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ah ewes mes. ae Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEP)NESDAY, MARCH 21, 1928 Philadelphia Builders Club to Push Subscription Drive for Daily Worker - WILL DISTRIBUTE COPIES OF PAPER IN DISTRICT 3 Urge Many to Join New ‘ Body PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Mareh 20. —An organization meeting of th Philadelphia DAILY WORKEI “Builders Club” has been held h with twenty-three mbers attend ing. The meeting realized the plar which were suggested by A. Ravitei cireulation manager of The DAIL WORKER, during a recent visit 1 Philadelphia. An executive committee has bee: elected to carry on the work of th Club. J. Forson was chosen secre tary, L. Ri an, treasurer, and H. Ruben, Correspondent of the newly organized Club. The officers were installed at once and the meeting proceeded to the bus ss before it. Plans for a free mass discribut of The DAILY WORKER at a large number of factories and union halls we -will considerably stimulate the national subscription campaign in Philadelphia. The special Philadelphia section in The DAILY WORKER of May 1/ was discussed. Preparations to cover all phases of working class ac- tivities in Philadelphia for publica- tion in The DAILY WORKER were also made. With the assistance of The DAILY WORKER “Builders delphia district pro: subscriptions in the add 10,000 new readers to the paper before May 1. All rez urged to j “Builders Club.” and sympathizers ar CANADA WORKERS DENOUNCE A.C. W. Demand Reinstatement! of Expelled | Members (Contins«-4 frem Pane One prominent leader of Canadian labor, several local speakers addressed the Mevting. “Owe of the largest tellee- tions ever made at’a meeting of this size, slightly over $1,300 was taken up for the relief of the families of those workers on strike against the employerp who discharged left wing- ers upon the instructions of the union officials. Afraid of Ben Gold. An interesting sidelight to above event, demonstrating how far the Amalgamated officials will go in their fight against the progres- sive movement in the Amalgamated, presented itself yesterday when it was learnt that the Amalgamated heads had requested the government au- | thorities to keep Ben Gold, Commun- ist leader of the New York needle trades workers, out of Canada. This had carricd a special dispatch an- § been taken @ nouncing that Gold had off the train on the Cana and sent back. This des; that Gold had not even be to go to the mass meeting due to pressing business here, according to @ statement made by him at his office yesterday. MINERS ASK AID FOR APRIL 1 MEET (Continued from Page One) ference and corruption of the Lewis machine. The progressives from these districts all want to be represented at the conference. It is of the utmost importance that thoy attend, but they have no funds for traveling expenses in their local treasuries. They can collect almost no money among the miners, as they have either been on strike for a long period, as in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Oklahoma, or they have been work- ing irregularly. \, “Much money is’ needed for rail- road fare of these delegates. We must have representatives from al! of the important ficlds. We must have help from our friends in de- fraying’ railroad fare. “We shall count on your unquali- fied support and cooperation in the next two weeks.” Scott Nearing Lectures On “Europe Today” at Irving Plaza March 28 Scott Nearing, recently returned from the Soviet Union, China and Central Hurope, will lecture on “Eu- Today” at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., next Wednesday, March 28, at 8 p. m. The meeting is arranged by Sections, 2 and 3, Workers (Communist) Party. i re arranged and it is expected that| = n The DAILY WORKER | | n intending ¢ | Salvaged Death Trap “ | | | | { | * _ | Above is the salvaged S-4 in port at Boston. The lives cf 42 workers | were wasted by the navy department | in neglecting to safeguard the lives of | the sailors it used as tools in prep- arations for an imperialist war. A naval court of inquiry officially white- j washed Secretary of the Navy Wil- | bur, making a gout of Admiral Brumby, in. chirge of operations around Provingétown, the scene of the S-4 disaster. 4 ” ———__—_—_ 5 * Sports in Brief | Gene Tunney is being ousted out of | his nest of solitude where he has bee ‘eposing since his questionable vic- Jack Dempsey last year. sions of the New Yort: | Stace Athletic} Jommission have} lespatched a tele-; tram to Gene at} liami Beach, Fla., reminding him hat he must de- ide on his next pponent at once, he time to defend iis title expiring on Thursday. They so state that hallenges have gen filed by Jack harkey. T ney and Johnny ‘isko. An_ impor'ant actor that is de- aying the signing wempory of an agreement tor a heavyweight match is that Tex | Rickard realizes tha. none of the } above. m oned challengers will be jable to a record crowd if taey face Gene in the squared circle. Tae mly man today that would draw a capacity house and give Tunney jreal fight is Jack Dempsey. In hx» writer’s opinion Jack will mee. Gene for the third time and regain his crown as world heavyweight cham- pion. Boxing fans aré urged to paste this in heir hat and follow de- velopments.