The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 7, 1928, Page 2

Page Two Anthracite Strike Sentiment Grows Despite Union Officials and Operators ne DAILY AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SA’ SATURDAY, APRIL KA 1928 “PEACE” PLAN IS. POLITICIANS FIGHT FOR $2,000,000,000 LOOT IN ILLINOIS ELECTION PUSHED IN ORDER TO STOP WALKOUT NY iners Attack Officers | for Betrayal | By LAWRENCE SCRANTON, April 6. tainty of a str in the anthracite in the near future causing consider- | able concern among the operators, merchants, chamt of commerce of the hard coal districts as well as | among their allies, the Lewis hench-| men of these districts. The sentiment for such a strike has been greatly strengthened by the call of the na- tional Save-the- m conference just | adjourned at Pittsburgh. One of the methods by which the operators and the Lewis henchmen | are seeking to combat this sentiment | is through propaganda issued by the so-called Anthracite Cooperative As- sociation. ROSS | — The cer- | ¢ “Anthracite Spiri Under the slogan “America’s Most | Unique Organization” a combination | of Chamber of Commerce officials, | bank presidents, leading merchants, ! coal operators’ protective associations | and officials of the Lewis machine in| the United Mine Workers are adver- | fising extensively the Anthracite Co- | operative Asso ion, the avowed} purposes of which are to secure a| constant and uninterrupted supply of | coal; to broaden the scope and use- fulness of anthracite; to emphasize through education the value of an- thracite; to increase prosperity thru Steady employment; to assure self- preservation through co-operation, | and to create and maintain the “Anthracite Sp: us The object of this cooperative move- ment is to lower the coast of anthra- cite production and to break the min- ers’ union through the most flagrant elass-collaborationist methods. The leaflet distributed by the association speaks of a program of “education,” | the results of which are to be the en-! thronement of anthracite as something | holy, untouchable, “American”; An-| thracite is to be proven the “founda- tion stone in American life,” a pio- neer industry in “American progress | and property.” | Poisonous Education. A glance at the benefactors beltind the Anthracite Cooperative Associa- sion, board of directors, is decid- edly illuminating: It includes such bosom pals as R. H. Buchanan, presi- dent of the Northumberland Mining Co. of Scranton, Rinaldo Cappelini, Lewis henchman, president of Dis- trict No. 1, Chris J. Golden, Tri-Dis- trict Chairman and President of Dis- trict No. 9, Thomas Kennedy, Inter- national Secretary-Treasurer of the union, Andrew Matt President | District No. 7, Daniel T. Pierce,' Vice | Chairman, Anthracite Operators Con-| ference and FE. H. Suender, General | Manager, Madeira Hill Coal Co. The! rest.of the members of the Board are | all presidents of chambers of com-| Merce, merchants’ protective associa- | tions and bankers. “Cooperation.” The revelation has been made that operators, corrupt mn officials and! bankers are actually cooperating with | pne another! Coo ating against the | Smpending strike 2 anthracite! | Cooperating to prepare public senti- ment against such a strike! Cooper- ating, in short, against the progres- sive and militant min in the an- thracite field, and indirectly patting} the murde campbell, Pete | son the ack | “American j is this same who are us stone of Amer —in an attempt to rai electric chair Bonita, Moleski and} Mendola, accused of the murder of Frank Agati, tool of the Lewis-Cap- pelini murder machine. MINERS’ AID MEET FOR NEW ENGLAND Conference — in Boston) April 15 BOSTON, April 6.—The Pennsyl-| vania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee of New England will hold a confer- ence Sunday, April 15, at 2 p. m. at 62 Chambers St., it is announced by Eva Hoffman, local secretary. ‘The daily press reports that 100,000 “The daily press reprts that 100,000 more miners have been locked out. The strike movement in the Illinois coal fields is spreading. The need for relief for those miners who have ‘been out for one year is greater than before. “The Pittsburgh Committee has requested us to help coordinate the work in New England by calling New England Conference For Miners Relief. efactors” ation | These fellow- pts tN in Coolidge’s party are in the big pe fight to determine which band of political Tanai shall grab the $2, 000, 000,000 loot in | public funds that are to be spent in Illinois and Chicago during the next four years. Left to right they are U. S. Senator Deneen, leader of the anti-Thomp- son faction; Louis L. Emmerson, the Deneen candidate against Len Small for governor; Judge John A. Swanson, whose home was recently demolished by a bomb; Robert E. Crowe, Swanson’s political opponent; “Diamond Joe” Esposito, dead gangster; Wm. H. Thompson, mayor of Chicago, and Len Small, the Thompson candidate for governor. partial and generous contributor to the slush funds of either political faction. The “gentlemen” have not shied at murder, clubbings, bombings ,and other devices. At the extreme right is Sam Insull, im- | Where Runaway Truck Crushed Baby’s Carriage Crashing down a hill at 162 St. and Riverside d