The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 14, 1928, Page 1

4 100,000 WEST-PENN COAL MINERS WILL STRIKE MONDAY; (Special @ The ‘DAILY © z _ PITTSBURGH, April 13.—Prepa’ Union Committee for the great strike unorganized fields are going on at 100,000 miners will walk out on April 1 An attempt ‘to confuse the issue o! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTS Vol. V. No. 89. 30,000 the four west Pennsylvania counties is seen here in the mysteri- ous radio announcements which have been made recently declar- ing that the strike has been postponed until April 20. cials of the Lewis-Fagan machine of District 5 or the coal oner- ators or both are behind the attempt to stem the rising sentiment among the 100,000 miners for a complete walkout appears cer- tain from evidences at hand. The strike has NOT been postponed, but will take place Mon- HE DAILY WORKE! WORKER) rations by the Savye-the- of the west Pennsylvania tremendous speed. Over 6, the scheduled date. f this great mine strike in SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. eV eres SOFT-PEDAL FALL GRAFT IN SINCLAIR CONSPIRACY TRIAL Judge Grats: Objection to Damaging Evidence WASHINGTON, April 13.—The special government prosecutor in the Harry F. Sinclair oil conspiracy trial now politely refers to former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall as having been “in a corrupt state of mind,” when he took $304,000 in Liberty Bonds from Sinclair and $100,000 from Edward L. Doheny, lessee of the Elk Hills oil reserve. The conspiracy charge against Fall, who is now vacationing in California, has virtually been dropped. Object to Evidence. The Sinclair defense objected to the introduction of evidence that Doheny gave Fall $100,000 and that Sinelair, moreover, gave him an additional $35,000 for a trip to the Soviet Union as an oil agent in 1928. Justice Jen- nings Bailey was inclined to agreé that this testimony should be ex- cluded. “I am trying to show that Fall was in a corrupt state of mind,” Prose- eutor Owen J. Roberts explained. Justice Bailey took the defénse’s ‘ob- jection under advisement. Simultaneously. with the announce- ment that E. L. Doheny, Jr., son of the oil magnate, had been summoned | as a witness in the Sinclair trial, it was announced by the government that the bribery indictment against him in connection with the leasing of the Elk Hills reserve through Fall had been nolle prossed. Government Won't Prosecute. It was the younger Doheny who de- livered the “little black satchel” with | $100,000 to Fall. It is certain now that the govern- ment does not intend to prosecute Fall for his part in the oil conspiracy which followed the slush funding of the republican party in 1923, And it | is more and more apparent as the trial proceeds that “a way out” is/ being sought for Sinclair also. WILL PROTEST SOZZ1 MURDER Anti-Fascists Will Meet Tomorrow Anti-fascists here will hold a pro- test meeting at Tammany Hall, 145 E, 14th St., tomorrow at which the Italian Mussolini government will be denounced for the murder of Gastone! Sozzi, 23-year-old anti-fascist and labor leader, who was killed at the Perouse prison, near Rome, on the night of February 7. | The speakers will include Dr. Nitti, ; son of the former Italian premier, Dr. | Charles Fama, Carlo, Robert Minor, William W. Weinstone, Norman Thomas, Moissaye Olgin and others. Norman Hapgood will be chairman. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p. m. STRIKERS BREAK FRUITBOSS’ RANK With the approaching end of the first week of the general strike of the retail fruit store clerks in the Bronx comes the announcement that the backbone of the newly formed bosses’ association has been broken by the capitulation of its largest member who reached a settlement with the strike leaders last night. Large Firm Yields. The firm of Mason and Forman, operating 6 retail fruit and vegetable stores thruout the Bronx, and em- ploying 85 workers, signed a cheek of $1,000 to be deposited as‘a se- curity that the agreement signed with the Grocery, Fruit and Dairy Clerks’ Union shall not be violated. This firm had settled with the union several days prior to the start of the general strike, but broke the Seaton on ae Two) Scor aiti Rule DU BOIS SCORES | EMPIRE IN HAITI Protest To Be Held on Sunday Afternoon “There has been no more disgrace- ful episode in the history of modern imperialism than .the occupation of Haiti,” declared W. E. B. DuBois, jeditor of “The Crisis,” in commenting yesterday on the report on Haitian conditions recently presented by Gen. John H. Russell, high commissioner to Haiti. A mass meeting to protest against the American occupation of Haiti and to demand the immediate withdrawal of all marines, at which Dr. DuBois will speak, will be held at the Em- bassy Mansions, 20 W. 115th St., Sun- day at 2:30, under the auspices of the All-American Anti-Imperialist League. Among the other speakers at the