The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1928, Page 1

— FREIHEIT ANNIVERSARY TONIGHT AT MADISON SQ. GARDEN TAE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY THE DALY WoRKER. Entered as second-class matier at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. NAL CITY |. ENON” | es Vol. V. No. 77. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. MINERS WILL SAVE U NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1928 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 83 First Street, New York, N. i Price 3 Cents Anthracite Miners Name Fifty Delegates to Save-the-Union SPIRIT HIGH AS LEADERS ARRANGE. PLANS FOR TRIP Papeun Warns Against False Guides WILKES-BARRE, March 30. Fifty anthracite delegates to the Save-The-Union Conference at Pitts- | burgh Sunday met here yesterday and | made final preparations for the his- | toric meeting. | Discussion of the progressive pro- | gram, warning against the Beennn, | so-called opposition forces, and final | determination to eliminate the rovkel administration from the anthracite | and the whole union aecjuines the | meeting. Papeun ‘Speaks. The meeting was addressed by George Papcun, s of the tri-, district Save-t tee, who alloted delegates to automobiles and trucks, arranged a schedule of de- best calculated to suit the con- parson militant member of Local 1708, Pittston, acted as chairman. Papcun, after the arrangements had been concluded, and delegates assign- ed to various vehicles, discussed dis- trict one affairs, especially in refer- ence to the Brennan opposition to Cappelini. Papceun warned the delegates pres- ent against any man who takes a stand against the evident corruption now rampant in the district but who (Continued on Page Two) HORTHY FASCISTS: ARE CHECKED OUT Banker s Approached For Loan The Hungarian fascist delegation sailed for home last night on the White Star liner Majestic, with the fact fully established that the real purpose of their visit to this country was to obtain a loan of $150,000,000 and political support for the wavering power of the white guard Horthy reg- ime. Addressing the New York Chamber of Commerce, at 45 Liberty Avenue, Roland de Hegedus, former minister of finance and member of the Hungar- fan delegation, made an appeal for a loan to the Horthy regime of his country. Workers Hostile. Up to the present time the delega- tion of white guardists have main- tained that their visit to this country was only for the purpose of partic- ipating in the unveiling of a monu- ment Here of Louis Kossuth, Hungar- ian patriot of 1848. Since the fascists landed in New York several weeks ago the Anti-Fascist League has charged that the real purpose of the visit was concealed. 18 Billions Represented. De Hegedus started his talk by com- plimenting America. “Europe has lost her leadership,” he declared, “and America will be the leader of the - of ‘the delegates..." Jamess © world.” “It is to the interest of. the United States to level the purchasing power of Europe. The investment of Amer- ican money in European manufactur- ing will bring this about.” At the luncheon 16 New York fi- nanciers representing interests total- ling -18,000,000,000 heard deHegedus. They included Felux Warburg, of Kuhn, Loeb and Co.; Lewis B. Cawtry, Bank of Savings; James. Speyer; J. Vipond Davies; Frederick J. Lisman; David T. Warden; C. A. Lundlum; Howard Ayres; John McHugg and J. Barstow Smull. / Will Be Among Delegates at Big Meet Tony Dorizio (left) and Charles Fulp (right) left the strike zone in Pennsylvania to bring the story of the heroic miners’ struggle against the coal operators and of the destitution of the workers’ families, While in New York they aided the campaign of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, which has been distributing food and clothing to thousands of stricken families. the conference of the Save-the-Union committee'which opens tomorrow in Pittsburgh. Both workers will be at URGE FREE DAILY TO EVERY MINE STRIKER The Save-the-Union Conference opens in Pittsburgh tomorrow. Dozens of delegates from all the coal fields in the United States will be present at this united effort of the progresive miners to smash the cor- rupt murder machine which Lewis, Cappelini and their henchmen have used to thwart the struggle of the miners and to destroy and betray the United Mine Workers. Special Edition. Today’s special edition of The DAILY WORKER has been prepared to greet this historic moment in the struggle of the miners against their corrupt leadership, which hand in glove with the mine barons, has ex- ploited the miners and attempted to shatter their efforts at resistance. The miners thruout the striking areas expect this edition of The DAILY WORKER. They recognize The DAILY WORKER as the one or- gan which has consistently fought side by side with the ‘miners in their struggle against the bosses and against their own reactionary leaders. Since their long struggle began one year ago they have looked to their class newspaper to support and guide them in their fight. The poverty of the miners in this bitter winter has been indescribable. Only the miners, their wives and chil- dren who battled shoulder to shoulder with them, will ever understand the depths of starvation, cold, state and company terrorism which the mine barons and their own misleaders wreaked upon them. And _ inefface- able as this memory is forevermore in the minds of these workers, just so much more trusted and beloved by them is The DAILY WORKER which brought hope and guidance into their misery. The hundreds of free subscriptions which The DAILY WORKER has sent to the starving miners meant new life to them in their suffering. But the burden these free sub- scriptions represent to The DAILY WORKER are becoming overwhelm- ing. the official agents of the same capi- talist forces which are trying to wipe out the militant miners, The DAILY (Continued on Page ey ™% Uj Elore Ball, Tonight “Uj Elore,” Hungarian Communist daily, will hold its annual masquerade ball tonight at Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. For the Itself attacked on all sides by | THOUSANDS WILL CROWD FREIHEIT JUBILEE TONIGHT Mass Pageant; Radom- sky to Sing The long awaited Sixth Annual Freiheit Jubilee will be held tonight. Twenty thousand workers, sympathiz- ers and readers of “The Freiheit” are expected to crowd the huge structure to see a more impressive spectacle than has ever been offered at any previous “Freiheit” Jubilee. Great Spectacle. One thousand players will partici- pate in the enactment of the huge labor pageant “Red, Yellow, Black.” Sergery Radomsky, the celebrated tenor, will sing a selection of new songs from the Soviet Union. The excellently trained masked bal- let will perform on the immense stag# of the Garden while batteries jf colored lights are played over ih mass scenes, One of the most stir- ring spectacles in the history of la- (Continued on Page Seven) WORKERS PARTY CALLS TO MINERS Organization Secretary Issues Appeal On the eve of one of the most sig- | nificant conferences in the history of the American labor movement—the “Save-the-Union” meet—which opens in Pittsburgh tomorrow, Jack Stachel, organizational secretary of the Work. ers (Communist) Party, has issued a statement urging all militant miners to become members of the Party. The statement reads: “The Workers (Communist) Party is making a drive for 1,000 miners to join its ranks by May 1. It invites jevery militant miner to join its ranks. Every miner who is fighting against the operators and its agents in the miners union, the Lewises, the Cap- pelinis, the Fishwicks, the Kennedys, ete., shows thereby that he is not only a class conscious worker but also tinued Pa; pig (Continued on ge FED ap Scott Neéating Upholds Communism In Debate With Norman Thomas A plea for parliamentary action and “old fashioned democracy” was made by Norman Thomas, socialist, in a debate with Scott Nearing, writ- er and teacher, on “Communism vs. Socialism in America” last night at the Community Chafrch, 34th St. and Park Ave. Nearing, who supported Communism, ridiculed the arguments of Thomas against mass action and pointed out that Thomas was “still | workers of New York the ball will be in part a demonstration against Hor- |pices of the “New Masses.” living in the nineteenth century.” The debate was held under the aus- Roger thy. The recent unveiling of Horthy’s |Baldwin of the Civil Liberties Union monument will be burlesqued. 34 KILLED IN HARD COAL IN FEBRUARY Safe Jobs Are Are Safer But the Crushing of Lives Continues By ED. FALKOWSKI, (Fed. Press) SHENANDOAH, Pa., March 30.— Anthracite added another fatality to the year’s average total of more than 500 when Joe Fayert, 24, was in- stantly killed at Maple Hill colliery and his buddy, Louis Lorenz, was seriously injured. Both were caught under the same fall of rock. While the Pittston killings flare into the headlines, the steady drip of fatal mine accidents continues, hardly noticed by press of public. The day exacting no toll of human life is un- known here. Each day the ambulance bells clang and wives become frantic with fear lest the victim be their own loved one, ‘was chairman. 34 In February. In February 84 miners of the an- thracite were killed on the job. The death rate is 6.09 lives per million tons of coal, against a national aver- age of 3.35. Alex Novalka was caught in a blast at the same colliery a few days previous and suffered powder shots of the face, eyes and chest. Dynamite accidents take over 50 lives annually in the anthracite. Not only does dyna- mite often explode prematurely while it is being tamped into the -drilled hole, but a short fuse, or a “squib”— a fuse which does not ignite the cap within a given time—is sometimes suspected of having died out. When Seeks Relief for Miners| John R. Chea, striking Pennsyl- vania coal digger, came to New York with a group of fellow- workers to advance the relief campaign for the miners. DELEGATES PLAN 300 DELEGATES IN PITTSBURGH Every Section Already Represented PITTSBURGH, Mar. 30.—Hun- dreds of delegates have already ar- rived in Pittsburgh. Advance guard of delegations local unions and unorganized throng the Save-the-Union.Committee office, then cléar out to make way for more. Already in town are seventy-five from Illinois and the same number from Indiana. It is impossible to es- timate the Pennsylvania contingent as the whole membership in some lo- —lealities are moving into Pittsburgh and delegates are registering between impromptu discussions of the situa- tion, The anthracite delegations have 100 From 40 Mines Meet For Action BROWNSVILLE, Pa., March 30.