The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1928, Page 2

HOLD BANQUET AT WORKERS CENTER TOMORROW EVE, 300 Organizations To Be Represented (Continued from Page One) will be made by Jay Lovestone, William Z. Fc Bert Wolfe, Will- iam W. Wein - ert Minor, Jack Stach Miller, Juliet Stuart Po Nearing, Ben Gold, J d others. To Serve The gastronc will be in c full course letcos als tributed se $30,000 to tion of the W tions for the ba a ranged by Hugo* Gellert and Adolf Wolff. The banquet will point of the $30,000 Workers Party units th trict 2 are bending t wards making their tot possible for the event. new contributions we: terday: S r $112; 3A 1F, $17; 4, $79; 2A 1F, $10; § 1AC 3F, $60.60; 1AC 4 $40; Night Worker $54.60; and the Workers, $178.30. the high e, and all shout Dis- forts to- high as The following 1, School, Students on Job. The students of the Workers School are working with great enthusiasm in order to raise their quota of $10,000 in the drive. A Japanese student, Ginichi Kito, after himself contribut- ing $10, collected $% group of workers, most of whom were Japanese. Among those who also contributed through Kito was Socrates Sandino, brother of General ustino San- dino, leader of the Nicaraguan army fighting American imperialism. San- dino, who lost his job because of his opposition to Wall Street’s war on Nicaragua, declared that he was con- tributing to the Workers Center . be- eause he felt certain it would be a mighty bulwark against imperialism and against all forms of exploitation. Ben Gold Enthusiastic. The news of the $30,000 drive to establish tke Workers Center has drawn enthusiastic comment from Progressive leaders of the trade union movement in this city. Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board, Furriers’ Union, declared: “The establishment of the Workers Center on Union Square should be welcomed and supported by every militant and class conscious worker. The progressive and class conscious workers of New York have in the past established labor lycoums and large trade union centers. But in- stead of serving as workers’ centers these places became bureaucratic nests where the misleaders of labor have been scheming coonveration with the bosses against the workers. The workers of New York also erected the ten-story ‘Jewish Daily Forward’ building, which has become the center of reaction in the Jewish labor movement. Real Workers Home. “But in the Workers Center on Union Square the New York work- ers will at last have a center of their own. The Workers Center will cen- tralize the activities of the militant workers who are striving to convert the present devitalized unions into living militant instruments of the workers. The thousands of progres- sive and militant workers of New York should rally around the Work- ers Center and draw inspiration and leadership from the various revolu- tionary organizaticns that will be housed there.” Borucho Statement. Joseph Boruch Local 2, Cloak Union, stated y “The building of ers’ center on Un time when the conducting. a most vic against the labor movement. is the best demonstration that nothing can stop our efforts to attain our goal of converting Union Square into the Red Square of New York, tho capi- tol of the Soviet: St f Ameri “Forward to the | movement with gre thusiasm!” Long Been Need George E. Powers Architectural Iron, Bro: tural Workers’ Union, night: “The Workers Center comes’ at just the right time. The forces of progressive labor have neetled for a long time the inspiring and unifying effect which even the idéa of such a center produces and which with ac- tual functioning will be greatly in- tensified. While the labor movement of New York City will he the first to benefit, the valuable influence of the Workers Center will be country-wide in extent. “Surely every active worker will tecognize this opportunity to serve his class by giving full support to the Workers Center! last said es “Leave Me for Somebody Else to Read and Multiply My Power!” —The Daily Worker. 4 -{coal bosses, John L. Lewis, above, ‘|Workers Gain Victories more among aj ‘HOSE STRIKE CASE ng hand in glove with the | Wo corrupt czar of the United Mine Workers of, America, is conniving a scheme of collaboration with the coal barons which would reduce the min- ers to the conditions of chain gangs slaving in the coal fields of the United States. BOSS RUSE FAILS IN FRUIT STRIKE Thruout City } In a wild effort to halt the suc- |cessful strike of the retail fruit store |clerks who are fighting for the rec- lognition of their union, the Retail Fruit, Dairy and Grocery Clerks’ Union, the store owners concentrated jon a single block of Bathgate Ave., Bronx, have placed announcements into their windows declaring that they had settled with their workers. This device, made to fool the work- ing class residents in the neighbor- Kood who refused to go into non-union stores, was made possible by the fact that the dealers on this street had succeeded in obtaining a few scabs, {whom they organized into a company union frankly acknowledged as “Gin- | |gold’s Union.” Gingold is th owner jf one of the stores there. The answer of the striking workers | was to immediately increase the num- | | bers on the picket lines on this street. |The employers, however, had pre- | |pared enough police protection to} jenable the scabs to continue at work. |The police slugged several picket: jand arrested two women sympathiz. {ers, and 18 strikers. They were later allowed out on parole till their trial lin the West Farms Magistrates’ 'Court tomorrow. In the last two days two open air/ meetings were savagely broken up by | ‘charging squads of police and plain | clothes men. One of the largest open | jair meeting ever held by the United | Council of Working Class Women, lwho arranges most of the open air \meetings for the strikers, was dis- persed by police who with swinging | , clubs slugged their way thru a crowd ‘of about 5,000 to the platform, from which they dragged the speakers. | Boris Zibatow, a striker, standing near the platform was beaten up ‘brutally before they placed him under ‘arrest. He was later released on $500 bail till he comes up for trial in the | West, Farms Court. Sol Kent, anoth- ler striker, was also arrested and later fined $5 in the same court for |“disorderly conduct.” | The stream of employers seeking | agreements with the union is increas- jing daily, states an announcement | from strike headquarters, 3690 Third Ave, The union will hold a general |membership meeting Friday evening, lin Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave. 26 ACQUITTED IN Defied Vicious Allen-A Injunction MILWAUKEE, April 25.—A sealed verdict turned in by a federal jury, after the trial of the 26 active strik- ers and union leaders charged with violating a vicious anti-strike injunc- tion, found the defendants not guilty. The American Federation of Full- Fashioned Hosiery Workers, to which the defendants belonged, has been} conducting a bitter struggle against the open-shop Allen-A Hostery Com- pany for many months. The strikers had persistantly re-| fused to abide by the provisions of the} injunction obtained by the employers! from Federal Judge Geiger. Despite its being one of the most drastic; strikebreaking writs ever issued, and| despite importation of armed thugs as seab protectors, the workers are admittedly well on the road to com-} pelling capitulation of the labor-} hating firm, whose operations are completely crippled. BREAK AUTO SPEED RECORD. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., April 23. —A new world’s speed record was set by Ray Keech, Philadelphia driver of the huge White Triplex Special in a sensational run yesterday. Keech bettered the old record of 206.95 es- tablished by Major Malcolm Campbell of England, here in February, by six- tenths of a mile. The huge Triplex averaged 207.5260 miles per hour. Detroit to W s ‘ YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL salhschisi - LATIN - AMERICAN WORKERS WILL BE AT MAY DAY MEET To Protest Rule of Wall Street | (Continued from Page One) ence im the huge demonstration they will voice a protest against wage slavery, race discrimination and in- terference with their national inde- pendence at home. i * * * To Protest Imperialism. H May Day in 1928 comes at a time when, after taking advantage of the general depression which has gripped Europe, to practically make financial dependencies of most of the European countries, the United States itself is in the throes of depression. The United States has ever since the war been the profiteer out of the misery of the workers of Europe. The European capitalists allowed millions of workers and peasants to perish on| battlefields, it destroyed immeasura- ble material value and drove Europe | into a blind alley. Trying to Escape. | The capitalists, in attempting to) escape from this blind alley, drew) upon American capital for the ex- ploitation of European workers, low- ered the standard of life of the work- | ing class and threw into the streets; hundreds of thousands of workers in} all the countries and ruined by taxes | and inflation millions of the urban and rural petty-bourgeoisie. Thus! the capitalist method of ‘reconstruct-| ing” Europe placed intolerable bur-’ dens on the shoulders of the work- ers and became inevitably combined with a consolidation of capitalist dic- tatorship. Imperialism in Latin America. Another source of United States prosperity is its imperialistic ac- tivity in the Latin American coun- tries. By bribery, by trickery, and by military force, the United States is holding in subjection thousands of vorkers and peasants in Latin Amer- jica, while the bourgeoisie is making huge profits out of them. While making semi-colonies out of the war- torn countries of Europe, United States imperialism at the same time consolidated its hold over the whole of the American hemisphere. Raise Slogans. The anti-imperialist slogans which the Workers (Communist) Party has raised in connection with the Madison Square Garden meeting on May Day should rally all militant workers of New York. They are: “Hands off Nicaragua! “Freedom for all colonial peoples from capitalist oppression! “Withdrawn marines from Latin America! “Down ism.” with American imperial- Communists Respond To Strikers’ Appeal (Continued from Page One) grudge this cost. We are only sorry we cannot send more DAILY WORK- ERS. Unfortunately, however, our resources do not permit us to meet the requests of these strikers. We cannot stand the drein any longer. Our readers must continue their sup- port to these strikers. Send a free strikers’ subscription. nk ae Daily Worker, 35 First St., N. Y. City 1 year $12. 6 months $6.3 months $2. Name = ......eeesees teeececevesers Address City Coal Barons Evict Miner; The seven moth- erless ohildren in the accompanying picture were evict- ed from their home by the coal bosses b in Westland, Pa. Thei? father, Vin- cent Sayarski, with the youngest child in his arms, joined the union, the bar- 5 ons charged. These p children and thou- sands more like them as well as their mothers and ) fathers gre now dependent on the Penn-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee for their very lives. Rush funds 611 Penn Pittsburgh. Ave., Ohio Pioneers Speaking Out Against Lash LEVELAND, April 25.—A_ school bulletin protesting against corporal punishment inflicted in the Lincoln High School of this city was recently issued and distributed among the pupils by a Pioneer group of 11 mem- bers. Other objectionable conditions in the school were discussed such the crowded classes, bullying teach- ers and overbearing monitors. The children were called upon to organize and demand the abolition of these evils. * * 2 There was great excitement in school the day the bulletin was dis- tributed. The teachers who were men- tioned by name were furious and the children were delighted. They agreed with the bulletin, appeared very in- terested in the Pioneer organization and' it is expected that there will be at least 25 new Pioneers within an- other week. NEWARK WORKERS. TO HELP MINERS Concert at the Workers Center Saturday NEWARK, N. J., April 25. — A program of unusual interest and variety is promised at the concert for miners’ relief to ba held at the Work- ers Center, 93 Mercer St., Saturday, April 28, at 8 o’clock. x The highlight of the program will be the presentation of the “Miners’ Varieties” in which five striking coal diggers present a varied musical pro- gram, Dancing will follow the pro- gram. All proceeds will go toward the relief of the striking miners of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Ford’s Name is Used in Florida Swindle United States Commissioner Fran- cis O'Neil today issued a federal waz- rant. for the. arrest of F. L. Green- field, believed to be in New York, on a charge of using the mails to de- ud in connection with a land. pro- motion scheme in Hendry and Gladés counties, Fla. It is charged that Greenfield sold stock for the Royal Pz cstate in these counties by el ¢ that Ford Firestone and Edison would start a State rubber planta and thus bénefit buy RELIEF IS PLANNED FOR MILL STRIKE Union Sends Needy to Church Charity (Continued from Page One) daily declarations in the press was merely a desire to halt the recruiting progress le by the Mill Commit- tees. In this they failed,” the com- mittees stated, announcing at the same time their own relief program. Strikers Show Solid Front. This is the establishment of con- nections with a labor relief organiza- tion of national scope. The Mill Com- ittees wero informed that the Work- al Relief will establish city in a few days. The continued unanimity of the ks of the strikers is a brilliant ex- tion of working’ class dstermina- tion, observers agree. Not one work- er has gone back to work. The picket- ing yesterday was successful in fore- ing’a few plants, which had invited the workers to return, to again close their gates. * * * Organizers Arrested. ROSTON, Mass., April 25,—Peter Haglis, Textile Mill Committee organ- izer, and*Louis ne, were arrested this morning at the gates of the Bos- ton Manufacturing Company of Wal- tham. A.10 per cent cut went into effect a few days ago, the dyers re- ceiving an 18 per cent cut. Dissatisfaction with the conditions in the mill is running high. A Mill Committee was organized 2 few days! ago. The arrests were made while the two men were distributing a leaflet issued by the Mill Committee of Wal- tham. The leaflet called for a fight against the wage cut thru the or- ganizetion of the mill committees. Haglis and Blume were released after Haglis established the fact that he was an organizer for the mill com- mitttees. The police warned that further arrests would be made if distribution is carried on without permits, A representative of the mill com- mittee immediately went ta city hall for such a permit and was flatly refused. Organizer Haglis stated that this will by no means stop the organ- ization drive in the Waltham mill. N. Y. Hospitals Jammed New: York’s hospitals are more crowded now than during the great flu epidemic of 1918, asserts Health Commissioner Harris. Every: cot in every public ward is occup.ed and scores are being turned away, except in gravest emergency. STANDARD IN OIL SLUSH FUND PLOT Indiana Chairman Handled Fourth of Continental “Profits” \\ | Gree SES April 25.