The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1928, Page 1

WOMEN WORKERS URGED TO JOIN UNIONS, ASK LABOR PARTY THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZE! FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY T Kemtered ax secund-cites murer at E DAILY Wo » under the act of March 3, 1579. tue com Uifice at New York, N. R FIN VAL CITY EDITION Vol. V. No. 53. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New York, by mail, $5.00 per yenr. Outside New York, oy mi $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1928 Publishing Association, Inc. 33 First Street, Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker New York, N. y.Price 3 Cents STRIKE MOVEMENT BEGINS ON TRACTION LINES TRAINING SCHOOL STUDENTS BUILD RUTHENBERG FUND Get $10 a Week; Contribute $1 Each to Paper; Appeal to All Workers to Save Press Defense of “Daily” Called Best Commemoration of Dead Mili Quoting the words of Charles tant Leader s E. Ruthenberg, founder of the Workers (Communist) Party and leader of the militant American labor movement who died one year ago, “We must keep the DAILY | WORKER for these fights in? the workers’ interests; we must make it a stronger weapon in the} workers’ struggles,” the twenty-five students of the National Worke Training School at New York yester- day pledged themselves to contribute a dollar a week out of their ten dol- | lar expense allowance to the Ruthen- berg Sustaining Fund. Must Defend Paper. “We are commemorating the first anniversary of the death of the most aggressive leader of the militant American working class,” the stu-! dents state in a communication to the | paper, and there is no more fitting | way of carrying forward the tradi- tion of the. man who called The DAILY WORKER “the heart and center of every movement which ex- presses a-militant struggle against capitalist exploitation and opnres- sion” than by defending the paper by contributing. to tie Ruthenberg Sus- taining Fund. . Dedicate Lives. “We have sworn to dedicate our whole lives to the struggle of the American workers against their cap- italist oppressors. To better enable | us to carry on the struggle we are being trained at the Workers School and receive ten dollars a week while we are studying. Out of this ten dollars each of us has pledged him- self to contribute one dollar a week to the fund. Set Example. “Ten dollars a week is very little to exist on but it is no sacrifice to the students of the National Training School to give one of these dollars to the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund. The defense of The DAILY WORKER was left us as a supreme duty by Charles E. Ruthenberg. We are sim- ply carrying on his work in the only realistic way in making this con- tribution,” the students stated. COMMUNIST PAPER IRKS ACW HEADS TORONTO, Mar. 38. — The right wing machine’ in control of the To- | ronto Joint Board of the Amalga-! mated Clothing Workers Union, or-| dered the employers several days ago to post notices in their shops which says: “The Toronto Joint Board of the Amalgamated has decided to take steps to prevent the circulation and) distribution of ‘Der Kamf,’ in or around any union shop. Any mem- | ber who is known to offend in this regard will be severely dealt with.” The paper “Der Kamf” is a Can- adian Jewish communist weekly, which has recently published a series | of articles exposing the treachery of the right wing administration and their cvoperation with the employers. The first ones to be “severely (Continued on Page Two) DEFENSE BAZAAR TO HAVE MUSIC Through the courtesy of the Cc- gperative Music Service the Interna- tional Labor Defense ba\aar will offer ‘an extraordinary musical pro- gram Sunday night, March 11, at th Star Casino, 107th st., and Park av~ The bazaar will be held from Marc! 7 to 11. The Brooklyn Art Trio consisting of Ralph Hersh, viclinist, George Fair, celloist, and Ruth Benach, pianist, has gained popularity thru its broad- casting programs for Station WDL. “This trio has prepared a program of classical favorites. }marshal, and Col. PRISON TERMS IMPOSED ON 8 COAL DIGGERS “Guilty” of Injunction Violations COLUMBUS, 0O., Mar. 2.—An- thony P. Minerich, chairman of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners Relief Committee, together with seven other miners were today held guilty of vio- lating a federal injunction and sen- tenced to serve jail terms. Judge Benson W. Hough who sen- tenced the pies is the father of the i i i jicket- ing and other ae os thet Minerich received 45 days in the Muskingum County jail. The others drew 30 days with the exception of John Karlich, 18, who received five | days, because of his youth. The six are Alex Felzan, Andy Lidarik, Steve Vohanck, Louis Mozi, Joe Kuri and John Oboza. Mass Violations Urged Minerich did not deny that he had urged mass violations of the injunc- tions which are being issued by gov- ernment officials at the demand of the operators. “The miners,” Minerich _ stated, “should put hundreds and if possible thousands of men on the picket lines. Mass violations of the injunctions which are being used in the attempt to destroy the miners union will win for us against the combined efforts of the mine owners and the Lewis machine.” Judge Hough refused to allow Mrs. Dora Backman, who appeared for Minerich, to represent the seven other miners. They were represented by Judge Nichols, who declared that he had been retained by the United Mine Workers. The union, Nichols maintained, was desirous of cooper- ating with the court. He said the cfficials of the U.M.W.A. do not con- done violation of injunctions. Nichols made little effort to save his clients