The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1928, Page 1

4 & cpp yen ( t TAE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS. FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY WOMEN, CHILDREN MARCH IN PICKET LINE AT PORTAGE Mine Terror Rouses District | By AMY SCHECHTER. (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) PITTSBURGH, April 29.—Defying the state troopers who rode through Portage Thursday afternoon hurling tear bombs, trampling strikers’ chil-| dren and picking out Sa’ he-Union | leaders to place under arr st, six hun-| dred men and women marched four | miles over the hills from Jamestown | and Portage to close down Cassandra | No. 2 mine. iad Led by John Watt, vice chairman of | the Save the Union Committee, and| foremost militant in the Illinois dis- trict, the pickets arose before dawn and marched on the mine, one of she five at Cassandra and Lilly, in Cen-} tral Pennsylvania District 2 which | was recently signed up under a sepa-| rate agreement by Lewis. | Sixty men came. out at once and| the larger part of the remainder said they would fetch out their tools and quit the following day, “Union men, strike and don’t help | «to lick us!” “Strike and help our long ; fight for victory,” read the roughly | lettered signs the strikers carried. { Both state troopers and Lewis ma- } chine “pussyfoots” have-been on the valert since last Tuesday’s Save the j Union protest meeting against the District 2 separate agreement. betra, th al, at which John Watt flayed union-wrecking tactics Lewis is seek: ing to extend from Illinois to Cen tral Pennsylvania. Watt urged th: strikers and their women to march o the scab union mines. On, Thursday afternoon a nuniber of troopers, and police under Corporal} Charies H. Rodgers, mounted and i cars, came through Portage, looking (Continugd on Page sige) wy MAY DAY MEETING TO GREET CENTER ig / ‘ 33 First lew York, by matl, $6.00 per year. To Surrender Kun for Loan | from England { PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, April) 29.—Bela Kun is still in jail yeday| |and scores of workers thruout Vienna’ 'and the provincial cities “are. being| |rounded up in a series of raids such} as, have been hitherto unknown even! to“Austrian police terrorism. | With brutal and cynical frankness | it is being intimated by the Austrian; officials that Kun is being held as a kidnapping victim’ in an official) thieves’ ring and that his ransom, in| the form of loans from Great Britain or the United States, will be the price of turning him over to the Horthy terrorists in Hungary. e Even should this ransom not be forthcoming it is believed that the Austrian authorities will attempt to release Kun into the hands of the} Budapest government. In spite of the wave of anger which the news of Kun’s arrest in Vienna caused to sweep over the Austrian working class, it is understood that the Austrian government is awaiting instructions from Great Britain and Italy before taking open action. Hungary, thru its minister in Vien- na, has already put in a plea for the immediate extradition of Kun, not as the leader of the revolutionary Hun- garian workers, but as a murderer. It is believed that the extradition plea may be successful. Fe eae U. S. Protest Meetings. Mass~ meetings pf protest against the arrest of Big on have already (Continued: UNION OFFICIALS 5 ® tered am second-class ma York, N. ¥. SILENT AS NEW ATTACK LOOMS Mill Committees Rally, Strikers for Struggle | NEW BEDFORD, Mass., April 29. —Despite the opposition of the offi- cialdom of the American Federation of Textile Operatives, the Textile Mill Committees have issued a call to the 30.000 organized and unorgan- appear for picket demonstrations this morning. This is an an to the venort that most of the mill own- ers will open the factory gates in an effort to resume operatons. While the solid front presented Ly the strikers since the beginning of the struggle just two weeks ago gives no cause for belief that a sin- gle worker will return to the mills. Nevertheless the strikers plan to meet the threat of reopening the mills with mass picketing, the mill committee leaders declare. In their {eall they especially appeal to mem- bers of the union, saying that their officials’ action in refusing to per- mit mass demonstrations of strength were direct steps to break the solidar- jity of the strikers’ ranks. Raise Prices. " SPEAK FRIDAY Anti-Imperialist Affair Paul*Crouch, former corporal who served 2 years in the military prison at Alcatraz, California, for Com- te * muxist activities while in- the U. S.