The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 10, 1928, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKE SENATE HEARING | SHOWS PLAN T0 CONTROL MINES Speed Up Trick SEATTLE RECORD, ORGAN OF LABOR OFFICIALS, FAILS ‘W YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1928 Colorado Workers Are Pushing ‘Daily’s’ National Subscription Campaign 7 Servants Wait on Him While Over 4,000,000 Jobless Workers stare: The 4,000,000 or more unemployed workers in this country will not be delighted to know that C. L. Brown, Kansas City capi- i ‘WORKER’ READERS SPEED UP DRIVE. FOR 10,000 NEW RE ee talist, has many| } ae : servants to wait on BELT ie Lewis Favors Govern-| Once Militant, Fell in him. Brown shown| Bosto ts of P \ ns lati Misl d > Hand in center with his elon ent aper ment wegis ation Misleaders’ Hands ila om, asighier, Hear Ravitch | By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. (Continued from Page One) got himself photo- The coal operators must be from themselves and the country radicalism by necessary, which coal barons that without fear of the Sherman anti ing to testimony lewis, internatior United Mine Worke fore the inters mission at the s legislative acti would ssur accord- | John L. of the trick on the part of the the labor leadership. The capitali terror stricken during the strike, uni- ted to destroy the strength and power | of the workers., Their first attack was on the Union Record which they crip- pled by withdrawing their: advertise- ments. Then followed the crime of the American Legion against the I. W.. W in Centralia. The Union Record, already adopt- | ing a cautious attitude, urged toler- graphed with seven of them. CONTRACT GRAFT MELLON AGENTS ADMIT EXPOSED BY SAVE- UNION COMMITTEE (Continued from Page One) miners’ union was company inspired. ATTACK ON COAL MINERS This admission was made here to- day by W. -G. Warden, chairman of The Colorado District’s leap for- ward in the big national campaign to add 10,000 new subscribers to The DAILY WORKER is indicated in the thirty-two new subs which have been received at the office of the paper the drive. “Much of the success of the cam- paign is due to the activity with which the Colorado workers are getting be- coal strike inves 0 bosses to speed the workers up | ance. Senators Gooding and Wheeler fol-| he Board of Directors of the Pitts-| hind’ the big campaign and putting office building this afvern is by the use of competition. The capitalist class was out to kill | lowed this line though both could not |burgh Coal Company, a Mellon firm|;' across,”’Zooner writes “Plans are 4 Some ie ae Népa ai tha « He rd Davis (above) has |any sentiment favoring the Centralia be ignorant of the persecution of the |and the largest producer of soft coal| being made'to make this campaign ering thot they heard in the Le Wel 1 ‘ victims. The editor of the Union Ree- radicals in Pennsylvania by the}in the country, one of the most successful which the proposal to repeal the es been fooled by the boss. into \Flay beehs. iz - Cappelini the necessary what the industry needed is consol- | idation on a national individual clo with , pov az are now enjoyed by Jud in-baseball and by Will Hays in the | flicker industry, to bring order out} ofchaos and eliminate the competi- | tion that is making paupers out of} AGAINST “DAILY” militant and adopted a policy of pence | the special contract mining system | Fe was let down easy by counsel for |222Y broke its agreement with the), oeular readers) of the DAILY the coal barons—according to Mr. and harmony with the capitalist class.| but these decisions have remained ?| the miners’ union. union, known as the Jacksonville) WorcpR” 4 Lewis. A group on the staff attempted to|dead letter. Cappelini has done noth-| The present investigation is ex-|2&Tcement. “The company was per- ee 2 / Mr. Lewis's soft heart was full of wrest control of the paper from him| ing to carry them out. pected to last four weeks, Chairman |<c¢tly justified in running its mines| The striking Colorado miners have | pity for the “honorable operato: who were trying to do the rig and it might be p ble, that Lewis should find chair now fil. ing challenging all other garage workers to a car-washing con- bosses. PLAN NEW BLOWS Only Workers Can Save Their Press (Continued froin Page One) | Later, in an attempt to-cash in on his ord, E. P. Ault, then a socialist, was arrested, the printine plant padlocked and all support withdrawn. paper. They created a_ sustaining fund, published 2 substitute sheet but |they failed to take over the manage- {ment and edministration of the paper. Ault Became Faker. After this offensive of the indus- trial interests, the editor became less and continue the former militant pol- icy but Avlt had the suvport of the lehor officialdom and won the paner Machine for Deceit cials are again'making only paper de cisions asking for the abclition of the contract mining’ system and at the same-time