The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 25. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $5.00 per yenr. Outside New York, by mail, 36. “DAILY” AGENTS TO CONDUCT CAMPAIGN FOR MORE READERS Royce, Ravitch and Fox Address “Builders” at Manhattan Lyceum Meeting Plans Laid for Extending Influence in New York; Urge Advertisers Be Supported Over 100 unit, subsection and section DAILY’ WORKER agents met last night at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., and considered practical means for extending the distribution of the paper in New York City. meeting was part of the cam- paign to add 10,000 readers to The DAILY WORKER being conducted jointly with the drive for 5,000 new members of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party. Ed Royce, business man- ager, Ravitch, circulation manager, and Harry Fox, local representative of The DAILY WORKER suggested ways and means for effecting this program. The reports were followed by enthusiastic discussion from the floor. Royce declared that it is imperative that all members of the Workers (Communist) Party send in at once the names of all newsstands which do not carry the paper. Those selling the paper, he said, must be persuaded to carry additional copies and to dis- play them conspicuously. Fox, discussing the immediate de- tails of the drive, said that an elab- orate distribution campaign will be accomplished during the six weeks of the drive by units of the Party. Ef- forts will be made to reach hundreds of New Yorks shops and factories. Declaring that the advertisements in The DAILY WORKER have in- creased during the past few months, The® Ravitch advocated that all readers and Party members patronize firms who advertise in the paper. Ravitch announced that nearly 300 readers were added from out-of-town cities during the past week, and that progress. was being made thruout the country. “TRICK IN OHIO Fake “Co-operative” Is By T. J. O'7FLAHERTY PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 30. Plans for an intensified drive to break the miners’ strike in Hocking Valley, were made on Jan. 24, when the own- ers of 75 idle coal mines met in Nel- sonville, and formed an organization called the Hocking Mutual Mining As- sociation, in which operators and coal diggers are supposed to have a mutual interes:, with a wage scale based on, the selling price of coal, or another way of saying, the 1917 wage scale. This fake cooperative plan is not fooling the union miners. Striking coal diggers in Hocking Valley voted; unanimously to spurn the strike-' breaking scheme of the scab operators and not to accept any wage scale be- low che $7.50 a day provided for day) work in the Jacksonville agreement. Mines Are Closed. With a few exceptions the mines in| this section have been closed up as! tight as a drum since the first of last April. The suffering of the miners and their dependents has recently at- tracted the attention of the entire | ‘state, and Governor Donahey, for po-| litical considerations issued a procla- mation calling on the people of the state to contribute money, food and clothing for the destitute miners and their dependents. Plan a Fake. This fake co-op plan has the ap- proval of J. L. Good, secrecary of the | Ohio Coal Bureau and spokesman of the Ohio Coal Operators Association. He declared it was the most promis- ing move yet advanced to break the deadlock, or in other words to break ' the strike, Thirty local unions in Ohio have applied for Relief to the Pennsylvan- ia-Ohio Miners Relief Commitee. Hundreds of miners in this region are existing on one poor meal a day and Boosted by Employer | UNEMPLOYED TO PARADE TO CITY HALL THURSDAY 1,000 Jobless Cheer the Soviet Union A parade to City Hall was unani- mously voted by over 1,000 unem- ployed workers who met yesterday afternoon in the Church of All Na- tions, 9 Second Ave., under the aus- pices of the New York Council of the Unemployed. The jobless men elected an exec- utive committee of five who were instructed by the body to broaden the movement. The parade on Thursday will start from 113 E. 14th St. at 10 a. m. Support of the demonstration was voiced by the New York district of- fice of the Workers (Communist) Party in a statement issued last night. The entire local labor move- ment is urged by the Party to get behind the movement, and organize the unemployed workers. Cheer Soviet Union. The workers cheered loudly when Srime A. Pollack of the Workers nist) ay competed the, in the Soviet Union,” said Pol- lack, “the workers control the gov- ernment and are solving the unem- ployed question. Only when the workers in the United States control this country will we have a solution of the unemployment question.” Explains Communist Position. When the speaker explained the Workers (Communist) Party position on unemployment the workers res- ponded enthusiastically. George BH. Powers, organizer of the Iron and Bronze Workers Union addressed the workers briefly and pledged the support of his organiza- tion to organize the jobless on a nation-wide scale. Speeches from Floor. Harry Meyers, who presided; told how the church, the capitalist. press and public officials attempt to sup- press the facts about the unemploy- (Continued on Page Five) SHOE WORKERS DEFEAT BOSSES 9,000 Strikers Return to Shops HAVERHILL, Ma: Mass., Jan. 30.