The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1928, Page 2

\ himself up in his sp. ’ g member of the Fall household was A leading social item in the local ellon Open Shop Spokesman ‘Reveals ie Coneneat Plan Against Miners SHOWS HOW HIS Will Distribute Thousands of Copies of “Daily Workers” Free in Youngstown! CO, WORKED 10 SMASH UNIONS Has New Sc cheme Aimed At Public Astin (FP).—Amer- erprise al end of the CHICAGO, ican ive low ebb on the ma bitum: leading sp Pres. J. D. Pittsburgh and en is at 2 y of Me who addres y Asse 24. His fo mining ¢ both lab: proposals to mer down to h and consume manage a money at it. 1. Smash Unions. | His first remedy is to ex all effective labor organization. Lewis leadership of the United Mine Workers is denounced as useless to} everybody, “but the officials ewho draw their salaries from that source.” 2, Speed-up. Morrow’s second proposal is to turn the coal mine into a factory on effi- ciency speed-up lines and he again denounces the union for protecting the human factor in the process. Ex- ploitation is to be without limit. 3. Monopoly of Market. : The third is guarantee of assured markets for coal. Mines are to be merged and at the same time “they will associate consumer interests with them which will provide an assured backlog of tonnage for these combina- tions.” Sales problems are to be wiped out. 4. High Prices. Naturally the fourth plank in this coal manager’s pipe dream is higher prices. “The coal business must learn to sell its product for what it is worth,” he asserted. As a start he would add $100,000,000 a year to the coal bills of: industry and transporta- tion. Then the Mellon lieutenant tried to explain to sympathetic listeners why the formerly union Pittsburgh Coal Co. had broken its signed contract with the United Mine Workers over| a year before the Jacksonville agree ment was to expire. That breach of| contract was the start of the open- shop drive in western Pennsylvania. Morrow did not call it a breach cf} contract. The company, he said | merely! “ceased to operate its mines | under the union and began open-shop| production.” He maintained that this procedure was entirely legal. But he| also said that it was morally right | because the company never regarded | the agreement as a binding obliga-| tion when it signed it. In other words, the contract could be morally broken| because Andy Mellon had his fingers | crossed when he agreed to it early in| 1924. | Attacks Protective Law. In closing his peculiar exposition of the status of the mining industry | Morrow discharged a poisoned arrow at the Illinois mining law which for- bids any but experienced and exam-) ined miners to risk the lives of them-| selves and their fellow workers under- ground. He complained that this law keeps out cheap labor, prevents the| maximum exploitation and therefore costs Illinois manufacturers and busi- ness not less than $50,000,000 a year.| The assembled manufacturers ac- corded him great applause. Sunshine Falls on Fall; Oil Is Well (Continued from Page One) } to avoid crowds. A crowd es large as a jury would ca I to lock Fl Paso} Study for cays at a tire. | 'Barlier this month his arches @® bad that the gov forced to dfop the cons ment against him, on + “wasn't able to get i the trial. So Siae'air w Table to go to Washiugton, Fall] R came to California. orts of the “ ss of the defers. at the “in- ff trial were like a tonic to Fall when the jury acquitted the oil tte Fall would have been able “whip his doctor if he had had ea a a cy R. FALL is showing marked improvement in his condition,” reported in a local paper as saying lay. Ths view of the matter was ex- also today by Doheny, Fall's co-defendant in the conspiracy case 4n 1926 in which both were acquitted 3 today told of a visit vaid by Bouey 49 the Fall residence. Thousands of workers in the steel | Ohio, will celebrate International May in their WORKER, in New York City, arr This special free distribution, | prevent victimization, part U.S. is Jail to Him Left without a country, as a re- sult of shifting frontiers in Europe, Peter Mickalaeski, a sailor, above, is forced to seek a haven in the United States. The American gov- ernment, however, having failed to deport the sturdy sailor who keeps coming back, has now shut him up in the Alameda County Jail in (al- ifornia, MANY UNIONS TO BE AT MAY 1 NEET Sports Exhibit, Mine Tableau, Features (Continued from Page One) Jewish workers thru the Freiheit Gesangsverein. The Jewish Workers Clubs of the city are also making special efforts to get out their mem- bers and sympathizers to attend. Arratige Sports Exhibition. The workers’ Sports Clubs will be on the program with ‘a special ath- \letie exhibition. Well known speak- ers will discuss the struggles of the ade unions, the subjects of imper- lism and war, the role of women in the class struggle and the tasks of the labor movement to emancipate the Negro, Children to Attend. A conference of children’s organ- izations bas been held to draw the children of New York into a demon- stration with the youth and adult sec- tions of the movement. The meeting will open at 3 p. m. and last until 7 o’clock. Workers to March. Memories