The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1928, Page 1

| the polls. Faculty of Workers THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY at New York, N. ¥., THE DAILY WORKER Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office » under the act of March 3, 1879. [FINAL CITY EDITION | Vol. V. No. 82. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1928 Published daily except Sunday by The National Dai Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. ly Worker Price 3 Cents MINE DISTRICTS DEFEAT LEWIS IN FIRST SKIRMISH DOESN'T EXPECT TO SERVE 1 DAY, SINCLAIR SAYS / $75,000,000 | Only Has Now, He Wails WASHINGTON, April 5.—While boasting to his friends that he never expects to serve a day in prison for his part in the Teapot Dome con- spiracy, Harry F. Sinclair is causing reports to circulate that he is being “persecuted.” Mueh emphasis is being laid in these reports on the money he has been forced to ‘spend for attorneys and private detectives. The tion is to excite sympathy for him. Poor Sinclair. The fact is that the poor fellow’s bank account has shriveled to about $75,000,000. Sinclair is not the pow- er he was when he and allied newer oil magnates were financing the re- publican party campaigns of 1920 and 1924 and giving hundreds of thou- sands of dollars away to public of- Js such as Albert B. Fall, former etary of the interior. But he is paying $150 a day for his Washing- inten- | | Popular Mine Leader Lg | | | | | SAME \ | | | | | | Pat H. Toohey, newly chosen sec- | retary of the Save-the-Union Com- | mittee and editor of its official or- | gan, the “Coal Digger,” who played | an important role in the recent na- tional conference of the Committee held in Pittsburgh. Toohey has been in the forefront of all the struggles of the coal diggers in their fight | to eliminate the reactionary Lewis machine. ARE LOCKED OUT | WORKERS PARTY, “DAILY,” TO HAVE. HOME IN UNION SO. >) | 5-Floor Building To Be Opened Soon As the first step towards acquaint- ing the militant workers of this city with the building which in the future will serve as the ‘center of their ac- tivities, the new workers center at 26-28 Union Square will be thrown open for public inspection tomorrow and Sunday from 11 a. m. until mid-| night. Hundreds of workers are expected to visit the building on these two days. All members of the Workers TEXTILE WORKERS | (Communist) Party will also be urged | at a general membership meeting to- night at Irving Plaza to inspect the building, which consists of six stories and a basement. The “Workers’ ” New Home. The Workers Center, which will be |the new home of the Communist and Refuse to Operate Four Instead of 3 Looms ton suite. The conspiracy case against Fall is as good as dropped and Sinclair ex- peets to go free also. He and Fall PAWTUCKET, R. I, April 5.— were to have been tried jointly in Vashington. When the Sinclair trial cpened this week he was granted a His counsel is play- ing for time. 8. WON'T AID IN CHICAGO POLL Cops, Gangsters Have Field to. Themselves CHICAGO, April 5.— With the} United States government’s announced policy of “hands off” in Chicago’s vol canic political situation, shooting primary elections next Tuesday will proceed without the participation of United States deputy marshals. United States Marshal Palmer An- derson had asked permission to swear in 500 deputy marshals to assist local authorities in guarding the polls. This was refused in an official communica- tion from Attorney General Sargent at Washington. Police Commissioner Michael Hughes announced it would be impos- sible to station police officers at all polling places. He pointed out that he has only 4,000 men, 1,700 of whom are assigned to traffic and other spe- cial duties. There are more than 2,600 polling places in the city. This will leave at least 300 polls without a single guard; it was pointed out. On the other hand, there are many faction-torn precincts where two or more officers should be posted at each voting place. Many persons in Chicago, especially women, are actually afraid to go to After the workers refused to accept the new schedule ordered by the own- ers of the Darlington Textile Mills. by which weavers must operate 4 in- stead of 3 looms, the mill owners de- |elared a lock-out. They, announce that hereafter they will refuse to | recognize the United Textile Work- ers’ Union with whom they had an agreement. Over 200 workers are affected. 4 sacs HE When the workers came to work Monday morning the company offi- cials told them that they had decided to shut down the plant until the new | working schedule had been arranged. The sentiment of the workers was such that the union representatives in conferences with the bosses which | followed refused to make any conces- jsions. The lock-out order was then issued. Bes‘des increasing the number of looms to be operated by each worker, the employers intend reducing wages by a revision of the schedule of pay. the union representative declared. The workers intend to organize a picket line to prevent the importation of strikebreakers, it is understood. LOW WAGES PAID IN BELLAS SHOP Expect Layoff After Easter Rush (By a Woman Worker Correspondent) | Last week’s letter in The DAILY