The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1928, Page 1

s Mi TAE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY a V. No. 69. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by matl, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered ns second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1928 Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Call All Communists and Sympathizers to Aid May Day Issue of Daily Worker THE DAILY WORKER. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents US BOMBS MURDER MORE THAN 300 NICARAGUANS 2 OLD PARTIES SMEARED WITH OIL IN SENATE Free for-All Ensues As Disclosures Go On WASHINGTON, March 21»—The senate Teapot Dome slush fund. in- vestigating committee continued re- luctantly yet surely today to follow the oily trail of the republican party to the White House, the government cabinet offices and the home town bank vaults of high officials, past and present, dead and alive. The senate committee seems con- stantly to be afraid of what it will find. Only after the inescapable pres- sure of events did it send an investi- gator yesterday to the late President Harding’s home town, Marion, O., to learn to what extent he was person- ally involved in the oil deals by which he and President Coolidge were put in the White House. The extent of his party’s implication has been thorough- ly established, though more and more evidence is being. found daily. Democrats Involved. | Meanwhile the democratic party was drawn further into the oil scan- dals today by a free-for-all contest of political and personal defamation | between the senators of the republi- | ean and democratic parties in the sen- ate chamber. | With democrats leaping to their) feet all over the chamber, Sen. Robin- | son, Indiana republican, shouted: “I will show that three democrats left the cabinet of the last democratic nomination to take posts with Edward W. Doheny and that Doheny lies in --the-same bed with Harry” Fr-Sinetatrs © and a lot of democrats are in it with him.” ‘Doheny competed with Sinclair for government oil reserves. | “T will be able to develop the fact,” ea Federal Workers Bagem Senate for Wage ‘paine The federal government pays its workers just as meagerly as do the corporations which control the government. workers employed in government Over 2,000 of the service in Washington are shown above staging a demonstration before congress for an increase in their meager wages. The demonstration was led by Mrs. Margaret Worrell, «@ worker in the bureau of Indian affairs. (inset). ciation of Federal Employees, a reactionary organization, The National A&so- tried to dis- courage the demonstration. No general increase for government em- ployee has been srapted: since 1854. | WALL S TREE r DELE GATE ATTACKS DISARMAMENT MOSCOW, March 21.—Pravda in sessions. (Continued on Page Two) MILITANT LABOR . GAINS OUTLINED Discuss Losovsky Report , - at Red Labor Meet (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, March 21.—Losovsky’s report to the Fourth World Congress of Red International of Labor Unions was discussed at yesterday’s session. “Losovsky correctly pointed out that our work in Germany showed cer- tain “right” errors, which we has- tened to correct,” declared Heckert, of Germany. “We were also guilty of “leftist” errors, in regard to the question of the eight hour day, for example. “Regarding the latter question, however we cannot agree with tne/ slogan of the seven hour day raised | by Losovsky. This slogan does not correspond to the: concrete correla- tion of forces in Germany.” i Hebkert then criticized Losovsky’s view, declaring that Losovsky had exaggerated the success of the revo- lutionary opposition in the German trade unions last year and declared that the development of the R. I. L. U. and the defeat of the Amsterdam International, ideologically and or- ganizationally, was necessary. Horner of England pointed out that the economic situation of Great Britain was continually --deelining. “The employers .are conducting a struggle on two fronts,” he declared. | “They. are supporting the small yel- low trade union organizations and at (Continied on Page Three) Queens Milk Grafter Admits Bribe Guilt) Harry M. Danziger, milk graft manipulator, pleaded guilty to a charge of bribery yesterday before County Judge Abel in Long Island City, Queens. Helen’ Sprey, the principal witness at Danziger’s trial, testified that dur- ing the two years she had been secre- tary to Danziger she had seen con- tracts which specified that her em- peace and by no means shares the il- | American delegation, as “Negative or evasive replics to® Litvinov’s questions would be tanta- mount to reducing to nought all of the labors and efforts of the commis- sion and everybody would then be en- | titled to make this institution a laugh: | ing-stock,’ kravda says. “The Soviet project will clearly show the toilers of the world that the Soviet government’s policy of peace and real disarmament finds an obstacle in the imperialist policy. “The Soviet government does. not believe that the imperialists love lusions of bourgeois pacifism, but it will never desist from everywhere manifesting its set will for peace and conducting a struggle for world peace, fully realizing that its propositions embody the most cherished hopes of the toiling masses of the world.” * * * GENEVA, March 21.