The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1928, Page 2

Page Two Anthracite Save-the-Union Delegates Lead Figh DISTRICT_TEN PLANS DISTRIBUTION: OF MAY DAY DAILY WORKER MINERS VOTE TO REJECT ORDER 10 RETURN TOMINES Fight Against Vicious Contractors (Special to The Daily Worker.) April PITTSTON. rejection of ti to return to t ; Pennsylvania Coal ( ed this morning a 1703 held at St. Al Miners who } the Save-the-Uni adjourned, took the ing the “scab” « reactionary policies o Cappelini m. bitterly attack file under the leade the-Union forces. The Lewis Tr In a letter to Local vocated that the work pendix; thracite concil charge cf the ances, A report was made that a sub committee of colliery of the Penn Company and Joh dent of the Penn pany, together w district would n tempt to settle Demand § The effect of Union conference Pittsburgh is to c miners to look iously for the soluti lems to the program of sive forces. 5.—Unanimous erms s of the was vot- Th ict 1 were 2 an- The T The policy of Lew of attack; and the r beginning to realize t which do not come ot Lewis are enemies READERS URGED 10 GIVE MINERS SUBS Save-Union Delegates Want ‘Daily Worker’ (Continued from Page One) ve out the fighting s, cannot afford 1 be in- st. s the and fi t all f ou ely the an endeavor to organ of the wor the great expen: volved in suppl, scriptions not pay for them enough money selves and the’ Many Subs Workers, 1264 su wanted, 1164 re striking miners in ev trict need The help them win t the attached cour at once I am enclosin, fer a free subscript miner. $6.00 8.50 2.00 1.50 1.00 Movies Are Sent Over Long Distance Phone| . For the first t phone wires v distance trans: tures. A ne a.m. showing the arr of Vilma Banky, Hungarian screen star. by 1a ance at the Embassy 2 watching the film. made by the Telephotographi: Division of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The actual sending required only seven minutes. Even with the time required for developing the reel in Chicago and preparing it for sending, it arrived five times as fast as if it had been despatched immediately by airplane and ten times as quickly as a train would have brought it. U.S. 5S. R. Efficient NEW ORLE » April 5. (FP)-- “Soviet Russia has met all its obliga- tions in time. The farmers of Soviet Russia own the soil they till. Soviet Russia is run by men of the highest integrity who are putting every ounce of energy behind the govern- ment to see that it is run efficiently” said Charles Hadden Smith, vice- president of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce, in his talk be- fore the members of the Association of Commerce yesterday. 6 ad his | - SENATE WILL CUT CORPORATE TAK { center ‘| ’ Worker Hurt in Fall ) a Treachery The WORKE trict Ten’s s 10,000 new re ree di ution of 5,000 ers to the paper by the first of May. The distribution of the papers is most effective means for spreading ‘Tanks Leak, Tug Sinks The tug-boat J. C. Reichert went ; down in the Hudson River at the Battery due to leaky tanks. Fortu- nately workers were not on the boat at the time it sank. Photo above shows the tug-boat as it was going down. | | Mellon Sponsors Bill to Aid Rich WASHINGTON, April 5.—Tax re- duction was again thrown into a doubtful state of confusion today when house al leaders declared that the ouse turn down the Mellon pro- gram. There appeared to be a better pos- sibility of an agreement upon the $201,000,000 limit set by the treasury. At the same time the move to re- |duce corporations taxes which is led hy Secretary of the Treasury Mellon was making headway. Sen. Smoot, jof Utah, head of the senate finance committee, announced that agree- ment had been reached on the Mel- on. proposal to cut the corporation in- tax rate of 13% per cent to 12 r cent. RECOGNITION N CITY, (FP) April 5—A > of union musicians and movie f the Mason City motion on since last August, has ended in a closed shop victory. Book Reviews, Essays, ‘etches, in Special Feature Page Sat. Nearing’s “Whither will be reviewed on the feature page in tomorrow’s 1e of The DAILY WORKER. Other interesting articles include “The Crowd,” by Robert Wolf; an essay of Wilhelm Liebknecht and | distinctive sketches and reviews. Jer an extra copy of Satur- D. ” in advance and give o your shop-mate or friend, Scott Anthony Laicato, a laborer, is near death as u result of an 80-foot fall thru a platform railing on the Manhattan end of Williamsburg Bridge. The dotted line shows the line of the worker's fall. Pe edition is contemplated as part of Dis- e in the national subscription drive to add | secretary, *|At Webster Mansion copies of The