The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1928, Page 1

| | of their lai a ie Aid to Miners, Is Keynote of Workers Party May Day Manifesto TAE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY THE DAILY WORKER. Extered as second-cluss matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1579. INAL CITY EDITION Vol. V. No. 90. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, 00 per year. NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1928 Published daily except Sunday by The National Dail Publishing Associ . Inc. 33 Firat Street, New ¥ y Worker ork, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents ALL UNORGANIZED WEST PENN MINERS STRIKE TODAY ANSWER CALL OF 900,000 ALREADY IN BATTLE LINE Districts Report Strong, Sentiment. PITTSBURGH, ‘April 15. — One hundred thousand miners strike to- dav, Roused ty the recent great the-Unior * Conference, thousand exploited slaves of the coal harons in Fayette, Westmoreland, Save- Somerset and Greene counties will to- | day give the momentous signal which will stir twenty millions of other un- erganized, similarly exploited slaves in American industries to revolt. Three hundred thousand coal dig- gers in Pennsylvania, in Ohio, in Ili- neis, in other sections, already in the struggle amidst the most extreme suffering and sacrifices for over a year have raised their voices so that these one hundred thousand in the vest Pern mines may hear and re- spond to the common need and against the common enemy. “Lay Down Your Tools!” one hundred| | | | Militant Framed Up Proto shows tant president of local 1703 of the San Bonita, mili- United Mine Workers, who has been found guilty of manslaughter in Pittston for the shooting in se defense of Frank Agati, Lewi: Cappelini henchman. Judge W. Ss. McLean refused to accept the jury's first verdict of involuntary “Lay down your tools and doin sour | manslaughter. trike today,” is the cr. union strikers in the a Bead fdas to the unorganized miners in Fayette, | Greene, Somerset and Weesbmoretaud) counties. “Organize and join our union! Together strike!” 3 Swear to Come Out. Thousands of unorganized miners | who have found their way into the: mines in the union fields of Pennsyl- vania and Ohio have also promised the Ee ee they will join the “But, ina: Buen ne fe re- ‘ply that under the ibedership of the “Save-the-Union” Committee of the union, the present leadership will be ousted and the rank and file will again | take control and rebuild the union into the most powerful labor organi- zation in the country. ; * % * Districts Are Ready. BROWNSVILLE, Pa., April 15.— Thousands of unorganized miners throughout Fayet! Greene, West- moreland and Som@set counties have pledzed themselves to join the strike April 16th in answer to the call of the “Save-the-Union” Committee. ‘A second batch of over 100,000 leaf- | lets declaring, “Miners, strike on April 16th for a union, wage increase and the Jacksonville scale, check- weighmen, pit committees, a national agreement for all miners and the pro- | Lewi: in a vision, ‘No more betrayals by are being distributed in the by committees elected by the miners. Several committeemen have been ar- rested, but others quickly took their places until they were released, The call was signed by the entire executive committee of the Save-the- Union Committee, John Brophy, chair- | man; John T. Watt, vice-chairman; Pat Toohey, secretary, and Anthony | P. Minerich, Vincent Kemenovich and Charles W. Fulp, organizers in the | district, (Continued cng Po wo} U. S. EMPIRE IN HAITI DENOUNCED Du Bois, Minor, Others Speak at Meeting The immediate cessation of the war against Nicaragua, the withdrawal of marines from that country, Haiti and all Latin American countries and the immediate release of all those jailed in the anti-imperialist demonstration held in Washington on Saturday, was demanded in a resolution unanimous- ly passed at a mass meeting to pro- test against the occupation of Haiti, held yesterday afternoon at the Em- bassy Mansions, 20 W, 115th St. President Coolidge. Denounce Occupation. Du Bois, editor of “The Crisis,” of the speakers at the meeting. The resolution was telegraphed to: we can win the | | i | ih BONITA VERDICT MANSLAUGHTER 10 to 20 Years for Class Justice Victim WILKES-. BARRE, | April 15.—Man- wis,””,i8 re: slaughter was -the-verdict brought in’ by the jury in the case of Sam Bonita, on trial in connection with the shoot- ing of Frank Agati, contractor and Cappelini henchman. Recommending clemency in obvious admission of the innocence of the {young mine leader, the jury, never- theless, carried out its part in what from the first has been branded a “frame-up” on the part of the oper- ator-controlled court, the officials of jthe city assisted by the reactionary jofficials of the Lewis-Cappelini ma- chine. The verdict which came after 45 hours practically at the order of the (Continued on seed (a Five) OHIO MINERS IN DRIVE FOR UNION SPRINGFIELD, 0O., April 15—At an enthusiastic mass meeting attend- ed by over 250 miners at Harryette last night, the membership of the five locals piesent’ unanimously pledged their support to the Save-the-Union | Committee and endorsed its program. Before the meeting adjourned plans were laid for the formation of a sub- Save-the- Union Committee end for tne electing of representatives jto the district committee. Work of | me bilizing the other loeals of the sub- | district, with the end of calling a sub- ‘disttict convention inthe near future ‘to oust the ecrrupt Lewis supporters in cfficial positions, will get under way at once. At the same’ time the .men determined to strengthen the strike here by starting mass. picket- ing of the many “cooperative” mines | which are being operated. This the| sub district officials, headed by the vice-president, have prevented the} (Continued on jbecastioedai Three) DERIAND M’MAHON yrASS UNEMPLOYMENT PERMANENT. Tob Displacement in U. S. Reaches 2,000,000 ) with < Spring FIGHT WAGE CUTS PASSAIC, N. J., April 15—At a eonference of all the Passaic textile union locals, in which representatives of unorganized workers in the woolen ‘and worsted mills also participated, The occupation of Haiti was char-— acterized as disgraceful by W. E, B.' held Friday and Saturday, a resolu- tion was passed calling upon. Presi- one dent Thomas F. McMahon of the L _, | United Textile Workers’ “At present,” he said, “the indict- ' conduct an investigation and take im- Union to ments against the American occupa-| mediate steps to combat the evils un- tion are: the stopping of popular elec- | tions, the depreciation of Haitian cur- rency and al-administration of the! national d itution on account of der which the mill employees were forced to work. The statement was issued Saturday ; depriving the peasants | by Gus Deak, president of the Passaic ‘and making it necessary | textile council, who declared that the numbers to emigrate; the| mill owners were secretly putting in- to effect by coercion drastic (Continued ‘Protest Against Wail 30, 000 to Tie Up M Mills in New Bedford | Walkout Today 107 A Pickets Face Trial in Washington WORKERS } AT GAPITAL FOR SANDINO CAUSE St. War Intensifies WASHWNGTON, April 15.—One hundred and seven pickets arrested while demonstrating against Wall Street invasion of Nicaragua in the name of American labor at the White House Saturday are scheduied to go on trial here Monday. The picket Jine was organized by the All-American Anti-Imperialist League. Manuel Gomez, secretary of the United States section, was among those arrested. Held in Jail. About half of the demonstrators were held in jail over the week-end, the others, being released one by one on bail as rapidly as funds could be |Posted. Another of those arrested |was Max Shachtman, editor of the Labor Defender, organ of the Inter- national Labor Defense. Among the slogans carried aloft on placards by the marching pickets were: “We Demand the Immediate salt SPM RPGR COL Nieidt gua,” “We Do Not Appeal to the | White House, But to the Masses Against the White House,” “Wall Street and Not Sandino is the Real Bandit,” “Millions Are Unemployed While We Scuander the Treasury on Conquest,” “We Are For Sandino and Not Against Him.” Diveded in Groups. Police and fplain-clothes officers, accompanied by department of justice agents, arrived in a body in auto- mobiles and surrounded the demon- strators, seizing their placards and ordering them to line up. They were marched two abreast to police head- quarters, where the police spent a half hour discussing possible charges. The 107 workers and liberals were finally booked for a violation of an ordinance regulating public as- semblages and were split into groups for imprisonment in 14 different police stations to await trial. Workers from New York, Phila- delphia, Baltimore, Washington and Wilmington participated in the demonstration. Youths Participate. “These people were taking part in a parade around the White House grounds for the alleged purpose of creating sympathy for Sandino, the Nicaraguan rebel, and contrary to the policy set up by the state depart- ment and the president of the United (Continued on Page Three) Police in Missouri Beat Negro Woman to Death! COLUMBIA, Mo., ‘April 15.—Mrs. }Lula Bailey, a Negro woman, died there as a result of injuries sustained | when jolicemen who raided her home jlooking for an alleged gambling | game, beat her severely. She was re- | |ported to have been struck in the | stomach by an officer. Mrs, Bailey ‘was an expectant mother. view of Photo shows interior the German Junkers plane Bre- men, in which Baron Huenefeld, and Captain Kohl, German mon- archists, and James Fitzmaurice, of the Irish Free State air force, flew from Ireland to Greenley Island, near Nova Scotia, Can- ada. The flight was a publicity stunt for the Hohenzollern fam- ily, as part of its seheme to «e- gain the German throne. Fitz- maurice is shown above. The airmen may | fly on to New York. CLOAKMAKERS TO ELECT DELEGATES Sigman Will” ‘Bar Left Wing from Convention Beginning tomorrow morning at 8 o’clock, and continuing thru the day till 9 in the evening, cloak and dress- makers will hold elections for dele- gates to the national convention of the union which begins soon in Bos- ton, The elections are to be held in Bry- ant Hall, 6th Ave. and 42nd St., the Joint Board headquarters at 16 W. 2lst St., and at the offices of Press- ers’ Local 35, 6 W. 21st St. timent among the workers in the} cloak and dress markets shows that these elections are to be used not merely for registering their choice of delegates, but also as a protest dem- onstration of the union wrecking ac- tivities of the Sigman, Breslau and} Dubinsky gang, which will control the | convention. The right wing clique has already announced its intention not to permt the left wing delegates to take their seats at the convention. A statement issued