The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1928, Page 2

the official machine in the union. et Local 1 703, Anthracite, Rejects Lewis’ Orders to ‘Return to Contract Mines PAPCUN Ol OUTLINES’ CLEVELAND WORKERS AE ENN AGAINST HORTHY AGENTS SEND ‘DAILY’ FREE BITTER FIGHT IN BIG TRI-DISTRICT Shows Miners Will Win Struggle PITTSTON, center of the revo machine, will rep Lewis that all r contract mines Coal Company. This was the ind lowing the receipt of munication fro McGarry, chair nounced that Lewis order wo Garry is one an foll ers, designated who have | no program.” | The anthracite conflict is outlined | as follows by George Papcun, sec- retary of the Tvri-District Save-The- inion Committee: * 80.—Local 1703, ainst the Lewis ate the orders of mers return to the an- the the local ie contents of n secret. Hungarian workers in many cities of the United States organized huge demonstrations in protest. ayainst came here as representatives of the terrorist regime of Hungary. Photo on left shows part of the long line-newr the Cleveland Paieond station a few minutes before the white guardists arrived from the East. Photo in center shows several of the hundred balloons sent up by the Cleveland committee which organized the dem- onstration. The balloons carried pennants and signs exposing the bloody rule of the Hungarian white guard dictatorship, Photo on right shows part of a crowd of several Hungarian-speaking workers near the Cleveland railroad station. “Down with the Murderers!” and “Long Live the Hungarian Revolution” were among the legends on the placards carried by the demonstrators. the vusiy of everal hunarea 4 wd a By GEORGE PAPCUN. Tri-District Struggle. The anthracite has become the| scene of struggle at this time where | revolvers, rifles and machine guns| have been used and where the elec-| tric chair is being prepared in an | attempt to smash the opposition to} Aids Miners; Is Jailed Already Thomas Lillis, Alex Camp- bell and Peter Reilly, members of Local 1703 have been murdered be- cause they have been leaders in the} struggle opposing the quadruple al- Hiance of the coal operators, the con-| tractors, the union officials and the) state. “Big Sam” Grecio also was assaulted and while he is now recov- ering it is not yet certain that he/| will. The trouble at No. 6 Colliery started when the Pennsylvania Coal} Co. tried to introduce the mechanical loader in combination with the in-| dividual contract system which has| been enforced at that mine and which | the miners thruout the anthracite re- gion have continually opposed but which the officialdom has -sanctioned, permitted to continue. Ann Zinken, Brooklyn, a student ct New York 913 EB. 26th St., A Program of Murder. Not satisfied with the murder of} these brothers, the official machine lay is trying to send Sam Bonita, Adam Moleski and-Steve Mendola to the electric chair. These miners have University, was arrested and brought to Jefferson Market Court for soliciting funds for the starving miners who have been struggling courageously for 12 months, She was later ee FIFTY DELEGATES © FROM ANTHRACITE. All Preparations Made For Pittsburgh (Continued from Page Onc) has no constructive program to offer in its place. The floor was then opened for dis- cussion. John Bellfield, secretary of the German local 306, of Old Forge, took the floor, and made the statement that he had been invited to the meeting by a friend, and knew nothing previously of the program of the Save-the-Union Committee. He said that he was heartily in accord with that program as outlined by Brother Papcun, and | been indicted for murder because they defended themselves against the Cappelini machine gunman Frank Agati who was an organizer) on the payroll of the miners’ union ef District 1 and a personal body- guard of Cappelini. While drawing pay from the union, Agati was at the same time a contractor in the No. 6 Colliery. Agati was killed when he fired upon the committee which was composed of Bonita, Mo- Teski and Mendola, representing Lo- eal Union 1703 and which had come for the purpose of settling the griev- ances which prevailed at that time and still exist in that local union. A Frame-up. In spite of the fact that Bonita, Moleski and Mendola gave themselves up Willingly, the state immediately in alliance with Cappelini, the con- tractors and the coal company pro- ceeded to put the machinery of so- called justice into motion and are preparing to railroad Bonita, Moleski and Mendola to the electric chair. On February the 20th, “Big Sam” Grecio, another™insurgent and who is one of the leaders of the Save-the- Union Committee was also attacked and is only now recovering. made the attack tho there are clues to the guilty ones. On February 28th, Alex Campbel! and Peter Reilly, outstanding Tead- | ers of Local “T703, and the symbols of the struggle in the district against the individual contract system were brutally murdered in broad daylight Yet no arrests have been made. The district is aroused over these killings The membership not only in District one but thruout the tri-district