of <dld time May Day demonstrations, when the workers marched to their mecting halls thru the streets of New York, will be re- |vived this year by the food workers of Proletcos, when they assemble at the Cooperative Restaurant, 30 Union Square and march with signs to Madi- son Square Garden in a body. TROOPERS SLUG WOMAN PICKET (Continued from Page One) are arrested. The strike is spread- ing to every mine in the section. To defend these courageous miners, who daily face gas bombs and club- bings at the hands of Pennsylvania sacks, the National Miners’ Relief | nmittee, formerly the Pennsyl-} -Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, s that funds be wired immedi- ately to the headquarters at 611 Penn. Ave., Pittsburgh. Over 100 jcases are being appealed and many re still in jail. The emergency must | be met by the workers of America. | ; ‘Suspend Student For Distributing Leaflets I. Elsman, a student at De Witt Clinton High School, was yesterday suspended indefinitely from studies by the principal of the high school for distributing circulars calling upon) ithe pupils to remain away from school | — on May Day. A delegation composed of members of the Workers’ (Communist) Party. Young Workers League, United Coun- ceil of working class housewives, and other workers’ organizations will be on the principal of the high school to- day to protest the suspension of Els- man. The Young Pioneers of America has called on all school pypi!s to re- {main out of school on May Day. Break Up Children’s Meet “Mr, Wail evidenced great good .” Deheny reported after leav- pf the residence of the only man in|‘ the Harding-Coolidge cabinet who fared as well as members of the Pace ganz” themselves at ge rimself. wat is well.” Police yesterday broke up a Child- ren’s May Day meeting held under the auspices of the Young Pioneers in front of Public School 61 in the Bronx. The excuses given by the Po- the graft| lice was that no adult was present to supervise the meeting. Many leaf- seemed to be in pretty) lets, calling upon the school children to remain away from school on May Day were confiscated, lives when thousands of copies of The DAILY mailed them free from the office of the ve at their homes. is the work of the members of the Workers (Communist) Fens in the see paar center. ‘an independent group which have been | mills of Youngstown, Day as never before paper ticularly arranged to MILL COMMITTEE!" WILL TAKE STRIKE To Issue ‘Strike Paper |' In New Bedford (Continued from Page One) to conte in Monday from the Tag Day conducted in the textile manufactur- | ing area of Lawrence. | In addition to the relief activities | of the mill committees, the Workers’ | International Relief is already seek-| ing suitable quarters for the estab- lishment of_a relief station. While these activities are going on the offi- cials of the Textile Council, who claim leadership in the strike, have announced that “cases of great need will be taken care of by a local church charity.” A bi-weekly strike newspaper is also to be issued by the New Bedford mill committees, it is announced. This paper will probably be issued weekly if the New Bedford strike spreads. The date of the first issue has not been announced. The Textile Council leaders con- tinue to squander funds that might be used for organized relief of organized as well as unorganized strikers by competing with the employers in “arguing out” the strike in expensive newspaper advertisements. A staff of publicity experts, imported from New York, is being paid comfortable salaries to conduct “research” ‘work, in connection with the advertising campaign, according to a statement issued by the union administration. Support W. I. R. “More than a score of thousands of textile workers are looking to the Textile Mill Committee for leader- ship,” declared Biedenkapp, “and the bosses are looking to hunger, that faithful ally, of the employers, to force the strikers back to work. If the organized and militant workers of this country will support the Work- ers’ International Relief in its relief activity) in the textile district, the strike will be won.” hes a Strike May Spread. All New England, before summer comes, may be revolting against mill owners’ efforts to cut wages of their textile workers and to abolish the ers, 35,000 strong, said “No” to the organized manufacturers’ attempt to slice wages 10 per cent, and then 27,- 000 of them struck to emphasize their decision. The other 8,000 are working in independent mills at the old rate. In Rhode Island both wage reduc- tions and an attempt to knife the eight-hour day have backed textile workers into a corner where they must either fight or surrender. In| other mill centers of New England, workers are squirming uneasily under low living standards imposed by the 10 per cent cuts started last Decem- ber. Complicating their strategy is the division and lack of organization among New England textile work-| ers. Weavers, loom fixers and other! skilled workers are organized in New | Bedford and Fall River into the Amer- ican Federation of Textile Operatives, an independent union. In Rhode Is- land, the United Textile Workers of the A. F, of L. retains some strength. Throughout New England, from notorious’ Amoskeag in Manchester, N. H., down to Connecticut, the only other form of organization is’ pro- vided by the Textile Mill Committees, active for months. They have entered | the New Bedford fight to organize the 20,000 unskilled there and will next direct their attention to Fall River. Many of the committee’s lead- ers sprang out of the struggle in Passaic in 1926. IN housing, Negroes jump from Dixie’s frying pan into Harlem’s fire when they migrate north. So- cial conditions far worse than ever existed on the East Side exist to- day among Negroes of Harlem.” + & Negro workers crowded into the northeast corner of Manhattan Island in wretched cast-off living quarters, are paying half their in- come for rent. Average weekly in- come for family heads in Harlem is $19.75, of which 4a 25, goes to the landlord. — eight-hour day. New Bedford work-|..: will also feature the program. It is thru their efforts that the militant message of Inter- national May Day will be brought home to the thousands of exploited mill workers of Youngstown. The special free distribution of The DAILY WORKER will be followed up by May Day celebrations in which many of the Youngstown working class will participate. During the May Day celebrations: thruout Youngstown, the special one dollar subscription to The DAILY WORKER will be Bisset premieres pane the workers. special offer brings of ovly one dollar. reach masses of the The new the militant labor press within the reach of all workers for a period of two months at the cost The Youngstown workers are elated at the effectiveness | with which they have been able to respond to the appeal of | the Workers (Communist) Party for May Day activity and | believe that the big distribution of the workers’ press will steel and rubber slaves to whom the paper has hitherte been only a name. _Living Monuments of the Last Imperialist World Slaughter Photo shows few of the thousands of young men, who were hopelessly maimed in the imperialist world war. These veterans F are condemned to liv- 4 ing deaths in govern- ment hospitals, where | they are neglected and made the victims of official corruption. A few, times a year they are “consoled” with flowers by jingo- istic organizations such as the American Legion, which at the same time aids in the capitalist elamor for another slaughter. HOLDRED BANQUET AT NEW CENTER Hundreds of Militant Workers to Attend (Continued from Page One) $15.25; 8D 6F, $25; 38D 8F, $26; 3D 5F, $8.50; 8F 2F, $9; Finnish Co- operative Trading Association of Brooklyn, $100;. 1AC 1F, $97; 1AC 4F, $35; 1AC 6F, $5; 1AC 7F, $63; 1B 4F, $15. 1B 11, $40; Workers’ School, $136.50; Section 5, Branch 2, 365; Section 5, Branch 4, $10; Sec- tion 5, Branch 5, $70; 1D 1F, $22.75; 2K, $6; Finnish Workers’ Club, $100; Section 4, $18.25; and 2B iF, $21. Further endorsement of the new Workers Center by persons promin- ent in various fields of the revolu- tionary movement is helping to speed the drive for $30,000. Union Square Historic “The workers of New York have already made Union Square an his- toric place by their demonstrations against capitalism in Sacco-Vanzetti fight, in'the Hi: Off China meet- ing, in the nee trades struggles and countless other® Bert Wolfe, di- rector of the Workers’ School, yesterday. “Now the Workers’ Center is being established on Union. Square. The Center will make the Square more than ever the rallying point for the working masses of New York and will make - Union Square known throughout the country as New York’s Red Square. New York’s Red Square “The socialist party at its national convention has just ‘abolished’ the ‘clasS.struggle. on_without them and against them. As against the ,People’s House’ of the socialist’ party we build the Workers’ Center. As against the said Rand School we build the Workers’ | School. As against the dying social- ist weekly we build the living Com- munist daily. As against class col- laboration we build the class strug- gle. As against the red, white and blue flag of American imperialism that the socialists have embraced we raise the red flag of international solidarity. and proletarian revolution. “The workers of New York must speed up their efforts to build their center, The center must be ours and the red flag flving over it by May 1. Make Union Square Red Square by May Day!” - Greek Workers of N. Y. To Give Ball Sunday The semi-annual spring ball of militant Greek workers of New York will be held at the Palm Garden, 308 W. 52nd St., this Sunday, April 29, jat 8 p. m. "The proceeds of the af- fair will go to Empros, the Greek organ of the Workers (Communist) Party. A 3-act play and a dance pro- gram by Catherine Mezquita, for- merly of the Manhattan Opera Co., Ad- mission will be $1. The struggle will go/ Hat Passed for Danbury: Union Enemy; Broke DANBURY, ani 26 (FP). —Dietrich Loewe, Danbury ba boss, tried to bust the hatters’ unién and ended up by being dead broke himself. But the manufacturers’ associations in Connecticut and the east passed the hat for Dietrich and raised $40,- 000. No hat has been passed for the hundreds of union members whose Uuion, PITTSTON MINERS (Continued