| Army in Hawaii, and who has just returned from the Soviet Union, wil: be a guest of honor at a dinner to be given by the New York branch of the All America Anti-Imperialist Celebration by 20,000 | rsomae, in conjunction with many Workers Expected | Latin-American, Chinese and Philip- | pine labor organizations, next. Fri- »The May. Day demonstration at Madison Square Garden tomorrow, ; which has been arranged by ithe! Workers (Communist) Party with the co-operation of many progressive ; trade unions and other labor organ-| izations, will cclebrate not merely) the holiday of the international workingclass, but will also be the| mass celebration of the New York workers of the establishment of the! Workers’ Center at 26-28 Union Sq. | Twenty thousand workers are ex-/ pected to welcome the new home of | the revolutionary movement at Mad- ison Square Garden tomorrow, thus inaugurating the second half of the campaign to raise $30,000 to pur-! chase and finance the Workers’ Cen- ter. The banquet Friday night at the Workers’ Center afforded ample proof of the significance of the Work- ers’ Center to the thousands of mil- itant workers of New York City and vicinity. The enthusiasm that prevailed and the response to the appeal for funds by Robert Minor,° editor of. The DAILY WORKER, showed that the establishment of the Workers’ Center was meeting a long-felt need. About $5,000 was contributed during the course of the evening, many of the contributions coming from sym- pathetic workingclass organizations. It was, however, pointed out dur- ing the evening that the Workers’ (Continued on Page Two) JAIL RUMANIAN ABOR LEADERS L 8 \ BUCHAREST (By. mail).—Two hundred trade union leaders connected with the Central Council of the Unis tary Trade Unions have been placed under arrest, Further arrests -are threatened in an editorial in the offi- eial government organ, “Vitorul.” At Oradia in Siebenbergen a work- ers’ home was pies by the police and about 10 rkers placed under arrest, The ers were subjected to torture by the police in order to extract confessions of membership in revolutionary organizations. Among those arrested was a little girl of twelve who was savagely whipped by the police. day, May 4, at the Oriental Restaurant, 416 Pell St. Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the Workers School, who spent several years ix Mexico, will speak on the American occupation of Nicaragua. Tickets for the dinner are on sale at the cffice of the anti-Imperialist League, 39 Union Square. 3 es HUNGER STRIKE FORCES ACTION PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, April 29.—A forty-eight hour hunger strike of the political prisonexs in the Pan-} kratz prison, cooperating with the} Red Aid in the city, has forced the prison authorities to ameliorate the wretched conditions of the political prisoners in the jail, The prisoners are now permitted to read, to study, to write letters, receive occasional visits and wear their own clothes. The Czech workers have been greatly encouraged by the success: of | the Red Aid which forced the Czecho- Slovak deputies to take notice of this activity. Fight Freight Rates BUENCS AYRES, April 29.— Statements by the national railroad board in the Argentine that an at- tempt will be made to reduce freight rates to the 1922 level thrusut the country, has‘brought an attack from the British railroad interests on the grovernment’s position. er James Goudge, the manager of the British owned Buenos Ayres-Pacific Railroad has arrived in the Argen- tine to carry on the struggle. Gas Attacks Rehearsed CHICAGO.—As_ part of the pre- poration for the next imperialist war. when chemical gases will be used to wipe out whole armies at a time, a class in chemical warfare has been opened at the 181st regiment armory, 16th and Michigan Ave. The class is being attended by about 69 offi- cers and non-commissioned officers cf the sixth corps area. F f Retail stores selling necessities cf \\life-have already increased prices. in| made in technique, are the high lights |that they did not know the deadly ra- addition to posting notices that busi- ness will be done.on a strictly. cash basis. This, it was learned. from some store owners whose friends and relatives are strikers, was done after exnress. instructions to this effect had been handed out by representa- tives of the mill owners. PG pe eg te Officials to“Arbitrate.” PAWTUCKET, R. 1, April 29.