and the internationai union is aroused over the kijling of these miners and now is carrying on a struggle to wipe cut the system, and to eliminate the reactionary machine which is respons- ag for these killings. Roger Baldwin, director of the Liberties Union, who has recent- returned from a visit to the Soviet ion and Europe where he made a study of the status of civil ies in the various countries, will tomorrow evening at the ‘orkers Schoo Forum, 108 E. 14th | on the question of “Liberty in the let Union.” The following week Harold Ware, of the Russian Reconstruction Inc., will speak on “Impres- of an American Farmer in the Union,” As yet} the state seems unable to find who proceeded to give an accoufit of his personal experiences with the corrupt | officials of District One. Unemployed 17 Months. “My local has not been working for |seventeen months,” he said, “and dur- ing that time we have not received one cent in relief from the district. I went up to the district office, saw Boylan, examined the books and found that over $29,000 had been collected for re- lief of my local by assessing all mem- bers twenty-five cents.” When Bellfield asked that the dis- | trict office publish an account of what | had been done with the $29,000 shown on the books to have been collected, Boylan replied, “we don’t like every- | body to know our business,” Other delegates arose and related) unsettled grievances. Suspect Brennan, All who spoke evidenced mistrust of Brennan and his motives in calling the special convention in District One. Stanley PHengislewaki, chai n of the Tri-District Saye-t irae | Committee, urged “organization of | These blocs to meet regularly to dis- United Mine Workers. This proposi- tion was enthusiastically accepted. Before adjourning, Papcun read the text of a leaflet to bé"¥8Stiéd by the Save-the-Union Committee. matum that the membership surren-| der to Cappelini, the statement asserts. jthat unless Brennan speaks out! against this treachery he will be held) equally responsible with Boylan, who has already sold out the opposition. Free Innocent’ Miners. The leaflet calls on the miners of District One to free Bonita, Moleski | Save-the-Union blocs in every local. cuss affairs of the district and of the! Touching on President Lewis’ ulti- | DEFEND MINERS IS NEW APPEAL _Bonita,Mendola,Moleski | Must Be Saved | | WILKES-RARRE, Pa, Mar. 30.— |4n urgent appeal to the workers of the country today sent ovt by the Bo- nita-Moleski-Mendola_Defense.Com- mittee, Stanley Dziengielewski, sec- jretary, from the headquarters of the | committee, Room 513, Coal Exchange | Building. | The date of the trial of the three jinnocent miners indicted for murder is but 10 days off, the statement nts out. Unless labor rises to the ense ‘of these class war prisoners, they will be reilroaded.to the electric chair. The statement follows: “The Pomita, Moleski, Mendola De- |fense Committee considers it neces+ sary in view of recent utterances re- ported in some newspapers with re- |gard to cur committee, to make clear |that ours is the only committee or- ganized and authorized to conduct the paign for defense of. Bonita, Mo- leski and Mendola. The Only Committee “Our committee was organized in the very first days following the ar- rests of these honest rank and file | fighters against the individual con- | trae system and other evils from which the miners suffer. The officers nd members of this committee are fficers and members of Lecal 1703 ho were officially commissioned by uocal 1703 to organize and conduct \the defense campaign, they have broadened the committee by drawing into it members of other locals in District One who enjoy the confidence of the defendants and cf the rank and file of the union as a whole. The Cause Of All. “Our committee realizes that the workers of the region and of the en- tire country are vitally concerned in this case. Bonita, Moleski and Men- dola symbolize at this time the strug- gle of the rank and file of the miners union against the efforts of the cperators and contractors to destroy our union and undermine our working jeonditions by means of corruption and terror. If Bonita, Moleski and Mendola are put to death it will -be ‘a blow to the whole labor movement { “Our committee realizes that we mnst expect to be attacked not only. by the contractors, Cappelini and others who are directly involved in the attempt to raiircad Bonita-Mo- leski-Mendola to the electric chair, but also by all those would-be leaders who are fighting Cappelini only so j they may get his job. “Every act that brings division and | confusion into the ranks of these who want to save Bonita, Moleski and Mendola from the electric chair and restore them in freedom to their fam- ilies and fellow workers helps the |Lewis-Cappelini murder and frame- up machine. Will Fight. “Ous committee, with the help of (the workers of this region and the en- tire country will fight against all the enemies of Bonita, Moleski and Men- dola whether they are avowed or se- eret, deliberate or unintentional al- lies of those who would railroad these brave