The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1928, Page 1

| 20 KILLED IN ARKANSAS MINE EXPLOSION; 35 ARE INJURED THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK dr) 2 Foe Semon FARES 22 | A LABOR PARTY Emtered as ercund-tiuer music a6 tue cua, Uitice at New York, N. THE DAILY WORKER. XY. umder the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V. No. 47. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year, Outside New York, oy mail, $6.00 per year, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1928 Pub Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily bepress img Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. . Price 3 Cents LR-T. WORKERS RAISE SLOGAN: “STRIKE IN DEFENSE” RAISE THOUSANDS AT WORKERS PARTY MEMBERSHIP MEETS Sections 3 and 4, New York, Raise $3,500 in De- fense of “Daily”; Dunne, Bittelman, Emphasize Great Need if Paper Is to Resist New Attacks Three thousand five hundred dollars has been pledged by Sections 3 and 4, New York city, WORKER, at two recent meetings. pledged themselves to raise $2,- 000 within the next few weeks. dollars was raised at the meeting and | every member pledged to give one | day’s wages at the end of the week.| The members of Section 3 Bees themselves to raise $1,500. One hun- dred and sixty-eight dollars was! raised at the meeting in cash. The| rest is promised within the next few, weeks. | Addressing Section 4 which’ met at} 43 E, 103rd St., Alex Bittelman, mem-} ber of the Political Committee of the} Workers (Communist) Party, and one} of the three leaders against whom} the government is attempting to rail-| road to the penitentiary, appealed t the members to defend their paper. “The severest blows are yet t come,” Bittelman warned. ‘The pa-| triotic organizations such as the Key-| men of America and the Military Or- der of the World War are only the| catspaws of the bosses who are be-| ing,.used in the campaign to wreck the American militant labor move- ment and stifle the voice of the Amer- ican workers.”, $4,000 By Saturday. Following Bittelman’s appeal, A. Raviteh, circulation manager of The DAILY WORKER, took the platform and called upon the meeting to raise $4,000 by Saturday. He declared that it is not enough simply to contribute to the defense of the paper but they must bend every effort to increase the news stand sales and the readers or the paper would be destroyed. At the end of the meeting hundreds of “Resist the Attack on The DAILY WORKER” leaflets were distributed. Dunne Addresses Section 3. “We must rally the working class to the defense of their paper against the government’s attack,” William F. Dunne, assistant editor of The DAILY WORKER, declared to the meeting of Section 3 at 101 W. 27th St. Dunne, who is out on $1,000 bail as a result of the attack which the American capitalists thru their mili- tarist henchmen are leading against the “Daily,” is expecting re-arrest at any moment. Pointing to the growing influence of The DAILY WORKER among the American workers, the increase of militancy in the trade unions and the fear of the bosses in the face of the aggressive unemployment situation, as causes which unlie the govern- ment’s offensive, Dunne indicated the danger which threatens the American workers at this time if the bosses suc- ceed. NEW CO-OP BLOCK OPENS TOMORROW Will Celebrate With Entertainment The opening of the second block of houses of the United Workers’ Co- operative will be celebrated tomorrow at 2 p. m. at 2800 Bronx Park, South. The program will include the pres- | entation of the mass pageant “Strike.” The entertainment is pre- sented by Jacob Shaefer of the Frei- heit Singing Society. The speakers will be Robert Minor, | editor of The DAILY WORKER; M. | Epstein, editor, The Freiheit; Louise | Hyman, genera? manager, Joint } Board, Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union and Cedric Long of the Cooperative | League of America. WORKERS IN DANGER. Two persons were injured yesterday by falling glass during a fire that routed scores of men and girl work- ers from a loft building at No. 458 Broome Street, Three alarms were turned. The injured are: Alfred Monroe, 1965 West 9th St. Brodklyn, and ‘illiam Euler, 441 E. 187th Police Forbid Address More Pledged for the defense of The DAILY The members of Section 4 STOP HIS TALK | | Pablo Manlapit, leader of the Workers of the Philippine Is- lands, was arrested Tn Tos An- geles while addressing a meet- ing. He is now on tour for the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, 39 Union “Square New York. ARREST MANLAPIT FILIPINO LEADER in Los Angeles (Special to The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Feb, 24. — Pablo Manlapit, famous Filipino nationalist and labor leader, was arrested last night and prevented from addressing a Philippine independence mass meet- ing called by the Los Angeles branch of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League. Detectives of the “red squad” arrested him just as he was entering the meeting hall. Manlapit is on tour for the All- America Anti-Imperialist League, and intends to organize a Filipino section of the League upon his return to the Philippines. The noted Filipino came to this country from the Hawaiian Islands. He was practically deported to this country, the Hawaiian governor re- fusing to release him from prison unless he would agree to leave Haw- aii for the mainland, His imprisonment was the result of his activities in leading the Filipino and Japanese laborers in the great Hawaiian sugar strike of 1924-25. |DEMAND ACTION AGAINST FIRING UNION MEMBERS Criticise Officials For Delay Widespread indignation and bitter- ness which may result almost any hour in a spontaneous walkout of the workers on the Interborough lines has followed the