WORKER relating to the bad condi-! tions of The National Bellas Hess | | Clothing Co., has given me courage | to write you of a few additional facts in teference to some more very bad conditions to which all of us here are | subjected. School Meet Tomorrow The faculty of the Workers School will meet in a body for the first time at a banquet tomorrow, 8:30 p. m. at Sollins Restaurant, 216 E. 14th St. The librarians of the Workers School, the executive committee of the stu-| dent council, and the students in the) national training school been invited to attend. have also Brownsville Y. W. L. to Hold Dance Tomorrow The Young Workers (Communist) League of Brownsville will--hold a dance tomorrow night at the Premier Palace, Himsdale and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn. Proceeds of the affair will go to “The Young Worker,” the only voice of the militant working youth, which is threatened with extinction for lack of funds. All League mem- bers are urged to come and bring their friends. 12 HOURS A DAY IN SOUTH NEW ORLEANS, April 5 (FP),—| killed, Edward Dornsell received ser- isiana|/ious internal injuries, and six other State Federation of Labor at Alex-| firemen The coming session of the Louis When f started to work_here I got | $14 a week. Then I was given a raise, a very little raise, believe me. | But I know that az soon as the Easter rush _*s over J’ll be laid off for an |indefinite time. So the little raise will not help me at all. | 5 | During the ‘rush season we are | told that we'll have to work. overtime | five minutes before we are: supposed fo quit working. We don’t get any- thing extra for the additional time we put in, The foreman simply al- ‘Iuws.us to take five to ten minutes longer for lunch and that is the way we are fooled. This firm thiofly employs girls. There are a large number of men -workers also. And their conditions /are much worse than ours. In an- 'cther letter I'll let you know of their conditions. “JENNY.” Fireman Dies in Crash John J. Donahue, a fireman, was narrowly escaped being andria may declare for a 40-hour week burned to death in the backdraft when to relieve unemployment. The aver- age working day in all industries is 9% hours. Many sawmills are work- » ing their crews 12 hours daily. their apparatus collided with a trol- ley car at 43rd St. and Lexington Ave. yesterday. 7) | left wing movements of this city, will be in the heart of these movements. The organizations that wlil be housed jin the Workers Center will be Dis- trict 2, Workers (Communist) Party. the Young Workers (Communist) League and Pioneers of District 2, The DAILY WORKER, the Workers’ School, Uj Elore, Hungarian Com- munist daily, the Cooperative Res- taurant and the Workers Bookshop. The Workers Party, including the industrial, organizational, women’s and Negro aepartments, as well as the Young Workers League and the Pioneers,. will occupy the major part fof the second floor of the building. The Workers’ School. The various departments of The DAILY WORKER will be located on three different floors. The editorial and composing departments will be on the third floor, the business and circulation departments on the second floor, and the press room will occupy half of the basement. The entire fifth floor will be oc- cupied by the Workers School. It will contain 11 classrooms and a library accommodating 40 people. The Cooperative Restaurant, which is conducted by Proletcos, will take all of the ground floor. This will in- crease the capacity of the restaurant, which is now located at 30 Union Square, two and a half times. Prole- cos will also use one-half of the basement as a storage and_ locker room. The Board of Directors of the Workers Center consists of William W. Weinstone, secretary; Alexander Trachtenburg, chairman;; Joseph Brodsky, treasurer; Bert Miller, Jack Stachel and Harry Blake, trustees; and P. Amron, manager. A drive for $30,000 to purchase the center is be- ing launched. . “The campaign to secure $30,000 to provide the workers of this city j with a center of their own,” Wein- (Continued on Page Two) T workers Party to Hold Membership Meeting Tonight An important general member- ship. meeting of the Workers | (Communist) Party will be held at |! 7 o'clock tonight at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 75th St, | membership books must be shown | |-at the door. All conflicting meet- | ings have been called off by the | district executive committee of the | Party. MARKETS FOR MOVIES. LOS ANGELES, April 3.—-Satura- tion point of motion pictures has al- most been reached in this country, and the American film industry must look orm Left to Right: Davy Jones, Bicknell, Ind., State his state; Philip Di Giambattista, Arella, Pa.; James Wakefield, Mulberry, Kansas; Benjamin Murphy, Ehrenfeld, Pa., Christine Dolence, Library, Pa.; Anna Mondle, Renton, Pa. The women delegates represented the women’s auxiliary and reported that the wives of Delegates to the Save-the-Union Conference Chairman of the rank and file forces in Openin: 2 of New Workers’ Center to Attract Hundreds MEETING Anthracite and Illinois Unions Win wy fo The DAILY WORKER.) 