The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1928, Page 1

_——_ ne nat entero THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY T THE NAM VY warren wow want MATE arom «a Entered as second-class matter ut the Post Offiee at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. ee FINAL CITy | EDITION Vol. V. No. 60. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mafl, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 ‘per year. MURDER 800 CHINESE AFTER BOYCOTT OF JAPANESE PRODUCTS \ 2,000 Are Reported Wounded After Gunboats Shell Pingtan Boycott Began as Protest Against Arrest of Four Korean Nationalists (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) SAN FRANCISCO, March 11.—More than 800 Chinese were killed on march when ‘three Japanese gunboats shelled the city of Pingtan, according to despatches received by the Chinese pa- pers here. mates place the number of wounded at two thousand, the reports state, The bombardment followed a boy- cott against Japanese goods thruout Fukien province, which succeeded in tying up Japanese trade. The boy- cott was begun to protest against the arrest of four Korean Nationalists on March 4th at the orders of the Japan- ese consul at Amoy. Soon after the arrest of the Koreans, a League against Japanese Imperialism was formed to demand their immediate release. The League informed the Japanese consul that unless the Koreans were -released within twenty-four hours a boycott would be started thruout Fukien province. The Koreans were not re- leased. On March 6th the boycott was started. Domestic servants of Japanese residents went on strike, (Continued on Page Three) BOSTON FURRIERS IN “1-UNION” GALL DemandEnd of Struggle Against Joint Board BOSTON, Madch 11.—A_ com- munication has been sent out by the Fur Workers’ Union Local 30 of this city to all the locals of the Interna- tional Fur Workers Union and to its general executive board to take im- mediate steps to end the disastrous war being carried on by the Interna- tional officials and the American Fededation of Labor against the New York Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union. The communication makes a direct proposal for a conference to be called of all the local unions in the International as the first step for the attainment of the desired end. The conference to be held on or about the 15th of April. Union Weakened. In setting forth the position of the Boston Local 30 the statement de- clares in part: (1) That the war being carried on by the-American Federation of Labor bureaucrats against the New York Joint Board has resulted in weaken- ing the International Union. (2) 'Tha+ the st~ggle against the Joint Board is not a fight conducted in Preliminary _esti- © (Continued on Page Five) Fodder for the Belt Thirty boys, all sons of poverty who have become state wards, were turned over to Henry Ford for training at a trade school opened by the flivver king at Sudbury, Mass. The boys will be trained to become. slaves of the belt at the Ford works, Russel N. Hyde, direc- tor of the Ford school, is shown above. Lower photo shows the Ford school. OLGIN TO SPEAK IN CHICAGO MAR. 21 CHICAGO, March 11.—Two mass meetings have been arranged for the two-day stop in Chicago to be made py M. Olgin, editor of the “Hammer,” Jewish Communist monthly, who is on his way back east after a brief stay in California. The largest and most enthusiastic mass meetings in many years were held on the Pacific Coast when Olgin was scheduled for the platform. On Wednesday evening, March 21, there wil! be a mass meeting in Herzl Hall, 1885 N. California Ave. MASS MOVEMENT OF W. VIRGINIA MINERS SEEN WASHINGTON, March 11. — A mass progressive movement of the NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1928 Published datly except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents WALKER WILL GREET TERRORISTS i { 4000 WORKERS IN ‘TRIBUTE TO GREAT Militant Record task of building the Workers (Com- munist) Party of which he was the |first leader and founder and to carry lout the work of advancing the strug- gles of the American working class in whose cause he gave his utmost energies and life, nearly 4,000 mem- ers gathered yesterday afternoon at Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., to celebrate the first memorial meeting of Charles Emil Ruthenberg who died on March 2, 1927. The meeting, conducted against a background in which the rising men- ace of an imperialist world war stalked like a gaunt rider ever pres- ent, pledged the Workers (Commun- ist) Party to follow the example of its first great leader in fighting against capitalist wars and at the proper moment to. organize the masees of America to oppose the slaughter of the workers and to con- vert the imperialist war into a civil war in the interests of world revolu- tion. Unveil Painting. Almost an hour before the meet- LEADER OF LABOR Life-Long Friends Cite) Pledging themselves to carry on the} bers of the Party and its sympathiz-| unorganized miners of West Virginia was foreshadowed here in the revela- tion at the hearing by the senate interestate committee that thousands