miners to the electric chair. “Bonita, Moleski, Mendola must be freed. “We shall carry forward the cam- paign for their defense; we will unite |the workers of this country for that purpose despite every effort of Lewis, ,Cappelini, the operators, the eontrac- tors, and all of their agents who at- tempt to disrupt and split the defense | movement.” | and Mendola, to abolish the individual contract system, to clean out corrup- tion and murder in the miners’ union, ise obtain equalization of work, to clean out coal company and contractor in- fluence in the locals, to help win the soft coal strike, and "to Save-the-Min- ers’ Union, their attention. (Continued from Page One) that he has learned the role of all of the bosses’ agents in the trade union; that he knows there can be no unity in the United Mine Workers of America between this machine and the rank,and file of the miner any more than there can be peace between the miners and the coal operators. “Every miner who actively works for the Save the Union Committee shows thereby that he not only knows of the problems that the miners are faced with, but has a program for the abolition of the present condi- tions and for making the United Mine Workers of America into a powerful mass organization free from the dom- ination of the coal operators and its agents, an organization capable of or- ganizing the unoyganized miners and win better conditfons for the miners. “Every miner who is a member of the Workers (Communist) Party thereby shows that he understands that the fight of the miners is a fight of the entire working class; that the workers must organize not only into powerful unions that will lead struggles against the employers, but also that the workers as a whole must unite their forces in a common struggle against the capitalist system which is the basic cause for unem- ployment, low wages, wars, condi- tins of slavery for the bulk of the workers. “Every miner who is a member of the Party knows further that the capitalist class jis organized as a class, that the government of the United States and of every state, city, ete, is an instrument of the capitalist class. He knows that the Republican and Democratic Parties are owned and controlled by the capi- talists, and no matter which party is in office, injunctions are handed down against the workers, they are clubbed, beaten and jailed. “He has seen in the struggle of the miners that it did not make any dif- ference whether the administration was democratic or republican. He has seen the workers clubbed and beaten and injunctions handed down in Ohio, where the governor is a democrat. He has seen similar and worse things in Pennsylvania, where the governor is a yepublican. Old Parties Workers’ Foes. “He is not fooled by the re-election manouvres of a number of senators, republicans and democrats, who un- der the guise of an investigation, are preparing new and more frontal at- tacks on the miners’ lives and stan- dards. “He knows therefore that the work- ers must havé a political organiza- tion of their own, that unifies and directs the struggles of the workers of all industries, and directs the fight not only for the immediate improve- ment of the fcomne of the work- ers, but for t -| the system slavery as well. “The Workers (Communist) Party has shown thruout its existence, that band, Dallett H. Wilson, was held it can be depended upon in every] without bail yesterday for a hearing The Workers (Communist) | Tuesday on a charge. of felonious as- struggle. Party today is to be found every- where where the workers are strug- gling for better conditions, organiz-|ing a revolver in her possession bail ing them and directing them; as for! was fixed at $500. corrupt! Together with a new list of subscriptions, the plans the Pittsburgh district will take during the Save-the- Union Conference, to carry on the national subscription drive to add 10,000 new readers to The DAILY WORKER, have been received at the offices of the paper. While the miners’ delegates are in the city every ef- fort will be made to bring The DAILY WORKER to The distribution of thousands of free copies of the paper will take place on the first day~of the conference and similar distributions are planned for all the succeeding days that the meeting may last. A. Ravitch, the circulation manager of The DAILY WORKER, will be in Pittsburgh during the conference. Dozens of DAILY WORKER agents who will be in the Progressive Miners Urged To Join the Workers Party city for the Save- seription drive. On Sunday he wi cially stressed by edition of The D. District 5. example, in Passaic, in the New Eng- land textile and shoe industries, where our Party is taking the lead in organizing resistance against the wage cuts; in organizing the auto workers, as well as in the present campaign in tl ‘iners’ union. ' “The Worke: Communist) Party is today leading in the struggle against unemployment and for the relief of the unemployed. The Work- ers (Communist) Party is today lead- ing in the struggle against another imperialist war, against war on the only workers’ government in the world, the Soviet Union. The Work- ers (Communist) Party is every- where organizing the fight against the injunction thru mass violation. It is leading in the fight for a labor | party that will unite all the workers’ organizations into a powerful polit-/ ical organization that will serve as the first step in the politicalization of the workers in this country and in mobilizing them as a class in the! struggle against the capitalist class. Leading Fight of Unorganized. “The Workers (Communist) Party is today leading in the fight for the organization of the unorganized. “Tt is for all these reasons that we find that the entire capitalist system and all its agents in the trade unions are fighting and persecuting the Com- munist Party and its organ, The DAILY WORKER. | purchasers ance of such schemes, IPITTSBURGH PUSHES SUB DRIVE Ravitch to Sce Daily Agents Dui During Save the Unio Union Meet the-Union meeting will hear Ravitch Fi outline plans for the intensification of the national sub- ill meet with all The DAILY WORKER | Ravitch. Arrangements for increased | distribution of the paper and for the special May Day AILY WORKER will also be made. Ravitch will emphasize the importance of Workers Cor- respondtnce in connection with the “Builders’ Clubs,” pointing to the work which these “organizations” accomplish when they have transformed themselves into news-gathering agencies in the mines and industries of can LOAN SHARKS ARE INDICTED IN FRAUD Bris Indictments against Julius Knep- per, Jacob Robbins, and the R. & B. Trading Corporation, all of 486 E. 163rd St., charging them with fraudu- lent, use of the mails have been issued, in the investigation of loan sharks now being carried on by United States Attorney Tuttle. The indictments contain five counts, each of which is, upon conviction, punishable by a fine of $1,000, or a maximum of five years in prison, or both, The charges included misrepresen- tation of service charges which the defendants knew were fictitious, at- itempts to defraud their alleged vic-) tims of their protection under the state laws, seizure, by stealth and force, of automobiles for the return of which extortionate and _ illegal sums were demanded, fictitious auc- tions of seized cars, use of “dummy” when the defendants themselves were the real buyers, and the mailing of } in the further- These charg... made by dozens| of workers who have testified against these companies as well as many others which have not yet been in- vestigated. 349 MILES sx HOUR LONDON, March 80.—Major De- Bernardi, of Italy, today beat his own speed record by traveling 349 miles let all Lewises and Cappelinis, is the an hour in a plane at Venice, said an exchange telegraph dispatch from Venice. “Tt is for these very same reasons that the workers must join the Work- ers (Communist) Party in greater ‘TO EVERY MINER 1S NEW SLOGAN Greet Pittsburgh Meet With Subscriptions (Continued from Page One) WORKER is also shouldering the whole expense of the free subscription donations. The task has become too great for the paper to bear alone. The Ameri- can working class must take its share f the burden of giving free sub- scriptions to the miners. All the American workers must from now on participate in the struggle which the ‘miners have been waging courage- ously and unflinchingly in the face of overwhelming odds for a year. * The American working class must see that the fighting miners thruout the striking coal fields are not w+ prived of their militant class paper. Every American worker must send a 1free subscription to a striking miner. One to Every Miner. Workers greet the delegates to the 'Save-the-Union Conference with a united front. Assure every miner now {on strike the continued subscription to The DAILY WORKER. Send back the. miners’ delegates. to the mines with the slogan: “A Free Subscrip- tion Sure to very Miner.” Show the unity of American work- ers everywhere with the miners in ; their struggle. Participate in the {struggle of the miners yourself. 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Months 3.50 6 months 2.00 3 months 1.50 2° months 1.00 1 months NGG. 5. 5c Soden. yea es he Address City TARITSKY TRIES TQ BREAK STRIKE CHICAGO, March 30.—Failing in his attempt to depose the left wing leadership of the Boston Capmakers’ Union, because of the Militant cam~- paign carried on by the Boston union against his reactionary policies, x Zaritsky, president of the Pena, tional Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers Union, yesterday ordered the | dissolution n of the strike committec conducting a strike against the Chi- cago Cap Manufacturers’ Associ ation. em — Grabs Leadership. In doing this Zaritsky took the leadership of the strike away from his own appointee M. Salzberg, be- cause the latter was not willing to give up the fight against the employ- ers’ attempt to install the piece -work system. The employers’ association under the leadership of a former. vice- | president of the union, had locked out (Continued on Page Seven) numbers. 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