The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1928, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 238, 1928 PITTSBURGH DISTRICT PUSHES SUBSCRIPTION PLANS FOR “SAVE-THE-UNION” CONFERENCE Dozens of subscriptions received at the offices of The DAILY WORKER testify to the the workers in the Pittsburgh di national subscription drive to add 10,000 new readers to the paper before May Day. The sub collectors in the Pittsburgh territory have enthusiasm with which istrict are pushing the been energetically carr and are ma ing on the camp: The DAILY ng a special effort in preparation for the opening session of the Save-the-Union Conference in that city on April ist. circulate Every effort w WORKER among who are coming from the coal fields thruout the east to aign for weeks ill be made to the delegates the big meeting. The workers’ press is already a familiar friend of most of the coal miners and it is hoped that scores of subscriptions will be secured at the conference. Further stimulation will be given the big campaign when A. Ravitch, circulation manager ef The DAILY WORKER, comes to contemplated tour for With the arrival of Pittsburgh in the course of his the paper. Ravitch plans for the increased distribution of The DAILY WORKER and the intensifi- cation of the subscription campaign in the Pittsburgh district will be discussed. Southern Coal Barons Fight to Conceal Open Shop Slave Conditions FENOSHA # HOSIERY KNITTERS PICKET DESPITE WRIT 150 Defy ~ Boss Power | Before Allen A. Mill KENOSHA, Wis., March spite of one of the most picketing injunctions ever issued break a strike, according to admis- sions of even the employers’ attor- | fiéys, the strikers of the Allen- Al Hosiery Company are conducting} picketing demonstrations in front the mili gates. Monday mo: a picket line of 150 mill w the Wisconsin University council] who came e Madison to assist the The students’ coun has an-; nounced a mass meeting for tonight. | where the injunction, as we!l as the! entire strike situation will be dis-| eussed. The council, and other stu-| dent groups have already issued} statements condemning the injune- | tion recently issued by Federal Judge Geiger of Milwaukee. Nimeteen leaders and, Bests of the American Feder: Full Fashioned Hosiery W ee on to appear on March 29, in the district court in Milwaukee, Pi, an-} swer charges of contempt of court for violating the vicious anti-strike writ 1 mill owners instituted these charges almost immediately after ob- taining the original temporary re- _ Straining order. SEN. SHIPSTEAD EVADES STATUS Farmer-Labor Session Ends in Turmoil (Continued from Page One) graff, all other things in the old parties apparently being acceptable to Wim. He waxed eloquent in an appeal to merchants and salesmen oppressed by the MacFadden banking bill. Consistency would require that Mc- Ewan propose a change in the name of the party to “Farmer-Labor-Mer- chant-Banker Party.” The rural bankers injured by the MacFadden | bill are the chief immediate extor- | ig of mortgage-racked poor far- | Thi stead has intimated thru “friends” that he would not run if | ¢j the candidate for governor is too | aced by impure milk supposedly in-| ,Coal Diggers Willing to “ped” or if the platform is: unaccept- le. Friends say this is aimed at Lundeen, following his trip to Russia, and also at the Soviet nition pian which is unaccepta the senator. Many delegates have expressed the determination to secure a senatorial eatididate who accepts party instrug- ton regarding platform instead of ‘one seeking to dictate. og “ POOLIDGE’S “MOTHER-IN-L AW DYING. NORTHAMPTO irs, Calvin Coo! side of her 78-year old Lemira Goodhue toda Geath is ex is expected hot houziy. VACA L LAUDS WORK OF | ANTI-IMPERIALISTS _ Dr, T. 8. Vaea, who at the time t liberal government, has writt list League, 39 Union Square lating it on its “splendid in defense of the Niearaguan tor which General Sandino and ant followers are fighting.” ter, dated March 18, 1928, was public yesterday by Manuel sé, U, 8. Secretary of the league. Text of Letter. communication reads as fol- +. “L wish to congratulate and 1 you for your splendid work in iense of the Nicaraguan cause for |, which General Sandino and his gallant followers are fighting. They certainly hhepe and faith in human na- and you deferve a good deal of it for your campaign of coopera- I am sure that most of those feok part in the Constitutional le of the