The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1928, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 31,1928 + Uae SPRINGFIELD, Ill., (By Mail).—During the war- time, 1917 and 1918, the coal miners got promises liberty, and loyalty talk, etc., in order to get him to join the big army and be a good Am We were told we should have dollar days and keep Yohn L. Lewis and the leaders of ers in power. Now we are starv nro more talk of “liberty” for the miners. There is no of erican citizen. the United Mine Work- ing on strike. There is bread, no clothes, no work. John L. Lewis urged the miners to join the army and go to the war. Samuel Gompers urged the workers to join the army and go to the war. They all urged us to buy war savings stamps and liberty bonds and save our country. “This is a free country,” they said, “you must go to the war. You must whip the Germans. You workers must give your lives for your country.” The capitalists never give a cent to the workers. The capitalists on it, produce nothing and get a big ’ Lewis, the leader of the United Mine Workers, has helped lock-out over 1,000 coal miners to teach them “Americanization” and “patriotism.” We must fight against and organize against rotten leaders like Lewis. I have been in jail twice, for orgah- profit LEWIS SMASHED TRISTATE MINERS, SMASH LEWIS, IS PLEA OF STRIKER TWICE JAILED izing for labor, once in Pennsylvania and once in Dallas, Texas. And I say that John L. Lewis is an arch-traitor. He broke the power of the tri-state miners, of Iowa, Missouri and Kansas, and helped organize the company union there for the bosses. We can never succeed until we get wise and throw John L. Lewis. out that arch enemy of our union, that false leader, —D., MISSOURI MINER, Armed With Guns, Milita Ma WOMEN, CHILDREN, MASS PICKETING, BOO STATE GUARD 3eabs Try to Beat Up Strikers’ Wives (By a Worker Correspondent.) PINEY FORK, Ohio, (By Mail).—| From the coal fields of eastern Ohio. | This is the end of. one year that we) have been on strike and the men) are still sticking good. We never lost | | many men from the union mass | picketing that started up all around} Ohio, especially at Dillonville, mine | No, 1. 2 | About 800 are on the picket line} every day, including women and chil- dren. The Somers mine at Duncan- wood is working with about 80 scabs. Mass picketing is on there also. The other day while the scabs were coming to work on the bus, the women ware on the picket line. Some trouble statted and the scabs began to beat up the women. So then the union men went into it and it was a free for all for a while. The sheriff and deputies were there. The company thugs were there and a few Ohio national guards when the trouble started. So the sheriff and the national guards started throwing tear gas bombs to stop the riot. The same evening there were about a thousand men, women and children on the picket line. Then about the | time the scabs were to come out of| the mines, there appeared the sher- iffs, deputies and mine guards of all kinds. One of Vic. Donahey’s men, So. Caldwell, of the Ohio national | =uards was present. He told the men | vney had better go home. uia not obey his orders, he said, “he| id. bring in the troops.” But the and women just booed and hissed | um. So then he left for a little) :: in a machine and after half an| . he appeared with five carloads} uniformed men of the Ohio national | guards. wWitn clubs in their hands and guns on their hips, they marched up to the erowd of strikers and made them get back off the road so that the scabs could go home on the bus that was waiting for them. The national guards arrested nine erten men for no reason whatsoever. The governor of Ohio, Vic Donahe: said he “was going to help the suf-| fering miners and their wives and| children,” but the way it looks he gives them bread with one hand and a gun with the other. —OHIO MINER. If they] 6 HOSIERY WORKERS BET JURY TRIAL But Union Faces More Coal Miners, i; Send Letters To ‘‘Worker’’ (By @ Worker Correspondent.) The Save-the-Union Conference will begin in Pittsburgh tomorrow. Delegates sent by the striking miners from all the coal fields in | the United States will meet there to take measures for defending their union and their lives and | their families’ lives against the terrorism and corruption which the Lewis-Cappelini machine has launched upon the United Mine Workers by means of machine | guns, murder and beatings of pre- gressives, corruption and starva- tion. The struggle of the miners is being followed breathlessly by every class-conscious worker in the United States. There is not a worker who can ever read a word too much about the events in the coal fields. But the news gathering powers of The DAILY WORKER cannot penetrate every- where. It is the miners themselves who must write the day to day events in the struggle to The DAILY WORKER. It is the min- ers who must tell their own stories in their own words so that the| entire American working class| may know the long history of | their hard strike, of company and | official terrorism and corruption. Miners in all the coal fields, write letters to the Worker Cor-| respondence page of The DAILY WORKER. Your paper is eager to print your letters. Send pic- tures with them if you can. | The American working class is | behind the Save-the-Union Con- ference, it is up to the miners to bring their story before the Amer- ican workers. Serious Charges KENOSHA, Wis., March 80—The nineteen leaders of the Full-Fash- Hosiery’ Workers Union in Kenosha, recently charged with con- empt of court for violating an in- junction by attorneys for the Allen-A Hosiery Company, against whom a strike is being conducted, are to re- ceive a trial by jury, for the first time in the history of injunction cases ioned |to the transportation workers on the |the Mitten management and O. L. | existence in Philadelphia HEADS IN PACT IN QUAKER CITY Mahon, Mitten Make! “50-50” Scheme (By a Worker Correspondent.) | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., (By Mail).; —An event of the utmost importance} subway, elevated and trolley lines of New York City occurred in this city recently. Mahon and Mitten. An agreement was made between Mahon, the son of W. D. Mahon, presi- dent of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Railway Employes of America, providing for the worst kind of class collaboration. The capitalist press of this city writes in great glee of this agreement as “the most extraordinary development in the long history of the labor movement.” Under the agreement a “fifty-fifty” form of cooperation is to be applied between Mitten Management and the national union on properties to be ac- quired or operated in the future by the notorious union smasher, Thomas E. Mitten. W. J. Lauck, alleged friend of labor, was the individual who brought the Mittens, Thos E. and his son, AA, and the Mahons, veterans mislea lers of labor, together. In as much as it is expected that Mitten will soon be called to New York to take charge of the Interborough Rapid Transit, the workers on these lines should im- mediately organize to thwart these schemes of class collaboration. “Street Men” Spies. Otherwise they will soon find con- iti jling such as are now In ditions prevailing bas perealet In Philadelphia a speed-up system prevails and an army of spies, known as “street men,” watch the akan men and conductors every minute. On every possible pretext, the hard worked operators are fined, suspended or fired, In Philadelphia they are given runs and are expected to make so many trips a day regardless of circum- stances. If they should be one minute late or one minute fast at, let us say Seventh Street, a man stationed by the company on the corner reports to the company offices, and the motorman is suspended for one or two days. Under the agreement signed by Mitten and Mahon, all existing “Men and Management’ ’arrangements are | Killed by Lewis Thugs | ‘SUBWAY, UNION Tom Lillis, secretary of Local 1708, United Mine Workers, who was murdered on the streets of Pittston as he was returning late from meeting of his local. His mur- der wag thé signal for the reign of terror which Lewis let loose upon the Anthracite, Union Gets Increase SCRANTON, Pa., (FP),—Union street car men won important wage increases in their new contract. Barn men are raised 3 cents an hour and bus drivers 5 cents. The union had asked 5 cents for all workers, The union pension fund is strengthened by a check-off agreement of 50 cents a month from each worker’s pay. New Flood Threatens SACRAMENTO, Cal., March 30.— A threatened break of the levee at Nicolaus, 25 miles north of here, was the most serious aspect of the flood *| situation remaining in northern Cali- fornia today. Engineers said the levee could not withstand the pres- sure of the flood waters. COOLIDGE SAID TO BE KLAN MEMBER Testimony Given at R. I. | Militia Hearing | PROVIDENCE, R. I., March 30.— | That President Coolidge is a member of the Ku Klux Klan was stated at yesterday’s hearing on the activities of that organization in the National Guard of this state now being con- ducted by the house militia commit- tee of the legislature. Austin C. Barney, former Klans- man and member of the National Guard, commissioned to conduct a secret inquiry into the situation by that Coolidge had been mentioned to him by Klan officials here as a mem- ber. Senator Heflin of Alabama. Barney added, had also been named to him as a member of the Klan. United States Senator Metcalf was named by Barney as the purchaser of rifles used by the Second Battalion of the First Infantry which consists exclusively of members of the Klan A PILLAR OF THE CHURCH. FALL RIVER, March 30.—Guy Willis Holmes, unfrocked minister and former pastor of New Bedford, prepared yesterday to go before the southern New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and again plead his case. INCOME TAX FALLS. WASHINGTON, March 30.—In- come tax collections for the first 28 days of March totalled $502,000,000, the treasury reported today, which is $2,000,000 less than was collected during, the same period last year. MADISON SOU: Adjt.-Gen. Arthur C. Cole, testified | vch on Miners, Worker Correspondent Says | Farm Relief Measures Still Drag in Senate WASHINGTON, March 30, — The McNary-Haugen farm relief bill was made the order of business in the |senate late yesterday and Chairman |McNary of the agriculture commit- aT INVESTIGATION tee announced that he would bring it up for action Monday. Sen. Brookhart has introduced a $600,000,000 farm relief bill as a sub- stitute for the McNary-Haugen meas- ure. He would meet the cost.of ex- porting surplus crops by levies upon the treasury. Bills Sponsored by AFL ToIlmpedeCompensation ALBANY, N. Y;, March 30.—Gov- ernor Smith has signed six bills that amend the present Workmen’s Com- pensation Law. While on the surface the new laws appear favorable to the workers, actually they will make: it more difficult for injured workers to collect compensation. The bills were supported by the leaders of the State Féderation of Labor and the Industrial Survey Com- mission. — Tonight Masquerade Ball By the Uj Eldére Committee At CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th Street and Third Avenue. BENEFIT THE UJ ELGRE COMMUNIST DAILY. The Yorkville, Astoria and the Bronx Uj Elére Dramatic Societies will ap- pear in a mass pageant. Local and out of town organizations and sing- ing and dramatic societies will par- * ticipate. Tickets in advance $1.00. At the Box Office $1.25. Tickets for sale at the Uj Eldre office, 33 First Street, and Jimmie Higgins Bookshop, 106 University Place. JARE_ GARDEN Carnival-Pageant Mass Spectacle A Great Mass Performance 6th “Freiheit” Jubilee Napoli Tour for Labor | in labor struggles. Defense to Start With) The union attorneys succeeded in : < * | winning their fight for such a trial | rw. | Meeting in So. No alk before Federal Judge Geiger, who had | issued the Vicious anti-picketing order. The mill owners legal representa- tives also announced that they are preparing papers to charge a much rger number of striking knitters specifically excepted. This applies to Philadelphia and Buffalo. The “Fifty-Fifty” Farce. However the new agreement pro- vides for what is known as the “Fifty- fifty” plan of cooperation between the union and the management. In reality this means that the management has everything its own EAST SIDE, YEAR 1917. SCENE 1. . Market dealers gather together, . Workers looking for jobs, . Le grinder plays on the side-walks of New York. Salvation army seeks to save souls. . Extra telegram that the Bolsheviks have seized the power in Russia. __ . . The market-dealers, frightened, disappear. The workers give expression: to thei: feeling by shouting: “Long live the Russian Revolution!” “P . The workers march off in small groups singing the revolutionary hymn: “Wacht Meetings are now being arranged in all Italian centers cf New England with Nicola Napoli, national secre- tary of International Labor Defense, the“national office of the I. L. D.,| 90 E. 11th St., announced yesterday. ee contempt of court. They in-|way and the union eventually losses Auf” by D, Edelshtadt. . 2% Combined meetings with the Anti- | ‘¢? hed according to the mill] a) significance, finally becoming a i Fascist Alliance of North Ariiética|°WNeTs attorneys’ statements in tool of the company. court, to add charges of general con- koa af willbe ‘Held in’ South Norwalk, © : ; All workers familiar with the de- ; Saturday at 2 p. m., at 12 South Main | SPIraey ad violence to the contempt | -ijrable conditions on the Phila- 3 i Ballet ee, and in — , Con’ v ‘gs |delphia Rapid Transit Co. trolley, fi : pee f process er ene ra a eee “ia the Gay (Ballet.) at 2 p. m.; where Carlo Tresca, presi arias coraiukt ciate ewek alae ae | 4 8 , d taxi- a ine sym- a ie Blacks come to the rescue of the Yellow forces. et. , NEW ENDURANCE RECORD. ipa d epee Ma Aare is : The united front of the Yellows and Blacks. (Ballet.) An enormous phony orches- tra will accom- pany the big mass -perform- dent of the Anti-Fas Alliance of North America will also speak. To Speak in New Haven. +E Napoli will speak in New Haven, | f! Conn., Friday April 6 at the Parten- |] |}cab lines know that under this new |} ACKSONVILLE, Fla., Mar. 30.—]| agreement, and the almost certain}! Stinson and George. Pildeman veauing of Mitten to New York, all ing their huge monoplane, estab- | their effortstobetter conditions among hed a new unofficial world’s en-| the I.'R. T. men will be defeated un- SCENE 2. % ’ STRUGGLE BETWEEN RED, YELLOW AND BLACK FORCES. hi . Reds and Yellows: in an intermingled mass. (Ballet.) re! estra . The Reds and Yellows go off in different directions. (Ballet.) . The ranks of the Reds tighten as the banner is raised high bearing the word: «“Pretheit”, Yellow and Black forces before. mass ballet will appear in various dances. With the Freiheit banner leading, the Reds march forward driving the (Ballet.) SCENE 3. @pe"Club, 800 Grand Ave., under the | durancey flight record record today | 1 immediate organization of all ance. STRIKE. auspices of the New Haven I. L. D.,| when they remained aloft for more|I. R. T. men is effected at once. The Yellows shine the bosses’ shoes and dance before them in a forming fashion Ztalian branch. This meeting will be than 52 hours and 23 minutes. _ (Miufos tanz.) (Ballet.) tollowed later with a lecture in New | —-———— ate 8 Bae ee oe . In the distance there is heard a cry of “Strike! Strike!” ~(Ballet.) London, Conn., Sunday, April 15 at . The bosses frightened, run about calling for help. (Ballet.) Dart Hall, 461 Bank St. { | . Paid gangsters and policemen attack the masses and disturb the strike. : Napoli ‘will caves “his ‘tours ie | . Policemen chase the strikers and the gangsters beat the workers. - . Massachusetts and in Rhode Island | SPRIN G V C TI ON . pba by Pac nats Yellow and Black forees dance the Forward and Backward } where he will cover several towns. He | o L \ A . The strikers are again organized and march about the stage singing the “Song of / will be in Boston on April 26. | the Workers” by Moishe Nadir, dress their wounds, and vow that they will not rest The purpose of these mectings is | in until the enemies will be avenged. They sing the song: “Picket, Picket” and march to establish a strong movement of | back to their posts. aman - ; i defense for the workers through or- | ‘ . SCENE 4. ( i ganizing Italian branches in the New | THE SIXTH BIRTHDAY OF THE FREIHEIT. { ingland territory. am Z Z al e 1, The Freiheit figure and six workers with a wheel march about the platform. | | j 2 es | 2. nae them the “Freiheit” Lat baie ‘i i i | 3. Various party-organizations with their banners come marching in to pay homage 3 Open Milwa ukee Office o s and respect and convey the greetings of the day to the Freiheit. | To Aid Miners’ Relief BEACON, N. be 4, The scene closes with the singing of the “International”. iy MILWAUKEE, March 30 (FP).— | e ! The Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Re- lief Committee has established Mil- | waukee headquarters in the office of | the Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers at 321 Third St.) State Senator Walter Polakowski, so- cialist, is chairman. Members of the | painters, machinists, tailors, brewery workers and other unions are on the} executive board. Clothing, food and) ° is being forwarded to the gen- | eral relief headquarters of the Penn. > Rigen Committee at Room | THE SPEAKERS will be William Weinstone, M. Olgin, Melech Epstein, Shachno Epstein, Robert Minor, Ed. Daily Worker. R, Saltzman, Chairman. MOVIES will be taken of the mass-performance and the thousands gathered in the garden. New Bungalows, Roads and Planta- tions, Theatrical Productions and All Kinds of New Recreations Are Being Prepared for the Summer Season. SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1928 | ONLY SEVENTEEN DOLLARS PER WEEK. a TENT 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh. EE TR RINSE SIE cul