The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1928, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1928 “Builders Club” Needed to Aid Baltimore Districts in “Daily” Sub Drive WIN NEW READERS IN BIG CAMPAIGN: PROMISE OTHERS Free’ Distribution of 3 “Worker” Planned The necessi a DAILY WORK- ER “Builders’ Club” to organize the Baltimore’s share in the national sub- seription campaign to add 10,000 new readers to the paper before May 1, is stressed by Philip Stanton, agent of the paper in Baltimore, in a recent letter to The DAILY WORKER. The of subs nailed in from the Baltimore Pushing Drive. “Tn spite of the energy with which the workers are pushing the subscrip- tion drive in this district,” writes Stanton, “a DAILY WORKER ‘Build- ers’ Club, formed along the lines of the new bodies in Philadelphia and Providence is vitally necessary to the success of the sub work in this city. “Baltimore has done extremely well considering the organizational handicaps under which the campaign has so far been conducted. The time hus come for us to make a still better showing by centralizing and intensify- ing our drive thru the organization of ‘Builders’ Clubs’.” The Baltimore district has increas- ed its number of subscribers by more than a score in the last few days and with the formation of the new organi- zation, promises to accomplish still more. Favor Idea. Stanton reports that the Baltimore workers are very sympathetic to the “Builders’ Club” idea and predicts the organization within a short time. Plans for a free distribution of the paper are being pushed and it is sug- “Sgested that A. Ravich, the circulation manager of The DAILY WORKER, may visit Baltimore in the near fu- ture to assist in the organization work. KANSAS MINERS JOIN’ MOVEMENT Support Save-the-Union Committee (Continued from Page One) opinion expressed by many delegates. The Lewis machine was held respon- sible for failing to organize the un- organized miners. In addition it was shown that the separate agreement was serving to defeat the miners’ union. Comparison of the present stand- ing of the district with its position six years ago revealed the fact that the Lewis policy towards the Kansas Industrial Court Law had almost wrecked the district. The operators have introduced company unions. Fight Against Lewis. A picture was given of the struggle of the militant miners in their bitter fight against the Lewis machine dur- ing the past six years. The whole discussion over the southwest dis- tricts confirmed the fact that Lewis ‘was cooperating with the operators in the drive on the union. The Southwest Mine Workers of America, a dual union with Arch Helms, former district president of 25 as secretary, was ciscussed and shown to be a tool of the bosses, a company union. Helms was a Lewis man that has gone the crooked road of Farrington and the road of the other Lewis machine men. This com- pany union is invading the southwest and signing up with $2.50 reduction per day. No checkweighmen are to be found where it has jurisdiction. Conference Says Lewis Must Go. The unanimous opinion of the con- ference was that Lewis must go and that there m be no separate agree- ments. A national strike and the or- ganizing of the unorganized miners was stressed at the meeting. The Coal Digger was enthusiastically greeted by the miners who said they want more of the paper. The meeting was held at the Rex Theatre and long before the hour of opening the miners were waiting out- side and talking things over. Tho* the Kansas n¥ners are 90% behind the “Save-the-Union Committee” pro- gram was the testimony of all dele- gates. Elect Delegates to Pittsburgh. Four delegates to the Pittsburgh conference were elected at the meet- ing in addition to a committee of four on finance and action. The dele- gation will travel to the Pittsburgh conference by autos. None of the Lewis district henchmen showed up at the conference but several spies were among those who came. This geo concern the delegates as the machine here as in other sec- tions is on the march—backward. Recently Alex Howat, well-known Kansas militant, wired the “Save-the- Union Committee” of his support of st envelope |* Mine Workers is located. The April 12. Photo at left was taken at the scene of the murder of Alex Campbell and Pete Reilly, two militant mine leaders butchered by gunmen of the Lewis-Cappelini-contractor ma- chine near Campbell’s home in Pittston, Pa. The picture at the right shows the building in Wilkes-Barre in which the offices of the reactionary officials of District 1 of the United progressive leaders Thomas