The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 20, 1928, Page 1

Thousands of ‘New Bedford textile workers, having Vapeed their officials to act by a nearly unanimous strike vote, stehinel out of the mills last Monday. The menare fighting a ten per cent wage slash. The Textile Mill Committees, a progressive organization, is aiding energetically in organizing the workers within the unions and without to fight the bosses. hostility of officials of the tex show crowds of strikers massed tile unions, in the New Bedford streets. In spite of the The above pictures THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTS® Batered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1579. AILY WORKER. FIN AL CITY EDITION Vol. V. No. 94. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1928 Publ ed daily except 3 Publishing Association, 1 y by The National Dally Worker » 88 First Street, New York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents DRIVE FOR WORKERS’ CENTER GAINING HEADWAY BROPHY, TOOHEY HELD BY GRAND JURY FOR “RIOT” Mass Picketing Despite Wholesale Arrests PITTSBURGH, April 19.—John Brophy, chairman, and Pat Toohey, secretary of the national Save the Union Committee af the United Mine Workers, were today indicted by the | Allegheny county grand jury, while | ‘mass arrests proceeded in the effort} to head off the strike movement in the western Pennsylvania coal fields. | One lrundred fifty leaders of the} progressive forces have been arrest- ed since Monday in the desperate at- tempt by the operators to check the rising tide of organization which is if sweeping over the mine districts. am formation’ coming here frqm »West- moreland county indicates that-so far from being intimidated, thousands of miners have been inspired by the at- tacks to hitherto unequalled heroism. The indictments of Toohey and Brophy charge them with unlawful assemblage, inciting to riot and riot- ing. These actions of the grand jury are the result of the activities of these leaders of tne mine workers in | the organization drive among the non-union miners in west Pennsyl- vania and are seen here as an at- tempt to set back the movement. Strike Wave Rising. (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) 2 Concerts for Miners’ Relief Tomorrow Eve The Ukrainian Committee | for Miners’ Relief will hold a concert at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., tomorrow night, Miners’ Troupe from Illinois will per- form, and other interesting concert numbers will be presented. On the same night the Yiddish play, “The Village Youth,” will be presented at the Ukrainian Theatre, 6th Street, between Second and Third Avenues, by the Dorohicher Dramatic Troupe, for the benefit of the striking miners. Tickets for both the concert and play may be bought at the entrances ‘of the two halls. In a statement issued last night, Fannie Rudd, Secretary of the Penn- sylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Commit- tee, of 799 Broadway, urged~ all workers to support the various min: relief affairs being run by organizations: to help the striking Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and un- organized miners in their steele for @ living gd eae HILLVAN BETRAYS Fail to Even + Make for It in Chicago Part CHICAGO, April 19—After sev- eral weeks of continuous negotiations with the employers in Chicago men’s at which the} {HOUR DEMAND e MERCHANTS SHUT DOORS AS STRIKE PARALYZES TOWN Mill Committees Begin Relief Work | NEW BEDFORD, 1 Mass.., Apr. 19. —Two developments of great signi-) ficance took place here, as the general strike of the 30,000 textile operatives settled into full swing. The 8,000 organized and 22,000 unorganized| workers in 58 textile plants here are| fighting a vicious slash of ten per cent in their already miserable wages which the mill owners tried to en- force last Monday. The most important of these de- ected is the fact that~the cot~ ton mills in Taunton, a neighboring town, are preparing with all speed to rearrange their machinery to han- dle some of the work stopped by the strike in New Bedford. . This activity jof the Taunton mills, most of which are owned by New Bedford interests, is being met with complete silence by the officialdom of the American Fed- eration of Textile Operatives, in spite of the demands raised by the Textile Mill Committee that the union take immediate steps to call out the Taun- ton and Fall River locals. Both the Fall River and Taunton mill owners forced wage cuts upon the workers. ‘End Te Taunton Sca Scab Work; - Spread Textile Sinke,” 20,” Cry) West Mine, Belleville, Illinois. Mass