The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1928, Page 1

aT EARNEST OL LT” OS ee Meena g | ~of the Workers (Communist) Party. | $4,000 By Wednesday Alone Can Keep the Daily Worker from Destruction THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK fe ee eee eee Wl A LABOR PARTY Entered as secuud-ciine wares at THE DAILY WORKER. _ suas viflee at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. 4iNAL CITY EDITION Vol. V. No. 48. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mati, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1928 except Sunday by The National Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York. N. ¥, Daily Worker Price 3 Cents TRACTION STRIKE NEAR AS LR.T. FIRES 10 MOREMEN MAYOR WALKER SCHEDULED FOR BOWERY SPEEGH Unemployed. WwW orkers| Are Organizing Austin T. McCormick, 45, a job-| less and homeless war veteran of Roxbury, was found dead of star- vation on the subway steps at Times Square. McCormick had been reduced by long unemploy- ment to peddling odds and ends in the subways. He had been gassed in the world war and was| said to have still been suffering] from the effects of the gas. ~© Mayor James Walker, who is just back from a joy ride to the Mardi Gras at New Orleans, is scheduled to face a crowd of unemployed workers in the Bowery tonight. He is scheduled to speak on unem- ployment at 9 p. m. at the Bowery Mission, 227 Bowery. If the report is true it means that his advisors have become alarmed at the unemployment crisis and at the same time have greatly underestimated the demands of the unemployed workers in assum- ing they can be silenced by the per-| sonal appearance of the mayor in the breadline district, according to John; Di Santo, secretary of the New York Council of the Unemployed. If he keeps the appointment he is expected to drive up in his new sport model car, which was waiting at the depot for him when he returned to New York from the southern carnival Saturday. Walker’s Cops in Raid. Meyor Walker’s police and public! _ welfare departments have been col- laborating in raids on unemployed workers seeking shelter at the Muni- cipal Lodging House. Thousands of workers at meetings in various sec- tions of the New York district, where more than 400,000 are unemployed, have demanded “food, not figures,” from the City Hall and from Gov. | | { Al. Smith’s administration at Albany. | 6, to the electric chair. Thouands of At an unemployment meeting yes- terday afternoon at Ambassador Hall, | 3875 Third Ave., Di Santo addressed | 100 or more workers present. / Labor Party Applauded. He stressed the necessity of mass are charged with the murder of Frank Unemployed Workers Forced to Beg for Handout! Decide Program - for Red World Congress Workers thrown from jobs as a result of the workings of a barbaric profit system, are reduced to beggary in many of the large industrial cities of the United States. Photo (above) is a typical scene showing jobless workers receiving a cup of dubious coffee and a slice of bread from one of the “flop houses.” Workers Celebrate Opening of Second Block of Cooperatives Friends and members of the United Workers Cooperative packed Central Opera House, Third Ave. and 67th St., yesterday afternoon on the occasion of the opening - of the second block of cooperative houses by the society. WORKERS BLAME | CAPPELINI FOR REIGN OF TERROR Save- Union “Conference ds Action” (Special to The Daity Worker) WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb, 26.— Hundreds of miners attend the hearing held here yesterday before Judge Mclean when the state per- fected its case in its attempt to rail- road Sam Bonita and two fellow min- progressive miners anxious to show cen support of Bonita were turned way. Bonita and the other defendants action by the unemployed -to secure| Agati, henchman and bodyguard of | relief from the city and state. His Rinaldo Cappelini, reactionary presi- | statement of the demands of the un- dent of the district. Cappelini and | employment council were applauded.’ the right wing machine are deter- | The audience showed marked approv-! mined to railroad the propetive al when Di Santo urged the formation | workers on trial to the electric chair, of a labor party. it is charged by the progressives. The | A mass meeting of unemployed | officials? machine is cooperating with | workers will be held at 8 o’clock to-} night at 715 E. 138th St. under the auspices of the Lower Bronx section! The speakers will be Di Santo, Louis A. Baum, secretary of the Pho- tographic Workers’ Union, and an ex- service man. Outdoor Meetings Planned. The first of a series of open-air | mass meetings of unemployed work- | ers will be held tomorrow in Union Square at 2 p.m. The meeting has been arranged by the New York Council of the Unemployed. Di Santo will be one of the speakers. Speeches | will also be made by a number cf ex- service men, Another open-air meeting will be held Friday at 2 p. m. in Rutgers Square. These meetings are in prep- aration for the huge. mass meeting of unemployed workers that will be held in Union Square Saturday, March 10. Youth To Organize. A meeting of the enlarged execu- tive committee of the council has been called for Wednesday at 2 o’clock at 60 St. Marks Place. Plans will be made for intensifying and broadening the activity of the council. The New York Council of the Un- employed has begun mobilizing the unemployed youth of this city. The first meeting called by the youth sec- tion of the council will be held Thurs- day at 2 p. m. at the Church of All Nations, 9 Second Ave. The speakers will be Minnie Lurie, an office worker; Phil Barril, the child of an unemployed worker, and Di Santo. Phil Frankfeld will pre- side, . Pioneers Join League The graduation of 20 members of the Young Pioneers into the Down- town Section of the Young Workers (Communist) League was celebrated Saturday night with an entertainment and dance held at the section head- quarters, 60 St. Marks Place. Thirty other members of the Bioneers eae also ;Cloakmakers’ Joint Board. the operators and the police in Bel frame-up. ae | Miners Are Rallying. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb, 26. — In two statements the Save the Union Conference in the anthracite calls on all workers to come to the (Continued on Page Two) STRIKE ANSWERS DRESS LOCKOUT The spurious organization cam- paign of the right wing in the Inter- national Ladies Garment Workers Union has destroyed union conditions in still another shop, according io an announcement by the left wing The right wingers: succeeded in in- ducing the owners of the Sunrise wress Company, 06 W. 22d St. wo discharge thirveen union men who refused to regis.er in the dual union established by\the International of- ficials. Upon their discharge the Joint Board declared a strixe and has issued a call to cloak and dress: ers to picket this shop this morning. Workers were also called to picket the Rose Dress Company, 268 W. 40th St. whose shop was also dec- | lared on strike when they locked out their workers for refusing to register in the right wing “union.” Hold Important TUEL Meet Tomorrow Night, A general membership meeting of the Trade Union Educational League will be held tomorrow at 8 o'clock at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. The meeting will be of major importance due to the traction and ig cap situations, according ARES league’s announcement. ‘ Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY | describing addressed the gathering, describing the important part that ee by cooperative enterprises lof the working class in training and strengthening the workers for the class struggle. He contrasted the very different role that cooperative enterprises play after the revolution- ary working class has taken over the power of state, when the cooperatives enter into active participation in the construction of socialism. He warned against the illusion in which it is im- jagined that the. working-class. canbe. liberated within capitalist society thru cooperative societies, and ex- pressed confidence that the United Workers Cooperative would adhere to the high revolutionary tradition, striv- ing to their greatest ability to aid the revolutionary movement which alone could liberate the workers from the capitalist state and thus make true cooperation on the socialist basis for the first time possible. Melich Epstein Speaks, Melich Epstein, editor of the Frei- heit, Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint Board, Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union, Cedric Long of the Coopera- sConioened on fone Five) WINDOW WASHERS IN SHOP STRIKES Shop strikes against the American Reliable Window Cleaning Co., 41 E. 4th St. and the Concord Window Cleaning Co., 40 E. 4th St., have been declared by the Window Cleaners Protective Union, according to an an-! | defense of the three miners on trial |nouncement by union officrs yester- day. These shops have refused to set- tle with the union and will remain on | strike until they come to terms, it was stated. A Large Shop Settles. John Fels, John Kuitin, and Joe Joles, were discharged yesterday by lagistrate Levine, sitting in gen- oral sessions, Part 7, following a trial of these workers on charges of firsi degree assault. ® In another case Daniel Sisshkowsky was given a suspended sentence. He was convicted of third degree as- sault. Union officers charge that all these workers were “framed.” One large shop has been brought to terms as a result of a recent strike, INJURED IN EXPLOSION. PATTERSON, N. J., Feb. 26.— George Mis, and Joseph Gorla, work- ers of this city, received severe burns on the arms and legs when a steam pipe they were repairing in the piece dye works of Fiory and Son, burst. AGENDAISWORKED ‘OUT BY EXECUTIVE OF THE COMINTERN Sixth Session to Meet | in Moscow (Special Cable To DAILY WORKER.) | MOSCOW, Feb. 26.—The plenum of the Executive Committee of the} Communist International decided at | yesterday’s session on the following | program for the Sixth World Con- gress which will be convened this year: First, the report of the Exec- utive Committee; second, the program of the Communist International; third, the methods of struggle against the danger of an imperialist war; fourth the revolutionary move- ment in the colonies; fifth, the situa- ion in the Soviet Union and the All Union Communist Party; sixth, the elections. The plenum also adopted resolu- tions on the French, the Chinese and the trade union questions. The ses- sion closed afver.a concluding speech by Bukharin with the singing of the International. MAMMOTHPARADE HONORS RED ARMY Soviet Leaders Tell of Desire for Peace (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Feb. 26.— Celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Red Army was held in the Great Theatre by the Moscow Soviet with the participation of Moscow mulitary forces, che Communist Par- ty and public organizations. The speakers were Stalin, Rykoff, Petrovski and William Gallacher who spoke in the name of the Com- munist International. The speakers emphasized the international revolu- tionary imporiance of the Red Army and its close connection with the workers and peasants. Reads Decision. x Bukharin read the Revolutionary War Council’s decision announcing Pravda recompense “chart of honor” and other greetings. Voroshilov then ;made a speech saying that the Red Army is a factor in the great cul- tural influence of the whole country. The army supports the peaceful policy of the Soviet government ex- pressed recently. The Soviet Union is ready to disarm although suffici- ently prepared to fight all attacks against the revolution. Prepared for War. 0. Voroshiloff, commissar of. war, explained the desire of the Soviet! Union for peace by telling of their readiness to take action on immedi- ate and complete disarmament, as contrasted with the evasion of the imperialist powers. At the same time he pointed out how such disarm- ament was out of the question while the imperialist powers were still pre- paring to crush the U. S. S. R. and urged that the Red Army be pre- pared to defend itself against the ever-threatening danger of war. The Grand Opera House was gorgeously decorated with a forest of red banners, an airplane in the back- ground, and rising above a huge por- trait of Michael Frunze, the late war commissar. Delegations of workers and peasants ascended the stairs to pay their tribute to the Red Soldiers. Altho last night’s official meeting and today’s parade marked the climax | | | | | | | | | Coal Barons poet Fear Senste Investigation The Pennsylvania coal operators have already indicated that there is no danger that the senate sub-committee “investigating” in the Pittsburgh district will do them any harm. A number of them have already openly defied the senators and refused categorically to reply to questions. Striking miners have told of the campaign of terrorism and brutality of the coal and iron police, thugs paid by the coal operators, but with the sanction of the state. Photo shows one of the senators questioning the wife of a mine. striker. Fagan Official Uses Cops To Disperse Relief Meet By T. J. O°FLAHERTY PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 26.—With scores of henchmen, a patrol-wagon and several state troopers on horse and in machines, Thomas Robertson, vice- president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor and staunch payroll patriot of the Fagan administration? ‘FUR DRESSER PAY QUT; STRIKE ENDS in District Kive ot the United Mine Workers, today broke up a meeting in Polish Hall, Broughton, which was called to' organize a branch * ri Pennsylvania Obi iners’ ie Committee “ae striking co. diggers in Spain their struggic against the operators. Threatens Expulsion. With thousands of miners and thei dependents on the verge of destitu tion in this section of the strike re- gion, Mr. Robertson, declared to the assembled strikers that no relief wa: needed in Broughton. When the miners present protested against thi: obvious falsehood, Mr. Robertson threatened them with expulsion from the United Mine Workers of America. There were one hundred people in the hall and about as many outside when Helen Zaikowsky and Joseph Magliacano arrived to address the meeting. Robertson had a committee busily engaged outside the hall, warning the miners against going inside to hear the speakers. Two state troopers came Inside, followed shortly afterwards by Robertson and his little army. Robert- son took notes of what the speaker was saying. Magliacano attacked the strikebreaking injunctions which should be violated without compunc- tion, he said. He stated that the purpose of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Commiitee was not to organize a rival to the United Mine Workers of America, but to help the miners save the United Mine Workers of America from destruction, to as- (Continued on Page Two) POLICE BAR MINE MEET IN NEWARK NEWARK, Feb. 26.—Police this afternoon prevented the holding of a mass meeting for miners’ relief scheduled to take place at Ukrainian dali, 57 Deacon St. by the local min- rs’ relief committee. The reasos given by the author- ities for preventing the meeting was that at the last mass meeting held by the committe: “speeches were made attacking the government.” The permit application was filed last Monday, the police evading an (Continued on Page Three) answer until today. ONLY WORKERS CAN SAVE “DAILY” Life of Their Press Depends Large Largely on Contributions Now Four thousand dollara must be raised for The DAILY WORKER by) | Wednesday or the paper will be sus- | pended. This announcement was made ‘today by Edward. Royce, business manager of The DAILY WORKER. They Shall Not Gag Our Press. “Only the most heroic effort on the part of the militant American work- ing class can save The DAILY WORKER from Sedbenetion., af the | hands of its class enemies,” Royce de- clared. “These deadly haters of the American workers have marked out The DAILY WORKER, the only militant English labor daily in the world, for destruction because they recognize that without their paper American labor will be like a man whose mouth is gagged and whose hands have been shackled.” “The attack has heen. deliherate. The conspiracy is widespread. Al- ready Wm. F. Dunne, Bert Miller and Alex Bittelman have been caught in the first meshes of the capitalist toils and the American class courts are only biding their time to seize these three leaders and throw them into the cells of federal penitenti- aries. Today these three leaders of the militant American workers are (Continued on Page Two) Sam Gold To Be Freed From Jail Tomorrow The six weeks old strike of the Rab- bit Dressers’ Unions of Brooklyn and Newark has been settled and the workers have already returned to their shops. The settlement as agreed to by the officials of the International Fur Workers’ Union and the Consolidated Rabbit Dressing