The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1928, Page 1

a) ‘union, declared that of the 1,000 boss ‘THE DAILY W« FOR THE ORG* FIGHTS: /ATION OF THB CNet aN Dd Fou TH! “HOUR WEEK Pom 1 PO PARTY ty AT, V. No.. 86. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. HE DAILY WoO Entered as second-class matter NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1928 at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Published @ Publishing Six. FINAL CITY EDITION aily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents ASK DEATH IN TRIAL SHOOTING, FRAUD, VIOLENCE, MARK CHICAGO VOTING Men, Women, Kidnap- ped and Slugged CHICAGO, April 10.—The polls had been opened but a few minutes when the roar of machine guns sound- ed on the west side. Like an echo, from another part of the city came the bark of sawed-off shotguns as hoodlums and gangsters took this method of obtaining votes for their candidate. Election workers were beaten, one man was shot, « dozen kidnapped bal- | lot boxes were stolen and destroyed. —bloodshed and warfare marked Chi- | eago’s wildest primary election. Women Beaten, | Women were beaten and hurled | from polling places. Men were handed | ballots, pens were jabbed into their hands, and with the muzzle of a re- volver boring into their backs, were instructed how to vote. The ertire personnel of a precinct polling place, including women clerks | and judges, were summarily snatched from their tasks by armed gangsters end were kidnaped as other hoodlums | rifled the ballot boxes. | Gangsters Direct Voting. A gang of men in an automobile | appeared before a precinct in the 42nd | ward. The men sat in the car with wmachine guns trained on the line of (Continued on Page Five) BARBERS STRIKE IN WHITE PLAINS Almost “All. Brooklyn Shops Settled WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., April 10. Following the successful strike ac- tion taken by Brooklyn Local 913, Journeymen Barbers’ Union, the White Plains local of the barbers’ union declared a strike here yester- day. After negotiating for two} weeks, the boss barbers refused to concede the workers’ demand for a wage increase of $10 a week. The strike declared in White Plains | affects about 100 workers in 21 shops, seo Settlement Forecast. At a meeting of the Brooklyn barbers held yesterday in the Brook- | lyn Labor Lyceum, the prediction was made by the strike leaders that | the strike would be almost, complete- | ly settled by the end of the week. | Samuel Levy, president of the barbers formerly belonging to the! employers’ association no more than 300 remain with whom individual agreements have not been signed. Refuse to Recognize Association. In declaring the strike the union announced it would refuse to deal with the Master Barbers’ Associa- tion, demanding that employers de- siring settlement with the union make separate applications for contracts. An immediate rush of applications followed this announcement, due to the fact that the strike was called just pricy to the holiday period. Sev- eral employers declared that they asked for agreements despite threats of “trouble” from their organization. Two Boosted Up, The Brooklyn workers have tied up | the Brooklyn and Queens ‘barber shops with a strike in order to force the return of a $5 wage reduction made by the members of the em- ployers’ association several months ago. eh. shops not settling with the union are being consistently picketed, according to an announcement made at the strike headquarters. Tammany Hall Hopes to Take Over Queens Special Assistant Attorney General Emory Buckner yesterday began is- suing subpoenas for the 75 witnesses he expects to summon before the ex- traordinary grand jury which will sift the $29,500,000 Queens Borough sewer scandal, particularly the con- duct in office of Maurice Connolly, resigned president of Queens. The jury to be convened Monday will commence the hearing of evi- dence May 7. With the Connolly ma- chine discredited, the Tammany Hall democratic machine of Gov. Al. Smith Opposi fonists Fight’Party in German Poll BERLIN, April 10—Formation of a so-called “Lenin Bund” and a de- cision to nominate candidates for the next elections to the Reichstag are the latest manouvres of the Masiow- Fischer renegades in a holy crusade against the Comintern and the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union. Delegates of the new “Lenin Bund,” which is practically the organization- al face of the Trotsky Opposition, met here during the Easter holidays and decided to present