The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1928, Page 2

Lr RAVITCH LEADS MINERS MOURN LEADER; COMMERCE FOLLOWS ARMY SOUTHWARD NEGROES BARRED ORGANIZATION OF NEW GROUP Work Is ‘Already Well ¢ Under Way PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. ch 6. — Declaring that The DAILY WORE ER “Builders’ Clubs” are the strong foundation on which we must base the whole future of The DAILY WORKER defense, subscription and circulation activity thruout United States, A. Ravitch, circulation manager of The DAILY WORKE addressed a meeting of agents, b- Beribers and readers of the paper in Philadelphia at the Free Letts Hall, 581 North Seventh St Ravitch Describes Crisis. The large meeting listened while Ravitch outlined the crisis thru whict the only militant English labor daily in the world is now p ng. The speaker drew attention to the cam- paign of reaction which the militari and patriotic associations, agents 0: the Unittd States government, mow carrying on against the work- ers’ press. “Who i working class frustrating tacks?” the speaker asked these organizations of militant work- ers, subscribers to and readers of! The DAILY WORKER who are tak- ing the front rank position in de- fending their paper from the offen- sive which its class fnemies have launched against it.” Ravitch then emphasized the vital importance of establishing a “Build- ers’ Club” in Philadelphia where such an organization had never been formed. He was seconded by diseus- sion arising on the floor and it was decided to proceed at once With the work of creating a strong fighting DAILY WORKER “Builders’ Club” in District 3. . Elect Committee. A temporary committee was elect- ed immediately with Frank Hillman as chairman. The committee will work out concrete organizational plans and later call a further meet- ing for their consideration. March 10 was the date set for the later meeting which will take place in the same hall. Preparations for'publicity to ac- euaint the workers with the forma- tion of the Builders’ Clubs hag been started. The DAILY WORKER De- fense Drive, the Ruthenberg Sus- taining Fund, work for the May Day edition of the paper and a Philadel- phia section meeting set for May 1, in the vanguard of the hese at- “It is have already been decided upon by! wr the committee. Intensive plans for the free distri- | bution of The DAILY WORKER among the thousands of Philadelphia workers is also being pushed by the newly formed ad organization, MINERS HUNGRY BUT AID “DAILY” Strikers Give Last Cent for * Paper (Continued i from. Page One) movement and strangle our DAILY WORKER. We will never permit them to do this. “We are only carrying out the in-j; structions that were left us by Charles E. Ruthenberg, not only as} his dying request, but from the ex- ample of the bes: part of his life rallying every cent we can possi spare to defend the paper which de- fends us against our capitalist en- emies. Their DAILY WORKER. “Here in Pittsburgh and in all the mining region for miles around there is such suffering and desti.ution as you never saw and we have seldom seen before. The children go hungry and in rags. We have no food and wo clothes. Of course, the Miners Relief is doing a great deal to help us but we can’t expect them to do everything. liverywhere ihe Coal and Iron police beat up the miners, break up the meetings, club us, jail! us, help the bosses starve and crush us. Only The DAILY WORKER and the Workers Party aids us in our terrible struggle. _ “We have almost no money. But so long as we have a cent it shall go “to defend the paper that defends us and is threatened, too, now by the “same enemies who are trying to WORKER alone. crush us. “But we couldn’t save The DAILY We beg all the tant workers everywhere in the Inited States to come, like us, to the fense of their paper and give, as we are giving, all that they have to ey _ save The DAILY WORKER. Let us a working class demonstration our capitalist oppressors. live The DAILY WORKER.” above is only one of many re- ceived daily at the office of The Y WORKER and mn will be | from time to time. _ these 1 the| in| s “ Ithe ice of Lake St. Clair. ids DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1925- machine. can business opportunities. Le vine arrived in Havana The planes At the left above mititant members of the United Mine Workers of America with memoers of their families are RRS at the funeral service at Pittston, , for Alex Campbell, shot and killed with Peter Reilly for opposition to the mine operators and for exposing the destructive policies of the Lewis-Cappelini In the next photograph U. S. military planes are shown flying over the volcano Momotombo in Nicaragua. participate in an attack on Gen. Sandino’s small but heroic army of liberation. before their flight from Mitchell Field, Long Island, to Havana, Cuba. Levine's