The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1928, Page 2

os THE DAILY WORKER, N’ Stirring Speeches, Mik LEADERS ROUSE DELEGATES WITH PLANS OF FIGHT Sentiment Is Strong for) Organization Drive PITTSBURGH, Mail).—The g¢ ence ever organ bor movement met in Hall, Pittsburgh. The 1,1 tatives of local u g ties of the unc order by John W in the name of Committee. For the first day’s mee which miner aft voiced the indi rotten Lewis bureaucr been stifled in inte tions, in district con district conventions, eal meetings for y 5 Filled Hall. Delegates occup: standing in all the the visitors’ gallery, s hallway outside t and more delegations app surprise of the credent tee, which knew they were on way but never expected they get here, because of the brol ears of miners who cannot pairs, and the snow and r: sweeping Pennsylvania during last two days. Before actually meeting, the dele- gates had done the main task for which they came toget given the assent of th represent to the pr: tional Save-the-Union the destruction of by ejecting Lewis family and his servile d dents and all their f their jobs, by holding d tions with or withou the machine officials real miners and milit: positions. Pa., e consent of Adopt Program. The program was adopted by the executive committee of the National Save-the-Miners’ Union, a body com- trict conven- | © tancy, Action Were Features | Makes More Jobless usd of cigar clerks will be thrown out of work by the intro- duction of a new labor saving ma- chin h delivers u pack of cig- a en w coin is pluced in a s change, mochine mak y: "ha and eve ** Provide Coal Diggers With “Daily” With for vided with free subscriptions to The ILY WORKER, the drive to pro- ant coal diggers with the s now in full swing. rkers in various sections of the Wo SUBS-FOR-MINERS DRIVE 1S GAINING y-six more miners pro-| can’t GORDON IN JAIL, | MAKES PLEA FOR ‘DAILY WORKER’ \Urges Readers to Repay} $500 Fine 10 Times (Continued from Page One) perience) to give his mother needed it badly, I was told. “A bunch of us were kept about who \five hours in the stinking ‘can’ down- stairs. I missed my lunch and sup- per because of that. I felt pretty weak from hunger all evening. Infested with Bedbugs. “Tm sick of asking the boys why they’re here. It seems that the ma- jority are ‘stick-up’ convicts. My | mother paid me a visit this morning. It was good to hear about the DAILY WORKER report of my arrest. “I saw altogether too many bed- bugs and lice (I really don’t know, there may have been cockroaches too), when the door was open for the| morning walk. I’m beginning to |seratch myself. It’ll be hell even though I only have some five days more to stay here until I’m sent to the reformatory. “If it is a question of love and hate, I must say that somehow I learn to love capitalism the more from these court experiences. Urges Support of “DAILY.” “I hope the DAILY WORKER readers are multiplying by ten the country, realizing the necessity of |$500 that has to be paid. Strength- cing copies of the “Daily” in the in subscriptions. | ening ourselves ten times to each s of mine workers, are sending | Prosecution from the capitalist class is necessary for the growth of the “T am enclosing six dollars for a | revolutionary movement in the United subscription for a striking miner,” | |S one s letter received by. The DAILY WORKER, “as my contribu- tion to the struggle for a living wage in the mine fields and against the ang which has been betraying workers.” Cut out the attached coupon and 1 it in with the proper sum. g Miner’s Free Subscription. Worker, 33 First St., New York City. I am enclosing herewith $....... for a free subscription to a striking miner. posed of the ional Save-the-| | Union Committee with delegates rep- $6.00 os +12 months resenting the district delegations, ee : & months five from each delegation. 2-00 3 Rapa The members from each district nah z nay Soe met in district sessions and perfected i a Sac a internal organization also last night.|Name ........+ Sehch e ide eed with captains. i s AGAUEES nid ge cgmierex: A Meld 9-0 0:e S94 beens With Watt of Springfield elected City WY = sc ccccccvccccccseces eee eeeee to the chair, Toohey, se Save-the-Union Com Secretary of the confe vid Jones of Indiana tary, John Brophy report for the Union Committee. Brophy launched into a long and careful analysis of the whole situa- tion, proving with met: ous car the failure of the John L. Lewis poli- cies as they have been wo during the whole period of his admin- istration. introduced to Save-the- Crisis in Union. “In its whole life,” said Brophy. “the union never faced such a crisis as today, and the fault lies with the} Lewis policies.” He recounted the sto strike, when the u of its power was led t. ing “arbitration” by President Hard- ing, and President Lewis, and arbi- tration which couldn’t be forced on the miners after all. ry of the 1922 at the peak ito a humil 300 Brooklyn. ‘Barber