The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1928, Page 1

7 | TO ALL MEMBERS OF WORKERS [COMMUNIST] PARTY--SYMPATHIZERS--MILITANT WORKERS! The heaviest disaster that could come to the Work- ers (Communist) Party at this time would be the silenc- ing of the “voice” of the Party thru the destruction of its central organ, The DAILY WORKER. The federal government is trying to destroy The DAILY WORKER. This is what the new prosecution means. This destruction would mean the crippling of the Party. It would mean the muzzling of the voice with which the Party speaks to the masses of workers of this country, and hence the diminishing of the power of the Party just at this time when the Workers (Communist) Party is the only labor organization in the United States which is increasing its power. The closing down of The DAILY WORKER would be the heaviest blow to the 120,000 struggling miners in the Pennsylvania-Ohio and the Colorado districts, whose desperate calls to their working class brothers and sis- ters can be adequately heard only thru the one working- class daily paper printed in the language of the country. major calamity to the entire labor movement, the en- tire working class. Great struggles lie ahead. The cap- italist government is actually engaged in imperialist warfare in Latin America, is preparing for world war and an attack on the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The decline of industry, the imperialist war danger, the present vicious drive against the trade unions, the at- tempt to saddle the working class with anti-strike legis- lation, the certainty of big strikes resulting from at- tempts to reduce the living standards of the workers make struggle inevitable. In every struggle our class will be greatly handi- capped if The DAIL¥ WORKER does not exist to in- form, to lead and to coordinate our forces. The capitalist owners of industry and government know these facts. Therefore the power of the federal government at Washington has been set into motion to destroy The DAILY WORKER. Already our comrades, William F. Dumne, assistant editor of The DAILY WORKER, Alex Bittelman, formerly magazine editor, arrested and face the possibility of five years’ impris- onment and $10,000 fines each. Indictments are also standing against J. Louis Engdahl, formerly editor, and against David Gordon, a writer. These also may be ar- rested to face the same terms of imprisonment and fines. The defense will cost thousands of dollars. The DAILY WORKER must be kept going and the cost of the additional heavy burden raised. These blows are a cool-headed attempt of the Wall Street autocracy to strangle the only real opposition to capitalism in America. It is openly admitted that sev- eral reactionary militarist organizations took the first steps, which are being followed up by the Coolidge oil- graft government for the one purpose of destroying the central press organ of militant labor struggle. Coolidge and his postal administrative and federal police machinery have been enlisted to strike down the one consistent voice of militant American labor against the imperialist murder-drive in Nicaragua. We will fight back! The DAILY WORKER must The Central Committee of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party calls upon every Communist, every sympa- thizer, every militant worker who has found inspira- tion in this fighting daily paper of his class, to come forward—now—quick, with all possible financial help for The DAILY WORKER to beat back the attack! All district organizers, all Party functionaries are instructed immediately to adopt every measure to raise funds to save our daily organ. Special affairs must be arranged in every city and town. Special ef- forts to obtain large donations from organizations must be made. All Party members and all sympathizers must be mobilized 100 per cent to SAVE THE DAILY WORKER. $10,000 must be raised before one more week, or The DAILY WORKER will in all probability be closed. Send money by telegraph and mail to The DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York City. CENTRAL COMMITTEE, WORKERS The suspension of The DAILY WORKER would be a and Bert Miller, former business manager, have been be saved! (COMMU? ST) PARTY. | cae okie ieake wight | DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR SANG es DRM A RER 5 THE DAILY WoO Entered an avcond-ciues « rary suc cunourfice at New ork, N.Y. o KER. | nder the act of March 3, 1879, FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V. No. 37. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per yenr. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1928 Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, Published dally except Sunday by The National Daily Worker New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents COAL MINERS SKEPTICAL OF SENATE INVESTIGATION WALL ST, DOWNS FEEBLE PROTEST AT HAVANA MEET Argentine Delegation Fights Hughes HAVANA, Feb. 13.