jowls indicate that the flying business is good. With the’marine corps in Nicar- ague and Lindbergh’s promoti ion-flight completed, the commercial flyers of the United States are anxious to beat European interests to South and Central Ameri- are flying from Managua to At the right are Charles Levine, habitual passenger, Mabel Boll and Pilot Stutz, GOAL BARONS IN Relief Committee Aids Miners (Snecial to The Daily Wo PITTSBURGH, Pa., sooner Leos the senate mspiracy of the coal operators, opened uv a heavy advertising cam nairn to counteract the unfavorable publicity received during the time the cerators were in the Pittshurgh dis- trict. Full page advertisements appeared | lin the three local papers in which} the giant coal co i en AOU +> prove that it had not violated the | Jacksonville agreement, and that i employes were well tatten care of} | despite the statement cf a member of | | the senatorial committee that the} strikers and the strikebreakers were forced to live in quarters not fit for | swine. | Bide Time. | | While the senators were hors, th>| éperators were on their good be-} havior and their armed thugs re- frained from indulging their sadist propensities by acts of violence against the strikers and their fam-j ilies. But no sooner did the com- ittee leave for Washington than the | operators returned to their old tricks The operators of the fatal Kinloc’: Ine at ; Where at least elve st were killed in an explos weeks ago, got the jcounty sheriff to post proclamations | jwarning the strikers against meet- in groups near the mine and cur- ng their picketing force from 20 |to 8. Miners. Power Rises. On the other hand, the miners are demonstrating that they are not re- | lying on the senatorial investigation | to win the strike for them. In Racoon jone thousand miners marched to the tipple of the Shin Coal Compa | which attempted to open its m |with strikebrealers. The con had engaged twenty scabs who v preparing to get the mine in wor'- ing order. The demonstrat on the strikebri {come out of the wo’ {man stopped worki le while the other There was no v ers were peaceful | ch a large awed the scabs. . One colored and left. the The | ut the pres- body ‘of mé lief from the Pennsylvania and Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, the mem- bers unanimously voting to reject the orders of the Fagan organizer, \Feras not to have anything to do with the committee, Clement Proves Alibi Louis Clement today established an alibi proving he was in New York he night Margaret Brown, Park Avenue governess, was burned to ideath in New Jersey, according to the police. Since Clement’s voluntary surrender, detectives have found the former suspect was at work as a dishwasher in a Nassau St. cafeteria when Miss Brown’s body was dis- covered. Icor Concert A concert and mass meeting will be held for Icor Suhday,’ March 18, at 2 p.m. at Tammany Hall, 145 E. 14th St. A visitor from the Soviet Union will speak on the accomplish- ments in Jewish coloniza ion thore. Soloists scheduled to appear include Serge Radomsky, Scipione Guidi and Theodore Cella, aL RP SOSRONEEE LIT FLYERS FAIL TO FLY. DETROIT, March 6.—Uddie Stin-| son, world war flyer and George Haldeman, trans-Atlantic aviator failed to take off this morning in an attempt to establish a new endurance record. One wheel crashed through of tly part of the so: The Racoon local is receiving re-|~ FACULTY ACTS AGAINST RENEWED ATTACK. YOUTH IN WAR MATTER George Bronz, manager of the College of the City of New York debating team, who recently arranged a debate Protect American Investments Abroad,” between the College of the Gity of | New York and Trinity College, has |been suspended from all extra-cur-| it is recognized by the student body jricular activities by faculty action.| |The debate was held at City College «east Friday. This comes only two weeks after a} similar action by the faculty in sus-/| pending non W..Gerson, president the Social Problems Club, ‘trom | extra-curricular activities. Club Backs Gerson. The Social Problems Club unani- mously resolved last week to recog- nize their/ president as such in spite of this, The faculty has disregarded | ithe protest and will continue in its| | policy to clamp the lid tighter and | tighter on all student expression | i against militarism in schools and col- jleges or in opposition to the college administration. Altho no reason for the suspension either of the students was Biveny of | the clubs, recent rulings state among | on the question, “Should the Marines that the action was taken because of their opposition to militarism. Opposition Growing. Student feeling on this question is | growing daily. in order to weaken the power of | other things that no one not actually . a member of a club may attend any of its meetings and that.every club | must have a faculty