The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1928, Page 2

Page Two oT THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1928 ALL PARTY UNITS ORGANIZING FOR $30,000 CAMPAIGN Unit Leads Way With Donation The first unit to lead the way in contributing to the drive for $30,000 the new Union (Commu- and nter Bicere | is 1D nist) Party. Meeting at Marks Place. of $80 wa: organizer 0: money triump' District 2 14th Street, despite the were present at the mee whom are unemployed, the members | contributed with great enthusiasm, feeling that they were giving to some- thing that woul: their own for| many years to Ta Other units have work collecting among ship and among friends thizers. At a jo sections 2A and St. Monday night. ization se member the Workers Ce significance of the outlined the t: bers in the pr bership of th drawn chiefly from the needle trad and Miller pointed out that th proximity of the new ilding to the | needle trades d make it the real cent: revolutionary ac- | tivity in those trades. Fund Needed at Once. ,000 for the| the chief | about 15 ing, some of be the member- d mpa- 101. W. Be jne a new Center anc Pariy mem-| P ‘ar y| membership n must be} this drive, a: raised within less than e weeks. | Lists and re: ooks are being y section, | cting a active | j | ibutions are =f y} = | furnished to all uni subsection and unit special committee to charge of the drive. Con to be sought not only members, but and friends, pa: is e and clubs. The drive for $30,000 to provide a} home for the rev 'y movement of this city and vicinity is gathering momentum daily. FREE ‘DAILY’ SUBS, Workers Must Answer | Strikers’ Plea Twenty-eight stri miners have si ter to The DAILY WORKER, asking that free subscriptions to the paper be sent to| them so that they may have an ever- present, formidable apon in their fight against the coal operators and the Lewis machine. The DAILY WORKER would glad- ly bear the burden of these free sub-| seriptions alone, it not for the fact that ev needed to keep the paper 4 repel the at- tacks that are now being made on| ft. The DAILY WORKER is com-| ipelied to refer thi of 98 strilc | ing miners the readers of The DAILY. | It is the reade to their follow-w« union. The the Ictter ¢ mal] fraction of toust have struggle wh the Save-the-Unien ¢ the coal opera union bureaucr: which wil! mean ory or merely fer the miners, but American worker. Strike a blow for the a blow for Cut out the | attached coupon 2 nil it in at} once with the proper sum. wi were t is nd to respond viet min ews he Striking Miner's Free Subserintion - Daily Worker, 83 First St. New York City. TI am enclosing hgrewith ¢ ter a free subscription to a ‘striking miner. months months months | months month EMMI, see se cess se cescccosseesees IE 6 sia'vidiniv e vcnisisio'e's sielad jas sieves BU ssc c cc ccccscescescvccccsscecs Rehearsal for War SAN PEDRO, Cal., April 10.—The battlefleet, consisting of 58 ships and 150 aircraft, has left here for Sar Francisco and Hawaii for 10 days practice maneuvers. , , ‘ees ems eanmmaai egun f Bert Miller, Boal NE | ree, jand S They Defend Fall | | Left to right above, d and judge ht, attorneys for Mr. Fall, who ing” in the Teapot Dome . Together with the gover tttorneys, these “gen- tlemen” have been taking Fall's de- _ Position in El Be, Texas. OILY STORY IS TOLD AT TRIAL Reveal That Officials’ Aided Graft (Continued from Page One) the time Fall had them transferred from the navy to the interior dopart- ment. are Reginald Daniel T. gle Sent to the Woods. Capt. J. P. Shafroth and Rear iral John Halligan bittzrly op-} ed Falls leasing p:-licy, and, ac. cording to the story current in the navy, Fall heard of it and asked for- | mer secretary of the Navy Denby to| fer them Stuart went to the Pacific coast, Hal- ligan to 1 h waters and Shafroth |to European duty. Ww hen President Coolidge took of-| fice, Stuart was recalled and n a r of the Teapot Dome rese Halligan was made chief of the Bu |reau of Engineers, succeeding Admir- al J. K. Robison, who sided with Fall, fenias was given command of | He, Miller Probable Witness. WASHINGTON, April 10. — The question of su oning Thomas W. Miller, former jee property cus- | t now v c con- | ng to eee the government, as| ness in the senate oil inquiry is | under consideration today by the jate Public Lands Committee. Miller will be questioned, when h does take the stand, about the Conti. jnental Trading Company’s $3,080,00 jLiberty bond “slush