The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: | FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOr A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 100. T Ee SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. a Eatered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. X., under the act of March 3, 1879, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1928 DAILY WORKER. { Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Sireet, New York, N. ¥. mex, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents “RED BANQUET” TONIGHT AT NEW WORKERS CENTER Many | Labor Organizations Will Attend May I ) 1 Demonstration En Masse COMMUNIST CONVENTION FOR 1928 CAMPAIGN MANY DELEGATES TO PICK TICKET, ADOPT PLATFORM Class Struggle Keynote | of Red Election Drive A monster National Nominating Convention for the purpose of select- | ing the Party’s presidential and ice- | presidential candidates for participa- tion in the 1928 election will open in New York City on May 25, according to an announcement of the Natio Office of the Workers (Communist) Party todey. Hundreds of delegates | from all of the 48 states will assemble in the big auditorium not only to nom- |} inate the Party’s presidential and} vice-presidential candidates for the) 1928 campaign but to celebrate the rowth in strength of their Party which is indicated by the convocation ef its first National Nominating Convention. Vital issues of the class struggle in the United States today, the min- ers’ strike, the struggle in the tex- tile industry, the unemployment situ- ation, the enslavement of the Latin- American masses by Wall Street op- erating thru the United States ma- rines, and the complete abandonment of even the pretense of class strug- _gle by the traitorous. Peibliensey. give to the first National Convention .of the Workers Party’ an unusual significance and a deeply militant purpose, Hundreds to Attend. From 200 to 300 delegates will at- tend this historic convention, not only from the Workers Party in all the states of the union, but from trade union and*fraternal organiza- tions. From the striking miners and the textile strikers will come impres- sive fraternal delegations. The’ convention will open with a monster mass meeting during which speakers of national prominence will address the workers in anticipation of the biggest electoral campaign: the Workers Party has evér waged in the - United States. For weeks orranizers have been in the field preparing the ground for (Continued on Page Two) HOLD MINERS’ BALL TOMORROW Hundreds "Expected at} Harlem Casino | Hundreds of ivaer York workers | will support the struggle of the strik- ing miners of Pennsylvania and Ohio by attending the International Spring Ball to bd held tomorrow night at the New Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave. The high-light of the evening will be the appearance of the Internation- al Miners’ Entertainment Troupe who will present a highly original pro- gram. Moxie Krempassky will pre- sent a lively burlesque on modern in- terpretative dancing, and Casey Renat, a member of the Miners’ Trio, will render several numbers on his accordian, Music for dancing will ‘te furnished by a high class jazz orchestra, it is announced, Admission is 50 ‘cents. Tickets can be obtained at the head- quarters of the Harlem Relief Com- mittee, 101 E, 18rd St., or at the Pennsylvania-Ohio’ Miners’ — Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, Room 36. -" May Day ly to Have 8 y Daly io For the first time in the history | of the paper, the May Day edition of The DAILY WORKER will con- ast of eight-column pages, it has beeri announced. All readers and sympathizers with the paper are urged to order the May Day issue of The DAILY WORKER from their newsdealer Hs advance. | the famous V rto be held at Old Forge Sunday in |Papeun, secretary of the Tri-District courage. 'The Sunshine Falls on Fall; | “Oil Is Well” (Special to The Daily Worker) ASADENA, CAL., APR. 26.—The fair weather publicity agents of this region are making ,great claims |for the California climate on the strength of the fact that the health of Albert’ B. Fall is reported picked up considerably out here. Sar Fall is the hardy son of Texas who, | as secretary of the interior under} President Harding, received $233,000 from Harry F. Sinclair at the time of the Teapot Dome oil reserve lease and $100,000 from Edward L. Doheny at the time of the Elk Hills oil re- serve lease. His health was not bad when he got the Sinclair bonds and when Doheny sent him his cash in “little black satchel.” It didn’t begin to go bad on him until the democratic party began to object to Fall and the other republicans get- ting so prosperous. ' eit eae HEN Fall was indicted in one ease with Doheny and in another case with Sinclair he began to feel quite run down, however. He com-| plained of pains in the chest and fall-| ing arches and showed a disposition’ * (Continued on Page Two) MINERS. RALLY.AN- BONITA DEFENSE Stage Big Mass Meeting Sunday (Special to The Daily Worker) WILKES-BARRE, April 26.—OCon- siderable interest and feeljng is be- ing manifested in the mass meeting protest against the verdict in the case of Sam Bonita, innocent young mine Jeader and president of local 1703, who was sentenced to from 6 to 12 years imprisonment at hard labor. The meeting which is being called under the auspices of the Bonita- Moleski-Mendola Defense Committee, it is expected, will prove a rallying point of protest and action to secure the freedom of Bonita from the class rdict of the operator-controlled judge McLean. Among the speakers will be Stan- ley Dziengielewski, secretary of the Defense Committee, Charles Licata, recording secretary of ‘local 1703, James Lamarea, General -Grievance Committee Local 1703 and George Save-The-Union Committee. Thousands to Attend Admission is free and thousands of coal diggers from all sections pf the anthracite who have been aroused over the verdict and who understand the issues involved are expected to NEEDLE. TRADES, CARPENTER UNION, ENDORSE MEET Mine Tableau, Sports , Exhibit Featured organizations-is~being given in con- nection with:preparations for the May 1st. meeting in Madison Square Gar- den, arranged by the Workers (Com- fnunist) Party in cooperation with many labor organizations. Carpenters’ dorsed the meeting as its official May Day meeting, and bought fifty dollars worth of tickets, it was learn- ed yesterday. An endorsement has -also ‘reached the Party office from | the Esperanta Laborularo, “a group | of class conscious workers who are peranto in the service of the work- ing class.” Miners’ Tableaux. | The organizations participating in |the May Day meeting have assumed {responsibility for not only getting | their members to attend but of mak- ing it a demonstration of labor soli- darity and showing the vitality and fighting spirit that exists in the workers’ organizations. that are dedi- to the idea of the class struggle. “Miners? Relief Committee has arranged a tableau depicting the min- ers’ life and their struggle to save their union. The needle trades work- ers are preparing to use the May Day meeting as a great rally in prepara- tion for their convention in Boston on May 7, The International Labor Defense is mobilizing its branches’ to share in the meeting which will pro- test against the white terror in the capitalist European countries and against the arrests -and brutalities of the police in the coal mining regions. Negroes to Join. The American Negro Labor Con- gress has called upon the Negro workers to join with the white work- ers and a special call to Negro work- ers is being distribyted announcing the meeting. The Lithuanian ae organiza- tions will be represented through the combined Lithuanian choruses and the (Continued on Page Two) PITTSTON MINERS ON STRIKE AGAIN Local 1703 3 Goes Out to Protect Men (Special To The Daily Worker) PITTSTON, April 26—Local 1703 miners are again out on strike. Re- turning this morning to colliery 6 of attend. The meeting Sunday will be held at Columbia Hall; Old Forge, 2:30 P. M. AND MILLIONS DON’T EAT. A twenty-six million dollar mellon is to be eut for stockholders of the Chase National Bank, it has been an- nounced by Albert H. Wiggin, chair- man of the board. the Pennsylvania Coal. Company in accorance with their recent vote to go back to work the miners were met with the refusal by the company to take back James Lamarea, docking boss, and Frank McGarry, check weighman of the local. The excuse given by the company for its refusal was that the two (Continued on Page Two) ‘DAILY’ MAKES CONTACTS DAILY WORKER, Dear Sir: I ama nittking to miner please send me your daily worker paper? * * * Here is a simple and yet most elo- quent appeal from a striker. We feel that any further comment is super- fluous. Just one thing, however: Mine Striker | Wants His Militant Paper aaa out of work for a year. Will you Yours truly, P.L, {mized in his simple request, “Please send me the DAILY’ WORKER paper.” We ask our seadiers to make it pos- Cooperation from many workers’ Loeal 2090 has en-| using the international language Es-| lot of the toiling m: These Textile Strikers Helped Silence 50,000 Looms in New Bedford | | Part cf the 30,000 textile wor goods mills. organization. kers in New Bedford, Mass., ? RED LABOR INT'L, IN MAY DAY CALL Points to New Offensive Against Workers (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 26.