The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1928, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1928 SHALL WE LET THE ENEMIES OF THE WORKING CLASS DESTROY OUR DAILY WORKER? An emphatic NO! an answer one end of the country to the ot! This attempt to shut down o rades Dunne, Bittelman and Miller in jail must be met by the closing of our ranks, the strengthening of the Party, the building of The DAILY WORKER into a mass paper and the creation of a $10,000 Defense Fund at once! that should ring from her. ur paper and put Com- affairs, Everyone to his revolutionary task! Mobilize every friend and debates, dances, etc. sympathizer. DAILY WORKER Builders Clubs wherever one does not exist, put life into the already existing ones, hold Make the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund the life force that will be the means of making our fighting organ a more powerful weapon in the tremendous struggles immediately ahead of us. The period ahead will be one of sharp class warfare. The American capitalist class is preparing to completely destroy every organized working class movement. The injunctions outlawing strikes, the Watson Parker Bills, the latest attempt of the Bar Association to make ar- bitration, instead of class struggle, a legal weapon against the working class, all are being used to crush the labor movement, Create At this time, when moment count. great danger. the Imperialists are feverishly preparing for another world war, we must make greater sacrifices in order to save our “Daily.” Our enemies fear The DAILY WORKER! Revolutionary task lies before the militant workers. Eight thousand dollars are still needed. A real Make every The time is short. Our Daily is in Rush funds. EDWARD ROYCE, Business Manager, Daily Worker. Chicago District Driving Ahead in Daily Worker Subscription Campaign SCORES OF SUBS POUR IN; MANY MORE PROMISED Section No. 6 Tops List; Asks Where Rivals Are The national campaign to gain 10 600 new subscriptions for the DATLY WORKER is going over with a bar in the Chicago district. Under tt direction of Comrade Sam Hammer mark, the drive is developing into on of the strongest campaigns for sul scriptions in the United States an seores of subs are pouring in dail; while hundreds more are promised i the near future. Max Bedacht is lending the whole force of the Party machinery to in- Sure the success of the subscription offensive in Tilinois and Section No. 6, Chicago, is aiready far in the lead in the big campaign. This section, which leaped into first place at the beginning of the drive, has maintained precedence and is beginning to ask where the other sections are and what they are doing to push the work of subserip- tion-getting. Chicago, the second most important city in the United States contains hundreds of thousands of workers who should be drawn into the cam-; paign to support and spread the only militant English labor daily. This is the work which District No. 8 is ac- ecomplishing and which will be pushed with even more enthusiasm in the future. SOCIALISTS MAKE BID FOR SUPPORT Announce Terms of 1928 Campaign (Continued from Page One) Panken. James Maurer is not men- tioned. The method of raising funds, it is announced, will be through contribu- tions from benefit societies, individ- ual socialists, and other citizens. Ac- cording to a recent announcement by Morris Hillquit, who is understood to be responsible for the new policy of the party, the plan is to give up the system of maintaining a dues paying membership and to establish a systein of clubs modeled on the Tammany type. Seek Middle Class Votes. An attempt will be made to secure the middle class voters who in 1924 followed the leadership of La Fol- lette, Gerber announced. “The party will be revivified,” Gerber states, and will seek to force issues on the old parties. This is seen as a move to- ward the A. F. of L. policy of alleged pressure on the old parties through san” activities. the announcement of ‘he money raising npaign, no other in- formation is given out as to the pro- gram on which the socialist party will camp . In the recent an nouncement by Hillquit, it was ex- plained that the socialist party would provide only “a wholesome opposi tion” to imperialism and to othe anti-working class forces in America. JOHN D. JR, PLANS PARASITE CITY TARRYTOWN, N. Y., Feb. 20.—|/2 Having swallowed up most of the|i once thriving town of Pocantico Hil's John D. Rockefeller, Jr, has an- nounced that he will create a colony for his family and friends. The priv- ate colony of the oil magnate will run thru North Tarrytown. Al!tho capital- ist papers have been saying that the oil king was building the colony in order to give employment to the un- employed, Rockefeller himself cave the reason as his desire to build a private village for the parasites which will be walled in and policed to keep the workers of Tarrytown away from it. The existing unemployment has been taken advantage of by the Rockefellers to pay the workers en- gaged in the construction low wages. Rockefeller has obtained permission of the North Tarrytown authorities to »el under the Sleepy Hallow road, roperty. ® Farrar’s Cook Rebels wansen, iormer cook of Geraldine Farrar, is suing