The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1928, Page 2

PULTUR, NEW BOST The election of Elsie Pultur iatins new district DAILY WORKER agent in the Boston territory is be- ing viewed as one of the most prom big national subscription campaign to win 10,000 new readers for The DAILY. WORKER before May Day. Ey a) THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YURK, THURSDAY,/) MARCH 22, 1928 in the ing events Elsie Pultur is reported to be an active and hard- working organizer and big results are expected from her as soon as she has the organization of the subscription work well in hand. She has already given a promise of what she will accomplish by sending one envelope full of subs to the office of The DAILY WORKER. offer a splendid field Elsie Pultur will know ON DAILY WORKER AGENT, TO STIMULATE SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE _ The formation of new DAILY WORKER “Builders” Clubs” and the strengthening of those already: in ex- istence, will be one of the first of Elsie Pultur’s concerns, it is intimated. The necessity of these “Clubs” is appre- ciated by the new agent who, it is believed, will in every way stimulate activity of the “Builder” organizations. The organizational work of the new agent will not bé confined to the Boston district, it is promised, but will include the cities and towns around. These centers for subscription activity which how to utilize. Lewis Machine Agrees to Semi-Company Union for Coal Miners of Colorado SUPPORTS PLAN OF COAL BARONS AND COMMISSION. * Attack “Radical” Strike Leadership DENVER, March 21. — What is seen here as a move on the part of the Lewis machine in cooperati with the State Industrial Co and, no doubt, with the indirect co- operation of the large mine opera- tors, to institute a quasi-company union in Colorado, was announced here yesterday in a decision by the Industrial Commission as a means of preventing strikes. The recommendation was made in the form of a report reviewing the alleged causes of the recent Colorado mine strike. The report advocates the “restitution of collective bargain- ing . .. and the establi ishment of in- spection of pit committees to repre- sent the workers. .. .” Company Unions The report further hints that the | existing company unions in the field | have failed to maintain industrial | peace. It is concluded that the move | to introduce a form of “collective bar- gaining” not of the “radical” variety | would insure the security the em-!} ployers desire. The way for this move was recently paved by a long formal appeal by the executive board of the United | Mine Workers Union to the state In- | dustrial Commission. The Colorado |} State Federation of Labor also co- operated with the Lewis machine in furthering the plan believed to be sanctioned by the coal operators, the Rockefeller interests méinly. ’ { Fail. | WOMEN DONATE ~\ $54 TO “DAILY” Aid Is Urgent, Crisis of Paper Grave Fifty dollars has been contributed to the defense of The DAILY WORK- ER by the Ukrainian Working Wo- men’s Society, 17 East Third St. This contribution was the society’s sharé of the profits of a concert and play arranged by fifteen allied Ukrainian | organizations. Costly Litigation. Litigation that will cost thousands is hanging over The DAILY WORK- ER. The government has determined to erush the militant labor press by imposing staggering fines and legal costs upon the paper. But the work ers will come to the defense of their “Daily” in this crisis as they have in the past. The mobilization of every dollar and cent fer the defense of The DAILY WORKER is the vital neces- | wsitzwhich faces the militant Amer- /Yean Workers. The life or death of the 2 per is in the hands of the Amer- ican workers. Must Break Attack. Bvery militant Am must follow the Ukrainian working 4 ls of contributions can smash the = Wall Street offensive and really fend The DAILY WORKER aga the attack the patriotic and militar- “ist Societies have launched against it. The need is urgent. Rush your con- tions to The DAILY WORKER, oe vice St., New York City. Dance for Negro School | _ For Children Friday ¥ an work example of omen. Only hun- | | both hal laygrounds Have No P mee Vorkers children, who have no playgrounds, must enjoy the ar- rival of spring in back alleys. These city children of workers seldom get a glimpse of green grass, and must be content with planting seeds in tin cans in a dark ailey in a working class vhood, where euilight is nelg: rare, BOTH OLD PARTIES OWL BESMIRCHED |Buck Passing in Senate as Facts Come Out (Continued from Puge One) Robinson continued, “that men of both parties, who held high offices, be- trayed the trust’ placed in them and that men like Sinclair don’t have any party and play with both parties. Doheny was in the company of the