule their country. At the conclusion of his talk it was decided to form a permanent com- mittee whose task it will be to ar- siderable margin the whole of New England. range a number of meetings where Brother Cush and other members of the delegation will report and also for | the purpose of trying to send other trade union delegations to Russia. |Brother Wm. Brown of the Litho- graphers’ Union, is the chairman of this committee and John Brophy is the secretary. Meeting Soon. The committee announces that it |has engaged the North Side Carnegie | Music Hall, corner Ohio and Federal Sts., Pittsburgh, Pa., for a large mass meeting to be held Sunday, February | |5th, at 8 p. m. where Brother Cush, John Brophy and other delegates are ‘expected to report on what they saw | in Russia. Since his Brother Cush has addressed a large meeting in Cooper Union in New York. He also delivered an address at the Central Labor Union meeting in Pittsburgh where he was given a fine reception. He also addressed a meeting of the Orthodox Russian Church in Homestead. It is expected that a number of similar meetings will be held shortly not only in Pitts- burgh but in other parts of the dis- |the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por- ; Bently _ fers’ Union, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, re- return from mine HOLD CONFERENCE Pledged Support i in Case| of Strike CHICAGO, Jan. most important conferences ever held in the United States in connection with the organization of the Negro workers has just come to an end in this city. Called at the instance of 26—One of the} ters to discuss the problems of the Negro in general, the conference was concerned chiefly with the issues cen- tering around the fight of the porters against the Pullman company and against discrimination by officials of white workers’ unions. Over three hundred delegates came together at Egyptian Hall, 5ist St. and Michigan Ave. and listened to dis- cussions by John Fitzpatrick, presi- dent of the Chicago Federation of Labor. Refutes Fitzpatrick. Considerable indignation was cre- ated by Fitzpatrick’s attempt to clear the officials of the Chicago Federa- tion from the charge held against them by Negro workers that they at one time assisted in breaking a strike of Negro waiters. Fitzpatrick was saved only by the interruption of David W. Johnson, a delegate from the post offiee clerks. Other speakers, however, pointed out that whereas only a small percentage of white workers’ unions have clauses (Continued on Page Two) Miners’ Relief Meeting | in Brooklyn Tonight | - To rally support to the striking | miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Col- orado, the Women’s Miners’ Relief Committee will hold a mass meeting tonight at New Columbia Hall, 350 Blake Ave., Brooklyn, at 8 o’clock. The speakers will be Mrs. Rachael | Getto, wife of a striking miner of le, Pa.; Ray Ragozin, Teach- | | cently returned from the Pennsyl- vania strike region; Rose Wortis, Joint Board, Cloak and Dressmak Union, and Marian L. Emerson, Work- | ers International Relief. Fanny Rudd, | secretary of the Miners Relief Com- mittee will preside. Another meeting will be held Mon- | day night at 8 o'clock at the Work- | mens Circle headquarters, 143 E. 103d St. Rachael Holtman of “The Frei- heit” will be among the speakers, Reed to Attempt To Beat Al Smith WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 26.— James A. Reed, the senator from Missouri, will com- | pete with Alfred E. Smith for the democratic _ presi- dential nomination, Headquarters have been established in Washington, and Samuel W. Ford- yee and Lee Meri- weather will man- age the campaign. Meriweather = de- clared that Sena- tor Reed is in the fight “to a finish” and another ses- James A. Reed Against Al trict. Organizations desiring to in- vite Brother Cush for a meeting should communicate with the secre- tary of the committee, John Brophy, 1607 Buena Vista St., N. S. Pitts- burgh, Pa. 4 iia sion as hectic as the Madison Square Garden conven- tion of 1924 may result. Reed will not take part in the com- ing senatorial race in Missouri, it was announced, 100,000 TEXTILE WORKERS’ PAY CUT Penn C Cossacks Hel oe Lewis Machine Break Up Meeting SEE STRIKE WAVE RISING IN ALL OF NEW ENGLAND 50,000 Workers Vote on Wage Cut Issue BOSTON, Jan. 26. — Widespread strike sentiment which threatens e y day to bre: out in a state- wide if not country-wide textile walk- out is seen here in the rising wave of sporadic strikes which is rapidly pass- ing over New England. | More than eighty cotton textile and woolen mills, employing over 100,000 workers, have already reduced wages, according to an estimate made here today. Over a score of strikes cover~ \ing every part of New England are He in progress. Over 50,000 work- re voting, or about to vote on strike action, the survey shows. More than 30,000 textile workers in Fall River alone are today to de- jcide on whether to accept a ten per cent wage cut recently handed out to them. Fear is being expressed by the rank and file that union officials may find a way to prevent militant action by the men. The unions control only wi ja small section of the better paid employes. Workers in this city are particularly enraged at the hint given out by the Fall River Cotton Manu- facturers’ Association that there will be no steady work, a move which is interpreted as a weapon held over the workers to force capitulation. Several thousand workers are already on strike. Textile and woolen mills of Provi- dence likewise find themselves facing _ the rising indignation of their em- ployes. Over a thousand are out al- though no official strike action has been taken. The Weybosset Mill of (Continued on Page Two) NEWARK LENIN MEET TONIGHT The culmination of a campaign ex- tending over several years, the Work- ers (Communist) Party of Newark, together with a group of left wing .| organizations, have succeeded in es- tablishing the United Workers’ Pro- gressive Center, 93 Mercer St. A large number of volunteers are at present working in an effort to prepare for immediate use of the large auditorium and several meet- | ing rooms for the opening which will be held sometime in February. This achievement on the part of | the Newark workers will be celebrated at the Lenin Memorial meeting to be held tonight at New Montgomery Hall, Montgomery and Prince Sts., at & o’clock. Speakers will include M. J. Olgin, member of the Central Exeo- utive Committee of the Workers | (Communist) Party; Bert Miller, om | ganizational secretary, Dist. 2, New York; Phil Frankfeld, of the Young Workers League, and others. A mw sical program is being arranged. PERU AIDS WALL ST. AT HAVANA HAVANA, Jan. 26.—Instead of em- pressing popular Latin-American sentiment against United States im tervention in Nicaragua, Dr. Victor Maurtua, representative of the Liguia dictatorship in Peru, in his report te the Committee of Public Internation- al Law declared that intervention was permissible in certain cases, That the United States position would secure support from the rep- resentatives of a number of Latin- American governments, influenced or maintained by the United States, was. generally expected. Maurtua’s report came in the form of an attack on the recommendations for the modification of international law, prepared by the Jurists’ Confer- ence in Rio de Janiero last April. The recommendations include an ar- ticle stating that “no state may in- tervene in the internal affairs of an- other.” * . * WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. — Col. Louis M. Gulick, who has been in command of the marines in Nicara- gua, today was transferred to com- mand “he first brigade in Haiti. ‘