The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1928, Page 1

| Vol. V. No. 57. \ $Y POLICE BEAT, JAIL, TOOHEY AND BROPHY, MINERS’ LEADERS THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY “T A SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside’ New York, by mail, $6. THE DAILY WORKER Entered asx second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. 00 per year, Cops Intimidate Work- ers; Clear Hall PITTSTON, Pa., March 7.—Patrick Toohey was slugged and he and John | Brophy were arrested by state po-! licemen at Renton, Pa., after the po- | lice had broken up a large mass meet- | ing of progressive miners under the | auspices of Save-the-Union Commit- tee late yesterday. Toohey and Brophy, militant and | progressive miners, addressed the meeting as spokesmen for the Save- the-Union Committee, which has call- ed a national conference of progres- sive miners from both the hard and} soft coal fields for April 1 in Pitts- | burgh. The conference is being op- | posed by the organized coal mine | owners and the Lewis-Cappelini- | Kennedy machine in the United Mine Workers. | | | \ | | Police Clear Hall. | The union hall at Renton was clear- ed of miners when Toohey and Bro- phy were arrested. Miners Threatened: i Assistant Deputy Coffey warned Ignatz Perme, president of Local 811, “They won’t get off so. easily! this time.” When Toohey described how Hard- ing’s order during the 1922 strike to hoist a United States flag atop al tipple and send troops didn’t make} the workers weaken, saying, “The flag and bayonets didn’t dig coa ~ und told how marines protect talist interests in Nicaragua, a Polke corporal cleared the hall, saying, “Anybody speaking against the gov- ernment can’t ‘speak here.” In turning to Toohey he asked (Continued on et ae ee Two) MINER SENDS ALL HE HAS 70 “DAILY” Spares Only Dollar for Defense of Paper A letter containing one dollar for The DAILY WORKER defense fund arrived at the offices of the paper yesterday morning. It came from a striking Ohio miner who was sending the only money he could spare to pro- tect The DAILY WORKER. “T am awfully sorry that I can’t do no better,” he wrote,-“the times are so dull and hard that it is hard to get a dollar. Often I wonder where I am going to get the next dollar for my family. “For seven months I worked under the Jacksonville Agreement and then | the present strike came. So you will | please excuse me if I only help so little. I have a wife, children. = Hunger and Cold. “I hope many other miners will send more help to our paper. Here is terrible suffering, men, women, and children in rags. We haven’t fodd to (Continued on Page Two) KELLOGG THREAT TO NICARAGUA MANAGUA, “Nlomagias Mar. 7.— U. S. Minister Eberhardt today Te- ceived instructions from Secretary of State Kellogg, to inform the Nica- raguan government that the U. S. state department would .take “dras- tie steps” if the Nicaraguan ate fails to pass the election law under which the United States will “super- vise” the new Nicaraguan _Presiden- tial elections. The instructions were communicat- ed to President Diaz, who hastened to assure Eberhardt that the Nicara- guan congress will consider the meas- ure tomorrow. Diaz also assured the American minister that the election measure would be passed. The conservatives 4 the “packed” congress headed by Gen. Chamorro are supbeing. “nfo States law, charg: ing that 1 States ; Gen, Moneada for the After a Angeles is shown above at its hangar in Lakehurst, N. J. “Good Will” was the official re: Another “Good Will” Trip to Latin America sudden trip to Panama, the giant dirigible Los ason for the trip, as a mask of the real yurpose—to look Panama over in.order to establish an American military air base at this strategic point. WOMEN OF ALL LANDS TO CELEBRATE TODAY Today will be celebrated as International Women’s Day by working women thruout the world: In the United States meetings are being arranged | | in Boston, Baltimore, Chicago and other large industrial cities, her teas JOBLESS INCREASE THRUOUT THE CITY In New York 3,000 women workers joined in an enthusiastic celebration last Sunday at Central Opera House. Unable to attend this gathering, | Mother Jones, veteran labor fighter, who is now past 90, forwarded an enthusiastic greeting. Telegrams raf ean ion.» from. working} n’s “federations in Chicago, De- Police Beat a Worker {in |troit and Boston were also read amid Breadline Thruout all boroughs 6f New York | the increasing unemployment is being ! {felt. While the New York Council | for the Unemployed continue actively | to organize the jobless workers of | the city, each day brings additional | nstances of the growing suffering of the thousands who have been thrown | from their jobs. Two instances yesterday revealed | these facts, one in which 600 young | workers swarmed into an office build- | ing in response to an advertisement | for a $16 office boy; another in which | police continued to