The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1928, Page 6

\ i , 4 i Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1928 THE DAILY WORKER) | Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Ine. | Daily, Except Sunday | 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 Cable Address: ‘“Daiwork" SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six month $6.59 pe $3.50 six itis $2.50 three months. $2.00 three months. address and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y- is Editor... ROBERT MINOR * Assistant Editor. WM. F. DUNNE | _Zuterea as second-clasa mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under | the act of March 3, 1879. WHEREVER COAL I Workers’ Center in Union Square, One of the events in the life of the working class of New | York will take place when the Communist Party of the New | York district throws open the doprs of its new home in Union | Square. We can for the present speak only iguratively, perhaps, of unfurling the flag of Communism in the center of the section | of New York around which the whole of the city’s labor move- | ment stir Union Square means New York work- | ing class traditions and p to Union Square that the biggest workers’ demonstrations inevitably flow. The workers will be new home—the new Red | center at Union Square. The New York district organization are to be congratulated for their courage and promise success in the drive to secure the and member persistance whic! new premi The We < enter will provide bet ter quart for the dis- trict of s of the s (C ommun Party, for The DAILY WORKER, the be orkers School, f ne Cooperative restaur- ent, “Proletcos,” the cue of the district, and the Hungarian C« sre,” and it will at the same ne kecom ng point in the center of the ¢ for the which will make of this | truly the “Worker: Nor must any er represents an} r new} institutions which will find thei extravagance. heme in this bt g to obtain very economical arrange- | ments, the aggregate of rents previ iously paid being the basis. | Greg ‘tunities will be accorded to The DAILY | . WORKER in particular. With better accommodations offered | * to The DAILY WORKER in this new home, in which will be lo- I a ymuch better can be} cated a splendid ng paper given to our reac with quicker and more complete service) end readier contact with the labor movement, w ith relatively | | lass expense. | The militant workers of New York munist) Party which alone can be and will be proud of their new —and and the Workers (Com- 3 their best expression, will tse it for the class struggle. The DAILY WORKEE 3 to the workers to put) over in the quick r iri 0 necessary to} assure t and the time| f yhen the whole city of disposal. pas been said i in Bey meetings held preparatory to the| is not real estate, | the arrival of a new stage st movement. t Comyr in the a: of the the Man in the Brown Derby h the shouts of politi- d-western nomination hern 4 aemon cal Seon 3 states agair ihe for the presidency of the U The rag pic Smith centered upon h i 0 “wet” and @ man fror ned in Tammany Hall during its f crime and commercial- ae Al Smith’s brown land, gambling, booze the sway of the Roman catholic New York—this brown derby hat izer of pre derby hat, typil and night-lite in church in that sp became the g the sm eneral, as well < sudden change? Why is it that} >, Al Smith the Roman catholic, the ay,” is sweeping the ku klux Idan belt for the democratic nomination for president? This is of course a victory of the backers of Al Smith. The backers of A! Smith for the presidency are not different from those forces that put him in as governor of New York. We have pointed out before the almost perfect identity of Wall Street inte ho control the Coolidge administration in Washington and the Smith administration in Albany. It goes without saying that the same financial kings who own the body | end soul of Al Smith as governor of New York could easily accept | Al Smith as president of the United States. It would be laughable to suggest that the difference between the two capitalist parties would be decisive for these financial overlords ree habitually contribute campaign funds to both. An editorial last Wedn ests in the New York World, which has made itself an organ of Sm that Smith will not win “by harping on the oil ndals.”” 