The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1928, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1926 Los Angeles Determined to Keep at Head BONITA ENDORSES DEFENSE EFFORTS OF COAL MINERS ttacks Cappelini Crew of Killers (Continued from Page One) Cappelini machine. This is the way the Cappelini machine works: Mur- ‘der. “J -have another honest, progr: Sing for me. The: ean to free me and > of th framed-up charge. I speak now of the Bonita-Moleski-Mendola Defense Committee, of which ley Dzieng- lelewski is secreta which, I un- derstand, has an o: e in Room 5613, Coal Exchange Building, at Wilkes- “arre, Pa. * Anthracite in Motion. satisfaction; all are fight- ing all they * * PITTSTON, Pa., March 23. — The} anthracite is in motion. Thousands of hard coal miners have been aroused by the Tri-District Save-The-Union Committee call to the national con- ference at Pittsburgh April 1. Sev- eral thousand copies of the call have been distributed and a number of Tocals have already responded by electing delegates. _ Grassy Island local 1672 yesterday elected Stanley Dziengielews metary of the “Monita-Moles' dola defense committee as its dele- gate to the Pittsburgh conference. On the motion. of Tom Robinson, treasurer of the local, Dziengielewski Was unanimously chosen. Haddock local, 1645, Luzernp, Pa., | meeting keld two days ago, like- | ~d delegates to the erence amid considerable md enthusiasm of the 0,000 copies of the recent ring to the anthracite district 1 have been dis- The ec ars were sent} the Tri-District Save-The- Committee, and are headed “aa2T8, support the special con-! vention but beware of oppositionists who have no program.” | | SPORTS MEET FOR “WINERS® RELIEF Many Benefit Events Being Arranged A labor sports exhibition to raise fands for the striking miners will | be held tomorrow at the Finnish Hall, | 15 W. 126th St.. under the auspices | of the Labor Sports Union. The meet | will start at 11 a. m. and continue! until midnight. | The events will include swimming | faces, dasketball, dribble, ‘horizontal bars, hop, skip and jump; wrestling and pyramids. | A miners’ relief conference will be | held in Williamsburgh Tuesday at 8| p. m. Delegates from unions, clubs and fraternal organizations will meet | at the Labor Lyceum, 949 Willoughby | Ave., Brooklyn, to perfect plans for speeding up relief for the aes miners. } soccer, Unions Participate. | An afternoon of variety entertain- | ment to raise f to feed the chil- dren of the striking miners will be| given Sunday, April 15 at 2. “tthe Central Opera House, : and 3rd Ave. | Sunday, April 1, . m, the Bessarabier-Podolier Club will give a dance « at 1347 Roston Road, Bronx, for the relief of the emb: Anna Rubinstein, soprano, wil! sing. Found Only Hunger ¢ Crosseau, above, was one of \the two boys who braved the long journey north in an attempt to get | beyond the widespread unemployment | prevailing thruout the south. What'| they found here was starvation, cold jand no jobs at all. The police picked them up, shivering on a New York wharf and without a cent in their ILLINOIS MINERS Gi FOR BATTLE ILLING General Strike Called For April 1 (Special to The Daily Worker.) SPRINGFIEl sit D, March 28. — The ion in District 12, United Mine ers, is rapidly developing into a Everywhere the rising revolt against the treachetous Lewis-Fish- wick maghine is gai tum. Serftiment for the maneuvers of Jol Lewis, presi- dent of the union, is growirg stead- ily. Lewis has invited coal operators to continue to work their mines with- out an agreement after April 1, the date the present temporary agree- ment expires. “Save-Union Committee” Leads. The District 12 Save-the-Union Committee has taken the lead in the] opposition against this threatened | new betrayal of Lewis and Fishwick | call for a general strike is being widely circulated. The past week has witnessed some historic developments. Over 1,000 miners attended the last meeting in West Frankfort, IIL, ad- dressed by John Brophy, and took up the slogan of a general strike on April Ist and called upon the local unions and progressive groups to send their representatives to the Pittsburgh conference April 1. U.S. War Officials Arrive in Managua MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 23. ited States Assistant Secretary E. Fechet, Chief of the Air Corps, who are flying d States to the Panama n ved here today. landed at 11:27 o’el Their 2d by an accident in ico and a new plane had/| ne Uni Great Labor Pageant at Freiheit Jubilee One thousand workers will participate in the great mass pageant to be presented at the Sixth Jubilee of “The Freiheit,” Jewish Communist 20,000 music Yrogram