Drive, a driver- \ less truck yes- “ terday demol- pished a baby carriage, throw- ». ing the child to | the sidewalk un- hurt. The wreck of the carriage 4 is shown above. Insufficient re- pair of breaks and engines is way that | companies cut down head.” one “over- INTERBORO READY FOR 7 CENT FARE MINERS TAKE UP GREAT STRUGGLE Locals Demand Special Conventions (Continued from Page One) jand in Fagan’s Pittsburgh district, have refused to admit that their men are expelled. So far nothing has happened to these locals, taking this logical stand. Their relief has not yet been cut off, and their women and children are not yet dispossessed. Possibly one reason is that the | Penn: ia-Ohio Miners’ Relief has its eye especially on such sore points. and will make extraordinary efforts | to take the place of such little relief | as the machine is now granting. Also, summer is near, barracks are not either so hard to duplicate, or so nec- essary any more. And the Save the Un Committee in its meeting Duest y tance to th to disp they From now on they will a have built for them- | selves, |resist dispossession by the coal com-|in thee atte ee all off the fare! 2s from their houses. And this| increase until a ion. Those} policy of teeistance is not liked by|who are on the ide” know that resistance to expulsion, fact, it always tried to make expul- | mitted sions easy for the operators, by friendly arrangements between the lawyers of both sides. Committee will attend this confer-|layed by Cloudy weather, Captain Your organization is invited to| George H. Wilkins, noted Australian ence. send delegates. “The very life of the Miners’ Union depends upon the support of the | workers’ organizations thruout the erat af (Continued from Page One) the city’s case against the traction companies. Craig at this moment is counsel for the Eighth Avenue and the Madison zivenue Surface Lines. One of his chief activities during the past two years has been an attempt to sell these lines to the city at a price satisfac- tory to his companies. For nearly eight years the controller was at the center of those public officials in the city hall who sought to increase fare. Accuses Company. In Craig’s answer to the Inter- borough in the increased fare suit he charged that the company had stolen millions of dollars from the city by withholding earnings which should have gone to pay the city as a partner in the roads. In addition Craig charged that the Interborough had in- flated its initial construction costs by some of dollars through its of carrying out the construction work ‘on the so-called dual subway contracts. During the eight years in which Craig was controller of the city, charged, and while he was doing his best to secure an increased fare, he| worked out detailed plans | extreme any at-|-° s the miners of the | YS also | a! in| elective position. naturally omiited to state tl facts infec ion although it ler law to do so. moment, Craig Tammany politicians] slated for some appointive or| Some believe that he is being primed as the next mayor of New York. WILKINS DELAYS FLIGHT. SEWARD, Alaska, April 6—De- explorer, and his pilot, Carl Eielson, were today awaiting a favorable op- portunity to take off at Point Barrow CHICAGO 6. 0. P, HAS 2 BILLION “TEAPOT DOME” Repubticans — Shoot It Out for Control (Continued from Page One) Circuit Judge John Swanson for Cook County prosecutor and Otis Glen for senator. Sen. Charles S, Deneen is the organizer of the opposition coali- tion. Among the acts of violence which have characterized the opera- tion of Illinois democracy in the pres- ent primary campaign were the bomb- ing of the homes of Senator Deneen and Judge Swanson. Thompson Police Boss. Among the assassinations was that of “Diamond Joe” Esposita, ward leader. Senator Deneen’s home was bombed while the senator was return- ing to Washington after marching with the mourners at Esposita’s lavish funeral. Five thousand of Chicago’s 6,000 police, controlled by Thompson, have been assigned to be on duty election day. There will be more than 25,000 volunteer “watchers” and challengers at the polls, “watchers” being a very polite term, of course. Coolidge Support Boasted. Thompson, self-appointed unofficial spotter of British taint in American history books, is banking,—banking is right,—heavily on President Cool- ilge’s approval of his administration and his republican party loyalty. “If Attorney-general Strom attacks me I will resign and ask President Coolidge to turn over federal patron- age to me,” Mayor Thompson said boastfully in a speech. “The presi- dent understands what is going on in Chicago.” In another speech he said “the ax will fall on traitors” who sell out the “America-first ticket.” He was talk- ing then to ward committeemen. Thompson is charging that Senator Deneen succeeded in having a large gang of thugs shipped to Chicago un- der the guise of federal prohibition agents to aid his own faction in the campaign. Support for Thompson’s boast of support in Washington is found in the fact that the federal grand jury sworn in last Monday adjourned Fri- day until after the primary without returning an indictment or making a report. Miners Will Appear In “Varieties” April 15th; Proceeds for Relief Three striking coal miners will ap- pear in a special feature act at the |‘“Miners’ Varieties” that the Pennsyl- vania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee will present at Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., Sunday, April 15, it was announced yesterday. Others on the program are Jules Bledsoe, famous Negro baritone; Dorsha, interpretive dancer! Roy Hel- mer, well known boy pianist. A one- act play of Negro life will be pre- sented by the Workers Drama League. STANDARD EXPLOITS BOLIVIA. LA PAZ, Bolivia, April 6—Almost four million acres of land in Bolivia are under exploitation by the Stan- on the contempla’ed aerial expedition over the North Pole to Spitzbergen. dard Oil Company, according to a company vepcts issued year: 30 CAPMAKER PICKETS ARE RELEASED Arrested in 4- in 4-Month Cnicago Fig Fight on Piece Work System CHICAGO, April 6.—The 30 ar- rested union capmakers, pickets in the 4-month lock-out in Chicago, were freed unconditionally when their eases finally came up in court. Some of them had been picked up by the police to be held for contempt in connection with the Denis Sullivan injunction against picketing and other | strike activities of the union. Others were pinched on charges of | disorderly conduct. All were turne “A representative of the Pittsburgh| loose by the judges for lack of evi- ' dence. The remains in force, The lock-out was instituted when the bosses’ association, led by its manager, Percy Ginsberg, a former right wing union official, demanded that the workers hereafter work under the piece-work system. The injunction declared until Zaritsky made open statements at union’ meetings advo- cating surrender to the piece-work |demand of the employers. The arrests were made when the leadership of the strike was in the hands of militant fighters against the piece-work syste. Several days ‘Kenosha knitters striking for the rec- bosses’ leader, a close friend of In-|ago, however, the right wing ma- |ternational Union President Max Za-|chine deposed the popular leadership \ritsky, had ordered the lock-out be-|and substituted it with one that will cause he knew that the union head) probably concede this demand to the |was in favor of the piece-work sys-|employers, according to the belief of tem. In fact, the lock-out was not the strikers. a FIX PICKET 600 Children hildren Confro TRIAL DAY mt Scabs at bs at Kenosha MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 6—The date for the trials of the 19 leaders and active strikers charged with cont empt of court for violating an anti- picketing injunction, was set yesterday afternoon by Federal Judge Geiger for April 17. This is the judge who? ‘MINERS SEND AID; issued the vicious anti-strike writ. The hearing of 26 strikers, who faced similar charges, took place Thursday. A date for their trial will be set shortly, they were informed, The Kenosha strikers are continuing to picket the Allen-A hosiery mill in spite of the restraining order. The strong fight carried on by the ognition of their union and against the attempt of the bosses to install a speed up system, has compelled the court to grant them a trial by jury, instead of the usual method of the judge’s ruling on contempt charges himself, Following the recent arrests of al- most 50 participants in a picket dem- onstration outside the mill gates, the strikers organized a picket line of 600 children of the striking union knitters, to go to the mill gates and face the strikebreakers imported from other states." The company, hearing of this proposed plan, tried to avoid the ef- fect such a demonstration would have on their scabs, by discharging them a half hour earlier, but they were not quick enough. The children were there when the strikebreakers, under heavy guard, filed out of the factory. MILK CZAR GIVES GRAFT TESTIMONY Tells of Fat Checks of Bootleg Dealers Harry Danziger, New York, “milk ezar” was the principal witness yes- terday before Supreme Court Justice Arthur S. Tompkins during the inves- tigation into sources of graft in con. nection with the mail inquiry in Brooklyn Danziger, according to his own tes- timony, was connected with milk and cream dealers who organized to “ham- mer competitors” by having inspectors of the health department bring pres- sure to bear on the competitors. He received two suspended sentences in Queens ond Bronx after agreeing to help out the prosecution. Yesterday, however, Danziger suffered an almost complete ioss of memory, failing to recall the name of any milk dealer who had teen intimidated. Danziger testified thet he was lector for certain milk dealers, lecting about $75,000 enrually and paying the milk inspectors from $25 to $75 a week. H+ had-sin “a:ljust- ors” to whom he paid $7) a weck, but they demanded $175 and he had to quit. He also testified that he had re- ceived many checks ranging from $400 to $2,000 from the various bootleg milk dealers. The latest milk graft ring was un covered when a iawyer and three of- ficers of the Morris Milk Co. were arrested severs| weeks ago, charged with bribery and $80,000 extortion. They are said to have carried on the same activities as the famous Danz- iger ring. eol- col- MISHAPS KILL 1, INJURE 7. One person was killed and seven injured in automobile accidents that occurred in Middlesex County, N. J., Thursday night and early yesterday. The dead person is Edward Gross- man, 18 years old, of South River, N. J., who was killed when the auto- mobile in which he was riding over- turned, Mrs. James Moran, of South River, who was riding in the same automobile, was slightly bruised. Six men living in Bayonne, N. J., were injured, some of them critically, when their automobile overturned four times on the state highway, four miles from New Brunswick. ‘THOUSANDS OF ACRES FLOODED MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 6.—Thou- sands of acres of valuable farm land will be under water soon in the White and Spring River valleys in Arkan- sas. About 4,000 acres has already keen flooded by the rising waters, SUBS GREAT NEED “Daily” "Essential in Fight to Save Union Despite the fact that the striking miners have not enough money to pay for subscriptions to The DAILY WORKER, they are continuing to help the Daily financially, though they are themselves sorely in need of aid. “We have been reading The DAILY WORKER,” writes Nellie Shaffer, of Parnassus, Pa., which is located in the mining districts, “and we saw that you needed help, so my sister, Helen Barich, and my brother-in-law, Joe Barich and I have started to col- lect out here. 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I am, enclosing herewith $........ ter a free subscription to a striking miner, $6.00 12 months | 3.50 6 months 2.00 3 months 1.50 2 months 1.00 + 1 month Name LABOR PROTESTS TERROR IN JAPAN Hold Mass Meet in New York Today A mass meeting of Japanese work- ers to protest against the persecution of workers and peasants by the Ta- maka government in Japan will be held this afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Japanese Employment Bureau, 121 W. 42nd St. Speeches will be made by leaders of the Japanese Workers Alliance, under whose auspices the meeting will be held. A large number of unemployed workers are expected to be present. WORKERS SCHOOL, BOX MAKERS BACK MAY DAY MEETING Endorse Madison Sq. Garden Rally The Paper Box Makers’ Union, which has just ended a struggle for better conditions, through its secre- tary, Clarina Michelson, yesterday endorsed the united front demonstra- tion on May Day called by the Work- ers (Communist) Party in Madison Square Garden. D. Benjamin, speaking last night for the 1,000 worker-students of the Workers School, of which he is as- sistant director, called upon all mili- tant workers to show their devotion to the cause of labor by attending and supporting the meeting. Benjamin’s statement reads in full as follows: “The Workers School and its stu- dent body of over 1,000 will‘ be on hand on ‘the afternoon of May 1, at Madison Square Garden, to celebrate May 1, the day of struggle for labor, In Class Struggle. “The motto of the Workers School is ‘Training for the Class Struggle.’ On this May 1, when the miners of America are continuing their splendid struggle for the very life of their union and the life of the American labor movement with renewed vigor, when signs of mass resistance on the part of organized and unorganized workers, employed and unemployed workers, are manifesting themselves in various parts of the country, when the fight against ‘American. imperial- ism and the war danger must be pursued more vigorously—the Work- ers School pledges itself to intensify its efforts in the direction of ‘Train- ing for the Class Struggle,’ to reach thousands of new militant workers and prepare them for more effective work in the labor movement. “The Workers School calls upon all left wing workers to remember the spirit of 1886, the spirit of the mili- tant labor movement in Ameri¢a of those years; to remember the splen- did struggles in Homestead, Law- rence, Ludlow, Seattle and Passaic and to make the Madison Square gar- den meeting this May 1 stand out as another inspiration, another symbol of struggle and solidarity to the workers of this Sees e LN Oh ff FRUIT CLERKS TO TAKE STRIKE VOTE To Hold Mass Meet in ‘Bronx Tomorrow A general strike vote will probably be taken at the meeting tomorrow afternoon of the unorganized fruit clerks at the Bronx Lyceum, 3690 Third Ave., near 170th St., called by the Fruit, Grocery and Dairy Clerks’ Union. This organization recently carried thru a struggle with the right wing leadership which established a dual union, in order to remove the mili- tant leadership, but failed miserably when the progressive leadership of the grocery clerks carried thru a suc- cessful general strike, organizing most of the stores in the city, Now the union is beginning a drive to or- ganize the fruit clerks who work 14 hours a day for 7 days a week. The drive for membership among the fruit clerks received great im- petus, many hundreds joining the union, when the first strike closed 5 stores operated by one of the largest retail fruit companies and which end- ed in victory for the union. The strike lasted about 6 hours. 2 Months’ Sub To “Daily” Is Now 1 Dollar Announcement of a special offer to bring The DAILY WORKER to |thousands of workers whose means do not permit them to subscribe to the paper at the usual rates, has been made by A. 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