The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1928, Page 1

vy \ THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE’ 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, Vol. V. No. 62. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. 300 CALIFORNIA {— | 26 Ohio Local Mine Unions Join in Call for General Strike on April Ist THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. by mall, $8.00 per year. PLEDGE TO FIGHT FOR UNORGANIZED MEN IN INDUSTRY Urge Locals to Adopt Like Resolutions | se er { BULLETIN. SPRINGFIELD, Il., Mar. 13.—Joe Angelo, secretary of the Illinois Save the Union Committee was viciously at- tacked today in broad day- light on Springfield St. by dis- trict machine henchmen led by Joe Loda, board member. | Angelo was badly slugged. Miners Who Nail the Senate Hearing Lies | | | ‘City in Official Welcome| NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1928 WORKERS DROWN AS DAM BREAKS Workers in Anti-Horthy 57) WHITE GUARD DELEGATES LAND ON FASCIST TOUR Despite Protest Premier Horthy’s delegation of 572 Hungarian fascists arrived in New| York on the Olympic late yesterday to find itself confronted by nationally | organized labor opposition built| around the thousands of workers of| Hungarian descent in this country. | This delegation, picked and financ- | The committee is issuing a strike call of Illinois miners for April 1st, urging a fight to a finish. Despite the phy- sical attacks, the Save the Committee campaign is pro- gressing in all districts. * # *# YORKVILLE, 0., March 13. — Twenty-six local unions in ~ eastern Ohio, foreshadowing the growing mass movement among the mine miners, are, here to work James B. Campbell and Arthur G. Evans, rank and file miners of District 5, California, Pa. together with two other ied by the Horthy regime of Hungary, | | comes to spread fascism in this coun- | | try and to obtain support for a huge | | loan to bolster the reign of fascism at | home, Demonstrations Made. Demonstrators met the delegation at the dock with shouts and placards sero, the Horthy government and the delegation’s mission to the United States. Crowds of workers al- so surrounded the Knickerbocker Ho- tel with placards after many of the delegation had been quartered there in lavish suites. ~ with the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miner. Li i i workers everywhere towards militan- vs enor Melons AU! iy cy and renewed struggle, have ‘adopt- ed resolutions’ calling upon all mine workers to come out on a general this society. their wives and children. They give the lie to the statement of Senator Gooding that the miners do not want relief from t the 600,000 starving miners, strike April 1, and pledged the non- anion miners that under no cireum- stances. would an agreement again be signed up leaving the unorganized workers out as was done. by Jehn L. Lewis in 1922,” f 5 Call For Similar Action. The resolutions were adopted at a joint conference, held at Yorkville, MINE WORKERS EXPOSE ‘SENATE PROBE A vivid and startling picture of the conditions under which several hun- dred thousands of miners, their wives and children now exist in Pennsyl- The ostensible purpose of the dele- gation in coming here is to partici- | pate in the unveiling of a statue to | Kossuth, Hungarian liberator, on Riv- erside Drive tomorrow. Hungarian workers have pointed out, however, that the delegation is merely trading on the popularity of Kossuth’s name to further its real designs. | . ‘Ignoring protests: from the Anti- Horthy League, Mayor James J. Walker's official reception committee greeted the delegation at the dock, in company with the Hungarian white | $125 Reward for Mill COMMUNISTS EXPOSE HORTHY TERROR RULE ORGANIZATION ON LR. T: CONTINUES Activity Despite New Discharges. Seven moré discharges of Amalga— mated Union members by the Inter- borough Rapid Transit Company marked the toll yesterday im that company’s campaign of revenge Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N, ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Demonstration ion Jobless Veterans At least 1,000,000 of the 4,000,000 or more unemployed workers n this country are veterans. Over $112,- 60,000 has been bor- rowed by unemployed veterans on the ad- justed compensation certificates given the veterans as reward for risking their lives for the bankers, The loans average $125 to each jobless veteran. A veteran is here shown getting his "INSPECTORS WERE BRIBED T0 04K FAULTY PROJECT Construction Workers. Farm Hands, Victims LOS ANG farch 18— About 300 pers e estimated to have been drowned early this morn« ing when the ters of San Francis- | quito canyon burst thru the 208-foot | St. Francis dam near Saugus and | flooded the Santa Paula valley. Near- ly 200 were missing late today. The heaviest death toll {s believed to have been exacted in the Santa Clara