The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 17, 1928, Page 1

GITLOW, COMMUNIST LEADER, The capitalist ruling class of t! is doing everything in its powe only daily newspaper of the working class print- language—The WORKER. The attempts to destroy this paper is part of the whole offensive of the capitalists The attack upon The DAILY WORKER is part of the general con- spiracy of the Bar Association and the reac- tionary officials of the American Federation of Labor, together with all the open-shop organ- ed in the English against the workers. izations in the United States, militancy prevails in the labor movement. The THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 40. he United States r to destroy the problem of sav: bers of the Workers (Communist) Party, but also the left w: whole working DAILY trade unions, worsen the con to kill whatever SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Onenide New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. ing The DAILY WORKER is of the greatest importance not only to the mem- ing in the trade unions and the class. At this time, when American imperialism is preparing to take full advantage of the growing depression in the United States to smash the to drive wages downward, to ditions of the workers generally in order to safeguard the advantages American imperialism has over the imperialism of other countries—at such a time it is necessary to have URGES bh GilLuw Watered as second-ciuns aiusier at tue cum Ulfice at New Xork, N. X.. EW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1928 ests of the working class. of the world imperialist order. ary workers. THE DAILY WORKER. under the act of March 3, 1579. Pub! Pub! At this time it is necessary, in order to fight vgainst war, to have an organ that can give pow- erful expression to the attitude of the revolution- It is necessary to have an organ that can clearly expose the bloody role of Amer- ican imperialism, not only as a factor making for world war, but ers and peasant to prevent the IMMEDIATE SUPPORT TO SAVE DAILY WORKER jan organ like The DAILY WORKER to fight American imperialism and to defend the inter- We must also keep in mind that American imperialism is ener- getically preparing for a world war because it is bound up in the contradictions and antagonisms in the present murderous cam- paign against the Chinese Revolution, the work- s of Nicaragua, etc. The jailing of Comrades Dunne and Bittelman and the former manager, Bert Miller, is a blow working class from maintaining such an organ as The DAILY WORKER. We must all WORKER. rades must be possibly can to WORKER. The par rally in support of The DAILY 2r must be saved! Our com- You can do this best by freed! sending immediately as large a donation as you the fund for saving The DAILY ssociation, Inc., 33 First Street, except Sunday by The National Daily Worker New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents POLICE ATTACK PICKETS BEFORE GREEK CONSULATE WORKERS BEATEN FOR PROTESTING GREEK FASCISM Writer for Empros Held Without Bail Swinging their clubs and shouting threateningly, a squad of police at- tacked a number of workers who were peacefully picketing the Greek con- sulate at Spruce St, and Park Row here yesterday in protest against the excesses of the present fascist regime in Athens. Several of the demonstrators were severely beaten by the police. One policeman, attached to Traffic A and bearing the number 9298 on his shield, manhandled a woman, tearing her placard from her hand. The same of- ficer attacked Konstantin Peliris, of the staff of Empros, Greek Commu- nist daily paper. Peliris, after being severely beaten, was dragged several dlocks to the Oak Street station un- atrest. He is being held there bail. j _ Greek Fascism. Denounced. The demonstrators, all of them Greek workers, went to the Greek zonsulate from the New York district aeadquarters of the Workers (Gom- munist) Party, 108 E. 14th St., at 11 A. M. Bert Miller, organization sec- etary of the district, addressed them before they went on the picket line. Miller pointed out that the brutalities in Greece of the bloody Kondouriotis dictatorship were being encouraged oy loans from the United States treas- ary department, the American govern- ment thus being an accomplice in the murder of the Greek workers. Kon- douriotis has arrested 500 revolution- ary workers, among them all the mem- vers of the central executive commit- tee of the Greek Communist Party, and exiled them to a small unhealthy island where they are barely able to subsist, Miller said. A Bloody Beating. As the workers began to march back and forth in front of 63 Park Row, where the Greek consul general, representing the bloody Kondouriotis government, has his offices, police- men charged them. Signs were torn from the workers’ hands and de- stroyed. Peliris, who was in the front rank of the demonstrators, was set on without cause and beaten until blood ran from wounds on his head and face. At the Third precinct station he was tried on a charge of inciting to riot. Magistrate