by the Joint Board in calling the cloakmakers to the polls declares: “Tuesday’s election must be an overwhelming demonstration of the confidence of the cloak and dressmak- ers in their legally elected local of- | ficers and Joint Board. It must be a demonstration of your readiness to rally around the Joint Board in the struggle for a union administered by officers chosen and controlled by the |workers in the interest of all. “Cloak and Dressmakers: Tuesday jis the day when you must thru your votes make clear that you will not be fooled by the campaign of the Dubin- sky, Breslau and “Forward” boys for Schlesinger as the next president of the International. “The miserable conditions of the cloak and dressmakers will not be al- leviated irrespective whether Sigman (Continued on Page Five) The sen- | Stunt Flyers Boosting German techn’ May Fly to N. Y. CALL AMERICAN LABOR TO FIGHT FOR SOCIALISM Pointing to the wage-slashing, union smashing policy by which Amer- ican capitalism is seeking to crush the militant American working class on the domestic field while it seeks to impose its rule on the peoples of Latin America, the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party of America has issued the following appeal to all the American work- | ers to consolidate their ranks on one of the most important May Days in| | the history of Labor in this hemisphere. | x ©MAY DAY MANIFESTO OF THE DENY APPEAL FOR” FUR PRISONERS May Day is international labor day. On this day, the workers | throughout the world lay down their | tools arid demonstrate their solidar- | ity in a common struggle against | capitalism and for a Socialist order | | fight for | Manufacturers’ WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY |} STRIKE DEMAND OVERWHELMING IN ALL LOCALS lRank and Fi File Shouts re Ballot Count , J .. April 15. 3 thonpand® textile workers will walk ont tomorrow morning in a the restoration of the 10 per cent wage cut, which was to have been put into effect Monday by the 27 mills of the New Bedford Cotton Association. Rank and File for Strike. The New Bedford Textile Council leadership have been in almost con- tinuo sion since Saturday night, formulating plans for the erection of 4 strike machinery. Their attempt to halt the strike by offering to delay counting the strike vote returns if the mill owners would postpone the wage cut for a week g been defeated by the membership’s demand for an immediate count. Every local union phar overwhelming majorities for a strike, The Textile Mill Committees, an organization of progressive workers, with units in every mill, whose aim is to organize the textile industry per’ cent, are energetically mo- zing the unorganized workers to juin the union men in their fight gainst the wage cut. The unions are composed mainly of the skilled worke Distribute Strike Call. of society. Never was this solidarity | jand this common struggle more nec- | lessary than on this May Day, 1928 Unemployment and Imperialist War. Capitalism in “prosperous” Amer- ica is showing its face in all its ugli- ness. The gifts of Coolidge ‘ ity” to the American working class | are those twin evils that are insep- | \arable from the capitalist system— | lunemployment and war. Five million workers tramp the streets, able to work, anxious to work, willing to work, jin a land where machinery and wealth | labound, and they are left to starve. Appellate Court Upholds Jail Sentences The appeal for a new trial of the | nine furriers sentenced to long prison | terms in a Mineola, Long Island, court |last year, has been denied by the Brooklyn Appellate Division Court in| a decision made publie Saturday. In denying the request for a new} |irial the judges of the Brooklyn court | | upheld the frame-up and provocation | engineered with the help of the right | | wing against nine of the most active} and militant members of the New|, Imperialist war is being waged on York Joint Board of the Furriers'| Nicaragua. Imperialist war is being Union: prepared against the Soviet Union, A statement issued by the Joint |the Jand where the workers rule, Board and by the Joint Defense and | Relief Committee for Cloakmaker and Furrier Prisoners declares that pro- |®" ceedings will be begun Monday morn- ing to appeal the case to the highest | courts ir the state. The district attorney of Mineola) |demanded that the nine workers be | immediately incarcerated in prison. | |The legal steps taken by the Joint Board may, however, prevent their confinement till the case can be heard in higher courts. The sentences to be served by the| “pros only land that is fighting for peace | d against imperialist war. In America, reaction sits in the | saddle, Wage-cutting, open-shop! jdrives, union-smashing, injunctions, jeviction of striking miners, attacks by the police, gunmen, troops, ma- | chine-guns and gas turned upon the strikers, oil graft, sewer graft, r graft, census graft, open rule by the big bankers and barons of oil and steel and coal, government of Wall Street, by Wall Street and for Wall | Street—government against the s S furriers are: Jack Schngider, chair-| asses of workers and poor farmers man of the Joint Board; Samuel Men- | __ itis js the s stem against which we | scher, Hisar of the alae nen must unite our ranks more firmly for committee during the furriers’ strike determined struggles this- first of 1926, Oscar Mileaf, Martin Rosen- | kes are : pick a tai Nad berg, Joe Katz, George Weiss, A. ae Franklin, M. Malkin, are to serve a’ Bureaucracy Defends Capitalism. | At such a moment, when solidarity 2% to 5 year prison term in Sing!, paste Sing, and Otto Lenhart a term of 114 |'5 8° badly needed, when organization years in a reformatory. “'and fighting spirit are so badly need- The original trial took place just ae) the corrupt officials of the Amer- (Continucd on rags Two) ican Federation of Labor seek to pre- _. | yent the organization of the unorgan- A permanent mass army of the un- employed has become an established fact in the United States. The un- employment crisis of last winter and this Spring has brought recognition of this development in the most “prosperous” country in the world. It is estimated that at’ present 2,000,000 men and women workers have been permanently displaced in industry and agriculture. That this army of unemployed is greater than is generally conceded and is increasing consistently is shown by an examination of employment and pany statistics since the war. wo leading causes are the Berges) extending peed up system technical mechanical advances made by staffs of experts on industrial pay-rolls to reduce wages and other costs for the sake of more profits. Industrial “revival” is not going to solve the present unemployment prob- lem nor those of the future, investi- gations and statistics prove. Such re- vival can never be great enough to absorb all of the workers. A perma- nent army of the unemployed has long been characteristic of European coun- tries, but its existence has been denied in this country by apologists for capitalism and Coolidge “prosperity” propagandists. The April issue of “Facts for and] Workers,’ published ileneied _by the lized, betray the struggles of the iners, the needle trades, the textile and the shoe workers, and hinder and i eripple the forces of the working class jon a hundred battle fronts. The So- leialist Party openly supports the A. F. of L. bureaucracy in this betrayal. These agents of the capitalist class within our ranks openly defend cap- italism and its institutions and op- pose the formation of a labor party and seek to continue to sell the work- ers’ support to the two parties of cap- italism. They fight against the mil- (Continued on Page Two) Labor Bureau, Inc., 2 W. 43rd Street, reporis that unemployment during February of the present year was 6 per cent greater throughout the coun- try than in February of last year despite the fact that “industrial and commercial activity has shown a fairly consistent and widespread ad- vance so far this year.” Steel ingot production, for example, was 6 per cent greater in February of this year than in February, 1927, and pig iron production was only 1 per cent lower, yet employment in this industry dropped 9 per cent. Other industries showed similar dis- erepancies between production and (Gontinued on Page Three) INDIAN TURNING WHITE. WINNEBAGO, Neb., April 15— Louis Armell, a full blooded Winne- bago Indian, has become an object of scientific attention, due to the fact that his skin has been slowly changing from swart to white. Cop- per patches adorn his skin now and it is believed that Armell will be en- tirely white in two years. | where Socialism is being built—the | : A large number of volunteers, mem« | bers of the Young Workers (Commune | ist) League, have arrived in New Bedford from Boston to assist the | Textile Mill Committees in rallying the workers for the strike. Tens of thousands of leaflets, containing the strike call of the Mill Committees, were distributed by them in front of _ the mill gates of all the plants. Mill Committees Aid. In a statement issued recently, the Textile Mill Committees announced | their intention of supporting the uniom leadership in the conduct of the strike, but declared that should the Textile icials attempt a last min- ute postnonement, they would brand s a betrayal, and imme- e ieadership in the hey also demanded the or; anieation of a large general st committee where the vnorganized workers will be amply represented. A detailed account of how the union member orced the publication of t came known yester= ke vote be fer of the manufacture cut for one the offer of » council officials to keep the vote nits secret, since it was considered too late to stop the vote, the e d membership at cence demanded that a public count be | taken, Force Officials Action. The sentiment ran so high that the union officials were compelled to give in to this demand, and the Textile Council delegates were called to a ing to count the votes. The de- d of the union members that the ecting take place in a large hall was also conceded. Thousands of members attended the meeting. Sev- eral officials led by Samuel Ross, head of the Mule Spinners’ local, demanded (Continued on Page Five) SOCIALIST PARTY CONVENTION The socialist party’s national con- vention in session here is planning to @ delete recognition of the class strug- gle from the pledge which members are‘asked to take. A committee is pre- pared to recommend that the conven- tion delete from the pledge the phrase referring to “the class strug- gle between the capitalist class and the working class.” The convention has been occupied particularly to date with a proposal that the party establish a fraternal) insurance order, or lodge. Prohibition — also took up considerable time, with — delegates from the middle west pee ing cppoeition to any change in Volstead Act.