beat unemployed | workers standing in the cold in the | éver-lengthening breadlines. “Wanted: Boy, over 17, to sweep | and be generally useful; $16 to start.” | {Police had to be called in to quell the | riot that resulted Tuesday when about 600 unemployed young workers rushed the office of Henry. Romeike, | Inc., a press clipping bureau on the | twelfth floor of 200 West 19th St., | in answer to the. above ad. Fred | Meyer, 18, got the job. ~ The 599 | others were turned out to rejoin the} ever-growing ranks of the unem-| ployed. Jonas Schiffman, a member of the | Youth Committee of the New York | Council of the Unemployed, was one | of these . Knowing that there would | surely be several applicants for ‘the | job, Schiffman’ had brought with him several leaflets, issued by the Youth Committee, for distribution among the rejected applicants. In spite of all excitement he succeeded in dis- tributing all of them to the young workers, who took them eagerly. The | leaflet called upon them to attend a monster open air meeting of all un- employed workers to be held Satur- | day at 2 p. m., at Union Square under (Continued on Page Five) Textile: Pickets Fight Back Charging Thugs KENOSHA, Wis, ) March 7 (EP).— John Bucko, a union knitter on strike at the Allen A Co. hosiery plant in Kenosha, is in the hospital. with- a fractured skull, the result of strong- arm tactics by professional strike- breakers against the peaceful mass picketing of the 830 strikers. The men and girls have been: on- strike: over 2 weeks, Kenosha is an open-shop city like many other Wisconsin towns and this is the first big strike in recent years. Only 20 knitters remained on the job and the company is having little suc- cess with the strikebreakers im- ported to work the costly and com- plicated knitting machines. The union is about to take legal measures oe the national labor spy A. R. ve ee Devas cack nce, apparenty ct "ot ts ateleeeopakers, “ind great enthusiasm. Mother Jones’ letter follows: Washington, D. C., March 2, 1928. I appreciate the awakening of women on the economic field. There is no body of men more worthy of your consideration. than the miners. They take their lives in their hands when they go into | the bowels of the earth and spend eight long hours there to produce the mineral that nature placed there and they bring it forth to move commerce, to heat the homes and to move business of all kinds. Yet there are no men that are treated more indifferently than they are. They are law abiding | citizens. I worked in every mining town | Brownsville | from Pittsburgh to years ago when the men worked 12 hours a day. They did not know their own children when they reached home. But we have made the fight and stirred up the nation and they now (Continued on Pave Two) UNION OFFICERS CITED BY COURT JERSEY CITY, N. J., Mar, 7—| Another step a drastic plan to erush the activities of New Jersey | labor unions was made today when | James Larkin, of the Hudson County Building Trades Council and the Car- penters’ District Council, and John | Conlin, business agent of Local 139, Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join- ers, were ordered by Vice-Chancellor Fallon to show cause next Monday why they should not be adjudged guilty of having violated an injunc- tion obtained against the carpenters by the Jersey lumber bosses last year. Leading the open shop concerns are the general Woodcraft Company, of Homestead, and the North Hudson Manufacturing Co., of North Bergen, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1928 i | | | FRIENDS OF DEAD ‘LEADER 10 SPEAK AT GIANT MEETING Will fiose Aims of | U.S. Imperialism Young workers: will ‘large proportion of the | who will attend the | | memorial meeting at the Central) | Opera House, 67th St. and Third | Ave., Sunday afternoon, Mar. 11. An impressive tribute will be rendered by them to the memory of Ruthen-} berg, who wads. the type of lea who appealed to the young workers. ; At this meeting a protest will be} raised against the shooting down of | Nicaraguan workers by the marines of American capitalism; imperial gunboats in @hina and the increase in military and naval strength. At the same time the imperialistic con- | spiracy for a new attack on the So- viet Union will be exposed. The men who were closest to Ruth-| lenberg during his lifetime will ‘ad- ress the workers gathered at the | meeting including William Z. Foster, leader of the great steel strike; Ber- ram D. Wolfe, who was deported | rom Mexico for organizing the rail- oad workers ihere; Jack Stacchel, compose® a} thousands Ruthenberg| partment of the Workers (Com- 2, engine tig gees Workers Party and Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER.- Thousands of little red buttons and posters containing a reproductiow of | the picture’ of Ruthenberg which he} himself liked best, are being distrib- | uted. LEWIS, COOLIDGE EXPOSE SELVES . | Correspondence Shows | Them Anti-Union WASHINGTON, March 7..