1 is significant, as the forces which back Smith in the York governorship certainly do not want the oil scandals to o elm their other servant in the white house, Coolidge. The same edito consistently opposes the idea that “the sins of the Harding regime must be visited on the successor of Calvin Coolid gees doelares the real ues to be “religious tolerance, personal | y and social equality.” Of course everyone (HES Ss the Roman church, like the protestant church pression and exploitation of the working cla. ruling class in every instance. But Smith h the Pope at Rome. before Wall Street. Smith is a reactionary, obscurantist enemy of the working class. The church is secondary, the.financial tods of Wall Street are what he represents in reality. The oligarchy of finance capital which owns Coolidge and the republican party, and which would gladly take Smith and the dem- ocratic party as perfect substitutes, is the real power behind the movement that is now sweeping away the feeble and confused objections of the Southern and Mid-Western petty business class to the “tool of Rome, Booze and Wickedness,” the man in the brown derby. The penetration of the South by Wall Street capital has made it possible. It is only the working. class whose political movement can formulate the issues in American life. It is because Al Smith rep- resents the most dangerous class enemy, the capitalist class and the capitalist system of exploitation and oppression of the work- ing class, a, Sgt he should be hated and despised by the workers, oW 1 bigger master than The governor of New York can have no Pope jof Bonita, Moleski and Mendola. S DUG Urges Negroes Fight Fascist Organization Editor, DAILY WORKER: A group of Negroes, former mem- bers of the British West India reg- iment, have organized an association in New York known as the West Indian War Veterans under the pat- ronage of Sir Harry Armstrong, British consul in New York. The as- sociation held a ceremony of present- ing the colors on April 15. It is difficult to see how these Negroes can reconcile their present status as an oppressed racial group and exploited colonial people with this militaristic display. These men should know that they were the vic- tims of the last colonial imperialist war. They should ask themselves what benefit they have received, either in the West Indies or America, The general economic depression that followed the world war brought destruction to agriculture in the Caribbean. The West Indies are still under the yoke of British and Amer- ican imperialism. It is time for these befuddled colonial and American Negroes to wake up and dispel their illusions about capitalist govern- ments. Sir Harry Armstrong is the paid agent of British imperialism, and it is part of his diplomatic role to patronize and hobnob with colonial Negroes and encourage them to pro- mote military organizations which his government could use in the next imperialist war. Negroes have noth- ing to gain in capitalist wars. Their place is by the side of the workers and the oppressed colonial people. GEORGE PADMORE. Printers Get $2 Raise FRESNO, Cal., April 18—News-, paper printers have gained a §2' raise per week in wages and se-| cured the usual union-shop contract. Expose Lewis Machine Murder Campaign By GEORGE PAPCUN (Sec’y of the Tri-District Save-the- Union Committee). The Cappelini machine in District one in order to stop the opposition nd to break the morale and the fight- ing Spirit of the miners, finds it neces- sary to get rid of fighters opposing \them, For this purpose the machine officials use machine guns, pump- guns, rifles and revolvers. In case they do not succeed with this method they begin to di forces so as to utilize the electric chair as in the case On 19, the Cappelini machine in on with the contractors and rs killed Thomas y 18 Sam Greco, h insurgent and a sup- port rv of the Save-the-Union move- ment, was fired on and remained at the point of death for several weeks. ed with these murders ppelini contractor and coal pbeil and Peter Reilly, leaders of the rank and file in 1703 and in dis- triet one should be eliminated. Now they have again succeeded in their move to eliminate our brothers Bonita, Moleski and Mendola. Every conceivable means was used at the Bonita trial; stool-pigeons, fake wit- esses, perjury; at no time in the his- tory of the American Labor Move- ment has such an array of Labor of- ficials come to testify’ against a brother trade unionist who was a member of the same union in an at- tempt to send him to the electric chair. International Board Members, hine saw to it that Alex) International Organizers, Interna- tional Auditors, all testified and used every known means in the attempt to send Sam Bonita to the electric chair. Bonita appeared to be on trial for the murder of Frank Agati, a con- tractor of the number 6 colliery of the Pennsylvania Coal Co., the per- sonal body guard of President Cap- pelini of District 1 and the district organizer of district one of the United Mine Workers of America. But this is only the appearance. This shoot- ing occurred as the result of the tac-| tics the machine of the Mine Workers’ Union, led by Cappelini, has been using against the rank and file for a number of years. Bonita frankly stated that he had! shot in self defense only after Frank | Agati had attacked him and had} | pulled a gun and fired. Yet despite; all the proof which the defense showed at the time of the trial, the state in combination with the other three op- posing forces has succeeded in con-} victing Bonita in a frame-up case. Bonita’s only crime was that he fought against the coal operators, contractors and the Cappelini murder machine; that he fought for the rank and file miners of District one and lo- cal union 1703. For this crime the machine tried to send him where he will be of no use to the miners. State Gonnives. Té is a well known fact, Tom Li Alex Campbell and Peter Reilly w killed and Sam Greco assaulted directly by the Lewis-Cappelini-con- tractor-coal operator machine. I tate has more or less deliberately d to bring to so-called justice | Yet | organize the National Bonita-Moleski- Mendola Defense Committee and to mobilize the workers thru district one and the tri-district and even the In- ternational union for the defense of Bonita-Moleski-Mendola. In spite of the sabatoge of the Brennan, Mc- Garry forces who deliberately did everything possible to demoralize and to break the united front movement for the defense of these three brothers our work has progressed, The Save-the-Union movement with the Defense Committee fought and out-maneuvered the deliberate at- tempts on the part of the so-called op- positionists to the Cappelini machine in district one who are no better than | the Cappelini machine itself. The only reason that the Brennan forces led by Brennan, Harris and McGarry are fighting against the ‘appelini machine is because they are ‘out of office and the others are in {office. They have in some cases jacted as viciously as the Cappelim | machine. these murderers, tho now miners thruout district one and throughout the miners’ union are wondering whether the officials of the state are actually trying to capture thg mur- derers, and whether they are not ac- tually protecting the murderers. Progressives Assist. The Save-the-Union movement im- mediately after Bonita was arrested, got on the job. With the cooperation of the Local Union 1703 Defense Com- mittee. the progressives proceeded ‘to Real Traitors. At no time have the Brennan for- }ees come out openly in favor of | Bonita-Moleski and Mendola; in fact | they were so treacherous as to attack |and try to break up the committee | which was mobilized to raise funds and to mobilize the workers for the | defense of these three brothers. At one time during this period they , openly attacked the committee, in | spite of the fact that they themselves i did nothing to help our brothers. The | only force that sincerely worked for these brothers was the force led by! ‘the Save-the-Union Committee. Now that Bonita has been convicted ADAM MOL. Sik! we have all the more reason to carry on the fight for ae freedom and for the fight against all the enemies of the miners who have been exposed in the past struggles. We must now not allow the same thing to happen to our other brothers as happened to Mooney and Billings and to other class war joners. The movement for freedom of Moleski and Mendola under the leadership of the Bonita-Moleska and Mendola Committee and the Save the Union Committee must go forward and be extended thruout the country. Brennan, Harris, McGarry and the other of their ilk must be shoved aside and crushed by the movement to bring freedom for Bonita-Moleski- Mendola. No sabotage or treachery on the part of these so-called opposition leaders must stand in the way. Bonita, Moleski and Mendola, must be free! This cry must be on the lips of the miners thruout the Miners’ Union and the workers thruout the United States. The way that this will be done will be thru the taking of the Mine Workers Union out of the hands of Lewis, Cappelini, Fagan, Mur- ray, and Kennedy who are directly re- sponsible for the murders of our other brothers in district one and who are now trying to put Bonita-Moleski- Mendola out of the way. The Save- the-Union Committees thruout the country must make the Defense of Bonita-Moleski-Mendola the first order of business. All workers must immediately respond with aid to the Bonita-Moleski-Mendola Defens Committee, 513 Coal Exchange Bldg., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Educational Work in the U.S. S. R. Trade Unions (EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is taken from Robert W. Dunn’s new book, “Soviet Trade Unions” to be published this week by the Vanguard Press, New York). * * (Continued). Closely related to the trips to museums and trips to other cities, ave the trips to the theatre. The mions, aS’ we have indicated, have egular theatrical bureaus through their members may purchase at reduced prices—usually ifty percent off. Visitors te Russia hay yer of workers who crowd the ope: remarked on the nunep= houses, “kinos” and theatres. This is due to the facilities provided by| the cultural departments The Leningrad unions alone,| one year, distributed nearly) 0,000 such tickets to their mem-) , Yepresenting, it is estimated,} | about forty percent of the seating y of all the theatres in the unions. ia Vighting Illiteracy. ority of the Russian peo- > illiterate before the Revolu- The unions were one of the ies to begin the work of dé Union Bulletin, No. 2, May of the) / \ these’ had been reduced to 4.0, 6.5 “liquidating” this illiteracy. They /and union classes. have made extraordinary . progress. ‘metal late as 1922 there was still a million members in the unions’ of manual workers who could neither read nor write. In 1911, 50 percent of the mine workers, 50 percent of the wood workers and 80 percent of the agricultural workers, for exam-: ple, were still illiterate. By 1926, In 1926, the workers had reduced — their illiteracy to two percent, the chemi- ‘eal. workers to six percent, the building workers to five percent, ‘completed the task of. eliminating illiteracy among their members, Some Kult Figures. The essential statistical informa- and 18.4 per cents respectively, the!tion concerning some of tthe Kult chief base of illiteracy s ill being | (Russian abbreviation for cultural- among the seasonal elements in these | 7 . unions. Seasonal workers come from educational) enterprises we have just villages and return to them at the |mentioned must be compressed into end of the working season, They are ja ‘few lines, while the numbers for aos diffienult to réech wih schools ‘each of the ?8 industrial unions are while some of the unions had entirely ; omitted. The figures. are all fer February 1, 1927: Number of clubs in the country operated by the separate’ unions, 3,270; those run by __ inter-union bodies, 260; by several unions grouped together, 78. Out of this 3,608 some 3,480 reported on mem- bership, giving a total membership of 1,158,513. This represents a gain of about 140,000 members over Jan- uary, 1926. Circles in clubs numbered 22,812 and the 22,531 reporting had 683,430 members, Of the 22,812 about 2,500 were physical culture circles. ' (To Be Continued.) European Capitalist Press Lies About Conditions in United States The National ‘Office of the Workers (Communist) Party has just received a letter from its representative at the Communist International, J. Louis Engdahl, former editor of The DAILY WORKER, who is now in Moscow, U. S. S. R., in which he states: “There is a great lack of material |i available for our European Commu- nist press stating the actual facts concerning the conditions of the American working class. There is a vast mass of propaganda material pouring into Europe continually, that is exploited to the limit by the capi- talists and sogial-democratic press, seeking to create the esl placid that! American workers senjoy excellent conditions, receive high wages and toil a short work-day, all as a result) of class collaboration and “industrial | peace” policies that have been put! into effect through joint action of the’ workers’ and employers’ organiza-! tions. The effort is made to brighten, this picture of “America” in compar- | ison to the dark picture the capital-, ists seek to paint, through their press, regarding conditions in the Soviet) Union. They have grown especially: frantic in this respect within recent | months because of the true story of. the conditions within the first work- | ers’ republic being brought back to western Europe by the many work- ers’ delegations, especially those that’ | Penopetsd in the tenth anniversary | great enthusiasm. of the Soviet Union. |question; it was felt that American “The extent of this propaganda | workers had a multitude of subjects for capitalist America and against | to write on: wages, cost of living, the Soviet Union was recently im-! unemployment, social. legislation, em- | pressed upon me by Marcel Cachin, | ployers’ organizations, class collabo- the editor of L’Humanite, the cen- | ration policies, company unions, tral organ of the French Communist | strike- breaking methods, the speed-up | Party, during a visit to Paris; while | and conveyor system at work, hours, I promised a series of articles on the tahort time work, vacations with and most recent developments of the class} without pay, industrial accidents and struggle in America, I also suggested! the question of compensation, install- that the workers themselves in ‘Amer-| ment buying, housing conditions, and ica be invited by the Communist press’ similar problems.” to write something concerning their; ‘Comrade Engdahl urges that the problems, this American worker eon weleeeta department of the Workers respondence to be published in the) (Communist) Party, through cooper- European labor press. Cachin re-|ation with the Party press, gather ceived ue St suggestion with this material to be placed at the dis- In discussing the posal of the European labor press. It is with this object in view that we publish this preliminary announce- yment of this campaign, inviting all workers to contribute to this cor- |respondence. Write briefly a letter of from 800 to 500 words preferred. |If workers feel they are not suffi- ciently developed in the use of the English language, they may write in the language with which they feel they are best equipped. Mail this Worker Cotrespondence to ‘the Agit- prop Department, National Office, Workers (Communist) Party of x America, 43 E. 125th St, Ne Citv. >