The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1928, Page 2

St Oe ee ee Oe CS ne in le or er SSGOSSA2. .BPRoOereimaoad ts st. ag st isi , Would Like to Carry on! Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1928 Corbishley, from Prison, Writes Labor Defense of Desire to Help the Miners ROUSED BY GREAT PITTSBURGH MEET; WISHES FREEDOM Miners’ Fight ley, fighting. miner Henry Corbi of southern Il put behind prison | bars by the reactionary, Farrington machine in the infamous “Ziegler frame-up,” has written to the Inter- national Labor Defense of his wish | for freedom especially at this time so} he can participate in the fight now being waged by the miners to save their union. “T sure would iike to have been in| Pittsburgh,” he writes, “and to have | attended the historic conference. The | time is now ripe, with the Mlinois operators refusing to recognize the union, when action must take place of | talking. “I wish that some one in Illinois or St. Louis would come down to see me | cecasionally as I have so much.to talk | about and so little space to write that | I can’t afford to start. Winois Waking. “My brother Frank was down last week and from what he tells me, things are beginning to shape up some in southern Illinois. The most reac- tienary local in the state, Orient, No. 2, in the face of Fishwick threatening to expel all that took part, selected delegates to Pittsburgh. “T sure hate to be cramped up here when there is so much to be done and so few hands that will take the lead. Thanks for Books. “I am grateful to the International Labor Defense and the workers who have contributed funds for books for labor prisoners,” Corbishley writes, “I am much interested in the book proposition. I have already made my request for some and I’m sure glad to get thom, as it is mighty hard to get reading material here.” “My regards to all and tell them IT am making out fine.” STRIKING BARBERS GET $5 INCREASE White Plains Workers Vote to Return WHITE PLAINS, April 15.—The White Plains local of the Journey- men Barbers Union, on strike since last Monday reached an agreement with the Master Barbers Association and went back to work yesterday, after the bosses had granted the workers a $5 a week increase in wages. The original demands of the strik- ers had been a wage raise of $10 a week and a larger percentage of the receipts earned by each chair. The workers also gained part of the per- eentage increase they demanded. The | cr URGE ngs for the annow WORKER on now be set up already heavily come i ened wor peci: hould send then me of the press have alread once. The business off nh a great many have acc Lai pr the greetings to reach The DAILY WORKER. 4 i The enthusiasm with which the greetings have been sent to the office of the paper to date are an evidence of the importance which all fraternal and labor organizations thru- out the country attach to having a pledge of their support appear in The, DAILY WORKER’S May Day issue. been received mul: ALL MAY DAY GREETINGS BE SENT TO THE “DAILY” NOW its of the Workers (Communist) Party are urged to send in the greetings which they have secured from labor and fraternal organizations to The DAILY WORKER as soon of the business office of the paper. and all other organizations which are planning to be represented among the friends of The DAILY resses the economy which the early receipt of the greetings represents to the paper since the greetings can lated, they will have to be set up under pressure and the overtime wil! mean’ an added expense to the This appeal is especially addressed to all cities and districts in the remoter sections of the United States from which it takes longer for This special edition of the paper, on one of the most important May Days in American labor history, is one which no organization can afford to be absent from. All labor and sympathetic groups and individuals must send their greetings to the special May Day DAILY and all Party units must see that they are turned in promptly. - Fire Perils Workers See crepe ET The lives of scores of workers and their families were endangered in a midnight fire in the tenements at 142-144 Greene St. The tene- ments were the typical fire traps in which workers are forced to dwell. Three firemen were hurt in the blaze. ORGANIZATION IS WAITERS’ DEMAND New Body in Difficulty With Local 1 Striking evidence on the need for large sections of waiters aurant