DAILY Missouri and Kansas workers, according to ganizer 6f thesWoox miners of Kansas and Mii strike in this region. and copies of the: paper as -po: NEW YORK CITY YOUTH ENDORSES | MAY DAY MEETING Food and Shoe Workers | Pledge Support uri. Many of the mi planned to give the: ible. Many. are near! recognized @s one of the The DAILY among the Further labor support for the May} Day celebration to be held at Madison | | Square Garden May 1 by the Work- ers (Communist) Party was pledged yesterday at the Party office by the Amalgamated Food Workers, Local 164, Anton Fodvrs, business agent; Stitchdown and Slipper Workers, Hy- man Levine, business agent; Unity Workers Cooperative, David Siegel, and the Young Workers (Communist) League, Will Herberg, district organizer. a4 gave him the $100,000, d¢@ommunist)-Party in that territory. Hundreds 6f copies of the paper will be distributed to" tte» rT, or- ners are on m as many ly destitute United States. since the mines have been closing down in increasing numbers. A similar distribution is being planned in other districts. Free distribution of The DAILY WORKER will bring the pa- per to thousands of workers in industrial centers thruout the Republican Senators, Oil Besmirched, Are at Loggerheads_ Former Republican Senator Lenroot, (left), is at loggerheads with Senator Smoot (center) because their respective statements to the press as to their secret conference with Albert Fall in Dec. 24, 1923, are in con- flict. Lenroot says Smoot was present when Fall declarcd that E. B. McLean, Washington publisher, gave him the $100,000 which was later proved came from Doheny in return for the Teapot Dome oil reserve. Smoot says he was not there, It is also charged that Will Hays (right), advised Fall to say that McLean, not Doheny Letter of Endorsement. In endorsing the meeting, the Young Workers League said: “For the toiling youth May Day 1928 is a day that carries even more meaning than for the adult workers. “The preparations for a new world war, a war upon the Soviet Union, or an imperialist war with England, hit the youth directly and hardest of all. ‘The sharpening depression, the wave} se 7 ot) cf severe unemployment, finds its) Daily Worker worst victims among the young work- | bie |ers whose eRe ies is ab: much more | SContinued. trom Rage: One) y broken down and whose reserve | bread, prison jello, prison coffee, so quickly exhausted. In the bitter Prison bean soup, prison veal, etc. istruggles in which the American work- J hey are brave people who dare to lors are engaged at the present time call the prison food by these names. pecially the miners struggle—the e courage of their convictions is uth is playing a more and more| te be admitted a thousand times more outstanding part. than the food itself, Grows In Importance. | “I wish there would be some sun- “The need of the entire working light in the cells here. ciass in face of the attacks of the cap-| Mother Visits Him. italists is becoming more and more | obvious to the young workers and| “A moment ago a liquid was so May Day is beginning to assume | Sprayed on the cot springs in my celi |greater meaning. The intensification | to kill or drive away the roaches ana of the economic crisis is beginning to | bedbugs. Unfortunately the bars pre- produce a noticeable movement among vent me from going where I can take the young workers; it is beginning to|@ breath of fresh air. I'm being deflate the grotesque illusions of patri-| nauseated by the stink. otism and democracy. Ht is hard to} “Moni paid me a visit. it was very feel patriotic to a government that! encouraging to learn that the League lets you starve on the streets, it is| comrades are going to do something hard to believe that you have the jin, my_ behalf There is indeed a same rights and privileges as the boss | message to bring to young workers, u who throws you out of work to rot.| message that concerns my conviction. Yes; May Day is beginning to mean/|The reason I’m being given ‘the limit more to the working youth. {is because they want to nip my spiric. Fight Militarism. |Such acts are unquestionably neces- “That is why the Communist youth) sary for capitalism’s continued exist- is throwing every cunce of their en-| ence, but not being interested enough ergy into the task of rallying the|in the latier, I’d prefer:to be free and young work of New York and vic-|let my spirit grow.” inity to participate in the great May | Day demonstration in Madison Square | Garden. TELLS OF VILE PRISON FOOD Workers Must Defend CORDON TELL Federal Indictment Pending. Young Gordon is a victim of capi- “Our slogans ave: No work on May |talist “justice.” The DAILY Day—No school on May Day. Down’ WORKEK has also been victimized to tools to show your solidarity with the the tune of $500, a fine which the whole working class in the struggle Daily finds impossible to pay when it for freedom! Against the war dang- | h#s hardly sufticient funds to get out cr, Against capitalist militarism. | the daily issues of the paper.