The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 6, 1928, Page 2

5 Over 2,000 scabs have been hired by the I. R. Mayor Walker joined the subway bosses the other day with a ringing denunciation of the union men, w Flames destr ove mee workers’ homes in Lorain, Ohio (neat to last photo). Si bitter ave of es workers. Ts n preparation for a strike of subway workers. Scabs are ae in the photo on the erent left in the L R. T. yards, where they are kept under pci like prisoners. whom he said he would hold responsible for a strike. He is shown in the second picture with Frank Hedley, I. R. T. head Another fire in Peekskili, N. Y. (shown on extreme right) also destroyed workers’ homes. Ravitch to Stimulate Massachusetts Sub Drive in Tour for Daily Worker PLAN 10 BETTER ‘Brand Coolidge Report False; FINE RECORD OF BOSTON DRIVE orcester, to Hear Speaker, Too Every preparation for stimulating the national subscription drive to gain 10,000 more subscribers The DAILY WORKER before n day will be taken by the M setts district during the cow whirlwind lecture teur A. circulation manager of the p: planning thru New England. In spite of the scores of subscrip- tions which have been daily turned in! by Ben Brown, organizer of The| DAILY WORKER subscription drive in the Boston area, every effort will be made to surpass the record rolled up f qthe district during the past few wee} Industrial Distribution Planned. As the first step in the intensifica- tion of the campaign Ravitch will ad- dress a mecting of DAILY WORKER readers and subscribers at 8 P. M. Thursday, at 36 Causeway St., Boston. Outlining the history of the sub- scription campaign and its success to paper, thruout the United States, Ravitch will lay plans for the free distribution of the paper to thousands of workers | in the Massachusetts textile and shoe industrial sections. Clubs Strengthened. Arrangements for the strengthen- ing of The DAILY WORKER build- | ers’ club will be made at the same time. All readers and subscribers are invited to be present to assist in the preparations for the drive. A mass meeting of all workers, subscribers, and readers of The DAILY WORKER will be held in Worcester Friday to hear Ravitch speak on the work of sub collecting. Worcester, a great industrial town, is making every preparation for the occasion. All day a eam of Party functionaries, subscribers and re ers will confer with the circulation manager on the best ways to stimu- late subscription activity in the dis- trict. Conferences Scheduled. Saturday will find Ravitch back in Boston, where he will attend agents at 3 P. M. at 36 On both Saturday and § ing Ravitch will pay personal visits to many of the subscribers. A mass meeting of DAILY WORK- ER readers and subscribers will hear an address by Ravitch in Pro R. I, at 2 p. m. Sunday. A meeting the speaker will pay visits to many of the subscribers in Providence. | SMITH CHECKS CRAFT INQUIRY : A legislative fiveatlgation into the | Queens sewer graft charges against Boro President Connolly, was staved off by Gov. Smith’s appointment of | Clarence J. Shearn to succeed Justice | Scudder in the inquiry, it was said by members of the state legislature yes: | terday. The case had been tied up with red tape so-long that republican legis- lators were anxious to step in, Ac- cording to the legislators, democratic leaders feared the legislative inquiry would not be confined to Queens alone. By the prompt appointment of Shearn and the promise of immediate action it is said Smith hopes to pre- vent legislative interference that might be disastrous to the democratic party. Charges against the police of Free- L. L, accused of protecting John hillips from process severs, will be laid before a Nassau county grand » Phillips is said to have made ions out of his sale of sewer pip- to Queens county. A total of is said to go been graft- aie period of @ few Providence ; Misinformed Committee many 9 wopyep WASHINGTON, March Hour — Hour) million Americans are unemployed, Sen. Robert F. Wagner, of New York, told the senate today in a speech ask-| ing for adoption of his resolution call-| m the secretary of labor to make} y of unemployment, g¢ fa d country in his last message, h declared that “wages are at a high range and employment is Wagner declared one in every ten men was unemployed. Survey Ordered. t a two-hour debate over labor ons throughout the vent senate adopted the resolution. | the charged President Coolidge} information to con-| (alten on the department of labor for ja naticnal survey of unemployment. |The secretary of labor is instructed to investigate “unemployment and part-time employment,” report the facts to the senate and suggest means of getting regular reports on employ- ment conditions. senators to attack the administra- tion’s claims of prosperity in a bid presidential campaign. Reports