valley where 100 out of 175 men employed by the Southern Cali- fornia Edison Company in a construc tion camp near Del Valle were un« accounted for at 10 o’clock this morn ing. loan, Note the empty sleeve. Grafters Responsible. Making good the repeated warnings of engineers that such a collapse was The Central Executive Committee inevitable, present tragedy is being of the Workers (Communist) Party|*taced directly to the corruption and issued the following statement yes-.taft connected’ with the original terday: “Five hundred seventy-two repre- sentatives of the bloody fascist Hor- thy government of Hungary have been sent to America and are to re- ceive an official welcome by the gov- ernment of the United States. The delegation consists of agents of the Horthy regime, which for nine years has terrorized thé Hungarian masses, tortured, jailed, starved and murder- ed them, suppressed the Hungarian labor movement, outlawed the Hun- garian Communist Party, and de- ! building of the dam. During the past ten years, ever since predatory real- tors working in cooperation with ven- Jal politicians set out to transform the | arid desert of Southern California in- i? saleable farm-lands, there have been repeated scandals connected with the construction of the dam; 2 Altho no, convictions ever resulted, it was an open secret, at the coniple- tion of the St. Francis Dam that the state inspectors had been bribed to give their official approval’ to the project, knowing at the time that the March 1, and called upon all local unions of the United Mine Workers of America to adopt similar resolu- tions, ; The resolution in full follows: To all the United Mine Workers— Whereas, we, have been on strike for eleven months, with no sign of a/ settlement that would be satisfactory to the membership of our union, and we have seen that a determined -ef- fort is being made by the big em- ployers of labor to smash our union, this is a signal for the workers to wake up and join forces and give a vania and Ohio was portrayed yesterday by four rank and file miners of + District 5, United Mine Workers of 13 ARE JAILED AT WOMEN'S MEETING Police Raids East Chi- cago Hall EAST CHICAGO, | March 13.—Po- "Students, instructors and friends of | Cloak Co., 147 W. 26th St, to _the Workers School, 108 E. th will meet at the: New Playwrights’ | were driven out of the cloak market lice raided the International Women’s Day meeting at Workers Home and arrested 11 men and women and two children. ; Pietures of revolutionary leaders and the International Labor Defense charter were removed from the walls and taken to the police station as evi- dence. ‘ i In spite of the arrests the meet- ing was held, with Anna E. David as speaker. Prior to the holding of the meet- ing the Women Workers’ Educational League distributed thousands of leaf- lets at the gates of the large shops and factories of Hammond, Gary and East Chicago, calling upon the wo- Lands‘ Committee} men workers to demonstrate their that Will H. Hays solidarity with the working class. ~ sought to give 3 Es se CLOAKMAKERS TO (Continued on Page’ Two) OlL QUIZ CLOSES IN ON CABINET Mellon Knew; Says He Added $50,000 WASHINGTON, March 13.—Secre- tary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon and\ex-Senator William M. Butler, the Coolidge campaign man- ager.in-1924, testified today before the Senate Public Harry F. Sinclair’s Liberty Bonds in exchange for cash contributions to make up the re- publican deficit in 1928. Biellon declared Hays, former chairman of the repub- u y lican’ national committee, sent the|Stoups in the right wing Interna- bonds to him in a package, $50,000 tional Ladies Garment Workers worth, but that as soon as he dis-|Union are preparing a general covered the purpose Hays had in mind scramble for jobs at the coming con- he returned them at once and later|Vvention of the International to be made a $50,000 contribution with no|held in Boston May 7, the left wing strings attached. : New York Joint Board has: worked Butler Smart T. out a policy, they are to follow re- ng . si garding the convention. This policy . Butler, who at first declared he|the Joint Board will present to a “knew nothing of the bonds except | mass membership meeting to be held what I read in the newspapers,” ad-lin Cooper Union ‘tomorrow. evening: al im. $ roo} ask i (Coatinved on Pops Five) = [org © P08 SP00. She prepa Students to See Play| A stone arm squad of right wine- By Mike Gold Tonight Andrew Mellon While the countless number of ers, sent by their so-called: Cloak- makers’ Join: Board force the workers in the shop M. and M. 14th St.,|er in the Sigman “organization” Theatre, 40 Commerce St., tonight at| yesterday. when they attempted to a behefit performance of Michael | stop the workers from going to their| Gold’s “Hoboken Blues.” _ jobs. © Be Ning BM ale Ee MEET TOMORROW America