—In spite of the opposition of Dr. Honorio Pueyr- redon, head of the Argentine delega- tion, the organization of the Pan-American conference | adopted a resolution regarding the! Pan-American | Ohio State Cops in Union without including any state- Fake Relief Move [ % SINCLAIR FUNDS FOR COMMITTEE : ‘Coolidge Drawn Deeper | in 1920 Debauch WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The Soe Blast Death Reward for 2 Workers Slavery | | | | } Democratic Party ty Now Wallows in Oil Mess READY TOPRESENT LONG-DRAWN LIST OF BRUTALITIES Men, Women, Children Will Appear (Special to the DAILY WORKER) Feb. 13.—if and ment against “economic barriers. Before the adoption of the resolutioi. the Argentine delegate made it cleai that he would sign no declaration that did not contain a specific state. by the attempt of the Mexican dele- gation to remove the secretary. of state as chairman of the governing | ~ board of the Pan-American Union. Mexico, however, abandoned its pro- posal after an “emphatic” speech by Charles Evans Hughes, head of the U. S. delegation. The First Commission in charge of the work adjourned until Wednes- day in the hope of devising a means for sending its project direct to the offices of .the twenty-one nations represented at the conference. oe HAVANA, Feb. 13.—Still demand- ing that the Pan-American Conference go on record against intervention and against the high tariff policy, Dr. Honorio Pueyrredon, Argentine am- bassador to Washington and head of the Argentine delegation, is leading the attack against the policies of the United States. Pueyrredon’s position, it is stated, is contrary to instructions which he has received from his government. Puerryedon, however, who is one of the leading contenders for the presi- dency in the coming elections is mak- ing a bid for popular support. A vast majority of the Argentinian popula- tion is against the Latin-American policy of the United States and is par- (Continued on Page Three) Lindbergh in St. Louis) LAMBERT FIELD, St. Louis, Feb. 13.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh landed at Lambert Field here, after flying Today's. session. signs marked Striking Ohio mag ag stead of bullets. gautioned against. accepting relief from ROR AEP Sane, relief to the the strike with hread in- Workers Rush Aid to Save “Daily”; Thousands Needed military associations of the type of the Keymen of America is making a sys- tematic drive to wreck The DAILY WORKER, the only daily paper of the militant American labor movement., +a off | ete et The spy network of the American detective agencies and patriotic and| When shown Sinclair’s testimony senate public lands committee will} subpoena officials of the Democratic | National Committee in an effort to} determine if any of Harry F. Sin- clair’s Teapot Dome slush fund helped 's, 1920 deficit, Sen- ‘of North Dakota, its chairman, annaunced tonight. In addition to the $75,000 in Liber- ty Bonds he gave the G. O. P. fifteen months after the Teapot Dome lease was signed, Sinclair also made a sub- stantial contribution to the democratic war chest, according to the oil mil- lionaire’s sworn testimony before the committee. Will Request Records. of school; live in some ramshackle relating to the democratic gift, Sen- ator Nye said: Slave a lifetime for about $21 a week, while the children nearly starve; suffer lay offs whenever the company pleases; freeze in the winter because starvation wages won't buy coal; gives won't allow a better home; take the children out of school at 12 or 14, and then some day along comes a fire or explosion in the refinery, putting an end to a dozen lives which have always known misery—that’s the life of the oil worker in America, the Beacon Oil Company in Everett, Mass., last Friday killed 12 workers, leaving their poverty-stricken families to shift for themselves. Fellow workers at the oil plant are shown battling the flames. PITTSBURGH, | when the senate. investigating com- | mittee holds hearings in this section of the coal fields, the Pennsylvania- Ohio Relief Committee and dozens of Jocal unions are prepared to lay be- fore it a mass of evidence showing the brutal methods by which war has been waged against the United Mine Workers Union, its members and their families, Human Documents. Documentary evidence is not lack- ing but the chief weight of the testi- mony will come from men, women and children in tales of their own ex- |periences with the coal and iron police, the state constabulary and the offscourings of the underworld of a score of cities with which the coal take the children out | tenement because the pay the boss | An explosion at the refineries of such “Naturally we are concerned to barons have flooded this territory Every day throws fresh light on the activities of these agencies and their} plot to crush The DAILY WORKER and suppress the militant American workers. The arrest of Wm. F. Dunne, Bert Miller and Alex Bittelman was only the first step in the slow process by which the American capitalists be- lieve