Sacasa Goverament as T do, very thankful for your in éympathy with the victim- Nicaraguan people. froni you in the future, 1 am, ly yours, ="T, BEYDEL VACA.” Members of Committee. , Ty tm patient erie of the Ail- Imperialist League in- j me of | ing: saw | ble to Hoping to. 1) Back to ‘Wage Slavery lexander Lubowsky ¢ Brook- lyn painter who fo 2,000, be- onging to a bank, f that the $1500 reward given him by the bank was not enough to enable him to support a family without going back to the same old painter’s job. Lubowsky is shown above. SECOND BOOT. cS “MILK RING FOUND. Four Arrested in New} Investigation Immediately upon the heels of the plea of guilty of Harry Danziger, | confessed leader of the Queens boot- | leg milk ring, another alleged milk ring has been uncovered by Health| |Commissioner Harris. The men un-| der arrest charged with suspicion of | |attempted extortion are Henry Fish- | back, 226 East Forty-first St.; Henry | Morris, 1680 Nelson Ave., the Bronx; Nathan Adelman, 1533 Townsend Ave., the Bronx, and Max Rothenberg, attorney, 261 Broadway, all of whom are out on $7,500 bail each. Their court yesterday, involves an attempt- ed $30,000 bribe. “Two of the witnesses have testi- fied that when they said they could not furnish milk to Henry Morris he } not only threatened to make a raid on their trade but made good the threat within three cays and began pe take away trade from them by the |customary Danziger method of un- \derselling,” Harris said. The milk in question is not th ler grade bottled milk but that ne from the can to the workers of the , who are thus unknowingly men- spected by the city. : Start Whitewash of Sinking of the S-4 CHARLESTON NAVY ¥ARD, he United States intervention in Nica- started was acting as the official representative in this country of the en a letter to the All-America Anti- eludes: Clarence Darrow, Roger Bald- Alexander Howat; James H. Maur ‘er, president of the Pennsylvania} Blewitt, president of the Montana State Federation of Labor; Welis S. tion; State Assemblyman S. A. Stock- well of Minnesota; William Mahoney, editor of the Minnesota Union Adyo- cate; Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; William Z. Foster, and Capt. Paxton Hibben, author of Ward Beecher.” To Buy Medical Supplies. The league is conducting a ecam- jpaign to colleet funds for bandages and medical supplies for General Sandino’s army. The post office de- partment has barred from the mails the league’s so-called “Sandino stamps” reading: “Protest against marine rule in Nicaragua!” Hearing on the league’s application for an in- junction against the postmaster has been postponed to Tuesday, April 3, jot the request of Postmaster Kiely of New York. ee | rubber |chine tools lead th: }but in no case h: ily in the open shop for its shops and | ;chance to organize themselves, case, which came up in magistrate’s | | | struggle State Federation of Labor; William} Gannett, associate editor of The Na-| “Henry | WORKERS FACING POWERFUL LOBBY, SPIES IN CONN, Organized Bosses Have “War Chest” HARVEY O'CONNOR ed Press). n., March 27. — } organized, They r chest to y in every basic in- of the Nutmeg State they rule By Seta if = sociation 'y over arers’ er 800 plants em- Represent. 2,000,000, ciation and the bankers work hand in hand in strikes. The War Chest. At the heart of he manufacturers’ To ed generously when labor was n for control of work- jobs One by one, the unions we 1 hey fought for life in that dot the Lor 1 spur off Haven rai! | the tr Type inery, all | s and ma-| state’s industries, labor been granted ; the right which employers assumed— | that of organizing. The New Haven | railroad, known as the nation’s |premier junk pile, whose wrecks fill newspaper columns, believes resolute- | nd roller bearin gu right of way. Connecticui’s workers, denied every | are organized when necessary by the em- } ployers. For this, detective agencies | get fancy sums for installing model company unions and elaborate espio- nage devices. The Manufacturers’ Association by no means limits itself to the active on the industrial field | against labor. It lobbies, expertly, at | Hartford and Washington. Its agents | own Gov. Trumbull, Rep. Tilson, re- publican floor leader in the house of representatives, and Sen. McLean. MINERS’ RELIEF |22 and the Cloak Finishers Local 9 wing New York Joint The meetings were held at ‘Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. After a report by the leaders of the Joint Board in whieh the necessity of |rarticipating in the convention was pointed out, nominations were. opened. Despite the fact that the right wing machine wes announcing their inten- tion to keep out all delegates demand- ing an end to the war in the union, the left wing locals are going right ;ahead with their plans to send a full delegation. to Boston. * x Refute Lie. Join Union oy ng miners will allow them to join the union, according to their who brought word to here on March 24. | of the left BRINGS RESULTS. March 27.