The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 28, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED NATIONAL EDITION FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOK PARTY HE DAILY WORKER. Entered as sccond-ciuss matics ai tue dunt Ulfice at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1579. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Published dally except Sunday by The National Daily were? * Price 3 Cents 4 Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. Vol. V. No. 23. } “DAILY” SUBSCRIBERS; —§ —— —— —— — —~ Wage Cuts Strike More Ranks of Textile Workers Specify February 5-11 as Period for Adding to tween in Oil Graft TRUCKS TAKE AlD Fled Oil- Graft Quiz THREATEN TIE UP Readers of Labor Daily Coan 6 Lemley, District Agent, Tells of Plans for Reach- THOUS ANDS LE AVE bees TO STRIKING PA. OF MARINE GOODS MINERS IN HILLS IN ONLY HARBOR } ing Thousands of Workers PHILADELPHIA,” Pa., Jan. 27.—Local DAILY WORKER JOBS WHILE UNION Builders today announced new and extensive plans for acquaint- ing the workers with the only national labor daily in the United HEADS FAIL T0 ACT States. The week of February 5-11 has been designated by them as a period during which efforts®— | | | will be concentrated for distri- A, F. L. SPEAKS FOR buting The DAILY WORKER in various sections of the city as a part of a national campaign for NON INTERVENTION 10,000 new readers. Leo P. Lemley, district agent here stated that special units were being designated to carry out the plans for| But It Uses Last Year’s building the circulation. Energetic Campaign. Groups are to be chosen for the working class neighborhoods in Sa Ae MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 27.—In a long distribution of thousands of papers hattente Charles E. Hughes, chair- in hundreds of shops, factories and man of United States delegation to the Pan-American conference in Ha- Are Affected BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 27.—The end of the sweep of wage slashes in this section has not yet been reached. This is shown by dispatches coming in from all over New England. The Dwight Manufacturing Company of Chicopee is preparing the ground for a wage cut. Notices have been posted hat the plant will be shut down for two weeks. affects over 1,000 workers. In Clinton the Lancester Mills, em- Many Sections of Land| This preliminary move! | Milton E, Everhart, son-in-law “We'll Fight I Like Hell,” Is Promise By PAT H. H. TOOHEY. (An account of our experiences while taking several trucks of food | and clothing to the striking coal min- ers.) > ga PITTSBURG, Penn., Jan. 20. (By| Mail).— At six a. m., while it is still dark, some ten or more large trucks lining the curb facing the Fifth Ave- nue warehouse at the Pennsylvania- | Ohio Miners Relief Committee, groups 4 i | 4 i i For three years the courts have tried to bring back Robert W. Walk Out For Sandino In Spite of Terror Under the guns ‘of the United | States battleships in the harbor, and y re-enforce- marines thru- evedores of Cor- ed to declare a in the face of the h ments of United Stat out the city, the s into have again d strike in with the struggle of the army under Gen- eral Augusto Sandino, reports front Managua state. Detachments of bluejackets and een strung across the Philadelphia. Speakers are to be sent |... William Green, id ‘i . ; orth ea . : ze a , president of the ; Fi of Albert B. Fall, admitted on the (of strikers are busy loading the : atening to seize and to trade union meetings. Newsstands] 4 nerican Federation of Labor, re-|Ploying about 1800 operatives, has ; inelair trucks with large cases of food and| Stewart, president of the Stan- /i.i) any worker whom they choose to are to be systematically visited. All|) oats the list of figurative | posted notices that beginning with the stand that Harry F. Sinclair Higtiing. All Kelp is volintéar’ hel dard Oil Co, of Indiana from | Consider suspicious, while special stands not now handling the “Daily” phrases which during the past few|coming Tuesday, the wages of the handed him Liberty Bonds worth Farly nl ha supe tha witiaes ans Cuba, to tell what he knows about | guards have bee aaut is ve-ential eee iy meee ey te years the A. F. of L. officialdom has | Workers will be cut 10 per cent below} $233,000, besides another $200,000 in from the mining towns to accom-| the Liberty Bonds found in the | the patrol which was established after Attractive posters will be distributed | wi ployed to disguise its failure to|the present already low level. cash, which went to Fall's credit pany the relief trucks to their respec-| Possession of Albert B. Fall, | the