The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1928, Page 1

a Seen A. F. L. DELEGATES SUPPORT JOBLESS MAINTENANCE FUND THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Pont Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. TSE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 72. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1928 Pa hed daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥- FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents MASS PICKETING DEFEATS ORDER OF COAL POLICE @ N. Y. CONFERENCE VOTES FOR LABOR PARTY THIS YEAR Officials Admit Lack éf Program By a vote of 125 to 3 for a Labor Party and amid cheers and shouting for the passage of an Unemployment Maintenance Fund, delegates to the American Federation of Labor Con- ference on unemployment and injunc- tions closed its final session yester- day afternoon. A two days’ program staged at Washington Irving High School, Irv- ing Place and 17th St. under the subject, “The Menace of Unemploy- ment and the Injunction,” brought forth from the speakers on the plat- form and those in charge of proceed- ings nothing more closely approxi- mating a “menace” than the warning by one of the officials that the busi- ness men are losing four billion dol- lars a year through the idleness of their workers. } Workers Speak. i Speakers and delegates from the floor, however, by their vigor and} earnestness more than made up for } the apathy of those who “delivered” from the platform. At the final session Abraham Lefkowitz, of the Teachers’ Union, in answer to a question from the floor | admitted that independent political | action would be a better means for | fighting for the needs of labor than | the program of the American Fed- } eration of Labor. Nothing could be done about the mistaken policy of the | Federation except to “let the future | teach us as to which course is best.” The bodies of Henry Ruiz, his wife and five children, victims of San Francisquito dam disaster, were the first of the unfortunate dead to be lowered into their graves. ceremony on the scene of the catastrophe. was made of the official graft which was responsible for the faulty construction of the dam. | | | | | | i i The above picture shows the No mention whatsoever (CLEVELAND WORKERS BOO HORTHY FASCISTS CLEVELAND, March 25-—The Horthy wl Hungary was booed and hissed yesterday by more than 2,000 workers as- | Sembled a at the railroad station under the direction of the Anti-Horthy League. | Se The delegation FRISCO POLICE BEAT CHINESE \Maltreat Orientals Who In: response. to a question: as to: bow. Await’ Deportation” many favored independent political action, about 125 raised their hands. ! Only three ‘mdicated tkat they fav- ored the so-called non-partisan policy of the A. F. of L. Di Santo Speaks. John Di Santo, secretary of the New York Council of the Unemployed, in speaking from the floor announced that the unemployed workers would not be content with the “investiga- tions,” the perplexed phrases, and the lack of action on the part of the pro- tessors and the labor officials. The four and one-half millions of unem- ployed workers are demanding action and would force a real program. In New York, he showed, the first ste (Continued on Page Two) REVEAL HARDING 0K. ON OIL STEAL Ex- President Insisted on Deal, Fall Says WASHINGTON, March 25.—War- ren G. Harding’s connection with the “lease” of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserves is made more specific than it ever has since the details of the scandal became public, by an affidavit just made by Albert B. Fall which will be used in defense of Harry F, Sinclair at the latter’s trial beginning here April 4. At the same time former secretary cf the navy, Edwin Denby, who thus far has escaped complete exposure of his part in the transaction, is named by Fall as the active intermediary in the huge steal. Names Harding. .“The executive order of May 31, 1921,” the affidavit reads, “was pro- mulgated at the request of Secretary Denby” ‘and later signed by Fall “at the insistence of the president of the United States.” Further light on the connection of administration officials with the oil operators was shed Saturday when Albert D. Lasker, chairman of the shipping board in the Harding regime was examined by the senate oil com- mittee. $25,000 For Job. Lasker admitted under examination that he had contributed 25,000 to help in the election of Harding ard the Ohio gang. As soon as Harding as- sumed office, Lasker was appointed |* head of the shipping board. After explaining that he had been working for the national republican committee himself, using his adver- ising agencies to circulate propa- ganda against the League of Nations, he went on to say that he had cashed (Continued on Page Two) SAN FRANCISCO, March 25.