The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1928, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1928 Mass Picketing Campaign Led by Progressives Shuts Down Illinois Mines ANGELO, VOYZEY, GUSHES, JONES, HEAD BIG FIGHT: Women on Picket Line} Display Courage ce Dn ily Worker.) April 28.—The > picket lines. operate in state. Ope been badly c¢ sponding to the under protection of deputies. The four miners Springfield Old West Saturday were immediately released since no charge could be placed against them, They were Joseph Angelo, Secretary of the District Save-the-Union Comrhittee, George Voyzey, Frank Gushes and Roy Jones. The sheriffs evidently had hoped thus to disorganize the picket line by taking the leaders away, but they did not succeed. The numbers returning to work are constantly diminishing; the sheriff’s forces are increasing, but that will hardly produce any coal. Many women appeared on the picket line this morning and showed real militancy. Subsequently they set te work organizing their “Win the} Strike Women’s Club,” elected their | president and secretary and are now| actively working to augment the picket line. Throughout the state the women are organizing to help win the strike. The Staunton sub-district is de- veloping the most excellent fight for the union ever seen in that territory led by the most acti nembers ‘with- in the Save-the-Union movement, Joe Polka of Staunton, Boullard and Ron- ehetti of Wilsonville, Rose of Benld and others. Two mines, the Superior Coal Company mi 0. 2 and 8, have been trying to of The pieket- line during the last two days has increased to 1,900 and 1,200. The coal company itself adm at the work- ing: force is badly ppled and is daily growing smalle There also, the sheriffs forces are increasing. Everywhere the reactionary union machine officials are working hand in glove with the armed forces asking them to protect those who are now tually taking a position of scabbing pon their brother workers. Yet this did not seem to help Joe iCarnella, the president of the Staun- ton sub-district. Twice he “happened” to be hit by flying bricks when his automobile came in the way of the picket line. It is interesting to note that in the past the Illinois Coal Operators asso- | ciation always applied a penalty clause in the case of any member of the association who broke away to sign a separate agreement. Today | this clause has disappeared. Evidently | the operators see their chance in fol- lowing this separate agreement policy of the Lewis-Fishwick machine as mine whistle arrive armed sheriffs and arrested at tt picket line ttempting to| tories in the} every open shop employer has been jcompelled to settle with the union the and fr \of their paper’s May Day edition. few days. A A number of labor and fraternal groups have already responded to this appeal and the Newark and Paterson work- ers declare that they have received many promises. more greetings will probably be received within the next Widespread distribution of the May Day edition of The DAILY WORKER, not only in Newark and Paterson, but thruout the northern New Jersey industrial basin, is being planned for the international labor holiday. The workers thruout New Jersey are eagerly looking for- pected that hundreds of Many to mills, shops and fac’ daily. May Day greetings and \NEWARK, PATERSON, PUSH DRIVE FOR MAY DAY EDITION OF DAILY Two pages of greetings and advertisements from labor ternal organizations in Newark and Paterson for the {special May Day edition of The DAILY WORK to. the enthusiasm with which the northern New Je ers are preparing for the special issue of their Scores of labor and fraternal organizations have been approached in the drive to secure the ads and greetings. special effort has been made to impress upon all these bodies the importance to them of a prominent display in the pages ward to ‘the special edition of their paper and it is ‘ex- copies of’ the paper will be distributed tories where the workers are as yet only slightly familiar with their only militant English labor The Business Office of The DAILY WORKER continues to emphasize the financial saving which the early receipt of advertisements means to The DAILY. Every day makes the immediate teceipt of all May Day ma- terial more imperative, it is poifited out, “Land of Liberty” Denies Them Entrance Three times the hardy German workers, above, too poor to buy their passage from the big steamship companies, have stowed away on Amer- ican ships in an effort to enter the United States. caught again dnd are to be shipped They have been back to Germany by the first boat. FRUIT STRIKERS TO MEET FRIDAY Bosses Conduct Reign of Terror A membership meeting of the Gro- eery, Dairy and Fruit Clerks’ Union will be held Friday night according to an announcement made public yes- terday at the