—S. A, P, - * * * SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March Ai ., has made a real fight te eliminate the | sible for the deaths of Brothers Camp- | bell, ReiJly and Lillis. |paign of terrorism fails in the face | | pote Cspnpelini and his aids are 10,000 MINERS IN STRIKE ON SYSTEM OF CONTRACTING ‘Warn Against ‘Leaders’ Without a Program (Continued from Page One) q | *roused and fully determined to put]; £ stop once for all to the individual |j contract evil. Consequently Cappelini and his crowd are compelled to make 2 pretense of opposing the contractor system. But the miners will not be fooled by this. On the contrary, they have bitterly | attacked every ore in the union who contractors, Proof of this was their violent opposition to Local 1703, and the attack which was directly respon- Pretense. “But now, seeing that their cam- of the ever-growing rank and file op- now trying to fool the membership hy pretending to oppose the contrac- tor system. But we will not be de- ceived. Deep in the ranks now is the settled conviction that the sweepirg of Cannelini and his executive board out of office is absolutely necessary not only for the abolition of the con- tractor system but also for cleans- ine the uvion generally of corruption | end comnany influences and for build- ing it into a rea! weapon for the de- fense of cur interests. Lewis Must Go. “But defeating Cappelini and his sang is only the first step, We must also defeat John L. Lewis. He is the oreh wrecker of our union. His re- netionary policies have shattered the orzanization in the soft coal districts. | We has brought the union into the deepest crisis in its history. If he is «lewed to remain at its head he will destroy it with fatal certainty in the | onthracite as well as in the bitumin- ous. Throughout the soft coal dis- tricts the miners are in revolt against him. Vast conferences have been held in a'l the soft coal districts. The over- whelming majority of the miners de- mand his removal as the first condi- For two terms Cap- |! 3 pelini and his executive board have Bass | controlled the district organization, ! yet they have done absolutely noth {ing to abolish the contractor system. 4 Jobless Catch Whale Four unemployed Brooklyn workers had to catch a whale for which a museum gave them $12 apiece in or- der to get relief. The whale was caught in the Gowanus Canal. The four workers had not eaten in a long while, and the $12 reward for the capture of the whale will not last in feeding their families. ‘cach. ‘ Horthy COOLIDGE GREETS | HORTHY FASCISTS. AT WHITE HOUSE Pickets Jailed at White House Protest (Continued from Page One) regulations and bailed out at $10 Hejjas, the most notorious of the visitors, is eredited with | directing a long series of revolting, mes against bo h men and women zanization on which the Horthy re- zime is built, Details of one of his crimes -of torture and rapine, as found in Wedgewood’s report in 1920 were handed out by Gellert. Gellert s'ated also that the reason why men of this type have come to America to dedicate a monument to Kossuth, is | that the Horthy regime, “sitiing on} a smoldering volcano,” hopes to use the name of Kossuth to cloak its de- struction of Kossuthism. A majority of the deputation now visiting America, Gellert stated, supported the Horthy government in its anti-Jewish oytrages, including the regulation that only 3 per cent of the students may be Jews, and in- cluding the frequent violence shown toward the Jewish boys and girls in the universities. when hiring is resumed there will bev a reduction from the rate of wages offered in previous years. Yet there will be an increase in the price oi board at the camps. It is almost impossible to obtain any more definite information as to the prospects for the unemployed workers who follow this sort of work. {n the few places where the individu- als in charge are willing to say any- an hour will be the prevailing rate of pay while the rate for board will be from $7.70 to $9 a week. Mission Technique, The Kane Industrial Agency, at 2nd jSt. and the Rowery, has taken a leaf tion for winning the Pennsylvania- Uhio strike and for preserving our vnion and wage scales. The National Save-the-Union Committee stands at the head of this great opposition ‘out of the book of the missions by supplying a noonday “meal” of bread ‘and coffee to unemployed prospects. |It seems to be the idea of the benev- | olent Kanes that since the missions | BOARD IS GOING UP, WAGES GOING DOWN The so-called labor agencies here along the Bowery and West St., which are really the agencies of the railroad and similar groups of labor exploiters, will not ship any workers to their camps before the middle of April. thing, it appears that 35 or 36 cents { j60, while now there was a heavy de- movement and will hold a big na- fill their empty pews by giving a von th ace in Pittsburgh on handout it is reasonable to believe Anril first. that their daily handout will aid in ‘(Continued from Page One) worker has resigned a position in protest against the autocratic meth- ods, of the ruling machine. Brodsky ‘n his communication to the workers| alled upon them to remain in the inion and fight for their rights. IH: xplained his resignation on the | zround that he was not a member of| he union itself but had been appoint- d to the position. Confirms Broach Betrayals. Besides attacking Broach and his machine for their policy of exclusion, heavy fines and slugging, Brodsky also confirmed the charges already made in the columns of The D ‘ILY WORKER against Broach to ‘the ef-| "ect that he has avoided the issue of imemployment relief, that he has al- ligned himself with the big contract- ors in the trade and that he has de- evived the workers wih promises about the “BX” proposition. Rrodsky’s statement follows: Dear Brothers: Many inquiries have reached me asking if it is true that I have re- signed from the Organizing Commit- tee of Local No. 3, I haven’t your names and addresses to communicate with you individually so I am taking this means of advising you that I 20.