The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1928, Page 1

KITCHEN NORGANIZ: FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 74. COURT H ACT SEEN AS A REPUDIATION OF BRENNAN FORCES Calls Miners to April 1 Conference (Special to The Daily Worker.) PITTSTON, March 27.—Endorse- ment of the national miners’ Save- the-Union Committee and a call to all coal diggers to continue their strug- gle for the elimination of the Lewis- Cappelini leadership from the mine union was contained yesterday in & letter written to the committee by “Big” Sam Grecio, progressive Pitts- ton miner who was recently shot down by gunmen believed to be in the pay of the Cappelini machine. “A new historical phase,” “Big” | Sam _ writes, “will be initiated for | the miners on April 1. Forward to | the conquest of a new future!” | The letter written originally in Italian has been translated and is now in the possession of the Tri-District | Save-the-Union Committee, Room 513, Coal Exchange Bldg, Wilkes-| Barre. t Grecio, a Leading Fighter. Grecio, one of the leading fighters of local 1703 against the vicious in- dividual contractor, system and against the Cappelini machine was shot down on February 20. For weeks, he lay at the point of death. At present he is still incdpacitated. Grecio’s letter follows: “To The Save-the-Union Committee, Fellow Workers: “What has happened recently has clearly demonstrated the necessity on the part of the miners to con- tinue the struggle now going on to eliminate the whole clique of false representatives who have always betrayed our cause. “Lewis and Cappelini must go! (Contiilfted on Page Two) SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. E DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1579. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1928 Bed Only . shacks today. Pennsylvania-Ohio Pittsburg. Miners’ LABOR DEFENSE OPENS | Warm Place for Miners’ Children Miners’ children have to stay in bed all day because they have not enough warm clothes to wear around the barracks. | under covers, is the most comfortable place in many poorly built | Aid these children by contributing funds to the i Relief Committee, | | | In bed, 611 Penn Ave., “\Intimates Farmer-La- |demanding to know if he favors the! DRIVE; 4 GROUPS JOIN A vigorous drive for new members is being launched by the New York Seetion, International. Labor: Defense, 799 Broadway.-~~~> Among organizations which haye recently joined are the Waiters’! | Unity: Organization, with 200 mem-¢ — ——— -~— bers and the Scandinavian Workers’ AC\ : Es W LEADERS OUT The drive is also giving impetus to | the organization of new branches of | the International Labor Defense. The FOR PIEG F WORK | Harlem Italian Branch, with 34 menm- | ‘bers, and the South Brooklyn Rus- \sian Branch, with 20 members, were |recently formed and are already ac- jtively engaged in work. A number lof old branches are also being reor- | ganized in order to improve their functioning. To Hold Open Air Meets. Open air iaeetings will also be a eature of the drive, according to Members ‘Pack of Fools’ | Says Beckerman | The national officialdom of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of | America has taken the first step in| |its campaign to force the piece work | j letter | Rose Baron, secretary of the New| system upon the rank and file against | NEGRO PROTEST MEETING FRIDAY. Discrimination at N. Y. University Is Issue s meeting to test at dis- Negro stn wersity will pro’ dents at w York he held Friday at 8 p. i Un ark’s M. E. Chureh, St. 2 and 138th Si. of the Conference imina- tion. e speakers at the meeti lay Derrow; William Ke field secretary, National Associati for the Advancement of Colored Peo- | ple; Robert, Minor, editor, The DAILY | iS WORKER; A. Philips Rand W. Robinson; Oscar, Yoeley of New York U Ri dB. Moore, secretary, Amer ‘ican Negro Labor Congress, will Be cide. | The committee in char, meeting issued the folloy state- ment last night: “In yiew of the fact that repeated attempts to induce the | facul of New York University to | rescind its action against these stu- dents have failed of any response, | tne Conferonce Against Race Discrim- | ination believes that’ only with a mass | movement against this action, awak- | ening both Negroes and whites to the | necessity of ridding this country of race discrimination, will such action be effective.” © of the! ‘Freiheit Rehearsal To‘ Be Held Tomorrow | A rehearsal of all those partici-| pating in the Jewish Daily’ Freiheit ” ‘sixth anniversary celebration at} | Madison Square Garden Saturday) night will be held at Stuyvesant! 