fund” and the! rtion of it which Sinclair used to| ae debts of the Republican Na-| ‘onal Committee in 1923. Reports nee reached the senate that Miller handled some” of these bonds for the Republican National Committee. Rumors meanwhile have persisted | jhere that if Miller ever became con- | d that the republican party uld not save him “from” going to jail, he would tell the senate commit- a | tee the “inside story” of Sinclair’s ae lations with the Republican party. ‘4 action of the supreme court pee eh in denying Miller’s appeal, practi- cally closed the last loophole through which he could escape serving his sen- tence of 18 months in jail, along with a $5,000 fine. Anti-I iali st League Gets $2 Cfteck Which the Red Cress Turned Down The All- America Anti-Imperialist sipt yesterday of drawn by the Park Gilman had ey to the Red shed to don- help buy hospital | volutionary anny) Red Cro! id for this army. man ihen forwarded the headsuarters of the All Anti-Imperialist League ch is now carrying on an intense ampaign to raise funds to help San- o's. army. Mayor Walker Is Blamed Yor 7-Cent Fare Steal Continued from Page One) | hastily typed papers to the state courts when it was too late.” | But while these charges by Mrs. |Pratt are true, she omits any men- jtion of the fact that she is herself jan advocate of an increased fare as are the leaders of the republican par- ty equally with those in the party of | Tammany Hall. Decision on the 7-cent fare case is due within a week, according to the latest information. Stocks of the traction lines have gone up from 4 o 9 points during the past few days. Only a mass protest of the workers |can now prevent the increased fare. COURT TO ADJOURN IN MAY. _WASHINGTON, April 10, — -Th . S. supreme court may adjourn dur- ig the latter part of May, ft war indicated today. from Washington. | | Sen-| MINE LOCAL ENDORSES PENN-OHIO RELIEF TO SEND SECOND © S10 IF OTHERS: ACCEPT OFFER | Daily Worker Agents to! Meet | The generous plan by which one worker in the Chicago district pro- |poses to increase the circulation of |The DATLY WORKER in his terri- ry has been forwarded to the office lof the paper by S. Hammersmark, |the DAILY WORKER agent in the Illinois section. A ten dollar bill and an order for one thousand copies of the May Day | edition of The DAILY WORKER was | recently received from a worker named Holman. Accompanying this jorder was Holman’s offer to pay for | another thousand copies,as soon as {other workers, organizations or units maller than a city, send in their ers for a thousand copies. 773 | Holman has sent in ten dollars | with a challenge to the workers of | NEG TEA “company thugs are using many the entire country. When 100 other friends of The DAILY WORKER send in a ten dollar bill for ten two month Ledger.) up parades of strikers and attacking isolated work ers. ark, East Orange, Glen Ridge and Irvington and other towns in the vicinity. (Photo by Newark PER INSEE SESS AE schemes in an More than 500 Beaten Up by Yellow Taxi Company Gangsters in Newark Strike -W. P. Williams, striking Yellow Taxi Cab C o. drvier of Newark, N. J., was at had by com- " pany-gangsters when he stopped near the scab garage. Eight stitches were taken in his head. The ct tempt to terrorize the workers, including breaking drivers are on strike in New- | ubscriptions to the paper, Holman will send another ten dollars for ten more subs for the striking miners. Holman’s offer must be met with ARREST 6 THUGS an enthusiastic response from the \merican working class. Not only | hundreds but thousands of two | | months subscriptions must be pur- | chased by the American Seah oc WORKERS HONOR |Several Jersey Hit by Walkout (Continued from Page One) lathes things, a loaded revolver and a | blackjack. Hee 5 aeneere gave their Tames A th r tz, Ch Ruglio learreihait? Be Editor Tol|ana a =p of New “York: Leave on Trip | When Thomas A. McConejl, as- | Three thousand Jewish workers sistant secretary of the Yellow Taxi | Cab Co., was informed of the ar: will gather tonight at Cooper Union pe y farewell to Shachno Epstein, | of the thugs, he offered to bail them associate editor of the Freiheit, Yid- | out, but was informed that the charges dish Communist daily. Epstein will) against the men were too serious. The two strikers who were arrested leave shortly for an extended trip and will be away for about a year. are Charles Mcknight and William H: The event will also celebrate the Williams. They were taken into custody on charges brought by Abraham Conet a strikebreaker of | Newark. | appearance of Epstein’s book on the Nearly ‘All Cabs Tied Up. Russian Revolution, “In the Land of | The striking taxi cab drivers have Social Revolution.” Leaders of the left wing movement and prominent iddish writers will discuss Epstein’s A qnéhs anpetine Ge caeriking text role as one of the leaders of the Jew- | grivers will be held tonight at 8 p. m, lish working class for more than 20/at strike headquarters, 4 Fleming years, during which he helped to | Ave., this city. Harry Dailey is presi- ee the Freiheit. dent of the strikers’ temporary or- PTE RANE Toa ee ganizatign and Milton E. Crawley is WORKERS’ FORUM ee | Collection Taken While Cops Protest PHILADELPHTA, April 10.—Police threatened to arrest the committee of the Philadelphia Workers’ Forum taken up after jon May 7, will be taken up, . nounced. had fin-, * * * “When War) plans for'a mass parti the coming elections for delegates to ™/the convention in May, are well, un- g way, according to a representa- then | tive of the Joint Board. This is being money done, he expl despite the fact city, East Orange, Glen Ridge, Irving- ton and neighboring towns. | charter. Cloak Joint Boa Board Will Hold Meet Tomorrow A meeting of all the active mem- bers of the left wing Joint Board of the tomorrow at 7 p. m. in Stuyvesant Casino,.140 Second Ave. Important plans concerning the it is an- on nelothes men and ee ed, “This ain’t allor attempted to But ned, rho hed that the-Joint Board as well as the aged to| | majority of the cloak and dress mak- | of arrest! ers are convinced that the reactionary but not carried out. hooted the police,|al union will undoubtedly not allow ut of the hall, Thejthe delegates from the left .wing iy ing continued, Wolfé answering! union to be seated. numerous questions in connection| The elections for delegates nomin- with his lecture. lated at the recent local meetings of Robert W. Dunn, of the American| Locals 2, 9, 22 and 35 are to be held Civil Liberties Union, will speak next|on April 17 at the office of the Joint Sunday on “The Menace of Com-| Board, 16 W. 21st St., and at the pany Unionism, Welfare Schemes| headquarters of the other locals ex- and Labor diene pelled from the International. Cities | tied up nearly all the taxis in this; ion to the Teamsters’ Union for a! loakmakers’ Union will be held | jcoming convention of the Internation- | al union, scheduled to begin in Boston | ipation in| ;machine in contro! of the Internation- | exposé of sweated labor and dirty di ciation, stung by widespread publici |about their unsanitary factories anc | their exploitation of young girls, is |}said to have agreed to recommend members the adoption of a “white list.” $12 the Present Wage. The prevalent $12 starting wage would be replaced by $14 in factories placed on the Consumers’ League | “white list” of approved firms. The “white list” was first used 20 ee ago when the league revealed to the public that department stores were working their girls 10 and 11 hours a day for $5 to $6 a week. Outrageous overtime hours in the pre-Christmas rush season when girls are driven to the point of exhaustion for 11 and 12 hours a day would be abolished in “white list” factories. They would comply with the state law | allewing 78 hours of overtime beyond |the 8-hour day. Medical Examinations, All workers would have to be medically examined before going on the job and ‘submit to physical exam- \ination annually thereafter in compli- ance with dead letter city ordinances. Other rules would include: 1. Clean well lighted factories with clean and sufficient toilets and wash- rooms, in convenient proximity to the | workroom. 2. Paper or individual towels, soap and hot water at all times. 3. Use of aprons over all outer clothing; suppression of “finger lick- ing” for the separation of paper cups; |frequent washing of hands. | 4. Maintenance of a temperature of at least 64 degrees in all depart- ments. The candy workers, however, are | unorganized and the promise of the employers in the face of the present exposure is purely a diplomatic man- euver, according to trade unionists in other industries. The candy workers it is pointed out, lack organization even to hold the meager concessions | that have en Promised: | Conduct 50 Scientific | Expeditions in U.S.S.R.| MOSCOW (By Mail) Fifty scien- tifie expeditions will be carried thru in the U. S. S. R. in the spring and summer of 1928. Most of them will be to the north, | jin particular, to the Barentz and Kara Seas, where the work will be done. jointly with the German expedition. The expedition of the Hydrological Institute and the Geogranhic Society | will investigate the interioe basins of per north from the point of view of | their fauna. 7 BURNED BY KLAN, Member of Labor-Hating Organization A att ia April 10.—Clarence; Ramsey testified for five ousted Ludlow, former member of Klan members of the Pennsylvania klan bite No. 56 of Dallas, Tex., and ae- being sued for $500,000 by the or- uaintance of, Imperial Wizard Hiram ganization. He said that he was for- , testified in the Klan injunction! merly 2 member of the “Night Rid- uifs here today that he witnessc® the| crs,” which ho described as a branch, ‘urning alive of seven or eight men|cf the klan whose purpose was “to y Ku Klux Klansmen in Texas, put over a reign of terror, including bombings, murder, assassinations and PITTSBURGH, April” 10.—The Ku) burnings of churches.” Klux Klan bombed its own meeting Labor Hating Organization. hall in Dayton, O., “to strengthen! These admissions by one of the for- feeling within the organization,” and | mer ringleaders in klan activities re- burned a church in West Dayton,| call the fact that the klan as well as Capt. J. R. Ramsey, of Dayton, a|the American Legion and various surprise witness at the klan etal military and patriotic organizations charged in federal court. today. which have “interlocking directorates” WITNESS SAYS ccuses Own Officials with the klan have carried on acts of terror particularly against work- | U”. ers’ organizations and against work- ers attempting to form unions. The five “banished defendants” are attempting to show that the ovrgani- zation in Pennsylvania is insolvent and has become an instrument of law- | lessness. They demand receivership for it and an accounting of the $20,- 000,000 which they claim was collected in the state. The klan in its suit seeks to show that, while the defend- ants had been banished from the or- ganization, they continued to meet “WHITE LIST’ PROMISED FOR CANDY FACTORIES Fourteen dollars a week is promised as the minimum wage in the better |New York City candy factories, as the result of the Consumers’ League gesed candy, , candy. The ROM Ccuounte ee Asso- | 5 FRUIT STORE PICKETS JAILED Majority Released After Hearing (Continued from Page One) grocery clerks, the United Hebrew Trades officialdom is already taking direct steps to aid the employers to break the strike. They are now mak- ing an attempt to organize the fruit store owners into a bosses’ associa- tion. Information has reached the strike leadership that the Hebrew Trades officials are already advising the store owners to take out injunc- tions to stop the organization drive of the union. This is an attempt to impede the progress made by the gro- cery clerks’ union, because the latter organization succeeded in completely defeating a dual organization created by the right wing. Mason and For- man, a firm forced to a settlement several days ago by a strike called before the general stoppage, has al- ready broken their agreement and discharged its union workers. The lockout was immediately answered by a strike, Ask Housewives’ Aid. The leadership of the strike sent out a public announcement from their headquarters at 3690 Third ve, Bronx, appealing to all working class families not to patronize the fruit and vegetable stores in the Brohx unless they display a sign in their windows detlaring that a settlement hes been reached with the union. CONITA, MOLESKI, MENDOLA, TRIAL (Continued from Page One) ing this incident he heard the muffled report of a gun. Then he fled from the room, he said, An equal anxiety to deliver damaging testimony to the three miners was evident in the testimony ‘of the next witness, Anthony Figlock, national organizer for the Lewis machine. Under cross examination Figlock was forced to admit that his new evidence contradicted that given by him in the preliminary hearing. John Gallagher, the next witness, a traveling auditor for the Interna- tional, contradicted the testimony of both Lippi and Figlock. “Three shots were fired before Lippi left the room,” he said. Figlock according to Gallagher, had remained in the prox- imity of Agati at least four minu‘es while he was phoning. This testimony may turn out to be important as a clue to the disappearance of Agati’s Friends of Agati, present at the trial, feel that the testimony