— United Statés troops still remain at Angel Island where Chinese are awaiting deportation. Six Chinese, who are accused of being the leaders of a Chinese “riot,” are now in the county jail of San Francisco. They were seriously beaten when they were en route from the island to the jail. Two of them are near death. Local papers here say nothing. The let- ters from the Chinese on the island to the Chinese organizations and con- sul reveal the following facts: ‘...Wong, a boy of nineteen, with his sister were among the ones await- ing deportation. They were separated according to the regulations here, The brother wanted to console his sister. He therefore wrote a short note and slipped it to his sister with three dol- lars when she came-to eat after the males did. Both the note and the money were taken away by the ma- tron. We did take it back from her by force. We never injured her. This we could swear. We heard that those innocent friends, who were unfor- tunately arrested, were treated badly. We should not be forced to stand this treatment. Therefore we write this letter to you to inform you of the facts and ask you to help those ar- rested. The treatment here is. very bad. But help them first . . .” Chinese organizations are taking. the case seriously. What will be done is not yet known. ACW BOARD MEET ENDS IN FIGHT Beckerman Begins Row on Loe. 5 Delegates When the membership of Local 5 of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union attend the meeting of their local Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, in the Forward Hall,"175 E. Broad- way, to hear the report of their of. ficers on the decisions of the Joint Board at its last meeting, they will learn further details of one of the most exciting sessions ever held by that body. Beckerman Slings Chairs. Beginning as a dignified gathering of Joint Board delegates to consider, among other questions, that of seat- ing the new Joint Board delegation recently elected in Local 5, the meet- ing which was held late Friday night, ended ‘abruptly when Joint Board Manager Abraham Beckerman signi- (Coniiiued on Page Five) ake b governinent headed by Horthy. Horthy white guard delegation from arrived here from Pittsburgh. Mounted police drove into the line of workers assault- ing more than a score, while the | fascists were rushed away in closed |buses under guard of a double line ‘of police. The Hungary delegation is visiting this country in the guise of Kossuth pilgrims, while their actual aim is to propagandize for a Joan for, the Banners Demolished. Banners denouncing the acts of the Hungarian government in killing or imprisoning thousands of workers and Jews were displayed at the railroad station. Thousands of leaflets issued by the Anti-Horthy League were also distributed. The police tore down the banners and arrested Joseph Fejes, who is be- ing held for investigation. Police Attack Again. When the fascists reached city hall, police again drove into the line of demonstrators. Another demonstration is planned for today, when the Horthyites are to visit the Kossuth monument here. ON USSR POLICY “Europe Today” Subject of Lecture Wednesday The policies of the Soviet Union and those adopted by the capitalist countries towards it, will be discussed in a lecture on “Europe Today” by Scott Nearing this Wednesday at 8 | p. m. at Irving Plaza, Irving Plaee | and 15th St. The lecture will be given under the auspices of Sections 2 and | 8 of the Workers (Communist) Party. | Nearing’s lecture will include infor- mation which he gathered during his recent visit to China, western Europe and the Soviet Union. Worker Injures Arm Antonio De Luigi, 35, a worker in the Davey Paper Works, of Downing- town, Pa., injured his arm when it was caught between two gears of a machine he was working on. He was rushed to the City Hospital. The gears in the ‘machine had re- cently been readjusted, and the em- ployers failed to warn him of that —— Dam Graft Victims Buried on Scene ot Tragedy ben NEARING TO TALK |To Aid Textile Workers | APPEAL FROM WRIT LOST; BASIS FOR CONTEMPT APPEAL | Expect Decision on April 13 The denial-of the appeal of the left wing Joint Board of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union against the in- junction granted to the contractors’ Association of Dress Manufacturers, by the appellate division of the su- freme court, made public Saturday, not only makes permanent one of the most sweeping anti-striké writs ever handed down but definitely puts 18 left wing leaders of the Cloakmakers’ Union in imminent danger of being railroaded to prison when their appeal against a contempt of court sentence is heard April 13. Penalties. Total $17,000. The complete endorsement of the injunction, which the dress contractors obtained with the active assistance of the right wing machine in the union, makes highly probable the endorse- ment of the sentence imposed recently tpon the left wing leaders by Su- preme Court Justice Erlanger. The sentence demands that they go to jail upon failure to pay a total of $17,000 in penalties for violating the injunc- tion by caliing strikes in those shops which broke their contract with the union, e injunction appealed against by ~Cloakriakers’ Joint ‘Boatd was granted to the dress bosses by Judge Tierney after the Sigman clique in the union had provided the bosses with numerous affidavits against the Joint Board. Right Wing Aids Bosses. The injunction not only prohibited the Dressmakers’ Union from con- (Continued on Page