The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1928, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 192s PED ON GROUNDED STORM-LASHED LINER i THREE SEAMEN DIE IN RESCUE OF PASSENGERS TRAP * j = sores — = rf sai be Three coast guardsmen perished in the stormy sea off Manomet, Mass., in the rescue of 263 passengers on the S. 8. Robert E. Lee, coast-wise liner, which grounded ona sunken reef there. These guardsmen face death daily in the sea-torrents, but are paid miserable wages by the government. Recently coast-guardsmen at Barnegat, N. J., deserted because of bad conditions. Photo at left shows the Robert E. Lee held fast on the rocks, ed anges to pieces by the heavy seas. The crew of the coast guard boat is shown in the center, at the hazardous work of rescue, Photo at right shows a lifeboat with coast-guardsmen setting out for rescue work on the Robert FE. Lee. Los Angeles District is Still Going Strong in National Subscription Drive : MINERS’ STRUGGLE IS |LABOR DEFENSE sacra a EE Se os ‘GHOST OF REV. NORMAN As mber of union affiliated with 7 sad . not become strikebreakers and cannon labor fakers and corruptionists.” A ‘ tho ’-F. of fi and workers ais ee which they are willing to make for get ” ye a amused for 15 rounds ‘f the fight | fodder was stressed by a representa- Hungarian Jews in this country! new leadership from the rank and \ tn full sympathy with every forward their DAILY WORKER. The facts,” says Burri't, “seem /iasts that long. tive of the Young Pioneers. One of against his participation in the ré-| file! A fighting policy against the % | move of our class, we demand the Donations Received. to indicate a volume of unemploy-| ‘The next fight at the Garden will ithe features of the memorial was the ¢eption of the fascist envoys, Samuel! Interborough slave drivers! A shop } | immediate expulsion from the ranks! Qonations ranging from $800 tolctyost Saw serrcsintaetee great 8S |take place Friday night when Bruce | distribution of a book of the speeches Untermyer refused to resign frof| committee in every shop, terminal \ i of organized labor of Cappelini and! sno dollar have come to the office of {as that of 1914-15.” = #°| Flowers meets Billy Petrolle in a 10\ang writings of Ruthenberg recently the membership on the reception com-| and power house. No let down on or- ~th an effort to 1 PLAN TO ENLIST ARMY OF ‘DAILY WORKER’ READERS in Boston, Providence Los Angeles has not done enonsh for The DATT.Y WORKER. Scores of subscriptions have been sent to the office of the paper, representine Tne Angeles’ part in the hie national eh- Seription drive to add 10.900 new readers to the naner by May firet But Los Aneales hac nat done enouch for The DAILY WORKER, This js the judgment that the Los Angeles workers have passed upon themselves. Challenges Other Districts, Under the leadership of their able DAILY WORKER agent, Paul C. Reiss, the Tos Angeles worke-s and| Party members are pushing forward | ve far behind them THOMAS AT ‘RED REVUE’ “Ladies and Gentlemen: I believe it is about time that we pay a little attention to the Soviet Union.” This is part of the speech to be delivered by the ghost of Rev. Norman Thomas, former assistant pastor of Other of the h cialist rh priests of the so- party—lawyers, pharmacists and clothing manufacturers will also be revealed when the actors of the Workers Theatre, under the direction of Pauline Rogers, give their ver- sion of the recent banquet at which the socialists of Reading, Pa., cele- brated their acquisition of municipal _-DERONSTRATION Workers in Union Sq. Applaud Council (Continued from Page One) Labor Congress; Louis A. Baum, sec- cretary, Photographic Workers Union; Harry Yaris, Youth Unem- ployed Committee; Jessie Taft, Har- ry Eisman and Charles Wilson of the Young Pioneers; Harry Kweit, International Seamen’s Club, and of the Unemployed Council. The resolution made the following demands: Henry Bloom and Murray Sazanoff | $; WORKERS COLLECT TO HELP MINERS Increasing | increasingly active in the collection of |funds for the relief of the striking |miners,” Fannie Rudd, secretary Pennsylvania-Ohio-Colorado Miners’ Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, with which committee the Workers’ International Relief is cooperating stated last night. Every day brings news of parties arranged by workers at which collec- tions are taken up for the striking miners. Ata party arranged by Rose Seligman, 