The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 1, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED ‘ FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK | FOR A LABOR PARTY | SANDINO FORCES ROUTE MARINES; KILL 4 IN NEW OFFENSIVE | Emtered as sccund-ciuse matter at cue sont Office at New York, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH As 1928 Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents MURDER MACHINE!” MILITANT MINERS SAY OF WORKERS’ LIVES SAVE - THE - UNION oe : COMMITTEE URGES DECISIVE A CTION Must Defend Framed- Up Coal Diggers | (Special to The Daily Worker.) | WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb. 29. — The Tri-District Save-the-Union Com- mittee of the United Mine Workers, the signatures of Stanley Dzlen- | FINAL CITY | EDITION Vol. V. No. 51. ' “CMIASH NICARAGUAN ARMY MINE AND R. R. DISASTERS TAKE LARGE TOLL ~- OF INDEPENDENCE a TRAPS INVADERS. f Withdraw Successfully to Jungle | MANAGUA, Feb. 29.—Panic has struck the Nicaraguan reactionaries since four United States marines were killed and many others wounded s when a detachment of 36 invaders | : 3 : 4 ma 3 : aS ; was SaRed By he trons fot Gen | Photo to the left-was taken after a passenger train of the Pennsylvania Railroad jumped a switch near Chester, Pa., resulting in the death of the engineer | ,-jewsky, chairman and George Pap- eral Sandino armed with machine| and firemen when the boiler exploded. A superintendent of the railroad hastened to blame the dead engineer for the wreck, altho the railroad workers say that cun, secretary, in a statement issued guns. The attack which occurred be-| @ defective switch may have caused the derailment. On the extreme right is shown the victims being removed from the Mama Coal Co. mine at Jenny Lind, | to the press, characterized the mur- Thus, \der of Alex Campbell and Peter tween Yali and Condega is reported to be the first maneuver in the newly resumed operations of the army of} independence against the marine SHOP GROUPS OF TRACTION WORKERS PREPARE FOR ACTION Murder of 2 Miners Symbol 'NOT DISCOURAGED Fi: t to Save Esthonian Of Fight for Militant Union py NEW BETRAYAL Communist Editor to Start The main army of independence By BILL DUNNE. The question of whether A. Kobel, editor of Uus Ilm, Esthonian Com- Organize for a “Union Ark., where 13 miners were killed by a gas explosion. This mine was non-union, and the non-union miners had no means of obtaining proper safe-guards. both accidents may be laid to the bosses’ negligence. In the center a couple of senators are shown “investigating” the mine strike... -— | Riley as the brutal act of the agents |of the operators and contractors in the union supported by the Lewis- | Cappelini machine. : Prepare for Struggle. The statement calls for the organi- zation of rank and file committees |throughout the anthracite field to |“smash the murder machine” and to | build a powerful defense organization |to free Sam Bonita, Steve Mendola and Adam Moleski, who, the Save-the- | Union Committee charges, are being framed up and railroaded to the elec- |tric chair because Bonita shot Frank | Agati, known as one of the chief gun- Special significance is attached to | the bat.le which took place in ter- ritory not previously under the con- trol of the army of independence. The news of the casualties took sev- eral days to penetrate to the capital | disclosing the interruption of com- | munications with the interior coun- \ under General Sandino is understood to be strongly posted in the jungle country beyond Matagalpa. PITTSTON, Pa.. Feb. 29.—Little Alex Campbell, brave and honest, and munist weekly, is to be deported for denouncing the legal murder of Sacco young Pete Reilly, militant, smiling and determined fighter against corruption | and Vanzetti will be argued before the Department of Labor in Washington in the United Mine Workers, died at their posts, killed in the most cruel and Thursday by Isaac Shorr, counsel for¢——— try. ; ~® cowardly manner by machine gun and Under Own Control” the International Labor Defense, 799 | |men in the Cappelini machine, in self Serf-Drivers Terrified. @shotgun fire. Their bodies were rid- Broadway, which is fighting the ae A A | defense. es The army of General Sandino A T FAGE dled without them having a fighting | Jimmie Walker’s long pose as the portation. eat | Accuse Authorities. hich’ socently -rithirenchetese: tite chance for their lives. friend of the workers came to an end| Kobel, one of the leading Esthonian | | The Save-the-Union Committee Cappelini’s “Peace.” late yesterday afternoon when the|Communists in this country, is) charges that the murder of Camp- mensely superior American forces operating in the district of Neuva Segovia re-emerged victoriously in the more southern territory around Matagalpa. The reactionary planters were terrified and begged the re- charged with being an “anarchist” and favoring the overthrow of the company union as against the regu- | United States government. Two bp lar union of the traction workers. ticles, in the Aug. 28, 1927, issue of \ ‘ 2 cing that there must b: Uus Im, in Which he charged the en- Announcing tha‘ re must be no papery fea bell and Riley in broad daylight on one of the principal streets of Pitts- ton by machine gun and shotgun fire, leads to the conclusion that the au- thorities must h had knowledge “cake-eater” mayor of New York de- see RD web old Oe in Es ad a tava ot tee ape DWT own house just a week ago that he | though “Cappelini wanted to make’ peace,” but who was not swerved} from the fight against coal operator! TROTSKY ERRORS Asks for Admission to Communist Party B YEARS IN PRISON Deportation Threat Is i ‘ i ling class, turn of the marine patrols with and contr; control of the anthra- ‘trike of the exploited, outraged and pe ban Sy of the murder conspiracy, w mmcaatitete they had “bean ‘keeping: ‘the -Made | cite mardérof Thomas discharged.traction wa them 5 piggies Ba nye Jaga eae ey APS taken the. coffee serfs in submission on their a Lillis and ‘shooting of Samuel or added insult to injury by announc- fed ie his devout Titer 24" of thie MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R., Feb. 29.—|leaders of the opposition to coal com- plantations. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 29.—Eight}Greco, two of his associates, was ing that these workers had commit- | SU He ars taken to Ellis Island | Pi#takov, who was expelled with|pany and contractor control of the year. on deportation proceedings and sub- sequently released on $1,000 bail fur- nished by the International Labor De- fense. It is thought that white guard Esthonians in this country are re- sponsible for this frame-up in an ef- fort to crush the organ of the militant Esthonian workers. The frame-up of Kobel is only one of the deportation cases in which the International Labor Defense is pro- other opposition leaders from the | Communist Party by a decision of the Fifteenth Congress has made applica- tion to the Central Controlling Com- mission requesting that he be restored to Party membership. “What Next?” In his declaration Piatakov points union, put another in the hospital at the point of death and is trying to send three more rank and file miners to their deaths. Organize Mass Meetings. The purpose of what the Save-the- Union Committee’s statement charac- | ont that the Party is facing new dif-|terizes as fascist terror is to exter- | ficulties which it is working untiring-|minate all union men who fight the jly to overcome with a hard andj open corruption of union officialdom. tecting the interests of workers guilty| stubborn struggle still ahead. This] The statement calls upon all min- of the “crime” of being in opposition | circumstance makes it vital for every|ers to come to the series of mass to the American capitalist class. The| opposition member expelled from the | meetings’ arranged by the committee |Party to question the necessity of|and to organize to rescue the union returning to the Party. The question| from the agents of the coal operators facing every opposition member is| and contractors. sent to his death by hired assassins; ted offenses against the company whose bloody trail leads straight to | union and that they had called the the office of the Pennsylvania Coal! company union “vile names and epi- Company and that of President Rin- | thets.” aldo Cappelini of District 1—the chief | of the forces in the anthracite fields of President John L. Lewis of the! or of New York against whom the} United Mine Workers. Campbell knew that his life was in| traction workers have been warned in the past has again paved the way danger but I think that even with his |!" aga long experience in the struggle for | fT. their final betrayal. honest unionism he did not appreciate| There is this difference, however. fully the complete ruthlessness of the The traction workers have this time reactionary fo.ves against which he already begun to take matters into/ was leading the rank and file miners their own hands by forming terminal ‘funds for the defense of these cases in Pittston, | groups and barn committees as @lare expected to be provided by the A Strange Meeting. j;means of defense in what may de-|annual bazaar of the I. L. D. which The column of United States mar-|more years of imprisonment and sepa- ines which sustained the casualties|ration from his wife and children is are reported to have been part of |the prospect which faces Pablo Man- the guard of a supply train sent to lapit according to word received to- provision the American troops oper-|day by the local. branch of the All- ating around Quilali. America Anti-Imperialist League. After the battle the Sandino|Manlapit, who, is touring the country troops withdrew into the wilderness | for the league, speaking on Philippine where it is alleged they can with-| independence, was recently arrested stand an American offensive for |and released after five hours’ gruel- months at a time. ling by the police. PITTSTON SILENT "ssc is Plays the Game Playing out the prearranged game with the traction companies the may- on with my tour I would be arrested wherever I attempted to make a speech,” Manlapit said. “If I inSist on speaking they say they will put me on a boat and return me to prison AS 2 MINERS DIE Workers Party Urges Union Defense . in Honolulu to serve the balance of my term.” Manlapit’s imprisonment. in Hawaii was the result of his activities in leading the Filipino and Japanese la- borers in the great Hawaiian sugar strike of 1924-25. It is strange how things happen sometimes. A week ago, after uark, a miner drove me up the narrow and