a list of can- didates forthe elections to both the Reichstag and the Prussian Diet. Werner Scholem is one of the lead- ers of the’ renegade group. DLA. R, AIDS FIGHT ON DAILY WORKER Dissension Reveals La- bor-Baiting A factional fight has developed within the ranks of the Daughters of the. American Revolution, a pa- | triotie organizaticn. as a result of the revelation that the leaders of the society have been guided in their poli- cies by the vicious anti-radical pro- paganda disseminated by Fred Mar- vin, director of the Key Men of America, an organization of super- patriots. Helen Tufts Bailie, a prominent member of the D. A. R., has written a pamphlet in which she charges that the society has been making use of a blacklist supplied by Marvin con- taining the names of individuals and organizations accused of “Commun- ism, Bolshevism, Sovietisni, socialism, jiberalism and pacificism.” “Interlocking Directorate.”” The pamphlet also reveals that the rresident general of the D. A. R. is 2 member of the advisory council of the Key Men of America. The Key Men of America, together with the Military Order of the World War, has taken the leading part in the attacks upon The DAILY WORK- ER during the past year. The revelation that the Daughters of the American Revolution is also behind the general anti-Communist, anti-labor campaign and is connected by “interlocking directorate” with the Key Men of America only serves to emphasize how insidious and wide- spread are the attempts to beat the working class into submission. The attack against the: DAILY (Contined on Page Three} TO REVEAL FACTS OF SOZZI MURDER Many Speakers at Anti- Fascist Meeting Plans for the. mass protest meet- ing against the assassination of Gas- tone Sozzi, Italian Communist, at Tammany Hall, 145 E. 14th St., next Sunday, are being completed. Sozzi was killed by order of Mus- solini at the Perouse prison near Rome on the night of February 7, this year. His death was kept secret by the fascist press. Two guards who witnessed the torture of the 23- year-old revolutionist -earried the news out of Italy to France, where Henri Barbuse made a major issue of the murder. Mass meetings were held in Paris, Basle and Brussels during the week of March 20. The meeting here is being arranged under the auspices of the Anti-fas- cist Alliance of North America, 51 E. 10th St. Speakers will include Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER; Moissaye Olgin, editor of “The Hammer”; Max Shachtman, of The Labor Defender; Norman Thom- as; Hugo Gellert, and William W. Weinstone. Norman Hapgood will act as chairman. Representatives of Spanish, Polish, German and Belgian anti-fascist or- ganizations will be present to protest against the fascist white terror in their native countries. ' STUDENTS DONATE TO “DAILY.” Members of the Workers School Students’ Council who participated in Mayor James J. Nhe are plan: a hike to Jamaica Woods last Sun- contributed $5 to The DAILY. > 33,000 WORKERS MAY BE INVOLVED Fight Spreads at New) Bedford Mills | BULLETIN. i NEW BEDFORD, Mass., April | 10.—One hundred and forty work- | ers in the New Bedford silk mills | walked out after an announcement | | of a wage cut of 25 per cent effec- | tive on Monday next. The strike | was not preceded by a vote or meet- | ing. The men said that the com- | pany had violated an agreement by | | cutting the wage. The 30,000 cot- | | ton mill workers will vote on | Thursday evening as to whether | they will strike on Monday as a re- | sult of the 10 per cent cut in wages announced yesterday. * * * TAUNTON, Mass., Aprir 10.—A wage reduction of 10 per cent in the cotton manufacturing mills of this city was announced yesterday, fol- lowing on} heels of the wage slash made tile mills of New Bedfor ‘w announcement adds é extile workers -to the 30, i by the New Bed- ford mil. -vw7rs’ action. The no- tices posted declare the wage cut as becoming effective Monday, April 16. * 8 Strike Seems Certain. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., April 10. —The savagry of the wage cut an- nounced yesterday by the New Bed- ford mill owners affecting more than 30,000 workers, which brings down the average wage of the workers here to not over $15.a week, has created such a sentiment for a general strike that it would be practically im- possible for any labor union leaders to stop general strike action. ~ Plans for membershin meetings of the locals of the American Federation of Textile Operatives are well under way, the New Bedford Textile Council leadership announced yesterday. The Council met last night and came to a decision that a general vote will be taken on strike ballots at the local meetings. Textile mill committees, formed by militant workers in organ-! ized and unorganized textile plants | throughout New England, are issuing | leaflets in the plants calling for an| immediate general strike, in answer | to the ruthless attack made by the | bosses. Of the 27 mills in New Bedford (Continued on Page Five) ! > WALKOUT BEGINS; F BONITA, MOLESK!, MENDOLA' Textile Strike Starts as Workers F ight Wage Slashes Left to right are Sam Bonita, Steve Mendola with hiz young wife, and Adam Moleski. The Lewis- Cappelini machine is attempting to railroad these three. innocent min- ers to the electric chair in an effort --——___ —_—--—--——— © to break the growing strength of the progressives in the United Mine Workers in the Anthracite. now on trial for “murder” at the Wilkes-Barre court house. Cappelini Machine Would Railroad These Miners to Electric Chair PITTSTON MINERS FACE TESTIMONY OF LEWIS FORCES |Machine Witnesses Aid | | | BULLETIN. | WILKES-BARRE, April 10.— The state rested its case at 4 o'clock | y in the murder frame-up against ita, Moleski and Mendola. Before court adjourned J. Frank Flannery, counsel for defense, made the open- ling speech to the jury. The defense |is expected to begin the calling of witnesses tomorfow morning. * * * WILKES-BARRE, April 10.— | Fighting for their lives against the attempt of the operator-controlled court to railroad them to the electria chair on a trumped-up murder charge, Sam Bonita, Adam Moleski and Steve Mendola yesterday sat in court here during the first day of their trial POLITICIAN GETS and witnessed the swearing in of the | jury which is to decide their fate. ~ KNAPP JURY GALL “ern The jury! A business manager, a superintendent, a justice of the peace, a wholesaler, a brother of the sheriff of the county who described himself jas a laborer, a clerk, two laborers, a | |store keeper, a blacksmith and an in- ERR S ses, |surance agent hold in their hands the | ALBANY, N. Y., April 10.—Ool-| ower which will either return these jonel Lafayette R. Gleason, secretary |innocent miners to the ranks of the of the Republican State Committee, | working class or send them on the jand director of the 1925 census, was Toad traveled by Sacco and Vanzetti one of 23 witnesses called before the |#"d other martyrs of the class war. ‘ j | The case was opened with the special grand jury today by the state |declaration by the state prosecutor in an effort to secure additional in-'that he would prove and demand a dictments against Mrs. Florence E. lverdict of first degree murder. 8. Knapp. | Three technical witnesses were the . jfirst called. They described the room College Heads Also Are Summoned Six indictments were returned last | | | WALKER BLAMED Phe = | Mrs. Ruth Pratt Makes ARREST A THUGS lem by Mayor Walker is marked by charga made by Mrs. Ruth Pratt, Hit by Walkout ing of that body held yestetday.” Yellow Taxi Cab. Co. worker this will bear the chief responsibility,” | victims of a vicious frame-up ore at IN TAX! STRIKE carelessness, indifference, bungling republican and only woman member NEWARK, N. J., April 10.—Five “If the citizens of the city are com- Mrs. Pratt charged in what is regard- morning were arrested today and held without bail. Two strikers were also taken into custody as the strike of the lattack on the Tammany Hall admin- “The handling of the transit prob- land inefficiency.” This was theseveral Jersey Cities on the board of aldermen, at a meet- New York gunmen who assaulted a pelled to pay a 7-cent fare, the mayor ed as the opening gun in a republican 500 drivers of the Yellow Taxi Cab Co. and its subsidiary, the Brown and White Co., entered its second week. The asaulted worker is Patsy J. Ciaseri, who was pounced upon by the five company thugs when he was smirched with the transit smudge. In| picketing a Yellow Taxi garage in fact it was under the administration | East Orange. istration. It is expected that the democrats will reply with evidence that the republicans in control of the state government are no less be- of the republican governor, Nathan | shoot him unless he stopped picketing. a at the Jaw providing for Reports Attack. th unification scheme iene wi the companies millions Casieri finally managed to escape 0 passed. j and reported the attack on him to police headquarters. A detail of po- wes Silk-Hat Jimmy. — lice was sent out to look for the Mrs. vratt proceeded