The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1928, Page 2

—— Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1928 New York State Employers Open General Attack on Labor Legislation UNION OFFICIALS APPEAR WILLING TO ASSIST MOVE! Seek to Secure 50-Hour | Week for Women | ALBANY, Feb. 1.—The scheduled | attack on labor legislation for which preparation has been made k employers of the state w here yesterday when 1 of over 150 textile manu tified before a he trial Survey Comm essity of a 50-hour w The attempt to amend so-called 48-hour direct form thru | the elimination of infavor of a five-day v a day. It is believed succeed the next step fntroduce Saturday work. Other Attacks. | Representatives of cigar manufac- | turers asked for a 48-hour week, of | five days, which is impossible under the present law which prevents a| day longer than nine hours. | Officials of the New York State} Federation of Labor appeared in op- position to the 50-hour week but stated they were willing to consider} a 48-hour plan, thus indicating their | willingness to work with the employ- ers in the attack on the few labor | laws which have been secured by the New York workers. “Investigation” Continues. Open charges that the investigation now being conducted by Gov. Al. Smith’s appointee, Dr. Lindsay Rog- ers, is intended to “whitewash” the state labor department were made on the senate floor yesterday when the republican floor leader Russell G. Dunmore, of Oneida, charged that the} whole affair was a camouflage. | Gov. Smith expressed indignation | at the charge, pointing to the “un- warranted reflection against Prof. Lindsay Rogers.” The governor char- acterized Dunmore’s remarks as show- ing a “palpable lack of brains.” | No one, however, within informed circles, is deceived by the governor’s reflections. Dr. Roger’s investigation. which opened here yesterday after- noon, it is pointed out, is already ~ showing its real purposes. Changes His Mind. The first witness to be called was Assemblyman Jasper Cornaire, sub- chairman of the Industrial Survey Commission. In an interview with cor- Tespondents of the press Cornaire about two weeks ago charged that the state labor department was honey- combed with graft. Yesterday he tes- tified that his remarks had been “grossly exaggerated.” Against this evidence stand the reports of dozens of news reporters who wrote the in- terview, which charged also that the compensation laws had “broken down.” One newspaper man, John Creary, reporter for the New York Sun, testified under oath to the truth of 10 hours should thi be to re- MORE FORGERIES | United States. by the notorious Jacob | of his report. | | city of Tokaj in the upper right hand A SUPPOSED MILITARY MAP OF HUNGARY FORGED IN U.S. | JAILING PL ANNED Miskover + © Toxay teen sd vw . aOR ae Gaus) FENVIRGGy Hara ree ASOT NANAS VAN KAPuvag 2 HAIOU- Boszoameny beaxe mer “3 PAPA x @ 151A Furey SEOMBAMELy this Bupapesy /ASZ Beneny o tHERvag DEBRECZIN osm Vésze. © Vasvan aw ® cetacean gy Stounox, KARR AG 4 ‘i @ Orerom szewnmincas Rornstag ney Konos,,, ® KES rw ELy ** Kec skemeny MEZ0-TUR PATON Beeeny king Dom: ree ®esoncers 2 KAPOS van ~ Prisca ae OYKARA a © s28eszany OOmERO “insane 799028 woe 9157160. a 450° 40 @ 9200-509 a 119-40 @ 4400-600 %183- 62 2445-1275 eo 3785-1570 ® g00- 178 Q 200-55 B = 3650-1180 @) 1350- 820 This fifth of a series of forged documents printed in The DAILY WORKER, purports to be a military map of Hungary, supposed to give the location of garrisons and ammunition depots. Note the writing in Eng- lish and the misspelling of some of the towns recorded. The secret key is shown also, NOW REVEALED Map Is Faked by Jacob Nosowitsky, Spy | { in the} Another document forged ky and his fellow spies, and | Nosowi used in persecuting revolutionists in Hungary, is printed in today’s DAILY WORKER. This latest for- gery, purported to be a military map, und accompanied by a secret “key alphabet,” was used against the Hungarian Communists who were ac- cused of having kept an exact record of all those places in Hungary where garrisons, ammunition depots, etc., were located. A Crude Frame-up. This map is so crudely forged, that it reveals clearly to what extremes the Hungarian government went to railroad Hungarian workers to jail und to death. First, it will be ob- served that the writing on the map is in English. with the impossibility ef such detailed imaginary instruc- ticn being prepared in the United States. This