The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1928 SCENES DURING LAST I. RT? STRIKE OF WORKERS: PASSENGERS TOOK TO BUSSES The photos above were taken during the last strike of the I. R. T. workers in July, 1926. The subway system was almost completely tied up because the men went out in a solid body. Thousands of habitual subway riders took to the busses. The photo on the left shows a crowd waiting in the rain for a bus to come along. The photo on the right shows a bunch of scabs, imported during the last strike from out of town, in the bunks provided for them in the I. R. T. shops at 147th St. and Tth\Ave. The scabs were penned in under guard in the bunks, and were prevented from leaving them by the police. C. E. Ruthen ¢ EVENTS IN LIFE EPIC OF GREAT | FIGHTFORLABOR Secretary of Communist Party From Start | haa July 9, 1882. Died March 2, 1927, at the age of 44. His father was a longshoreman, and he himself after primary school education in a German Littheran school and comple- tion of business collere was in turn} factory worker, clerk, newspaner éor- respondent and from 1909 until the! day of his death active fighter in the | 2 labor movement. Activity he Labor Movement. Helned to build International Uadies Garment Workers Union and took act- ive part in the Cleveland strikes of that-orzanization. He participated in and took a lending part in many! other strikes in Cleveland and in the| state of Ohio. Joined the socialist | party January, 1909. When the Com-| miimist Party was formed in 1919 he was one of the founders of the Com- munist Party and of its suceessor, the (Communist) Party. He was al of the socialist party from 1909 {a few months after joining) until he entered the Communist Party. 1909-1912 — Recording Secretary City Central Committee Socialist Party, Cleveland. Political Standard Bearer. 1910-—Candidate for State Treas- utet of Ohio. “1911—Candidate for Mayor of jand. Candidate for Governor So- cfalist rty of Ohio. 1913—Séeretary and ganizer. 4914—Candidate ator of Ohio. ‘ 1915-—Candidate fdr Cleveland. ’ 1916—Candidate for Congress, 20th district of Ohio. City Or- for U. S. Sen- Mayor of * =4917—Candidate for Maycr of Cleveland. 1918—Candidate for Congress. 1919—Candidate for Mayor of Cleveland. An November, 1917, after convict- img for anti-war activities, and while pending appeal, he ran for Mayor of Cleveland and reestv-d 27.900 votes cut of a total of 100,000 cast. First Communist Secretary. Delegate to every Annual State Convention of the Ohio Socialist} ¢ Party until 1919. Delecate to Na-| tional Convention of 1915 and Na-| tional Emetgency Convention tf 1917. Blected Secretary and Organizer of Socialist Party in 1919. Editor | he Socialist News from 1914-19. Executive Party of America 1919-1920. He went to jail and was therefore unable to é secretary of the Workers munist) Party from its incep-| r and remained secretary until the of his death. He was at all times e ber of the Central Executive fittee of the Commamist Party its successor, the Workers (Com- mist) Party. For the last fow irs of his life he was a member ¢ presidium of the Executive mittee of the Communist Inter- onal. Indicted June, 1917, charged obstructing the draft through ches mado on the public square veland. served one year in the Canton, jail. It was after Debs visited in the Canton jail that he (Debs) the speech that caused his own ‘tment and imprisonment. He was d and convicted under the Crim- | Anarchy Law of the State of New in November, 1919, and served in Sing Sing prison on an ninate sentence of from 5 to irs which was terminated by on wpon the minority opinion Justices of the United States Court to the effect that the jin the figh | Coal Company | Pitiston region. This is a means of Secretary Communist | _ . Upon getting out of jail he |> Black Diamonds, Red Blood Bring Pennsylvania Crisis By JAMES P. CANNON. The struggle in the anthracite coal f: Alex Campbell and Peter Reilly, shot t Tuesday night by h is raging bet the masses the one side and ine allied with the coal opera.ors on the other. Campbell was the popular leader of Local 1703, composed of workers of No. 6 Colliery of the Pennsylvania Progressives in Jail. Thomas Lillis was killed a month ago and “Big n” Grecio is still in he hospital suffering from wour nflieted by gunmen. The machinery now being oil to railroad Sar Bonita, Steve Mer of the Cappelini machine in self de- fense. The struggle centers directly around «the -growing evil of the -con- tract system in the coal mines of the} speeding up the miners and cutting wages employed by the operators with he collaboration of the Lewis-Cappe- lini, machine. The Contract System. Under this system, sections of the mines are leased out to individuals who then employ other miners and laborers to .workthem. -The .com- panies give good locations to favor- ites and henchmen of ‘the reactionary officials who then hite other favorites to work them, while the rank and file militants suffer from discrimina- tion. Intense bad blood is thereby created and & Ditter struggle; based on economic interests, is transferred directly into the union. The Lewis-Cappelini machine, so far from fighting against this diabolical method of demoralizing and: disintegrating. the ‘union, work hand in hand with the operators for its wider extension. They have bui ir reactionary union-polit n on the basis of the con- em. Sappelini Treachery. story of the treachery of The Cappclini, who was elected Distri¢ president in 1923 as a “progress pledged to fight the contract system and who promptly betrayed the ran! and file mini s one of the blackest pages in the his ory of the Ameri- ¢an labor tiovement. Alex Campbell was at the head of a powerful movement of the rank and file miners which swept the re- actionary administration out of the Pittston local. The new official! | the union, who took up the fight tc | | saf: rd the interests of the min were openly marked for slaw. and it is freely charged throughou he entire district that hired gunmer brought in to do the killing Campbell was a sli¢htly-built littl Scotchman of middle age, fearles: | and incorruptible. He was loved an: | trusted by the miners. Campbell Unfaltering. He never faltered in the fight ever en his clesest friends were bein= ot down around him. These qual- gui vere FOR YOUR HEALTH Strictly Pure FLORIDA HONEY Guaranteed by the BEE-FARMER. Special Prices During Run of This “Ad” 5 Lbs. $1.25 6 Lbs. $1.40 10% Goes to “Daily Worker” ORDER BY MAIL. JACK FEURER 3656 Park Ave., Bronx New York City. hired gunmen, are the latest to fall as brought more bloodshed. od s and martyrs itie ealed his doom; it. was predicte for the past month that he would 1} ‘next.” They said they would. “g im and ihey did. His frail body riddled with twenty bullets, i rnute reminder to the coal diggen. that the class struggle is war. The uprising against the contrac the miners. The great defect and system is a powerful movement from below based on the most elementary union rights and pressing needs o of the movement ihus has been its purely local charac and limited outlook. Outlook Too Narrow. Even the leaders of the movement did not see the indissoluble connectior of their fight-with the general na tional life-and-death battle now going on along the whole front against the operators and their agents in the union—Lewis, Cappelini and Company. They have not yet seen the gene class aspects of their fight and have not been aware of the extent to which the power of the state au- thorities will be used to railroad Bonita, Mendola and Moleski to the electric chair as another means of dealing a blow to the..opposition movement, Tilusions Costly. These illusions have been costly, as there is no hope for a solution of he big class issues involved on a local scale, and akove all, there is no possibility that the state power will allow even a semblance of justice to the arrested leaders unless a broader and more extensive move- ment is created and sironger re- sources brought into play. The task of the conscious and left wing miners in the anthracite is two-fold; on the one hand, to recog- e unfailingly the tremendous significance and potentiality of the opposition movement which has grown against the contract system; on the other hand, to help steer it out of its purely local channels and into the main-stream of the national ,|miners’ fight, and further into the general class struggle. ~The problem of uniting all the in- surgeht and opposition movements in the United Mine Workers of Ameri- ea into one broad stream and, in par- ticular, the problem of combining the opposition forces of the an h with those of the embattled bitur ous miners for a decisive fight v4 The paper is conducting life. itant workers to keep it YOUNG WORKER 43 East 125th St. New York City. Enclosed you will find $ Name ...... Address The Daily Worker Has A Young Brother It is that semi-monthly fighting paper of the toil- ing youth that speaks the language of the young workers and reacts to their special problems, the Young Worker It calls for the combined strength of all mil- Help the YOUNG WORKER get 5,000 new subs and raise $3,000. EEE __t to the YOUNG WORKER $3,000 drive. GOVT. OFFICIAL HITS INDUSTRY sees Growing Conflict of Bosses and Labor WASHINGTON, March 1.—The ovesent unemployment situation fore- shadows a national erisis between workers and employers which may be reached in six weeks or may be post- poned till next year, Ethelbert Stew- art, United States commissioner of ment issued today. After stating that there is a grow- ing labor surplus in this country, absorbed in newly created industries. Crisis Inevitable. Only the date of the crisis is in doubt, according to Stewart. The crisis is inevitable, he says. Stewart believes the crisis will be eight-hour-day movement in the last century, marked by the Chicago Hay- market. affair. urges shorter working hours. Yo Is Now an Int’l Section The Young Workers (Communist) League of America is now an official section of the Young Communist In- ternational, according to the statutes read at the last enlarged buro meet- ing of the league. Originally, the Young Workers League was started as a fraternal organization while the Young Com- munist League was organized in 1921. In 192% the two organizations com- bined under the name of the Young Workers (Communist) League. Pennsylvania is the vital task of the hour. The left wing miners in the anthra- cite who are participating in the fight against the contract system and in the defense movement for Bonita, Mendoal and Moleski will discharge he big responsibilities imposed upon them by the situation insofar as they \unfalteringly put these tasks on the jawenda and struggle resolutely for complishment. an uphill struggle for its going. labor statistics, admitted in a state-| Stewart says only part of it can be| similar to that which brought on the} le; berg Active Warrior in Labor Movement Until Day of Death ‘Rich Lawyers Fight Shyster; Both Cheat Injured Workers Isador J. Kresel, prominent corporation lawyer, who heads the lawyers’ committee which is aiding Supreme of a year.” The drive on the shyster lawyers |has been started on behalf of the “more respectable” lawyers, who have become alarmed at the huge amount of business the pushing shysters have taken from them. Send Out Runners. These ambulance chasing lawyers i prey upon injured workers, sending out runners to watch for accidents in the streets, and prevailing on the workers, while still in a daze from Court Justice Wasservogel in the in- | vestigation of “ambulance chasing” lawyers, has announced that the inves- |tigation will take “the better part® their injuries, to sign over most of jthe money to be awarded the work- jer in court for his injury. A dazzling array of “distinguished jlegal talent” has been gathered for jthe drive on the less “ethical” mem- bers of the legal fraternity. Large coneerns such as railroads and sure- ty companies, are stated by the law- yers’ committee to be also behind the drive on the ambulance chasers, be- cause, ‘as they state, the corporations are constantly made the defendants by the ambulance chasing attorneys. $4,700 BENEFITS TOMILLSTRIKERS. ‘(Fourth . Week Finds Ranks Solid KENOSHA, Wis., March 1.—Strike Gtewart’s statement | benefits given out to the 390 strikers of the Allen-A Hosiery Mills, by the American Federation of Full Fash- ioned Hosiery Workers totaled $4,- 709. according to the statement made by the union officers here. The bene- fits are given weekly at a regularly appointed pay day. The strike, which was called when the mill owners suddenly decided to run their plants open shop, is enter- ing its fourth week with not one worker leaving the strikers’ ranks. In addition to declaring open shop the employers demanded that each work- er operate two looms instead of one. The immediate walk-out that fol- lowed led to the bosses’ open shop declaration. i The mill owners it was learned have been making attempts to frame- up some of the most militant work- ers, by charging them with violence to scabs, but even a police investiga- tion Bympathetie to the employers did not bring forth a shred of evi- dence with which to hoid the strik- ers. The attempt of the company to open schools to teach strikebreakers has been a failure due to the lack of recruits, it was ascertained. spread Daily Worker and get a new newsstand Sympathizers and readers we ask you to speak to your nearest newsdealer. He should order the DAILY WORKER. Fill out the coupon and send it to us. Cirenlation Dept., Daily Worker, 88 East 1st Street, New York City. Name of Newsdealer . Address ... setee No. of Copies ....s..csesese My Name and Address .... Buy an extra Daily Worker everyday and give it to your shop mate or friend. Agreement Broken | Atlanta, Ga. March 1—The new ' Chevrolet automobile plant under con- struction here now is being built by non-union labor that gets 20 cents an hour and works 10 hours a day. The company had promised to béfild this $2,000,000 plant with union la- bor only. A Foot Is Crushed James Latel, 44, had his foot crushed while at work on the new bridge over Newtown Creek at Green- point Ave. Brooklyn, A heavy) steel girder fell on the worker's fopt. | WESTERN SUGAR GROWERS BLEED MEXICAN LABOR Restrictive Immigration Opposed WASHINGTON, March 1.—Sugar beet and cotton growers in the south- west are putting up a determined | fight against the Box bill which seeks |to bring immigration from Mexico under the quota law. Fred Bixby, owner of a large beet growing acreage, was frank in stat- ing that the low-wages given the Mexican workers and the long hours forced on them made their free entry desireable to beet growers. Mexicans Enslaved. “You cannot get any white man to erawl along on his stomach and thin beets,” Bixby told the house agri- culture committee. C. B. Moore, a banker and cotton grower from Calexico, Cal., stated that non-Mexican labor would not work in the mellon and cotton fields ‘of Imperial Valley, where the tem- perature averages 113 degrees in the | shade. Mexican workers are prac- tically enslaved in the southwest. Resist the Attack 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 New York City | AMOUNT 33 First Street, NAME see seme eeeee seve eee ne eeeas Feb eee bebe bebe gee teeeerenens errr errr eee errr ee ee er is City Deeg e CO Cn conn ci nin ity State ee See ee ee oe webeee Briere ery ier | pee ee