The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1928, Page 1

~ Ve THE DAILY WORKER YIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 68. PITTSTON COAL MINERS, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year, Qutside New York, by mail, $6.00 BRITAIN ATTACKS SOVIET PROPOSAL} FOR DISARMAMENT Delegate of E Empire at Geneva Speaks GENEVA, March 20.— Staggered by reiteration of the demand of the Soviet Union for complete and im- mediate disarmiment, Great Britain, thru its representative on the pre- paratory committee on disarmament, Lord Cushendun, is attempting to sidetrack discussion on the subject. Evading the concrete proposals made yesterday before the commis- sion by Maxim Litvinov, head of the Soviet delegation, Cushendun today tried to discredit them by declaring that the Soviet Union had “never during the past seven years worked with the League of Nations.” The Soviet plan, Cushendun de- clared, “is designed to wreck the League.” Quoting an article from what is presumed to be Pravda, the British spokesman charged that the real aim of the Soviet Union is to “unmask the capitalistic states.” Bitter resentment against the Sov- } iet plan for disarmament was also ex- oressed by the representative of Fas- pik General de Marinis of Italy. pe Se White Collar Slaves WASHINGTON, than 2,000 federal employes. stormed congress, March 19, in a demand for |higher pay. This mass demonstration, led by Mrs, Margaret Worrell, a law- yer in the Indian Bureau, was staged when hearings began on the Welch bill which would grant an average salary increase of nearly $300 to fed- eral workers. There are about 60,000 of these workers in the District of Columbia. Officials Disapprove. The army started its march from the Peace Monument at the foot of Army was broken up by the police a generation ago. The march on con- gress had been officially disapproved by the executives of the National Fed- eration of Federal Employes. Mem- bers of the house civil service com- mittee could not get into the hearing room until police had struggled more than half an hour to make a way for them through the crowd. Shortly afterward Senator Ashurst of Ari- the Welch bill. No general increase in salaries for government workers has taken place since 1854, Ashurst told the commit- tee. 1,000 PERSONS IN’ FREIHEIT PAGEANT Special Weniuves at Sixth Anniversary One thousand workers will partici- gate in the gigantic mass pageant, ‘Red, Black and Yellow” to .be pre- sented at the Sixth Anniversary of ‘The Freiheit,” Jewish Communist jaily, at Madison Square Garden, 51st 3t and Eighth Ave., next Sunday eve- aing, March 25. One of the most impressive prole- sarian spectacles ever arranged, the gageant will be a portrayal of the his- sory of the New York labor move- nent, especially in the needle trades where a militant, fighting tradition yas always prevailed, The pageant will be but one of the extraordinary features announced for she jubilee. A symphony orchestra and a number of prominent artists are also on the the progrém. CANADA WORKERS DENOUNCE A.C. W. Demand Reinstatement of Expelled Members TORONTO, March 20. — Over fourteen hundred needle trades work- ers crowded beyond capacity the large auditorium of the Standard * Theatre here Monday night, in a pro- test meeting fathered by a confer- ence of workers’ organizations against the reign of terror now being con- ducted by the officialdom of the To-| age (Special Cable TWO MEETINGS TO DEMAND WAGES Unemployed Council Pushes Drive With the hardships forced on the workers by the unemployment crisis still unrelieved, two meetings of un- employed workers will be held here today. The New York Council of the Unemployed will hold a rally at 2p. m. at 143 E, 103rd St. which will be addressed. by John Di Santo, secre- tary of the Council, and Tom *Flem- ing, of San Francisco. A second meeting, under the aus- ipices of the Youth Committee of the Unemployed, will be held at 8 p. m. at 2075 Clinton Ave. Di Santo will also speak at this. meeting. The executive committee of the | council will meet tomorrow at 8 p. m, lto further its plans for a nation-wide campaign to force action by the gov- jernment on the bwphe of relief for the jobless. i * * * The Coolidge Myth. WASHINGTON, Mar, 20.—In at- tempt to perpetrate the ‘myth of pros- perity, deemed necessary for the suc~ cess of the republican party Jn the presidential elections this year, / Secre- tary of Labor Davis at the cabinet meeting today stated that the unem- ployment situation “is not serious.” Davis informed President Coolidge Demonstrate} March 20,—-More}j the Capitol grounds, where Coxey’s|,' zona and 15 members of the house came forward to urge the adoption of LOSOVSK Y “OUTLINES TASKS OF LEFT WING The DAILY WORKER. MOSWOW, Marc”’20—Losovsky gress of the Red International. of Labor Unions on the coming tasks of ~~"*'the international trade union move- Entered as second-claxs matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Yo per ‘year, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1928 GIN ANTHRACITE STRIKE HE DAILY WORKER. under the act of March 3, 1879. n/ Organizer ‘Quits