received here show that in New York state where hundreds of thousands are unemployed nothing has been done by Gov. Al Smith’s democratic party administration to relieve the growing hardshi PITTSTON MINERS /GUGGENHEIM CANS « SHUN PEACE PLAN | Continued from Page One) against the Ceppent contractor ma- chine. Over a dozen local unions have already called for the resignation of the Cappelini murder machine. One "general grievance committee of the! Cannclin Smith, president of the An-/reported that over 20 miners joined | Glen Alden Coal Co. collieries at a glo-Chilean Consolidated Nitrate Cor-| the Party in the last woek. In the: meeting Saturday also demanded the immediate resignation of Cappelini. Ey WILKES-BARRE, Pa, March 5.— Greater sacrifices and redoubled ef- forts on the part of the workers are the results here of the attempts by the local police and city officials to drive back the march of the rising progressive miners’ movement. The break-up by the local police and city authorities of the meeting at the Armory Hall today at which over ten thousand miners came together to discuss the program of the tri-district Save the Union Committee and the} defense of Bonita, Moleski, and Men- dola, and the arresting of Powers Hapgood and his wife, Peter Gallia, Licova and other miners leaves no doubt in the minds of the wotlk CHILEAN WORKERS SANTIAGO, Chile, le, March 5.—Ten thousand Chile workers will lose their jobs when the new Guggenheim ‘ni- trate plant at Tocopilla is completed, according to an interview with E. A. | poration which operates the plant, in the “El Mercurio.” The introduction of new processe will cut the number of workers em ployed in the plants from 12,000 t< 2,000. that the authorities are in alliance with the Lewis-Cappellini-Contractor- Coal-Operators machine, Suspicion on the part of the min-| ers is thus doubly aroused by the | failure to round up the murderers of Alex Campbell, Peter Reilly, and Tom # Li by the hired gunmen of the ppelini murder machine. The min- ers observe that the authorities are doing everything possible to throtile expression and are making very lit- | tle effort to round up the murderers of ty miners’ leader's. BOWERY MISSIO INS ACT AS. SCAB AG FOR LR.T.; JOBLESS ORGANIZE FOR AC ION | (Continued from Page One) winter set in have been playing -on the need of unemployed workers for food and shelter to recruit soldiers to *| protect or extend Wall Street’s pro- ~ | perties abroad. Meet at Union Square. “Do not be driven into the army as a result of hunger and coid—fight for effective relief!” This is one of the slogans to be ra at a monster mass meeting of unemployed work- ers to be held Saturday at 2 p. m. {in Union Square, under the auspices of the New York Council of the Un- employed. Other slogans re “Demand fond Lene ped ” and “Demand Work £4 Members of trade unions, Mie Workers (Communist) Party, the New York Council of the | Unemployed and the Youth Commit- | tee of the Council will speak Urge Organization. This meeting comes at the end of a | week of meetings called by the New York Council of the Unemployed to | emph size upon the unemnlored the great need for proper organization, At a meeting in Union Square yes lterday the speakers Murray Sasanoff, chairman, Harry Yaras, of the Youth Committee, John Di Santo secretary of the Council, Tom Flem- ing, Roy Stephens and Gaorce Saul Two meetings are being held ot 2 p. m. today. one at the Seamen’s C'ub, were 28 South St., for unemployed seamen, | and thé other at 101 West 27th St., for the vunempleved néed'e trades workers. The Women’s Committee |of the New York Council of the Un- ; employed is calling a meeting of un- ,employed :vomen of all trades for 2 p. m. tomorrow at 101 West 27th St. Another meeting tomorrow will be held at 8 p. m. at 1472 Boston Road | for Bronx workers, ° Conference Saturday, Afier weeks of “investigations” and conferences on unemployment called by -politicians, churchmen and o the workers themselves a conference thru the “Council of the Unemploy- New Yor ed. At this conference, to be held Saturday, March 17, 2 p. m., at Web- ster Hall, 119 East 11th St., delegates from trade unions and other labor | organizations will be present. Prac- | tically all of the organized unem- iployed workers will be represented there. Fraterna: organizations are also urged to send delegates without fail. Charities Fail. “Charity” organization in reports just issued have admitted they are unable to afford adequate relief to the unemployed workers. The Char- ity Organization Society, in its an- nual report, stated that more applica- ons for aid had been received by it the last year than in any previous year during its 45 years of existence. It reports itself unable to take care of the major part of those seeking | relief, due to the severe unemploy- nent situation