The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1928, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1928 Los Angeles Plans Wide Activity for Special May Day Edition of “Daily” ANTHRACITE NOW JUNKERS MANUFACTURE PREPARES TO JOIN BIG MINE BATTLE Save-Union Forces Lead the Way (Continued from Page One) has been waver and has been try-} oe ing to a compromise with | ; the Lewis Photo (left) shows Mis uld not tt y 1an tried | : nip at this| landed late Friday. “ST REVELATIONS ON s “the union to put over on the meeting the «¢ to go to Indi actionary pre more commonly k thruout the country ss to | = OIL GROW WIDER Try New Trick. | | This was de ed and instead a} es maneuver was put over which de- Lessons for Workers in Every Hearing Lewis call a ; but it i will not act manded that John L special District Conv ‘well known that Le on the letter. | q ig a . a ‘The followers of the Save-the-Union| WASHINGTON, April 17—Fur- Committee introduced a resolution | ther important revelations shewing which tho it was defeated by the | the relationship between the Coolidge machine, forced Brennan to ®/ government, the republican party and s Herta Junkers R sept ma daug Y b on their attempted flight to Greenely Island to pick up Captain Herman Koehl, Baron von Hunefeld and James Fitzmaurice and bring them to New York. The |Andy Mellon to | Trust to Lord For Livelihood “That. is the first I have heard of that,” Andrew W. Mellon said yes- terday when informed of rumors that |he would retire from politics at the end of Cal. Coolidge’s lubricated ad- ministration. “IT do not know what I will do,” Mellon continued, “but I suppose providence will take care of me,” he said, fresh from an extended vacation in Bermuda. Should the secretary of the trea- sury decide to place himself in the S. CASH ores IN ON GC. BE. 6. URGES AID FOR NEW CENTER \Tells Communist Part in Labor Struggles (Continued from Page One) for the establishment of a union to defend the interests of the workers is |still under way, marching on to suc- jcessful struggle against the Sigmans and the Schlesingers and against alt the agents of the émployers, hands of kindly Providence, he will | have as additional solace the control | Home of DAILY WORKER. ier of Dr. Hugo Junkers, designer of tie plane “Bremen” with Pilot Fred Melchior, just before they started next photo shows the plane in which Fitzmaurice flew away from his German comrades, leaving the ixland for a more congenial environment. A f . Canadian government steamer “Montcalm” leaving to aid the monarchist flyers. Photo on extreme right shows the spot near lighthouse where the “Bremen’ God and Junker Get Praise For Atlantic Flight God got first place again yesterday when the monarchist flyers, Baron von Huenenfeld and Capt. Herman Koehl and the Irish commandant James Fitzmaurice cabled a message to Prof. Junkers, head of the com- pany whish built the plane “Bremen.” “Next to God,” says the message, “Swe owe our successful east-to-west ‘light to the splendid plane and com- pletely reliable motor from your works,” Thus, once more God is shown to be on the side of the righteous, suc- cessful and those with an eye to the OF THE “BREMEN” Next the BUSINESS, CHURCH AD MILITARISM 2,000 Los Angeles ‘Civic Leaders’ Involved LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 17.— Big business, the church and the edu- cational system in this city are all part of the reserve army of Amer- ican imperialism, it is revealed by the publication of the names of more than 2,000 local “civic leaders,” who are commissioned officers in the United COLLECT SCORES OF GREETINGS FOR BIG ISSUE Distribution Thruout City Arranged Reporting in detail the tremendous suecess of the Red Sunday held in. Los Angeles on March 18th, Paul C. Reiss, agent for The DAILY WORKER in the Los Angeles district, declares that it was in stimulating the work for the paper and in establishing new con- tracts that the success of the Red Sunday is to be measured. He adds that the southern California workers are utilizing these gains immediately in preparation for the special May Day edition of their paper. “At least 300,000 copies of The DAILY WORKER will be distributed thruout the country on May Day,” Reiss writes in a’ statement to the business. office of the paper. “The special edition of the paper will con- tain 32 pages and every Party unit and every Party member will have to do his or her share in order to carry out this work.” Practical measures which the Los Angeles workers have initiated to as- sure the success of the May 1 issue of their paper include the collecting of subscriptions and greetings, the writing and forwarding of articles to The DAILY WORKER, the circulat- ing of individual greeting lists, and stand. His _ stand GF IF open'y | controlling groups in American busi- ee ee to ere te ca id ness, were expected today at the sen- at what the membership would do at|ate’s inquiry into the Continental such a convention. The r on | Trading Company’s $3,080,000 Liberty States army. plans for a number of affairs. of a large ‘number of union-hating | cial district conven- | “Within the New York district is called for a sp tion on May 15. Vital Issue. The whole session was pract taken up over the discussion of the convention. It is now becoming clear to the membership that Brennan does not want a convention or a convention date set where the rank and file will * mle. Every constructive action tha’ was made at the meeting last Satur- day was forced because of the fear of the rank and file on the part of Brennan. The Save-the-Union are mobilizing and are taking steps to force a special dis- trict convention in District 1. More definite on will be taken in the next few days to force the calling of a special district convention. In spite of the machine-ruled general body which met, opinions on the contract system were forthcoming. Especially when Thomas Davis, the federal! mediator who is trying to intimidate the miners of Local Union 1703 tried to force the miners to go back under the old conditions and under the rul- ing of the conciliation board. But. the rank and file opposition to the Federal Mediator Ited in reject- ing his plan to irttimidate the work- ers into going back to work. Fear Miners. Brennan and his group do not want to come out clearly and take'a stand on the trouble in Pittston in Local Union 1703; they dare not oppose the rank and file miners, It should be emphasized that there is trouble in Pittston not only because of these grievances, but approximately 800 Miners employed at number 2 and 3 Skafts of the coal company went out on strike Saturd. of other grievances and b company fired a miner 1 eal Union 1159 memt who went out Satur r Only recently the Hudson Coal Co. collieries on the Loree division were out on a strike which involved 3000 miners, but the grievances we: porarily adjusted, br the from that part of tl again be heard from in ew days. Worst Pay in U.S. The Phillips & Buttorff Manufac- turing Co. and the Gray and Dudley Co. of Nashyille, the two foundries which tried unsuce to reduce . the wages of the’ yes 28 per cent January 1, ted in the study made au of labor statistics, U tes depart ment of labor, to b two com- panies that are paying the lov wage rate of any foundry in the en tire country. Both are prosperous con- cerns, the | Fond “slush fund.” : | Mrs. John T. Pratt, widow of the |late New York capitalist, and C. C. | Chase, El Paso, Téx., banker and son- | in-law of Albert B. Fall, were to take |the witness stand along with Thomas W. Miller, former alien property cus- tedian now under a jail sentence. All three were summoned in an ef- fort to learn what became of the Con- tinental Company’s bonds, $230,000 of which already have been traced to Fall and $260,000 of which were given by Harry F. Sinclair to the repub- lican national committee. Miller Handled Bonds. Miller was looked upon as the most important witness as the committee has been informed he handled some ef the Continental bonds for the re- publicans. Mrs. Pratt was called in connection with the story of Will H. Hays, for- mer republican national chairman, who testified $50,000 of the Sinclair Londs were turned over to her late husband. Hays said Pratt gave a $50,000 check to the republicans in return for the “put and take” bonds and later refunded the bonds. Democrats Involved. Democratic senators meanwhile were said to be planning a new de- bate on the oil scandals in reply to the latest attack on their party by Senator Robinson, (R) of Indiana. The Indianain read into the record a memorandum, written in 1921 by Rob- ert C. Bell, a democratic assistant at- torney general, protesting against the leasing cf the Salt Creek oil fields. | The Bell memorandum charged the s of the Midwest Refining Com- 'y, a Standard Oil subsidiary, were ed on fraud and recommended that Salt Creek fields be kept intact. His memorandum was ignored by the Wilson administration. clai 6-Hour Day Urged tablishment of a six-hour working ment insurance was by Dr. Irving political science it of Yale, at a two-day con- n labor conditions held at | ference John Hop Unused Power |_ WASHINGTON, April 17. — The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence deep water- way is again on the high shelf. Water power rights are the principal ob- stacle. Potential hydro-electric energy jinvolved in the preject is estimated jat 5,000,000 horsepower, half of which belongs outright to Canada. BALTIMORE, April 17.—The es-| corporations including the Pittsburgh Coal Co., Pittsburgh National Bank, the Aluminum Corporation of Ame ica, and other interes’ Mellon said to be the sixth richest man in the world. THOUSANDS MORE Terrorism Fails to Halt Mass Picketing (Continued from Page One) ing on scab mines in defiance of in- junctions, and state troopers. This movement is under the leadership of the Save the Union Committee. In the mines around Hagley, West Va., yesterday, Cressot closed down 100 per cent today. At Muttonhale mine, near Lansing, Ohio, 75 per cent of the miners walked out, When the miners of Kiskay Valley learned about the strike spreading to the four counties of West Virginia, they decided to’ draw Arnold County into the strike as well. A number of leaflets sent into the unorganized territory by the Save the Union Com- mittee were posted up at the entrance to a few of the mines. Although this was the first intimation of the spread of the strike received in thie seolated valley, four mines were immediately closed down 100 per cent. ;. In Fayette County where thousands \have already walked out, great picket are still operating. State troopers rode into a line of 400 men, women and children on the highway near the Pitt gas mine, near |Brownsville, clubbing the pickets vi- |ciously while their horses rode down |the miners. Thirty-five pickets were arrested by troopers and charged with violat- ing the federal injunction which al- lows only 8 pickets at a time bu’ when the men ri d to pay the fine imposed and challenged the po- lice to send them to jail, they were released. Save the Union conferences are be- , Prepare for District Union Confer- JOIN COAL STRIKE: lines are marching upon mines which Yay |the home of The DAILY WORKER. |The strengthening of this organ’ and the spreading of its influence among the workers of the United States in |the first place rests upon a strong |Party organization in the district, |The New York membership has re- }sponded time and again to the ap- |peals for assistance and has shown | that it understands its task in a real, | yeVolutionary sense. * “The New York district is the jlargest district in the Party. At the |same time it has understood its duty toward the rest of the country and jin the miners’ campaign has shown |an example of solidarity by being the district that has assisted most in jraising relief funds for the strug- gling miners. In the campaign against intervention in Nicaragua jour Party in the New York “@i8trict helped to establish the All-American Anti-Imperialist Leake, “and “has conducted” Widespread agitation gen- addition to the 1,500 miners who lefyerally against imperialism. ‘ Workers School Grows, “The New York district has been a center of mass movements of var- ious kinds. The last Lenin memorial meeting in Madison Square Garden, the Freiheit Jubilee, the November 7th demonstration, were achievements of major importance and show that our district has attracted the support of tens of thousands of workers. The educational work has likewise been on a mass scale and the Party has assisted in the establishment of the Workers School with over a thou- sand registered students. “All of these activities call for the consolidation and strengthening of thé Party organization itself, which jis ‘provided for in the plan for the tablishment of a Workers Center. he establishment of such a center means ‘more members. To Save Miners’ Union. “Tt means penetrating still farther into the trade unions of the city. It means more revolutionary agitation upon a larger seale than ever before. The establishment of a Workers Cen- jter will be of assistaned to all dis- jtriets and to the Party as a whole. t means a stronger fight to save the miners’ union. It means a greater fight against Schlesinger and Sig- |man. It means greater support to. our Negro work, to our women’s work, to our youth work—to all ac- arty. jing held throughout the country pas. of the Workers (Communist) ences to put into effect the policy laid down at the National Conference in Pittsburgh, April 1st, to oust the Lewis leadership and spread the strike to national proportions. Save the Union Committees have been formed in every unorganized mine wherever men have walked out and officers are already elected. BUILDING TRADE MISHAPS INCREASE Grow in Pennsylvania, New York; Few State Regulation “AGAIN the construction industry ranks among those where acci- dents are on the increase, accord- Ing to reports of industrial builetins of New York, Pennsylvania and Hl- inois,” states the Workers’ Health Bureau of America, 799 Broadway, in emphasizing the need for trade union action to remedy this con- dition. “Ninety-one deaths and 10,936 non-fatal accidents on building con- struction were reported for 1927 by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. The construc- tion and contracting industry showed the second largest increase im fatalities, reporting 217 in 1926 and 235 during 1927, a gain of 18. Falls of persons caused 221 deaths, ” te 82 of them in the construction in- dustry. o “*Falls’ are responsible for about one-fourth of the accidents in the construction industry in New York State for the year 1927. There is a workman killed every other day from a fall, 1900 falls were due to ladders and 1350 due to scaffolds. * * * “DUILDING trades accidents in- creased 23 per cent in one year in New York State. There were 20,- 464 accidents in the building con- struction industry and 304 deaths for the year ending June 30, 1926, as against 16,632 accidents and 280 deaths for the year ending June 30, 1925. “The October and November is- sues of the Illinois Labor Bulletin states that ‘Falls of persons again head the list of fatal accidents,’ “State regulations for the protec. tion of building trades workers have not kept abreast of the need to com- bat the new dangers developing as a result of increased building ac- tivity,” declared Charlotte Todes, organizing secretary of the Work- ers’ Health Bureau, yesterday. “Twenty-seven states have no special codes nor even regulations in the labor laws to safeguard the lives of workers engaged in buildings under construction, demolition and repair. In these states each city makes its own rules. No state has an adequate code.” “The Central Executive Committee hails the plan to establish the Work- ‘ers Center and calls upon all mem- bers of the Party in the New York district and all revolutionary work- ers to throw their full energy behind |the drive to raise $30,000 and to es- |tablish this Gommunist center in | Union Square. The comrades must not only give their full share but | must give it quickly. The drive must |reach the shops and all labor organ- izations. All support to the estab- lishment of the Workers Center!” Striking Miners’ Group to Play at YWL Dance Five young miners right from the coal fields will be at the Spring Youth Dance to be given by the Young Workers (Communist) League Saturday evening at the New Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave. They will give special musical num- bers of unique interest. The Spring Youth Dance is being given as part of a big campaign in observation of the sixth anniversary of the founding of the Young Work- ers League. | The Spring Youth Dance will be followed in two or three weeks by a mass meeting. xe cash register. Fear Steel Workers Face 10-Year Terms (Continued from Page One) been ordered by the open-shop steel company and was carried out by city police officials controlled by the trust. The real reason for the raid was the fact that these workers had been active as militants in the labor move- ment. Three of the seven were later released. Will Appear. The International Labor Defense, from its New York address, 799 Lroadway, which is defending the four steel workers, announced an immedi- ate appeal from the decision and called upon the labor movement for funds to help carry on’ the fight for their freedom. The Jones and Laughlin steel mills, operator of scab mines, is at the fore- front of the open-shop drive against the mine workers. All of them are members of the Organized Reserves, an extensively developed system, first inaugurated under the national defense act in 1920, whereby millions of ostensible civilians can be mobilized at short notice “to defend the nation.” Among the tocal “civic leaders”) who are reserve officers in the army | of American imperialism are Col | Perry W. Weidner, president of the! United States National Bank;’ Lieut.! Col. Robert A. Millikan, president of the California Institute of Technol- ogy; Col. Dwight A. Green, physician and surgeon; Lieut. Col. Rufus B. Von Kleinsmid, president of the Univer- sity of Southern California; Rt. Rev. W. B. Stephens; Maj. Howard Dud- ley, vice-president of the Pacific Mu- tual Life Insurance Co.; Lieut. Col. W. H. Fairbanks, of the Southern California Telephone Co.; and Maj. Cecil B. de Mille, Maj. Hal Roach and Maj. Lewis Stone, prominent figures in the moving picture industry. The collection of greetings is being enthusiastically carried on. The im- portance of alj labor and fraternal or- ganizations being represented in this special May Day edition of The DAILY WORKER has been impressed upon them. Scores of greetings have already been submitted, The urgent necessity of receiving all greetings from the farther sections of the country with the least possible delay is being Stressed again by the business office of The DAILY WORK- ER in commenting on the activity on the Pacific coast. The early receipt of all greetings and editorial material will greatly facilitate the publication of the May Day issue. Bakers Revive Locals CHICAGO, April 17 (FP). — Thg Bakery & Confectionery Workers’ In- ternational Union announces granting of charter No. 33 to bakers in Tulsa, Okla., and of No. 34 to Fall River, Mass. In each case the new local is a revival of previous organization ef- forts. a Workers of the World Unite! - ‘ epee a a ee asia Be Strike a Blow for Against the Nicaraguan War For the Organization of the Unorganized Work or Wages for Unemployed Name International Solidarity A Fighting Miners’ Union and a Victorious Strike: For the Recognition and Defense of the Soviet Union |For a Labor Party For a Workers aad Farmers’ Government For the Overthrow of the Capitalist System This Is My Token to the May Day Honor Roll . Amount ~ Name Send in Your May Day Greeting at Once Get Your Friend to Send a Greeting Collected by: Name . All greetings received will be printed in the May issue of the Daily Worker. Daily Worker, 33 First Street, New York City... shin’ ho00.ees.CUY. osinnsdeenwmeanes ‘Send in your list at once to =— : ‘ |