is being planned. | y , daily, at Madison Square Garden, Saturday evning, March 31. Over New York workers are expected to attend the event. An elaborate fing in momen-| strike against’ APPEALS TQ MEN 0 GO OVER T0 (GENERAL SANDINO h ust Refuse to Fight | Nicaraguan People (Continued from Page One) jtioned. ‘The appeal issued by »the |Party and League reads as follows: |“Dear Marines: “You are among the 950 enlisted men ordered to sail for Nicaragua tc help wipe out Sandino before the rainy season sets in!” “Since you have no investments in this little country, yor anything tc gain from the proposed canal, part of Wall Street’s préparations for the next world war—it is well worth your | while to stop a moment and consider. | “We doubt if you are the U. |M. C. for adventure or a good time, | but if you are you certainly won’t get | cither in Nicaragua—ds 3700 marines, jnot counting blueja s—do not | represent an adventure, but a real | war, with all the hard fighting and ‘loss of life that such a war implies. | “If you were forced to sign up be- {cause you were out of work, or for |similgr reasons, you will not enjoy doing the dirty work for those same bosses who caused you to be kicked out of a job. And by helping Wall Street exploitation of the Nicaraguan people you will only be lowering the standard of living for your friends on the outside and the big majority of the people in the United States. In these days of world markets, lower- ing of wages and working standaras in Nicaragua or China or any other part of the world, is'a blow at wages and working conditions in the United States. Then Why Are You Geing? “Because the American bankers, with, their eyes on a canal and their jinvestments in Nicaragua, have not been able to buy out the big majority of the Nicaraguan people or General Sandino who fights for their interests —although they have bought up a few Conservative and so-called ‘Liberal’ politicians! “Because General Sandino and the Nicaraguan people have never .ac- cepted the sell-out of these bribed politicians represented in the Stim- son ‘agreement’ any more-than they have accepted the invasion of their country by a foreign power! _ snd {finally ‘because General San- dino and the Nicaraguan people will die fighting before they will become a colony of Wall Street just as the American people were ready to die fighting in 1776 rather than remain British subjects! : How Does Sandino Hold Out? How has the little army of General Sandino held out for more than a year against the superior, well equipped forces of the United States if he were a ‘bandit’? In 1776, George Washington was also termed a bandit because he defied British rule, and the first army of the United States was a small, poorly equipped one compared to the larger, better beiter equipped British force. But the strength of this army lay in the fact that it had the support of the entire American people, and no mai- ter where the battles, in every farm house, behind ‘every tree, was a friend. “However something else helped George Washington and his-army in 1776 which is also helping Sandino today. In the war of 1776, many of the British soldiers had got heart for this fight against the American peo- ples Not only did many go over to the American army, but a large num- ber. of those who remained helped the rebel army by their refusal to fight, Howe’s army be mous for its retreats, of and leaving cannon and ammunition be- hind. Finally Howe himself was called back to England because he was so efficient in misplacing im- portant orders. “Although the officers and the war departmeat are pushing the present campaign against Sandino ruthlessly, using the most modern methods of warfare, bombing natives, etc., many cf the marines in Nicaragua alse have no heart for this 1928 “war against the Nicaragusna people. Will You Crush Sandino? “When the rainy season starts the territory where the U. S. forces operate becomes almost inpassabie, while the mountain sections whicn are Sandino’s stronghold remain dry. “This is why you are being rushed to Nicaragua now, not because of the elections which have already been de- cided ‘by Wall Street.’ In fact this present fight between conservative and liberal politicians is only a petty squabble over the spoils among those who have already sold out the Nic- araguan people and are afraid to .fight against the rule of the Ameri- can bankers. A small number of marines could control this fake elec- tion as in the stolen elections of the past. But for other reasons the force is being increased, counting blue- jackets in the fighting, to more than 3700 men with an additional eqncen- tration of, battleships around Nicara- gua in preparation for a ruthless drive to extinguish General Sandino and his army and the last spark of Nicaraguan freedom. His victory de- pends on YOU! “You and the American people will only lose through the further worsen- i i | | k 4 Practice Flight for Next World War Results In Death Lieut. 