—The Red In- ternational of Labor Unions has is- sued the following May First mani- festo: “May Day should be militancy day. The industrial magnates of all coun- tries have inaugurated a new ex- tended offensive against the op- pressed classes. To ensure the con- tinued existence of the capitalist sys- | tem of exploitation, the employers must force down the living standards of the workers to the lowest possible limit. In the last few years workers have everywhere been deprived of the eight-hour ‘day, . Everywhere real wages have been reduced, labor pro- tection diminished and the labor ergy.of workers drained without re. serve by industrial rationa Poverty, dis life are becomi Unemployment Grows. “At the same time there is growing unemployment in England, Germany America and elsewhere. Millions of unemployed are the victims of the capitalist offensive. The whole capi- talist system is becoming a mighty chain and brake, permitting no free development. “Fascism has been established in numerous countries as a system for the continuous oppression of the working class. The rights of the working class have been abolished. Trade union and pbdlitical organiza- tions have been smashed. “At the same time the predatory bourgeoisie of the United States which is waging war in Nicaragua of- fers ‘everlasting peace’ to the great powers to gain time for a joint at- tack against the Soviet Union which has long been under preparation by the British bourgeoisie. 7-Hour Day In U. S. 8, R. “Furthermore the seven-hour day has been introduced in that country. Why? Because the proletariat of the Soviet Union has smashed and driven Here is a worker who for one year |Sible for this worker to receive The out the exploiters. That is why the has been facing the forces of reac- tion and brutality. He has suffered betrayal and starvation. One year of pain and Anguish. One year of dis- couragement and disillusionment. Now, he has found something ferent. Now he has found renewed Now he has found anew hope, a new vision. It is all epito- | DAILY WORKER. Send us a free | subscription to a striker. .Name (abe see City asses One Mear $6 Six months $3 “ _ Two Months $1 hatred of all enemies of the prole- tariat—of capitalists and their allies is so acute against the rule of the Soviets; that is why they are threat- ening the Soviets with boycott and war. “How the capitalists. have been able to take up such a policy can be (Continued on Page Three) Le kan BEAT UP WCMAN | MINE PICKET PITTSBURGH, PA., APRIL, 26. Five state troopers viciously slug- ged Mrs. Mary Marinelli near the Slickville mine. in Westmoreland County, Pa. Her thirteen-year-old daughter rushed to her defense with a shotgun. A young woman who hap- pened to pass by remonstrated with the police and was also clubbed. This militant wife of a striking miner, who was also badly beaten on the picket line on the preceding day, is now confined to her bed covered with bruises on both legs. The operators, alarmed by the spread of the strike in the non-union fields, have had po- lice throw a dead-line acros$ the road from five to seven A. M., as miners go to work, in order to stop the march of mass pickets upon the |mines. Yesterday morning, when {pickets made an attempt to break through the line, police charged upon |them with clubs before Mrs. Mari- nelli’s house. From her perch she protested: “Don’t bang his . head; you'll split it open!” Brave Cop! A policeman ordered her to go into the house. When she didn’t move, “|he jumped upon her and swung his club over her shoulders. The coal r’s wife grabbed the club from | and fought off him and other roopers who came to his assistance. |Soon all five troopers rushed into the fray, viciously striking her on the head, back and legs untii ner | daughter rushed out with a shotgun. Help Starving Miners! Despite beatings, non-union miners, | have been arrested since that date, but the 20,000 striking coal diggers they declare even if twice as many (Continued on Page Two) will not lessen their strike activities \also annobtice that they. expect funds who struck at the call of the Save-| | Tansey, who is also head of the Tex- the-Union committee April 16th, are |tile Council of the American Federa- marching upon the mines, closing |tion of Textile operatives in Fall them down. More than 150 pickets |River, refused to permit another whose 100 per cent walkout against a wage cut 11 days ago, stopped over 50,000 looms, and compelled the immediate closing of the gates in 58 fine cotton They are rapidly forming into Textile Mill Committees, the only effective form of mill workers’ TEXTILE STRIKE NOW SPREADING Fall River Workers Will! Be Called Out NEW BEDFORD, Mass., April 26, —To insure the success of the strike of: the 30,000 textile workers here, who walked out 100 per cent in a} struggle against a ten per cent wage cut, the Textile Mill Committees here announced that first steps have been | taken to spread the strike to the | er, ‘HUNDREDS OF N, Y. WORKERS TO BE AT THE OPENING '$30,000 Drive Gains Headway All roads will lead to Union Square | tonight when hundreds of workers | from every part of the city ‘and | vicinity come to the “Red Banquet” | of the militant workingclass at 26- |28 Union Square. The banquet will | be a holiday occasion for all workers | since it will celebrate the establish- ment of a new home for the revolu- tionary movement, where all activi- ties will be centralized. A full-course proletarian meal, suf- ficient to satisfy the hungriest work- will be served by Proletcos, one of the organizations that will occupy the building. Reservations Go Fast The banquet, which will start at 8 P. M., will be served on the ground floor of the building. This floor will be especially decorated for the occa- sion by Huge Gellert and Adolf Wolff. The banquet will be attended by many leaders of the revolutionary movement, who will welcome the mil- itant workers to this new center. Among the speakers will be Jay Lovestone, William Z. Foster, Bert Wolfe, William W. Weinstone, Rob- jert Minor, Jack Stachel, Bert Miller, Meilich Epstein, Ben Gold, Scott Nearing, Robert W. Dunn, M. J. Ol- gin and Juliet Stuart Poyntz, All day yesterday workers from |many trades applied for tickets for the banquet. Only a few are left jand those in charge of the banquet announce that all workers who are anxious to attend the banquet should buy their tickets at once in order that proper reservations may be made. Tickets are on sale at 26-28 Union Square and 108 E. 14th St. $30,000 Drive Intensified As the drive to raise $30,000 to finance the acquisition of the Work- 25,000 textile operatives in Fall River. Jers’ Center enters its last lap. Work- The Fall River Workers were pre- | vented from striking against a similar wage slash several months ago by | the officials We the American Federa- tion of Textile’ Operatives. A group of organizers were dis- patched to Fall River by the national executive committee of the New Eng- land Textile Mill Committees, the New Bedford organization announced | yesterday. They will be reinforced by several organizers spared tem- porarily from their work in New Bed- ford, the local committees added. Union Head is Police Chief. The Fall River workers, upon re- ceiving a wage slash, immediately de- fers throughout the city are intensi- fying their efforts to {fulfil their quotas. Contributions turned in yes- terday included: 1B 2F and 8F, (Continued on Page Two) COAT OFFICIALS BREAK UP MEET Turn Off Lights When manded a strike vote from their union | officials. The Textile Council many of whom are petty func aries of the city government, yiel to the pressure of the membership | lof the Amalgamated C Acts Are Denounced ling and meet- of their chief, int Board manager ing Work- and permitted a vote but announced|ers Union, the right wing leaders of the total as 11 short of a two-thirds | the Coat Makers’ Local 5 | majority. Despite ‘continued protests from the membership, Chief of Police strike vote. The Textile Mill Strike Committees (Continued on Page Two) and painful deaths. It was not until two years after the young women had begun to work- ing in the plant, that they discovered that they were suffering from radi- um poisoning. The company is employing all of the shrewd legal talent at its dis- osal in an effort to ¢scape paying the doomed workers the $1,250,000 for which they” are suing. Yesterday’s hearing which was be- fore Vice Chancellor John H. Backes Jis to determine ie the suits can + FIVE WORKERS DOOMED Women Poisoned in Radium Factory NEWARK, N. J., April 26—Five young women workers formerly em- ployéd by the United States Radium Company sat in the Chancery Court today and heard expert physicians testify that they were doomed to slow © be filed in the Supreme Court despite | the statute of limitations, which, ac- cording to Jersey labor regulations, requires that the suit be filed within two years after the injury. The young workers were poisoned several years ago, when in painting clock and watch dials with a radium compound, they were compelled to wet the brushes with their mouths. They did not discover the cause or the nature of their suffering until two years had elapsed. PQ SEA I 2 ke ETAT REE REI IT RBG DP EEN SERRE RES ORT of the Amal- | gamated, prevented thelr. action Semin! being voted down by breaking off a meeting in the Forward Building late Wednesday night after turning out the lights. The question up for recision by the membership of the local was the re- cent expulsion from the executive board of the local of A. Ostrinsky, a left winger. He was expelled from the board for alleged participation in the distribution of a bulletin agitat- (Comtinued ox Page Five) Cutters’ Welfare Ball To Be Held Tomorrow \ The Cutters Welfare League, local 10 of the International Ladies Gar- ment Workers Union, will give a ball tomorrow at Parkview Palace, Fifth Ave. and 110th St. Admission will be 50 cents. Militant leaders in the needle trades unions have endorsed the activities of the Cutters Welfare League, and have urged all progressive workers to afd . the work of the League by attending the ball. POLISH WORKERS EMIGRATE, WARSAW, April 26—Poland 4s planning to.send large numbers immigrants into Brazil. ei