Simpson remand- ed him to the Tombs without bail un- til Saturday. Carrol Weiss King, for the International Laker Defense, is defending him, HAl GREETS MEETING A message from the Union Pa- triotique of H Haiti will be read at the Nicaraguan conference of the Ali- America Anti-Imperialist League at the Labor Temple, 84th St. and Third |} Ave., Sunday. The Union Patriotique is recognized as the outstanding nationalist organ- ization of Haiti, Manuel Gomez, secre- tary of the League, said last night, having widespread support among the Haitian people. am “Its delegation to the Pan American Conference at Havana, led by Pierre Hudicourt, was arrested by the Wall Street-owned Cuban government and sent home, without being allowed to go near the conference hall,” Gomez continued. “The delegation had gone to Havana to protest against the con- tinued United States military rule over the republic of Haiti.” The conference Sunday will mark AS a dey stage in the campaign which the Riese Anti-Imper- has been carrying on ight Nicaraguan hid foes Gna pan Admiral Plunkett, retired, now associated with Joepthal & Co, of the New York Stock Exchange still howls for a bigger merchant marine. PLUNKETT GIVEN PRAISE BY GREEN Says Labor Favors “De- fense” Program Personally representing William Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor, Hugh Frayne, A. F. of L. organizer in New York, read a long letter from Green praising Ad- miral Plunkett, and boosting the pres- ial dinner given in his honor at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last night. The letter paid “respect and trib- ute” to Admiral Plunkett after pro- fuse apologies by Green for not being able to attend in person. President Green stated in his letter that the “yar admiral” was known as a true friend of labor. Green went so far in his letter to state that labor “will always hold Plunkett in high esteem,” and to laud his relationship with the workers at, the Brooklyn Navy Yards, which does not even approach being a closed shop at the present time. The letter ended with the statement that labor believed, peace could best be maintained thru development of all the means of de- fense, taken as a big boost both for the present navy building program and the movement for a big merchant marine which was the keynote pur- pose of this meeting. 20 HURT IN CRASH Workers Trapped When Buildings Three wor! nd about 20 inj oon when they tons of tone subway nearby. The buildii been raised on stilts preparatory We their SORTA. Several of those injired were in a serious condition according to reports received late last night. 30 Men in Excavation. About 30 workers were in the exca- vation when rocks upon which rested the timbers holding up the. building started slipping. A number of men crawled thru a tunnel and escaped. Ambulances from Bellevue and ent war preparations at the testimon- | © delegation, endorsed it. MEXICO FEEBLY ATTACKS ‘RIGHT’ OF INTERVENTION Havana Move Forced By Mass Pressure HAVANA, Feb. 16.—What is gen- erally regarded as an indirect attack on United States intervention in Nic- aragua was made at the Pan Ameri- can Congress today when ‘Mexico pro- posed that all American republics outlaw “aggression.” Altho the Mexican resolution is less forceful than the proposal against in- tervention sponsored by Argentina, it is nevertheless regarded as a thrust at United States policy. The Mexi- can delegation’s move it is believed is a concession fo popular s¢ntiment and has been framed as a compromise be- tween the government’s new friendly policy toward the United States and popular feeling in Mexico against United States intervention in Nicara- a ‘Tame Proposal.” The Mexican proposal, which was submitted to the International Law Commission follows: “Whereas, the United States na- tions should always be inspired in| their cooperative solidarity by con- siderations of justice and the general welfare; whereas, nothing is such an obstacle to such co-operation as the use of violence; whereas, these is no international controversy, however serious which cannot be solved peace- fully if the parties really desire a peaceful solution; and whereas war of aggression constitutes an interna- tional crime against humanity; there- fore, it is resolved that all aggression be considered illicit and accordingly be prohibited, and that all American nations employ pacific means for the solution of disputes which arise be- tween them,” The Mexican resolution was so | vaguely phrased that Charles Evans Hughes, head of the United States Evading the Nicaragua issue, he declared tha. the “United States is opposed to ag- gression on the American contin- ents.” With the seats of the Argentine delegation again significantly empty, the first commission of the Pan American Conference today gave final approval to the official draft (Continued on Page Three) 3 LABORERS DEAD, oye Lectures Tonight Alfred F. Coyle, executive secre- tary of the All-American Cooperative Commission will lecture at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place this evening on “Cooperatives