The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 4, 1928, Page 2

rege Two f THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1928 PUSH ‘SPECIAL ‘ONE DOLLAR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE DAILY WORKER, BUSINESS OFFICE URGES The the the States in putting across the May Day of The WORKER not Sted a activity workers thruout DAILY be allowed to edition must evinced by |holiday is past. lapse because labor’s This was emphasized/ United |by a representative of the business special | office of the paper yesterday. “May is a red month,” he said, “and the activity with which the militant internati ane American workers rallied to the sup- port of their fighting press in the past must not drop now that the im- mediate occasion that called it forth } is over. “Of special importance at this time is the intensification of the drive to bring the special one dollar subscrip- tion offer to all workers. The effort which The DAILY WORKER is mak- ing to bring its. subscription rates within the means of every worker must be given the widest publicity. “The special one dollar subscription brings The DAILY WORKER _ to any worker for two months. This special rate has been made in the interest of thousands of workers who ate on strike in the mines, in the textile in- dustry and in countless industries thruout the country. It is in the in- terest of the unemployed thousands thruout the United States. This spe- cial one dollar offet has been made possible only by the sttictest economy and the cooperation of all workers readers of, and sympathizers with, The DAILY WORKER. “Every worker should carry on his May. Day activities in pushing this special subscription thruout the month of May,” the business office declares. Dau igherty, Expelled Lewis Machine Henchman, Now in Pay of Operators WILL LEAD SCAB HERDING DRIVE Goes “Farrington Way” Into Boss Camp “Ohi io, May 3. — Oral | srmer Lewis sub-district | Hocking Valley and mining regions in this | y come out in the role er and scabherder with | king of the coal op- siness men in the Hock- herty has gone the | , another Lewis of- | exposed in 1926 as be- ing in the pay of the Peabody Coal | Company | It ha has assured his support to the Akron | Coal Company, the Morris Coal Com- | pany, the Cambridge Colleries and the | Forsythe Coal Company which are about to open mines on a scab basis. Daugherty was recently deposed by the district executive committee on} the ground that he violated the prin- ciples of the United Mine Workers of America. Daugherty had advised the} striking miners that they would either have to return to work, secure other jobs or starve. The Save the Union Committee has repeatedly exposed Daugherty as a traitor to the striking miners. Daugherty, in turn, has been just as vigorous in his attacks on the pro- gressive miners as Lee Hall and the other Lewis officials. It is said in Ohio mining circles that Daugherty | has merely stated what the Lee Hall- | Lewis machine has been saying pri- vately. They! deposed Dau; COLUMBIl because he exposed their, NICA CUA SUIT Kellogg Enters Fight on! Anti-Imperialists Secretary of State Frank B. Kel- logg took a hand in the effort of the state department to suppfess the| campaign of the All-American Anti- Imperialist League for support for the Nicaraguan army of independence when he filed an affidavit in the federal district court here. The league, 39 Union Square, is suing to enjoin Postmaster-General Harry S. New from rejecting all mail bearing the league’s stickers reading: “Protest. Against Marine Rule in Nicaragua.” Manuel Gomez, national secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, stated yesterday that his or- ganization had sent the following ca- blegram to Senor Froylan Turcios personal representative of General Auguste C. Sandino in Honduras: “Secretary of State Kellogg pre- sents affidavit to court denying any | marine rule in Nicaragua. We wish| to present counte -affidavit from | Sandino statin Please rush. ug ac- stat-) With an affidavit Mr. | Kellogg has wiped out marine rule in| Nicaragua. The thousands of ma-| rines, the bombing planes, the war- ships, which for more than a year have admittedly dominated the entire outlook in Nicaragua, are offficially nil when the honorable secretary of state speaks. That the court will ac- eept Mr. Kellogg’s labored explana- tion goes without saying, for he is the “secretary of state. The document is therefore far more significant than its unconvincing awkwardness would indicate. It lets us know that the United States government has adop- ted the official pretense that there is no marine rule in Nicaragua.” PROPAGANDA FOR CONVICTION. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., May 3.