Autocrat Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. IRON HAND RULE} Charges Broach Deals With Big Bosses Declaring that the policy institu’ by H. H. Broach, International vice-| president of the Electrical Workers Union with its exclusions, sluggings and intimidations of union members was such that he could no longer in any way be connected with the Broach administration, Carl Bi * a member of the organizing commit- tée“of the local has resigned his posi-| tion with the International in protest against the autocratic methods of the Broach machine. Resigns $100 Job. In a long communication to the former members of the Electrical Workers Association whom he had organized and brought into the union and to the members of Local 3 whose confidence he has won, Brodsky yes- terday stated his reasons for giving up a $100 a weelk job as one of its or; a ee believed to be the first time in the history of the local build- ing trades unions that a highly paid (Continued on Paye Two) HORTHY EXPOSED ageieneek hfe se * Coolidge Greets Hejjas, “Mass Murderer” ‘Capitalism is passing thru a pe-|_ WASHINGTON, (FP) March 20.— riod of the most acute struggle for | President Coolidge received at the the political and economic hegemony | White House on March 19 the dele- of the world. The struggle for the @4tion sent over by the Horthy winning of markets and, the export terrorist in Hungary, but he was not orting to the fourth 1 world is cag declared: AT WHITE HOUSE, ESIGNS) "ssn Police Seize — Eomoene Against Hungarian Fascists) Following the ex- | ample of their New York confreres who fired their revolvs ers into a demon- stration’ of Hun- garian workers and liberals protesting against the arrival in the United States of the Hor- thy terrorists, the Washington cops have arrested four of the pickets who carried the fight to the White ‘House, Picture shows the four arrested pick- ets, Hugo Gellert, well-known artist and president of the Anti-Horthy League of America, Emery Balint, sec- retary of the Anti- Horthy League, Paul Telcs and Camilla Cinque- grana being led by the police. The Horthy govern- ment whose whole- sale “murders, tor- tures and jailings of Hungarian workers are almost unparalleled, has sent the delegation PLAN CLEAN BILL FOR It was implied at tle same time that charges that state inspectors. were bribed to approve the project tho |knowing that the construction was! ‘faulty, will be not heard. It will “strive only to ascertain the | DAM BREAK GRAFTERS _. LOS. ANGELES, Galif.,.Maxch 20.—The first announcement. made to cp have Been seeking. tp capitalize. the official state inquiry “investigating” ‘the St. Francis dam disaster which claimed over 400 victms was that it Na not attempt to fix responsibility. | _ FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents C Broach Machine PROGRESSIVES 10 EXTEND STRUGGLE ON CONTRACTING |Warn Against ‘Leaders’ | Without a Program PITTSTON, March 20.—A strike call against the individual contract system of coal mining which will in volve 10,000 miners has been: called | by Local 1703 and is now in force, Indications ate that the strike may spread to the whole anthracite re- gion. Numbers of other sections which are working under the indi- vidual contract system and which are at the poirt of open rebellion may follow momentarily. —> Beware of False Leaders. Fifty thousand circulars have been issued by the Tri-District “Save-the- Union Committee,” George Papceun, secretary, warning the miners against forces which will at this moment seek to side-track their victorious march {and to play the game of the Lewis- Cappelini machine. “Beware of op- | positionists who have no program,” is the warning of the committee. At the same time endorsement is made of the miners’ demands for a special convention which is sought for April 16. In the onward sweep of the pro- gressive miners against the Lewis- Cappelini machine, certain groups headed by the former Brennan for- e movement for their own purposes. |In a conference Meld last Saturday delegates from. number of locals ‘OL GRAFT TRAIL LEADS TO HARDING exact causes of the dam break,” the | ronto Amalgamated Clothing Work- that altho he had wot completed the colonies is proceeding at a rapid pace. “The capitalist powers are on. the} one hand preparing for a war against one another and on the other hand at- tempting to establish a united front} for joint action against the Soviet Union. “The greatest economic conflicts between capital and labor have result- ed in the failure of the workers large-} ly thru the strengthened organization | of the employers and the lack of a} united front in the labor movement. All capitalist countries are fighting (Continued on Page Three) MEETS TONIGHT dress pressers have been called to at- tend the meetings of their locals to be held tonight in both halls of Man- hattan Iyceum, 66 E. 4th St., at 7) o'clock, The meetings have been called by the left wing Joint Board and by the executive boards of Locals 2 anfl 35 for the, purpose of nominating dele- gates to the coming International convention, to be held in Boston on May 7. JOINTBOARD MASS: All cloak operators and cloak and} “is capital and the redistribution of Permitted to forget the thousands of |Hungarian workers and intellectuals bontenabed by some of the very men ‘in this delegation. Four pickets from the Anti-Horthy \League of America stood just out- | side the White House office, and held up placards which read: “Hejjas a Mass Murderer,” “Tom- |csanyi Reinstated the Whipping Post,” “They Dishonored Kossuth!” “Peren- fyi a Hapsburg Lackey,” and “They Jailed Hatvany.” Picket Was Tortured. The pickets were Hugo Gellert, president, and Emery Balint, secre- grana, pianist composer, and Paul ‘Teles, who was, tortured in prison at the age of 16 by the Horthy regime, and who witnessed the murder of other prisoners. Gellert is an artist jand Balint a novelist. | While the demonstration was. be- jing “snapped” by the news photo- |grapher, scores of the Horthyites crowded near, and their official photo- grapher called out to Gellert a threat while significantly drawing a finger across his own throat. Within a few minutes some of the 50 police who had been thrown about the White ‘House premises to guard the official visitors, arrested the four pickets, They were escorted to a. police sta- tion, booked for violation of park (Continued cn Page Two) SLAYER’S REPRIEVE RUMORED. |commission composed ‘of five engi- Senators Protect Gov. neers announced. Al Smith Besides the loss of life, hendeeds | of homes were destroyed and thou | WASHINGTON, March 20.—It is sands of families made destitute when | now five years since the unexplained the water of the San Franciscquito | |death of President Warren G. Hard- tary of the League; Canilla C. Cinque- | ers’ Joint Board, against all-progres- | ni: sive members of the union. The speakers, who consisted of, leaders of the left wing and progres- sive movement here, bitterly condemn- ed the union disrupting tactics of the right wing clique in control of the, men’s clothings workers’ Joint Board. | The union bureaucrats had expelled | members of the union for criticizing! the union heads’ policy of cooperat- ing with the employers, which result~ dards of the workers. ational unemployment survey which he was directed to take, under a sen- ‘ate resolution, he had proceeded far enough to learn that “there are: still many places in the country where the demand for labor exceeds the supply.” He did not say where these places | were, BOSS OFFICIAL ¥ ed in greatly lowering the union stan- ——- STOLE $25,000 Left Wingers Lose Jobs. The Joint Board “leaders” had not even stopped at ordering several left wingers thrown from their jobs, in their attempt to stem the resentment of the membership against their poli- cies. | Protest demonstrations and open air meetings held almost daily in front of the Labor Lyceum, which is the headquarters of the union, are demanding the immediate reinstate- ment of the members expelled from the union and their jobs. In addition .to Maurice Spector, ¢Continuad on Page Two) . CHICAGO, March 20.—Robert Tuft, executive secretary of the Open Shop Employers’ Association, which is composed mainly of union-baiting printing firms, was placed under ar- rest recently on the charge of em- bezzling more than $25,000 from the organization’s treasury. Tuft had the authority to sign checks, and ny thievery extended over a period of months. The case, which caine up in the South Clark St. court oe | was “postponed to April 3. . The importance of these meetings, QUEBEC, March .20.—Doris -Pal- due to the fact that the right wing | mer McDonald, who was sentenced: to leadership of the International union}be hanged with her husband, George will probably refuse to recognize the | McDonald for the ‘murder of Adelard delegates from the left wing. Joint] Bouchard, taxi driver, has been re- Board whom they expelled, is pro-| prieved, it was: reliably reported this voking much discussion, afternoon. From behind the “walls of San Quentin prison, in California, one of the class war prisoners buried by the western capitalists, has raised his voice to ap, for defense for The DAILY WORKER., He has been in the jail for five years since 1922, He will remain there until 1932. But his militant} spirit is still burning. His determina- tion to carry on the struggle of the workers against their oppressors is stronger than ever. His understand- ing of the role which The DAILY WORKER is playing as the leader ‘of, the militant American working class is clearer than ever before. The prison authorities keep the DAILY WORKER away from the class war prisoners and this man has received only five copies of the paper this year. Here is what he has to say about them. “J received five copies of The DAILY WORKER this year and find that our DAILY is getting better right along. My one hope is that the Ruthenberg Drive is successful. ‘We cannot afford to lose our militant voice, The DAILY WORKER. Don’t Canyon broke thru the St. Francis dam. Meanwhile another source of graft und corruption is seen in the setting | aside of a fund of $1,000,000 by the | Los Angeles city council for purposes of reconstruction. i TOKNAPP DEFENSE Y., ALBANY, N. March 20.—A | illier of Manhattan, gallantly came to the rescue of Mrs. Florence E. Knapp, former republican secretary of state, that charges of graft brought against her could not be true. “T have never doubted Mrs. Knapp’s honesty,” said Cuvillier, She may have been guilty of some state cen- sus irregularities, but I don’t believe any jury will ever convict her.” The sudden tendency on the part of New York democrats to gallantry towards Mrs. Knapp is thought to indicate the democrats’ fear that republican mem- bers of the assembly may bring coun- ter charges against democratic state officials unless the Knapp charges are Soft-pedalled. PRISONER APPEALS FOR “DAILY”! Buried in San Quentin, Worker Urges Defense of Newspaper discontinue the membership drive tho certain misleaders of labor and their masters would be happy if you did.” There are scores of class war prisoners buried in the cells of the capitalist penitentiaries. Many of these loyal class fighters have been in jail for years. Most of them have many more years to serve. They are being held by the most ruthless sys- tem of capitalist terror which will never relinquish its victims until the workers tear them from its grasp. The leader in the fieht to free the (Continued on Page Two) coe DEMOCRAT COMES democratic assemblyman, Louis Cuv- } on the state assembly today and said | | ing. The senate Teapot Dome inves- | tigation committee has decided it can | no. Ionger avoid looking into the private records of the estate of the |leader of the “Ohio gang” whom the joil millionaires put in the White | House with Coolidge in 1920. Chairman Nye, of the senate com- mittee, said today an investigator would investigate Harding’s records from the time he became president until he died. Reports have persist- ently been circulated to the effect that Harding was among those who profited personally from the Teapot Dome oil lease and similar deals through which the republican party |financed its last elections—the elec- tion of the Coolidge-Dawes hold-over {administration in 1924 as well as the | Harding-Coolidge ticket in 1920. Private Records Sought. The senate committee’s agent the sale of the Marion Star, Hard- ing’s newspaper. The agent has been instructed to look through all records for oil stocks or other securities | which might have been slipped to him jin the oil deals which have now in- volved all of the Coolidge-Harding cabinet. The investigation had spread today to two other towns in the interior. In the Indiana home town of Will HH. Hays, former republican national committee chairman, an investigator is instructed to look for records of yes ora on Page Two) 10 HURT IN SHOP ELEVATOR FALL HARTFORD, Conn. Mat. 20— Helen Cyr, 24,-of 198 Hamilton St., will probably lose both-her legs which were badly crushed when ap elevator at the factory of the Gray Telephone Pay Station Company here fell sev- eral stories to the basement injuring 16 girl employes today. Five of the girls were so seriously hurt that they were removed to the St. Francis hos- pital. Mrs. Margaret Labelle, of 27 Orange St., also sustained a badly crushed leg which will probably be amputated. among other things will inquire into, met at the call of this group. William | J. Brennan, former president of Dis- trict 1, who is heading the move, has made no indication as to his pro- gram,., nor has he definitely stated his stand on Lewis and the Lewis machine. The statement by the Tri-District Save-the-Union Committee follows: “Miners, demand special conven- tion. But beware of oppositionists who have no program. “The time is now here to abolish the infamous individual contract sys- tem. The first step in doing this is to eliminate the Cappelini gang from control of our union. They are agents of the operators in maintaining the contractor system. Our slogan shall be: ‘Cappelini Must Go! “The great mass of miners are (Continued on Page Two) MINERS APPEAL | TO ALL WORKERS Progressives Seek Aid for April 1 Conference PITTSBURGH, March 20. — The | Save-the-Union Committee of the | United Mine Workers, 526 Federal St., Pittsburgh, has issued the fol- lowing statement calling upon all mine districts, local unions, and other sections of the labor movement, espe- cially those sections more strongly organized, to suppor the April 1, Pittsburgh conference. A plea for financial support for the delegates to the conference has also been sent out. The statement follows: Short Time Left. “The Save-the-Union Conference of the progressive miners will be held in Pittsburgh on Sunday, April 1st. We have less than two weeks for the final preparations. “One of the most important prob- lems which presents itself is that of funds for the railroad fare of the delegations. “We have eager, enthusiastic let- ters from progressive miners in Colo rado, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, in short from all over the bituminous fields, as well as from the anthracite regions, where promin- ent progressives are still being mur- dered for their activity in this Save- the-Union fight. The response to the conference call has been tremendous. “We have letters telling of loss of membership, loss of local unions, loss of entire districts, because of the in- (Continued on Page Two) é