'Casino, Second Ave. and 9th St., at! |6:30 p. m. tomorrow. Measurements, for customs will be taken at the mes] qhearsal, | | York Section, “The interest shown our recent bazaar by thousands of | which it has fought bitterly for many | n workers,” she declared last night, “is |years. This was done at a conference | jof the executive boards of all the: New York Coatmakers’ locals held | | Monday night in the Rand School, 7} |E. 15th St. Hy | After the delegates, most of whom ! bad been staunch followers of the| Hillman administration, finished a} \discussion in which they condemned the piece work system. Abraham | | Beckern.an, manager of the New York | Joint Board, informed the conference | | that they should stop secking appiause | |frem the membership since “they are nothing more than a pack of foc and that they had better do as he directs, jor “both they and the union can go |to the devil.” Sydney Hillman, national president, less brutally frank, attempted to di- jevidence of the significance of the I. |L. D. to the American working class jas their chief defender against the jvieious attacks of the capitalist courts. All class-conscious workers 'should join the International Labor | Defense.” BUFFALO WORKERS PROTEST HORTHY | Two Meets Oppose Visit of Fascists BUFFALO, March 27.—Two meet- lines of protest against the visit to hi country of the Horthy white ard delegation of Hungary were held here under the auspices of the Anti-Horthy League. Both meetings adopted resolutions against the official reception given the fascist delegation, which arrived in this city from Cleveland today. The first meeting was held Sun- day 1 the other last night. The speakers included Irving H. White and K. Kish. The white guardists are visiting this country to conduct propaganda for the present administration in Hun- sary in furtherance of plans to float | | | | i 1 vide the delegation attending by tel- ling the pressers’ local that they will not have to worry about piece work, since that system applies to the other | workers in the shop only. A. Golden, a deiegate from Local 3, which initiated the conference, and } W. Pollack, of Local 5, voiced the sentiment of the entire membership when they declared that the policies | of the Amalgamated officialdom had! brought ruin to one of the most pow- erful unions in America. They stated that the present leaders of the union were worse than the bureaucrats of the United Garment Workers. Many firms in the industry have already installed the piece work system, with the active assistance of the Joint '|St. Francis Dam Faulty, Board, they added. The membership would fight piece work to the last ditch, they declared. In concluding his speech, Hillman launched into a vicious attack against the Trade Union Educational League, declaring that he knows and has un- der close watch every member of the left wing organization. This was taken by many workers to mean a threat against any active union mem- ber fighting against the piece work system. @ loan in this country. i [ |State Inquest Reveals LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 27, —Confirmation of the charges that the original construction of the St. Francis dam was faulty was obtained at the inquest here today. Over 400 persons lost their lives when the dam collapsed about ten days ago. ~ Several witnesses testified that water had been seeping thru its an- chorages long before it finally gave way. Dave Mathews, a workman on the dam, was one of the witnesses. GALE IN BUFFALO. BUFFALO, N. Y., March 27. — A 68 mile gale today did considerable damage throughout the city. Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents “Save Union,” Writes Sam Grecio, Shot by Gunmen PAPER FINED $500; DUNNE, DELEGATES SAY Wt tecture Tonic’ GORDON ORDERED TO JAIL; SHIPSTEAD SEEKS. TO EVADE STATUS bor Platform Too “Red” | (Special to The Daily Worker) | ST. PAUL, Minn., March 27.—The | right wing at the Farmer-Labor con- | vention here won the first round in its fight to prevent the smoking-out | of Sen. Shipstead only by breaking up) last night’s session. Chairman Mc-| Ewen arbitrarily ruled out of order a motion by State Senator Youngdahl | that the convention wire Shipstead | Farmer-Labor Party or not. McEwen | prevented an appeal from the chair only by declaring the meeting ad- | journed, whereupon it broke up midst | great confusion. Read Shipstead’s Letter. A prolonged fight took place in| the nominating committee which will | bring in a majority report favoring the nomination of ipstead and a| minority report opposing him. Youngdahl’s motion was made after | Secretary Starkey read a personal from Shipstead conveying greetings “to my friends in conven- nena Honeomet- even mektioning -the Farmer-Labor Party. The letter was branded as insulting by scores of in- dignant delegates. There was a sharp fight in the committee between Star- key and Mahoney, the former attack- ing Mahoney as too “red.” Plea For Small Business. Chairman McEwen’s keynote speech which was thoroughly middle- class in character, mentioned unem- ployment, but proposing no remedy, urged re-forestation, tax redistribu- \tion, McNary-Haugen bill, denounced (Continued on Page Two) LINE OF HUNGRY MEN BROKEN UP Kitchen Will Not Close Its Doors A long line of hungry unemployed workers waiting for their turns at the door of the relief kitchen of the Workers International Relief, 27 E. 4th St., was broken up by police yes- terday and the workers dispersed. “All I can tell you is that if they line up again tomorrow I’ll have enough of a force there to chase them loff the block,” Sergt. Murphy at Pre- cinct 5A said when questioned by tele- phone from the office cf the relief organization. | For many of the workers the meal | offered by this workers’ kitchen was | the only one in sight for the day.