The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 66. Losovsky in Open MOSCOW, March 18.—“In view of® the more intense onslaught of capi- talism, the international working class must unite all forces in order to organize resistance and launch a ¢ounter-attack,” declared Hunbert- droz, in greeting the fourth world congress of the Red International of Labor Unions on behalf of the Com- munist International. “The Red International of Labor Unions,” he continued, “must do everything to free the working masses from the influence of the re- formists and must launch an attack against capitalism. We are witness- ing a powerful struggle for wages. The congress must find methods of organizing the revolutionary forces and leadership for the struggle of the broad masses. Particular atten- tion must be given to the struggle { for the everyday needs of the work- ing class which will help organize the masses for political action. “The more largely that we shall affect the mobilization of forces,” he said, “the sooner will it be possible to transform the defenseive war of the working class into an offensive one, lead the working class struggle for the, overthrow of capitalism and establish a dictatorship of the prole- tariat 1n all countries.” i] j } - Losovsky Opens Congress. The R. I, L. U. Congress was of- ficially opened in the Trade Union (Continued on Page Three) “LEWIS MACHINE MAKES GESTURE Issues Deceptive Order on Picketing i (Special to The Daily Worker.) PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 18. — At a meeting of pickets held here yesterday at the headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America, orders were given by the Lewis of- ficials that mass picketing of the scab mines is to be inaugurated at once. This decision is eleven months too late. Against Mass Picketing. In the past the officials of the min- ers’ union not only advised the strik- ers to pbey the strikébreaking in- junction’ but bitterly attacked the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief } Committee for urging the miners and 12 their’ women-folk to picket in hun- f dreds. They even went so far as to publicly denounce the Pennsylvania- Ohio Relief Committee and accused it of putting out “subversive propa- ganda.” These officials beasted that they were obeying. the injunctions even tho they objected to them. They informed the senate sub-committee which investigated conditions in the t strike area that the Pennsylvania~ i Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee was violating the law by spreading false reports about its work, induced Sena- tor Gooding’ to make an attack o1 the committee. The union official: even called in the state police t break up Pennsylvania-Ohio reli meetings and threatened to discipli: all union members who * advocate mass picketing. Now, however, in the twelfth month! of the strike, the union officials have | been forced to adopt the policy pros) claimed several months ago by t! Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Reli Committee. They have ordered mas: picketing in violation of injunctions.! Senator Wheeler in Washington wh also criticizes the progressive miners, echoed their attacks on the judge who have issued strikebreaking in junctions. The belated change of pols icy is welcome. Minerich Attacked. . Anthony P. Minerich, chairman of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee who was arrested in Lan- ying, Ohio, on a charge of violating an injunction of Federal Judge Ben- son W. Hough, was denounced as a “red” by union officials. Now, those (Continued on Page Two) PATIENTS ENDANGERED. ALBANY, N. Y¥., March 18.—Two hundred patients were gv t safety when terday in the broke out siete = tal. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. DELEGATES FROM 40 LANDS AT RED TRADE MEETING IN MOSCOW Movement of Proletariat Stronger, Declares ing the Congress Life of Job Hunting DanaM. Baer, above, states that he has had 3,000 jobs in 42 years of slaving for a living. Baer was forced by poverty to start in on a lifetime cf wage slavery when he was 12 years old. Keeping track of all the jobs he has had since, he finds that in the struggle to live, he has worked for 3,000 bosses. INDUSTRY KILLS 139 IN NEW YORK 190 Dependents. Lett: 1 Month’s Toll, ALBANY, N.°¥., Marth “¥8—In- dustry swept 139 workers to their deaths last month, the state labor department asserts, leaving to fate and the future the livelihood of at least 190 dependents. Among these were 83 widows, 97 children, nine aging parents and a _ dependent brother. Only 10 of the workers killed on the job left no family dependent on their earnings. Although construction work leads in workers’ fatalities, the hazards of painting are once again emphasized by the department. Two painters died of lead poisoning because, the depart- ment remarks, of the lack of state provisions for periodic examinations of workers in hazardous trades. Examinations Demanded. “We are all for periodic examina- tions,” asserted Herriet Silverman, secretary of the Workers Health Bureau. “But either the trade unions should be empowered to administer the tests or the examining board should be under the control of trade unionists. In unorganized industries the necessary state machinery must of course be controlled by trade unionists to keep the examinations from degenerating into an employers’ black] cra A WORKERS RESUME HORTHY PROTEST Picket Line Is Planned for White House WASHINGTON, March 18,—The White House will be picketed Mon- day noon by Anti- members and