from Page One) miners had not been regularly elected to their offices. The miners there upon walked out at the call of the general grievance committee. The decision to keep out McGarry and Lamarca is seen as a cooperating with the company and the growing: power of the rank and file a danger to the further. existence both to the contract system which the companies support and the Lewis machine. The miners have been greatly aroused by this move. There is no clause in the contracts with the coal tors to dictate to the unions what men they shall choose as officers, The renewed strike of local 1703 bears out the policy advocated by the | Saye-The-Union forces who opposed | the return to the mines as long as the company violated the contract by per- mitting the contract system. The Brennan forces were responsible for the return to work. They will now be asked by the miners to state their vosition on Lewis and as te whether they intend really to fight against the contract system. eos a Sweep Out Cappelini Henchmen. (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) WILKES-BARRE, April 26, — Sweeping out the whole crew of Lewis-Cappelini henchmen at the jhead of their union, mine workers of No. 9 colliery of the Pénnsylvania | Coal Company last night elected a hold accountable in the coming} months to wage their battle against the contractor system and against Lewis, Meeting at Rudaitis Hall on North Main St. under police supervision after having been searched by the cops, ther forced out of the mecting by the police, they returned again, undaunted and determined to carry out their program. ATTORNEY INDICTED. Charles ©. Branch, a prominent | Queens attorney, has been indicted on a charge of first degree, forgery. 1 baste rents have Gecad Negro mothers into New York low wage industries. Four Negro mothers toil in shop and factory for every native born white mother. As a result delinquency is high among children, *;) * * Low wages and unemployment bring in their wake wretched liv- ing conditions, absence of whole- some récreation. The tuberculosis death rate is three times as high among Negro workers as white, but hospitals draw the color line and CRITICAL CONDITIONS FACING NEGROES Harlem Mothers Have to Work; , Half of Wages Go for Rent Negroes, when seriously ill, must in many cases be kept at home, en- dangoring both their families and their own chances for recovery. _ * * The American Negro Labor Con- gress and the Harlem Tenants’. League have cooperated with unions of sleeping car porters, motion pic- ture operators, laundry workers, ' garage workers and painters in the past year in efforts to raise the re- sistance of Negro workers to ex- ploitation. homes were sold to satisfy Loewe’s | half million dollar claim against the | ON STRIKE AGAIN move.of the Lewis-Cappellini forces | the individual contractors who see in” companies which permits the opera- | Local, 1495. made up of employes of | new slate of officers whom they will | WILL RAISE FUND FORMINEOLACASE | 9 Furriers : Were Framed |For Strike Activity At the conference held last night | by progressive labor organizations to | begin a movement to raise a defense fund for the nine framed-up furriers. in the Mincola Case, the defense of the 18 leaders of the Cloakmakers Joint Board, whose appeal against a sentence for contempt of court is to be heard in the Appelate Division of ‘the Supreme Court on May 25, was also planned. The conference was held at the of- fice of the Cloak Makers’ Joint Board, 116 W. 2ist St. To Hold Affairs It was decided at the Conference to jinstruct the Joint Defense and Relief Committee of the Cloakmakers an? Furriers to carry out a series of af- fairs throughout the country to raise funds for the defense of the 9 Mineola ‘furriers who will go to prison for Two and a half to five years terms, unless funds are obtained to fight the case thru the higher courts, and also to pay for the appeals against the deci- sion of the Supreme Court Judge Er- \langer, who fined the 1 cloakmakers’ ‘leaders $17,500 for violating an anti- strike injunction. The injunction was obtained by the Dress Manufacturers’ Association more than a year ago. Right wing followers of International president Sigman, testified as wit- nesses against the labor leaders. . The Mineola prisoners were granted an opportunity to appeal their prison sentences, by a decision announced recently by Judge Lehman of the Court of Appeals. They were framed up for their stike activities by wit- nesses provided by open shop bosses and officials of the American Federa- tion of Labor, In affirming the Mine, ola court’s verdict and sentence, the Appelate Division in a recent state- ment declared that numerous judicial errors had been committed in the con- duct of the trial. Arrest 2 Workers for Distributing Leaflets | Continuing their persecution of} workers distributing leaflets, police yesterday arrested two millinery: | workers, who were handing out leaf- let on 6th Ave., near 36th St. The two workers, Dorothy Lamport and Nathan Edvard, were taken to the 80th St. Police Station and then to Jefferson Market Court. They were defended by the International Labor Defense, represented by