The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1928, Page 2

cere Two DIST. 5 TAKES LEAD IN DRIVE TO WIN STRIKE Shooting, Evictions Fail to Stop Ohio Miners WILKES-BARR Support for 5 -the-Union pro-| ‘gram for the coal miners and the certain v ry of that program was seen he: the result of resolution passed last night by the General Mine Board representing the Shenan-| doah and vicin mine locals. | After a hot battle, the members of | the board adopted a motion to hold a} large mass ng Wednesday in on of the programs Union Commit-} mal Board. The hear the pri ef both the tee and the Intern program of the progressives will be} upheld by Mike Demchak, for al Brookwood Labor College student and} the International Board program will | be given by William Peck. ; Enthusiasm For Progress’ a Demchak was given enthusiastic support by the delegates present. The} miners here are aroused over the} events which have taken place during | the past few wi Sentiment is/ high for a fighting policy and for the | complete removal of the Lewis-/ Golden henchmen from the union in) District 9. | The action by the mine board is/| received by the progressives as a! great victory. The delegates at last night’s meeting showed plainly by} their action in voting for the mass meeting their condemnation of the | break- up of the Save-the-Union meet-| ing last Sunday by the Golden sup- Roce assisted by the police under Chief Burgess Cook. + * Sentiment For Progressives. OLYPHANT, Pa., March 25.—At} & meeting held at the Labor Tempie last night of local 1672, U.M.W.A., the local grievance committee re- ported the proceedings of the Gen-/} eral Grievance Committee of Hudson} Coal Company at its last meeting, mentioning the resolution of Walter Harris, adopted" by the General | Grievance Committee, endorsing the special convention of April 16th. In the body of that resolution, the local committee reported, Harris had at- tacked the Save-the-Union Commit- tee. Andrew Dubow of local 1672 there- upon took the floor and condemned Walter Harris for his attack on the Save-the-Union Committee. Dubow said, in part: Harris, a Job Seeker. “I always thought Harris was a good, honest union man, but now, be- cause of his attack on the Save-the- Union Committee, I see he is nothing more than an office seeker and the same kind of a faker as we now have in office.” Stanley Dziengelewski then took) the floor and spoke for some time on behalf of the National Bonita-Mole- ski-Mendola Defense Committee and the necessity for defense funds. Brother Dubow moved that a creden- tial be given Brother Dziengelewsk1, gigned by the officers of the local, authorizing him to solicit defen funds. The motion was passed with- out a dissenting vote. Brotner Dziengelewski selected Frank Bonita, brother of Sam Bonita, and John Skochan as a committee to collect funds from the members of that local on pay day. Brothers Bonita and Skochan were empowered to select others to help i in the collection work. | | | Are you a “DAILY WORKER” worker daily? ?| the evictions of all miners from their PHILADELPHIA “BUILDERS CLUB” GIVES OUT “DAILY” TO JOBLESS RANK AND FILE AT Subscriptions from the Philadelphia district are coming in with a rush now tha ER “Builders Club” City. The workers and Th agents are one hundred per cent behind the and its activities are already reaching out along the lines laid down by A. Ravitch, ager of The DAILY WORKER, was in Philadelphia. is functioning in the Quaker t The DAILY WORK- was held e DAILY WORKER “Club” present. the circulation man- , at the time that he One Foot i in mbites Grave ¢ Albert B. Fall, former secretary of | the interior, said by physicians to have one foot in an oily grave, says in| y a deposition that the Teapot Dome | Oil lease for which he got $233. 500} was ordered by President Harding | and urged by former Secretary of the | Navy Edw } Denby. ‘MASS PICKETING DEFEATS POLE se WORKERS GET SMALL WAGE Fagan Gets Bail, But Workers Fight | (Continued from Page One) | and further acts of terror followed on | the heels of the decision by Judge | Benson W. Hough of the federal court | evicting nearly 300 families of strik- | ing miners from their homes. | Unknown assassins, believed to be | in the pay of the Youngstown and | Ohio Coal Company, shot down a union picket at the Dorothy mine and escaped. Sheriff Hardesty of Belmont county gave no indication as to his efforts to apprehend the killers but instead sought to give out the impres- | sion that the attempted murder had | no