—Sixty | now working in the | re ready to walk out | ight Boosts Kaiser. ihe latest air stunt, a transatlan- tie flight by two Prussian Junker | airmen is said to be backed by the former Crown Prince of Germany as a stunt to popularize the Hohen- zollerns, in their hope to come back to the throne of Germany. Photos show Baron von Huenfeld (above), a former Prussian noble, and Cap- tain Herman Koehl (below), who are making the flight. The aviators went out of their course to drop flowers over the estate in Doorn, Holland, where the former Kaiser lives in pomp while German work- ers starve. CLOAK MEETINGS PICK DELEGATES Signed Resolution Calls “Forward” Liar Nominations for delegates to the national convention of the Interna- tional Ladies Garment Workers Union, were made yesterday at membership meetings of the Dressmakers’ Local | Board. * lent of the Io- would wel- union, ‘and d its elf to do ing food and king miners until is won Respoud to Call. After a group of strikebreakers heard John Brophy, progressive union leader and chairman of the “Save-the- Union Committee” and Pat Toohey, editor of the “Coal Digger,” speak at the Union Hall in Renton and saw) state troopers slug Toohey and break up the meeting, 125 walked out of the mines. The speakers had called upon all unorganized miners to join the strike under the leadership of the! “Save-the-Union Committee.” According to miners on the picket line, every man will be out of the pits by April 1st, and the mine shut down. City Marshal, Broadway Musician in Loan Quiz That city marshals were involved jin the activities of the loan sharks was learned yesterday as a result of testimony before’ Chief Magistrate MeAdoo by William Heine, a sales- | man, who told how a marshal named Herman had aided him in recovering omobile and had seized.and kept r himself, Vincent Lopez, Broadway orb satin leader, has been ordered to appear before the Federai Grand Jury inves- tigating the loan sharks. It has been charged that he is eonneeted with one | The workers in the cloak shop of | Markowitz Brothers, 51 West 14th |St., unanimously voted for a resolu- Ition conde ing the right wing Jew- Daily For d, and the bureau- erratic leadership on the International for making statements in the Forward and in the union organ “Justice,” to the effect that three Communists working in their shop had made an agreement with the employer that the shop work 47 hours a week. ‘The resolution was signed by the names and union book ledger num- bers of the 17 workers in the shop. The slanderous statements in the two publications were branded as consci- cus lies printed in an effort to dis- credit the left wing leadership. CLOSE PAWTUCKET TEXTILE MILLS ‘PAWTUCKET, R. I, Match 27.— All three shifts of the Penikees Silk Mills, Valley Falls, suspended opera- tions yesterday, and will not resume till Monday. It is believed that this will take place weekly due to the slackening demand for silk. Three hundred workers are affected. The shut-down in these mills con- tradicts definitely the recent state- ment made by a prominent cotton mill owner in South Carolina, He stated that the reason for a similar eurtailment of production in a large number of southern cotton mills, was of the finance eorporations under in- vestigation, ‘ if because consumers demanded silk linstead of cotton, MINERS’ DEFENSE {8 STRENGTHENED IN NEW FRAME-UP Bonita-Moleski-Mendo- la Work Speeded Up PITTSTON, Mar. 27. — The Ben- | ita-Moleski-Mendola Defense Commit- | tee, Stanley Dziengielewski, secretary, | has been redoubling its efforts to se- eure the freedom of the three inno-| jeent progressive mine workers who | | have been indicted for murder. Sentiment among the miners has | | crystallized around the Defense Com- mittee particularly since the SPS | ranted attack upon it by the Brennan forces, now know to be working} jhand in hand