workers was had Sat- in the difficulties which arose ers of Local 1 of the nion and those of a re- ed Waiters’ Unity Organ- {of the rest of the demands have been given| ization over a restaurant newly union- over for “arbitration” to the State|ized by the latter body. Board of Arbitration by the union| Officers of Local 1, acoerding to a leadership. |report, appeared at the Richter Res- While the prices have been raised, |taurant, 82 Second Ave., and warned the workers pcint out that the new}the employer as well as the oficers schedule had gone into effect before] ot the other union that waiters sent/ the strike had been called. nly by Local 1 would be permitted aa to work et the restaurant. IN MAY 1 MEETING s been irying to organize the trade ted that they have signed an agree-} as @ The Will March to Madison | mitt ment with the Richter Restaurant. They we in no way seeking to un- reece. ieee Waiter Square Garden | pomedisok Delegates from 50 working class} dermine t work of Local 1, they | said, but trying to organize. children’s organizations formed plans | for the children’s celebration of May | son, stated that the| Organization is com- rs who have been re- fused, admission into Local 1 of the} Waiters’ Union, of its executive com-| KELLOGG ATTACK ON SOVIET UNION IN STATEMENT Wall St. Puppets Won't Recognize U.S. S. R. WASHINGTON, April 15.—That the republican party and the Coolidge administration will persist in oppos- ing “relations with the present re- jgime in Russia” was made clear in a |statement by Secretary of State Kel- logg and issued by Chairman Butler Republican National mittee. Seconding the policy of the tory government in Britain which broke off diplomatic relations with the Soy- iet Union, Kellogg declared that the “experiences of various governments which have recognized and entered into relations with the Soviet regime have demonstrated conclusively the wisdom of the policy of the United States.” The struggle of Latin American and Chinese workers against “the government of the United States” was cited as one of the reasons for the administration policy. POLICE TERRORIZE FRUIT STRIKERS Club Woman Speaker; ff Pickets Arrested Despite the police terror against the strike of the retail fruit store clerks who are fighting since last Monday for the recognition of their union, the workers’ militancy. has succeeded in breaking up the attempt of their employers to organize a bosses’ association, and in signing agreements with 27 of the largest stores in the Bronx. Police Terror Fails. For the past few days the police have tried by mass arrests of pickets and by breaking up open air meetings called for the strikers, to break the morale of the clerks, most of whom are young workers. They succeeded, however, only in increasing their numbers, An open air meeting held on the corner of 155th St. and Prospect Ave., was broken up when about a dozen \police charged the crowd and the |speakers with swinging clubs. Mrs. Nevins, one of the speakers for the |United Council of Working Class |Women, was so badly clubbed as to need treatment from a_ physician. This organization of working women has been assisting the strikers by mobilizing sentiment against the non- union fruit stores. The strikers suc- ceeded, however, in holding a mon- ster open air meeting near the non- union stores in the Claremont Park- way and Bathgate Ave. neighbor- hoods. Several days ago representatives sent from the strike headquarters of the union at the Bronx Lyceum, 3960 Third Ave., had appeared before a meeting of the Bronx section of the Young Workers (Communist) League to appeal for assistance in carrying on the struggle against the non-union bosses there. Approximately 40 mem- bers of the League volunteered to go | ma aRP on picket duty for the strikers. Day at a conference held at the Irv- \Court Denies Appeal | A statement made by- the strike ing Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., | yesterday. The conference, held} under the auspices of the Young to Left Wing Furriers leadership declares that the services rendered them by the Young Work- Com-| (above) known as “King of the ~ Taw Respects ik” WORKERS PARTY GALLS LABOR TO MAY DAY UNITY See Preparation for War on Soviet Union (Continued from Page One) litant workers instead of fighting jagainst the bosses and try to cripple the unions by expelling the militants for such “crimes” as trying to organ- ize