The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1928, Page 1

Ny) THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-lOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY HE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matier ut the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V. No. 56. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1928 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. ' Price 3 Cents UNION OFFICIALS PREVENT TRACTON STRIKE VOTE Coal I Miners Respond to the “Save-the-Union” Call With h Mass Picketing WOMEN, CHILDREN ANSWERING “SAVE THE UNION” PLEA The Committee-Predicts Certain Victory PITTSBURGH. March 6. — The call by. the “Save-the-Union Commit- tee” of the miners, for a national progressive conference to be held here on April 1, comes at a time when mass risings of the rank and file miners are beine witnessed in seores of distri¢ts in the mine fields. Mass Picketing Spreading. Mass vicketing, the “Save-the Union Committee” pointed ont. is do veloping in many parts of the coun- try ard is being led in many ine stances by women and children. “Such spirit after nearly 9 yoar of hitter -struegle and suffering is a warning to the onerators ond the Lewis machine., The stamina ard courage of the miners has not been beaten down as the boss-unian of- ficials combination has sunnosed In the Pittsburgh. districts, Bairdford. in Racoon, ville, Ohio. in a score of other sec- tions and distriets the rising’ nower of the miners assisted by their wives end children is giving expression to the inevitableness of the struggle and the certainty of victory. Pittston Power. “The developments in Pittston where nearly two thousand’ miners have flatly rejected th tranchomns oronosals of ‘peace’ with the Penn- sylvania, Coal Company are of the greatest significance.. In addition there is the tremendous develonment of numbers of focal unions which have alread passed- resolutions de mandine the spreading of the strike, mass picketing and the resiomation of the Lewis-Cappelini-Kennedy ma. chine, “All eyes to the Pittsburgh con- ference April 1! Win the Pennsyl- vania-Ohio strike’ Organize the un- organized fields! The Lewis machine must go!” in in Steuben- * (Special to The Daily Worker.) | RACOON, Pa., March 6. — With) banners bearing slogans urging the} miners to continue the fight to win) the strike, about two thousand men, | women and children marched to the) tipple of the- Shinn Coal Company | mine on March 3 and succeeded in| inducing four of the stri!xebreakers | to come out of the workings. | The strikers and sympathizers got! around the inevitable injunction against trespassing on company} property by securing permission from | a friendly farmer to use an adjacent piece of land for demonstration pur- poses. - * Soviet Union to Build 4 New Machine Shops | The Soviet Union, thru the Orga-| metal Company, a Soviet trust in| charge of machine manufacturinz, has awarded a contract to the Toft- Pierce Manufacturing Company, of Woonsocket, R. I, which annoints them as advisors to the construction of a sewing-machine factory near Moscow. The Orgametal is encineer- ing the building of four machine building plants in the Soviet Union which are to cost $34.000,900, Fo sf teen American manrfacturers — wil! have exhibits of permanent. ener tools at an exhibition to be aie in Moscow in May. “ Report Nicaragua ae MANAGUA, Mar. 6, — The open- ing of the Nicaraguan congress was postponed from yesterday until this afternoon. The chief piece of legis- lation before it is the measure to em- power the United States to paperving the general election. . A rumor that U. S. marines ex- changed shots with guerillas near San Juan de Telpaneca is not con- firmed. LINDBERGH IN WASHINGTON, ‘WASHINGTON, March 6.—Charles dbergh dropped into Washi HORTHY, RAKOSI eyo BETHLEN KILL WORKERS, SEEK MORE FUNDS INU. KEREKES AV ii Si HORTHY tive hundred representatives of the Horthy white guard regime in Hungary are reported en route from Budapest to New York to participate in the un- veiling of a statue of Kossuth, the Hungarian liberator, on Riverside Drive. Among them is Count Bethlen, Hungarian prime minister, shown here at the left. At the extreme right, above, is Horthy, Hungarian regent, head of the government, maintained in the interests of the wealthy land-owners, manufacturers and nobles. Between them are the photographs of four victims of their terrorism. Two of them Rakosi and Weinberger, members of the Hungarian Com- munist Party, are still in prison in Hungary and plots are said to be on foot to kill them before their release. Kervin and Kerekes, also party members, were among those hanged in the reaction of 1919 when an effort was maid in vain to suppress all working class eapression. is here for a continuance of its repressive rule. WORK ERS, PEASANTS | PUSH ON. TO CANTON CANTON, Mar. 6.