in New York City. Several other organizations have been forced by the huge and daily increasing number of unemployed who crowd their doors to request Mayor Walker td start public work at once. W. I. R. Kitchens. The Council of Chelsea Agencies, representing many “charitable” or- tricts on the West Side near the Hud- son, yesterday called on Mayor Walk- |er to “enter the situation.” The Hud- son House wrote the mayor asking | him to start work on parks at once. Meanwhile the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief will open food, kitchens for the unemployed workers Thurs- day. Three kitchens will be opened, one at the headquarters of the New York Council of the Unemployed, 60 St. Marks Place, and the others in Harlem and Williamsburg, at points not yet announced, The resolution provoked democratic | for labor support in the forthcoming © ganizations in the working-class dis- | CAMPAIGN BRINGS COMMUNISTP ARTY Lenin-RuthenberoDrive Increases Membership “rom many sections of the coun- try have come reports in the last few that workers are joining the Workers (Communist) Party in the; Lenin-Ruthenhore Drive that the | Party is conducting at the present | time.” savs a communication received from Jack Stachel, national organiza: | of the Workers (Com- Party. “That the Lenin- | Ruthenherg Drive is heine carried out | = laid down by the Central Execu- | Committee of the Workers (Com- | ) ea, emitine ton secre yuniet) namely that our re-} he enrried on the basis of the Party activity in the strurele of the masses may be seen from the sections that have best responded, it | jis those centers where the Party is} most actively engaged in the strug- igle,” the communication states. H Enter Party. “In the anthracite, the heart of the Capnelini murder machine rule, it is face of the terrorism that exists in} the anthracite from the side of the Cannelini machine and also from the state and county authorities. that so many workers are joi ing the Work- ers (Communist) Party is the best indication that the miners are deter- mined to carry on a militant strugele to save-their union and that they will follow the leadership of the Workers {Commnnist) Party and the left wing. | From Pittsburgh, the center of the miners’ strike, come reports of many ners joining the Party and con- nt reauests to the district office from miners who are on strike and apxions to receive The DAILY WORKER free until such time as they can pay for it, ‘From the Colorado district where ke .was recently eallod off by *ha:T. W. W. leadership on the same hasis as the bureeuerats use. on the mere promise of arbitration, it is re- verted that a number of new units! of the Wi s (Communist) Party were ed in both sections i where tho miners are members of the U. M. W. of A. and amone the Colo- vedo miners who have shown such militency and must not be Hamad | for the mislenderchin of the 1 W. W. “Prom Now Exeland the |Party fs nt the prasant time onenecd [in avmoniving roststance to the wage jeuts that have already offactod more lihen 199.099 leat that in orean where workers comes the re- the iene week @ new in. New Re ator ond that a of shoe workers is being formed in Haverhill. Mid-western Workers Join. “From Ohio a renort states that many miners are joining the Party and that the nunther of regular read- ers of Tho DAILY WORKER is con- |stently increasing. Cleveland also re- ports that, thanks to its activity among the unemployed, 19 unem- ployed workers joined the Party. | “From the Tllinois district comes the report that 60 new members join- jed in the last month, among them manv minors of South Illinois, “In the Connecticut district many members have joined and one mem- ber who snént a week-end securing subs for The DAILY WORKER has succeeded in getting over 110 new subseribers. Many of these new sub- seribers have also joined the Party. “The above reports indicate a de- jcided growth of the influence of the Party and of The DAILY WORKER. They chow that the workers recor- inize the Workers (Communist) Party jas the lender of the strureles of the masses. This shows that there are great opportunities for strongthening our Party and inereasine the influ- ence of The DAILY WORKER. “The Lenin Rutkenberg Drive has hoen extended until May 1. We have made much progress but we are still far from the goal of 5,000 new mem- bers and 10,000 new readers. We have nearly two months to do the Jiob. Let’s do it.” , may ponder over: He may expel ten, | fifteen, or even a hundred members, \Minerich Case Taken Up by International Labor Defense (Continued from Page One) engage in mass picketing. This was declared today at the national office of International Labor Defense, 80°E. 11 St. | ‘The eight miners were sentenced by | Judge Benson N. Hough, one of the; infamous strike injunction judges, who gave Minerich 45 days