former strike at the point where thruout the whole city with the idea of attracting new readers. Show Confidence. added influence to The WORKER, Lemley said: in this campaign to make The DAILY WORKER known to large numbers. struggle.” Grocery. Union in Drive on Right Wing Many to Attend. against the injunction and strike- breaking activities which have been carried on by the right wing and particularly by the United Hebrew Trades and its secretary Morris Fein- stone against the clerk’s union, Hyman Will Speak. The chief speaker will be Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint Board of the Garment Workers, who him- self has been one of the leaders of the left wing fight against the Heb- rew Trades, the “Forward” group and other union breakers. Announce- jprotest against U. S. intervention in Latin-American countries. The A. F. of L. favors “international Commenting on the vigorous cam-|arbitration as a means of bringing raign which Philadelphia militants |about an honorable and just settle- are instituting in an effort to bring |ment of any dispute” DAILY | tries, if is announced. A further an- nouncement is made that labor is “ir- “My personal experience has con-|revocably opposed to every form of vinced me that thousands of workers | unauthorized intervention in the do- will welcome the news and opinion mestic or political affairs of other in our militant labor paper. We aim | nations. between coun- Protest Ineffective. , m Representatives of Latin-American ‘Thousands are certain to continue/organizations are pointing out the reading it when they become familiar doubtful meaning of the qualification, with its great. service in the life of |“gnauthorized the worker in the day-to-day class|emphasize the fact that the A. F. of L. officialdom has failed to make any effective protest not only in the case CLERKS’ PROTEST sss svete inners i Mexico, MEET ON SUNDAY Detroit Women Meet for Relief DETROIT, Jan. 27. ence of all Detroit women’s organiza- tions, including trade union and fra- ternal order auxiliaries is called for Over 100 delegates from trade| Saturday afternoon at the Y. M. C. A. unions affiliated with the United | Center, 2481 East Grand Boulevard, Hebrew Trades have already an-/at 2.30 p. m. nounced their intention of atiending|called with the mass meeting called by the De-' women’s auxili fense Committee of the Retail Gro- ference for C cery and Dairy Clerks Union, accord-|has been doing good work in Detroit ing to an announcement made yester- for che past two months. day. All women’s organizations sympa- thetic to the cause of the coal miners A considerable larger number is|who have been on strike some of them expected to be present at Webster/for as long as three years, and who Hall, 119 East 11th St., at which the|wish to raise relief for the miners meeting is scheduled for 2 p. m. Sun-|and their wives and children, are day. Trade unionists and sympathi-| urged to send three delegates to the zers from every union in the cicy are| above conference, which will at once expected to be present to protest|enter upon active relief work. Alien Laws Multiply WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.— A favorable report on the immigra- tion resolution which provides that wives and children under 21 of aliens living in this country be admitted as non-quota immigrants will be made -intervention.” — A confer- This conference is jew to organizing a of the Detroit Con- Miners Relief which Abolish Nursery. This firm had been employing a large number of women in plants, who have been compelled to work as a partial support of their families. This has necessitated the maintenance of a nursery on the mill premises. To- gether with the wage slash has come a notice that “the nursery will be abolished, for reasons of economy.” The Moadanock Mills, of Claremont, N. H., manufacturing bedspreads, has declared to its 500 employees, that due to the cuts by the Amoskeog Manufacturing Company of Man- (Continued on Page Two) FALSE TESTIMONY DEMANDED BY U.S. ‘Skunk,’ Cries Attorney in Burns Trial WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The Burns-Sinclair defense in the Teapot Dome contempt proceedings an- nounced in court today that they in- tended to undertake to prove that gov- ernment counsel had advised the star prosecuting ‘witness, William J. Mc- Mullin, the Burns detective who turned government informer, to swear falsely before the grand jury and also to an affidavit which found its way into the court records, This state- ment was made by George Hoover, attorney for Sinclair, the oil man, who is accused of hiring the Burns Detective Agency