The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 13, 1928, Page 1

WHY CAL “DID NOT CHOOSE TO RUN” IN 1928: FEARED 1920 ELECTION OIL GRAFT EXPOSE Left to right: William J. Burns, accused recently of jury-fixing for Harry F. Sinclair; Albert B. Fall, who received a $233,000 bribe in connection with the Teapot Dome lease; Calvin Coolidge and Warren G. Hard- ing, elected in 1920 with the help of money from the same source as the “Fall” bribe; Harry F. Sinclair, who with other oil magnates furnished huge sums of money for the republican national committee; and Harry Daugherty, also of the graft cabinets of Harding and Coolidge. THE DAILY WORKER. ii THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FINAL CITY EDITION UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Entered as second. ck ae tue com Office at New Ne. ¥. un? the act of March 3, 1578, nc TSS Sc oon Id =Sd = ==EP SENET SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In N York, b; 1, $8.00 ‘. Published dail Sund. by The Nati 1 Dall: : Vol. V. No. 36. duside New York, by mai 8000 pec yee,” 6M NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1928 Fublchivg Assolition, Taos 38 Birst street, New York, x.y. Price 3 Cents Face bs il see ce a a aes: LID GE IN OIL GRAFT! REVEAL COUNTRY- (Chinese Peasants Set Up Soviets; Movement Spreads WIDE CONSP IRACY ve in Bed to > Warm TSeONTINENT? LOOT TO WRECK “DAILY” LARGE ESTATES c ELECTED HARDING Fascist Organizations Disclosed in Spy Plot to TAKEN OVER BY Suppres Militant Labor LAND LABORERS AND CAL COOLIDGE a Senators Kneel to J. D.; Regular Military System Pevails in Network; Work Together With Industrialists Report Whole Province t Whitewash Standard WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. — That : 3are his in Revolt Soo: That an organized nation-wide spy system instigated the Soon present attack on The DAILY WORKER, investigations carried on| At least a million Twantung Warren @. Hardin Iwi i : - . a . Harding and Calvin Cool- for months have now completely disclosed. This attack is only | peasants, fishermen and salt-makers tive: we elaciat the first step in a sweeping at-@———~-—__--__-_ ---_--__ |are in open revolt against the Canton resident aint vices tempt to suppress all militant | ff tt] reactionary government and have es- president | of the workers’ organizations, accord- } a Tia | tablished their own district Soviet in United States in ns; ncaa ae 1920) with “ex- “ing to the plans of the instigators. the territory arownd Hiechechin and pense” money, a Miners’ Children Lack Clothes, Must Stay The favcatigations reveal a Highly i i Honghai bays, despatches from Can- ‘Tens of thousands of miners in Pennsylvania and Ohio are engaged in a struggle to force million eager io, tricate, country-wide spy system, SEL ton admit. dollar coal cémpanies to pay them a wage for their dangerous work which would allow the miners’ fam- pie 7 bi te ap sin semi-military in character, founded in The movement of the Communist ilies to live like human beings. Food for their children depends on the generosity of their fellow workers ’ = und of a the name of “Americanism and patri- peasants, fishermen and salt-worker: all over the United States, and the lack of clothing is so acute that the miners’ children, as shown above, redder cd of a mil- otism,” which aims to establish ab- {is drawmg new thousands into it must lie in bed all day to keep warm. Workers should send contributions to the Pennsylvyania-Ohio Min- lion dol'ars stolen solute censorship and suppression of | weekly, the reports state, and is driv- ers’ Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Penn., or 799 Broadway, New York. pee it pen See MONE a Se BAS DRT Nd See e all anti-capitalist criticism as effi- ing the landlords out of the territory) ——————>--——_-—— - — " Aiea nt ciently as an army, and the agents controlled by the peasants and work- : ° st ze Raeaey are even termed civilian G2 men just Wi ers. Titles to the estates are being POLICE ATTACK a Co.,” and as the army intelligence men are Utter Futility of Plan wiped out and the property of the ; that thus the pres- Will H termed military G2s. Now Clear wealthy landholders is being taken W R KLIEF C A MP IGN