connection with the strike. The Government—Strikebreaker. | In granting the applications for! evictions of miners filed by five coal companies, Justice Hough carried a step further the strikebreaking activi- | ties of the courts and the government. | Two hundred eighty-five families | must leave their homes, the judge | announced. The miners have only] themselves to blame, he declared, be- | cause they had refused to work for | a scale below that agreed upon in| the Jacksonville agreement. He ex- tended the limits of his strikebreak- | ing activities still further by ordering | homes only in those cases where the mines were in operation and permitted them to continue in their homes in one colliery at which no coal was being dug. Keeps Up Record. By a previous decree Judge Boneh evicted 451 families. The total evicted | is now 736, All cvictions have taken | place during winter. In the argument | over the date of eviction Judge Hough | declared that the day for the new evictions might be postponed until May 1. econ to Crewe aoe in Tiny Ship The little vessel above, under the command of Jacob Schutte- vaer, who has slaved at sea for most of his 68 years, is attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean, with | fer it that way. | ‘ jent departments are beginning to talk jon the $42 or $18 |crowded and filthy subways. Scores of copies of the paper were distributed free of charge at a meeting of the unemployed which Fully half of the jobless men at the big meeting were Negroes and The DAILY WORKER was eagerly read by all those at 531 North 7th St. recently. A number of plainclothesmen and police who were on hand thought it best not to interfere with the distribution. ane sending of news to The DAILY WORKER, press informed of ers to The DAILY well up towards the which was outlined at the time of the founding of | the “Club” as one of its most important functions, is being pushed by the members who are keeping their | working class activities in the Philadelphia district. With the newly founded organization function- | ing at maximum, it is promised place in the big national campaign to add 10,000 read- WORKER by May Day, will be that Philadelphia’s head of the race. FALL AFFIDAVIT, REVEALS HARDING OKEHED OIL GRAFT Lasker Admits $25,000 | Donation to G. O. P. | (Continued from Page One) Pressed to give an explanation as to the reason for making his contri- | bution in cash, Lasker declared, smil- ingly, “Most politicians appear to pre- * Rumor Sinclair to “Retire.” A_widely circulated report in New York financial circles is that control | of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Cor. poration is about to pass from hands to other oil interests, The pre- | vailing report is that the Standard | Oil of Indiana is to acquire fifty | per cent interest in the Sinclair Crude Purchasing Company, and that the Prairie Oil and Gas Company will take over the ref ning and market- | ing end of the Sinclair Comp: At the same time it ion for sale, asking 3,000 for | jwith 9 feet 4 How Ammbrican Airmen Deal Death to Workers in Nicaragua Thousands of families have been killed by American airmen who have dropped bombs heads of “inhabit-! ants of cities in ‘ Nicaragua. gram shows how the , bomb planes carry their bombs, / and their methods of cable pulled, the bomb is released from the rack, and coming in contact with the wind vane is set.in motion. This re- which falls on the detonator, explod- ing the fulminate of mercury, in turn exploding the bomb. Ei SPORTS IN BRIE Paul Ahola, with 10 feet 21¢ inches, was first, Vino Hunkara, with 9 feet 10% inches second, and Vino Lehti, inch, third, in the | standing broad jump event at the Profits Reach Millions | for Bosses (Continued from Page One) \fire us or put us on part time. We put out more work and get less wages than before. But the stockholders are not worrying about us. They get their millions without a lick of work and! if the workers produce more, it means jmore profits for the ‘unemployed’ stockholders instead of better condi- tions for the work Don’t think | we are not getting wise to these | things. | “Many of the workers in the differ. about organizing. Don’t be surprised if we tell you soon that we have or- ganized some shop committees and then we will lay plans for a real union |which will make the bosses give us |more of the profits we make for | them.” Cenditions Terrible. Some of the women workers also denounced the terrible- conditions at | the plant. “How can we live decently | a week they give | us?” they said. “The wives of the| bosses have plenty of nice clothes and | automobiles to ride in. We must be content with last year’s hats and coats and are forced to ride the Even the traction bosses are going to make us pay more for this ‘pleasure.’ We women workers are with the men in the fight to organize and get better conditions,” “We read The DAILY WORKER that is distributed at the plant and it certainly tells the truth about con- ditions,” added another worker. “We notice that The DAILY WORKER is on sale at the nearly all the news- stands and we are not going to wait until we get a free copy every once in a while, We are going to buy The DAILY WORKER at the newsstands near the plant on 14th St. We want to read about the struggles and the victories of our fellow workers in other shops and industries.” sports meet for miners’ relief held by the Labor Sports Union at the Fin- lnish Hall, 15 West 126th Street, yes- terday. Fcur basketball games were | played: Brooklyn Finns vs. United Co- | operatives, 25-21; Internaticnal Co- cperative vs. Trague, 47-25; and the girl teams Kistcvert vs. Rosa Lux- embourg, 82-0. The other events included swim- ming races, soccer, dribble, horizontal bars, hop, skin and jump; wrestling and pyramids. Serious competition for Tex Rick- erd as the leading boxing promotor of New York wil be an actual fact of Humbert Fugazy’s plan for the erection of an arena at 54th St. and llth Ave. materializes. According to plans it will be able to seat 32,000, almost double the amount that can be squeezed into Madison Square Garden. Fugazy plans to take title to the property this week and make the first move towards the erection of the giant sports arena. It will be | known as the Metropolitan Coliseum, Inc. According to dispatches from Chi- cago yesterday, Fugazy has signed a pact with James C. Mullen of that city for a joint struggle against Tex Rickard’s monopcly of the big time boxing inatches. The two promoters, according to the announcement, will attempt to develop a logical contend- er for the heavyweight title and then attempt to match their man with Gene Tunney for the crown. In an attempt to revive interest in the light heavyweight division, Tex Rickard will present a 10-round bat- tle at the Garden Friday night be- tween Leo Lomski and Joe Sekyra as the first step towards a champion- ship match involving Tommy Lough- yan, the present titleholder. Aecord- ing to present arrangements the win- ver of Friday’s slamming bee will face Loughran on May 4. F Mike McTigue, veteran Irish fight- er will again swing into action tonight when he faces Tony (Young) Marulo, | New Orleans battler, at the St. Nich- clas arena. ae etd An attractive bout has been ar- | ranged for the Olympic A. C. on} Saturday evening, when Dominick! Petrone and Carl Duane, other. This match has been hanging fire for the last few years and fire- works are expected when the bell will ring for the iglesia of round one. THOUSANDS LEAVE SCAB COAL MINES Mass Picketing Spreads Over District (Continued from Page One) tions which have no basis in statute. The Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Re- lief Committee of 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, is sending another ship- ment of foodstuffs to Coverdale Thursday, which will consist of 1)100) pounds of flour and sugar and dozens of eases of canned milk, spaghetti and vegetables. * * * Four Pickets Arrested. HARWICK, Pa., March 25.—Four striking miners were arrested by deputy sheriffs Wednesday, when more than 100 picketed the Harwick Coal and Coke Company mine here. According to the miners on the line, 25 strikebreakers left the coal pits} since mass picketing was started last Friday. The miners were taken to the office of the justice of the peace in Renton and charged with disorderly conduct. As the miners marched along the picket line yesterday afternoon, Sup- crintendent Gibbs took photographs of every pair as they passed the of- fice of the mine. “They want to black- list us, but we’ll win the strike and they'll have us all or close the mine,” pickets said. CIGAR BARONS FORM CANDY TRUST Meager Wages Wages of Confectionary Fac Factory Girls Cut § Still F F urther | Day” on (By Federated Press) Two leading national cigar store chains, whose gaudy signs bedeck im- portant street intersections in every city from the Atlantic to the Pacific, have bought up at least five—prob- ably more—big New York candy fac- tories. As a result wages have been eut in many instances and working