sympathize: dent Coolidge receives the so-called Kossuth Memorial Committee of Hun- garian fascists now visiting this country, A delegation of New York workers and liberals are scheduled to arrive here in the morning, headed by Hugo Gellert, president and Emery Balint, secretary, of the Anti-Horthy League. The Horthy Terror. Gustav-Meyers, president of the Hungarian Sick hea Death Benefit Federation and Teadore peer, edi- tor of “Munkas, Hun-| garian newspaper, both of New York, will be in the anti-Horthy delegation. . According to present arrangements Coolidge will receive the fascist party at the White House at noon tomorrow. If this program is carried out, the pickets will disp] eantete denouncing the tarsi Menie activities of. the regime of Horthy, hy, ungaran premier, which has’ othe murder of thousands re erage and Jews in ‘Hungary. during oie ed years. “AILY WORKE? HE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. \., under the act of March 3, 1579. URGE FIGHT TO STEM NEW DRIVE OF CAPITALISTS Issue Appeal (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER)| MOSCOW, March 18.—The Soviet-| Swedish Miners Cooperation Commit-| tee has published an appeal to all miners’ unions and federations call- ing for a world congress to consider the growing crisis in the coal mining industry. The appeal points to the steady de- terioration in the position of the miners and sharply criticizes the policy of the International Miners Federation, which refused to declare a solidarity strike dnd which, en- couraged a split among miners along national lines. The appeal calls for the creation of a miners’ international thru the convocation of a world con- gress and the unity of the various miners’ unions and federations. The Committee accompanies its ap- peal with an explanation pointing out that an appeal had already been adopted at the January meeting of the Soviet-Swedish Committee, was postponed because of the objections of the Swedish Miners’ Union pending the plenary session of the Executive Committee of the International Miners’ Federation on the strike go- ing on in Sweden, The Swedish miners’ union has abandoned its objection and the ap- peal has therefore been public in the press. Realizing all the difficulties facing the Swedish Miners’ Union, the representatives of the Central Committee of Soviet-Swedish Com- mittee” could nevertheless see no reasons why the publication of the appeal should adversely affect the Swedish Miners’ struggle. CAP UNION HEADS HIT MILITANTS Threatened . Report Is . Mostly Wind Infuriated by the growing mass sentiment for left wing leadership which threatens to topple the throne of Max Zaritsky, right wing pres- ident of the International Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers Union, and unable to answer the charges of the left wing that his machine in the New York, Joint Council had squandered the huge sums of money held in trust for an unemployment insurance fund, the general executive board of the International union, an- nounced Saturday that. they have or- idered new elections in the left wing controlled Boston section ofthe Cap- makers’ union, Mountain’s Birth of a Mouse. The announcement was made pub- jlie as a result of a so-called investi- gation conducted by I. Goldberg, and 8. Hershkowitz, two of Zaritsky’s |*= followers on the general executive jboard. The committee .had gone to Boston to investigate the union’s ex- penditures after they had won the 40-hour week by a brilliant 10-week general * strike. The long statement declaring their decision to. order new elections ‘unist, swindles” perpetrated by the leadegs of the Boston local and fin- committee with the aid of expert accountants finally “uncovered” a Soviet- Swedish Miners : iE a NEW YORK. MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1928 Publishing Association, Inc., MINERS ASK AID “FOR DELEGATES April 1 Conference Stirs Districts PITTSBURGH,. Pa., March.18..—— 8S April Ist, the date set for the convening of the National Miners’ Save-the-Union Conference of the United Mine Workers draws near, hundreds of local unions and progres- sive groups in every district in the International Union are electing dele- gates to the conference while the re- actionary Lewis machine is calling on the police authorities to break up miners’ meetings, even going so far as to instruct county sheriffs in Pennsylvania not to permit a local union to meet unless the meeting is authorized by the Lewis officials. While John L. Lewis is in Wash- ington hobnobbing with the coal op- erators and posing as a 100 per cent patriot denouncing the progressives and urging the employers to help him save the country from the “Red Men- ace,” the rank and file of the interna- tional union under the leadership of the Savye-the-Union Committee are perfecting plans for the great pro- gressive conference in~ Pittsburgh, April 1. Miners Are Rich. The miners are rich in fighting ma- terial but poor financially. The long struggle has completely drained their resources. They are now calling on their fellow workers for aid to help defray the cost of this great and significant. conference — significant, not only to the miners but to the en- (Conttmued on Page Two) ‘Daily Worker Agents” \Will Meet Tomorrow;| 'Weinstone to Speak An important meeting of all|’ DAILY. WORKER agents will be held tomorrow night at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. to act upon questions of major importance. Plans for a wide dis- tribution of the special May Day edition will be included in: the