meeting will be Robert Minor, edi- tor of The DAILY WORKER; Henry |Rosemond, of the Haitian Patriotic Union; L. T. De Bekker, secretary of the Committee on Haiti, and Richard D. Moore, of the American Negro La- bor Congress. Harriet Silverman will be chairman, Pioneers Hear Lovestone Talk The keynote of the convention of the Young Pioneers of America, Dis- trict 2, at their gala “Welcome Con- vention” meeting last night at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., was struck by Jay Lovestone, general secretary of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, who greeted the conven-j tion in the name of the central exe- cutive committee of the Party. “The Young Pioneers are fighters log today, not tomorrow,” said Love- stone. “They are active participants in the class struggle side by side with their parents. The activity of the children in coal strike regions is one of the outstanding indications of this.” He congratulated the parents there for encouraging the youngsters to join the ranks of these fighters for working class freedom. The Pioneers themselves presented a living newspaper depicting vividly on a mass Scale every phase of Pioneer life. Among the other speakers were Juliet Stuart Poyntz, who represent- ed the United Council of Working Class Women, Miriam Silverfarb, dis- trict Pioneer leader of New York, and Charles Wilson of the Young Pion- eers. Bessie Bogarad, a Pioneer, acted as chairman. ‘The convention acknowledged greet- ings from the Workers (Communist) Party, the Young Workers (Commu- nist) League, the Workers’ Library, the Workers School, the Mexican Pioneer League, the Philadelphia Pioneers, and Uj Elore, the Hungar- ian Communist daily. The convention proper will con tinue this morning with a regula vasiness session at 101 W. 27th St ‘and tomorrow at 108 E. 14th St. day, April 16. That offi- geor then on strike. Entered SHOWS HOW THEY BETRAY MINERS; ASKS ACQUITTAL Jury Out “Since Thurs- day Afternoon (Special to The Daily Worker.) WILKES-BARRE, April 13.—The jury in the case of Sam Bonita, young Pittston mine leader, on trial here |in connection with the shooting of |Frank Agati, contractor and Cappe- lini henchman, was still out last night after a whole night and day. Charges to the jury were made late Thursday. At 4:30 the jury was locked up and has been in_session ever since. * * * Appeals For Bonita. In presenting his argument to the jury Chief Defense Counsel, Thomas Dando, spoke for two hours, making a fervent, sincere appeal for the life of the man whom he said he had come to love in the days when he visited him in jail. Dando is an Irishman “from the patch,” formerly a mine worker; at one time an attorney for the United Mine Workers. His address at times was florid, patriotic, and religious but seemed to make an impression on the jury. He hammered hard on the salient points of the case, that the officialdom of the United Mine Workers, particularly the officers in District 1 of which Rinaldo Cappelini is president were the witnesses against this humble rank and file worker, now president of local 1703 Pittston, and a devoted fighter for his 1700 members. Dando stressed the fact that of the 33 witnesses called by the prosecu- tion, 14 were members of the police force, or detective bureau, none of whom were eye-witnesses; five others were called, including employees of the Miners Bank Building in which the union office is located, and the rest, some 15 in number were all offi- cials of the union. “Such a procession of officials, as were in that office,” said Dando, “such a procession that took the stand, international organizers, or- A alee on Page Seven) CAP JOINT BOARD TAPS UNION HEAD Chicago Local Demands Return of Salzburg CHICAGO, April 13.—Despite the threats of International President Max Zaritsky that their decision would be overruled, the Chicago Joint Board of the Cap and Millinery Workers’ Union voted overwhelmingly to re- voke the decision of the national Gen- eral Executive Board that their man- ager, J. Salzburg, be removed from the leadership of the four-month old strike and from the leadership of the union. Zaritsky came to the meeting of the Joint Board, which was held here Thursday night wih the decision of the general executive, and instructed the delegates to endorse the board’s decision. Almost unanimously the members of the Joint Board vehe- mently attacked the action of the pre- (Continued on Fuygy Two) econd-class matter at the Post Office at New York, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1928 TEXTILE WORKERS VOTE TO STRIKE ti Organizers of the Lewis machine and professional stool pi- in the pay of the coal operators are touring Somerset, Fayette, Greene and Westmoreland counties seeking to confuse the unorganized miners as to the date of the walkout. The miners in the four count day are those who came out in 19: s who are called out under the act of March 3, 1879, Published 4 