conditions are among the worst en- countered by girls seeking jobs. The merger wave which has swept other industries is now marking the candy industry. ‘Profits from the labor of poorly-paid cigarette work- ers of Winston-Salem, N. C. and other tobacco centers are being used to buy out independent manufacturers a crew of three. She sailed from Gravesend, England, and is expected to make New York in 40 or ‘ BO.days, — of sweets and bring another industry, soon to be in the half-billion dollar ready AAA1 for both the cigar chains, ‘relate dizzy increases in profits. Wages Cut to $12. Starting. wages for girls, formerly $14, have been cut to $12 under the new tobacco-candy alliance. Equip- ment in the eandy factories, which in- variably retain their old names; re- mains the same if it does not grow worse. In one such factory investi- gators found the porter staff ob- viously inadequate and the building so ancient that no. amount of effort could be possibly have kept it clean. The chain-controlled candy ® fac- tories cannot afford comfortable seats for girl workers. A Kiichen chair here, a low stool surmounted by a box there, represent the makeshift class, under the wing of big finance. And Dun.and Bradstreet ratings, al- efforts of the girls to meet a prob- lem which sither of the firms pould have solved without facing tremend- ous profits. Small Fry Forced to Wall. “We will probably get more model seats in time,” explained the manager of one of these factories. very expensive and we can’t afford to put them in all at once.” Caught between the quantity pro- duction of the big chain concerns and the few quality producers of high- priced candies are the smaller firms, being squeezed to the wall through intense competition. These in-be- tween candy manufacturers declare they can’t raise wages or improve conditions; the big manufacturers don’t care to; the quality shops are too small to count. And in the mean- time wages cling around $12-15 a week in one of the most seasonal of all ocgupations. feather- | weights square off against one an- | “They are! "COURTS THREATEN LIFE OF “DAILY”; ‘Militant ‘Labor Must | Defeat Government (Continued from Page One) of the working class? No miracle at all, but the burning loyalty, the al- eel boundless sacrifice, with which \the thousands of exploited American | workers whose cause the “Worker” has defended have responded to the urgent needs of their press. It is the |contributions of the individual Amer- ican workers and their organizations iwi hich have made possible a DAILY hee fighting as valiantly for jthe rights of the workers today as when the bosses began their attack the hour when the “Daily” was founded. What Ruthenberg Wrote. “An American daily working class voice the ideals and program of the revolutionary movement thru the will- ingness of those workers who are jcommitted to those ideals and that |program coming to its aid each year | thru contributions to its sustaining jfund.” This was the judgement of ‘Charles E. Ruthenberg, founder of the Workers (Communist) Party and militant American labor leader, in September 1926. The struggle has progressed, the battlefront has been vastly widened and extended. The need for The DAILY WORKER has grown more urgent, therefore the |bosses are prepared to kill it. They are prepared to direct such an attack against it as never before in its his- tory in a final effort to strangle it before it is too strong for them ever again to crush. Rally to the defense of The DAILY WORKER. Save the militant Ameri- can labor press for the battles ahead. Contribute to The DAILY "VORKER, 33 First St., New York City. Miners March On in (Continued from Page One) tee to greater efforts in gathering aid ‘for the families of the starving miners, Strenuous efforts will be made to make the “Miners Relief Saturday, March 31, a real dunsiateesin of sympathy and ma- terial aid for these 600,000 sufferers in the strike area. It may be decided to afiot the en- tire proceeds of “Miners’ Relief Day” to the Ohio district, and to place the funds raised with some local whole- sale grocer for shipment to Ohio points at the order of the committee, Committee of the City Council. These matters will be acted upon Thursday night at the regular meeting of the committee at 112 South Main Street. Women volunteers to help in the work of collecting for the miners’ re- lief on Saturday are requested to send their names to, David William- gon, secretary of the committee, at 112 S. Main St., or phone Main 6175 and leave sheir