advisor. The, all mass meetings, such as recent protest meetings cailed by the Social | Problems Club. And the latter ‘rul- ing is designed to stop any “undesir- able” meeting that any club might plan simply through the refusal of any faculty member to act in the ca- pacity of advisor to the club in ques- tion., CONTINUE. MINE RELIEF DRIVE \Partial Report’ Issued by. Committee As many, statioris have not yet: re- ported, the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, was unable to give a full report yester- day of the proceeds of the three-day tag day collection of last The Workers International Relief is cooperating with the relief commit- tee. Ray Rosen, one of 15 arrested last week-end for collecting funds was given a suspended sentence in the rooklyn. Magistra.es Court yester- morning. Irving Breyer, another fendant, will be tried tomorrow in he third district magistrates court. The other workers appeared for trial rliey in the weck. Twelve were ven suspended sentences and one was fined $10. For the Miners. The list of sta.ions which follows and amounts collected represents on- 2, $172.86; Har- 2901 Mermaid West Bronx Jewish $47.70; 715 BE. 138th Delicatessen Counier- s Union, $ 5; 101 W. 27th St., 5; Unity Co-op. House, $129.80; Bronx Jewish Workers Club, $291.13; 2700. Bronx Park E., $308.68; Orig. Ass’n Russian Workers, $60.13; Na- tonal Jewish Co-op. House, $222.00; 1940 Benson Ave., $98.61. Women Continue Drive. This includes only the adult com- mittee volunteers. The youth com- mittee and children’s committee have Vorkers Club, $149.38; week-end. | Warrant Is Out for the Arrest of Col. Stewart WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 6.— Providing they are able to find him, U.S. marshalls will attempt to place under arrest Col. Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the board of the Stand- ard Oil Co., of Indiana, who was in- dicted after he refused to answer “embarrassing” questions asked by the Senate Teapot Dome committee, SEND FUXDS 10 Plan Functionaries’ Conference “We are sending you $25,” states & communication to The DAILY WORKER from Sub-section 2A, New York City, “it is. part’ of the $500 -which the sub-section’ has pledged itself to raise within the next few weeks. fub-section 2A challenges all the other sub-sec ions in the city to equal its record in contributing to the de- fense of our only militant Beglieh labor daily.” At a conference which will be held on Thursday, at 161 W. 27th St., Sub- see ion will discuss means for stimu- lating the drive for defense funds to save The DAILY WORKER and for increasing the membership, the Sec- tion committee announces. The’ conference is of vital impor- tance to all and a 100 por cent a - tendance is urged, the committee States, Right Wing Fur Head) still to estimate the amounts collect- ed by the young workers and school children, The women workers decided to ex» tend tag day collections to the end of the week. . Illustrated Labor Weekly Distributed The Workers International Relief, 1 Union Square, has become. the sole distributing. agent for North and South America of the Arbeiter Jl- lustvyier.e Zeitung, known as A I Z, an illustrated weekly magazine pub- lished by the international organiza- tion of the Workers International Re- ‘lief in Berlin. The A I Z, the only illustrated labor weekly, has a circulation’ of more than 200,000 in Germany alone. A novel by Alexei Tolstoy has just been completed and a new novel by Liam O’Flaherty, describing the 1916 uprisings in Ireland, will begin soon. * Distributing centers for the A I Z will be established throughout the United States and the other countries | c tee bin i be is announced. Forced to Resign; Had Caused Loss _ of Strike “ Moe Harris, ppht. wing. business agent of the Rabbit Dressers’ Local 58 of ‘the International Fur Workers’, Union, offered to resign at a recent meeting, and it was accepted, by an overwhelming majority, it became known’ last night). The reason of- fered by Harris was that he is “ill” and wants to take an extended rest. Since a iccal mecting held toward ithe end of the recently lost strike in which the workers were forced to accept a 15 per cent wage reduction, it has been definitely known that Harris’ resignation was imminent. At at meeting many members openly aceuscd Harris of causing the loss of former ruling is designed to prevent |™~ “DAILY WORKER”, TAMMANY MEN AID LANDLORDS Will Pigeon-hole Bills Extending Rent Laws ALBANY, March 6..