ent president of ill Hays Prominent among these military i over by the peasants in the name of| _ A | PHILA TOILERS the United States and patriotic groups are the American! WASHINGTO Gary lias ig. | the Soviets. is in office as a beneficiary of the 2 “4 si Oaeaae swell Teapot Dome oil graft shared in by Legion, the Reserve Officers’ Associ-| erable bitterness is being engendered| The rapid growth of the peasant . ‘ ‘ast a ted tate istrict 2 ; . ation, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, | here over what is cohatecat typical|movement is threatening to carry aeons preparedians tar oe baa a Fat at Sepa as ee fa his former cabinet member, Albert B. the Military Intelligence Organiza-| betrayal of the workers’ interests by|with it all the neighboring districts 24tion of forces to secure immediate bake h hs ig i ( eae aM tig S h M ti - A Fall—is the scandal which hangs tion, and particularly the Keymen of | so-called impariial judges in an arbi-|and the Canionese authorities are re- relief for the four and one-half mil | ent Tc yMetae ate atid sae mas eeting, rrest | heavy over Washington today. America. tration decision on the railroads un-|ported to be in consternation at its|lions of unemployed workers have 3 2 A W |_ The sensational realization has hit In a recent circular sent by ae der the Watson-Parker Law. Prograes been speeded up during the past two leet loesteee at lave Wal Dozen orkers bil erred that the moment, several Reserve es a eal Hate Arbitrators in -the Engineers re-| Scores of missionaries, fleeing from| days following the exposure. of the| unemployed which was launched by (Special to The Daily Worker) | aad Heke ave ae bs —* fs quest for a wage increase on the|the territory now under the peasants’ fact that Governor Smith’s survey,|Joseph M. Ryan, president of the Pes, 2 iy a at he “die ae army, it was announced: A ‘ f e ‘. “ + a j PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12.—Police | choose to run” for re-election was ex- “National Lendanastors bea. per south eastern lines, according to the|and workers Soviets, are endeavoring | now being conduc.ed by Industriai| Central Trades and Labor Council. . : actly a tina when th ¢ ; ie “4 degli pe understanding of the labor represen-|to spread tales of outrage which con-' Commissioner James A. Hamilton, is SWasiefal’ \Athack. this afternoon broke up a meeting | the epnetion 1 Dee cee cad Gad teenie voleaninna ‘and au. | 2ives: were last week well agreed|sist in the taking over of the evacu-|not a manifestation of any intention! «phe attack on the efforts of the and demonstration of unemployed) .14 the oa sual ape bee bap ete ‘i is fs A heat o aft seemed ; thentic information of the leaders and ee rae sake piney mn Bey a iia ing ae a local peasants |to bring about a remedy. unemployed workers of the city to| Workers and arrested a dozen demon-| that Coolidge again ee his candies organizations identified with the - ee TARE Bed Ue GE tie Bnd: WOreeen, BAe Plans Under Way. secure relief for themselves and their| strators including Herbert Benjamin, | open to probability at a time when A és .. |Workers were di isfi i i " ates i Communist revolution movement in iS. dissatistied with this Plans not yet fully completed are| starving families is the most shame-| district organizer of the Workers | the graft cases lagged, but that he 4 A ; roposed award, the | % 2 4 this country, and eg gP scr aie die: Tgiiicers, it ‘is a fey INERS DEFEAT about to be announced by the New| ful episode in the long record of be-| (Communist) Party, which has been | made his decision not to run final just (Continued on Page Two) agreed to accept this small increase. York Council for the Unemployed, it}trayal which has been built up by LraGe ee hat wisvenient foe thaste: as it became certain that the connec- was learned yesterday, as a result of | Ryan and the group in the American tion would be exposed. jel pep ieaes at Lunch Time? |which the movement will take up on| federation of Labor with which he/|lief of the unemployed workers in| The plunging of Coolidge and the A fe TRI E W _ Six oh iat handling the case, a nation-wide scale the task of forc-|is allied. Even the police with their| this