taking no steps to elim- inate it from the mines in District 1 “District convention after district convention has gone on record agains* “He has done everything to hel the operators break these decisions Capnelini merely fought against th- contractor system before he got int agents of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. President. F. E, Harriman of the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Co,; New company to restrain the miners at Rossiter, Pa., from picketing, march- ing, receiving contributions of food }or money, or even from singing hymns, on company. property, was drastic, but claimed it was necessary, adding, “When the miners determine to close a mine it is no play-making.” Watson admitted that the commission cannot even suggest a remedy for the coal crisis, Today the bureau of mines of the Government Official Directs Drive. Testifying before the Senate In- terstate Commerce Committee, War- ury carrying out the orders of Sec- retary Mellon, joined with the other members of the Board in 1925 in voting for the plan launched by the open shop. companies to destroy the labor movement. Warden admitted that the com- under an open shop policy”, War- den contended. He sought at the same time to show that the company had lost Denver workers have ever undertaken. Papers Distributed. Se aemcters that the law was @ d night | test, blindfolded or not. He is | It was then that the workers of| (Continued from Page Oney |York Central subsidiary, admitted | 4.4 disclosed that R, B. Mellon,| “Denver, in the heart of the west- atthet Bho eval ir at a hint that | being used as a decoy by the |Seattle rallied to the support of the|is that the Cappelini district offi- at the “anjanetion -sekared 1by, hid actheb githesaetee ary of the treas-'ern mining region, is one of the most suitable fields for spreading. The DAILY WORKER. Hundreds of free copies of the paper have been distrib- uted and plans are under way for making a more extensive -distribu- tion. In this way it is hoped to reach hundreds of workers who are not yet learned the value of ‘their press and have got behind it with every ounce of energy jin spite of the exhaustive strike thru which they have passed. | from the DAILY WORKER agent of , District 1, M. Zooner, who is pushing: », led by James J. Davis in the Cool- whi : a labor record, he lent his name and| power. Once he took over the edmin | Department of Commerce ‘issued a!” T@V. in operating its mines. He Zooner promises that the Colorado dis- , idge cabinet siill occupied by that |™ounth-piece of the militant workers | offorts to a number of falze schemes| ‘stration of the district, Cappolini b: |bulletin showing that non-union West admitted, nevertheless, that the com- | trict will be a long way towards first |) wily Welshman after the next pres- the only militant English labor 4¢ trade union capitalism which| came its most energetic supporter, , Virginia led the country in the pros}Pany. had been able to afford ex-|place in the national campaign within [ idential election, a suggestion to ap-| daily in the world. It is the united) Wutcted the workers. “The Save-the-Union Committee de-|duction of bituminous last year and | Penditures of thousands of dollars in| short time. \ point a man of the organizing abil-|°fforts of he American working class] y, 1994, the unions, indifferent and|clares that the miners of’the anthra |that non-union Kentucky came third, attempting to break the strike of the \ i ity of Mr. Lewis as czar of the coal industry would be a practical solu- tion of the crisis in coal. Lewis might | be found willing to accept ‘he crown. The international president of the! miners union droned out his diag- nosis of the industry’s illness and his prescription for it with the calm pomposity of an episcopalian bisho lecturing his flock on the ev of | divorce. His anger was held in leash until his attention was called by a question to the inroads made by th progressives in the miners’ union. was then that he boiled and seett and drew on his vituperative vocab- | It ulary to scourge the radicals and up-! Fe braid the silly coal oy folly in not fostering a conservativ at the offices of The) pnionists of Seattle had given $60,-| tion of the contractor system and the af e2.8 burgh Chamber of Commerce wasjferred to the disappearance of the_ union Jeadership that has at heart the! KER. ;000 in subscriptions, now counted| present deplorable situation in the Official Admits Fact supporting the open shop drive of the|checks as “synthetic robberies.” i best interests of industry, of the gov-| ributes Paper. | among the losses, miners’ union of District 1. WASHINGTON, March 9.