The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 22, 1928, Page 1

SSF nr | ? — » who sent,$500 for the support.of The! ATTACK ON “DAILY” IS PENALTY FOR The attack upon The DAILY WORKER is the answer of the Big Business interests and their lackeys in office to the increased activities of the Workers (Communist) Party, to the efforts of the unemployed workers to organize and demand work or wages, to the campaign for the with- drawal of marines from Nicaragua, to the grow- ing militancy of the workers demanding an end to the class-collaboration policies of the bureau- crats and a fight to the finish against the Bar Association’s bill for legalizing the company- union and for destroying the labor movement. onstration of t interests and foist upon the This attack is the answer to the splendid dem- he workers in Cooper Union, ridi- culing the specious pleas of Green and the local bureaucrats, and demanding a Labor Party in place of the sham, non-partisan policy of surren- der to the capitalist parties. The Big Business their lackeys, the labor bureau- crats—the Wolls and the Greens, the Sullivans and Mulhollands—know that without the DAILY WORKER they will have an easy time of it to workers the reactionary schemes of Governor Smith to put over his sham injunc- SERVICE THE DAILY WOR FOR THE ORGANIZ. UNORGANIZED sHTS: OF THE FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY THE Vol. V. No. 44. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by matl, 84.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, DA Emtered ax seconu-e tion proposals, to deceive the workers and to keep them enslaved. The DAILY WORKER is the o: class-conscious workers that is fighting against mies of the entire labor movement—the Big Bus- iness interests dominant in Was bany and in City Hall. ork I The workers of New ist realize that it is because The DAILY WORKER has raised this banner of struggle that the attack is now made upon it. fold in order capitalist class duty to their WORKER will nly voice of the the enemies within the labor movement, the So- cialists and labor bureaucrats as their meager ez der to keep the well as the ene- hington, in Al- on the job to a the lead in rea in the present DAILY WORK ‘They must multipiy their etforts a hundred- in the city of New Yo TO WORKERS, WEINSTONE DECLARES the lackeys of the ll not flinch in their 1; that the DAILY ery newsstand they will take from arnings every cent possible in or- DAILY WORKER going. to show that th be pl The membership of District No. 2 is already end and will take hat has been set of The ccomplish tl ching the goal drive for the ER. WILLIAM WEINSTONE. defense + vilice at New Sork, Ne da NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22, 1928 yY W under the act of March 3, An7y. NEW HAVEN SENDS $100 DONATION TO SAVE THE “DAILY” Declare It Is Only Beginning; Nothing Too Hard to Do for Paper Seores of Contributions Still Needed to Defeat Government’s Attack The New Haven Branch of the Workers (Communist) Party has sent $100 to save The DAILY WORKER from the attacks which its class enemies have made against it in an attempt to smash the militant American la-* bor movement at the moment which they considered the most opportune. “The New Haven Branch of | the Workers (Communist) Par- ty is fully aware of the crisis which our DAILY is passing thru at the present time,” says the message accompanying the donation. “We are 100 per cent behind the DAILY WORKER and nothing will be too hard for us to do to save our | paper from che attack of the govern-' ment. Enclosed you will find a check for $100. This is only a beginning. All our forces will be mobilized in the coming two weeks for The DAILY , WORKER.” The New Haven comrades have | ‘ined up with the Detroit workers | Theodore Dreiser DAILY WORKER last week. These (Continued on Page Two) | JOBLESS SEAMEN No Breadlines CHEER DEMANDS JURY SHADOWING Neither Is Expected to Serve Time WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Sen- tences ranging from six months to 15 days were imposed on Harry F. Sin- clair, William J. Burns and H. Ma- son Day in the contempt case grow- ing out of the Fall-Sinclair oil con- spiracy trial here. They were found guilty of con- tempt of court for jury shadowing by Justice Siddons in the district su- preme court earlier in the day, fol- lowing nine weeks’ argument. Sinclair was already under sen- tence for three months for contempt of the senate for refusing to answer questions. He did not serve the three months, He appealed the case. He and his fellow defendants are expect- ed to appeal this case also and re- main at liberty. in U.S.S.R., Says Dreiser Upon Return | “Nowhere in Russia are there breadlines and the government sees to it ‘that there is food, shelter and clothing for every worker,” declared Theodore Over 300 unemployed seamen and Dreiser, famous American novelist, on his return yesterday from a European dock workers crowding every corner |triy of more than three months, of of the International Seamen’s Club, which eleven weeks were spent in the 28 South St., yesterday afternoon) goviet Union as the guest of the elected a committee of three from) ee iat faved their ranks as delegates to the New NERS ee spies York Council of the Unemployed. The meeting, called by the New'the Soviet system as one which is oe Cone ps the Coe eres os maintained in the interests of all the addresse y George Powers of the): zens of the country,” Dréiser said Structural Iron Workers’ Union, John he was unable to understand why Di Santo, secretary of the New York |there should be such widespread un- Council for the Unemployed, and an/employment in the United States. unemployed war veteran. “This is the richest country in the Urge Mass Action. world and yet there are people here P |who have so little to eat that they 4 rowera: Siesnc’ to a seamen and are foreed to depend on breadlines. ts bart ae ae fy ite as In Russia, on the other hand, a coun- ion © ie unemployed, 1 Sant0|try much poorer than the United vee ne eae oF wai ay |States, there is no serious unemploy- Me hain eset eile elt gtts Mee atone (Continued on Page Five) demand that public buildings and{ armories be thrown open as shelters r TONIGHT YWRIGHTS for the jobless was received with ap- Relief, 1 plause by the seamen, many of whom j } are absolutely shelterl The sea- men shouted in approval when H. Waite, the chairman of the meeting, demanded that the unemployed sea-| men and dock workers be allowed) shelter free of charge in the 13-story | Seamen’s institute for the benefit of | «« Cs wes the seamen, swille thousanida of Home: Daily . Readers to See Mike Gold’s Play less and jobless seamen in the neigh-| borhood are frequently beaten and) fein driven off if they seek relief in the ‘A capacity house is expected at the New Playwrights Theatre, 40 Com- Institute. merce St., near Seventh <Ave., to- Elect Committee. Expressing great enthusiasm for The committee elected by the as- sembled waterfront and marine work- ers consists of H. Waite and Morgan for the seamen and Silver for the dock workers, The seamen signified their determination to attend a huge demonstration of the unemployed to be held by the New York Council Sat- urday, March 10. An unemployed mass meeting will be held today at 60 St. Marks Place at 2p. m. A meeting of unemployed workers, scheduled to take place tomorrow, has been postponed until Saturday evening at 8 o’clock, when it will be held at 314 E. 104th St. This meet- ing has also been arranged by the New York Council, and will be ad- dressed by Di Santo. Another meeting will be held under the auspices of the Workers (Com- munist) Party Sunday at 2 p. m. at Ambassador Hall, 3875 Third Ave. The Workers’ International Re- lief, 1 Union Square, is aiding the New York Council of the Unem- ployed in the relief work, night when readers of The DAILY WORKER will meet at a_ special benefit performance of Michael Gold’s | ‘Hoboken blues.” The play, the fourth to be pro- duced by the group of insurgent dra- matists, is creating tremendous in- terest in New York. It had previ- ously appeared in “The American Caravan,” a collection of distinctive current literature recen.ly published. “Hoboken Blues,” a phantasy of Negro life in New York, was enthu- siastically reviewed in yesterday’s issue of The DAILY WORKER by James P. Cannon, national secretary of the International Labor Defense. U.S. S. R. Posters on several posters recently + ers’ Republic, Display at Bookshop The Jimmie Higgins Bookshop, 106 University Place, is now displaying received from the Soviet Union. They describe many fields of activity in the Wor | THOUSANDS IN TOLEDO JOBLESS Cops, Fearing Riots, Get Tear Gas Bombs TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. 21—Under pressure of the growing unemploy- ment and industrial crisis in this city, detec'ives of the police force have been equipped with tear gas shell: for use in “quelling a mob or a riot.” More than 2,000 unemployed work- ers stand before the gates of the Overland Automobile plant every jmorning, but very few even reach j the employment office. Fif een thou- | sand railroad workers here are work- ing only part time and the docks and the marine industry are practically at a standstill. Numerous plants are completely shut down and work is very irregular in mos! of the machine shops and other factories here. Many workers tell the same story about how they were brought to Toledo from distant citics by the (Continued on Page Two) OIL MAN AND SPY SIX SCABS KILLED Published dally except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, MINE EXPLOSION Inc., 38 First Street, New York, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents N. We | | |B The L. it. ‘Lb. is tryimg to enfor tems in order that the transit bo: Demand Workers Pay Seven-Cent Fare for These Conditions rE a cea en-cent fare on all subway and sses may reap millions in