ita Led By the Save-the-Union Forces is Spreading ry George Voyzey, John Watt, Joe Angelo, progressive mine leaders, uireci muss pockeiig at Old WORKERS SCHOOL TO RAISE $10,000 FOR NEW HOME “Red Banquet” to Be: Held April 27 Fixing its own total quota at $10,-| 000, the Workers School last night! stepped to the forefront of the $30,-' 000 campaign to finance the acquisi- tion of the new Workers Center at 26-28 Union Square. At a meeting of the Students’ Council and the action committees of the school, plans were made for mobi ig the entire student body in the drive. Among the 80 students present, $250. in cash. was collected and $500 more was pledged. A quota was assigned for each class, with $10 as the sum to be raised by each student. The quota for the entire school is s $10,000. ional Students Aid (Special to The SPRINGFIELD, IL, agreement. MILITANCY SPREADS IN ILLINOIS FIELDS April 19.—Three days of mass picketing has been bringing out the,miners of the Old W: are picketing carrying banners saying, | Daily Worker) est mine which had signed a separate SEEK APPEAL IN MINEOLA TRIAL: Prison Likely for Nine} Committees were chosen at the meeting to visit the various classes of the school and the neighborhood branches. Students of the National Training School will take a leading |part in this work. A chart will be hung up in one of the classrooms, |showing the totals of the classes. | Each student who raises $10 will re- ceive the school emblem and each class that fulfils its quota will be : Several hundred mine: clothing market for a new agree- — z reewicnt oe bots! Furriers Saturday PITTSBURGH, April 19.—Eleven Stores Are Closing. ° “Win the Pennsylvania-Ohio Strike,” | given the “Voices” hundred miners from the unorganized Westmoreland County mines. yester- (Continued on Page Two) SMITH IN DEAL WITH PALMER In Secret Confab With Labor Baiter ASHEVILLE, N. C., April 19.— Gov. Al Smith has been announcing every day to the press that he is down here merely on a vacation. American Federation of Labor officials call him big-hearted Al and the New York State Federation of Labor was the first organization of any description to endorse him officially for the demo- cratic nomination for seal But he called off his “vacation” long enough today to make a political deal with A. Mitchell Palmer, the “red raid” attorney-general of 1919-20. Gov. Smith and the attorney: general who took charge of the nation-wide attack of the democratic Wilson ad- ministration against the labor move- ment in 1919-20 were in conference a long time. At the end of. the confer- ence Palmer announced smilingly that from now on he would actively en- gage in the campaign to put Al Smith in the White House. Palmer also used the power of the federal govern- ment to break the so-called “outlaw” railroad strike in 1920. Just what promises Smith made to Palmer were not made known. But “Red Raid” Palmer is sled-length for Smith and will speak and write for him. “I am a staunch Smith supporter,’ the director of the 1919 raids told re- porters here after leaving the rooms of the favorite candidate of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor officialdom. Thousands of workers were thrown in jail without warrants, families were broken up and deprived of their incomes and hundreds were held in- ment, Sydney Hillman, and the other self styled “most able negotiators,” in control of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers of America, have finally succeeded in signing an agreement in which the 40-hour week demand of the workers is completely forgotten. From the reports printed in the men’s clothing trade papers, and from the statements made with the utmost frankness by those well in- formed of the daily progress of the negotiations, such as employers’ rep- resentatives, it is learned that the officialdom of the Amalgamated did not even waste much energy in press- ing the demand for the 40-hour week. Will Claim Victory. The Amalgamated leadership will now come to its membership and de- clare that a real victory has been won, because they have compelled the employers to increase by 11-2 per cent the amount they will here- after contribute to the “unemploy- ment insurance fund,” thus totaling three per cent. This by no means, reduces the 11-2 per cent of wages heretofore paid weekly by each work- er, The workers will continue to pay to what they brand as the fake in- surance scheme of the Amalgamated. So powerful is the sentiment among the workers for a struggle to obtain the 40-hour week, and so (Continued on Page Two) | Phe other event of importance is the