— The officials of the United Textile Workers of America agreed to “ar- bitrate” the demands of the owner: of the Darlington Textile Company and this offer was accepted yesterday by the mill bosses. The workers in this mill have been striking several weeks against an attempt of the em- jployers to slash wages and increase the number of looms attended by each | operative. , It is almost certain that the em- ployers will gain every one of their } demands, The company demands in addition to the wage cut and speed (Continued on Page Two) DISAPPEARANCE MEANS MURDER SALONIKI, Greece, April 29.— Michail Genowski, general- secretary of the Bulgarian Peasants’ League and secretary of the Amnesty Com- mittee in Sofia, Bulgaria, was ar- rested following an election ‘meeting in the Tirno district and has since then “vanished without a trace.” N. Donchev, prominent in an an- archist group in the capital, has also “disappeared without leaving a trace,” since the discovery of the group by the police. The “vanished without a trace,” which the pol‘ce are’ employing to describe the whereabouts of political prisoners, is interpreted to mean “murdered.” DON. COAL OUTPUT GROWS MOSCOW -(By mail).—The -out- put of coal in the Don Basin has increased 20 per cent in the last half year ascompared with the out- put for the: first half of the year. Machinery is rapidly being intro- duced in the Don Basin. NEW YORK, aR HE DAILY WORKER. tter nt the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1928 IPTION RATES: Im New York, by ed dally except Sunday by The National Daily Worker ‘This Carload of Food Wi i aS es Will Help Maintain Fighting Spirit of Miners _ SENN SYTNANE A . fr & ized textile workers on strike heré to! This picture shows a car being loaded with food to be sent | must eat! Send contributions to the National Miners’ Relief C | Pittsburgh. to coal mine The str Jommittee, 611 Penn Ave., | MANY FEATURES 47V IN “LABOR UNITY” United States Radium Co., painting May Issue Contains \structed to point their brushes with {their lips. As a result radium pene- | Vital Articles |trated their lips and is inevitably | The struggle in the coal fields, the |pringing painful death through rot- April 1 “National Save-the-Miners’ ting tissues. Union Conference” at Pittsburgh, the | wach young woman worker values great strike in the New England (her life at $250,000 and is contesting jtextile factories, the whole building |the technical defense erected by their |trades situation, and the prospects of |former employer that the statute of ‘building trades workers in view of |limitations bars their suits. The the revolutionary changes recently | workers are pleading before the court | in the May issue of “Labor Unity,” |dium was eating through their lips | organ of the Trade Union Educational and jaws and piercing through to League, 2 Wes: 15 Street, New York |their brains, until two years’ after City. \they quit their jobs. | Mechanization. | After several workers had died of A \the radium poisoning, the plant was All of these articles are profusely |cjosed in 1925 by the state health illustrated. ened of the building | mat ‘ 3 a indeistry, writs by Tack Tomistoney ‘edicine at present holds no hope’ of the painters’ union and National) oy the radium workers. Although Organizer of the . U. E. L. has with scientists are working on the problem it pictures showing how even such | 4¢ arresting radioactivity in the body, simple-handicraft activities as sawing leis cure has yet been discovered. boards and planing floors are now SAR RN Rds Nit done on the job with electric hand- saws and floor-sanding machinery. In this issue of Labor Unity the | | publication is begun of the thesis adopted by the Fourth World Con- | } gress of the Red International of La-| bor Unions, which is a plan for ac-) tivity in every country of the world. | if AUD TO MINERS E WOMEN RADIUM WORKERS ARE DYING NEWARK, N. J., April 29 (FP).—Five women workers are slowly dying as radium eats its way remorselessly into their bodies. The World of Labor. Pictures of the slaughter of work- ers in China by the reactionary Kuo- jmintang, of labor conditions in China, and of strikers and Red Guards strug- gling against the reaction there, are |placed with an article on the next |steps for the Chinese Labor move- |ment. Views on the life of women in odern industry, Vogel’s. story of his ork on a mule ship, and other phases of modern workers’ life are printed jin this issue. There is a two color cover by Fred Ellis. \Propose Re-Forestation Plan in. Congress | WASHINGTON, Apr. 29.