The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1928, Page 2

THE DAILY LY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, AROS 24 1028 Photo at extreme left shows vain attempt to revive William Gia. one of the 3 sad beac who died when their boat tonstded while going Bs the rescue of the liner Robert E. Lee, which grounded on a sunken reef off. Manomet Point, Mass. the icy waters as their boat capsized. forced to take care of the children and cook, while the mother of the family must seek work. These coastguardsmen, constantly faced death in stormy seas, but the government pays them meagerly, In the second photo the 3 coastguardsmen are shown struggling in The next to the last photo shows what privation has done to two children of a ee Pennsylvania coal miner. Photo at right shows a 14 year old girl in a miners’ family, Boston Conference Prepares Subscription Drive with ‘Worker’ Circulation Head “BUILDER CLUBS” DECLARED MOST BASIC ACTIVITY Speaker Stressed Need) for Ruthenberg Fund | BOSTON, Mass., March 13.—A highly successful conference of func- tionaries. of the Workers (Com- munist) Party and DAILY WORKER which heard A. Ravitch, circulation manager of The DAILY WORKER speak here prepared extensive plans for the intensification of the national |." 500 | subscription campaign to add | new readers to the paper in District 1, Government Attacks. “No greater danger ever confronted The DAILY WORKER,” Ravitch as- serted. “Alarmed by the rising mili- tancy of the American working class in all the sections of the country, the United States government thru its agents in the courts and the militarist societies are determined to crush the workers’ press. Their power is great but the united effort of the American working class can check and defeat the legal terrorism which the bosses intend to launch against the cont “American wrkers.” A powerful and flexible augandake tion is the first means by which the workers can cope with their class enemies, Ravitch indicated. In sup- port of his statement he outlined a system of organization for The DAILY WORKER subscription cam- paign in District 1. The first step in the intenséfication of the subscription drive is the for- mation and strengthening of DAILY WORKER Builders Clubs, Ravitch pointed out. These clubs are the basis upon which the entire subscription work for The DAILY WORKER must be done, he said. Declaring that every city in the Massachusetts area must have a DAILY WORKER agent, Ravitch said that no agent, however active, could function properly with- out the one hundred per cent coopera- tion of The DAILY WORKER ‘Builders Club’ in his vicinity, Nearing to Speak Here) Scott Nearing recently returned from China, is scheduled to address| two meetings in New York Next Monday he will speak at Trving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th} St. at 8 p. m. on “W Street vs. Nicaragua.” Toribio Trejerino, for- mer Nicaraguan counsel general in New York, will also c. T t- | ing will be held under the ausp | of the New York branch, All-Amer- jean Anti-Imperialist Leagu Nearing will also speak Wednes- day, March 28 at 8 p. m. on “The | Struggle in the Pacific,” under the| auspices of Sections 2 and 3, Work- ers (Communist) Party, at Irving Plaza. IRON WORKERS MEETING. The Iron and Bronze Workers’ Union will hold a meeting at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the Rand School, 7 E, 15th St. The question of helping the unemployed members of the union will be on the order of business. Re- ports will also be given on the Gar- man strike and the recently settled lers must not forget that one good |the members of the U. Unorganized Stove Workers Out on Strike NASHVILLE, 3 March 13. — The | Phillips & Buttorff Manufacturing Company and the Gray & Dudley Company, stove manufacturers, of this city, have put over another wage 'veduction in their plants—this time 8 per cent. Although the shops are what-are classed as “open” and have been in that category for years, the men refused to take the cut and walked out. They turned to union labor jn their and the Molders’ Union rranged