—Feel- . ing safe as a result of the ac- quittal of Harry Sinclair by a jury in the national capital, Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, has confessed to the Teapot Dome investigating committee of the sen- ate that he received $759,500 in Liberty bonds from the fake Con- tinental Trading ‘Co. created by Sinclair and others to conceal a payment to former Secretary A. B. | Fall, It was from Sinclair’s share of the $3,000,000 accumulated un- der the name of this Continental concern that. the deficit in the re- publican national cofitmittee’s funds was made up in 1923, * ete Stewart Got a Fourth. Stewart testified that H. S. Os- . ler, head of the dummy Continental company, informed him, after the company was formed in the fall of 1921, that he was to get one-fourth of the profits which had been guar- anteed by the Sinclair and Standard ipterests, Standard of Indiana was é one-half owner of the Sinclair , Crude Oil Purchasing Co., which shared half of the deal with the Prairie Oil & Gas Co, The Con- tinental deal provided for accumu- lation of $8,000,000 of profits for no reason which has ever been fur- | nished. It was cancelied asver 92,-| 000,000 had been divided up among the parties. * _* ° According to Stewart, he estab- lished a trust fund which received the bonds from Osler, and coupons clipped and cashed were covered by new bonds. No book account was ever kept, disclosing the existence of the bonds. The trust agreement he drew up_in 1921 provided that he should finally give half of the fund to his own company and half to the Sinclair Crude, in which his company and Sinclair were equal partners, Osler gave him the first lot of bonds in 1922. Coupons were clipped until the Teapot Dome in- vestigation began in 1928, after which no coupons were cut for fear of their discovery by the senate committee. Stewart is under indictment for contempt for refusal to answer questions as to these bonds earlier * in the present inquiry. On April 21, when the Sinclair acquittal was announced, Stewart consulted his board and it was decided that the bonds in his possession should be handed over to the Sinclair Crude. This was not done before! the sen- ate committee had secured evidence that some of the coupons from Con- tinental Liberty bonds had been cashed and put to Stewart’s own bank credit. He was unable to ex- plain how it happened that his own bank account showed deposits from this source, when he claimed he had never profited a dollar from the deal, ‘ Pa ey iohal Chairman Nye brought out the fact that as soon as Albert Fall was named as secretary of the in- terior, in March, 1921, Standard of Indiana bought a half-interest in the Sinclair Pipe Line Co, Sinclair and Standard were to work togeth- | 4 er, ‘ “Cal” Makes Bid for Shoes of A. Lincoln Wasco: D. C., April 25. Presidential spunk has reached its highest point since Calvin Cool- idge left the relative obscurity of the vice-présidency to succeed Warren Gamaliel Harding. For yesterday Coolidge announced his determination to deliver his Memorial Day address this year on Gettysburg’s historic battleground. Fourteen presidents have held of- fice since Lincoln made his Gettys- burg address, and if Calvin carries out his threat of speaking there on May 80, he will be the first to do so since Lincoln. As this probably will be hfs last memorial day address as president, ‘it is not thought out of place to make it at Gettysburgh. Those close to the White House assert that the forthcoming speech will come from the same source as many of the previous ones—the Encyclo- pedia Britannica. New Berry Move for Company Union Scheme (Continued from Page One) ~ near Pressmen’s Home, & printing es- tablishment and other business enter- prises. He has been known to have “appropriated” several hundred thou- (sand dollars from his union and for a number of years the Chicago local |sought to have him convicted in the courts, but was finally induced to drop the case, Strikebreaker. Berry -has broken a number of strikes in New York City and in at least two occasions has cooperated with the New York newspaper pub- lishers in importing scabs to defeat the local membership. He is again a candidate for vice president on the democratic ticket; his sprint in 1924 did not quite bring him to the tape. His chances are con- sidered much better this year and he will make an excellent running mate to-Alk-Smith-who, posing as a “lib- eral,” is also behind practically every anti-labor act and every Tammany in- junction issued against the workers in New York state. IL. D, SUPPORTS SHOE STRIKERS ‘Urges Other Workers to i Aid Fight The New. York Section of the In- ternational Labor Defense, 799 Broad- way, thru its secretary, Rose Baron, yesterday issted a statement pledg- ing support to the strike which the Associated Shoe and Slipper Work- jers of Greater New York haa been conducting td secure union recogni- tion and prevent wage cuts. The. statement follows: “For more than two months we | Associated Shoe and Slipper Work- Jers of: Greater New York has been |fighting heroically against the ef- and worsen working conditions. | Though «weak organizeNionally, the Associated Shoe and Slipper Work- ‘ers has made up in determination jand proletarian fighting spirit for ‘what it has lacked in numbers and ‘power. _ i | “As usual, the police have let their influence be felt on the side of the bosses. Last week 14 striking shoe workers were arrested for no other crime ‘than picketing. Further ar- rests ean be looked for as long as the strike continues. ‘the sttuggles to protect the working class, expresses its solidarity with the striking shoe workers and pledg- es all possible support to their strug- gle. It also appeals to all other militant workers to get behind this fight of the shoe workers and help them ‘win. ~No wage cuts, union rec- ognition, better working for the shoe workers!” preset) Rai Raise Hundreds for ‘Daily’ at May Meet Lewis Does Nothing to the committee, | “The International Labor Defense, | |which is alweys in tha forefront of TO DISTRIBUTE 95,000 COPIES OF LABOR PRESS Dollar Subscriptions Are Vital Concern Twenty-five thousand copies of |The DAILY WORKER will be dis- | tributed free at the monster May |Day meeting at 2.30 p. m., May 6, |in the Arena Garden, Woodward St., {near Hendris, according to a repozt jto the paper from Harry M. Wick the organizer of the Michigan dis- ‘trict. Thousands of workers who are slightly familiar with their English daily press will receive copies of the DAILY WORKER free at this mect- ling. | Hundreds of the new one dollar subscriptions to the paper will be cal- lected at the May Day meet, Wicks’ report continues. The new special one dollar subscription which brings The Daily Worker for two months to every militant American worker en- ables even the neediest workers to subscribe to their fighting paper. The securing of these special one, dollar subscriptions is one of the most important sactivities before the May |Day meeting, Wicks states and every effort is being made and will be made to gather subscriptions to The DAILY WORKER. “We will raise hundreds of dollars for needs of our militant press,” Wicks declares. MILITANTS CALL TO UPHOLSTERERS Urged to Vote for Rank and File Workers (Continued from Page One) time introducing the speed-up during the course of organization. With this. method the boss suc- ceeded to increase the production of union men above that of the former non-union men. This method of speed-up. was not only tolerated but also encouraged by Mr. Wagner as a reward to the boss for tha recog- nition of the union. This is not only true in this’ one imstance but is the general poliey of our officialdom. At the sane time falling in line with this general policy of our official- -dom is included the refusal of ad- mission into the union of the unor- ganized workers, forcing these un- organized workers to lose confidence in organized labor. Brothers, why don’t we force our officialdom to adopt such measures as would organize the unorganizedd workers in the craft. This would enable us to force thhe employer to accept. cur -agreement without. beg- ging for acceptance as our official- dom has done. This would also en- able us to eliminate to a certain ex- tent the competition between ‘the or- ganized and the unorganized shops and to eliminate the numbers of new holsterers which are thrown on the labor market year after year by the non-union employers. Brothers! Because our officialdom are carrying on this stand still pol- icy. does not mean that the bosses are doing the same. The bosses are preparing to fight the union when the next agreement. expires. They will not’ allow themselves to lose their profits because of the compe- tition between the organized and un- | organized shops. | We cannot expect that the present mental changes, as long as they car- ry on their union-breaking policies as follows: (1) Allowing the speed-up system; (2) instead of organizing the unorganized, they organize the bosses; (8) allowing non-union work- ers to scab upon the unions because they refuse to organize them; (4) the change of the expiration clease of the agreement from September to January. Program of Action. (1) Organize the unorganized; (2) forty hour five day week; (3) equal division of work; (4) no discrimina- tion against any members; (5) no discharge of workers in slack times; (6) election of the officials at the union meeting instead of by mail. | This present, form of election is good only for those officials who want to hold their jobs; and (7) support to the labor party movement in order to defend our interests in fighting the injunction, ete, on the political as well as on the economical field. . “By a Member of Local 44.” Call 2nd Youth Meet For Miners’ Relief -A second Youth Conference for Miners’ Relief, at which there will be representatives from several youth ‘organizations in New York, has been called by the Youth Committee for ‘Miners’ Relief, for 1 p. m. this Sun- day at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th Street. The Youth Committee is affiliated with the Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee and has to jdate sent about $3,500 to the ‘officialdom will make any funda- . é a | | | | |