to ridicule | thugs, who were later discovered in a the mayor’s statement that he would | Yellow taxi cab containing, among rather cut off his. right arm than con- (Continued on Page Two) Vladeck, | ‘Manager of | Forward, Freed: After Girl Employe Is Shot B. Charney Vladeck, business man- ager of the Jewish Daily Forward, was yesterday freed in Essex Market} Court after he had been arrested fol- lowing the shooting of Fannie Silver-| man, a clerical worker employed in; his office. | According to Vladeck, he had been} cleaning his desk in the Forward of-| fice preparatory to a trip when he! found the revolver. In handling it, he explained in court, the weapon went off and a bullet struck Miss Silverman, who was later taken to Gouveneur Hospital. The charge on which Vladeck was originally held was “possessing a weapon without a license.” Shachtman Opens China| Lecture Tour Tonight Max Shachtman, editor of the “La- bor Defender,” will open a national illustrated tour on the present strug- gle of the Chinese people for libera- tion, under the auspices of the Inter- jeede to a 7-cent fare. iback with arms folded and allow the |matural consequences to flow from! \have known, what the next step of) national Labor Defense tonight at Bohemian Hall, 347 E. 72nd St. It won’t be Pest Se necessary, Mrs, Pratt stated. “All| he will have to do will be to stand CAP UNION HEADS the comedy of errors played so well by Mr. Unterinyer, Mr. -Lewis and Ou ST Ml | L | TA NT Mr. Craig.” | Untermyer is the special counsel | for the Transit Commission. Lewis | |r is the regular counsel for the com- Salzburg Exposed Acts mission; Craig might be called the ir- regular counsel for the city, While of President jserving as the legal representative of | the city in the fight against the rail- | For sending out a communication roads, Craig is at the same time a/|to all the locals of the International representative of several surface {Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinary Work- lines. Untermyer and Lewis have|ers Union, in which he denounced the fought—but only over the methods of | president, Maz Zaritsky, and _ his postponing the seven cent fare steal right wing followers on the general until after election. peecuay® board for the assistance Histo st: Dishonesty. they were giving the employers by “They knew exactly what decision the Transit Commission was going 4 give to the Interborough demand for - ‘ ; : an: increased. fare,” Mra, Pratt| a bitter four-months’ strike, J. B Salzburg, recently removed from charged. “They knew, or should | jeadership of the strike, was suspend- the piece work system, while the Chi- eoriid right| ed yesterday from membership in the the Interborough rind into the federal court. Did they act | Seneral executive board. promptly and diligently. They let! Statement Published. the two or more weeks elapse, and| The DAILY WORKER succeeded then, two hours after they were|in obtaining a copy of the declara- served with the nicely printed papers | tion sent out by Salzburg and re- of the Interborough bringing the! printed the most essential parts of question of the increased fare into, it in a recent issue. This, among the federal court they rushed with other reasons, was used by the right (Continued on Page Two) 1 (Continued on Page Two) OILY STORY WASHINGTON, April 10, — A tale of graft and corruption reach- ing to the top of the government was unfolded today in criminal branch No. 2 of the District Supreme Court as the criminal conspiracy trial of Harry F, Sinclair got under way. Owen J. Roberts, the government’s special oil prosecutor, addressing the newly sworn jury, outlined the trans- action whereby Sinclair obtained a. nigeria NN EOP Navy Officers Transferred for Opposing Teapot Dome Graft AAU eg are TOLD IN SINCLAIR TRIAL lease on the immensely valuable Tea- oil reserve. He said he wouid show pot Dome oil preserve from former |that the negotiations were conducted Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall|in greatest secrecy and that other oil and charged that a $233,000 bribe mo- jconcerns eager to acquire the lease | tivated the deal. {had been frozen out without their} The $232,000 Bribe. jadmitted privilege to bid on the prop-| Roberts declared that he expected jerty. | to prove that Sinclair gave Fall $232,- | Captain, then commander, H. A.