is further born out when anyone familiar with the Hungarian cities, examines the misspelling of the corner. The town is spelt “Tokay” Miners Tell of Penna. Misery; Meet Feb. 18 “The union relief is getting so low | that there isn’t enough money to take | care of more than a fifth of our strikers,” Carl Glovak, president of the Cokesburg, Pa., local of the United Mine Workers of America, \said to a DAILY WORKER reporter in the office of the Pennsylvania-Ohio- Colorado Miners’ Relief at 799 Proad- way. Issac Munsey, a Negro miner of Avella, Pa., Steve Paich and Wil- liam Honkus of Houston, Pa., are also working with the committee here. Glovak told how Mary Whitovich, 13 year-old daughter of a striking miner, fainted in school because she had not eaten a square meal in days. “When truckloads of food come from the Pittsburgh branch of the Re- lief Committee, our men line up in front of the union office to get some- thing to eat for their families. But there isn’t enough for more than a fraction of our strikers. We need money to feed the rest,” he declared. “You see our little mining towns are far apart along the Monongahela Valley. We are isolated from all other industries, and this strike means. that nobody in our town is working, practically,” Glovak said. Living in overcrowded, cold bar- racks with no heat and not enough food or clothing has caused the PICKET LINES AT FALL RIVER GROW Ranks Swell as Strike Spirit Holds Firm (Continued from Page One) 000 workers are affected in this city alone. While a great many of workers are at work in the plants under the new reduced wage schedule, which went into effect Monday, even the employ- ers state openly in their trade yapers that a general strike may ydt de- velop. Great bitterness is expressed on every side over the fact that the most radical steps against the wage cut offered by the textile union exec- utives, are the passing of resolutions protesting against the wage cut, and resolutions calling upon the govern- ment to start a federal investigation. Demonstrate Daily. The workers on strike at the Davis Mills -Nos,-1 and 2, the Davol Mills, the Stevens Manufacturing Company, and the Awkright Mills are conduct- ing. daily picket demonstrations which have already resulted in a large in- crease“in their ranks. M. R. Brown, treasurer of the Davol Mills, made a statement to the press in which he said that the dissatisfaction among the workers was due entirely to the work of “red agitators” in the mills. FOR ANTI-STRIKE _ LAW VIOLATORS ‘Union Leaders Rap the | Plan | (Continued from Page One) | Educational League, and leader of the }1919 steel strike, in a statement yes- \terday, denounced the plan further as |a scheme for “devitalizing the already | weakened unions.” Details of the proposed law have not yet been made public but an- nouncement was made at the office of attorney Cohen, that one of the chief features is a provision that the American Federation of Labor shall | in addi.ion to the action by the courts, act to compel submission of its affili- | ated bodies if necessary by expelling them from the Federation, Blow at Militants. | “In the light of the campaigns now ‘being carried on by the labor official- dom against the militants,” one pro- gressive union leader yesterday said, “the purpose of this provision be- comes obvious. It is a combined ef- fort on the part of the employers and the labor fakers to carry out their |campaign against all forms of fight- \ing unionism.” Confirmation that the labor offi- cials for a long time have been pre- | paring this move was had yesterday lin the statement by Charles S. Whit- ‘man, former president of the Bar As- sociation that he had first acted in the matter on the initiative of Wm. Green, president of the A. F. of L. Those whose support of the law be- sides the labor officials have already been indicated, are the National Civic Federation, an open shop organiza- /tion, and the National Associacion of Manufacturers, the long standing ene- my of organized labor. “The latest development in the anti- strike drive of the powerful employ- ers to smash the trade union move- ment, and so se: up barriers against the formation of any labor organiza- ‘tions, is the proposal of the American |Bar Association and the American | Federation of Labor leaders for fed- eral legislation restricting the right ‘of unions to strike,” Foster said. yes- , terday. “This proposed legislation while purporting to be simply the