of these miners were sending letters ing began, every seat in the hall had been filled. Hundreds stood in the gallery, in the rear of the hall and in the aisles. As a painting of Ruth- enberg, by the proletarian artist Mor- ris. Bartnick, was .unyeiléd above the speakers’. table; the audience rose to applaud. The meeting was one of the most impressive yet held by the Workers Party in New York. It was evident that the thousands |of workers present who have been |thru the struggles of the past eight |years since the formation of the Par- | ty and who have witnessed its growth | \felt a deep sense of responsibility as |to their tasks in the coming period lof still greater struggle. “The war danger which the prole- \tariat of the Soviet Union faces and one which the working class of Amer. (Continued on Page Two) PHILA, WORKERS SUPPORT IMINERS PHILADELPHIA, March 11.—Sup- port of the Save-the-Union Commit- tee in its efforts to build a fighting organization of the mine workers and to the defense work now being con- ducted for the release of Sam Bonita, Adam Moleski and Steve Mendola, miners whom the coal owners and courts assisted by the Lewis machine, are seeking to convict, was pledged at an enthusiastic mass meeting held here last night. The meeting which took place at the Labor Institute. 810 Locust St., LABOR DEFENSE BAZAAR SUCCESS Five-Day Affair Ends| at Star Casino A concert by the Brooklyn Art Trio last night brought to a close the an- nual bazaar of the International La- bor Defense. which was held for five days, beginning last Wednesday, at New Star Casino, 107th St and Park Ave. The international costume ball Sat- urday night was attended by the larg- Sarr of the bazaar. Many of ~ wae workers present were in costume, wearing the national dress of their respective countries. Saturday after- noon the hall was crowded with chil- dren, Bazaar Was Successful, The bazaar was a success accord- ing to Rose Baron, secretary of the New York Section of the Interna- tional Labor Defense. “With so many other demands being made on their time and money, the support) given the bazaar shows that the vorkers of this city are behind the tional Labor Defense, heart of protest to members of the commit- tee against the intolerable conditions under which they are now forced to work. 3 Sen. Gooding, of the committee, in warning R. L. Wildermuth, one of the operator witnesses, that “condi- tios are serious,” used language which showed he was afraid that other leadership than the present of- ficialdom of the United Mine Work- ers would be followed by the miners. He referred to the Save-the-Union Committee. Called as surprise witnesses before the committee Saturday, C. E. Barr, a Pennsylvania miner, and his wife testified how Barr had been fired by the Pittsburgh Coal Co. because of statements made by Mrs. Barr to the senate sub-committee when it visited Pricedale, Pa., recently.. Mrs. Barr ‘testified with a one-year old infant, \ the youngest of eight shildegn, in her arms. Barr and his wife told the commit- tee that they had been forced to choose between shoes and stockings and food at the coal company because the family income was not sufficient to pay for both. “The store-keeper told me if I got shoes he wouldn’t be able to give us food,” Mrs. Barr said. 3 Representatives of the Pittsburgh was held under the auspices of the Trade Union Educational League. Benjamin, Thomas Speak. Wm. Z. Foster, who was to have ad- dressed the meeting was unavoidably (Continued on Page Two) Orders and. warnings from_polic: where 4,000 jobless workers had as- sembled, showed that the Tammany use police power in an effort to check the growing organization move- ment among New York’s many thous- ands of unemployed. The 4,000 workers at the Square had responded to a call from the New York Council of the Unempioyed for organization and protest. Police Issue Orders. “Tf you're going to let radical speakers talk at these metings you'll have to call them off altogether,” Inspector Patrick 8. McCormick said to John Di Santo, secretary of the council, while the meeting was in Coal Co. and ov... firms who were’ progress. ee One See er yO oe ah mae Ny Capt. William Ward told Di Santo Iso that in the future he would not Hall administration is planning toj| rectly from the police commissioner Railroad Worker Badly Hurt in Crash Whe | | | | | | | * | S A railroad work- er was seriously injured when @ Pennsylvania Rail- road locomotive (shown in photo), jumped the rails, butted along the stone pavement for half a block, con- tinued across the } street, and crash- ed thru the iron door of a building. The engineer is often blamed for these accidents, al- tho the railroad’s negligence is usu- ally the cause. i“We realize the danger is not over. | tacks,” with this defiant words Los BISCUIT WORKERS) PAID S14 A WEEK Workers Terrorized by Bosses and Spies Workers in the National Biscuit Company represé¢nt.a ¢gontinuously. shifting stream, according to an em- ploye in one of the plants of the com- |pany at Tenth Ave. and 15th St. New | faces are constantly appearing and a jgreat number of these new faces