The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1928, Page 1

CHINESE WORKER-PEASANT TROOPS TAKE TWO DISTRICTS. THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WERK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 84. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1928 THE DAILY WORKER. second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1579. Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 38 First Street, New York, N. ¥, FINAL CITY | EDITION Price 3 Cents MASS PICKETS DEFY TEAR BOMBS OF MINE POLICE REVOLT LIKELY | IN CANTON; RED GUARDS GAINING. Worker-Peasant Armies Threaten Swatow | CANTON, April 8—Workers and | peasants have driven out the reaction- ary troops from the Yeunchun and Yeungkong districts, about 140 miles | south of Canton, according to reports received here. They are in complete ; control of the section and have set up their own governments, the re- ports state. The worker-peasant victory made possible by the refusal of the troops ordered to the districts to fight against the workers and peasants. A large section of the army stationed here is suspectec of secretly siding with the worker-peasant troops and a number of soldiers have been exe- cuted at the orders of the Kuomin- ‘tang authorities. | Gain In North. | Further victories for the worker- | peasant troops are reported from the Hoifung and Lukfung areas. Des- patches states that the Kuomintang | was troops have been completely swept | out of the district by Red Guards. } Reports received here several days | (Continued on Page Three) | MINERS? RELIEF — NOW MORE VITAL Penn-Ohio Committee Issues Call as The paramount importance of re- lief for the striking and locked out miners in the scft coal ficlds was clearly brought out in the Save-the- UnionsConference held at Pittsburgh April 1st. With the militant. miners organizing on a wide scale to take action against the corrupt leadership which has been sabotaging the strike, it is evident that the insignificant re- BY GLERKS' STRIKE. Photo shows four militant mine leaders snapped at the Save-the-Union Conference at Pittsburgh. Prominent in Miners’ Movement to Save the Union From left to right, Powers Hapgood, Damchak, delegate from the anthracite fields, John Brophy and delegate Lamarek, from the an- thracite. The boy in the rear was the representative of the children of striking miners organized into Young Strikers’ Clubs thruout the coal region. FRUIT SHOPS SHUT Workers Fight for 8-Hr. ‘Day, 6 Day Week A large mass meeting, attended by several hundred organized and | unorganized retail fruit clerks yes- | terday voted unanimously to call an immedia‘e general strike of all the) workers in the trade. The,strike be- comes effective this morning in all the retail fruit stores in the city, except the few already having agree- | ments with the union. The meeting} was held in the Bronx Lyceum 3690} Third Ave., near 170th St., which is | to serve as the strike headquarters of the union. Strikers Expect Early Victory. The sentiment among the workers though largely unorganized, was such as justify the feeling that the strike will be brought to,a speedy STAGE SET FOR UNION SQUARE KNOWN AS RE With thousands of militant workers already acquainted with the new Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, as a result of the public inspection of the building Saturday and yesterday, and with the unanimous endorsement ia vin Fos at C08 the project by: tt Party member ‘ship of District 2, the drive for $30,- building is now definitely on. The Workers Center was appro- priately decorated for the inspection with revolutionary posters and ban- SINCLAIR TRIAL ners. The visitors, which included Col. 2 aap Slated many leaders of the Communist and or Gallery left wing movements, as well as of- WASHINGTON, April 8. — With ficials of working class organizations, Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate, due showed great enthusiasm over this to go on trial here today on a charge of conspiracy in the Teapot Dome lease, it Dep to doo as ce Env. | Fort to the $30,000 drive. ernment would attempt now to let the e Continental Trading Co. phase of the | te a is Ate Square Now: oil scandal investigation die out. | William W. Weinstone made an of- It was because Col. Robert w. | ficial announcement of the Workers new home of the revolutionary move- ment and pledged their utmost sup- 000 to purchase and finance the} lief being furnished by the United This is Stewart refused to tell what he knew Center and of the campaign to pur- Mine Workers officialdom will be en- tirely cut off, and the progressive fighters will have to rely solely on themselves and their own rank and file committees for food and shelter. The reaction of the so-called “lead- ership” of the United Mine Workers is amply demonstrated by the evic- tion