they can wreck the workers’ organ and throw its editors into fed- eral jails. They do not understand that the American working class will never permit their leaders to be im- prisoned or their paper crushed. From Coast to Coast. With one voice, from points as far apart as Maine and California, the American workers are sending their contributions to the office of their DAILY WORKER as a testimony of their loyalty and devotion to their pa- per and to their militant class leaders. Thousands Needed. The cost of the litigation which the United States government is scheming to pile upon The DAILY WORKER 1,200 miles from Havana, Cuba, since 2:26 this morning. Lindbergh landed shortly before 5 o’clock: —_—_. runs into thousands of dollars. Hun- dreds more must be paid in fines if the United States courts determine to LEVINE ONCE MORE. BERLIN, Feb. 13.—Charles Levine will ‘make an attempt to fly the At- lantic from east to west, according to ape tetee: bua Budapest. _|impose fines in addition to sentences on the three arrested Communists. These costs can be met only by cot tributions from the workers’ them- | selves, Aid the struggle to save your daily -press, Rush your donations to Starving Family Asks for © Jail in Order to Get Food Starving and without a home, Louis Kleen, 25, his wife and two small chil- dren—a four year old boy and a two year old girl—went to the West 20th Street Police Station to ask tobe ar- rested in order to obtain food and a warm shelter Sunday. Kleen, a baker, said he:had been unemployed a fons time and that he had brought his family from Trenton, N. J., two weeks ago in the hope of finding work - in New York. He told police that he had found many thousands ahead of him wherever he looked for a job here. A few days ago his money was ex- hausted. Council for Action. 3 This is a concrete indication of the severity of the unemployment crisis faced by thousands of workers and their families. Bowery missions in| New York reported last night that | breadlines had grown to the heaviest ; proportions since 1916. While suffering grows daily iri the New York district and throughout the | country, active preparations are in: progress to exert pressure on city, | state and federal officials for an im- mediate unemployment relief pro- gram, it was announced yesterday by the New York Council for the Un- employed, At the same time the Workers (Communist) Party contin- jues to urge the unemployed to de- |mand concrete action. An unemployment mass“théeting is being called by Section 2 of the Work- ers Party for Wednesday at 2 p. m. | (Continued on Page ee: The DAILY WORKER, 33 First St., New York city. The three. defendants face possible maximum sentences of five years each. CITY PAYS COST OF LR. T. SUIT Subway riders will not only have to pay a 7 cent fare, a fact which is now certain unless a mass opposition movement of the millions of riders) develops, but they will also have to pay the thousands of dollars which the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. will lay out in the fight to force the | increased fare on the city. This was revealed yesterday in the | announcement that $10,000 already (Continued on Page Five) I. L. D. bhi Release sapere H. T. Tsiang, radical editor of the Chinese Guide, who was saved from deportation and certain death thru the efforts of the International La- bor Defense. Deportation proceed- know if any of the Continental Trad- ing Company bonds are included in Sinclair’s contribution. You can say positively that we will call officials of the National democratic committee to produce their records before the committee for that purpose.” * * * While John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was | celebrating Lincoln’s birthday with a | pious Baptist talk from station WJZ, | ‘New York Awake to Need of Miners as Conference Nears Reports of the dire straits of the strikers and their families who are suffering from want of food and clothing in the coal fields have greatly | affected miners’ relief activity in New York city, according to Fannie Rudd, \secretary of the Pennsylvania-Ohio-© ;Colorado Miners’ Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, with which the Work- ers’ International is cooperating. Trade unions, fraternal organiza- tions, workers’ social and benevolent societies, are all mobilizing their for- ces for the City Conference for Min- Hays Key Man. jers’ Relief to be held at the Labor Will H. Hays, who was chairman of | Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave., the Republican National Committee | February 18 at 4 p. m., and individual during the 1920 campaign which re- | workers and shops are taking’ collec- sulted in a landslide for Coolidge and \tions for miners’ relief, she said. Harding, is considered the key man A donation of three dollars has been in the case, and the failure to call him | received by the relief office, repre- is seen as a move to keep back most | senting a day’s wages of a dishwasher of the important