8S. M. Kinkhead of the British air forces attempt- ed to shatter the speed record in a Napier sea- plane near the ‘shore at Cal- shot, England to enable . the British govern- ment to know at what speed en- emy countries _ can be reached © in time of war. The _ seaplane nlunged into the vater killing | Xinkhead. CL KING EVADES MINERS’ CHARGE John D. Jr., “Explains” Broken Contract (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, March 23.—Pious John D. Rockefeller, Jr., sometime teacher of Sunday School classes and Bible courses, and chief stockholder of the scab Consolidation Coal Com- pany mines in West Virginia, today employed a time-worn subterfuge in order to beat an “ethical” retreat from the charge that his company had ken a contract with the United Mine Workers Union. Testifying before the senate com- mittee investigating the mine in- dustry, the younger oil king dis- claimed responsibility for the acts of his “subordinates.” Besides, he in- sisted, the Consolidation Coal Com- pany had not really broken its con- ract with the union. It had merely shut down operations when it no longer wished to continue with the agreement; Then it opened at the “vequest of unemployed men who de- sired to work at a lower scale.” Charles M. Schwab, president of the Bethlehem Steel Company was more definite it; his testimony but no less altruistic.¥ “Nou might be sur- prised,” he told the sehators, “but in the forty years I have been in the steel business, I have not made a penny out of Bethlehem steel.” He likewise condoned the attack on the miners by pleading “necessity.” There are 200,000 too many miners, he said. These miners should leave the mines and find a place elsewhere, he stated. He did not say where. OWNS STORES AND MANAGES UNION Neckwear Union Head Exposed at Meeting L. D. Berger, for 16 years’ the man- ager of the Neckwear Makers’ Union, was bitterly denounced Thursday night by the entire membership at a stcrmy meeting in Cooper Union, vfter heing exposed as the ewner of several men’s furnishings stores in New York.City. Rerger saw the uselessness of cenying his ownership of the stores when clippings of a trade journal were read off announcing his pur- chase-of the stores. He expected this and came prepared with a set ‘of reso- lutions which coiled upon the mem- bership to postpcne discussion on this topic urtil the strikes conducted by the organization were over. Another resolution recalled a strike tax levied on the union members. Several strikes in out of town shops are being conducted by the organization, The membership, anxious not to calling off of the strikes in question, yoted for the resolutnohs, but declared their intention of ending Berger’s managership of the union, leaving him as custodian of his men’s fur- nishings stores. ing of: conditions for the Nicaraguan people! You have nothing to gain from Wall Street’s enslavement of this little country! “Refuse to fight for Wall Street against the Nicaraguan people! “Fight with Sandino, not against him! “Follow the example of those marines who stood up like men and refused to fight against the Nicara- guan people! . “Greet the marines who went oy. to Sandino! aw “Wall Street wants Nicaragua f a canal and an important base in coming world war. Those of you fought in the last war, and you will taste war in-Nicaragua: “Fight against a new world s!augh' —“WORKERS (COMMUNI PARTY “YOUNG WORKERS (CO MUNIST) LEAGUE.” Open Air Routes : to Mexiean Line WASHINGTON, March 23.— Postmaster General New announced today that he would open bids on May 21 for three alternate air mail routes between New Orleans and the Mexi- ean border connecting at New Orleans with the Atlanta-New York route. The route to be selected will depend DEMAND CENTRAL TRADES JOIN DRIVE Council for Unemployed Issues Statement ‘of ‘Daily’s’ Subscription Drive upon what point the Mexican Govern- ment finally decides as the terminal for its p¥8bosed line to the American border. From New Orleans the line will go direct to Houston, Tex., from Houston it may go to San Antonio, Laredo, or Brownsville, via Corpus Christi. HORTHY FASCISTS USE SIDE STREET Delegation Afraid to Face Protest PITTSBURGH, “March 23.