or- der of business. William W. Wein- stone, district organizer, Workers ( Continued on Page Five) The DAILY WORKER has not The enemies who the very existence of © paper have not relaxed their igilance. They are merely waiting for a favorable morhent to resume their attack, The DAILY WORKER is in a more precarious situation Ms { than at any time in its past. The e of the paper is at stake and the Kegeent capable of saving it is e power of the militant workers DB Fechatend) (Communist Party, will speak. acting as one unit. If the workers do not come to the defense of their pa- per one hundred per cent it will go down before the assaults of the capi- talist courts and the conspiracies of its enemies. ; ‘Their Reol Defender. Seldom before in the history of the militant working class has the work- ers’ need for their militant press been more urgent than it is today. In coal fields thruout the country, the strik- At left is a breaker-| house of Colliery 6, of the pany at Pittston. Loc call | 1703 of the United Mine| Workers of which the murdered Alex Campbe | was the leader, is at the| the corrupt Lewis Below is Rinaldo Cappe-| lini, Lewis henchman and president of District 1. NA TL BISC UI T WORKERS: Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker 33 First Street, New York, N. lhe Anthracite: Scene of the Most Crucial Revolt Against Lewis Machine Pennsylvania Coal Com-| mac | chine in the anthracite. | | tory, UNDERPAID WANT UNION I want to tell you about the National Biscuit Company at 15th St. and 9th Ave. where at least 10,000 workers are employed. There are three units to this plant, which extends four blocks, NICARAGUA WAR PROTEST CALLED Nearing Will Address Mass Meeting The invasion of Nicaragua by United States marines will be at- tacked at a meeting tonight at 8 o’clock at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., called by the All-Amer- ica Anti-Imperialist League. The speakers. will be Scott Near- ing, recently returned from the Soviet Union and China, and Torinio Tre- jerino, former Nicaraguan counsel- general in New York. The speakers will discuss the new attack on the League by the postal authorities who have labeled a leaf- let that the League is distributing as “objectionable.” The leaflets urges the contribution of funds to purchase medical sup- plies for the army of General Aug- usto Sandino, commander of the Ni- caraguan army of independence. It also contains photographs of Nicara- guan victims of marine attacks. Mexican Workers Help. More than a thousang dollars has been collected in the past few weeks in small amounts from the Mexican workers and soldiers, according to a report from the Hands-Off-Nicara- guan Committee in Mexico City which reached the League Saturday. “One of the most wonderful of all the demonstrations for Sandino was that in Pueblo, the textile center of Mexico, where 800 pesos were col- lected from workers and _ soldiers. When one recalls how bad are the living conditions of the Mexican workers and soldiers, one realizes what 800 pesos means from a Mexi- (Canines on eeue Five) FLOGGERS FREED; VERDICT DIRECTED Cases Against Kluxers Also Dismissed RALEIGH, N. C.,. March 18.— Twelve men who participated in a night raid made by a masked mob of whites, in which two Negroes and an aged white one-armed storekeeper were severely flogged, were dis- charged by a jury here when the pre- siding judge directed a verdict of not guilty. Four cases against individual members of the Ku Klux Klan band were also dismissed. THE “DAILY” IS STILL IN DANGER Workers’ Constant Aid Is Its Sole Defense Against Attack ing miners are waging a terrific struggle against the efforts of the mine barons to smash the miners’ union and of the union officialdom to The highest wage @ man can make in the plant is $35 but you never make it for the reason that a worker only works~full time during two or three months in the summer. Other- wise you are laid off two or three FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ¥. N.Y. JOBLESS IN NATIONAL CAMPAIGN Call World Congress of Miners to Meet cet Growing o Crisis OPENS DRIVE FOR A “MAINTENANCE FUND” FOR NEEDY head of the revolt against| Will Force s Action from Government For the first time in American his- there was launched here Satur- | day a nati campaign for securing {legislation for the maintenance and |relief of the growing armies of un- employed workers whose numbers to a total of nearly five millions have eated the most acute problem of the present day. Unemployed Maintenance Fund. A resolution calling for the estab- |lishment of an Unemployed Main- tenance Fund was greeted with tu- multuous applause by the 150 delegates and the several hundred visitors who _ attended an unemployed conference held at Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave. “Work or wages,” was the slogan and keynote of the conference. Labor unions, fraternal and beney= times a week no matter how long potent organizations, social welfare so- you have worked for the company. The best you can get is $15 to $18 per week. Some of the workers have been here for fifteen or more years. Force Cut in Half. The speed-up is terrible. The factory force has been almost cut in half so that now there are about 80 men on machines doing the work that used to be done by 160. There are foremen keeping. a strict watch everywhere to see that the work is never slowed up for any reason. Frank Quinn, the superintendent of the 10th Ave. factory, is a brutal and ignorant man who spies on the workers thru his brother, who is the assistant foreman in B2 depart- ment, and his nephew, who is the ma- chine captain on A2. The workers are too frightened for (Continued on Page Five) MINERS GO OVER TO PROGRESSIVES Lewis Terror Fails to Check Movement PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 18.