The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Emtered as aecund-ciuen wesress as tuc Duss Uifice at New York, THE DAILY WORKER. N. ¥» umder the act of March 3, 1870. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V. No. 33. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $4.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6,00 per year. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1928 Published dally except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York. N. ¥. Price 3 Cents CONNECT AMERICAN FASCISTS WITH NEW ATTACK ON “DAILY” Official of Veterans of Foreign Wars Sends Marked Copies to Headquarters “Builders” Reply to Attack by Intensifying Drive for New Readers Characterizing as “disgusting” accounts appearing in The DAILY WORKER of the struggle to save William F. Dunne, Bert Miller and Alex Bittelman from five-year jail terms and The DAILY WORKER from destruc- ® tion, Walter I. Joyce, representa- tive of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, with headquarters at 32 Union Square, stated yesterday that he has sent marked copies of The DAILY WORKER containing the stories to the headquarters of his organization in Kansas City. He did not state for what purpose they would there be em- ployed. Joyce admitted that he read The DAILY WORKER every morning but when questioned more closely denied that he knew the names of any of the victims involved in the attempt to railroad the three Communists to jail on the flimsy charge of “violating the postal laws” as a result of the publi- cation of the poem “America” by David Gordon. “Patriots” Evasive. > | Extreme irritation at being openly | connected with the governmeni’s,ac- tion was the only comment made by a} dozen representatives) 6f a half dozen | militaristic ass jations ‘approached | by The DAILY 'ORKER reporter. The spokesnian forthe Military Or- der of the World War, with head- quarters at 52 Vanderbilt avenue, re- fused to make any comment on the affair in which his organization is un- derstood to have played an active part, but intimated that he knew of The DAILY WORKER. He “had heard of it,” he: said. The spokesman for the American ‘Legion’s state headquarters and.vari- ous local ‘posts refused to commit himself in any way on the arrest, of the’ three Communists. Readers Back Fight. Responding to the new attack against The DAILY WORKER, read- ers thruout the United States are sending in assurances that it will on- ly intensify their activity in the pres-j{ ent drive to increase,the circulation by 10,000, The drive is being conduct- ed jointly with the campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party for 5,000 new members. During the present week 41 new subscriptions arrived from Los An- geles, Calif., thru the enthusiastic ac- (Continued onf Page Two), THWART’PLAN TO BAR COMMUNISTS Socialist Motion at the Negro Meeting Lost An attempt to use the conference . held Tuesday night at the Abyssynian Church, Seventh Ave. and W. 130th St. to protest against the discrimina- tion of Negro students at New York University as a means of attacking the Workers (Communist) Party was defeated by a unanimous vote of the conference representing 15 labor, student and civic organizations. After the conference had accepted the report of the executjve committee, which includes the holding of a mass meeting on Thursday, Feb. 24 at St. Marks M, E. Church, 138th St. and Edgecombe Ave., Delegate Wagner, a socialist, representing the Interna- tional Students’ Committee made a motion that no Communists be al- lowed to speak at the mass meeting. Oscar Fisher, representing the Young Workers (Communist) League and several other delegates then spoke. Wagner’s motion was de- feated by a unanimous vote. The conference also voted to hold another conference at St. Marks Church on Feb. 14. Capmakers to Conduct ling school. Open Forum Tonight A topic that has aroused consider- able interest among the membership of the Capmakers’ Union will be the subject of an open forum to be held. today iramediately after work at the| headquarters of the Progressive Labor Centre, 108 E. 14th St. The discussion on “Unemployment the benefits aes despite an ‘accumnlated fund Purpose. — ORGANIZATION, AGITPROP HEADS: TELL OF PROGRESS Conference Held After Party Plenum The plenum of the Central Com- mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party having adjourned its last ses- sion Tuesday night, a large and ex- tremely significant Agitprop and Or- ganization Conference was .called to {order yesterday morning by Jack Stachel, head of the organization de- partment of the Party. Members of the Central Committee, \district organizers, heads of depart- iments, district agitprop directors, |district organization secretaries: and other Party functionaries attended the conference, Stachel reported at length for the Organization Department, At the same session Bertram D. Wolfe, national Agitprop director of the Party, reported on the activities | of the department. Full reports of these speeches an Fu . f the discussion will be given in | R Us. h funds; r issues of The DAILY WORKER, ‘The third “instalment of the speech of Jay Lovestone, executive secretary ef the Party, in reporting for’ the | Political Committee will be found on Page 2 of sn issue. POLICE ARREST 1 PIONEER MEMBERS Distributed Leaflets in School Campaign Two children, Sam Kessler, 15 and Joe Grossman, 14, both members of