The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1928, Page 1

= “RED REVUE”, STAR C THE DAILY WORKER YVIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE . UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 64. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. ‘KER, — THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 16. 1928 Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. SINO TONIGHT TO DkRAW THOUSANDS FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents POLICE CLUB PICKETS AT HORTHY CEREMONY CARNIVAL T0 BE | ANNUAL AFFAIR FOR THE “DAILY” Everyone Worthwhile To Be There Four thousand workers are expect- ed to desert Workers (Communist) | Party and trade union meetings to- night and make a pilgrimage to New| Star Casino, 107th St., and Park Ave., where the first annual “Red Revue” will present a satirical attack on capi- talism. In addition to these a large number are counted upon to desert their | homes and families, their comrades and friends and follow the long, long trail to the Harlem proletarian car- nival where song, dance and music will prevail for a whole evening. Everybody’ll Be There. \ The workers’ cooperative cafeteria on Union Square will be barren; classes at the Workers School will be suspended early; week end trips to} Camp Nitgedaiget will be cancelled, visits to relatives in Brooklyn and the Bronx will be called off—all for the purpose of enabling the proletariat of the metropolis to enjoy a program of irreverent merriment provided by the Workers Theatre, under the di-| vection of Pauline Rogers. Everybody worth-while in the mili- tant labor movement in New York will be at the “Red Revue” tonight, and absence will be prima’ facie evi- dence of lack of interest in the prole- tarian revolution. Practically the entire staff of The DAILY WORKER has been freed from journalistic activity tonight and will be present at the performance. the destinies of the paper, and ‘> Photo at the left shows the wreckage left of farmers’ and dam had poured down a deluge of fifty million tons of water upon Santa Clara valley. ascertained. Photo at the right shows some of the thousands of workers made homeless, families of workers. The disaster can be clearly traced to political corruption. State inspectors were bribed to approve the flimsy project INTENSE SUFFERING FOR WORKERS IN WAKE OF a workers’ homes near Vent ‘ura, Cal., DAM BURST after the bursting of the faulty San Fra Just how many hundreds of workers drowned has not yet been seeking relief. The chief sufferers from the dam burst were the neisquito A DOCUMEN 2.00f OF THE MINE BARRACKS BROWNSVILLE, Pa., March 15. .—Few documents or communications from the coal fields will show clearly the intensity of the struggle of the rank and file miners and their mood PICKETING WILL WIN, MINERS SAY Committee Exposes the Senate Probe PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 15.—A bythe. e-the-Union ironically enough, has been providing | ing the senate committee now “in- the readers of the “Daily” with the |vestigating” the mining situation, The facts about the forthcoming event. Artistic Cooperation. “The most unique entertainment New York ever witnessed!” This is the description that its sponsors are applying to the proletarian spectacle to be seen tonight. Artists, musi- cians, dancers, songsters—all have joined in a cooperative effort which will delight the huge audience which (Continued on Page Five) ORGANIZE AGAINST LR. T. FARE STEAL Company Wins Point in Court Action Yesterday was an Interborough day. F Judge Martin Manton decided that the traction company could have the seven-cent fare issue decided by the federal courts, which it nreferred. The Interborough company union fired twenty more workers and brought up to a hundred the number } of Amalgamated members discharged for union activities. The union officials, all of whom are reported to have left town with the exception of the once boisterous but now small voiced James H. Cole- man, so-called organizer, did not even issue the usual note of “hope” statement points out that the move is an attempt to save the situation for the coal operators, and to save the union for the treacherous Lewis machine. The thembers of the senate com- mittee are each shown to be anti- labor. Chairman of the committee, Frank B. Gooding of Idaho, is re- vealed to have been one of those con- nected with the notorious Harry Or- chard gang of the stool-pigeons which tried to railroad and hang Bill Hay- wood for a murder committed by the Orchard gang itself. The statement concludes with the declaration that: “In order to win, it is evident that the miners must follow the lead of the “Save-the-Union” Committee, with its program of organization of the non-union fields, the spreading of the strike and other slogans that will help mobilize the rank and file for the winning of the strike. The National Miners’ Conference which will be held in Pittsburgh on April ist, to lay out plans for the conduct of the strike, strengthening the union and ridding it of the friends of the coal operators who now run, should have the support of every fighting miner.” : ae “Dress Up” Scab Camps. WASHINGTON, March 15.