The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 3, 1928, Page 1

} Militant American workers, too one coast of the country to the other, observed May Day with crowded meetings in all centers. At the left is a picture of the thousands of wor under the auspices of the New York District of the Workers (Communist) Party, to celebrate labor's international holiday. The picture atthe right shows unemployed workers, OF NEW YORK WORKERS EXPRESS SOLIDARITY ON LABORS who gathe Union Square at a meeting held tinder the auspices of the New York Council of the Unemployed. (Picture on left by courtesy of the Daily Mirror.) THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UDNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 104. T Extered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. E DAILY wo ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Publishing Association, Inc., 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Outside New York, by mail, $4.00 per year. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 GREAT ers who gathered in Madison Published daily except Sumday by The National Daily Worker Square Gard red early in the afternoon FINAL CITY | EDITION per year. Price 3 Cents “U.S. COURT SANCTIONS 1. R.T. 7 CENT FARE STEAL Brophy. and Toohey, Mine | Militants, ats, Nail the Lies of Mellon’s Henchmen WORLD LABOR DEMONSTRATES MIGHT ON MAY DAY 18400 MILITANTS peererersmes SAVE-THE-UNION | “emer” [HOLD MILITANT | ee AT HUGE GARDEN MEETING IN N.Y. Over Quarter Million in. City Down Tools Three hundred thousand New York} workers dropped their tools and. join- ed with their comrades thruout the| world in celebrating May Day, the holiday of the international working! class. More than 18,000 of these workers jammed Madison Square Garden in the afternoon in one of the most en-' thusiastic proletarian demonstrations | ever held in this city. ‘ “Garden” Saturated in Red. The demonstration was arranged by the Workers, (Communist) Party with the cooperation of a large num- ber of progressive trade unions and} labor organizations. Early in the afternoon the workers in holiday mood began congregating and the huge bowl of Madison Square Garden gradually grew into a vibrant mass of colors, in which the red of the revolutionary working class pre- dominated. Several thousand mem- bers of the Young Pioneers, with red, banners, enlivened the meeting with! cheers and songs. Even before the meeting was for- mally opened, the holiday spirit of the crowd was much in evidence, When a group of Chinese and Japan-) ese workers marched into the hall,| carrying a huge red banner, they were greeted with thunderous ap- | plause. Applause also greeted the, (Continued on Page Two) HUGE PARADE IS HELD IN MOSCOW May Day Is Celebrated Thruout U.S.S. R. a bot (Special Cable to The Daily Worker). MOSCOW, May 2—Work thruout the Soviet Union was stopped yester- day as millions of workers and peas* ants joined in monster May ‘Day de- monstrations and made clear their determination to defend the workers’ republic and fight for the’ construc- tion of socialism. On the morning of May First a’ military parade was held in the Red Square which was followed by a mass parade in which, more than a million workers participated. Men and wo- men, carrying rifles, and young com- somols filed past the Lenin mausol-) eum in what was one of the most en- thusiastic demonstrations ever held in Moscow. ‘Huge placards carried by wat kews carried slogans like these: “Frater- nal greetings to the workers of the pag and to all colonial peoples!” live the struggle of the Sovict . tinlonieer disarmament!” gags with mt” : a LEADERS EXPOSE OPEN SHOP TOOLS “Labor” Editors Tried _to Frame Militants (Brectal to The DAILY WORKER): PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 2. — Fol- lowing’ a sweeping denial made by John Brophy to news reporters yes- terday of the “hairbrained’” accusa-! we tions made against him in the Senate| Investigating Committee hearing by} Lew McGrew, editor of the boss-con-| trolled “Labor World,” the fol-| lowing statement was made public to-| day by Pat Toohey, Secretary of the} Save the Union Committee: Two “Labor” Editors. } “The strikebreaking activities of) Léw McGrew and Vichestain, editors respectively of the fake labor papers ‘Labor World’ and ‘National Labor Tribune’ is well known, McGrew’s sheet is, beyond doubt, subsidized by the steel trust, while that of Viches- tain is admittedly supported by the gf William D. Haywood, veteran lead- er of militant labor, is re;orted cying in the Kremlin Hospital in Moscow, He joined the Communist Party after being the head of the Industrial Workers of the World for many years. W. D, HAYWOOD IS Baron von Heunefeld, German fas- cist who flew the Atlantic has re- placed the Horthy terrorist delega- tions in the generous heart of Tam- many Hall. The German flyers,'who | DEMONSTRATIONS | left wing workers have been arrested land the socialists was particularly| flew. the Atlantic as a propaganda stunt for the German monarchists, | were given (appropriately) a royal welcome by the Tammany. administra- | DYING IN MOSCOW Led Militant Labor in . 8. for Many Years MOSCOW, May 2.—William D. Pittsburgh Coal Company, and other facts in this connection are common! \knowledge to those familiar with la-| bor history. tion of New York City. The drawing “During the Coal strike in West-|is by Vose. moreland County several years ago as/ — STOP PICKETING | Haywood, founder of the Industrial|on the unions, and carried column Workers of the World, is dangerously |after column of propaganda favorable ill in the Kremlin Hospital after a \to the employers. His paper today is Batty Assaults Leader | of Demonstration paralytic stroke last night; He is being distributed in every mining com- reported to be sinking rapidly. \munity, in an attempt to break the Haywood, at. present..a member |morale of the strikers and force them | of the Russian Communist Party; was |back-to work. It is well known that for many years an outstanding leader |the Cambria Steel Company paid ten | in many strikes of great militancy in various parts of the United: States. Haywood was the leader of the great | Lawrence textile strike of 1913. He was in the forefront of many indus- trial battles and during the entire period of his activity in the United late his sheet to the steel workers in the 1919 strike, using the city direct- jory as a mailing list. McGrew proved himself a complete faker when he openly stated before the Senate Committee that he had cents per copy to McGrew to circu- | NEW BERFORD, Mass., Led by Fred Bealt and Willi dock, a large group of the Textile Mills Committee pickets in the strike of 27,000 textile workers today paraded in front of Hathaway mills. (Continued on Page Five) .Women strikers carried babies in ‘their arms. This was one of a series “CENTER” FUNDS NEEDED * demonstrations planned by the jleaders of the Textile Mill Commit- | bees. ro te * =NEW BEDFORD, Mass, May 2.— Enraged by the success with which the Textile Mill Committees have been mobilizing thousands of strikers in the last few days to picket the mills attempting to resumt.operations, W. E. G. Batty, chief official of the re- actionary Textile Council, drove up (Continued on Page Two) Working W Women Boosting C Campaign With May Day over, the militant workers of New York are settling down to intensive work in the last lap of the drive for $30,000 to purchase and finance the Workers Center at 26-28 Union Square, May 15 has been set as the day when the drive will, come to an end. A large part of the $30,000-is still to be raised, and graves. efforts on the |to a picketing demonstration led by part of every worker will be-necessary, it is poin' out, if the Workers} Fred Beal, leader of the mill commit- Center is to become the new--tome of the revolutionary” movement of this | tees, and assaulted him. The Textile city and vicinity. Council which comprises a small per- Many units of the Workers {Communist Party have begun to collect |centage of the 30,000 textile workers funds on an even wider scale than before in order to raise their quotas, The | 0M strike here, is conducting a bitter enthusiasm that was manifested at the banquet last Friday has served as a|fight against the niass picketing slo- spur to all militant workers. Friends and sympathizers, trade unions, frater-|@an of the Textile Mill Committees, nal organizations, cooperatives and other workingclass organizations are |Who are rapidly recruiting into their being actively canvassed. Additional collection lists may, be secured at 26-28 membership thousands of the 25,000 Union Square or at 108 B.-14th St. unorganized workers on strike. Those in charge of the drive announce that a revolutionary banner will rs Batty Flees. be awarded to the organization that collects the most money in the drive. Batty’s attempt to break up the A special affair will be arranged at the end of the campaign, at which this.|Pi¢keting, the effectiveness of which banner will be awarded. Many workingclass organizations have thus far |'® attested by the fact that the done good work in the drive, and they have pledged themselves to continue strikers succeeded in preventing 50 gathering fonds to establish the building that: will be the center of all the left seabs. ftom | entering. the. Wameutts Mills, failed miserably, even after the 3 AContinined on Page Two) “(Continued on Page Two). — THRUOUT EUROPE l10 Killed as as Socialists! Break Up Warsaw Meet, WARSAW, May 2.—More se 500! following a clash which resulted when | socialists attempted to bar militant | workers from Opera Souare. Ten per- sons were killed and more than al hundred wounded in the clash. | Feeling between left wing cwal Harry Eiseman, member of the Young Pioneers of America was ar- bitter in view of the virtual alliance | "¢sted in front of P. S. 61, the Bronz, which has be: oncluded by the so-| 7 May Day when ies was distributing cialist leade the Sejm with the leaflets tg the children urging them Pilsudski regime. |to celebrate the workers’ holiday. He More than 50,000 left wing workers | #4 held in prison over night and re- participated in the left wing demon-| leased on $100 bail yesterday. A stration. Huge demonstrations were} \ threat to deport him has been made. held in Lode, Grodno, Vilna and other | ye cape LEWIS EXPELS “es oe 8 | (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, May 2.—One of the larg- est May Day demonstrations ever held in Berlin was held yesterday. For more than five hours columns of workers marched to Treptow Park | Where the demonstrations were held. The flags and placards of the Com- munist Party were dominant at the meeting. The election propaganda autos of the Communist Party and the march- ing columns of the Red Front Fight-! ers were enthusiastically greeted by | (Continued on Page Three) | Additional May Day | | Greetings to Appear Fears Activities of Or- ganizer PITTSBURGH, Pa., Isaiah Hawkins, United May 2.— Negro member of Mine Workers’ Local Union| | zation work and strike activity in the | non-union fields under the aus |of the Save-th nion Committee expelled from the United Mine Wo ers at a meeting last Wednesd: The action of the local, which is thts me i. controlled by officers favorable to the Died uaa policies of the Lewis administration omitiad ree the May Dayceditina| |was taken following the receipt of a of The DAILY WORKER. These, communication from the International fi tee office of the union, temporarily at! jfogether with additional May’ Day) | washington, D. C., demariding the ex- jarticles,y will appear . during os pulsion of all: progressives who either r} next few days. Bh “ bes (Continued on Page Three) DAILY WILL MOVE SOON Because of “techiteal considera-| A.“New Dress” for the Did you notice the appearance of the MAY DAY edition of The DAILY WORKER? How would you like your paper to be like that every day? Did you notice that the MAY DAY edition of The DAILY WORKER | was a larger paper? That is because each page consisted of eight columns instead of seven. How would you like your paper to be like that every day? The DAILY WORKER is planning to move into its new home, The Workers’ Center, Thousands of workers pass Union Square to and from work. Imagine what, it will mean when a blazing sign with the words “DAILY WORKER” greets them as they come and go. Help us move into our new quarters. This means a saving in rent. With the “(New Dress,” with the new headquarters and with an enlarged | paper we cut down expenses and are making further steps in our march onward, We are now beginning a campaign to raise $5,000 in order to make these necessary improvements for The DAILY WORKER. Will you help in the march onward? Send in your contribution as the first step. BUSINESS MANAGER. ‘NEGRO MILITANT | 762, who has been engaged in organi- i Urge All to Aid Paper’s Change to Center ‘MASS REFUSAL T0 PAY INCREASE IS | EXPECTED TODAY \Hold Al Smith, Jimmie Walker Responsible The seven-cent fa ¥ granted to the InterVor Ra Transit Company in a dec n hande down by the federal statutory co which made permanent an injunction restraining the city from in any way | interfering with the company in. col- lecting the in ed fare. While the fin: decision as to whether the seve charge is to be ¢e blished will pend upon the federal courts. The almost ur on record of these courts in g e increases to transit companies “makes it quite cer- \tain that the seven eent fare is now See ee permanent fact—unless the imme- | diate mass opposition of the city’s | workers and riders through protest meetings, refusal to pay the fare increase, and demonstrations against the Tammany Hall administration equally responsible with the courts for the increase, will prevent the huge steal. How Courts Work. The decision granting the Inter- borough application for a restraining lorder against the city and the New | York State Transit Commission was igned by Judges Bondy, Knox and | Manton and is based on the plea by the company that the continuance of act with the city of > is the equivalent of the company’ on Page Two) action of the high ro) (Continued ZARITSKY BEGINS MILLINER POGROM |Dissolves Local Before | Members Gan _ Protest Contemptuous of the overwhelm- ing protest of the membership of the Millinery Hand Workers’ Local 43 of the Cloth Hat, Cap ‘and Millinery | Workers’ International, against at- |tempts of the geenral executive board to destroy their lacal by a fake amal- gamation scheme, Max Zaritsky. president, and his henchmen on the general board have made public their {refusal to rescind the order to dis- solve the millinery local. } Ignores Will of Membership In announcing their intention to dis- regard the protest of the milliners, registered when a meeting of 1,500 held recently, voted unanimously to demand withdrawal of the dissolution plans of the right wing, Zaritsky showed that the wishes of the mem- bership are of no concern to him. This new decision was made several days ago after local meeting of 1,500 milliners voted unanimously for a committee of 13 to appear before the general board with the member- ‘ontinued on Page Two