The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK For A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 92. THE DAILY WORKER. . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered an second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., ander the act of March 3, 1879, FINAL CITY EDITION NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1928 Published daily except Sunday by The National Dail Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New ¥ y Worker ork, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents SAVE-THE-UNION FORCES LEAD OUT NEW THOUSANDS SOCIALIST/PARTY MEET LANDERS: THE SOVIET UNION Supports the Imperialist | League of Nations The socialist party, at the closing session of its national convention, meeting here yesterday at Finnish Socialist Hall, 2056 Fifth Ave., ex- pressed its solidarity with the Men- shevik and counter-revolutionary movements throughout the world by unanimously passing a resolution condemning as “brutal” the tiat- ment accorded to counter-revolution- ‘aries in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, and demanding their re- lease from prison. A resolution, sponsored by the Rev. | Norman Thomas, was also passed, ad- | vocating the entry of America into the League of Nations. «The resolu- tion asked that the League be made “more democratic.” A previous reso- lution, supported by Morris Hillquit, urging that the United States join the League without res ations, was turned down in favor of the one of- fered by the preacher. Detective Agencies. A motion calling for federal con- | trol of detective agencies was defeat- | ed after, heated discussion. | The convention passed a resolution | asking that the United States recog- | nize the Union of Socialist Soviet | Republics. The resolution merely | asks political recognition on the part | of the capitalist government, but ex: | presses no unity of interest of “a working classes of the two countries. Thomas In Robes of Debs. | In his speech of acceptance of the | socialist nomination for president on| Monday, Rev. Thomas, who was for- | merly pastor of the aristocratic Brick | Presbyterian church in New York oe who has..been. sogjali ‘ty . candi- we for governor and mayor of New York, referred to himself as being “in | the line of apostolic succession from | Debs.” i “Today we cannot risk world con- vulsions,” he declared. “We are too) interdependent. Our task is to bring | a better world into being without rev- olutiohary and catastrophic woe. It | is true that there is in the world to-| day every promise of convulsion, but | it is also true that there is no prom- ise that out of convulsion would come | anything better.” A proposal was made at Monday’s | session that “existing progressive | and labor organizations in sympathy | with the aims and methods of the socialist party may join the party as a body.” It was decided to lower all dues to $1 a year. Morris Hillquit made a proposal at this session that the socialist party | membership include all those who | vote the socialist ticket at elections, as well as those paying dues. said that the party’s dues-paying membership was at present 10,000. LARGE VOTE CAST AT CLOAK POLLS Elect Delegates to the) Boston Convention Long before the polls closed at 9) p. m. in the elections for delegates to the convention of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union yes- terday it was recognized as far more than a mere casting of votes. Thous- ands of registered and non-registered | cloak and dressmakers participated in the Joint Board elections as a dem- | onstration of protest against the union-wrecking campaign of the right wing officials of the International. The workers participated in the voting despite the fact that the right wing here tried to use all means in their power to stop them, They called upon police ass®tance in trying to “halt the distribution of circulars in the market. Three workers were,ar- rested, and were later fined $1 in the Jefferson Market Court. They are Lil Gordon, Celia Feller and Clara Gabel. STEEL WORKERS He} : | | One worker, a cook, is known to have perished and four persons are missing, as the result of a fire which burned out the Iroquois Ho- tel, above, at Atlantic City. These seashore hotels, resorts of the wealthy, subject their workers to | Batty’s Attempt to Halt| | — With an announcement to the press | tile Mill Committees as “Communis- ‘\ tie,” the reactionary officialdom of 6B PLANTS SHUT DOWN AS TIE-UP STOPS MACHINES Rally Fails NEW BEDFORD, Mass., April 17. condemning the mass meeting called for tomorrow afternoon by the Tex- the New Bedford Textile Council to- day took the first steps toward be- traying the 23,000 unorganized tex tile workers who, to a man, walked out of the mills Monday morning. They walked out in support of the 7,000. members of the unions who voted overwhelmingly to strike against the most openly brutal exploitation. FACE LONG TERMS Court Confirms 10 Year| Sentence WOODLAWN, Pa., April 17—The superior court of Pennsylvania today handed down a decision confirming the convictions of four local steel workers on sedition charges arising out of a raid, November 11, 1926. Peter Muselin, Milan Resetar, Thomas Zima and Steve Brattich, vic- tims of a: deijiberate “frame-up"- in the lower courts and now out on bail are, as a result of the decision by the superior court faced with rearrest and a- sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment. This 1s the penalty which may be meted out to them under the Penn- sylvania anti-sedition law, one of the most vicious on the statute books. The four steel workers,at the time employes of the Jones and Laughlin Steels Mills were taken in a raid at the home of Thomas Zima who with |six friends was celebrating a birth- day party. The raid is known to have (Continued on Page Two) $00 ANTHRACITE MINERS STRIKE (Special to The Daily Worker) WILKES-BARRE, April 17.—Nine hundred miners of the No. 2 and 3 mines of the Kingston Coal Company went on strike yesterday after. the company refused to reinstate a miner who had been discharged for his union activity. When the company refused to take back the union member, Local 1159 voted to strike. MORE FAT CONTRACTS : WASHINGTON, April 17. — The senate this afternoon enacted a fed- eral “good road” bill for the years 1930 and 1931. The bill sponsored by Senator Phillips (R) of Colorado,! carried authorization for the expen- diture of $165,000,000 in the two; years. a ten per cent wage cut. The announcement came after the failure of the attempt of William | Batty, secretary of the Council, to frighten the Textile Mill Committee jleaders into calling off the mass meet- jing. Batty, with a squad of hench- |men, had entered the offices of the | mill committees and threatened Fred Beal, organizer, with violence if the meeting tomorrow was not called off. Beal declared that the Textile Mill committees were here to stay in New Bedford in the interest of the tens of thousands of unorganized workers and would fight bitterly against Batty if Mill Committees Call Huge Texti L. Nelson Watkins Casey Renat Troupe Tours Country for Relief of Striking Coal Miners The Miners Na- tional Relief Troupe who are touring the coun- try for the coal strikers’ relief, are shown here in a characteristic act. They will appear at 8:30 p. Thursday, Luke’s Hall, 125 W. m, at St. 130 St. Emil Lair Moxie Krempassky Thomas Oakes MINERS? RELIEF TROUPE IN CITY Programs Include Na- tive Songs and Dances The National Miners’ Entertain- ment Quintet which is: touring the jcountry to help raise money for miners’ relief is now in New York for two weeks. It will perform at he attempted a betrayal similar to the one he perpetrated in the strike of the Lawrence dye house workers. The sentiment of the workers is |such as to confirm the opinion that the meeting tomorrow afternoon, in Bristol Arena, would be jammed to the doors. The committee announced as some of the speakers, Gus Deak, president of the Passaic textile unions, Dawson, of Passaic, James Reid, and the leaders of the New England Mill Committees. The strike itself is one of the most brilliant demonstrations of working \class solidarity ever witnessed in this leountry, in the memory of the oldest jof textile workers here. Even the cap- italist press admits that of the 58 plants owned by the 27 mills, only |two failed to shut their gates: com- pletely at 8 o’clock Monday morning. Even these two shut down a few hours after an obvious attempt to fool the workers gathered outside the gates by starting the looms with the aid of mill officials. The attempt was laughed at by the workers. The thousands of textile workers came to the mill gates about 7 in the morning, gathered in a large crowd and then permitted those who left their tools Saturday to go in to the plant to get them. After gathering their tools most of the workers went home, since the union officialdom had made no plan nor given any instruc- tions for picketing. In discussion the workers, organ- ized as well as unorganized, are bit- (Continued on Page Three) CHICAGO TRAIN HELD UP. CHICAGO, April 17—~A lone bandit who last night held up the Overland Limited, crack train on the North- western Lines, and robbed a dozen passengers of cash and jewelry valued at several thousands of dollars, was vhe object of a city-wide search to- day. BAKING CZARS PAY $18 For That Wage Women Exhaust Selves (By a Worker Correspondent.) I want to thank you for the many copies of The DAILY WORKER which I have received free when you distributed them at the National Bis- cuit Co. in front of 11th Street in which, I work. I ceriainly enjoyed reading all the articles you printed on the National Biscuit Co. And I hope that you will continue giving us One of the chief strong arm men this paper. I am glad that someone of the Sigman forces also tried tojis finally taking an interest in our halt the voting at the Joint Board/conditions as they certainly are bad offices by coming to the headquarters | enough. I am sending you a few facts of the Joint Board with several de-;about myself and a few of the things tectives. This did not help, however.|that I have learned since I am work- Complete shop crews came to the|ing here and I hope that you will three polling places and cast votes|print them. . in a block. Many of these shops are registered with the Sigman right ~ wing dual union. After voting for I am-employed at the National Bis- cuit Co, for the past two years, I started to work for $14 a week, but the left wing slate they went to the}now I am making $18.00. My hours Joint Board offices and paid up their|are supposed to be from 8:10 to 5 dues, 80 Fos? the Joint Board after, Of course the foreman or fore- lady manages to see to it that we do not work later then five thirty so that they will not have to pay us extra. I leave for work at five minutes of seven in order to get down to work on time as I live quite a dis- tance away from work. But many times it happens that the train is overcrowded and I have to wait for the next one or, if I do get in, the train is slow and I am delayed, not because it is my fault and I come in two minutes late. The curtain on the clock is pulled down and I am sent home again which means that I not only loose a day’s wages but also I have to ‘spend carfare. Unless of course they are very busy and must rush the work out, then the forelady gives us 1 bawling out and tells us that we will get me it happens too often. At no time «» they believe us when we tell them the reason for coming in just two minutes late. This (Continued on Page Four) various entertainments, dances and | concerts, The troupe is composed of Thomas Oakes and Moyie Krempasky of Belle writer and the latter a artist on the banjo, violin, mandolin and _ tra; drums, as well as a rope skipper and dancer; L. Nelson Watkins and Emil Lair of Buffalo, 0., black-face com- and Casey Renat, pianist. Their program includes native mining camp songs and dances, as well as humorous dialogues and a burlesque on interpretative and aesthetic dancing by Krepansky- “I haven’t been working for two years,” said Casey, “and I have a wife and three kids at home. We de- cided that since we couldn’t work we might as well find some way of -help- ing our families and comrades,” he continued. Among other engagements they_are scheduled to appear at the Young Workers’ (Communist) Le ague Spring Dance Saturday. The Pennsylvania-Ohio, Miners Re- lief Committee, 799 Broadway, is now making engagements for the quintet. All funds are sent to relieve the strik- ing miners. NEWARK TAXI MEN accordionist and Valley, 0., the former a popular te to the Party.as a whole. edian and accordionist, respectively\entire country. The New York dis- CE. C. URGES SUPPORT FOR\WORKERS’ CENTER The Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, in a statement issued yesterday, appeals to all units of District 2, to all |Party sympathizers and to the revolutionary workers of New York to {lend all possible support to the drive? rarer 2 ART for $30,000 to finance the acquisition of the new Workers Center at 26-28 | Union Square. | The statement follows: “The undertaking to establish a| Workers Center in the New York district is one of the outstanding events in the life of the Workers (Communist) Party. The Workers Party, New York district, has in the course of the past years gone thru great mass struggles which have added considerable prestige and in- Will Reject Maneuver of Federal Agent PITTSTON, April 17—A _ unani- mous rejection of the proposal to be made by Federal mediator Thomas | Davis, that the miners of local 1703 return to the contract colliery No. 6 of the Pennsylvania Coal Company is certain when these miners meet this morning at St. Alosius Hall at which time the strike-breaking plan will be advocated by both Davis and the representatives of the operators and the Cappelini machine. McGarry Shows Hand. It is understood that the Brennan- McGarry forces which lately have shown their hand will also be in favor of the scab plan although they may not favor it openly. The Save-the-Union forces are lead- ing the fight against the move which the miners understand is an attempt VOICE PROTEST PITTSTON, April 17.—The so-called opposition to the Cappelini murder Mass Meeting Planned by Council machine met again Saturday at 2:80. This opposition led by Brennan The second mass meeting of unem- ployed workers to be held this week} (Continued on Page Two) in New York is scheduled for thisy jafternoon at Union Square, under thé auspiese of the New York Council lof the Unemployed. | Other meetings will be held tomor- Led At Passaic. “The New York district was the leader in the Passgjc struggle of the textile workers ost battle for the establishment of a union shook the rict was in the leadership of the fight for freedom for Sacco and Van- zetti and its mass derffOnstrations in Union Square aroused the attention of hundreds of thousands of workers and was the pride of workers in all cities of the entire country. New York has been the battleground of the needle trades workers whose fight against company-unionism, against the bureaucratic cliques and (Continued on Page Two) Students at Workers An important meeting of class sec- retaries and student representatives of the Workers School, 108 E. 14th St., will be held today at 8 p. m. in Room 46, School to Meet Today FORCED TO RETURN A. F. of L, Aids Bosses |and at 8 p. m. at 138th St. and St. . * : Ann’s Ave. and a third at Rutgers’ m Fight on Union {Square Saturday afternoon. Demands ifor relief and plans for further or- NEWARK, N. J, April 17.—Aided | ganization among unemployed work- by American Federation of Labor of- ‘ers will be made. ficials here, the Yellow Cab Co. and Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the | school, D. Benjamin, assistant direc- | tor and A. Markoff, chairman of the | district school committee, will lead | the discussion. Sidney Levy, execu-| tive secretary of the Student Council, | will preside. | | the Brown and White Co., have suc- {ceeded in crushing the attempt of over 500 striking taxi drivers to form | a union. } A bare promise by the lawyers for | |the companies that they will “arbi-/ | trate the grievances” of the men after | they return to their jobs caused their | leaders to issue the order to call off} MINER ASKS FOR “DAILY” Coal, Textile Slrikers Need Subscriptions “I am one of the 100,000 miners who are going out on strike,” writes a the strike. as soon as the announcement of the ealling off of the strike had been made. The position of the companies was also strengthened by the refusal of the A. F. of L. organization, the Teamsters’ International, to grant a charter to the striking cabmen. Only juntil they had returned to work, they were told by the A. F. of L. repre- sentative, would they be taken into the organization. Although recognition of their union was the fundamental demand of the strikers, no mention of it was made by the companies’ lawyers. The men also demanded an increase in percen- tage from 33 per cent to 40 per cent and freedom from responsibility for losses of passengers. s The strike started 12 days ago. Monday the bosses obtained an in- | Pennsylvania miner, signing the initials S. R., to The DAILY WORKER. ‘gang of fakers who have refused to’ organize us. A friend of mine gave me a few copies of The DAILY WORKER the other day. I think it is a wonderful paper and a real friend of the miners. The fight is going to be pretty tough and.it would help a great deal if I could get the I know a lot of { Indignation spread among the men “I am going to fight against the bosses and against John L. Lewis and his ‘THE DAILY WORKER. 383 FIRST STREET New York City Enclosed find $.......... to help you send the Daily Worker to the le Strike Meeting BIG MINE STRIKE BLAZES TRAIL OF MASS PICKETING Sentiment Spreads in Face of Terrorism (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) PITTSBURGH, April 17.—One of the greatest organizational efforts in the history of the American labor movement is now going on as section after section in western Pennsylvania jand West Virginia adds its hundreds to the rising total of miners on-strike. 15,000 Strike Monday. Fifteen thousand miners took their tools out of the pits on* Monday ac- cording to an official statement is- |sued by the Save the Union Commit- |tee today. The walkout covers Som- | merset, Westmoreland, Fayette, Greene, Arnold and Washington coun- ties of western Pennsylvania and the northern part of West Va. The strike is spreading everywhere. Armed forces of the states are growing |more provocative and brutal. Attempts of the press to minimize the extent of the strike have failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the rank and file leaders in unorganized fields. It is evident that one of the greatest union drives in recent years is started \in the bituminous fields. | Lewis Machine Desperate. Officials of the Lewis machine are jeverywhere sabotaging the strike in jan attempt to prevent the miners |from responding to the call of the Save-the-Union Committee. On the other hand the leaders of the Save- the-Union Committee is energetically giving direction to the strike. In a statement issued today by John Brophy, John Watts, Pat Too- hey, executive officers of the Save |the Union Committee, the miners are urged to spread the strike, to estab- lish a union, raise wages and im- prove working conditions. The call reads: “Miners, now is the time to act! Let’s stand together solidly—bring the entire mining industry to a halt —make the strike 100 per cent com- plete—empty the mines!” throughout the strike area since the call for the strike in the unorganized territory was issued. Hundreds of miners are now march- (Continued on Page Two) BAKERS SUPPORT | MAY DAY MEETING Militants Call on Union Endorsement The progressives of the A. F. of | mendously | | L. Bakers’ Union, at their meeting |last week. responded to the appeal |for support for the Madison Square Garden May I meeting by buying a bloe of tic nd taking another bloc to sell. Leaflets are being taken by the progressives of all the trade unions to distribute at union meet- ings. These workers have pledged themselves to try to secure endorse- ments cf the meeting from their unions, to obtain donations for help- ing to cover the expenses of ‘the meeting and to draw the member. ship of the unions to attend. The bakers must demonstrate soli- darity in their fight against the big trusts! They must join actively in the general fight with all other unions against the offensive of the bosses and of the yellow leaders. At Madison Square Garden on May Day, all workers will join in one huge dem- enstration of international solidarity! Sinchines Se China Lecture Tonight * “Bleeding China,” an illustrated lecture by Max Shachtman, editor of the Labor Defender, will be given at Mass picketing has increased tre~ paper every day. cuts. ( They all need The DAILY tinued on Page Five) ers who feel thi @. 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