The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1928, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1928 | Connecticut District Piles Up Subs in National Drive for Daily Worker Fane Crash Kills 5 Misled by Militarist Propaganda SUBSCRIPTIONS COME QUICKLY, DIRECTOR SAYS han to Spread Paper Among Workers Envelopes full of subs received at the office of The DAILY WORKER | indicate that the New Haven district | is not content to rest on its splendid | record in the past but is pushing the | national subscription drive to add | 10,000 new subscribers to the paper with all its old energy. The campaign under the direction | of Anna Herbst, The DAILY WORK- | ER organizer in District 1, is being | intensified and the center of activi- ties is being pushed outside New Haven into such towns as New Bri- tain and Hartford. | “I get my subs quickly,” says Anna | | Herbst commenting on the cagerness | with which the Connecticut workers | are subscribing to The DAILY | WORKER. Plans for a free distribution of the paper are being made to fami the workers in the Nauga‘’ other Connecticut industrial sections with the workers’ press. In this way it is expected to bring the paper to thousands of New England workers | who have had only a casual knowl-| edge of it before. The New Haven section promis: to take the lead in the national sub- seription drive before a month is up. 2 More Paper Bosses : Sign Up With Union| Two more paper ox manufaetur- | ers signed up with the Paper Box Makers’ Union yesterday bringing | the number of settled shops to 32 Clarina Michaelson, secretary of the union ,stated last night. The seven strikers arrested Mon- | giving Day speech last year in} | Paris. ON CLOAK LEADERS, + | Mulqueen |so much. Let Cat Out of the Bag| STRIKING MINER SENDS HIS ALL TO THE “DAILY” | Recalls ‘Ruthenberg’ Ss Call to Struggle { (Continued from Page One) eat sometimes. It is not the worst to | be hungry when it is warm, it is in’) the cold that it is worst.” | “The company has its cops here to bust up our meetings and to beat us : {up when we do or say the least thing. Capt. Richard D. White} They pull the speakers off of the (above), naval attache at the| | platforms at meetings and arrest them American embassy in Paris, ad- like they did Tony Minerich the other vocated a big navy in a Thanks-| week. “If I could only help you more I . * |surely would be glad to do it. The! It did not meet with the |p aity WORKER is the only paper | approval of Wilbur, for secret |that fights for the interests of the navy increase plans are more to | miners. ‘They know it. We are too the navy department’s taste. So | poor to all get the paper regularly so White was ordered to sea. we pass it around here. i Bail ator dh te wih italists crush our paper as they are iryitig to smash the striking miners in this country. They can starve us to death but they can’t starve The DAILY WORKER. So long as we! have a cent we would give it to help} |our paper,” | The miner who sent us this letter | jhas contributed to The DAILY | \Fake eatin? Breaks | WORKER before. In the midst of | the terrible struggle that is taking | ‘Down; Case Dismissed | every ounce of the miners’ strength DiS {and courage to continue, this worker }has donaved the only money he could | spare, a dollar. Let all other’ work- | was sought by him and/ers do as much. Rush your contri-| who red _him | butions to ‘the DAILY WORKER, 33 | only after : eriod | Piyst St., New York bee ue the result of a calculated | (Continued from Page One) lot t |plan. At the begi ng of the e, Judge repeatedly cautioned oe right wing bosses’ agent not to talk “You will hurt your case | you do,” he said. ,But after the | LEWIS, COOLIDCE .. (Special to The D/ SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Francisco is admitted by city authoriti years, police raids on the unemployed are an hourly occurrence. Those unable to show visible means of support are haild before the courts, charged with vagrancy and sentenced in hatches without opportunity to testify in their’ own, behalf. The jails are crowded. the food fierce and the treatment accorded the unfortunate |jobless is nothing short. of abomin- able. Workers Party Active. The Workers Party of San Fran- jeisco has been actively engaged in |the organization of the unemployed | into councils. San Francisco has no ordiance re- \gard! ng street meetings’ nor is a po- e permit required., So the charges March 7. ’FRISCO UNEMPLOYED RAIDED AT MEETING AILY WORKER.) —The unemployment situation in San ies and civic bodies to be the worst in Vague promises by the board of supervisors to institute public: works have not yet materialized. However,* ee ALOTHING STRIKE IN TORONTO SEEN Threat Made Against Right Wing Terror TORONTO, Mare — A general strike of all the workers in the men’s clothing industry here will probably be effected if the right wing offi- cials of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union and the employers refuse to