—An atteck on Canton by well-trained and w drilled worker-peasant troops is feared by the Kuomintang authorities seed Bunnkenedbe cages! revolts in the § TRY JOINT BOARD MEMBERS TODAY Suddenly Call the Cases Delayed Since 1926 The long delayed cases of Elias | Maris, head of the picket committee in the 1926 general strike, and Joseph Goretsky, manager of Local 35 of the New York Joint Board of the Cloak and Dressmakers Union, were suddenly called to trial yester- day and were postponed for. this morning when they will be tried in the Court of General Sessions Par. '4. The workers are facing charges | of assault and conspiracy. Walsh Attorney. Frank P, Walsh appeared for the defendants yesterday and is to as- sume charge of the case thruout the trial which will be held before Judge | Muiqueen. Marks and Goretsky were first in- dicted during the cloakmakers’ gen- eral strike of 1926 in a join. effort by the employers and police to crip- ple the strike-of the workers by ar- resting the leading fighters. In this they were assisted by the right’ wing “Forward” machine which was the most vicious in attacking the left wing leadership of the strike. Held for Months. After being held in prison for many months, together with other active participants in the struggle. who were subsequently sen enced to jail terms, Marks and Goretsky were finally released on bail pending their trial. SUNERICH FICHT AROUSES MINERS COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 6. _with the granting of an appeal to Anthony Minerich, chairman of the Pennsylva- nia-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, convicted of a violation of a federal injunction against mass picketing in the coal strike, the first test of the injunction in the great bituminous struggle has gotten under way. Minerich, who was sentenced to forty-five days in jail last Friday on a charge of having violated the strike- break*..g decree in a speech delivered wansing, Ohio, to a mass meeting } _ ~# striking miners in which he is said | t to have urged the smashing of | the advance of the worker-peasant GET MILD THREAT: = Riyer district, just east f Canton, reported, . oe also. z Seeepii south from Hunan prov- inee, the worker-peasant armies have captured numerous villages. They were reported several weeks ago to > besieging Kweilin, the old capital city of Kwangsi province. Fearing an attack on Canton, the Canton authorities have recalled 25,- 000 troops from Kweilin where they | were rushed in an attempt to stem armies. Altho the government forces cutnumber the worker - peasant| armies, the latter are extremely well- organized and disciplined. Any attack on the city by the ad- vancing trcops would be supported (Continzed on Page Three) CARNIVAL WILL AID PRISONERS _OF GLASS. WAR Unique Programs for} Five-Day Affair Thousands of workers of New York City and environs will gather tonight | at 8 o’clock in New Star Casino, 107th} St, and Park Ave., to attend the open-} ing of the annual bazaar of the In- ternational Labor Defense. The ; bazaar will be opened by Pascal Cos- ; grove, sécretary-organizer of the | Hotel, Restaurant and Food Workers’ Union, who will discuss the work and | the significance of the International | Labor Defense. This will be followed | by a program of dances by Helmi Korknobel, a pupil of Veronine Ves- SEWER GRAFTERS toff, and songs by Lilly Korknobel. Children’s Day. Tomorrow the program will be in harge of Finnish workers. Friday vill be Hungarian and German night | and will be devoted to folk dances, songs, exhibitions and a _ one-act sketch by the Prolet Buchne. A promise that 1 he may attempt criminal action against some of the; politicians and contractors involved — in the $29,500,000 Queens sewer graft | was made yesterday by Emory R.} Buckner, ‘state counsel in the investi-| gation which thus far has made little progress. 1 District Attorney Newcombe of Queens has promised him his ‘“cooper- ; ation,” Butkner stated. As a result of the legal manipula- tions of Max Steuer, high-priced law- ; yer for Maurice Connolly, botitaehs president of Queens, Justice Townsend Scudder was removed as d of the state investigation by a decision of the Court of Appeals. Thus far noboay has gone to jail as a result of the wholesale looting in which state officials and sewer con- tractors collaborated. | STEEL BREAKS WORKER’S ARM. HOBOKEN, N. J., Mar. 6.