The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1928, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1928 Colorado Fights for Place Near Top in Daily Worker Subscription Campaign MAKE BIG EFFORT TO OVERTAKE LOS ANGELES’ LEAD Dietrich and Zooner Back Drive giving t6 it. Besides, Los Angeles, which chal- lenges any other section in the coun- iry to take first place from it in the drive, lies near enough to be a real rival and the Colorado workers are determined not to be outclassed by their far western whet of eikscrictions the DAILY WORKER office are be- ginning to put the Colorado district on the map in the big national cam- paign to gain ten thousand new sub- seribers for the DAILY. Under the direction of M. Zooner every effort @ prominent place for the national drive, and William Die- trich, throwing the full weight of the mob- ilized. party organization behind the offensive. with the and coal-fields to the north and south, @s a fertile territory for the subscrip- tion drive. Colorado workers to”whom their class organ, the DAILY WORKER, should be brought by The comrades in the Colorado district haye a splendid opportunity and are every promise reaching is being made to win Colorado in District Organizer, is Colorado mines There are thousands of its height. the new campaign. Warchowm Bene Endangers Workers Lives A three-story warehouse in Jamaica, L. I., was quickly consumed by a fire which spread to adjoining houses inhabited by workers’ families. The warehouse is shown above in a photo taken while the blaze was at Low pressure in the water supply aided the fire, and it was a half hour before firemen were able to ply water on the blaze above the second floor of the warehouse, of living up Michigan Workers Spied on For Helping the “Daily” He Mark K. Leskovitch arrived here yesterday from Battle Creek, Mich., on his way to the Soviet Union. plan to join agricultural colonies in various parts of the USSR. Leskovitch is going to the Red Ray Commune ing will sail Friday with 50 others who NEGLIGENCE BY (COAL BOSSES WAS (CAUSE OF DEATHS | Experienced _ Miner al Would Have Escaped (Continued from Page One) because the truth about this death trap at Kinlock might seap thru the} ranks of the unemployed all over the | ? country and to the southern corn and} cotton fields from which colored men are seduced with specious promises of good pay and light labor in the black caves under the hills of West- ern Pennsylvania. Dead Were Strikebreakers. The. dead men were strikebreakers and those they left behind them are sheltered from publie attention by wire netting and the guns of deputy sheriffs, inside a cormpound—a com- This open-air prison is closed to newspapermen. The wives and chil- dren. of the dead men may grieve in solitude. After all, the dead men were only scabs. They were taking the bread out of the mouths of thou- sands of union children and getting little for the mouths of their own broods. The striking miners shed no tears of sympathy for their widowed and orphaned dependents. The people of the three neighbor- ing towns, Arnold, Parnassus and New Kensington, say: “It serves them right,” or “Twelve more will never scab again.” A sentimental- pany preserve called “The | Patch.” |~ | mine are surrounded by a stockade These are now thought to be dead. An explosion in the Kinlock mine of the Valley Camp Coal Co. at Arnold, Pa., killed 6 strikebreakers who were at work in the mine while | under guard of deputy sheriffs, All the strikebreakers working in the | photo shows rescue workers who attempted to save the remaining scabs. Where 6 Died in Scab Mine Explosion | ON DAILY WORKER, | i \ | \ and kept under guard. The above Miners Launch attended a recent. conference called by at Bentleyville, Pa., to initiate the La- bor Party campaign in that county and nominate candidates for congress and the state legislature. Four dele- gates were elected to the State La- bor Party Conference which will be Campaign in Bentleyville BENTLEYVILLE, Pa., Feb. 23.—Over 40 delegates, representing 20 | local unions and ladies’ auxiliaries of the United Mine Workers of America | Labor Party the Washington County Labor Party | Siders, or Avella, who ran for dis- trict president on the progressive ticket in the last union election, against Pat Fagan, of the Lewis ma- chine, Must Expose Lewis. STACHEL URGES ‘Daily’ Must Get Prompt Support, He Says (Continued from Page One) succeed in crushing the paper, they ill weaken the resistance of the masses against their offensive. If they succeed against The DAILY | WORKER, they will be encouraged to make more open attacks against our Party and against every labor organi- zation. They will then throw into {jail any one who dares