The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1928, Page 2

; i * CHICAGO WORKERS WILL GET THOUSANDS OF FREE COPIES OF THE SPECIAL MAY DAY “DAILY”. Thousands of Chicago workers, who rally to this and smaller May Day gatherings, will be impressed with the new special one dollar subscription to The DAILY WORKER. This special offer _ which brings their paper within the reach of thousands of work--; Free distribution of fifteen thousand copies of the special WORKER will usher in the holiday celebrations in Chi- MAY DAY edition of The DAILY celebration of international labor’s cago. In front of all labor the habit of gathering, thousands of ec and fraternal halls and headquarters, at all labor centers, wherever the working class of the city is in May 1. opies of the workers’ press will be distributed free to the workers. Thousands of copies will also be sent thru the mail so that the workers will receive their paper early on the morning of Not only will the special May Day edition of The DAILY contain twenty-four pages instead of the usual four, but there will be eight columns to the page instead of seven, of particular interest to all Chicago workers will be the special Chicago section in the paper. devoted to greetings, ads and ar- ticles of moment A monster mass meeting at the Ashland Auditorium where a number of men and. women prominent in the American labor movement will address the workers will follow in the program of May Day activities. A feature x to labor in the Lake city. ers who could not previ two months, All worke: ly afford it, purchases the: paper for * will be urged to subscribe for their paper while this opportunity is still before them. Kansas Miners in Rousing Demonstration Behind Progressive Delegates. WARN LEWIS THAT LOCALS WILL NOT HEED EXPULSIONS adiine HenchmenFear' To Debate (By a Worker Corciaodent.) PITTSBURGH, Apr. 24 (By mail).| —The Kansas deleg: to the Pitts-| burgh conference returned to speak} to large mass meetings of miners| who. unanimously endorsed the pro- gram. The officials of District 14 saw the growing movement menacing their"jobs so they tried to organize some locals against the Save-the-Un- ion Committee. At each meeting the delegates would be on hand to present their side and in all cases the miners have stood with the Save-the-Union Committee. Finally the officials is- sued statements that those leading the fight in the district would be ex- pelled. The press helped all they could and the officials issued a state- ment in one of the locals that the question would be debated if the Save the Union Committee would meet them in proper fashion before a bona | fide local. The challenge was ac-| cepted and the local picked was at | Ringo, the largest in the district for Monday night. | Officials “Yellow.” } Monday night no officials showed | | up and the local stood behind the | progressive delegates and gave them a rousing ovation and said they would stand with the delegates to the last. The miners say they will not stand for. any expulsions and if such will occur, it will have to be the ousting of the Lewis officials. The officials of District 14 are doing all possible to drive a wedge between the miners and isolate the leaders of the Save the Union Committee but the miners are wise and know what program will save the union and are giving full support to the committee. ~f-*“No Time” For Work. Burr and Skahan, the machine henchmen, have time to go to Topeka to talk about the menace of the gas mains to be. put in there and the ef- fect it will have on the coal fields. Tiftse officials also have had time | and money to go to Washington at Lewis’ bidding. But none of them} have time to see what can be done | to get the thousands of non-union miners in District 14 out. No time to talk to their members when it’s a debate with the progressives. No time for relief activit: ’ “EX AMS’-ORDERED. HERE FOR MAY 1 . Maneuvre To Keep Pupils in Schools | © After breaking up an open air meeting called by the Childzens May i » the | Day Conference befor¢ Bronx, and confiscating le: tributed by the o the slogan “Out of Day,” Tuesday, cipal of the s classes that “impc yminations wi fi be given Tue 10 absence will be excused.” “They can’t make me go to schoo! in Day,” said I. Elfman, a stu- the De ‘Witt High School who} + Suspended Thursday for distribut- piedeatiets calling upon the children a" away from school on May VA committee composed of represen- tives of the Childrens May Day ynference, the Young Pioneers of i the Non-partisan Jewish Children Schools, the Inter- Labor Defense, the United Party, the Workers School | the Young Workers’ (Communist) | sague, visited Mr. Anthony, acting of the high school yésterday, the suspension. He refused ive thém and said the matter ly “out of his hands and was the board of Education. the Committee reported to} right of the board of Education ned that he knew nothing p the case and that the above nt was not true. Wright , however, that there was no onal feeling” against Elfman t if he took action it would be} rainst the organization that issued ‘eaflets. Upon asking if the or- zation had applied to the board, for a regular holiday on| , 1, he was told that the commit-| appealing to the children to| this workers’ holiday, it is) s legal as the call to children home on pellaon holidays. ‘Unusual | ve These Vacationists k k Following “vacations” by Fall, Mellon and others who have sought, and found, rustic retreat from the rude exposures of the oil scandal, Harry F. Sinclair, above, has bun- dled up his wife and is rusticating on his New Jersey farm. His “back to nature” is in celebration of one of the most outrageous verdicts in the history of American class jus- tice. JOBLESS TO JOIN MAY DAY MEET Program at ‘Garden’ Demonstration (Cont'xed from Page One) The other feature is the launching of a campaign to obtain signatures to the petition for the unemployment in- surance bill which the Council is sponsoring. This petition campaign a eee Additional participants are need- ed for the Miners’ Mass Tableau to be presented at the May Day dem- onstration at Madison Square, Gar- den, The next rehearsal is to be held at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, tomorrow afternoon at 1:30. The final rehearsal will be held Tuesday at 1:30 at Madison Square Garden, will be launched at the Madison Square May Day demonstration, where John Di Santo will speak on the subject of “What Answer Does | |May Day Give to Unemployment?” The plans of the council recall the militant unemployment demonstra- tion in Union Square in 1908, where {the unemployed assembled in order |to march to the May Day meetings, \and where they vigorously voiced their demands for solving the unem- ployment situation. with the authorities which took place at that time did not hinder the un- employed from participating in the May Day demonstration; in fact, the jinterference from the authorities on- ly made their spirit more militant. This year the unemployed are re- suming the old struggle, which will “Il Organizers and Party Mem- bers: the District Office instructs all comrades that all May Day tickets must be immediately turned in to the District Office and settlement must be made for all tickets sold. Comrades will be held strictly re- onsible for failure to obey these instructions, which are issued ,by the district because of the necessity for settling the major part of the financial obligations not later than May 1. We appeal to all comrades to help make the May Ist meeting a success in every way by making immediate settlement for all tickts. not*be solved until the workers take the reins of government into their own hands.’ The march to the Garden will go far in restoring the old spirit of militancy which has been subdued to some extent for some years. For- ward to Madison Square Garden! Fill |Union Square at one o’clock prepara- tory to .participating in the united front meeting on May Day. *. * * Restaurant Workers Join. The Progressive Group of Delica- tessen Countermen’s Union, Local No. 802, calls upon the workers in the trade to down tools on May Day, and jassemble at the Cooperative Restaur- ant, 30 Union Square, at 12 o’clock, from where they will march in a body together with other food workers to united front First of May demonstra tion will be held. * “Red Carteors” on Sale. The “Red Cartoons of 1928,” which contains the best drawings of the | year by Fred Ellis, Hugo Gellert, Jacob Burck, and other revolutionary artists, will be sold at’ the May Day demonstration, it is announced by A. Gusakoff, district literature agent. * * The encounters | 4¢ the Workers (Communist) Party Madison Square Garden, where the} | i iSucceed | Marshall and A. Gus’ TRACTION UNION OFFICIALS LEAVE NEW YORK FIGHT in Aim To Check Organization Abandoning all further efforts at preventing the organization of the New York traction workers because they no doubt believe that all such danger has now passed, the national officers of the Amalgamated. Associa- tion of Street and Electric Railway Employes yesterday ordered James H. Coleman, local organizer, to pack his trunk and go home. The order, it was learned, came from Detroit yesterday following the earlier abdication from the scene of P. J. O’Brien one of the vice-presi- dents of the Amalgamated. Coleman and O’Brien together with P. J. Shea, an executive board mem- ber, Wm. B. Fitzgerald, vice presi- dent, and Wm. D. Mahon, president of the union for nearly two years, have faithfully carried out the policy of the Tammany-controlled city officials in the attempt to prevent organization of the traction workers. This obedience to the Tammany commands reached its climax in the recent complete sell-out of traction workers when Mahon and Fitzgerald acted to prevent a strike by calling off a regularly scheduled meeting of the: union and deliberately refused to protect mem- bers of the new union discharged by the Interborough Rapid Transit Com- pany in its vicious campaign to break up the organization. Nearly a hundred men discharged in the campaign are still without jobs. Notwithstanding the apparent vic- tory of the traction interests, the Tammany administration and the unioa traitors, organization of the traction workers is seen to be an in- evitable development in the near fu- ture. Workers’ committees have been formed in a number of shops and ter- minals. These are reported to be di- recting their efforts towards a rank and file movement. Unemployed Meeting Today in Rutgers Sq. (Continued from Page: One) tion of the unemployed workers for May Day. In connection with important work on May Day, all unemp!oyed members and Young Workers League are in- structed to report Monday morning at 10 o’clock at 108 E. 14th St. The speakers at today’s meeting will be John Di Santo, secretary of the Council, Lovis A 2um, secre- tary of the Photographic Workers’ Union; Hyman Gordon, of the Young Workers Leagne; Henry Bloom, of the Unemployed Council; Morris Taft, of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Local 41; Harry White, of the Pioneers; John ft. ‘Duke, Tobacco . | Man, Has Nice Birthday Here THOUSANDS of over-worked and underpaid tobacco workers in the plantations and factories of Ben- jamin N. Duke yesterday were happy in the joyous news that their master was spending a quiet birth- day at his 89th St. mansion in New York City. Surrounded by his immediate family, which included his wife, his daughter, Mrs, Anthony J. Drexel- Biddle, Jr., and his grandchildren, the tobacco magnate expressed the opinion that things were going on nicely in the United States. Twenty-five years ago Mr. Duke had a personal fortune of $60,000,- 000. Living a frugal life, however, and walking to and from work in- stead of riding in the subway, Duke N. Y. MAY 1 MEETS ARE BEING CALLED Prominent Speakers at Demonstration Open air meetings preparatory to iMay Day in New York and New Jer- sey and May Day ¢elebrations in New Jersey ee been announced by D. Benjamin, A ‘trict "2; Workers (Communist) Par- ty. They are as follows: Tonight, 8 p. m. Steinway and Jamaica Aves., Long Island. Speak- lers: Powers, Harfield, Ziegler, Foley. Monday, 8 p. m,, 10th St. and 2nd ‘Ave.; 7th St. and ‘Avenue A; Rutgers Square. Speakers: B. Miller, S. Nes- sin, J, Sherman, S. Pollack, A Gus- is said to have doubled that amount. “He has regarded his fortune,” said one of Mr, Duke’s associates yesterday, “as a divine gift placed in his trust.” 6 Some time ago Duke made a deal with an obscure college in the south whereby the institution changed its name to “Duke University” in ex- change for $1,000,000. Will Discuss Plans For Enlarging Capacity Discussion of the plans for tripling the’ ptéstmt capacity of the Prolétcos ‘Cafeteria and Restaurant, now at 30 Union Square, willbe taken up at a general membership meeting to be held next Wednesday night, May 2. The meeting, which will be held in the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, which is to house the cafe- teria after it is enlarged, will hear reports from Hugo Gellert, révolu- tionary artist, on plans for appro- priate decorations. Three times as mank workers as can now be served will be accommo- dated when the new quarters are completed, according to N. Polak, “ex- eeeds our fondest expectations, and all members are urged to come to the meeting and bring friends who are interested in workers cooperatives.” Hold ‘Free Mooney’ Meet |** The first of a series of “Free Mooney and Billing:’””’ open air meet- ings will be held this Monday, April 80, at §:30 P.M. at Third Avenue and 139th St. Louis A. Baum, of the Photographers’ Union, will speak. FARM BILL MAY PASS. WASHINGTON, April - 27.—The passage” of “the McNary-Haugen farm bill is regarded as a foregone conclusion here. Rep. Aswell (D) lof Lotisiana and Rep. Crisp (D) of Georgia, both prepared to offer sub- istitute. bills. PROLETCOSMEETS WEDNESDAY NIGHT sakoff, M. Sumner, Pobersky, Starr, |Stevens, M. Lurye, Callow, Lutich, \(Speakers report to 60 St. Marks |Place. ) Monday, 8 p. m., Fifth Ave. and 110th St.; Madison ' Ave. and 106th St.; First Ave. and 79th St. Speak- ers: Otte Hulman, A. Markoff, G. Primoff,; Padmore, M. Kagan, Shafer, Mitchell, Andrews, Sklar, L, Baum, P. Shapiro, Di Santo, M. Hartlieb, Kangas. (Speakers report to 143 E. 103rd St.) Auspices May Day Conference: ‘Tuesday, 2 p. m., Military Park, Newark, N. J. Speakers: George ‘Saul, George Padmore, Sylvan Pgl- lack, I, Freiman, Joseph Ggal, lv” Mat- lin, Lottie Blumenthal. Auspices Councils of Unemployed: fay, 1 p. m., Upion Square, New York. Speakers: Di Santo, Padgug, Taft, Powers, Cosgrove, Blake, Sherman, Baum, Huiswood, D. Benjamin, Hartlieb, Richard Moore, Andrews, Pobersky, Lurye, Sklar, Stephens, Ziegler, Foley, Sumner, Blum, Yaris, Lutich, Starr, Pohjan- salo, Callow, Dart. May Day Meets for New ria Perth Amboy, tonight at 8 p. m. at the Hungarian Workers’ Home, 308 Elm St. Speaker: Eber. Passaic, Monday at 8 p. m., at the International Workers’ Home, 27 Dayton Ave. Speakers: J. O, Bentall and D, Benjamin. Newark, Tuesday, two demonstra- tions, one at 3 p. m. at Military Park. Speakers: Saul, Padmore, S. Pollack, Freiman, Gaal, Mitlin. The other at 8 p, m. at the Workers’ Progressive Center, 93 Mercer St. Speakers: A. Markoff and P. Crouch. Paterson, Tuesday, 8 p, m., Hel- hae Hall, 56 Van Houten St. Speak- : Robert Minor and Ben Lifshitz. dae City, Tuesday; 8 p. m., at the Ukrainian Workers’ Home, 160 Mercer St. Speaker: A. Bimba. Bayonne, Tuesday, May 1, 8 p. m., Jefferson Club, 35-37 E. 28rd St. Speaker# S. Nessin. Union City and West N, Y., Tues- day, 8 p. m., 30th St. and Hudson Blvd. (opposite. Columbia Park). Speaker: Bert Miller. Elizabeth, Sunday, May 6, 8 p. m., at the Labor Lyceum, 509 Court St. Speakers: J. O. Bentall, A. Gussakoff. New Brunswick, Sunday, May 6, 3 p. m, at 11 Plum St. Speakers: M. Pasternak, Chas. Mitchell. CHILDREN “UNPARDONABLE LUXURY” Exposition n Recommends $2,500 2,500 Pianos | | | | | ii ee V ing chil This is the in- escapable conclusion after viewing three: floors ‘of Grand Central Pal- ace given over to the Parents’ Ex- position. Children are an unpardonable luxury in workingclass homes, every exhibitor of the six score is jagree .d. The child who is rash enough to be born in a New York tenement has small chance of grow- ing up into a healthy-bodied, healthy-minded worker-citizen, they point out indirectly but un- mistakably by interesting exhibits on everything from 18 cents-a- quart milk to $2,500 pianos devised to develop the child’s musical taste. * * * First, there is the difficulty of pulling the babe to safety through New York’s thick atmosphere of smoke, dust, fog and pall. Because there are few parks and open spaces among the cliff dwellings of Man- hattan, parents must buy, at $2 a square foot, window glass that lets health-giving sunrays into closed rooms. $100 might equip a tene- ment with health windows. - And then to counteract long periods when no sun shines at all, the worker- parent is invited to buy, at $85 plus upkeep, an electric sun ray machine which gives the child’s body arti- ficial sun tanning. But the Garden Society insists that artificial sunlight is not ORKERS have no business hav- | enough. “Every child should have his own garden, to play in, to learn of nature and to develop a sturdy body,” asserts the society. It will install gardens for tots for $250 up. Unfortunately it fails to provide the garden space among the crowded tenements. F CHEATED of outdoor play space, then the child must have a large playroom in the home, if he is to expand normally. As the typi- cal New York family of five lives in four to five rooms, there may be some difficulty in finding a play- room. But no matter, once found, it can be equipped for as little as $100, although really desirable play-' rooms, the furniture companies in- sist, should cost at least $250. * * * And then there’s the little matter of the child’s education. All the private schools at the Parents Ex- position are agreed that the public schools are “impossible.” Classes of 60 pupils taught by mechanized, tyrannized teachers in dilapidated, poorly equipped schools will never give the child the “breadth of vision” needed for the truly educa- ted person. Therefore worker-par- ents are invited to send their chil- dren to schools in Weschester and Connecticut. Fees range from $1,000 to $1,500 for nine months. Children can be sent to summer and Artificial Light camps for as little as $150 for 10 weeks, | “Market Value.” After the child has weathered all the trials and tribulatjons of early youth, he is ready for the labor market, to be turned into profits for employers. Then the vocational schools get their whack at parents’ purses. Illuminating broadsides en- titled “Your Market Value” tell the virtues of turning children into bookkeepers for $250 and up. Pes equipped for the labor market, the child who has by hook or crook managed to escape death, disease and disaster, be- comes a worker, if he can find a job, and soon after a parent. Then he in turn provides more material for the sun ray machines, the indi- vidual play gardens, the private schools and the children’s encyclo- pedia salesmen. * © @ Barred from the Parents Exposi- tion at Grand Central Palace at the demand of officials of the board of education, the American Birth Con- trol League is now the object of police interference. . Police visited the store occupied by the League at 479 Lexington Avenue and ordered the women in charge to cease displaying in the window pictures relating to birth control,’ The reason given was that the display caused crowds that | blocked traffic, MANY JERSEY AND! zi Oil oan itprop director of Dfs=; C. F. Meyer, above, has recently been elected president of the Stan- dard Oil Co. of New York. The New York branch of the great Rockefeller. trust, is a sister com- pany of the now notorious Stand- ard Oil of Indiana. CZAR'S ‘CONSULS’ Skvirsky Warns Against Monarchist Fakers WASHINGTON, April 27. (FP).— Boris E. Elwirsky, head of the official Soviet Union Information Bureau in Washington, has issued another warn- ing to the public against the so-called “Russian consuls”—all of them bogus —who still prey upon the ignorance of other documents of a Russian official who still prey upon the ignorance of persons seeking passports, visas or character. These fraudulent claims to being Russian consuls are based on the fact that the claimants were in the czarist consular service, which was swept away more than ten years ago by the Russian Revolution. Three of the pretenders are: N. V. Bogoianlensky, “consul general in Rome and Seattle”; P. Rojdestvensky, “consul in San Francisco,” and M. Oustinoff, 870 7th Ave., New York, “consul general in New York.” “As far back as 1923,” Skvirsky cow foreign office to warn all Rus- sians residing in this country, that those of the former czarist consuls who still continue styling themselves as consuls, did not represent the Sov- jet Republic or anyone connected with it, and that any documents, certifi- cates or passports issued by them are not recognized by the Soviet authori- ties or their representatives aboard. This warning was repeated in 1924 “Despite these warnings, several in- stances were recorded of Russian residents of this country having sent to the Soviet authorities passports and other documents obtainéd from the so-called ‘Russian consuls’. Such ' ‘passport’ was recently presented a Russian resident of California ee secured it, for a certain fee, of course, from the self-styled ‘Russian consul general in Nome and Seattle’. “The fact that the individuals pro- curing such documents send them to the Soviet authorities indicates that they apply to the s6-called ‘consuls’ in the belief that the latter represent the Soviet Union, and that the docu- ments are valid. The recurrence of such cases and the fact that it is usually the poorest immigrant work- ers who, through lack of information, fall victim to false representations induce’ me once more, at the request of the Peofile’s Commissariat of For- eign Affairs, to call attention to the fact that these so-called ‘Russian con- suls’ represent no one but themselves and that the documents issued by them are invalid. “Furthermore, the very act of ap- plying to these self-styled consuls is being considered by the Soviet gov- ernment as an act hostile to the U. S. 8. R., which might in future consti- tute a bar to obtaining Soviet citizen- ship.” SWINDLED SERVANTS ‘Charged with swindling several Scandinavian servants by worthless stock sales amounting to $180,000, three men were held on $2,800 bail each by Judge. Allens in. General Sessions, Wednesday. The prisoners are: Tage Egnell, treasurer of the Oak Mortgage Corporation, 133 55th Street; Charles E. Thorn, managing director of that company, and the Scandinavian Exchange, the same ad- dress, and Henning Aauilan, secretary and treasurer of the Scandinavian Exchange. "GAS KILLS BLIND COUPLE Batista Alvanes, 70 years old, and his wife, Marie, 64 years old, who, had been blind for a year, were found dead of gas in bed in their home at RAKE IN SHEKELS. says, “I was authorized by the Mos-| WORKERS CENTER GALA OPENING IS CELEBRATED HERE $30,000 Drive Extended to May 15 (Continued. from Page One) from Alfred Knutson, organizer..in Bismare, "and others. All neck two hi and file work- ers, Goldfield and Elbaum, had been busy decorating the second floor of the building for the banquet under the direction of the two revolutionary artists, Adolf Wodff and Hugo Gel- lert. In the center of the wall’ oppo- site the entrance to the banquet hall, a great red star had been built, with hammer and sickle in the center, bril- liantly illuminated with electric lights. International Affair Beneath this star hung a large pic- ture of the leader of the proletarian revolution, Vladimir Iyitch Lenin. On another wall hung a picture of Charles E. Ruthenberg, late leader of the Workers (Communist) Party. Red bunting was strung from pillar to pillar throughout the hall, and rev- olutionary posters and banners, hung ‘on the walls, reminded the workers of the significance of the establishment of the Workers Center. The banquet was a truly interna- tional affair as workers of almost every nationalaty were present. letcos, which will occupy the ground floor of the new building. Alexander Trachtenberg, chairman - Workers Center, acted as chairman of the evening. The keynote speech was made by William W. Weinstone, district organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party, who pointed out of the Workers Center and urged that the ‘drive for $30,000 to pur- chase and finance the Workers Cen- ter be sent over the top. Bert Wolfe, director of the Workers School, Rob- ert Miner, editor of The DAILY 'WORKER, Alexander Bittelmann, Joseph Brodsky,.Parmore, a Negro jworker, and others spoke. It was announced that because of numerous requests from. Workers Party units and sympathetic organiz- ations to be given. more time to pro- perly organize their forces, it had been. decided to extend the campaign ‘to raise $30,000 until May 15. ‘This will give all workers an opportunity to contribute. The evening was enlivened with revolutionary songs played by an orchestra, Party to Hasten Drive Contributions to the $30,000. drive continued to come in. yesterday to 26-28 Union Square and 108'E, 14th St. Among the hew contributions were: Section 5, Branch 6, $110; 2C F2, $45; Section 4, 31, $34.50; 6B, $10; ID 2F, $20; 1B 1F, $35; Art. Work- ers Cooperative Studio, $10; and the | Chinese Fraction, Workers Party, $40. The ontinuation of the $30,000 drive to May 15 gives an opportunity to Workers Party units throughout the city and sympathetic organizations to add to their totals and surpass their quotas. Section 5, the Bronx, has done unusually good work, and unemployed workers throughout the city have often shown the way to their employed workers. The drive during the ‘next two weeks must be intensified, it is pointed out, and all workers must join in raising the $30,- 000 that will establish the Workers Center. MILL COMMITTEE CALLS STRIKERS (Continued from Page One) day when it was learned that Maybr Ashley was advising those workers applying for relief to BO" scabbing when the mills open again. This de- velopment is of far more significance than merely giving basis to the be- lief that the mills will try to open again. Its real import is far more vicious than that. It will be remembered that tl called relief committee organized the officials of the Textile Council the same one to which the ge have been advised by Mayor Ashley to apply for aid. This “relief com- mittee,” formed by. the Textile Coun- cil and having as its directors eae ‘256 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, yester-| the day. A, full-course meal was served by Pro- — the great revolutionary significance ==