The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 3, 1928, Page 2

pase Two } THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1928 Mellon’s “Labor” Editor Pictures Red Mine Penil Sweeping Over Country OPEN SHOP TOOL OFFERS T0 SHOW LAWYER IS FIXEE Pittsburgh Attorney Spills Beans ( (F P) Ma bitumin. senate WASHINGTON, Hearings situation before the on the commerce mittee became on April 30 when Louis McGrew, tor of the Pittsburgh Labor Wor! self-style expert on nee | ganda, Co., the the United J moderate speech by e g the end Wheeler, who had been questioned MeGrew to bring out the his claim that John Brophy ar of Moscow. by of other left wing leaders were getting money from Mellon’s Pittsburgh Coal a| Co., had to laugh when the witne declared that he had identified 4 Communists on the platform when Wheeler spoke in Pittsburgh. Tell on Each Other. Don Rose, hardboiled counsel for the Mellon concern, protested that! McGrew did not be’ his own) charges. McGrew retorted by warn-| ing “Don” that within two weeks he, McGrew, would come back enough to “make this ceiling down” concerning Rose’s record as a} “fixer” for the company. Rose denied | that he had ever “fixed” a jury. McGrew had lots of startling “in-| and te formation.” For example, that the} Soviet Government or its backers] were “going to spend $20,000,000 in this country”; that they planted 500 agents in the central competitive coal | field a year ago; that W. Z. Foster} was at the head of this organization; | that they wanted to “get” John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers; that they planned to set up a Soviet Republic, through capturing first the U. M. W. A., and then get control of steel and other basic in- dustries ‘ they have in England.” “Cal” Now Knows All. Wheeler asked, in surprise, about this Communist power in England. McGrew informed him that he had information “from Scotland Yard” that one-eighth of the population of | England is now. Communist. As thouch to clinch this point, McGrew confided to the committee that he had (Continued on Page Five) ZARITSKY PUSHES UNION - WRECKING (Continued from Page One) ship’s demand that Zaritsky withd: his destructive plans. In their ins ence that Local 43 dissolve, and the fact that thet made this decision} public before the milliners had an opportunity to voice their opinion at a membership meeting to be held to- night, the right wing in control of the International showed their com- plete disregard of the wishes of the 4,000 women members of the unjon. Over the signature of Zaritsk letter was sent out to all the Lqcalj 43 members ordering them to appear immediately at the office of the right wing Local 24 and exchange the L 43 union books for one of the for- mer. In the latter he declared th; the union which cost the women so much energy and blood to build was no longer in existence. The meeting of the to be held at 8 p. m 725 Sixth Ave., near 42nd St. There the reply given to their committee of 18 by the geenral executive board is to be voted on. Progressives’ Proposals men’s local The committee of Local 43. at the; heaving before the general executive scored the fake amalgamation ene of the right wing, declaring t their local’s membership always “avere and are in favor of real amal- gamation. Their proposals to effect true amalgamation were completely) disregarded by the Zaritsky majority on thé board. They proposed that tiie following steps be taken for a demo- eratic amalgamation: 1. That the ex- ecutive boards of the two locals be merged first; 2. a joint meeting. of both to work out plans for a general election; 3. a meeting to be called of the membership for approval; 4. gen- eal democratic elections for the lead- ership of the amalgamation union. These were refused. The establish- ment of a Joint Board of all three millinery unions in New York, unani- mously voted for at the last member- ship meeting of Local 43 was also turned down by the right wing. This action of the reactionary ¢lieque in control of the union, marks the second attack against progressive or militant leadership in the cap and millinery workers’ organization. Zarit- sky recently removed the leader of the Chicago capmakers’ strike because he was conducting too militant a strug- gle against the enslaving piece work system, which Zaritsky favors “for the good of the industry.” j be fall) Bryant Hall,| THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. Owned and published by by The Workers (Communist ) Party of America, American Section International, Thursday, May 3, the of the Commun ist 1928. “WB DISTRIBUTES 1 heir militant press, giving out the faper at shops, at mills, at union \alls and all places where the work- rs of Philadelphia are accustomed > get together. The May Day distribution, which vas ably directed by The DAILY VORKER Builders’ Club under the leadership of Leo Lemley, is one of the most extensive ever undertaken in the city. It is estimated that hundreds of workers have been familiarized with the fighting daily thru this distribution. The Philadelphia DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club has been | i | | Nicaraguan Army Gets Aid From U. S. Iygepy fief aces f* “ena. | wh po aged Cum ow! ‘ft | | { | Bandages and medical supplies CA. mace Orit rpasabet- horigus A Een tail atu Aiton: if, 4 7 pele Tor eende Hondao , hye ton E> a oun) Ce Mis Ry, Lyre jforr be mde, whe fe wie dover Oe oa ayy er sent»by the United States section of the All-American Anti-Imperialist League are healing the wounds of the heroic soldiers fighting under Gen. Augustine Sandino for the independence of Nicaragua, invaded by United States marines. Here- and is a reproduction of a letter received by the national office of the league here from Gov. Sandino’s representative, Senor lan Turcios. SANDINO RECEIVES LEAGUE SUPPLIES Soldiers’ Wounds Bound With U.S. Bandages | That aid from this country is reach- ing General Augusto C. Sandino in Nicaragua is definitely established in communication received yesterday by) the United States Section of the All-: America Anti-Imperialist League, 39) Union Square. The communication is from Senor Froylan Turcios, General Sandino’s personal representative. It acknowledges, with thanks, receipt, of} a shipment of bandages and medical supplies sent by the United States Section of the All-America Anti-Im- perialist League, and reads as follows: “I have received and forwarded to its destination the shipment of ban- dages and medical supplies which your organization sent for the cham- pion of our people, who, thru me, re- |turns for them his most sincere thanks. “Yours for the All-America Anti- Imperialist League. oy “Froylan Turcios” Manuel Gomez, secretary of the League, stated that his organization would continue its campaign to raise funds for medical aid to Sandino’s forces, ‘‘not out of charity but as a means to combat the marine invasion of Nicaragua.” Gomez, with 106 other supporters of the Anti-Imperialist League, was jarrested and fined recently for picket- ling the White House at Washington with placards demanding the im- mediate withdrawal of the marines oe ee at BROPHY, TOOHEY EXPOSE EDITORS *Anti-Imperial Affair Will Be Held Friday) “A Night in Nicaragua and the Philippines,” arranged by the New York Branch of the All-America Anti- Imperialist League for tomorrow eve- ning at 7 o’clock at the Oriental Res- taurant, 4-6 Pell St., Chinatown, is expected to be one of the most. unique radical entertainments of the year. A large number of reservations have already come into.the offfice of the League, it was announced last night by Harriet Silverman, secretary of the New York branch. Among those who will speak briefly at the affair are Paul Crouch, Com- munist ex-soldier, who has just re- turned from the Soviet Union; Ber- tram D. Wolfe, agitprop director of the Workers’ (Communist) Party; Robert W. Dunn; H. P. Chiang of the Alliance to Suport the Chinese-Peas- ant Revolution; Andres Binghay, of the Philippine Club of New York, and Edwardo Machado, of the Venezuelan Labor Union. Following the supper, an elaborate program of entertainment will be presented. Dancing will follow Tickets are obtainable at the office of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, 39 Union Square, local office of The DAILY WORKER, 108 E. 14th St., and Workers’ School, 108 E. 14th St. Reservations must be made no later than Friday noon. Passengers to Demand Ferry Drowning Probe) A mass meeting of the men and women who were passeng on the ferryboat Bronx when it sea Friday ‘night, sweeping five men into the bay, has been called by | Patrick Hefferman, of New Brighton, | The | S. I. one of the passéngers. meeting will be held Monday night at Borough Hall, St. George, S.