824 FE, 181st St., a collec. tion was taken up amounting to 30.50. Leah Okun, 8596 Oceanic Ave., made a collection at a small affair of $36.25, Only 20 were present. Sonia Sendenowitz, 69 E. 170th St., collected IN STRIKE AREA “Individual workers are becoming | If you were seeking information HONOR LEADER War Danger Stressed at Memorial (Continued from Page One) ica will be called upon to share is no longer a thing of the next period but a fact of today,” said Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER. “And in carrying out its historic task our Party can do no better than fol- low the guide of its first leader, Charles Emil Ruthenberg.” “Ruthenberg was. the typical Amer- ican Bolshevik,” said Minor. Com- paring Ruthenberg with Debs, “that FEATURE OF MAGAZINE what to expect as the next development in their historic struggle, you cer- | tainly would consider yourself fortunate if you could get Pat Toohey to give Ee SOREN epi Yyou a full report of tie sivuation. as to what the miners are doing and anti-strike law he is seeking to put over with the aid of the American 3ar Association, to whom would you go except to Wm. Z. Fos.er? | And if you were one of those simple souls—which,. of course, none of the readers of The DAILY WORKER can be-who believe that this ugly business of class collabora- tion is characteristically an American product and can not grow -on foreign soil, you would get a most pleasant jolt from A. J. Cook, General Seere- | tary of the Miners’ Federa‘ion of Great Britain who hits out against all such illusions. A Gold Mine. Thirty-two pages of information much of which is as valuable as that already mentioned is packed between the covers of the current issue of ACTIVE AS POLICE ATTACK WORKERS ‘ ; ql at ted Rev E i aR } t Joll was thinking, t was : \ Ravitch Talks at Meets) New Ste Casino, 107th St. and Park “U8 |Relief Activity Here Is Nu Is behind the camouflage of the national|LOS Angeles Section Is Ave., e g, March 17. On the Job . (Continued from Page One) the International Labor Defense, which wil) be held in San Francisco March 25, Many delegates represent- ing the various I. L, D. brauches, and other labor organizations have al- ready been elected. The outstanding tasks to come be- fore the conference will be the cam- paign against the Criminal Syndient ism law, and the demand for the re- lease of Mooney, Biliimgs, Schmidt, and others who were framed up be- cause of their activity for organized labor. Cannon Will Speak. James P. Cannon, national secreta- ry of the International Labor Defensa will be present at the conference. He all the other districts and sections in |Jobs. ; 11.25 at a simi'ar gathering. t s ; ; ef il the United States. “We invite any| Rehearsals, conducted during the A Unemployment has ba be|* pty sac Fu cE other eset product cf pie toed aad pete o viens ee oe oe Aas ait thet By baeea é other district to come anywhere near past two weeks, have yielded infor- supporked iy ® pee Seu ie euinley: ‘ BR revolutionary movement, Minor, Bef ti 30 re abet at way our lead in the biw offensive.” is the}mation that if the audience enjoys eye and to be administered by a com-| ‘Victor Sacharoff,\12, pupil at the pointed out that Ruthenberg ktiew Se Se ee The International Labor Defense challenge which Los Angeles has|the performance as much as the ac-|Mittee representing the unemployed. | Ferrer Colony School, Stelton, N. J.,| more clearly how to carry his ade: | Pee ee eo nae. Un Re warning Branch meets every first and third broadcast to all other sections of the |tors then the first annual “follies”|..“2 The SPerene BY. of trade ‘rels- collected $12.10 among his fellow-|standing into action. “This task the bt dar wad Pa Malpas phot re Thursday at Cleveland Hall, Walkers eiatry. wilt wadoubtadly ‘bas t tions with the Soviet Union, so as to| pupils. He learned of the miners’| socialists have completely abandon-|Side” dope); before the anti-strike eippis, fa 8 el slap dpsh tiuaricerceagl TO advantage of the enormous de-| plight, he told the relief committee,|ed,” he said, “There is no more so-|!