3URG —From a oth organ- d territories, re- headquar- he-Union iasm with to the urned have their ar 1 home. Enter Battle. ections, in District 5, in in District 1, and in many delegates arrived home only tely into the strug- others, to enter immed: in which > of the most dra- i lents of recent yates to the con- miners are behind the movement. y ference, according to a report, today took the le in the fight against |the Lewis order that the miners em- {ployed by the Pennsylvania Coal Company return to the mines under New || DEMOCRATS an illuminating commentary on the SUBS FOR MINE LEADERS URGED Save-Union Delegates Want ‘Daily Worker’ Unusual interest was displayed by the delegates at the historic Save- the-Union Conference, which just closed in Pittsburgh, in The DAILY WORKER. Copies of the paper were distributed to each of the 1164 repre- sentatives of the rank-and-file miners and eagerly read by them. The fact that nearly all of these delegates expressed a desire to re- ceive the paper regularly, but have no money to pay for subscriptions, has started a movement to provide each of these militant mine leaders with ‘a free subscription to The DAILY WORKER. This is part of the general campaign to give free subscriptions to as many striking miners as possible. Need DAILY WORKER. The Save che Union Conference opens a new era in the history of the United Mine Workers of America, an era that will be fraught w'th struggle and sacrifice. At this criti- cal time The DAILY WORKER, the only newspaper in the English lan- |guage that is for the miners and | against. the coal operators, for the rank and file and against the union | bureaucracy, is absolutely indispensa- | miners need the paper most of all. The DAILY WORKER, which is at | Present fighting a bitter fight of its own against enemies of the working- [class who have stopped at nothing in | (Continued on Pa Two) J AWAIT POLAR FLIGHT, SEWARD, Alaska, April 5.—The United ‘States army wireless station here today waited for signals from the plane in which Captain George H. Wilkins, famous explorer, will at- AS KNAPP CASE OPENS ALBANY, April 5.—The charge of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Callahan to the grand jury in the Florence E, Knapp graft case here was Y party office-holder. ” | NERVOUS _ ILLINOIS MINERS business of prosecuting a capitalist | Defeat Lewis-Fishwick “It is not improbable,” the judge | Expulsion Move said, “that someone has, without your | {consent and against your wishes, at-| By JAMES ALLISON. tempted to influence your judgment.”| SPRINGFIELD, Ill., April 5. He told the jurors that they must Repudiating the orders of the Lewis- not be Hearn Gt ey fact (ae Fishwick machine of district 12, lo- Peete te ae Heat Paglia 4 cals 4082, 303 and 4173 have gone of- | prosecution.” ficially on record supporting mem- “No one,” he said, “must be pro- bers of the Save-the-Union move- tected,”—an admission that “protec-| Ment against whom charges were pre- tion” is to be expected in cases of this ferred by the Fishwick machine. This | kind. ag ie Bate Mine dds the Mo og reactionary Lewis-Fishwick-Fox ma- | Mrs. Knapp was charged last Wi ine, “He -sanant aroRrean Of the ter in a Moreland Act commissioner’s q ae 3 : : a , |Save-the-Union movement among the Cre ioe Bea ete y, Orme coe arid MIN chika Seepiie alana and other crimes in her administra- ha ioe: obith agin ae a le rig tion of the $1,200,000 state census | the Jobs of these bureaucrats, it ap- |fund while secretary of state in 1925. | P&@ts- ie |She is a republican. Gov. Al. Smith) Membership Aroused. |apparently intended simply to dis-| In local unions 4082, 303 and 4173 credit the republican party in New the charges against several members York by the issuance of the report were either tabled or squashed by the without going to the lengths of ajrank and file. In local 4173 Harry | criminal prosecution, which he prob- | Dixon, traveling auditor, was present | ably viewed as a bad precedent. But! to push or influence the charges | | the .report went so far in its ar-|sgainst Gerry Allard, one of the lead- raignment of Ms. Knapp that Gov. ers. The machine organized for al Smith was not able to let the case! couple of weeks for their move. In| drop. And the grand jury investiga-| the face of the rank and file and tion is now at last getting under way. | honest opinion they appear very weak. There is considerable danger to the/ 1+ js understood that the charges will Smith administration in this. The | be taken to the higher courts where testimony may involve Albany geno 3 the justice of fascism rules. The crats in a graft expose. Gov. Smith! rank and file has been called immed- was able to dictate the terms of the |; ae t jiately to mobilize its forces for joniging) 7g ort put it may not be s0/ challenge which the Lewis 1 ae to @ntrol\testimonyshefore @ |i. hurled at ther. They must to this challenge with well org TAKING CONTROL the vicio: contracting system. Under the leadership of the Save the Union delegates a unanimous vote repudiat- jing the Lewis order was passed. ; From the south Illinois district eame the report that a number of locals have likewise repudiated Lewis. | Previous to the departure of the dele- |gates to the conference the Fishwick machine issued a warning that all delegates attending the meeting