-The pa- Against the explcitation of the youth. | triotic societies which have been jead- Against the discrimination of the "8 the attacks against the paper in trade unions against. the youth. ;an ae es to stifle the militant voice “Demand effective unemployment of the American workingclass, are, velief for the, youth! Demand the or- however, not content, A federal in- ganization of the unorganized youth! “cent is pending, which may re- Defend the Soviet Union: One solid SU/t in the jailing of the editors and front—workers, young workers, work | he imposition of additional fines, ing class children—in the struggle! This federal indictment must be against the bosses jfought. The $50,00U libel suit started jagainst The DAILY WORKER by |Adolph Lessig, a former labor spy, must also be fought. The class-con- scious workers of this country must help their newspaper fight these battles with the only weapon that | means anything in capitalist America The Tuckers’,’ Pleaters’ and Hem-|—money, | Hemstitcher’s Union Holds Dance Tonight stitchers’ Local 41 of the Internation- | al Ladies’ Gayment Workers’ Union has arranged a dance to bé held to- night at the Webster Mansion, 11th St. and Third Ave., at 8 o’clock. In an announcement made from the union headquarters yesterday, the organization calls upon all workers to be present, | This local has been carrying on a very successful struggle against the right wing machine in control of the Cloakmakers’ International. In spite of the comparatively small size of its membership it has managed to retain control of most of the shops in the trade. Business Falling Off While planning a campaign for bigger and better Sunday schools and church membership drives the Metho- dist chureh announces with alarm that only 18,000 new members were added to its rolls, This does not averag even one soul saved by each minister since there are 22,000 ministers in th Methodist. church organization. 5 ESCAPE PENITENTIARY, SYRACUSE, N. Y., April 5.—Five | prisoners made a daring break from the Onondaga County Penitentiary at Jamesville this morning. The prison- crs who made the break were Jean | Decrisci, 30, of New York City; Dom- jiniek Neal, 31, of Owego; Thomas | Dwyer, 20, of Syracuse; Frank Bu- tera, 25, of Utica, and Walter Hall, 26, of Herkimer, Hall was.captured, | American workers, you must not fail your personal organ in this crisis. Rush checks, money orders, etc. by mail, special delivery or wire to 33 First St., New York City. Labor Hater Dead Chatncey M. Depew, 94 year old after dinner speaker and director of the labor hating New York Cen- tral railroad died early yesterday ‘morning of bronchial pneumonia. As chairman of the board of di- rectors of the railroad he directed that corporation in its open shop 4 campaign against the railroad work- ers. Depew was a former United States Senator from New York, 1,100 UNEMPLOYED MEN TURNED INTO STREETS By HARVEY O’CONNOR (Federated Press). Sleeping on Bowery mission floors, dozing while hanging over swaying |ropes and twitching on bare steamer chairs are all unsanitary. For that \reason minions of New York’s health department descended on four flo houses at 10 p. m. of a raw April® night and drove 1,100 jobless men into the streets. “Does the health commissioner think it is more sanitary to spend the night under the pillars of the elevated railway structure?” one of the un- employed victims of the raid asked. Tammany “Explains.” But Louis Harris, health commis- sioner, remembering Tammany’s bid for the White House, was panic- stricken when the public growled at the treatment of unemployed men. He explained that he turned them out of their shelters into the biting cold in order to arouse public sympathy. “Conditions in some of these places,” he said, “were such as no decent person should tolerate. Cer- tainly the most unfortunate of men are entitled to a decent place to sleep. They should not have to sleep roosting on benches, packed in so close that their elbows touch, I want to ask those who prate of the brotherhood of man if a cot is too much to ask for these homeless men.” Jobless Are Bitter. The dislodged workless were bitter. “Why doesn’t the city give us poison so we could put ourselves out of the way?” asked one