who have come to New York to cooperate with the Pennsylvania- Ohio Miners’ Relief Society in a cam- paign to help alleviate the: suffering of their fellow workers and families. The four miners are James B. Cafnpbell and Cullen R, Miller, both of Local 2230 and Arthur G. Evans and Larry Peterson, the latter of Lo- cal 2398. All four miners are from California, Pa. : : Starving, “The miners and their families are | not living,” Campbell declared, “some of them are merely existing and most of them are just simply starving.” The four miners wore their regular mining outfits and headlamps. All showed the marks and the tell-tale signs of the miners’ life, the palid complexions and the thin colorless hands. > They were especially bitter against the Lewis machine and against Pat Fagan, the corrupt Lewis district 6 president. When asked to express themselves on the recent statement by Senator (Continued on Page Two) Federation. of Labor - Bills Are Killed in \ $tate Legislature ALBANY, Mar. 13.—The labor bills drawn up by the New York State Federation of Labor in cooperation ; With Gov. Smith were defeated today | jin. committee. ; i | By appearing to sponsor these bills jGov- Smith masqueraded as a sup- porter of organized labor, with. the endorsement of the officials of the State Federation. The federation’s executive committee recently en- dorsed . Smith’s candidacy for the i guard ambassador to the United |against the union. (Continued on Page Two) It was disclosed that William B. JOBLESS TO HEAR Youth Committee Calls |exit to maianapolis. Meeting for 2 p. m. Basis Formed. |Fitzgerald, vice president of the Amalgamated, following the example |of William. D. Mahon, president of \the organization, has also left town. Mahon beat a hurried retreat about | a week ago, having surrendered com- | | pletely the organization drive, and} thaving called off a regular meeting | As was predicted in the columns of The DAILY WORKER, the Amalga- construction was extremely faulty stroyed all trade unions and other Farmers in the flooded valley have organizations of the toiling masses. ference of unemployed workers which ;Couneil of the Unemployed for Sat | | St, and Third Ave. All labor ewan} William W. Weinstone, district or- ganizer of the Workers (Communist) Party, will be the principal speaker at a mass meeting of unemployed young workers to be held at 2 p. m. today at the Labor Temple, Second Ave. and 14th St., under :he auspices of the Youth Committee of the New| York Council of the Unemployed. | Other speakers will be John Di San-| to, secretary of the council, Charles Winter of the Young Workers’ (Com- munist) League, and Phil Frankfeld of the Youth Committee. mated now plans to liquidate the sit- uation as quickly and as diplomati- cally as possible. The traction work- ers, it is known have not given up their organization plans. There are groups and committees in every shop, barn, terminal and power house which will form the basis of a real rank and | file movement when the time is again ripe. In discharging the seven men yes- terday, the Interborough as usual used the agency of the company union which first expelled the workers. This The particular problems of the youth section of the unemployed are} to be discussed at a series of neigh-| borhood meetings for young workers | by the Young Workers League. The! first Bronx meeting will be held Fri-| day, 2 p. m. at 715 Bast 128th i while a Brownsville meeting will take place at the same time at 1689 Pit- kin Ave. All these meetings and discussions | are leading up to the city-wide con- is being called by the New York urday, 2 p. m., at Webster Hall, 11th izations and groups of unemployed have been invited to send delegates. A performance of Michael Gold’s “Hoboken Blues” for the benefit of the unemployed has been arranged democratic nomination for president. called injunction bill, Five Dollars has been sent for the Defense Fund of The DAILY | WORKER by two Chinese workers. These two workers, laboring in the United States under the conditions pe which the American bosses keep their Chinese wage serfs, have spared| five dollars from their meager funds that supports them against these same bosses. , ; : “We ery sorry thet.we. can onttt- The most important bill was the so- eee the New Playwrights Theatre. 40 for the defense of the only paper]. by the Workers ;International Relief ‘Commerce St., for tomorrow evening. CHINESE WORKERS DEFEND “DAILY” bute no more,” the Chinese workers state in a letter accompanying their donation, “but we believe that this small contribution will not fail to prove to you our sincere hope for the consolidation of the American work- ing class. Make Very Littlo. “Our need is great. We labor all day and we.make very little money. Being workers ourselves, we have heen constant readers of The. DAILY \ .