The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 20, 1928, Page 1

5 Arrested as Coolid ge Welcomes Hungarian Fascists at White ‘House THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY T E DAILY WORKER. | Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. V. No. 67. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1928 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents HARDING, COOLIDGE AND AL SMITH IN OIL GRAFT! 9 ANTI-HORTHY PICKETS JAILED IN WASHINGTON 300 White Guards Are Received WASHINGTON, March 19.— Four men and a woman were arrested here today when workers and_ liberals formed a\ picket line at the White House in protest against the reception by President Coolidge of the Horthy white guard delegation from Hungary. Among the arrested were Hugo Gellért, New York artist and presi- dent of the Anti-Horthy League, and Benjamin C. Marsh, of Washington, executive secretary of the People’s Reconstruction League. The demonstrators carried placards, some of which said, “Héjjas, a Mass Murderer,” and “They Dishonored Kossuth,” White House Surrounded. Informed that a demonstration was to be made, more than 50 detectives, patrolmen and government plain-| clothes agents were posted around the White House. The police surrounded | the pickets as soon as they assembled. | The demonstration was peaceful. The pickets are charged with parad- ing on government property without a | permit. + In spite of the arrests the demon- strators together with sympathizers in other parts of the city distributed large quantities of leaflets exposing the purposes of the Hungarian dele- gation in coming to the United States. They Want Money. The Anti-Horthy League, Workers (Communist) Party and the Interna- tional Labor Defense, which partici- pated in militant demonstrations in + (Continued on Page Tuo)” ~ REVEAL HORRORS OF S-4 VICTIMS: whales | Crew of 43 Murdered by | Naval Incompetence CHARLESTOWN NAVY YARD, | BOSTON, March 19. Mute evi- dence of how the trapped crew in the forward torpedo room of the wrecked submarine S-4 fought for their lives | for hours was found in the mud clog- ged vessel this afternoon by a naval | board of inspection which penetrated | the interior of the compartment. | Forty-three men had lost their lives as a result of alleged negligence on the part of the navy department. The door leading from the torpedo room to the battery room had been fastened with a maul. A crack in the glass of the door had been plugged with a sheet of rub- ber. The five men wore gas masks. During their final hours they had | all taken to their berths in order to | conserve oxygen. | The bodies had been shaken from | the berths and were found in various | parts of the chamber. | The body of Lieut. Graham N.| Fitch was on the floor under a work | bench on the starboard side near the | torpedo tubes, his head pointed aft. Among the 214 questions the naval inspectors were called on to answer by an examination of the interior of the S-4 were the following: How were the gas masks stowed in the motor room? Was any attempt made to use the gas masks? Sports Exhibition on Sunday for Benefit of Miners’ Relief Drive Sunday afternoon and evening at the Finnish Hall, 15 W. 126th St., the Labor Sports Union will hold its first exhibition of sports, competitive and non-competitive. The proceeds are to be divided between the Labor Sports Union, an organization of workers’ clubs interested in sports, and the striking miners of Pennsyl- vania and Ohio. Tickets may be ob- tained at the office of the Youth Conference for Miners’ Relief, 799 Broadway, Room 237. The Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Re- lief Committee, 799 Broadway, is en- gaged in arranging a varied and col- orful program for a miners’ relief * concert and play to be given on Sun- day afternoon, April 15, at the Cen- | Bronx. tral Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave, Ws 1 Four workers were killed in FIVE WORKERS ARE KILLED IN POWDER BLAST AND TRAIN WRECK threé blasts at the Hercules Powder Co. mills in Valley Falls, N. Y., when a spark ignited a magazine. Several other % workers were injured. Many blasts have occurred at the Hercules mills in the past few years, each taking a toll of workers’ lives. The workers at these mills receive ridiculously low wages considering the risk they are forced to take. The ruins of the main magazine are shown at left, At right are shown the remains of four Pennsylvania R. R. trains which crashed near Harrisburg, Pa., fatally injuring a railroad worker. DEMOCRATS EXPOSED WITH G. O. P. IN BRIBES WASHINGTON, March 19.—The sale of the Marion Star by President } Harding in. 1923 will be investigated by the Senate Teapot Dome Com- mittee, it was announced, this afternoon, ATS ee ete LEFT WING WINS IN NEW CAP VOTE Boston Workers Sup- port Their Leaders BOSTON, March. 19,.