the unorganized or trying to wage a real fight against the employers. | + The American working class, after a period of defeats, demoralization and relative passivity, are beginning to fight back again. In the mine fields, in the textile strikes and shoe strikes in New England, in the stirrings among the needle trades workers of the clothing centers, in the fresh growth of sentiment for a Labor Party,—these are a few of the signs of the growing determination of the workers to defend themselves against wage-cuts, union-smashing, and the offensive of the bosses. b Help the Miners. | The basic struggle of the American Ss workers at the present time centers in the mine fields of Pennsylvania, Unemployed Furrier Aid $30,000 Fund _ ohio, Indiana, Mlinois and West Vir. ginia and the other coal regions of Among the units of the Workers the country. Here the immediate fu- (Communist) Party that are showing ture of the labor movement is largely the way in raising the $30,000 fund being determined. Here tens of thou- necessary to finance the acquisition sands of coal miners under the mili- of the’ new Workers Center at 26-28 tant leadership of the Save-the-Union Union Square is 2D 1F. |Committee, are fighting against the Despite the fact that many of the combined forces of the coal barons, members of this unit are unemployed the national government, the state furriers, $87 was collected at a re- constabulary, the gunmen and the cent meeting and. $75 was promised treacherous officials of the Lewis ma- in pledges as this unit’s initial effort chine, who have crippled the United in the drive. made a temporary collection of $34 its destruction. among its members and Section 4,| After more than a year of heroic Unit A has thus far collected $31. (struggle under treacherous leader- Other workers, both Party and non- |ship, the miners have begun to take Party, are urged to start intensive|their organization into their own work at once and turn in the funds hands, to sweep out the reactionary to 26-28 Union Square or 108 E. 14th officials, to spread the strike to the St. Collection lists, receipt books and ynorganized fields, to organize mass banquet tickets can be obtained at | picketing, to defy injunctions, and to these two addresses. idevelop fresh energies which will The drive for funds will culminate ‘sweep the union clean of traitors and at a banquet to be held in the neW save the union from destruction and home of the militant workers Satur-!rebuild it and win the strike. day evening, April 27. Miners! May Day is a day to dedi- a cate to saving the union from the U, S. EMPIRE IN \ganizing the unorganized fields, to | strengthening the picket lines, to ‘smashing the injunctions, to repelling A | the attacks of the coal barons, to oa | A United} States circuit court has reversed the life sentence on W. K. Hale, millionaire cattleman Osage Country” (Oklahoma), for the murder of Henry Roan, an Osage Indian, two years ago. Hale was said to have been the head of a murder ring formed to kill Osage Indians to procure their lands. WORKERS’ CENTER CAMPAIGN GROWS jreactionary bureaucracy, to sweeping {out Lewis and his henchmen, to or- spreading and winning the strike. Railroad workers! Don’t haul scab Du Bois, Minor, Others '*! * | Workers in all industries! Let us Speak at Meeting \this May Day pledge our solidarity to © (Continued from Page One) |the fighting miners and get behind ithem in their struggle.. Their heroic military occupation; and the unlaw- \battle is the fight of the entire Amer- ful extension of the Treaty of 1918,” |ican working class. If they lose, it is The fundamental question at pres- * rushing blow to all of us. If they ent, DuBois continued, is the eco- |Win, it will strengthen the workers nainie question. The attempt is now ¢Vetywhere. May Day is the day for being made to complete the enslave- |°Very worker to pledge his solidarity ment of the Haitian workers by oust-'t0 the striking miners, Let us come ing them from the land and forcing to their support with relief. Let us them into wage-slavery, he said. double and treble the relief. Stand Section 4, Unit 2 has Mine Workers and laid the basis of | : Load on Diver’s Back Photo above shows a new all- metal diving suit, which, according to its inventor, H. L. Bowdoin of Whitestone, Long Island, will en- able a diver to descend 200 feet be- low the surface with “perfect safe- ty.” The suit weighs 