names for the com- mittee. / 7 . workers and their ; recklessly upon the | Dia-| release. | : When the cable is} rushing wind, the} leases the striker,| newspaper can only be kept alive to! Spite of Police Terror | subject to the approval of the Welfare} ‘AFL MEET DEMAND ‘AID FOR JOBLESS Applaud ~ Unemployed Council Relief Bill (Continued from Page One) had already been taken. The cam- {paign for the establishment of an Un- employed Maintenance Fund which has already been launched will be car- jried on, he promised, until the city, ;state and nation are forced to make provision for the unemployed. That the officials of the American Federation of Labor have no program for combatting the nation-wide men- j ace of anti-union injunctions was ad- mitted by Matthew Woll, acting presi- jdent of the National Civic Federation |and vice-president of the A. F. of L., at a similar session Saturday night. As,to the best means of combatting injunctions, he said, he and his fellow | officials were “undecided.” | Mass Violations. Wall attempted to ignore the sub- ject of mass violations as a means of ending the menace. But the question was raised from the floor by a rank and filer. Woll said he opposed mass violations and explained that ihe A. F. of L. was a “voluntary organiza- tion having no authority to compel any course of action.” It gave only “advice” to its members, he said. Labor Party Applauded. Other militants in the audience ap- plauded when someone asked why political action was not tried. Woll was then forced to resort to the out- worn A. F. of L. appeal to the work- er. Woll said he and other members of the A. F. of L. opposed a party of shadow known as the balance of pow- ers to avoid power by seeking the labor. | Hugh Frayne, A. F. of L. organizer {in New York, presided. Woll’s talk on injunctions was ‘couched in legalistic phraseology 7 caavieterintie of the sessions of the National Civic Federation, where Woll sits around the employers’ coun- cil table planning class collaboration schemes. i Only 100 union delegates attended. A worker distributing copies of a resolution passed at a recent confer- ence of unemployed called by the New York Council which advocated the adoption of an Unemployed Main- tenance Fund, was put out of the meeting at the orders of Abraham Lefkowitz, Lefkowitz ordered Sar- geant Connolly at the door of the meeting to put the worker “complete- ly out of the hall.” At the Saturday meeting at which Lefkowitz gave the opening remarks, his speech was interpreted as an in- |augural address marking his complete at-one-ment with the A. F. of L. bu- jreaucracy. “In spite of reports in the jnewspapers to the contrary,” he stat- ed, “we are not opposed to the in- | junction.” “He wished only to regu- late their issuance, he said. At an- jother time he referred to that “great labor move- jleader of the American ment, William Green.” Meeting Saturday. Several hundred unemployed work- ers applauded the demands of the New York Council of the Unemployed at an open air mass meeting Satur- day afternoon. The speakers were Harry Eiseman, of the Young Pion- eers, and several unemployed work- ‘ers. Two unemployed meetings will be held by the Council for the Unem- ployed this Wednesday at 2 p. m. at ‘101 W. 27th St., and at the Brooklyn |Labor Lyceum, ‘949 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn, STUDENT WAGES 39 CENTS HOUR MADISON, Wis., March 25.—Stu- dent workers receive an average wage of 85 cents an hour, it was revealed at a conference of the Wisconsin Stu- dent Workers League of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin, held here March 21. Employers of student workers were invited to attend the conference, where workers presented their griev- ances, but only one employer attend- ed. Among the student workers’ com- plaints was the case of one restaurant owner who took the tips of the wait- ers. The conference went on record to aid the student workers’ campaign against poor conditions with publicity and active protests. I. L. D. Appeals i in Case of Four Steel Workers Framed up for Sedition’ HARRISBURG, Pa., March 25.— An appeal of the indeterminate sen- tences of one to five years recently meted out to four steel workers of Woodlawn was argued before the su- perior court here. H. W. Wilson, attorney, retained by the International Labor Defense, pre- sented arguments for a reversal of the verdict and for a new trial. The four workers were convicted on a charge of sedition. A decision will be forthcoming in a few days.