— With the consent of high Tammany poli icians, including Gov. Smith, all bills to ex- tend the Emergency Rent Laws, which expire June 1, this year, will be pigenholed until the close of the present session of the state legisla- ture, jt was learned from reliable sources today. _ More than any other man, Gov. ih, elected on a “better housing” Hee is helping the powerful real estate lobby to permit the Emergency Rent Laws to die a natural death. For more than a week he has in his hands the report of the state housing commission on whether an emergency does or does not exist, in their opin- ion, and had refused to make it pub- lie. Helps Landlords. This report is said to be unfavor- able to the tenants. Credence is given to this rumor because the commis- sion, in recommending the extension of the rent laws last year, said there would not be any emergency after June 1, 1928, Having forestalled the issue for so long, Gov. Smith has made it virtu- ally impossible for the scores of ten- ants’ organizations to mobilize dem- onstrations sufficiently powerful to force the legislators, fearful of losing votes, to extend the rent laws before the legislature adjourns. All standing committees of the legislature, with the exception of the judiciary committee, went out of ex- ce today. This means that it will be impossible to hold a joint pen hearing on whether a shortage of relatively moderate prieed apart- ments does or does not exist, as was done in former years. To Raise Workers’ Rent. Tens of thousands of workers liv- ing in apartments renting 2 $15 per room and less per month will have their ren’s raised after June 1 ‘f the Emergency Rent Laws die. There will be no check on the land- lords. They may double a tenant’s rent or dispossess any tenant within five days. Tenants living in apartments rent- ing $15 per room and less cannot now be dispossessed except for non- payment of rent and unless the land- lord himself wan's to’ occupy his apartment. The real estate lobby is reported to have spent several for- tunes this year and is expecting to “harvest” after June 1. Housing Crisis Severe. Tenants’ leaders assert that the housing crisis is worse than ai any time in the past five years because the so-called building boom has been confined only to high-priced apart- ments renting between $18. and $25 per room. situation which Gov. Smith’s own state indus.rial commissioner report-, ed was the worst in-six years, as an added réason why the desth of the rent laws will cause much suffering. e * . Four tenants’ organizations held mass meetings yesterday and voted to ask Gov. Smith to hold a hearing: in person on the housing situa.ion., Compliance with this demand is. high- ly improbable, it is’ said, in the face ‘They, point’-to the seiiplay mipeit of the Tammany governor’s attitude. |* she four groups.were the Washing- ton Heghts Welfare League and Ten- ants’ Assn.; the Academy Tenants! Assn.; the Hamilton Community. Council, and the’ Tremont Tenants’ League, the strike by shady dealings with the employers,, Harris had then demand- ed a vote of confidence, but the eager- ness of the workers to come to a vote on the question caused him to with. draw his original request; Nominations for a new business agent are scheduled to take place Thursday, and it is generally bilieend that, 7 era rnd at 7 . MIKE GOLD ON RADIO. Mike Gold, co-director of the New Playwrights Theatre broadcasted’ a| Fordham ...... number of his poems from Station WEVD last night as part of the weekly “Rebel Nights’ progee which is being conducted by He ar de every mys xt 10:80 Charles Levine, Comic Hero, Arrives in Cuba HAVANA, Cuba, Mar. 6.—Charles A. Levine, chronic flyer, arrived here at 1:35 p. m. today in his Bellanca monoplane “Columbia” after a 1,600- mile flight from Mitchel Field, New York. He was accompanied by Wilmer Stultz, pilot and Miss Mabel Boll, known as “Queen of Diamonds” be- cause of her collection of jewels, 90%, OF GROCERS SIGN WITH UNION: The general strike call Tuesday on the day of expiration of the agree- men.s of the employers with the Grocery, Fruit and Dairy. “-rk3’ Union, met with such an enthusiastic response that over 90 per cent of the employers have already renewed their contracts with the strikers. This was the announcement made by the leaders of the strike committee at their headquarters, 117 Bees Ave., yesterday. In addiion to getting a Renewal of contracts with the »store owners, the strike was called to organize the Brooklyn ‘stores many of which are open shops. To aid the strike, all New York clerks as well as those in Brooklyn union shops, are out on a stoppage that is to last several days, according to the union. Many are act- ing as committees to visit non-union shops and to gain recruits, Clerks in many of the non-union shops eagerly joined the organizing committee when they appeared, and even helped to visit other grocery stores. Numerous. applications have already been received from shops that were formerly non-union. A list of newly organized stores will be made public in a few days, the union representative declared. Printers to Meet At a recent meeting of Workers (Communist) Party members ‘em- ployed in the printing