in the Muskingum County jail. Alex Fel-! zan, Andy Lidarik, Steve Vohanck, Louis Mozi, Joe Kuri and John Oboza were given 80 days, and John Karlich, 18, was given five days because of his lyouth. Minerich was arrested for speaking at a mass meeting in Lan- sing, Ohio, and held on $1,000 bail. Following the conviction, the Inter- national Labor Defense, cooperating with the Pennsylvania-Ohio Relief Committee retained the well-known jattorney, Joseph Sharts of Dayton, Ohio, who will work together with the attorney for the defense in the trial, Mrs. Dora Sande Bachman, of Colum- bus, Ohio. The court would permit |Mrs. Bachman to defend only Miner- jich and not his seven co-defendants. | The Minerich case will be raised it| |mecessary into a national issue, ac- cording to the International ‘ Labor |Defense. Minerich maintained in ‘court the militant position he had ad- vocated at the mass meeting, that the injunctions to prevent picketing should be defied in m&ss by the strik- ing miners so that the strike would be ! effective and successful. Workers Will Fight The injunction menace, particularly in the present coal strike, has aroused the anger and opposition of hundreds of thousands of workers who are ready to carry on a concerted fight against this vicious anti-labor weapon used by the employers with the aid of their kept courts and judges. Min- erich pointed out that despite the. fact that the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor was not doing anything concretely to fight the in- junction danger, Gompers had once declared’ himself violently opposed to the injunction and in favor of its | violation. Minerich had merely trans- formed these words into deeds by urging the miners to defeat the in- junction by violating it in mass. The appeal of the Minerich cage, it is. pointed out, becomes important | particularly in view of the fact that it bears the character of a test made in the heat of struggle of the validity and power of the anti-labor injunction and the attitude of the labor move- ment toward it i it in the future. BROACH, ‘LITTLE CAESAR’ OF ELECTRICAL |UNION IS WARNED BY THE MEMBERSHIP (Continued from Page vne} ing. He did not tell the members that this method is the typical one used by all reactionaries who are preparing to betray the workers to the bosses; nor did he say that the charge of Communistmr will be made in all cases when it suits his pur- poses, Cannot Expel Membership. “But here is something Broach but he cannot expel the entire mem- bership. This will be his opposition as the discontent in the local devel- ops. At the last meeting of Local 3 at which Broach as usual took charge, he announced that he had tried to conduct meetings in the democratic and orderly fashion advised him by the Communis!s but that these meth- ods had failed. It is known, however, that Broach has never really at- tempted to introduce such metheds and is merely secking to sidetrack the issues which the members insist that he take up. He stated further that he had re- ceived letters from Communists which he now had in his possession | approving of his policies. This sta‘e-j| ment is branded as a plain deception since no such letters, it is known, have been sent to him. Rap Expenditures. Considerable criticism has been of- fered to Broach’s huge expenditures during the period of serious unem- ployment. Members of the union have not been impressed with his state- ment that the exorbitant expendi- tures if divided among the unem-/| ployed would provide but a dollar rélief for each man. These expendi- tures, it has been. pointed out, prove his indifference to the suffering of the membership, a fact further indi- eated by his continued refusal. to adopt a real unemployment program. Several weeks ago, Broach asked and was granted a vote of $70,000 additional for his “legal” expenses — A short time previously he had bee> voted $50,000. Such sums for whic’ he refuses to give an accounting hay na urally aroused the suspicion o the members. Raise Issue. Considerable suspicion has likewisc been aroused over the optimistic promise made by Broach that rigid conduit would be enforced instead of BX. This claim is now seen to be a sort of fake move to delude the mem- bers. “ Ano'her member of the progressive group in the union condemned espe- cially the exclusion policy of Broach and raised the following issues: “You have succeeded in excluding from the meetings approximately two hundred and fifty members, among whom we find such members 7 Clossy, Rosenthal, Murtha, Smith and others whom we will mention in good time. Some of these are pro- gressive workers who have been ex- cluded because they. have had the courage to take issue with you at meetings on problems’ which con- cerned the members. “When such vital issues come up as the question of the employment of scab workers