--The elabor~ ately organized attempt of the right wing officialdom of the International Cloth Hat, Cap, and Millinery Work- ers’ Union to destroy the Boston Lo- cal 7 because of its left wing leader- ship, ended in failure when the re- turns of the elections held Saturday night .and made public yesterday rhowed the complete left wing slate of paid officers and other function- aries were re-elected. The general executive board of the |’ International, after meeting for about a week in New York to consider ways and means to combat the growing influence of the left wing in the union, finally issued a long statement that ordered an immediate election in the Bosten local. Campaign of Slander. The statement charged that the ieft wing leadership had coerced the members to vote for them in a pre- vious election by holding elections at on open membersnip meeting, despite the fact that the union had adopted this method on the requestof the members. The statement ordered a secret ballot, to be taken under the (Continued on Page Two) JOBLESS HOLDTWO MEETS TOMORROW Two mass meetings of the unem- ployed tomorrow will be the next step in the national campaign launched here Saturday at a meeting of labor and fraternal orgnizations of New York to force immediate relief from the government for the five million unemployed workers in the United States. A mass meeting, to be ad- dressed by John Di Santo, secretary of the New York Council of the Un- employed,, will be held at 2 p. m. to- morrow at 143 E. 103rd St. -Tom Fleming will also speak at this meet- ing, A second meeting, under the aus- pices of the Youth Council of the Unemployed, will be held tomorrow night at 8 p. m. at 2075 Clinton Ave, Di Santo will also speak at this meeting. The executive committee elected at the Saturday conference will meet at 8 p.’m. Thursday to fur- ther lay out a nation-wide campaign to force government action for the relief of the unemployed workers. Conference Called for Children’s May Day Plans for a children’s celebration of May Day will be discussed at a city-wide conference of all workers’ children’s organizations called by the Young Pioneers of America for Sat- urday, 4 p m. at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. i A demand “that Gov. Al Smith of; New York, the democratic party’s leading candidate for the 1928 presi- } dential nomination, be called to ex-, plain his interests with Harry F. Sin- clair during the last five years was made on the floor of the senate this afternoon by Senator Robinson (R), of Indiana at the height of a sharp debate over the oil scandals. The name of Governor Smith was brought into the proceedings when Senator Robinson asked whether _ Glontinued on. Page Two). NEWARK FURRIERS REELECT “LEFTS” Maintain Control De- spite Maneuvers The left wing administration of the Rabbit Dressers Local 25 of the In- ternational Fur Workers Union was overwhelmingly reelected despite the manoeuvres. of the right wing vice president sent by the national office to supervise the elections. Morris Langer, left wing manager of the local, yesterday made public the re- turns of the elections held Saturday. Lucci’s New Rules. A. Lucci, vice-president of the In- ternational Union, in his capacity as “supervisor” * of the elections, in- formed the left wing administration that the .candidate for manager would be compelled to poll a plural- ity. ofall the votes. cast in order to win the elections. In view of the/ fact thatone of the tactics of the lright wing was to encourage as jmany candidates’ to run as possible, the reason for Lucci’s statement be- comes obvious, Maintain Control. Although the left wing adminis- tration seryed notice on the right wing that such a decision would be fought bitterly. due to its unconsti- tutionality. Langer was elected man- ager by a vote greater than that of all others combined. The other four candidates together polled 89 votes, while Langer received 103 ballots. In. addition to the numerous non- paid functionaries elected, the sec- retary-treasurer’s position was also won by a left winger. Terror is marching thru the an- thracite again. Following the murder of Alex Campbell and Peter Reilly, the mine bosses and their agents, the Lewis-Cappelini gang, has staged another killing. Hunger and clubbing, bitter cold and jailing have fajled to break the militant spirit of the striking miners. Murder has become the favorite weapon of capitalist marauders, determined to drown in blood the miners’ struggle. Months of famine, freezing winter, and cossack terror have failed to cow All Militant Workers - LOSE COURT FIGHT Milwaukee Injunction Made Permanent MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 19.