strike headquarters of the organization. The meeting will be held at Stuyvesant Casino, 142] Second Ave., at 8 o’clock, and will) take up for discussion the fruit | clerks general strike, now in its third week. Strike Successful. The strike, which been success- ful despite the reign of terror con- dueted by the open shop employers, their hired thugs and the New York police force is to be continued untill best way to carry out their designs of een eric the union. BiG MILL STRIKE BECOMES BITTER {charge of y ordered Na arre nizer, Harry him was d Brodsky i 9 | Aid Strikers. Women The union has been receiving the} aid of several working women’s or- ganizations, whose open air meetings Widower, 3 Ghildren Get} Mill Committee Aid | (Continued from small children, we strikers to be at the lard St., in immediat The Mil! Committee o 2s im- mediately sent temporary relief to Pa vorted by other | home at 19 Bul-| need of food. near the non-union store owners has done a great deal to compel many fruit bosses to rush to the strike | headquarters at 3690 Third Ave., for } settlements. In addition to aid from the Councils of Workin the strikers have bee by the active participa’ picket lines of Young Workers (Com- | munist) League and the ‘Young: this family. It was found that they had been completely without food since Saturday. Apply For Relicf Permits. An announcement made by the tem-} porary relief committe organized by} the Textile Mill C ees’ strike! committee states tha cations for| permits to collect relief have Already | been requested from the city au-| thorities in Lawrence, Lowell, Provi- dence and all other textile centers in| New England. These plans have been} made in addition to the country-wide campaign contemplated by the Work-| ers’ International Relief. The reac- tionary officialdom of the Textile} Council here is taking no direct steps} to prepare relief for the 23,000 unor-| ganized among the total of 30, 000 strikers. The Textile Mill Committees have condemned the union officialdom for believing the declarations of the mill owners’ association that they intend to keep the plants shut because they have plenty of stock on hand. The bureaucrats have used this a a pre- text for refusing to organize for reg- ular picketing. The Textile Mill Committees have also announced that they have opened new headquarters, the old ones on Puchase Street being too small. The new headquarters at First and Potomska Streets are at the South end in the heart of the mill area. As soon as suitable quarters are avail- able, the Mill Committees will also Pioneers of America, a Communist children’s organization. Flood Bill Fought WASHINGTON, April 23.—Presi- | dent Coolidge served an ultimatum | on congress today that he would veto the Jones-Reid $325,000,000 flood con- trol bill unless it is modified to meet is demands for a heavier contribu- ion by the affected states. ——— | open headquarters in the other mill area, the North End of New Bedford. eee Relief Urgent. “The necessity for immediate relief work is of the greatest importance in| New Bedford if the extending textile strike there is to be successful. The Workers’ International Relief will do its utmost to enable the 30,000 strik- ers to fight on until victory is as- sured.” This is the statement of Fred Biedenkapp, national secretary of the Workers’ International Relief, just re- turned from the scene of activities in the New England mill town where one of the greatest struggles in the textile industry is under way. Biedenkapp conferred with the members of the action committee of the Textile Mill Committee, and the relief machinery of the W. L. R. will swing into action within the next few | until I had re \Flood Holds Tunney Tells Why He Adores W. Shakespeare NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 23, —William Shakespeare was ac- corded recognition here today by James Joseph Tunney, world’s heavyweight boxing champion, otherwise known as Gene Tunney. The world’s heavyweight cham- pion, addressing classes from the School of Literature of Yale Uni- versity, to the number of four hundred persons, spoke for forty- five minutes on the Bard of Avon and in the end conceded that, by and large, he was quite a bard, “The first book of Shakespeare’s T ever read was ‘A Winter's Tale,’” the muscular young literary scholar declared. “Although I had long been an admirer of Shake- speare, this was the first oppor- tunity I had to read him.” Regarding “A Winter’s Tale,” confessed he read it once to understand it. “I read then again and again, d it thru 12 times. Then, and only then, did its full import dawn upon me.” The boxer was introduced by Prof. William Lyon Phelps, who earns a lot of pin money week-end lecturing to women’s clubs various aspects of life for $100 a throw. but fail it in ag: up Trains in Florida DEFUNIAK