Lillis, Campbell, and Reilly, and the attempt to murder Sam Greco, came from this office (indicated by arrow). The miners and representatives of the tri-district locals have issued a call to all anthracite miners for a National Save the Union Conference in Pittsburgh, Scene of Militants’ Murder; Killers’ Office orders for the murder of the one of four workers who served 20 Dry Dock, Brovsiya, vecember 6. A Dumping Ground. Knith in describing Welfare Island, called it ‘a generai dumping-grouna ior the refuse of capitalism.” All sorts of derelicts, drunks and helpless cripples, who are considered an eyesore to “respectable citizens” are given sentences in Welfare Island ranging from 10 days to six months and ihen dumped back again in a more helpless condition than before, he continued. The food is poor,” he said, “and 100 people are crowded together inj a single room with insuificient covers in the cold nights. All inmates are compelled to be docile—otherwise they can expect a beaving at the gands of the guards and the specially favored prisoners who have been maue tiunaeys of the prison authorities. Money Talks in Prison, “Even at Welfare Island money talks. If you are well supplied witn casn, good food, extra biankets, a |better bed and o.her comforts are forth-coming.” International Labor Defense, accord- ing to Rose Baron, secretary of the New York Seciion, despite the fact that the workers have already served their sentence, The Workers Party last night is- sued the folowing statement com- menting on their release. Great Prisoners. “After serving twenty days on the trumped-up and ridiculous charge of conspiracy to undermine respect for the courts, the four militant workers "mil Makvata, Thomas Thorsen, Neils Knith and Eric Heinonen have heen released. These workers by dis- JAIL CONDITIONS TOLD BY RELEASED WORKER Conditions in the New York Workhouse are described by Neils Knith, | injunction leaflet issued by the Workers (Communist),Party\near the Morse Knith and the others,—imil ual] [PROTEST AGAINST vata, ‘homas Thorsen and Eri Hieinonen,—comple.ed their terms} tnis week, HORTHY GROWING WANAMAKER WILL A strong fight for a new trial for | the four workers will be made by the | tributing the leaflet ‘Down with Government by Injunction’ were in the front ranks of the struggle of the workingclass against the violence of the American government toward the workingclass as exempl'fied by the brutality in the coal miners’ strike and in the terror instituted by the I. R. T. traction trust and its Tam- many Hall government. Example Praised. » “We greet our four fellow-workers who have been compelled to suffer this imprisonment. Their example, however, of not wavering under the attacks of the capitalist courts is an example for every worker to follow and defiantly challenge the injunc- tion and arouse labor to its task of orgenizing itself on the economic and political fronts of a, struggle to the finish against the attempts of the capitalist class to enslave the workers.” { or days there for distributing an anti- Picket Line Planned For Coolidge Door (Continued from Puge One) thousands; that it has driven 20,000 into. exile; and that 3,000 persons are now rotting in Magyar jails. Baron an Advance Agent. “Their use of the name of Kossuth, the great revolutionary republican leader of 1848, is blasphemy,” he added. “Any man who says ‘Longy ‘Live the Hungarian Republic’ nowa-j days is thrown in jail.” Balent believes that Baron Paul Kohner, here recently on a mission whose intent was not made public, was the advance agent for the $150,- 000,000 loan which he asserts the Horthy regime is seeking in Wall Street. HUNDRED MILLION PHILADELPHIA, March 16, — Grants of large sums of money to friends and business associates; life | annuities to’ his children, grand- children and relatives; and provis- ions that the New York and Phila- delphia Wanamaker stores continue | to operate under their present man- | agements, were the guistenditiy'| points of the 10-page will of the late | Rodman Wanamaker which was filed for probate in the register of wills office here and its contents made pub- lie today. Wanamaker left over $100,000,000. Norris’ Muscle Shoals Bill Being Considered WASHINGTON, March 16. — The Norris resolution for government op- eration of the $100,000,000 Muscle Shoals project was taken up. by the House Military Affairs committee to- day. Aid forSnowboundTown SAULTE STE. MARIE, Mich., March 16.