The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 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. 32. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, 85.00 per year. $6.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail Entered an sccunu-ciien san NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8, 1928 HE DAILY WORKER. vilice at New Xork, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1579. Published dally except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ~ “Defend Daily Worker, ” Ts Call Issued by Workers (Communist) Party Plenum 2,000 MINERS ON WORKERS/URGED TO RESIST NEW LEGAL ATTACK Striking Coal Miners Voted Support With stormy ovation the closing ses- | sion of the plenum of the Central Committee of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party yesterday made its reply to the indictments of the federal grand jury attempting to suppress the central organ of ,the Party, DAILY WORKER. Calling upon the entire membership of che Workers (Communist) Party and its many sympathizers to rally quickly as one man to the defense of the DAILY WORKER as the only revolutionary daily paper in the Eng- lish language in the whole worid, and as the press organ of leadership in the present vital struggles of che American workers, the plenum adopt- ed unanimously the foliow.ng resolu- | tion: | “Again the black forces of im- perialism have launched an aitack to erush The DAILY WOKKtR, the only English Communist daily in the! world. Hl A Challenge. | “The very existence of our merce tionary daily in this period of whole-| sale attacks against the labor move-| ment has been a challenge to the capi- | valISt claSS and ali lus agenes. | “The hisvory of capitaust reaction) against the labor movement follows ay logic of its own. ‘I'ne first blow is) always delivered against the most ad-| vanced section in an efiort to destroy! the most potent railying-force for | mass resistance io capitalist tyranny.) This was the method used in the present drive against the labor move- ment. ‘The heaviest blows were de- livered against the’ Communists ana the left wing in the labor movemen in order to clear the way for an as- sault upon the balance of the labor! movement. Unmasked Workers’ Enemies. It is a tribute to the vitality of our Party that we have been able to maintain The DAILY WORKER in spite of this drive. Our daily has borne the fiercest attacks of the whole capitalist class as expressed in its state power. It has unmasked be- fore the workers the reacciionary combination of employers, police, the courts and the treacherous trade union officials who endeavor to de- liver the working class bound aid gagged to the capitalist class. Ware) after wage of reaction rolled over >: Daily, but still it stands firmly be- cause of the devotion of our mem- bers and sympathizers. Must Repel Attack. “The new federal warrants against members of the editorial and business | staffs of The DAILY WORKER come at a time when the reactionary of- ficialdom of labor and the American Bar Associaiion have entered into new conspiracies to bind the labor unions to the chariots of the war-| mongers. { “This attack comes at a moment when The DAILY WORKER is under the severest financial strain. The Central Committee of the Party calls upon the membership and all sym- pathisers to do all in their power now to help our DAILY WORKER to meet the crisis of combined police attack | > The | be 4 Even the workers’ children are against the present extreme unemployment situation. workers’ families demonstrating in the streets of Passaic where a meet- ing of unemployed workers was held last Saturday. -elected at this meeting to join with cail to fight together. Unemployment. aiding their fathers in the struggle This shows the A council was the New York unemployment coun- © Save the Daily Worker and | Dunne, Miller, Bittelman The DAILY WORKER is facing extinction at the hands of the United States courts, instruments of American capitalism. Wm. F. Dunne, Alex- ander Bittelman and Bert Miller are awaiting re-arrest on charges which involve thousands of dollars in fines and hundreds of thousands of dollars from five years apiece in federal can save these men from jail and The Rush contributions. ican labor’s only daily paper. for carrying on the legal fight to save the three arrested Communists Only the united support of the whole militant American working class Every cent is needed to rescue Dunne, Bittelman, Miller from the clutches of American capitalism and save militant Amer- itiaries. DAILY WORKER from destruction. A.F.L. OFFICIALS — IN SHAM BATTLE, Open Shoppers Carry on} Attack WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—While the officials of the United Mine Workers, forced by the incréasing pressure of the rank and file to make a pretense at action, are accusing the largest mine owners and railroads of the country of a conspiracy to destroy the miners’ union and the whole labor movement, officials of the American Federation of Labor are dallying here with plans for “legislative” pressure on congress. The Whole of “Labor.” Nearly one hundred representatives of various International trade unions and Central Bodies will meet here to- | day at A, F. of L. headquarters to work out a legislative program which will tomorrow be presented before | the Judiciary Committee of the senate. | The labor officials are to appear in favor of the Shipstead anti-injunction bill. The meeting today is the second in @nd the financial strain which endan-|a series which William Green, presi- gers its life. ,dent of the A. F. of L. has announced This lafest attack must be re-| Will be the means of “fighting” the pelled and The DAILY WORKER ‘injunction menace. On Sunday in New must emerge stronger than ever from! York, Pres. Green and a number of the fight in order to meet the{International Union officials sought tremendous tasks before us. 'to convince a mass meeting. of trade “The Plenum of the Central Com-'unionists that “legislative” pressure mittee of the Workers (Communist) was the best means of combatting the Party calls upon the Party members injunction. So lame and mgnifestly and the working class to rally at unconvincing were the words .? the once tothe support of The DAILY | labor officials that the audience jeer- WORKER in order that we may be ed and booed the speakers, Shouts able to survive and to lead the fight; were raised for a labor party and against our enemies, the class enemies | “real action.” .| thé needle trades at a meeting of the of the workers and farmers of this country.” | The enthusiastic response of the as-' sembly was indicative of a determin- ation on the par. of all to see the fight thru. Many declared that the fight to preserve the life of the DAILY WORKER pas the fight to make the Par.y\trfly a mass Com- munist Party. The Plenum also adopted a resolu- tion pledging full support to the strik- ing coal miners of the Pennsylvania and Ohio fields and the Colorado field and welcoming the development of mass picketing in Pennsylvania. The resolution declared that the} development of mass picketing in jis “Never Again,” Says. Green. It is reliably reported. that Green | will never again come to address a rank and file mass meeting at New York City. Those close to Green re- port him to have remarked: “The workers of New York are too smart for us.” 3 On Friday a tentatively scheduled meeting will be held at which the officials of the United Mine Work- ers will “present” their case against the railroads and mine owners before the Committee on Interstate Com- merce. John L. Lewis, president of NEW STODENTS TO BE WELCOMED Party Leaders Speak at Irving Plaza The concert and mass meeting to greet the students to the national day training course of the Workers School will be held tonight at 8 o’clock, at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. The speakers will be Jay-Lovestone, William Z. Foster, William W. Wein- stone, Bertram D. Wolfe, Ben Gold and on¢é 6) ie incoming students. The program will include dances by Dorsha and music by the Sterling Casino. ~ The students who will attend the school include Thomas Foley, Phila- delphia; Nathan Shaffer, Cleveland; Carl Hacker, Cleveland; Edward To- runen, Minneapolis; Roy E. Stephens, Omaha, Nebraska; Morris Pobersky, Minneapolis; Arthur Starr, White Martin, N. D.; V. V. Dart, Oakland, Calif. and Tom Fleming, San Fran- cisco, Calif. Educational League of Amalgamated to Meet Joseph Boruchovich, manager of Cloak Operators’ Local 2, will lead a discussion on the general situation in ‘| working 8 entral Committee of | Workers Party Makes | Important Decisions || The plenary sitting of the Cen- ral Committee of the Workers | Communist) Party at its closing | | ession »yesterday adopted unani-| | ously the theses of the Political | Jommittee on the present situation | | ind the tasks of the Party. Also unanimously passed were resolu- ions on ‘the trade union tasks of he Party, condemning the Opposi- | tion in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, on the struggle in the coal fields, and for defense and | | aid of The DAILY WORKER against the attack of the federal government. The resolution on} | anti-imperialist work was. referred , | to the Political Committee for re-| | drafting. ¢ } AWAIT-RE-ARREST IN NEW ATTACK ON THE DAILY WORKER. Support Is Urgent for Legal Defense The DAILY WORKER is threat- ened with estinction. Without suf- ficient funds to meet the terrific ecsts of the litigation