—Jack Dempsey will either appear or referee in one of the bouts to be held here Friday night for the flood sufferers in Southern California. Others on the program will include Ace Dudiins, Nebraska favorite, * * * Stating that his clients, Murray Render and William Dow, are con- fined to their beds because of the manner in which they were bea’en up by detectives of the Industrial Seuad under acting Lieutenant John Proderick, at Madison Square Garden, Isaac Schmal obtained an adjourn- men‘ in West Side Court of the case against the men, the charrss being interference with a nolice officer and disorderly conduct during the recent six-day bicycle races here, ‘Falling Crate Injures Shipworker in Midocean While at work in mid-ocean on the S, S. Cesterayk of the Holland-Amer- ican line. Arnold Kruger, 84, store- keeper of the ship sustained a pos- sible fracture of the right hip and a strained back when a crate of canned goods fell on him, oF have resigned and my reasons for it. When the Electrical Workers’ As- sociation made its agreement to enter the union, last August 1ith, 1926, we wrote to Mr. Broach on that date: “We believe the best and most ef- fective method of organizing the un- organized electrical workers is not to organize the job or shop and ask the contractor to organize his men, but to take in every unorganized electrical worker, or, in other words, organize the men and not the contractors. With every electrical worker organized and with a proper method of discipline by his organization, this would mean that every job or future job would have a union man waiting for it, and we believe that this is a much more effective and powerful weapon, there- fore, by fore’ng the bosses to accept the union men rather than asking the bosses to become unionized.” : The Slogan. We aimed at 100 per cent unioniza- tion of every electrical worker in Greater New York. We took the posi- tion that no matter what branch of worl: the electrician was doing, whoth er fixing a bell in some old cellar, or hanging a fixture in a millionaire’s mansion, whether hooking up a press ‘learry out these purposes. ELECTRIC UNION ORGAN And filling their four camps along the line of the New York, New Haven and fartford Railroad when they are ready to begin operations. Young and Old Apply. Noboay is admitted to the room vhere the food is being doled out, ,owever, who is not fit for a good day’s work with pick and shovel, wrestling ties or carrying rails. William Baron, manager for the Kanes, who has had 15 years experi- ence in the agency business, said the employment situation was worse than he had ever seen it. He also said that previous to last year the men who ap- plied for work in the camps were usually between the ages of 85 and zed by the Magyar officers’ or- |” Concert: for Miners A symphony concert for the bene- fit of the striking miners will be held at Ashland Boulevard Auditorium, Chicago, March 31. Moissaye Bogus- lawski, shown above, pianist, and Letitia Leita, soprano, will be the prin- cipal soloists. HARDING RECORDS TO BE “EXHUMED” Marion Star Financing Thought Oily (Continued from Page One) oil securities in his priva'e accounts. And in Washington, IIl., another in- show that a package containing $50,- 000 oil bonds sent to tha: town wer intended for Justice Frederick Sid- dons, of Washington, D. C., who con- ducted the Teapot Dome conspiracy trial of Sinclair and Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior. Smith Goes Unquestioned. The senate committee is reluctant to summon Gov. Al Smith of New York, the democratic party’s leading aspirant for the presidency, for ques- tioning, although it is known that the democratic party has profitted exten- sively from oil bonds. The committee says it is “outside of its jurisdiction to question Smiith.” Sinclair was ap- pointed New York state racing com- missioner by Smith after the 1920 campaign. In a resolution Sen. James Couzens declared that the Teapot Bome in- quiry had “disclosed the worst trail of mand for the same kind of work by|fraud and corruption in public life younger men, many applicants being not more than'16 years old. While the manager was talking there were possibly 160 men partaking of the Kane handout seated in camp chairs. that has existed in our history.” Couzens declared Secretary Mellon .was a large contributor in the 1926 Pennsylvania primary in behalf of former Senator Pepper. DEFEND “WORKER,” VICTIM OF CLASS STRUGGLE URGES Thousands Still Needed to Resist Attack (Continued from Page One) class war prisoners is The’ DAILY WORKER. The only militant labor daily in the English language has | always fought in the front