—Testi- | fying as the first witness before the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce investigating the coal sit- uation, John Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, | sl Lewis Coolidge admitted that Calvin Coolidge in 1925 flatly refused to raise his hand to help the mine workers and gave j Virtual Support to the coal operators who were flagrantly violdting the Jacksonyille agreement of 1924. Lewis disclosed some hitherto un- published correspondence which he then had with Coolidge in which the (Continued on Page Two) Fsignificance as | weapon working ¢ ¥italking to two strikebreakers when Publishing ‘LR. T.Be R. bs. Begans Asnociation, Inc., 33 First Street, - Young Workers ‘Here to Honor Ruthenberg ‘ab ae to ae wake | N l0T DISCOURAGED Over 2,000 scabs have been hired by the I. R. T. in prep- aration for a subway strike. traction workers is T ing, and the dilatory tactics of the he militancy of the New York Amalgamated union leaders is arousing anger among the rank and file of vie workers. ATTEND I. A steady stream of workers kept St. and Park Ave., last night, which marked the opening of the annual | rank bazaar of the International Labor Defense. |five days, closing Sunday night. The thirty booths of the bazaar were all gaily decorated and the visi- ‘ |tors gathered around them eager to irector of the national organization/sample the wares and make pur- chases. ‘a evening was beige e New ma A ection of the I. L. D. ho thanked all those present and 11 who had cooperated in the bazaar, md then introduced Pascal Cosgrove, ecretary-organizer of* the Hotel, estaurant and Food Workers’ Union. |Cosgrove discussed the work of the |International Labor Defense and its the militant American s against the constant pares of the capitalist courts . of Attractive Program. Cosgrove’s talk was followed by a ories of interesting dances by Helmi | Ko nobel, a pupil of Veronine Ves- | totf. A group of songs was then ren- dered by Lilly Korknobel. The bazaar will open at 2 o’clock program this evening has been desig- nated as “Finnish Night.” There will be songs -by Aino Saari, athletic ex: | hibitions by several Finnish clubs and seated fag on Page Five) ‘BOX STRIKER IS STABBED BY SCAB The latest outrage of the paper} box bosses against the striking paper rq |box workers was the stabbing yes- |terday of Tony Leggio, a striker of 118 Chrystie St., by two scabs em- ployed by the Crown Paper Box Com- pany, 167 Wooster St. Leggio was one of them pulled a knife and stabbed Leggio three times. Leggio fell with one lung punctured. His condition is critical. It is reported that the two scabs were arrested and released a few hours after the stabb- ing. Police headquarters, however, would give no information about the arrests. Gangsters hired by the boss- es are patrolling the paper box dis- trict on Greene, Wooster and Mercer streets in automobiles, DANCE, SONG, SATIRE AT ‘RED REVUE’ Revolutionary I Revel on March 1: 18 to Have Variety of 7 of Talent The recent socialist banquet. cele-) brating their municipal “victory” in Reading, Pa., will be one of the things | that will come up for sharp lam. pooning at the hilarious “Red Revue” at. New Star Casino, 107th St .and Park Ave., Friday evening, March 16, The sociallats all got jobs in the city go ernment on the promise of a ‘sound, business-like administration.” iad affair, one of the first of its to be presented in this city, will orchestra, a Russian have “eight special ers’ revolution, and the — special jtestutes, including a “Revue” will be one of the raciest 14-piece Balalaika performances. Fred Ellis, brilliant staff cartoon- ag Fake Testimony Breaks eee influence and power of these the chief defensive | ,|ist of The DAILY WORKER and Hugo Gellert, revolutionary artist, will put on a program of humorous blackboard sketches, it was stated. One of the banner events of the evening will be the appearance of Moishe Nadir, popular essayist and wit, in a series of monologies. i, ‘i gypsy troupe, and v¥ | an unusually jolly | 2 Maurice, proletar- ian acrobat, will put on a program of liv- minstrel show. statues, sym- , ilies the work- ~ HUNDREDS OF WORKERS L.D. BAZAA flowing into New Star Casino, 107th | 2 CLOAK HEADS’ FRAME-UP F Down, Case Dismissed strike leaders conducted by |Mandelbaum, union attorne |day, led to so complete a bre ‘of the obviously framed evidence, ithat the judge hearing the case w {compelled to stop the farcical pr ceedings and ask for a motion for dismissal of the indictment, {was subsequently done. Frank Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker New York, The bazaar is being held for |took two defi ———|which in the past year or more have | | hae for A two hour cross-examination of|in the the leading witness in the criminal | known that lee assault case against the two cloak | for the struggle John | ning will be found at the proper mo- which | P.|be forced in the next few days to FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents N.Y. FFENSIVE” IS RALLY CRY OF TRACTION MEN AS SHOP GROUPS TAKE UP STRUGGLE Union Officials’ Surren- der Arouses Workers tion workers are not dis~ The fight will go on! nd file efforts following the yal of the workers?’ union officials Tues- urprisingly aggressive e of the temporary set- 1 by them when William president of the Amalga- the Inter- membership meeting and left town. These groups ontinued their fight while William B. Fitzgerald, vice president and other of the union officials stood calmly by as the I. R. T. launched forth on its campaign to crush the |union. Pressure on Officials. ive activities of the group, it was learned, te forms, Committees The agg! |been meeting quietly, redoubled their neir efforts to enlarge and extend their contacts. Secondly, there were [aid new plans for pressure on the Amalgamated officials to prepere the an Bios! co can be reliably stated that the jrank and file committees are consid~ lerably greater than is suspected and these will yet play an important part present situation. It is also hip and direction ch is only begin- w The company will not be able rry out its program of reprisals unchallenged. Show-Down For Officials. ted even more reliably gamated officials will It can be c: Ama! {Walsh also appeared for the defense. | come from behind their cover of de- more than a year old, were openly | termed “guilty” by the notori Judge Rosalsky last year when he was called upon to set bail for ca | release. Rosalsky at that time de- a number of selections by the Finnish |manded bail of $25,000 each, which | B.S. S. C. Band. There will also be | remained in force till yesterday. The | jtrial yesterday took place in the} | Court of General Sessions, Part 4, be- fore Judge Mulqueen. Shown to be Spy. Jgseph Goretsky, and Elias Marks, eft wing leaders who acted as chai man and secretary respective picket committee in the fought cloakmakers’ general 1926, were charged with, hav. | saulted Hyman Goldman, whi las the district attorney’ ness, and whom the evidence in the trial yesterday proved to be a right winger in the pay of the employers’ association. It tterly also to help demoralize the ranks of the strikers. The climax of the case came when Goldman admitted that he had first appeared before the grand jury and caused the indictment of two entirely different men for the so-called as- sault and, after being questioned by | the grand jury at that time as to who | specifically had assaulted him, had denied that Marks and Goretsky were involved. Yesterday on the witness stand Goldman’s testimony proved that the indictment of the two left (Continued on Page Two) Section 2A to Meet to Aid “Daily” Tonight A conference of the membership of Sub-section 2A called for the pur- pose of adopting plans to stimulate the drive for defense funds to save The DAILY WORKER, and for in- creasing the membership, will be held tonight at the section headquarters, 101 W. 27th St. The Sub-section already pledged $500 for the paper, $25 of which has already been sent in. The rest of the pledge will be sent in in a few weeks, according to the executive committee. : ie | | | * of the | Com mania | A. McKnight, of Houston. The defendants, who were sudden- ception and to make a stand in the |today and an even larger number of hy called to trial on an pacicenent | workers are expected to attend. The} Hither that or they will be mit their surrender jn- us | gael of going on with the fiction that (Continued on sic Maeda ke Five) SEDITION CHARGE AGAINST GRECHT "Organi Is Held by Coal Police TSTOWN, Pa., March % st here of Rebecca Grecht, nizer for the Workers Jommunist) Party, shows that the of /the coal operators and the was, shown quite | of icial 7nd unofficial police on the clearly by his own a\lmissions that | organized miners is growing steadily this function was to act\as a spy, and! sharper. Her hearing on a charge of sedi tion and inciting to riot was poste poned until tomorrow by Squire J. She was arrested Monday afternoon at a mass meeting in a crowded hall here. Hun- dreds of miners were kept outside the door by lack of \seating capacity and standing room. The original charge was disorderly conduct but the more serious charge was added on the insistence of Corporal Pierce and others of the state police. Fifteen state police were scattered strategically through the crowd in the hall when the meeting began. Mike Pushkar, who was to have pre- sided at the meeting, was kept out by constables. Labor Party Urged. “There are no laws against strik- ing and picketing and the injunce- | tions are judge-made laws designed - to enable the coal operators to kill the strike,” Rebecca Grecht told the assembled miners. She stressed the need for a mass labor party in the United States. When placed under arrest in the hall she declared the arrest was il- legal and told the miners she would come back to speak to them. A.