—The|coal companies and that the Cham-| Commissioner Shearn was ‘appoint- | ernment and of course the “people. “Mr. Lewis offered his pan the ills that bedevil coal in a for to a pointed question put by Senator|@™ very short of funds,” writes a nt. The Save-the-Union Committes| img figure, have been the leaders in|$1000 per month was paid by the|sion of Maurice E. Connolly, president Watson of the ku klux state of Indi-;Worker from Chicago. “I enclose | be aaree that there is no. possibility | ‘Be open shop drive which the coal coal company and whose duties are | of Queens, contractors and manufac- ana, a subtle politician and a pres-|twenty-five two cent stamps. I never ; \"¢ ending the contract system unless }°Perators have launched against the|‘to organize a company union of the)turers, of whom Phillips was the . idéntial aspirant. destroy a DAILY WORKER but| j léhe A and one eh eu prantag: United Mine Workers of America. coal miners. most powerful. In all of Queens This investigation is a farce as far as the miners are concerned. The in- terstate commerce con nothing, according to Senator Wa except suggest a remedy. Lewi | mitted on the witn stand that “he asked for the investigation not only to inform the senators what was tak- ing place in the coal in y but to encourage legis n that would} enable the operators to help them-! - 'Zausner Graft Charge | ganization is being destroyed. has been putting up such a brave = — eniaieiiieens What about the miners? Well, The events of the past few days |ficht against this system for several] <yaqg I Ta miners themselves in conjunction fest) , Dropped by Agreement Ihave resulted in the creation of a|months, against the combined forces |...) ARHING TA aria spe Set OIN I = A REAL F I GH ca ! the rest of organi ized labor the help of the mi ganized, exercising and w jons yet unor- | their power on} |which has frustrated the attempts. of the 4 jlow. their also } ¢ erican the labor press. Only Checked, However. The bosses have been checked. They have not yet been defeated and they are plotting a more concerted on- | slaught. Only the power of the | worers which has prevented the ex- | tinction of their paper in the past | can it from these new at- tacks, The loyalty of the American work- jers to their dail y press has been al- most unequalled even in revolution- Scores of testimonials ices which the workers ng for their press are re- capitalists to destroy rescue” | generated into a yellow sheet carry- “This week I can only send fifty cents as a donation ‘o help defeat he enemies of the “DAILY” as I make it do double duty by giving it to friends or sending it to mili ants jin the west which was originally my home.’ These loyal workers are giving all have to aid. the paper in the; crisis thru which it is passing. Fo!l- example, rush your con- | ions ie The DAILY WORKER, . New York City. RT. FIRES 15 At the joint sieseetan of Assis- \tant Distriet Attorney Unger and disinterested, handed over the Union| Record to Ault, who had already com= pletely lived down his past, and the paper then became the property of the American Free Press Association | controlled by Ault and S. Haas, a business man. Workers Lose $60,000, After four years of constant be- trayal of the workers’ interests, dur- ing which time the Union Record de- ing little labor news, opposed to all militant activity and fighting the Communists at every opportunity, it has finally expired. Only two months -ago the’ trad Officials Stand By and Do Nothing (Continued from Page One) an injunction application then ‘mnend-' ing against the federation. \ This deal is the explanation of the, present failure of the Amalgamated even to lift its finger while its or- rank and file movement of revolt against the leadership of the Amal- gamated. The realization has come the industrial field thru powerful| | Samuel Markewich, counsel for the to the traction workers that these of- militant unions and on the p field thru a Labor Party can ans this question. i nst Philip Zausner,}_ The Amalg ad has sold out. cig) district convention to take ste syne svesecuiots WE EB NS ESO DET saray John L. Lewi eretary of Dis- | Tammany Hall has confirmed the sell, go away with the contractor sys- iemands by the commission. was on dustry for the ion, ‘has out in the announcement yesterday’ljem and the rule of gunmen and mur-| ‘Pe basis that it had “no jurisdiction’ | thinks he knows He certainly | been dismissed Jedga Nott in Gen- that with the continued discharges of | erers, which hae been responsible for |°1 ‘he matter. The union of the por- | has proven that he does not know eral Sessions. jthe workers, “the situation has now A RN ing eat tors which has feucht a long uphill how to organize the miners or does not want to. | Negroes in School During the year 1925-26 the number| Two women were named with five yaar ae Gear Hal which sey te Store Owner, Is Dead with the union: the leaders of the or- SGAINGT of “Negro children a tending public|men as delegates at large for’ the taken as the official statement. of the eanization decided to carry their ease || 1. Organization of the unorgan- (4 1. ‘Injunctions. schools in the United States num- Kansas City National Republican union officials as well must be accept- | Rodman Wanamaker; head of the }49 the Interstate Commerce Commis-| |} ized, 2. Company Uni ; bered 2.141.) 6. 9 mn 9 United Convention today at the republican’ eq as the funeral match of these labor ‘department stores which bear his | .ion 3 | 2. Miners’ Relief. . nga vy ‘hee States Bureau of Education. state committee meeting. | traitors. Out with the Amalgamated ;name, died yesterday in Atlantic City 3 Fieht ‘Tippin Practice. 3.° Recognition and Defense of 3. Unemployment. crew of Tammany henekmen! Forin | following a brief illness. He was 65| Their ploa.was based on the belie? ‘ ea ee Union... 4, Persecution of the Foreign your own groups in preparation for ,Years old. that they could have the current tip: || 2 choad sade Born. . the time in the near ‘future when you |, Wanamaker was the second son of cing: practice declared Wavat and thus'| | 6. A crkers’ and Farmers’ Scag! will elect & new leadership from your | ohn Wanamaker, founder of chain Government, Ki ; right wing in the local labor move- ment, the indictment charging grand larceny and extortioned filed two} 4ausner was expelled from the union for misappropriating funds | |while secretary of District Council 9, | MACHINE SLATE INTACT. \- .ficials are both incapable .of organiz- ing the traction workers and too cor- rupt to make any attempt to do so. ‘come to the point desired by Mayor \¢, Walker, the Interborough to ‘cease further discharges and the Amalga-| mated to ceese further union work.” | Organization Vital. own ranks. The recent experience } * has been costly but the traction wor cite Tri-District and especially Dis- trict 1, will not be fooled by this crooked maneuvering on the part of the machine lead by Lewis, Cappelini and Kennedy. Such tricks and doub'e- crossing won’t fool the miners in Dis trict 1 any longer. Especially the miners in the Pittston territory know thendirty hand of Cappelini and his henchmen. : Convention Demanded. “The »Save-the-Union Committee ealls upon all miners to demand ir eccordance with the decisions of the last regular district. convention to hold an immediate special convention to take positive sters for the elimina- “Cappelini and his agents, respon- sible for the rule of terrorism and murder in cur union, must be cleaned peli administration which is re- sponsible for this system. The rank and file miners will not be bluffed and mislead any more by meaning- less, fntile. paver decisions of the Caprelini district board. We miners want action. “The Save-the-Unton Comimittee especially calis wpon the miners to supnort to the the splendid struggle ef Local Union 1703, which Jimit of Cannelini. his runnen, the contrac- ters, and the coal company influences. We call unon the miners to fight to a finish for the immediate abolish- ment of the contractor system, the limmediate resignation of the entire \Canpelini. administration and a spe- the murder of cur brothers, Alex bell, Peter Reilly and Thomas Lilt Wanamaker, Millionaire stores- located in New. York, Phila- | delphia, London and Paris, and inher- almost doubling the output of union Illinois, The same bulletin reports that the output per mari per day in the United States is from two to four times the output of the European min. er, that over 71 per cent of the bitu- minous coal mined in 1926 was cut by machine and that there were 759,- 000 miners employed in the industry in 1926. It is as’ clear as ctystal that’ the major problem confronting the miners is the organization’ of the unorgan- ized. As long.as the non-union f.el can supply the markets with coal the operators, the railroads and the big coal-consuming public utilities can laugh at investigations. Mellon interests, of which Andrew fellon, Secretary of the treasury in the Coolidge government is the mov- miners, Money For Strikebreaking As much as $16,000 a month was the figure which he gave as the cost to the company for the employment of its deputy sheriffs and strike- breaker guards alone. Each man is paid $7 per day for this work, he stated. The money is, however, turn- ed over to the sheriff in charge who pays his “assistants” but $6. The disclosure that the sheriffs receive a “dividend” of $1. per man per day has provided another’ sidelight on the reason for the prevalence’ of thesys- tem: Anothed significant admission by Warden was the fact that the Pitts- ber now had in its,employ a com- pany union “expert” by the name of B.S. McCullough, whose salary of NEGRO PORTERS DENIED RAISE Commerce Commission Rejects Plea nial here today by the Interstate Commerce Commission of the plea hw the Brotherhood of Sleening Car Porters for a ware increase has put the) leadership of this comprisi over 12.009 orear mombers. on in winning ‘to its ranks almost the | entire hody of the Pn'lman employes. When the labor board set up on the | force the company to grant a waye increase. Wages are as low as $70 and $75 a month in a majority of the issue of a strike squarely before | battle for orzanivation has succeeded | roilroads tefused to enforce its de- | cision that the Prlman Comnany deal! 4 POLICEMEN INDICTED. FREEPORT, L. IL, Mar. 9.