as he shivered, leaning against a cold elevated pillar. “Do they think it is better for us to freeze to death than to sleep in a tlophouse ?” An atheist society had complained to the health commissioner that the missions, despite liberal financial sup- port, were making a miserable job of caring for the homeless. Slumming parties are routed through the flop- houses to give the well-to-do a shiver vf delightful horror, the atheists said. Bosses Moralize. Despite the Holy Name Mission’s confident expectation that unemploy- ment is here io stay, by its announce- ment of a new $500,000 mission on the Bowery to accommodate 700 sleepers, the anti-union National Association of Manufacturers, after an exhaustive national survey, asserted there is no “serious -unemployment problem.” Unctuous moralizing is the American Bankers Association’s contribution. In a press release, the bankers contrasted the long bread lines of New York with the happy, contented files of bank depositors. No method was out- lined for the jobless to save money. Foreign-Born Hard Hit. The Y. W. C. A. attaches reported only 18 per cent of foreign-born job applicants placed because bosses pre- fer the native-born. Porto Rican women, driven from their island by wretched economic conditions, are es- pecially hard hit here, the Y. W. C. A. says. 20,600 pounds of matzoth, unleavened Passover bread, will be distributed among hungry, jobless Jewish families. Life for $160 Theft Aceused of forging chetks totalling $160, James E. Jones, 39 years old, a Negro of 21 McComb Place, Man- hat'an, faces the possibility of being sentenced to prison for life since, ac- cording to police, his record shows ‘ix previous convictions for burglary and petty larceny. STUDENTS OPPOSE MILITARISM BERKELEY, Cal., April 5, (FP)— Students at the University of Cali- fornia have formed a club to protest against compulsory military training. The authorities are pulling the usual misstatement that military training is obligatory under the charter, though Wisconsin proved it is not. The embattled students have issued pamphlet and arranged for a meeti | West Virginia, Nova Scotia, Mis- foe {the coming strike in the unorganized p= MINERS CHOOSE THEIR LEADERS Brophy, Toohey, Watt Head Committee PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 4 (By Mail).—At the first meeting after the adjournment of the National Save the Miners’ Union Conference held! here late yesterday by the newly elected National Save-the-Union Com- mittee of that organization, officers and an executive committee were chosen and the necessary organiza- tional steps taken to put into effect the decisions adopted by the confer- ence. John Brophy was re-elected chair- man of the Save-the-Union Commit- tee, John Watts of Springfield, Mli- nois, vice-chairman, and Pat Toohey, executive secretary. National Executive. Powers Hapgood, Anthony P. Min- erich, Vincent Kamenovitch and C. Fulp, a Negro delegate, were chosen to serve as active national executive committee, in addition to the execu- tive officers. The district Save-the- Union Committees will elect represen- tatives on the national executive board, to be called to Pittsburgh when necessary. The first business transacted at the meeting was the sending of three} speakers to address meetings of un-| organized miners in western Penn- sylvania who struck Sunday around Midlands and Houston near Canons- burg. This is not the strike of unor- ganized called by the Save-the-Union Committee in Westmoreland, Fayette Somerset and Green counties, but a spontaneous uprising of other unor- ganized outside that territory, in an- swer to the word filtering through the coal fields that the U. M. W. of A. is soon going to be an organiza- tion worth joining. As soon as the men struck, they sent word for Save- the-Union Committee representatives to come and address them. jour forces have been scattered HUNDREDS WILL VISIT NEW UNION SQUARE CENTER Building to House Daily, Workers Party (Continued from Page One) stone said, “is evidence of the steady growth of the Communist and left wing movements of this city. Hitherto in buildings altogether inadequate for our needs. Now at last the workers j will have a building of their own on Union Square, where so many work- ingclass demonstrations have taken place. Everyone Must Help. “But the workers will not have this center unless every member of the Workers (Communist) Party and every sympathizer give all they can to make this home of the militant workingclass of New York a reality. This will not be a charitable donation but a contribution, the fruits of which will be reaped by every worker for many years to come. Workers ,and workingelass organizations must help to buy the building which will be their home.” ’ No admission fee will be charged when the building is opened to visitors. Sports in Brief The executive board of the Metro- politan Workers Soccer League will meet Monday at 8:30 p. m. at 350 E. 81st St. * * * If illness prevents Tom Heeney from participating in his title fight with Gene Tunney, he will be replaced by Johnny Risko. A tentative agree- ment to this effect has been reached by Danny Dunn, Risko’s manager, and Jess McMahon, chief lieutenant of promoter Tex Rickard. * * * CHICAGO, April 5.