The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1928, Page 2

Sa _ timates had indicated. THE DAILY WORKER, bad YORK, TUESDAY. bidhiaisles SS 28, 1928 . Militants in Miners Union Urged to Defend | Workers in Murder Frame- “up CALL ANTHRACITE More “Good Will’ Flights; | U. 5. Shakes With One H Hand, Bombs PROGRESSIVES 10 | INCREASE FIGHT Must Involve Entire Membership By GEORGE PAPCUN t The fight at this time in the an- thracite miners’ union has taken on an new emphasis under the leadership of the Save the Union conference which was held here on Feb. 19, At the same time the miners and es- Pecially the opposition leaders in the| anthracite, particularly in District 1, will have to correct a few crrors At left is the Los Angeles, largest U. S. navy dirigible, now on a “good will” flight to Latin America. Americans by spectacular flights, while American bankers steal most of Latin America and to show the military strength of imperialist United The idea is to blind the Latin which are being made by them or the pressure of the membership will either correct these errors or push some of the opposition leaders to one side. Committee (Continued from Page One) Mine Workers particularly should be permitted to express their views be- Steer Clear Course. It is only the Save the Union com- mittee that has been elected by the conference that is able to see the vacillating positions and the narrow - perspectives of these oppositional} fore the senate sub-committee. leaders. We can take the. case of| “2. That our committee recom- Local Union 1703 in District 1, when; mends the abolition of the coal and the fight actually started over the! i iron police, whose attivities in this contractor system. The leaders led| strike constitute an appalling indict- by Campbell in that particular local] ment of the barbarous methods used union kept the fight more or less to] by the coal operators with the sanc- the local when it should have been| tion of the government to erush th: spread through all the collieries of} miners’ union and persecute its -most the Pennsylvania Coal Co., and te} active and loyal members. all local unions who have jurisdiction Abotish’ State Constabulary. over the Pennsylvania Coal Co. arte “3. That your committee recom- even on a district and tri-district| nd the abolition of the state con- scale. stabulary which has been used in this Then came the murder of Tom Lil-} as in other industrial struggles as a lis which surely should have started] tool in the hands of the coal opera- a district fight, but nothing was] tors and a weapon against the work- done outside of a protest meeting in) ers, Pittston, and nothing on a district| “4, That your committee recom scale was started. Then came the} Jake mend that the huge appropriation question of Bonita who defended him-| | made by congress for naval construc- = Bie aan Gaenie San ae asl tion be diverted to relief for the strik- : “ _|ing miners and their famished de- laid and nearly murdered, and yet the} pendents. This proposal is made on oppositional leaders are confining | + ri their fight to their one local union. the ground that this appropriation of nearly one billion dollars is made to Must Change This. build war vessels for the beg of i i st be overcome if|the imperialist interests of Wall ee aritdercet iceine fe Lateis, Cap- Street, in Nicaragua, the Philippines. pellini, and Kennedy is to be over-| China and other parts of the world thrown in the anthracite and the| nd to prepare for another blood con- union to be cleaned out of these cor-| test for commercial supremacy with ruptionists who are now in control of| Great Britain or any other power. or the union. Thé excuse of Brennan] Powers, at the expense of the bleod| », and Campbell that they do not want| of the American workers. This money to make this issue a red issue or do| would be better employed maintain- not want this to be branded by the/ ing life in the bodies of hundreds of state, Cappelini, and the coal opera-| thousands of American workers and tors as red, is no excuse at all. ‘‘his| their families than building weapons dea that they should not involve the} of war to destroy human lives in the rest of the union in the struggle is| interests of the profit mongers. a big mistake and the idea that the 5 state police, county authorities and Demand on Injunctions. the city police are friendly with the opposition is also another error which must be overcome. The only reason] sued at the request of the coal mining that the police at this time are some-| companies, prohibiting mass picket- what friendly is because the mass|ing, the giving of relief and other sentiment is in favor of the opposi-| forms of strike activity should be tion and they have not had a chance} immediately declared null and void. to actually go on the offense against] It is our opinion that these injunc- the opposition. tions are illegal and in violation of UNEMPLOYMENT IN SKILLED TRADES IN A. F. L. UNIONS GROWING THRUOUT U. S. (Continued from Page One) 119 E. 11th St. Invitations to this tonference have been extended to trade unions, fraternal organizations, committees representing unemployed workers and other working class or- ganizations. The Workers’ International Relief, 1 Union Square, is assisting the coun- ¢il in relief work. Unemployed for more than e year, Irving Weinstein, a wounded war vet- eran, today finds his family in such | straightened circumstances that evic- tion and starvation are only a matter of a few days. Weinstein, his wife and new born baby inhabit a dingy two room tenement flat at 79 Riving- ton St. As a result of war wounds, Wein- berg constantly suffers from hemor- rhages and dizzy spells. The U. S. Veterans’ Bureau demanded that he enter a government hospital when he Sought relief but Weinstein cannot do this on account of his wife and child. Weinstein and his wife have some- Fire Destroys Jobs times lived tor a day on peanuts, B Avan ORE, Md, Feb, 27—-Over WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Figures | 2, hundred workers were thrown out fevealed here after a careful patton of work after a fire which destroyed re Seat onemsloynient nationally [Beever Cheatlonl Oo. here inst night @emntich worse than most recent es- As a last resort many structures in the path of the blaze were dynamited. i Three city blocks occupied by the members of all unions affiliated with “the American Federation of Labor |°°™Pany were burned down. fe reported out of jobs. Unemploy- Bt Ree ment in the American Federation of While Millions Suffer, Labor membership in New York is PALM BEACH, Fila., Feb. 27, — given as 24.2 per cent. In Cleveland | Thousands of America’s unemployed it is given as 23.8 per cent, in Detroit | attended the annual Washington $2.3 and in Philadelphia 20.6 per cent. | birthday ball at the Royal Poinciana Unskilled Hit Harder. Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. But they Unemployment is far worse among | were not from the ranks of the coun- the semi-skilled and unskilled work- ‘ers, most of whom the A. F. of L. has made no attempt to organize. Unemployment is now much greater than the average for the three months beginning with October, the survey PTE ae escent cold spell added greatly again to the suffering, many work- “5. That your committee recom- mend that all federal injunctions is- ers being without homes or other shelter and many families being with- out fuel or sufficient clothing. The present figures are published by the American Federationist, offi- cial organ of the A. F. of L. Unem- ployment percentages for the A. F. of L. membership by cities are given as follows: Atlanta, 9.7 per cent; Baltimore, 42.5; Birmingham, 16.6; Boston, 19.6; Buffalo, 26.7: Chicago, 7.8; Cincin- nati, 18.6; Cleveland, 33.8; Denver, 21.3; Detroit, 82.3; Jersey City, 21.6; Los Angeles, 22.7; Milwaukee, 9.8; Minneapolisé 11.6; New York, 24.2; Omaha, 26.0; Philadelphia, 30.6; Pittsburgh, 17.6; San Antonio, 9.0; San Francisco, 14.8; St. Louis, 12.5; Seattle, 11.8; Washington, D. C., 13.0. Total unemployment in the United States is in excess of 4,000,000, a larger number than the total mem- bership of the federation. « * & In Baltimore 42.5 per cent of the On the contrary these luxuriously dressed men and women who disport- ed themselves in the great ballroom, transformed to represent ancient Babylon, belonged to the small class ; of wealthy idlers who enjoy their unemployment at the expense of the workers, try’s 4,000,000 unemployed workers. . Miners Challenge Senators; Gives Demands the constitution of the United States and are not binding. “6. That your committee recom- mend as a solution of the alleged over-manning of the coal the establishment of the week and the hour day, instead of the elimination of two or three hun dred thousand miners from the in- dustry as proposed by Secretary o Labor Davis and John L. Lewis, In ternational president of the United Mine Workers of America. The pro- posal to expel hundreds of thousand of workers from the industry and send them wandering in search o employment thruout the country, is a monstrous and inhuman proposal and should not be countenanced by your committee. “7, That your committee recom- mend that the coal mines of the coun- try be nationalized and operated for the benefit of the masses of coal min- ers and the public, under democrati management with union representa- tion, “The ‘Save the Union Committee’ is decidedly of the opinion that the interests of the coal miners and the working class’ in general cannot be served either by the republican o: democratic parties since both parties are defenders of the capitalist sys- tem, and receive their campaign con- tributions from capitalist sources— glaring proof of this charge can be found in the records of the honorable Mr. William Vare. of Pennsylvania and the equally honorable Frank L. Smith of Illinois, Call For Labor Party. “The ‘Save the Union Committee’ is of the opinion that only thra a Labor Party will the coal miners and the American ‘workers as a whol he able to fight for their rights thru political channels and ultimately be- come free men and women in a re- public where the producer and not the parasite is the honored citizen. “Your truly, “SAVE THE UNION COMMITTEE OF THE UNITED MINE WORK- ERS OF AMERICA.” * * * Reactionary Lauds Lewis. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 27.—That the Lewis machine in the United Mine Workers’ Union is one of the strongest bulwarks against militant trade unionism in the United States and deserves the support of the coal corporations, was the substance of the statement made here today by Senator Frank R. Gooding of Idaho chairman of thé senate sub-commit- tee investigating the coal stri Gooding was governor of Idaho dur- ing the consniracy against Moyer Haywood and Pettihone of the West- ern Federation of Miners. . *. Miners Relief Snresde. (Special to The Datly Worker) CHICAGO, Tl, Feb. 27.—Interes' in miners’ relief is increasing rapidly throughout the middle west, accord ing to Mother Ella Reeve Bloor, na tional relief orzanizer for the strik ing coal miners. Many large conferences have bee: arranged. On Tuesday, Gary ané Hammond, Indiena, and Rockford TIL, will be represented at a confer ence at Lake County, Indiana. A house to house collection will be mad in Gary next Sunday, she said. Mother Bloor will visit Milwaukee Thursday and return to Detroit Sat- urday to attend large mass meetings industry. | five-day | States. At right is the airplane in which James Angell (left of plane) and P. Stephenson of the Beacon Airway. Corp. (right of plane), will fly to Latin America to open up air routes there, which can easily be converted Below is the route of the Los Angeles. to military purposes, With the Other LEAGUE DRIVE ON | MILITARY CAMPS TO BEGIN SOON _ Youth to Expose Anti- Labor Character (Continued from Page One) of “this so-called vacation with mili- tary strings tied to it.” | In previous years young workers attending the camps in District 2 | have exposed the anti-labor character of these camps, which despite their A. F, of L. endorsement give the most reactionary anti-union education to the students attending, especially in the citizenship courses as well as preparing them intensively for the | PACIFIC OCEAN | | | ee PHILA, YOUTH MEETS TONIGHT Realizing the plight of the 160,000 striking miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado the Youth organ- izations of Philadelphia are calling a city-wide conference to organize relief for the miners. In many cities as in New York, Boston, Pi tsburgh and others, the young workers and students have banded together to help. these workers.. The fact that about 60,000 of these strikers are young workers must it even more important to organize such a Youth conference to help the miners. A preliminary conference has been | arranged for today at 8:15 p. m. at, Grand. Fraterni:y Hall, 1626 Arch St., Philadelphia. This conference will meet to discuss and determine what can be done in order to organize the young people of Philadelphia for relief work. All youth organizations in the city, it is algae will rally to this call. | ! Income Taxes Expected To Fall $200,000,000 | | WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—A last minute check by treasury statisticians today- indicated that the government {will collect about $475,000,000 in in- jeome taxes March 15, where $516,- |900,000 had been anticipated last Oc- ‘tober. If the March estimate is substan- tially correct and if corporation taxes fall off 10 per cent as expected by Secretary Mellon, the total revenue from this source for the year will be somewhat over $2,000.000,000, a drop of more than $100,000,000 from 1926- 1927, Injunction J udge Now Revealed as Owner of $60,000 in Mine Stock INDIANA, Pa., Feb, 27. — The senate sub-committee investigating | he coal strike yesterday question- ed Judge J. N. Langham of’ In- diana County, and found out that the judge had $60,000 worth of tock in Indiana County mines. Lanham recently issued two in- junctions restraining the striking miners from gathering near a church, © (Continued from Page One) States have hitherto kept the Ameri- can capitalists and their minions in the government from realizing their schemes to silence the voice of mili- ant American labor. The enthusiasm and fighting faith of these workers | repeatedly has thwarted the destruc- | tive onslaughts of the most powerful | capitalism in the world. Letters from hundreds of workers over the length and breadth of. this | country have witnessed continuously | to the fighting influence which The | DAILY WORKER represents in the daily struggles of hundreds of thou- sands of the American working class. closed you will find a twenty bill which I have collected dollar ~, | among workers and sympathizers of "| The DAILY WORKER in Wads- | worth, Ohio,” writes one worker. “I am only sorry that we can’t do better. But we hope this will be some help in fighting the enemies and save the DAILY WORKER. The DAILY WORKER must live.” “Enclosed is another blow against those who would destroy Ameri- ea’s only daily working class paper ¢ | Must Get $4000 Wednesday to Save The Daily Worker in English” writes another worker, coming war. Many local unions in the New York district as well as thruout the country have gone on record as opposing the C. M. T. C. Part of the League campaign will be to show the close connection be- tween the citizen’s Military Training Camps and the National Guard. The camp clubs are recruiting centers for I will try to hit this way every week the guard, while this crisis lasts, altho I am up against very hard times myself. i am only hoping that our Voice wil not be strangled.” The worker en closed one dollar. “We are sending you a check for $30 which we collected among our- selves for our DAILY WORKER, to keep up the fight for the cause of the freedom of the toiling masses thruout. the world,” a group of workers write. Similar contribu- tions from all parts of the country are an eloquent tespimony to the loyalty with which the workers are supporting their paper in the strug- gle which the United States govern- ment has forced upon it. $4,000 By Wednesday. A life and death struggle is facing dar aes NA oy an |Heved advisable to decorate him after united action o: e entire militant is “cited” American working class can save the inks js a ae oe = scp Sih A ie paper in this crisis. Four thousand |President Harding’s 1920 running dollars must be raised by Wednesday. |mate in connection with duties “of Rush your contributions to the|great responsiblity” in the Signal DAILY WORKER, 88 First Street, |Gorps overseas New York City. ? Coolidge Decorates Forbes, of Leavenworth WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — The Distinguished Service Medal has been awarded Col. Charles R. Forbes, for- mer director of the Veterans’ Bureau who served two years in the Leaven- worth Penitentiary for excessive graft in the administration of his depart+ ment. The award was made in the name jof President Coolidge while Forbes net LEWIS MAKES BID TO COAL BARONS Will Speed Up Workers if He Is Elected (Continued from Page One) ment makes a plea for “cooperation between labor and capital.” The ac- ceptance of this principle by the em- ployers will, the statement continues, “do more to bring industrial peace in the mining industry than any ovher agency.” Profitable For Bosses. A long list of figures is appended to the statement which has for its purpose to convince the employers that it would be much more profi able to deal with the union. “We call the attention of the Commission to the fact that wages have gone down without strikes. ...” This is taken to be an open promise to the coal mine owners that they will be permitted to slash wages even vhough the union is on the job. While the I. W. W. has been severe- ly criticized for its weak leadership of placed confidence in the government the recent strike and for its mis- plaeed confidence in the government officials, nevertheless, the workers here will not be misled by the gesture which .he reactionary officials of the United Mine Workers have made. Look To Militants. Only the militants in the Save the Union Committee will be able to or- ganize the mine workers, it is now realized. The I. W. W. has shown its incapacity to stand up under struggle by calling off-the strike when it was necessary to hold the Colorado work- ers out with the other striking min- ers. As for the officials of the United Mine Workers, their treachery is now clear to all workers, It is understood that if they were honest in their an- nouncement of organizing the state, they would have sought to hold the strikers out and would also be seeking to organize the non-union fields of West Virginia and Kentucky. “BLUE BLOUSES” WILL PERFORM HERE U.S. Variety Will Satirize Everything; Will ‘Play fi for ‘Daily’} Communist leaders and the rank and file, socialists, wobblies, labor officials, capitalists and politicians will all be exposed without mercy by the caustic satire of the newly formed American Bolshevik Blue Blouse which will perform at the New Star Casino, Friday evening, March 16, The DAILY WORKER Follies will be on also. Hugo Gellert, radical artist, will force confessions from Robert Minor, editor of the “Daily,” and Fred Ellis, cartoonist, and show them up in black and white. The Follies’ girls will give their version | of proletarianized jazz, American, Negro arid Russian workers’ jazz. Satirical skits, a proletarian min- strel show and the “Red Revue” will be presented: by a Workers’ Theatre group under the direction of Pauline Rodgers, who recently brought the idea of the Blue Blouse troupe from the Soviet Union. | The Blue Blouses, or troupes of | young workers who travel about, pre- senting spontaneous political sketches in the theatres of trade unions and workers’ clubs, have become very popular in the Soviet Union. A colorful Russian Gypsy Troupe will sing folk songs of old and new Russia, and “show up” the interest- ing contrast. The outstanding musi- cians of the Freiheit Gessangs-Frerein and the Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra will be accompanied by a real Rus- sian balalaika orchestra, The proceeds of the first Blue Blouse presentation will go to The DAILY WORKER. WILL INVESTIGATE READING. BOSTON, Feb. 27.—An order call- ing for a legislative investigation of Attorney General Arthur K. Read- ing who was in offce during the prosecution of Sacco and Vanzetti, was adopted this afternoon by the rules committee of the house of rep- resentatives. Resist the Attack | GERMAN ENVOY DEAD. BERLIN, Feb. 27.—Prince Charles MacLichnowsky, who was German ambassador to England at the out- break of the world war in 1914, died today at his Silesian estate at Kuchelna, near Leobschuetz, He was 63 years old. The American Legion, the Keymen of Amer- ica, the National Security League, the Amer- ican Government have combined to destroy Labor’s fighting paper and are attempting to put its editors in jail. WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER? You Must Save The Daily Worker Here Is MyContribution to the Defense Fund 33 First Street, New York City NAME” AMOUNT vane been e ee eee ebene |was serving his time but it was be- % i in