rank for the release of these brave men. The | class war prisoners trust The DAILY WORKER. They know that whatever help is brought to them will be brought thru the aid of their work- ing class newspaper. The DAILY, WORKER musi be saved to carry ov the fight for these imprisoned work- ers. But The DAILY WORKER itself has-had to defend itself against the attacks of the United States govern- ment. The same forces which have buried the class war prisoners in the American jails have reached out their dead hands to seize three of the edi- tors of The DAILY WORKER. The crisis which the government has forced upon The DAILY WORKER is one of the severest to which the paper has ever been sub- jected. The enemies of The DAILY WORKER, alarmed at the rising tide of militancy in the American labor movement, are determined to crush | vestigator will seck information to]its only militant English daily organ with one blow. Thousands of dollars are still needed to defend the paper against the forces which are seeking its destruction. Only the united ef- forts of the militant American workers can keep The DAILY WORKER alive thru this trial. Every worker must contribute to the sup- port of his paper. Every labor or- ganization must send help to The DAILY WORKER, The “Worker” Brings Hope. Behind the walls of the capitalist prisons, the minutes pass like days, the days like months, and it seems that the long terms will never end. There is always the chance of death before release comes. Only The DAILY WORKER brings hope of re- lief to those who lie within the cells, Save the DAILY WORKER to earry on the fight for the class war prisoners, and for the striking miners and the millions of unemployed thru- out the United States. The DAILY ‘WORKER must not die., Rush your contributions to The DAILY WORKER, 33 First St., New York City. IZER EXPOSES ‘LITTLE CAESAR’ utility, all electrical work and every is the best way. We believe that or-)work is getting scarce, unemployment electrical worker should be controlled! ganizing the worker is the correct | is by the union. Only through 100 per cent unionization could we achieve this. We said further in the same letter: . “The Electrical Workers’ Asso- ciation threw out the slogan, ‘Every elecirical worker a union man, and all electrical work under union con- trol.’ We stand by this | whether we should become members | of Local No. 3 or Local No. 20, or remain in our association, We be- lieve this serves the interests of the electrical workers best and we also believe that this most important work must be carried out. We do not propose to be stopped under any circumstances in this elemen- tary necessity to solve the problem of-all~ electrical workers and we shall continue this organization work inside the International Broth- erhdod or Guwiue~in the ‘iectrical Workers’ Association if we ‘carinot get together.” Non-Union Worker. Our association raised the slogan of complete organization of the elec- .vieal industry in this territory, We further emphasizeu was everything should be made as easy and simple as possible for the non-union worker in order to get them to enter the union by the thotisands, We were opposed to high initiation fees ‘and in connec- tion with this we wrote in the same letter: f “High initiation fees make it im- possible for pocentia} union men to enter a union primarily because they cannot afford to pay large sums, whether on installment basis, or in a lump. To carry out an or- ganizing campaign every possible artificial barrier should be removed, and high initiation fees defeat this purpose. They keep. out many ef- ficient workers who otherwise have every qualification,” It was on the basis of these policies that our association entered the local, and I was elected to represent them} on the organizing committee of Local No. 3. I have tried to do my best to I tried to get the organizing committee to open its books widely, take in every elec. trical worker in the industry, carry on an open and vigorous campaign, distribute leaflets all over the city, hold mass meetings, reduce initiation fees, etc, This the organizing com- mittee would not do, Mr, Broach be- or slinging BX, or working in a public | thousands. way. Initiation Fees. Initiation fees have been increased since we entered the local, Certain- ly this is not an inducement to get the workers to join the union; quite the contrary, it has driven away I believe it ts much bet- ter to take in 20,000 workers at $25 apiece than 2,000 workers at $250 apiece, According to the figures of Mr. H, H. Broach there are about 22,000 elec- trical workers in the territory of Lo- cal No. 8, Only about 6,500 are in the union, This means approximately 70 per cent of the workers are un- organized and millions of dollars of work gets away from union men. This by the way applies generally to every trade in the building trades in this city, and is one of the main reasons for the weakness of the building trades unions. At the present time the building trades workers are suffering from unemployment. They are part of the large unemployed army of 5,000,000, Nothing has been done to meet this problem in Local No, 3. Unemployment. With thousands of non-union work- ers walking the streets and thousands afunion workers without jobs a con- dition arises which threatens the ex- istence of the union. The