—Mickey Walk- er, middleweight champion of the world, and Ace Hudkins, the Nebras- ka wildcat, will clash in a 10-round championship bout here July 19, promoter Jim Mullen announced to- day. Walker’s crown will be at stake. Jack Kearns, Walker’s manager, and the middleweight champion reached Chicago from Los Angeles yesterday and immediately went into conference with Mullen, % * * AMARILLO, Texas, April 5.—C. C. (“cross country”) Pyle’s 91 bunion derbyists dug their toes deep into the soil of the Texas panhandle today as they scampered toward Amarillo, 35 miles from Vega. Arne Suominen, leader in the race with an elapsed time of 189:45:10 for the 1152 miles from Los Angeles, had an edge of 5 hours 15 minutes over Andrew Payne, youthful Oklahoman. BUILD DEFENSE IN CLEVELAND AREA Campaign Planned for Miners’ Relief CLEVELAND, April 5.—At a con- ferenen of Cleveland district of the International Labor Defense many steps were considered for the purpose of building up the organization in this district into a powerful mass or- ganization of workers’ defense. A dis- trict organization with an executive committee and an executive council was formed. A tabulation of the mem- bership in the entire district gave ap- proximately 1,900 members. This was considered the basis for more inten- sive organizational work since there Relief Stressed. Alfred Wagenknecht, relief director of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Re- lief Committee was invited to address the meeting on the question of broad- ening out the relief work and organ- izing it on a national scale. His re- port was enthusiastically received. the delegates paying tribute to the work of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Min- ers’ Relief Committee in helping the miners Win the strike with food and clothing. The executive committee was in- structed to organize Save-the-Union Committees in every mining district in the United States, including Wash- ington, Wyoming, Colorado, Iowa, souri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and west- ern Canada. The committee was instructed to issue an appeal for funds to help carry on the work of organization, The appeal will be sent to the gen- eral labor movement. Prepare for Strike April 16, Plans to perfect arrangements for fields of western Pennsylvania on April 16 were thoroughly discussed. ure entire sections of the state of Ohio in which as yet there is no or- ganization. Miners’ Defense First. It was decided that an immediate campaign for defense of the striking coal miners should be organized with meetings held in every organized city. Efforts will be made to organize some of the unorganized sections. Bishop Brown will speak every Sat- urday and Sunday in the district. The meeting which Brown addres- sed in Cleveland on March 24 was the opening meeting of the Miners’ De- fense Campaign even tho it was held in connection with the third annual bazaar. New Members Added. Another meeting was also held in Columbus with a good attendance and which netted a number of new mem- bers for the I L. D. Meetings will follow ir Yorkville, Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Youngstown, Warren, Yo- ledo and in every city where it is pos- sible to arrange 9 meeting. A quota of 3,000 members before * the end of the summer has been set. Monster mass meetings in all the mining areas were planned and an Lewis and his henchmen was met with the decision that the local unions army of speakers representing the|should refuse to recognize legality of Save-the-Union Committee will be|the expulsion of any member of the | mobilized to bring the progressive|union for his activity in the fight message to the rank and file and or-|for a stronger union and a militant ganize them for the winning of the| leadership. George Voyzey voiced the strike and the ousting of the Lewis|sentiment of the delegates when he — machine from control of the union, }stated that the local union The threat of expulsions made by|fight back and kick out the