@W exposure could be printed, Foster | Auditorium, 730 South Grand St. f Get Fellow-Worker Subs. A minstrel show, 14-piece Balalaika| nang for American manufactured|from his father, S, Sacharoff, an ac- |cialism in the socialist party. What-|had to cause a sensation at the recent ra Ty i “Ten thousand readers by May |Fchestra, a variety of all acts—all goods and thus give employment to|tive member of the Architectural,|ever was vital in that party was | Bar Association hearings; Toohey had ] Ist,’ is the slogan! In this effort |4Z¢ Part of the program the proceeds | thousands of American workers, and|Iron, Bronze and Structurai Workers’ | taken over by the Communist Party.” |to be arresied and beaten up by the | R 1 FIRES 20 4 every worker in the shon, factory and)! Which will go to the defense fund For Tmmediata Action Union: ag "| state police at Renton, Pa.; if you|#® a L] store can and must participate. Every |°! The DAILY WORKER. “Be it further resolved that we| The workers of the Herman Rand- Te Se «41. | Should contend that the article. by veader of The DAILY WORKER eek eye Te A call upon the labor movement of this|kerchief Co. “Wallington N. 3, do- Jack Stachel, national organization | Toohey in this issue was written be- / must become a ‘Subscriber. Every city, s.ate and nation to immediately |nated $16.12. , secretary of the Workers (Commun-|fore the state police thus honored subscriber must get another sub- $600 SENT DAILY take up the urgent question of the] “We workers suffered greatly in ist) Party, traced the history of the | themselves, I shall merely reply that seriber by approaching the next fel- unemployment crisis which exists, to|the Passaic strike and we stil! feel activities of Ruthenberg from the |in it (you must read it) you will see \ low-worker alongside him at the bench, on the job, or in the store. If| i¢ fs hard for a worker to subscribe for a full year, efforts mnst be made to get him to subscribe for as long ® period as he can so that he can be enlisted in the army of ‘Builders of The DAILY WORKER’.” The Los Angeles district is piling up their sub total and promises to oversubscribe it before the end of the drive. PHILA, WORKERS SUPPORT MINERS. FROM COAST CITY Los Angeles Sends Funds by Air Mail (Continued from Page One) persecution will be able to wipe it out of existence. “There must be no slackening up of he activities on behalf of The DAILY WORKER,” the letter continues, “The trials of the members of tre editorial staff are to come up any day. Money s needed! Wherever workers eongre- support the unemployed in pushing the above demands upon the govern- ment, and that the labor movemen immediately take the following steps in order to relieve the present suf- fering among the unemployed work- ers: Against Speed-up System. “1 A campaign for the five-day 40-hour week in all industries. “2 A campaign against ihe speed- up system, night work for women, overtime, child labor and such other jdevices and methods utilized by the employers to increase the army of anemployed. “3 A campaign for a Labor Party as a political instrument with which to take up the struggle for the de- {keenly the effects vf that s.ruggle but we are still able to serape to- {gether a few dollars to lelp other workers in a similar struggle,” said the letter a:.ompanying the ai ation. Untons Send Dunations. More unions are donating funds out jof their treasnries, among tncm the | Furniture Floor Workers’ Union, $50. | Painters’ Local 867, Cleveland, Ohio, with a small membership, donated $3 on collection list, Much work has been done by the Negro Committee for Miners’ Relief, of which Harold Williams is organ- izer. This committee is soliciting aid for the strikng miners from the Negro workers of New York and finds the response very gratifying, according to Williams. time he split with the petty bourgeois Hillquit-Berger-Oneal group __ until when, as the leader of the Workers (Communist) Party, he laid down his tasks with the final injunction: “Close the ranks, build the party. Fight on.” Anti-War Activity. Ray Ragozin, prominent leader of New York working women’s organi- zation, related some of the hitherto undisclosed incidents in the period of Ruthenberg’s life when he was con- fined in jail because of his anti-war activity. She showed how Ruthen- berg was not alone a fearless fighter, but at the same time one who never rested, and on the very day that he was released from prison, he became the secretary of the Workers Party. | Herbert Zam, general secretary of the Young Workers League, showed the whole thing—in anticipation! Don’t think for a moment that these are the most valuable. Every other article is even more important than the previous one: Louis Hyman writes about “Amalgamated Effi- ciency Unionism”; George Papcun jtells you “What About che Anthra- cite”; Arne Swabeck shows the method |of “Company Unionizing the Traction Workers”; and almost a dozen other real features are packed into this number. Tf you will look at the cover only after having purchased a copy, how- ever,) you will see-Fred Ellis at his best: “Knoek It On the Head,” a octopus of anti-strike legislation. P. S.—This is some issue! Humiliated When Called to Inquisition (Continued from Page One) dustrial peace be promoted by such a soulless corporation,” complained Green. He failed to say that he him- self has paved the way for the pre- sent campaign of the Interborough by entering into an agreement with the Tammany Hall machine to block a strike on the transit lines. Fawns Before Walker. “J beseech you,” Green whined, “to use the power of your great office ‘fficers of the Interborough Rapid ansit Company, to obey the laws of decency, humanity and morality.” powerful cartoon in color against as compel these moral criminals, the i {mands of the unemployed, and iia | areeets eeting with Walker for the third (Continued from Page One) gate, at the meetings’ of unions,| “Be it further resolved, that we! MAG eS that ee, bet ae a ‘time in the last week, officials of detained owing to the ureency of |fraternal organizations, lodges, or at{condemn as an insolent gesture of Minuteman pawiseaNshnee da areas E RORISTS T0 BE 'thé, Amalgamated union after a two- other work, but Herbert Banaue |private parties, the need of The|Contempt for the unemployed and SPORT NOTES ls and ble Pointed out the path hour session were dismissed with the who just returned from that region|DAILY WORKER must be brought|for the working class as a whole, in| ‘The second of Tex Rickard’s elim- | WON" 4 siege mae age hee jenepuraging statement from _ the gave a vivid description of the condi-|to light and contributions solicited.|‘he face of the present crisis con-| ination bouts to find an opponent to ; YT . Targmany mayor that the Interbor- tions that prevail. Waist Rests Paper Rae od Lae ea the lavish ex-} meet Gene Tunney for the heavy- nk and Fil vity. ‘ough rulers Lay b Deke cat a, . 4 f penditures o: ayor Walker in ar-| weight championship will take place) Bert” Mill wf or fom accomplishing al ie hoped. Ben Thomas, chairman of the ranging an expensive welcome for the . ? ‘ Ri rid resi at od Iker hinted vaguely at the need Phila. Trade Union Committee for a Labor Party also spoke on the nec- essity of independent political activ- ity on the part of the workers. The following resolution was unan- 4mously adopted: This meeting of Philadelphia work- ers in the Labor Institute, March 9, under the auspices of the Trade Union Educational League declares Its vehement protest arainst the bru- tal murders of honest rank and file workers at Pittston, Pa., by the hired gunmen apparently in the pay of the operators and the corrupt officials of District 1, U. M. W. of A. We declare that these murders are a blot upon the labor movement as well as a crime of unparalled horror all other individuals who are part of | the infamous Lewis-Cappelini mur- der machine. “Los Angeles must do its share in rescuing the only revolutionary tribune in the English language in this country.” The Los Angeles workers have al- ready accomplished much towards saving their press. It remains for the workers of the whole country to send every cent they can spare. It has pleased the United States government to play cat and mouse with the arrested editors of The DAILY WORKER. With thousands of dollars of litigation hanging over their heads, the official agents of Wall Street in the United States courts are sure of their victims. But they have reckoned without the loyal'y of the militant American working class and the sacrifices LY WORKER. Hundreds more are still needed to put the paper jbeyond the persistent attacks which We pledge our every support to the movement to save the miners’ the American capitalists are plotting ragainst the militant labor press. Let union which has been initiated by the! all the American workers follow the militant rank and file. We declare cur determination also to defend Sam Bonita and his brothers in prison for the death of Cappelini’s gunmanjcontributions to The DAIL Y¥|of many workers in the neighborhood,|Third Ave. and 107th St. An elab-|played the International and ‘other|struck by a train here yesterday. ' 2 ind g FY of hi ted