facts. It'was Hays | employed in Hearn’s Restaurant, she condemning business dishonesty in general but failing to refer to the oil scandals, announcement was made in Washington indicating that the Sen- ate Public Lands Committee was tak- ing further steps to whitewash | Rockefeller and Standard Oil. Following this conference At which representatives of co-operative organi- zations will participate, a Co-operative Conference for Miners’ Relief will be held at the Co-operative League, 167 West 12th St., on Tuesday, February 21st at 8 p. m. A call to this confer- ence was sent to every co-operative organization in the city by the United Workers’ Co-operative Association of 69 Fifth Ave., the Co-operative Tre |ing Association, and the Co-operativ | Bakery of Brownsville. The aim of |the conference is the formation of a Committee of Co-operatives for Min- ers’ Relief on a permanent basis. Many Respond. | since the strike. | To Let Them Picket. It is planned to take the senate in- vestigators through the barracks built by the union and let them see for themselves the manner in which the evictions have forced the miners to live. The sincerity of the investi- gators will be tested by offers to take them out on the picket lines dressed in miners’ clothes and afford them the opportunity of seeing the state cossacks and the coal and iron police inaction. Barracks and Camps. The investigators will be asked to live in the barracks of the strikers for 24 hours, to eat the same food and suffer the same hardships that the miners and their families are undex- ‘oing. | The senate committee will be taken |for a tour of the coal camps so that | they can witness the effects of the re- vival of the “yellow dog” contract and jthe re-establishment of “company towns” upon the workers who for the who received the $75,000 from Harry F. Sinclair, including the 24 Liberty | Bonds which have already been traced/and A. Trost made a collection of to the slush fund of the “Continental” | said. At a dinner given at Wilensky’s Restaurant in the Bronx, Dave Sand twenty dollars for miners’ relief. Among the organizations which have already responded to the conference call are the N. Y. Lettish Educational Society, the Workers’ Health Bureau, most part have been brought in as strikebreakers by misrepresentation and trickery. The investigators will be shown It was also Hays who turned (Continuea on Page Two) LOCKOUT GERMAN METAL WORKERS '800,000 Men Fighting For 8-Hour Day BERLIN, Feb. 13.—More than 800, 000 German metal workers ‘will. be locked out on February 22; according to an’ announcement made by the As- sociation of the Metallurgic Industry today. The announcement of the associa- tion is the latest move on the part of the employers in the struggle of the German metal unions for an eight hour day. In spite of the apparent | willingness of the conservative lead-/ Sarah Gilis, of 235 Cypress Ave., Bronx, collected twenty-five dollars at a party. ————_—_—— se | steal. Back to Ireland ings against Tsiang failed when Federal Judge Kerrigan ordered his immediate release from: Angels Is- -land where he has been held since early in January. ers of ‘the trade unions to accept a longer working day, the rank and file | of the unions is determine to return to the eight hour day and win a wage increase, returns home on Leviathan, West Bronx Workers’ School, Work- men’s Circle, Branch 624, the Work- men’s Progressive Society of Brook- lyn, the Jugoslav Branch of the In- (Continued on Page Five) bullet-riddied shacks and_ school- houses which have been raked by vol- leys from the rifles and revolvers of the coal company thugs, volleys fired (Continued on Page Two) Melons as issued tat the rate of $3.78 a share. The other mills in this city have not as yet issued their reports, but they are expected to announce similar pro- fits in proportion to their size. These mellon-cutting activities of the textile barons at the present time are decidedly interesting in view of the fact that nearly all the - textile workers in New England have suf- fered wage cuts in the past few weeks. The wage reduction announcements, when made, were accompanied with the tearful declarations of the mill Eamon de Valera visiting U. S. |owners that they are compelled to take to. oppose British agent Cosgrave |such a step in order not to operate | mill their mills at a huge deficit. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Feb. 13.—Five textile mills in this cit: their annual stockholders’ meetings and issued balance sheets whi nounced that the year’s profits had been over $700, 000. Divid peniehbish dati) The~Fall River textile : numbering approximately 35,000 Cut New England Textile Workers Starve held an- lends have been compelled to return to mills . January 30. bas 4 While it is true that the ford textile factories pr the wages, an announcement was when the dividends were the workers would be required erate 8 looms each, instead of the same wage, thereby accomplis the same Purpose.