The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1928, Page 1

“Scrap All Machinery of War”, Soviet Union Again Demands of Capitalists THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY ] F Bmtered an eceunuqtinen miarier as E DAILY WoO Ys under the act of March 3, 179. tue eves Olflce at New York, N. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V. No. 43. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by matl, $4.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1928 Publishing Publixhed dally except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Association, Inc. 33 First Street, New Price 3 Cents York, N. Y. “LEWIS, CAPPELINI MUST GO!” SAY ANTHRACITE MEN. URGES IMMEDIATE DISARMAMENT IN LEAGUE MESSAGE Would Provide Jobs for Soldiers and Sailors MOSCOW, Feb, 20.—The Soviet Union has submitted to the League of Nations another proposal for com- plete and immediate disarmament for consideration by the preparatory dis- armament commission, it was an- nounced this afternoon. If possible the Soviet Union will attempt to get the proposals before the security commission which began a series of meetings in Geneva today. The suggestions are contained in a concrete covenant, based upon the proposals made by Maxim Litvinoff to the preparatory disarmament com- mission in Geneva last November. The convention would order complete world disarmament and demobiliza- tion of land, sea and air forces with- in four years, but would “limit the possibility of armed conflicts within one year” by immediate reductions of } all fighting forces. | Immediate Reduction. Under the terms of the convention, the signatory powers would be bound to reduce their armed forces 50 per} cent immediately. Furthermore, the nations would be compelled to de- stroy at once all arms and munitions; demobilize reserve troops, dismantle all warships and close all military training establishments. The convention provides that, fol- lowing the partial disarmament dur- ing the first year, complete disarmz- ment shall be effected within the fol- lowing three years. Work for Soldiers. There -was a departure from the’ original Litvinoff proposals in that the Soviet Union now suggest the creation of an international control commission and district control com- missions composed of representatives of the national legislatures, the pub- lic and the working classes. It would be the duty of these commissions to enforce disarmament. The soldiers, sailors and airmen who would be “thrown out of work” by disarma- ment would be supported by the vari- (Continued on Page Three) ARREST PICKET AT DRESS SHOP Active Cloakmakers to! Meet Thursday Night Rose Katz, a member of the Dress- makers’ Local 22 of the Joint Board of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union, was arrested yesterday raorning while picketing in front of the shop of the Rose Dress Company, 260 W. 40th St. She, together with a large num- ber of workers who turned out for picket duty, had been ordered to re- frain from picketing this plant by the police. When this order was defied by the workers, the police, in an at- tempt to intimidate the strikers, be- gan to make arrests. However, they held only one picket. Case Postponed. At Jefferson Market Court where the case came up later a postpone- ment was secured till Friday. The shop in question had been called on strike because the employers had made an attempt to force the work- ers to register in the right wing dual union. A lockout followed the re- fusal of the workers to comply. . .- ’ Meeting Thursday. The Joint Board announced yester- day that a meeting of all the active union members will be held on Thurs- day evening at Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave., at 8 o’clock. The leaders of the Joint Board will report on the situation in the union, it is announced, and will propose plans for future work. Another announcement issued by the Cloakmakers’ Joint Board calls upon all cloak and dressmakers to stay away from their shops tomorrow, Washington’s birthday. This day is a legal holiday and according to the agreement is to be paid for in full. TWO ALARM HARLEM FIRE. Twenty families were driven to the street, two firemen and twe tenants were injured, and damage amounting to thousands of dollars was caused early yesterday by a two-alarm fire in a five-story apartment house at 102d St. and Third Ave. Fire jee At the left, is the photo taken immediately after a freig ht train of the New Haven R. R. jump workers on the train in the second picture were not so fortuna te. in the death of the fireman and serious scalding of the engineer. This photo shows the remains of ed the tracks near City Island, ew York, The brakemen narrowly escaped death. The the Mid-Day Limited, of the Chicago and Alton R. R., which jumped the track, resulting man Dies, Engineer Burned in Two Freight Train Wrecks Re-Arrest of “Daily” Editors E Socialists Offer Terms to Middle Class for Support The creation of an “interstate action committee” for the purpose of rais- ing funds, on the style of the capitalist parties, the preparation of an elec- tion campaign to draw in the disaffected elements from these parties and MERCHANTS’ PLAN FOR AID IS FIASCO Relief for Pennsylvania Miners Proves Fraud. By T. J. O}FLAHERTY. PITTSBURGH, Pa. Feb. 20.— Greeks bearing gifts have always been considered legitimate targets for skepticism since the classical Trojan episode, and Pittsburgh businessmen who announced they would raise funds to feed and/ clothe those re- duced to nakedness and starvation thru big business conspiracies against their right to organize into trade unions, are now looked upon by striking miners with much the same kind of an eye that was directed on the contents of the Trojan horse by the inhabitants of the beleagured city. A Real Fake. Here in Pittsburgh, bankers and | business men recentiy broke into the tront page of the capitalist press with a well organized ballyhoo about what they were going to do for the desti- tute families of the striking miners. But the whole tning was a fake and a false alarm. So much so in- deed, that Arthur E. Braun, Presi- dent of the Farmer’s Deposit Na- tional Bank and treasurer of the business men’s fund refuses to make public the amount collected. Fifty of the most prominent busi- ness men in Pittsburgh attended the meeting at which this committee was organized. Each was urged to con- ; tribute one thousand dollars. Evi- dently word was passed aiong by the heads of the Mellon banking housc end of the Pittsburgh Coal Company andthe, Pittsburgh Terminal Coa Corporation that any monkeying- with their strikebreaking conspiracy woula be a dangerous diversion for thosc participating. The result is that so far, the Pittsburgh business men’s eommittee has not put a doughnut into the mouth of'a single hungry striker’s child. In Ohio, governor Donahey is rais- ing funds for relief thru the medium (Conrinued on Page Four) HAVANA CONFAB ENDS IN FIASCO HAVANA, Feb. 20.—The_ sixth Pan-American conference ended to- day with almost nothing accomplish ed. At a full plenary session the delegates representing all the Amer- ican nations formally ratified the “achievements” of the conference by signing its “final acts.” The signatures covered declara- tions, resolutions and recommenda- tions as well as the “titles” of the treaties and conventions agreed upon by the representatives of the 21 re- ublics during their five weeks of de- ciberations. i: The intervention question has been shelved. ® ne creation of a party which hopes 9 secure its objectives by bargain- ng with the two old pariies is seen a the announcement made by Julius serber, local secretary of the social- ist party, of the plans for the coming sonven.ion of that party. One hundred men and .women so- eialist party leaders of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the New England states, have been named on the action committee, it was stated by Mr. Gerber. Heading { the committee are Morris Hillquit, attorney and stockholder in capitalist ventures, and James Oneal, editor of the “New Leader.” Others on the committee are: Norman Thomas, Wm. Feigenbaum, Edward Karlin, August Claessens and Judge Jacob (Continued on Page Two) DETROIT WORKERS JEER MUSSOLINI Demonstrate Against Giacoma Despite Cops DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 20.—Defy- ing slugging and clubbing by uni- fared mote-amen pnd plainel thes detectives, 800 working men and wo- men demonstrated their contempt for fascism upon the arrival of Musso- lini’s personal representative, Baron Giacoma, at the Union Station here today. As Giacoma, Italian ambassador to the United States, came thru the Front St. entrance, the large police force charged the crowd which greet- ed the fascist agent with jeers and eries of “Down with Fascism.” Police Superintendent Sprott gave the order to uniformed men; mounted and on foot; detectives from the ho- micide and black hand squads and detectives in cars with the <ops low- ered for action, to drive away the demonstrators. After using their fists on men and women indiscriminately, and swing- ing their clubs down upon the heads (Continued on Page Two) CHICAGO MUSICIANS TO STRIKE CHICAGO, Feb. 20.—Organized musicians here are threatening to strike against “remote control abus- es” in radio broadcasting. They are determined to oppose any attempt at a spread of the Chicago practice. Police and gangsters last night en- forced the expulsion order issued by officials of the~Bookkeepers’, Steno- graphers’ and Accountants’ Union of 24 members of the organization, These workers recently voted to sup- port a strike to bring about the rein- statement of Harry Rubin, who had been summarily discharged from the Amalgamated Bank for union activ- ity. MONEY TO HELP PAPER IS RUSHED Workers Thruout U.S. Respond to Appeal The campaign to wreck The DAILY WORKER and smash the militant American labor movement is drawing to a head as the re-arrest of Wm. F. ,, Dunne, Bert Miller and Alex Bittel- man is hourly expected. The ‘hree Communists are still out on $1,000 bail apiece and the courts who are carrying out the instructions of the American capitalists in .his drive to exterminate militancy in the United! xpected Momentarily For Every Job There Ave 11 Unemployed Negro Workers There are 11 Negro applicants for every job open to this section