The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1928, Page 2

iL DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MON! MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1928 COOPERATIVES, NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL, The special May Day edition of being pushed by the Workers’ Un international branch of the Worke National Students’ Training School. Speaking before the members of the C hel ‘he DAILY WORKER is erative Association, the ‘cooperative House, and the operative Association, A. Ravitch, circulation importance of this.edition of their paper. “Thousands of free subscriptions are being given to the thousands more may soon be needed for Workers’ Unity Co- Pennsylvania miners, DAILY WORKER, urged that all workers realize the particular manager’ of The WORKING FOR THE MAY DAY DAILY WORKER to point out to him the importance of the May Day edition and to Scores of greetings have already been obtained. Students at the National Training School, under the direction the New England textile workers. hind their May Day edition of The DAILY WORKER and make it a success,” Ravitch said. ‘A cothmittee of seven members elected at the Cooperative House is visiting every tenant of the house individually in order The workers must get be- secure greetings. of their leaders, Schaeffer and Lurie, are also visiting labor and fraternal organizations thruout the city in a huge drive to secure greetings for the May Day DAILY WORKER. New York Workers Picket Polish Consulate to Protest Against Mass Arrests SUPPRESSION OF | HROMADAFLAYED | BY LOCAL GROUP Children Join Line of | Marching Workers n to protest trial in Poland} A picket der against t of the s and members of the} White Rus | Party, Hro u y| noon in front of the Polish Consulate Third Ave. and 57th St., under the/ direction of the Polish Fascism. While more than 0 @vorkers marched in front of the building for half an hour, a committee consisting of Martin Abern. istant national secretary Intern 1 Labor De-| fense and H. I. Costrell, Left Wing Workmen’s Cire! anded a letter of} protest to the consul’s secretary with ® request that it be forwarded to! Poland. Committee Against | Police Are Silent | The demonstration started at ex- actly 12 o’clock and altho several| policemen were present, they did not| attempt to break up the picket line. Several minutes before the demonstra- | tion ended, a sergeant and several} Teserves arrived and demanded that no more than 2 workers picket at a time. The workers did not heed the policemen’s req and continued to picket in solid fo tion. children, stration, se-| Several working attracted to the dem eured placards and marched in front} |surrender to their open-shop wage- | | cutting conspriacy. of the line. Some of the placards read: “Sup- | port the White Rt Workers and |} Peasants Party, the Hromada,’! “Down With the Polish Prepa For War Against _ Rus “Break the Pris: ol the Polish W Pr Champions,” “Workers, Put d to Legal Mur- der” and “Down With Pilsudski and the Pol’sh Fascist Government.” Text of Communication The communication given to the consul’s secretary declares: “In the name of liberal and labor opinion, rep: mted by the organiza- tion and individuals in the Committee | Against Polish Fascism, we request you to forward to Premier Pilsudski our vigorous protest against the trial now’ being conducted against the Jeaders and r s of the White Russian Worker Peasants Party, Hromada, in the y of Vilna. To Expose Details “We are fir ermined to make public the real facts of this infamous prosecution and arouse the protest of the broad m: of the workers and progressive-minded people of this country. Demand End of Trial “We demand further that the trial be brought to an immediate end by the release of all the defendants and the reinstatement of the Hromada deputies in the Sejm from which they were illegally removed. We demand} also that all other workers’ an peasants’ parties in Poland be per- mitted to functi on legally and with- and terrorism, a of political pr the dungeons of freed.” High Death Rate Is Found Among Mothers | MONTREAL, April —The lack! of prenatal care wa iven. as the major cause by ph ans here for| the high death rate among mothers) between the ages of 15 and 48. | During one recent year, it was pointed out, 1,532 mothers of the above ages died for causes connected} with childbirth, due to not having proper care. Nails False Charges) Committee has given assistance in food and clothing to thousands upon thousands of union mén, women and children in the states affected by the strike and thus helped the stri ions | to 1d} |the serious consideration of any in- condensed into slogans calculated to raise the fighting efficiency of the | tionalize the Mines,” “Fight the Open TWO CHILDREN DIE WHEN ‘SCHOOL WALL COLLAPSES IN CHICAGO) WOMEN JAILED a os: ‘ i Graft and Waeer occupy io much of the time of Chicane poli tans for them to worry much about such trifles as school repairs. An eight-foot wall surrounding a Chieago school gave way the other day, killing two children and injuring 10 others. The picture on the left shows Nick Walkoff, one of the jeunes children, being carried into an ambulance. MINERS’ RELIEF Sunday School EXPOSES LEWIS £27222 20 Use Scab Musicians The Stuyvesant Division of the Sunday School Union, through Fred C. Fair, marshal, has decided | to use only non-union bands in the anniversary parade this year, it has been learned. The decision to use scab musi- cians exclusively was decided upon when Fair received a communica- tion from the chief marshal of the parade notifying him that each di- vision must either employ all union or non-union musicians. The sky pilot representative is- sued an indignant statement claim- ing that religion does not recognize the difference between workers and parasites, all children being allowed to attend the iat niaat Meh school classes. SHERIFF'S ORDER AGAINST MINERS (Special to The Daily Worker.) PITTSBURGH, April 22.—Clothed in the thinnest legal phrasing, a docu- ment providing for the abrogation of the few civil liberties still left in ri | Pennsylvania, lies on the desk of sirikers. Those slogans are? Win | | Thomas R. Aubrey, sheriff of Fayette the Strike, a ie the cae canted jeounty. The move is planned in con- Picketing,” means ee tage ,|nection with the rising tide of mine ized Miners, Bbocter oe in | strikers which have followed the cal! One N&tional Agreement,’ “Na-|5. the Save-the-Union Committee. |The document will be issued, it | understood, unless state and police succeed in the next few days in breaking down the miners’ ranks. Made by Officials (Continued from Page One) | | strike areas of the | | ing miners defeat the | weapon of starvation which the opera- | tors expected would force them to Since the Pennsylvania - Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee is not a union the charge that it is “Dual” the United Mine Workers of America is obviously not worthy of | telligent union miner. As to the charge that the Pennsyl- vanio-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee issues relief only to those who sub- scribe to its policies we have the fol- lowing reply: The Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Re- lief Committee was organized for the definite purpose of helping the miners win their strike. Stands For Union. Along with the relief went policies Shop,” “Build a Labor Party.” Thousands of strike-breakers have been pulled out of the mines by mass | picketing and so convinced were i rank and file of the miners of the} merit of this policy that they pre-| A total of thirty arrests since Mon- vailed on Patrick Fagan, president of | day, April 16, coupled with the news district five of the United Mine| of the sheriff's yet unpublished proc- Workers of America to lead a crowd} lamation are indications of the policy of pickets on the McLane Mine at} | which will be pursued by, county au- Treveskyn, Pa. in defiance of a sher-| thorities. Sheriff Aubrey himself iff’s proclamation. |could not be reached for a statement The activities of the Pennsylvania| ‘day. The proclamation is under- and Ohio Committee far from de-| Stood to be an almost word for word moralizing the ranks of the strikers | Copy of the one issued by, Sheriff J. has put new life into the strike, and|@. Adams of Fayette county in 1922 to the charge that the coal ope which prohibited the assemblage of s look on our activities three or more persons in any public friendly eyes, we say in reply that | place. numbers of active supporters | eae amar cam EEN RECORD METAL OUTPUT. ion in Mexico during of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Commit have been a ted by state troopers} M. and coal and iron police, while Mr.| 1927 h records. The out- | Lewis’s officials, outside of the ges-| put was greater than previous years ture made by Mr. Fagan at Treves-|in the case of practically all metals | | kyn, have evaded the jails of the coal operators’ sheriffs with remarkable | ——————————————— ous political parties. Its committees thruout the United States have a united-front with all kinds of work- lief Committee is not a Communist | ers’ organizations whose members be- organization, or a socialist organiza-|lieve in various political theories. tion or a republiean organization or | They are all one however in helping a democratic organization. It is a‘ the miners win their strike by provid- workingelass relief organization com-|ing them with adequate relief while posed of sick affiliated with vari- ‘the Sgt dciae is on. success. A Working-Class Organization. The Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Re- ORGANIZERS DESCRIBE MINE TERRORISM Lewis Officialdom Cooperates wit with Coal Employers in in Penn. PITTSBURGH, April 22.—Belated reports of continued terrorism by state troopers and deputy sheriffs) For an hour after the police had@nell, John Switcher, an organizer of ordered the meeting to stop the| the Lewis machine, accompanied the speaker on the rostrum continued his; superintendent of the mine located Many Arrests. j seen i na drunken condition, lying | by George Acker. continue to come in at the headquar-' expose of conditions under which min- ters of the Save-the-Union Commit-| ers worked in the unorganized fields tee as organizers, returning from the| of Pennsylvania, Acker reports that field, bring reports of suppressed] he was threatened with arrest by the meetings and attacks upon picket| state troopers on the morning fol- lines. lowing the meeting if he persisted in Attempts of four state troopers, a} | letting his grounds to the strikers constable and a deputy sheriff to| for mass meetings, break up a mass meeting of striking| Organizers in the pay of the offi- miners at Braznell, Pa., April 17, sue-| cial machine are cooperating openly ceeded only after the officers had| with the coal operators in the unor- threatened violence. The meeting was| ganized fields in an attempt to break held on a farm near the town owned| the strike called by the Save-the- Union Committee April 16, At Braz- —_ there, while the latter made a house- to-house canvass in an effort to per- | suade the strikers to return to work. The men canvassed had all attend- ed the mass meeting which had been | disrupted the evening before. The mine superintendent had taken a posi- tion on a hilltop from which he could observe the meeting and recognize most of the men in attendance. These men are being threatened with every type of discrimination which the company and the state police can exercise. Pia ne si t MINE STRIKERS IN BIG MEETING 350 Delegates Form Executive Committee (Continued from Page One) ganized fields of western Pennsyl- vania, Minerich announced that he, too, was a “non-union,” miner, having read that morning that he was one of several leaders of the Save the Union movement expelled from the United Mine Workers’ Union by John L, Lewis. Minerich pointed out that while Lewis was busily engaged in re- voking charters and expelling mem- bers frgm the union the Save the Union mittee was organizing the non-union miners and strengthening the coal diggers’ army to carry on the strike to a successful conclusion. An executive committee of twenty, which included at least one member from each sub-district in the county- |was elected and went into session im- | mediately following the conference’s adjournment. John Watt, national vice-chairman of the.Save the Union Committee, who arrived here from Springfield, Illinois, two.days ago, reported that the. overwhelming majority of Illin- ois miners are solidly’ behind the Save the Union Committee. “They know that the union is fac- ing a grave danger,” Watt declared. “They know that if miners in Penn- sylvania and Ohio lose, the union is lost. Union officials tell the miners in Illinois that the strike around here is lost, that Illinois must go back to work. But as soon as the officials sign up a mine the rank and file un- der the Save the Union Committee leadership pickets it in great num- bers until it is forced to close down.” When delegates raised the question of the possibility of another betrayal similar to that of 1922, Waitt replied, “We are putting our organization on such a basis that Lewis will not be able to betray it. Remember there is sharp distinction between the United Mine Workers of America and the administration. In every state where there are miners, district and subdis- trict conferences are being called to take the union out. of the hands of the Lewis administration and to place \it into those of rank and file mem- bers. S. C. Nelson, a Negro miner from Kiskiminetas valiey, charged that the union is making scabs of Negroes by |barring them from union controlled mines. “But the Negro miner is walking out of mine together with his white | brother at the cal of the rank and file,” he said. “Only two mines in Kiski valley are still working but they won’t be-in a few days,” he promised, A delegation of thirty children asked Chairman Minerich to permit them to stay “because we are now in the fight too. They fired our janitor, George Previc, because he put up a sign asking miners to strike April 16th and we’re going on strike until he comes back to school,” they declared. ‘“We’ve got picket captains elected and we will picket that school promised, Minerich ruled that boys might stay as fraternal delegates, “since you are strikers tod.” Mother “Ella Reeve Bloor, hotidrary member of the United Mine Workers pointed out that the success of the strike means a happier life, better working conditions for young people preparing for the struggle. “Give them a headstart,” she pleaded. A series of subdistrict conferences to knit together strike commit- tees from each mine into a centralized and not let anybody scab on us,” they | At the right is the scene at the school following the accident. <7 MARRIED SCABS ARE PREFERED IN MINES By ED FALKOWSKI (Federated Press). PITTSBURGH, April 22 (FP).—Along the fringes of the Monongahela | River near the end of Wood St., one reaches the Bowery of the Iron City, ' where doss-houses accommodate hoboes for 25 cents a flop and greasy bean- eries advertise 5-cent lunches. Here one finds windows hedéhie such legends as “Miners Wanted— Ship Today—Strike Conditions.” Dozens of offices whose open door- ways overflow with the humans in search of bread in this smoke-hung city of prosperity are daily shipping scabs to the strike area, “Are you married,”, pops the shrewd-faced agent as he adjusts his spees to stud; y the face of the appli- cant. “Yes,” tthe jobless man answers, whether he is or not. He wants to make sure of a job. “All right. We’ll ship you out to- morrow. You'll try the job for a veek. If you like it, we'll give you a house. We'll ship your furniture from any part of the country to the house. The only thing we require of you is that you keep two single men as boarders with you.” “What's the pay?” “We pay good money. 