—The snowbound village of Detour was once more in touch with the outside world after an isolation of more than two weeks, when Dr. John F.. Deadman, driving a dog team to a sled laden with medicine and food, mushed into the vil! e ear this morning, has ee | | “SAVE THE UNION” CALL 1S ECHOED IN. ANTHRACITE “Take Up Battle’ Cry Of Tri-District (Continued from Page One) District Save-The-Union Committee, George Papcun, secretary, and reads as follows: To All Members of the United Mine Workers Union in the Tri-District of the Anthracite. Greetings: As you no doubt have learned from the call sens out by the Na- tional Save-The-Union Committee, there will be a great national con- ference of coal miners in Pittsburgh on April ist. The soft coal miners who have learned through bitter ex. perience in the last few years how the policies of the Lewis Machine have been destroying our union ana permitting it to bleed to death in many districts, will be represented by hundreds of delegates from all over the cauniry. “Already district Save-The-Union Conferences have been held in Districts 2, 5, 6, and 12 of the soft coal region, participated in by over five hundred delegates at which the idea of a national confer- ence was endorsed and plans outlined for sending delegates to this con- ference. One Cause. The anthracite miners are as much interested in this conference as the bituminous miners because the union is attacked by operaters on all fronts and our officials are weasening the union so that it will be either de- feaied and destroyed as it has been in many soft coal districts or it will be turned into a mere company union as it has been in Illinois. Already in many parts of our district the con- tractors and coal company influence rules many of our local unions, here in the anthracite. Hard coal miners! We urge you to send delegates to the Pittsburgh Conference on April ist, and join with “thé“soft coai delegates in the movement io save our union. One look at the policies of our officials should convince all of us miners that the time has come for action by the rank and file, and that we must take things! in the union into ‘bur hands. Organize Unorganized. We must organize the unorganized miners it we wish to maintain our standard of living. The Lewis ma- chine has refused to do this and when the unorganized miners joined the union in tue 1922 strike, the Lewis machine betrayed them and drove them out of the union by signing separate agreements for the same companies that they were striking against. We here in the anthracite must abolish the special mining contract system. This the Lewis machine has refused to do and has no: done so far. The rest of our district offi- cials of the anthracite gave support to this system, in spite of the fact that the Executive Board of District 1 recently passed a_ hypocritical statement against this system, which was merely done to soften the in- dignation of the miners in the an- hracite, after the brutal murder of brothers Alex Campbell and Peter Reilly by hired assassins of the con- tractor-operator union official group. Take control of the Union! Win the soft coal strike! Save the Union from the reactionary officialdom and the coal operators. Send delegates to the Pittsburgh National Save-The- Union Conference on April 1st. ae Above is a photo of a found- ling whose parents were forced to abandon it because of their poverty-stricken condition. The baby was found in one of the working-class sections of Brook- lyn. These foundlings are sent to city institutions, where any re- ligion the authorities choose is foisted upon them. The baby is playing with the photographer's camera, ji > There is a good reason York is called “Death Avenue.’ been snuffed out. by the trains of the New York Central Railroad which run freely in this crowded street in a densely- populated working-class neighborhood, There are no play- ground facilities for the children of the poor in this neighbor- hood, and the children risk their lives in “Death Avenue.” Photo at left shows the “Signal system” of the railroad on “Death Avenue,” a boy on horseback. The railroad, to save a few dollars in wages, no longer uses a man as signalman. . At the right an engine is shown steaming up “Death Avenue.” why Eleventh Avenue, New ” For many a worker's life has | SPORT Soccer Games The following Metrovolitan Work- ers Soccer League games will be played tomorrow: Division “A” Scandinavian vs Hungarian Work- ers; Freiheit vs Bronx Hungarian, ew York Eagle vs Marvian’s; Red Star vs Armenian. Division “B” Fordham vs Rangers; Claremont vs Hungarian Workers; Blue Star vs vrague; German-Hungarian vs Frei- heit; Red Star vs Sp. cus. . Division “C” Sparta \s vs Trumpeldor; Y. M. H. A. vs Prague Juniors; Scandinavian vs Prague “C”; Red Star vs Co- operative; Claremont vs New York iuagle; German-Hungarians vs Vaga- bound. a The Labor Sports Union of New York will hold its first meet Sunday, March 25.h at the Finnish Hall, 15 W. 126th St. Among the clubs that will participate are the Finnish Workers Club, Workers’ Gymnastic Alliance, * nasium’ Club and the Metropolitan Workers Soccer League. Part of the proceeds will be donated to the vennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, * Lou Moskowitz who was knocked out in the first round two weeks ago by Pete Civic will meet him in a re- INJUNCTIONS AID TO.COAL COMPANY Penalties For Weight Violation Stopped DENVER, Mar. 16.