expose the preparation for war, anyone who Speaks in the interests of the masses. The enemy relies upon our financial weakness. But in this they do not take into account the members of our Party, the readers and sympathizers of The DAILY WORKER. We will answer them. We must mobilize the maximum of support, and show our enemy with what readiness afid devo- tion we will defend our press. Only the immediate and broad support for The DAILY WORKER can defeat the present attack. The decision will not be made in the capitalist court. The decision will not be made by our enemy. We will make the decision by our response and the swiftness with which it is made. Let us rush to the defense of our DAILY WORKER. We must rise to the seriousness of the situation. ae Zaporosia, Ekaterinoslav, near the list might slobbe held in Pittsburgh on Sunday, Feb. 26. ‘ s Black Sea. PASSAIC STRIKER pt ti6e ide Sele TAN ib oceaE ane Great enthusiasm and a determina- ey la joes te brutality of HG must answer a Sis in — BRANDLE EXPOSED “When I left the old country in belligerents don’t. wail -over the|tion .to. carry the fight for a labor w iepees and iron police, pomesane by lecisive sepia at the enemy w! 1911, they told me America was a onemy’s misfortunes. party into every miners’ local in the | ®™ evictions, and stressed the rapidly | know our decision. AS BOSSES’ TOOL Accepts Job to Fight Workers (Continued from Page One) huge open shop corporations in the state. It is considered significant that the announcement which carries the news of Brandle’s appointment and which eminates from the offices of the Iron League carries the further informa- tion that Brandle will president of the Building Trades Gouncil of New Jersey. His other positions in the labor movement are fourth vice president International Structural Tron Workers Union, president of the Iron Workers District president of the Joint Arbitration Board of Building Trades Council and head of the Material Men’s Associa-| tion. of Bridge, “Boss” Brandle. Besides these offices in the labor movement Brandle is the head of aj Yeal estate and tract bond business in Jersey City. He is one of the chief controllers of} the “Labor” National Bank of New Detroit saw and came to out as a red received his remain as | housekeeper boss said: don’t stop!’ Association of and Ornamental council, ask whether Chicago and | continued. already. |ploughs and carpenter’s insurance and con- ms with me. land of freedom,” he said. like this kind of freedom. When I sent $10 to The DAILY WORKER to help defend the editors a detective in such short notice,” ‘You'll be ditched if you real freedom for \that some day I'll be able to visit the Soviet Union of America.” “I don’t my name in the paper Battle Creek to point me to make me lose my job. P. O. Informs. Leskovitch, who was employed by the Post Tavern hotel in that city, mail through a post of- fice box. The detective learned where h ewas employed through the post of- fice, according to Leskovitch, and im- mediately notified his employer. “My boss, C. H. Montgomery, want- ed to fire me immediately, but the couldn’t replace me on he continued. The And after that, when- ever we complained about the food, which wasn’t fit for a dog, they called us ‘Bolsheviks’. Soon afterward another detective went from Detroit to Battle Creek to he attended meetings in Detroit, Leskovitch said. “No, I don’t like such freedom,” he “Many of my comrades have gone to the ‘Red Ray Commune’ We have sent them tractors, reapers and I am taking and shoemaker’s tools I am going to the land of workers. I hope| ENDS LONG TERM First of N. J. Prisoners Leaves Prison PASSAIC, N. J., Feb. 23. — Paul Kovac, one of the active workers in the Passaic Textile strike of last year, who was sentenced April 8 to the State Prison at Trenton for from one to five years, was today released from |‘ prison. Among those who are still confined in the State Prison are Nich- olas Schillaci, Adolph Wisnefski, Jo- seph Belene, Alex Kostamaha, Paul Ozanak, Tony Pochno and William Si- kora. Their wives and children are partly supported from the fund of the International Labor Defense which sends $20 every month to the dependent families as well as $5 every month to the prisoners. Pass More Baumes Bills ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 23.