on subway construc- tion, the question of a Labor Party to protect the workers against the two old parties which are selling them out, an accounting of the year’s activities of, the organization com- mittee which has spent hundreds of thousands of the union’s money, you use your position as an International officer to suppress discussion on these issues? Do you think that we will fail to understand the reason for your acts? Issue Warning. “We wish to warn you Mr. Broach that your exclusion policy, yes, and the expulsion policy which you no doubt plan soon to introduce, will not help you. They will not solve unemployment; they will not answer to the members to the questions of the new agreement; to the stall about BX. Nor will it explain your connec- tion with the power trust lobby which wo may have to talk about at an- other time. “Our demands for the membership are (1) No exclusions of members DETROIT LABOR DONATES FUNDS TO AID “DAILY” Cite Devotion (Continued fron Page-One) other districts in the United States |to show the same devotion to their .dead leader and to the paper whose | defense was one of the centrai pur- pose of his aggressive career as a leader of the American workers.” “As our part in commemorating the anniversary of the death of our dead leader, Charles E. Ruthenberg, we are sending you $45.96,” says a letter accompanying the contribu- tion from Camp Nitgedaiget. “The paper was never in greater danger than it ‘is today. Now is the time for every conscious worker to vally to the deferise of the only Eng- lish militant daily labor paper in the world. Our contribution is only a fraction of the wave of donations from all over the .country beneath wich we must bury the campaign our class foes have launched upon our paper. Let every other group of workers in the United States fol- low the example of Camp Nitge- daiget.” - Rush your contributions to The DAILY WORKER, 33 First St., New York City. SMITH MAY ORDER MRS, KNAPP FREED ALBANY, Mar. 5.—That Mrs. Flor- ence E. S. Knapp, former republican secretary of state, will entirely es- cape prosecution despite the fact that State Commissioner LeBoeuf re- ported that she was guilty of for- gery and grand larceny in the admin- listration of the 1925 census, is con- sidered practically a certainty here. Tomorrow Gov. Smith will confer with Attorney General Ottinger and District Attorney Herrick ‘of Albany |County. The official “reason” to be given for the let-down of Mrs. Knapp; jit is rumored in political circles here, is that Herrick is not obliged to go |thru with the prosecution if he thinks that the “evidence is inadequate.” en | from meetings; (2) Free and open discussion on the floor; (8) No over- time while members are out of work; (4) the five day week at five and one half days’ pay. (5) the organ- | ization of the unorganized and the amalgamation of the building trades anions as a means of. fighting. the growing combinations of the bosses.” SPORTS IN BRIEF NOTES The heavyweight si situation becomes more complicated as time goes along. With the recent Heeney-Delaney bout more or less of a dud, dann 3% a great deal -mnon the fight between Jack Sharkey and John Risko on March 12.) If neither Sharkey or Risko make an impressive showing it will become all he more necessary, for Jack Dempsey to come out of his » “retirement” and Ruw aycacy, fight Gene Tunney for the heavyweight championship. Under the present arrangemen s the winner of the Sharkoy-Risko tus. sle is supposed to meet Heency, the survivor to meet Gene for the title. aon ead in New York state, and ankie Genaro, National Boxing shaun to meet in a ‘bout at the Garden on March 23, The winner will have the undisputed right to bi fly- weight LAlael * * According to a rumor in the le yesterday, Tex Rickard and a Pitts- burgh syndicate will take over the Polo Grounds shortly. Rickard has denied that the rumor is true. He says that he has only taken a year lease on the Polo Grounds for boxing. * * .% Charley (Phil) Rosenberg, former world's champion bantamweight, has been matched for two bouts. The first will be with Harry Scott, At- lantie City Negro at the Olympia A, C. Saturday night One week later he- will meet Pete Zivie who’ knocked out Lou Moskowitz in the first round If the Risko-Sharkey ba tle and the one following it, ere not of a high calibre, the championship fight will not draw the size of a crowd that Tex Rickard is in the habit of find- ing at his slugging parties, Efforts ate AR, made to match|best heavyweight available for, a’ as John Sullivan, Isidore Josephson, y * By Inuy Sehwartz, flyweight champion, , last Saturday. * * * George Godfry, outstanding Negro heavyweight will fight in New York this summer. Humbret Fugazy has received a telegram from. Godfey’s manager instructing him to sign the mateh. ‘Stamford ~ Communists: | a minuets