85 cents a ton. A very good camp. Strikers there, but they won’t bother you. Plenty of protection. Sign up, All right. Be on time. To- morrow, 11 a. m. sharp. Yes, the place is right on the outskirts of Johnstown.” Hundreds of scabs sign up. The parade down the Boulevard of the Allies to the B. & O. station is a reg- ular sight. A stream of Negroes and undersized frowning men are con- lucted by an escort of touts from the employment agency who buy the tic- kets and introduce the men to the camps on their arrival. Two or three helpless-looking men stand on the corner, watching this march of scabs on their way to the mines. They are the official pickets stationed here to admonish the strike- breakers. Failure has stamped itself into their faces. Their words indicate the hope- lessness of their task. In this stream of strikebreakers, continuing day after day to pour itself into the coal camps, is threatened starvation and ruin for the miners in the union barracks. Against the Nicaraguan War Name Collected by: Name ... organization, ‘and mass_ meetings throughout the miter were essing ragged | LEWIS MAKES NEW EXPULSIONS One of Many Gestures’! Against Miners (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Aprill 22.—As re- ports of intensified activity and con- firmations of the spreading of the un- organized strike to all districts are coming into the offices of the Save- the-Union Committee, news is re- ported of a gesture of expulsion of the leaders of the Save-the-Union movement by a decree of the corrupt Lewis machine. Secret Sessions. After a series of meetings behind closed doors at Washington, John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, and his executive board, an- nounced that John Brophy, chairman, John W. Watt, assistant chairman and Pat Toohey, secretary of the Save- the-Union forces had been expelled. With them are included Vincent Kamenovitch, Powers Hapgood, George Papcun, Anthony Minerich and Stanley Dziengielewski, all lead- ers of the movement. While the so-called expulsions have been ordered by Lewis, these are mere gestures, it is known, since the loal unions to which the progressives belong, will refuse to carry out the order of the man who is now known to all as the “union wrecker.” Lewis has used the method of expulsion since 1920, the year he became pres- ident. During all this time the op- position afainst him has continued to grow until it it culminated in the great April 1 conference. Miners Are the Union. The union belongs to the rank and file miners and their honest repre- Strike a Blow for WHILE MARCHING IN PROTEST MOVE Tricked by Trooper and Then Locked Up (Continued from Puge One) The prisoners complained about the food served them and all went on a hunger strike Thursday. Their spiyit is not broken although they are be- hind the bars. They sing songs, give encouragement to those who visit them and say that they will not give up the struggle to save their union. The “Save-the-Union” forces are continually growing. Mass picketing \continues at the mines where scabs are employed. It is an effective weapon, | which the operate fear and are at- tempting to des! The .Save-the-Union forces have ‘ealled upon workers of all trad«s to realize that the attempt of the opera- tors to smash the miners’ union is an attack on organized labor, which if successful, will spread to other in- dustries. “Therefore the miners’ struggle is your struggle,” the state- ment declares. “Other workers can- not come here on the picket lines, but they can help with relief. This is the most vital need at the present mo- ment.” a ae Martial Law Declared. (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. CLAIRSVILLE, O., April 22. |Martial law has been declared here |following the jailing of seventy-five 'women who staged a protest march | against the imprisonment of mine leaders who have been directing pic- keting. demonstrations against the Mutton Hollow Mine at Lansing. Charges of rioting have been filed against the women by thé national guard and local police. Officers are parading the streets armed to the teeth and the whole district has been turned into an armed camp. Warrants have been issued for nearly everyone in Lansing. The protest march by the miners wives arose over the rearrest of Sei- bert, Barto and Betker, three mem- bers of the Save-the-Union forces which have been at the head of the miners’ struggle. Garlin ees Gordon Tomorrow “David Gordon and the Dollar Pa- triots” will be the subject of a talk that will be given by Sender Garlin, a member of the staff of The DAILY WORKER, over Station WEVD at 10:40 p. m. tomorrow. Gordon is now serving a three years’ sentence in the New York County Reformatory for writing the poem “America,” which spoke irre- verently of the land of the free and the home of the brave. The DAILY WORKER, which printed the poem, was fined $500 and is now being threatened with a federal indictment. sentatives, Lewis by his -betrayals has really expelled himself. That his attempts still to speak in the name of the rank and file will hardly be listened to is most certain. 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