Isaac Shorr,-who, after a heated argument with Magistrate Weil, of the Jeffer- son Market Court, secured the dis- plane a leg case. | Anti-Fascists Hold Protest Meet Today A protest mass meeting against the interference of the Italian embassy’ and consulates in America with natur- alized Italians in this country opposed to the fascist regime will be held to- day at 8 p. m. at the Church of all Nations, 9 Second Avenue, | Pietro Allegra, of 65 Webster Ave. Long Island City, who has startec suit against the De Nobili Cigar Co. Long Island City, because he was dis-. charged after 22 years of service, thru| influence of the Italian officials in New York who demanded that. the company dismiss him, will be among the speakers, who include Dr. Chardes ‘Fama; Raimondo Fazio, of Nouvo Mond; Carlo Tresco,’ of Il Martello; Giovanni Pippan, of Il Lavaratore and Prof, Felice “eewens tere of Il Pro- Dodds : RED CONVENTION TO PICK TICKET, ADOPT PROGRAM “agter and Gitlow Like- ly Candidates (Continued from Page One) |the campaign. Propaganda and or- ganization have been intensified to an unusual degree, even in sections as remote as some of the southern states where the Workers Party has been making substantial headway. Special emphasis has been laid by the Party upon the need to win over the sections of exploited farmers, In the wheat and the cotton belts the Workers Party has put scores of or- ganizers into the field where they are consolidating the poor farmers for political action against their ex- ploiters. In spite of the difficulties to be overcome in this work, the or- ganizers report everywhere consider- able gains. In the south the organization and political development of the Negros is being pushed forward successfully and recent months have seen real progress. Driving against the other parties on the grounds that they are the agents of , the American | capitalists, the Workers (Communist) Party will en- ter the election campaign as the de- fender of all the workers and farm- ers in the present period of class struggle in the United States. Not only wherever the struggle is taking on militant forms, as in the mines and in the textile or in the anti-interven- tion campaign in Nicaragua, but thruout the length and breadth of the country. Foster May Run. The presidential and vice-presiden- tial candidates of the Workers (Com- munist) Party will be selected by the convention. It is expected that William Z. Fos- ter and Benjamin Gitlow, the presi- dential and vice-presidential candi- dates of the Workers Party in the 1924 campaign, will again be nomin- ;ated. Among the membership of the Party, the 1924 nominees are’ gener- ally considered as the logical nom- inees this year. At the National Of- fice, however, suggestions have been received favoring the nomination of Scott Nearing, Charles Taylor, a member of the Montana state sen- inent in the farmers’ the cotton belt. Other suggestions for vice-prest- dent have been Juliet Stuart Poyntz, of New York, prominent in labor education circles, Lovett Font White- man, of Alabama, formerly chairman of the National Negro Labor Con- gress, William F. Dunne, of Butte, Montana, prominent in northwestern strikes and Robert Minor, editor of jThe DAILY WORKER, That Foster and Gitlow will be nominated, how- ever, is the general opinien. Campaign Fund. A campaign fund of $100,000 is being collected to cover the expenses of the national campaign. The Party branches in the’ various cities thruout the country will raise their own funds, The 1928 campaign is one of the greatest the Workers Party has ever waged in the United States. Plans have already been completed for se- curing thousands of new voters for the Party in this gigantic undertak- ing. Leaflets, demonstrations and parades will be utilized in arousing the voters, and a corps of speakers, among whom are a large number of prominent Negroes and trade union- jists, is being mobilized to jump into ‘the campaign fight earlier than any | of the other parties in the field, movement. in Pickens to Talk on Race Problem at. Forum The Workers Schoot Forum at 108 East 14th 'St., which has been holding lectures and discusions every Sunday evening since the opening of the fall term in the Workers School in Sep- tember, will have its last session Sun- day evening at 8, with William Pick- ens, field organizer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, speaking on .“The Economie Foundation of the Race Problem.” This will be the last forum conducted at the present headquarters of the School. Beginning May 1, the Workers School will be situated in the new. and larger building at 26-28 Uuion Square. i District Women’s Committee to Meet " An important meeting of the Dist- rict Women’s Committee of the Work- ors (Communist) Party will be held tomorrow at 2 p. m, at Party Head- quarters 108 E. 14th St., to discuss the mobilization of the working women for the mining campaign and preparations for the New York Work- ing Women’s Federation Conference. Section organizers of women’s work, fraction organizers, and chairman of sub-commitees of the District Wo- ate, and Lauderdale’ of Texas, prom-_ men’s Committee are invited to at- tend. eae es a =