to take them ih and fight their battle for them. If they had accepted the cut they would now be working for from 12 to 14 hours a day for the disgracefully low wage of from $19 to $21 a week. | ¢ OHIO MINERS IN CALL FOR STRIKE Fight for Unorganized Men Is ; Pledge (Continued from Page One) like attack upon our common enemy and, Whereas, we know that without la- bor nothing could be produced, there- fore labor holds the key to the whole situation as it is today, and, Unorganized Betrayed. Whereas, we know that the non- union miners were betrayed in Penn- sylvania in 1922 when they came out on strike to help us win our strike. But from what we heard that these same men that were driven back to the non-union mines without a con- tract have given their word that they»! will again come out on strike again to help us win, and Whereas, we as United Mine Work- turn deserves another, and therefore we as members of the mother organi- zation of our country must pledge our honor as men, and we must have a general strike. Therefore be it resolved that we,| “ M. W. of A.,| red blooded worker to endorse the ne. And send out this resolution broadcast so that the whole rank and file of our organiza- tion will fight to the bitter end to uphold our union and. the principles for which our forefathers have died, and stand as one man, and that we ask the men in the non-union field to again join our forces. And that we will pledge them that the contract carries with it the same prices, con- ditions, and the effective hand of the union for the men in the non-union field, as it carries for us men in the union field, there must not be a re- duction in wages, we must stand out for the Jacksonville agreement. Endorsed by local unions at a joint meeting held at Yorkville asking all local unions in the U. M. W. of A. to call upon every atrike at Pecker’s shop. adopt resolutions similar to this one. Have Bought Tickets for “Red Revue” Friday ( Reading from right to left: Bea shop; Max Schachtman, International Labor Defense; Florence Gellert; Sylvan A. Pollock, DATLY..WORKER: Morris Pasternack: A. Ravich. | They would do nothing. MINE WORKERS NAIL SENATE LIE ABOUT RELIEF Show Penn. vn.-Ohio Gives Real Help (Continued from Pave One) Gooding of the senate committee now conducting the investigation into min- ing conditions, that the miners were} opposed to receiving help from—the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief So- ciety, the four miners became indig- nant. “Plain Lie.” “I want to call that a plain lie.” Peterson, a Swedish worker said, ‘and you can tell that political sena-| tor that we miners know that it is a trick because everybody has told him different. If it was not for the Penn- sylvania-Ohio Committee, you would see no more strike now in Pennsyl- vania, also Ohio and other states. Why not the senator tell that the Lewis gang and Fagan sabotage all relief and give only pennies so that they can say they do something.” Campbell, who came to America a number ‘of years ago from Ireland, was equally emphatic. He was_rein forced in his testimony by Cullen R. Miller, a member of the same local in California, Pa. Real Facts. “Let me give you the real facts,” Campbell declared to a DAILY WORKER reporter yesterday. “In my local there are about 152 families and over three hundred children. At first we received about $250 per week for the whole local. This was, of course, very little. We sent a com- mittee to District 5 headquarters at Pittsburgh and told them that our wives and children were starving. We asked if we could get any money for coal be- cause the weather was very bad. In- stead of helping us or explaining why | * they couldn’t do so, if that was the case, they cut down our allowance to $225 per week; that meant only a few pennies a week per person. Help From P. & O. “Then we heard about the Penn- sylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief.” “Dit they come to you, to offer help?” Campbéll was asked. “No, that is not the way it works,” he replied. “You have to go to Pittsburgh to get sup; plies from them, they don’t deliver.” Campbell