The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 4, 1928, Page 1

directly in the form of-food to the | ee THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V.- No. 105. THE DAILY WORKER. second-class matter at the Post Office at New Yor Publishin, Association, Inc., 38 First 5: ide New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. » Bate: ander the act of March 3, 1879. rect, New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1928 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Published daily except y by The National Daily ew York, by mail, $8.00 per year. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Worker WOMEN ACTIVE IN WORKERS CENTER CAMPAIGN DRIVE United Council Leads Organizations Women. are playing an active role in the campaign to raise $30,000 to purchase and finance the Workers’ Center, 26-28 Union Square. In this they ‘are upholding: the -tradition~ of the modern working women, who fight side by side with the men in_strikes. in revolutions, in every phase of the class struggle. Leading the campaign work among the women is the United Council of Working Class Women. This organi- zation, which has done so much to organize the women and provide re- lief during the Passaic strike, the coal strike and other struggles of ‘the workingclass, is now busily engaged in collecting funds to establish the new home of the revolutionary move- ment of New York City and vicinity. Through its various branches, the United Council of Working Class Women is making a thorough canvass of the women workers, who are con- tributing as generously as the men The United Council of Working Class Women is also determined to win the revolutionary .banner, which will be awarded to the organization collecting the most funds in the drive. Greater Exploitation. Ray Ragozin, organizer Council, declared yesterday: “Working women are often forced to undergo even greater exploitation than the men, and that is’ why they are among the best fighters in = the class struggle. Not only in the shop and on the picket line, but also in the home, in the revolutionary atmos- phere that she creates, i in the courage that she instills in her husband and children, is the working woman a real fighter for her class. ~ “And now the working “woman ‘is called on to show her mettle in a new way. The campaign to establish the (Continued .on Page: Five) GREEN ATTACKS MINERS’ RELIEF evs ‘Nothing of Fat ‘Salaries WASHINGTON, D. C., May 3. -- On the heels of the libelous attack made on the Pennsylvania-Ohio Min- ers Relief Committee, now the Nation- al Miners Relief Committee, by John L. Lewis at the closing sessions of the senate committee fake investiga- tion of the coal strike, William Green, president of the A. F. of L., struck’ another blow at the work of. provid- | ing food, clothing and shelter for the striking miners and their families, in a circular letter to all unions affili- ated with the Federation. Green in his letter states that the rank and file relief committee has no standing in the labor movement. It is quite true that it is not liked by the corpulent bureaucracy which has made common. cause with the employing | classes against the workers, but it has standing with the masses of workers thruout the country who themselves feel the pinch of the capitalist profit machine and who know that if the | miners lose their strike it will be a) signal for another drive to lower their own standards of living and working conditions. i The funds contributed. to‘ the Na- tional Miners Relief Committee goes of thé strikers and their families. None of (Continued on Page Five) — FASCIST CHIEF I$ GUEST OF LEGION ®: To Spread ‘Blackshirt Dope in | in U.S. | eaieerare ie n Sansanelli, . poventen “af New when he arrives today on the mano.” liner “Conte Blanca- boat will dock at Pier %, North River, foot of 55th St. ~ Sansanelli is. coming to the United States for the sole purpose of spread- ing fascist ‘propaganda, its was re- vealed yesterday. Meetings have ai- js in this city, New Haven,| Detroit, Chicaga, and large cities, = govgrany will be the the Laon during the period in this sountty. me 4 These Three Let Labor: Ss Pennies) federal statutory court; the Interbor- ough Rapid Transit Co., which has spent millions on strikebreakers, is given permission to increase its -strike- breaking resources by raising the fare to seven cents. Photo above shows the three judges who made the ruling. They are, reading from top to bot- tom: Judge Martin T. Manton, Judge William Bondy and Judge John C. Knox. HOLD MINE TAG DAYS MAY 12, 13 Relief Committee- Sets $20,000 Goal ‘“We will fight against all odds. All we ask is shelter for our wives ‘and, children, and some bread.” With this appeal from the 50,000 unorganized miners now on strike as | an impetus, the National Miners’ Re- lief , Committee of 799 “Broadway, Room 236, is preparing to launch a Tag Day Drive of unprecedented in- tensity throughout the city on May 12: and’ 13. ‘The committee plans to finecomb all sections of the city, to have at least'5,000 volunteers working during the drive as collectors, and to collect from New York workers and sympathizers at least $20,000. For further information regarding) stations, coll nm supplic&, ete.,work- ers and sym’ 185 FAMILIES TO BE THROWN INTO FIELDS ON MAY 15 Seek Help from Relief Committee (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) MARTINS FERRY, 0O., May 8.