The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1928, Page 1

While Mayor Walker, city officials, and wealthy men participated in the ceremony at the unveiling of a monument to Louis Kossuth on Riverside Drive by a delega' | ‘ tion of 572 representatives of the bloody dictatorship of Horthy in Hungary, the Hungarian workers of New York expressed their opposition to the delegation and the Horthy government by a militant demonstration. In the delegation are men who have directly incited the murder and torture of thousands of Hungarian workers. Photo at extreme left shows three of the demonstrating workers, whose placards tell their story. The parade of the fascist delegates is shown in center photo. Some of the wealthy landowners dress themselves in the costumes of Hungarian peasants. The photo at the right shows part of the 2,000 police assigned by Mayor Walker to “cover” the cere- mony. When the delegation arrived the police beat up individual workers and fired into a crowd. THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. THE DAILY WORKER. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V. No. 65. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. MARCH 17. 1928 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents TODAY CITY-WIDE CONFERENCE OF UNEMPLOYED ANTI - HORTHYITES TO HOLD PROTEST IN WASHINGTON Will Picket Coolidge At White House WASHINGTON, March 16. American and Hungarian workers and liberals will protest to President Cool- idge Monday morning against the proposed reception by him of the dele- gation of Hungarian fascists now vis- iting this country. If Coolidge re- fuses to seé the committee of protest) they will organize a picket line at the White House. The white guardists are scheduled to be received at the White House Monday noon. * * * Queen Marie Recalled. Efforts of the Horthy dictatorship of Hungary to ingratiate itself with the political and financial powers- that-be by sending a delegation of nearly 600 “pilgrims” to America to dedicate a Kossuth monument seem fated to the same meager results that accompanied the Rumanian Queen Marie’s tour through America. Rebuff after rebuff added to in- ternal confusion had been met by the “pilgrims” as they stayed at their New York hotels, guarded by cor- dons of uniformed and plain clothés police. 3,000 in Prisons. “Why was the Horthy delegation sent to America?” Emory Baleni, secretary of the Anti-Horthy League, or whieh Hugo rt, New York artist, is. pre wnt, was asked. “ “To whitewash the Horthy-Beth- len regime,” he answered, “so that a $150,000,000 loan can be floated in Wall Street. These so-called Kossuth pilgrims are cast in the same role as Queen Marie. “We charge that the Horthy gov- ernment has murdered, since 1919, more than 5,000 Jews and working- men; that it has imprisoned tens of (Continued on Page Two) RECORD AUDIENCE AT “RED REVUE” First Annual Event Is Huge Success Every seat at the New Star Casino, 107th St., and Park Ave., was taken last night when the first edition of the Annual “Red Revue” was presented. The entire program, consisting of a minstrel show, vaudeville, and various special features were enthusiastically received, Among those who participated in the revel last night were Maurice, proletarian acrobat in a series of “Living Statutes,” Fred Ellis and Hugo Gilbert who put on a program of humorous blackboard sketghes. The entertainment produced by the Workers Theatre under the super- vision of Pauline Rogers, was for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER. Boulder Dam Bill Passed WASHINGTON, March 16. —The Swing-Johnson Boulder Dam bill was approved today by the senate irriga- tion committee >? War Leaflet Suppressed By Officials The attempt of the U. S. post of- fice department to exclude from the mails leaflets exposing the marine occupa’ Nicaragua will be at- tacked at a meeting to be held under the auspices. of the All-America. Anti- Imperialist. League at Irving Plaza, idth’St. and Irving Place, Monday at 3 p.m, Object to Leaflet, Scott Nearing, just returned from China and the Soviet Union, and Tor- ibio Trejerino, former Nicaraguan speak. “The Wall Street eral topic of the meeting. Yesterday local postal officials an- nounced that they had i ion va to Washington a leaflet which the league is distributing and which they consid- ered “objectionable.” The leaflet con- tains the caption: “Enlist with San- dino! Stop the flow of Nicaraguan blood!” and pictures a dagger, drip- ping red, pointed thru Nicaragua. The distribution is part of a campaign to obtain medical supplies for the sol- diers of Sandino’s army. Decision Expected, Manuel Gomez, secretary of the Leajftié, said last night that decision on its application for an injunction restraining the post office authorities from interfering with the sale and distribution of its anti-war sticker is expected Tuesday. 