The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 5, 1928, Page 2

__THE DAI DAILY WORKER, EW YORK MONDAY. MARCH 5, 1928 _ t Campaign in Pittsburgh Area Being Intensified, “Daily” Agent Reports STRIKING MINERS HAYS GOT OIL CASH; LINDBERGH PARROTING MASTERS’ WORDS SECTION 2 OF NEW TO RECEIVE FREE COPIES OF PAPER Kaspar Describes Plans of “Builders” effort ca is being made to npaign to add 10,- to The DAILY to a statement to the paper made yesterday by John Kaspar, the DAILY WORKER ganizer in Dist centering around Pittsburgh. Every stimulate the 060 new suk WORKER, a 5. et With the full cooper: Ji trict Organizer are being made tion of thousands of “Daily.” Thousanc¢ poor after th copies of the free issues an pected a tremendovs impetus will be given The DAILY WORKER in the Pitts- burgh district plan. While not yet in a leading place in| the campaign the Pittsburgh district promises to intensify its work in| every way possible and it is believed | that a great effort will be made to drive the subscription offensive to- wards a successful issue in the west- ern Pennsylvania area. the free dist copies of the who are too MINERS STRENGTH AWES OPERATORS, _ Forces Lewis Machine to Retreat (Continued from Page One) against the contract system, the reductions of the mine owners and the betrayals of the union officials. At the grave, James L rea, a rank and filer, arose in the midst of the crowd and in quiet but striking} tones spoke of the courageous strug- | gle which Campbell had carried on for the miners, agains. the evils of the contract system, against the Cap- pelini machine, for a better life for the workers. Fakers Must Go! George Papcun, secretary of the Save-The-Union Commit.¢e urged the necessity of using the sacrifices of Campbell, Reilly and others as the inspiration for a renewed struggle against the common enemies of the miners. .“No let up, no discoura; ment. ‘A clean house in the min union: Lewis, Cappelini, must go!” The funeral was one of the great- est demonstrations ever held in his- tory of Luzerne County or even in the anthracite re . The funeral of Peter Reilly, murdered simulta- neously with Campbell was held here ths morning under almost as impres- sive circumstances. Considerable in- dignation is being expressed by min- ers over the refusal of officials of District 1 to postpone a meeting of their board held at the time of Reil- ly’s funeral. * Children Suffer. HARRISBURG, Pa, March 4 (FP).—Because children’s diseases are increasing alarmingly among the youngsters of striking soft coai miners, three more nurses have been sent to the strike fields by the Penn- sylvania health department. Dr. Theodore Appel, secretary of healch, reports to Gov. John Fisher much destitution and hardship in the strike districts of central and western Pennsylvania, with relief not always available from local authorities. write * Miners Make Recommendations. PITTSBURGH, March 4 (FP).— Abolition of the coal and iron police, elimination of the state constabulary from strike zones, open hearings oi the senate committee, voiding ,of * anti-strike injunctions are some cf the recommendations vestigators made by the Save the Union Commitiee of United Mine Workers members. Shortening the work week is asked to relieve the over-manning of the coal industry. Nationalization of the coal mines with operation under democratic management with union representa- tion is proposed. Promotion Labor Party is essential the commit- tee states. It asks the senate inves- tigating commitiee also to transfer the huge naval appropriation to the \ relief of striking miners. . * * DUPONT, March 4 (FP).—Op- position to the contract mining sys- tem is the reason given by members of local 265 United Mine Workers for ousting their old officers and lecting a new slate headed by Barney Guzior, former president. ‘The 1,000 miners at Butler colliery of Pennsylvania Coal Co. have had + little worl since the beginning of the year. Pennsylvania Coal is the same “eompany which owns No. 6 mine at ' Pittston. Practically all local union - officers who opposed the contract mining system at Pittston, near Dupont, have been killed in the last weeks—all shot down in the streets. i to buy | ive the | that as a result of this| Kennedy | to senate in-| of aj | Will Hays (at left), former chairman of the republican national committee, admitted he received $260,000 from H. F. Sinclair to help cover the deficit incurred in electing The second photo shows Charles A. Lindbergh, flying: imperialist, boosting bills in the New York legislature for military airports and aviation Harding and Coolidge in 1920. courses in the public schools. Lindbergh is rendering efficient service to his masters, the bankers. the navy, Captains C. C. Bloch and Commander H. K. Hewitt. (Continued from Page One) of the miners, to oust the Lewis ma- chine and to place the union in the hands of the miners, to abolish cor- | Fuption in the union and make it into an invincible weapon of the 800,000 | coal miners, to lay plans for the or- | ganization of the great masses of junorganized micers so shamefully | neglected by the Lewis henchmen. This conference is held pursuant to | resolutions unanimously adopted by | the big “Save the Union” confer- } ences in Districts 5, 6, 12 and the an- thracite tri-districts, which represent the sentiment of these conferences, pontancous movements of the mass of miners have enormously strength- ened the strike end show that the workers are inspired at the prospect of a real struggle in defense of their interests. You are urged to send dele- gates to this vital conference which will initiate a determined fight to save our organization and living standards. Bosses Anti-Union Drive. | The United Mine Workers is in the | most serious crisis in its history. The coal operators, assisted by the courts jand police, are attacking it on al! |fronts.-.The Lewis administratior | thru its reactionary policies, has made jno real defense, consequently district \after district has been lost. Now the operators are trying to break the backbone of the union by destroying Districts 2, 5 and 6 in the present strike. They are using all methods |from federal and state injunctions to evictions of our members _and_ their familiésand the most brutal attacks upon us by the National Guard, the state constabulary, the coal and iron police and other organized gangs of joe operators thugs. Over 500,009 men, women and ehildren in the coal | fields are facing cold, sickness and | starvation. President Lewis, with his interna- tional and district machines, has foreed upon the union a policy which has brought it to the verge of de- struction. During the whole life of the Jacksonville agreement the Lewis machine made no attempt to prepare | the union for the present struggle and refused to conduct effective or- ganizational work in the non-union territories. Failure te Organize Miners. Lewis is cooperating with the coal companies to drive 200.000-miners out of the industry. He has already suc- ceeded in forcing 200,000 miners out of the union. The refusal of the Lewis machine to organize West Vir- ginia, Kentucky and Tennessee and sections of Western Pennsylvania has allowed the operators to cut wages in these territories and to flood thr market with cheaply mined coal to break our strike and disrupt the union. Against the militant miners who pointed out the dangers which the union faced and who urged the union to adopt a fighting program, Presi- dent Lewis carried on an open war. Hundreds of loyal members and whole locals and districts in Nova Scotia, Fansas, Alberta, Anthracite, Illinois, j ote., e been expelled for opposing the judicial policy of the Lewis ma- chine. Democracy in the union has be- come merely a memory. Le is rules vention, steam-rolled the rank and file delegates and raised his salary to $12,000 per year. From June to December, 1927, while the striking miners were starving on a dollar or two a week relief money, Lewis drew $11,093.66 for salary and personal ex- penses. The salaries of Murray and Kennedy were also raised to $9,000. The Lewis machine has never been elected. It stole the election from he Howat forces in 1920, from Voy- sey in 1924, and from the Brophy “Save the Union” slate in 1926. It does not represent the choice or will ef the membership. Lewis refused to enforce-the Jack- sonville agreement during the life of the contract. The operators were al- lowed to do as they pleased. system- atically hreaking up the union and robbing the miners of hard-won con- ditions, by cutting wages, by refusing to pav for all kinds of dead work, by cutting the yardage rates, by re- fusing 10 pay for the setting up of timber and bailing of water, by plac- ing two or three miners in one room, ete. Lewis for Separate Pacts. Before the strike began, April 1, 1927, Lewis offered to sign separate district agreements and thus to wipe eut the policy of the Central Compe- titive Field agreement which our union fought for years to