—Families of 285 striking miners have received a fifteen- day respite from eviction by Federal Judge Benson Hough who has issued an order post- poning the evictions originally set for May 1. On May 15, these miners will be forced into the fields and roads near Steuben- ville. News of the order was imme- diately relayed to the National Miners’ Relief Committee, for- merly the Penn-Ohio Relief Com- mittee. An attempt will be made to secure the necessary tents to shelter the miners. ‘The commit- tee at the same time has issued a call to the labor movement to rush funds for this purpose as well as the relief of many thou- -|sands: of miners and their fam- ilies:dependent entirely upon the committee for existence. MASS PICKETING Textile Committees Are Leading \ Workers : NEW BEDFORD, Mass,, May 3.— With the start of this week, the strike of the 30,000 textile workers here be- gan to assume an aggressiveness the original walk-out, when every single worker in the 58 mills struck against an attempt to slash wages 10 per cent. Yesterday morning witnessed a greater response to the call of the Textile Mill Committees for mass picketing demonstrations than any day since the first morning of the strike. Thousands of textile strikers, their wives and children demonstra. ted their solidarity by picketing the factory gates of the Hathaway, Gos- nold, City, Sharpe, Ackushnet and Wamsutta mills, under the direction of the mill committee picket leaders. For the first time special patrols of police were sent to the mills to allay the nervousness of the few straw bosses. and company officials who tried to start the idle looms. The strikers succeeded in stopping some of the foremen from going into the mills. In this way they forestalled the maneuver of some of the mill owners, who believed that on hearing the noise of running looms, some of the strikers would break ranks and return to work. As the Eamabarihin of the Textile Mill Committees, an organization ‘speaking in the name of the 25,000 unorganized workers of the 30,000 on strike, grows by leaps and bounds daily, the strike. machinery of the izers should commu-| mill. committees is getting into full' Philadelphia, New which is in keeping with the spirit of Above is a photograph of miners unloading food from a truck sent by the Penn-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee, now the National Miners’ Relief Committee. The picture is a sufficient answer| Tatesbopoukts hove to the statement, by Green that the Relief Body has no standing in the labor movement. Its stand-| i ing is with the starving miners, their wives and children and with millions of other rank and file workers who already understand their common interest with the struggling. miners. 2 Unemployed Meetings To Be Held This Week ployed have arranged two more open air meetings, John Di Santo, secre- tary of the council announced last night. Tonight an Italian meeting will be held at 106th St. and Second Ave. Di Santo. Another demonstration will be held Saturday at 1 p. m. at Rutgers Sq. Last night a rally was held at 138th St. and. St. Anns Ave. CLOAK RALLIES Garment Workers Meet to Voice Protest ers’ Union, scheduled to begin in union membership will be taken up for-consideration, because of the tact that the reactionary Uunion-wrecking| cliques of the right wing are in com- fake delegates, the New York Joint Board has announced that a scries. of mass meetings have been arranged for all large centers of tho ladies’ garment industry. At these mectings. and not at the convention in Boston, will the desires of the rank and file be heard, the statemgnt reads. To Meet in Other Cloak Centres. “The plans for. meetings in Boston, York and. Cleve- 'The* New York @ountil of Unem-|' The speakers will be G. Pippan and} IN MANY. CITIES Knowing that the convention of the | International Ladies’ Garment Work- | os- | ton’-on* May 7, will not be a place} where ‘the ‘problems and-wishes of the! plete control, by their mobilization of| * Facts Answer Libelous Attack of Lewis, Green .and Operators BLACKMAIL IN MINE DISTRICTS Peonage System Rules