—Creation |of a national forest reserve-in-each state, together with adoption. of -a | Permanent policy of reforestation, is |the purpose of a bill offered in the | House. The bi!l also provides for a | migratory bird refuge in each state where suitable loca‘ions exist. | The Mississippi flood would have been far less serious had the 160,000 acres of actual or potential forest land draining into the Mississippi been wholly planted in trees. Because ‘of the cutting off of the woodland in that region 14,000,000 acres of agri- cultural soil are carried away each year. Of the 822,000,000 of forested jland- originally contained in the con- tinental United States, only 128,00,- 000-acres of virgin forests remain. Saw timber-is disappearing eight and one-half times as fast as hew growth is replacing it. The Youth Conference for Miners’ Relief met yesterday afternoon at irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., with 100 delegates of 40 organ- izations of young workers represent- ing 12,000, in attendance. The conference was presided’ over by Max Helfand, president of Amer- ican Association of Plumbers’ Help- fers. It voted to arrange tag days in lcolleges, also hikes, affairs and mass |meetings to raise funds for the re- jlief of the striking coal miners. Joe Vranesevich, a striking miner from Kinlock, Pennsylvania, ad- dressed the delegates. He pointed out | |that the strike is now in its 14th | month and is becoming more bitter. The speaker told how the strikers, 25 per cent of whom are young work- jers, have been conducting a militant | struggle against the combined forces | jof the coal companies and the John | | (Continued on Page Five) | | Break | Wage) Laws VANCOUVER, B. C., April 29— Manufacturers of Vancouver are at- tempting to evade the minimum wage laws by dismissing men and employ- ing in their places women, whose |minimum wage is set by law at a | lower sum. | HOUSTON, Tex., April 29. — The {temporary injunction restraining of- puiners of the Southern Pacific lines in Texas and Louisiana from interfering with the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks has been made permanent. ‘Bosses 7 Mutat CITY, April 29.—Three members of the crew of a steamer were drowned off Atlantic City as a result of a storm which has lashed the New Jersey coast since last Fri- day. + < Many small fishing craft along the coast were driven from their moor- ings in the blasts of\the gale. The windows of many homes were smash- ed by the gale and heavy rain. Three persons were hurt near Freehold, N. J., when two automobiles in which they were riding crashed into trees As employes of the} luminous watch dials, they were in- BECKERMAN IN PIECE-WORK DRIVE Patches Rift With One- Time Foes ey, The Hillman administration in the | Amalgamated Clothing Workers | Union having rid itself of the prob- lem of obtaining the 40-hour week | from the men’s clothing bosses in Chicago and Rochester by agreeing to-lot--the: 44-hour -week “@tatrd, «the: ‘right wing Beekerman clique in con trol of the New York Joint Board have now become increasingly active in pushing their plans to Zorce the piece-work system on the New York| workers, | At a meeting of the execuiive | board of the Vestmakers Local held | recently, Beckerman openly declared | that only piece-work and the better| organization of the bosses into the} bosses association will benefit the| “industry.” The 44-hour week, plus | speed-up, indiscriminate discharge cf | workers, and continually rising stand- ards of production, are not enough} to “stabilize” the industry, said | Beckerman. Piece-work is needed also, he declared. The meeting was arranged by the} right wing in control of the Vest- makers’ Union in order to patch up the differences between them arfd the Beckerman machine. At this meeting Peter Mone, leader of the gang holding power in the Vestmakers’ Local made a speech in which he pledged of his followers | to “co-operate” with Beckerman for the “good of the industry.” Becker- | man, however, announced in reply that he needs no co-operation. What he needs are individuals to carry out his orders. Workers charge Becker- man is acquainted with the fact that | Pollack and Weiner, hitherto posing | as “progressives” in Local ha openly Wetrayed the work This, | it is believed, is responsible for his present mood, after a period of ab- solute silence. | PROPOSED CUT IN WAGES IS FOUGHT WARREN, R. I, April 29.