distinguished democratic senator from Montana (Walsh) who took his ad- vice on oil lease legislation. He was in the company of the distinguished Mr, McAdoo, who. got a salary of something like $100,000 a year from him, and he was in the company of Mr, Lane, a former democratic cab- inet officer, who got a retainer of $50,000.” Sen. Walsh is a leading member.of the senate committee in- vestigating the oil deals. A meeting of the senate public lands committee was called late this afternoon to discuss sending a sub- committee to Hl Paso, Texas, where it was reported ex-Secretary of the In- terior Albert B, Fall was “willing to talk,” Fall’s trial with Sinclair on a conspiracy indictment is set for Apr. 2. Senator Nye (R) of North Dakota, and Walsh clashed when the former raised a question about the $75,000 contributions of E, L. Doheny, leasee of the Elk Hill reserve, to the demo- cratic cause in 1920. CLOAK DELEGATES “ ARE NOMINATE of the International Ladies Garmer Workers U » Met last night in nh: n Lyteum and for the election nor of deleg to the national conven- tion of t union to be held on May 7 in Boston. The numerous candidates nomin- ated are to appear before the elec- tion and objection -comimittees of their respective locals when they are called upon to appear in the union office. This committee was elected at the meetings yesterday. The coming convention is of espe- cial importance since a fight must be made by the progressive dele. gates to again rebuild the shattered organization, broken up by the at- A dance for the benefit of the Fort ‘alley Industrial School for Colored \ild at Fort Valley, Georgia, will “be held. at thé Renaissance Casino, ‘188th. Street and Seventh Avenue on “the evening of Friday, March 23. The purpose of the dance is to aid 1 equipping a boys’ dormitory at the ehool. ae the direction of Pro- H. A. Hunt, the Fort Valley chool has grown from a single two- ramshackle house to a plant consists of eight modern build- The school is in the peach and nm section of Georgia, close to a Negro ulation to whom most e Siuéational facilities of the Andrade’s ensemble will | may be bought in advance dollar (two doll: t th et Higgins Bookshon iniversity » the Rand 5th Street, the Civic Street wand at tacks of the right wing leadership’ agains the left wing. Not only has the union in the New York market been smashed by Sigman and his followers, ,but numerous locals thru- out the country have been completely wiped out. Jumps From Train to Avoid Life Jail Term CHICAGO, Ill, March 21.—Death seemed better to James Bradley than bleak stone prison walls fer the re- mainder of his life. And so today he leaped from the window of a wash- room on & Chicago & North Western ell near the Lllinois-Wisconsin state ine. His lifeless body was found an hour later. ~ Bradley, arrested in a lumber camp near Marquette, Mich., was being taken back to the state prison of Kentucky at Tanceville, to serve the remainder of his term for murder, ‘ | SPECIAL EDITION OF “DAILY” FOR MAY DAY, PLAN All Workers Must Aid Big Labor Event (Continued from Page One) |fight for a Labor Party. | (6) The strengthening of our Party and the daily organ, The DAILY WORKER. | ‘Special Edition For May Day. The DAILY WORKER will have a special edition for May Day. This edition least 300,000 copies. One of the big tasks in connection with the May Day celebration is .to increase the circulation of The DAILY RKER, to build its influence and to create the necessary requisite to guarantee its existence. The work done in connection with the promotion of The DAILY WORK- ER through the May Day issue, can |be made of tremendous significance for the building ‘up of the militant \forees Of labor in this country and | the building up of our Party. ing at the present time, to carry out the following tasks immediately that are necessary to make the special May Day edition of The DAILY | WORKER a success. These tasks are |the following: - May Day Tasks to Build “Daily.” 1. Get in touch with every Party functionary in your territory and work out a plan to reserve a special section of the May Day issue for your vicinity. | 2. Get greetings from every Party unit at’ once. 8. Send a letter and follow it up with personal visits to every sympa- thetic organization for greetings in this issue. 