The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1928, Page 2

4 ¢ THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, M' o SATURDAY, Jo, 1928 ne ‘ FINNISH PAPER PUSHING SUPERIOR SECTION AHEAD IN DAILY WORKER SUB CAMPAIG WORKER. “Every foreign language organ of the Work- ers (Communist) Party should be engaged in the same activity,” says the statement from Tyomies. If all the The national subscription campaign to add 10,000 new readers to The DAILY WORKER before the first of May, is being pushed rapidly Wisconsin district, a ceived from the Finnish paper T: sin industrial center. cording to a statement just re- ahead in the Superior, 'yomies, in the Wiscon- Superior, the northern outpost of American indus- trialism has proved a ripe field for the efforts which the Wisconsin workers have been making to drive their section forward in the national subscription offensive. Several free distributions of The DAILY WORKER have been made among the thousands of workers in the northern city in an effort to thoroughly acquaint them y with the only militant English labor daily in the world. Scores of subscriptions have been sent to the office of The DAILY WORKER from the workers in Superior, who promise that dozens more are to follow. Tyomies has its agents thruout the United States and these enterprising workers are devoting part of their time to gathering subscriptions for The DAILY Party papers rally thei field. ir agents in the way Tyomies has done, the subscription work of The DAILY WORKER can be put across more effectively and on a far wider Arbitrator DECISION FAVORS COAL OPERATORS | AT ALL POINTS Move Sean: as Cappelini Betrayal PITTSTON, Pa gressive miners here the decision by umpire handed down Saturday f coal operators, on th¢ ing grievance as a co the fact that the Cappelini District 1 are working toget the operators, and that t ing system will never under the Lewis-Cappelini rule. { Arbitration Favors Bosses. | 18.—Pro- pointing to P, C. P. Neill of Washington, D. C., umpire of the anthr: e board of conciliation, in a decision handed down Saturday favored the opera- tors at every point. The contrac system, according to the decision, violates no provisions in the existing collective agreements between the operators and the union. The umpire takes the position ethat the grievances complained of are not such as arose out of the existing practices, but that the griev- ance is with the system itself. “The| grievance is an effort to secure decision,” the umpire holds, “which | will prohibit such subcontracting| . but it is obvious thet the um- pire could not give such a decision.” It is accordingly made clear, pro- gressive miners point out, that the umpire holds that only minor griev-} ances under the contracting system,| and not the system itself is the sub- ject of arbitration. | A Crucial Decision. The decision of this grievance known as No. 2085 which applies in the case of the Hudson Coai Com- pany, will be followed in the case of 2 “™ all similar disputes in the district, it is generally taken for granted. The grievance was filed nearly two years ago, progressive miners point out. ‘he long delay and the fact that the decision has come just at this moment when the issue is| uppermost in ‘itts.on is a confirma-| tion that the treacherous officials of the Lewis-Cappelini machine are working togetner with the mine operators. The grievance was signed by Cappe- lini, himseii as a ges.ure oi oppusiiow to the vicious contracting sysicm. During the whole ‘time Cappelini has done nothing to oppose nor has he sough. io secure a de- cision in order that the issue could be fought out. it was further re- called that the whole question of ar- bitration was at the center of the 41925 fight of the anthracite mine: Through the betrayal of the ~ew Cappelini machine the arbitration scheme was put over agains. tne bdil- ter opposition of the coal diggers. Cappelini still refuses to admit that he is responsible fur the arbitratiwn scheme. tue system, One Fight. The fight against the vicious con tracting system which the Cappelini| machine is upholding ind th uy as at) the same time Cappelini and Lew vice president and Jc spector in the first inspecti in District 1, accordi to a re have stated that the dec affect the Pitston fight contracting system. ‘This is dodg the issue, peonrsenives declare. \ ’ Kosik, Michae un Boy |enee a success. MINER SPEAKS AT RELIEF MEET Bicievates “Attend From| 31 Organizations A simple retital of the miners’ Neill, | ae ana ate Grievance Against the Contracting System is The hunt for publicity on the part of Charles A. Levine, erst- i\ while junk-king who started an airplane business after he made huge profits out of war salvag- ing operations, still waxes hot. An endurance hop will be Le- vine’s next stunt, he announces. Levine is shown above with Mabel Bolis, passenger in recent flights. MINERS ASK AID FOR DELEGATES 'April 1 Conference Stirs Districts (Continued from Page One) tire working class of America, organ- ized and unorganized. You have helped to feed and clothe ‘their families throuzh a year of des- perate struggle. You must now help them win so that they in turn will be able to help you when it is your time to give battle, in the industry where you are employed. The traveling and other expenses of the delegates to the conference must be defrayed. Locals