—Four members of the Freeport police force were indicted by the Nassau County Grand Jury last ght. Two are IN GRAFT QUIZ. Cancelled checks, proving payment of millions to Jack Phillips, pipe deal- er, in the $16,300,000 Jamaica sewer scandal yesterday. were. reported. among the missing documents and regain. Emory Buckner, special counsel to Commissioner Clarence J. Shearn, re- ed by Governor Smith to sift charges that half of the $16,300,000 sewer cost was grafted through the collu- Borough a total of $29,500,000 is in- volved in the investigation. The checks had been subpoenaed by Commissioner Shearn and around them he planned to build much of his report to the governor. Phillips has been “vacationing” at. charged with extortion and another of maintaining a gambling house. a hotel in Miami two weeks, out of the reach of process servers, i { CHECKS “MISSING” records which the state is striving to . New York Eagle vs. Cooperative. ers must understand that they ecanno! ited a large portion of the huge for- YM. H. A, vs. ceca tel give up for this reason, The necd for tune left by his father. | organization looks to the future when The employer of thousands of over- |the Interborough will begin. its in-|worked and underpaid sales-girls, the cases. This method of fighting the battle of the, Neero porters in the legal Join a Fighting Party! fields has been eri ed. It is gen- ; : nes Metropolitan Workers " | Soccer League Games| ian. Claremont vs. Scandinavian, Workers. The avowtig soccer games in the Metropolitan Workers Soccer League | will be played tomorrow: | Division “A.” Hungarian Workers ys. Red Star. | » New York Eagle vs. Armenian. li Bronx Hungarian vs. Scandinavian. Martians vs. Spartacus. ' Freiheit by. Division “B.” | German-Hungarian vs. Hungarian) Rangers vs, Prague. Red Star vs. Fordham. \ Blue Star vs. Claremont. | heit vs. Spartacus. | Divisian “C.” gue vs. Trumpeldor F. C. sue Juniors vs. pegertacas, | | rounder Red Star vs. Vagabound. | - * * | Lou Moskowitz, who was knocked jout in the first round last Saturday by Pete»Zivic has signed to meet him} in a return match at the Olympia A. C. on March 17. pap An all star card has been arranged for March 23 at Mad'son Square Gar- n, It will be topped with a 10 between Ignazio Fernandez and Dominick Petrone. Sammy Dorf- man and Andre Routis are scheduled in another 10 rounder. The rest of the 10 round bouts will be Archie Bell vs, Kid Francis and Al Brown ys. Betmy Schwariz, up, evitable policy of wage cuts and speed You must build for the moment | when hours wHich are already threat- | ened will be increased unmercilessly. Raise the slogan: Out with the cor- | ruptionists and traitors! A clean fighting union with an hon- | est leadersh'p from the rank and file. | Battle of All Workers, The time will come rapidly when the shop and terminal groups which have been formed will unite their | forces for a militant leadership of | struggle.» The traction workers will | not be alone. They will receive the support of other honest elements in the labor movement. The struggle, of the traction workers is the battle of all workers, Wanamoker was a bitter opponent of labor organization, In return for heavy donations. to ‘the Tammany machine in New York, Wanamaker received, at various times, numerous political “honors.” of polcie in New York, and also head of the “Committee of Reception to Distinguished Visitors’. and Tam- many’s official eee Mander: “4 RLOCK HITS WORKER. PHILLIPSBURG, N. J:, Mar. 9.— Michael Esposito,.a laborer at the Alpha Portland Coment Co, at Mart- , ins Greek, suffered a fracture of the right Tex yesterday when a large block of conerete struck ‘him. erally known that the members of the interstate commerce commission be- ‘fore whom the decision was placed are the Ane of the railroads: Present Plays Monday The Workers Theatre will repeat its bill on Monday, presenting three ‘one-act plays at the Triangle Thea- ‘tre, Seventh Ave. and lith St, The program will consist of “The Seab,” by Max Geltman; “The Renegade,” by | i Karl Witfogel; aud “Aftermath,” a Negro play with a ange cast, by Mary Burril. ; , | ‘Workers “Theatre Will | He was special deputy commissioner ‘ Join the Workers (Communist) Party of America Application for Membership in Workers (Communist) Party. (Fill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 EB. 125 St, N, Y¥. ony NAME Lad AI aa UAN den Ces op ab ates cond gs Samet eh et sh Ue beige ADDRESS ..... | OCCUPATION ..... . If you are on strike or unemployed and cannot pay initation fe , please 'check tnis box, fa] ‘ ia UNEMPLOYED AND STRIKERS ApMrrrED WITHOUT INITIATION and receive dues exempt stamps until employed, x papel esaal find $1.00 for initiation fee and one month's. duce). Ade eeseceade ee ooo o ce co eons