Bosses Yield to Union (Continued from Page One) terms of settlement, declared that no agreement with the union th day were kept waiting a full day un- til individual contracts were prepared. The emplovers hur to the strike headquarters f tloment were those havine the: sf busi- ness situated in the Jow Jential sections. This is due to the Jewish holidays beginning tomorrow ilar rush from other sections lyn is expected when tho E days begin, according to reached late last night. Enthusiastic Meeti ox holi- agreaments ng was shin still on strike p: strike is one of the mc ve ever ealled by the union, brin an im- mediate response from the whole local d. Thi membership. The employers settling with the workers’ organization agree to re- seind the $5 wage cut, re: es to $25 per week. An anouncement by the union states that they will soon publish a complete Hist of union shops in the district af- fected, Williamsburgh, East New| York, Greenpoint, Jamaica, Middle | Village, Bushwick, and Crow Heights. ing wag- “ORMOND BEACH, Fla., April 4. John '‘D. Rockefeller is enroute to his Pocantico Hills estate today after 1f more than four months at summer home here. f the} ked out) Brophy continued the story of is’ misleadership, showing hov policies are applied in Illi- ay, where he signs up some s and uses them as strike- kers on the others. The three of peace before the present s e were used by the operators to perfect their organization and install labor-saving machinery against which tactics Lewis did nothing. He does not fight for the six-hour day to give men jobs, he struggles for the nation from the industry of 000 men. “Where will they go?” asks Bro- |phy. “In steel, reducing its forces, ib textiles, with its stagnation and wage cuts, in automobile industry, overcrowded already?” Brophy charged the union bureau- cracy with insincerity in its slogan, \“Fight Injunctions,” for it never fights | the nd expels those who wish to. our union is to be saved,” de- clared Brophy, “it will not be done by senate investigations. The senate will |never ize the unorganized, and |that is our key problem.” “The other problems are: How to |make the union more powerful where | organized, how to make it effective, 1) how to establish it one hundred per re | cent in the mining industry. “The strike must be won. April 1 gives us the best chance. The pro- | gressives have the leadership more and more. Their program will be ac- cepted by the miners. New hopes and |illusions will not do. | the fight into the non-union fields will | win and we welcome Illinois and the (other signed up territories back into -| the struggle.” } (Yo Be Continued.) ! | |New York Loan Sharks jAre Growing Bolder | The investigation of loan sharks and the bleeding of workers through usur- ous interest rates has resulted in the arrest of four men on warrants issued by Chief Magistrate McAdoo. They have been released on $500 bail each for a hearing next Tuesday. The charge is violating the state banking ‘law by charging usurious interest on \loans, | The four are Louis Oppenheim, Alexander Herman, Jack Romer and Abraham Schochet. Morris Seiff, of the Moses Credit Corporation, who was indicted with that concern for fraudulent use of the mails in connection with money-lend- | ing activities, pleaded not guilty be- fore Federal Judge Henry W. God- dard and was held in $2,500 bail for trial. or - But carrying | States. If we have done this, we have not lost the in court.” The appeal of this 18-year-old boy from behind the bars of a capitalist jail must not go unheeded by the readers of The DAILY WORKER. “I hope the DAILY WORKER read- ers are mulltipl; by ten the $500 that has to be paid in court.” Will the readers answer this in the affirma- tive? The DAILY WORKER realizes that this is a crucial period for most of the workers of this country. Wide- spread unemployment, together with the concerted drive being made by the capitalists, in collaboration with the labor bureaucrats, to smash the trade unions, have made an ever deepening gap in the pockets of ‘the workers. Save DAILY WORKER But one thing is certain: The DAILY WORKER, the only news- paper that really fights for the workers must be saved! Now more than ever is The DAILY WORKER needed. In addition to the $500 fine, he paper is now confronted with a $50,000 libel s: tuted by Adolph Lessig, a former y. A federal indictment is also pending. ich may result in the jailing of William F. Dunne, Bert Miller, Alex Bittleman and J. Louis Engdahl, in addition to other heavy fines. Workers, the attempt to crush The DAILY WORKER is part of the at- tempt to crush the entire American workingelass. Defend yourselves by defending your Daily! Rush funds im- mediately by mail, special delivery or wire to 33 First Street, New York City. Blaze Perils Workers A blaze on w wooden car on a Brooklyn elevated threatened the lives of several workers. Wooden cars, which