may elect delegates but unless they have money, the delegates must stay home. Everybody Must Help. Everybody is urged to take steps immediately to raise funds to defray enses of the delegates to this Here is what you should In Boston where there are no coal mines, working class organizations should districts like New York and organize coupon-selling drives at once. These coupons are for one dol- lar, fifty cents and twenty-five cents each, They read: “The purchaser of this ticket has helped pay railroad fare for Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia striking miners and the miners from other mining districts to the big National Save-the-Union Con- ference in Pittsburgh, Pa., April 1st, |.1928.” Those who can afford should buy a sheet which costs $10.50 and for- ward the money immediately to the | Save-the-Union Committee, 526 Fed- eral St.. N. S., Room 201, Pittsburgh, Pa. Miners Do; You Must. Striking miners are collecting money for this purpose. Three union coal diggers from Burgettstown, Pa. on strike since last April sent in over ine dollars. The Orient local in Tli- nois, the largest bituminous mine in the world, elected delegates and voted them $75 for expenses. Everywhere in the-ecoal fields the miners are fev- erishly.working tc make their eonfer- They want your help, immediately. Send donations at once to the office of the Save-the-Union Committee. 626 Federal St., N. S., Room 201, Pitts- peey Pa. ‘Youn g Workers Wanted But Only for the Army An aggressive compaign to enroll youne workers in the Citizens’ Mili- hardships in the strike areas of Penn- | tary Training Camps has been started sylvania and Ohio by James Camp-|by Major General Hanson B., Ely, bell, a social digger, opened the Bronx |commanding general of the Second Conference for Miners’ Relief yester-| Corps Area, Governors Island. To day morning, which was attended by | make certain that the full New York representatives of 31 Bronx organiza. ' quota of 2,355 is obtained propaganda tions. Workmen’s circles, unions, fra- | i ternal organizations, and women’s; councils sent representatives to conference, Campbell, a striking miner from! California, in the Pennsylvania bitu- minous fields, told of the imminent threat of starvation to hundreds of thousands of the miners and their families in Pennsylvania and Ohio, unless prompt relief is rushed by the workers of this country. Fannie Rudd, secretary of the Pennsylvania and Ohio Miners’ Re- lief ose also spoke. She out- ed the work to be done by the x oases of the Miners’ Relief ! is being issued to the effect that all vacancies will be filled within several weeks, Strikebreaker Expelled The District Executive Committee of the Young Workers (Communist) League hereby declares Simen Sheftz, whe was a member of the Chelsea unit, expelled from the league, a statement by the league yesterday says. He is expelled for having scab- bed on the building wreckers while they were on strike in recent months ugainst the New England Wrecking Co, according to the statemer.', ee OPEN DRIVE FOR MORE HOLIDAYS Clothing Workérs Ask 6 Per Year CHICAGO, March 18.—The Retail Clerks Union, with a membership consisting of those employed in the men’s clothing stores here have an- jnounced that unless the Cook County | Merchants’ Association agrees to sign a new agreement gran. ing 6 holi- ‘days a year to the workers the union will make agreements with the in- ‘dividual store owners, instead of with the employers’ organization. The present agreement expires April 1. | The union manager stated ,that the other demands’ of the union have al- ready, been conceded by the em- ployers, the refusal of the 6-holiday :demand being the only obstacle se up by the bosses. The other de- mands are: A $5 minimum wage in- crease; a working week of 47 instead of 54 hours; and ‘a ‘sick and death benefit insurance fund for the work- ers. Now the workers have two holi- days a year, and a week’s vacation with pay. MINERS’ STRIKE FEATURES WEEKLY German Paper Issues Fine Number A vivid panorama of the great coal strike in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado is presented in the current issue of the “Arbeiter Ilustrierte Zeitung,” an illustrated labor weekly, which will be placed on sale in this country teday. The magazine, better lmowns as “A I Z,” is published by the international organization of the Workers* International Relief in Ber- lin, and is being distributed through- out all of North and South America by the American W. I. R., with head- enarters at 1 Union Square, New York City. Minerich,' Sablich. The present issue contains a num- her of pictures never published be- fore, showing dramatic scenes in the coal regions. It also includes photo- graphs of Tony Minerich, progressive Pennsylvenia mine leader, “Flaming” Milka Sablich and other prominent strike fieures. This is the first time that a pictorial] story of the enal strike is nresented in a macazine circulating throughout the world. The Workers’ International Relief has started an active campaign to se- cure a wider distribution of the “A I Z” in this country. One of the first cities to respond has been Buffalo. which. through the loca} secretary of 'the W. I. R., has sent in an initial order for 200 copies of the magazine. Greater attention will he paid to the class struggle in the lrited States in future issues of the “A I Z,” which | has a circulation of mors than 200,000 | in be tet alone. 