rutied street where Campbell lived. “You’re lucky they haven’t imported Chicago methods here yet,” I said to | velop. > Meeting with Frank Hedley, presi- dent of the Interborough, together with a committee of the company} union, including Pat Connolly, chief henchman of the company, the may- jor consented to place the future of will be held from March 7 to 11, in- clusive, at New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., it is announced by Rose Baron, secretary of the New York Section of the I. L. D. “What next?” Three answers can be given to this question: Either the opposition can remain outside the Party and carry on a further political struggle or they can remain outside the Party and cease struggling, or they can return The statement in full is as follows: Honest Leaders Killed. “The murder of Alex Campbell and Peter Riley, honest and militant lead- ers of the rank and file opposition to the Pennsylvania Coal Co., contrac- tors, Cappelini machine, shows the utter ruthlessness of the reactionary forces whose grip on the Pennsyl- vania colliery local unions of the United Mine Workers was broken by rank and file miners led by Camp- give the following reply to this ques-| bell, Riley, Lillis, Greco, Bonita and tion: ‘Remain outside the Party and | other courageous union men,”the state- pursue the political struggle against! ment of the Save-the-Union Commit- he -anveni: 4 ; | n : take oeey Poi eet The fh the traction workers into the hands stepped on the gas a little and said: jof the company under the a of “Thank God, they don’t go in for | Teferring the dispute to the “legal : | department” of the company ‘to see machine guns here.” | peer om Six days later Campbell and Reilly ; that justice was done them. were cut to pieces by machine gun} Quackenbush fire within 100 yards of Campbell’s) The legal department is Quacken- | home. bush: James LL. Quackenbush. to the Party and participate in the common political struggle and Party work, “If I believed the Thermidor actu- ally exists,” says Piatakov, “I should WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb. 29.— Silent men walked the streets of the silent city of Pittston today—marked men, awaiting the next death move in the union struggle which today had added two more names to its rapidly growing list of victims. Alex Car bell, 55, former interna- N. Y. BOX WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE By ESTHER LOWELL, STRIKE OF IRON WORKERS BEGINS I! iH say he shot in self defense. Pittston waited silently | other lives will~be taken. * * * leaders: pay of the murderous | movement. ' “These two leaders of the miners’ union by the coal tional boaru member of tne Mine Workers and Peter Riley. 26, jocal union secretary, were shot down near Campbell’s home while return- ing from a visit to Sam Bonica, held | here on a murder charge for shooting ih Frank Agati. Bonita and his friends | next move,—waited knowing vitied for the that “Workers Party Statement. The executive committee of Dis- trict 8, Workers (Communist Parcy, i issued the following statement last Wd night on the murder of Alex Camp- | bell and Pete Reilly, progressive mine “The death of Campbell and Reilly at the hands of the remorseless as- sassins who are undoubtedly in the Cappelini ie ’ machine marks an instance ot pro- letarian courage seldom equalled in the history of the American labor nk and file struggle against control of the operators have known full well for a week that they were marked for assassination. They had unmistakeable evidence of the murderous rutblessness of Cap- pelini’s gunmen when their co-work- er Lillis was murdered, and when an The 45 union workers of the Pack- er Iron Works, 551 Rockaway Ave.. Brooklyn, are out on strike today, as! a result of the Packer Company’s ac- tion in dismissing union workers and hiring non-union men. This was done in direct violation of the agreement of the Iron and Bronze Workers’ Union with the Brooklyn Iron Asso- ciation with which the Packer Iron Works is affiliated. Two weeks ago the Tucker company started to dis- miss union men, after getting rid of 50 out of 45 union workers, the com- pany demanded that the remainder accept_a wage cut from $38 and $40 to $27 and $30. Campbell opened the door for us and his greeting was: “There are not five men in Pittston who would dare come to this house tonight.” We talk- |, ed of the killings, of the defense of | Bonita, of the fight for cleaning the! union and as I looked at the slight figure of Alex Campbell, his body (Continued ox Page Two) EXPLOSIVE SHIP BURNS. --RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Feb, 29. —The Brazilina steamship Atalya, carrying passengers and a cargo of explosives, is on fire off Maceio, ac- cording to a dispatch from Pernam- buco today. From the ‘Workers (Communist) Party branch in Hartford, Conn, a check for $109 came yesterday. “I hope this will be of some assistance in raising the fund needed to save The DAILY WORKER,” wrote the secre- tary of the organization. At the same time letters from individual Party members and sympathetic: organiza- tions came with varying amounts to READERS SHOW LOY ALTY Money Still Needed for “Daily” Defense a nation lists,” wrote. Reiss, “and will do our best to raise twice the amount that we have been asked to raise.” From the Workers Party branch at | Gardner, Mass., came a check for $20, with a letter. from the: secretary of the organization assuring the “Daily” that it has devoted support of the c)ass-conscious werkers of that city. “It is a big fight you’re putting up,” “Rough Stuff’ Quackenbush, virtual dictator of the I. R. T., the enemy of organized labor who has been fight- (Continued on Page Five) GREEN'S PAL IN HUGEPOWERGRAFT Mike Cain Revealed on Payroll of Combine By JOHN L. SHERMAN. Mike Cain, president of the Colum- bus, O., Federation of Labor and pal of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, has | been exposed as the paid agent of | the power trust which Green and the F. of L. reactionary machine have been supporting. Cain, who has just been re-elected | | president of the Columbus central la- | bor union, has admitted the truth of | \the.statement by the local gas com- | pany that he has been on the payroll of the power trust at a salary of $500 per month, $6,000 per year as a “public educator,” Paid Agent. (Federated Press). So sudden was the strike of paper box workers in New York City that employers, caught short, hastened to settle with the union. Nearly 1,000 workers walked out the first day and before nightfall almost a dozen in- dependent shops had granted the union’s demands. The two employ- ers’ associations held out. Other in- dependents begged the union offites to remain open at night so that the; could settle up and lose no more than one day’s work. Demands were sent the employers the All-Union Communist Party.’ (Continued on Page Three) New Scholarship Flan Attracts Many Workers Many of the units of the Workers (Communist) Party are showing great interest in the scholarship ar- rangement being offered by the Workers’ School regarding the course in “Organization Problems,” to be given every Wednesday evening at 8:30 p. m, by Bert Miller, New York six days before the walkout. They (Continued on Page Two) district organization secretary of the ty. WOMEN HAVELABOR DAY ee . They Organize for Better Conditions Today marks the opening of a week’s intensive campaign for bringing the message struggle. This drive is being carrie on bya} number cf labor and working women’s | organizations including *+ade nnions, | work ng women's clubs aad house-| wives’ organizations. There will be, of organization to the unorganized masses of working women throughout the country and rallying them around the standard of the labor € Peoria ase | tivity, lvpor legis party. The present unemployment crisis and the wage-slashing policy of the bosses is causing great hardship among women workers in all sections tee of the tri-district, 33 West Union St., Wilkes-Barre, said. Courage Respected. “The brutal murder of Campbell and Riley in broad daylight by ma- chine guns posted to cover a populous Pittston street is a great shock to the hundreds of miners who knew and respected their courage and abil- ity. Conspiracy Charged. “No one now will deny that there exists a conspiracy to murder all leaders of the opposition to the con- tractor-Cappelini machine, to exter- minate all miners who dare to chal- lenge the bloody rule of the operators and contractors, supported by the Cappelini machine. “The murder of Brothers Campbell and Riley is a challenge to every miner who is opposed to company and contractor control of the United Mine Workers. “The murder of-Campbell and Riley, following the murder of Thomas Lillis, the shooting of Samuel Greeo and the attempt to frame-up Sam_ Bonita for defending himself from the attack of Cappelini’s chief gunman, are all part of the conspiracy to break down working conditions, cut (Continued on Page Two) ; attempt was made on ihe life of Bonita, who fortunately succeeded in foiling it by’ felling the assassin | Agati, and when the stalwart Grecio | was shot down in the presence of his ADMIRAL JONES LOSES JOB. WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.—Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones has been re- . The very morning after Cain was women’s mass meetings, and confer-| of the country, re-elected over Dale Stump, his op- ences where the present critical posi-! The Workers (Communist) Party ponent, by about a dozen votes, the |tior of women workers will be dis-| Will participate in this drive by mob- gas company seeking evidently to |cussed and programs outlined for the | izing all its forces to support the | moved from his post as naval expert make sure that Cain’s efforts would |qefense of the labor standards of|move of women workers for self pro-|on the American delegation to the receive the* necessary publicity, an-| working women and the improventens|tection and participation in the labor |League of Nations preparatory dis- (Continued on Page Five) jot their conditions by trade union ac- (Continued from page Two) armament commission, aid in the defense of the “Daily” from the latest attack against it. Loyalty Shown. From Many Cities. _} Thousands of dollars are still need- A money order for $10 came thru jed, however, to assure the continu- Sorte Bates, peg te pal 9 ance vapid ache WORKER. ua organization at Po: Me . | spite ent response of “We have already distributed the do: eo (Continued on Page Two) wrote, “and it’s worth it!” fe. “Yet they failed to be cowed into (Continued on Page Two)