| Many others had not eaten the day | before. - Each time the line re- formed, however, with workers un- aware of the police action, patrolmen ordered them down the street. | Police thruout the day remained at! the door of the kitchen or within, sight of the entrance. | The number of unemployed workers who were able to enter the kitchen for a meal was greatly reduced. The kitchen will continue operations today, the W. I. R. office has an-} nounced, | Sergt. Murphy said landlords near| the kitchen had complained that the) kitchen was not good for business. “If they stand in line tomorrow,” Sergeant Murphy said, “J’ll have) (Continued on Page Five) Discuss Frontier Fight GUATAMALA CITY, March 27.— In an effort to settle an old boundary dispute between Honduras and Guata- mala, a commission composed of dele- gates of both countries will meet at Puerto Cortes to examine the ques- tion. The American state depart- ment is appointing Roy Davis, the minister of Costa Rica, as chairman of the boundary commission. | NEARING TALKS ON | | EUROPE” TONIGHT FEDERAL CONVICTION LOOMS. Court of Appeals Affirms Previous Conviction of Editor, Business Manager Decision Strikes New Blow in Long Campaign of Open Shoppers and Patrioteers Confirming the convictions of the editors of The DAILY WORKER of a year ago and the exaction of a fine of $500 against the paper itself, the New York State Court of Appeals yesterday handed down a ruling as a result of which there was advanced another step the open shoppers and patrioteers’ at- PRAVDA SCORES tempt to stifle the central organ | of the Workers (Communist) | roy ‘DISARM’ PARLEY By a unanimous decision of the| court with Chief Justice Benjamin g the ruling, the pre-| Cordoza gi vious conviction was confirmed as a result of which William F. Dunne and | Imperialists Refuse to Bert Miller were made to serve sen- | Cut Armaments tences in the workhouse. Under the | present decision David Gordon, the| (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) author of the poem “America” which) MOSCOW, March 27.—Commenting was made the pretext of the attack | th It f th Seri against. The DAILY, WORKER, and|°?) “Us eee who is now a student at the Univer- sity of Wisconsin, will have to leave ‘Economist Just Back & school and be sent to the New York fr Om. World Tour reformatory. Gordon is now #8 yeas “The sharpening of the class strug- | Old and will be kept in jail 3 years gle thruout Europe, and the swing to until he is 21, Dunne must now com- the left of the European labor move- 5 ment are bound to have a great ef-| Arrested Last Year. fect on the coming elections in Ger-| |The decision which brings to a con- many and in England” said Scott |clusion the proceedings against The Nearing, lecturer and writer, yester- | DAILY WORKER in the state courts, day. Nearing will stress these facts |W@S begun about a year ago at. the in his lecture on “Europe Today” at | instigation of a “patriotic society, Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th |the Key Men of America, and a mili- |St., tonight at 8:15, under the aus- | tary organization, the Military Order |pices of Sections 2 and 3 of the Work- {of the World War. These organiza- {ers (Communist) Party. | tions according to their own indirect Nearing came into intimate touch | admissions were carrying out the in- |with the workers and peasants in |Structions of the large open shop in- |Soviet Russia and western Europe |terests of the country which had be- lduring his recent extended tour there |come enraged at the militant cam- land will illustrate his lecture with |Paigns then being conducted by The |plete his sentence. |arms commission conference at Gen- \eva, the Pravda, official organ of the | Gostinicigt Party, declares that the gape bitterly the imperialist powers attack the proposals of the Soviet Union, the more clearly they betray |their true nature to workers thruout |the world and “the more rapid is the process of discarding bourgeois pacif- | ist illusions.” “The rejection of the project sub- |mitted by Litvinoff proposing partial | disarmament and based on the con- | sideration of small, weak states would |mean that the imperialist powers are | openly recording the fact that they not