SPRID —Great damage o a itory in West Florida and South Alabama was caused by the terrific rains that fell Sunda}’ and Sunday night, according to more detailed re ports today. The business section of Brewton, |Ala., was flooded, and Louisville & Nashville trains were held here all day cause of washouts east of Ponce de Leon. No trains came from the North into Flomaton since Sun- nahh noon. (Federated Press). HREE senior students have handed their resignations to Pres. Atwood of Clark University, Worcester, Mass. One of the three was president of the student body, eatcher on the varsity baseball team and literary editor of the Clark Monthly. The second was president of the debating society and leading actor of the dramatic society. The third was chairman of the college Liberal Club, member of the athletic council and of the editorial steff of the Clark Monthly. The students resigned in protest against Pres. Atwood’s expulsion of several student editors of the days. he said. Clark Monthly when he and the edi- ” on | By SCOTT NEARING, ' “LEGAL” TERROR RULES AS MINE STRIKE SPREADS Hospitals Full, HOMES Desolate (Coutinued from Page One) rickstown, Washington County, met four constabulary police under Ser- geant Price. He ordered them to dis- perse and while they were doing so his men beat them up. Forty others were arrested and 25 of them sen- tenced to $10 fine or 10 days in jail. At a farcical trial these miners who had no defense, all chose the ten days. Later. Attorney Duggan © obtained their release on bail. Ride Down Miners. Speakers on their way to a mass meeting scheduled at Herminite, Pa., Saturday were stopped by constabu- lary police and ordered to turn their car back, The meeting was held nevertheless and in an enthusiastic spirit. After the meeting, when the lice appeared suddenly and for no apparent reason Slugged the strikers right and left. There is no report of the total injured yet. Joseph Magliacano, an organizer for the Save-the-Union forces was ar- rested Tuesday afternoon near Graces Landing. The organizer was offered the alternative of promising to avoid Fayette county or of facing charges of inciting to riot and unlawful as- semblage. When he refused to answer questions directed at him by the four state troopers under the command of Corporal Dodson, Magliacano was severely beaten. Order Miners toe Disperse. Magliacano was taken into custody while he and a group of about 20 miners were walking to Masontown. The miners were ordered to disperse and the organizer and John Rosnick of Point Marion were forced into the patrol auto of the state police. Ros- nick, who witnessed the beating ad- ministered to his companion, was re- leased after the troopers had admon- ished him to “get the hell home and stay there.” Rosnick was threatened with immediate arrest if he was found in Masontown or the vicinity toward which he was walking when arrested Magliacano was to appear for pre- liminary arraignment in Masontown late this afternoon. He is at liberty on $1,000 bail. His defense is under the direction of the International La- bor Defense. Magliacano’s arrest marked a high point in a week of persecutions of Save-the-Union representatives. The campaign began with the arrest of Isaac Hawkins, a Negro, at Cardale, near Republic last Sunday. A charge of malicious mischief was lodged against him after he had been taken | into custody by two deputies whose | tactics of intimidation were directed at the disruption of a mass meeting at which Hawkins was present. Ap-! proaching a group in which Hawkins | was standing, the-two deputies four- | ished blackjacks and commanded; |“Come with us, nigger.” Hawkins obeyed and was ordered into an auto, ri|| He was kept incommunicado for five hours in the Brownsville, Pa. jail | The charge against him was later dis- missed by Squire Virgil Trotter of Brownsville. Twenty-five pickets who were ar- rested at Fredericktown were the first to be arrested in Fayette county en masse since the beginning of the April 16 strike. That drastic meas- ures against mass picketing will con- tinue was clearly evidenced today by the revelation of a prepared emer- gency proclamation, STUDENTS QUIT; PROTEST DESPOTISM Resign Afler Clash With Dollar Controlled College Head {ister the oath of office. torial board clashed over the publi- cation of a story in the monthly. Another couple of months and they would have had their diplomas. Could not the issue have waited? * * 0. Social forces do not wait for college commencements. Many a student left his college work un- finished when the United States entered the war in April, 1917. These three young men have found themselves in a war where college diplomas are far less important than the voicing of student pro- test against academic autocracy. A minority of American college students, gradually awakening to