—The local leaders of the United ‘Textile Workers of America, who have been 5, ail, $8.00 per yenr. | militant workers of New York, which INSTRUCTIONS FOR CREE FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ; THOUSANDS AT MAY DEMONSTRATION TOMORROW @ [ Mass Picketing to Meet Threat to Open Textile Mills. ] ~ ry for- WORKERS TO DOW: TOOLS FOR GREAT ‘GARDEN’ MEETING Miners’ Tableau Among Many Features Thousands of workers throughout | New York will drop their tools to | morrow and join with their comrades & | in other cities throughout the world” | in celebrating May Day, the holiday * of the international working class. < In this city the May Day celebra- tion will start with a demonstration of unemployed workers in Union‘ Square at 1 o’clock. The meeting will be addressed by John Di Santo, secretary of the New York Council’ of the Unemployed, Louis A. Baum, Pascal Cosgrove, George Powers,! Harry Blake, John Sherman, Morris Taft and others. Parade To Garden 7 From Union Square the unem- ployed workers will march to Madi- son Square Garden, carrying signa with slogans such as “Work or Main- tenance,” “Food and Shelter,” “Un- employment, Insurance.” At Madison Square Garden they will join in the general mass demonstration, of the a will start at 8 o'clock and end a Mi » Cops Will Do Their Stuff The police department is also paring to celebrate May Day ing detailed to “preserve o1 The Bomb Squad, the Industr Squad and other strike-breaking agencies will be on hand, ostensibly — to guard public buildings, churches and sacred personages such a8 Cardinal Hayes, but actually to ime timidate workers and act as provo- cateurs. # The Associated Shoe and Slipper Workers of Greater New York have joined the other militant organiza- tions in endorsing the Madison Square — Garden meeting, and have issued @ call to all shoe workers to lay down their tools and take part in the i demonstration. The appeal, signed by Louis Rudo- min, president, reads: “The Associated Shoe and Slipper Workers of Greater New York calls upon all shoe workers to drop their tools on the First of May and cele- brate the only labor holiday together: (Continued on Page Two) MAY DAY ISSUED Weinstone Urges Great Activity For Meeting To all units and all-members of the Workers (Communist) Party, Dis trict 2: 1. In order to make the May Day meeting successful, it is not only nee- essary to have a huge mass of peo ple, but particularly to draw othe workers from the big shops and from the trade union movement of the city, Every member is therefore directed to concentrate upon the distribution of the leaflets among the big shops im their sections, Ms 2. All Party members to make @ final effort to get, their trade union locals to come to the meeting on conducting a strike against the masse, and to make it their official Parker Mills here for many weeks, |May Day meeting, issued a reply to the treasurer of the} 3, All members in their fraternal company: who sent out a statement and workers’ clubs are to do likewise MANY CASUALTIES IN BLAST AND STORM. Three Drown; Two Die in Explosion; Many Lies Jeopardized which had fallen across the roads. tanker had just begun when the ex- _The steamship company did not | plosion occurred. give out the names of two of the * drowned seamen. They reported only the name of the captain, Noah H. Moore. a * * Fire Endangers 22. TVeNty TWO men were endan- 5 0. ae | gered when fire broke out in the gAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 29.— |boiler room of the Grace Line Caraca, Two workers were killed’ and six |@t Pier 83, foot of Hamilton Ave. injured when the Richfield Oil Com- | Brooklyn. The fire was caused by a pany tanker Richfield exploded yes- |!eaking oil supply line. terday on the waterfront at the Union| The men, who were in the boiler Irgh Works, room managed to fight their way out ork of draining the oil from the jof the flames. » two. weeks ago offering to take “ack | the workers if they agreed to accept Jord for this May Day meeting, and the wage cut. The primary issue of jto urge their members to attend this the fight, however, has been against | the bosses’ declarations that no union had the right to tell them when and where not to “curtail their expenses,” | even if the “curtailment” took the | form of a wage cut. | In the letter issued by the union officials, they declare that the de- mand in the treasurer’s statement that “the management would brook no interference from an outside or- ganization in the conduct of its busi- | ness,” is acceptable to the union. The | bureaucrats’ letter then praises the and to get their organization on ree- meeting. “3 4. If your shop d6es not quit for the entire day, make every effort to get the workers to take off after lunch hour and attend the meeting. 5. The program will continue from 3 to 7, ‘ District Executive Committe, William W. Weinstone, Dist. Organizer, * * * All comrades are expected to report not later than 12:30 at 0 Square Garden, Tuesday, May 1, to” assigned to duty at the boss for not insisting on an increase in hours above the 48 previously worked. tion, Bert Miller, Or; Secretary,