VWoald “be expelled. ‘The first at- tempts to carry out the threat in at Bt three cases thus far reported [have resulted in the defeat of the ma- {chine attempts. | In District 5, picketing efforts are being led by the returning delegates. |In the four counties, coke regions, |three delegates sent by the executive }committee report a rapidly develop- jing situation. Everywhere sentiment for the call- of special district conventions is g. The strike must be won; |draw in the unorganiaed; Lewis must go, are the main watchwords of the campaigns. | The miners are on the march. |Pittsburgh has been a milestone of the greatest significance in the uphill journey to victory. (MORE BARBER BOSSES YIELD |Desert Organization As Strike Shuts Shops With }committees which the organization of picket began to function visiting the ps still open, yesterday mornin ew non-union ble, \j The elected representatives of the | “Frauds are frequently committed | on a large scale by a series of petty | pilferings,” Justice Callahan said at another point in his charge to the } ry. | Seldom will a democrat or cepubliont |an in public office make such a frank jadmission as this . 5 HURT IN SCRANTON FIRE. SCRANTON, Pa., April 5.—Five |men, three of them reporters, were | burned about the hands and face, and {a hundred other employes jumped from windows and rushed to safety on fire escapes early today when fire destroyed the Scranton Republican, the city’s only morning newspaper. abroad for its future development,| tempt to fly \across the top of the|No estimate of the loss has been an- L. B. Maye¥, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.| world from Point Barrow to Spitz-|nounced as yet, but it will run to studio executive, stated today. Workers-Must Rush Funds for “Daily” Fine Further descriptions of the vile conditions at Tombs Prison are con- tained in another communication from David Gordon, 18-year-old member of the Young Workers League, who has been sentenced to three vears in the city reformatory at Welfare Island for writing the poem “America,” which referred to the United States in irreverent terms. The legal proceedings that were A bergen. © . jstarted against Gordon and the edi- itors of The DAILY WORKER, cul- minated the other day in the sentenc- ing of the young author and the im- position of a fine of $500 on the Daily which must be paid immediately. ‘Throws Half of Food Away. Discussing the food at the Tombs Jordon writes: “The ‘mush’ (it tastes exactly like what the word ‘mush’ uggests and not like the farina it’. $400,000. GORDON TELLS OF VILE PRISON FOOD and Court Costs supposed to be) this morning was very bad: I ate half of it and threw the other half away since I couldn’t stomach it. I wonder whether I must apologize to the prison authorities for this? “While eating my ‘mush,’ the cock- voaches I killed yesterday stared me n the face. “Some, more punishment: prison (Continued on Page Two) and solid ranks. Against a w ganized army of coal min Lewis gang are as helpless as | woodpecker hammering on steel sides |“ of a battle ship. men to join the ly by the Brook- , a large number t settlements with | Watch Us! | This section sent some forty dele- gates to the Pittsburgh National Con- \ference. When these brothers turn, with a renewed determination and with clarified policies, it will take more then the handful of vote the Lewis gang to stop us. Watch our smoke, Dance for Benefit of U.S.S.R. Children’s Colony Tomorrow Eve The annual concert and ball of the Russky Golos Russian Children’s Fund will be held tomorrow night at 8:30 at Webster Hall, Third Ave, and 11th St. The ball will be given for the benefit of the John Reed Agricul- tural Colony, at Alexeyecska-on-the- Volga, in the U. 8. S. R. Russky Golos is the Russian lan-| guage daily which sponsored the} cablegram of felicitation to Maxim} Gorky, Russian revolutionary novel- | ist, on his 60th birthday. Among) those signing the greeting to Gorky were Theodore Dreiser, Prof. Leo the union. Over 550 shops have al- ready been compelled to quit their ase cciation and sign individual agrees jments with the workers’ organiza tion. Strike Curtails Business. Due to the suddenness of the strike call which completely paralyzed barbe { Brooklyn and Queens, and to assover holidays, many employ- ers formerly strong supporters of their association which forced a $5 a week wage reduction on the men, changed their minds and applied for settlements. The union in issuing the strike call announced that the em- ployers’ organization would not be recognized. It is believed that the remainder of the 1,000 shops affected will apply for agreements in a day or two. The settlements to date have been made in the last two days, the strike being only three days old. Boss Association About Finished. Several shops, stubbornly non- union, are being regularly picketed. hops in the most populated see — Theremin, Edgar Lee Masters, Upton| These shops are owned by the lead- Sinclair, Stuart Chase, Sherwood An-| crs of the defunct bosses’ association. derson, Edward Arlington Robinson, | Even these are expected to capitulate John Dos Passos, Michael Gold and a| if the present rate of settlement keeps large number of other writers. uD. ‘ ‘