— After a hearing Friday and Saturday, in a Milwaukee Federal Court, Judge Geiger yesterday made public his de- cision to make permanent the tem- porary anti-strike injunction he issued recently against the striking knitter: of the Allen-A Hosiery Company Kenosha, Wis. ss Local offi rneys of the Américan Baie of ‘Full-Fash- ioned Hosiery Workers, in a confer- ence with the Wisconsin State Fed- eration of Labor, and their national heads declared that they will un- doubtedly appeal against the vicious injunction to the higher courts. Demonstrations Made. While the workers here endorse the plan of carrying the fight to higher courts, they are severely critical of their allegedly progressive leader- ship for issuing instructions that the drastic writ be carefully obeyed. De- spite these orders several enthusias- tic picket demonstrations were held at the mill gates. The latest move of the union of- ficials, at least one of whom had previously declared himself in favor of violating injunctions, comes in for especial condemnation. This is the plea, entered in court for a “modifi- cation” of the injunction, by the action, pleads for permission from the judge to allow ten pickets to be posted at the factory. The judge’s eynical declaration that he will take the patter under “advisement” makes certain the belief that even this will never be granted. FASCISTS JAIL MORE MILITANTS GENEVA, March 19.—Thirty-two Sicilian workers charged with “Com- munist activities” have been sentenc- ed to long terms of imprisonment, ac- cording to dispatchés received from Rome. Ten others were acquitted. The trial was held by a special mili- tary tribunal. Numerous arrests have been made recently as a result of the widespread unrest in industrial centers against .|high prices and low wages. HOSIERY WORKERS EMANDED BY WORKERS union ~attorney. The union in this | ers and peasants marching thru the troops to be held in readiness. More® than 60,000 peasants from all parts of the country have marched into the city to demonstrate against the Bra- tianu dictatorship. Numerous mass meetings have been held in Bucharest in spite of govern- ment orders. Bucharest workers op- erating for the time being with the National Peasant Party, headed by Juliu Maniu, participated in the street demonstrations and shouting i §Contimucd on Page, Three) GLOAK LOCALS TO NAME DELEGATES Urges Fight for Seats at Convention The New York Joint Board of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union an- nounced yesterday that local meet- ings will be held tomorrow evening for the purpose of nominating can- didates for delegates to the conven- tion of the national union to be held jin Boston on May 7. Only two locals | will meet tomorrow, with meetings of the others to be held as soon as ar- rangements can be made. j The meetings are to take place in both halls of Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., at 7 o'clock. An objec- tion and election committee will also be elected tomorrow. The left wing Joint Board in its an- nouncement calls upon all the workers to attend, so that delegates can be/ jelected who will conduct a strong lenough fight for admission to the con- | lvention. The right wing leadership of | |the International union will undoubt- | edly attempt to keep the delegates from: the militant locals out of the convention. ‘Miller Appeal Up in U. S. Supreme Court WASHINGTON, March 19.-— The appeal of Thomas W. Miller, former alien property custodian, from con- viction for conspiracy to defraud the government in the handling of Ger- |man property, was formally reported |to the supreme court in open session SAVE “DAILY” TO DEFEND MINERS Must Aid Paper Which Aids Them Daily assaulted by the hirelings of the mine barons, daily stabbed in the back by the treacherous acis of their own false’ officials, the miners are holding their faces to the struggle today with the same grim unflinching fortitude as the day they entered upon their fight to save the union. Only the suffering has grown deeper and their determination has intensi- fied. The one ally the miners have had in their struggle has been The DAILY WORKER. The miners would have the spirit of the militant miners.|fought single handed, but for. the assistance which the DAILY WORKER has brought them in their distress. The DAILY WORKER must be preserved as the guiding force in the fight between th mine barons and their militant workers. No force on earth must prevent The DAILY WORKER at this time from fulfill- ing iis service as the leader and the defender of the struggling miners in resignation of the Bratianu government, Premier Bratianu ha their bitter fight. But the defense which The DAILY | the world. BUCHAREST, March 19.—With more than a hundred thousand work- streets of the city demanding the ordered ILLINOIS MINERS CALL FOR STRIKE Many Meetings Support Progressives WEST @RANKFORD, Ill., March 19. -- A call for a general strike by the Illinois miners to support the Pennsylvania-Ohio coal diggers was received with thunderous applause here yesterday when over one thous- and miners listened to John Brophy, well known mine leader, denounce the treacherous Lewis machine which has tried to defeat the strike by signing up a district agreement for Illinois. The meeting was called by the Illi- nois district “Save-the-Union Commit- tee” and was one of the most stirring events in recent labor history of Illi- nois. Against Machine. The meeting was held in part as a great demonstration against the Fish- wick machine which a week ago broke