The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 6, 1928, Page 1

ny ww “Take Union Into Your Own Hands!” m+ AM Call Stirs U.S. Coal Miners THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGA TION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY THE DAILY WORKER. Entered ay second-class macter at tie Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITIO Vol. V. No. 55. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside ‘New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1928 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents “VOTE STRIKE” WORD GOES OUT TO TRACTION MEN SAVE - THE - UNION COMMITTEE GIVES HOPE TO MINERS Expect Big Response to Conference Call PITTSBURGH, March 5. — Sup- plementing the call yesterday to 80,- 000 organized and unorganized min- ers for a conference to be held here April 1, the “Save-The-Union Com- mittee” today declared that the stop- ping of union meetings and the ar- rest of progressive miners in Pitts- ton, emphasized the importance of the April 1 call to action. “The Save-The-Union Committee,” it was announced, which already has the support of the great bulk of the miners, will not be intimidated in its work or deterred in its efforts to con- tinue the mobilization of all miners for the task of defeating the attack of the coal operators and for the com- plete smash-up of the Lewis-Cappel- | ini-Kennedy machine. Will Hold Meetings. “The Save-he-Union” Committee will find ways of holding meetings in the future to organize the miners be- hind the progressive drive. Means | will be found of rescuing the union and preserving the lives of the honest and courageous progressive leaders. Big Conference Called. “All eyes towards the April 1 Pitts- | burgh conference! Miners, take con- | trol of your union! Win the Penn- sylvania and Ohio strike! Organ- ize the unorganized! Build the union! Oust the treacherous labor officials! | Lewis and his whole machine must gol” i The “Save-The-Union” call yester- | day was a summons sent out by all local unions and members of the United Mine Workers of America and the miners of the unorganized dis- tricts and was signed by John Bro- phy, Pat Toohey and Powers Hap-| good. ‘the conference called for Pitis- | burgh according to ali indications will mark one of the most important events in the history of the labor movement since the world war. It may likewise mark the beginning of | a completely new trend in the devel- | opment of the workers’ struggles, | BROACH WARNED 2 Working Women Die When Fire Sweeps Home A fire which gutted the inside of the Working Women’s Home in Chicago, resulted in the death of two aged working women who Mrs. Catherine Swan (inset), 75 years old, was one of a score who narrowly escaped death. lived in the home. Elect Many Deputies i ficial DESPITE WHITE TERROR TACTICS BIG. VOTE POLLED Industrial Centers WARSAW, Mar. 5.—Altho the of- election returns will not be | n | (Aid Ni | | caracuans Shat bv Marines of U.S. made public until Wednesday the na- | | tional balloting for elections to the | Sejm (parliament) indicated a gen- | eral swing to the left on the part of | Polish workers and peasants. | Preliminary returns gave Com-| munists six seats, while more than | twenty radical peasant candidates, | supported by the Polish Communist | Party, were elected. There were on- | ly two Communists in the last Sejm. | The Conservative National Demo- | cratic Party only succeeded in elect- ing 29 candidates. There were more than a hundred members of the party | in the last Sejm. | The socialist party is reported to have lost heavily in the large indus- trial centers, where the Communists made their largest gains. $5) e # | | . | WARSAW, March 5.—In spite of | LABOR PRISONERS TO BENEFIT BY BAZAAR Not even a traction strike will prevent the militant workers of New the wholesale arrest of Communist | leaders, the Communist Party has | made surprising gains in the national ' elections. | With the returns for thirteen of the sixty-four electoral districts, already in, Pilsudski regime has received 26 seats; the Communists, 22; the na- In addition to its campaign exposing the imperialistic in- vasion of Nicaragua for the purpose of safeguarding investments of American capitalists, the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, 89 Union Square, New York has just initiated a movement to ren- der medical assistancé to thé soldiers‘ of Gen. Augusto Sandino’s revolutionary army. Photograph shows three New York young York from expressing their solidarity with the victims of class “justice” throughout the country by attending the annual bazaar of the International Labor Defense, which opens tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock at New Star |Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave. The workers will not ride on the scab-manned trains in the event of a traction