1,400 pounds. Besides the heavy load a diver must carry, the undersea worker risks death when the cable attach- | ed snaps, as often occurs. Help them by the fighting miners! win their strike! Class Struggle! Workers in all industries! Dedicate this day to a struggle against wage- cuts, to building and strengthening our organizations, to organizing the unorganized, to sweeping out the cor- ruptionists and advocates of class col- laboration, that cripple and betray our unions, to developing powerful fighting unions, to building a labor party that will help us to take vast masses of workers out of the bosses’ parties, to. smashing the bosses’ of- fensive, to fighting against the in- junction and the strike-breaking gov- ernment, to fighting against the bosses’ government and for a work- ers’ government. To all workers who are awake to the interests of their class, we say: “This day you can best observe in ac- cordance with the fighting spirit that it symbolizes by joining the Workers (Communist) Party, the fighting par- ty that leads the struggle against the capitalist system. It is the American section of the Communist Internation- al, leader of the workers and oppress- ed masses of the world. Come to the May Day meetings arranged by the Workers (Communist) Party through- out the country. Enlist in its ranks and take part in its struggle to build the unions, to give them a fighting Policy, to sweep out the treacherous officials, to organize the unorganized, to fight wage-cuts, to defeat the war against Nicaragua and to fight im- perialism, to fight unemployment, to fight injunctions, the use of troops, police and gunmen against the work- ers, to fight against the bosses’ gov- | ernment and for a workers’ govern- ment, to fight against the capitalist system with its unemployment and exploitation and war and to fight for the establishment of a socialist order of society. CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COM- MITTEE WORKERS (COMMU- NIST) PARTY OF AMERICA. Imperialism Save Everywhere, The role of modern imperialism was explained by Robert Minor, edi- tor of The DAILY WORKER, who described the various phases of im-| perialism in Asia, India, Africa and China. Color, Minor said, was but a} pretext used by the exploiters every- | where. In such states as Louisiana, | 100,000 MORE MINERS» OUT; FREE SUBS VITAL One hundred thousand coal miners will strike today tn the unorgan- Alabama and Tennessee, he pointed ized coal fields of Pennsylvania. These men are prepared to throw their out, Negro and white workers are ex- | force into the year-long bitter struggle which their brothers in other parts Pioneers of. America, passed a reso-! Tution that their members march from Central Park to Madison Square, on May 1. Among the organizations repre-' sented were the Young Pioneers; American Non-Partisan Jewish Work- ers School; Czechoslavak Labor School; Sons of Culture; Miners’ Re- | lief Scouts Groups; Ukrainian Labor | School, and Finnish Labor School. The conference unanimously adopted as | a May Day slogan, “All workers’ | children out, of the schools on May | Day.” The delegates at the confer- ence urged that workers’ children | demonstrate their solidarity with the! workers by taking part in the Madi-, son Square Garden demonstration on | May 1. i i Attempt to Lynch Negro; in Mississippi Fails. | HAZLEHURST, ' Miss. April l5.+ | Trailed by a mob of 500 whites, Green | Kirk, a Negro, charged with the mur- | der of a deputy sheriff, was saved Friday when he was refused lodging in the county jail because it was crowded. The mob arrived shortly afterwards and found that Kirk had been taken elsewhere, f b b) (Continued from Page One) ers League was inestimable. The ploited with equal intensity. ‘of Pennsylvania and Ohio have been®—— babe Spee i {Young Pigneers is also participatin; year ago, and originally included jin the niseane, the Gain eapeaamn der charges of criminal assault the itative stated. 0 leaders of the furriers, Ber Gold) seven more pickets were arrested and I. Shapiro. They were acquitted, , While picketing the scab stores on Al- however, when the evidence furnished | jerton and Prospect Aves, Four were by the right wing and the American | dismissed when they dane up later Federation of Labor officialdom was lin the night court, and three others not sufficient to justify a verdict of|two of whom are members of pre guilty from the prejudiced jury of| Young Workers League, are to be local business men, tried Monday. , The sentenced workers were framed ‘| Diieegeegmecsugrsergagerd up with having destroyed property, 38 KILLED IN BLAST. und assaulted two employers engaged, WEST PLAINS, Mo., April 15.— in operating a scab shon in Mineola | ‘Thirty-eight are known dead and during the general strike in 1926,| More than 20 are injured, sever when the furriers were victorious in| critically, as the result of an explosion obtaining the 40-hour week and other | and fire that demolished the Weiser concessions from the employers. | 8arage building in which a dance was | being held. In snite of the fact that the steno-| graphic records of trial, as quoted by] FLOWER DAY FOR MINERS. NEWPORT, R. I1., April 15.—The Frank P. Walsh when the hearing for | the appeal came up in the Appelate Newport section of the Young Work- Division, showed that the judge in’ erg (Communist) League is plonning the Mineola court made decision after | ¢¢ hold a flower day for miners’ re- decision which was illegal, the seven! tief in the near future. judges in the Appelate Division de- Risin ah tiescalaon cided to refuse a new trl RAILROAD WORKER KILLED. The Joint Defense and Relie? Com-| JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 15.— mittee is launching a new campaign| Joseph Piwowarski, 47, a laborer on to raise money for the’ defense of the! the New Jersey Central R. R., was nine victims of the right wing frame- | killed yesterday when he was struck up it was learend yesterday. by a railroad drill engine, } _ peo acti “One hundred and sixty million carrying on almost single-handed for workers in the Soviet Union have over a year. The walk-out of these succeeded in freeing themselves from unorganized thousands is of tremen- slavery, and 400,000,000 Chinese dous importance in the struggle of the workers will ultimately be free with miners against the coal barons and the consummation of the Chinese against the reactionary officialdom Revolution,” he said. within the Mine Workers’ Union. Other speakers were Henry Rose- The Daily With Them. mond, of the Haitian Patriotic Union, yt is The DAILY WORKER which L. T. De Bekker, secretary of the has fought thruout the bitter year of Committee on Haiti, Madame Theo- struggle at the side of the Pennsyl- dora Holly, school inspector of Haiti, yania and Ohio miners. It is The and Richard Moore of the American paiLyY WORKER which will go into Negro Labor Congress. the fight with the new forces from Harriet Silverman, secretary of the the unorganized coal ficlds. As the New York Branch of the All-America striking miners in the other fields Anti-Imperialist League, who presid- have come to look upon The DAILY ed at the meeting, said that the local wORKRR as their strongest and most branch was striving to build up its loyal ally in the struggle with the work along the lines of the national mine bosses, the. workers of the un- organization, making special efforts organized fields will learn to depend to recruit organized workers in the upon their militant daily paper for New York labor unions. direction and encouragement in the battle upon which they are entering. GUARDSMEN PLEAD GUILTY. This means that hundreds of free DETROIT, Mich., April 15.—Seven| subscriptions will be needed for these Michigan National Guardsmen com-} new forces of striking miners. The prising five officers and two ser-| impoverishment thruout the coal fields geants, indicted by a federal grand] hos become so great that the miners jury on charges of forging govern-|are unable to pay for their subscrip- ment pay checks, pleaded guilty be-| tions to the paper which has become jfore Judge Charles C. Simon in United | their most vital necessity. It has be- States District Court. come the duty of the entire American | 4 . ¥ working class to see that the strik- ing miners are supplied daily with the paper which guides them, the duty of every other militant American worker. to see that every militant The WORKER. The American workers must sénd it to them. Fill out the attdchor coupon so that another militant in the coal fields may know tomorrow ‘hat the entire militant Americar working class is rallied behind the imine struggle. f * * * Striking Miner’s Free Subscriptior Daily Worker, , 38 First St., New York. City. I am enclosing herewith $........ for a free subscription to a striking miner, - $6.00 ... 3:50 . 2.00 1:50 1.00 .. ++ 1 month Name Address ...12 months | WS releases attacking the United ... 6 months | Mine Workers of America and dis- | 8 months | crediting the “Save-the-Union” Com- | 2 months | ™ittee of the union, were brought to “ \sseeeveueueeeeeeeveceeeses | the-Union” Committee declares that BONITA DEFENSE BRANDS VERDICT CLASS JUSTICE Will Fight to Free Three Miners WILKES-BARRE, April 15.-—Bit- ter denunciation of the verdict by which Sam Bonita, young Pittston mine leader, was sentenced to serve jfrom ten to twenty years in prison, was made today by the Bonita-Men- dola-Moleski Defense Committee with headquarters at 518 Coal Exchange Bldg., in this city. In a long statement analyzing the .|forees behind the verdict as a result of which'one of the leading fighters jin the anthracite is to be placed be- | hind the bars, Stanley Dziengielewski, secretary of the committee, exposed the nature of the operator-controlled justice and the treachery of the union cfficials who more than any others are responsible for the attempt to railroad the militant union leader. The statement follows: | “Sam Bonita has been sentenced to serve from ten to twenty years in | prison. The verdict of manslaughter |against one of our leading fighters | whom the whole working class knows |to be innocent, is a confirmation of |the warning which we have issued “Sam Bonita is innocent—as every- ene knows. “Yet the forces of boss-controlled justice with the assistance of the treacherous officials of the Lewis- | Cappelini machine have succeeded in | bringing about a verdict of guilt, “For the moment our enemies seem to have triumphed. The object sought by the coal operators, the officials of the Lewis-Cappelini machine and their cther indirect accomplices in the union eppears to have been attained. Nor is this all. “In the next few days, Adam Mo leski and Steve Mendola will be placed on trial in an attempt to send them’ to the same fate as has been ordained for Bonita. This is the aim of our enemies. “Bonita, Moleski and Mendola are being persecuted not merely because they have led the fight in the anthra- cite against the enslaving individual ecntract system; our fellow workers are suffering not alone because they have dared to challenge the corrupt Lewis machine in the miners’ anion. “They are being tortureé because at the present moment they symbolize the whole struggle of the working class. Already their cause must be read with that of Sacco and Vanzetti, with Mooney and Billings, with Dom- ineck Ventaurato and the Ziegler min- ers, with the scores ,of other labor martyrs who have fallen victims of the hatred of the ruling class and its egents. Workers Must Act! “The miners, the workers of the country must rally to the support of Bonita, Moleski, M@ndola. There must be no repetition in the case of Mo- leski and Mendola of the Bonita ver- Bonita must be saved from prison. The cases of these workers |must be taken to that highest court | which alone will declare them inno- | cent, the supreme court of the work- ling class. “Immediate mass protest and de- monstration alone can save these in- nocent miners from the hatred and vengeance of our enemies. Prompt and en-rgetie support of the Bonita- Moleski-Mendola Defense Committee financially and morally is the prima duty of the labor movement. “Bonita, Moleski and Mendola mus® | be saved for the working class. “Labor unions, fraternal and sym. pathetic organizations must at once hold meetings, pass resolutions, send contributions to the committee, 518 Coal Exchange Building, Wiikes- Barre. “Bonita, Moleski, Mendola shall be freed!” dict. ‘Class Justice.” The national office of the Interna- tional Labor Defense through its secretary James P, Cannon, yester- day issued a ringing denunciation of the “class verdict” in the case of Sam Bonita, Pittston miner, against whom \ verdict of manslaughter has been miner is daily ensured his copy of} Tought in at a trial in Wilkes-Barre, “MINERS IN WEST PENN. TO STRIKE (Continued from Page One) ‘istrict. They report an enthusiastic snonce on the part of the unorgan- ‘zed miners who are ready to go to ony length to organize. CBee ets False Rumors. PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 18— Malicious statements in the form of the attention of the committee today. Pat Toohey, secretary of the “Save- these statements are forgeries which rever came from the office of oe