| workers Monday that they desired to was followed by their automatic dis- missal from the company. At the same time the Interborough made public a long statement in reply to Mayor Walker by 28 discharged | be reinstated by the company. The| letter was inspired by the Amalga- | mated officials and was the first item | in a correspondence match between | the union officials and the company | with ‘the mayor as the correspondence exchange. Threaten More Firings. In its reply to the plea of the 28, | the Interborough brands as a “‘cun.| ning distortion,” the Amalgamated | claim that an understanding wag ar-) rived at on July 26, 1927, under! which the’ Interborough agreed to fire! no men because of membership in the} Amalgamated. The statement defies | the mayor and denies that he has (Continued on Page Five) | WORKER, the only paper that speaks for the proletariat in America. We have read your appeal for contribu- one and we would have sent you the joney sooner had we had it, Their hands, red with the blood of pogroms against the Jews and of the massacre of revolutionists and lead- ers of the trade union and peasant or- ganizations, will be grasped by the} hand of Coolidge and of other offi-! cials of the American government. Gates Closed to Communist. | “The gates that were closed to Sa- klatvala, Communist member of the} British parliament, will open wide to ie butchers and counterfeiters of Hungarian fascism, who, in addition to their crimes against the Hungarian masses, have been openly convicted (Continued on Page Two) FUR-WORKERS AT MASS MEET TODAY Unity Demand Rejected by General Board The reply of the left wing Joint Board to the resolution passed at the recent meeting of the registered ve stesented on Page: Three) workers held in Webster Hall, will ‘5 TENE BA | be read off at the second meting to « rT) + be called by e E i Council IVING STATUES of Registered Wo r ich will be jheld this afternoc ter Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave. The resolu+ {tion requests the Joint Board to re~ AT THE RED REVUE state its position on the question of | ing a unified workers’ organ- iz m in the fur industry. The tion also «der that the union of Tableaux, Music, Song at “Daily” Affair “Living statues” representing var- ious aspects of workers’ activity will be one of the high spots of the “Red | Revue” to be held at New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., Fri- | were give day evening, March 16. Maurice, |} to be an whose brilliance in presenting strik- | ing ing and picturesque tableux at work- ing class functions, has made him known to thousands of New York workers, will present this part of the program. A feature of Maurice’s tableaux 3 structive activ. rit the rebuilding of in the trade. Both the and the “Joint Council” copies of the resolution d in time for the meet. definitely known that the Joint Board arrived at afdecision at their meeting last night. But the right wing have as yet shown no (Continued on Page Five) | which promises to be unusually in- | “Hohoken Blues”: to Aid teresting are the living impersona- tions of several of the powerful car- NW, Y. Jobless Workers toons made for The rants ER by its staff cartocnist, Fred | The actors of the New Playwrights* Among the individuals which Maurice | Theatre, 40 Commerce St., will do will portray include a Red soldier, a |their bit to help the unemployed Soviet worker, and one entitied! of this city tomorrow night “Breaking Chains.” when erformance of Michael ‘The muste of popular Negro spir- | G°14’s “ Blues” will be put ituals will find itself attached, next |" Ud es of the Workers? Friday evening, to a group of derisive | a - All the proceeds and irteverent’ songs whose words 0? this perf e will be used: to will shock the bourgo de. ) feed the unemployed at the kitchen light the proletariat. Al! the W has established at and principles” so dear to the Marks Place. i of the boss will be given the _ unemployment situation fn ha-ha by the imperteni songsters who city is growing constantly will entertain the 4,000 workers who | WO"S¢" declared Fred G. Biedenkapp, ate expected x See ‘national secretary of the Workers In- Friday a ** New Star Casino on jt ernational Relief. “Our kitchen, “No capitalists in the world have done more to crush the Revolution in China than the capitalists who are today attempting to destroy The DAILY WORKER. We know. We have come from where the United , i Page Two) which is open from 12 to 2, is being * Due to the fact that some of the | frequented by more and more work- trustees of radio station WEV}) willjers daily, and these must be fed, It be’ the objects of satirical shell-fire, ip to the fellow-workers and sym- the musical program of the “Red|pathizers of these victims of capi. Revue” will not be broadcast, Photo-|talist ‘prosperity’ to help them graphs will be found on page 2. every way possible,” ( " =e 8 al ~