strike but they will man- age to get to New Star Casino on foot, by taxi, truck, aeroplane or any other method of conveyance. The bazaar will continue five days, closing Sunday night with a concert by the Brooklyn Art Trio. A Masquerade Ball. Elaborate programs, in charge of the various language groups, have been arranged for each evening, the ' chief event being an international BY PROGRESSIVES Electrical Workers Ask’ Real Program Growing opposition to the arbi- trary and iron hand methods of H. H. Broach, International vice-pres- ident of the Brotherhood of Electric- al Workers, has developed into a mass movement of resentment since Broach’s police beat up several union members who sought admission at the last meeting of Local 3. Indications now point to the fact that unless Broach, self appoin ed “Little Caesar” of the building trades, makes a long step in the direction of permitting rank and fil control in his union and takes up the now widespread demand for real | unemployment relief, he will fin: himself defeated in the local. Even the growing extremes of his terror- istic methods will not save him, it is believed. Attack Policy. Members of the progressive ar openly charging that “Broach has now identified himself with the »ro gram of Matthew Woll, extreme re- actionary in the American Federation of Labor.” This charge was made in particul- ar reference to Broach’s policy of excluding members from the unicr whom he has reason to fear. Of lat it is charged, as conditions in th industry have become worse Broach. like the typical reactionary that h* really is, has been resorting more and more to exclusions, “This is the policy of John L. Lewis and of Matthew Woll,” me» bers of the Progressive Associatio? declare. “Any progressive membcr of the union who will now disagre with the reactionary methods of this little tin god, and who will dare t: criticize him at meetings of Local | will probably first be accused of b« ing Communists and secondly will b expelled from the union. “In fact that is exactly what Broach announced at our last meet- (Continued on Pane Two) — masquerade ball Saturday night. Sat- arday will be Children’s Day, with the Pioneers taking part in the pro- gram. A large number of labor and fra- ternal organizations, representing various nationalities, are cooperating in the bazaar, which has been ar- ranged to raise immediate funds for the important defense work in which the International Labor Defense is now engaged. Defend The “Daily.” The proceeds will be used to de- fend the editors of The DAILY WORKER who are now under fed- eral indictment, the imprisoned cloak- | makers and furriers and the four pa- per box strikers who were arrested | last week, to fight the deportation of A. Kobel, editor of Uus Ilm, Esthon- ian Communist weekly, and to de- |fend militant workers against the at- tacks of the capitalist courts in a number of other cases, A booth at the bazaar will also be conducted by the Workers’ Interna- |tional Relief, 1 Union Square, for the | ‘benefit of the children of the striking | miners. Working class leaders thru- | out the city are urging all class con- | scious workers to rally to the de-} fense of their daily and their com- {rades now under arrest or indictment |by supporting the bazaar to their ut- (most, AGENTS FOR LR.T, Following the lead of the United States war. department and marine corps in utilicting unemployment and the inexperience of many workers, Bowery missions and the Seamen’s | Institute, 25 South St., are acting as strike-breaking agencies for the In- terborough Rapid Transit Co. A worker applied for relief at. the Hadley Rescue Hall 293 Bowery, yesterday. He was told he could get a good job with comfortable shelter and good food at the barracks the In- terhorouch is maintaining for its 2,000 strilsebreakers in the ot general traction strike. Not a Scab. “They're hiring scabs up there,” the worker said. “I’m not a scab.” “Then I can’t do anything for you,” the preacher at the mission answer- ed, the worker reported, -“If-you: won't work we can’t help you." An Interborcugh agent was —per- mitted by the authorities of the 50 ‘slips among the unemployed men gecking shelter there yesterday. -The MEETING SUNDAY HOLD RUTHENBERG | The Ruthenberg memorial meeting will be held Sunday at 1 p. m. at Cen ral Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., under the auspices of! the Workers (Communist) Party. The meeting will protest against) the U. S. marines in Nicaragua, gun- boats in China, the $5,090,000 ap- propriation for ‘he navy and the danger of a new world war. The speakers will be William Z. Fos er, secretary, Trade Union Edu- cational League; Bertram D. Wolfe, director, Workers School; Jack Stat- chel, national organization secretary “|New York District. slips were good for strikebreakers’ | jobs at the scab barracks. he said. Chased By Cops. The