—The Soviet Union’s proposal for complete and immediate disarmament was attacked today. by Hugh S. Gibson, head of the “too radical.” Gibson made. the position of the United States delegation clear today in his speech before the preparatory arms conference now in session. Seconding Lord Cushendon’s attack on the proposals made by Maxim Litvinoff, head of the U. S. S. R. delegation, offered as a substitute the Kellogg plan for general regional pacts. The position of the Soviet Union is that the pacts tend to pre- (Continued on Page Three) YOUNG MINERS IN CONFERENCE PITTSBURGH, March 21.—Young workers from the striking coal fields, unorganized mines im Westmoreland county, local unions, student and other youth clubs of Pittsburgh and outlying territories, attended a Youth Conference ‘of Western Pennsylvania at Walton Hall, 220 Stanwix St., yes- terday afternoon. A program for or- ganizing the millions of unorganized young workers throughout the coun- try and particularly those in the non-|~ union coal fields was adopted. Endorse “Save-Union” Conference. The “Save-the-Union” Conference, which wa’ called by rank and file members of the United Mine Workers of America was endorsed, and the representatives from unions and un- organized mine fields declared that ployer was to receive $1 for each can of milk brought to New York frofa certain dairies outside the regular milk shed. . their organizations would send dele- gates. The Youth Conterence reaucsted a | (Continued on Page Two) me an Pravda in an edfiariat emphasizes that Litvin- lov’s speech at. Geneva was the culminating point of the commission’s ‘MINERS DEMAND DISTRICT MEET Pittston Workers Join, “Save-Union” Group PITTSTON, March 21.—Prepara- tions for spreading the strike of the Pittston mine locals to include other sections of the anthracite have gone actively under way today. In addi- tion various locals have passed reso- lutions demanding a special conven- tion of District 1 not later than April 16. The leadership of Save-the-Union Committee is being followed with in- creasing confidence as the anthracite miners are beginning to realize that no other forces have the program | which can succeed against the vicious individual contract system and against the corrupt Lewis-Cappelini machine, Members of the local union of em- ployes of the Butler colliery were firm in their demand that the Pennsylvania discharge four men recently hired to operate mechanical loaders at. the eollicry. A resolution calling for a special district convention was passed unanimously. POLICE: CHIEF'S ARMS STOLEN. CHICAGO, March 21, — Andrew Bord, Chief of Police of Broadview, Chieago suburb was mad today. He had his entire force—two men and a hound dog—ct looking for thieves who last night broke into the chief’s office, stole his firearms, several aan of ammunition and $14 in cas! ® Tammany Policemen Attack Unemployed YOUNG WORKERS SEEKING JOBS ARE ARRESTED Glubs Are Substituted | for Relief | jess St Hall sent its policemen against several hundred unemployed young workers who gathered in front of the Eagle Pencil Co., 14th St. and Avenue D, to ask for work yesterday. Four were arrested. The company advertised for work- ers Monday and Tuesday but its doors were shut yesterday in the-faces of all who applied. The workers stood in the street shouting, “We want work,” and “We are hungry.” Their presence and the quick dis- patch of the police detail to the scene at the request of the company officers were a graphic demonstration of the seriousness of the unemployment crisis and the intentions of Mayor Walker’s administration toward New York’s thousands of unemployed workers, > | | | Many Deceived. Many workers have been deceived by the preparation of statisties on un- employment by the New York city and state governments and by such ___ |gestures as Mayor Walker’s recent bally-hoo radio speech delivered from a Bowery mission before a hand- picked audience of “mission stiffs.” workers continted, to qeraaud and wages at the Eagle Pencil Co. the officials sent Edward Eichorn, a special company guard, to disperse them. He ordered a group out of the employment of- fice of the company and later men- aced the crowd outside with a pistol, according to several of the workers. He precipitated. a disturbance in |which a window was broken. Police Use Clubs. New York police by that time had jarrived. They swung their clubs to disperse the workers and arrested. Jo- seph Brown, 19 years old, 125 Second Ave.; Sophie Mehlman, 18, of 614 Ashford St., Brooklyn; Benjamin Ros- enberg, 21, of 317 E. 18th St., and Samuel Kessler, 20, of 1709 W. Ist St. The four were taken to the 6th St. police station and later to the second district magistrate’s court on disor- t (Continued on Page Two) 13 MORE LOCALS ENDORSE RELIEF Mine Unions Support | P. & O. Committee PITTSBURGH, Pa.,# March 21.— Twenty-seven representatives of thir- teen local unions of the United’ Mine Workers of America in the Allegheny Valley met in Piitsburgh last Satur- day and passed.a resolution endors- ing the work of the Pennsylvania- Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee which is now giving relief to every local union in the valley. Minerich Present. Anthony P. Minerich, chairman of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, presided. Representatives of the Allegheny |‘ Valley Relief Committee, with head- quarters. at’ New Kensington, “for- merly working under the direction of Mr. Frank Hefferly. . jident of the local union of the trac- |ports, had been warned to stop his gage Meet April 1 Will Be Blow to Cossacks 4 | | | Barred by the coat bieabet judges from picketing along the S odieauit tracks that pass the mines near Burgettstown in the Pennsylvania bituminous region; striking miners obtained megaphones’ and tried to induce scabes to join them (upper photo). The operators’ state police are shown below threatening to arrest the pickets. Liberty in the coal regions is just a word in the dictionary. The Tri-District Save-The- Union Committee has called a conference for April 1 to fight the combination of operators, labor misleaders, and state police. WEINSTONE. LAUDS 6TH. JUBILEE OF “FREIHEIT”: Support of all militant workers in New aitieece in: New Souk for the sixth anniversary celebration of “The Freiheit,” Jewish Communist daily, is urged in a statement issued last night by the district executive committee, Workers I, R. T. DISMISSES UNION PRESIDENT ‘Lets Out’ Warker With Record of 23 Years The Interborough Rapid Transit Company yesterday continued its campaign of union busting against the Amalgamated Association jment (Communist) Party, through William W. Weinstone, district organizer. The affair, announced to be held originally next Sunday evening, Mar. |25, has been postponed until Satur- day, March 31; The additional ex-| penditure of $1,500 was made neces- | sary in order to have the sixth anni- versary on the same evening that it| has been held since the militant labor organ was established, the manage- | of “The Freiheit” announced | last night. Weinstone’s statement points out the past struggles of the Freiheit, its present tasks and the duty of the pro- | by dis-|gressive workers in rallying to its | charging William Thompson, pres- jsupport. tion workers. Thompson, who has been in the service of the Interborough without an accident, it is|said, was first sus- pended from the Brotherhood, the company union. This automatically is followed by discharge from the company. Thompson, according to previous re- dealings with the union, When ask- ed why he had not been discharged earlier as had been threatened, Pa- trick Connolly, president of the com- pany union, was suspiciously evasive. “We wanted to give him plenty of rope,” he finally explained. The relations of Thompson to the company have created considerable |’ question during the past few months. He was able to come and go to the union headquarters unmolested by the company while scores of other work- ers were being fired. Those who know his relatiops to the Amalgaqated Union officials and | who have learned how he came to be/| “appointed” president of the local while other officers were forced out, have raised certain questions about (Continued on ome Two) PLAN SPECIAL EDITION OF “DAILY” Prediction Was True. The statement, in full, reads as fol- | lows: “The sixth anniversary of the es- tablishment of the Freiheit, our revo- lutionary organ among. the Jewish workers, occurs in the midst of big struggles of the working class against the exploiters. It takes place | at a time when the prosperity aryeh has been exploded by the e of 4,500,000 unemployed workers, by the existence of bread lines in New York City and in other parts of the country. What the Freiheit predicted at the time of its birth—that the con- | ditions in the United States would grow more unbearable for the work-) ers of the United States—is now borne out by the existing depression | in the country, ‘by the slashing. of Tieses teghte on Page Two) GOLD TO SPEAK AT FUR MEET TODAY The offer of cherity made by the employers in the fur industry to the unemployed workers in the trade, after their conspiracy with the lead- U.S. Workers Must Rally to ‘to International Labor bor Celebration To all Party comrades. To all Party units. To all readers, subscribers and sym- pathizers. — To all DAILY WORKER agents. Dear