profits. Oe REIS elevated lines. Thousands of dead tired workers are crushed and crowded night and morning into the cars of the subway and elevated sys- The above pictures show throngs jammed at rush hour on the platforms and trains at Grand Central station. AI MINE RELIEF Four Conferences To Be Held Soon The Children’s Committee for Min- ers’ Relief announced last night that it has just sent $400 to .he Pennsyl- vania and Ohio mining districts and $100 to Colorado to help the starving children of the strikers. This makes a total of $1600 collecied in‘ seven weeks by and from the children of ew York. Two children’s section conferences for miners’ relief will be held today: Jone at 2 p. m. at 15 E. Third St. and the other at 3 p. m. at 1373 428d St., Brooklyn. Two more meetings will be held this week-end, one in the Bronx on Saturday, 2:30 p. m. at 1347 Boston Road, and the other in E. 102d St. These conferences are being called by the Children’s Com- mittee for Miners’ Leiief, Luu bith Ave., Room 1509 and will be attended by delegates from many children’s organiza ions. The activity of the committee was inaugurated with a conference on January 2, in New York. Thousands of children were represented there by 225 enthusiastic del s. A tag day was held for whi over 1200 children were mobilized and $1,000 collec.ed. The latest move of the commit'ee in its effor se money for the strike been to issue are being relief scouts meal ti the miners schoolmates. to t COLLECTION FOR MINERS. Ata meeting of the Union of Tech- nical Men held Monday night at the Labor Temple, Second Ave. and 14th St., $44.43 was collected for miners’ relief after a short talk by a rep- resentative of the Youth Conferenc: for Miners’ Relief. Harlem, on Sunday, 1 p. m., at 143) CHILDREN OF CITY! Working Women Mobilize To Hit Bosses Offensive A, nation-wide protest against the bosses’ attack upon the unions..which, is hitting the women workers all ove: x the country, will be raised on Inter- national Women’s Day, March 8. Women workers are preparing a counter- vitensive ployers which aims to slash wages, jIncrease worsing hours and crippie | trade unions, at dozens of meetings in jall large cides on that day. | Textile factories, department |stores, candy factories, and many | other industries employing women jare reducing wages and lengthening | hours. Where trade unions exist as in ,the needle trades, .he bosses are try- {ing to wipe them out. In addition, the |employers are making a national |drive against the labor laws which | protect women workers, minimum wage laws and restrict the number of hours and night work for women. Unemployment too, is hitting the | Working woman. In the shops they | are laid off along with the men wor«- | ers. Because of their low pay and | weak organization, they are less able | to effectively demand relief. The new | Coolidge navy program and the war danger are also awakening women (Continued on Page Two) LOVESTONE WILL DEBATE FRIDAY Jav Lovestone, executive secretary of the Wo (Communist) Party, i debate with George Hiram Mann, formerly of the National Se- y League, Friday evening at 8 jo’elock at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and | tr Pl. The topic is: “Does America Need a Revolution?” Lovestone will take the affirma- tive and Mann the negative in the debate, Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the Workers School, which has arranged the debate, will be chairman. | Tomorrow the Red Army of the Soviet Union will celebrate the tenth anniversary of its existence as the defender of the only workers and pea- sants’ government. Organized after the October Revolution when the im- perialist powers began to launch their armies against the first Workers’ State, the Red Army has continually increased in popularity not only among the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, but among the workers and farmers around the world. The struggling colonial peo- vles especially are beginning more and more to look upon the soldiers of the Red Army as their friends. This army, the only one in the world which fights for, rather than B Ys M. VOROSHILOFF, People’s Commissar for War. RED ARMY CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY Tomorrow Is the Tenth Year of Tis Defense of the Soviet Union against the workers, has well earned the right of support by the entire working class. In tomorrow’s edition of The DAILY WORKER, just ten years after the Red Army was or- ganized on February 23, special ar- ticles will be carried telling how the Red Army is preparing to defend the Soviet Union, in face of the increas- ing war danger. The life of the Red Army soldier as compared with that of the Ameri- ean doughboy will be described; the way in which the Red Army protects the workers against the bosses in strikes, as compared with the Ameri- ean army, in addition to the pledge taken by every Red Army soldier will be published. to tne drive of the em-® STRIKE ON