the { wealthy opera singer, for $10,000. She charges that she contracted an eye infection from a towel which she had to share with the pet dog of the singer. The dogs of the rich are better treated than the ser- vants. The pet dogs of the rich re- ceive special food and. quarters. OPEN SHOP DRIVE ON WOLL'S UNION |New Decision Seen as Beginning Attack (Continued from Page One) |threatened the foundation of his re- |lations with the employers. In suc- | cessive American Federation of Labor |conventions, and in helping to frame| \the report of .he A. F. of L. executive | ‘council Woll has constantly thundered |against these laws. | Although the complaint against the | conspiracy of Woll and the employers in his industry was made in 1922 b: he small bosses who had been elim- inated, the issue was side-tracked, it is understood, through the instigation of powerful employers’ forces which control the trade commission Bosses Due To Attack Soon. Due to the changing developmen of the industry, it is no longer profit-| able for the employers to work as closely as formerly with Woll. This is believed to be the reason for the decision of the Federal Trade Com- mission agains. Clause 10. The decision comes at the moment when the Wallace-Miller company in Chicago switched from union to open- shop operation as the first gun in what may be an employer drive against the good rela_ions that have | hitherto existed between the union and the boss association. Though one large customer, the American Con- tractor, has iaken its business to a union concern, the Wallace-Miller people announce that they will con- tinue on a 48-hour non-union basis in- stead of 44 hours under union condi- tions which they observed until Jan. 7, when they locked out their staff of 25 union workers. |. It is believed that the.events which |have happened during the past few months point to the possibili-y that the |; nation-wide drive of the employers | against the unions will extend even to Woll’s organization. Woll is still agi- ta.ing for “cooperation” with the; | bosses. | 'Nationalization of Mines) Is Urged by Committee | (Federated Press). Nationalization of mines is the only eure for the coal industry, declares the Committee on Coal and Giant | Power, The industry is over-expand- jed, is inefficient and wasteful, and{ y turbulent. The. facts| available for the senate| n and point to nationaliza- jtion, with the public, technical men and workers in control. 300 Chinese Drown LONDON, Feb, 20. — Three hun- dred Chinese were reported drowned in a collision of he Japanese steam- ship Atsuta Maru and the Chinese ship Hsin Taming off Chian-Kiang on Sunday, said a news agency dispatch | from Shanghai this afternoon. NO WORK, FOOD HIGHER. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—While many thousands of workers were | added to the army of the unemployed in January, the retail price of food showed an increase of 58 per cent since January, 1913, the department of labor admitted today. Further in- creases in the price of food for the workers are in propect, {from its class enemies. {| WORKER, the only paper that fights NAVY OFFICIALS \eight-year period and at the same RUSH FUNDS TO DAILY WorkER TO. PREVENT CRASH Contributions Urgent Need Against Attack (Continued from Page One) Each is absolutely essential to the task of saving the DAILY WORKER “Reading the articles that are pub- lished in our paper, ithe DAILY for the workers, it is a wonder that we did not get our quota in one day,” writes a Montana miner, “All ‘he workers who realize the need for class struggles and daily struggles should take heed and make collections and donate whatever possible to save the militant mou.hpiece of the DAILY WORKER. Enclosed you will find the sum of five dollars.” “Kindly find enclosed two dollars,” writes another worker from New York City, “It is the amount that I will try vo send in every week. I think the duty I have undertaken to perform is very insignificant in com- | parison with the work being done by other comrades to bring about the freedom of .he workers thruout the world, Yours for the growth and the building of the DAILY WORKER.” Young Workers Respond. “In responding to your appeal for help to save the comrades of the staff of the DAILY WORKER from years in prison, our club has decided to do- nate twen.y-five dollars,” writes an- other group of young workers, “We! hope the reactionary movement in the United States will not be successful in their at.empt to close our only English labor daily in America. promise to help the DAILY WORKER in the struggle in every way possible.” Hundreds of contributions are still | needed to defeat the campaign of the American bosses and cheir henchmen. Rush your contributions to the DAILY WORKER, 83 First Street, New York City. | WIN PACIFISTS. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Encour- aged by increased support from paci- fists and large church-peace organi- zations, Rep. Britten, ranking repub- lican member of the House naval af- fairs committee, expressed the opinion last night that the committee would authorize the immediate building of 25 cruisers of the original program and set a definite time limit for the completion of 10 or 15. Such a program, which will include | recommendations for five plane car- riers, would in no way mean a slow- ing up of the war preparations but rather the actual carrying out of the huge program proposed by Secretary Wilbur, altho only part would be an- nounced at a time. President Coolidge behind such a program, with the in- nce that 2 st 10 or 15 cruisers be laid down this year and the entire 25 completed within three years. This y plan would produce the entire 75 xs proposed by Wilbur for an! time has the advantage of gaining support from elements who have been offering a “smoke-screen opposition” to the $4,000,000,000 program during We 5 recent months. Salvage Death Trap The Government has been busily salvaging the S-4, death trap of dozens of sailors. The government showed more concern in saving the submarine than it did in saving the lives of the sailors, for while inade- quate warning protection was given the sailors on the submarine, work on the salvaging proceeded post haste once the sailors were given up as dead. DAUGHERTY IN RADIO SCANDAL Oil Grafter Accused of Protecting Trust WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Charges have been made that Harry M. Daugh- erty, Harding- Coolidge attorney general who re- ned after the Teapot Dome oil smirched him, “un- dertook to grant immunity to the radio trust.” be Oswald F. Schu- H. M. Daugherty Sihesene Ra in Radio Scandal gi, Protective As- sociation, representing the smaller radio manufacturers, made the charge. To prove his charge, Schu- ette showed a letter which he said was written by Daugherty to James R. Sheffield, recently ambassador to Mexico. 'The letter deals with agree- ments between the Radio Corporation of Americe, called the “radio trust,” and other large radio concerns. Shef- field was then one of the attorneys for the radio trust, stated Schuette. “The letter,” said Schuette, “re- veals the solicitous protection prom- ised the corporations in the radio trust. Not only did Daugherty fail to act on the violations of the Clay- but he made sweeping promises of fu- ture friendliness,” said Schuette, Tar Brings Cancer LONDON, Feb. 20.—The use of tar roads for motoring is responsible for the large increase in deaths from cancer in the United States, according a statement of Sir Arbuthnot Lane, the famous physician. to COURT UPHOLDS BUS TAX. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. — The Connecticut law placing a mileage tax upon interstate bus lines was de- clared constitutional by the U. S. supreme court today. steal had be-j “CAPPELINI AND LEWIS MUST 60,” | | iCoal Diggers Fight for Their Union (Continued from Page One) program of the Save the Union Com- mit ee for winning the strike. The “Coal Digger” was made the official organ of the progressive movement in the anthracite coal fields. The state- ment issued by the conference com- mittee follows: “To all members of districts No. 1, No. 7 and No. 9 of the United Mine Workers of America: “Dear Sirs and Brothers: “This statement is issued to call the attention of members of the Tri-Dis- tric: to certain glaring evils and dan- gerous recent developments which threaten the very life of our union, the wages and working conditions of its members and to a considerable ex- tent even their lives and liber-ies, and to put forward a program which, sup- ported by the rank and file, will end the chaos and reaction in our union, make for enforcement of the contract, and strengthen and build the United Mine Workers, “We urge all rank and file mem- bers of District 1, 7 and 9 to support the Save the Union program and to organize to defeat the Lewis-Cappe- lini machine which is leading the U. M. W. A. to destruction in the bitu- minous fields, and which in the an- thracite has set up what can be de- scribed as a united front with the coal operators and contractors maintained by murder of all who fight for hon- lest and militant unionism. We call 'for the organization throughout the | tri district of rank and file commit- | tees to fight for the freedom of Frank | Bonito who is being framed up by | the coal companies, contractors and ; the Cappelini machine. | “The Lewis-Cappelini machine must go! “This machine has allowed the op- erators to violate the agreement in the anthracite until little is left of it. “The contractor evil is breaking down wages and working condition: | and disrupting the union. Honest union men are murdered because they vesist the coal operator-contractor- Cappelini rule. The Lewis-Cappelini machine must be held responsible for the shootings that have taken place recently. It is a matier of common knowledge that Brothers Lillis and Grecio were shot down by hired gun- men because they fought.against the contractors evil and to abolish coal company corruption in our union. Must Organize to Stop Murder. “Rank and file miners must organ- ize to end this murder regime, to connect up our fight with the strug- gle led by the Save the Union com- mittees in other districts, to support, spread and win the strike in Penn- sylvania and Ohio, to defeat the at- tack of the coal operators and their government, to rescue the United Mine Workers from the control of Lewis-Cappelini machine, to elect honest and militant officials, to or- ganize the non-union fields and make the United Mine Workers a union which every coal miner trusts, be- longs to and fights for. Quick and concerted aciion based on a militant program is needed. A few facts will prove the serious nature of the crisis our union faces. “1. In Pennsylvania and Ohio our brothers, with their wives and fam- TRAINING SCHOO With yesterday’s session, the na-ional training course of the Workers’ School went into full swing. liminary arrangements were completed, and the intensive course of study begun by 24 leading members of the Workers (Communist) Party and four bers of the Young Workers League from all parts of the country as well as three from Canada. fi ” The complete curriculum of the course was announced by D. Benjamin, assistant director School, as follows: Bertram D. Wolfe, of .he National Agitprop Department and Director School, is conducting two sessions each we2k on Marx- ism-Leninism; H. M. Wicks of the D. conducts two sessions a week on Marxian Economics and one session a week on the History of the United States. A. Markoff conducts a class on the Principles of Marx- ism. William W. Weinstone, District Organizer of New York is conducting one session each week on Economic and the Political Aspects of Imperialism. Foster of the Trade Union Educational League instructs the group in Trade Union Theory and Practice once ( each week. Jack All pre- week. outs anding mem- | story of the first, of the Workers’ berg on Research of the Workers’ Classes. AILY WORKER, courses are being COURSES OPEN Picked Workers Will Be Prepared for Labor Leadership Stachel, National Organiza-ion Secre- tary discusses Party Organization Problems twice each Alexander Bittelman began the course in the History of the International Labor Movemen., which includes the | , second and third Internationals, and Jay Lovestone, Executive Secretary, wll continue with the His’ory of the American Labor Movement, which in turn will include the story of the American Com-! munist movement. Six weeks sessions are given by Alexander Trachten- Methods, Herbert Zam on Youth Prob- lems and D. Benjamin on Methods of Teaching Workers’ __ In addition to these courses, which are conducied dur- ing the morning from nine to one o'clock, four evening given. Jay Lovestone teaches Ameri- can Political Problems, Harry Blake instructs in Public Speaking, Alexander Bittelman on the History of the Russian Communis. Party and Joseph Freeman, in con- junction with the a class in Labor William Z. — DAILY WORKER staff, is conducting Journalism. Other courses in the regular Workers’ School curri- culum are open to the students of the national training division as well, Benjamin said. MINERS DEMAND Jail-Bird Governor Warren T. McCray, former gov- ernor of Indiana, did not complete a jail term to which he was sen- tenced in Atlanta penitentiary for fraudulent use of the mails, for he wi prominent republican politi- cian in Indiana, and the only rea- son he went to jail at all was -be- cause of a feud within the Indiana republican party. Many a worker has entered a government peni- tentiary, but not so many have come out alive. Those who did had to serve their full terms. ilies, totalling 600,000 men, women and children, are fighting against the company union, the open shop and the yellow dog contract and have been on strike since April 1. “For five and a half months the Lewis machine did nothing to organ- ize a relief campaign for a strike involving the life of the two unions. “Today relief is handed out in such small amounts that thousands of miners with their dependents are on the verge of starvation. Local unions have organized the Pennsylvania and Ohio Relief Committee to collect re- lief on a national scale and this com- mittee is sabotaged by the Lewis machine, “2, The Lewis machine signed a separate agreement for District. 12 (Illinois) and ordered its members back to work, ordered them to desert the strike and leave the Pennsylva- nia and Ohio miners to fight alone. This Mllinois agreement is an arbi- tration and efficiency agreement and allows the operators to put in mach- ines which throw 35,000 miners out of work without any provision being made for them. “3. The Lewis machine has re- fused to organize the non-union fields. The coal from these non- union field mines is flooding the mar- kets and strangling what is left of our union. Organization of West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee and a fight for the six-hour day and five- day week will defeat the coal oper- ators and win the strike. “4, Injunctions have been issued by state and federal courts which legalize the yellow dog contract, make’ picketing illegal and prohibit organization. The Lewis machine re- fuses to mobilize our membership for mass defiance of these coal operators’ injunc.ions and to work for a labor party to carry the fight against them into every part of the political field. “Lewis supported the strike-break- er Coolidge for president and carries on a war against militant union men who stand for a labor party. “5. In the anthracite there are 50 per cent of our membership out of work, The speed-up system and the contractor system, the open violations of the contract which Cappelini per- mits, add to the unemployment and weaken the union. “It is a matier of common knowl- edge that grievances are never ad- justed by the district officials. 1t is also common knowledge that miners who take up a case are discriminated against by the Cappelini machine, tne contractors and the bosses, Lilus was killed and Bonito badly wounded because they fought agaist com- pany and contractor control. “Under the Lewis-Cappelini ma- chine the union does not protect the membership but is used against it. “We must take control of our union. We must make the state and the coal operators bear the burden of unemployment. We must fght for state relief for unemployed miners. 6,—The tHousands of contract vio- lations, the refusal to settle griev- ances, the under-payment of miners,, the murder of militant members and local union officials—all show that the coal operators, aided by the-Cap- pelini machine, are weakening the union in order to put over a wage cut. The installation of loading machines without a wage differential is another step to a wage cut. “7.—-The district officials have joined with the coal operators and businessmen in the anthracite boost- ers association to ‘reduce the anthra- cite costs.’ This means wage cut in plain English and a loading vi ister costs by forcing miners to do more work for less money, “8.—The district officials have joined, with the coal operators, to re- ‘DETROIT WORKERS DEFY POLICE WHO PROTECT FASCISTI Clubbing. Slugging Fail ito Stop Demonstration (Continued from Page One) of the crowd, they were unable at first to rout the demonstrators and could not drown the cries of “Down with Fascism.” The demonstrators, finally driven from the street, gained the steps of the Fort Street Presbyterian Church and continued the protest there. Signs Torn Up. Besides clubbing and beating the workers present, the police tore up signs carried by the demonstrators, and arrested William Reynolds, sec- retary of the International Labor De- fense; John Zunger, Salvatore Deray- mond and Albert Martin. After the police had partly broken up the de- monstration, Baron Giacoma was es- corted under heavy giard to the Book-Cadillac Hotel, where he was visited by Mayor Lodge. Protection Increased. The authorities were so afraid of further demonstrations that some 200 policemen were stationed at the en- trance to the hotel during the visit, in addition to police up and down Washington Blvd. and Michigan Ave. _later the ambassador was escorted under still heavier guard to repay the mayor’s call at the City Hall, where the guard waited patiently to escort him to Dearborn for lunch with Ed- sel Ford and William B. Moyo. ————————————_—— peal the state tax on anthracite. This is nothing but a scheme to save the coal companies money by making miners and other workers who own homes pay the taxes for the coal op- erators. “9.—The district -officials support the candidates of the two capitalist parties—the parties of the enemies of unions—the coal companies. The whole district machine is tied up with, corrupted with and subservient to the leaders of ..c parties of Wall Street just as is the Lewis machine nationally, Our union is in the greatest danger. If we do not or- ganize the rank and file as a powerful force, fight and defeat the corruption which is eating at the heart of the United Mine Workers, clean out the company influence in our union from top to bottom and adopt a militant program for the United Mine Work- ers, we will lose what gains we have made and go back to the conditions which prevailed before the United Mine Workers was organized. “Lewis and Cappelini must go! In every local union the fight against corruption has to be made and offi- cials elected who are responsible to the rank and file and not to the op- erators. “We ask support for the following program and urge the formation of local committees throughout the tri- district to put it into effect: Program Adopted. “1.—Freedom for Frank Bonito. Stop the murders and frame-ups of militants in the anthracite. The or- ganization of a rank and file union defense movement to carry on the fight for Bonito and any other miner attacked by the Lewis-Cappelini ma- chine, “2.—Win the Pennsylvania-Ohio strike. Spread the strike. “3. — Organize the unorganized fields. “4.-The 6-hour day and the 5-day week, “5.—One national agreement—an- thracite and bituminous miners to strike together—no division of forces. “6—No arbitration agreements. “7.-Abolish the contractor evil, “9.—Wipe out coal company corrup- tion in the union. “10,—State support of the unem- ployed—work for union wages—the cost to be borne by the coal capi- talists. “1.—No shifting of taxation from the coal companies to workers. “12.—Alliance with the railroad unions to fight the coal company railroad combination against our union. “~~ 18.—-A labor party. “14.—Support of the ‘Coal Digger’ —the official paper of the Save the Union Committee, “Organization of the rank and file on the basis of this program and mili- tant struggle against the coal com- panies and their corruptionists in the United Mine Workers will save our union, defeat the attack upon it, over- come the present crisis and make it the weapon of the 800,000 coal miners of this continent.”