—A restraining order preventing the Colorado state mine inspector and the district attor- ney of Freemont County from as- sessing a $100 per day penalty Jagainst the Victor American Fuel * - Company for violating the state check weighman law was issued by Federal sudge Kennedy of Cheyenne, Wyom- ng, sitting at Denver, Colorado. The order also restrains the check veighmen elected by the miners from all activity towards either trying “to place themselves on the tipple of the Chandler mine or of instigating a strike or other protest against the action of the company.” Operators Violate Law. Colorado coal companies have con- tinually violated the state law re- |quiring a check weighman elected by the miners at each tipple, and the issue was one of the most important ‘demands in the strike which ended February 20. According to A. A. Heist, Denver S IN BRIZF United Workers Cooperative Gym-j; turn match at the Olympic A. C. to- night. If Lou does not make a fairly good showing it will mean that he will fade out of the picture for quite a while. * * ‘i Phil Scott, English heavyweight meets Prene Charles in the main event at the St. Nicholas Arena Mon- day night. BROACHRULEGAGS ELECTRICAL UNION “Little Caesar” Throws | Out or Gags Militants An increase in the strong-arm squad regularly stationed before the meeting hall and the exclusion of ad- ditional workers from the hall were the developments Thursday night at) the meeting of Local 3 of the elec- | trical workers’ union held at Central | Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. Critic Thrown Out. At the order of H. H. Broach, in- ternational vice president of the union, and now virtually the dictator of the union of which the rank and file has: lost all control, one of the members who a week ago made a mo- tion not to the liking of the “Little Caesar,” was kept from the meeting. No other reason could be found for the exclusion of this member. His “guilt” consisted in the fact that he made an amendment to a motion that delegates be sent by Local 3 to an) unemployment conference at Wash- ington Irving High School, The most bitter resentment has been stirred up by the recent exclu- sions by Broach. It has been learned that he has excluded not only regular progressive electrical workers but some who have not been directly con- nected with the progressive movement. in the union. As a result an ever en- jarging section of the membership has veen thrown into the opposition, Gordon Scores Broach. Bill Gordon, known to many work- ers because of his fearlessness in at- tacking and denouncing corrupt of- ficers, took the floor in an attack against the policies of Broach and his henchmen. Gordon denounced the administration for supporting the’ gangsters who beat up one of the members, Steinberger, at a recent meeting. “Are our officers represent- ing the rank and file or other out- side interests,” Gordon asked, “when they support those who have beaten up our fellow worker?” He explained that he had been to the trial the day before at which the officers of Local 3 were present to defend “two gangsters who had beat- en up one of our fellow workers.” The chairman appeared unable to answer the question by Gordon and * CANADA WORKER AIDS. RUTHENBERG SUSTAINING FUND Worker Recalls Dead Leader (Continued from Page One) committed to those ideals, and that program coming to its aid each year thru contributions to its Sustaining Fund.” Fate In Workers’ Hands, Time after time the fate of The DAILY WORKER has been placed directly in the hands of the militant American workers and they have never failed their only militant Eng- lish daily in its crisis, While Charles E. Ruthenberg was living they re- sponded to ‘his challenge to defend their press at all costs against the onslaughts of the bosses. After his death his example has become their guide in resisting attacks against The DAILY WORKER. Saving The DAILY WORKER has meant sacrifices to