with John L. Lewis, ‘the position adopted by Brennan. arch-traitor of the’ union.: The miners are very indignant at In a letter written today “Big Sam” Grecio is understood to have repudi- ated the Brennan attack and has in- dicated the stand of all the miners, | The letter is an endorsement of the Save-the-Union Committee. The address of the Benita-Mendola- | Moleski Defense Committee is Room 518, Coal Exchange Bldg., Wilkes- fi Barre. GRECIO ENDORSES SAVE UNION MEET Statement Repudiates Brennan Forces (Continued from Page One) This is the slogan launched by the national committee. . “On the first of April at Pitts- ' burgh there will be initiated for the miners a new historical phase of their organization. “Miners of America! “Avanti! (Ferward) to the con- quest of a. new future. I shall be on your side. “Yours for the Saye-the-Union Committee. SAMUEL GRECIO.” A Significant Endorsement. The letter endorsing the Save-the- Union Committee is believed to have particular significance at this time. Grecio is one of the most popular workers in the anthracite and is well aware of the forces now operating against the miners. The endorsement coming in the face of the indirect attack by the Brennan forces against the insurgent miners’ movement is seen as an evi- dence as to what the rank and file is thinking. Brennan has taken the position that he is working entirely under the constitution of the union while at the same time the Lewis- Cappelini machine has flagrantly vio- lated the constitution at every point. In the endorsement of the Save-the- Union movement, Grecio repudiates all such so-called “consti‘utional” ways of fighting the treacherous Lewis machine. LABOR DEFENDER GAINS READERS j Circulation of 25,000 Is Goal of I. L. D. The April number of the “Labor Defender,” just off the press, has held its circulation of 16,500 reached in March, a net gain of 8,500 since November, an average gain of 2,125 copies for each of the last four months, a representative of the “La- bor Defender” announced last night. The figures for the May issue should jump substantially in view of the demand for May Day meetings to be held thruout the country and as a result of the tour of James P. Cannon, national secretary of the In- ternational Labor Defense, from whose guécessful meetings three months’ trial subscriptions are reach- ing the office at thesrate of 100 a day. Symphony Orchestra Merger Is Announced’ A merger of the New York Sym- hpohy and Philharmonic Orchestras with Arturo Toscanini as conductor was announced yesterday. William Mengelburg will also conduct and Walter Damrésch will appear'as guest conductor. The new organization, to be known as the Philharmonic-Sym- phony Orchestra, will give its first concert next season, To Sing for Miners 10 HOLD MINERS’ RELIEF CONCERT Symphony Orchestra, Soloists on Program CHICAGO, March 27.—A concert the relief of the striking miners will be held Saturday at 8 p. m. at Ashland Auditorium under the aus- pices of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners Relief Committee. The program will include Moissaye Bogusla i, pianist, accompanied by the Little uphony Orchestra. Letiza ESS Leita, coloratura soprano, will be an- other soloist. Orchestra is Daseh. The urgent need for relief for the striking miners of the Pennsylvania and Ohio district makes it imperative that all progressive workers and lib- erals .of this city attend the concert which is one of the finest arranged here, according to the committee in charge. According to reports reach- ing here from the strike region thou- sands of dollars must be raised at once for the relief work. $20,000,000 Will Be Raised for Jewish Colonization in USSR According to the Jewish Telegiraph- | ie Agency, the Soviet Government will| provide $10,000,000 in addition to the $10,000,000 now being raised among the Jewish people in America, to cre- ate a revolving fund for the establish- ment of Jewish agricultural colonies in Crimea and Ukraine. Julius Rosen- wald has contributed $5,000,000 of this sum on condition that the rest be raised. The Freiheit says that “the agreement is substantially not of a philanthropic character. The $10,- (60,000 which the American Jewish leaders provide is not a subscription but a loan and the Soviet government guarantees the loan.” 5 Killed by Tornado CANTON, Ga., Mar. 27.—Five per- sons are dead and 11 others injured, four probably fatally, in the wake of tornado which swept Cherokee ¥ ounty, Ga., last night, according to d reports received here today. | SPORTS Boxing Commission Issues Ultimatum The Little Symphony condueted by George i) to Gene Tunney} The New York ‘Boxing Commission yesterday. issued another ultimatum to Gene Tunney, heavyweight, boxing ehampion, threatening him’ “with some action” if he does not reply by next Tuesday to the challenges on file by Jack Sharkey, Johnny Risko and Tommy Heeney, The commission said that Tunney must either accept or decline these Risko challenges by Tuesday. In the event ‘that the three challenges are declined by Tunney, said the commission, then the champion must pass upon others listed which include Phil Seott, Bri- tish battler, George Godfrey, Negro, Tunney Paulino, the Basque, and Jack Janey. uw LEWIS OFFIGIAL FOLLOWS POLICY OF OPERATORS Advocates Legislation by Government WASHINGTON, March 27.—West Virginia coal operators today chal- lenged the senate investigation com- mittee’s authority to examine the pri- vate books and records of companies. The contention was advanced that production of coal is not interstate commerce and therefore the senate has not the power. to pry into the company’s private affairs. The committee was advised of the challenge im an executive session and decided to permit the operators to argue their stand at an open hearing. It will be brought up as soon as the committee concludes examination of Percy Tetlow, of Charleston, West Va., president of District No. 17 of the United Mine Workers, one of the Lewis henchmen. The association represents the southern field open-shop operators of West Virginia. They were requested to furnish labor costs, selling prices and production costs of their coal. To prevent this information going into the record, they decided to test the committee’s powers. The Operators’ Program. In his testimony Zetlow followed the lead of the open-shop coal barons when he declared that the question of over production must be solved as the first step in curing the industry’s ills and when he urged enactment of legislation to solve the workers’ prob- lems. Tetlow was forced to admit that a union representative couldn’t go to Logan County because of the opera: tors’ resistance. “They control law enforcement in Logan County through employment of deputy sheriffs more than in any other place in the world,” he said. “They oppose the incorporation of the mining villages so that the work- ers are denied the right of local self- government.” WINDOW WASHERS GO ON STRIKE Unable to continue to work longer hours for low wages under open shop conditions, the workers of the Beaver Window Cleaning Co., 76 Broad St., have gone on strike. Plans for picketing all jobs of the Beaver concern is being made, of- ficials of the Window Cleaners Union announced last night. They include the Sinclair Oil Building and the Metal Insurance Building, both on Broad St. The striking workers are demand- ing a minimum wage of $45 and a 44-hour weck. Under the open shop conditions that the men are opposing they received $30 weekly and were compelled to work long hours. Strikes at the Concord and the American Reliable Window Cleaning companies are continuing, anion of- ficials added. IN BRIEF ® The possible penalty faced by Tun- ney for ignoring the demand of the commission is a place on the May A bility list in, New York State. Tunney’s boxing license has already expired here, the severity of the po tential punishment is questionable. | Commissioner William Muldoon de- elared that Tunney should fight two titular bouts within the next six months to keep from violating the boxing law of this state which says that a champion should defend Me crown every six months, Neither Muldoon nor James Farley, chairman of the commission, favor another Jack Dempsey-Tunney mateh, Clee The managers of Paulino and Scott visited the commission yesterday. Following the visit the commission said that it has reason to believe that a match can be arranged between the two fighters on May 11 for the bene- fit of the Bronx Hospital fund. The commission said that the papers for the match would probably be signed by Friday. : * ** * In spite of all the publicity issued in reference to the bout at Madison Square Gavden this Friday night be- The winner is Toi somehow falls flat. promised a match with -|Loughran for the light-hea championship. tween Leo Lomski and Joe Sekyra, it” _ ny + : ; rf fi PF ee ee