which its enemies have forced on it, with insuf- ficient organization, and menaced by i ence called by the | Colorado ; Relief | for | 244 E. 14th St. “When we young fellows go on th shout yells like ‘don’t sell your heart < from Harwick, Pa., said in an inter- view yesterday. The young miner was sent as spokes- man from the coal fields to the city- wide relief confer- Pennsylvania-Ohio- Miners’ Committee Saturday at the Labor Temple, The Workers’ In- ternational Relief is co-operating with the relief committee. Call Out Police. “They know we get results, so the state police are called out to keep us quiet,” contin- ued Sabitini. “The only words we are allowed to say are ‘strike on’, They let the older men talk as much as they want, though. If any of us talk loud, they threaten to arrest us on charges of disor- derly conduct. They tell us what legal suppression, The DAILY WORKER can only be saved if the united support of militant American every dollar and every ounce of strength to save Wil- liam F. Dunne, Alex Bittelman and Bert Miller, from the federal jails. No date has been set for the. re- opening of the case against the three arrested men. The federal authori- ties reserve the ght to strike when they are fully prepared. Halt Only Temporary. The release of Dunne, assistant edi- tor of The DAILY WORKER, Miller, former business manager and Bittel- man, former editor of the magazine section of The DAILY WORKER, is merely a temporary halt in the of- ficial plot to crush the only English (Continued on Page Two) WM. GREEN HEADS LABOR “SELL-OUT” Will Testify for Bill En- slaving Workers Announcement by Julius Henry Cohen, Chairman of the Bar Associa- tion Committee which is carrying on a campaign to put over a national anti-strike law, that Wm. Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, will come here in person on Feb. 16, to testify in favor of the proposal, is the first official con- firmation that the A. F. of L. officials intend to go through with the pro- ceeding in spite of the considerable opposition which has been developing against the bill. The Bar Association Committee, it is known, has carefully refrained from disclosing any of the unfavor- able comment which has come to it from many parts of the country. An atmosphere of approval of the pro- posal has been created by a steady Amalgamated Clothing Workers sec- tion of the Trade Union Educational League. The meeting will be held to- morrow night at 8 o’clock in the Pro- gressive Labor Center, 103 E. 14th St. In an effort to explain its action in allowing J. Robert O’Brien to speak unanswered in defense of the United States intervention in Nicaragua over the Debs Memorial radio station here, ithe secretary of the Debs Memorial Radio Fund has written a long letter ito The DAILY WORKER. An account of thé use of the Debs station by O’Brien was published in the union, who more than anyone else being held responsible for the this region proves the splendid fight. |Plight of the mine workers, is here WEcnaad ot Page Two) | / (Continued on Page Two) |} , The DAILY WORKER last Monday. The letter of explanation, signed by G. August Gerber, secretary of the fund, follows in part: aia i a iN ie maa: eh issue of propaganda from the office of Attorney Cohen, While it_is true that the reactionary officials of the labor movement have indicated their (Continued on Page Two) to say and how to say it,” he de- clared. “One state cop | told me that the first time he gets a chance, __he’ll: ‘send me on a long ride’ because the work I do isn’t ‘liked around here’.” Use Third Degree. The state troops arrest any miner who is active on the picket line as a “suspicious char- acter” and put him through a painful “third dgeree,” ac- cording to Sabitini. “I was picked up three times, and that ‘third degree’ is no joke, They twisted my arms and legs and shook up every bone in my body. Then they put me in a hot-box—the tem- perature is about 128 degrees. It takes two days to go through this torture, and after they let me go, each time I had to be taken to the doctor for a ‘shot’ to steady me. I could hardly walk.” The New York Women’s Miners’ Relief conference donated $2,000 for relief in the strike area, it was an- nounced yesterday. Hundreds of women in New York are collecting of the scabs walk out,” Amedeo Sabitini, 19-year-old militant Third Degree Torture Ts Used Against Coal Mine e picket line, we sing strike s and soul for a lump of coal’ SER | Militancy ‘Is Unbroken By Hardship | PITTSBURGH, Feb. 7.—Mass | picketing has spread to some of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. mines and to the Ve Mines Nos. 1, \2 and 3 of the Jones-Laughlin Steel Co. More than 2,000 miners and jmembers of their families marched through California, Pa., about 8 miles from the West | Virginia border, yesterday, hunting, begging or shouting for 'food. Most of the crowd moved | back and forth through the town everal hours, returning later in | groups to their empty cupboards at home. Militancy Unbroken. Intense suffering has not broken the militant spirit of the union miners. Efforts on the part of profes- sional strike-breakers and the coal and iron police to incite hungry miners and their fam- AMEDEO SABITINI. food and clothing for the strikers’ families and pledges of $1 a week “to a miner’s’ child alive.” women delegates will attend the en- larged relief conference. = Many }| Jakubieck, Editor Of “Obrana,” Dea Lin” ERGH GETS BAL. MIN HAITI PORT AU PRI —Opposition to t. were sharply manife | reception here to Jerry Jakubieck, editor of “Obrana,”| Qzechoslovak weekly organ of the! Workers (Communist) Party died in the Lenox Hill Hospital after an operation for appendicitis. t & Haiti, Feb. 7. United States today at the ‘Charles A. “J. Robert O’Brien, chairman of the Americanism committee of the S. Rankin Drew Post of the American Legion, and Mr. Horace G. Knowles, one-time member of the United States diplomatic corps, and generally re- garded as an able critic of United States policy in Latin America, were scheduled to debate over WEVD on the subject, “Are We Right or Wrong in Niearagua.” ‘ “As you should know, for the past number of weeks WEVD: has’ been (broadcasting a series of talke. pré- | Lindbergh who a> ‘, yesterday |from Santo Doming« SOCIALISTS DEFEND RADIO WAR-TALK MarineWho Lauded NicaraguaWar, Professional Strikebreaker senting an anti-intervention view- point condemning the administration’s activities in sending marines into Nicaragua. The policy of WEVD has always been to present the various viewpoints on all questions of public interest. “The American Legion having been scheduled to participate in a debate in which they were to present their views was to be answered by Mr. Horace G. Knowles; but because of the unfortunate incident occasioned by (Continued on Page Two) A le at Hai- Anticipating that t! | ti would express. thy feelings about American impe F, the Uni- ted States sent two < ral battle- ships to intimidate ~ \- position party and to strengthen the support of President Luis Borno, puppet of the American financiers. Despite these precautions two lead- ilies to violence are unceasing. Ax school~house fired» on~ by strike-breakers while classes were in session has been re- opened under guard. ILLINOIS MINE PACT ENDS SOON Will Discuss New Pact With Coal Bosses CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—April 1 sees the end of the separate agreement signed last October between right wing leaders of District No. 16 of the United Mine Workers and the coal: operators. The Illinois miners’ lead- ers betrayed the miners.of Pennsyl- vania and Ohio in the heat of the great battle which is still going on. A commission composed of Rice Mil- ler and H. C. Perry, president and, vice president of the Illinois opera-| tors, and Harry Fishwick and William, Sneed, president and vice president) of District No. 12 of the United Mine! Workers, is now meeting in an at-. tempt to negotiate another agree-! jment to take the place of the one’ |about to expire. By the agreement |signed last October, the miners in |such mines as the Illinois operators |chose to reopen were taken back un- der the Jacksonville wage agreement, |except for work around the machines. | Conditions against which the miners had long battled were ac- cepted by the reactionary Lewis henchman in charge of District No. 12 of the United Mine Workess, in their haste to help the Illinois opera- tors over the October to April period when the operators’ sales are greatest. | Now that the operators have been tided over their busiest period by the generosity of Fishwick and Sneed, they are in a position to make harsher demands than ever. COLO, STRIKERS _ REPUDIATE MOVE DENVER, Colo., Feb. 7.—Wiser heads have apparently prevailed among the leaders of the I. W. W. conducting the coal strike in this state, it was indicated today when the State Executive Committee of the striking miners heeding the protests ing editors of Haiti refused to attend| of thousands of miners who stand the reception in Lindbergh’s honor.| firm in their intentions not to enter Their papers were suppressed at once|@ mine until their demands are met, by the government authorities. On|Tecalled the order issued yesterday Lindbergh’s arrival a large number|for a vote on changing the strike to of banners carrying the words, “Vive|@ strike on the job. It is apparent Santino” were carried thnough the| that the danger of this false and dis- streets. x (Continued on Page Two) % i “