The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 13, 1928, Page 2

THE DAILY WORK NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1928 SPEED BRIVE FOR $30,000 FOR NEW WORKER, a I. Units in Race for District Lead | Page One) The quota (Continued next Wednesday e for this to be ra $500. Other are a in w bersh mob’ making units h: iasm < d by all of Long unit tangible gain movement and to scious worl it is poi directors special rea ers (Commur St. Ticket held Satur at the Work had at these he nquet of the drive | will mark the and all Pa ganizations lar care not that would Refute N. . American About Cc t th s| With Air Imperialist The Fatheriand is trying an im- perialist publicity come-back by en- couraging Captain Herman Koehl, above, pilot of the plane, Bremen, to cross the Atlantic. Koehl is ac- companied by a former crony of the former crown prince May Day to i Call Workers For Victory at| The World Congress of the Red In- rnational of Trade Unions in Mos- ended after adopting resolutions t character and laying s for new activity of the revolu- ry trade unions, based on the ‘ nt conditions of depression the id o ons on May Day ays inseparably connected with ruggle of the trade unions the employers and the strug- n the trade unions for mili- nd class-conscious leadership. ch a struggle has been waged ac- over two years in the needle s come to a head there as in the miners’ union. This lemonstration will ight in the miners’ runner of the fight trade unions of the tant Ss Workers Endorse Meeting. Therefore all the militant workers f New York City are endorsing the adison Square Garden meeting scheduled for May 1 and are actively cooperating to make this meeting a essful demonstration against all | the enemies of labor, within or with- | out the ranks of the movement. |more the working class sees how it May Day approaching once} DELEGATES FROM MANY CITIES TO JOIN IN PROTEST Demand Withdrawal of Imperialist Troops WASHINGTON, April 12—Ar- |rangements for the picketing of the White House Batactay as a protest against the U. S. marines’ war on the Nicaraguan army of liberation are completed, representatives of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League announced today. The picketing is scheduled to take place shortly be- fore noon. Delegations from many nearby ci- ties will participate in the picketing, including representatives from Balti- more, Philadelphia, New York and Newark. The demonstrators will carry pla- cards denouncing the invasion of Nicaragua and demanding the imme- diate withdrawal of the United States forces. The first of the demonstrators are expected to arrive here tomorrow, the rest early Saturday morning. Some will go by train and others by auto- mobile while still others will hitch- hike. TOMBS AIR BAD, GORDON WRITES More Funds Needed to Save “Daily Worker” (Continued from Page One) never refuses to welcome them time PITTSBURGH RUSHES MAY DAY ‘DAILY’ DRIVE Newark py ' Taxi Drivers’ Solidarity in Strike Ties Up All Cabs of EY The sotidarity : of the taxicab drivers in New- ark, who are striking for ree- ognition, and! better pay and working hours, has resulted in tying up practi- cally every cab in Newark and _ its suburbs. The few scabs hired by the Yellow and Brown and White Compan- ies have no li- censes to drive cabs, strike leaders charged. strikers are shown above on the picket line. Infected Pork Fatal To One; 41 Infected ALBANY, N, Y., April 12.—Trich- jimosis, a serious illness caused by eating infected pork has resulted in one death and -41 cases of infection} WEINSTONE TO ECTURE ATFORU peaks on “New Ta many Hall” Sunday; William W. Weinstone, New Yo istrict organizer of the Ad is (Communist) Party of America, fwill speak Sunday.evening at 8 p. m. at the Workers School Forum, 108 E. 14th St, on “The New Tammany | Hall.” Weinstone has just written an | article forthe “Communist” on this subject and is at “present preparing | a pamphlet on Al Smith as a presi- | dential candidate. | here and at Mechanicsville. Albany authorities are confronted today w: the worst epidemic of the disease ever The epidemic is supposed to have originated with a diseased pig. There are thirteen Spanish resi- denis of this city in a critical condi- tion in the Albany hospital, while 28 ers have been treated here and in echaniesville, Conimernting on the forthcoming | lecture, D, Benjamin, assistant. direc- | MONEY -BILLINGS. TEXTILE WORKERS VOTING ON STRIKE Rhode Island Mills Also Slashing Wages (Continued from Page One) Bedford unit, sent a statement to the leadership of the textile council in which it pledged whole-hearted sup- port to the union in the event of a strike against the wage cut. . T. Murdock, seeretary of the above organization, in his letter to William Batty, secretary of the tex- A group of taxt| Picket White House to Protest War on Nicaragua ARRANGE FREE DISTRIBUTION BEFORE SHOPS Urge Newsstands to Display Paper An intensified campaign to start at once and last two months will add 500 new subscribers to The DAILY WORKER, if the decisions of the paper’s agents in the Pittsburgh dis- trict, approved at a recent” meeting of the DAILY WORKER agents, are successfully carried thru. After a long discussion the paper's Pittsburgh agents have laid down a consistent, campaign to increase the readers and subscribers to The DAILY WORKER in their district and are energetically preparing to realize re- sults. Detailed plans for the sub- Scription drive have been left to a committee of two who will formulate oun eda: with John Kas- » the district agen’ WORKER agent for The DAILY Special attention is bein iven to the work of pushing the May Day is- sue of The DAILY WORKER in Dis- trict 3 and preparations for a free distribution of hundreds of copies of the paper are being made. Numbers of greetings are being secured from a. ee and fraternal organizations who wil reet Day. 8! the paper on May All nuclei of the Workers (Com- dee ee are instructed to or- ‘er weekly bundles of The DAILY WORKER for distribution at the gates of the shops and mills, Attention is being focussed upon the newsstand activity. News stand dealers are urged to give The DAILY WORKER a prominent display on their stands. The importance of establishing a ion ed mn. the House- Union, through their Pres- has already covered a long stretch of road. The two great forces, the Com- tional of Labor Unions, have ome into being. Millions and millions of proletarians and semi-proletarians from the colonial and semi-colonial countries are drawn into the fight. New Significance. and time again. | | Tombs Worst Jail. “T think they’re all contemptuous | of my ‘crime’ when I mention it. ‘Ef | yer wants tuh fi do it like us, wid guns and not wid} woids.’ These futile individualists do rot understand the mass power of t the rich yuh gotta |° tor of the Workers School, said: “The New Tammany Hall is an es- pecially significant subject at the present time, with the presidential tion campaign not far off and with Al Smith, the leader of Tam- many Hall, as the most prominent democratic candidate for the presi- dency. The important change of CANPAIGN BEGINS Reveal New Proof of. Their Innocence tile council, declares that the mill | paTLy WORKER-literature cooper- committees will do everything in their | power to make the strike 100 per cent effective by a walkout of the unorganized workers. Murdock, in his letter to Batty states: Makes Statement. ative store is also being earnestly con- sidered by the Pittsburgh workers, MUST SEND FREE i i the workers. . “T have been instructed by the exe-| ~ : Epon igak pire | eo eeacle aay spot on the whole globe |"), Tammany Hall from the days of (Continued jrom Page One) cutive board to make to you the fol- aa eh panera ane question of power of labor ay ee "eee Ae oy ee | rane ae Comers, abies ik eee Cannon said here, “will call upon the| lowing statement, and pledge of sup- De tee ae ene esa ncaa an ART ty fae aes sented. “tis sRepiy nanemeaiate, 20 athe working class of America to make} port to the American Federation of strong. n rendered the 2 ics of the bosses end futile thru the ta son” with the bosses 20 Bosses A big break w of the bosses last R. Walsh, one tractor wrec up with the w last year’s sca the conditions jon the first of May. The power of labor is not a dream for the distant future but an existing fact which has found territorial and national expres- sion in the Soviet Union since Oc- J, DRIVERS TO FIGHT TO FINISH that of all the places they’ve been in, in New York and out-of-town, the Tombs is ‘the worst they’ve come across in a long while.’ It seems, country in a previous letter to repay ten times the $500 fine imposed on The DAILY WORKER. Some of the workers Rave responded to this ap- | peal. ‘The Ukrainian Women’s Society in Chicago has sent $8 to defend The |DAILY WORKER through its secre- tary, H. Lotoshynsky. Street Nucleus 9, Section 2, of Chicago, taxed each of the nine members at a recent meet-| present time, when it is closely con- nected with the Morgan banking in- terests and with finance capital in general, makes this subject impor- tant at this time when the workers lice; the various flying trips to the South, the heart of democracy, by Olvany, Walker and Smith; the real meaning of Tammany Hall today— these topics will be analyzed by Wein- stone in the le “ re. On the following Sunday evening, | Joseph Freeman will speak on “Some Recent Aspects of American Litera- the drive for the rclease of these two brave working class fighters one of its major tasks, All forces of the} labor movement must actively join in| long. Campaign Endorsed. “Mooney and Billings will be freed if the working class of America energetically work for their release. | Only militant action by the workers | of the world saved their lives 12 years ago. Now we must go further and} secure their unconditional freedom. | Textile Operatives, “The Textile Mill Committees con- sider the action of the Cotton Manu- facturers’ Association in cutting the common attack on our living stand- ards. We suggest that a strike com- mittee composed of representatives of the workers in all the mills in the city in order that common united ac- tion be guaranteed. “The Textile Mill Committees fur- ther pledge themselvessto take meas- Strikers Need “Daily” In Save-Union Fight and their quibbling to what con-| tober 1917. Since that date the old| ‘hen, that all of us without exception |of this country will be called upon to ae ea Sted bares Le qoely be un-|wages of the New Bedford workers, Appeals from striking miners for States an. 8-ho nd what time | fox of May 1 has gained new|are used to living in better places |‘elect’ the future rulers of this coun- ae. sakes degen ach cheater ‘ to be a challenge to the workers in| soe subscriptions to The DAILY | the men should to work and | significance; socialism has come down | than this.” try. ibe Antec nstamns | Beer Defense | the industry thruout the entire coun-| worcer, continue to pile up in the of- | whether they would be allowed to|to earth out of the misty distance, Some Workers Respond. “The program of centralization of | Will not rest content until the doors) try, fice of the paper. In spite of the ef- | work over down from the cloudy heights; the | This 18-y ta: statin cet ital. |Svernment that has been proposed of San Quentin and Folsom Prisons! «phe Textile Mill Committes have|forts of the American working class | of the m of celebration of fighting and|;.¢ cpnression in the land of “deme. {and been put thru by Smith; the at-|open and Mooney-and Billings walk) strength in the New Bedford mills|to keep for the miners their fighting in disorder k has me a festival not only | ‘st oP and “eee see ae o orn tack on the needle trades workers |0ut as free men to take their right-| amongst those workers who are not|paper, there are still hundreds of Brady, chairman of victories anticipated in the future | jhe ane Gidsieal muok Seda ee that has received the full support of ful lees fee in The Jenn meeve: in your union. These workers wil]/miners who have nét been supplied ! stated he will try onc but also of those already won, re ae the Tammany Hall judges and po-|M™ent of this country where they be-/ oot you in the fight to resist the|with free subscriptions and who are too poor io buy the paper themselves. These miners must be sent free subscriptions by the American work- ers. For more than a year the miners thruout the coal fields of the country have been carrying on a courageous struggle against the terrorism of the mine barons and the treachery of their own reactionary leadership within tract. Harv pee: . 5 a he Date | ture.” All workers must join in the meve-|UTeS necessary to secute Ste the United Mine Workers Union. suit and now over twenty boss w Provisional Organiza- |ine #5 for the Daily. j SEN ae | ments ie een be ee centers thru-| “Jt ig Thé DAILY WORKER which ers have come to the union o: In addition, this nucleus has de- Balloting in Cleak |. “Mooney and Billings havé indorsed | °™ ew England. has been constantly at their side in od line. s named Mor- and signed on th Two boss ris and Be’ rested by de subway of wages la contracts bear the contract in proper force and s filed with th str meetings eve Lyceum anc executive of id that > but that er to have nding mu: tion Already Formed | ..