the bitter struggles that lie in the immediate future, are demanding a miners were on their way home, po- |— Capitalists Seek Spoils of War They Sank they lost when the steamships Egyp' the picture beside him. N. Y. CHILDREN 10 CELEBRATE MAY 1 “Out of School on May Day,” Is Slogan “Out of School on May Day” is the | slogan raised by the Children’s Con- | ference on May Day for all working | class children of New York. Ten thousand leaflets proclaiming this | slogan and explaining the signifi- cance of May Day will be distributed | among the school children this week. | Six open air meetings have been ar-' ranged to call upon working class | parents to keep the children home for the celebration of this interna-| tional labor holiday. The necessity for drawing the “chil- | dren into the celebration was brought | out in two statements issued yester- | day endorsing the activity jof the | children’s committee. The striking, fruit clerks issued one and United) |Council of Workingclass Women the} other. City Payroll yroll Padding | Cheats Unemployed | (Continued from Page One) | to jobless and hungry men. The “surveys” on unemployment! made by officials on instruction from, Mayor Walker and Gov. Al Smith} quite naturally did not contain this’ information. i * WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23.— Charging that Secretary af Labor Davis had “misconstrued” the report of the commissioner of labor statis- ities, Sen. Robert A. Wagner of New ‘York, in a speech in the senate, has declared that the number of unem- ployed in the United States is nearly | 6,000,000. Sen. Wagner asserted that the un-! employment figure of 1,874,050 given: by Secretary Davis had been submit- ted by Commissioner of Labor Sta- tisties Stewart merely as the shrink- age in the national industrial payrol! between 1925 and 1928. After 7 Years CHICAGO, April 23.—After 7 years without conventions the Journeymen Tailors International Union. will meet in Chicago, Aug. 6. The membership is now a third less than at the last convention. * hearing for their views. » College presidents may protest * these demands. They may use the academic ax, expelling right and left.. Pres. Atwood represents the” local business interests of Worces- ° ter. He and the) are of one breed» with Gov. Fuller and Judge Thayer. Atwood as the representative of the Worcester manufacturing in-~ _terests has introduced expulsions and resignations into the Clark course of Meudy.," * 'T is well. Vicia, such a course the® intelligent students at Clark will learn more than from a dozen full term academic courses in constitu- tional history, political science or economics, The capitalists are willing to let H. L. Bowdoin, at left above, take any chances he likes if he will recover for them the $16,000,000 in gold t and Lusitania were sunk in their late war. Bowdoin’s diving suit which weighs half a ton, is shown in Vacations in Order in Oil Investigation WACRINGION; April 28. — An- other principal in the oil slush | fund inquiry is now taking a vaca- tion; He is Harry F. Sinclair, oil | magnate, acquitted by a govern- met court in the District of Col- umbia Saturday of a charge of con- spiracy in the Teapot Dome lease case. Sinclair is celebrating his acquit- tal with friends on his Rancocos farm in New Jersey. Albert B. Fall, former Harding- Coolidge secretary of the interior, has been on a vacation in California ever since the government decided not to try him with Sinclair, a is eae oil men, including O’Neill and Blackmer, have long been vacationing in Europe to avoid. tes- | tifying before the senate public ~ lands committee investigating the Teapot Dome lease. The senate committee itself was | more or. less on a vacation today, in the face of proposals that it in- vestigate the leasing of the Salt Creel oil reserve in Wyoming to a Standard Oil Co. subsidiary. The senators think it might be some- what unhealthy to step on the toes of Standard Oil. The Standard Oil Co. was willing enough: that the younger oil group,\ represented by Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny, be. investigated, particularly when this younger group began to grab off too many valuable concessions through the bribery of cabinet members threatening its. own flan telat IR “TIGER” TO WAGE: FIGHT ON PATTEN Tammany “Hall Out to Capture Queens A vigorous fight against the newly chosen borough president of Queens, Bernard M. Patten, wiil be made in the forthcoming primaries by Tam- many Hall, it became known yester- "| day. Patten was selected to succeed Maurice E, Connolly who resigned |” under fire during the investigation of the $29,500,000 sewer graft in Queens. So bitter was Tammany Hall against his selection that Mayor James. J. Walker refused to -admin- The Tammany machine had hoped, with the ouster of Connolly, to be- come the