went on to explain that the usual allotment was about 19 Ibs of flour, 3 Ibs. of sugar, 8 lbs. of corn meal, 3 Ibs. of barley and 2 cans of milk per family every two weeks. “That isn’t so very much either?” it was sugcested. “Evenly Divided.” “No, it isn’t much, But they ex- nlain to us just what the conditions are. The food is evenly divided, Each ‘ocal is kept on the list at Pittsburgh; they receive you as brothers and there is no red tape.” , Peterson heeame emnhatic in his story of distress and suffering. Stock Exchange WHITE TERRORIST Bus Firm ts. Booms With 4 Million Jobless Despite the fact that more than | 4,000,000 people are out of work in {the United States, and that within a stone’s throw of Wall Street thou- sands of men are standing in bread- lines, the New York Stock Exchange yesterday reported the biggest day in its history. A total of 3,909,100 shares changed hands with a merk-up in the price of listed issues of about $1,- 400,000,000. CHINESE WORKERS SEND “DAILY” $5 Urge All to Aid in De- fense Fight (Continued trom Page One) States marines support the reaction- ary Nanking leaders who are murder- ing hundreds of Chinese workers be- ¢ause they are guilty of the crime of being workers, conscious of their clase... The Chinese proletariat is drowning in the blood of. its best workers, tho it will never completely die, And it is the United States capitalists who are trying to choke it with blood. “Let every American worker do the same and they will save The DAILY WORKER from every attack the capitalists make. Long live The DAILY WORKER.” The example of these two Chinese workers should be a guide to the working class in every part of the United States. Follow their example. Rally every dollar to the defense of your paper against the plot of the Wall Street government to silence the only militant English labor daily in the country. Rush your contributions to The DATLY WORKER, 383 First St.. New York City. dinner. ‘Come back after dinner,’ they say. So we come back. ‘What gro- ceries you need,’ they ask. We tell them, They figure out per person in local. ‘This is all we can do’ they say. We borrow truck and take home to local. The local give vote of thanks. That was Feb. 14. We got help since that time. It makes the strike; strong. The miners will win.” Father of 13 Children» Arthur G. Evans, who is the father of thirteen children gave a similar account. “Our local has about 600 families Conditions are very bad,” ‘he said I} I heve heard of worse. Tho Wagan district 5 officials send some; help: It averages about $4 to $é every three weeks per family. That’: 4 little more than some locals.are get- ting, But no;one knows just how much the district is given to dis- *ribute. to us because they ougad no accounting. trice Siskind, Jimmie Higgins uoox- DELEGATES LAND ON FASCIT TOUR Hungarian. Butchers Here to Get Cash (Continued from Page One) States, The Anti-Horthy League rep- resents 176 American-Hungarian or- ganizations. In a letter to the mayor in the name of the thousands of Hungarian workers and liberals in the United States the league demand- ed that he withdraw the city’s official invitation to the delegation to carry on its propaganda work here. 5,000 Were Executed. “Three thousand men are in the jails cf Hungary for politica? opinion and 15,000 are exiled for similar rea- sons,” the letter said. “The build- ings of organized labor and of the Free Masons are confiscated by the government, Over lynched under the direction or insti- gation of army officers, headed by Admiral Mikios Horthy, military gov- ernor of Hungary.” Numerous mass meetings have been arranged by the Anti-Horthy League thruout the country to pro- test against the arrival of the repre- sentatives of the white terror in Hun- gary. The meetings already arrang- ed are as follows: Many Meetings Planned. New York, March 15, 4 p. m. and 8 p. m., Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., auspices of Anti- Horthy League, Passaic, March 18, 3 p. m+—Mass meeting at. Neubauers’ Hall, auspices of Amti-Horthy League. Harco, Ill, March 15 pic his (Communist) Party. Zeigler, Ill, March 17. 