LRT. LOOMS ONCE MORE /Workers Are Watched By Companies’ Spies The threat of a subway strike— but a threat only—was foreshadowed tion workers held at Harlem Casino, 100 W. 116h St. A resolution was adopted giving to the executive com- mittee of the Amalgamated local union the full power to act in the present situation as it sees fit. This will mean a repetition, it is believed, of the series of half-hearted threats to call a strike which the of- ficials of the Amalgamated expect to use for their bargaining power over the company. About one hundred traction work- lers forced their way through an equal number of company “beakies” who lined the entrances to the hall. Con- iderable oratory was on tap as usual, |The chief subject was the at vic- |tory” won as a result of the denial |of the application by the Interborough | for an injunction against the union. | No plans were announced as to the | organization campaign beyond the |statement that “we will line up the whole line.” t | Attorneys representing the city and 'the Interborough yestesday argued before Supreme Court Justice Bondy | the question of the restraining order jrecently issued by Justice Winslow ‘against the city. Decision will be handed down shortly, it was an- nounced. It is believed that the In- terborough will be able to win its }ease for the seven. cent fare unless a |mass protest of the workers of the jcity restrains the move. USSR EXPLAINS ARMS PROPOSAL MOSCOW, Feb. 21.—The Union’s proposals for 4 would reduce all armed fo: an extent that within a mobilization for war w« tremely difficult, according to sta‘ement issued today by Tass, of- ficial news agency. Observers here, however, are cer- tain that the capitalist powers will reject the proposals of the Soviet a Union. The determination of the (Continued on Page Three) last night at a mass meeting of trac- | Sinclair, Burns Get Jail Terms in Conspiracy Case 6 STRIKEBREAKERS DEAD, 9 MISSING IN PENNA. BLAST Kept Virtual Prisoners by Company Guards EW KENSINGTON, Pa., Feb. 21 —Six s_rikebreakers were killed last night while r guard of deputy |sheriffs in an explosion at the open- }shop Kinlock mine of the Valley Camp Coul Co.*at Arnold. The Kinloch mine one of the largest in the New Kensington dis- trict and has been operating on a non- union ba ince before Christmas. There are a large number of men working on the grounds and in the mine, surrounded by a stockade and guarded by deputy sheriffs. Worked Until Midnight, In addition to the six known dead, nine miners are missing, while fire is Spreading thru the diggings follow- ing the blast. The trapped miners, including those who reached safety, | went into che working, a drift mine, shortly after three o’clock yesterday afternoon. They were due to leave the mine about midnight. Shortly after 10 o’clock five of the miners rushed to the surface and reported |that their comrades had been trapped. | Fire was already spreading through the workings and heavy smoke was pouring from the entrance to the |shaft, making all attempts to enter | futile. | Overcome Next Day. | Five men were overcome by poison- }ous gas in the adjoining mine of the Valley Brick Co. when they were forced to go to work this morning de- pite fear due to the recen: explosion the next mine. Clouds of poison- ous gas had penetrated into the Brick Co. mine, with the It that one of |.he miners is dead, three escaped and one is still missing, adding to the cas- ualties of the night before. COLO, ARRESTS STILL THREATEN 0, Feb. 21.—With 1 strike suspended, by the state in- m, hundreds of s are flocking back to the mines only to find a black-list set up against them for daring to fight for a living wage. The black-list is in conformity with the viciously anti- labor policy of the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. The militia is still in the field and Col. Newlan threatens more arre: The coal bosses, favored by the ap- proach of the summer season, are planning to get by as far as is pos- sible with scab labor imported in the course of the strike, despite the | greatly increased danger of disasters | in the mines manned largely by inexa | Perfenced workers. } Though a majority of the strikers \voted to return to work the militant miners generally are dissatisfied with |the way the I. W. W. state executive committee handled the strike. The militant miners are saying the vote | to return to the pits was the outcome jof early mistakes by the leadership, ified by the ,repeated commenda- |tion of the “fairness” of the govere nor and other state authorities and the dallying for weeks with insincere citizens’ committees and similar friendly” groups. The militants point to the fact that spokesmen of the state executive committee continued to express con fidence in state authorities even after the murder of six strikers at the Columbine mine and a series of raids ~ on strikers’ headquarters at Trinidad, Walsenburg and other towns, hy DENVFR, Col the C lora commi: