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| s | ARREST 5 GIRLS DISTRIBUTING LETTER TO ARMY RECRUITS | 3Ke DAILY Wonknn Frente, | DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 50. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered ax seconu-csine mare us NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 29, 1928 THE DAILY WORKER. vuitice at New York, N. X., umder the act of March 3, 1879. Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc. 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents " ALEX CAMPBELL, PETEREILLY, MINE LEADERS, KILLED LINK GOVERNMENT| WITH CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY “WORKER” Marvin, Key Men of Americas Anierica’ Leader, Mails At- tacks Pos Labor Must Raise $4,00 tage Free 0 by Wednesday to De- feat Fascist Onslaught Discovery that the United States Post Office department has condoned the abuse of franking privileges by Fred A. Marvin, or- ganizer of the Key Men of America, and catspaw of the American Walker in South capitalists in their attack on The DAILY WORKER has definitely inked the Coolidge administration with the effort to suppress the mili- tant labor press. No Postage Costs. The franking privileges, which per- mit the use of the United States mails postage free, are being used by: Mar- vin and the officials of a number of similar fascist organizations in their zampaign. The campaign of slander and misrepresenta.ion is being car- ried on under cover of privileges granted to ranking army officers. Repeated attempts to bring the flagrant violations of the postal laws so the a.tention of Attorney General Sargent at first failed to elicit any ceply. The Attorney General later announced that he found nothing wrong with the procedure. Previous to the disclosure of the tbuse of the franking privileges it was widely known but could not be defin- (Continued on Page Two) GOES NON- uNION Announcement Made After Shut Down WARREN, R. I, Feb. 28.—After a shut down of three weeks the Parker “ill of East Warren made an an- iouncement that they are re-opening heir factory on a non-union basis. Che local leaders of the United Tex- ile Workers declared that only about 5 per cent of the normal operating ‘orce was obtained by. the employers, ind that these were workers import- id from other cities. The employers themselves admitted chat their attempt was unsuccessful xy declaring that many of their for- ner workers would have returned but ‘or their fear of being “intimidated” vy the union. The hypocrisy of such 1 statement was evident, said many inion men, when it is considered that ill of the former workers in the mill, sonstituting several hundreds, gath- sred in a picketing demonstration when the mill gates were reopened yesterday.; Plenty of state and local oolice were on hand to permit anyone wanting to go in to do so, The workers intend to continue the strike, and conduct regular picketing of the plant. Caruso Is Sentenced To Twenty-Year Term ' Francesco Caruso was sentenced by , County Judge McLaughlin in Brook- lyn yesterday to serve from 10 to 20 years in Sing Sing prison for the mur- der of Dr. Caspar Pendola in the Caruso home on Third St., Brooklyn, on February 13, 1927. Caruso, a plasterer, stabbed the! physician in the throat. His defense was that he thought Dr. Pendola was responsible for the death of his son, Joseph Caruso, whom the physician had: been attending for diphtheria. “RED REVUE” TO BE PUT ON SOON First time in America! A program of red-hot, authentic proletarian en- tertainment in true modern Russian style will be presented at The DAILY WORKER “Red Revue” at the New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., on Friday evening, March 16. The show is under the direction of Pauline from the Soviet Union with latest ideas from the famous workers’ vaudeville troupes. These skits, set tothe tune of American “proletar- ianized” jazz, will be presented ex- clusively at this . WORKER, benefit 4 While tiiianiis of jobless work- ers tramp up and down the Bowery a day long, facing bitter cold and ia ag erreceongonet ci ork City is shown sunning himself in New Orleans, At an un- employment meeting recently Walker urged a minister to “use his influence” with “god” to pray for more snow. He said it would give the jobless men something to do. He did not offer to do anything for them himself. WAGE CUTS NOW JUST COMPETITION Boss Admits Old De- vices Shams NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Feb. 28.— Walter H. Langshaw, president of the Dartmouth Textile Manufacturing Company, one of the few mills in this section which has not cut the wages vf its employes, issued a statement yesterday to a meeting of his stock- holders to the effect that wage cuts and longer hours were instituted not for the purpose of bolstering up the trade, as nearly all mills declared when announcing a wage reduction, but that wage reductions were merely “competitive devices” as he termed it. Wage reductions in New England during the past few months affected approximately 100,000 workers in the textile manufacturing industry. WILL PROBE VET BUREAU: BOSTON, Feb, 28.-A federal grand jury investigation of the official | workings of the United States Veter- ans’ Bureau in this city will be made next week, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney John P. Spalding to- day. Spalding will be in charge of the probe. : What was supposed to have been Bowery Mission, brince Street and the Bowery, Monday night. The mayor entered the mission chapel, crowded with 400 jobless and homeless, to the well-timed singing of “East Side, West Side” the Tam- many anthemn, lead by Rev. John R. Henty, the pastor: The mayor told Rogers, who has recently returned|the unemployed men that while he wanted to help them, the, taxpayers’ money must be conserved. Turn 1,000 Away. After 400 jobless men had been al- dolice| lowed to enter the mission, ¢losed the doors .and . Lastest another 4,000, many. Gf, Nao, JEMAND COMPANY . TAKE BACK FIRED Raise Slogan “Our Owr Strike!” Traction workers on the lines o Greater New York are forming thei own shop committees and othe: groups in defense against whatever the next few days. Open challenge by the Interborough Rapid “Transit Company has been thrown down to them in the name of the company union which for over ten years has been enslaving them. “You must remain in the Brother- hood, my company union,” Frank | Hedley, president of the company, | announced to them yesterday in sub- |stance. “Even if there is to be a strike, it must be one which I con- trol.” These were not his exact words, but his meaning could not be expressed more accurately. “Go to the Brotherhood!” In a letter to Mayor Walker, whose art in the situation has been to pre- |vent real action to protect the work- rs, Hedley invites the mayor to go to—the Brotherhood. “The Brother- hood officers request that they have a meeting with you, so that their side of the matter may be presented to you. In case you care to arrange such a meeting your office will find the Brotherhood officers at their head- “462nd “St. and “Anderson Ave, Telephone Jerome 0633, ready to call upon you at your convenience.” Earlier in the day, Patrick J. Con- nolly, president of the company union, had issued a statement that the com- pany union would itself call a strike if the nineteen discharged men of the Amalgamated Traction Union would be reinstated. “This was de- cided,” Connolly stated, “at a meet- ing of the Brotherhood executive com- mittee this morning.” The company union is immediately under the direc- tion of James L. Quackenbush, at- torney for the Interborough and the decision announced by the “rubber stamp” Connolly was, of course, first worked out by Quackenbush and Hed- ley. Insults Workers. In view of the strike threat by the company union, the protestations by Hedley in his letter to Mayor Walker that “the last thing whiclf this com- pany desires is a strike,” are seen to (Continued on Page Two) Nearing to Lecture For Workers’ Relief Tour in Middle West Scott Nearing, who has just re- turned from China and the Soviet Union after a six months’ study of conditions in those countries, is to lecture for the Workers’ International Relief. The organization is devoting jjits efforts to the relief of striking miners in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Nearing’s itinerary is: March 7, Akron, 0.; March 8, Canton, 0.; March 9, Youngstown, O.; April 5, New Haven, Conn.; April 6, Hartfora, Conn.; April 8, Boston, Mass.; April 15; Pittsburgh: April 23, Syracuse, N. Y.; April 24, Utica, N. Y.; April 25, Schenectady; April 26, Albany; April 27, Rochester. Mayor's Visit to Bowery Was Tammany Hail Vaudeville a meeting to investigate and plan re- lief for the unemployment situation was turned into a Ta: Hall = ville show and political rally when Mayor James J. Walker ptiieed ot to 6 behibietiay eared at the been standing in ine for several hours, Only as many men as there were seats were admitted. The rest were driven away by the police. As usual the mayor was late. Scheduled to sperk “between 8 and 9,” he did not appear until 9:25 p. m. Until his arrival the jobless men were urged to join in the singing of vari- ous hymns and recitations from the bible. When the missionaries were in- formed that the mayor was arriving. Rev. Henry announced at “East (Continued on Page Two) move they may be forced to make in T R_T. Seeks Fare Raise. To Maintain These Conditions 4 4 A Moucd, Cunaed, mudulateu vy mdeserwane congesuon whie gomg ww and irom Uieir juvs, Me wage earners of New York may yet be compelled to pay a seven-cent fare if the traction magnates succeed in their present campaign. for the daily scramble, Photos show scenes at subway stations with subway “patrons” getting ready LEACUE GIRLS ARE HELD BY OFFICERS AT FORT SLOCUM ss. Released After Trying to Intimidate Five girls, members of the Young Workers (Communist) League, were arrested yesterday at Fort Slocum, in upper New York, after distribut- ing more than a thousand: !etters to army recruits who are leaving to- morrow and on March 7 for service iv Panama, aii‘and other U. 8. possessions. The girls were held for ’ | several hours and questioned individu- ally and in groups at the headquar- ters of the commanding officer. They were finally released after the of- ficers had attempted to intimidate them in an effort to gain desired in- formation. The girls were told that if a soldier had distributed such a leaflet he would have received from 15 to 20 years’ imprisonment. The letters, issued by the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers (Communist) League of District 2, were enthusiastically re- ceived by the soldiers who took them in large numbers as they were leay- ing the mess hall, and helped in pass- ing them out. Long after the distribution the sol- diers were standing around in little groups reading the letter with great interest, and it was not until the girls were thru and all the way back to the dock that they were arrested by one of the officers. They were then taken to a small ante-room in the headquarters of the (Continued on Page Two) INDUSTRIAL SQUAD ATTACKS PICKETS Laundry Workers Fight for Recognition Police are employing their usual terroristic methods in an attempt to in‘imidate striking laundry workers. Jean Scatele, Richard Salvadore and Alex Cardinelli, while picketing in front of a laundry owned by the Manhattan and Bronx Hand Laundry- men’s Association, were approached by several plainclothes men of the Industrial Squad who first asked their names and then struck them, according to spokesmen for the work- ers. The larger percentage of workers in the Oak Laundry on 54th St., the Liberty on 116th St., the Pruce on 137th St. and the Giant Laundry on 156th St. have walked out. In two of these laundries, every worker struck and in the others, practically all of the kep people, the wringers, washers, drivers and markers have joined the ranks of the strikers, The women in these laundries earn from $13 to $15 a week. A large number of them are Negroes and Italians. Many are married and have several children to support as well as themselves on these meager sal- aries. The strikers are demanding recog- nition of their union and a $5 a week increase for all inside laundry work- the Senate in approving the MINERS TO HOLD DEMONSTRATIONS. Anthracite e Committee! By GEORGE PAPCUN. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb. 28, — The Save the Union Committee of the United Mine Workers is arrang- ing a series of mass meetings thruout the anthracite field to demonstrate against the frame-up which the Lewis-Cappelini-Kennedy machine is at the present time organizing against Sam Bonita and his two brother trade unionists, who had and still have the courage to fight against the machine’s corruption. Meetings Are Scheduled. The first meeting will be held at Luzerne Thursday at 7 p. m., at the Ttalian Hall, 206 Oliver St. The sec- ond will be held at Pittston, the heart of the present struggle, March 4, at 2 p. m., at the Armory Hall. Reinstatement Forced. Once expelled, the miners forced the machine to reinstate him in the Miners’ Union. Powers Hapgood also will speak. He is nationally known as a militant leader of the miners. George Papcun, secretary of the Save the Union Committee, also will speak. With the general attack on the Miners’ Union, one of the tactics the coal operators are using is to try to weaken the Miners’ Union on all sides | They are succeeding more or less las the reactionary officialdom, led by | Lewis, Cappelini and Kennedy, are working hand in hand with them. For instance, at the No. 5 and No. collieries of Local Union 211 and (Continued on Page Two) Large Tax Bill in ’26 ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 28.—Taxes totalling $795,000,000 were collected in 1926 by New York State and its municipalities, according to a report made to the annual conference of tax officials which opened a three day session here today, Of this amount about $586,000,000 was collected from the tax on real property. | | the already large bills approved by the Supports Bonita | Senate Passes Bill for Is Largest Army Air Force WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—A grand total of nearly $32,000,000 will be} spent on army aviation alone during the coming fiscal year, as a result of | $24,000,000 House appropriation bill, in addition | ON their way to Campbell’s house ———to $5,000,000 worth of new airplanes, | when | and the adding of two funds totalling | $2,178,000. Although both branches of congress | were unanimous on the development of a strong airforce, as shown by the ae jump in the appropriations, the Sena.e overdid itself, even adding to) House, and which contrasted with the | much smaller bills of previous years. | Not worried by opposition as a re- ! sult of the huge amount of popularity for a big air force built up by Lind- bergh and thru the many recenv flights, the Senate has not hesitated to go ahead full force building the world’s biggest air force. JOBLESS MEETING AT UNION SQUARE Cheer Speakers from N. Y. Council Over 500 unemployed workers at- tended the first open air unemploy- ment meeting in New York yesterday in Union Square, held by the New York Council for the Unemployed. The assembled