Three) LABOR'S STORY AT FREIKEIT JUBILEE Over twenty years of militant ac- tivity in the New York labor move- ment will be portrayed in the mass pageant to be presented at the sixth janniversary of “The F'reilieit,” Jew- ish Communist daily at~ Madison Square Garder, 5ist St. and Exghth Ave., next Saturday evening, March The fight of the left wing both again:! the bosses and tke reaction- aries within the labor movament will be symbolized at that time by more than 1,000 men and women whe will participate in the tremendous spec- | tacle, “Red, Yellow and Black,” as the pageant is called, will treat especially | of the recent epic struggles of the | cloakmakers and the furriers and | their fight. for a strong, militant or- ganization, Over 20,000 New York workers are expected to attend the affair. Boston Young Workers BOSTON, March 25,—Support to the textile workers was voted ata general membership meeting of the Young Workers League’. held here. It was decided immediately to} raise funds to maintain an organizer | in the field to approach the young textile workers and to help organize | weight recently on the have been evicted during the bitter County alone. Federal Judge Ben taken recently on “moving day.” “homes.” The spirit of the miners PROFITS REAC LAUD PROGRESS OF USSR LABOR Discuss Losovsky Report at R. I. L. U. Meet MOSCOW, March 25.—In the course of a polemical attack upon Nin’s speech at the Congress of the Red International of Trade Unions here lyesterday, Yaglom of the Soviet Union pointed out two harmful devia- tions within the ranks of certain or- ganizations. Deviations. “Tn the first place there is a tremd- ency of these organizations to adapt themselves to the backward reformist psychology of workers adhering to the Amsterdam trade unions which class struggle,’ he said. “Our task is to disclose to the working masses, on the basis of specifie facts, the harmful essence of reformism, there- by advancing the revolutionizing of the masses. “The other deviation amounts to an underestimation of the forces of re- formism which practically means re- nouncing the struggle for unity. On one hand, we must consolidate the ranks of our own revolutionary or- ganizations and, on the other, strug- gle for unity within the reformist organizations.” Germanetto of Italy, then energe*ically condemned Nin’s speech and declared that in his opinion, the statement that there is a lack of democracy among the trade unions of |the Soviet Union has a defeatist character. Those who have been in| (Continued on Page Three} |Jail Textile Workers’ Children Who Pick Coal) LEWISTON, Me, March 25.—City | ed 16 children, ranging in age from 6 to 15- years, who were caught picking up coal in the railroad yards, Parents of most of the children are fact, them. 10 per cent a few weeks ago. The DAILY WORKER is again threatened with the legal terrorism of the American Wall Street govern- ment. From unquestionable sources, the editors of The DAILY WORKER have received intimation that a new attack on the labor press is imminent. It is only a question of a few hours. This new attack may crush The DAILY WORKER; such is the hope of the American bosses. For four ¥ i years they have had no more deter- mined purpose, they haye worked no more persistently towards any end, than that of destroying the voice of militant labor in the United States. This meant to annihilate The DAILY WORKER, to crush the life out of it, to silence completely the one . voice that for four years has unceasingly and courageously proclaimed, and has never hesitated to fight for, the rights LEGAL TERROR THREATENS “DAILY” Workers Must Fight Against Courts for Life of of Labor Press of the American working class. ° If The DAILY WORKER had not been the true voice of militant Amer- ican labor thundering defiance at the strongest capitalism in the world, the bosses would long ago have succeeded and The DAILY WORKER would to- day be dead. What miracie has preserved The icted Miners of Ohio Driven Into Barracks miners ‘at Ohio. order ousting 285 more mine families in this section. Note the obvious makeshift of the new distracts our attention from the true} textile workers whose wages were cut | Nearly five hundred families cold of the past winter in Belmont son W. Hough has just signed an Above is a scene unbroken. BISCUIT MAKERS SLA VE: pitcbucth Jl CH MILLIONS The workers at the Nationa! Biscuit Company, which has a huge plant| officials to change their policy and covering several square blocks bounded by Ninth Ave. and 15th and 16th Sts., are beginning to talk organization, it is evidenced by reports given The } * * * DAILY WORKER by many of the | workers. According to the annual report the company made a net profit of $16,- land and putting up buildings to take care of their increased business. The | {National Biscuit -Compainy not only bakes cookies but also is deep in the bread baking business, In 1927 the} National Biscuit Co., thru its subsid- | jary, the National Bread company, | has added more than a dozen baker- ies. in-as many cities to its holdings. Workers Hungry. “While the stockholders getting their millions, we workers who give of our