to der} WORKER, 83 First St, hi Kc - | orat is being arranged, ac-| revolutionary songs and were enthu-|worker was crossing the tracks on the| slaying C. Ivy Toms in 1926 in a pe bodyguard who attemp’ murder hi ” ‘irst St. New Bil were panic stricken by the ex-| orate Lal afrssepiedbte vg thyn pe rk 4 thi a agin the sb tar x uD a example which the working class of! Los Angeles has given them. Only the workers can save their paper. Rush representatives of the bloody Horthy government, and the still greater ex- penditures now proposed by the United States government for a huge army and navy.” A performance of ‘Hoboken Blues,’ Michael Gold’s play, will be given un- der the auspices of the Workers In- ternational Relief, 1 Union Square, at the New Playwrights Theatre, 40 Commerce St., Thursday evening, for the benefit of this city. Admit Critical Situation, An admission that the unemploy- ment situation today equals that of 1921 is made by Baily B. Burritt, general director of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Fire Threatens Workers LONG BRANCH, N. J., March 11, —This city was shaken by an explo- sion yesterday when an oil heater in a large office building exploded. A resulting fire threatened the home: when Jack Sharkey and Johnny Risko face each other in a 15-round bout at Madison Square Garden tonight, On the basis of past performances Jack should romp home the winner without any great difficulty. While not the best of heavyweights Shar- Johnny Risko. key usually puts up a good fight and should keep the cash customers Jack Sharkey ‘rounder. ; On Saturday night the Golden |Gloves tournament will be on display land will give the followers of ama- jteur fighting an evening of socking, ; I ao The Bronx Workers Sports Club will hold an entertainment afd dance aturday night at Bronx Lyceum, tary of District 2, emphasized the need of carrying out the example of Ruthenberg in the every day tasks of the Party, in the organization cam- paigns, in the work of the army, the navy and the marine corps. Alexander Trachtenberg, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, who knew Ruthenberg intimately f many years, told of the latter’s mani- fold activities in many industrial cities of the United States, “Ruthenberg was a great organizer, ‘a brilliant speaker and had a keen {insight into the many problems of the workers.” The need of work among the chil- dren of the workers so that they shall published by the International Pub- lishers in the series “Voices of Re- volt.” The book was sold by the newly formed Literature Corps who appeared for’ the first time in a unique uniform of military red caps on a grey background, carrying a tray in which the books were placed. The Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra Hungarians Seeking | Cash in N. Y. i | (Continued from Page One) part of the Horthy regime to capture Hungarian organizations here for fas- cism as well as an effort to secure a rew Joan for the maintenance of the fascist dictatorship in Hungary. The appeal of the anti-Horthy League. ealls for widespread demonstrations against the white terrorists and for protest. against the imprisonment, 2 and execution of opponent: the fascist regime. Untermyer on Committee. V y ' In spite of the protest made mittee. The Anti-Horthy League a letter to Untermyer had pointed to the recent massacres of Jews in - gary. ‘ TRAIN KILLS WORKER, _ ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Mar, 11.— John Newman, a woodchopper of Mays Landing, was instantly killed when of Jegislation in such emergencies. ‘It ig believed likely that the Amalga- mat officials would be willing to su, an anti-strike law such as is being advocated on a national scale by American Bar Association with the cooperation of the Green- Woll machine in the federation. Also all future communications must be in iting, the mayor said. Plan to Drop Union. Tt can be reliably stated that the Amalgamated officials plan to liqui- date the union as quickly and as gracefully as possible. These labor Be creel oe beac hes we of “organizing” in New Yor! e workers have already raised the slogan: “Out with the Tammany ganization sentiment. The work is only beginning. The ten thousand workers who have been organized will hold their ranks. Prepare for the next move! LOS ANGELES, March 11.—Wil- liam Edward Hickman was convicted of a second murder yesterday. He as found guilty in superior court of