—The large white guard delegation which the Horthy-Bethlen regime of Hun- gary sent here in the guise of “Kos- suth pilgrims” to propagandize for a joan and for political support has moved on to Cleveland. The opposition of the organized workers to the motives of the dele- gation and to the brass band support it has received from municipal and national government officials is ex- pected to continue in the Ohio in- dustrial center. ~ Trickery is Used. Realizing the opposition which has developed throughout the United States since the delegation arrived in New York under the pro‘ection of Tammany Hal! police pistol fire, Mayor Charles H. Kline, of Pitts- burgh, sought to facilitate the dele- gation’s progress by trickery. Under the original arrangements the dele- gation, numbering about 300 and headed by Baron Perenyi, was due to arrive here at 6:30 p.m. Representa- tives of the Anti-Herthy League and give the officials an excuse for the] other labor and liberal societies, with a combined membership of 200,000, ‘were prepared to assemble at the rail- road station with placards of protest. Previously they had petitioned the mayor not to receive the fascists. At the suggestion of Mayor Kline, by telegraph or telephone, however, the fascist delegation arrived on an earlier train. Surrounded by a heavy escort of uniformed police and de tectives the delegates were hurried by taxicabs to near-by hotels. \ The police and detectives returned to the railroad station to keep the protesting workers and liberals under surveillance when they arvived. * * * Kellogg to Be Called. Secretary of State Frank Kellogg. Inited States Senators Borah and Wheeler and Count Szechenyi, Hun- garian Minister to the United States, will be called as defense witnesses by the Uj Elore, Hungarian Communisi daily, when the $75,000 libel suit in- stituted against it by the Kron De- tective Agency, of New York, come: up for trial, it was announced, yester- day. $100,000 Promised. The libel action against the Com- munist newspaper was started after it published a series of articles last month charging that the Hungarian white guard government arranged with Jacob Nosvitsky, famous inter- national spy, for tue purchase thru the Kron Detec'ive agency of a series of documents proporting to expos: plans for the overthrow of the Horthy regime in that country. Articles and photographic repro- duetions of letters were published to support the charge that Szechenyi promised to pay Nosovitsky $109,00¢ for the delivery of the forged docu. ments. Senator Ferris. Dead WASHINGTON, D. C., March 23.— A Senator Woodbridge N. Ferris of Michigan, died here this morning '|from an attack of pneumonia. He was 75 years old. Verris was Michigan. twice campaign against ‘“Newburyism.” ‘ (Continued from Page One) relief demands of the Council of the Unemployed. “The New York Council of the Un- employed calls upon the conference of the Central Trades and Labor Coun- cil to join in this campaign and aid in drawing up a bill for a perma- nent Unemployment Insurance Fund, around which the sentiment of the entire working class can be rallied. Mass metings of unemployed workers to consider the provisions of the bill, culminating in a great mass meeting where it will be presented for adop- tion, shculd be part of the program ef this campaign. rc) “The time has come when the’ un- employed workers of the cty and state are demanding of the officials of the Central Trades action, not words. The Central Trades and Labor Council yas a duty to perform which it can- not shirk or postpone.” Plan Meetings. Definite steps were taken Thursday night for the establishment of an unemployment fund when over 40 delegates at a meeting at 50 St. employment meetings for the working cut of a maintenance fund bill from the desires and suggestions of the unmployed workers. The meeting Thursday was held in accordance with a resolution of representatives of over 150 organizations at a meet- ing last Saturday. The series of meet- ings which were planned will culmi- nate in a huge mass meeting of the unemployed at Madison Square Gar- den, at which the bill will be put be- fore the unemployed workers. A campaign will then be launched on a statewide and national basis to force adoption of the maintenance fund bill by the city, state and federal gov- ernments. An open air meeting of unemployed workers will be heid thts, afternoen at 2 o’clock in Rutgers’ Square under the auspices of the New York Council of the Unemployed. A number of well-known speakers will address the meeting. * * The WorkersY International Relief opened its new kitchen at 27 E. 4th St. yesterday. More than 800 unem- {ployed workers ate at the new quar- ters. The kitchen was formerly voeated at 60 St, Marks Place. The capacity of the new quarters is larger. | sP Labor Sports Meéet To Be Held Tomorrow ie worker-sportsmen ‘will assemble in Finnish Hall, 15 W. 126th St., tomorrow for the first annual tournament of the New York Brarich of the Labor Sports, Union, recently organized in this city. It is planned 1o have a similar meet every year. . An extensive program has been ar- ranged for tomorrow and according to all indication a large turnout will greet the young workers who will participate in the various events on the program, The eyents will include swimming racex, basketball, soecer dribble, hori- zontal bars, hop, skip and jump, wrestling and pyramids. The meet will start at 11 a. m. and continue until midnight. Half of the proceeds ip be devoted to the Pennsylvania- Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, 799 |Broadway. ‘ a) * New York boxing fans can antici- pate a treat in the early part of May governor of |if the announcement of Humbert J. He was elected to the |Fugazy, of a return match between senate in 1922 after a spectacular |George Godfrey, leading Negro heavyweight, and Pwolino Uzcudun \ Marks Place outlined a series of un-! ORTS IN BRIEF SOUTHERN CITY I$ STILL IN LEAD; RUSHES NEW SUBS Reiss, Agent, Says Quota Will Be Passed “Los Angeles will never let Oakland get ahead of it in the national sub- scription drive in which this district intends to add more than its share of the 10,000 new readers to The DAILY WORKER,” writes Paul Reiss, DAILY WORKER agent in the southern California city. Reiss’ letter accompanies an envel- ope full of new subscriptions and it looks as if the determination of the Los Angeles section.to capture and keep the lead in the big campaign, would succeed in keeping the district at the head of the drive. “This is by no means the end,” Reiss continues, promising that Los Angeles will many. times more than complete its quota of the subscribers before May Day, the date set for the closing of the campaign. The Los Angeles workers are furi- ously pushing ahead their activity in order to beat the competition which the other California towns are giving them, but it is expected that if Oak- land works as hard as Los Angeles a tie may result. BOSTON “LEETS” RULED OFF BALLOT Reactionary LL.G.W.U. Dictates Nominations BOSTON, March 23.—As a pre- liminary to the course of action the right wing will follow in the coming convention of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union to be held here on May 7, the reaction- ary clique in control of the Boston Joint Board railroaded thru the nom- ination of convention delegates at meetings of Locals 39 and 46, held Wednesday night, and raled off the ballot all progressives nominated by the membership, The same mathods Mere followed in the election of an election and objec- tion committee. It was thru this com- mittee, which has to pass upon the eligibility of all candidates going on the ballot, that left wing and progres- sive candidates were refused the right to be on the ballot. Three of the five members of the election committee were themselves candidates for elec- tion. They immediately endorsed their own candidacy and eliminated all oth- ers. The protests made by the entire membership to the International of- ficials now in Boston go unheeded. On the contrary, gered Baroff and several other dents here are busy spreading that, the “reds” intend to trouble at the convention, in 1 tempt to ward off the stro! nti- ment for unity in the union. The main reason for their presence here, however, is that the International hasn’t sufficient money to pay for the initial costs. of the convention. They. are therefore trying to raise some from the Boston Joint Board, which seems unlikely, since the Boston organization has been im- poverished by the right wing admin- istration. Are you a “DAILY WORKER” worker daily? materializes. Fugazy promised to stage the Godfrey-Uzcudun slugfest at Ebets Fiéld. Godfrey recémtly won a decision over the basque in a bat- tle in Los Angeles that broke all records for attend- ance west of the Rockies. The return match should be one of the best bets of the coming outdoor season. * H. Fugazy, Tex’s Rival * * MIAMI BEACH, March 23. — Jack Delaney will Laat sek are Leughran in June for the light heavy-° weight championship, Tex Rickards announced last night. Rickard’s announcement came as a denial of reports that a Loughran- Delaney match would mean that the winner would face Gene Tunney fog the world heavyweight crown. : RS oa BOSTON, March 23. — Charles E. Brickley, former star Haxvard foot~ ball player, was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment last night fol- lowing his conviction several weeks ago of larceny from former clients in stock transactions and of conducting a bucket shop. y