—George Flohr, 47, a worker in the plant of the Elevator Supply Co. here, sus- tained a fractured arm and dislocation jof the elbow yesterday when a large piece of steel struck him. STARVING, BUT SEND Striking Pennsylvania Miners’ Rush Defend Their Their Paper “From the heart of the striking coaly district. where many of us have been on strike for months, we are sending you all we can afford, $26, for the Defense Fund to save The DAILY WORKER from the attacks ‘the Unied States government injunction, appeared in court this mi with his oats Joseph Dayton and Mi irs. Dora San- is making aptet our paper,” writes) a- group ee workers (| sig! as ao A feature of special interest. will be Children’s Day, Saturday after- noon. The Pioneers will play a prominent part in this program, {which will include special music for the children. Saturday night work- | ers of many nationalities will join in! an international costume ball, the chief event of the bazaar. Prizes will be given for the best and most ori- ginal costumes, Trade Union Night. Sunday evening, the closing night of the bazaar, will be Trade Union night, with a concert by the Brooklyn Art Trio. The finishing touches are now be- ing put on the 30 booths which will be conducted by the various labor and fraternal organizations, representing workers of many nationalities that are cooperating in the bazaar, Ar- ticles of all sorts will be sold. There will be games and entertainment as well as dancing every evening. The annual bazaar is the chief source of funds for the International Labor Defense and the proceeds will pe ured used to defend workers now under -or behind prison bars. $25 seems a large amount ‘to any’ Many of us have been striking since | last spring. Often we wonder where the next meal is coming from. Our wives and our children need food and ee We do nt speak for our- selves, “But there is a stronger ty for us workers than seit and clothing This” held wage increase. us.jdeath of the leader of the militant The Horthy delegation hopes to raise a Raising the slogan, “Smash the Yoke of American Imperialism,” thou MASS DEMAND FOR IMMEDIATE FIGHT IS DISREGARDED | Hedley Turns Down All Union Proposals The overwhelming sentiment of the New York tion workers for an immediate st was overridden last |night when William D. Mahon, pres- ident of the Amalgamated, Union, Jealled off the meeting at “Harlem | Casino at which a strike vote was to |have been taken. Mahon’s action came barely one jhour after Frank Hedley, president jof the Interborough Rapid Transit | Co., turned down every proposal made | by the on. The union official, who | had just returned from a conference with Mayor Walker in whose hands ‘he appears to have turned over the traction organization, announced that consideration of a strike had been postponed until Saturday. It also followed a series of drama- tie events earlier in the day. As was —®| predicted in The DAILY WORKER, RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL AGAINST WALL ST. WAR |the union officials have from the be- inning sought to avoid the inevitable ike action. | Tammany Game. While rank and file opposition to the continued maneuvers with the city fficials had risen to the point of sands who demand independence for the Philippines, Porto Rico, Hawaii, | pen rebellion by the men, the offi- Haiti and Nicaragua t6 Pion ie ae Central Opera House, 87th. St. and | |cials continued to play the game of Third Ave., Sunday nor: memory of the soe, a At i nahe lex, C. E, Ruthenberg. Pointing to Washington reports {that plans are being made to increase the enlisted strength of the United | States marine corps by several thou- sand men, William W. Weinstone, secretary of the New York district of the Wor clared yesterday: “More marines mean more bullets against Gen, San-/ dino and his. Nicaraguan army of in- dependence.” | The First Memorial. At the Sunday meeting the New York labor movement will observe the first anniversary of Ruthenberg’s death. The meeting will mark the (Continued on Page Five) TREASURY BANS SOVIET GOLD WASHINGTON, March 6. — The treasury department today declined to assay the $5,000,000 in Soviet Rus- sian gold which recently arrived in Jew York consigned to the care of |the Chase National Pank. and the Tquitable Trust Company. The re-| fusal followed a-decision of the at- torney general that the treasury de-| partment will not in the future be| permitted to assay Russian gold, un-! der the embargo act of 1920 against he importation of Soviet Gold. The Chase National Bank and the Equit- able Trust Company were informed that they must guarantee title to the gold if the gold were to be assayed. This the banks declined to do, stat- g ‘hey were acting only as agents ‘or the U. S. S, R. The state de- partment, followng the arrival of the told, declared that it would not op- »ose the assaying. ( GERMAN TAILORS ASK RAISE. BERLIN, March 6,—The German eustom tailor workers have demanded from their employers a 25 per cent TO “DAILY” ;American working class, When Charles E, Ruthenberg died he tola us, along wich all the other militant workers, to defend The DAILY WORKER as we would our own JOBLESS SEAMEN DEMAND RELIEF Meet t Today With two more re kiown dead in New York from hunger and exposure as a| result of the widespread unemploy- | ment, about 300 unemployed seamen and dockers applauded the relief de- | mands of the New York Council for the Unemployed at a meeting in the International Seamen’s Club, 28 South St., yesterday afternoon. The speakers were Philip Bart, of the Youth Council of the Unem- ployed; H. Paley, an unemployed war veteran, and Tom Fleming. Two More Die, The two latest deaths were reported | yesterday. John Barry, 76, former} barge captain, died in Bellevue Hos- pital of starvation. He had been un- able to get work for the last few years due largely to his advancing | age. He was removed to the hospital | from his room at 190 Park Row too/ late to save his life. Efforts are continuing to identify a 35-year-old worker who was found | unconscious in the New York Central | /R. R. tunnel north of Grand Central | Terminal. He had crawled into the} tunnel and was found huddling against the steam pipes. He died shortly after being taken to the emer- gency hospital in the terminal, Christopher Grace, weak from starvation, collapsed in the lobby’ of ia lodging house at 189 Park Row. Bart advised the young seamen (Continued on Page Five) INJUNCTION HITS STRIKING BRIVERS JERSEY CITY, N. J., March 6. — The first of what is said to be a ser- ies of drastic injunctions against la- bor unions in this state was granted the John Mullins Furniture Co. of this city today. The chauffeurs and drivers of the Mullins Co. are now on strike for a wage increase. The injunction granted by Vice Chancellor Fielder is directed against Jersey City Local 617 of the Interna- tional Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Helpers, and Stablemen. The Mullens workers, who have been picketing the company, and the union, lives. “Today our paper is surrounded by enemies as never before. The United States pda nk and its are attemp' ~* (Continued on Pope are restrained from “interfering in ‘any way with the Mullins Company.” The company obtained the enjunc- tion on charges that the workers were using intimidation. — — *Tammaiy Hall which is’seeking to | avoi id a strike before election, That the Interborough, for its own | good reasons, is trying to force a ‘strike became evident quite early in the developments. Early in the after- noon this fact was again borne out |by the open challenge made by Hed- jley and Quackenbush to the Amalga- ers (Communist) Party, de- Unemployed 1 Women to! mated to fight it out. In a decision jon the case of the twenty-one men |discharged for their union activities, | the Interborough flatly refused even |to consider the question of their re- instatement. Not only did the com- | pany refuse this demand but it issued a scorning defiance to the Amalga- | mated by the brazen statement that | (Continued on Page Five) EXPOSE AL SMITH AS MISLEADER Communist Statement Attacks State A. F. L. ALBANY, Mar. 6—The New York | State Federation of Labor yesterday gave Gov. Smith its formal endorse- ment for the democratic presidential nomination, The endorsement was signed by John Sullivan, president of the state federation, Clarence F, Con- boy, A. W. Sherman, and Joseph A, Mullaney. so. The endorsement of Gov, Smith by the State Federation of Labor was yesterday assailed as another step in the betrayal of the workers by the reactionary labor officials in a state- ment by William W. Weinstone, or- ganizer of District 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party, The statement follows in full: The endorsement of Gov. Smith by the New York State Federation of Labor is another act of treachery of the Tammany Hall henchmen against the working class. It fs part of the “non-partisan” policy of these misleaders of labor. Capitalist Tool. Al. Smith is a tool of Wall Street and their leading spokesman in the country at the present time for the complete centralization of govern- | ment against the labor movement, This centralization of government of which the four year term ts a part, has meant more injunctions, more police violence, more disrup- (Continued on Page Five) Passaic Strikers Fined PASSAIC, N. J., March 6—The six striking workers of the Nain Cloak Co., who were arrested Friday for picketing were today fined $10 and $15. The workers were among the forty who were locked out by the Nain Co. after they had d ° eee with the Inte: the Ladies’ Garment