power of the large contractors to drag down che standards of the union worker is obvious. Such a condition plays right into their hands. They can use this great reserve army to crush the union whenever thry *--! tho time is ripe, and to overlook this possibility is a crime against the inverests of union man, Ns Igno-es Organization. Not a single public utility through- out the United States is organized. |) The policy of the International has been to ignore the organization of these powerful corporations, In spite of this many of the members of Local No. 20-attempted to carry on some organizational activities. They have’ been discharged and discriminated against. In not a single instance has the IBEW attempted to. protect’ these: discharged workers, The policy has been one of side stepping this issue. As a result of this Local No. 20 is practically a wreck and on the rocks, This is not a pleasant picture for the electrical worker to contemplate. increasing. The labor-hating bosses always act the same way. They will use the unorganized and unem- ployed and unprotected worker to take your places when the offensive begins. .The situation of unemploy- ment must be met immediately and practical steps taken at once to over- come this crisis, Subway Construction. A few months ago a resolution was passed by the local demanding that the city administration make it man- datory that union men be employed on subway construction. When Mr. Broach appeared at the next meeting he ridiculed this resolution and it has been quietly forgotten ever since. Meanwhile millions of dollars of sub- way construction is going on now. The Tammany administration allows non-union men to do this work and union men to walk the streets. The union leaders do nothing, in fact they kill any attempt to do something. I protest against such methods, strong- ly urge the membership to see that this resolution is revived and a show- down demanded from the Tammany administration and the union leader- mn e BX proposition will take at least two years to be enforced before it becomes really effective. Men who are out of work cannot wait for two years. Practical ‘remedies must be taken now. I can see no reason why the organization ‘cannot proceed at ence on the basis of getting a five- day week, establishing equal division of work, and prohibiting overtime. In my opinion the program of Mr, Broach and his organizing committee is one which favors the large con- tractors at the expense of the mem- bership, I am pretty sure that not a single large contractor is using union labels on his fixtures. This clause has been entirely eliminated from the agreement insofar as it af- fogts the large contractor. The small contractor is compelled to use union labels. a Such special privileges work against the. interests of the membership. I am opposed to a policy of special con- ditions for. any group of contractors. Members Excluded. - I have also become aware, of the exclusion of members from the meet- ings of the local. Since I was closely identified with the administration, I want to go on record as emphatically opposed to any policy of exclusion, lieves that organizing the contractor|The building boom is on the decline, beating, slugging and intimidation of any member for expressing his opin- ions, or disagreeing in policy with the administration, the organizing com- mittee, or Mr, Broach, I cannot, and will not be identified with any such procedure. I am opposed to large and heavy fines for the membership, to blacklisting or removals from the jobs. I take the position that the contractors should be the victims of heavy fines for violating union rules. Therefore in accordance with my iduty and fn keeping with what I con- sider my loyalty to the working class as a whole, f could no longer remain a member of the organizing commit~- tee. To do so would be construed as being in favor of the policies of the committee, I have, therefore, resigned in pro- test against: 1. The lack of proper organization- ,al steps to organize the unorganized electrical workers. 2. Against the increase of initia- tion fees. ; 8. Against the lack of immediate steps to meet the question of unem- ployment. privileges for the large contractors. 5. Against the policy of exclusion, slugging and blacklisting of the mem- bers for their honest convictions, It is my opinion that. Local No. 8 must prepare now to build a proper organizational basis to resist the in- evitable attack that the building trades employers will make against it. I want to remind you of the re cent plumbers’ strike in connection with this. The employers are consoli« |dating their forces. The unions must ‘do likewise. If those who are leaders | will not see this or will not do this, then the rank and file must proceed in spite of them. Your responsibility is a great one and you must take the lead. Answer to Bosses.” Let us prepare to face the future with the necessa _ strength and cour- age, Let us give to the bosses such an answer that they will never for- get. Let us gird our loins, raise our heads high, and fight like hell to re- sist any attempt to crush our union or reduce our standards. I want to take this occasion to thank The DAILY WORKER for the use of its columns in publishing this letter. : Fraternally yours, (Signed) CARL BRODSKY. rs ‘ 4, Against the policy of special .