nerve and muscle in| order to produce this wealth are al-| ways kept at the point of hunger,” one worker said. “It’s a hell of a system,” partment said. “They speed up the work and if we kick they threaten to (Continued on Page Two) THOUSANDS LEAVE SCAB COAL MINES: Mass Picketine Spreads Over Districts (Special to The Daily Worker.) PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 25. ard ill-treatment, thou strikebreakers are deserting the scab pits and declaring their willingness to throw in their lot with the striking miners Because Frank Moran, a_ strike- breaker who was employed in the Coverdale mine of the Pittsburgh Coal | Company, posted a leaflet headed |Join the strike—don’t be a slave!” |on the wall of the bunkhouse, coal and iron police beat him severely. He was taken to the office of Squire Popp of Castle Shanon, a “company squire,” | | end was charged with disorderly con- | duct. In default of bail, Moran was} in Pittsburgh. According to newspaper reporter: who interviewed Moran when he wa: brought to the jail, the former strike- | . breaker was seriously hurt. Mass picketing, advocated by the Pennsylvania-Ohio Min Relief ‘ Committee, is continuing in Allegheny and Washington counties, despite in- terference from state police tho at- torney H. D. Hamilton, solicitor for Sheriff Ody C. Abbot of Washington eounty declared that miners cannot be legally held for violating proclama- (Continued on Page Two) Golden’s Bridge Co-op. to Hold Meet Tonight A meeting of the Golden’s Bridge Cooperative Farms will be held to- night at 8:30 at 103 E. 14th St. All DAILY WORKER to fight the battles (Continued on Page Two) a members and sympathizers are urged to attend. 277,158.39 in 1927, besides making ad- | ditions to its holdings by buying more } keep on} another in the shipping de- | Driven to despezation by low wages | nds of | 18 Cloak Union Heads Face Jail Terms DELEGATES GALL MEETING TO ASK FOR NEW PROGRAM Shenandoah "Miners to Support Progressives PITTSBURGH, Mar. 25. — Rank and file striking miners of Allegheny y won, second round today in fight for mass picketing which are convinced is the greatest on in winning the strike. Sheriff ert Braun stated that no more ts will be made of the thousands miners who are picketing in great masses practically every mine in the eny valley until the test case y-five pickets from Theveskyn . Every picket with. the n of Pat Fagan, president of | district 5, has refused bail. Warden MeNeil declares that the cannot house more | than seven more, The first round was won two weeks go when the miners went on picket lines by hundreds, thus forcirig union agree to mass picketing. Mass Picketing Wins. PITTSBURGH, March 25.—When wholesale arrests of miners’ pickets | failed to halt mass picketing here at the Maude Mines near Trevesky, Major Lynn G. Adams, head of the Pernsylvania state police, hurriedly corrupt henchman of the Lewis ma- | chine and president of District 5. | As a result of the conference it was announced that a “truce” had been zrrived at. Sheriff Braun, who was asked why the did not carry out his witimatum |to the strikers that not more than | cight men could go to the picket lines, said: “This weather is too nice to put |people in jail and I don’t want to {arrest those fellows.” | Miners here, however, point with great enthusiasm to the results of | mass picketing. The 64 pickets ar rested during the past week are still }in jail but bave sent out word to keep lep the good work. | The sentiment of the miners here lis strong for spreading the strike and {x picketing and for the elimina~ | tion of the Lewis-Fagan machine from |the district. COLUMBUS, Chio, March 25.—The shooting of a union picket yesterday | (Continued on Page Two) MINERS MARCH ON DESPITE POLICE Organize Relief Day in Akron | | } LIBRARY, pee Mar, 24.—Eighteem , State troopers under the leadership | of Sergeant Jones broke up a masa | meeting called by the “Save the Un- |ion” progressive element in the local |union here March 21. Anthony P. |Minerich, one of the leading mine militants, was not permitted to speak. When the troopers entered the hall, ‘over a hundred men and women had | already gathered. Many trucks loaded police and railroad detectives arrest-| brought to the Allegheny County Tail] with striking miners from adjacent | mining towns were arriving. Sergeant ones declared that because of sher- ff’s orders, no meeting could be held, A demonstration began when women in the balcony shouted protests, de- manding that the meeting continue, “You want to break our strike!” they |shouted. As the police cleared the | hall, the crowd booed and hissed. is, SA AKRON, Ohio, March 25.—Action of the city council Tuesday in approv- ing the request of the Akron branch of the Pennsylvanid-Ohio Miners’ Re- lief Committee for a “Miners’ Relief Day” has spurred the local commit- (Continued on Page Two) RAILROAD WORKERS WIN. ROCKFORD, Il, March 25.—Fur- niture workers in Rockford are or- ganizing to block wage reductions, Trade unionists are aiding these em- ployes to resist an attack that is bound to extend if successful in this | case, went, into conference with Pat Fagan, ..