— |The 9,000 shoe strikers in this city have returned to their benches this morning victorious. After having tied up the shoe industry here completely for almost two weeks, the workers succeeded in forcing the bosses to withdraw their demand for a wage cut and are back in the shops under the 1927 wage scale. In addition to a complete renewal of the 1927 agreement, the employers have been compelled to agree to repay within three weeks the amounts they deducted while the 1928 or reduced scale was in existence, Even their own national officials, the local leaders declared, had-made efforts to halt the strike. - They pointed to the fact that Nolan, the children have not been able to venture! President of the Shoe Workers Pro- outdoors for months because they have | no shoes, or stockings or clothing to keep them warm. Relief funds should be forwarded at once tothe Penn,-Ohio Miners Re- lief Commitiee, 611 Penn Ave., Pitts- burgh, Pa. Lucy Branham to Speak at the Workers Theatre Miss Lucy Branham of the Society for Cultural Relations with the U. S. S. R., will talk on “Blue Blouses,” the traveling proletarian theatre of Soviet Russia, at the new headquarters of the Workers’ Theatre, 21 Charles St., tomorrow night. ‘a ‘tective Union, Rooney, DistrictCoun- cil president, Bearak, a socialist law- yer, had constituted themselves a com- mittce to carry on negotiations with the bosses, over the heads of the local strike committee, At the meetings where the tieup was first decided upon about two weeks, ago, Bearack appearing for the national officials, urged the workers not to strike but was voted down un- animously. WORKER KILLED IN MASS. WEST HANOVER, Mass., Jan, 30. ---One worker was killed and 20 others seriously injured in an explosion that destroyed the plant of the National Fireworks Co. today. Entered ap secuuu-cines .. 00 per year, SENDS “WORKER” EDITORIAL TO N.Y. Committee Acts on War Question In a 3,000 word letter to the Ameri- can-Russian Chamber of Commerce, containing frequent bitter condemna- tion of that organization’s lack of |patriotism and “falacious reasoning,” |Matthew Woll, acting president of the open shop National Civic Federation, yesterday replied to the chamber’s letter of Jan. 20 on the question of Soviet Union-American __ relations. Woll is also a vice president of the American Federation of Labor. Basing his position. on numerous quotations from The DAILY WORK- ER, official organ of the Workers (Communist) Party of America, Woll charges that a most “serious men- ace” faces the land. He refers the chamber of commerce to the columns of The DAILY WORKER for details of this most “serious menace.” Refers To “Workers.” “Now to awaken you to the extent of the menace confronting our coun- try,” he writes, “I have arranged to have The DAILY WORKER, the offi- cial organ in the United States, sent to you for 30 days. If you will read it and pass it on to the other mem- bers of your board of directors I am sure that, long before the subscrip- tion expires, you will be convinced of the soundness of our position....” In its letter of Jan, 20 the Amer- ican-Russian Chamber of Commerce lot commerce a by ‘Woll in the name of the National Civic Federation. The letter of the chamber of commerce attacked in particular the federation’s charges on tl. subject of Communist propaganda ii. the United States. Coolidge Quoted. While admitting that trade with the Soviet Union is increasing, Woll now quotes President Coolidge to the ef- fect that the country should not “bar- ter away for trade the cherished Ca ee: on Page Five) CANTON MILITARY SHANGHAI, “China, Jan. 30.—Ac- cording to telegrams received here from Canton, twenty-seven Commun- ists were murdered there Saturday, under the form of an official execu- tion for opposition to the government. The executions are supposed to be ja panicky reaction to the news reach- ing Canton of continued widespread Communist movements among the |peasantry throughout the northern land central portions of Kwang Tung Province. The revolutionary troops which re- cently captured two fairly large cities in the northern part of the province have been lost sight of, and are ru- mored to be recruiting for a march directly on Canton. SOS; SEAMEN ENDANGERED. An S. 0. S, from the Norwegian freighter Arica, about 80 miles off Cape May, N. J., was broadcast yes- terday. The ship reports herself “out of command,” with her steering chains broken, imperiling the lives of seamen aboard. Strikes will be prohibited from all industries in the United States and arbitration will preside over the con- flicts between the workers and their employers if the plans now being mapped out by a committee of the American Bar Association: with the cooperation of the officials of the American Federation of labor and various open shop associations are put into effect. Announcement was ‘made yesterday by Attorney Julius Henry Cohen, leading member of the Bar Associa- tion Committee, that the Association had been interesting itself in the pro- posal for several years. The commit- tee has been “considering what legis- lation. the association could recom- BUSINESS GROUP KILL COMMUNISTS vsiice at New Xork, N. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1928 THE DAILY WORKER. » under the act of March , 1579, Published dally except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. oven pnome wort eee o7ee Te CHIEF DeTECTIV® MORALITY LEAGUE OF AMERICA Brocklyn,I!,.Y. wafter. = JULIUS JAMES KRON DETECTIVE AGENCY LINCENSED AND BONDED 302 BROADWAY NEW YORK February Sth,1 br. Jeccb Nosowitsky; Yy deer Doctor; a us on the case from the Hungarian Mimister,and at understend hisa&tidude towards us. iow the Hungarian White Dérror Biites on Its Work in U.S. A. JuLiUs James Kron PRINCIPAL FORMERLY SPECIAL AGENT Y. ©. DEFT. oF sustice 26. we It is with the greatest regret thet I must infor you,that we are not able to satisfy your claim,for reasons that we oursel#é? feiled to receive the money's advanced by a loss to Thereforevadvise to have patience until we reeeive the money due us,gnd I assure I will settle with you immediately there- Yours respectfully. WORKER exposing frame-up activities of his is the third document to be printed in The DAILY nent nthe Ohted Siatens Julius Je By the the | aaa Horthy Forgets |due them for the help they gave in |framing Hungarian workers both |here and at home. With this issue The DAILY | WORKER resumes publication of a series of articles to appear daily, ex- posing the spy system and forgery mills maintained here by the Horthy- Bethel regime, and will show to what an extent this frame-up system men- aces the foreign-born workers in America. The third document, printed here- with, explains some of the troubles of these international stool-pigeons in collecting their pay, the explanation of which follows. State Dept. and Forgery Mill. The services of the Kron Detective Agency have been at the disposal of} the present reactionary government of | Hungary since its conception. not until two years ago was the state department openly involved in these activities And it is because of the crudeness of the work of the forgers at this time, in connection with the ban on Count Karolyi, that the Hun- garian minister has been so hesitant about paying over the promised $100,000. Once the relationship be- tween these spies, the Horthy gov- ernment and the state department be- (Continued on Page Two) mend to Congress in aid of the more peaceable adjustment and prevention of industrial controversy.” “The com- mittee,” it is announced, “has held many hearings,” on the ‘subject. Both Help. After announcing that help and ad- vice had been sought and received from the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Indus- trial Council and other enemies of la- bor, the statement goes on to say that the American Federation of Labor has likewise been in close harmony with the Bar Association efforts. The American Federation of Labor, in fact, appointed a committee to co- operate with the “Industrial peace” (program of the Association. Matthew But! ord His Spies After Frame-Up Exposure After being supplied with forgeries by the Kron Detective Agency in | New York and the notorious Jacob Nasowitsky; the Hungarian minister in Washington, Count Szecheny, has decided not to pay | these agents of the | Hungarian white terror the $100,000 5 WORKERS TONIGHT Important results for the entire | |shoe industry are seen in a mass workers tonight at 8 p. m. at Lorraine Hall, Broadway near Sumner Ave., Brooklyn. Interest which has been aroused by the recent announcement of the meet- ing has increased considerably and a large attendance is expected. All shoe workers are invited to attend. It is announced that every opportun- ity will be given the workers to ex- |press their views about conditions in | the trade and as to which form of or- ganization they would prefer to join. Among the speakers will be Carlo Tresca, well known Italian editor, who will speak in Italian. BOMB CASE ADJOURNED. Magistrate Marvin in Jamaica court today adjourned until February 8 the case of Alexander Zuppo, charged with bombing the home of a Jamaica girl. The adjournment was the second since the arrest of Zuppo more than a week ago. LABOR FAKERS MOVE TO BAR STRIKES Join Open Shoppers to Put Over Drastic “Arbitration Law” Woll, it is announced, is the chief mover in the plan to take from the workers their most powerful weapon, the strike. It is reported that Mat- thew Woll, voicing the policy of the Federation had advocated the adop- tion of some such plan as the present Watson-Parker Law operating on the railroads. The plan would provide that no strike could be resorted to un- less there has first been a resort to arbitration and would extend over all industries. Enslaves Canadian Labor. Such a law is now in operation in S Kron ' MEETING OF SHOE meeting called by a group of shoe | tective Bureau HEARING GOES ON IN LABOR DEPT. ‘Revelations ot Graft Are Promised Investigation of the State Labor Department was formally launched | yesterday morning when Dr. Lindsay Rogers, appointee of Al. Smith, opened the first session at the offices of the Labor Department, 119 E. 28th 'St., by reading into the record a long list of newspaper clippings reporting {charges of corruption in the handling of compensation claims. Within half an hour the session was adjourned to open today at Al- bany in which city some “real” revelations are promised. A “Real” Investigation. number of times that the investiga- tion to be conducted by him would “by jered by the Industrial Survey Com- mission’s hearing.” The investiga- \tion, he stated, “will be searching and thorough.” This emphasis, it is be~ lieved, is an attempted answer to the charge that the investigation will “whitewash” the Tammany controlled labor department. Employers’ Attack. The clearest fact behind the scenes and “investigations” is the growing attack of the employers of the state on the new bits of labor legislation which the workers have been able to set up in the state. LAY PLANS FOR PASSAIC MEET PASSAIC, N. J., Jan. 30.