reinstate the workers who have been summarily discharged for heir left wing activities. The Tip- Top Tailoring Company, the first Five young men, talked into trying to emulate Lind- bergh by the mili- tarist propaganda of the capitalist press, were killed when their home made plane crash- ed at San Diego, Cal. .Photo shows remains of the wrecked plane. The | dead men. were fooled by a militar- istic campaign to trap the American youth into becom- ' ing air-conscious. Aviation courses are being intro-: duced into the pub- lic schools as part <3 of this Beisel dig WOMEN THRUOUT WORLD CELEBRATE. Many Meetings Planned in America (Continued Silo Page One) work eight hours a day and will soon. work 6, If our women would only cen- tralize their attention and their ability on the economic field, we would have no children in the fac- tories and we would have more highly developed citizens in the fu- ture. Hoping your International Wom- en’s Day will be a great success, I remain, with sincere good wishes, Very truly yours, MOTHER JONES. Women workers of other great in- dustrial centers are holding Interna- tional Women’s Day demonstrations this week. Chicago women are hold- ing their celebration today, March 8, at'8 P. M, in Northwest Hall, North- DENVER POLICE JAIL 32 IN DRIVE ONUNEMPLOYED | Organization of Men Is Feared by Bosses DENVER, Colo., March 7.—Acting under the direction of Mayor Ben Stapleton, raids have been made upon many labor headquarters here result- ing in the arrest of 32 workers par- ticipating in the organization of the jobless. Chief of Police R. Fred Reed was ordered to arrest all progressive workers who are active among the unemployed and continue. raids jagainst all meeting places of the jobless, E | The raids are the aftermath of an | #nonymous letter received by the | mayor accusing him of being respon- sible for the critical unemployment situation, It is believed that third degree |methods will be used against the ar- rested workers in an attempt to dis- cover who sent the letter to the mayor. * Crisis in Philadelphia. - PHILADELPHIA, March 7.—So- cial welfare organizations have sent a resolution to Mayor Mackey set- ting forth that “unemployment in Philadelphia has reached» the stage where action must be taken by the city, business organizations and in- dustry itself.” The mayor was urged to appoint a committee on unemployment to consider the situation and devise ways and means of meeting it. -_ * * * * Labor Urges ublic Work. CHICAGO, March 7. (F.P.)—The growing unemployment among Chi- cago unionists was the principal topic before the Chicago Federation of Labor March 4. A number of | were dismissed. It was the second z ‘sar EXPOSE SELVES j time Owens had been arrested by the day night, when eating in a restaur-' witness, who maintained that Marks | jsame-cop on Fillmore and 0’Farrell. | ern and Wesiern Avenues, with| delegates urged favorable votés on - Ls Sagat ise ee hee )stole money from him at the time of | released on ail yesterday. ey |the assault, was confronted with the ‘ are charged with felonious assault. | minutes of a rhaeiwbeate’s patty tcl (Continued from Page One) They will appear in the Tombs Court | which he had accused one Morris Co- | president urged that. Lewis “go to Thursday morning for a hearing. |hen of having committed the “theft,” | ‘he courts” to settle his dispute with The arrested workers are Philip |and after being compelled to admit |*ne coal companies. Rothman, Charles Guardino, John / Laure, John Pekerl, Vincent Cantone, Albert Schayer and Bob Anthony Graffo. i jdistrict attorney; he would make a hat the record Was correct, the judge that if he further assisted the Stabilization of the bituminous coal industry through the elimination of “uneconomic mines,” with the re- sultant elimination of 450,000 min- saw fool of himself. Police Beat and and Brophy, Mine Leaders (Continued from Page Une} questions about the tilag and the | army, punctuating them with| punches, pushing him behind the |: piano on the platform and slugging him. When Brophy attempted to speak | to Toohey a policeman threw him | across a bench several times. | After Toohey was beaten up by! Corporal Onko of the state police Brophy and Toohey were spirited away in separate automobiles and kept in a private house in Renton one hour. They were threatened and quizzed by the police and then taken by Sheriff Robert Braun to Pitts- | burgh where they were kept hours and separately quizzed again. They were iinaily reieased on $1,000 bail each for a hearing before Alderman George Wilson next Wed- nesday afternoon. The meeting had progressed about three hours when Sev, Bunch, who is thought friendly Lewis machine, arrived. Both speaxers appealed io the un- organized non-union miners to jom the strike under the leadership of the Save-the-Union-Committee and spread the strike to every mining camp section. They also stressed | the need for a labor parity as a means of electing judges, oheritts | and senators to proect wie interests | of the workers. Corporal Onko has been a strike- | breaker for years. One of the arresting state troop- ers, a former marine, was particul- arly incensed at Toohey’s remarss about sending the marines to Nicara- gua and China and struck the speak-; er several times, knocking him down. The speakers were applauded when they assailed John L. Lewis, Inter- national union president, for his con- duct of the strike. Meeting Is Raided. MORGANTOWN, Pa., March A meeting under the auspices of the Save-the-Union Committee of the United Mine Workers was broken up and -disbanded by the state troopers and deputy sheriffs when Vincent Kamenevitch, progressive coal miner, | began to talk. The rank and file miners are blam- ing the Lewis administration machin» in this district for the suppression of Save-the-Union Committee progres- sive mass meetings. Reet * Lewis Machine in Fear. PITTSTON, Pa., March 7,—Ma- neuvers the Lewis-Cappelini machine with the aim of dividing the ranks of the progressive miners have followed one another in rapjd_ sion. ’ Following the rejection y junanimous. vote of the members of {trict 1, }ers from thé pyesent total of 800,000, is the solution offered by soph for the miners’ crisis. “Progressive mine eae he admitted, “have cooperated with us and the government in carrying out this program and to insure peace in the indus.ry through long-term agreements.” The correspondence between Cool- idge and Lewis reveals also that Coolidge admitted that the govern- ment had helped to make the Jack- sonville agreement, which the opera- tors have since flagrantly violated. Lewis, as a member of the Na- ional Republican Committee, sold out the workers in the 1924 election campaign, and expected to receive |as his reward an appointment as sec- general conference later in the week |T¢tary of labor. When Andy Mellon, at which all groups are to be invited, | dictator of the United States govern- These maneuvers are the resul. of |ment, for reasons of his own, fore- the growing n opposition, to the | Stalled the plan, Lewis became a bit Lewis - Cappelini - e machine | peeved. a f of betrayal and mu which is This is being given as the probable seeking to perpetuate its hold on the|reason for the 1925 “comnlaint” to mine union, Over a dozen locajs| Coolidge. Cal, who is the errand boy have already passed resolutions de- jof Mellon, naturally refused to, speak manding the resignation of Cappel- | against his master, the owner of one held responsible for the|of the largest coal companies in the a Hi and Reiliy. country, the Pittsburgh Coal Com- pany. Arrest Toohey Local 1703 of the “peace” proposal to open Colliery 6 offered by the ennsy! ia Coal Company cooper- ating with the union officials of Dis- a new conference ‘call has been announced. At a meeting held at Scranton yes- |terday Rinaldo Cappelini, working together with Mayor William H. Gii- lespie and officials of the mine com- pany, announced a new move for “peace.” It was decided to hold a 150 WORKERS FLEE THROUGH FLAMES. CHICAGO, March 7.—One hun- dred and fifty employes of an oil burner manufacturing company fled through a raging inferno of fire here this afternoon following the explo- sion of oil tanks on the first floor of the four-story building. \Maurer Will Not Be Socialist Candidate hi pet s. Me- Le ne County Coure today granted writs of habeas corpus to Powers Hapgood and his wife, held here in lieu of $1,000 bail on charges of inciting to riot among Pittston miners. Judge McLean set their hearing for tomorrow. after granting the writs on application of Joseph Mul. hern and Joseph b’lannagan, Wilke: barre attorneys. Hapgood and his wife have been in the county jail since Sunday: William ding Judge n of the Lu * *# Mass Meetings. PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 7.—The coming week many mass meetings will be held in various parts of the strike area, to be addressed by speak- ——— ers of the national Save-the-Union READING, Pa., March, ¢.- James Committee, The committee is going|H. Maurer, president of the Pennsyl- directly to the membership and carry-|vania State Federa.ion of Labor and|. ing its program to them. Within the} city councilman, stated yesterday past two weeks more.than twenty-|that he was “too busy to run for five mass meetings have been held in| president.” He had been mentioned the Tri-District strike area, as a possible choice of the socialist Friday, March 9th, at a mass meet-| party. ing in the town theatre at Hastings | “I am positively not a candidate,” Pa,, sponsored by the local union and|\e said, “I would not accep . the}; |to be addressed by Pat Toohey, 1,500| omination unless I could make a are expected to attend. On the sam-| ur of the country and that would day a meeting will be held in Mid- be impossible because of my couneile way, District 5, Kemenovich, Jurich, manic duties. Siders, etc., speaking. SR De aes Three Workers Killed Sunday, March 11, Canonsburg, Pa.. Kemenovich, Maglicano