The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 21, 1928, Page 2

Lpgraees Committees Lead Pick- ets as Leaders Sabotage (Conti: t fr mule spinr 1 the State Boz Some of the also petty ap, d state author: The be 1 arbi- tration 1ent in connection v s in the present stri Bedford. The statement re “In furth 2 in addition to the Ross, a member efforts to s Bedford, agent, has been gathering inf id conferring with the repre ives of the em- ployers.” Even the capitalist press here, and seme orga of the big industrial in- terests such ournal of Com- merce, a Wa reet publication, are admitting in their news dispatches of the New Bedford that the Tex- tile Mill ¢ es are making “serious” their organiza- tion of the ganized textile workers on report that the most en uggle is neces- sary to pre committees, or as they t he one-big-union | idea,” from ge strong foothold among the ra: rikers. The workers still rem plants not tion also stopped work Thursday, as the mi ut down in celebration of “Patriots’ I he workers cele- brated this without pay by joining those o: ke in parading fore the gates of the struck mills. als Refuse Support. y Mills and the Taber Mills ing with several in preparing 5 the neighboring town cf-Taunton to handle as much work as possible result of the strike here. The officialdom of the Amer- ican Fedcrat of Textile Operatives, who control locals in Tatnton as well as Fall Riv both of which cities have cut wa refuse to do any- thing to he success of the New Bedford st uling out the members towns. The Textile t however, need that they are taking ort for the strug- mill units in other parts of New and. Boast of Profits. /MANCHESTE . H., April 20.— Hardly «evera!l weeks after the en- forcement of .a ten per cent wage slash of the m sle wages of their 10,000 workers v have been vicious- ly speeded up to produce more work than ever before, the treasurer of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company one of the largest firms in the world, declares that the ar just past has beén the most profitable in the last feven years. Frederic Dumaine, the Amoskeag official, announced to a stockholders’ mecting held several days ago that there has been an increase of $508,775 in the profits of ihe company over and above the profits of last year. | The statement he issued to the finan- cial journals did not mention the to- tal amount of profits Dumaine recent! ended a meet- ing of the “Amos Con- gress,” a heafd th there was h urer, together wi ficials, succ' possible protest a meeting, bec this mecting w straw tbosses” and other es foremen. ARREST 14 SHOE. WORKER PICKETS » Fourteen shoe and slipper workers ‘were yesterday arre i while picket- ing the Riverside Slipper Company at ’ 48 Walker St. They were later re- ® jeased with suspended sentences when ‘ Prought before Magistrate Silverman. “* The strike, which was declared about nine weeks ago, followed a ‘wage slash and a demand for im- \ proved working conditions. Those arrested were Henry Levine, business manager of the union, Solo- “mon Vogelfanger, Sam Silverman, Saul Zigman, Philip Levine, Morris Schiff, Sam Bobromill, Louis Dambo, Sidney Rich, Abe Toback, Max Sat- tron, Henry Kocnigsberg, Bessie Sel- der, Sam Smerling. Workers in the Melrose Slipper Company, 76 Green St., are also strik- | ing for union recognition. Both strikes are being conducted by As- ¥ociated Shoe and Slipper Workers of Greater New York. A meeting of all ‘anemployed shoe workers will be held at union headquarters, 51 EH. 10th St., Thursday afternoon at 2:80, \e a « \ Page «wo Jacksonville Plans Special Distribution of The Daily Worker for May Day THE DAILY WORKER PLAN SELLOUT OF TEXTILE STRIKE IN NEW BEDFORD : SAVE THE - UNION _ FORCES GROWING *| to put an end to these intolerable con- ,| meeting especially prepared to rail ond photo | to Sinelair. In cente WITNESSES CALLED TO STAND IN OIL. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1928 Above are some of the witnesses before the senate committee which is conducting what passes for an “investigation” of the Teapot Dome Oil Reserve lease, handed over to Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate, by the Harding-Coolidge cabinet. Photo at left is Mrs. John T. Pratt, widow of the former Standard Oil millionaire, J. T. Pratt, who aided in concealing the source of the slush fund contributed to the republican party by Sinclair, in exchange for the oil reserve. Sec- of C. C. Chase, a son-in-law of Albert B. Fall, secretary of the interior under Harding, who has been let off for his part in turning over the oil reserve is Thomas W. Miller, alien property custodian under Harding, under jail sentence for defrauding the government while in office. Miller | was expected to tell what he knew about the slush fund, stung, it is said by the action of the Coolidge administration in allowing him to go to prison. Next to last | | | { Strike Spreads in Ail Unorganized Fields | (Special to The Daily Worker.) PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 20.—The following official statement from the Save-the-Union Committee was made | public yesterday by Pat Toohey, na- |tional secretary, for the committee, regarding the strike in the unorgan- ized coal fields called April 16th. | “Over 15,000 miners are on strike in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia in response to the call of the ave-the-Union mittee of the] of America. | The committee considers this a favor- able beginning in the acomplishment of its task of organizing the 100,000 ed miners in these states. The movement will be spread until it encompasses these great masses of workers. Movement Spreads. “The Save-the-Union Committee is developing its organization movement {in the face of unprecedented diffi- jeulties. Unemployment has been heavy for a long time throughout these coal districts. The bitter mem- ory of the betrayal of their last strike by John L. Lewis during the great struggle of 1922.when he left the miners of thcse districts out of the agreement finally arrived at,. still rankles in the hearts of ‘the miners. The employers, with their threats of {immediate eviction of strikers and | widespread use of gunmen and ter- roristic tactics generally, are making the most drastic efforts to stem the spread of the strike and organiza- tion movement. | “In spite of these difficulties, the | movement is spreading. Its progress | demonstrates. that the miners, har- |rassed by low wages, dangerous working conditions, speed-up systems, robbery through company stores, lack | of checkweighmen, and general auto- eratie control by the operators, are | determined to establish the union and ditions. WORKERS SCORE CAP UNION HEADS \Chicago Milliner Local} | recent memk passed a resolution ch it conde jtional U Pri |who removed the mi |of the Chicago capm: jeause they had carried on a bitter | struggle against the piece-work tem. The resolution of protest w: ried despite the fact that Z sky | himself, together with several other |‘? jtight wing members of the national | ; general executive board, came to the | |road a resolution of endorsement of | | his action. In spite of organizational | | preparations for a favorable result to his proposals, Zaritsky was com- pelled to leave the meeting whipped by the membership, who declared that his action endorsed the lock-out made | by the employers’ association when they demanded the piece-work sys- | tem. tte By Salzburg, the manager of the | Chicago Joint Board, whom Zaritsky jis trying to depose, was accorded a |demonstration by the membership |when he rose to answer Zaritsky’s charges. The meeting stormed with ! applause when he reiterated his accu- sations made in a recent memorandum | to the local of the union, that the right wing in control of the union was definitely planning to remove the pro- gressivo leadership of every militant local in the organization, because they will conduct a bitter struggle against the president’s plans to grant the the piece-work system, rt + = | informs you as-he shifts his cud from Bar Seamen as Rich Call at Sailors ‘Home’ LL seamen were barred from the new wing of the Rockefel- ler-subsidized Seamen’s Church In- stitute, 25 South Street Thursday afternoon when a large delegation of open shoppers and coupon clip- pers had a luncheon to celebrate the opening of the new wing. While*seamen were not allowed to enter, the new building was not empty. Those in attendance in- cluded John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Wil- liam B. Leeds, Mrs. Kermit Roose- velt, Mrs. Arthur Osgood Choaet and many other “friends” of the seamen. To make sure that none of the vulgar seamen got too near to the members of the party, Metropoli- tan and special police formed a line around the building. Many in- dignant seamen who were outside were kept on ihe move by the police. When the luncheon was over, the party left the building by a rear entrance and entered their ex- pensive private cars. SUPPRESS FALL'S GRAFT STATEMENT (Continued from Page One) honest man,” said Fall in one para- graph. * * * More Revelations Foreseen. WASHINGTON, pril 20. — Revel- ations involving further both the dem- ocratic and republican parties are} certain if the Norris resolution to in- vestigate the leasing of government oil lands in the Salt Creek fields of Wyoming is adopted. The Salt Creek field has been term- ed the “richest oil reserve in the| world” and it is generally agreed an| investigation of its leasing would dis- close corruption comparable with that of the Teapot Dome or Elk Hills cases, involving, moreover, the Stan- dard Oil Co. Sen. Norris’ resolution was today being considered by the senate com- mittee in control of contingent ex- penses. OPPOSE FREE TEXTBOOKS. MADISON, Wis., April 20.—A reso- lution favoring the abolition of the free textbook system in its institu- tions was adopted at the biennial meeting of the Association of Wis- consin Teachers’ Colleges. ENTERTAIN FOR MINERS’ RELIEF Fine Program Tonight at Manhattan Lyceum The performance of “The Village Youth” for the benefit of the strik- ing miners by the Dorohitcher Dra- matic Club, originally intended to be presented this evening at the Ukrai- nian Theatre, has been postponed to the evening of May 19, due to the illness of two of the actors and the fact that the theatre’s next available date is May 19. This will mean a much greater at- tendance at the relief concert being given by the Ukrainian Commitiee for Miners Relief tonight at the Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. The well-known Miners’ Troupe of enter- tainers will present their program of mining camp songs, dances, dialogues and accordeon and banjo selections. On the program will also be vocal soloists and piano selections. This is the first affair for miners’ relief to be held by the Ukrainian Committee, recently organized, and all workers are urged to attend. * * * Spring Ball for Miners. The International Spring Ball, to be held at the New Harlem Casino, 116th St. and’ Lenox Avenue, on Sat- urday evening, April 28, for the re- lief of the striking miners, will con- tain many surprises. A contest will be held for the most bizarre costume relating in some manner to the min- ers’ struggle. An orchestra for dapc- ing has been procured by the Harlem Committee for Miners’ Relief, under whose auspices the ball is being held. The charge of admission will be fifty cents. Tickets may be obtained at 101 E. 103d St., the office of the Harlem Committee, or at the Penn.-Ohio Re- lief office, 799 Broadway, room 236.) Seize Five Workers For Distributing ‘‘Daily’’| (Continued from Page One) car was standing before the police station when the police brought the workers in. The city is reported to be in a tumult as a result of the distribution, which was the initial sign of a de- termination on the part of the work- ers to reveal the conditions existing in the huge medical supply plant The workers are on the lookout for reprisals, as the Red Cross company controls practically the entire city of New Brunswick. Greyhounds Will Solve Class Wars LONDON, April 20.—The British ruling class has tried gunboats, tanks and planes as a cure for “an- archy and Communism.” It has even resorted to industrial peace conferences. But the most effec- tive method of keeping ' the work- ing class quiet has been suggested by a body of. sportsmen which vis- ited Home Seretary Sir William Joynson Hicks yesterday. Arguing against the proposal that betting in greyhound races be outlawed, the committee quoted King Alfonso of Spain to the ef- fect that racing is the “greatest cure for anarchy arid Commun- ism.” _ The Labor Party reformists, it is expected, will catch the idea and in the coming elections raise the slogan of “Bigger and better grey- hounds for every starving miner.” MAY DAY BRINGS MINE TABLEAUX Strike To Be Portrayed at “Garden” (Continued from Puge One) May Day in Madison Square Garden by stressing mainly the miners’ struggle, and putting it prominently in the foreground, shows that the workers of New York have a proper lappreciation of the line-up of forces at the present time, according to the relief committee, Songs and Speeches. It is expected that the miners’ tableau alone will bring thousands of workers to Madison Square Garden May First. A four-hour program will be pre- sented on May First. In addition to the tableau there will be the Freiheit Gesangsverein, the combined Lith- uanian Chorus, a number of various red sports organizations and ad- dresses by Scott Nearing, Wm. Z. Foster, Jay Lovestone, Ben Gold, Louis Hyman, J. Borochowitz, Rich- ard Moore, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, and one youth speaker. William W. Wein- stone will be chairman. ALBANY, N. Y., April 20 (FP).— Two children and five women are in- cluded among the 168 workers who were killed on the job in New York during March, says the state labor department. One worker killed was 77 years old. By ROBERT W. DUNN (Fed. Press.) F THE people would only stand by s world would be a pgra- shouts the officical guide at i Mo or Co.’s Highland Park he hustles the visitor through} artments where he is likely the safest and cleanest work he people have got to with Ford,” the same guide to s one cheek to the o.her, and adds, “folks don’t appreciate what he’s done for them. ‘Lhe workers don’t ap- preciate it either?’ When asked to explain what the workers don’t appreciate about St. Henry, the guide is quick to inform you that the workers didn’t appreciate the sociological department formerly operated in the Ford plants. “Mr. Ford knew what was good for the worker,” he shouts. “Just like your mother did when you were a boy. She didn’t feed you beefsteak when you needed milk. * “Ford tried to keep his employes ee these high-priced car men. Blowing all their money into expensive autos and radios and other nonsense. They don’t save.” * ND these are not the only enemies of Ford and his family of em- ployes, says our guide. “Look at these Wall Street financiers and spec- ulators. They don’t give Mr. Ford a square deal in the press. Just like these here Anarchists (he refers io Sacco and Vanzetti) yelling ‘Long Live Anarchy” just before they were electrocuted. We don’t want that kind in this country. We want real 100 per cent Americans like Ford. He started with nothing. Now look what he’s doing for humanity. “If the public could only see this, they’d understand,” he wails. “Look how he’s made work a pleasure. Don’t you think so?” . The guide seems eager to have a young Michigan farmer and myself dee ‘ WORKERS BROWBEATEN IN FORD SHOPS ®: Relentless Speed-up and Spying System are Faced Constantly sick. Ford.” T THE River Rouge Plant, if you are not careful, you will walk in the wrong gate and get a dose of the generosity Ford metes out-to his em- ployes. I came to the wrong gate just as several men who had been out of work a few days were coming back. A policemanly member of the Service Department was doing his stuff. First came a young worker, a tem- perate looking fellow. The Service Department “bull” looked at his card. “Sure you’ve not been on a drunk?”, he roars. The young worker explains he had been sick. “Well, get the hell in there.” * They’re giving their lives to * * Next came a*foreign born worker who struggled with his English. “Where’s your name and address on that card?”, growled the service man. express ourselves. We are his audi- ence on this trip around the plant. “And these men here-working at $5 from taking in too many: roomers. A man would come home from work at night and find his wife flirting with aroomer. Mr. Ford tried to prevent that. But the workers didn’t under- stand, They thought it was spying on them. So he did away with that department. “Now look where the workers are,” he bawled. “Fallen into the hands of \ o% and $6 a day—they’re getting what no union could get them.” Our guide has never heard of a $10 or $12 wage in the building industry. * * * As we leave the building, the young Michigan farmer says: “That’s a hot line that bird has. $5 a day! You couldn’t get me to work there for $100 a week. Those all look “You haven’t got the brains of a pin. Get this fixed.” The foreign born worker moves away, thoroughly crushed, In reply to my question, “Where is the visitor’s entrance?”, the voice of the service “bull” mellowed signifi- cantly. At the administration build- ing—gold, hardwood and shining— the man at the desk gives you a smile that would melt an iceberg. t | photo is of Mrs. Phoebe S. Sinclair, mother of Harry Sinclair. Sinclair, who received the oil reserves, is shown in the extreme right photo. WORKERS’ CENTER TO BUILD “DAILY” Party Units Push Drive for Funds (Continued from Page One) ary movement were also pointed out by Harry Blake, business manager of the “Daily.” “The central location and the improved facilities,” he said, “will enable us to reach greater masses of workers. Union Square, the place where so many working class demonstrations occur, is the place where The DAILY WORKER, the organ of the militant workers, should be.” In the new building the editorial and composing rooms of The DAILY WORKER will be on the third floor, the business and circulation depart- ments on the secogi floor above the Cooperative Restaurant, and the press room in the basement, Party Units Active. Workers Party units throughout the city continue to be active in col- lecting funds in order to have as high totals as possible for the Red Ban- quet, that will be held Friday eve- ning, April 27, in the Workers Cen- ter. , Hundreds of workers are buying tickets for this celebration of the rev- olutionary movement. Tickets are $1.25 and are on sale at 26-28 Union Square and 108 E. 14th St. The board of directors of the Workers Center is also inviting all sympathetic labor organizations to send delegates to the banquet. Among new contributions to the drive for $30,000 to purchase and fi- nance the Workers Center are: 1D 11, $71 in cash, $134 in pledges; 2B 1F, $37 in cash, $108 in pledges; 1AC 1F, $37 cash; Section 7, Branch 4, $33 in cash, $85 in pledges; and 2A 8F, $47 in cash and a $10 pledge from each of the members. JOBLESS TO MEET AT RUTGERS SQ Arrest Homeless Mother for Vagrancy Found wandering in the streets, Mrs. Emily Schott, 19, who said she had no home, was arraigned on a charge of vagrancy before Magis- trate David Hirshfield in Adams Street Court, Brooklyn. She was taken to the Raymond Street jail pending a further investigation of her case. Mrs, Schott, according to police, left her one-year-old baby with Mrs. Philomena Bragine last Tuesday in Brooklyn. When she went back to claim it, she was arrested. She said she was unable to support the child because she could not find work. Cases such as these, occurring daily, only serve to emphasize the seriousness of the unemployment sit- uation. Efforts to organize the un- employed wérkers 6f this city con- tinue under the auspices of the New York Council of the Unemployed. The | council has arranged an open air mass meeting for tomorrow at 1 p. m. speakers will be John Di Santo, sec- retary of the council; George Powers, organizer of the Structural Ironwork- ers’ Union; A Gussakoff, Rose Ches- ter, of the Women’s Committee of the Council; and Henry Bloom, of the Un- employed Council. Bribery, Murder—All in Day’s Work for Klan CHICAGO, April 20. — David C, Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, in his deposition today, told how klansmen tapped telephone wires, bribed tele- graph agents and used other means to attain their ends. Stephenson revealed how paid as- sassins in the klan wore purple robes to distinguish them from ordinary klansmen, and how those engaged in “Kindly wait a few minutes till the [ue and feathering and torturing vic- next party Hehaes AN q tims, were cloaked in black garments, in Rutgers Square. Among the j GRAFT TRIAL OF SINCLAIR |WILLPUBLISH NAMES OF ALL CONTRIBUTORS Three Clubs to Push Celebration The united front of the Jackson- ville Educational Club, Young Peo- ple’s Science Club with the local Workmen’s Circle is utilizing every | energy to make a success of a special May Day celebration in the Florida city. The action of the three southern workers’ societies comes after a long period of inactivity which they declare has now been permanently left be- hind them. A special feature of the May Day celebrations in Jacksonville will be the distribution of the May Day edi- tion of The DAILY WORKER, which is to have a special section devoted ex- clusively to events in that city. A large number of copies of the May Day DAILY WORKER have been ordered from New York and a great effort will be made to dis- tribute them among the workers of Jacksonville. Besides their activity in resurrect- ing the workers’ clubs in Jacksonville, the members of the Workers (Com- munist) Party there have been busy in securing subscriptions for their paper and aiding by contributions to the defense fund. An honor roll con- taining the names of the contributors to the defense fund will be published in the May Day edition of the work- ers’ press, qv The important securing of greet- ings and articles for publication in the May Day DAILY WORKER must be hastened, the Business Office of the paper pointed out in praising the work of the Jacksonville Party mem- bers. The sooner the greetings are received by The DAILY WORKER, the greater will be the saving in pub- lication costs, the office stated. DISARM TROOPERS Tear Bombs Are Used Against Strikers (Continued from Page One) the 1922 struggle, so infamously be- trayed by John Lewis, known here as “the union wrecker.” At a meeting held last night, it was voted to post pickets in every section of the town to warn everyone to keep out of the mines. The pickets stop- ped a few who had failed to heed the first call to strike, Tekd, ee Evict Miners. DUNNINGTON, April 20.—Eight miners here were given ten days no- tice of eviction from the company owned houses because they have gone. on strike. ‘A janitor in the public school whose son attended the Saye- the-Union Conference at Pittsburgh April 1 and 2, was fired from his job by the school board. Miners’ children attending the school are planning a protest strike Sunday. The Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners Re- lief Committee, 611 Penn Ave., is planning a new nation-wide drive for relief. Plans are under way for pro- viding tents for families of miners faced with eviction as a result of their strike activities, Sheriffs and state troopers discov- ered that their reign of terror is fail- ing to stop the rising march of the miners. Cloak Chairmen Hold Meet Today A conference of shop representa- i tives of the cloak and dress factories throughout the city will be held this afternoon in Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave. The conference which is called together by the Committee of Fifty Cloak and Dressmakers, is for the purpose of discussing the present situation in the Cloakmakers’ | Union in view of the coming conven- tion of the International, which will be held in Boston beginning May 7. According to an announcement made yesterday by those in charge of the arrangements for the conference, a meeting as large as the one held several months ago, in which over 1400 shop chairmen participated, will take place today. The conference will decide a course of action to pursue in order to again build up the once pow- erful New York union, now shattered by the war carried on against the militant union leadership by the right wing Sigman controlled International. Expect Bremen Flyers In New York Tuesday QUEBEC, Que., April 20. — That Captain Hermann Koehl, Baron Ehrenfried von Huenefeld and Major James E. Fitzmaurice, the first fliers to span the Atlantic in a westward flight, will reach New, York by Tues- ra of next week, seemed assured: AFTER ATTACK % I eee