the Young Pioneers of America, were arrested yesterday on Rockaway ana Liberty Avenues, Brownsville, while dis.ributing leaflets to the pupils” oi Public School 109 as they were leay- The leaflet informed the children of a protest meeting held by their parents last Saturday to do away with the school regulation forc- ing them to eat in the school cafe- teria. It also pointed out that the parents won their demands only thru organization and that the children themselves should therefore unite to do away with other objectionable school conditions, such as the old building. They were further called to a mass meeting at 4 p. m. today, at Krieger’s Hall, Power and Blake Aves., Brownsville, arranged by the Young Pioneers of America to dis- cuss their own school situation. The children were arrested prior to the meeting and taken to the district police station where they were later dismissed. Despite the fact that police pre- vented many children from entering the hall, 200 were present and a suc- cessful meeting was conducted. The “Young Comrade” was distributed and 75 children filed applications to join the ‘Young Pioneers organization, which is carrying on a struggle to better the conditions in the schools. Halonen Will Talk on’ Cooperatives Tonight |‘he Géorge Halonen, head of the co- operative department of the Work- ers (Communist) Party of America and a recent delegate to the Interna- ional Congress of Cooperatives, and one of the leaders in the American cooperative movement, will begin his series of three lectures on “The Co- operative Movement,” tonight at 2700. Bronx Park East. This lecture will be followed by lectures on -Friday evening and Sunday afternoon. Housing Bill Pending ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 8.—A_ bill | league at 103 py the Unemployed Fund” will be] now pendng before the legislature Pointing out tl of special interest in view of the fact | which provides for a general revision | danger of war greater than ever since union officials suddenly | of the tenement house laws will be | 1914, but that payment of unemployment | given a ore & by the assembly judi-|ity in Nicaragua, Max Bedacht opened tise | Tucaday,, Feb.:21, it | the xession with a report on the plen- i : “ jm. of the Party. He called upon ciary. commit is announced: HARRISON BARRED FROM NICARAGUA FIGHTING ZONE Sandino Charles Yale Havclaots er on board United States Steamship “Olanchoa” in some Honduran port, according to a cable message received by his wife last night. Harrison left New York about two weeks ago for the purpose of mak- ing, contact with General Sandino and his Nicaraguan army with the inten- tion of writing “inside stuff” on the war on Nicaragua and portraying the side of the anti-imperialist forces. Strong Censorship. According to the message received he was. not allowed to land in Nica- dicates that a strong censorship has been established by the American military forces. It is not known if any formal charges have been made against him by the authorities or if he is being held as a result of military routine. Harrison was in charge of publicity for the Greco-Carriilo defense, the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Commit- tee, 4/Planned to Visit Gen. | New'} | York hewspaperman, isa prison- ragua and the wording of the two/ brief messages sent to his wife in- | Penn. Scabs Shoot at These Miner cecpalagn Bosses Peron Plot The schoclroom in the Curry school at Daisytown, Pennsylvania, shown above, would have been the seene of a gruesome tragedy had plans of the coal operators and Coal and Iron police been successful. Two scabs, who have confessed that they were paid $25 apiece for the crime, fired several rifle fusillades into the schoolroom thru one of the windows, narrowly missing several of the children, and creating a panic in the schoolroom. The gunmen confessed that they were directed by the Coal and Iron Police in the shooting and that they were brought in from Ohio by H. C. Isabel, chief of the comissary of the Pitts- Photo shows Miss Anna Willard, teacher of the Curry school, and her pupils after the reopening of the school. burgh Terminal Coal Corporation. Save Daily Wm. F. Dunne; anes Beit Miller and Alex. Bittelman were led hand- cuffed into the United States Cir- cuit Court two days ago. Another step had been taken in the con- spiracy by which the American capitalists thru their henchmen, the militaristic associations, are at- tempting to des.roy the DAILY WORKER, the only English daily organ of the miltant American workers. For more than eight months the American capitalists have been preparing the at.ack on the DAILY WORKER, and have struck at the moment when they felt they might succeed in destroying the workers’ press. Only a united effort by all militant American workers can de- feat them and save the DAILY WORKER from the overwhelming costs of litigation with which their enemies are attempting to break the DAILY WORKER financially. All workers should rally io the support of their paper. Contribu- tions should be rushed to the DAILY WORKER at once if the DAILY WORKER is to be saved and Dunne, Miller and Bittelman saved from long terms in jail. Pastor’s Mind Still Under a Microscope RIVERHEAD, \N. Y., Feb. 8—A lunacy commission appointed to de- termine the sanity of Claude H. Prid- dy, former pastor, who police say killed his wife and two young sons ‘|with an axe at their Farmingdale home one week ago today, began its hearings in the grand jury room of the Loud treasurer’s building here Worker Now| ANTI-STRIKE LAW DRIVE CONTINUES Labor Musters Forces for Defense A statement by Gilbert H. Mon- tague, chairman of the committee on uniform laws of the American Bar Association, was yesterday’s contri- bution to the propaganda barrage now being launched by the Bar Associa- tion in support of their proposed anti- strike law. It is understood that the letters of approval from the open-shoppers and labor-haters having been exhausted Julius Henry Cohen, in charge of the campaign, has now come to the ex- tremity of. having members of the Bar Association supply the necessary thunder. Mr. Montague’s statement suggests that industries which have been averse to having any “outside” interference with their affairs will find in the proposed anti-strike law the long- awaited panacea by which industrial “peace” will be realized. The hearings next week, according to Mr. Cohen, will be more largely attended than was at first expected. This is the sixth time that this bit of enlightening information has been issued by Mr. Cohen, Labox opposition to the anti-s' law Kas been crystal Informa tion secured indicates that a number of local unions wiil send representa tives to the hearing to voice the oppo- sition of the rank and file to the bili which is seen asa step in the com- pany-unionization of the trade unions Youth Leaders Will Attend Annual Dance The annual dance of the Young Workers. (Communist) League which is to be held on Saturday, at New Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave., will also be a reunion of al! League leaders of the country. Or- ganizers, who have been doing ficl: work in ‘West and e mining districts, ‘will be present at the affair. “Red” Report Scares Town; All. 0. K. Now) CRANFORD, N. J., Feb. 8.—The law abiding god-fearing citizens of this town received a bad scare when the Cranford Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars announced that Dr. rank Bohn, who was invited to ad- dress the Community Forum here on February 19, was a “Red” whom it would be dangerous for the prosper- ous Cranford citizens to hear. Commander Charles Lanza, the green grocer of Cranford, said that three department of justice agents had told him that Bohn was “Red.” the town did not get over its fright until the chairman of the Community forum produced scores of letters ‘rom bankers and women’s organiza- tions endorsing Dr. Bohn, and deny- ing that he was a “Bolshevik.” Once Upon a Time. In addition it turned out that Bohn was writing regularly for such safe and sane papers as the New York Times, Post and Herald Tribune. It turned out that Bohn, as a young, man out of college 20 years ago, had! signed a petition sympathetic to the! I. W. W., but has long since seen the error of his ways. Cranford is now) breathing easly again. | Committee of New Shoe Workers Union to Meet The committee elected at the first mass meeting of the Shoeworkers’ | Union several weeks ago held its first | meeting recently to discuss definite | plans for building up the new union. It has been agreed that the union shall be known as the Basonetes Shoe and Slipper Workers of Am ica. A second mass meeting of the general membership will be held Tues-' day, February 14, to hear the final, report of the committee and to elect permanent officers. The Gonwst tion will meet again this Friday to prepare | its report. The union is inaugurating a satel paign to establish itself firmly in the’ ranks of the shoe workers; a member- ship drive will also be carried on in conjunction with this campaign. | YOUTH TH FACING INDUSTRIAL CRISIS Young ‘Workers Buro Meet Discusses Danger of Worl World War Preparation of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League for the com- ing industrial struggles in which the young workers. will play an import- ant role marked the opening session of the enlarged buro meeting of the 14th St., yesterday. it not only was the there was war in real- the league to join with the Party in an intensified preparation against the war danger and to defeat the im- mediate aggression of United States imperialism in Central America, Be- dacht pointed to steps taken by the Party plenum to meet the increased attacks on the workers’ standards and organizations. Reporting for the buro to its en- larged session, Herbert Zam, execu- of the Teague, described y shown by the young | workers in the miners’ strikes in’ Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado. Militancy and leadership displayed by the youth in the mining fields indi- cate the role the young workers are assuming, especially in the basic in-| dustries, where they are’ respondin; readily to the critical condition de- \ veloping, he said. Zam cited also the increased irm- portance of the youth in basic indus- tries, where such a large proportion (Gontinued on Page Two) DENVER STRIKERS. ARE BLACKJACKED Men Are Beaten While Handcuffed DENVER, Colo., Feb. 8. — Hand- cuffed and with a gunnysack thrown over his head, Joe Whitmore, a strik- ing Walsenburg miner, was taken from jail at midnight Jan. 31 by three state policemen and driven 40 miles to Lavetta, where he was beaten nearly senseless, Whitmore reported today after making his way back to Denver. It took the miner all of the fol- lowing day to crawl six miles to the! nearest human habitation, a lumber camp, he reported. Whitmore is now in Denver to protest to Governor Adams, who is expected to make the} usual investigation by calling Lewis Scherf, head of the state police, and accepting his story. Left Senseless on Road. Marion Simovic, who was arrested Jan. 30 with Whitmore in a raid on |a Walsenburg Hall, was taken out of | jail at the same time and after a severe beating by state police was |left unconscious on the road. Simovic has not been seen since. Whitmore reports that several men} are lodged in the basement of the} Walsenburg jail without ventilation and without proper drinking water. | ; These men receive the vilest treat- ment, Whitmore said, and are blac (Continued on Page Five) SENATE ADJOURNS. TEAPOT HEARING WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—The seh- jate Teapot Dome oil graft inquiry | committee adjourned today for an in- definite period subject to the chair- man’s call, following the examination of witnesses regarding the Continen- tal Trading Co.’s $50,000,000 oil deal and the same company’s $3,000,000 liberty bond fund. The inquiry is being conducted be- fore the senate committee on public lands. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., personally urged Robert W. Stewart, chairman jof the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, “to tell all” he knew about the $50,- |000,000 deal and was “sorry” when the committee made public corre- spondence between Rockefeller and Sen. Thomas J. Walsh (D) of Mon- tana. Whole Industry Under Cloud. Rockefeller told the Indiana chair- nan that. he should speak “to remove the cloud of suspicion which hangs over the entire oil industry.” Stewart defied the sendte commit- tee and refused to tell what he knew (Continued on Page Five) | | | MOBILIZING T0 FIGHT FOR UNION _ Holding Conferences in NEW MILITANT WAVE IN MINE UNION: U. S. Authorities Hold N. Y. Joi Journalist t Aboard Steamen oe PROGRESSIVESARE All Districts | (Special to The AILY WORKER) PITTSBURGH, Feb. 8—Reports received here from the largest dis- tricts of the United Mine Workers show that large numbers of miners, aroused by the crisis in the union and |the failure of the union leadership to meet it, are organizing to force | che adoption of a militant program. Big District Conferences. Following the recent c@nference of | progressive miners in Pittsburgh, at- |tended by 125 delegates from lccal | unions, a big rank and file conference | has been held in Ohio attended by |150 delegates representing between |85 and 40 local unions and more than 50 per cent of the membership. | In Illinois a similar conference is being organized by militant miners. The “Save the Union” committee in charge of the progressive movement reports that its new paper “The Coal Digger” is meeting with an enthusias- tic response from all sections ef the union and that in dozens of tocal unions the program is being discussed and supported. Illinois Swings Into Line. Tn Mlinois especially, where the |Signing of the separate agreement by Lewis machine made for demoral- ization by arousing false hopes of a permenent settlement on the basis of the Jacksonville contract, the increase of unemployment—from 40 to 50 per cent of the _Imembership are affected —and the increase of speeding’ up, coupled with the now obvious intention of the Lewis machine to accept a (Continued on Page Two) LEADERS ADDRESS LABOR STUDENTS Celebrate Opening of Training Course Over 1,000 sorkerd last night wel- comed the 20 incoming students to the National Training Course being inaugurated at the Workers’ School at a reception held at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place. The speakers included Jay Love- stone, executive secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, William Z, Foster, William W, Weinstone, Ben Gold, leader of the Furriers’ Union, Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the Workers’ School, Robert Minor, edi- tor of The DAILY WORKER, Tom | Foley and Tom Fleming, students. Training For Class Struggle. | Lovestone, greeting the students en |behalf of the Central Committee of |the Workers (Communist) Party, de- clared that the National Training {Course is a step in the direction of aining Communist experts in the ‘class struggle. | D. Benjamin, New York agitprop director, welcomed the students on be- half of the Distrie tExecutive Com- mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party. “The establishment of this full- time course,” declared Wolfe, “is of the greatest significance to our Par- ty, and is an indication of the re- markable advance we have made since our school was organized.” Foster said that now more than at any other time in the history of Amer- ican labor is it essential to train lead- ers to fight the offensive of the bosses in the unions, and to expose the war aims of the American imperialists. A musical program in which Dorsha, the dancer, and the Sterling Trio participated followed. Nicaragua Protest Meet in Brownsville Tonight The invasion of Nicaragua by U. S. marines will be protested at a mass meeting tonight at 8 o’clock at Hopkinson Mansion, 428 Hopkinson Ave., Brooklyn. The meeting is ar- ranged by the Brownsville Subsection Workers (Communist) Party. f The speakers will include Bertran, D. Wolfe, director, Workers Schoo! Herbert Zam, executive secretar | Young Workers (Communist) Leag and Ray Ragozin, Teachers Un Charles Reis, of the local Party ganizay‘on, will F doer t BS We lea oe