get and maintain. For almost six months after the strike was called the Lewis machine did nothing to organize strike relief. The failure of the union officials to organize mass picketing and mass viclation of the injunctions was a be- trayal of the strike. The Fagans, Halls, ete., did nothing to win the strike. They systematically suppres- sed all militancy in the strike. They preached reliance on the A. F. of L. fficials’ conferences of reactionaries on appeals to Coolidge, Fisher anc Pinchot and to empty senate investi- gations, Lewis and Fishwick of District 12 betrayed the strike by signing a sep- arate agercement for Illinois, they de- serted the Pennsylvania and Ohio miners and took the pressure off the Vilinois operators during the winter. They put over an arbitration and speed-up agreement for District 12. Now the operators in TMlinois, strengthened by Lewis’ policies, are insisting upon $1.50 wage cut and a decrease of 24c¢ in the tonnage rates. They are out to break up the union. 40,000 Illinois miners are unemplo: while the operators install labor placing machinery without a wage differential, and Lewis and Fishwick are cooperating with them in this The same separate agreement policy followed in Indiana. In the anthracite the arbitration agreement signed by the Lewis-Cap- pelini machine in 1925, together with the joint action of the operators, the contractors and the tri-district offi- cials, is wrecking the union. 70,00° anthracite miners are jobless or work- ing one or two days per week. Militants Shot Down, The operators are allowed to vio- late the contract at will. Wage rates are heing reduced in many ways. Grievances are not adjusted by the district machines. The contractor sys- tem is hrowing thousands of miners, MEDICAL AID FOR? ‘SANDINO PLANNED | (Continued oi Page One) o the Hands-Off-Nicaragua. At) every meeting called, for no maiter| what purpose, collections shculd be taken up for the Sandino Medical Supply Fund. “All money collected will be sent to the Hands-Off-Nicaragua Commit- tee at Mexico City, the treasurer of which is Prof. Rafael Ramos Podrue, za. The committee in Mexico is work- ing in close cooperation with the! Nicaraguan Red Cross and in turn} makes its shipments through Mr. Froylan Turcios, the accredited repre- sentative of General Sandino. “In Mexico City and Salvador a campaign for funds has been carried on for some time and now the cam- paign is spreading thruout all America.” KOSSUTH STATUE PLANS EXPOSED; THE? rank and file leaders who fight for an honest and militant union are shot down by Cappelini gunmen as were Thomas Lillis, Samuel Grecco and Alex Campbell and Pete Reilly. Mili- tant miners are framed up as in the case of Sam Bonita. It is the same frame-up system that was used against Corbishley and the other Zeigler, Illinois miners who are now in jail. Loading machinery adds to the un- employment. Thru the Anthracite Boosters’ Association, the district of- ficials join with the operators and business men to “lower the cost of anthracite”—-which means in reality to reduce wages, speed up the miners and worsen working conditions. The union in the entbracite- is in great danger. It is being betrayed into the hands of the operators by the Lewis-Cappelini-Golden-Kennedy machine. In the southwestern districts and in Canada the reactionary policies of Lewis have wrecked the union. Union Fighting for Life. For ten years under the Lewis ad- ministration the union has steadily grown weaker, until now it is fight- ing for its very life. The weakening of the miners’ union precipitates a crisis in the whole trade union movement. En- couraged by success in the coal in- dustry the open shop employers are intensifying their drive against all sections of the labor movement. Lewis attempts to explain away the breakdown of our organization on the ground of overproduction in the industry, the use’ of substitutes fo~ coal, ¢te. ‘But this false claim will not permit the Lewis machine to hide the disastrous effects of its policies and eseape responsibility. With an aggressive policy for shortér hours, and for the organization of the unor- ganized, the union could have been built up and conditions in the mines improved despite the so-called over- production. Miners, the Time Has Come for Action! The “Save the Union Committee” calls upon all members of the United Mine Workers and the miners in the unorganized districts to unite to smash the conspiracy against the miners’ union and living and working