discharge by the I. R. T. of workers because of union ac- tivity. Such a strike would be fol- lowed immediately by similar moves of the employes of the B. M. T. and the surface lines and result in the most general and effective tie-up in | the city’s history. “Strike For Defense.” “Strike For Defense,” was the slo- gan raised at various terminals on the Interborough lines. It is believed that | the workers have never been so aroused by .any single act of their masters as they have been over the discharge Thursday of seven of their union brothers for having attended | the Wednesday night meeting at Har- lem Casino. The thousands of traction workers {who have been reading The DAILY | WORKER during the past year and | have followed its campaign to organ- ize this industry now understand the truth of the reported statement: only a strike will bring organization for the traction workers. To these thousands as well as the thousands of others with whom they come in contact, The DAILY WORK- ER. wishes to, issue the following warning at this eritical hour in their organization progress: Must Act Now. Whether there will be a union in the traction industry in the next few; years depends very largely on what the traction workers do in the next few weeks. The efforts of the trac- tion workers alone and no other power ean be relied upon. The most dan- gerous thing at this moment would be to look for assistance from any other direction. For this reason the policy of the Amalgamated Association as an- nounced by Coleman, the policy of waiting for Mayor Jimmie Walker to return from his political tour in the expectation that Walker will do any- thing is a fatal betrayal of the in- terests of the workers. The traction workers, no matter what their previous beliefs or politi- cal connections must face the facts squarely: Jimmie Walker, Al Smith and others of the Tammany Hall ma- chine will do nothing for them. On the contrary these agents of the trac- tion interests will work to deceive and sell them out. These officials have met in secret conferences and have made secret agreements with the trac- tion companies to increase the fare and to keep the workers unorganized. This fact is now common knowledge (Continued on Page Seven) Michael Gold Speaks at “Daily” Concert Tonight “The Effects of the Machine Age Upon Literature” will be the subject of a lecture to be given by Michael Gold at a concert and dance for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER to- night under the auspices of sub-sec- tion 8B of the Workers (Communist) Party, at 350 East 81st St. Tickets for this concert may be ob- tained at the local DAILY WORKER Office, 108 East 14th St. STRIKING MINERS JOINING WORKERS PARTY IN FIGH Win Tellers in in Fight for| Unemployed The rapidly eee inflow of ap-| plications for membership in the! Workers (Communist) Party in the; coal fields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, | Kansas and Colorado, has caused the} announcement from the national of- fice of the parity yesterday, by Jack| Stachel, secretary of the organization) department, that the drive for new | members of the Party and for new} readers of the DAILY WORKER will be extended on a larger scale. | Instead of ending on March 2, the anniversary of the death of C. E. Ruthenberg, the Lenin-Ruthenberg drive for new members of the Work- ers (Communist) Party and new readers of the DAILY WORKER will continue until and including May 1. Telegrams and other reports from outlying districts show that a great influx of coal miners into the: ranks of the Party is a product of the] stand that the Party is’ making for the miners in the s.rike. Old mem- (Continued on Page Two) HARLEM JOBLESS TO MEET TONIGHT 1,000 Thrown wen Peon ‘J obs On City Construction A mass meeting called by the New York Council of Unemployed will be held at 6 o’clock tonight at 314 E. 104th St. John Di Santo, secretary of the council, will be among the speakers. Another meeting called by the Workers (Communist) Party, Bronx Section, will be held tomorrow at 2 p. m. at Ambassador Hall, 3875 Third Ave. Louis A. Baum, secretary, Photo- graphic Workers’ Union; an ex-serv- ice man, and Di Santo will speak at a meeting Monday at 8 p. m. at 715 E. 188th St., arranged by the Lower Bronx Section of the Party. Union Square Meet. The New York Council is also ar- ranging an open air mass meeting to be held in Union Square, Saturday, March 10 at 2 p. m. A meeting of the enlarged execu- tive committee of the unemployed council will be held Wednesday at 2 p. m. at 60°St. Marks Place, it was |announced last night. 1,000 Lose Jobs. More than 1,000 workers were thrown out of employment due to the delay in erecting many new school buildings according to the estimate of Clarence E. Dobbin, acting chief architect of the board of education. At the same time thousands of chil- dren are crowded into inadequate school buildings and attend classes only part time. Construction of almost a dozen schools was stopped when an investi- (Continued on Page Seven) lary, Ruthenberg on Last Journey to Moscow A hitherto un- published photo of C. E. Ruthen- berg, dead leader of the Workers Party, taken on board ship dur- ling a journey to Moscow in Janu- 1926, to at- tend the plenary session of the Executive Com- mittee of the Communist In- ternational. It was his last journey to the Union of Social- ist Soviet Repub- lics, until at his request, his ashes were sent to Mos- cow to be buried. A great demon- stration accom- panied the inter- ment in the wall of the Kremlin, with the farewell salute fired by the workers’ and peasants’ Red Army. Monster mem- orial meetings will be held in Ruthenberg’s honor by the Workers (Com- munist) Party Minerich, Pa. Mine Relief Head, Released on Bail By T. J, O’FLAHERTY. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 22.—Anthony P. Minerich, Relief Committee, who was arrested in Pennsylvania and Ohio Miners’ Lansing, Ohio,-on Saturday, Feb. 17, Lovestone Debates on U. S. Revolution The question, “Does America Need a Revolution” was debated last night at Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. at 15 St. Jay Lovestone, executive secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party of ‘America said “yes” while George Hir- am Mann, an attorney of the F. Rankin Drew Post of the American Legion said “no.” Bertram Wolfe, director of the Workers’ School, un- der whose auspices the debate was held, was chairman. A full account of Mann’s defense of capitalism and Lovestone’s support of communism will appear in Mon- day’s edition of The DAILY WORK- ER. T. U. E. L. Meet Tuesday A general membership meeting of the Trade Union Educational League will be held Tuesday at 8 p. m. at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. chairman of the while addressing a mass meeting of striking miners has been released ‘on $$1,000 bail from Franklin County Jail, Columbus. Minerich was charged with having violated a federal injunc- tion issued by Judge Hough which prohibited mass picketing of open shop mines. The International Labor Defense is taking steps to protect the legal in- terests of the defendant. The Minerich indictment assumes that it is the first case where the is- suance of an injunccion against pick- eting in the miners’ styike will be test- ed in court. The trial is scheduled to open March 2nd. Officials Submit. The officials of the U. M. W. A. have meekly submitted to the strike- breaking decrees issued by the coal threatened with expulsion the pro- gressive elements in the union who favored rallying the entire member- ship and the members of the Ladies auxiliaries for duty on the picket line. Minerich was seated on the plat- form at Lansing, waiting for his turn to speak when Vincent Kemenovich, who was addressing the audience, was placed under arrest by a United (Continued on Page Two) JOBLESS. FACE HUNGER AND COLD AS BREAD LINES GROW thrqwn Despite the fact that the army of jobless workers is growing, no effeciive nieusures are b from the shops and factories. While capitalist politicians prattle about “prosperity,” scenes like the one shown above can be seen daily in all the large industrial cities of the U.S. Photo shows unemployed workers freezing for hours in long lines in the hope of getting a hand-out at the Christian Doc- eigen House, 173 Cherry St., New York. % taken to leis the increasing risery ot the thousands more than ordinary significance in| company judges and have fought, and | Big Communist t Drive to May i Many my Join | SUFFERING FROM _ EFFECTS OF GAS |Company Tororo Safe- | ty Appliances in Mine | MINE NEWS IN BRIEF, Developments in the coal fields overshadow everything else in to- day’s news. Struggles arising in the strike areas, a mining disaster in Arkansas, anthracite miners in | mass meeting protesting against | unemployment caused by the policy of the operators and union officials, a federal indictment against Tony Minerich, young rank and file miner leader, charging violation of | the injunction—the first case of the kind, and detailed testimony of the organized brutality of the coal and iron police in Pennsglvania fur- nished the senate committee by striking miners and sympathizers, out outstanding features of recent events. In detail they are: 1. A large force of state troops have been sent into Horton County, Pa., by Major Lynn Adams to sup- press demonstrations of striking miners. 2. Twenty miners are believed dead and thirty-five have been sev- erely injured in an explosion in the Mana coal mine near Jenny Lind, Ark, 8. Tony Minerich, member of the Save the Union Committee of Pitts- burgh, arrested and charged with conspiracy to violate a federal in- junction prohibiting picketing, is released on $1,000 bail. 4, Mass meeting of four large local unions in anthracite districts charges that coal operators and union, officials are responsible for unemployment and demand division of work. 5. Miners’ wives and local sym- pathetic business elements tell sen- ate committee of horrible brutali- ties committed by coal and iron po- lice; abusing dying man, beating up children, kicking and beating wom- en in their own homes, etc. 6. Ohio miners protest efforts of authorities and union officials to suppress their meetings. ee ae 20 Miners Dead. JENNY LIND, Ark., Feb, 24.—At least 20 miners are dead and nearly 50 injured in a terrific explosion | which trapped 120 miners at the Mane Coal Mine No. 3 here. Rescue crews. began to blast their way to the en= tombed men at once. Company officials, in an effort to evade responsibility for the tragedy, (Continued on Page Two) WORKERS AGAIN EXPOSE BROAGH “Little Caeser” Loseg More Glamor Thousands of unemployed electrical workers, members of Local 8, now face steadily increasing hardships and suffering while officials of their om tion and especially Internatione e-president, H. H. Broach, sides step the issue and avoid effective ction by passing pious resolutions, — So serious has the problem | that Broach, “Little Caesar” of © ‘building trades himself, has foreed to take notice of the after avoiding the problem for more than six months. Makes Gesture. the union. Thursday night a tion was passed calling upon the tral Trades and Labor Cow elect delegates from each bi trades local in the city to make a nand upon the republican and ocratic politicians that union »¢ employed on all construction one by the city. This resolution was introdu the delegate who represents at the Central Trades. The machine supported the resoluti cause it hopes as a result to be j (Continued on Page Seven)