trades, at the Progressive Labor Center, 103 E. 14th St., the Party and left wing pol- icy was discussed, much consideration being given to the unorganized work- ers in the printing industry. Meetings will be held the first Sat- urday of every month at 1 p.m, All Party members who are printers are expected to communicate with the secretary of the printers’ fraction, 103 E. 14th St. Food Workers Annual The annual reception and ball of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Branch of the Amalgamated Food Workers will be held Monday even- ing, March 19 at New Palm Gardens, 62d St., near Kighth Ave. A musical progrem will eal the evening. FROM NATION'S BIRTHDAY PARTY “Regrets” Sent to Ne- groes in Baltimore BALTIMORE, March 6.—The Afro-American, local Negro weekly, charges in the current issue that Negroes. will be barred at the din- ner to be held Friday at the Southern Hotel, this city, in honor of Oswald Garrison Villard’s 10 year editorship of The Nation, According to Carl Murphy, editor, invitations to the dinner were sent out three weeks ago to every sub- seriber to The Nation. Last week, Murphy continues, Mrs, R.A. Svaeth, secretary of the local committee ar- ranging the dinner, sent communica- tions to the Negro subscribers in the city in which she said “it was un- necessary for me to point out the difficulties that might arise if you attempted to attend the dinner.” “We Regret Very Much.” The letter closed by saying “we tegret very much being unable. to take advantagé of your kind willing- ness to cooperate with us in this cel- ebration.” In a telegram sent here by Viljard, he passes the buck by stating that the dinner is being arranged by the local commi'tee ‘and adds that. The Nation is opposed to ‘race discrimi- nation.” He does not say what ac- tion he will take. The committee in charge of the dinner are all liberals. + e & At the office of The Nation, “lib- eral” weekly, in New York City yesterday, The DAILY WORKER was informed by his secretary that Oswald Garrison Villard, editor, had ‘no statement to make in reply to the charge that Negroes had been barred from the Baltimore dinner. Negro Workers’ Club to Hold Meeting. Thursday The recently organized Ethiopean Social Club, consisting of Negro work- ers living in East New York, will hold a meeting Thursday at 8 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Rosalie Thorpe, 806 Dumont Ave., Brooklyn. H. Williams will speak on “The Real Cause of Hu- man Misery.” The club will hold a party for the striking miners Thursday, March 16, at the same address. I. Monsey will speak, The officers of the club are: P. Os- burn, president; Rosalie Thorpe, vice- president; 8. E. Osburn, secretary and T. Thorpe, secretary-treasurer. by U.S.S.R. Film Here “The Mechanics of the Brain,” a film prepared by Soviet Russian scientists, depicting the brain in ac- tion, will be shown Thursday night before the New York Society of Clin- ical Psychiatry at the Academy of Medicine. The film together with a motion picture study of “conditioned reflex” was prepared in seventeen laboratories in Soviet Russia under he direction of Prof. Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist. The American Society for Cultural Relations with Russia brought the films to this country. The films will be placed at the disposal of American scientific colleges and bodies. N. Y. Cavalry Formed A full cavalry will be organized in the New York State National Guard, Major Gen, Haskell, command- ing the state militia, announced. The brigade will probably be used to sup- plement the state police in case of “serious disturbances,” such © as strikes, it was reported. Both the cavalry units of the state militia and the state police have made themselves notorious in their treatment of strike ing workers in the past. SPORTS IN BRIEF pao yc fink |e er i : : i. am German Hungarians. 1 4 Soccer eagu C Le meena te Gut B20 aay f “AS ‘ partacus weree 22 OD Teaser L. D. Pe} ¥. M. He As. Raaee. rape: Sia Hungarian Workers. 13 2 2. 28 Co-Operative .. x Heer Sets Oo Bronx Hungarian .. 9 4 5 28 Red Star .... 0 4121 Seandavian Workers 9 2 4 22/Claremont S. C... (new) Spartacus A. C..... 4 8 5 13/Vagabond S.C. (new) N.Y. Eagles., 4 8 6 18)New York Eagles.. (new) Atlantic Park .. & 6. 6,12 Ga cba! ’ Armanian G. A. U.. 4 8° 8«O Last Sunday’s Results, Red. § ar 8 7 5 11| Bx. Hung. vs. Martial’s, 6:3 Exh, Freiheit .. +. 2 11 6 9| Armenian vs, Spartacus, 8:2. on “DB,” . . | Red Star vs. Eagle, ‘ Hungarian Warker., 12; 2 Bi Hungarian * Wor ers Va. Frathle, Prague i',,C........ 10. 3 2 22/220 ¥ ; a Red Star 8. Css @ 97 2 44) v. i eg Preiheit « 6 8 1 11] Clarmont vs. Rengers, 9:2, Spartacus A. 8 7 8 -9| Fordham vs. Freiheit, 4:0,. 1 0 ! “German Hungarian. vs. Leis rea Sag 10:2. ay 8 0 6) Red Stor vs - Blue Star, 4, oe als a , Brain Mechanics Shown % ‘ = | | \