enforce- jment of union contracts by law, is in | reality a powerful means of crippling | the unions. “In case of alleged violations of con- ‘tracts, the federal courts will have the right to decide on the merits of employers’ and workers’ causes. Noth- ing further is needed. to show that such legislation will give employers a free hand to proceed as they ‘please jagainst contract-bound unions, while ‘the latter will be manipulated to the ‘employers’ satisfaction. “The whole scheme will operate legally to divide one section of the |workers from another. Union scab- bery, bad enough under present cir- |cumstances, would be enforced by the | power of the government. The court Fizhts Fascism in. U. 8. | { | Dr. Charles Fama, enemy of fascism in this country, spoke yesterday at the Bronx Rotary Club a week after a speech by Count De Revel, head of the Fascist League of North Amer- ica. He assailed the activities of the fascisti in this country, and stated that despite large funds at their disposal and various means of coercion practiced, the Fascist League only had been able to obtain 11,000 members out of the 3,989,000 Italians in the United States. The mem- bers of the club present cheered his position, since they are op- posed to any foreign variety of fascism competing with the 100 per cent American brand. ANTI-WAR DRIVE GIVEN SUPPORT (Continued from Page One) and what he is now doing, Gomez re- ported. | “If the immigration department at- | tempts to deport Sandino we will op- pose the action to the end,” Gomez} said. “As to his being in the United States illegally, I am certain that his| residence in this couptry is at least) as legal as the marijfie corps occupa-| tion of Nicaraguy./ The league is preparing to send a letter to President Coolidge from the father of one of the Marines now! stationed in Nicaragua. The letter} will bear one of the Nicaraguan war | | protest stickers on its envelope and | will constitute a test of the post of- fice ruling on the use of the s:amps. Invitations to send delegates to a New. York conference Sunday after- noon, Eeh.19, at the Labor Temple, 243 E. 84th St., were sent out yester- day to local trade unions and frater- nal organizations by the Provisional ew York Committee. The confer-, nce will form a permanent organi. | sibly as many as 101 planes on order, ation to carry on the campaign o: pposition to the Nicaraguan invasion, PRETEND TO CUT WAR MONEY; IS MERELY A TRIGK Rely on “Flying Fool” to Get Big Air Fleet (Continued from Page One) efficiently, with the present condi- ns,” and the committee added that hare would be on hand “except pos- 1,398 planes, as against the program jfigure of 1,353.” $399,000,000 for Military. The proposals for military appro- priations as a whole were recommend- ed for no other reductions except that of the air service, for which it was figured the most public sentiment would favor the full advance because of Lindbergh’s flight and other ad- vertising stunts. The large budget of $399,099,000, although including no increase in the personnel of the regu- lar army over the present strength ef 118,750, allows for much more war-like efficiency. Of great significance in the new budget, is the increase in the strength of the national guards, and the in- creased preparations for war in the Pacific, thru fortifications in Cer.tral America and the Pacific, for which most of the $33,931,000 seacoast de- fense appropriation will go. Boost Guard Air Service. Not only does the proposed budget increase the enlisted strength of the Wational Guard from the present 181,142 to 188,000, but special pro- visions are made for the maintenance \ of 18 air squadrons of the guards. Airplanes were useful to the Colorado militia in its attack on the coal strik- crs. War In Earnest. One provision in the new budget which shows how seriously the war department is preparing for the com- ing war, calls for an appropriation of 280,988 for training a munitions bat- talion composed of 250 university students. * * ° $175,000,000 Sub Program Proposed. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb 1— A total of $175,000,000 and 2,350 men will be needed to operate the thirty- five submarines Secretary. Wilbur deems indispensable to “round out the fleet” to continue the Coolidge “peace” program. The question of safety devices was brought into the discussion very neat- ly, and formed one of the strongest arguments for the expenditure, utiliz- ing the S-4 disaster to boost the new program, as previously indicated in The DAILY WORKER. TWO HUNDRED PAGES OF WORKINGCLASS ACTION THE BELT New Playwrights’ Theatre Production of Paul Sifton's Satire of the American Speed-up System JUST PUBLISHED $2.00 Get a copy for your library from the JIMMIE HIGGINS BOOK SHOP 106 UNIVERSITY PLACE NEW YORK CITY Other New Playwrights’ Productions in Print | on the forged map. Another example will be quick to use'the law to subai- * * . LOUD SPEAKER EARTH SAYS SANDING ENDED PROFITS. (Continued from Page One) | ing set up an independent gove | ment, dedicated to the task of freeing! Nicaragua from Wall Street rm revoked Butters’ pe seized the mines, and Butters and other mine owners to leave the country, Mules which were the personal property of Butiers| were returned to him. Butters gave Senator Nye of North Dakota a letter which he said he had | received from Sandino before leaving | Nicaragua. This letter follows: | “General Headquarters of the De-| fenders of the National Rights, El Chipote, June 18, 1927—To Mr.| Charles Butters, manager of the min-! ing company San Albino: | “In view of the fact that the Amer- | dean forces are found violating the national territory in a warlike manner and imposing indecorous conditions upon the Liberal Party, humiliating | with cynical grandeur our sovereign- ty, I stand ready at the head of a handful of heroic mountaineer sol- diers, to defend, inch by inch, the in- tegrity of my country, no matter if for so doing we shall have to offer our lives on the altar of liberty, and for the same reason, fulfilling the duty that human right imposes, you will abandon the zone that is under the control of my forces, you and all the Americans who reside in San Al- bino, to which effect you will deliver to Mr. Materson, under rigorous in- ventory, your belongings, said inter- ests being under military seizure, in order to guarantee the wages of my compatriots to whom, up to the pre- sent time, said interests are indebted. “Your servant, “(Signed) A. C. SANDINO.” On its face the letter indicates that Sandino’s soldiers are largely com- _ posed of mine workers, and that some have claims against Butters d Agency which were used against | a ctors and’ get. medicine,” land all similar organizations which | f is in the spelling of the city Keske- met, spelt with an added letter “n” in the fake document, Such doucments as printed today and previously, make up the so-called , “jegal evidence” used not only in the | vase of Rakosi and his comrades, but | in the arrest of Szanto Zoltan and} others active during the strike wave | in the beginning of 1927. It is also| i forgeries prepared by y and the Kron Detective | workers in the alled Vagi, social- | st party, and in the trade unions; 2 forced to struggle underground | luring the present bloody Horthy- | Eethlen regime. Tomorrow we will | show how the Horthy spies helped | frame a worker in the United States. Was First U. S. Victim In the late world slaughter of workers for the benefit of two op- posing groups of bankers, Louis J. Genella of New Orleans had the honor, on June 1, 1917, of being the first member of the U. 8. Army to be wounded. The war department has just got around to inform Gen- | started. spread of disease, the strike leader said. “The jails are filthy. If we walk along the roads, they ask us a lot of questions and then lock us up. I think that is where a lot of the disease is They keep us there a few days, and try to fine us. But we al- ways appeal and all the cases are still pending. Still, the few days in that unsanitary pigs-pen is enough to make anybody sick.” “We must have money to pay Glovak said, “I have come here to appeal to the New York workers to help us in our great @truggle by sending as much money as they can to the Relief office here. They have helped us wonderfully, but our need is so great!” To Aid Strikers. At the Enlarged Conference for Miners’ Relief, to be held at the La- bor Temple, 244 E. 14th St., Feb. 18 at 4 p. m., many striking miners will tell the story of conditions in the various mining camps. Rachel Getto, a striking miner's wife will present the story of the women’s share in the struggle. She will outline the accomplishments and future plans of the newly formed Women’s Auxiliaries of the United Mine Workers. All workmen’s, fraternal and ben- evolent organizations are invited by the Miners Relief Committee, Room 233, 799 Broadway, to send delegates to this conference, Credentials