— The-campaign of terrorism and inti- midation that the Lewis-Fagan mach- ine, in conjunction with the sheriffs and state police, has been carrying on in District 5, U. M. W. A., has failed to crush the rapidly growing senti- ment of the membership in favor of the “Save-the-Union Committee” and its program, To Send Delegation. Reports from the mining camps in District 5 shows that this district, | which has been held in the iron grip| of the Fagan despotism, is preparing |omi ion from local |cipal visitors to send a huge di unions and progre ye groups rep: paeoting every section to the National |arose to spe: Conference | | miners’ Save-the-Union to be held in Pittsburgh. Lewis Power Fading. The miners of Washington County especially are determined to make the April 1 conference an overwhelming victory for the progressive move- ment. Many locals which had sup- ported Lewis in the past are swing- ing over in staunch support of the Save-the-Union policies. Miners wh | had been indifferent or apathetic are now waking up to demand action. They are calling on all their union members to get into the fight against the Lewis machine and its destructive policies. Next Sunday to Raise Miners’ Relief Funds. Among the most interesting con- tesst to be held at the first exhibition meet of the Labor Sports Union next Sunday at the Finnish Hall, 126th St. will be the swimming events, conducted by M. Kaminke. In addition to style swimming and} diving the fourth event will be a re- lay swimming race, followed by a destroy it from yithin. Hunger and cold, brutal veal jailings, mur- der jhave been the\lot of the miners in the fight for existence, but these have failed to break their spirit. By their own™repeated statements The four lap free style race. The water sports exhibit will be concluded by a general water sports carnival. The Labor Sports Union is donat- ing half the proceeds of this meet to the relief of the striking miners of Pennsylvania and Ohio, through the 15 W. | ieties, clubs and even schools respond- ed to the call of the New York Coun- cil for the Unemployed to its confer- ence called for Saturday. Nearly 150 delegates representing 20 unions, 19 fraternal groups, 12 aid and welfare societies, two schools, two political organizations as well as numerous miscellaneous groups were present, Executive Committee of Action. At the conclusion of the conference an executive committee comprising forty delegates and representatives of the various trade unions, fraternal organizations and other groups was set up. The executive committee will meet next Thursday to draw up a bill embodying the decision of the con- ference. The bill, a sort of “Charter of the Unemployed” will be presented to the city, state and federal legis- lative bodies. A copy of the resolu- tions and decisions of the conference will be sent to every trade union and fraternal organization in the country. Steps will be taken to call a second and] jarger conference which in turn will launch the drive for the Unem- ployed Maintenance Fund on a nation- al scale and will coordinate the var- ious unemployed councils already in existence in various cities. To Put Politicians on Record. “We will work for the creation of such a fund,” declared Wm. W. Wein- stone, District 2 organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party and one of the representatives of the Workers |Party at the conference. “We will draw up a bill, a ‘Charter of the Un- employed,’ which we will present to the officials and legislative bodies of city, nation and state; we will give our government officials an opportun- ity to translate into real action their | long stand promises that they are ’ the unemployed.” t Nearing, well known econ- t and wri and one of the prin- the conference, met astic reception as he k on the present unem- ployment crisis. 18th Round of Unemployment, °This is the eighteenth time in American history,” he declared, “that we have had an unemployment crisis and hard times. Unemployment inevitable under the capitalist sym tem; as long as the capitalist system exists, relief will take the form mere« ly of ladling out soup; but relief must be fought for nevertheless. Action, not words, must be the demand on the politicians of the old parties.” Nearing pointed out that European countries and especially the Soviet Union had made provisions for the with an entht |maintenance of the unemployed. The jeapitalists of America, the richest ok ea }and most powerful country. in the Labor Sports Exhibition | {the burden of maintaining the jobless world, must not be permitted to shirk workers inasmuch as it is their profit system which creates the problem, The delegates came to the confer ence at the call of the New York (Continued on Page Five) Anniversary of Freiheit At the ‘Garden’ Sunday Wide interest is being taken in plans for the sixth anniversary of the Jewish Daily Freiheit, Communist daily paper, to be held at Madison Square Garden next Sunday after noon. The program will include “Red, Yellow and Black,” a mass 5] in which 1,000 workers. will pate. Another feature will be songs DAILY WORKER has been the only | Youth Committee for Miners’ Bele, [be Sergei Radamsky, who » (Continued on Page Two) \ Room 286, 799 Broadway. returned’ from the Soviet Union,