each and every worker which only the workers will understand. A little less food, a little less warmth in already impoverished circumstances have often been the price of the sacrifice which. every militant American worker has been foreed at some time to pay for the defense of his paper against the plots of its class enemies. But the import- ance of safeguarding The DAILY WORKER against every inroad has grown with each sacrifice the work- ers have been called upon to make. ‘Precarious Life. The life of the workers’ press is always precarious. Today The DAILY WORKER is passing thru one of the worst crises it has ever been forced to meet. The question of its destruc- tion cr its survival in- this struggle is a question before each. and. every American worker. Whether he de- cides to sacrifice a little more, to spare his last cent if necessary for the defense of his class paper will determine whether the “Daily”. will be able to withstand the present at- tack. Workers, follow the example that Charles E. Ruthenberg gave you thru his entire life. Follow the last coun- sels he gave the American working class at the time of his death. Save ‘The DAILY WORKER. Donate your last dollar. Aid the Ruthenberg Sus- taining Fund. Rush your contribu- tions to The DAILY WORKER, 33 First St.. New York City. LEWIS SUPPORTS ANTI-STRIKE LAW Unites with Gov't and Operators WASHINGTON, March 16.— A class-collaboration scheme for the mine industry similar to that which has already been put over on the rail- road workers was revealed here yes- terday as the program of John L. ‘Lewis co-operating with certain of the coal operators. : Testifying before the senate com- mittee “investigating” the mine situ- ation, John H. Jones, who represented himself as an “independent” operator but who is suspected as speaking for the large companies, announced that he would favor government legisla- tion preventing strikes in the mine industry and setting up a commissien as arbiter of the differences between the miners and the operators. “I am confident,” Lewis declared in reply to the suggestion, “that some such arrangement could be worked out to eliminate strikes.” "FOOD WILL WIN,” MINERS DECLARE PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 16— “Give us food and clothing to maintain the spark of life in our families and we will fight on until the proud coal \ t | 7 i i | representative of the Civil Liberties |:eferred him to Preiss ,the manager. Union, the election of a miner, Dave | Preiss assured Gordon that he could Lewis, as check weighman of the/haye the information he was seeking Chandler mine was approved by the|if he would come to the office the barons are forced to pay the Jackson- ville scale, under which e we could manage to support our wives and children!” This is the cry one hears from ev- icici Mili | ‘state mine inspector. City-Wide Conference of Unemployed Today (Continued from “Page One) ployed workers at 60 St. Marks Place. We must devise ways to expand this work.” Two meetings will be held under the auspices of the New York Council of the Unemployed at 2 p. m, next Wednesday. One will be a meeting the Church of All Nations, 9 Second Ave., and the other will be held at 143 EB, 102rd St. of unemployed electrical workers at)’ next day. Workers’ Desperation. A letter of resignation was received from Samuel Nuttson, who has been a member of the union for many years. Due to the serious unemployment problem in the industry, he wrote, and due to the fact that the Broach ma- chine had done nothing to solve the problem, he had been driven to the point of desperation. The choice for him was between starvation and joining the navy. He chose the lat- ter but wanted in, resigning to let the brothers in the union know. his reasons for doing so. k ed at Nothing whatever was report the meeting as to the program for meeting the increasing unemployment roblem, ery part of the coal strike war area where one hundred thousand miners are locked in a mighty struggle with the coal operators, backed by the bil- lions of Wall Street and with the co operation ‘of the industrial lords of the country. Food will win this strike, plus mass picketing which will scare the scabs out of the mines and stop the pro- duction of coal, ‘ 2 The American workers and all oth- | ers who are sympathetic to the cause of the strikers must contribute the money to purchase food. This is a duty that the American workers must’ fulfill. Send all contributions at once to the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Ré- lief Committee, 611 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa,