The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1928, Page 2

-Troopers Page Two Mine Families ee ATTACK OFFICIAL BAL WHO GIVES FOOD TO FEW IN NEED Threaten to Hurl Bombs PITTSBUR troopers stables thr gas bombs t living in 2s outside of trict organ- been brough When the wo f ‘ pledge women d When the commitice dis them, the women stcned the men a rushed for f ffs. The la | ed in the} d equally. being hed the} and the. and | y women | hall, demanding y this time, Wolcott | sburgh. When he} elief to anybody who} the pledge, the women} re entitled to relief, and} by God, we'll get it!” and attacked | the union organizer. State troopers, deputies and constable: ived in the ; midst of the fray, and ordered that no} relief be distributed unless it be to} their share. arrived fro: refused to ¢' did not sign declared, “we’ | 5 and 2881 were} sented at the National | e-Union Conference in Pitts-| pril Ist. At this conference | burgh, they decided to organize district and | national conventions of the union and! oust the officialdom whose policies, they declare, are responsible for the weak condition of the union. As soon as they returned from the conference, Woleott visiting the district bringing the “declaration of policy” which most of the miners refused to sign. Woleatt} was run out of town by the miners| and their wives. TO HOLD BANQUET FOR LABOR CENTER Left Wing Leaders Will| BeAmong Speakers (Continued from Page One) to the drive, which will come to an} end a few d later. | Leaders of the Workers (Commun- | ist) Party and of the left wing move- ment, prominent trade unionists and officials of ‘workingclass organiza- tions will be present at the banquet to welcome the rs to the new home of th: ary movement of New Yor! } vicinity. Among those who will be present will be y William Z. Wol d Bert Miller, / Seott Nearing, Joseph Brodsky, B Lifshitz, Meilach Epstein, Moissay Olgin, Manuel Gomez, Robert W.| Dunn, Ben Gold, Robert Minor, D.| Banjamin and ny others. The Brownsville section of the! Workers (Communist) Party is the first to start collection work on a} section scale. At a meeting of the section, held the other night, $74 in cash was collected and $217 was pro- mised in pledges. Committees were appointed to canvas workingclass or- ganizations and section members who were not present at the meeting. This section is determined to surpass its quota of $400, according to section functionaries. Workers Party members of Pater- son, N. J., meeting at the Governor St. headquarters of the Party the other night, greeted enthusiastically the campaign for the new Workers Center and voted to start work im- mediately collecting funds. A meet- ing of all New Jersey arganizers has been called for Saturday afternoon in Newark for the purpose of dis- cussing plans for raising the New Jersey quota. Collection lists and receipt books are now being printed, it is announced by the poard of directors of the Workers Center, and are being sent to the various units as soon as they jout the {that one more striking miner is as- sured of | DAILY WORKER thru you. Send a free sub to a class fighter. dis- | }of Mooney and Billings again oa the agenda of the labor movement. An} Defeat THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1928 “Yellow-Dog” Starvation Scheme of Lewis Machine ering of greetings for the 5; of The DAILY WORKER, arrangements for its di om a wide scale, and preparations f DAILY WORK of the campaign for intensifying inte: of the paper. U r the able WORKE groctings direction of Phili R “Builders’ Club,” are being pushed as part agent in the Baltimore area, the work of g: the May Day edition is being widened 2 labor and fraternal organizations are being approached in an effort to ensure their representation in the pages of the May 1 DAILY WORKER. The greatest enthusiasm prevails both among the work- ers in this field of activity and among the organizations them- sel Scores of greetings have already been obtained and many more are promised. The preparations for a city-wide distribution of The DAILY WORKER on May Day are being pushed with the pecial May Day edition ibution for the formation of a expected that the May will reach sections of rest in the May 1 issue p Stanton, The DAILY hering d all Baltimbre workers are same energy. All arrangements are being effected and it is Day edition of The DAILY WORKER the working class in Baltimore who have not previously been familiar with the paper, The formation of a DAILY WORKER “Builders’ Club,” it is being pointed out, will greatly facilitate the activities for the only working class daily paper in the United States. eagerly looking forward to the possi- bility of such an organization. ‘Free Subs Are Vital Need of Mine Strikers “The Teali American working class hasn’t the vital importance to it of iking miners’ struggle,” de- clared A. Ravitch, the circulation manager of The DAILY WORKER, in re-emphasizing his appeal for free subscriptions for the hundreds of miners wh» have been impoverished their long struggle against the and their reactionary coal ba leadership. “In the past The DAILY WORKER nt hundreds of subs free to the Seores of requests for ons to the paper, which has a necessity to the men in their re being received daily. the militant American work- respond to this urgent of the strikers thruout the Workers, fil) attached blank. See toda; appeal American coal regions. his subscription to The * * * Miner’s Free Subscription. Daily Worker, 33 First St., New York City. I am enclosing herewith ¢ |fcr a free subscription to a striking | ewark Taxi Strikers Force Bosses BOMBS, RIFLES, | oe POWDER, STORED | | BYKLANKILLERS ‘Stephenson Tells Burning Men Alive of (Continued from Page One’ |when it touched upon conspiracy charges and squandering of klan |funds, Judge Thomson holding this was outside the scone of the trial. Evans was directly responsible for |the riots at Carnegie, Pa., in 1923, in | which one klansman was killed, N. C. | Hogue, of Swissvale, former kleagle |of the order, charged. | | Despite the fact that Carnegie of- |ficials had refused the klansmen a |permit to parade, Sam Rich, Klan |leader, gave the order to march, | Hogue said, saying that “Evans had | ordered it.” | * Stephenson Deposes. CHICAGO, April 11. — David C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, today told how |Senator Simeon D. Fess was made the object of a plot because he had } voted against a bill to abolish par- |ochial schools by national legislation. | The deposition continues as a part | of their 100 per cent Americanism, 15 * * NEWARK TAXIGAR STRIKERS GAIN Expect A.F.L. Apply on Charter Application At the Miners’ Affair Sunday Eugene Helmer, the youthful pian- ist, who is well known as a soloist jor 20 “heroes” took one unfortunate miner. 2 individual 4 th i for the Havana Philharmonic Orches- |cowering individual into e woods, ‘i 4 tra, will open the program of the fy ‘ . eee A (Continued from Page One) eel Na ad a n (1: MONRRRA Nere ke Freee | muons | eNO ee We ee him, mecognition, better pay and better |Miners’ Varieties, to be given Sun- ay + 6 month | “In many “instances ‘they aed gee ea bs How Say ae Tad OHRISE Hee 2.00 < hs | err Z : is Altho the company put its cabs in-|ftouse, Third Ave. and 67th St. - ae ; Bebe | Reevdes ssari ene ea | to operation pi eae it hired|sha, famous dancer who has donated 1.00 1 h walking delecnte of trierifiinen, = | scabs who did not ‘have their licenses |her services free af charge to aid the re - 1 mont! walling Gslegete of chtfulness. nd who did not know their w Pennsylvania and Ohio Relief Com- 5 Another instance was when they und Newark, union officials | mittec’s work for the striking miners, NBME Sos icevccessseteeeseecscaees tried to direct Tom A m to employ | ed, will play a prominent part in the pro- a@ woman and use her in an attack] pour ae analy. .|gram. She will perform her famous se sthddeatees aces ediewonaign ; Four thugs who had severely beat- | 2 r ae [upon me, Austin refused. They] on Patsy Gasiera, a striker who was | dance, “Marche Slave.” ee CHE 2c cc cccccwvccvesssvocsccccece |therefore arranged to assign him to picketing the Yellow Cab garage, Another feature of the “Varieties' Juditch to Lecture at Dressmakers TT, Usk. L. “The Role of the Trade Union Edu- cational League in the Unions.” i to be the subject of a lecture to be delivered by P. Juditch, labor ed of the Jewish Communist daily, the Freiheit, on Sunday afternoon at 2 Fclock, at the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place. The lecture has been arranged by the Dressmakers’ section of the Trade Union Educational League. program will be the Miners’ Trio from Illinois, who will give an orig- 1 presentation of miners’ ballads, | ding strike songs.) The proceeds of the concert will gé to the Penn- sylvania-Ohio Relief Fund Commit- |New Jersey or lower New York. Aus- } were arrested after a mile chase that tin obeyed the assignment, went to the} onded in East Orange. The thugs designated spot, and very shortly) were heavily armed, the police said. after he arrived the gunman station- | of * * ed there with instructions to kill Aus-| Fake Claims in Chicago. tin, met him on the street and began| By CARL HAESSLER. firing at him. Austin returned: the fire and both men fell dead. “I was awakened one night by a “|terrible noise,” Stephenson said, “I got up and found two boys and two men dressed in policemen’s uniforms in my room. One of them had a bot- tle of liquor. I was arrested. Later they claimed I had been banished from the Ku Klux Klan as a part of ‘this affair.” WILL REVIVE CASE OF TOM MOONEY AND! BILLINGS, FRAME-UP VICTIMS (Continued from Page One) ing the latest developments in the la- bor movement and the miners’ strike. Tom Mooney is a labor man through and through. The cause of the work-| ers for which he has already suffered twelve years in prison is uppermost in his mind and heart, and he looks forward eagerly for the day of libera- tion which will bring him back to ac- tive work in the ranks. There has been some talk of ef- forts to secure his release on parole; but Tom Mooney doesn’t want to come out that way. “I am not guilty of an: crime, so why should I be paroled and have all my movements mortgaged and restricted. I want to be free to take up my work where I left it off welve years ago.” We discussed various methods and plans of reviving the public intere: in the case and of putting the name aggressive campaign to rebuild the protest movement for the uncondi- tional release of Mooney and Billings was the center of the understanding arrived at. As we shook hands at parting, he said, “Go ahead! You have my full approval and authorization for the work in our behalf.” * * * I. L. D. Replies. The International Labor Defense, from its national offices at 80 E. 11th Street, New York, yesterday replied to Tom Mooney and Warren K. Bill- ings regarding the revival of a mass movement to free them from prison. The letter follows: “International Labor Defense wel- comes the statement of Tom Mooney calling upon the working masses, through International Labor Defense, to organize a mass movement of pro- test for the release of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings. “Not reliance upon courts and laws and dependence upon American capi- come off the press, The receipt books are to be used for more substantial contributions, each such contributor receiving an engraved bie, i ' talist justice prevented Mooney and Billings from traveling the road of Sacco and Vanzetti to death. toiling masses saved their lives twelve [years ago. Will Heed Call. “Now Mooney challenges and calls upon the workers once again to rally to him and to Billings—to finally free them from their prison hells in San Quentin and Folsom where for twelve long years already American capital- ism has confined them. “Tnternational Labor Defense will heed the call of Mooney and Billings. {Its hundreds of thousands of mem- bers in branches throughout the coun- rade unions, e hrow them: to demand that the 1 open for Mooney freedom shall ne at they shall again enter of their fellow workers and have already been taken py Tnternational Labor Defense to assure the broadest base for a campaign of protest, agitation and demonstrations nternational Labor Defense, Na- tional Executive Committee, J. P. ; Cannon, Secretary. | CHICAGO, (FP) April 11—“We | have recently raised the wages of our drivers to an aggregate of half a: million dollars,” brags John Hertz, the former prize fight boy who is now | president of the Yellow Cab Co., the largest Chicago taxi concern. It is the most bitterly anti-union cutfit in town. While Hertz boasts, his drivers squeeze out a hollow laugh. They would like a smell of that half mill- ion. It is true that the driver’s per- centage of receipts has been recently sed from a 27-35 per cent basis to a 80-40 level, depending on the length of service. But the Yellow takes back with a dozen hands what it of- fers with one. Pay Held Back. Right after the percentage boost the company cut passenger rates from 55 cents for the 1st mile to 45 cents for the 1st mile and a quarter. This reduces the driver’s commission an also thé tips, which are usually es mated by passengers on a percentage :basis. New drivers have to buy uni- form, leggings and cap for which the company ges about = $i A v held out to dock drivers idents. Dead mileage | nst drivers at 10 cen‘: ut passengers ir with passengers his job he has tc k into a company club organized to promote employ« stock ownership. Spotiers cruise mstantly to have him decked for petty ru fractions, If they don’t {report endugh’ men they lose their own job. The “Yellow Dog.” Plan. When an applicant enters the per- ennel offices of the Yellow Cab Co. ° is asked not only his name and idress but if he belongs to a union— sny union at all, if he ever belonged in the past or if his wife, father, Former pointee Knows About Oil tee. Tickets are 50 cents in advance and 75 cents at the door. MILLER MAY NOT SERVE SENTENCE Harding Ap- Thomas W. Miller, alien property custodian “under President Harding may never serve the 18 months’ sen- tence meted out to him for defraud- ing the government in the return of $7,000,000 worth of property to the American Metal Company seized dur- ing the war. The United States su- preme court upheld the conviction last Monday. It is rumored that Miller will ap- peal for probation for the duration of sentence to Federal Judge Knox, who presided at the trial and sen tenced Miller. It is believed that Miller will make the appeal at once ith a good chance of its being anted. was charged with splitting ,000 with former Attorney Gen- eral Harry M. Daugherty, one of the vhio gang and the late John T. King. He is now using his knowledge of the oil graft deals in an attempt to force political pressure in his own case, brother or sister belong or éver be longed. Yes to any one of these questions blackballs him on the spot. And the magnificent wage for which the Yellow driver submits to all this is claimed by the company to average $35 a week, but actually comes to $26 or $27 according to the drivers themselves. The Federated Novelty Acts, or- ganized to protect the intere acrobats, wire walkers and all other “dumb” act performers will hold a jmeeting Friday at 10 p. m. at Bossi Hall, 568 {th Avenue, which ali novelty vaudeville and circus per- formers have been invited to attend. The Federated Novelty Acts is now conducting, a campaign to organize |the 6,000 novelty enter.ainers in its jorganization. More than 500 have joined already. To Establish Minimum Wage. The purpose of the organization as ¢ V Only] stated in its “Aims and Objects” is jatres for $590. The agents keep the the international mass protest of the| ‘to establish a minimum wage scale entire $300 and in addition, deduct ‘ for all novelty ac.s worthy of being in the theatrical profession” and to “function only and honestly to better conditions and personnel of the nov- elty artists.” A member of the Federated Novelty Acts pointed out yesterday the im- portance of the organization to the vaudeville artists. “In addition to the regular 10 per cent that the book-| ing agents deduct .from the artists| salary,” he said, “they sometimes keep as much as $300 a week. They sign an act up for, let us say, $200 weekly and then book it with the the- ACROBATS, CLOWNS, ORGANIZE UNION To Combat Greedy Booking Agents; Establish Minimum Wage the regular 10 per cent commission. One of the aims of the Federated Nov- elty Acts is to eliminate the booking agents and book the acts direct with the theatres, circuits and circuses.” To Hold Sawdust Party. The organization will hold a saw- dust party and benefit entertainment and ball at the Central Opera House, Third Avenue and 67th Street, Sun- day, April 22 at 8:30 p. m. at which 18 headline novelty acts will be pre- sented, The headquarters of the organiza- tion formed in January is located at 226 W. 47th St. Jack Wilbur is or- ganizer. to Withdraw Machines The Newark tazi drivers strike has proved 80 suc- Yellow Brown and White taxi com- panies have been compelled to withdraw all of their ma- chines. There we too few cabs to operate he cars. Spirit ike that dis- layed in the sicket lines shown above are a strike for the f tazidrivers. (Photo by New- ark Ledger). BONITA FIRED TO DEFEND HIMSELF Mine Leader Acted ‘After Attack (Continued from Page One) in the case of workers are seldom |rendered on the basis of the evidence | presented. Fight Over Contraet Evil. Defense counsel, Thomas Dando, assisted by J. Frank Flannery and |J. Harold Flannery, took' every op- | portunity to introduce the mine con- | racting evil, responsible for the mine jfeud in Pittston which has caused three murders, the attempted murder of Sam Greco and the murder indict- ment of the three defendants. . The court and the district attorney made equal efforts to keep it out. District President Cappelini prob- ably will not be called as a witness, State witnesses yesterday were in- ternational organizers Figlock, Swee- ney, Sifka, Kometz, followed by local officials, and board members, many of whom were forced to admit ap- pointments came through recommen- dations from Cappelini to John L. Lewis. The district officers, testifying at the trial, are the typical officiladom, prosperous looking, heavy-set, over- bearing and stand out in marked con- trast to the rank and file miners who crowd the court room. Agati is alleged to have owned a forty thousand dollar house, an ex- ing. The spirit of Alex Campbell and Peter Reilly dominate the courtroom causing a shiver of horror at the fre- work in defense ‘of the present de- active record as progressives fighting the machine and the contract system. 5 FIREMEN HURT AS TRUCKS HIT Condition of One Very Critical Five firemen ‘were injured one critically, today in a collision between © pumper and a commercial truck at Tefferts Boulevard and Jerome Ave., Richmond Hill, Queens, The injured are: Capt. James P Shannon, in charge of Engine Com- pany 270, suffering from shock; Fire- man Charles F4 Sielinger, concussion of the brain and lacerations; Fireman Albert D. Troje, 14 Doscher Street, Williamsburg; Fireman Joseph Murphy 89-04 204th Street, Bellaire, Queens, and Fireman Louis J. Rieb- ling. 1490 Pu'nam Avanne, Brooklyn. ‘ilinger, Troje and Murphy were ten to Jamaica Hospital. FLIER’S BODY WASHED UP. WASHINGTON, April 11.—The mystery surrounding the disappear- ance of Commander T. G. Ellyson and two companions in a naval seaplane while enroute from Norfolk to An- napolis a month ago was partially cleared up today when the body of Commander Ellyson was © washed ashore near Norfolk. KNAPP TRIAL APRIL 30. ALBANY, N. Y., April 11.—Mrs. Florence E, 8. Knapp, former secre- tary of state, is scheduled to go on trial Monday, April 30, for alleged juggling of the $1,200,000 1925 cen- sus . ; ( cessful that the| and| winning ,the} pensive car, all acquired in three | years, as a result of mine contract-| quent mention of their names and | endants, as well as their long andj TIMORE PUSHES CAMPAIGN FOR SPECIAL MAY DAY “WORKER” JOINT BOARD GALL ON MILITANTS TO ELECT DELEGATES Active Cloak Members to Meet Tonight (Continued from Page One) and the membership as a whole are jconvinced that the reactionary Sig- man machine in control of the union will not permit the delegation of the left wing to be seated at the conven- tion in May, a full delegation will be }sent to Boston since the left wing |Joint Board alone represents the \cloak and dressmakers. soe o® A meeting of all the active mem- bers of the Joint Board of the Cloak- | makers’ Union will be held tonight at Stuyvesant Casino, 140 Second Ave., at 7 o’clock. Leaders of the union will report on plans for the coming convention of the International Union. These will be thoroughly discussed and steps will be taken for their execution. * * * The strike declared by the left wing Joint Board of the Cloakmakers’ Union in the shop of L. Schwartz, 13- 15 W. 28th St., Tuesday morning, re- jsulted in the full response of the workers despite the fact that the |firm has an agreement with the right | wing union, The discharge of Irving Stone, a \member of the Cutters’ Local 10, after the boss had been instructed to |do so by the right wing officials of |his local was.the cause of the strike ‘action. | .The workers in the shop imme- ‘diately went to the office of the |Joint Board to hold a shop meeting, |where they declared their intention ‘of staying on strike until the em- |ployers decide to take back all those on strike, including the discharged cutter. While they were in the union of- fice at the meeting, two members of the industrial squad of the police forced their way into the room and demanded whether the workers of the shop were being held there “by force.” They were compelled to leave the room when every worker declared that they had come to the union vol- untarily. The shop is to be picketed each morning till the employers are compelled to rehire the discharged worker, 2 MEETINGS FOR JOBLESS TODAY Unemployed Worker a Suicide With one New York worker re- ported dying from starvation in Bellevue Hospital and another dead by his own hand as a result of dis- couragement over long enforced un- employment, the New York Council of the Unemployed has called two mass protest meetings for today. One ofthe meetings will be held at Workers’ Hall, 101 W. 27th St. at 2 p. m. and the other at 8 p. m. at St. Ann’s St. and 138th St. Speak- ters will be John di Santo, secretary |of the council and Louis A. Baum, secretary of the Photographic Work- ers’ Union. Hungry Worker Collapses. Weakened by lack of food, due to unemployment, John Kent, 58 years old, collapsed yesterday on the side- walk at Fifth Ave. and 26th St. Be- fore lapsing into unconsciousness Kent told attendants he had been un- able to find work for two months and had not eaten for two days. | David Rosenblatt, 33, a furrier, un- {employed since last Novenber and despondent at seeing his wife and {two children inadequately cared for, ended is own life by jumping from the roof of the building in which he lived at 1020 St. John Ave., Bronx. Speaks for Workers. An unemployed worker caused con- sternation among the operators of ‘he All-night Mission at 8 Bowery night before last when he took the floor in the presence of 150 men, “I object to all these hymns and ‘sermons,” the worker shouted. “You are trying to make the workers for- get their demands for work and wages,” Previously the well-fed master ef ceremonies at the regular vice had told the worker he could not have the floor unless he talked about god. The worker said that was exac'ly what he wanted to do. “I want to say that god won’t do us a damn bit of good,” he said. Supported by Others. | The other men in the unventilated hall urged that he be allowed to speak, “Let him talk! Let him have the floor,” several called out. He had not spoken long, however, before the master of ceremonies called two professional payrons to help. him put the speaker out. worker continued to deliver mes- sage, however, until he was shoved outside into the night by superior numbers,