announcement of the store owners of the South End, who declared that they cost, with signs in the windows of many of them declaring that they would close their doors at the end of the week. Committees Supported. The sentiment expressed by the workers shows that they are fast ral- lying arount the slogans of the Tex- tile. Mill Committee that immediate steps should be taken by the union officials of the Textile Council to back up the mill committees in their attempt to spread the strike to other (Continued on Page Two) Y. W. L. Will Hold 6th Anniversary Affair The sixth anniversary of the found- ing of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League will be the occasion for,a youth celebration to be held tontorrow evening at the New Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave. A feature will be a program given by a troupe of five young striking |miners from the Ilinois coal fields. In addition, a Negro jazz band, the | John Smith band of Harlem, will be ) presented. Prom Montreal, Canada, comes t! “Dear Comrades: “Enclosed please find check for miners. I see that the Canadian Na-: tional Railway has non-union mines in West Virginia, and I would like the subscriptions went there as [ wish as a Canadian to do something to help organize those mines.” Fraternally, LG, Thus two nore strikers are receiv- ing The DAILY WORKER thru the contribution of a class conscious com- rade in Canadu. Thus two more strikers will learn thru The DAILY WORKER the message of militant communicado for weeks in all parts of the country when Palmer, with the ennnort af the Wiley ndminintention class struggle. Thus two more strik- ere will he hatter nrenared ts ato a ae ; j (Continued on Pave Two) M3 ‘¢ CANADIAN ANSWERS PLEA. Worker Sends $12 for Mine e Subscriptions he following Naber $12 as two subscriptions for striking ©. weer mor ntelligent and firmer resistance to the reactionary bureaucratic Lewis machine and mine owners. Thus two mcre strikers will receive daily the revolutionary message of class con- sciousness and be better equipped to combat the miseries and brutalities of the capitalist system. Hundreds of requests for The DAILY WORKER from workers on strike are lying or the desk of the BONITA DEFENSE’ were selling out their stock at any; TO EXTEND FIGHT ‘Carry on Fight WILKES-BARRE, April 19.—De- nunciation of the sentence of Sam Bonita, young mine leader of Pittston to 12 years hard labor was issued to- day by the Bonita-Moleski-Mendola Defense Committee, in a statement calling upon the forces of labor to rally to the move to free Bonita as | well as his two fellow workers. Mass meetings of protests in vari- ous sections of the mine districts are planned. The first of these under the direction of the National Bonita-Mole- ski-Mendola Defense Committee is called for Sunday, April "29 at Old Forge, Columbia Hall, 2:30 -p. -m. Among’ the speakers will be Stanley Dziengiclewski, secretary of the com- mittee, Charles Licata, ~ recording secretary of local 1703 and George ;Papeun, seretary of the Tri-District Save-the-Union Committee, “On the eve of the day that Sam aoe lawy, came before Judge McClean, to file motions for a-new trial for the mine leader of Pittston, the Wilkes-Barre News appeared on the streets with headlines across the entire page. of the paper saying in huge black type: Eleven Jurors Wanted Sam Bonita Acquitted, “Eleven of the jury believed firmly in the story of self-defense as told by Bonita from the witness stand. They believed that Frank Agati, personal | bodyguard of Cappelini, wealthy mine contractor and union organizer, was armed, that he attacked Bonita, and fired the mysterious sixth shot. Eleven (Continued on Page Five) Women Aid Sanding DENVER, April 19.—The Women’s Progressive Council served a Chili supper at the Labor Lyceum Sunday, business manager. The . DAILY WORKER cannot take care of these appeals. Its resources are at an end. the proceeds of which went to the Sandino Red Cross. Ayres took ad- vantage of the occasion to give a talk on the wave of American imperialism. Defense Committee Will| “Strike for a National Agreement” and “Lewis and Fishwick Must Go.” All the men are now out, Sub-district president John W. Hindmarsh called | deputy sheriffs. Hundreds More Picket. In West Frankfort where Old Ben 14 and 15 had signed up, a line of 200 pickets was broken up by police deputy sheriffs; many were slugged. At Orient a line of 300 pickets was slugged by deputy sheriffs, who also trained machine guns on them. Half of the men were brought out. Three pickets were arrested, among them James McCullum. In Franklin county the state attorney is known to be on the payroll of the union machine. 3 CHILDREN BURN TO DEATH. DUBOIS, Pa., April 19.—Two chil- dren were burned to death today when fire destroyed the home and barn of Charles Lines at West Liberty, near |here. The victims were Arthur, 3, and |John, 4, sons of Lines. They were trapped while playing in the barn, | reports said. Attorneys for the nine members of |the Joint Board Furriers’ Union, whose sentences of from two and a |half to five years were confirmed several days ago by the Appellate Division, announced yesterday tha‘ they had succeeded in obtaining stay of sentence until tomorrow af. before the court to appeal the case| to a higher court. Stay Till Saturday. The prisoners were to have sur- rendered themselves to the sats | ties yesterday to begin eanettate | service of the long prison terms. The| stay allows them their liberty till Saturday, unless their attorneys’ plea for a certificate of reasonable doubt is successful in obtaining permission to appeal the case. Under those cir- will be allowed their freedom till |the appeal is heard. |guments are completed Saturday, umstances it is believed that they | | Before the ar-| | test however, it is almost a certainty that} the nine workers will be compelled to { (Continued om Page nae! ae eae de plans for joining in ect ee by the Pioneers last week. “Out of School on May Day,” is the slogan of the children, to correspond with the slogan of their fathers and mothers, “Down Tools on May First.” To show that the children mean business, the plans call for mobiliza- tion meetings at various points in the city for the morning of May First during school hours. During the noon hour open air meetings will be held near the schools and wherever children congregate, to get as many children as possible to join the “strike” and refuse to return to school in the afternoon. 1,000 Expected to March Ts general mobilization for the while city will take place early in the afternoon at Central Park. From there the children will march to Madison Square Garden in time to take par’ in the meeting at 8 p. m. “OUT OF SCHOOL MAY 1” Workers’ ars? Chior to to Join Cele Celebration united rifled’ front May Day celebration at Madison Square Garden, May 1, have been launched by the committee elected by the United Front Conference of Working Class Children, called Crowds of children will join al! along , the route and by the time they reach the Garden the parade will have grown to well over 1,000 proletarian children. The preliminary arrangements ar~ being carefully prepared. Spe Pioneer leaflets, explaining the nifieance of May Day for the workers and calling upon the children to join in the general May Day movement, will be distributed at all places where workers’ children congregate. Meet- ings are being held from now to May first during the afternoons to ac- quaint the children with the meaning of May Day and with the general or- jganizational plans. Many Groups Join. The arrangements committee was elected at the united front confer- (Continued on Page Two) of Revolt” series, published by International Publish- ers. Toward the end of the drive a large mass meeting of the entire j student body will be called. | The meeting was addressed by Jay Lovestone, Bertram D. Wolfe, D. enjamin, Alexander Trachtenberg, nd A. Markoff, who pointed out the ternoon when they will again appear | necessity of making the campaign a (Continued ued from Pag Page One) PROTEST AGAINST POLISH FASCISM United Front Meeting! This Sunday A united front conference to pro- against the fascist terror in| Poland, and particularly against trial of 56 me rs of the White Russian organization Hromada, will; be held Sunday at 2 p.m, at the Irving! Plaza, Irving Place and 15th street. In outlining its objects, the Com. mittee Against Polish Fascism, under whose auspices the meeting will be held, stressed the need of organizing, groups in all cities for the relief of! victims of the Pilsudski terror. Scott Nearing, Roger Baldwin,! Robert Morss Lovett and Robert W. Dunn are among the members of the National Executive Committee of the | organization, Members of Dist. Two, Workers (Communist) Party, Take Notice! The District Executive Commit- tee of the Workers (Communist) Party calls upon. all comrades to be present tomorrow at 10:30 a, m. in Room 42, 108 E. 14th St., to carry out an important political task of the Party. This work is] of special character and is of great significance for the ea. and requires a response from comrades. WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE.| . Dist. 0: