The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1928, Page 1

RELIEF COMMITTEE DEMANDS TENTS FOR EVICTED MINERS — THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS; FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No, 96. WORKERS CENTER BANQUET WILL BE HELD AT 26-28 UNION SQUARE — THIS FRIDAY; TO DRAW THRONGS Final Preparations for Red Affair Are Now Being Made by Committee Many New Contributions Received from Workers Party Units and Labor Organizations Preparations are now under way for the “Red Banquet” of the militant workers of New York and vicinity that will be held Friday evening at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square. The banquet will celebrate the establishment of the Workers Center SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. as thefhome of the left wing movement. : Hundreds of workers are expected to be present at this event. Invitations are being extended by the board of directors of*the Center to all sympathetic organ- izations who are asked to send delegations to the banquet. These organizations are asked to postpone all other activities for this date. Leaders of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, prominent trade unionists will speak. They will in- clude Jay Lovestone, William Z. Fos- ter, Bert Wolfe and William W. Weinstone. | To Serve Dinner. \ A full-course meal will be served by Proletcos, it is announced. Decora- tions for the banquet are in charge of Adolf Wolff and Hugo Gellert. Workers are being urged to purchase their tickets at once as only a lim- ited number can be taken care of. The | tickets are on sale at 26-28 Union } Square and 108%E. 14th St. | The banquet will mark the high point of the campaign to raise $30,- v00 to purchase and finance the Workers Center. The sums so far collected will be announced at the banquet and all Workers Party units and other workingelass organizations are intensifying their campaign ac- tivity in order that their totals may be as high as possible. New Contributions. New contributions have come in from a number of Party units, many of whom have contributed before. Section 4, Unit 2, which collected $34 last week, brought in $27 more; Sec- tion 4, Unit A, added $10 to its pre- vious total of $31. Other contribu- tions brought in yesterday were Sec- tion 4, Unit 1, $19; Long Island Sec- tion, $20; Section 7, Branch 3, $30; 2A. 1F, $65 in cash, $80 in pledges; 2E 2F, $87; 2C and 2D, $51; Sec- tion 5, Branch 5, $11. A number of non-Party organiza- tions are also active in the drive. The Jewish Arbeiter Club contributed $50, for its executive committee, while the members gave $50 more. The Hun- garion Workers’ Club contributed $30 in cash and $10 in pledges. Work- men’s Circle, Branch 548, has given $25. All three organizations are lo- cated in the Bronx. TEXTILE WORKERS LAY STRIKE PLANS IN FALL RIVER Fifteen Mills Send Rep- resentatives FALL RIVER, April 22.—Repre- sentatives of fifteen textile mills met to organize a strike committee in preparation for the inevitable walkout of the Fal! River operatives who, like those now out in New Bedford, have received a 10 per cent cut in wages. When the workers here organized into the newly formed Textile Mill Committees and held their first mem- bership meeting, enthusiasm ran high as a strike committee of representa- tives of all mills was formed. Scores of new workers joined the organiza- tion. In addition plans were laid for W. L. Murdock and Fred Beal, lead- ers of the Textile Mill Committees, told of the aims of the organization end declared that the movement of the textile workers for better condi- tions and higher wages could not be stopped. Dues books were given out. Recruiting blanks also were distribut- ed to those present to take back for the workers in the mills who are anx- ious to join. The Fall River workers recently were forced back into the mills when union officials announced that a strike vote had been lost by some eleven votes. Feeling has been high for a strike ever since. Sees here Saturday (Special to The DAILY WORKER) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., April 22. —Mass picketng of the struck tex- tile mills is sure to begin here Mon- day when the workers under the call to realize that this is the only method of showing the bosses their strength and determination. W. E. G. Batty, secretary of the of the Textile Mill Committees begin | Eptered as second-class matter JOHN W. WATT miners. NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1928 THE DAILY WORKER. nt the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1579, White and Colored Mine Leaders Pledge Endvof Race Division Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Associntion, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents SEVENTY-FIVE MINE WOMEN JAILED FOLLOWING PROTEST MARCH AGAINST ARREST OF THREE PICKET. LEADERS National Guard Officer Tricks Them Into Pen, Then Closes Prison Gates Over Three Hundred in March on Mutton Hollow Mine to Save-the-Union (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio, April 22.—Seventy-five women, marching in protest against the arrest of the leaders of the Save- WILLIAM BOYCE William Boyce, Negro mine leader (right), clasping the hand of John W. Watt, chair- man of the recent Save-the-Union conference, in confirmation of the pledge made at the meeting that the progressive forces would fight against all discrimination against Negro PENN- MAKE LABOR, DEFENSE ~-ADS“MAY DAY Realizes Necessity of Great Demonstration Following up its endorsement of the call for the Madison Square Gar den meeting on May Day, the Inter- national Labor Defense, New York district, is energetically assisting in the arrangements for the meeting. A meeting of the city executive authorized the issuance of a call in the name of the International Labor Defense to all workers to support this united front demonstration. Letters have been sent by the dis- trict office of the I. L. D. to all its branches in the city urging the mem- bers to sell tickets. The I. L. D. district has undertakey To’ COMMITTEE RGENT APPEAL PITTSBURGH, April 22—An appeal of the most urgent character was today issued by the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee to the labor movement and to all sympathetic elements for assistance and funds for tents to house thousands of strik- ing miners and their families who have been evicted in the unorganized fields. “There has never been such an ur- gent need,” the appeal states. “Thou- sands of miners have been evicted. They, their families and children, are now living in the fields without shel- ter or food. Tents are needed to house children and women. Food is needed to preserve life in a thousand communities. There never was a more pressing need. Rush funds by wire Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh.” FURRIER APPEAL VERDICT TODAY A decision in the application for permission to appeal in the case of! ra) 4 the nine fur workers convicted in) and special mail to the Pennsylvania- | the responsibility of gelling 50( | Mineola last year is to be handed TO WIN ITALIAN LABOR TO PARTY National Conference Holds 2-Day Session ~ Plans for winning the Italian work- ers for the Communist movement were forwarded at the two-day na- tional conference of the Italian sec- tion of the Workers (Communist) Party held yesterday and Saturday at 108 E. 14th St. Nineteen delegates were present at the conference, representing Italian fractions of the Party from all parts of the country. At the opening ses- sion Saturday morning a presidium was elected consisting of Biacco, Can- della and Osualdo. Markoff Reports. A. Markoff made a report to the conference in the name of the central executive committee of the Party, which was accepted unanimously by the delegates. He pointed out that there are 5,000,000 Italian workers fn this country almost all of whom are employed in basic industries such as mining, steel and building trades. He urged the building of the iriflu- ence of the Party among the Italian masses by the strengthening of the {American Federation of Textile Op- IN LOUISIANA leratives, who has patched up his dif- \ferences with Thomas McMahon, pres- NEW ORLEANS, La., April 22.— ident. of the United Textile Workers, Charged with holding. Johanna La- mau, 18, in virtual slavery for three years, Mrs. Mabel Arico has been found guilty in the criminal district court. The defendant was also charged with excessive brutality, with assault- ing and slugging her employe and knocking out some of her teeth with a hammer. Cases of this sort of peonage are not unusual especially in the far South and in the West. Wage IncreasePromised Post Office Employees WASHINGTON, April 22. — The house post office committee has made a favorable report on the Sproul bill to increase postal employes’ wages for night work. A 10 per cent advance will be paid for services between 6 p. m. and 6 a.m. The bill is urged by the Na- tional Federation of Post Office Clerks and Railway Mail Association. & May First Greetings Should be Turned in| To “Daily” at Once All units of the Workers (Com- munist) Party and fraternal and labor organizations are requested to send in to The DAILY WORK- ER, 33 First St. their May 1 greet- ings and lists that they” have on hand at once. The section contain- ing greetings is already being set Additional expense will be in what is expected to be an ‘out and out betrayal of the strike, especially of the unorganized operatives, has an- nounced his opposition to mass pick- eting. The Textile Mill Committees, which are now seen to be the only guaran- tee against a betrayal, are making all preparations to stimulate picketing. It is believed that the workers will not stand by and see the strike de- feated but if necessary will’take rank and file control themselves to insure victory. Rumors of a spontaneous walkout of the Taunton textile workers have been circulated here. OPEN SHOPPER IS JAILED AS THIEF CHICAGO, April 22.—Robert Tuft, executive secretary of the Open Shop Employers’ Association, which has ®|fought the printing trades unions for many years, has been jailed on a charge of embezzling $25,000 from the association. It is charged that Tuft used this authority to sign |ehecks as a means of defrauding the assocfation over a period of 15 months. Office Workers Lecture The recently organized Office Workers League will hold a lecture tonight at 8 o’clock at the Labor Temple, Second Ave. and 14th St. Theresa Wolfson will speak on “Workers Education.” on a f ‘ tickets at 50 cents each, which it has called upon its membership to sell among the workers. “International Labor Defense, it self a united front organization, re- alizes the necessity of a powerful demonstration for international solid- arity on May Day, at a period when the class struggle, growing ever more acute, will demand more class victims, which will need the protec- tion of the entire working class through its “shield,” the I. L. D.,” Rose Baron, secretary, said last night.! “This calls for all the energies of the working class being mobilized to make of this Madison Square Garden meeting a demonstration which will challenge the oncoming offensive of! the capitalists—a challenge fit to be flung forth on the day of international down this morning by Judge Lehman. The judge will decide whether the; workers will continue on bail pending} Party fractions and work to build up the anti-fascist movement. Greet Italian Party. a new trial or immediately start for] A report was also given by Fran- prison to serve t sentences. |ciseo Coco, secretary of the Italian Defense counsel George Z. Medalie| section. and the assistant district attorney ap- Resolutions were adopted greeting peared before the judge last Saturday the Italian Communist Party for the Medalie pleaded for a new trial’ struggle it is conducting against fas- while Edwards opposed it, and re-|cism, also in commemoration of the quested that the bail of the nine de-| memory of C. E. Ruthenberg, one of fendants be raised from $3,500 each) the founders of the Communist move- to $10,000 each. The: appellate di-| ment of this country and in memory vision upheld their conviction April 14, The defendants are Jack Schneider, Samuel Menscher, Oscar Mileaf, Mar- tin Rosenberg, Joe Katz, George Weiss, A. Franklin and M. Malkin, all sentenced to two and a half to five years, and Otto Lenhart, sen- labor solidarity—May First.” tenced to one and a half years, RELIEF BODY NAILS FALSE CHARGES Penn. Ohio Committee Exposes Lewis Attack Against Miners PITTSBURGH, April statement issued here yesterday by the executive committee of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee over the signatures of Anthony P. Minerich, Chairman and Vincent Kamenovih, Secretary-Treas- urer of the organization, charges made by John L, Lewis, thru the executive board of the United Mine Workers of America, that the Pennsylvania and Ohio Relief Committee was a Com- munist organization and dual to the United Mine Workers of America, were emphatically denied. The state- ment reads: Washington dispatches of April 21st give excerpts a of | 22.—In a|the executive board of the United| Mine Workers of America declaring the the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Re- lief Committee is an organization dual /to the United Mine Workers of America, Communist in character, and is playing into the hands of the non- union operators and only grants relief to striking miners who subscribe to the policies of the committee.” Large Scale Relief. The Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee is a workingclass relief organization formed nine months ago by rank and file delegates from 80 Local Unions in the Alle- gheny Valley, Pennsylvania, and now supplying reliefto approximately 200 of N. Lenin. The conference closed with the elec- tion of a new bureau. The delegates at the conference in. cluded one each from Cleveland, Rochester, Buffalo, California, Chi- cago, Syracuse, Detroit and Boeton. Also two each from Philadelphia and New Jersey and five from New York. Local Unions in Central and Western Pennsylvanuia, Ohio and West Vir- ginia. This organization was formed to supplement the inadequate relief given to the striking miners and their families by the United Mine Workers of America. It appealed to the work- ers and elements sympathetic to the cause of the striking miners thruout the United States for money and clothing for the striking miners and their families to enable them to carry on the strike. Relief For Thousands. During the period of its existence the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief .lars to put in power. -the-Union Committee, were y FOSTER TO SPEAK ON COAL STRIKE AT MEET TONIGHT Latest Developments Will Be Explained The latest developments in the coal strike will be defined tonight by Wil- liam Z. Foster, national secretary of the Trade Union Educational League. He will speak at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. at 8 P.M. under the auspices of the Trade Union Educa- tiona] League. alysis of the coal situation, especially with regard’ to the moving of the further South, and the tactics of the corrupt leadership of the United Mine Workers, Foster will review and analyze the findings of the senate investigating committee, paying spe- cial attention to the testimony of the various coal operators at Washing- "= "“To Expose Lewis Also President John L. Lewis’s plea to the coal operators will receive its due attention; the plea being for the coal operators making some sort of a settlement with him on the ground that he is “the bulwark against radicalism” in the miners’ union, after drawing a lurid picture of the “red menace” which exists in the union. The role played by the govern- ment will be touched upon, especially in the light of President Coolidge’s recommendation that the only solu- tion feasible is gigantic merger of private coal interests; the danger in that being the closer, if possible, and more complete alliance of such a | private trust with the railroad inter- jests, which already are able to de- press coal wages when they wish. | Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board, Fur Workers Union, will also speak, COURT ACQUITS HARRY SINCLAIR Repeats ‘Bye-Bye Black Bird’ Stunt WASHINGTON, April 22.—Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate and slush- funder, quite in the natural course of events, has been acquitted of a charge of conspiracy by a court of the Cool- idge government which he spent so many hundreds of thousands of dol- The government of the republican party has returned a verdict of “not guilty” in favor of the man who donated so lavishly to republican party slush funds. A Consistent Verdict. The verdict of the District of Col- umbia court, rendered Saturday, was consistent in every way with the back- ground of the so-called trial. The background of the Sinclair trial consists in part of the acquittal in De- cember, 1926, of Edward L. Doheny, oil millionaire, of a similar charge of conspiracy and the dropping of the) conspiracy ease against Albert B. Fall, former Harding-Coolidge secre-| tary of the interior. Collected From Both. Fall got $233,000 from Sinclair at} the time the Teapot Dome oil reserve was leased by his department to Sin- clair with the authorization of Presi- dent Harding. He was originally jointly charged with Sinclair. He re- ceived $100,000 from Doheny at the time the government leased the Elk Hills oil reserve to Doheny. Fall too was acquitted with Doheny in 1926 in the trial in which the jury entered into the spirit of the occasion to sing, Besides presenting a complete an- | industry into the unorganized fields} sterday herded into the stuffy, ’Belmoyt County jail and are to be kep® here until next Tuesday under bail of between $1000 and $1500. When five of their leaders were ara rested for heading a picket line im the struggle waged here under the direction of the Save-the-Uniom forces, the women organized a march of protest on the jail. Arriving at the scene they found armed troopers with | rifles surrounding the jail. | Tricks Women. Colonel Don L. Caldwell, of the Na- tional Guard, then invited the women into the jail “to see your leaders,” | After the women had entered, the doors were locked behind them and {they were placed under arrest. | Over 300 men and women partici- |pated in yesterday’s march with the ; women at the lead. After they had been arrested, the troopers rode inta the men’s ranks, trying to disperse them. The picketing and arrests occurred in connection with the strike of the Mutton Hollow Mine. The women were greatly aroused | by the arrest. Sheriff C. C, Hardesty expressed fears that hundreds of miners, enraged at the arrest of their wives, would march on the jail. During the past week, miners and their wives have marched to the mine tree a pod to “Saye-the-Union.” ere is no doubt, t ; ‘ eting will be cea ae er proportions by the miners’ resentment of the brutal treatment of the women. he (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. CLAIRSVILLE, 0. April 22, (By Mail)—Another chapter of the heroic struggle to save their union by the militant mine workers of South- eastern Ohio was written when 87 miners were brought into court te answer to the charges of rioting at Lansing, Ohio. The arrests were made Tue! when over 200 men, women and ¢| dren attempted to picket the Mutton Hollow mine of the Shadyside Coal Co., where scabs are employed. Trouble was started by the sheriff and deputies attempting to break up the picket lines and the miners stood their ground. The women and children ofa fered stubborn resistance, some even matching their strength with the well< fed, well-trained, well equipped strikes breakers masquerading under the name of “protectors of the law.” Mass arrests began and car-load after car-load of pickets were brought to the county jail at St. Clairsville, Arrests were made within a mile radius of the mine and soon the jail was filled to capacity with miners-who were on the picket lines. Scores off women and children were set free be~ cause there was no place to put them, Refuse Bail. The International Labor Defense will fight the cases of those arrested, many of whom were set free on bails Many of the miners, however, refused to be bailed out, saying that they would stay in until they were set free, (Continued on Page Two), MINE STRIKERS © IN BIG. MEETING WHITE VALLEY, Pa., April 22~ Striking miners of Westmoreland County, the heart of the struggle in the unorganized counties of western! Pennsylvania, yesterday took prac-! tical steps to bring the thousands of non-union coal diggers in the co into the ranks of organized labor, when more than 850 representatives of strikers who went out on April 16 in answer to the strike call of the Save the Union Committee met here to elect an executive committee to carry on the work of organization started by the Westmoreland County strike committee. With five mounted state troopers posted at the entrance to Slovan Hall, where the conference was held, and as many in plain clothes in an aute- mobile, with stoolpigeons busily en- gaged in scanning the faces of the delegates, the meeting was called to order by Anthony P. Minerich, gen- eral organizer of the Save the Union “Bye, Bye Blackbird” as it let the (Continued on Page Two) J ‘ two defendants out of the “cage.” remem ees snaronisyanrcars Mibe-sreer gong woumnnrmenne- yr rene erent Ai Committee, in charge of the unor- (Concise on Page Two)