conditions in the mining industry. Strike Must Be Won. The miners must unite. The strike can and must be won. We must mo- hilize cur full forces to spread the strike and to beat back the open shop attacks of the employers. The Lewis machine and its ruinous policies must go. Miners, take con- trol of the local unions! Take the union into your cwn hands! Pennsylvania and Ohio Miners: Mold fast in your brave fight! Mass vicketing and mass violation of in- junctions are absolutely necessary for winning the strike. The National “Save the Union” Conference will build ap the atmost possible support to your heroic battle. Miners of Ilinois, Indiana, Kansas and the Southwest: You have been double-crossed by the Lewis policy of separate agreements., The operators have used this Lewis policy to weaken the Pennsylvania-Ohio strike, to crip- ne iene own district organisation @like a czar. He packed the last con-?out of work. Local union officials andgand to worsen your working condi- tions, Strike April First! Insist upon a national settlement. Miners of the Hard-coal District- The Lewis-Cappelini-Golden-Kennedy machine has sacrificed your interests by the arbitration and speed-up agreements, by the contractor sys- tem, and the terrcristic regime in the union. Its grip on the union must be broken. Your interests are one with the interests of the bituminous min- ers. Miners of the Unorganized Dis- tricts: Time and again you have been betrayed in the worst way by the Lewis machine. We know that you want to organize and to establish union conditions. The Colorado strike demonstrated that. The National “Save the Union” Conference will lay the basis to organize the unorganized districts. Program of Action. The National “Save the Union” Conference will take definite steps: 1. To unite ihe honest elements in the mining industry against the coal operators and the corrupt Lewis machine. 2. To mobilize the full forces of the miners—organized and unorgan- jzed—to win the Pennsylvania and Ohio strike. 8. To organize the great masses of unorganized miners and: to weld them into one powerful union. 4. To advance the general prot gram of the “Save the Union” Com- mittee: for a six-hour day and five- day week, for nationalization of the miners, for a. labor party, for state insurance and relief of unemploy- repent and for equal division of work, a national agreement for all coal min- ers, against arbitration and speed-up ngreements, no wage cuts, for the Jacksonville scale, for an honest and aggressive leadership, the re-estab- lishment of democracy in the union and abolition of company control. Miners! Lewis and his whole ma- chine must go! Take control of the union! Win the Pennsylvania and Ohio strike! Organize the unorgan- jzed! Build the union! Save the union from the reactionary official- dom and the coal operators! Miners Everywhere: Come to the National Conference of the “Save the Union Committee.” If your local union does not elect delegates, then form groups to send representatives. Disregard all intimidation and ignore all rumors of postponement of the conference. The National “Save the Union” Conference will put a halt to the of- fensive of the operators and will mark the beginning of a new period of growth and success for the miners’ union. Send all credentials to Room 405, 426 Federal St., Pittsburgh, Pa., and also requests for further informa- tion. For the Save the Union Committee, John Brophy. Pat Toohey. Powers Hapgopd. 526 Federal $t., N. S., Pittstjurgh. Alex Campbell and Peter Reilly, of Pittston, Pa., leaders of the anti-Cappelini-Lewis movement, are the two latest victims of the Cappelini gunmen. Both were shot and killed from ambush while on their way home from a conference HORTHY DELEGATION SAILS FOR N. Y. (Continued from Page One) ee leaders, Szanto, Vagy, and and of thousands of other | Hanpaetat workers. Geller!’ exposed the fake amnesty by Horthy last week of 1000 “poli- tical prisoners,” whom, he said, were ny ‘not political prisoners, but ordinary criminals. Hays and Baldwin spoke on the complete repression of civil liberties under Horthy’s dictatorship. * * * 500 Embark, BUDAPEST, March 4.—-Over 500 representatives of the bloody Horthy government today left Budapest for | the. unveiling of a Kossuth monu- ment on Riverside Drive, New York, March 15. In the delegation are such enemies of the workers in Hungary as Baron Perenyi, wealthy landowner, Count Paul Bethlem and many officials of the fascist Horthy government. All are notorious for their brutal treat- ment of the Hungarian workers. Fiven the social democratic pariy of Hungary, which has closely cooper- ated in the excesses. of the Horthy UNION 10 HOLD STRIKE MEETING government, has refused to take part in this the monumental farce, and) yesterday announced that none of its members would accompany the del-. ogation, The delegete will charter palatial accommodations on the oceanic voy- age, at the country’s expense, while hundreds of thousands of Hungari- an workers are on the verge of, starvation, Firemen Burned PERTH AMBOY, N.J.,March 4.-~ A large part of the Ford. Porcelain Works. was destroyed yesterday by fire. Two firemen were injured, one of them seriously. Many workers were made jobless by the fire. the The Architectural Iron and Bronze Workers Union is calling a meeting of all the shop chairmen and active members for Tuesday evening, where question of the packer Iron Works and Varman Iron Works strikes will be considered and plans for further activities will be made. The meeting will be held at the of- fice of the union, 7 E. 15th st. at 8 p.m, The Packer Iron Works was a union shop for a long time, but re- L¢ently discharged its union men and hired non-union men, at the same time increasing the hours from 44 to 48 and reducing the wages from $40 to $30 a week. A strike was de- clared several days ago. ‘Che Var men Iron Works strike is several weeks old. The next to last picture shows the two heads of the gunnery department of They have charge of teaching the sailors how to shoot down workers of other nations, At the extreme right is S. Forry Laucks, millionaire manufacturer of York, Pa., who is being sued on charges of assault by Ingebord Wistedt, a New York girl. Progressives Issue Conference Call to 800,000 U. S. Coal Miners February 28, 1928. Campbell was former International Executive Board member of District No. 1, and long an outstanding leader of the “Save the Union” forces in the Pittston district. Reilly, a young miner, was secretary of the “Save the Union” Pittston Committee in the 1926 election. The murder of Campbell and Reilly, preceded by the murder of Tom Lillis. progressive miner, and the attempted assassination of Sam Greco, grievance committee- man, lieutenant of Campbell, makes good the threat of the gun- men that they would “get” both. Greco was ambushed a week ago while on his way home with his wife and the gunmen fired five bullets into his head. He still lives. Greco called Campbell to his bed- side and said, “You are the next, my friend, watch out.” The campaign of murder insti- tuted by the Cappelini machine to maintain power, which has now resulted in the murder of three loyal fighters and the attempted assassination of a fourth, demon- strates beyond the power of words to describe the desperation of the reactionary murderous gang. The rank and file are in open rebellion. Net even murder of their leaders will deter the rank and file. The ery of “Lewis-Cappelini Must Go” is ringing thruout the anthracite. The “Save the Union Commit- tee” calls upon its supporters na- tionally to hold memorial meetings for our fallen fighters. Let us mo- bilize the miners of America to oust the reactionary gang whose best weapon is the gun in the dark ‘ Z 3 Com At the “Fundamentals .of Communism” again promises to lead all other so- cial science subjects given at the Workers School, 108 E. 14th St. in the number .of registrations, it was announced yesterday. A class in Fundamentals of Com- munism is being given on each of the following days: Tuesdays at 8.80, Harry Fox in- structor; Wednesdays at 7 p. m., Eve Dorf instructor; Thursdays at 7 p. m., Ella G. Wolfe instructor. It is anticipated that it will be nec- essary to form a fourth class shortly. ism Classes orkers School NEW EMBLEM AGAINST WAR A brawny fist striking at a two- headed serpent which is twined about two bayoneted guns to make a dollar sign, is the new emblem of the All- 4merica Anti-Imperialist League which is being issued today in the form of bu'tons which will be sold at meet- ings for ten cents apiece. The design set in a white triangle on a red ground, YORK PLEDGES AID IN “DAILY” FIGHT $1,500 to Be Donated for Defense (Continued from Page One) \defending The “DAILY,” the repre- sentatives of the Section outlined the { campaign by which they are raising $1,500 for the defense of their paper within the next few days, “Last summer when The DAILY WORKER issued an urgent call for funds,” the communication states, “Section 2 showed its Party loyalty and its thoro estimation of the impor- tance of The DAILY WORKER by quickly raising $1,500. “And this was accomplished,” the communication states, “in spite of the fact that most of the members of Section 2 are needle trades workers and unemployment in the needle trades was great at that time.” “Let us keep clearly before the working class the duty which Charles E. Ruthenberg left as his last bequest to the militant American workers, the task of defending The DAILY WORKER against all attacks,” the statement of Section 2 concludes. 15 MINE RELIEF WORKERS JAILED W.LR. Is Given $500 for Relief Kitchen Fifteen workers were arrested over the week end in New York for participating in the miners’ relief campaign conducted by the Pennsyl- vania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Commit- tee, it was learned last night. Three will. be tried: Thursday. The other 12 were found: guilty of violating a city ordinance. Sentences were suspend- ed. Thousands of volunteer workers were still collecting funds at a late hour last night, making it impossible to estimate the amount collected, ac- cording to Fanny Rudd, secretary of the committee. A statement’ will be issued during the week, she added, which will give the figures on the amount of money contributed by New York Workers to the relief Among those arrested were a mem- ber of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League and a child. The latter will be arraigned in Children’s Court. The International Labor De- ense is defending the arrested work- ers. W. I. R. To Open Kitchen. An anonymous donation of $500 has been received by the Workers’ International Relief, 1 Union Square, for opening a food kitchen for the children of the striking miners in Pennsylvania, the organization an- nounced yesterday. A kitchen will be opened in Pittsburgh within 10 days, according to Marion Emerson, as- sis‘ant secretary of the Workers’ In- ternational Relief. It is planned to feed the children twice a day. After the kitchen has been fully established branches will be opened in the outlying districts. Games will also be arranged for the children, “Though the $500 donation will be sufficient for starting the kitchen,” Miss Emerson said, “additional funds are neded to maintain it and open the branch kitchens. The children of the striking miners have been the greatest sufferers in the present strike and have endured untold priva- tions.” SPORTS IN BRIEF Hold Labor Athletic Exhibition March 25 The Labor Sports Union will hold its first indoor sports and athletic exhibition March 25 at the Finnish Progressive Center, 16 W. 125th St., it was announced yesterday. The program will include basket- ball, ‘wrestling, broad-jump, high- jump, group calosthenics as well as pyramid work and soccer. Among ‘the sport organizations which are expected to participate in the exhibition are Finnish athletic clubs, Workers’ Athletic and Sports, Alliance, United Workers Coopera-. tive Gym Club and the Metropolitan Workers Soccer League. The proceeds of the affair will be divided between the local sport union and striking miners. Jack Rubenstein, 1040 Ward Ave., ‘the Bronx, is secretary of the sports union ‘here. * * i SOCCER RESULTS. The Red Star Sport Club Team A and the New York Eagles played a 1-1 tie yesterday at Crotona Park in a regular game of the Metropolitan Workers’ Soccer League. ° The Red Star Sport Club, Team B defeated the Blue Star team by score of 4-0 at Jefferson Field, Brooklyn, The Claremonts beat the Rangers by the score of 9 to 2 at the City College Field. -_ 8 8 . NOTES. Lou Moskowitz, Bronx feather. weight favorite had his string of vie~ tories rudely broken Saturday night when he was knocked out in the first round of a ten-round bout at the Olympia A. C. by Pete Zivic, veter- an Pittsburgh fighter. By his ‘vietory over the Bronx boy, Pete revenged the recent defeat of his stablemate Allantown Johnny Leonard at the hands of Lou. (five on a -—* * © Eddie Cannon Ball Martin, ex- bantamweight champion will meet Johhny Huber in a six-round bout at the St. Nicholas Arena, tonight. Five sixes and a four-rounder com- prise the card. N . ' Starting oft three months ago with only 21 teams, the Metropolitan Workers’ Soccer League which is af- filiated with the Labor Sports Union has now grown to include 32 teams. Between 10 and 12 games are played in the. public parks of New York every Sund: ore J. Bowfled is uo man and Emil Austin secretary of ithe organization.