dis- [appear very soon thereafter—just jabout when their one dollar raise in | wages is due, this worker said in an} | interview yesterday. “The policy of our bosses is to keep | only such workers as are meekly sub- | |missive under any humiliating or crushing regulation or administrative | \method,” this worker said. “Either |fired without notice or laid off for }two or three days every week. A} | worker, finding it hard enough to get | jalong on his small wages for -a- full | |week’s work, finds it impossible to exist on part-time wages and so must leave. This latter method: is:-now us- | ually resorted to, instead of outright discharge. And all personal grudges (Continued on Page Five) Workers Party ‘Members to Report at Section Headquarters Tonight All members of the Workers} (Communist) Party are instructed | to report to their section head- quarters tonight in a statement issued last night by William W. Weinstone, district organizer. It is necessary that all Party mem- bers be present as Party work of major and immediate importance will be planned, according to the statement. LOS ANGELES RUSHES ‘ $800 TO DEFEND ‘DAILY’ Los Angeles has rushed $800 for the defense of The DAILY WORKER. We must be prepared for further at- Angeles workers meet the onslaught the Wall Street government is atag:| | | | \ ing against the only militant daily organ of the working class in the English language. It is a lead to be followed by every militant worker and every group of militant workers in the United States. The $800 was raised at a meeting I. R, T. FIRES 20 MORE UNION MEN Ordered to Clean Seabs’ Lavoratories Twenty more workers were dis- charged by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company Saturday in its campaign to root out, the Amalga- mated union. Not satisfied with cut- addressed by Moissaye J. Olgin, edi-| ting off the heads of workers with the tor of the Hammer, now on tour thru|ax of dismissal the feudal barons of War Danger Stressed at N. Y. Ruthenberg Memorial err bibatl Jumps Rails HUNGARIANS T0 SECURE CASH FOR HORTHY REGIME ‘Monument Unveiling Is Pretext for Visit re- gime in heduled supporters of the Horthy regime i | have led th te terrorist campaig: against work and mino S | Altho the de tion will not be of. | ficially received by Tammany’s ma | until Wednesday, the City Reception | Committee, in full re “0 |dewn the bay or board the Marcon |tomorrow morning and board the | Olympic. | White Gusrdists. | Among the fascist delegates will be twenty-five members of the Hun- garian parliament which recently passed a law decreeing life imprison- |ment for all members of the Hun- |garian Communist Party; a number lof newspaper editors who have helped lincite massacres of Jews in Budapest |and other cities and leaders of a num- ber of fascist societies in Hungary. The unveiling of the Kossuth monu- ment, which is the ostensible excuse for the visit of the delegation, will |bers of the American Federation of the United States. It was rushed to New York City by) mail, Try to Crush “Daily.” “The lackeys of *the *capitattstet Most’ of the then’ before being fied united with the reactionary organiza- tions, which are set up by the bosses for the purpose of keeping down the class consciousness of the workers, are trying hard to crush The DAILY WORKER,” says Paul Reiss, DAILY WORKER agent in Los Angeles in the message accompanying the donation. “We must realize that the danger | is not over. We succeeded in tiding | over the danger for a few weeks, but | we must be prepared for further at- tacks. We must make our press | powerful enough to challenge the at-| tacks of the master class, so that no traction, Frank Hedley and James L. |take place Thursday at 2 p. m. at Quackenbush, have devised a method |;13th Street and Riverside Drive. of medieval punishment to satisfy | Mayor Walker will play a leading role their lust for revenge. in the ceremonies. Acéording té a statement issued by are now ordered to the shop at 147th) the Anti-Horthy League, the arrival St. and Lenox Ave. in which the mob] of the delegation is a move on the of strikebreakers and finks are} housed. There these workers are| each given a sponge and pail and are} —— ordered to clean the lavoratories used} sr BOSTON YOUTH Men Then Fired. When the attempt thus to humili-| ate the militant workers on the line fails in the instant rebellion of the} men, the Interborough officials then| exult in the act of firing them. This is the company to whom the (Continued on Page Two) BOSTON, Mass., March 11. — The (Conttnued on Page Two) KENOSHA PICKETS DEFY INJUNCTION KENOSHA, Wis., March 11—Due to the order of the union officials that the strikers of the Allen-A Hosiery Company abide by the anti- picketing injunction recently obtained in a Milwaukee federal court by the mill owners, the highly effective picketing heretofore carried on by the strikers is to be substituted by a legalistic campaign to annul or “mod- ify” the vicious anti-strike order. The mill was closely picketed yes- terday however by girl strikers, due to the fact that they are not mem- Full- Fashioned Hosiery Workers’ Union, and are therefore not named in the injunction issued. The strikers, who are nearly all na- (Continued on Page Five) 4,000 JOBLESS MEET IN UNION SQUARE Police Threaten All Future Demonstrations of Unemployed be permitted to hold a meeting by? officers Saturday at Union Square.