—Taking the initiative in a drive against un- employment, the Passaic section of he Workers (Communist) Party is calling a mass meeting of all unem- ployed workers, trade unionists and sympathizers for the purpose of for- mulating a plan to relieve the acute suffering now affecting many thous- ands of the textile and other workers in this city. The meeting will take place at the Workers Home, 27 Day- ton Ave., next Saturday at 12:30 p. Canada, but applies only to public |m. utilities, mines and railroads. During the past 18 years of operation it has (Continued on Page Two) a) 4 Albert Weisbord, leader of the 1926 Passaic organization drive will be the chief speaker at the meeting. Rogers was careful to emphasize a | no means be limited to the data gath- | of all these charges, counter charges | FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents P.O. PLANS JAILING IN WAR PROTEST Woll Rex Renews Altack on Soviet Union Before Employers LEAGUE ANSWERS MAIL CENSORSHIP Fears Gfowing Fdvor foy U. S. SRY BULLETIN Chief Postal Inspector Clarahan told representatives of the press that he has placed the case in the hands of U. S. attorneys for deci- sion as to possible criminal proce- dure. Repeating its challenge to the post office department in connection with its Nicaraguan war protest stamps, the All-American Anti-Imperialist League last night announced the for~ mation of a New York provisional committee for ‘concerted action to de- feat Wall Street’s war against Nic- aragua.” In a letter signed by J. J. Kiely, New York postmaster, to Manuel Gomez, secretary of the league’s United States section, the post office department threatened imprisonment or a fine for use on envelopes of stamps reading, “Protest Against Marine Rule in Nicaragua,” it became known yesterday, Will Continue Distribution. The league will continue to sell the stamps and to paste such stamps on the back of envelopes carrying mail, Gomez said. Use of the stamps on envelopes sent by mail is punishable by imprisonment for “not more than five years” or a fine of “not more than $5,000,” or both, according to the warning of the postmaster, Inquiries at the office of Post- master “Kiely in“ regards to “ts future course resulted in a denial from him that he knew the Anti-Imperial- ist League had declared it would con- tinue to sell the stamps. He stated that the league had not officially an- swered his letter. When asked what steps he would take if he learned that the stamps were sold, he said evasively that he would continue to hold up all the mails using the Nicaragua protest stamps. He insisted that his office was not responsible for the letter he sent out, but that he had been instructed to stop the mail by orders from the so- liciter general in Washington. Letters and other mail matter bear- ing the stamps are being sent to the inquiry section of the Post Office De- partment as unmailable, it was re- ported at the post office last night. The stamps are being sold in books of twenty for $1 by the League. Ac- cording to Gomez, about 15,000 stick- (Continued on Page Four) U. §. GRIPS PAN- AMERICA CONTROL Steam Roller Flattens | Anti-Interventionists HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 30. — With Charles Evans Hughes personally supervising the machinery of oppres- sion and financial terrorism which he has put in motion during and before the present session of the congress of the Pan American Union, the dele- gates there, lacking enthusiasm, but almost unanimously, vo.ed down the proposal of Mexico that the United States abandon its permanent chair- manship of the governing board, and permit a rotation of office. Chair- manship of the board gives power to hamper and cripple movements which might uni.e the Latin American coune tries against the “Colossus of the North.” Hughes Speaks. Hughes, chairman of the American delegation, himself spoke on the res- olution saying: “The American people want rela- tions based upon true fellowship and consciousness that there is a commun- ity of incerest between the peoples of all the republics. The United States does not seek any post of eminence.” Wall Street Cracks Whip. It was a Wall Street field day, for the non-intervention clause came up, stating in essence: “No state in the future either di- rectly or indirectly for any reason whatsoever may accupy even tempo- rarily any part of the territory of another state.” Only Mexico, mover of the resolution, and Santo Domin- go stood for it. |