beneficiary of the personal machine which the latter had built up during the past sixteen years. Garrett W. Cotter, a U. S. Com- missioner. has been picked to make the fight in the primaries by Tammany Hall. Defeat in the Queens primaries would be extremely costly Ito Tammany Hall, it is pointed out, inasmuch as it would threaten its _|rule throughout the entire city. MINE OWNER PAYS SCHOOL. LA PAZ, Bolivia, April 23—The | m English Catholic College at Cocha- bamba has been subsidized by Simon Patino, millionaire owner and head of the huge Patino silver interests. LOVESTONE AND FOSTER ENDORSE WORKERS CENTER “Red Banquet” to Mark Formal Opening (Continued from Page One) ganization fighting for the interests of the workingclass. All support to the Workers Center in Union Square!” “Red Banquet” Progressing With many tickets already sold, plans for the Red Banquet that will be held at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, iriday evening are shaping themselves towards maxing the banquet one of the most memor- able workingclass celebrations of re- cent years. Hundreds of workers throughout New York City and vicin- ity are preparing to attend this event <| which will officially celebrate the acquisition of the Workers Vener as the home of the revolutionary move- ment of this city. Prominent Speakers. After a full-course meal, which will be served by Proletcos, there will be speeches by leaders of the Workers (Communist) Party, leaders of trade unions and others prominent in work- ingclass activities. The decor-tions for the banquet are being designed by Hugo Gellert and Adolf Wolff. The drive for $80,000 to purchase and finance the Workers Center is now proceeding at full force, though some séctions arid units are lagging behind.. The Board of Directors of the Workers Center point out the necéssity of evéry member of the Workers- Party and every class conscious worker doing his utmost to rase the requred sum. New contributions are coming in constantly from various units, with the Bronx still showing the way. Section 5, Branch 5, turned in $20 yesterday and is continuing to col- | lect. Among other néw contribu- tions are: Section 6, $35. 505 Yonkers Section, $34 in cash, $180 in pledges; Section 3, $108; 2F-1S, $9; 2F-3S, ae 2F- 28, $9; 3E-2F, $5; 2A-6F, Contributions are also being re- ceived from non-party workers. Among these are $2.50 from Minnie Rosenbloom, $15 from Mary Tarow- sky and ari anonymous contribution of $50, which was collected by F. B., a member of the Workers Party. DUAL CAP UNION RIGHT WING AIM Attempt to Start Fake Boston Local Fails BOSTON, Mass., April 23.—The war on all progressive forces in the International Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers’ Union, which was recently started when the right wing general executive board of the union removed the militant leadership of the Chicago capmakers’ strike, has spread to the Capmakers’ Union of this city... The right wingers have been making repeated attempts to break up union meetings held here. The cooly thought-out union wreck- ing plans of the followers of the right wing president, Max Zaritsky, have already resulted in an attempt of the tight wing clique to establish a dual union here when their plans to break up union meetings met with failure. Right Wing Sabotage When the special elections recently held here at the order of Zaritsky re- sulted in the re-election of the militant jleadership by a®larger majority than they had at the previous polls which were declared void by the right wing, the bureaucrats became frantic in their efforts to oust the progressives from control. The right wingers here, miserably small in numbers, de- cided to make up for lack of follow- ers by an abundance of noise. They came to meetings and sabotaged the proceedings by refusing to let busi- ness proceed.. At the last union meeting they capped the climax to their disturb- ance by an attempt to seize control of the chairman’s platform. Know- ing that their courage is fed by the endorsement of their action by the general executive board; and desiring to prevent violence at the meeting, the chairman ordered adjournment. Hold Own Meeting - The right wing disturbers then walked out of the hall with their followers -and declared that they would hold their own meeting. This they did, it was later learned. In addition, they elected a new set of officers for the local, declaring in the meantime that théy had the back- ing of the employers and the national union. officialdom. They also an- nounced their intention of collecting dues for what they claimed to be the Heat recognized by the national of- ‘ice, The leaders of the Boston Cap- makers’ Union have as yet fiot an- nounced their plans for a struggle against the designs of the right wing, but that decisive steps are con- certain, seepiaced seems