— Representatives of forty mines in the four coke counties of western Penn- sylvania which have been called out on strike April 16, by the Save-the- Union Committee, met here early this week for the purpose of completing plans for the scheduled walkout. More than 100 representatives of organization committees, affiliated with the Save-the-Union forces in the United Miné“Workers of America were present and mapped out concrete plans for action among the unorgan- ized miners of Fayette, Westmore- land, Greene and Somerset Counties in support of the demands and call of the Save-the-Union Committee. Miners Dissatisfied. Delegates to the conference spoke on the great dissatisfaction existing among the coke region miners and the determination and sentiment of these miners to strike upon the call of the Save-the-Union Committee. the miner goes to investigate the charge of “dooley” goes off suddenly. Killing Keeps On. Engineers have introduced safety measures into hard coal, but most of; them only make safe jobs safer. The raw hazards of breasts and old rob- bings are still beyond the technique of safety engineers. Here is where the chief dangers .lurk and 82 per cent of the mine accidents occur. With all the variety of equipment which efficiency has introduced into hard coal, the number of men NEW PENN. STRIKE : coming on by auto, by by walking. West Virginia delegation and Ohio delegation are also begin- ining to arrive, but the bulk will be in Saturday night on account of bad roads. The Kansas delegation is here and Alexander Howatt is to be sending a strong statement. The organizer of the Mine Workers’ Union of Canada says he will tell the conference that the independent unions of Canada will line up with the Save the Union Committee whole- heartedly. his union. The unorganized territories are re- sponding with two or three hundred delegates. H. C. Johnson of Coal Creek, Ten- nessee, says the unorganized will never follow the lead of Lewis but are anxious to join with the Save the Union Committee to strike, as there is strong sentiment for organization and opposition to machine rule in the union. The Save the Union Committee an- nounces it will lead this strike of the |: unorganized and has distributed one hundred thousand leaflets calling for a strike and all unorganized mines in Pennsylvania with many other states have been organized into local mine committees by help of ninety organ- izers sent by the committee. Edward Morgan of Stanton, sub-district of | Illinois, states that small mines of Superior Coal Co, and strip mines will sign a temporary truce at the Jack- sonville scale. Joe Carnella, president of the sub district, signed several mines Monday. The miners are over- whelmingly determined to fight in- dividual agreement and will follow! the leadership of the district Save the Union Committee and these mines and close them down. Philadelphia Union Supports N. Y. Strike} PHILADELPHIA, March 30.—The Neckwear Markers’ Union of Phila- delphia at a recent membership meet- ing decided to take steps to assist the strikes in the New York union by (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) |; een deluyed-by heavy rains but are Sq busses and Sam reported 5 Half of the mine workers of Vancouver Island have just joined picket | crushed and blasted and smashed con-|stoppingf work immediately in ail tinues as high as in previous years|shops suspected of doing contracting when so-called efficiency was un-|work for the New York firms on known, strike. Conference DELEGATES FROM ALL FIELDS SPEED TO PITTSBURGH WHILE LABOR MOVEMENT WATCHES Hundreds Already Crowd Progressive Offices _ While Hundreds More Are On Way Canadian Unions Offer Aid; Unorganized Fields Respond With Great Numbers PITTSBURGH, March 30.—Nearly America are today repeating the word Pittsburgh. to them is something more than the name of a sordid and sooty smudge on the face of American capitalism. Pittsburgh in their mind’ 's eye “radiance. Pittsburgh i miners in Pittsburgh one million shines forth with an unusual a beacon n the la- light of a new future bor movement. Here on Sunday al hun- dred delegates fro: very mine section in the count vill come to- gether for one of the most significant conferences in the history of Amer- ican trade unionism. Millions Observe. The eyes of four millions—miners, their wives and children—will wateh tions of these several hundred. Many more millions in the labor movement at large will | 1 and attend. What S zh on Sunday will d facts of nes, in the mills, in the factories during the next decade. 5 Fi the anthracite intense and ration, have be at Pitts- ola, Moleski_ will to Pitts- burgh. They Will Be Represented. But Campbell will urgh. The of Camp- not of the 1 1 be bell wil John Br en there. leader of the Save- >-Uni and former presi- dent of District 2 who has been tour- ing the highways and byways of the hand. Pat slugged, bat- a delega- ge Papcun, tered, a delegation as his own ing the Lewis greater need of mac’ hine besides the the mine union. West Pennsylvania Is Strong. Central nd western Pennsylvania, and 6 are at the lead ber of delegates thus far reported as on the way. Unorganized fie have responded to a degree which has surprised the | Save- -the-Union Committee and will cause consternation in the camps of {the open shoppers and in the hearts of the Lewis machine henchmen. | The anthracite is aroused over the |vicious individual contract system, |the mechanical loaders in the control lof the contractors, unemployment and jgangsterism, Yesterday came the de- cision of Lewis that Colliery 6 should {go back to work under these condi- tions. This is the last straw. | A plan for saving the miners’ union, extending the strike until vic- {tory is secured, the fight for the Jacksonville scale, against the speed- {up system, for the 5-day week and }other demands are on the program. “Lewis Must take the union into | The chief slogans are: Go!” and “Mine your own hands!” The committee today sent out’ a last moment appeal for funds to help defray the railroad fares of delegates. Money, sent by wire will still reach headquarters in time to enable min- ers to reach the conference who would otherwise be kept away. The address is 526 Federal St., N. S, wpecial. eagerness the .deljhenas? >,» will be missing, pl