group which signed up was) chased by a patrolman who: did not at first know why they had congre- mated on the sidewalk not far from the institute. Recruiting leaflets distributed by the army and marine corps. since the (Continued om Pane Tren) and William: W. Weinstone, organizer Musie will be furnished. by the Freiheit Mandoli: orchestra. tional Democrats, 11; the National minorities, 11; and the Socialist Par- ty, 10. The districts for which returns have come in do not include the large industrial centers where the Commu- nists are expected to make heavy gains. In the recent municipal elec- tions at Warsaw, Lodz and Grodno, the Communists polled huge votes. The Communists are also reported to have made heavy gains in the Dam- browa coal district. The Socialist Party is reported to have lost heavily in large industrial (Contin:ed on Page Three) 3 MORE FIRED DUE TO ARALGAMATED Endorse Communist Pa- per; 5 Lose Employment TORONTO, March 5.—Three more members of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers’ Union here have been thrown from their jobs upon the or- der of th eright wing union officials for refusing to obey an order of the bureaucratic union heads that -they stop circulating and distributing the Canadian Jewish Communist weekly of articles had denounced the union? The paper, in a series | “The Kamp.” officials for betraying the workers’ interests. A mass meeting with an attendance of over 500 members of the union was held here in Alhambra Hall in pro- test against the terroristie methods used by the right wing administration to crush the opposition of the left wingers. The meeting, which was at- tended by more tailors than ever came to a previous meeting, unanimously endorsed the resolution of the left wing to continue the fight against the officialdom. A large collection was also made to provide funds for the carrying on of the fight. activity. women who have volunteered to aid in this phase of the League’s dressed a letter to Gen. Augusto San- dino. The letter was approved by the city council of the League at luncheon at the Civic Club. The letter referred |to a communication of Sandino’s to | Roy A. Johnson, a soldier of fortune | who was reported killed by the San- \dinistas while serving as interpreter for American forces. The luncheon was the first full meeting of the city council of the league, which was appointed at a re- cent conference. A woman’s committee, a physicians’ committee and a trade union commit- |tee were formed to carry on a cam- |paign for funds for the Nicaraguan |Red Cross division of the League. | Mass meetings .were arranged tor Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx |and speakers named to go before all the trade unions and organizations | which were represented at the confer- lence to affiliate them with the league. { Money For Supplies. | A collection was taken for medical |supplies for Sandino and it was’ also |arranged that an endless chain of luncheons be held at which other col- lections will be taken. Every one at- tending a Sandino luncheon will pledge himself to give a luncheon in return. Sandino’s letter to Johnson was read at the luncheon. i ' IRON STRIKE ENDS. The Iron and Bronze Workers Union have signed up the Becker Iron Works, 551 Rockaway. Ave., Brooklyn, it was learned last night. The strike was called on Feb. 29, STAMFORD, DETROIT, HELP “DAILY” pele Tenuate. i Accepting the challenge of District 2, New York City, to equal the sec- tion’s record of loyalty and sacrifice to The DAILY WORKER defense, several districts have rushed dona- ions to the offices of the paper. Stamford, Connecticut has sent $100; Detroit $115, and Camp Nit- gedaiget, of New York Needle Trades lworkers, $45.96, “Tbig ‘is “the thicd eontribution of fense ofcor naper,” savs.p. copumuni- several hundreds of dollars which the Detroi: district has rushed to the lefense of our paper against the at- tacks that its class enemies have made upon it during the past month. Detroi. has proved itself consistently loyal to the legacy of sacrifice for The DAILY WORKER which was left us at his death by our militant leader, Charles FE, Ruthenberg. “This is very little to do for the de- = Camp Nitgedaiget Also Rushes Funds To Save Labor Press men’s Institute to pass out more than | cation accompanying the donation from Stamford, Conn. “Charles bh. tuthenberg, founder of the Workers (Communist) Party, and leader of the militant American working class, whose death we are commemorating this month, left us the defense of The DAILY WORKER as a su- premely important task of our mem- bership. We are making a beginning (Continued. an. Page Two) FUNDS RAISED HERE | FOR SANDINO’S ARMY Congratulating him on his declaration that he will fight to the end to repel the United States marine invasion in Nicaragua, Imperialist League, United States section, 389 Union Square, yesterday ad- the