— State Sen. Caleb Baumes, author of the crime legislation bill, will ad- dress the members of the Westchester County Grand Jury Association at a meeting to be held in the court room of Part 1 of the supreme court to- | graft. night. Sen. Baumes will speak on “Crime and the Effects of Crime Law.” REFUSES HIGHBROW RATING. MADISON, Wis., May 3.—Because she believes high grades are not “a genuine criterion of true scholarships and intellectual achievement,” Olga Rubinow of Philadelphia has refused election to the Phi Beta Kappa, na- tional scholastic society. f., “For s Services Rendered” —Imperialist Gets His Photo above shows Baron ve transatlantic flyer, receiving the Distinguis by Huenefeld, German monarchist ed Flying Cross from the on hands of his fellow-imperialist, Calvin Coolidge. To the right of Huene- feld are his colleagues, Capt. Hermann Koehl and Major James C. Fitzmaurice, awaiting their turn. ‘Senators to Stop New Oil Graft Gusher 'ASHINGTON, May 3.—The sen- ate committee on public lands, which has been hearing the care- fully prepared testimony of Harry F. Sinelair and other witnesses on the Teapot Dome oil lease graft, is scheduled to plan another investi- gation Monday, this time into the Salt Creek, Wyoming, oil field Because leases in this field were sold out to the Standard Oil Co. | group, which senators don’t like to investigate even for proof of graft- ing by the opposition party, Monday session will be- behind closed doors. The senators eall these sessions “executive sessions.” That means nobody will be allowed to hear or report what they plan and what they decide not to plan. The senate committee is not ex- pected to call any witnesses on the | Salt Creek graft in the present ses: sion of congress, however. Force of circumstances has caused th senate committee to go into this | field. Because of. the power at Washington of the Standard Oi il Co. the senators know that inv ing Salt Creek would cost thi their jobs unless they conducted their investigations “in the right way,” though anybody ought to be reassured by the way the senate and the government courts “took care” of Albert B. Fall, former re- publican secretary of the interior, Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny. These three musketeers arranged to be acquitted every time the gov- ernment felt it necessary to go so far as to charge them with con- spiracy. A democratic or republi- can senator feels that to take a good look into the Salt Creek field leases would be like holding his eye ever the mouth of a gusher. ‘Boro Park Concert for Miners Tomorrow The United Council of Working- {class Women, No. 18, of Boro Park, Brooklyn, will hold a mass meeting and concert for miners’ relief at their headquarters, 1343 48rd St., Brooklyn tomorrow, at 8 p. m., at which a well- known woman lecturer will address the audience of men and women work- ers on the miners’ struggle. As a variety on the program the Miners’ Troupe will perform its one act of miners’ songs and dances; their program includes seevral accordeon solos and piano renditions. The admission charge is the mini- mum one of 35 cents. All Brooklyn workers and their wives are urged to attend, “Freiheit” Spring Ball Will Be Held Saturday The annual Spring ball of “The Freiheit,” Jewish Communist daily, will be held tomorrow evening at the New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave. A novel program of entertainment has been arranged, it is announced A, large jazz orchestra will furnish music for dancing. TRENCH DIGGER KILLED. ELIZABETHTOWN, Tenn., May: 3 —A. G. Smith was killed when 15 feet of earth caved in on him while he was working in a trench, | turing the | DUPERS DUPED B TEXTILE BOSSES |Darlington Strike to Go On PAWTUCKET, R. L, May 3.—The officials of the United Textile Work- ers’ Union here, conducting a four | week old strike against the lockout of the Darlington Textile Manufac- Co., in addition to showing eagerness to perpetrate:a be- | trayal of the strike, showed that they jean be easily outwitted by the negotiator for the employers. “Freedom.” After agreeing to “arbitrate” all | uted questions, the U. T. W. of- | ficials were informed by the company yesterday that the “arbitration” will not be over the wage cut and speed- up demands of the bosses, but only over the question of the right of the | union to interfere with the “freedom” of the mill owners. The bosses’. de- mand is that before going to a so- alled arbitration, the workers must ree to the lowering of working stan- _With this statement the were broken off. idence of betrayal by the | icials, who secured the sanc- j tion of President McMahon in, all | their steps they took, is offered by the workers. They recall the fact that | the union fakers agreed to the mill | owners’ proposition that the union attorneys should not oppose in court the granting of the vicious anti- icketing injunction when the com- applied to a local judge. “The Bosses