to impose an im- proper surveillance over the Fall- Sinclair oil conspiracy jury. The various defense attorneys have made demands that past remarks of Assistant District Attorney James O’Leary be stricken. sage with Charles A. Douglas, Burns lawyer, and had said a statement of Martin: Littleton, Sinclair attorney, by the senate committee, it was learned today. Several other bills allowing Ameri- can Indians in Canada to enter at was “unqualifiedly false.” This action followed the decision to ignore reports that a pretty young woman defense witness had been slugged: and robbed in her hotel room O’Leary had, made reference to a skunk in a pas- | circles. in return for the Teapot Dome | Oil Reserves worth $800,000,000 | which Fall and other Harding- Coolidge cabinet officers handed to Harry F. Sinclair and Doheny, | millionaire oil sib): asta | | BIG BAZAAR FOR DETROIT WORKERS DETROIT, Jan. 27.A huge bazaar for the support of the New Workers’ Home will be held here on February 17-18-19. Every effort will be made to provide a fine program. The Ukrainian, the Russian, South Slav, Lithuanian, Jewish, and Scandinavian Choruses, Finnish band, Athletics, Dramatics, professional dancing, sing- ing, and music will be featured. All comrades of Language fractions and sympathetic organizations are urged to attend as well as send ar- ticles to the committee as soon as possible. Tickets will be 50 cents each; $1.00 for the three days. Bomb Officials’ Homes In Act of Reprisal CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 27. — The homes of former chief of police Charles C. Fitzmorris, present city comptroller, and William H. Reid, an official during a previous administra- tion of Mayor Thompson were bombed early yesterday morning. Although no information was given out as to the motives of the bombers, the opin- ion that the favored gangsters of the old regime resented their betrayal when a new administration brought its own set of favorites, was expressed freely in Chicago adminis.ration Arsenal Protested TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 26-—The storage of high explosives at the gov- ernments” Raritan Arsenal in Middle- sex County is being protested by | Committee. \thirteen large trucks loaded to the \top and ready to start to the strike tive destinations to help with the load- | ing and general work of the Relief By daybreak I count towns, All trucks bear large signs. They are signs which encourage the min- ers to fight on. Large red letters on white background “Pennsylvania— Ohio Miners Relief Committee, 611 Penn. Ave., Pittsburg, Pa—Defend Union Labor—Down with the Open Shop—Save the Miners’ Union—De- fend Union Labor—For a Labor Par- (Continued on Page Two) POLITICS GROWS IN GRAFT CASE ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 27.—Reports are current here that in the Florence E. S. Knapp, graft case Gov. Al Smith is seeking a way of “letting Mrs. Knapp down easy” when she faces the grand jury next month on charges of grand larceny and forgery. Gov. Smith is said to have been em- barrassed by severe criticism of the civil service commission in the More- land Act commissioner’s report in which the charges against Mrs. Knapp were made public earlier this week. The head of the civil service commis- sion is a Smith-appointed democrat. Resigns as Dean. Mrs. Knapp, a Republican and former Secretary of State for New York, is charged with wholesale graft in her administration of the 1925 state census fund. Any conviction of Mrs. Knapp would be a conviction of the republican party machine, almost all of the appointees of her graft-in- fested office having been recom- mended to her as “deserving repub- licans.” As a result of the charges against her Mrs. Knapp has resigned as dean of the department of home economics at Syracuse University. BRITISH-U. S. DYE FIGHT. Suspicion that the British Imperial Chemical Industries is affiliated with secretary: of interior under Hard- ing and Coolidge who quit under fire following revelations which placed the major responsibility for the Teapot Dome oil steal on him, SENATE ORDERS PROBE INTO $-4 WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The senate has at last ordered a congres- sional investigation of the S-4 sub- marine disaster, which cost forty lives. -_ 2s © sale” sign on a plot in Cheverly, Maryland, stands today as a tomb- stone to lovers’ dreams snuffed out in the sinking off Provincetown har- bor eight weeks ago of the submarine S-4. The story was revealed today when Miss Marian De Font, Fiance of Machinist’s mate Pedar Haalard, who went down with the ill-fated sub- mersible, assented to the sale of the ot. Irish Prisoner Flees DUBLIN, Jan. 25—James Nugent a wounded political prisoner made a thrilling escape from St. Bricin’s Military hospital heree Nugent was in bed in the ward when two armed men entered the room. They helped Nugent into his street clothes, then all three started for the street. A guard aroused by the noises the men made interfered and was met by revolver fire. The frightened guard threw himself on the floor, firing his revolver as Nugent and his escort de- parted. Bosses’ Girls Get Gift ITHACA, N. Y., Jan. 27.