have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of pussengers in blazes and crashes, are still in use. Remains of the car are shown above, Police Forbid Beds so Jobless Workers Must Sleep on Hard Chairs BROPHY, TOOHEY WATT ARE NAMED Save-Union Forces Lay Plans for April 16 (Continued from Page One) to strike, which do not include the four coke counties. jin their tour will include Midlands and Houston where hundreds of min- ers struck April 1. The organization of relief gnd the broadening of these activities received ing. A detailed plan for mobilizing the whole labor movement behind the miners’ relief wili be worked out. committee 1s the organization of the Fayette, Greene and Somerset. An army of speakers will tour these fields and stage mass meetings in every section and district. Another decision of the meetin, was to fight all expulsions of mili- tents and place the case of any such before the rank and file of the min- ers who have already indicated that they will support the leadership dnd program of the Save-The-Union Com- mittee. The local unions are called pulsions, to demand district conven- YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, ¥928 The organizers! the first consideration of the meet-| Immediately on the program of the | coke counties’ strike, Westmoreland, | upon to refuse to recognize such ex- | of Young Workers League Otiers to Debate on Capitalist “Democracy” , A challenge to debate the question \of democracy of the respective goy- ‘ernments of the United States and the Soviet Union has been made to |the Bronx Free Fellowship by the |Lower Bronx Unit, Young Workers (Communist) League, Sam Garrison, jagitation-propaganda director of the | | League, announced yesterday. The communication sent to Dr. {Leon Rosser Land, director of the} |Fellowship, suggests the following | | subjects: | “Is' democracy suitable for today?” | | “Resolved, that the United States is | |more democratic than, Soviet Russia.” Resolved, there is a democratic | government in the United States to- | | day.” | “Can there be peace under capital- ‘ism ?” “As they stand now, we, of course, | will take the negative on all the ques- jtions,” the letter adds. ROTEST MURDER __ OF FASCIST FOE ‘Workers’ Party Urges Attendance at Meet |the-Union Committee now holding a ters. FAIL TO FRAME UP. Great Mine Conference FOOD UNION HEAD GAGS MILITANTS IN OFFICIAL PAPER Hotel Workers Branch To Meet Tonight An order of Health Commis- sioner Harris of New York City forbade the use of beds for job- less and home- less workers who are forced to seek refuge from the cold in cheap lodging houses. Police saw to it that no beds were fur- nished the work- ers, who had to sleep in an un- comfortable hard chair, as the photo, taken in one of the “flop houses,” shows. The self-styled “progressives” in control of the Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union have finally decided to adopt a franker method of retain- ing the machinery of the national or- ganization, by refusing to permit the opposition candidates running against August Burkhardt, for the secretary- treasurership, and other positions, to state their views to the membership in the official organ of the union, “The Free Voice.” Burkhardt Gags Opponent. Carl Gertig, a member of Local 164, was nominated to run in opposi- __.__|tion to Burkhardt, in a petition pre- i sented to the union organ and signed REJECT “PEACE” was permitted to be printed in “Free Are Not Deceived by Voice” by the Burkhardt machine. Gertig therefore issued a statement New Boss Maneuver (Continued jrom Page One) yesterday accepting the nomination and denouncing the reactionary poli- and Iron Co., the Rockefeller concern. It is considered possible that the re- cies of the officialdom. actionary officials are working indi- Aftet declaring himself for an im- mediate organization campaign thru- rectly with the operators to ward off the rising tide of militancy which is out the trade, immediate amalgama- tion with all existing unions, strict enforcement of union working hours, sweeping over the Colorado mine fields. Considerable interest has been wages and other standards, estab- aroused over the activities of the Save- lishment of democracy and _ free speech in our union, Gertig in his statement continues: Assails Burkhardt Misleadership. “During the last six years condi- tions in the Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union, under the present administration, have become so intol- erable that it has provoked a wide- spread revolt of the rank and file of the organization. As an expression of this revolt, and dissatisfaction with the present leadership I have been asked to serve as a candidate for the position of general secretary-treasur- er. “Contrary to the usual custom fol- lowed in past elections, in which can- didates were given full opportunity to express their views in the official organ of the union, the Burkhardt } | reactionary machine has refused to WIN W A i permit me to place my views before the membership. This old, worn-out group of office holders are afraid that their incompetence will be ex- posed too openly to the members of our organization. Sabotaged Organization Drive. conference at Pittsburgh. Delegates haye been gent by the Colorado min- In spite of the fact that the Colorado miners have been forced into independent unions they have ex- pressed their willingness to join with the national movement. Picketing Continues, Says Union, tions for the clection of represent- | ative officers and in those cases where | (Continued from Pane One) the district officials refuse to call! terror, in the midst of the working- these conventions the rank and file class, braving all the dangers of fas. is to call them and to elect its own cist violence in order to undermine officers. |this regime of the Italian capitalists Despite attempts to prevent picket- ing *: the financial district, the strike which the Window Cleaners Protect- ive Union called two weeks ago against the Beaver Window Cleaning Co. is being carried forward with “The campaign for the amalgama- tion of the existing unions in the baking industry, so that a real at- tempt might be made to tackle the Bread Trust, which is growing every day, was sabotaged and hindered in Shek use “ ‘and to establish the rule of the prol- NEW APPEAL FOR MINERS’ RELIEF Penn-Ohio Committee Shows Great Need PITTSBURGH, April 4—An ap- peal for redoubled activities for miners’ relief was today sent out by the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave. Calling attention to the increase in the ranks of striking miners of sev- eral hundred thousand during the past week and pointing to the further cer- tainty that 100,000 will go out in the coke regions on April 16, as well as the approach of an anthracite strike, the relief committee urged all who are interested in the winning of the niners’ strike to respond. The Right Arm. “Relief is the right arm of the striking miners’ forces,” the state- nent declares. “The most intensive and immediate efforts must now be launched to multiply our activities. The great Pittsburgh Conference just adjourned has taken note of the urgency of relief work. Our committee was endorsed by the cenference and to us this is the starting point for even greater efforts than we have put forth in the past. “All those who understand the meaning of present events in the la- bor movement, all those who wish to see the miners’ strike brought to a victorious conclusion, all those who are moved by the struggle of labor should respond to the present call. All contributions and other assistance should be sent to 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh.” Despite the big lead the Los An- geles district has run up in the na- tional subscription campaign to add 10,000 new readers to The DAILY WORKER by May Day, there is no symptom of slackening the sub work in the California city. . Intensification of the subseription activity is rather the order of the day. Under the leadership of Paul C. Reiss, The DAILY oogen, agent in the Los Angeles district, the sub- scription work is being pushed in every possible way. eta’ It was because he had the dence of the workers, because he defied the terror of Mussolini, be- | cause he was organizing the workers, | that the imperialists of Italy decided to do away with him. Continue Struggle. “Our Ttalian Communist Party: is conducting its work within Italy whereas the social democrats and so- called republicans conduct their work eutside of Italy. Our Italian Com- munist Party is working within the trade unions and workingclass ranks to free them from the domination of Mussolini and to build them into a powerful instrument that will destroy the regime of Mussolini and establish a workers’ and farmers’ government. “This foul murder must not be al- lewed to pass without the powerful voice of labor being raised in protest. The workers of New Y of all na- tionalities must participate in the meeting arranged by the Anti-Fascisti |Alliance on April 15 in Tammany Hall, | E. 14th St. to protest the murder of cur Comrade Gastore Sozzi. The Workers (Communist) Party of the New York District will participate in the meeting. Prominent representa- tives of the Workers (Communist) Party will speak. All workers turn out and demonstrate your solidarity with the Communist Party of Italy! Show your solidarity with the strug- gle of the workingclass to free the Italian workers from the slavery of fascism and to establish the rule of the workingclass.” Bakers Help Miners CHICAGO, April 4.—In addition’ to 5,000 loaves of bread already donated by it to the striking Pennsylvania miners, the Bakery & Confectionery Workers International Union has voted 5,000 more. LOS ANGELES SPEEDS DRIVE FOR SUBS Intensifies Campaign in Factories; Now Leading Other Cities in the near future. With scores of subscriptions pour- ing into The DAILY WORKER of- every possible way. “As a result of this suicidal policy, our fellow workers in the Interna- tional, who should be fighting shoul- der to shoulder with us against the Bread Trust, are being asked to picket the Amalgamated shops. This chaos is the direct result of the Burkhardt policy, and can only lead to strife between the two organiza- tions, fromy which the bosses will benefit. “The policy of seeking injunctions against brother bakers’ unions in the capitalist courts can only lead to fur- ther division in the ranks of the bak- ery workers, “The eight hour day is not en- forced and we find that our members are compelled to work 9, 10 and even 11 hours a day. Demand Militant Leaders, “Our ‘Free Voice,’ which should be an organization medium and a stimu- lator for the activity of the union, has WAGE CUT BRINGS UNION SENTIMENT become a dry, dead sheet, in which ‘Goes. the membership is not permitted te MANCHESTER, N. H., April 4.— participate. The rayon stripe manufacturing . Gonic Company of Gonic, N. H. an- Hotel Workers Meet Tonight. nounced that production in its mills| The Hotel and Restaurant Workers will be cut almost in half when the|Branch of the Amalgamated Food 30 instead of the usual 54 hour week | Workers’ Union is to hold a meeting goes into effect in a few days. tonight at which elections for na- The workers are bitter over the | tional officers will also take place. prospect of having their already |All members are called by the union miserable wages slashed in half. Un-|leadership to participate in the elec- til the announcement was made the | tions. “ {mill owners had the plant running on| This branch of the union several a day and night shift. Sentiment for}days ago passed a resolution con- organization is growing here among|demning Secretary-Treasurer Burk- the workers when they remember that |hardt for the arbitrary and undemo- a union would have forced continued {cratic measures he and his followers production by shortening the work|have taken in order to perpetuate week- and: fighting night work. themselves in office. The resolution falso calls upon the membership to i 6“ Toy? oT s place the reactionary leadership Blacklist Is “Line of :}the national union with a leadership Demarcation” In N. Y, |that will conduct a struggle to or- *|ganize the trade. SUMMIT, N. J., April 4.—Certain greater energy. M. Mercade, a member of the union, who had been arrested for picketing outside the Sinclair Oil Co., 45 Nas- sau St., came up for a hearing yes- terday in the First Magistrates Court, ‘The case was dismissed. Three other arrested pickets, M. Berkowitz, Steve Lefko and H. Fox, who are out on $500 bail each, will come up for hearings in the same court tomorrow, according to H. Fein- stein, business agent of the union. A meeting of striking window cleaners will be held at 7 p. m. to- night at 66 E. 4th St. * * * of the Daughters of the American A . Revolution in New Jersey, Mrs. Harry Up Chicago Elections Marshall, a member of the organiza- : tion’s state board of regents, admittedf CHICAGO, April 4.—Two more today. She doesn’t like the word | powerful bomb explosions rocked out- “blacklist,” which is openly used by| lying districts of Chicago today. The the Boston chapter. She calls it a| first one detonated over the Auburn “demarcation.” Those on the wrong| ark Highlands District shortly be- side of the line, such as Communists, | fore dawn and sent hundreds of terror may not speak before D.A.R. meet- | stricken residents tumbling from their speakers ‘are barred from meetings |"wo More Bombs Liven Free distribution of The DAILY WORKER at shops and union halls thruout Los Angeles is only one of many ways which Reiss and his fel- low workers have demonstrated to be fice from the Los Angeles section, Reiss and his co-workers are in a position to challenge all other dis- victs in the country to approach heir record. ings in the state. wish to hear those whose views do not come up to the standards of our beliefs,” Mrs. Marshall explained. beds to the accompaniment of shat- “This simply means that we do not; tering window panes. It was exploded in a vacant store- room next door to a shoe repair shop. The second blast was set off in the most effective in the present cam- paign. A humber of free distributions | doorway of a restaurant on South “I question if even Detroit or New Haven, our nearest rivals, can hope UNION, S. C., April 4.—The Union| Kedzie Avenue. Joseph Klak, owner Buffalo Mills Inc., here, are reported] and a democratic ward leader, lived of- hundreds of copies of the paper have taken place to date and it is plan- ned to distribute ap increased number to equal the showing the Los An-|to be contemplating a shut down of| overhead. geles workers are making,” says Pav!|the plant for a period of from 60 to| thrown from their beds, Reiss. days. ot 0 ? AM) ‘ i nel He and his family were but all ped serious injury. eg ae fais = i a ON RR BOR