Corporation, the em- ployers’ organization, is definitely un- derstood te be a victory for the bosses, The employers had demanded that wages be reduced by 25 per cent and declared a lockout when the workers refused to accept the reduc- tion. The settlement arrived at al- lows a 20 per cent reduction. Workers Are Bitter. The members of the union are ex- tremely bitter at what they term a betrayal of their fight against the employers. They point to various oc- currences during the strike. ficialdom of the International everything in its power to weaken the strike by not allowing the two dress- ing locals to meet and act jointly in their fight against the bosses till very | late in the strike. An International | vice president was accused at an open strike meeting of taking graft from the bosses. The union chiefs by tele- phone instructed Charles Jennings, of the New Jersey State Federation | of Labor, not to lend his assistance to | the Newark local in a protest against the police brutalities in Jersey City. Expect Gold’s Release. Sam Gold, member of the Joint Board, Furriers’ Union, is to be re- leased some time tomorrow, after having served more than five months of his six-month term in the New York State Penitentiary. Gold, together with Sam Kurland, another fur worker, who is serving a five year Sing Sing prison term, were found guilty of assault last fall in a trial before Judge Donnelen of Gen- eral Sessions, who subsequently sen- tenced them. The viciousness of the sentences aroused indignation at the time among the clothing workers, es- pecially in view of a statement by the Joint Board that it could prove that the case was a consciously organized frame-up engineered by the right wing in the union, Both men are married and have children, . . Open Forum Today. An open forum, where problems re- lating to the union and industry will be discussed, will be held this after- noon at 2 p. m, in the office of the Joint Board, 22 E, 22nd St, All work- ers, whether registered or not, have been asked to_attend, The of-} did | ‘WORKERS DEMAND ACTION; ATTACK LEADERS’ DELAY | Strike Alone Can Save the Union | Ten more traction workers were discharged Saturday by the Interbor- oug Transit Company for their union activities. The total of workers fired jis now nineteen according to the re= |ports of the Amalgamated. It is be- | lieved, however, that other workers |have been let out who have not re |ported to union headquarters and that the total of those fired is actually about thirty. Workers Ready to Act. The traction workers not alone on the I. R. T. but on the other lines as well, who understand that their own interests are immediately connected with those on the Interborough have been aroused to the point of open up- rising. A large number of telephone calls have been made to the Continen- tal Hotel, headquarters of J. H. Cole- man, organizer for the Amalgamated, with demands for an immediate strike, Demands are being made that action be taken immediately to protect the discharged union members in aceord- ance with the repeated promise of the Amalgamated, Information secured from a number of barns and terminals indicates that here will be a spontaneous walkout of the traction workers within the next few days should the Amalgamat- ed continue what is regarded as a pol- icy of criminal delay while the Inter- borough has already begun to execute lits well laid plan to break the union. While indignation and bitterness both at the Interborough and at the union officials are spreading over the lines, verbal promises are still the weapons of the union spokesmen, Militancy Needed. “The Amalgamated ieadership has been conservative,” Nathan D. Perl- man, counsel for the union announced Saturday in what at this moment is a particularly contemptible boast, “it has been eminently fair in this entire controversy.” On Friday, Coleman boasted of the fact that he was “rea- sonable.” “He can well afford to be ‘reason~ able’,” one militant worker remarked, “he has not been fired. His $4,000 a year is not being threatened and even if his policies lead to the elimination of the union he will still be getting his weekly pay check from Indianap- olis.” The workers discharged were sent to Pat Connolly, president of the com- pany union who first expelled them from the Brotherhood. Later they were discharged by the company for not belonging to the company union, Pointing to these facts, one worker | remarked to a DAILY WORKER re= porter: “If before this there was still any |loubt in the minds of any traction jslaves as to the real nature of the |company union they can now see the character of this snake which bites its members in the back. First of all, (Continued on Page Two) 4 WORKERS GIVEN 20 DAYS IN JAIL Determined to stifle all class protests, three judges sitting in Special Sessions Court sentenced four workers to twenty days in the workhouse each for distributing antie injunction leaflets issued by the Workers (Communist) Party. The workers, Emil Makvarts, Thomas Thorsen, Neils Smith and Eric Heinonen, were arrested on Dec, 6 while distributing the leaflets at the Morse Drydock Co., Brooklyn. They are being defended by the New York Section of the International Labor — Defense, 799 Broadway, thru its at~ torneys, Jacques Suitankant. The L L. D. will appeal the sentence, Violent Speech, One of the judges, Judge Salmon, was particularly violent in his cons demnation of the workers, declaring that they were the tools of subversive agencies, proposed that they be given six months on a charge of an But the other two judges, n and McInery, hastened to cover ‘ absurdity of this proposal by ing 20\days,