‘I., and (Continued fone Page One) | falsely represented himself as Brophy | \in a telephone call to the Pittsburgh | Coal Company. | “The charge that sums of money, carried iri a mysterious brown sat- chel and delivered in a hotel corridor to Brophy by Vichestain as a bribe to guard against pulling out non-union miners in the employ of the Pitts- burgh Coai Co., is a ridiculous fabri- cation. “The strike-breaking mines have been a special objective of the Save the Union Committee for many months and particularly the mines of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. The Delmont mine, White Valley, Pa. (Westmoreland County) owned by the Pittsburgh Coal Co., and non-union for years, was a special objective of our Committee. The miners at this mirie, 650 in number, struck solidly. That McGrew’s fake charge does not hold water is substantiated by the fact that scores of mass picket lines under the leadership of our Commit- tee marched upon and picketed scores of mines thruout Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois in an effort to close them down and spread the strike. LINDBERGH DENIES STORY WASHINGTON, May 2.—Charles A. Lindbergh today denied the latest story that he would make a flight to Europe this summer with stops at Greenland and _ Ireland. Major Thomas G, Lanphier of the Army Air | its purpose, he said, would be to learn the cause of the accident. The Tam- many Hall officials have attempted to blame the accident on the pas- | sengers. Only.two of the five were rescued. POTOMAC RIVER IS RISING N. Y. WORKERS IN HUGE MAY FIRST Over 18,000 Militants Crowd “Garden” (Continued from Page One) entrance of the members of the Uni- ted Council of Workingelass Women and the workers of the Proletcos Co- operative Restaurant. The spirit of the occasion was heightened by the revolutionary post- ers and banners that decorated the hall. “Prepare for Revolution.” The meeting was opened by Wil- liam W. Weinstone, district organizer} of the Workers (Communist) Party.) who acted as chairman. “Today,” Weinstone said, “workers in every country of the world stretch forth their hands and join in expressing the To All Units, To All Section Organ- izers, To Alll Organizations: We call upon you at once to set- tle for all outstanding May Day tickets. The meeting in Madison Square Garden is always expensive and we do not wish to have a defi- cit. If all the tickets that have been sold in advance’will be paid for im- mediately we will be able to cover | all the expenses of the meeting. We | units and section organizers to co- | operate in this matter. Settle for your tickets immedi- ately! WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE, District Organizer. | } solidarity of the revolutionary work- ing class. The New York police have tried to create the impression that we have come here to make a revolution. But the time is not yet ripe for, that. We have come here to prepare for the revolution that will come.” Cheer Lovestone, Foster. Continued applause greeted the in- troduction of Jay Lovestone, execu- tive secretary of the Workers (Com- munist) Party. Loyestone anal)zed the present political situation in the United States, He discussed the tasks of the American working class and the role of the Communists and called on all class-conscious workers to join the Workers Party. An ovation also greeted the intro- duction of William, Z. Foster, who pointed. out that American capitalism shows the same weaknesses as world capitalism, and its crisis is approach- ing.. The betrayals of the labor’ bur- eaucrats and the socialists, Foster said, have opened the eyes of thou-| say ds of. workers. “New. struggles: it:us with the capitalists and their jagents within the ranks of labor,” \hefdéelared, “and new victories.” Minor Speaks. “Bhe importance of the revolution- y press was emphasized by Robert or, editor of The DAILY WORK- Minor also made an appeal for contributions to the new Workers) Center and pointed out the signific-| jance of the venture for the New York revolutionary movement. Ina brief talk Scott Nearing, speak-} ing on “Capitalism—May 1, 1928,”| urged all workers to join trade unions and the ranks of the Workers (Com- \munist) Party. Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint Board, Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union, and Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board, Furriers’ Union, were also greeted with great ovations, the WASHINGTON, May 2.