workers were ad- dressed by Minnie Laurie, of the Youth Section of the Unemployed Council; John Di Santo, secretary of the council; Louis A. Baum, of the Photographers’ Union and an unem- ployed war veteran. Laurie told the unemployed work- ers of the effects of unemployment on the women workers of the coun- try and urged the women, of whom there were many present, to affiliate} with the council. Presents Demands. Di Santo presented the relief de- mands of the council and the unem- ployed workers applauded each de- mand. The demand for the forma- tion of a Labor Party also was ap- plauded. The name of Mayor Walker was jeered when Di Santo told of Walk- or’s address at the Bowery Mission Monday night. Many of the jobless worker in the crowd had been in the bread lines at this mission. Di San- to urged them not to seek the “mis- erable handout” given them at the (Continued on Page Two) mune, the first workers’ republic that was made yesterday at the national office of International Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th St. The Boston local of International Labor Defense is holding its Paris Commune meeting March 18, with Max Shachtman, editor of the Labor Defender and author of a booklet on the Commune, as the main speaker. Gomez at Philadelphia. Philadelphia’s commune meeting is being held on the same day with Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All- Paris Commune Anniversary Meetings Are Being Planned Announcement of the organization of a number of meetings throughout the country to commemorate the fifty-seventh anniversary of the Paris Com- was crushed by the reaction in 1871, America Anti-Imperialist League, as the chief speaker. Jamestown, N. Y., has joined the list’ of the cities to plan commune meetings by arranging to have Walt Carmon, manager of the Labor De- fender, speak there March 18. In Martins Ferry, O., a mining cen- ter, a commune meeting is being held March 18, with a labor speaker from Cleveland. Other meetings have been arranged in Chicago, Cleveland, Mil- waukee, Kansas City and other cen- ters, including a number on the Pa- cific coast. Traction Workers to Organize Shop Groups for Defense ‘1 PROGRESSIVES ARE MURDERED BY MACHINE GUNS Reign of Terror Against Militants Increases (Special Wire To The DAILY Worker.) WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb. 28.—Alex Campbell and Pete Reilly, militant mine leaders, were killed by machine gun fire at 5:30 this afternoon as they were returning from a visit to Sam Bonita, a coal miner being held on a framed up murder charge. Campbell and Reilly were driving from the jail and were they were murdered. Campbell’s head was nearly sey- |ered from his body. The slaying of the workers follows the intensification of the reign of terror against the pro- gressives in the United Mine Union by the Lewis-Cappelini machine. Frey that Campbell would be murdered was felt ever since the shooting. of “Big Sam” Grecio on Feb. 18. “You are a marked man and will be next,” Grecio warned Campbell as the former lay dying in a local hospital. The double slaying occurred on Railroad Street. The shots were fired from an automobile which speeded past the car in which Campbell and Reilly were riding. * * @ STEUBENVILLE, 0., Feb. 28. — Tear gas bombs and blackjacks were used by federal, state and county of- ficers against striking miners picket- ing the Dorothy Mine of the Y. and O. Coal Co. at Glen Robin last night. Seven pickets were arrested today and taken to Columbus under charges of violating a federal injunction is- sued at the demand of the coal mine owners to prevent the functioning of the United Mine Workers in this dis- trict. More arrests are threatened by federal deputy marshals who returned to Glen Robin. Strikers Are Slugged. Many strikers were beaten by the armed officials in the clash last night. Two automobile loads of deputy marshals, deputy sheriffs and special armed guards arrived at the mine last night when employes of the company reported that the miners were main- | taining a picket line at the Dorothy | Mine. Along the picket line were about 100 women, all of them wives or relatives of the strikers. Tear Gas Used. The guards charged with black- jacks and when the pickets did not run Sheriff W. T. Allison ordered tear gas bombs thrown among them. MINERS ANSWER LEFT WING CALL PITTSBURGH, Pa. Feb. 28—In response to wide-spread demands of left wing progressive striking coal miners a national conference of all progressive elements in the United States Mine Workers of America has finally been called by the “Save-the- Union Committee” for April 1, to take place in Pittsburgh. This conference will mark the first anniversary of the strike. The separate peace made by the Mlinois miners will also expire on that date, Slogans are Adopted. At regional conferences recently held in Illinois, Iowa and the anthra- cite districts, insistent demands for such a conference were made. “Lewis Must Go,” “Spread the Strike,” Save the Union” and “Win the Strike’ are the slogans which will furnish the basis for policy ip the national convention, 8 ; i