—Three more: Baumes bills were passed by the assembly codes committee. A number of other measures proposed by the Baumes Crime Commission were defeated. The first bill permits a thief to testify against the person who bought Hauled By Union Men. Yet they were workers,—members of the earth’s robbed and down- trodden and under different circum- stances they might be standing side by side with their fellow workers in the never-ending struggle against the exploiters—never ending until the rotten system goes down under the marching feet of the enslaved mill- ions. They came from the South— most of them—and never heard. of a union. They were hauled to Kinlock by union trainmen. This is something to ponder over. It appears that there are two kinds of scabbery; one sanc- tioned by the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor and both sanctioned by the employing classes. Cost pica Nothing. The Valley Camp Coal Company will not have to pay a nickel for the dead men. On the morning of the disaster, 13 scabs were hauled into “the patch” in automobiles, by deputy sheriffs, guarded by state troopers. There is plenty of human fodder available. And the wives and chil- dren of the dead men will be thrown out of the company houses to make room for more scabs and the families of scabs. They can go to the devil for all the officials and owners of the Valléy Camp Coal Company care. ‘The miners were two miles back in county, marked the proceedings. Min- ers came from Avella, Racoon, Daisy- town, Fredericktown, Washington, Van Voorhis and other camps, eager to organize their political forces for a battle against the capitalist parties in the coming elections. A heavy snowfall, making the highways im- passable, prevented many more min- ers from attending. Grecht Speaks. “The fight for a labor party in western Pennsylvania,” declared Re- becca Grecht, representative from the Allegheny County Labor Party before the conference, “is part of the fight now being waged by the progressives in the miners’ union against the mis- leadership of Lewis and his labor bureaucrats. In their support of the capitalist parties; they are betraying the striking miners into the hands-of their enemies. Class political action by the miners, through a labor party, must be their answer to injunctions, evictions, assaults and arrests, in the struggle to win the strike.” Nominate Candidates. The conference nominated one can- didate for congress and four as rep- resentatives to the state legislature. Among those nominated are Adam Getto, striking miner from Bentley- ville and secretary of the Washing- ton County Labor Party; L. E. Dau- det, miner from McDonald, and Fred developing sentiment for a Labor Party. Despite the efforts of the Lewis machine to prevent the miners from participating in the campaign, the number of local unions joining the movement steadily increases, they de- clared. “We must go to the rank and file of every local union,” declared the delegate from Van Voorhis. “We must expose the policy of Lewis and win the membership for the Labor Party.” State Program. The conference passed resolutions instructing the executive committee of the Labor Party to campaign in every local union for the endorse- ment of the labor ticket nominated, to arrange mass meetings and organ- ize Labor Party Booster Clubs, to is- ste leaflets. acquainting the miners with the Labor Party program, and call another conference in a month for further mobilizing the miners. Organize Women. Another resolution urged that the ladies’ auxiliaries organized by many miners’ locals be drawn into thé labor party movement. The Washington County Labor Party was formed in 1927 and re- ceived a large vote though little cam- paigning was done. This year, with an active campaign, the Labor Party vote in this country is expected to be greatly increased. —JACK STACHEL. CAPONE BACK IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Feb. 23. —- Ccincident with the reign of terror which has recently! been inaugurated here by gangsters, who have bombed the homes of politicians and intimidated witnesses in criminal trials with death threats, the return of “Scar- face Al” Capone, gang leader, to Chi- cago has been reported. Police Com- missioner Hughes has admitted that heis “unable” to cope with gangsters. HUNGRY MAN GRABS PURSE. Clarence Hicks, a 17 year old home- less and unemployed worker, was driven by hunger to snatch a purse containing $3.40 from Mrs. Jessie Garlock, of 400 West 128th St. The weakened worker was easily caught by a policeman a half block away. Magistrate Simpson in Washington Heights Court held him for grand jury action, after indulging his “sense of humor” at the starving boy’s expense by asking $10,000 bail. FOR YOUR HEALTH Strictly Pure FLORIDA Jersey. He is president of the Union * Labor Investment Corporation and a member of the Journal Square As- sociation consisting of bankers, open Shoppers and business men of Jersey City. Brandle’s activities against the wotkers would fill several volumes. The last of these, an attempt to break up the housewreckers local of _ Jersey City and to prevent organiza- - tion