—The flood |Workers rising spontaneously to their menace was brought home to the cap- feet and applauding. They discussed ital today. The rising Potomac led |the role of the left wing in the needle engineers to fear that Washington trades and the betrayais of the right may be in fo rthe worst flood since|Wing who were seeking to substitute) the disastrous high water of 1889,; jclass collaboration for the class bbs inundated Pennsylvania aye- struggle. Juliet Stuart Poyntz, national di- { | i | | DEMONSTRATION | request all organizations and all |p’ | to go back to school. as well as republican leaders if the 1,000 DAILY WORKERS Knapp Frauds May Implicate Democrats Photo shows Mrs. Florence E, Knapp, photographed while on trial in Albany for census frauds while she was secretary of state of New York. Mrs. Knapp is reported to have threatened to implicate denvocratic greatly encouraged by its success and is preparing to intensify its ac- tivities in-the coming months. It promises that the work of sub- seription collecting will be carried on with inereasing enthusiasm as the Club ‘continues to enlarge its membership. charges against her are pressed, rector of women’s work of the Work- \ers’ Party, spoke on the “Significance |of May Day to the Working Women.” “The working women,” she said, “are |fighting side by side with the men in the struggles of the workers against the capitalist class. In the }eoal strike and in the struggles in the needle trades the women have | Played a heroic role.” Poyntz also emphasied the role of the revolution- ary working women in China and So- viet Russia. Phil Frankfeld, of the Young Work- ers’ (Communist) League, spoke on “The Present War Danger and the Youth,” Richard B. Moore, secretary of the American Negro Labor Con- gress, on “May Day and the Op- ressed Races,” and a Young Piondéer on “The Workingclass Child and ae Day.” Demand Kun, Mooney Release A resolution was unanimously adop- ted to send a telegram to the Aus- itrian government demanding the re- lease of Bela Kun. Resolutions were also adopted asking that Tom Mooney e freed and expressing solidarity with the striking miners and the striking textile workers of New Bed- ford. 3,000 unemployed workers attended an open-air meeting in Union Square, held under the auspices of the New York Council of the Unemployed, and listened to several speakers who pointed out the persistent ignoring of ‘the unemployment situation on the part of city and -state officials and called on the workers to rally around the demands of the Council. The entire police force, including the bomb and industrial squads, was on duty until midnight of May Day, but in efforts to provoke the workers and break up demonstrations. Sam Sturgis and L. Pappas, two workers. were arrested for distributing May Day leaflets at 42nd St. and 10th Ave. They were taken to the 30th St. Po- lice Station and then to Jefferson Market Court, where they were fined $2 each. The International Labor De- fense paid the fines. - Twenty members of the Young Pio- neers were arrested in front of P. S. 61, the Bronx, for distributing May Day leaflets and calling the children to come out of school. They were taken to the Tremont Ave. Station and then to the Children’s Court, Washington Ave. near 161st St., where they were all released and told Nine of these were demoted one term when they returned to their classes, Sidney Zwirling, a student at P. S. 128, Bath Beach, was demoted two terms for distributing May Day leaf- lets on Monday. Zwirling is a mem- ber of the Young Pioneers. Another student, Harry Eisman, who refused to attend school on labor’s holi- day, was held in custody: and taken to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He was kept there overnight and then released on $100 bail, furnished by the Interna- ‘tional Labor Defense. Eisman, to- gether with the other children, will appear for a hearing tomorrow. They will be represented by Jacques Buit- enkant, counsel for the I, L, D. REPUBLICAN CIRCUS IS FORECAST Negro Disfranchised by Democrats, Segregated ‘by Repu Republicans By HUGO OEHLER. | adbaests CITY, May 2.