Publishing in support of the other miners When the 1922 strike settlement was made by ALL PLANS READY John L. Lewis, he deli ely left out these 100,000 union men from the agreement. I c hown that in so doing Lewis carried out the der « ce anies by whom thi tas wer great betrayal, strike call from the call of the w that there will be these workers are employed. the miners have refused to Lewis. They have, ho Save-the-Union Commit a 100% walkout Monday. answer 2 on Mon- NAL CITY EDITION aily except Sunday by The National Daily V Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, Price 3 Cents DAY er x. N. Bonita Defense Scores Vicious Lewis’ Officials Takes Plane “Bremen” Found in Newfoundland; ica on Upper photo shows view of the German Junker monoplane shown at Baldonnel airdrome, Dubli: “Bremen” n, Ireland, just before it left Thurs- day morning. Photo upper right is that of Baron Guenther von Huene- feld and lower r first westward flights acr of Lindbergh which was the gandist purposes in Latin America, the pr flyers was an attempt on the part ht Herman Koehl, flyers who attempted to make the Atlantic. d by the American imperialists for propa- Like the spectacular flight ent venture of the Junker of the Hindenberg-Stressman mon- archists to strengthen their own imperial power. S. P..BETRAYS LABOR! Workers s Party Scores “Socialist” Meet On the eve of the socialist convention which opens today in New York | City, the ' Workers (Communist) P pays last night issued the. following state- MINERS’ FAMILIES MAINTAIN FIGHT Repudiate Lewis-Fagan “Yellow-Dog” By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. AVELLA, Pa., April 11 (By Mail). —Not having received a_ nickel’s worth of relief in two weeks and con- fronted with the decision of the repre- sentatives of the official machine of the United Mine Workers of America that no relief will be given unless they repudiate their progressive policies, nine hundred families in this mining town are today looking star- vation in the face. The entire community with the ex- ception of a few followers of the Lewis-Murray-Fagan machine turned out today at a mass meeting to pro-| test against the starvation policy| which waves the sword of hunger over the heads of the embattled miners and their heroic women, who have stood steadfastly by their union and their principles despite the worst terror that could be let loose among them by the agents of the coal operators, coal and iron police, state troopers, L. Lewis. President Fagan of district five in- sists that unless the progressive (Continued on Page Three) Women in Workers ——Party Meet Today A general membership meeting of all women members of the workers (Communist) Party of the New York district will be held at 1:30 p. m. to- day at 108 East 14th St. The order of bus‘ress will be dis- cussion of plans to mobilize all work- ing women in the campaign for re- lief of the striking coal miners and the smear rie NewTek Fed- eration of Working Women. The District Women’s Committee of the Party issued a statement last night pointing out the importance of the meeting and requesting that all women Party members be present. deputy sheriffs and agents of John; — ment: On the occasion of the national con- vention of the Socialist Party of America, now in session, the Work- ers (Communist) Party of America ofice more addresses itself to the workers, exploited farmers, and all those oppressed and persecuted by American imperialism on the vital need of uniting their ranks for com- mon struggle and of combating more intensely all those who parade as So- cialists, but in reality serve as sup- porters of capitalism and imperialism. We address ourselves particularly to those of the toiling masses in the United States who may still enter- tain the wrong and harmful idea that the Socialist Party of America is a working class party, deserving of working class support. To all these we say: Examine the actual record of the socialist party and its leader- ‘ship. Observe how completely the | ases have abandoned the platform of | |the working class. this so-called socialist party is ‘evolving into a political club of mid-| dle-class reformers, detached from the masses and their struggles, al- lied with the corrupt and reactionary trade union bureaucracy, and fight- ing against every effort of the mili- tant and progressive elements in the labor movement to strengthen the working class against the capitalist class. In a word: Convince yourself from the actual facts of the class struggle that the Party which calls itself the | socialist party of America is no lon- class. Hence, the sooner this organ- ization and the illusions that it spreads are defeated in the labor movement the stronger will be the working class in its struggles against the capitalist exploiters. Betrays Industrial Struggles. What is the record of the socialist party in the great miners’ strike? Here is a historic struggle of tens of thousands of workers in a basic in- dustry, in a union which was once the backbone of the American Federation of Labor, a struggle for the very ex- istence of hundreds of thousands of workers and their families against the brutal offensive of the coal mag- (Continued on Page Two) BOSSES’ GUNMEN FAIL IN TAXI STRIKE Policeman, M Mistaken for ‘Picket, Beaten by ‘Newark Scabs NEWARK, N. J., April 13.—Strike- breakers of the Yellow Taxicab Co. in Harrison near here mistook a po- liceman for a striking cab driver to- day and beat him up so badly that he had to be taken to the hospital. Three stitches were made in a cut near his eye. The policeman is Joseph Finnegan. hey he observed a Yellow taxicab If was driving his car in plain clothes speeding in an effort to get ahead of him. He followed the cab into the Yellow Garage, at 15 Sussex Ave., and was preparing to arrest the speed- ing driver when be was pounced upon by a group of strikebreakers whe mis- took him for one of the pickets. Frame-up Attempted. After being released from the hos- setal, Finnegan went back to the gar- age with several detectives and at- tempted to identify his assailants. When he failed in this an effort was made to frame-up strikers and blame the assault on them. But the evidence proved too thin for this. The strike of 500 taxicab drivers against the Yellow Taxicab Co. and its subsidiary, the Brown and White Co., is proceeding with increased en- ergy, strike leaders report. The (Continued on Page Seven) (Bergers, Hillquits, Oneals and Thom- | See how steadily |” ger a working class organization but | one which is opposed to the working | vshwrt FIGHT ON WAGE CUT IN 27 NEW BEDFORD MILLS \Bote Overwhelmingly in Favor of We k Out NEW BEDFORD, Mass., April 13. d textile workers in ills will go on strike nt wage cut made 1facturers’ Asso- on in pay goes morning. the 7 textile workers’ New Bedford anded a strike for ning majority, neil di 1orning, according to strike nde public yesterday. The shows 15 favoring a strike te every one opposed To Strike Despite Officials. 2 frantic attempts of the union Idom to avert a walkout by offering to withhold the counting of ,the...votes, ..if..the manufacturers | agreed to postpone the wage cut for week, were fruitless when the mill refused to concede to their retur vote Only fhe overwhelming indignation | of the membership at this attempt at | stopping the strike finally compelled | the council of dom to allow tabu- | Jation and publication of the strike te returns. 1 sentiment of the ed and unorganized | for f to be suce r attempts to stop the strike ful. Won't Delay Cut. Before the strike vote _began late “BREMEN” LANDS ~ INNEWFOUNDLAND cal \German Trans-Atlantic |“ mtinued on Page Three) Flyers sop Jo = The monoplane “Bremen,” which left Ireland Thursday morning with Baron Von Huenefeld and Herman Worker’s Chil d Starves To Death wy ot tere IN ==] c v } BERS} 5D t a | = Bas ew c Kohl aboard, landed on Roe Island, | Newfoundland, last night. The | who were long overdue, were report | unhurt. The report was made here iat jnight by the Radio Marine Corpora- tion. | HOLD MINERS’ CONCERT SUNDAY : |Coal Diggers Troupe on d | ° crowding the York, the New mass meeting 1 p. m. today. ry of the voice the of unem- Program thei | The five Ilinoi unemployed the National M Ann’s Ave. tainers will arri night to hear The act of this troup, to be the New sented at the “Miners’ Variet aay benefit variety show to b Dies of Hunger. morrow afternoon at Central Opera old baby of House, 67th St. and Third Ave., is} 5 i at his home ‘expected to be the high light in an| The child exceptionally interesting program. ting from the Others to be presented are Eugene months unemployment, Helmer, well known pianist; Dorsha, > and three other interpretive dancer; Jules Bleds 0 starving when dis- the famous Negro baritone, and the He said he, colored cast which will present the rk for one-act play “Aftermath,” dealing coming hese with the reaction of a South Carolin: ord, Conn., Negro to the World War. nd a job, While the workers have responded not much generously to the appeal of the Per d his family, g them the sylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Commit tee for funds and clothing to aid th striking miners, the need for relief will becomq more acute when thej* 150,000 unorganized miners join th strike on Monday, Fanny Rudd, retary of the Relief Comm nounced yesterd FOR THE Friends and E DAILY WORKER w cert and vetcherinka given by meal they ‘Tammany Hall” Forum Topic Tomorrow Night d in weeks. one, organizer s (Communist) E eo New Tam- t the open forum of the ool, 108 E. 14th St., to- 8 p.m. Wo 10rrow 4 of the United Council of Workin The ammany Hall of Tweed, class Women at 122 Osborn Croker and small business will be Brooklyn, tonight. All proceeds will|contrasted with that of Olvany, AL go to the defense of The DAILY|Smith agd finance capital, it is am nounced. WORKER.