—The Pittsburgh Coal Company insstructed its mine superintendents to “dress up” the non-union camps in prepara- tion for the visit of the special senate coal committee which investigated the mining camps, according to a * that the mayor might yet do some- thing. Scabs on Jobs. Encouraged by the headlong flight of the Amalgamated retreaters, the Interborough officials let out 300 of the second line of scabs, the so-called elass “C.” This grade was to have become guards. Those who may ye' become “motormen” are being re- tained. It costs the Interborough nothing for the upkeep of its strikebreaking army. The city pays. Accordingly (Continued on Page Five) ‘Foreign Born to Hold Concert This Sunday In addition to, the varied program of music and dance features of the International Concert and Dance this Sunday, afternoon and evening at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., the Young Ukrainian Orchestra and the Lettish Orchestra will play some native pieces. Both V. Radkovich, dramatic and musical director of the Young Ukrain- ians and Mrs. G. Kumka, his ass tant, will play several violin selec- memorandum presented to the Sen- ate Interstate Commerce Committee by Harry T. Brundidge, reporter for the St. Louis Star. Brundidge said he paid an employe (Conttnued on Page Two) 14 HURT WHEN BUS AND TRUCK CRASH GREENWICH, Conn., Mar, 15.— Fourteen persons are under treatment in Greenwich Hospital today, some seriously hurt, following a collision between; a Boston-New York bus and two motor trucks that is believed to have been caused by a speeding third truck which disappeared immediately. Labor Defense Benefit ‘A full house is expected tonight at “Hoboken Blues,” Michael Gold’s much-discussed play at the New Play- rights’ Theatre, 40 Commerce St, To- night is benefit night for, the “Labor Defender,” organ of the International Labor Defense. 80 E. 11th St. fi as the simple but dramatic statement ®to Vice-President Phillip Murray, of the United Mine Workers, by 38 mem- bers of Local Unien No, 2232 at Vesta Mine No. 6. “Mr. Phillip Murray, vice-president, U. M. W. of A., Dear Sir and Broth. er,” the statement begins. “We feel sorry to have to send you these few lines te show you how our local union is standing today. Dear Brother, we are standing pretty bad because some of our old men have returned to work. Relief Unknown Quantity. _ “But we don’t blame them. Our lo- cal officers do thet do their duty when they should do it. “We have not had any meetings for the last four months. “We do not know what we get for relief. We only know the local offi- cers get drunk every night. And it is a shame that some poor families don’t have a piece of bread on their table. “We asked the officers to give us a report about the money that is com- ing into this local for relief. They said they could not give a report. A (Continued on Page Two) 2 TRACK WORKERS KILLED BY TRAIN Were Told It Woutd Not Pass There NORTH BERGEN, N. J., Mar. 15. —Two workers on the Pennsylvania Railroad were instantly killed today when a passenger train bore down upon a gang of 16 laborers engaged in replacing a track. Both workers, Alfonso Vessassiano and Elias Gon- zales, were 23 years old, The other 14 workers leaped to safety. Both legs of the workers were severed. According to the foremen, the gang ‘had been told. that no trains would run on the eastbound track, and ac- cordingly the workers did not heed the engine’s whistle. YALE LOSES TO SEMINARY. A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed in the United States dis- trict court*here today by Clarence E. Boyer, student in the Union Theolo- gical Seminary, Boyer operated the Stowaway Hotel at New Haven, Conn., and the Lake Rapond Hotel at Remington, Vt., under the name of Boyer -& Edwards, Many of the creditors listed in the schedules are Yale University students, COOLIDGE ADVISES ON OIL THIEVERY Republicans Wallowed in “Donations” WASHINGTON, March 15.—Out of sight behind closed doors in the White House as usual, President Cal Coolidge is acting as advisor to the republican _ party in its conduct to- ward the current disclosures that } theyre publican party, through Harry F. Sinclair and others, pur- chased the election of the Harding- Coolidge ticket in 1920, Sen. Borah and Chairman William M. Butler of the republican national committee held separate confidential conversations with Coolidge yesterday on the pro- posal to return a portion of the slush funds to Sinclair, to whom Harding, Coolidge and their cabinet turned over the Teapot Dome oil reserves. It appeared after these conversations that Coolidge favors leaving “the question until after the present sen- ate investigation of the slush fund and lease deal, probably until a time just before the opening wf the repub- lican "national convention in Kansas City. ‘Harry Sinclair bribed G. O. P. * Flooded With Cash. CHICAGO, March 15.—When the senate committee began an extension of its investigations here today, tan. sent” from this vicinity was Samuel Insull, Illinois power and traction magnate, whose candidate for the senate last year, Frank L. Smith, was refused admission to that body because of the flagrant slush-funding in his election. A picture of republican opulence in which wealthy business men made lavish gifts to Coolidge’s party was revealed when the committee inquired into what became of the republican party Continental Trading Company’s $3,080,000 liberty bond slush fund. William Wrigley, Jr., the multimil- lionaire baseball and chewing gum magnate, gave the republicans $61,- 000 between 1920 and 1924, according to William Henry Stanley, his sec- retary. Need Pageant Actors Two ‘hundred more comrades are wanted for the rehearsal for the “Freiheit” pageant tomorrow at 2 p. m. at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. One thousand actors are needed for this mass pageant. among the witnesses reported “ab-|- PREPARE WHITEWASH IN DAM CATASTROPHE SACRAMENTO, Cal., Mar, 15—Faulty construction of St. Francis dam was blamed for the collapse of that structure and to resultant loss of lives by Edward Hyatt, Jr., state engineer today. None of the seven “investigat- ing” committees have taken any notice of Hyatt’s opinion. * LOS ANGELES, Cal.» March 15.—As daylight broke over the peaks of | Santa Clara valley today and the search for the victims of the St. Francis dam break was continued, 12 more bodies were found, swelling the total to 873 known dead. Between 500 and 1,000 are still re- ported missing. Relief workers ex- pressed the opinion that the exact number missing will never be deter- mined. There are bodies, it is be- lieved, that lie buried too deep for recovery. Simultaneously seven separate “in- quiries” were under way to fix the blame for the bursting of the huge concrete dam shortly after midnight Tuesday. All followed the growing indignation resulting from the knowl- edge that state officials knew all the time that the project was faulty, hav- ing been approved by inspectors bribed by real estate interests in Southern California. Grafters to Get Off. Three major possibilities are likely to result frm the state “investiga- tions.” Some minor. official may be selected as the scape-goat; the (Continued on Page Two) 500 WORKERS AT JOINT BOARD MEET Will Demand Seats at the: Convention Over 3,500 militant cloak and dress- makers responded to the call of the New York Joint Board of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union for a meet- ing at Cooper Union last night, at which the policy of the Joint Board regarding the coming convention in Boston of the International of the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was announced. Louis Hyman, manager of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Joint Board; Ben Gold, manager of the Furriers’ Union Joint Board; Joseph Borachovich, Rose Wortis, and Julius Portnoy spoke. The Joint Board will elect delegates to the convention, Hy- man announced, altho it is certain that Morris Sigman, president of the union, will refuse them admission. The progressive delegates to the con- vention will fight bitterly for admis- sion. Hyman stated that the Joint Board had issued a call to all the out of town locals to elect delegates standing for unity in the cloak indus- try. All the New York left wing lo- cals will meet next. week for the elec- tion of delegates to the Boston con- vention. URGER ‘Save The DAILY WORKER’ lists, together with the contributions, will be able to save the paper during the present crisis,” A Ravitch, cireulation manager of The DAILY WORKER, stated today, “The American working class would do anything in its power to defend its class paper against its enemies,” Ravitch said in his appeal to the road- ‘tentionally aiding in its defeat by | keeping back these lists and the ac- ‘companying donations.” | “Many of them have entirely filled itheir lists,” Ravitch continued. “These | | should be returned to the office of | ‘The DAILY WORKER at once, Many lists are almost filled so that it is only a few hours’ work to complete | them, Every worker who Res the in- an ETURN OF ‘DEFENSE’ LISTS “Save The Daily Worker’ Sheets Must Be Sent Back Now “Only the | mediate return of the ,ers of the paper, “but they are unin- terest of his paper at heart will make this effort to collect. thp money so much needed for The DAILY WORK- ER defense. “The return of The DAILY WORK- ER lists means the life or death of the paper. Only thru the return of full lists to The DAILY WORKER can the paper be saved from destruc- tion. If the lists are kept back, if |iet Union. Admission is free and all|of the Party. (Continued on Page Two) A { LLL i, ¢ PLAN ACTION ON JOBLESS CRISIS City-Wide Unemployed Conference Tomorrow, The labor movement will be mob- ilized for action on the unemployment problem when delegates from trade unions, labor and fraternal organiza- meet tomorrow at 2 p. m. at the city- wide unemployment conference that has been called by the New York Coun- cil of the Unemployed, 60 St. Marks Place. The conference will be held at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St., and is expected to result in concrete pro- posals for the relief of the unem- ployment problem, John Di Santo, secretary of the Council, announced last night. Two Meetings Today. Two meetings of unemployed young workers will be held today, one at 2 o’clock at 715 E. 138th St., and the other at 1689 Pitkin Ave. at the same hour. Both have been called by the Youth Section of the New York Coun- cil of the Unemployed. Jobless Youth Rally. The necessity for the organization of unemployed young workers into active groups was emphasized at Wednesday’s meeting under the aus- pices of the Youth Committee of the New York Council of the Unemployed in Labor Temple, 14th St. and 2nd Ave. The speakers included Phil Bart, chairman of the meeting; John Har- vey, member of the Young Workers (Communist) League; Minnie Laurie, of the Young Women’s group; John Di Santo, secretary of the Council, and Phil Frankfeld of the Youth Com- mittee. et MAR: An A. F. of L. Conference. A call to an unemployment confer- ence has been issued by the New York State Federation of Labor and the Central Trades and Labor Council. (Continued on Page Five) AMBRIDGE MEET TO HEAR BROPHY AMBRIDGE, Pa., Mar. 15.—John Brophy, former president of District 2 of the United Mine Workers of America, and E. P. Cush, of the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel land Tin Workers, will speak on “La- bor Conditions and Trade Union Ac- tivities in the Soviet Dnion” at a mass meeting Sunday, 2 p. m., in Croatian Hall, 339 Merchant St. Brophy and Cush were both prom- inent members of the two American trade union delegations to the U. S. S. R. The meeting is being held un- der the auspices of the American Rank and File Delegation to the Sov- are tions and other working class groups | [AIRPLANE DROPS 60,000 LEAFLETS EXPOSING KILLERS | Arrest Two Workers for Picketing While thousands of anti-Horthy leaf- llets were showered down upon the {ceremony from an airplane, pickets lwith anti-Horthy placards clashed |with the police in a renewal of the |New York workers’ demonstration |against Hungarian fascism at the un- veiling of the Kossuth statue on River- side Drive yesterday. Of the total crowd of 12,000 at the ceremony, 2,000 were New York po- lice. Mayor James Walker, one of the speakers, looked down from the speakers’ platform with pride on more than 1,000 of his uniformed Tammany Hall appointees massed two abreast in the block on Riverside Drive be- tween 112th and 113th Sts. The Workers (Communist) Party, the Anti-Horthy League and the In- ternational Labor Defense participat- ed in the demonstration. Leaflets From Airplane. Sixty thousand leaflets distributed from the air and on the street charged that Horthy, fascist premier of Hun- gary, sent the delegation here to spread propaganda for a huge loan for his government. The leaflets de- manded the release of the Hungarian government’s hundreds of labor pris- oners, As a group of the pickets reached Broadway and {113th St, about a dozen detectives pounced on them and tore the placards from their hands. One of the pickets, I. Kasonyi, was beaten severely by a detective and dragged to a police station. Kassonyi was later released. All the pickets were roughly handled by the detec- tives. Two protest meetings were held yesterday by the Anti-Horthy League at the Central Opera House, 67th St. jand Third Ave. In the afternoon | meetings S. Tiskoty and Emery Bal- int, secretary of the Anti-Horthy League spoke. The second meeting was held last night. Arthur Garfield Hays, of the Civil Liberties Union and Hugo Gellert, president of the (Continued on Page Two) GANGSTERISM IS HIT BY BARBERS Statement Issued by the Executive Board In a statement issued yesterday the executive board of the Journey~ men Barbers International Union of America, Local 913 attacked the Master Barbers for their “unserup- | | | | {ulous and bitrary methods” and |the “terroristi in dealing | with the u The state Denounce “Gangsterism.” “To the journeymen barbers oper~ ating in the districts of Williams- burg, East New York, Greenpoint, Ridgewood, Crow Hill, Bedford and Bushwick sections of Brooklyn, N. Y. and Jamaica and vicinity, Maspeth, Middle Village of Queens, L. 1, con- trolled by the Independent Master Barbers Association. “Fellow Barbers: “Our executive board, realizing the gravity of the existing situation and the difficult times thrqugh which we are passing, has decided to stand firmly by the agreemnt made with the Independent Master Barbers As- sociation. This, notwithstanding the bosses’ declaration through the medfe um of the Italian press to the effect that they have decided to abrogate the existing agreement with Local (Continued on Page Five) Weinstone to Speak on Queens Scandal Tonight The $29,500,000 Queens sewer scan- dal will be discussed at a mass meet- ing tonight at 8:30 p. m. called by the Long Island section, Workers (Com- munist) Party, at Bohemian Hall, Woolsey and Second Ave., Astoria, L. I. The speakers will be William W. Weinstone, district organizer Work- ers (Communist) Party and Bert Miller, district organization secretary mee A. H,