only do not wish to disarm, but are unwilling to reduce their arma- ments in the slightest degree,” the | Pravda says. “From the struggle at Geneva the |vivid descriptions of their present |conditions. |DAILY WORKER for the organiza- tion of the unorganized, against the war in China and Nicaragua. On May 27, 1927, Dunne, editor and Miller, the business manager of the |paper, were convicted on the trumped jup charges and held for a week with- out bail. On June 3, Dunne was sent to the New York workhouse where he finished 21 days of an original 30 day sentence. Miller served 7 days. Make Good Threat. At the time it was openly stated by the representatives of the open shop- | pers who testified against Dunne and Miller that proceedings in the federal jcourts would be instituted at the {proper moment. This has since been lcarried out. Nearly two months ago jan indictment was handed down in the The economic and social reorgan- ization of industry in the Soviet Union will also be discussed by Near- ling in his lecture, He will also tell jot the specific engineering projects now being undertaken there. This is the first of a series of lec- tures which Nearing will deliver un- {der the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party in various cities CALL UPON LABOR TO HELP MINERS S$} mailing privileges of The DAILY WORKER have been called in. Under the federal indictment the editors of S. courts as a result of which the | masses will receive yet another lesson regarding the nature of imperialism and the methods used in deceiving people while preparations for war are | being made.” * GENEVA, March 27.—Maxim Lit- |vinoff, who headed the Soviet Union delegation to the preparatory dis- * * | (Continued on Page Three) | | } FREIHEIT JUBILEE TO BE LABOR FETE Expect 22,000 Workers Commit t e e Stresses Conference Need PITTSBURGH, March 27. — Thei call by the Save-the-Union Commit- tee for a national progressive miners’ conference for this city April 1 has met with a greater response than was expected by even members of the committee itself. | Miners Ready. Spokesmen for the committee de- clared that every district of the} United Mine Workers’ Union, as well as most unorganized sections are ready to send delegates to the historic conference. The problem of financing the con- ference, the matter of railroad fare for hundreds of miners who have been | on strike for a year and whose fam- ilies are almost literally starving, is a problem of the most serious char- acter. ; Appeal by Progressives. The Save-the-Union Committee has appealed in the interests of a clean, | fighting labor movement for support lof long jail sentences and the paper | | in addition to the possibility of losing |Freiheit,” to be held at Madison Sq. at Sixth Anniversary the paper are faced with the prospect | epee “The The sixth anniversary of its mailing privileges’ is faced with |Garden next Saturday night, is ex- even greater fines. __ {pected to be an impressive demonstra- It is now seen that the decision in| tion of New York left wing workers. the state courts affirming the earlier|The organ of the Jewish militant convictions is to be used as a pre-| workers, “The Freiheit” has grown in liminary step in the much more ser-| influence and prestige since it was ious campaign in the federal courts. | founded six years ago. Other evidences in tHe posscssion of | Judging from past events, it is exe the paper indicate that the whole | nected that over 20,000 workers will (Continued on Page Five) | be present to celebrate the birthday en of the paper next Saturday. The prim- ary feature of the event will be a mass GENERAL MOTORS pagaent in which 1,000 persons will participate. A large symphony om |chestra and a number of vocal and instrumental artists are also announe- WORKERS STRIKE TORONTO, March 27. — Between 2,500 and 3,000 piece workers at the General Motors Company of Canada went out on strike today protesting against a proposed wage-cut of from 25 to 40 per cent. Several hundred trimmers walked out yesterday and the others, who worked in the Pontiac and Chevrolet plants, struck today. This wage-cut was declared in spite to this cause. The committee has asked that funds be sent by return mail or wire to 526 Federal St., N. S., Pittsburgh. \ of the fact that the General Motors Company, according to its own pub- lished reports, made tremendous prof- its last year. jed on the program. Flyers, Boosting Kaiser, Hop Off for U.S. Today DUBLIN, March 27.—The German Junker flyers, Koehl and Huenfeld have expressed their intention to hop off for America from here at day« ‘break tomorrow morning on_ their trans-Atlantic flight. The flight, said to have the backing of the form- er crown prince of Germany is an at- tempt on the part of the Hohenzol- lerns to popularize themselves with the German people, with the possibil- ity of eles. * the throne in view. t ae ae