2 Wailers (Communist) Party. Orient, II, Gaon 18.—Workers (Communist) Party. Cleveland, mass meetings,, March 19, 20 and 21—American Hungarian Freedom League, Bethlehem, Pa. April 1—Mass meetings by Anti-Horthy League, or- ganized by Hungarian societies March 11. Detroit, March 17—Workers (Com- ! munist) Party. | SPORTS IN BRIEF | "|senate today passed and sent to Gov. By his victory over Jack Sharkey? 5,000 workers, | farmers and Jews were executed and-| Forced to Take Back Workers DETROIT, March 138.—Employe’ of the Star Motor Coach Company, with headquarters near Birmingham, Mich., are back on their jobs after a spectacular attempt by the com- pany to discharge them because they admitted being members of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes, Di- vision 26, of Detroit. When they admitted their member- ship they were immediately paid off. The system, which supplies transpor- tation to a populous section, was \ practically paralyzed. The people be- gan to register their complaints, with the result that the president of the company was glad to take the men back. RIGHT WING PUTS “BEG” ON TAILORS ‘But Rank and File Sees Purpose, Votes No CHICAGO, March 13.—A ° com- munication asking for financial as- sistance, sent by the right wing In- ternational Ladies Garment Workers Union to the Chicago local of the Journeymen Tailors’ Union, was al- most unanimously voted down re- cently at a membership meeting of the latter organization. The letter, appealing for “funds for organization,’ was read before the meeting of the membership by a } local official who declared that it had the executive boards’ endorsement. True Purpose Disclosed. After the right wing spokesman had made a long drawn out appeal for favorable action many rank and filers took the floor and stated the true purpose of the I. L. G. W. U. |need for funds. They pointed out | that the money was needed to fight the left wing and not for “organiza- | tion” puroca German-Hungarians 38 38 0 6 |New York Rangers Ti ak Oe Ged at the Garden on Monday night, Johnny Risko won’ Blue Star £05 Os8 for himself, the , Division “C.” right of meeting Prague F .C, ie ae eBay / Tom Heeney, con- Prague Junior Hoke me querer of Jack De- Scandinavian Workers 3 0 0 6 laney. Whether German-Hungarians p iaw gee Tz the bout will take Trumpelder F, C, 1 Oe place is not known Y. M. H. A. CU aiacamt enn Ws! at the present, Co-operative CERES, iiate Weeoe. ° a an also if the winner Red. Star LT See pte will meet Gene,New York Eagle (new) Tunney for the championship. Clarmont (new) Pee ae Vagabond (new) ' Tex Rickard has won, out over Jim Mullen, Chicago promoter, in the Last Sunday’s Results. Division “A.” . “Thera are 148 families in my| “We first heard about the’ oe bidding for a lightweight champion-| Scandinavians vs. Bronx Hungarians, amion,” hesaid. “We pot from Fagan vania-Ohio. Miners’. Relief several ship match between Sammy Mandell | 7:2- machine maybe $100 per week, maybe | months ago. We sent our regular re- and Jimmy McLarnin. The bout will Hungarian Workers vs, Red Star, little more~little less; about thres-|lief committee to Pittsburgh. Welbe fought at the Polo Grounds on| 4:0: ay quarters of a cent a day foreach per-|horrowed a truck and they gave us|May 17, N. E, Eagle vs, Armanians, 2:1. eae io ask soa dal tig a hundred} load of groceries. We took along a| - > ft e hap parca é imes for more help. He do nothi letter- with the seal of our local to . ‘s ‘ungarian orkers vs. German- _[ ha sd Bec le een wo send a On. foe that we et alright. We get Metropolitan Workers atin tie bh ee ' mittee tsburgh. I go too. ‘ordham vs. ir, 8:1. ‘Why you hora’ ey say to us. — hints OE EE Soccer League Scores Clarmont vs. Blue Stai, 6:0, | “We say, we are here to see In-|*>'Rvans also gaid that. the help from Division “A.” be coeamaigt pe Pig by abiae |ternational Vice President Philip |the committee was ingufficient but ty Ww. i DOL Division “C. piacdéa: | Murray. was more than that given by the dis- N ). Be). Prague Sunlors: vs; Spe niet10; icvtll ; rani te je |Hungarian Workers 14 2 2 30 Meg is HR co : Accused of Beeking ellet! trict. officials, “There is no red tape Scandinavian Wonka 10. ae esate. Davey Abad, who holds -a decision ‘They say, ‘We know why you here,|or ceremony. We see-that they ar ‘Beans. Bakoariah 9 5 5 23lover Tony: Canzoneri, featherweight ‘ow want more relief.’ doing all they can. No one can say Bvextadia i. 5 7 \5 15|champ, will replace Joey Sangor “We argued for about half hour.) anything to the rank and file miners feet York Wagie 6 al 15 against Eddie (Cannonball) Martin at hey do nothing. Then we ask for|acrinst the Pennsylvanta-Ohfo Com- Armenians G. A. U.. 4 4. 8~11{ Madison Square Garden next Friday | Oe forf dinner so we can eat some-| mittee. They can say anything they Notas = = | «2 «7 ~8 10\ evening. In the main bout Bruce j ‘hing. They no give us. So we went/ want in their paid newspapers. But /pog star 8 8 5 11] Flowers’and Billy Petrolle will face out. ‘What we going to do now?’ wejthe miners know,” Freiheit 2 11 6 9|one another in a ten rounder. : Say to ourselves. One heath “#! The four miners will be in New z Division “B.” we \e ow « ‘Let’s try Pennsylvania-Ohio Relief? York for a week or ten days, they Hungarian Workers 13. 1 8 29| TAMPA, Fla., Mar. 18—Manager So we go to $11 Penn Ayu, i | said. They are to help arrange among |Praguae 10-8 2 22) tucky Harris is somewhat worried us where we come from, what loca!| other affairs, a huge bazaar and ball |Red Star 6 8 2 4 /over the Senators’ shortstop job. and so on. Make record. All right.| now being planned for the middle of |Fordham 5 0 1 10/Three youngsters, Recfes, Gillis’ and They ask us how much. is railroad| April by the local office of the Penn- |Clarmont 4 2 1 9|Hayes, are all feng for the berth, ticket from California to Pittsburgh. sylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief, 799 |Freiheit 6 8 1 16 |but none of them is displaying any Rrasdwai. Snertaoue Boe a Oe prattinn prowess, \ Give us carfare. Give ua io for : 0 CALIFORNIA WORKERS DROWN AS DAM BREAKS Victims of Corruption by Officials (Continued from Page One) been victimized during the past few years by California officials and real- tors who joined to steal their water rights. Hundreds of farmers were in this way ruined, after having made moderate investments. Property damage done to -the St. Francis dam and the power plant two miles below, both owned by the city of Los Angeles, was placed at $3,500,- 000. Ninety-eight bodies of victims of -|the San Francisquito canyon. flood have been fished out of the Santa | Clara river, 14 miles away from the St. Francis dam which went out near | Saugus today, according to a report received here today by Deputy Sher- iff RH. Bright. Rescue Difficult. The Masonic hall here has been con- verted into an improvised morgue to take care of the dead. Rescue workers anticipated that the work of recovering additional oudies would be made difficult by the heavy deposits of silt left by the flood waters. Thousands Expected to Attend Freiheit Affair The sixth anniversary of the found- ing of The Jewish Daily Freiheit will be celebrated at Madison Square Garden Sunday afternoon, March 25. The first anniversary was celeb- rated at Lexington Opera House, in 1923 with 2,000 workers present. The following year 8,000 workers attend- ed the celebration at Manhattan Opera House. have been constantly increasing un- til 22,000 workers assembled in Madi- son Square Garden~last year. An even larger number is expected at this year’s celebration, of the Freiheit stated yesterday. FENCE BILL BEFORE GOVERNOR ALBANY, N. Y.,. Mar. 13.—The Smith the second so-called fence bill enacted at the present session of the legislature. It provides that dealers must make a reasonable inquiry to determine if the goods they buy have been stolen. 1871 This month marks the 57th anniver- sary of the Paris Commune. READ-- THE PARIS COMMUNE by Max Shachtman .10 CIVIL WAR IN FRANCE. by Karl Marx ALBUM OF THE COMMUNE... .25 WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 89 East 125TH STREET NEw YorK City 25 Since then the crowds _ spokesmen —