Non-Union Fields (Special To The DAILY WODRKER) DILLONVALE, Ohio, May 3. |Strikebreaking miners have been re- | duced to the position of peons in the mining camps of Eastern Ohio accord- ing to. the testimony of scabs who have escaped from the non-union mines on strike there, after finding themselves unable to endure the cruel | working conditions and the persistent persecution of company guards. | Low Rate. Fifty-eight cents per car or twenty cents less than the Jacksonville scale is the rate now prevalent in the scab- bing mines here. This rate is paid for “run of the mine” or coal from which the foreign matter has not yet been separated. “Dead work,” how- r, is not paid for. This latter classification includes ‘aying of tracks | which is neces: y when the operation proce deeper into the mine, for placing and removing of timbers and | lother operations not directly produc- tive of coal which may be loaded. The fifty-eight cents per car means twenty-nine cents per ton since none of the cars are less than two-ton ca- pacity and often carry as much as jtwo and one-half tons, | Starvation Wage. At the Dorothy mine of the Yongo- heny and Ohio Coal Company.at Glen Robins, Ohio, one strikebreaker, Johw Clark of Waynesboro, Pa., reports that he received $10 for six days’ work. From this amount the head of the company guard-at the mine nicate at once with -the National] swing, Not only are larger and larger Jand have already been completed,!though the general practice of the Miners’ Relief Committee ‘at “799] masses of strikers answering the cal]| while other mass meetings are being}company is to deduct the amount Stuyvesant 8881. CAMERA NOT ALLOWED givcise foe salt of we (Continued on- Page Two) Anna Louise Strong Meets Mine Law insets wove tous Hymn « (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) Ssitvawctiel Pa., May 3.—Maybe there’s no law against éatig pie- tures in this state but it you do T’'ll smash your camera to bits.” That was the last word in the tseae aes Monday between a deputy sheriff in Russel- ton, Pa., and Anna Strong, well known author of books and magazine |? articles "dealing Rich sociological problems. Miss, Strong is visiting the striking coal fields of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio to | through the mining the mize belonging to Republic Steel Bates: fisat nang informations ae ‘the strike, ict in the Pittsburgh area Miss Strong was ordered m arranged for him by black |to ‘put ‘away her camera when she attempted to‘photograph the mouth ‘of Touring and Iron company at Russelton. Miss Strong’s protest ended when. the deputy. noticed that the front ene of the auto she was driving were resting on the line which marks the ion of the company grounds from the state road. “Get’t hell outa here. ings begin from tonight and ex: through several days of next week. A joint mass meeting of the mem- | Dressmakers’ Union Building, 16 W | Joint Board manager, and Jo: i Borachovich of Local 2. A meeting of all active mem of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union will be held tonight at 7 o'clock in Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Sec- ond Ave, The Joint Board called this meeting to give a send-off to the vention in Boston and demand that the wishes of the membership be obeyed by stopping the destructive’ war carried:on by the right wing. delegates elected to goto the con-| ‘Broadway, Room 236, or Selephone to picket, but strikers’ relief machin-| organized. The first of these meet-| necessary to pay the board of their (Continued on Page whet ‘British Reforindsts Like’ U.S. Fake “Peace” Plan LONDON, May 3.—A resolution urging the British government to ac- cept the Kellogg plan for “outlawing war,” and understood to have been initiated by J. Ramsay MacDonald labor reformist,. was unanimously passed last night by the national ex- ecutive of the British Labor Party | The “sincerity” and “efficacy” of | the Kellogg scheme is shown by the fact that the United States opposed the Soviet plan for gradtial as well as immediate disarmagpgént at a recent session of the Leg®ue of Nations at ANTI-IAPERIALIST AFFAIR TONIGHT Supper, Dance, Speeches in Chinatown | Representatives of a large number of Chinese, Japanese and Central American organizations will attend the unique event arranged by the New | York branch of the All-America Anti- | Imperialist League for tonight at 7 o’clock at the Oriental Restaurant | 4-6 Pell St., Chinatown. An unusual program of original en- tertainment will follow the supper. Dan¢ing will continue till one o’clock Brief talks will be made by Manuel Gomez, U. S. secretary of the All- America Anti-Imperialist League; | Paul Crouch, Communist ex-soldier; Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the ! Workers’ School; H. P. Chiang of the Alliance to Support the ~ Chinese Revolution; Andres: Binghay of the Philippine Club of New York, and Eduard Machado of the Venezuelan Labor Union. Reservations must be made before noon today by calling Algonquin 6789. We are glad to announce that all ment. a considerable saving in expense. W advertising and a saving in expense. The DAILY WORKER needs to Will you make it possible for us to Hi * From Stuyvesant Casino, all those at the meeting will accompany the youre ‘on company property,” he thundered. A threatening flourish of the delegation to Pier 44 of the Colonial depuiy’s club Sony ite “Miss hat. she had lost. the argument. (Cortinued on Pege Five) e had never received nor heard of the Name .. Wigs . Address .. check for $2,875 made out to her, the ~ ; proceeds of which were later used to Nahe tilts scones tr ghee State .....++.+++| take Mrs. Knapp out of debt with ee » (Qontinued on Page Five) “Baily Eon _ | to move into its new home at the Workers’ Center. Thi which delays our going over. It is the necessary money With The DAILY WORKER in its new qua: ‘in a few years to reduce our rent to half the present more room for news and advertisers. This will mean more space for Send your contribution for a new home, an enlarged paper and reduced costs ‘to the ever growing and increasing militant DAILY WORKER. is ready f is only one thine| ith the new plans take ‘advantage of this opportunity. proceed at once before it is too late? |the W: MAYOR BLUFFS ON LR.T. FARE STEAL Federal Judge > Orders Striking Coal M Miners Evicted MAY DELAY RAISE (TO. 7 CENTS TO AID BOOM OF AL SMITH Opposition of Masses Is Predicted Delay in putting the seven-cent fare into force until after the November elections in which Al Smith hopes to be a candidate, was yesterday fore- | shadowed in the apparent agreement by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company not to force action until the end of this year. Application to the United States Supreme Court for an order to stay the hand of the company from put- ting the increase into immediate operation was made for the city by Samuel Untermeyer, special counsel for the Transit Commission. The full bench of the supreme court, which meets on May 14, will hear the re- quest for the stay. Untermeyer sent his assistant, Char D. Williams, to Washington yesterday to make the necessary application. Williams, who is a former secretary to William How- ard Taft, chief justice of the court, interviewed both Taft and Justice Harlan F. Stone, who is the New York member of the court and obtained the date for the hearing. Continue Bluff. In order to convey the impression | of additional energy in combating the “Traction” Jim- mie Walker, mayor of the city, took along former City Controller Charles (Continued on Page Two) WORKERS PARTY BARES FARE STEAL District Two Statement Shows Tammany Part The district executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party District 2, last night issued a state- ment condemning the judicial sanc- tion of the I. R. T. seven-cent fare steal. The statement follows: The federal courts, in collusion with the Tammany Hall government and the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, has granted the 7-cents fare to the traction kings of New York. All the demagogy of the Walk- er government that it is opposing the 7-cents fare has now been exposed. The maneuver of taking it to the federal court had for its purpose to shift the responsiblity away from Tammany Hall and the local poli- ticians so that the masses of people of New York City may not be able to lay the responsiblity at their doors. No worker will be fooled by these maneuvers. It was evident from the very beginning that Tammany and Iker and Smith administra- tions w ¢ with the traction kings for increased fare. The de- cision comes as climax after a s of injunction: s from exe preventing the ising their right to picket and strike, after the ac quittal of millionaire Sinclair, the notorious oil bandit. Behind the camouflage of legal verbiage can be seen the hand of the traction barons in a most high-handed attempt to rob workers of the city of milliong of dollars each year. These traction judges work hand (Continued on Page Two) MRS. KNAPP KEPT KIN’S FAT GHECKS “Pm Safe,” She Says After Testimony ALBANY, May 38.—Not only ad Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp, former republican secretary of state, place her relatives on the payroll during the 1925 census, but at least one of them did not receive a single cent as a result. Clara Blanche Knapp, step-daugh- ter of Mrs, Knapp, who is being tried on charges of grand larceny in mis- appropriating at least $30,000 of the state funds, today testified that she #