in the So- viet Union and Western Europe.” The lecture will be given under the auspices of Proletcos. Editors to Meet ——- A conference of Workers (Com- munist) Party editors and directors of language bureaus will be held to- day at 4 p. m. at the national office of the Party, 43 E. 125th St. CENTRAL. TRADES SPEAKERS JEEREB BY UNEMPLOYED Workers Parade From Mass Meeting Police, called by officials of the Central Trades and Labor Council, last night beat up and ejected from Beethoven Hall, 210 E. Fifth St. a committee representing the New York Council of the Unemployed headed by John Di Santo, secretary. When William Kohn, president of the Upholsterers’ Union, said in his speech that. the. unemployed in. the balcony weré ni ot entitled to relief he was hooted down. The committee representing the un- ‘employed were barred from the as- sembly floor by the sergeants-at-arms who were assisted by a body of pa- trolmen and detectives headed by Capt. John Hammill of the 6th Pre- cinct. When Di Santo insisted that the committee be heard, the sergeant of arms called upon the police to eject the spokesmen of the unemployed. They were thrown down the stairs, several being hit during the process. The visit to the Central Trades meeting was decided upon by unani- mous vote taken a short time pre- viously at a meeting of the Unem- ployed Council at Astoria Hall, E. Fourth St. This meeting was ed- dressed by Herbert I. Paley, an ex- service man and Di Santo. The un- employed workers formed in line and marched around the corner to Beeth- oven Hall, headed by the ex-soldier. Due to the unemployed insistance to be heard Chairman John Munhol- land was forced to adjourn the meet- ing even though all the business had not. been completed . + * # NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 16—Em- ployment in the city and environs of Newark, one of the largest industrial areas in the country, has reached its lowest level in more than 20 years, welfare workers and public officials have been forced to’ admit. Frank La Fera, overseer of the poor here, es- timated that 75,000 were jobless in this city alone, but even this- huge figure was disputed as an under- statement by R. J. Eldredgé; director of employment in the State Depart- ment of Labor. 1500 Unemployed. About 1500 sought jobs at the municipal employment bureau yester- day, and 29 the department for mechanics and factory hands, there were over - applicants and only 14 placements. There were even more seekers after work in the unskilled laborers’ department, with even less (Continued on Page Two) dition. blue-eyed youngster, but with colorless cheeks and an anae- mic little body. Four- year-old Mary, who was too listless from continued lack of food to talk, wore a thin summer coat. They have come to tell the delegates at the Min- ers’ Relief Conference at the Labor Temple; 244 E. 14th St. to- morrow afternoon, about their struggle -in the strike. fields.) The Pennsylvania- Ohio-Colorady Miners Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, with which the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief, 1 Union Square, is cooperat- ing, has invited all workers’ and frater- nal organizations to send delegates to this conference, Mrs, Wrubal told reporters how her only son, six-year-old Frank, contracted pneumonia when her family was put out of the company house in which the boy was born. She described the freezingly - cold, half-constructed bar- racks to which she was forced to carry him through the snow on New Year’s Day. “Women and chil- dren fight just like men on the picket line,” she said. “We don’t want to lose our union. When my hus- band came home from the picket line two months ago, he was hit by a car. We think the company men did it. One rib on his left side and his leg were broken. We had no money to pay doctors, and all the union can give us each week is $1 for my husband, $1 for me, and 50 cents each for my five little girls. We ‘Emergency Call Issue! to “Worker” Agents) for Meet on Monday A special emergency meeting of all DAILY WORKER agents has been called for Monday, Feb. 20, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. at 8 o’clock. Every unit and section “Daily” agent must be } present. WORKERS RUSH FUNDS FOR “DAILY” Small Contri Contributions Aid in Fight; More Urgently ) Needed “Not ‘ay the large checks which other’ hospitals waited on the wooden| continue to pour into the office of flooring of the avenue ‘subway | The DAILY WORKER from groups) workers and firemen struggled to|0f workers and from individuals thru-| reach the men caught in the crash, | out the United States, but the smaller The buildings that collapsed were | contributions which are daily received used by Goodman and Herman, sub-| attest to the devotion of the militant way contractors. American workers to their paper and Heard For Many Blocks, their determination to defeat the cam- The roar of tumbting buildings | paign by mae the capitalists thru and the cries of the heir verte the so-called patriotic for blocks, and the courts, are attempt- ing to smash the workers’ press. The arrest of Wm. F. Dunne, Bert Miller and Alex Bittelman, the first step in the desperate drive of the American authorities to stem the ris- ing tide of ‘labor militancy, in the United States, has aroused the Amer- ican working class in all sections of the country to the desperateness of the situation which confronts the militant American labor movement ‘and its only daily organ, The DAILY WORKER. Scores of letters accom- panying the donations testify to the burning devotion the workers feel for their paper and. the role which it plays as the voice of militant labor in America, “I am sending you four dollars for the defense of The DAILY WORK- ER,” one worker writes, “this certain- ly makes a hole in my pocket, but I think it is worth it, as I understand (Continued on Page Two) i VICTORIA WRUBEL, miners’ wife, killed and husband crippled. ‘in preparation, Victoria Wrubal, wife of a striking miner of Renton, Pa., and her bre] babies arrived at the Pennsylvania Station yesterday in a half- starved con- Stella, who will be two years old next month, is a pretty, red- baled, | seven must live on $4.50 a week,” Mrs, Wrubal said. The families living in the Newfield barracks are not even that fortunate, the miners’ wife explained. All the union allows them is 50 cents for each adult and 23 cents for every child, she said, The conference call is signed by the chairman of the relief committee, C. Michelson of the Boxmakers’ Union, and Fannie Rudd, secretary. TRACTION BOSSES *| CONTINUE ATTACK That the legal right of the Amal- gamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes to organ- ize the traction workers may not be as certain as was first thought is seen in the announcement yesterday by James L. Quackenbush, general counsel for the Interborough, that an immediate appeal would be taken from the decision Wednesday by Su- preme Court Justice Isaac Wasser- vogel. The decision denied the ap- plication of the Interborough for an injunction against the union. Papers for the appeal are already Quackenbush an- nounced. It is understood that the basis of the appeal will be the con- tested legality of the “yellow dog” contract. whose son was | ‘Reveal Nature 2 of Woll Anti-Strike Proposal Labor ( Officials O Order Slugging of Jobless ‘RELIEF MEET SATURDAY Wife of Miner Makes Plea for Help FEARS OF REAL LAWYERS ADMIT LABOR LEADERS Mvstinons Is Is Staged at Bar Association Striking and dramatic exposure of the true purpose behind the proposed anti-strike law now being sponsored by the Woll-American Barr Associ- ation group was revealed yesterday in the testimony of Attorney Drex- ler of the Manufacturing Employers of the clothing industry. Drexler and Julius Henry Cohen, chief sponsor for the move of the Bar Associationy entertained several” hundred who had come to the hear- ing at the headquarters of the Asso- ciation at 42 W. 44th St., with a clever bit of obviously prearranged stage craft in which Drexler admit- ted that “we all fear that in the in- creasing period of depression, the workers will no longer follow their constructive leaders in their counsels |of moderation and conciliation and | will listen to other demogogic lead- jers.” Affair Pre-arranged. In a scene which impressed every- one as a prevously rehearsed one-act playlet, Drexler in reply to questions put to him by Cohen stated that by |“constructive” leadership he meant |“those leaders who accept the prin- |ciple that profits in industry is the \first essential and that wages could {come only from production.” He ,later elaborated on the great increase (Continued on Page Five) SENATE ORDERS PENN MINE PROBE WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—An in- vestigation of conditions in the bitu- |minous coal fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio was ordered by the senate today. The Johnson resolution calling for an inquiry into |the misery and suffering existing among the miners and their families }and into charges that a railroad-coal company conspiracy to crush union labor exists was adopted without a record vote. WILKES BARRE, Pa., Feb. 16.— While conferring with district offi- cials regarding labor troubles at Pittston, Frank A. Gatti, former president of the No. 6 local, United Mine Workers, Pittston, was shot and killed today in the district head- quarters of the union here. Three un- known men walked into the office and fired twelve bullets into his body. * . . Justice Keeps Eye on Scabs PITTSBURGH, Feb. 16—J.. M. O'Rourke, Justice of the Peace at Curry, is actively engaged waeing war on the criminal coal and police in the employ of the Hee burgh Terminal Coal Corporation, tho twelve criminal charges have been lodged against him by the coal com- pany and $8,300 bail stands between him and incarceration in the county jail. O'Rourke, according to reports~ roams the highways, well heeled with lethal weapons, with a pair of long distance eyes peeled for disorderly strikebreakers and “yellow dogs.” When he bags a few of those gentry, he places them under lock and key (Continued on Page Two)