from prison. Charles P. White, United States Caldwell, of the Ohio National guard were the main | witnesses aginst Minerich. Minerich was arrested while ad- dressing a meeting of striking min- ers in Hausing, 0., Feb. 17, by deputy federal marshals and taken to Franklin County Jail at Columbus, where he was released on $1009 bail ‘Arrange Women’s. Day Demonstrations Thruout World Working Women’s Chaueess Kate Gitlow, represeniauve of American working women’s organ- izations to the Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. WOMEN WORKERS Women Play Great Role By KATE GITLOW International Women’s Day is the day on which the class conscious workers the world over are reminded that the working women are a part of the working class and that they must emerge from long years of forced backwardness, that they must be organized and educated to take their place as workers side by side with the men workers in the class struggle. The year 1927 was a year of great struggles on the part of the left and progressive workers in the United States. The reactionary labor bur- eaucrats, together, with the yellow So- cialists and the bosses and govern- mental powers, have carried on a steady war against the left and pro- gressive workers. The continuous strikes and lockouts of coal miners in West Virginia, Penn- sylvania and Ohio have resulted in a continuous struggle on the part of these miners to save their union. In ell these strikes and struggles of the left and progressive workers against the bureaucrats in the labor movement women have played a great role. During the year 1927 we saw the wives of the workers on the picket line, being beaten, arrested and thrown into jail together with the men workers. In the struggle of the coal miners, the miners’ wives and the proletarian women from the factory home, are standing side by side with the miners, bravely meeting the fire of capitalist brutality which is so well known in the history of the coal miners’ struggles. The proletarian! miners’ _ struggles. The (Continued on Page Six) MUST ORGANIZE and the} ‘ORGANIZATION OF THOUSANDS IS AIM OF MEETINGS New York C Celebration | to Be Held Sunday The first and greatest demonstra- tion of women workers for Interna- tional Woman’s Day takes place in New York tomorrow. Women workers from many trades. and housewives from various districts wil] attend the celebration at the Central Opera House where a program of great in- terest has been prepared. The musical program will consist of varied attractions. Fanny Levine, well-known violinist, will lead the program. Soprano solos will be ren- dered hy Aino Saari, well-known Fin- nish artist. Valentine Righthand, gifted pianist, will play selections from Bach and Chopin. Dorsha, the popular dancer, wil! present a number of dances, several of them expressing the spirit of wo- man in the revolutionary labor move- ment. Genevieve Taggard, American poet, and active in the woman movement will read from her poems. Ellen ennan will read selections from re- volutionary literature. Prominent i ‘The speakers, will. le Wortis of the Joint ni Cléak | makers’ and Desistin ers Union; Ellen Dawson, Passaic strike leader: Ray Ragozin, organizer of the Wo- men’s Miners’ Relief Conference; Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER; Willyanna Adams _ will speak for the Negro working women, a number of whom will al il attend. BROACH’S POLICE BEAT UP WORKERS. Police officers under instructions from H. H. Broach, International | vice president of the Brotherhood of | Electrical Workers Thursday evening beat up a number of members of Lo- cal 3 and kept a number of others from the meeting held at Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. “Red” Steinberger, one of the mem- bers beaten up for trying to enter} the meeting against the wishes of the machine, it is reported, may lose the | sight of one eye. During the meeting -considerable opposition was expressed over the failure of Broach to meet squarely the issue of. unemployment which is af- | fecting thousands of members in the industry. When challenged, Broach | Hlaunched a most venomous personal {attack on the member who had intro- Rose {duced the resolution. | (Owing to space limitations the full ireport of this meeting will be printed Monday. An account will be given of ithe new developments in Local 3 and the danger which is being faced by present mis-leadership.) union responsible for any strike. isyor Wuwsxer's prevensions about beng a fied of the pear was exploded ajeaterday) by his atiacx on the union. The subway workers can now see clearly on which side the mayor is. |to be held Woman Revolutionary Veterans Krupskaya, organizer with Lenin Clara Zetkin, woman leader of, Ane Communist International and of the Russian Revolution, ane | Red. Russia Guiding. Star of Women Workers of World By CLARA ZETKIN. The International Communist Women’s Day is upon us. What can it be but a grand settling of accounts on the part of enormous masses of women, with the gocial world which decides their weal and woe, but also a settling of accounts with them- selves. There are indeed, two ques- ions which these masses of women want answered, be they employed in factories, shops and offices, be they tilling the ground by the sweat of their brow or working from morning | till night in their households. What | have the ruling, executive powers done, in the state and society, to create conditions in which working women lead a life worthy of human beings, conditions which secure to these millions the possibility of de- veloping their talents and their ca- pacity to participate in the general work of society? This is one ques- tion, and the other is: you women, without whose labor and care society could not exist a single day, what have you done yourselves to break your chains, to obiain bread, to se- cure your rights to liberty and cul-| ture? New Order in Russia. The answer to these two questions] jcannot be uniform, because the social |world which, in the end, determines the fate of millions of working women | jis not a uniform world. By destroy- | ing the class rule of the rich thru] the victorious proletariat, Red Oc- tober, 1917, created a new social or- der in» Russia—the first workers’ state in the world, the state of pro- letarian dictatorship, the Union of (Continued on ‘Page Six) 'Workers School Concert} To Be Held Sunday Eve. Students and friends of the Work- ers School will meet at a concert ar- ranged by the Workers School Club tomorrow night at the Davenport Theatre, 27th st. and Lex- |ington ave. The program includes dance num- bers by Blanche Evan and group; vocal selections by M. Sasenoff, for- merly of the Odessa and Metropolitan Cloak Open Forum in} Coney Island Sunday) | given out the news. MEN QUIT SCAB - INFESTED JOBS; FIGHT FOR UNION Demand Meeting For General Strike Call Spontaneous walkouts of scores of work which may at any moment result in the mass uprising of the 40,000 New York traction men in the greatest transit tie-up in the city’s history were beginning to t: place last night as workers leaving their night runs indicated their disgust at the inflow of strike-breakers and their intention not to report back to k today. hile both the Interborough and officials of the Amalgamated been seeking to keep the information from spreading have not It was learned that nearly a hundred motormen had already entered upon the “creeping strike.” About a score of shop men leaving the 147th st. and Lenox ave. shops yesterday between four thirty and five o’clock, announced that they would not report back to work in the same headquarters in which near- {ly a thousand scabs, gunmen, profes- sional finks and company stool pigeons were being housed. Ready For Action These workers indicated at the same time that practically the entire shop is in the mood for action and is iywaiting only for the moment which will seem best suited for the 100% walkout. One of the interesting things about the present “creeping strike” is the fact that the workers have begun to take matters into their own hands without waiting for the formal word to go out. Information secured from private sources among the signalmen while showing that only a handful of these workers have joined the strike like- wise indicate that they are in the mood to act. The most dramatic information came from a source in the East 74th st. power house. It was reported that the large section of Spanish workers employed here were about to go out in a body late yesterday afternoon | but were restrained for another day lin the expectation that the Amalga- mated union officials would call the strike officially. General Strike The opinion of the workers every- where is that a general strike is in- evitable and that the present man- euvers of their officials with the |Tammany Hall politicians is only a move to help the companies. The Se ge eine on pigah Lge Seven) An open forum of all cloak and dress makers living in Coney Island | is to be held to-morrow evening in the Knights of Pythias Hall, 2864 W. 23rd st., o'clock. The leaders of the New York Joint | Board of the Cloak and Dress Makers Union will be present to lead a dis- Coney Island at 7 Opera House; and piano solos by Re- becca Davidson, who has appeared women the members of this union under its|many times with the New York and] euvres Philadelphia Symphony Orchestras. cussion entitled “The Latest Man- of the International Clieque.” He WALKER AND I.R.T. BOSSES HAND IN HAND AGAINST WORKERS é stated thut he woud hod the Unless Fred Frassert and Patrick Hogan (in photo on | left) together with a score of other dismissed union subway-workers, are reinstated, the traction workers will demand a fight toa finish against the 1.R.T. The | second and third photos are of Frank Hedley, I. R. T. head, and Mayor Walker. Both are working hand in hand against the workers. The picture on the extreme | right shows scabs entering the 149th Strect yards of the I. R. T. in preparation for the strike. as prisoners. i % seceeceemmet: ‘ie These scabs are kept penned in under guard in the yards, and held | der of Alex Campbell MILITANTS SHAKE LEWIS MACHINE Prepare For Sunday Demonstration WILKES-BARRE, Pa., March 2-~ That the Lewis-Cappelini machine of betrayal and murder is beginning to crumble and totter has become clear from a number of developments which have followed the recent mur and Peter Reilly, two militant mine leaders. The rising resentment of the mine ers has broken in a virtual thundet storm against the machine and its henchmen. Rinaldo Cappelini is om the point of resigning, it is believed. “I¢ the rank and file feels that I cam Jo better outside,” he has stated, “it will be for them to replace me.” Cappelini Will Go! Several hours previously he had announced that he would not quit, It s believed here that he is really hrough but is stalling for time in rder to permit the Lewis machine to yut over a scheme on the progres ives. At a meeting of the Hudson Coal Company Colliery Local, it was open= ‘y told to opposition leaders that the district is on the rocks and in a crisis; that it is only a matter of a few weeks until Cappelini will resign, This is taken by the progressives to mean that the Lewis machine will maneuver to put in Cappelini’s place an insurgent by the name of Boyle Rpontimied on Page Two) |] |