—A gift! of $1,650,000 was given to Cornell | the girl students there, it was learned today. Living expenses and the large tuition charge demanded by this uni- versity keeps workers’ daughters out of the college. the railroad to Managua crosses the harbor. The present strike was called when a committee, composed of United States officials and reactivflary Nac- araguans, declared that the stevedores were not being enslaved to unload American supplies and equipment to oe used against the Nationalists. The stevedores are reported to have walked out unanimously. The former strike began shortly after the United States marines com- menced their invasion of the district WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—A “for, of Nueva Segovia controlled by the Nationalist army. A military com- mission forced a settlement of the (Continued on Page Two) TEXAS © BLAST KILLS 30 WORKERS McCAMEY, Tex., Jan. 27.—At least thirty workers are known dead, and it is feared the death toll may amount to many times that number as the re- sult of an explosion of a gasoline tank on the Gumble Oil and Refiling Com- pany’s Tank farm near here today. A workman standing on top of the huge drum-like tank was hurled 25 feet into the air. His body was seen to fall back into the flames. Plot for Chicago Camp Purchased CHICAGO, IIL, Jan. 27. —The first Chicago Cooperative Workers’ camp has been realized in the purchase of a beautiful tract of land in Wisconsin by the United Workers’ Cooperative Association of Chicago. Other and larger cooperative enterprises for workers will follow this first enter- prise, the Chicago Cooperative Asgo- ion announces, With .he purchase jof the site in Wisconsin the workers of Chicago will be able to enjoy the |pleasures of summer in a camp of University to build a dormitory for eee own. Trenton Drive for Mine Relief Fund TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 27.—A one i i i i i the German dye trust has been de- oa RP Gene aad ’ . hank Wie toad "kt Oe. clerks hition will, and the tightening of restrictions By dentified men. farmers in the neighborhood of the tied by Sir He EChmhaiin well: Saeed tia care = week drive for miners’ li a ueeae. 117° SS a for admission of foreign teachers unin ” arsenal. The location of the arsenal} nied by Sir Harry Me MENT. tart. hanes te a The: - will eadquarters, bits Soa Ang The investigation, according to the'so near to the residential districts | known British financier now in the] GENEVA, Jan. 27.—In spite of the ere Tuesvay. e Trenton terday that every preparation had been made. to insure the success of the meeting. R, Saltzman to Speak | Communist daily, will speak at a mass meeting called by a conference of Branches 719, 718, 715, 704, 701 of WHAT PRICE PROSPERITY? estate men and building and loan as- sociations give President Coolidge’s prosperity palaver a phony ring here. LINDBERGH FOR BOGOTA. were also approved. School Workers Hurt MEDIA, Pa., Jan. 27.—Three work- ers were injured and many others en- In Boston Tomorrow dangered when an employes’ dormi- tory and club room at the Pennsyl- BOSTON, Jan. 27.—R. Saltzman,|vania Training School for Feeble- manager of “The Freiheit,” Jewish| minded was destroyed by fire today. . CLASS IN MARX OPENED CHICAGO, Jan. 27.-—A class in the the Workmen’s Circle, at Credit| Study of Marx’s Capital has been or- Union Hall, 62 Chambers St., to-| ganized here by Andrew Shelley. morrow morning at 10:30 o’clock.| Every Sunday morning the members Boston workers are invited to attend.| of the class come prepared to dis- cuss a certain portion of the text. No other preparation is faery All comrades interested in joining are MILWAUKEE, Jan. 27 (FP). —|a;ked to communicate with Comrade Five thousand vacant houses and Shelley at 642 N. Dearborn Street, apartments listed by Milwaukee real Chicago, Ill. There is no fee. VOTE FOR 44-HOUR WEEK. CHICAGO, Jan. 27: (FP). plumbers’ working week in Chicago will continue to. be 44 hours unti) CARTAGENA, Colombia, Jan. 27.