| NEWARK, N. J., April 12—The . ghting front of the Newark, Eliza East Orange and Bloomfield oI ted provisional ‘president at the ting, told the assembled workers |that more than 500 in the affected dis- trict were unwavering in their sup- port of the movement for improved \conditions and recognition. 500 in the Fight. “There are more than 500 ready |to keep up the fight to a finish with- {out a compromise of any sort,” Dailey cided to distribute 100 copies of The} DAILY WORKER every week in or-| der tc build its circulation. “Daily” Must Be Saved! | heavy fines on the paper. The DAILY WORKER is also defendant in a $50,- 000 libel suit instituted by Adolph Lessig, a former labor spy. The DAILY WORKER is fighting ‘for its life. Only the American work- ers can save it! Rush funds at once | to the office of the Daily, 33 First |St., New York City. Union to Begin Soon (Continued from Page One) Joint Board headquarters, 16 W. 21st St. and the offices of Local 35, 6 W. 21st St. Registered and unregistered work- ers are urged by the Joint Board to come and register their demand for a single, strong, united union. The polling places -will be open from 6 a.m. until 9 p. m. the campaign. Freedom or continued imprisonment of our two fellow work- ers is the issue now. I feel sure our campaign will result in their libera- more than 6 days consecutively, ex- cept in emergency. When such emer- gency is declared by a division super- ; intendent or higher official of the road, the employe may work as long as 13 days, but he must have at least 4 days of rest in every month. Rates of pay must not be reduced because of this law. The mill committees in some of the largest mills in the city are now is- suing circulars*for distribution among the workers in the textile plants. Ac- cording to a statement issued by thi Wage Cut Forecast. PROVIDENCE, R. L., April 12—J. P. Coats, Inc., one of the largest cot- ton manufacturing firms in the coun- try announced that they are contem- plating a wage cut. While they have not as yet announced the amount to he slashed off the wages of their 4, 000 workers, and the date it becomes effective, it-will probably order a 10 this campaign, making the miners’ in- terests its own and supporting them in their bitter fight. The miners con- sider The DAILY WORKER their paper. They recognize the only mili- paper in this struggle. They must not be left without it. Tt is up to every militant American worker to see that the miners who are fighting the bate tles of the whole American wor! class have The DAILY WORK during this fight. _ Send a free subscription to a strike ing miner. Fill out the attached aid per cent wage reduction before Mon. peri Pane rt bes nah “hs / said. 4 ; id ie miners t a The I. L. D. Arranges The men are striking for an in- day, according to the belief here. pie te oi. ous Four New York Affairs |erease in their proportion of receipts ;from 33 and a third to 40 per cent; DISCLOSE WIDE CORRUPTION IN KLAN 10 Per Cent Slash. Striking Miner’s Free Subscription. Daily Worker, o Four events of unusv nterest are |ynion recognition; reasonable meal * . . . Notices have been posted in the 88 First St., being arranged for the nex: few periods; abolition of a regulation e+ VQUAS Ave Described by Ex-Grand-Dragon, Himself in Jail ss of, Pent Whitin Manutac- Now York City. months by the New Y ction of | quiring the drivers to pay damages . turing Co., to the effect that wages} “1 51, enclosing herewith ¢ the International Labor Defense, 799|for accidents and holdups and aboli- 4 } s a : “so ML beetedvnad Dy 30 ipek cee STOR oe! @ tree ahbacripion, ta 0 csiaan eisai was announced by Rose |tion of the 18-hour day drivers who CHICAGO, April 12. — In his de-;g¢re,” Stephenson replied, “I never) poor working people who were not in| Monday on. This affects 800 workers miner. ne held in Astoria. One of the most significant work- ing class events of the y vill be @ memorial for Sacco and Vanzetti under the auspices of the I. L. D., August 22. The fourth important event on the I. L. D. calendar will be an Autumn Revel October 6. i suspended, so complete is the soli- darity of the drivers. Application for a local charter has been made to the American Federa- tion of Labor, but up to today no reply had been received at strike headquarters. A reply was expected in time for the meeting Jast night. by a member of a woman’s organiza- tion who told him to vote constantly against me. 8 Year Olds. “Mr, Stephenson, do you know the types of men'that are in the Klan?” he was asked. Embezzled Huge Sums. “Another instance is a man from Indianapolis now shown by civil ac- tion in the courts to