given yesterday has greatly in‘ured the case of the prosecution. The case of the three miners has been strengthened by the testimony of yesterday's wit- nesses, The Bonita-Moleski-Mendola De- fense Committee, however, issued a warning today against overconfidence. The trials and convictions of mili- tant workers, the committee points out, have no necessary relation to the under its qane, and used its hasaphes, innocence of the defendants or the Chicago Worker er Challenges Country in Sub Drive |WARNS OWNERS, UNION OFFICIALS, KEEP HANDS OFF Ohio Rank and File for ' Progressives SPRINGFIELD, April 10—En- dorsement of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Relief Committee and a warning to all enemies of the mine workers to keep hands off the miners’ relief com- mittee was made this week by local Union 5560 of the United Mine Work- ers of America. Pointing out that more than 40 to- cals in Ohio, representing thousands of miners are now receiving help from the committee, the resolution demands support for the committee and suggests that the officials of the union take a cut in their large salaries during the period of great need among the rank and file. The resolution follows: Unwarranted Attacks. Whereas, the U. S. Senate Com- mittee has condemned the Pennsyl- vania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee and has spoken of it as a “slimy trial”; and, Whereas, officers of the United Mine Workers of America have not hesitated to attack the Pennsylvania- Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee and have “warned” the striking miners against it; and, Whereas, the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee has pro- vided more than 40 locals in Ohio, representing thousands of miners, with relief, and, Whereas, during this time the offi- cers of the United Mine Workers have received their regular salaries, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars—which money should have been used for miners’ relief, therefore be it, Condemns Attacks. Resolved, that Local Union 5560, of the United Mine Workers of America subdistrict 5 of District No. 6 con- demns the attacks of the U. S. Senate Committee and of the officers of the United Mine Workers of America and again calls upon the rank and file to cut off the salaries of the officers so that more money may be had for re- lief, and be it further Resolved, that we hereby serve no- tice on the coal operators, the U. S. Senate Committee and the union offi- cials to keep hands off the Pennsyl- vania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, since we will not tolerate their at- tacks and interference without pro- testing. Joe Husvar, President J. M. Barto, Recording Secretary. CAP UNION HEADS QUST MILITANT Salzburg Exposed Acts of President (Continued from Page One) wing clique in control of the union to suspend Salzburg from member- ship on the board. In a statement issued by the re- actionary administration for the right wing Daily Forward, the claim is made that Salzburg violated the “ethics” of the general executive board by sending out the declaration to the locals. Salzburg, in his statement, charged that the president of the union, Za- ritsky, was violating the decision of the last convention of the organiza- tion by endorsing the employers’ de- mand for the piece work system. He also pointed out that Zaritsky was making statements to the effect that the New,York workers should go back to the 44-hour week instead of 40 for the “good of the industrgs” Violated Orders. This was in violation of the com vention decisions which expressly bound him to fight the piece work system and protect the 40 hour week with all the forces at his command, the statement charges. According to the acocunt in the “Forward,” even some of the mem- bers on the general executive board who like to pose as “progressives” by opposing the piece demands of "aritsky and the employers, voted for the suspension of Salzburg. Aided Bosses. Another fact brought out which clearly demonstrates the frankness with which Zaritsky tried to help the bosses in Chicago get piece work, is he fact that the latter came to the Chicago local executive board and advised them to accede to the bo: demand. Their refusal led to a lock- out by the manufacturers. The head . of the bosses’ association is a former union official anda close friend of Zaritsky’s. He was probably informed © that he ‘has the support of the union president in getting piece work | stalled,