—| May 31, 1930 by decision of over Col. Charles A. Lindbergh hopped off| 1,000 members of Local 180 at a at 8.59 a. m. today for Bogota, the| meeting Jan. 24. The scale is $18 for United States attorney, showed no evidence of a crime in spite of the avowal of William Lantz that his wife had been beaten, bound and gagged on Wednesday night. has been scored as a serious danger in the report of the Port Raritan District Committee to the legislature. It is stated the government is hold- ing out for high ee bids for the property. United States. Nevertheless the. ru- mor persists that the British and German interests have effected a combine to compete with the Amer- ican dye companies. UNEMPLOYED FEEL BOSSES’ POWER Worker yr Reports Vicious Methods of Cafeteria Cc Combine firm asking“for three bu’ boys. All} “After these men were hired the Unemployed workers feel not only the pangs of hunger and the lash of need, They must endure also the in- creased viciousness of the bosses who are ready to take immediate advan- tage of their strengthened bargaining power. The following letter from an unemployed restaurant worker speaks | for itself: “I want to tell you how unemployed workers are treated when they apply for a job. I went up to the employ- ment office of the Silvers’ Cafeterias, located at 717 Seventh Ave. “About one hundred workers were waiting for a job. Afcer waiting for the workers rushed up to the clerk and asked to be hired. One of the workers who had been promised time and again, he said, wanted to know why he was not one of those seni out. The “Boss” Has the Power. “ ‘Say, mister,’ said the clerk, ‘I’m boss here. I guess I can send any- ‘one I want. If you don’t like it get \the hell out of here.’ “The worker walked away without a word, because he was afraid to lose out entirely. The salary of bus boys is about $18 per week, for a twelve hour day. The applicacion which has to be filled out wants to know all rest sat down and waited for another call, Everyone was told to take his hat off and keep quiec. One worker who talked back was thrown out of the place. The clerk threatened to beat up anyone who didn’t ‘behave.’ Mistreated Because Unorganized. “This is a sample of mistreatment which unemployed workers have to put up with from every catspaw of vhe bosses. If the restaurant workers were all organized this could not hap- pen. It is time that the officials of the labor movement did something for the unemployed. In Cleveland an un- employed council has been organized. a attempt of the league investigator to minimize the importance of the ship- ment of Italian arms to Hungary in violation of existing treaties, the league investigation clearly proved that the shipments actually took place. L. A. IN WAR EXPERIMENT. NEWPORT, R. I, Jar. 27.—For fear the feat might be required in war time the navy dirigible Los An- geles this afternoon atiempted the unusual performance of trying to land on the flying deck of U. S. S. Sara- toga, the Navy’s new airplane carrier. SCHOOL FAKE CHARGED. BALTIMORE, Jan. 27.—Alleged to have made a business of issuing fake diplomas, Gilbert P. Brown was ar- rested here today on a charge of us- ing the mails to defraud. BERLIN, Jan. 27.—Strong earth tremors were felt at 4 o’clock this morning in Baden, upper Bavaria, the Saar and Northern Switzerland. Peo- ple were awakened and fled from their homes in panic, but no casual- Emergency Committee for Miners’ Relief will raise money and clothing for the striking miners of Pennsyk vania, Ohio and Colorado. Arrange ments for an indoor mass meeting are being made. Organizations participating in the drive include the Ukranian Workers’ Club, Jewish Culture Club, Branch 77 of the Independent Workmen’s GC; Freiheit Singing Society, Parent Council, Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Pionegrs. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27.—The tak- ing of testimony in the trial of Wil- liam Edward Hickman for the kid- naping and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker will start next Mon- day, it was indicated today when Su- - perior Judge J. J. Trabucco announced he would stress every effort to ob- tain a jury before the end of the week, ALBERTA LABOR ELECTS, seoond stop on his South American] 8 hours, making $71.50 a week of 44/about forty minutes, a call came on|kinds of facts, if the work- bel don’t feo do something like it| ties were reported. The damage was|four delegates attended. ary. : Sita. Gveiian i at double rates, DSi iar ab ats aa er was fired for organizing, ye slight. c en gees , Fig : o 4 ne ‘ CALGARY, Alta., Jan. 27 (FP)— The Alberta Federation of Labor in convention at Calgary reelected Presi- dent Fred J. White and Recreate Treasurer Elmer E. Roper. S Be AE