Comrades: May y this year will find the working pr of this country engaged in many struggles, resisting the at- tempts of the employing class and its agents in the labor movement to de- stroy the trade ‘union movement and reduce the standard of ter for the American workers. May Day this year must be made; a gigantic mass demonstration of the workers of this country, under the leadership of our Party, to counter~ act the offensive of the capitalist class. May Day this year must be utilized by us to increase the fight- ing spirit of the working masses as it has never done before, To successfully carry on, we must build our May Day demonstrations, meetings and propaganda on the most important campaigns that our Party is conducting at the present time. Must Build DAILY WORKER. (1) The campaign in the mining industry. Support the struggles of the miners against the coal barons and the Lewis machine and for the creation of a real fighting miners’ union, (2) Struggle ment. : (8) Fight against imperialist wa (4) Organization of the unorgan- ized workers. (5) The election campaign and: the (Continued on Page Two) { against uneimploy- ers of the American Federation of Labor to cripple the powerful fur- riers union is to be the subject for discussion at a membership meeting called ‘by the Joint Board Furriers Union to be held this afternoon at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. at 1 o'clock, Since publishing the offer of the bosses’ “Charity Chest,” which was that $15,000 had been set aside for “loans” to the 8,000 jobless furriers admitted by the employers, the ques- tion has deeply agitated the workers in the market. Ben Gold, manager of the union, who will speak at the union who speak at the meting, will set forth to the workers the official attitude of the union on this problem “|the biggest WOMEN, CHILDREN ARE MANGLED IN NEW SLAUGHTER H { | Casualties Heavier Than! in Oc otal ul Bombing gua, March 21¢ undred Nicara- | guans were killed when marine planed | bombed the town of Murra on Mon- |day, according to reports received! |here. The Nicaraguan casualties are | reported to have been heavier than jin the bombing of Ocotal last year, when three hundred men, women and children were killed by American bombing planes. A ground force of marines which entered the town after the bombing discovered it completely in ruins. The town was bombarded on the sus- picion that it was occupied by the forces of General Sandino, nationalist leader. (Murra is a little mining town about thirty miles north of El Chi- pote, which was formerly occupied by the nationalist troops.) + « * WASHINGTO Mar. 21.—A sur- vey to determine the most practical route for an American canal through Nicaragua would be authorized under a bill introduced today by Senator Edge (R) of New Jersey. The work would require $500,000. The proposal has the approval of tinl state anc war departments, Edge said. : The United States by a series of jalistie moves has accuired hts”“in Nicaragua and it was to protect these that the ad- ministration first said the marines were dispatched to Nicaragua. J2-PAGE ISSUE OF “DAILY” FOR MAY 1 'To Publish 300,000 Cop- ies for Mass Campaign The publication of a 32-page May Day edition of The DAILY WORKER May 1 was announced at a meeting of DAILY WORKER Agents held at Irs ing Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St, | Tuesday night. Three hundred thou« sand copies will be printed. William W. Weinstone, district or- ganizer, Workers (Communist) Party, pointed out at the meeting the im= portance of the May 1 edition. “May 1,” he said, “is going to ba miners’ day. The May Day edition is going to bring about a mobiliza- tion of all Party members for one of tasks ever accomplished Party. We must ch 300,000 ; with the mes: of May The distribution must be done lin an organized and planned manner.” Harry Blake, campaign manager of |The DAILY WORKER, outlined con- |crete means for making the May 1 edition effective. “Daily” Quota Passed. | Harry Fox reported that the ree | sponse of the Party units to the aps | peal to save The DAILY WORKER was good, that ihe quota of 100,000 copies to be distributed was over- | subscribed by 50,000 and that a total of 150,000 Daily Workers had been distributed to date. He urged all agents and workers to return all out- standing “Save The DAILY WORK- ER” lists. My the re ge | D: Hails Paris Commune Reborn in U.S. S. R. CHICAGO, (FP) March 21— Speaking in his religious vestments under the auspices of the Interna tional Labor Defense, Bishop Wm. Montgomery Brown declared on the 57th anniversary of the Paris Com- mune; “Hail to the Paris Commune; which ied’ and was buried in France and rose again in Moscow!” A large gathering in Temple listened to the bishop, a ven man. He was deposed by his fe bishops when he began applyii principles of Darwin and Marx church. He is the author of munism,and Christianism.