may be obtained at the office of the com- mittee. The conference will be the largest of its kind ever called in this city, and there will be an elaborate program. An enlarged executive committee will be elected from among the delegates. WORKERS’ FORUM. PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 1—V. F. Calverton of Baltimore, editor of the Modern Quarterly, will lecture at the Philadelphia Workers’ Forum, Sunday evening, 8 p. m., Feb. 5th, at Grand Fraternity Hall, 1626 Arch St. His ella of this, after 10 and a half subject will be “Is Monogamy Desir- able.” y \dize the yellow dog contract system. More Looms Per Worker. “One of the eae insidious wees NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Feb. 1.—)0f the proposed legislation is the so- Fearing that their action may prove called “faci-finding bureau” which is to be the proverbial “straw -that;to be set up. This means postpone- broke. the camel’s back,” the New | ment of strikes pending the time that Bedford Mill owners who have been’ the employers can organize their anti- hopefully watching the effect of the| Strike propaganda thru the “fact find- wage slash on the workers in the ad-| ing committee” and organize their | journing city of Fall River, are pre- armies of scabs and gunmen to break paring ‘to announce that instead of the cut, they intend merely to com- pel every worker to operate more looms than heretofore. Those not operating looms will be “asked” to work longer at the same rate of pay, it was learned today. The workers, however, give many indications of fighting this move of their employers. ~ Poor Starve; She Idles In the same state in which Mrs. Richard Cadwalader, Jr., Philadel- phia_ millionairess shown above, makes her home, tens of thousands of miners and their families ure starving in a great fight to estab- lish decent living conditions for themselves. No twinges of the heart come to Mrs. Cadwalader, , however, as she sails in the most luxurious yacht in the world, which is said to have cost her $2,000,000. All the hardware on the yacht is of gold, and marble bathrooms, a $20,000 pipe organ, and a glass ob- servation room | the strike. “One phase of the open shop offen- ‘sive of the employers which has now | brought the labor movement into the greatest crisis of its his.ory, is the direct smashing of unions as is now ,the case in the miners’ organization. | Another phase is the systematic strip- “ping of the workers’ rights, the de- vitalizing of the existing unions and the building of barriers against future organizations, by such laws as the Watson-Parker law, and the federal legislation proposed by the American Bar Association. It is highly signifi- cant that this legislation proposed by the American Bar Association comes in the midst of the great capitalist offensive against the workers’ stand- ards and labor organization that mark the present American situation. “Once more Green, Woll and Co. prove that they are the agents of American imperialism. They are working hand in glove wi-.h the capi- talists against the workers. It is high | time that the workers definitely real- | ized this fact. With 3,000,000 unem- ; ployed and with the employers assail- ! ing the unions on all fronts, .he mis- leaders of labor are the bosses’ trusted lieutenants. “The workers must rally to fight against this fresh attack. In every labor organization protest mus. be made. This great’ conspiracy of capi- talists and the A. F. of L. leaders against the working class must be smashed. Mass demonstrations by the workers against the proposals can and will defeat them. Everywhere mili- tant and progressive workers should get into action to have their unions condemn this fresh treason by the A. F. of L. leadership, and to mobilize prea a to demonstrate against By John Howard Lawson $2.00 each. By Em Jo Basche JOIN IN A REAL FIGHT! jue reat! Organization of the unorgan- ized, Miners’ Relief. Recognition and Defense of the Soviet Union. 4. A Labor Party. 5. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. 2. 3. AGAINST Injunctions. Company Unions. Unemployment. Persecution of the Foreign Born. War. ADDRESS OCCUPATION ....cceccseescecseoere please check this box. ( Join a Fighting Party! Join the Workers (Communist) Party of America Application for Membership in Workers (Communist) Party (Fill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 E. 125 St. N. Y. C.) 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