from union barracks of dele- gates and their families who had the temerity to attend the April 1st con- ference. Threats of “expulsion” | could not keep them from Pittsburgh | --boomerang threats which will shortly be used against these same misleaders. Relief Important. Relief is assuming greater impor- tance as the strike movement thruout the anthracite, Districts 1, 7 and 9 grows. Already there is a strong movement for a strike in support of their soft coal brothers. Local 1703 cf Pittsburgh—to which the mar- tyred Lillis, Campbell and Reilly be- (Continued on Page Five) t | and successful yonclusion, substantiated by the fact that the first skirmish between the workers’ organization and Mason and Forman, Inc., one of the largest employers in the Bronx ended in a speedy victory. Recogntion of the union and the at- tendant improvement in gonditions was obtained after a three-hour strike. The strike call is to be distributed this morning when committee com- posed of fruit clerks and other mem- bers of the Fruit, Grocery and Dairy Clerks’ Union visit the stores thru- out the city. The strike handbill calls upon all clerks in fruit stores to immedia‘ely quit work and go with the committee that will visit the store. The working conditions of the fruit Jerks are’extremely bad. They work 1p to 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. The demands of the union are 10- of the formation of the Continental Trading Co. that he was charged re- cently with contempt of the senate. |chase it at a meeting of members of District 2, Workers (Communist) Stewart, chairman of the board of Party, held Friday night et Irving directors of the Standard Oil Co. of Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. Indiana, has been auapoeneed hae | “The new building,” he said, “is not ear as a witness in the Sinclair trial | re bs ¥ fea was instructed to bring documents BER = paneee Rdg ak but; e bearing on the Continental Trading physical necessity. It is impossible for the organizations that will be Co., which the senate committee failed ‘housed in the Workers Center to con- to get into its record. But it is the hope of President Coolidge, the Stan-| tinue their work effectively in their dard Oil Co., the defendant and the; cesta ey ae republican party that the govern-| lesen rhb nth cag Bia ment prosecutor in the Sinclair trial} “When we move to Union Square vill find a way tu avoid agtually put-| ve will change its name to Red ting Stewart on the stand. are. It will be the real center of revolutionary activity in this city. The Two) It is being said that the story of Malon T. Everhart, son-in-law of for- | (Continued Page ontinuct on rage on we) hour day, six-day week and union condition: FACULTY, STUDEN | WORKERS SCHOOL SOCIAL The first of a series of social events for the purpose of exchanging | views toward the improvement of the teaching technique at the Workers | School was held Saturday night when the institution met at a banquet at® Sollins’ Restaurant, 216 E. 14th St. Tell of School’s Growth. 1 The remarkable advance of the) school, both from the point of view | of number of students and variety | of courses was emphasized by Ber- tram D. Wolfe, agitprop director of the Workers (Communist) Party and airector of the school. “From one} room in 1924 (for, which classes fought each day) and fifty-five stu- dents,” said Wolfe, “the Workers School attendance has grown to over 1.800, with many turned away for lack of space and facilities.” “Over 2,000 students attend classes at the School and its annexes in New York City and adjacent cities in New Jersey,” Wolfe continued. ‘In addi- tion, gradvates: of the School are directors of branch schools in Balti- ee 3 eS nearly 100 teachers and students of Cleveland, Chicago and Seattle. I New Enlarged Quarters. Wolfe said that with the acquisi- tion of the New Workers Center, 26- 28 Union Square, which will house | the school in addition to the office of District 2 of the Workers (Com- munist) Party and The DAILY WORKER, the school will have 13 class rooms and an auditorium seat- ing 500. Another floor, the sixth in the building, may also become avat- | able for the school’s uses at the end of the year, Wolfe pointed out. “Just as the class struggle has heen abandoned by the class-collab- orationists,” Wolfe said, “so have they abandoned genuine workers’ 400,000 U. S. Children jyass Meet Tomorrow Need Aid, Report Says A mass situate (ote the unem- WASHINGTON, D. C., April 8.—, ployed workers of Brooklyn will be That there are over 400,000 children |held at 29 Graham Ave. tomorrow at in this country who need government /10 a. m. The meeting will be held aid because of low wages, unemploy-!under the auspices of the New York ment and disability of parents, is ad- Council for the Unemployed, Brooklyn mitted in a report just made public} branch. The meeting is one of a series by the U. S. Department of Labor, |in the national campaign of the New and entitled “Public Aid to Mothers | York Council for the Unemployed to with Dependent Children.’ force the city, national and federal Forty-two states, the District of | governments, by means of mass dem- Columbia, Alaska and Hawaii have|onstrations, to effect suitable meas- adopted laws authorizing assistance/ures of relief for the more than 4,- from public funds for dependent chil- dren, the report says. United Sta ‘Brooklyn Jobless Hold’ 000,000 unemployed workers in the | CAP OFFICIALS | Business, Not Fight, Is | “Urged by Zaritsky More and more employers in the cap and millinery indust: advantage of their cooper the right wing leadership of the Cloth Hat Cap and Millinery Workers | Union, by lowering the working con- tions in the shops by speed-up systems and wage cuts. The latest example of this was heard recently from workers in the shop of The Frank P. Heit Company, one of the largest New York firms. This firm had recently received permission of the union officialdom to discharge a portion of the work- ers not producing sufficiently under (Continued on Page Five) INCREASED FARE DUE THIS WEEK Only Mass Resistance Can Prevent It It is becoming almost a certainty that the Interborough Rapid Transit Company will this week win its fight |for an increased fare in the federal courts. City officials have been cut little hints that they will then py to a justice of the United S Supreme Court for a stay pending sending p- highest courts. Such attempts to keep un hope in | the minds of the long-believing public in line with previous statements hy which the public has been kept believing that the city officials have been doing something to protect the interests of the people. It is now generally admitted that the Interborough has secured the ad- vantage in the situation as was pointed out from the first by those |who understood the game of the |Tammany politicians who are the |tcols of the traction companies. Organized mass resistance of the jmost immediate and wide-scale char- acter is the only force which can now (prevent the seven cent fare. 2 LEADERS @ Admit Policies and (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 8.—The Pravda publishes the letter of Antonov Ovseenko addressed to Stalin on April 4th and an extract from Krestin- sky’s letter to Yaroslavsky, in which they declare that they have broken Communist Party, education. We haye instead instances of individual philanthropy, the Car. negie Fund, and the Workers Educa- with the Opposition. _Antonov Ovseenko, referring to his statement tothe Political Getober 28th with the appended later hat to Trotsky in which he condemned the Opposition’s struggle against the and which de- clared that he agreed fundamentally with the political line of the majesty of the Central Committee, but dis- agreed with its organizational policy, now declares that events have oc- curred since then which have com- pelled him to revise his views and he now completely agrees with TROTSKY OPPOSITION Tactics of U.S.S.R. Party Are Correct the policy of the Central Committee on the organizational question. Admits Policy Incorrect. “T joined the Opposition and openly decided to work with the Opposition in the inner Party struggle after my conversation with you on December 28rd,” Ovseenko’s letter says. “Im- mediately after this conversation, I Political Bureau an inadmis- inued on Page Three) MELLON POLICE LAUNCH GAS ATTACK ON WOMEN, CHILDREN OF MONTOUR PIT AT LIBRARY “You Can Put Us in Jail,” Women Shout, “but You Can’t Stop Mass Picketing” Warrant Out for Arrest of Corporal H. L. Jones,! Who Led Coal and Iron Police RRL eS { 4 PITTSBURGH, April 8.—Hurling tear gas bombs and using?! their clubs, coal and iron police in the employ of the Pittsburgh’ Coal Company yesterday attacked a m picketing demonstration’ sie = : °of miners, their wives and chil-, dren before the Montour No. 10 mine at Library, fifteen miles! from here. Notwithstanding the terroristiec tac; ties of the hired thugs in the pay off the Mellon company, the miners and! particularly the women refused:to be intimidated. Women Defiant. DEFEND INNOCENT MINERS, IS CALL Bonita, Mendota and Moleski in Danger “You can put us in jail,” Mrse : Bee : Christine Dolence is reported to hava WILKES-BARRE, April 8—A call) -aig, “but you can’t stop us and you to the workers of the countr to the defense of Sam Bonita, Adam | Moleski, and Steve Mendola, the thr innocent miners who have been in- dicted for murder in connection with | the shooting of Frank Agati, a gun- man, who it is charged was in the employ of the Cappelini machine in District 1. The National Bonita-Moleski-Men- | dola Defense Committee, Room 313) Coal Exchange Building, of this city, > .<Dziengiglewski,. secretary, can’t stop mass picketing.” “We will put you in the hospital,” the police are reported to have threat- ened. The attacking officers were led by Corporal H. L. Jones for whom a war= | rant is now out. One of the pickets, | Frank Chenuda, swore out a warrant for his arrest. The women of the little city prac- tically under control of the Mellon police, today were determined that A eT the offieial and orieinal com {they would’go Hack on the picket Hine, mittee having charge of the defense | Mass Picketing Spreading. of the three miners, today issued the} _Mass picketing has spread since the |following statement: Pittsburgh conference which endorsed Danger at Hand. | this method of winning the strike. Pat “Tomorrow, our three fellow works ‘'agan and other officers of District 5 ers who have suffered and sacrific: are understood to have been trying in our behalf come to trial on trumped| to give out the information that the up charges in connection with leaders of the Save-the-Union Com- shooting of a contractor and gunr mittee are seeking to create violence “Everyone by this time knows that| and disorder. The miners here under- these workers are innocent; that thov| stand, however, that mass picketing is are being held because they dared to| legal and absolutely necessary and take the initiative in fighting our] will continue this method under the battle against the operators inst | jeadership of the progressive forces the lowering of wage standards a in spite of the sabotage of the Lewis against the vicious individual con-| henchmen and the hired gunmen of tract system. For this they are now/the Mellon company. in jail and for this “crime” they will be sent to the electric chair, innocently as Sacco and Vanzetti were sent to | | the chair innocently, unless the work- ers of the country issue a protest in LEWIS MACHINE — the final decision of the case in the | time. “The workers of the country mus not delay. Tomorrow, Bonita, Mole ski and Mendola begin the fight for their lives. They must not be to the fate of Sacco and Vanz jthe fate of Mooney, Billings, jeneck Ventaurato and his \worker, to the fate of the miners and the Centralia pr These sacrifices are not y dences of the fiendishness of the ¢ emies of labor, but at the same an evidence of the weakness o | working c’ PLANS NEW MOVE Support Government ; Scheme WILKES-BARRE, April 8.—Gow -|ernment int tion in the anthrae i against the mine works 1 by the militant Local 1703 at h, are fighting the individ- =m, was foreshadow- announcement that al mediator, this city, would into the situas fellow irgh, | “Labor must respond | A prot2;t should g ization. Write, “peace Organiza 1 offi s of the Cappelini re in District 1 denied that they knowledge of the move, it is -| understood that they are behind the S| maneuver to defeat the miners and Poneman F them back into the contract | mines. The plan is believed to have been } worked out by John L. Lewis, arch- |traitor of the union, when he found [that the miners of Local 1703 com- etely rejected his recent order to to work for the Pennsylvania Room . | Wilkes,Barre. Reso.utions passed at labor and frate ings and sent to us. Con for the defense of these wor be raised before it is too late. should be} h: BISCUIT WORKERS work quietly during the past few days, “sizing up the situation” and Speed-up Is Used AS; will, it is understood, use indirect wleay, ways in the effort to compel the min- Club Over Wor cers ers to accept his plan. The plan, Complaints against the hardship whatever its provisions, will un- 2 loubtedly contain the condition that which the one day lay-off at the Na- peeks win bce tional Biscuit Co., at 9th Ave. and the miners return to the mines. The Pennsylvania Coal Com 15th St., is causing the workers are|jn whose behalf Davis has pha: being heard in many quarters. past “mediated,” is believed to favor Ten thousand workers. who have|the move. There is some suspicion Leen temporarily thrown out of a job|among the miners that the Brennan by the lay off, are now awaiting the |forces will support the plan. The “pleasure” of their bosses to recall them. The full day lay-off is the Brennan forces are shown to have gradually slowed up the campaign for third proclaimed by the company this year. the special convention. These forces, All day lay-offs are not the worst while nominally attacking Cappelini, have worked Aogether with Lewis’ of the methods used by the National Biscuit Company, however. More than half of the factory force is working part time, and the threat of further part time work is held over (Continued on Page Two) policies; they have attacked the only forces which can save the miners’ union, the Save-the-Union Committee, At the present moment it is even thoug! are di that some of their followers ing with Cappelini, Ee wR