| 000 in iuiberty bonds, unacknowledged | week charging her with juggling the} |$1,200,000 census fund. Mrs. Knapp is now at liberty in $6,000 bail. John A. Fletcher, treasurer of Mid- dlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., was a surprise witness before the grand jury today. Miss Clara Blanche Knapp, step-daughter of Mrs. Knapp, who was charged with receiving $5,- formed, is the dean of the home eco- nomics department at Middlebury College. | During the Moreland investigation last fall it was alleged that Mrs. Knapp had endorsed checks made payable to her step-daughter and had lused these chi to pay a bill at a |Syracuse department store. Mrs. |Knapp was dean of the home econo- |mics department at Syracuse Univer- sity when these disclosures were made. é Mack Stern, republican leader of Schenectady, and deputy secretary of ‘state under Mrs. Knapp, was sche- duled to be one of the chief witnesses jat today’s session. Stern was ousted recently from the secretary of state’s ice. MINERS’ TRIO AT BENEFIT SUNDAY At ‘the “Miners’ Varieties” at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and advocating the union’s adoption of|ppird Ave., Sunday at 2 p. m., “The Miners Trio” will take a prominent cago capmakers are in the midst of | part in the relief program. This trio is composed of miners who have been touring the strike area giving entertainments for the relief of their striking comrades. The trio sings miners’ songs and does miners’ clog dances. In addition Roy Helmar, formerly of the Havana Symphony Orchestra, will give several piano numbers. Hel- mer is billed as “the boy pianist.” The Workers’ Drama League will present “Aftermath,” a of® act play of Negro life. The entire performance is under the auspices of the Penn.- Ohio Miners Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, New York. * * * Councils 1, 2 and 8 of the United Council of Workingclass Women of the Bronx will hold a concert and ball for the relief of the Penns vania and Ohio miners at 3296 Third Ave., Bronx, next Saturday at 8 p. m. WOMAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE | Ill and despondent, Mrs. Tillie] Krishen, 57, leaped into the | er at 104th St. in a suicide that failed because her skirts, spread- Stuart, testimony showed, was in “even by a receipt or the scratch of . charge of the naval oil' reserves at a ven,” in exchange for a lease on the ( Sak on Page Two) Fe pmaareone to - watchman. Riv-|Ohio striking miners. ttempt | ers and students are invited to attend. in which the body of Frank Agati, | Cappelini gunman and contractor, was |found dead; they were merely there |to present the introductory evidence |to set the case going, so to speak. | Cappelini Machine, Vicious. | The fourth witness brought to light the case of the prosecution. August Lippi, district board member of the Cappelini machine testified that when They threatened to|000 for census work she never per-| Bonita entered the room, Agatl cashed up to within two feet of him and | “pointed his finger at him.” This bit of evidence, it is believed, is intended as an attempt to explain away the charge that Agati struck Bonita, or possibly that Agati held a gun in his hand. | Lippi further testified that follow- (Continued on Page Two) ARREST 95 FRUIT STORE PICKETS Hebrew Trades Leaders Aiding Owners Twenty-five striking fruit store clerks were arrested yesterday while picketing in front of the fruit and vegetable markets on Bathgate Ave., Arlington Ave. and Fox St., Bronx. Twenty of them were discharged when they were brought up for tria} later in the Eighth District Court be- fore Magistrate McKinley. Five were released after the Fruit, Grocery and {Dairy Clerks’ Union had deposited $100 bail each for their release. They |are to come up at a later date before |Magistrate Smith in the Sixth Magis- trate’s Court, 161st St., Bronx. On the second day of the general strike called by the union for organ- ization purposes, 75 more workers in the trade joined the union men when the stores in whigh they were work- ing were visited by a committee of union men, The union officers also announced that they have signed agreements with several more firms. Just as in the general strike of the (Continued on Page Two) Hunter Students Dance for Relief of Miners The Miners’ Relief of Hunter Col- lege, which is affiliated with the Youth Conference for Miners’ Relief, will hold a dance Friday evening at 7 E. 15th St. The proceeds will be contributed to the Pennsylvania and Young work- The Youth Committee has just sent ing on the water, prevented her from | another $200 to the coal fields, which sinking until she was rescued by a|brings the total sent by this commit- tee for miners’ relief to $1,500,