6I-HOUR WEEK FOR. Overtime Pay Slogan Exposed as Ruse PAWTI'CKET. R. 1, March 18— Another mill of the Lonsdale Textile Company the Ann & Hore Mill in tho village of Lonsdate has made the an- nouncement that the plant wilt be re- opened on a 54-hour week star be- ginning this morning. About a month ago mill No. 4 of the same company resumed productian on the 54-hour week basis after a shutdown of three weeks. At that time it was declared by many tha‘ the shutdown was consciously madé ith the nurnose of reopening with lowered working standards. since or ders for work were plentifui. The same policy of telling the workers that the additional time worked would be naid for extra has “{heen nureucd in the Ann & Hone Mill, but the hypocrisy of the ruse is com- mented unon by the workers who see a move on foot in the first mill to reduce wages, thus bringing income down to where it was when a 48-hour week was in force. A number of days prior to the re- opening of the mill the employers hed routed overseers to the homes of all the workers to “prevail” upon them to return to work. fr { TATE WOME S FORTS IN BRIEF | Above is a photo of Hiram Wesley. Evans, “imperial wiz- ard” of the Ku Klux Klan, which | ploit both white and Negro workers in the south. The Klan recently unmasked officially, but its attacks on the workers and its brutality towards the ex- ploited Negroes in the south still continuemunabated, CONGRESS OPENS Delegates From Forty | Lands Attend (Continued from Page One) company are permitted to remain non- union. This policy, he declared, was responsible for the loss of half the membership of the unien in 1922, when Lewis signed agreements for only half the strikers, thus forcing the others to return non-union. To Save the Union. “We cannot be silent any longer! The non-union miners do not trust Lewis any more. The policy must be changed to save the union from de- struction,” Minerich declared, adding, “The ‘Save the Union Committee’ is calling upon all non-union miners to join our strike so that it may “be fought more effectively.” Four former strikebreakers who were recently brought out of the mines by the famous mile-long picket line attended the meeting. One de- clared that 19 strikebreakers promised to join the strike if a representative from the union came to the barracks for them. Organizer Fred Thomas was instructed by a unanimous vote to go. Beck,Harding Appointee Wins in Vote Intrigue WASHINGTON, 1 March 18.—An election committee of the house yes- terday reported that it had found mes A. Beck, former ambassador » England and: solicitor-general un- der Harding, eligible to represent ;Pennsylvania in the house. It had |been-charged that. Beck, a member of |the corrupt republican Vare ™machine, jhad established | a residence in Phila- 'delp hia merely in an attenipt to qual- ‘ify as a republican candidate and that he was thus illegally elected. One lemocrat was among those who up- held Beck. Jimmy MMvLarnin, Irish Favorite Bruce Flowers’ victory over Billy Pertolle at the Garden Friday night Onee again proves that he is one of the best of the game today. While has rendered valuable services | 'to the bosses who mercilessly ex-' WORLD RED UNION lightweights in the | *GHICAGO CLERKS "an Besa. wore" LIFE OF “DAILY” IS IN MILITANT WORKERS’ HANDS ‘Crisis Still Confronts Labor’s Press (Continued from Pac One) militant’ labor organ which has un- qualifiedly supported them in their i battle with the bosses. Time and again the miners have contributed out cf their starvation to keep alive the paper which has wided them single-handed in their fight. Are the other American work- ers tc\do less for their daily than the starvine miners? Millions Jobless. More than 4.000.000 jobless men are tramping the streets of the American cities, freezing in the icy nights, starving in the bitter days. Hundreds are scattered thruout the American countryside, seeking employment which is rarely found, no less wretch- ed than their starving fellows in the cities. Hundreds of workers go out of the shops daily to swell the ranks of this unemployed army. “Prosper- ity” is reaping its grim harvest of death, suffering and famine. There is not a worker in the United States who does not know that he may be job- less by tonight. The organized “charities” of the bosses make a mocking pretense of coping with this starving multitude. But the real defender of the millions of unemployed is The DAILY WORK- ER. - And The DAILY WORKER must be preserved to defend the growing masses of jobless. Lingering Crisis. The DAILY WORKER must be strengthened for this fight. It must be preserved. as the daily weapon of the militant American workers. The | crisis which has been forced upon the paper by the plots of the United States government is a crisis for all workers. It is a lingering crisis and cannot be solved today or tomorrow. Only the most burning class. devo- tion, the continued sacrifice of the railitant American workers for their daily English organ, can defend their paper in the present crisis. The DAILY WORKER ‘as_ not, passed its crisis. Let this be a con- stant appeal in the minds of all class- conscious workers. Let all workers vally to the defense of their militant English daily. Rush your contribu- tions to The DAILY WORKER, 33 First St., New York City. Half Million Soviet Workers Go to Rest MOSCOW, (By Mail).—Soon the season will begin for sending work- ers to rest homes,. sanatoria, and health resorts. This year the number of places for workers has consider- ably inereased. The number of people to be sent this year to the various health resorts will be 288,000; 27,910 will be sent to local sanatoria; 110,000 wil! be sent to Ukrainian rest homes and 7,- 280 to local sanatoria (Ukrainia); 10,000 will be sent from the railway workers and 8,149 to local sanatoria. Altogether there will be more than 611,000 workers in the various health resorts of. the country. held at the Garden Friday night. In the main bout Archie Bell, one of’ the leading bantamweights,° will meet “Kid” Francis, Italian favorite, Dom- inick Petrone, and Ignacio Fernandez, who fought a sensational 10 round bout last December, will repeat in the semi-final, The other two matches will present Sammy Durfman,, east ‘side boy vs. Andre Routis, former Horses This Season | Petrol’e is not the | French champion and “Al Brown vs: best of the boys at |Benny Schwartz. his weight a vic- Ri He tory over him is} Keen interest is manifesting itself worth while to any|in amateur sports circles in relation boxer. Flowers’ should be. matched with | Sid Terris or if possible with Jim- my McLarnin as his recent record is of such a character to entitle him to be on the top of the big time. * * * Jummy MeLarnin Several first rate bouts have been arr.nged for this week. Tonight, Charley (Phil) Rosenberg, former champ, will meet Jackie Cohen in a six rounder at the Broadway Arena. Phils Scott, British heavyweight, will face Pierre Charles at the St. Nicholas Arena tomorrow. Four first rate 10 rounders oh be to the first annual meetng of the | Labor Sports Union to be held all day next Sunday at the Finnish Hall, 15 W. 126th St. Many new entries are being received daily for the various events, a member of the arrangmeent committee stated yesterday. The proceeds of the exhibition will be divided between the Labor Sports Union and the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners Relief siti ‘ a ae Tony Canzoneri, aes champion of the world, is at a private sanitarium located at 133 W. 62nd St. where he was taken after he contract- ed a severe attack of oe Doctors say ny, ig no dan, CARA at Sate Politician “Angel” Couhtsj Recorder Ee Frank | 1,000 MARINES DESPATCHED T0 NICARAGUA WAR |Foist Wall | St. Election on Coyntry WASHINGTON, March 18. — The | despatch of over a thousand marines | to Nicaragua and a presidential de- leree, issued by Diaz, nullifying the action of the Nicaraguan congress are | the latest means by which the United | States hopes to effect its ‘“super- Baker, of Washington, Pa.,| | vision” of the Nicaraguan elections. claims that he takes’no salary| state department officials have for his services. The “dollar a year’ men in the world war, most of whom were found after the war to have made millions in | deals with the government, made | similar claims. i SOCIALIST LEADER AID TO REACTION WILWAUKER, Wis Wisc., March 18,— The Milwaukee Leader, a socialist party paper, frankly opens its col- umns to “atrocity” forgeries and other reports circulated by the Catho- lic hierarchy and the Hearst press in their attempt to overthrow the Mexican government. The following news item appeared Tuesday, March 13, in the Milwaukee Leader: “Arrest Women and Priest Saying Mass. Mexico City, Fourteen women and a priest, Father Mariano Macias, were arrested at Monterey for celebrating. mass. in a private home, a. dispatch to the newspaper Universal said to-day.” The “socialist” newspaper could see no other reason for the ‘arrest of the above mentioned counter-revolution- ary priest than that-of conducting a religious ceremony in a “private home.” made it clear that the United States lmarine forces will take “charge” of the elections this fall in spite of the }reeent decision of the congress at Managua and the popular hostility to United States intervention. - Altho the moct recent action against the McCov bill fias come from the fol- lewers of the conservative Chamorro, who. has presidential aspirations and who has openly announced that the |state department favors the “liberal” candidate, General Moncada, the ma- General Sandino. Sandino has a large popular following and if he succeeds in eluding the marines for the next few months, which appears likely, he will throw a monkey wrench into the McCoy election scheme. With the rainy season a few. months off, the chances cf Sandino’s holding out until the elections in the fall are extremely favorable. Mine Relief Conference | Arranged for Chicago CHICAGO, March 18.—The Penn- sylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Com- mittee has secured the Little Sym- phony Orchestra and Mossaiye Bogus- Boulevard Auditorium, March 31, at 8 p.m. . Letizia ‘Ueita, ‘coloratura’ soprano, accompanied by the orchestra, will sing Thomas’s polanaise, “I’m Fair ) Titania,” from “Mignon.” Z Saturday, Resist the Attack The American Legion, the Keymen of Amer- | ica, the National Security League, the Amer- ican Government have combined to destroy Labor’s fighting paper and are attempting to put its editors in jail. WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER? 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