The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1928, Page 2

ERS DIE aed Fire in a shack owned by the Blair Limestone Co., Pittsburgh, a subsidiary of the Jones and Laughlin open shop coal company, killed 13 workers during a wedding feast. Photo at extreme left shows remains of fire-trap where workers died. Second photo shows the national executive committee at the putrescent socialist party’s convention, which rejected the class struggle and nominated Rev. Norman Thomas as its presidential candidate, Left to right, standing, are William R. Snow, of Illinois; Morris Hillquit, New York, and William H. Henry, of Indiana. Seated, left to right, James D. Graham, of Montana; James O’Neal, of New York, and Joseph W. Sharts, of Ohio. w of a broken dam at Wilder, Vt., which threatened to flood many farms. At extreme right is Mrs. Isabell Allen, of Kansas City, Mo., who has petitioned the federal government for $200,000 because her Coal Miners in Illinois Spreading Strike at Call of Save-the-Union Forces gan worker: edition of t! 3. Scores of greetings, which will be a feature of the special issue have been collected, and all labor and fraternal organizations, as well as individual sympathizers, have been informed of the importnce of their being represented in this he press. The securing of advertisements and the writing and sending of special articles for the May Day edition of The WORKER is being rushed, as the workers understand the ORK ON SPECIAL MAY DAY EDITION OF DAILY necessity of hurrying all material to the office of the paper this issue. with all possible haste, .The early receipt of greetings, ads and articles will considerably reduce the cost of publishing Realizing that the edition of The DAILY WORKER on May Day is an event of significance in the history of Amer- ican labor journalism, possible assistance in the Michigan workers are lending all the job of making their own edition of their own English labor daily an outstanding success. in Madison combined demonstrating workers in “aii, ee Next to left photo is a v: son died afier drinking whiskey which she charges was officially poisoned. GALA OPENING FOR DETROIT SPEEDS UP W TTA WORKERS CENTER Fifteen thousand copies of the special May Day edition be of The DAILY WORKER will be distributed in Detroit and . vicinity, on May First, according to an announcement just Cn j de by Sara Vietor, the DAILY WORKER agent in the VY ry Michigan district, to the Business Office of the paper. EMORY Ac All arrangements for carrying this distribution to a NEST ra |successful conclusion are now being perfected by the Michi- metivity in $380,000|, Drive Pushed | WILL SING MAY 1 “Oe€amen S SOULS | Dak Aig , |Proletarian Songs on of Coal-passers who heave coal in | 3 z Vs: impor-| the hot and stinking rooms of | Lithuanian-Program iter to the! freighters will undoubtedly be very | aid mee eee cig fie é Three choruses of Lithuanian work- | workers to| Pleased to know that none other the HAMA aud “Laven” ot Brooke Ease an active 1 drive. Only| than Sir T. Ashley Sparkes has ar- ry “oa fe ssi me Tae ‘ rt ti e . Fj ; i yn ’ rk, a short t ranged a benefit bridge and tea am will’ combine as one chorus to sing | their behalf aboard the Berengaria | yor-ing class songs next Monday afternoon. Square Garden at the meeting called Seamen, it should be understood, | for May First by the pibahetts Sa will not attend the tea. They will |™munist) Party, and endorsed by o' er eth, it ted out, and nearly| amuse themsel: b bbi working class organizations of Great- aad aerahould ba. eolléetelvby |e, Tien e ce eee ee fer eWnx ot Et Hine as the drive will end a few| chs While Mrs, William B. Leeds, | 4: ig expected that all the Lithu- Gays later. : Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, Mrs. Arthur |anian workers of the district will ae 3 * < * Osgocd Choate and other friends of |forego organizing duplicate meetings Heart of the Movement the poor anc oppressed sip tea in | and ion in ihe ees irogieee as = With the establishment of District] their behalf. piirggiee au Eger gi ; ae We ig ae pao ot The bridge party. will be held |chorus is evidence of its solidarity ee new EN Pn tore . pai under the auspices of the Rocke- | with the working class on this pro- es forward in its penetration into| féller-subsidized Seamen’s Church ey brn PARAS Ha! ene a the mass Activity of the Anierican| Institute, which specializes in mak- od ‘Waleitis and "Rosiag’ Beane” ee eciess, pacceres, We ibia Ws ing the sea safe for ship-owners. arranged by J. Valentis. ES ia aac With fascism raging in the their “The site for our 5 native land, which is being used by} Been en aii ” We “with MINERS COUR AGE the imperialists as a base for hostile; dmeve ry eg Sait nnd ae operations against the Soviet Union} ay one: eat —the bulwark of the working class— Square has au ing the last few years W L WIN STRIK the Lithuanian workers are especi- become the heart of this movement, | ally. interested mn } tim which all militant wo i against imperialism and for the de- 5 Ui a lipete ne ales | pclae fense of the Soviet Union, With their WE coe oe 1S Only. teces: fellow-workers in Lithuania continu- i; 1 Danheinan ss so aigthad i Cannot Be Beaten Back ally facing the danger of military ag- ae oe eke it clear that ! gression on the part of Poland, which Rs Set NO St dnylies by Terrorism will never relinquish its imperialist oe designs on that small country, and a & A Stronghold (Continued from Puge One) with the old imperialism of Germany = The coming of the v ro tear gas bombs and arrested 35 men. |on the other border gradually reviv- munist Party to U non s : means They were arraigned in court and|ing after the severe blow of the world its emergence more complet ordered to pay fines which the mjn-|War, the Lithuanian ee pore into the e and Po- lors refused. The judge knowing that |America are interested “in making ee rene of the of this! the jails could -not hold the great the huge May Day meeting a dem- ee covity. «It the es-| number of pickets who would persist | onstration against war. gaa ws bliss 2 n the lines, was forced to dismiss mais ae e revolutionary all 35. en in the territory of both mieoapereVieioes The Workers’ Eyes and our enemies. ae * St. _ the past few years and is abandon- pickets’ who returned a volley of This morning when 500 pickets re-) “Among our comrades we wil e region, troopers rode into the} crowd, clubbing right and left. One} | woman who was hit by a horse and clubbed on the head fell unconscious jon the roadside. 3 pickets are stil! 2 and the}. KE. 15th | Missing. ary Jewish friends a nu in the vicinity. will be the 17th St. and Union moth-eaten Rand School The notorious, 3 Daily Forward, if rue is also coming to Union Square. Expect New Members Hall at Mass Picketing Wins | Bentleyville, Pa., April 18.—Since |! mass picketing began at the Acne ‘and Gibson Mine, Monday morning, “We expect an influx of new mem-| production has fallen down 50 per- bers when we move to Union Square. |cent, 500 men and women have pick- The part the Workers Party is play-|eted the mine morning and evening ing in every struggle of the Ameri-|eyer since Martin Volentik and 5 can workers is beginning to bear|other striking miners appeared on fruit. Greater and greater masses |the line with great bandages on their of workers are realizing that the only | heads as a result of clubbing received political party that fights for their) from State Troopers. interests in a revolutionary way is! Yesterday, tear gas bombs were the Workers Party. |hurled by State Troopers from the “The socialist party is now openly | right, while coal and iron police threw admitting what it has practised for|them from the left infuriating the ing even forma! recognition of the stones, Troopers rode down the class struggle. Its flimsy mask hes | crowd chasing them over the hills un- heen removed and it is now revealed |¢j] they reached town. It took the fs a completely middle-class party. | cops 2 hours to do the job. The Workers Party has therefore a!/ great task to perform..And our com- | ing to Union Square will enable us! be the gathering point of all militant to perform this task as it should and workers of this vicinity, the center of must be performed and to direct or/all revolutionary activity. influence every phase of workingclass! «put first we raust make the Work- penivity. ers Center our own. And it will not Center of Workers’ Activity be our own unless all class-conscious “At the opening and the closing of workers join in raising the $30,000 shops and factories,” Weinstone con-| necessary to purchase and finance the tinued, “there are more workers pass-| building. The time is short and the ing the neighborhood of Union Square task great but it must be done a minute than any other point in the if the revolutionary movement is to city, statistics show. The place where grow, if the workers are to fight ef- the greatest number of workers are} fectively against the united front of is the place where the Workers Par-| the capitalist class and its agents ty must be, The Workers Genter will’ within the ranks of labor,” 4 . As He | toll that speeding up industry,is tak- | National Society for the Prevention PITTSBURGH, April 18—The ing in the lives of the workers was|T | set forth v ly last night by Lewis H. Carris, managing director of the of Blindness, speaking over the radio. He said that there are 100,- 000 totally blind in the United States and approximately 6,000,000 in the entire world. Swells to Sip WORKERS’ CHORUS Beg Scholars to Go Easy on Heavy Vintages PROVIDENCE, R. 1, April 18. —Fear that the “social prestige which Brown University once- held for. “year's as been destroyed by drunkenness of the students” is expressed in an editorial in the Brown Daily Herald. The editorial at the same time appeals to the scholars to refrain from excessive drinking at the ferthcoming Junior “Prom” which is to be held this year at the new university gymnasiuin. “Men from this university at other institutions are pleasantly hailed as drunkards,” says the editorial ruefully. The chronic state of drunkenness complained of exists in the majority of the colleges and universities, it is pointed out -here. ‘Interesting also is the fact that the conduct of the students has not been changed by the frequent “heart-to- heart” talks delivered by John D. Rockefeller, a graduate and heavy contributor to the university. JOBLESS MEET IN UNION SQUARE Over 300 hundred unemployed workers assembled in Union Square under the auspices of the New York Council of the Unemployed yesterday afternoon to protest the city’s neglect of the unemployed, enthusiastically endorsed the plan of unemployment insurance proposed by the council. The workers also cheered the Work- ers (Communist) Party which John Di Santo, secretary of the council, pointed out, endorses heartily this plan for relief of unemployed work- ers. Beside Di Santo other speakers were Louis Baum of the Photograph- ers’ Union; George Powers, of thr Tron Workers Union, and J. J. Pad- z, of the Commercial Telegraphers more unemployed mass meet- ings will be held today, one at 11 a. m. at 101 W. 27th st., one at 8 p. m. at 138th St. and St. Ann’s Ave, the Bronx, and the other at Pitkin Ave, and Bristol St., Brooklyn. ‘Phe last meeting of the week will’ be held Sat. afternoon at Rutgers Sq. COMMUNARD HELPS FRENCH MINERS RESPOND TO PICKET GALL Illinois Districts Refuse To Seab (Special to The Daily Worker) WEST FRANKFORT, IIL, April 18.-Mine districts in southern Illi- nois are responding to the call of the Save-The-Union forces to picket the mines signed up by the reactionary Fishwick machine. Over six hundred miners marched near here in a demonstration against the order to go back to work. The southern Illinois district of the Save- The-Union Committee, of which Gerry Allard is secretary, has issued thousands of circulars calling upon the miners not scab on their Penn- Ohio brothers. The circular reads in part: silibe Once more the coal operators are attempting to attract us in their fatal web. Again the ‘coal miners of Illinois are being brazenly be- traved by the reactionary Lewis- Fishwick machine. Brothers! Mine Workers of Il- linois! Refuse to scab on your Pennsylvania and Ohio brothers! The hour has struck when the coal miners of: America are no longer going to be misled by the corrupted officialdom of cur union. Our Pennsylvania, and Ohio brothers have struck for 13 long dreary’ months of hardship in the face of the most inhuman brutality of the coal barons. Mine workers of Illinois! Fight for a general STRIKE and don’t return to work until we have won a general agreement! ! ! Fight AGAINST: Wage Cuts Arbitration Separate Agreements Fight FOR: The Jacksonville Seale National Agreement For All Miners Six Hour Day and Five Day Week Nationalizatino of Coal Mines. Miners! Take Control Of Your Union Infested By The Darlings Of The Coal Operators. Your Fate Lies In Your Own Action! Save the Union Committee, Southern Ill. Section, Gerry Allard, Seec’y. PART Antoine Gay, Living in the U. S. S. R., Sends Fifty Rubles ARIS, (By Mail).—Antoine Gay, a survivor of the Paris Com- mune of 1871, now living in Mos- cow on a Soviet government pension, has contributed 50 rubles to the election campaign of the French Communist Party. In a letter to L’Humanite, central organ of the Communist Party of France, Gay, who is 84 years old, recalls his ex- periences in France and denounces the betrayals of the social-patriots. With the words “Moscow-the-Red” in large letters on the dateline, the old Communard’s ietter states: “One year ago I was in France —a pauper. At 83, after having borne the burden of a ruined life, with ten years of hard labor in a French prison, where I had been condemned by the French bourgeois Republic for being a Communard, I was living in Marseilles, leading a miserable existence. The com- rades, although ‘very poor, were coing their best to make life more tolerable for me. “And then the Soviet Govern- ment, wishing to honor the Paris Commune of 1871, adopted me. I am enjoying in Moscow quiet days and my good fortune is such that I am asking myself if this mar- velous end of my life is not indeed a dream. * Cee J ‘od bees comfort that is being af- forded us oid folks in these old palaces of the nobles has enabled me to save, after paying for my needs, the sum of 50 rubles, which I am fcrwarding to the Communist Farty ot France as my part of the subscription to defray the expenses of the election. campaign taking place this year. That makes 600 francs. How great is my satis- faction in being able to help my geod French comrades in their struggles on the eve of phe elec- tions. h “The present-day repression brings invcluntarily to my mind the dark \imes inaugurated by the government of the assassins of the second of December, 1851, by Na- poleon the Little. The same re- pression, the same dangers menace the workingclass now. The social- ist bluff has fabricated the so- called ‘left bloc,’ and has ended by imprisoning the mili-ants. etn & * ‘T REMEMBER quite well the fine promises of this organization of the ‘left’ and yet I hear that never have misery and unemployment been more acute among the French workers. “Wih your pennies, with your propaganda, with your votes, help us sweep them clean. I want to live to see the triumph of the pro- letariat over these chloroformers. “I want to live to see in France what I am seeing here in, Soviet Russia, where I have regained my | youth at the age of 84." Pilsudski’s Moral Senses Badly Shocked Maciejewski, the official Polish hangman, was one of Pilsudski’s favorite officers of state. He served Pilsudski long and faithfully. But unfortunately Maciejewski shocked the tender moral sensibilities of Marshal Pilsudski by drinking to ex- cess and accumulating debts. Yesterday the Ministry of Justice announced that Maciejewski had been dismissed and that his place would be taken by his assistant. Pilsudski also exhibited his moral delicacy by announcing that here- after all gallows in all prison yards will be removed as “offensive to public opinion.” Every person mur- dered by Pilsudski will hereafter be provided with a gallows erected especially for him. CLOAK COMMITTEE OF 50 WILL MEET 4,000 Vote at Election of Delegates (Continued from Page One) was indicated as the complete returns of the elections for delegates to the convention of the union came in. More than 4,000 workers came to vote in order to protest against the pogrom carried on by the right wing Sigman forces in the union which has resulted in the shattering of a once powerful organization. In spite of the fact that the larg- est polling place was in Bryant Hall, since it is nearest to the district in which the factories are located, many hundreds chose to cast their votes in the Joint Board building. This was explained by the fact that many of them before’ voting went in whole shop groups to pay up their back dues before voting. Delegates Chosen. The following were elected from I. Brauner, J. H. Cohen, I, Goldman, |B, Herbst, M. Levine, I. Lipnik, J. | Silkowitz, J. Stenzer and A. Weiss. | Local 9 will be represented by the !following delegates: W. Greenberg, H E Goi rsaaega Ph, Herman, A. jerlin, Mania Perlman, Nat and Rose Kaplan, : saints Dressmakers’ Local 22 delegates chosen were Alex Cohen, Paul Hal- pern, Abr. Lupin, J. Portnoy, I Weissberg, Rose Wortis, Emma Yan- insky, and Charles S. Zimmerman. The delegates chosen from Press- ers’ Local 35 are S. Bissof, I. Goret- sky, H. Turk, N. Tuchman, H. Kor- etz, E. Kudrentsky, H. Kessler, and S. Schreier. Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint Board, was chosen to represent the Joint Board. Bonita Sentence Is 12 Years Hard Labor (Continued from Pane One\ prescribed hy law. He is also charged with the costs of the trial. He will serve in the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia. Fail to Appeal Every one at the court was sur- prised to find that defense counsel failed to make a motion for further action or appeal. No reason was given. } The Bonita-Boleski-Mendola De- fense Committee will carry on the fight for Bonita’s freedom, it was announced. _ Operators’ Local 2: J. Borachovich, | MASS PICKETING WINS BACK MANY SIGNED UP PITS Oust Lewis Officials; Take Control By ALBERT GLOTZER. SPRINGFIELD, IIL, April 18.— Despite the attempts of the official- dom of the United Mine Workers of America in Illinois to minimize the work of the Save-the-Union Commit- tee, events continue to prove that the movement to oust the corrupt of- ficialdom grows both in numbers and influence. The officials in Illinois are now carrying on the separate agreement policy. Local agreements are signed and a handful of miners sent back to work. To these workers going back on the job the officials inform them that it is useless to carry on.a na- tional strike, that the union is going tu sigagh and that is why they should continue to work and get all they can while it lasts. This is the policy of the so-called “progressives” of the Hindmarsh (Springfield sub-district president) type. here are other grt why a few mines are signed Salary Hounds. _ When it is understood that the of- ficials draw their salaries from the miners’ dues, and when the miners are out of work they do not pay dues, then the problem is a simple one, A few mines signed up means the con- tinuous salary of the officials, But the Save-the-Union Move has taken Illinois by storm, the miners here well remember the be- trayals during the wildcat strikes, the repeated sell-outs by the Lewis machine. ‘To them separate agree- ments mean destruction of the union and worsening of their conditions, They are not so ready to lose their union which they gave their lives to build. The militant history of the United Mine. Workers of America is still in their minds and they stand ready to fight on. The machine publishes big headline announcements in the newspapers of mines signed up. This is done to de- stroy the moral of the miners. To the district office of the Save-the-Union Committee, telegrams come in daily of the growth of the miners’ move- ment. In Pochahantas where the mine was signed up, a wire came into the district office that the men refuse to work. Natural Agreement or Nothing! They are for a national agreement or nothing. From the West Frankfort district the news comes that hundreds of pie kets are at the Old Ben mine and that the work is successful. In Belle- ville where the officials come to the mine at morning to help the operators against the miners, and where deputy sheriffs are employed to use force, the picketing is increasing daily. Out -} of 9,000 miners in the Belleville dis- trict only 700 are working. In Spring- field the spirit of the miners ae creases daily and they too are picket- ing the two mines working. The same is taking place in Auburn. Official Efforts Fail to Raise R. R. Wages RICHMOND, Va. April 18— Despite the sled-length efforts of the union officials toward collaboration in the interest of efficiency and against mili‘ant union action, con- tained in their recent brief, the board of arbitration has rejected their re- quest for an adjustment of the Chesa- peake & Ohio shop craft employes’ wages, The request of the employes was for an upward adjustment of $1.5 a day for all journeymen mechanics, |their apprentices and helpers except freight car mechanics for whom van adjustment of $1.66 a day was and for coach cleaners for daily wage of $4.70 was : ”