All-America Anti- L. D, TAKES UP MINERICH CASE Joins With Miners Re- lief for Defense With a strengthened battery of at- torneys, and the determination to make a national issue of the fight against the imprisonment in Colum- bus, O., of Anthony Minerich, Penn- sylvania miners’ leader and chairman |of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners Re- | lief Committee, the International La- | bor Defense, in collaboration with the | Relief Committee, is taking immedi- jate steps to appeal the conviction of |Minerich, who, together with seven lother miners, has just been found /guilty of violating a federal injunc- |tion by urging the striking miners to (Continued on Page Two) STRIKEBREAKERS DESERTING MINES Refuse to Be Cheated by Operators SHADYSIDE, Ohio, March 5.— Railroad workers report an exodus of strikebreakers from the Web mine, near here. More than 150 left yes- terday. Saturday was pay day, but when the seabs looked in their en- velones. there was hardly anything left after the company had docked them for groceries and other sup- plies. A boarding house proprietor in- formed the mayor that only a few of the strikebreakers had enough money to pay their board. Fully two-thirds of the men ar- rested here during the past two months were strikebreakers. They are a bawdy lot and have no more exhibit in carving a piece of cheese Big Communist Gains in Polish Elections oP NO MORE TRICK MANEUVERS,” IS WARNING; FIGHT! Workers Expected to Crowd Strike Hall A call for a general traction strike is inevitable if the will of the rank and file of traction workers is car- ried out at tonight’s mass meeting at Harlem Casino, 100 West 116th St. Reliable information has been se- cured that officials of the union will have a “compromise” plan to offer and that they will make a last min- ute effort to secure postponement of action. Such a plan will further play |into the hands of the traction com- panies. The meeting tonight, according to all indications, will bring out several thousand workers. Pressure Grows. The pressure of these workers against their officials for a strike has been growing steadily and if an attempt is made to prevent it, it will surprise no one if the ‘orker) “0 over the heads of their « “Va force action, 1 Two things have become clea ,y4ur- ing the past few days. First, that the Interborough intends to stamp out the union and second that no way is left but strike action. All facts prove that further maneuvers of the union officials in the direction of “peace” can now serve only to pre- pare the Way for certain defeat of the men. That the union officials will not be permitted to go thrbugh such a series of maneuvers as they staged last summer has become certain to those who understand the temper of the men. _ Situation Repeated. Last summer a similar situation existed. The union officials sought to give the impression that a strike was “inevitable.” They issued state- |ment after statement to the papers announcing that “nothing on earth can now prevent a strike vote.” Then jat the last moment they called the strike off with the declaration that “we are willing to take the word of the great mayor of New York that we can now organize the lines of the |traction companies.” They claimed that “the greatest victory in years” {had been won. At the time the workers were \warned by The DAILY WORKER ;that the “victory” was a deception and that as a matter of fact they had been betrayed, The truth of this (Continued on Page Five) PITTSTON MINERS ‘SHUN PEACE PLAN \Will Fight for a Real Settlement (Special to The Daily Worker.) - PITTSTON, Pa., Mar. 5.—Pittston miners at a meeting of Local 1703 ‘oday voted to reject the so-called thirty-day peace offer made them by the Pennsylvania Coal Co., The company working together with the reactionary union officials of District 1, had offered to open up its mines for the re-employment of the miners locked out last December, The move sponsored by the Lewis. Cappelini-Kennedy machine of bes trayal and murder was exposed and rejected by the miners. *. * * Terrorism exists in the anthracite by combination of state police, county and city authorities with the Lewis Cappelini-Kennedy machine, contrac- tors and coal operators in a united front. The meeting yesterday was broken up by a force of state police. Over fifty police of different kinds were present and forcefully prohibited the gathering, arrested about fifteen miners and searched miners as, they were walking through the streets. Over ten thousand miners turned out for the meeting. The crowd milled around for hours before being dis- persed by police. Everyone the police feit like picking up was arrested. The ‘eompunction about slashing one *an- night before Pauline Kozakoff was in this task and we call upon alijother with knives than one would|#rrested for distributing a manifesto (Continued on Page Two) — Ni.