4. See that every organization or- fers a special bundle of DAILY WORKERS of this edition for their members, 5. Every sympathizer—every read- er—every Party member must have |their name on the May Day Honor | Roll—50 cents a name, | 6. Advertisements are a very im- portant phase of DAILY WORKER support. This means get every pos- | sible advertisement you can get. | 7% Order for your city for distribu- /tion a substantial amount of DAILY WORKERS—$10.00 a thousand, | 8. Call a conference or conferences |to organize this program to carfy out |this special May Day work, | 9. Distribute the May Day Honor ‘Rolls to all comrades and sympathiz- and. the lists for greevings and agvertisements, 10. Send in articles and reports bout your city for the May Day edi- |tiom. Get worker correspondents to |take care of this. » | 11. Make the first of May a big achievement and an outstanding event for your ¢i ings, adver- | tisements |must be in | April 20th. | Long live International May Day! | Long live The DAILY WORKER our office not later than the fighting organ of our Party! | Long live the Workers (Commun- jist) Party! Long live the Communist Interna- tional. ‘i LR. T. DISMISSES UNICN PRESIDENT (Continued from Page One) Thompson for which at the moment there are no satisfactory answers. In any case it is known that Thomp- son among others have been known to carry on veiled and indirect at. tacks against some of the more popu- lar leaders of the traction workers. The movement for the organiza- tion of the traction workers has by no means be killed, It is recognized that the organization must now come from the ranks of the traction work- ers themselves through the building up of shop committees against the next attack hy the company which is already in preparation, Exposes Tammany Moves. Illness of Samuel Untermyer, spe- cial counsel for the city and state transit committee, may force a post- ponement of the 7-cent fare hearing before a federal statutory court which is scheduled to parents today. should be distributed in at}: with cash | Picket Coolidge Reception of Horthy Terrorists at White House Four mem- bers of the Anti- Horthy League protested the re- ception by Pres- ident Coolidge | of the Horthy delegation of 672 Hungarian fascists, here to float a loan for the furthering of . the - mass murder of work- ers by the Hor- 3 thy government. Pickets are. left to right, Emery Balint, novelist, Hugo Gellert, artist and presi- dent of the anti- Horthy League, Paul Telecs and Camilla Cinque- rand. ‘ the ;} 400,000 unorganizéd textile workers¢ in New England; the northeastern section of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League, through Nat Kay, organizer, issued a statement rally- ing the youth in the industry. More than 40 per cent of the mill opera- tives are young workers, according to Kay. Average Wage $13. The statement follows: “With the worsening of conditions of the 400,000 textile workers of New England the progressive textile work- ers decided to organize the unorgan- ized textile workers.-The sav: wage of the textile workers at work) is no more than about $13. The hours are far from the 48-hour week. Speak to the textile workers and no one remembers the actual application of the 48-hour law. Fifty-four hours and more is what the textile worker has to give in return for the small wage. “The spéed-up system is the high- est ever known in any industry. From 2-loom systems the textile barons compelled the workers to go on a 6. 8, 19, and even the unheard of 12-| | loom system. The textile barons are not yet satisfied. They are cutting wages from 10% up in all important: centers. It started off at Lowell, Mass., went to Augusta and Lewis- ton, Maine, and has spread to the rest of the workers in the textile in- dustry. Youth Forms 40 Percent. “The young textile workers who number 40% of the total cmployed in the industry are working under jeven Worse Conditions than those -of | the adults. ‘The low wages, tht speed- up system, effects the young worker much more than the adu't. In many |trafts where youth is emtployed, the j hours are not Hnvited, in spite of the TEXTILE WORKERS GET "$13 WORKING 12 LOOMS | We, therefore, ask you, on the basis | of the campaigns that we are conduct- | Following the decision arrived at by delegates of the mill committees in | various textile mills thruout New England that a campaign be inaugur- }ated by the Progressive Textile Conference for the organization of the | generally. All units must immediately | district! jlaws which are supposed to protect |them. The sont: among the tox: | | tile workers is for strikes against |the multiple loom system, wh | caused unemployment and other ev “The. sentiment among. the textile workers is for organization to resist | the onslaught of the employers. But because they are unorganized, they ate helpless in. this situation. _ The existing unions have “in their ranks only 20,009 out of a total of %-mil- Jton workers.:: RP . Officials Backward. -“Phe- officials of these unions, the “Jnited Textile Workers and the American Federation of Textile Op- eratives, are’ reactionary. They re- fuse to organize the workers. They refuse to call strikes but instead they #0 hand in hand with the bosses and conoede to their demands. It was therefore the rank and file itself that had to produce new leadership and adopt methods which would in an organized way improve their condi- tions. “The ptogressive and militant workers formed mill committees that vill spread in every textile mill. The ‘ill committee method is the only méthod to organize against and re- sist the worsening of conditions of she workers. Youth Predominant, “The Young Workers League has decided to aid in this work in every possible way. We realize that only more readily engage in the struggie for better conditions. The mill com- mittees have among the organizers a special yotith- organizer. The Young Workers (Communrst) League will do all it can to support also the work come to the said of this important campaign. The league must become part of the textile workers and to- gether with them struggle for the Letterment of the conditions of the workers not only in New England but the whole country as well. “Into the basic industries of. our “Help to organize the 400,000 tex- tile workers!” 4 CONFERENCE OF YOUNG MINERS (Continued from Page One) meeting between representatives of the executive counéil of the American Federdtion of Labor and répresenta- tives of the conference to. devise program. i The Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Re- lief Committee of 611 Penn Ave., and youth conferences for miners’ relief of New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago and other cities were en- dorsed. a LABOR DEFENSE HONORS COMMUNE PHILADELPHIA, March 21.—The*| International Labor Defense will hold a celebration of the Paris Commune anniversary here Saturday at 8 p. m., at Slovae Hall, 512 Fairmount Ave. Among the attractions on the pro- gram are an interpretative tableau, “Spirit of the Commune,” the Inter- national Concert Orchestra, recita- tions of prison songs with appropriate stage settings and a talk by Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All-Amer- ican Anti-Imperialist League. The International Labor Defense has also arranged a bazaar for April 12 to 14 at the New Traymore Hall, Franklin &nd Columbia Aves. ~ Jack Rubinstein : me Ss. | A permanent executive committee ef 18 members, nine of whom are striking miners, was elected. Morris Schindler of the International Asso- ciation of Machinists was made sec- retary. Many locals of the United Mine Workers of America, the United Trades Council of Western Pennsyl- vania, International Association of Machinists, the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers’ Union, and other work- ers’ youth and student clubs were epresented at the conference. The date forthe next session will be set by the executive committee. POSTPONE SIXTH FREIKEIT JUBILEE (Continued from Page One) wages, the increasing of hours, the wrecking of unions, the violence thru injunetions and police terror against the workers. | Conducted Brilliant Struggle. “The Freiheit as one of the leading organs of the Workers (Communist) | Labor Sports Union Program for Annual Tournament Sunday More than 260 young workers are expected to participate in the Labor Sports Union’s first annual tourna- ment at the Finnish Hall, 15 W. 126th St., next Sunday, Jack Rubin- stein, secrefary, stated yesterday. ‘The complete list of ‘events as listed by Rubinstein includes basket ball, soccer dribble, horizontal bars, parallel bars, hop, skip and jump; wrestling, swimming and pyramids. The meet will start at 11 a. m. and will continue until midnight. The first event will be three basket ball games which will be followed by soc- cer dribble from 1:30 to 2:05 p. m. Members of the 88 teams of the Metropolitan Workers Soccer League as well as individual soccer players have signified their intention of par- ticipating. At 2:05 two girl basket ball teams, the Rosa Luxemburg and the Brooklyn Finnish Workers Sports Club, will face ‘one another. Intermis- sion from 8:00 to 3:30 p. m. will PREPARE RELIEF BILL FOR JOBLESS Unemployed Council Will Demand Passage With a large number of trade unions, labor, fraternal and welfare | organizations lined up behind it in its New York Council of the Unemployed, fight for the unemployed workers, the 60 St. Marks Place, has begun mak- ing plans for the drafting of a bill providing for a state unemployment maintenance fund, it was announced las¢ night by John Di Santo, secre- tary of the council. This is in pur- suance of a resolution unanimously adopted at a city-wide unemployment conference held under the auspices of the council last Saturday, which was attended by more than 150 delegates. Will Rally Workers, “We intend to make this bill a ral- lying point for all labor, both crgan. ized and unorganized, employed and unemployed, throughout the city and state,” Di Santo said. “And even- tually we hope to extend the move- ment to national proportions. After the bill has