vicinity. jentire Republican National Committee it is reliably reported, held a final {ing attention to the increasing seri-|long history of brutality did not ven- First Attack. |into the oil-graft scandals yesterday and satisfactory session last Saturday e ; . HEAR, ousness of the crisis n facing the|ture to attack the workers who had é ‘ le . ‘ 9 ‘ |ousness of t risis now facin; e 0 T eee stationed before |°2™e thru the tracing of .25 Liberty morning. At this session, the repre- Gai, | count: assembled before the labor depart- Saree s : ; oe |country. § ! or dep: y ints x Bonds, of a face value of $1,000 each, MEET iS CALLED Die eyes more aeroee Be Ohio Officials Jeered by “It is becoming clear,” said John|™ent to report their suffering. The | the snrenies (Up varechiniss Temple, thru their serial numbers, the bonds gurcemient was reached Age 80 Ur DiSanto, secrevary of the Council,|@dmission by Ryan and Sullivan that 18th'and Springgarden Sts., at which |) ing been a part of the “Continen ; f x : ‘ y 8 , i he peen a part of the inen- ee increase. On departing for lunch Progressives yesterday, “that only the organized| they had not been concerned withuni-| 88° unemployed: meeting. had been! +1» steal and having been given pee e. representatives of the union, employment which according to Sul- scheduled for 2 o'clock this afternoon by Harry F. Sinclair to Will Hays, © G hi .. pressure of the unemployed them- arpa a TUEL Sponsors Labor |crand Chief Engineer Alvanley LANSING, 0., Feb. 12.—Frustrat-|selves with the co-operation of the|livan’s own words affects 40 per cent|nd prevented the workers from en Who! srs national: eanipaion snare sys Johnston and Assistant Grand Chief]; < ¢ Siete mesart fy ‘ tering the hall, although a permit for | osition 3 ing renewed campaign against the!rank and file in the labor movement|0f the organized workers, is the best . | ‘ Opp: (Continued on Page Two) progressive miners of Ohio, 500 strik- will be able: to force yet n the|¢ommentary of the role that. these Anan made been: socired Som head.) Cees ON ae a Preparations for active opposition SPRANG e ing miners at a mass meeting here | part of the politiciarls of the old par- (Continued on Page Five) quarrere: | to the American Bar Association-Mat- | jeered at aidan psec ue Dis-|ties, Whatever moves these politi- PSHE VERA Fetes five jsdeed of ie crowd DEN TY thew Woll anti-strike law now being MILL STR trict 6 and Sub-district 5 and forced |cjans will make are intended merely ie after having been driven off reas-| | them to retire from the hall. he a disguise to hide inaction, Iney| Dressmakers Active | sembied before the headquarters of | sponsored by the combined forces of labor reaction and the open shoppers } The meeting was called by the dis-jare looking to the 1928 elections and) 4 meeting closely related to new the Workers Party at 521 York Ave. | of the country were announced here trict and sub-district officials without |are afraid to turn down the demands| geyelopments in the union and indus- Here again the police lined up be- VE ae F R yesterday by the national office of the knowledge of the local officers. |of the unemployed altogether.” try will be held today at 7:30 p. m. fore the doors and prevented the the Trade Union Educational League. |The rank and file learned, however,| The Unemployed Council yesterday | by the Dressmakers’ Local 22 section workers from entering the Party pea » A mass meeting for Wednesday at —- jthat the district and sub-district of-|denounced the move of the Smith sur-|of the Trade Union Educational | headquarters. . ‘ 8 p. m. at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 Rank d * ficials and several of their henchmen|yey as a “plain fraud,” and called|League, the Progressive Workers’ Arrest Workers. Officials Avoid Real E, 4th St., is being called. Invitations | Van. an File Force} under authority from International | attention to the willful exclusion of|Centre, 103 E. 14th St. Rose Wortis| then add as Action and announcements are being sent to Union Action President John L. Lewis planned to|its representative from the hearing|and others of the Joint Board will Birch sag at ee coe all labor and sympathetic organiza- (Continued on Page Two) on Friday. 'report, A discussion will follow. got siden way, the police eaten Announcement by city officials tions. ei ie For Labor Unionism. : FALL RIVER, Mass. Feb. 12.— RAR the quarters and arrested a dozen of) Saturday that plans were being cone Dt ana De data tae cnet = SUE US ELORE FOR DISCLOSING FAKES feces fics Saecs (ection tant oo and unorganized workers of Greater last Saturday with the executive com- Herbert Benjamin, district organizer, |Interborough Rapid Transit Company New York to rally to defend the trade| mittee of the Cotton Manufacturers’ | oak cee eas Mike Toohey and George D. Evans, | should that company persist in its in- Association and asked for the’ elim- os eee active in the work of the district.|tention to increase the fare have met inion movement, the right to strike |< d . . | fe . Pe bs - ination of the 10 per cent reduction! Horthy Forgery 1S Pretext in Plot to Wreck Labor Press They were taken to the Fourth and wie edocs scepticism over the and the right to organize, " . i ‘ It will be addressed by William Z.|i" Wages which became effective Jan. Race Street station at which place i they are now being held. Under the provisions of the so-calle Foster, national secretary of the 80th. The textile council officials had Lebel Ben Gitlow, member a! ee ect Math pagar nites ba Admitting that they were hired by ,Nosovitzky for which services he was;of the Hungarian white terror to . dual barrage iets bebe central executive committee of the e instructe he Horth: a . |promised $100,000, thus unholding the | stop the, publication of the “Uj Elore”, * ines are being opera’ y the I. Workers (Communist) Party, and|4o so by the membership meetings of ae ip v vhotepuinnan ti % ae seit claim of “Uj Elore” and The DAILY which is the most ni weehal papa Iron Workers on Strike T., a notice of twenty days is required others. John J. Ballam, local secre- the union affiliated with that body. ments from the international spy and lwWoORKER that the Hungarian min-|of the Horthy regime in the United! An important meeting of the Archi- before seizure process can be insti- tary of the league, will preside. : Action Forced. forger, Jacob Nasovitzky, the Kron ister in Washington was buying | States. tectural Iron, Bronze and Structural ‘Uted. In the meantime, the railroad, Expressions of opinion by the rank Since the strike vote, taken several] Detective Agency has brought suit|forged documents here to help rail-| It is further significant that this | Workers’ Union will be held tomorrow |Y carrying out its threat to obtain and file will be welcomed at the meet-| weeks ago, and dubiously engineered / against the “Uj Elore” for $75,000 be- |road workers in Hungary to prison. jaction is taken simultaneously with|evening at the Rand School Building, an injunction, observers state, can ing, according to Ballam. Coming as by the textile council leaders had| .ouse of its exposure of their activi- The bringing of charges against |an attack by the U. S. Government|7 E. 15th St., at 8 o’clock sharp. In | Prevent the city from taking steps it does on the eve of the approaching failed by being eleven votes short of ties in the United States. “Uj Elore” at this time, in face of |upon “Uj Elore” for anti-militarist}addition to a report of the strike in |against it. Bar Association hearing Thursday | the two-thirds majority, the officials 7 . |admissions that they served as a link |propaganda. However, the Hungar-|the Gormen Iron Works, a report will| The city’s present plan, it was ° the meeting is expected to bring out|had demanded, the resentment of the| In the writ of charges, Kron admits | between Nosovitzky and the Horthy jian workers are solidly behind their|be rendered on attempts by other |stated at the City Hall, is to turn Pee many thousands of workers and sym-| workers against the wage cut has|that he was employed by Count|representative in Washington, is seen |paper, and these attacks will only in-|employers to lay off union men for |the lines over to a private operator pathizers, : (Continued on Page Two) Szechenyi to buy documents from !as a move on the part of this agency ‘crease their support. replacement by non-union help. (Continued on Page Five) A