up a similar meeting, The Lewis- Fishwick machine has been completely routed by the overwhelming mass sen- timent for the Save-the-Union pro- gram which has developed during the past week. Yesterday the Lewis- Fishwick henchmen were completely routed and did not dare appear. James McCollum, chairman of the meeting, warned the delegates that Lewis would very soon seek to intimi- date them against going to the April (Continued on Page Two) FREIHEIT SCRIBES AT SIXTH JUBILEE The editorial offices of the “Frei- heit,” Jewish Communist daily, will be removed to Madison Square Gar- den, next Sunday, March 25 when this militant labor organ celebrates the sixth anniversary of its existence. On the platform in the center of the huge garden, the editors, special feature writers, reporters, column conductors and dramatic critics will peck at their typewriters and com- pose the “copy” for the next edition while 22,000 workers look on. A mass play, symbolizing the de- velopment of the working class move- ment in recent years will be pre- sented at the same time. A symphony orchestra will furnish music. Sergey Radomsky, just returned from the Soviet Union, will sing the songs of New Russia. A large num- ber of other varied and spectacular features are promised. Increase of Charitable Institutions in N. Y. C. Unemployment has been so acute in New York City that publication to- day of a consolidated directory of so- cial agencies in the five boros shows that the greater city has the largest number of charitable institutions in Such institutions show WORKER has carried on for the mine|the decadent nature of the present (Continued on Page Two) 1 system. DISTRICT 9 JOINS MOVE IN SUPPORT OF BITUMINOUS Police, Golden Machine Fail to Stop Meeting SHENANDOAH, Pa., March 19.— Delegates of over 50 local unions met the call of the Tri- he-Union Committe {in a confere: which represented the entire progressive miners’ movement in District 9 of which the reactionary ‘henchman of the Lewis machine, Chris Golden, is president. Support Progressives. The conference pledged itself te carry out the program of the Save- the-Union Committee, to carry on the fight ageinst the Lewis machine until the treacherous crew is entirely gle against the union smashing drivd of the operators. The Golden machine united with |the police and broke up the confer+ ence temporarily, Before the police arrived, Mike Demchak, one of the vationally known leaders of the Save-the-Union movement spoke, Demchak outlined the situation in the miners’ union and gave the program of the committee for saving the union, A rank and file discussion followed in which numerous delegates arose jand bitterly attacked the Lewis-Cap- pelini-Golden-Kennedy machine of “murder and betrayal.” Endorsement was voted to the de- fense of Benito, Moleski and Mendola, the three innocent Pittston progres- sive miners who have been indicted (Gontinyed on, Page Five) NEW GESTURE AT ORGANIZING I. RT. Amalgamated Officials Begin “Drive” Announcement that the Amalga- mated Association had started a “new drive to organize the traction work+ ers” preceded yesterday the infors {mation secured from reliable sources |that these workers have received the jplan with a considerable amount of | Scepticism, | It ean be definitely stated that un- |less the officials of this union who |have been responsible for the ad- |mittedly most stupid and brazen be- \trayal of the traction workers in \their history, change their policy and |methods, there will be very little re- sponse by the traction workers of Greater New York, and that the trac- |tion workers will find other ways of organizing themselves and securing recognition from the traction com~ | panies, y | Not All Considered. Information given out at the head- quar 3 f the Amalgamated, 406 E. 1 h St., confirms the fact that 63 of the more than a hundred mem- |bers fired by the Interborough Rapid |Transit Company have been sent out in what is called an “organizing drive” to solicit membership among the traction workers for the Amalga- mated. According to the announcement at the union headquarters each of the 63 workers was given $10 each as @ “help” during his period of need. It was hinted that each would be sent out as a full time organizer, although (Continued on Page Two) Wages of Mill Workers Cut; 1000 Are Affected LAWRENCE, Mass., March 19,— |The Pacific Mills, one of the largest \of cotton manufacturers in New Eng- land, has announced a wage reduction leffe~tve immediately in their plant |here. While the size of the reduction is not as yet made public it is gen- ‘erally believed to be 10 per cent, or the average wage cut recently made jeffective in nearly the whole of the northern textile industry. The wage cut in the Lawrence mill of this com- pany affects over 1,000 workers. MISAPPROPRIATION CHARGED. DETROIT, Mar. 19.—Criminal mis- appropriation of more than $250,000 of $3,000,000 collected by leaders of the Ku Klux Klan in Michigan is charged in a bill of complaint filed today in the county building,