of the wor York State unemploym gesture for labor's polit The figures are based on state* ments by the Urban League. Unem- ployment among the Negro workers is increased by the general policy of segregation and discrimination fol- lowed by the organized employing in- terests and other property owners. Reports to The DAILY WORKER show that the condition of the Negro workers of Harlem and other New York districts under industrial de- pression is repeated in every indus- trial and agricultural region of the report just t al support. ¢— ir as vi preparing he gga oer | United States where Negroes are em- (he American workers who from | ployed in large numbers. one end of the United S.ates to the | Unemployment is growing more other, have ee pntes. ag /acute generally. One free social serv- to save their only militant English ‘jeg employment agency in the Bronx, daily paper will be called upon to in-| New York, reports 776 applicants for tensify the struggle agains. the con- | spiracy by which the capitalists are | threatening the existence of the} DAILY WORKER. | Dozens of workers who bring their! contribu.ions in person to the office | of the DAILY WORKER every day,! scores of donations and letters of sup- port and confidence from workers all over the United States, are the hving testimony .o the determination of the militant American workers to rescue their paper and to defeat the offen- sive which the capitalists have begun against them. Con-ributions sent by groups of workers and by ind.viduals vary from a few cents to hundreds of dollars, (Conimued on >aye 2 WoO) tlembers of C. E. C. to Report on Plenum at Special Section Meetings Reports of the recent plenary meeting of the Central Committee, Workers (Communist) Party, will be given at special section meet- | ings of the Party to be held this Tonight’s meetings are as fol- lows: Section 1 at 60 St. Marks Place at 7 p. m.; Section 2 at 101 W. 27th St. at 7 p. m.; Section 5 at 2075 Clinton Ave. at 8 p. m.; Section 6 at 29 Graham Ave. at 8 p. m. and Section 7 at 764 40th St..at 8 p, m. Section 3 will meet Thursday at 7 p.m, at 101 W. 27th St. and Section 4 will meet the same eve- ning at 143 E. 1038rd St. at 8 o’clock, week, Members of the Central | | Committee will report at the meetings. every 100 jobs. Alexander McClellan, 21-year-old clerk, out of work for many months, hanged himself in the cellar of his home in Brooklyn Sunday. James Mahoney, 59-year-old home- ‘less and jobless worker, collapsed in \the I. R. T. subway entrance at E. |42nd St. In his weakened condition, |the starving worker was only able to | say that he had eaten nothing for {several days. He was removed to Bellevue Hospital, where his condition was so serious he was unable to take food. When policemen broken into the door of a basement apartment at 531 (Continued on Page Five) COOLIDGE FUNDS TRACED TO OlL Walsh Traces Bonds to Harry F. Sinclair | + ee WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Definite proof that Harry F. Sinclair, oil mag- nate involved in the Teapot Dome scandals, had helped subsidize the jcampaign which elected Harding and Coolidge in 1920, has been obtained by Senator Thomas J. Walsh (D) of Montana, it was learned today. Every one of the $75,000 in Liberty Bonds | used by the Republican National Com- jmittee to pay off a debt with the Empire Trust Company, in 1923, has beer traced back to the coffers of the Continental Trading Company, Walsh announced, been sent out by the union advising these members of the fact that they had been “disassociated” from the union. This new word for expulsion did not prevent these union officials from calling the police and their regu- lar gangster squad who prevented the 24 members from attending the regu- lar union meeting at 3 W. 16th St., last night. Walter Cook, accountant for the union, former state secretary of the socialist party, led the gangster at- Twenty-four individual letters had tack against the workers and him- eu POLICE ENFORCEB.S. & A.U. EXPULSION Union Officials Lead Thugs in Attack on Clerical Workers self assaulted several of the women members, Another member, not in- cluded in the “disassociated” 24, but who had spoken in their defense at a meeting held by the union officials in the Amalgamated Bank recently, was likewise prevented from entering the meeting last night. E. Steinber- ng class in New York City, according to figures in the official New made public by Gov. Al. Smith as a CHARGE DEAL IN LR. T.FARE MOVE Workers Go to Mass Meeting Tonight By ROBERT MITCHELL. Charges that officials of the Amal- gamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes, the trac- tion union, are behind the move to boost the fare were made yesterday in connection with the union drive which union officials announce will | begin all over again tonight with a meeting at Harlem Casino, 100 W. 116th St. Details of the alleged deal by which the I. R. T. has agreed to recognize the union in turn for support of its efforts to put over the fare steal, were given out at the moment that union officials were announcing that a demand for recognition would be made on the company tonight. Overtures, it was stated, have not been carried on directly but thru a properly diplomatic third party. That these charges are not unfounded is indicated by the fact that James H. Coleman, local organizer for the In- ternational, refused to deny them when first approached. “We could not discuss such a matter even if true,” was his reply when asked to comment on the situation. He ap- peared considerably astonished rather than indignant at the charges. It can be openly stated that Cole- man more than a year ago expressed his view in sympathy with the In- terborougn increased fare move. Sat- (Continued on Page Five) OPEN SHOP DRIVE ON WOLL'S UNION CHICAGO, Feb. 20. — A move i the extension-of the employers’ coun- trywide open-shop drive is seen here in the order by the Féderal Trade Commission banning clause 10 of the standard wage agreement of the Photo-engravers’ International of which Matthew Woll is president. Clause 10 in effect bound union members to refuse to work for firms | that cut standard prices to the public for photoengraving. The result was high prices and enormous profits. The trade commission found 380 firms making over 30 per cen. profit. held clause 10 of the union agreement a conspiracy in restraint of fair com- petition. ‘the clause was adopted in 1917 and complaint was made in 1922. Woll Campaigns for Bosses. Pres, Matthew Woll of the union has been active ever since 1923 in agi- tation agains. the anti-trust laws that (Continued on Page Two) ger, president of the union, presided at the meeting and gave the official sanction for the gangster attack. Ernest Bohm, who organized the com- pany union in the Amalgamated Bank, was likewise present, P \ \ \ 7T.U.E.L. Meet “Tuesday A general membership meeting of the Trade Union Educational League, Local New York, will be held Tuesday at Irving Plaza. Irving Place and 15th St., at 8 o’clock. It |, COAL DIGGERS TO “FIGHT FOR UNION, BLOCK FRAME-UP Adopt Big Program to Save U. M. W, A. ES-BARRE, Feb. 20. — Sant |Grecio, shot by gunmen said to have | been employed by coal company agents | working with the Cappelini machine jof District 1, United Mine Workers jof America, is lingering between life jand death in a hospital here. | There has been no relaxing of the |tension caused by this latest outrage of reaction, Meanwhile preparations are come pleted for the funeral of Frank Agati, personal bodyguard of Cappelini from whose magnificent home will proceed today a funeral organized by the Cap- pelini machine as a demonstration | against the rank and file opposition, Frank Bonito, rank and file presi- dent of the Pennsylvania Colliery Loe cal union at Pittston, whose friends |state he shot Agati in self defense is jheld-in jail here without bail. A resolution pledging support te | Bonito was adopted by the “Save the ;Union” conference which met hera l yesterday attended by 123 delegates, a number of additional delegates coming in the afternoon, In a statement issued to the press an hich will be circulated widely in L stricts One, Seven and Nine of the United Mine Workers of America in jleaflet form, and signed by I. Dzieng» elewski as chairman, the serious crisis in the union here is analyzed and a complece program for combatting coal company influence and building the union outlined, An. executive a WILK conference and it is planned to begin at once the work of organizing the progressive miners for support of the program, Powers Hapgood, Pat Toohey, George Papceun and others spoke on the situation in the union and various | points of the program. Martin Abern |spoke for the International Labor De- |fense. The conference was en-husi- jastic and marked a real step toward | development of the progressive moye- |ment in spite of the difficult condi- |tions under which it was held. Plans for conferences in Dsitricts 7 |and 9 have been made as well as for jano-her conference in District 1. These meetings will be followed by a tri-dis- |trict conference. Support was pledged to the Penn. sylvania and Ohio strike and to the (Continued on Page Two) “DAILY” BENEFIT AT PLAYWRIGHTS Readers to See Gold’s “Hoboken Blues” | DAILY WORKER readers will meet tomorrow night at the New Playwrights’ Theatre, 40 Commerce St., near Seventh Aye., at a special benefit performance of Michael Gold’a jnew play, “Hoboken Blues.” Tomorrow afternoon the house is being taken over by the Youth Come mittee for Miners’) Relief, and on Friday night the students of the Jew- |ish University, 16th St. near Irving Place, will see the play. Dreiser Returns from ‘Soviet Union Tomorrow. Theodore Dreiser, noted American novelist, will return to the United States on the “Minnetonka” tomorrow morning after a three months’ visit |in Europe, and particuarly in Soviet | Union, where he went as the guest J. S. S. R. in time for the Tenth Anniversary celebrations. Workers’ Theatre Will Present One-Act Plays The Workers’ Theatre, 91 Charles St., will present three one-act plays on two successive nights, March 5 and 12, at the Triangle Theatre, 7th Ave. near 11th St. The plays are “The Renegade,” by Karl Witfogel: “The Scab,” by Max Geltman; - “Aftermath,” a Negro play presented by a Negro car’ ] defense committee was elected by the >