been adopted by the un- employed workers we will call for its adoption-by the trade unions and will launch a vigorous petition cam- paign. : Executive Meet Tomorrow. Further details of the campaign for an unemployment maintenance fund will be outlined at a meeting of the executive committee, elected at the Saturday conference, to be held to~ morrow evening at 8 o’clock at 60 St. Marks Place, A campaign is also, being started to extend the relief work that is be- ing conducted by the Workers’ In- ternational Relief, 1 Union Square, in cooperation with the council. About 1,000 unemployed workers are being fed daily at the first food kitchen es- tablished in lower Manhattan, and'the campaign will have as its gol the opening of food kitchens in other see- ions of the city, Di Snto stated. An unehpisyment mass meeting will be held in Rutgers Square on Sat~ urday at 2 p. m. under the a 8 of the New York Council for the Un- employed. The food kitchen maintained by the Workers’ International Relief at 60 St. Marks Place has been moved to 27 E. 4th St., between Third Ave. and Lafayette St. The first meal at the new headquarters will be served on Fyjday at noon. POLICE ASSAULT JOB APPLICANTS Clubs Are Substituted for Relief (Continued from Page One) derly conduct charges. All were found guilty on testimony by Eichorn and the police but were given suspended sentences. Carol Weiss King, attor- ney retained by the International La- bor. Defense, represented thea. Several Hurt. Several others suffered bruises or lacerations ‘in the police attack. One police club was thrown so violently that it was splintered against the wall of the company’s plant. All entrances and offices of the factory are now being guarded by police. Se The A. F. of L. Yowns. Unable longer to remain silent on the unemployment issue which faces the American labor movement but which is especially critical for the unorganized and unskilled workers, the local American Federation of Labor officials have called a so-called unemployment conference for next week-end at Washington Irving High School, Irving Place and E. 17th St. The announcement of the confer- ence was issued by the New York Central Trades and Labor Council. ‘Each local may send three delegates on payment of $1 per delegate but only “accredited delegates” may speak from the floor. . allow the athletes and the audience Party has been conducting a brilliant struggle against this oppression of the American workers. It has par-| will start at 3:30 p. m. lan opportunity to eat lunch, | The second part of the tournament when another ticularly been the leader and the or-|half an hour will be devoted to soccer ganizer of tens of thousands of Jew-| dribble. At 4 o'clock the field events ish workers in the struggle against | will take place. their exploiters and their agents, the The wrestling preliminaries will Union Wrecker Is Chairman. Hugh e, A. F. of L, 01 ‘izer in New York, who superintended the attack of the right wing A. F. of L. officialdom on the left wing needle trades unions here, is advertised as chairman. Matthew Woll, who is vice Sigmans ,the Hillmans and the entire|take place from 3:00 to 5:00 p. m,| President of the A. F. of L. by day clique of betrayers of labor hand in hand with the counter-revo- orking | and the finals at 9:30, At 8:00 p, m. the pyramids work and acting president of the National Civil Federation by night, is adver- lutionary yellow New York Forward. |wwill be held followed by calisthenies| tised as a speaker. Professors, poli- The Freiheit has been the orgam for | ot 8:45, At 9 o’clock the horizontal , the enlightenment of the Jewish|bars and the parallet bats will be|ficials also are advertised, thru 100 per cent organization and a| workers regarding their class inter-| he center of attraction. - militant policy, will the workers be|ests, It has fought against the poi- ac s ] able to improve their conditions and|sonous propaganda of the socialists | nounced yesterday, will be chairman|is now mingling with the idlers in defeat the bosses, We further real-|and of the Zionists, whose philosophy |of the judge committee. orkers will|and whose practices have served only play a predominant role in this situ-|to demoralize the Jewish workers and jwill be donated to. ation, since they are more militant,}to hind understand the language better and| against e capitalist system,” ize that young textile them from organizing|Ohio Miners Relief Richard Blackshmidt, it was an- Half of the proceeds of the affair the Pennsylvania- Broadway. — Committee, 799 city ticians, lawyers and other labor of- Tamm Publicity. Although Mayor. Jatien J. Walker | the Florida big waist-line district, | the A. F. of L. Officials have taken ‘ anhouncing “that “i this opportunity to give him | ta he a et A REEEEN S e ASPET MY