of the trade, was exposed in the ' DAILY WORKER as recently as Feb. 17. stolen goods from him, the second re-|the Kinlock mine when the deadly quires tha buyer to ascertain whether} gas exploded. It might be rock dust. the goods he purchased were stolen} [It is not yet definitely known. There and the third allows district attor-j| will be an investigation and then the neys to comment upon the defendant’s| truth may come out, or it may not. CCU 0 RG E R failure to testify in his own behalf. | \ fortner mine fire boss told me that, he mine was never safe, just a regu- IS 6000 AS RABBI lar death trap. Experienced Would Esczpe. Experienced union men know how to take proper precautionary steps when the fatal vapor cuts loose. They turn off the motor and pull of the STRIKE LINDBERGH MEDAL. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—A bill has been introduced in the house call- ing for the issue of 10,000,000 gold medals of Lindbergh, and also the purchase by the government of the Lindbergh farm at Little Falls, Minn., “as a means of commemorating the air exploits of Lindbergh.” The bill providing for the striking of Lind- bergh medals has been approved by Seeretary Mellon. SHOW HUGE GAINS OF MORGAN FIRMS By LELAND OLDS, Profits of some coroporations may go up while others go down but the HONEY Guarantegd by the BEE-FARMER. Special Prices During Run of This “Ad” Long Ways From Jail i When Jewish passengers on the liner Paris, which has just arrived here, found themselves without a rabbi on board, Isador Knauer, alias Abra- Training School Students Aid Party as They Learn at the Workers’ School, "Class sits to union meetings, demonstrations, conferences and meet- ings of the Trade Union Educational League groups are being arranged by the directors of the school. Many students who are attending ing the fall t fuli time national training course | 108 E. 14th St., to better prepare themselves for active participation in the class struggle, are teaching classes in the out- ' lying branches of the Workers’ School® in this city and New Jersey. lasses in the “Principles of the Struggle,” “American History” the “Fundamentals of Commun- workers’ trelley: poles before. making for the steep incline that leads to the open airs And don’t forget that there are 280. steps to be taken before one reaches the top. The union miners. would walk out {and refuse to jeopardise their lives | when the mine became unusually. un- safe. But the strikebreakers had to choose between unemployment and a long chance of escaping death. If workers who do not believe in the value of unionism worked for a while in a coal mine and escaped with their lives, their conversion would be quick and lasting—unless they are con- genital serfs. ham Berger, volunteered to lead the prayers. So well versed was Knauer in the prayers, that the passengers were under the impression that he was a rabbi. They were shocked when they saw Knauer being led away in the custory of two detectives. Knauer has been extradited from Vienna where he had fled following charges of forging a note for $10,000. Mother Gives Starving owners of America’s largest enter- prises continue to live without work. This conclusion is prompted by a se- ries of Wall Street Journal articles on the profits of 20 industrial cor- porations used in the Dow Jones ay- erage of market quotations. The 20 corporations turned over profits in 1927 to their, shareholders totaling | $676,315,000 against $647,929,000 in} 1926. General Motors, with earnings for all securities in excess of $230,000,000 and a profit of: more than $220,000,- 000 for common stockholders, leads the list. In fact the big gain in Gen- 5 Lbs. $1.25 6 Lbs. $1.40 10% Goes to “Daily Worker” ORDER BY MAIL. JACK FEURER 8656 Park Ave., Bronx New York City. Children to Police Mrs. Alice Gisbourne brought her two children Jack, aged 5, and Muriel, 4, to the Bergen St. Police Court in Brooklyn yesterday, and said that they had nothing to eat in the past few days but a few pieces of crackers and a small piece of bread, and that their food had completely given out. Bystanders contributed some money to the starving woman and promised to try to get work for her.’ 17 FIREMEN ESCAPE DEATH. CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—Twelve fire- men narrowly escaped death today while fighting a spectacular fire in a vacant skyscraper on Wacker Drive. ALBANY, Feb. 28.—Now that the A cornice of the building fell among number of childten who are forced to jleave school to help support their the fire fighters. >, i families is increasing with unprece- dented rapidity, six bills to permit them to attend night school instead of day part-time continuation school eral Motors profits brings the total for the group above that of 1926. American Telephone & Telegraph comes. second with $151,366,000 in profits for all securities and $129,- 366,000 for common stockholders, U. S. Steel follows with $113,920,000 for all securities and $62,626,000 for the common stock. The 4 corporations which head the list. are all parts of the huge indus trial domain ruled by the House of Morgan. These 4 companies alon: show 1927 profits for all securitios totalling $547,754,000 and about $460,- 000,000 for their common stockhold- ers. KILL NIGHT SCHOOL BILL. ” are being taught by six students. addition, the director of the school assigning students to certain of the evening classes to study the meth- ods of teaching employed by some of the more successful instructors. Will Apply Knowledge. | “One of the aims of the Workers’ | Bchool is to equip these workers both | if content of courses and ability to apply this knowledge to problems sing in the class struggle and in the technique of teaching, so that they an go back to their districts and _ teach classes there,” D. Benjamin, as- “sistant director of the Workers’ School, said last night, The 24 students of the national ining school have been assigned to of the Workers (Communist) | ity and trade union fractions for ‘active participation in the life of the Party here. After participating in the work of strong units the students are transferred to weaker groups to help them solve their problems, Ben- jamin pointed out. Many meetings of the national po- litical committee, district executive ‘council and national and district or- ; ganization and agitprop committee | huge cost of electing the Harding- meetings are open to the the students. Coolidge ticket. Officials Guilty. “Every official of the Valley Camp Coal Company should be indicted for murder” said a former fire boss to me. “They knew that the mine was dangerous. They could have helped to make the mine reasonably safe by reversing the fan, which now drives the air into the mine and out thru the entrance. If the fan were turned the other way, it would suck the gas out thru the shaft. As it. is, when the gas breaks loose, .. .” He threw up his hands in a despairing gesture. Gas, gas everywhere. Perhaps reversing the fan would cost money! No. The officials of the coal company simply don’t give a damn like that Texas mule whose bonehead antics a friend of mine likes .to describe on appropriate oc- casions. The mule ‘however was only playing with his own head; the coal fueeeony were playing with human ves. OIL. CASE ARREST UPHELD IN COURT WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—-The ar- rest of Col. Robert W. Stewart, Indi- ana Standard Oil Co. head, for con- jtempt of the Senate in refusing to | tell what he knows about the Teapot | Dome oil case, has been upheld in| | court. InternationalPress | =! Correspondence Every worker should sub- scribe to this weekly peri- odical for valuable material on important current events of world-wide interest. A Yenrly Sub. $6. Six Mo. $3.50 10 Cents a Single Issue. Sole Distributing Agents in America: Workers Libra Publisher 39 €. 125% St. NEW YoRK It has also been shown in another phase of the oil graft and slush fund | investigation that Henry M. Black- mer, Denver oil man, who fled to Eu- rope to escape the witness stand, got $750,000 of the Continental Trading Co, bonds. It was from these bonds that Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate, gave $233,000 to former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and $75,000 to the Republican National Committee to liquidate part of the William J. Burns (above), notori- ous owner of a labgr spying agency, was sentenced by district supreme court Justice Siddons in Washing- ton to serve 15 days, and Harry F. Sinclair (below), oil magnate in- volved in the Teapot Dome oil steal quest the coal operators have agreed * # & to rescind temporarily a general or- Another article by T. J. |der which had barred United Minc| were defeated in the assembly educa- O'Flaherty dealing with the Kin- | Workers’ officials from the proper-| tion committee. was sentenced to 6 months for shad- | lock mine disaster, will appear to- | ties and camps of the largest non-|, A bill to change the age limit at owing the jury in the Fall-Sinclair | morrow. union properties. Union officials will] which boys and girls are required to oil conspiracy case. It is not ex- Sr ari me thus be able to accompany the com-| attend ‘continuation school from 18 pected that either of the malefac- ITTSBURGH, See 28—At the| mittee on its visite to these proper-! to 16 is still being considered by the tors Shi ko onda ta neta seein. Little agnate coal commities’s re-| ties. committee. Bis.