| notifying the precinct station of the|ing or a crumb of bread. time, place and purpose. “You'll have to get your permit di- after this,” the captain said. Speakers Describe Hardships. The inspector and captain were in charge of the pvlice detail assigned to watch the meeting. Both told Di Santo at 3:30 p. m., moreover, that the meeting must end by 4 p. m. A fire which brought a quantity of ap- paratus to 81 E. 17th St. made it necessary for the crowd to disperse and the meeting to end shortly before 4 o'clock. “Work or wages” was the demand voiced by the assembled workers. The speakers who addressed the workers from three platforms de- seribed how thousands of men and women are forced to undergo the \ worst humiliation for a night’s lodg- Workers Demand Relief. A resolution unanimously adopted presents a program for immediate relief. It demands unemployment in- surance and the opening of shelter stations for the unemployed. Banners on display read: “We De- mand Free Rent for the Unemployed.” “We Demand Food and Shelter.” “We Refuse To Be Footballs for Politi- cians” and “Millions for Battleships; Starvation for the Unemployed.” The Speakers. Speakers were John Di Santo, sec. retary of the council; Phil Frankfeld, Young Workers (Communist) Lea- gue; LD. Benjamin, assistant director, Workers School; Sylvan A. Pollack, of The DAILY WORKER; Richard B. Moore, secretary American Negro ntinued on Page Two) |history of the Los Angeles section of the International Labor Defense. Amalgamated leadership is refusing| Boston Youth Committee for Miners’ to give battle. This is the firm of| Relief has been organized to send im- whom William B. Fitzgerald recently| mediate help to the strike areas in said: “We are willing to forgive and | Pennsylvania and Ohio. Seven hun- forget. We will let bye-gones be bye-| dred dollars, gathered in house to gones.” | house collection and donated by af- Officers of the Interborough are} filiated organizations, have already “moral criminals,” William Green,| been sent. president of the American Federation of Labor, Saturday wired Mayor} Walker. “How can the cause of in- (Continued on Page Two) The committee is sending out a call for more affiliations. It seeks youth organizations of metropolitan Boston and vicinity, INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE IS ACTIVE By E. B. f LOS ANGELES, March 11.—May 1, 1927, marked a turning point in the The Saceo-Vanzetti conference, in which the I. L. D. played a prominent part staged a Mayday parade for the re-® + lease of Sacco-Vanzetti. As a result of this, many workers who participat- ed in the demonstration were arrested. As the execution of Sacco-Vanzetti became more imminent, an open air meeting was arranged at the Plaza, which was to be addressed by the sec- retary of the local I. L: D. and rep- resentative of many other organiza- tions. Again arrests were made—this time before the meeting had even be- gun. Draws No Lines. The International Labor Defense knows no distinction of nationality, color, or political opinion. Its aim is the defense and relief of those taking | part in the class struggle. Within the last few months the Los Angeles police force has initiated a drive against all militant workers, and are arresting anyone who does} not look good to them, For instance, | at the American Federation of Labor convention, Sid Bush was arrested, and detained without any charges be- ing preferred against him, This is only one case among many. | Many Political Prisoners. In California, which is renowned for its anti-labor attitude, there are many political prisoners and their de- pendents, for whom the I. L. D. is continually raising money. It also takes part in relief conferences, ar- ranging meetings for the benefit of striking workers. An important event for California is the approaching state conference of (Continued on Page Two) CHINESE STUDENT FACES EXECUTION Deportation From Coast May Mean Death (Special to The Daily Worker.) SAN FRANCISCO, March 11— Because Judge Frank Kerrigan of the Northern California Federal Dis- trict granted a writ of habeas corpus | in the case of H. T. Tsiang, Chinese student editor this has by no means Altho the court ordered his discharge from custody, the government ap- pealed the case immediately and the threat of deportation continues to hang over him. Deportation means almost certain execution for him. Arrested In 1927. Tsiang was arrested in the summer of 1927 by the immigration authori- ties, charged with radical activities and the loss of his student status. Since he thus became a non-quota immigrant, the immigration authori- ties sought to have him deported. He surrendered in January and brought into Judge Kerrigan’s court on a writ of habeas corpus. In the hearing the government dropped the “red” ¢! (Continued on Page Five) closed the attack on the young man. & re