6.0.P., DEMOCRATS IN SILENCE PACT Oil Quiz Shows Reports Were Suppressed CHICAGO, March 16,—The repub- lican and Democratic National Treas- urers, the late Fred W. Upham and Wilbur Marsh, respectively, entered an agreement in 1923 to file no public reports of campaign contributions for that year, Ira G. Hipsley, Up- ham’s secretary, testified today at the senate inquiry into the continental trading company’s “slush fund.” Marsh, the Democratic treasurer, suggested the agreement to Upham, Hipsley sajd, because the Democrats expected some large contributions in that year. Hipsley said Upham re- vealed the agreement by telling him not to file any report of contributions for the year “because the Democrats aren’t to make one either.” “Go-Between” Is Protected The senate committee was frus- trated in its desire to question James P. Connery, “go-between,” who carried $85,000 in securities from Harry F. Sinclair to Will H. Hays, former Republican National Chair- man. This was a refund made to Hays by Sinclair after the movie dic- tator had given back some of the bonds the oil man advanced to the Republican National, Committee. Dr. (Continued on Page Seven) Biedenkapp to Address Worker Students’ Meet Fred Biedenkapp, secretary of the Workers’ International Relief, will open the annual conference of the Bryn Mawr and Barnard Summer School Alumnae Association at 218 Madison Ave., tomorrow at 10 a. m., with a talk on the unemployment sit- uation. The afternoon session of the conference will be devoted to a discus- sion of injunctions " “TAKE UP THE BATTLE” IS CRY OF TREDISTRICT fee} oes 3 Against Nicaragua” will be the gen- respond to the call for a national Alex Campbell’s Local Heads Move eae cateol of tacts este and to Save-the-Union conference to be held at Pittsburgh April 1, members and representatives of a number of local unions in the anthracite yesterday is- sued a communication to all unions in the tri-district. One Issue; One Enemy. “The anthracite miners are just as much interested in this conference as the bituminous miners,” the new call states. “We here in the anthracite fight against the same operators who own both’ soft and hard coal mines; we must unite against the same cor- rupt officials who have betrayed our union.” We must abolish the spe- cial mining contract system.” At the lead in the new call to the anthracite miners are the representa- tives of local 1703 of district 1. It is of this local that Alex Campbell and Peter Reilly, the two progressive mine workers killed by gunmen of the Lewis-Cappelini machine, were the leaders. In the complete repudiation of the Cappelini machine by the mem- bers of this local is seen the growing power of the “Save-the-Union Com- mittee.” The call which is signed by the leading progressives in the tri-dis- trict is further directed by the Tri- |Solidarity Feeds These Unemployed Workers as N. Y. Council Organizes| These unemploy- | ed workers, victims | of capitalist “pros-| perity,” are being’ fed daily at the food kitchen re-! cently opened by} the Workers Inter-| national Relief, 1) Union Square, at 60 St. Marks Place. The W.1. R. is now conducting @ cam- paign for funds to 8 une employed workers as possible and to open food kitchens tn other sections of the city. munist) Party, and militant leader of INERS KANS OVEMENT JOIN Mov Support Save-the-Union | Committee PITTSBURGH, Kansas,,March 16. —Endorsement of the “Save-the- Union Committee” call for a Watfétial @881¥6"Miners’ conference to be (Continued on Page Two) Benice ‘Michaelson Will Dance at Concert For) Foreign - Born Sunday Benice Michaelson, pupil of Martha Graham, and Miss Dee Riemer, pupil of Dorsha, will present a program of elassical dances at the International concert and dance to be given by the Council for the Protection of Foreign- Born Workers, at Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 E. 4th St. Sunday after- noon and evening. The concert will begin at 2:30, and dancing will con- tinue until midnight. Other features on the program in- held at Pittsburgh April 1, was voted here at a meeting of 91 representa- tives of the mining camps of District 14, A call for a national strike and| the organization of the unorganized was demanded. The meeting held in Mulbery, Kan- sas last Sunday brought together rep- resentatives from all mining sections in the district. Delegates were pres- ent from Mulberry, Pittsburgh, Gross, Frontenac, Crowberg, Arma, Cher- okee and others. In addition miners who had been expelled by the Lewis machine as well as others from Mis- souri and Oklahoma were present. Come in Spite of Lewis. The delegates who came to the con- ference in spite of the warning and elude the Lettish Mixed Chorus, the Finnish Male Chorus and the Young Ukrainian orchestra. M. Levy, Hungarian singer and Gizella Ellenbogen, pianist, are also on the program. threats of the district officials adopt- ed unanimously the program of the “Save-the-Union Committee.” That the unorganized fields were slowly strangling District 14 was the (Continued on Page Two) \feet from Comrade RECALLS RUTHENBERG; | | AIDS SUSTAINING FUND, The memory of Charles E. Ruthenberg, founder of the Workers (Com- the American working class has lived in the mind of one class-conscious worker for years. Today this worker sent The DAILY WORKER one dollar, all he could spare, as his contribution to the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund for carrying on the defense of the paper, the work which Ruthenberg at the time of his death declared to be of the greatest importance to all work- ers. “T shall never forget him as I saw him that last time,” writes the worker, a Canadian, who sends the paper his donation, “I saw him at a Workers Party picnic in the northern part of Minneapolis. “At that time Comrade Tallentyre, the undaunted, made a rush to the platform to introduce Charles E. Ruthenberg. I was standing a few Ruthenberg at I shall” never forget the That the time. smile that came over his face. was the summer of 1924. Sends His Dollar. “So today I am sending you my bit, one dollar, for the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund.” The letter is signed A. C. Barrett, Warspite, Alta., Canada. “An American daily working class newspaper cannot live upon the in- come it receives from subscriptions and advertising at the present stage of the development of class struggle in this country,” Charles E. Ruthen- berg wrote a few months before his death. “It can only be kept alive to voice the ideals and program of the yvevolutionary movement thru the will- ingness of those workers who are (Continued on Page Two) WORKERS SLAVE 13 HOURS A DAY (By a Worker Correspondent.) The shoe workers’ general strike of 1926 was provoked by the I. Miller Shoe Company to smash the then ex- isting American Shoe Workers Pro- tective Union. Since then Messrs. I. and Charles Miller have pursued a vi- cious policy against their workers. They have instituted wage cuts, and a general worsening of conditions of their workers. Miller Workers Gagged. One of I. Miller’s slick schemes is is company union. The company , union calls no meetings, does not be- lieve in collective bargaining, elects ne officials and tried to collect dues, but did not succeed, because the work- ers refused to pay recognizing this company union as a tool of the I. Mil- ler Shoe Co. Adding insult to in- jury, the company union takes - fifty dollars from the wages of the mem- bers as security against the workers organizing a real union, The officials of the I. Miller union ere appointed by Messrs. I. and Chas, Miller and Superintendent Winkle and Company Union of I. Miller Shoe Firm Fires All Progressives Co. It is these officials who sign agreements with the I. Miller & Sons, Inc., which are written by Mr. Miller and are binding on us, being signed in our name, The company union’s. constitution | und agreements provide that only in- dividual workers can make complaints. If any group of workers or any de- partment or section of a department has a grievance and appeals to the company union officials or the bosses themselyes, they are to be fired out (Continued on Page Six). ss ieareneeneeeeneeeeneeee ne TE | Claremont Parkway, Bronx, at 10 a. | area, who will depict actual conditions BRONX WORKERS GIVE TO MINERS Labor Sports Union to Raise Funds According to Hannah L. Sigel, secretary of the Bronx branch of the Miners’ Relief Committee, the re-| sponse thus far received to the con- ference call sent to Bronx workers’! organizations indicates the interest of all Bronx workers in the miners’ struggle and their eagerness to help| them win their fight for a living wage | and decent working conditions. The conference will be held Sunday | at Ambassador Hall, Third Ave. near} m. The conference will be attended by a striking miner direct from the strike among the strikers and their families A permanent, enlarged Bronx Com- mittee for Miners’ Relief will be formed. Concert For Relief. THe Jewish Workers University will hold a concert and dance for the bene- fit of the striking and starving miners of Pennsylvania and Ohio at 106 E. 14th St., tonight. A group of Illinois miners, who were themselves on strike for eight months, have shown their solidarity with their striking comrades by con- tributing $20 through the Workers In- ternational Relief, One Union Square New York City, for the relief of the starving Pennsylvania miners. The group of miners are all mem- bers of a German workingclass or- ganization called Arbeiter Gesang Vereign “Vorwaerts.” . Sports Meet Planned. The New York Local of the Labor Sports Union will conduct its first large scale meet at the Finnish Hall, 15 W. 126th St., March 25. Many workers’ sports clubs have entered contestants. Among them are the Finnish Workers’ Club, Workers’ Gymnastic Alliance and Sports Al- liance, the United Cooperative Gym- nasium Club, and the Metropolitan Workers’ Soccer League. The mem- bership of the New York local of the Labor Sports Union is now around 2,000. The proceeds of the exhibition will be divided between the Labor Sports Union and the striking miners of Pennsylvania and Ohio, in arrange- Anthracite Area Echoes “Save the Union” Miners’Call MANY DELEGATES OF LABOR GROUPS TO ATTEND MEET Plants to Coordinate All Relief Efforts and fraternal organizations, commit- tees of unemployed workers and other workers’ groups will gather at 2 p. m, today at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St., at a city-wide conference on unem- ployment called by the New York Council of the Unemployed, 60 St. Marks Place, ‘The conférence, which will be repre- sentative of all labor, both organized and unorganized, of this city, has been called with a view to coordina ting the various efforts on the part of labor groups to cope with the un- employment situation and to discuss plans for concrete action in the pres ent crisis. The meeting will be ad- dressed by a number of well knows speakers who have been in close touch with the unemployment prob- lem. Expect Large Attendence. “We are looking for a large turn out of delegates at this conference,” John Di Santo, secretary of the Coun- cil said last night. “The persistent ignoring of the unemployment prob- lem by city officials has forced the workers to take matters into their own hands. Some way must be found of alleviating the suffering of the |more than 300,000 unemployed work- ers of New York City. “The question of relief will be an important item on the agenda of the conference. The Workers Interna- tional Relief, 1 Union Square, has al- ready started work in this direction by opening a food kitchen for unem- (Continued on Page Two) HOLD COMMUNE DANCE TONIGHT Section 2 and 8, New York City, of the Workers (Communist) mane cae holding a joint Paris Commune bration at 8 p. m. tonight, at New Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave. be Max Schachtman, the editor of the Labor Defender, ‘will be the principle: speaker of the occasion. After + address the dancing will take placa, All workers are urged to be p: i for a good time. ee Vital Meeting of N. Ye “Daily” Agents Tuesday An announcement of unusual in- terest and importance will be made at the meeting of New York DAILY WORKER agents to be held at Irv- ing Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, Tuesday evening. At the same time plans will be made for a wide dis. tribution of the special May Day edi- tion. y William W. Weinstone, district or ganizer of the Workers (Communist) Party will speak. All agents = ment with the Youth Conference for Miners’ Relief, 799 Broadway. i urged to postpone all other Party tivities sin order to make certain of attendance. \ ;