—The Re- publican party will put on its cireus in Kansas City, June 12. The party of Mellon, Morrow, Hoover, Rockefeller and Sinclair, the party of the bosses, will pick their standard bearers for the 1928 election. Delegates from all parts of the country will come to the city. Hotels will be crowded to the roofs. Special hotels will be re- served for state delegates, * * Caucuses, bidding, trading and money will go back and forth while * Service, who was mentioned as his co-pilot, iseued e similar denial, E. the office boys of imperialism and big business parade. Newpentare eel will grind out “O:K. stuff.” for the workers to digest. The convention was moved to the west for the farmers, but now it is announced that the convention will be a Jim Crow convention. Hotels refuse to take in Negro delegates and they will have to be lodged at the Negro Y. M. ©. A. The Negroes will be segregated, at the convention as well. * * ° ‘és 'HE Houston democratic conven- tion will not have Negroes and when the republicans heard that the New York gang was going to leave the Negroes at home they tried to make capital out of this. But when the Negro politicians told them of the Jim Crowism in Kansas City they «changed their tune. Already the Negro papers are taking up this issue and will continue to talk about this long after the convention. * * * ‘ODAY the 14th and 16th amend-, ments are dead letters under the” republican and democrat rule. The so-called Anti-Lynching, Law will be used as a strike-breaking law. The republican convention will be an eyeopener for the Negro work- ‘ers who in larger and larger num- bers will leave thé republican party . for the class party of the workers and poor farmers, the Workers (Communist) Party. r FUNDS FOR NEW CENTER NEEDED Working Women of City Aid Campaign (Continued from Puge One) wing activities of this city. The board of directors of the Work- ers Center is arranging an entertain- ment for this Saturday and Sunday. The Modjacot marionette players, di- rected by the artists, Yossel Cutler and Zuni Maud, will give matinee and evening. performances at the Workers! Center Saturday and Sun- day. The’ Modjacot performances, which are humoruos in nature, are considered unique of their kind, and the entertainment will be entirely new to many workers. ‘The board of directors also an- nounces’ that’ all pledges should be made ‘good at once as a large pay- ment, on the building must be made within ‘a few days and all possible funds are needed. New Contributions. Among new contributions to the drive that have come in within the last few days are: Section 1, Branch 6, $110; Section 4 1B, $50.25; Finnish Unit,’ $28.25; Section 2, FD8, $36; Section 1, Night Workers, Branch 1, $51; 1D 1F, $57; Section 1, Night Workers, Unit 1, $10; 1AC 6F, $40. 1D 8F, $21; 2B 6F, $25; 6B 2F, $10; 1B 1F, $10; Section 3, $55; and Sec- tion 6, FD3, $28. Section 1 is still leading in funds collected, and has raised about half of its $2,800 quota. Other sections, May 15 less than two weeks away, workers throughout the city are urged to devote as much time as pos- sible to the work of raising the re- quired sum. Real Labor, Home. Commenting on the drive to raise $30,000 to establish the Workers Center, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, national director of women’s work of the Workers (Communist) Party, de- clared yesterday: “The Workers Center is the great- est undertaking ever launched by the working class of New York City. A center to house all the leading insti- tutions of the militant labor move- ment: press, education, political ac- tivities—this has been the dream of the New York movement for years. Great efforts were made by the work- ers in the past to realize this dream. The Forward building, the New York Call buildings, the Rand School, the needle.trades headquarters and labor lyceums were built with the pennies of the workers, painfully scraped to- gether with much sacrifice, only ta be confiscated by a small group of right wing. plunderers for their own profit. To Rally Workers “Now at last the militant workers of New York can build a home for themselves safe from the danger of expropriation and prostitution by the misleaders of labor. For the new Workers’ Center on Union Square will be under the guardianship of the van- guard and-leader of the revolutionary movement, the Workers’ (Commun- ist) Party. Only in such hands can the workers entrust the building up of their labor center, to be a rallying point for the forces of the working class’ in the years of conflict ahea “The Workers’ Center, as it do velops, will prove one of the greates! sources of strength to ‘the militant labor movement. In the new strug 4 gles that develop with American im- perialism, the Communist movemen! and: the left wing will find the Work- ers’ Center on Red Square a citadel around which the masses will rally From the new and greater Workers’ School and DAILY WORKER there TEXTILE LABOR HEAD ASSAULTS ~ PICKET LEADER Fails in Attempt to Dis- courage Militancy (Continued from Page One) frustrated official called the police., Beal put up an effective defense from which Batty escaped only to return almost immediately with a police squad, About two thousand strikers rallied to the eall issued by the Textile Mill Committees for a picketing demon- stration yesterday morning before the gates of the Achushnet, Hathaway * |and Potomska mills. Several hundred workers were concentrated around the factories of the Wamsutta mills. All these plants had strenuously denied any intention to reopen the mills, hoping by a denia to avoid strikers’ demonstrations. Union Officials Idle. While the Textile Council officials refused to take any measures at all to halt the attempt to open the mills, the Textile Mill Committees set about organizing the workers to picket the plants. The Wamsutta mills mob- ilized their whole staff of petty fore- men, office workers and a few seabs to enter the miils in the morning and start the hitherto silent looms. The pickets, however, prevented all but a few of the superintendents from en- tering, thus preventing the company officials from carrying out their plans. The mill owners believed that the sound of looms in operation would make the workers believe that many have returned to work. The incident of the fight on the picket lines, the large numbers turn- ing out to demonstrate, the failure of the mill owners’ ruse to start operations, have resulted in the head- quarters of the Mill Committee to be overwhelmed with applicants for membership in the Committees. In addition to this, the relief station of the Workers’ International Relief has begun to function. SEVEN-CENT FARE GRANTED T01.R. 1, (Continued from Page One) property, a condition contrary to the provisions of the constitution. The court upholds the argument of the Interborough in every respect and states that when the public ser- vice commission law was adopted in 1921 the duty of the commission was to make the fare sufficient to give reasonable compensation for services rendered. The present rates are con- fiscatory, the court contends, and the present suit by the Interborough squarely raises the question of the plaintiff’s constitutional rights. Immediately upon hearing of the decision by the court, ‘Traction” Jimmie Walker, mayor of the city, by the will and support of the tran- sit interests, announced that he would be a candidate for reelection in 1929. “J will run on a five-cent fare plat- form,” he declared, “and I will con- tinue this fight until the city has definitely won its right to protect its own people and its own contract.” This is considered in view of the fact that the Tammany Hall hench- ‘man who has so obviously played the game of the traction ring against the traction workers in forcing the elimination of their union in the re- eent Tammany-I.R.T.-Amalgamated deal. Jimmie Walker, in beimg held res- ponsible for the fare increase, is held accountable not as an individual but as the representative of the Tammany Hall-Al Smith democratic machine which in a dozen other respects has been shown to have sold out the in- terests of the workers. “I would cut off my right army” was Jimmie Walker’s election pro- mise,*“before I wil see the company defeat the nickel fare.” But for years while the actual steps to secure the increase were set in motion by the Interborough and when last January, the attorneys for the city and the transit commission, Al Smith’s body, staged a sham battle as to how the company’s move. was to be met, “Traction” Jimmie merely danced sepaty to the music played by the LR.T, Stocks of the Tntechorough yester- day soered to 60%, a new high mark for these highly watered securities. The increase to- the Interborough of 2 cents per customer will total about -30,000,000 yearly. The B.-M.T. which has already indicated that it will make’ similar application, for. an in- ‘ -awisea gain about $3,- 000,000 when its application is grant- woesus Sagat mullions of daily are affected. Steals Millions from Workers. The Interborough has paid out in dividends four or five times the valu- ation of its watered stock.’ It is even at the present time making millions yearly according to charges recently made by former comptroller Craig, himself a traction attorney. Both the republican and democratic parties — will be sent out light and strength. to country.” have sold out to the traction inter- the workers’ struggle all over the| ests in the city and state for a gep- beration.