and _— loca! CENTRAL ISLIP, } N. Y., March 7. Same day, Bairds Theatre, Portage,| Three men were killed here today speakers, Alexandra Hall, 2 p. m. Pa., District 2, Toohey speaker. when a quantity of dynamite with The membership is responding to| which they were blasting stumps ex- the call of the Save-the-Union Com-| ploded prematurely. They were mittee to mass picket, violate injunc-| Julius Dunn and Edward Dixon of tions, ‘build Labor Parties, Atpanize ide Islip. and Magen the unoreanized. ses he The other case was also dismissed. Profitable Charity. Community Chest promoters are not slow in fastening onto the un- employment situation to further their game of gouge. The Salvation Army is one of the worst inthe business. It gets a goodly share of the fund and finds the business of saving souls a profitable one. Every morning at their wood yard at’ 868 Harrison hundreds of shivering men may be seen huddled together waiting for a chance to chop ‘wood and earn a ticket for'a meal and a might lodg- ing. Beginning Feb. 27th the Workers (Communist) Party began a week of intensive agitation and organization work. Though speakers are few, 18 meetings were scheduled for ‘the week, culminating in a mass meeting at Waiters’ Union Hall, where a San Francisco Council of the Unemployed was organized. UNIONS ANSWER RINE SLAYINGS Nee ¥: Workérs Give More Relief Funds Relief funds are pouring increas- ingly into the office of the Pennsyl- vania-Ohio-Colorado Miners’ Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, which is |cooperating with the Workers Inter-} ' national Relief. Workers’ organiza- tions, including trade unions, and in-, dividual workers are becoming more ‘and more active in the collec.ion of funds. The reasons ascribed by Fannie Rudd, secretary of the committce, for this increasing activity are the activizing influence of the special collection drive—still being carriea on by women workers and other volun- teers—and the reaction of New Yor..| workers to the murder of Alex Camp- bell and Peter Reilly, militant min- ers. Unions Support Miners. firm to obey the union officials’ order that three left wingers be discharged and the Miller Coat Shop, which served dismissal notices on two other worers, are already completely tied- up by a spontaneous 100 per cent walk-out, Workers’ Demands. The giving of one week’s pay in lieu of novice to a worker in the Heb- jerlin Shop was also the signal for an immediate walk-out. The demand of the strikers who have already or- ganized picket lines, is that no worker be thrown from the job by the union bureaucrats for fighting against the right wing policies in the union. A mee‘ing last: Sunday of nearly every worker in the traie unanimous- ly decided that a general strike be called if immediate reinstatement is not affected. It was learned. that Benjamin Schlosseberg, secretary-treasurer, of the Amalgamated is already on his way to Toronto in an effort to: settle the dispute, but it is doubtful, accord- ing to the sentiment here, whether the workers would be willing to make any concessions, since most of them believe. that the attack against the left wing was made under the ex- press instructions of the national leaders of the union. Excuse 7. Bosses. The issue used by the union offi- cialdom in ordering the workers’ dis- charge was that they refused to ohey a union order posted in the shops, Schlossberg, secretary-treasurer of that all distribution and circulation of the Canadian Jewish Communist weekly -be stopped immediately. Hemstitchers Dual Union Works Hand in Hand With Employers |, Revealing. how openly the dual hemstitchers’ local establishedsby the right wing in the International La- \dies’ Garment Workers’ Union is working hand in hand with the-em- ployers, S. Mailman, a worker in the shop of Landau Bros., 360 W, 36th St., has told how the leaders of the fake ‘union admitted that. they were unable to reinstate him after he was The Bakers Workers Independent, discharged. Union has donated $160; Suspender Makers Union 7660, $25; the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join- ers, Local 1164, $100; Local 1695 of the same union donated $20; Work- men’s Circle, Braneh 150 gave $25, The Hungarian Miners Relief Com- mittee, composed of Hungarian workers, yesterday turned in $222.05 as its latest contribution. The Egg Inspectors Union 11254 donated $25; the Glass Workers, Mirror Bevelers and Cutters Union; Local 258, turned in $100, The Amalgamated Food workers, Local 164, which has gen- srously supported the striking rhin- ars since the opening of the campaign in New York, thas donated protien $1005.-r"" cn Pullman Porters Give. ~The congregation of St: Phillip’s Church, through the Rev. S. H. Bishop, its’ reetor, donated $37.25; the Refuge Church of Christ- the Apostle, through Rev. J. Lawson, donated $40, taken up at a collection. The Russian Students’ Club turned in. $19.55; the iat mathew ego ENGINE. KILLS WORKER. JERSEY CITY, March 7.—An un-| identified worker of about 50 years was struck and killed at Randolph Ave. here on the Newark and New York branch of the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey by a switch engine, CLEARWATER, Fla. March 7.— Dazzy Vance has signed with the Brooklyn Robins for one year at a salary reported to be $20,000, which would make him the highest-pai’ pitcher in the National League. Vance had held out for a two-yea. contract. collection and donated $26.35. Many individuals are arrangi fairs for miners relief. Th Bronx Workers Club of 500 172d St. will give.a concert and dance at ies a striking Negro miner, took up a_ af" ‘est their mead warters March 14. Half| Jack Sharkey account ‘of himself js are to be given to the|against Gene Rosie 3 is a question |w he other half to the that should Anna David, Edith Rudquist, and oth#?s as speakers. New Haven holds q meeting on Friday, the 9th, and Springfield on Saturday, the 10th, Baltimore on Sunday, the 18th, with a Woman’s Banquet in the eve- ning, The organizations of Boston will hold their meeting on Sunday, the 11th, at Paine: Memorial Hall with Juliet Stuart Poyntz as speaker. GRECHT FACING SEDITION CHARGE Police Hold Communist Organizer (Continued from Page One) liceman at this point clapped his hand over her mouth. The meeting was peaceable except for the intrusion of the police. Squire McKnight released Grecht on $525 bail. * * Phila. Protest Meet. PHILADELPHIA, March 7. — A protest meeting of workers, trade unionists and sympathizers will be held here Friday against the brutal murder of the rank and file coal mine leaders; in the Pittston district. The meeting which will be address: ed by Wm. Z. Foster, national secre- tary of the Trade Union Educational League, is called also to defend Sam Bonita, Adama Moleski and Steve Mendola, the three Pittston mine workers who are being held on a frame-up charge for the shooting of Agati, one of, the’ Lewis-Cappelini crew of killers. The call to the meeting which will be held at the Labor Institute, 810 Locust St., Friday at 8 p. m., declares that the murder machine must be Ha ee It points out that Tom Lil- lis, Sam Greco, Alex Campbell and Peter Reilly, officers of Local. 1708 have already been shot down and that the certain method of preventing fur- ther murders by the Lewis machine is the building of a mass movement behind the militant miners. The meeting is called under the auspices of the Trade . ae Educational League. ‘Sharkey Risko Bout The principal Mente of Leivediasion among boxing fans these days is the Jack ophnagi Risko bout at Madison Square uarden Monday right. According to all. indications the Boston boy will be the winner and. will be matched with Tom Heeney, Whether ‘the sur- vivor of the elimina- tion bouts will be able to give a good given serious consid ae eS the bond issues for public improve- ments coming before the voters at the next election. Building trades workers were less concerned about the situation. Right Wingers Fail in Attempt to Frame Gebel Progressive Fur Worker A verdict of not guilty was brought in by the jury in General Sessions, Part 6 yesterday in the case of Max Gebel, a furrier who was tried for “assault” charges growing out of his activities in the 1927 furriers’ gen- eral strike, It took the jury but a few minutes to see thru the flimsy evidence mar- shalled by the right wing in the union for the’ prosecuting attorney. Gebel, a middle aged man, and the head of a family of small ‘children, had been out on bail furnished by the Joint Board Furriers’ Union, since last fall, pending trial. Freiheit Anniversary Celebration Planned Sunday afternoon, March 25, at 2 p. m., the workers of New York and vicinity will celebrate the sixth an- niversary of the Freiheit, Jewish Communist daily, at Madison Square Garden, 50th St. and Eighth Ave. At the anniversary demonstration the struggles of the Freiheit for the last six years will be reviewed: A mass pageant in which 1,000 actors from the Freiheit Dramatic Studio, Freiheit Gezangs Verein, Freiheit Sport Clubs, Dramatic Sections ef the Bronx, Downtown and Browns ville Clubs. will participate is being arranged. ; Worker Loses Leg JERSEY CITY, N. J., Mar. 7— Guiseppe Minia, worker of the New _ Jersey Central R. R. here, suffered a” fracture of the right leg yesterday when he fell from a freight car on Dock 7 of the railroad rule unload- ing lumber, oN defeat of Sharkey at the hands of Jack Deepsey and Gene's victory over Dempsé¢y it seems sort of out ful. While Sharkey and Heeney are better than the average Hig Albi that are by no means in the cham- — pionship class, ay gig Bee wm, ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 7. ra criticisms that his devo- tion to golf would impair his ability to hit home runs, Babe Ruth inaugur- « ated his season’s training by smack ing six wallops into Crescent lak outside the training park of the York Yankees here. Several. rookies: could not conceal their mirth wl Boy miss bambin ie doh ,. :