have taken ad- vantage of his position with the Klan to embezzle an enormous amount of money which he had previously ex- “Yes, on the whole they are medi- tracted from widows and orphans and five banished members of the order | from whom it secks $500,000 dam- | ages in federal court today, after the | defense, balked at almost every turn, of George Remus, Cincinnati wife- slayer, of obtaining his release on bail from the Lima State Hospital for the criminal insane, were dashed today ‘succeeded in reading into the evi- dence parts of the sensational depo- sition of D. C, Stephenson, former In- diana klan leader. when the Ohio Sup*eme Court re- jected his appeal, asking that a bond be fixed pending final disposition of the case. Are you a “DAILY WORKER” worker daily? 1b drivers was stiffened today} Other workers must “ollow these| pang, supported by the Breslau, Nin-| tn.” } sbi i ; ia 4 Z ult of a mass meeting las [examples and help ve The DAILY fo oa Danis ss seantian es and conus bid We deetiets ca bet camel on es a ended by more than 800/WORKER. Workers should remem-| ipo “Forward” ; he Sig-) A BID FOR LABOR SUPPORT. | ing upon the unorganized workers in| PAaPtr, Hetil aa tended by more than | : the “Forward, bad as the Sig sS " the mills to strike with their brothers|in their further struggles. rs at Engineers’ Hall, 4 Fleming] ber that the campaign of the patriots| man union-smashing clique, also sup-| WASHINGTON, April 12 (FP).—| the he Th e8 védaeat i ay Te | ‘Soday the miners" are ‘wast nue here. against the Daily has not ended. Al ported for the presidency by the|Sen. Dill of Washington has intro-/ i ‘e American Federation of Tex-|. ommendous struggle to seve thet Re rtine | A. provisional organization was| federal indictment is pending, which| «Porward.” duced: a bill forbidding: thé. employ.| tle. Oneratives, have ‘been istued tay en hia tecanon ce ateh aie ved oF ni | formed for a continuation and spread-| may result in the jailing of the edi-| The polling place will be Bryant| ment of any employe of a railroad English and eae: leaders as Lewis, Cappelini wha tee: dist obeying ling ing of the strike. Harry Dailey,; tors and the imposition of additional) yan, 42d St. and Sixth Ave. the| engaged in interstate commerce, for ‘ Fagan. The miners must have their Baron, : ary of the section, yes-|are compelledsto work once a week, | Position today, David C. Stephenson | met ‘a man connected officially with) a position to lose it. in the Brockton, Mass., mill. A similar terday. Phillip Simwits was elected vice.|told of his own trial for the murder |the leadership and who has been) “Another member of the staff floats | Wa¢ cut was recently announced in] — g¢ 99 i iia feet event wi y |president and@Patrick Tynon secre-|0f Madge Oberholzer of Noblesville, brought in recently whose moral cali-| ynder the banner of ‘judge’ and ac-| the Lynwood piant affecting 350 580 ++.12 months James P. Cannon, national secre tary. N. Kleinman, of the Amalga-|{nd., for whose murder he is serving |ber is above that of a village con-| quired the title as a result of having | Yorkers. , at +++ 6 months of the Interne ul Labor mated Clothing Workers, also ad-|% life term. “I am in a position to|stable and intellectually with an 8th! heen appointed a justice out west for|. The, Rhode Island Textile Manufac- 2.00 . ++» 3 months. May 18. Cannon will have just re-|dressed the strikers. know that a man from Nebraska | grade pupil. three months. turers’ Association announced that it 1.50 . 2 months turned from a nation-wide lecture | Service Stopped. wrote the so-called dying declaration| ‘One of the men in the Klan, from 4 ; % will meet on the question of a gen- LOG! ays oA Sica Eee organization tou The Amer-| Taxicab companies affected by the|0f Madge Oberholzer some four or five | Milwaukee, would do anything in the) eral reduction of wages in the state. % i ‘ ican Frame-up Sy strike have given up all attempts to|days after she was a corpse,” Steph-|category of crime. There is very li Open New Case. _--_ -|Name RRS ass Winn Se ey July 22 the annual outing of the]}operate their cabs at night and vir-;enson said, “I dan also \prove that |tle that he has not done. His police) "»TTSBURGH, April 12. — The REMUS APPEAL IS LOST. International Labor Defense will be|tually all day-time service has been|one of the talesmen was approached |court record is voluminous. Ku Klux Klan opened its case against; COLUMBUS, 0., April 12—Hopes|A@dre8S - ss eee eee eceeeneee