Said. . . - The excuse given by the union ad- junction would not be effective. njunction was granted while inion attorneys stood in court and de- lined to offer a single objection. The ficialdom ut that e | bet enraged. zation. BOOTLEGGERS PROSPER. annually, ministration to the strikers was that the employers. had told them that the strike would be settled in a few days anyhow, therefore the anti-strike in- the | | Even that section of the union mem- bership not actively fighting the of-| ar They point if it was not an open yal, it certainly shows that such} dangerous fools should not be per- mitted the helm of a workers’ organi- The Retail Jewelers’ Association in annual meeting here was told that approximately $35,000,000 in jewels is smuggled into the United States TEXTILE STRIKE: “LIVENS AS MASS -PICKETING GROWS North End Strike Hall ' Opened by T.M.C. (Continued from Page One) ‘ery organized for the mill committees by the Workers’ International Relieg }1 Union Sq.,. New York City, is be- | by: the Workers’ International Relief, | headquarters were Officially opened | Tuesday in the Franco-American | Building, 12 Rodney French Blvd., ; New Bedford. During all this intensification of activity by the Textile Mill Commit- tees, the officialdom of the American Federation of Textile Operatives, the small union of skilled workers here, is doing nothing to safeguard the unity of the strikers’ ranks by organ- izing the union members to join the mill committees in the picket demon- strations, Greater numbers of union agra however, are turning out in the demonstrations. bat ny Relief Committee headquarters announced yesterday that they have succeeded in getting the bakery work- I ers to donate a large supply of bread’ daily, the milkmen have offered to! deliver a quantity of milk, and plans are being rapidly formulated to arouse a mass movement. among the workers in and outside of New Eng- land to give the strikers material and moral support. Mass membership meetings of the Textile Mill Committees are being held daily in both headquarters of the union. In addition to the large strike hall near the South End mills, the T. M. C. opened the North End head- quarters several days ago at 43 Di- man St. LOCAL 10 GUTTERS MEET SATURDAY Will Elect Delegation; \ to Convention A call to a mass meeting of all eutters of Local 10 of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment’ Workers’}| Union was issued yesterday by the! Cutters’ Welfare League of the local. The meeting is to be held tomorrow | afternoon at’ 1 o’clock sharp at the} Stuyvesant Casino, 142, Second Ave.. and is called for the purpose of elect- ing a delegation to attend the con- vention of the I. L. G. W. U., which is to be held at Boston. The call stressed the importance of the Saturday meeting and urged all cutters to respond. Call Miners’ Conference | A-miners’ relief conference will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m, at the Downtown Labor Center, 60 St. Marks Place. All local trade unions and} labor fraternal organizations have been invited to send delegates; The territory covered is the Battery to 4th St. Playing Both Ends | WASHINGTON, (FP) May 3.—\ Senator Howell of Nebraska, progres- inated by 20,000 majority, against the opposition of organized business. Blackshirts Will Strive will attempt to drop a cross on the North Pole. to Hit Pole with Cages “eee BS) When General Umberto Nobile, well-known fascist airman, crosses the North Pole in the dirigible, Italia, above, the blackshirta with him The cross, which has been blessed by the pope, is expected to land precisely on the top of the world. The inset shows the archbishop of Milan presenting the missile. ‘Baldwin Likes His Holy Book Ajtey Forgeries lia not for his bible, Prime Minister Baldwin of England says, he would quit his job. After aiding and abetting for- geries like the Zinoviev letter and spending a tough day at the office concocting intrigues against the Soviet Union, Baldwin finds it very comforting to read the book of the lord. If not tor the hope that the “kingdom of God would overspread the whole world, then I could ‘have ' no hope and could do no work and I would give my office over this morning to any one who would take it,” Baldwin assured the British and Foreign Bible Society. ‘Los Angeles Times Head Host at Hoover Banquet WASHINGTON, May 3.—Harry. Chandler, owner of the Los Angeles Times, gave a significant political luncheon to Herbert Hoover, repub- lican presidential candidate, at the Metropolitan Club in Washington. Harry Chandler inherited the Los Angeles Times, with all its traditions of malevolent warfare upon trade unionism, public ownership, civil lib- erties and human enlightenment in| general; from his late father-in-law, General Harrison Gray Otis. A dozen California republican edi- sive republican, public ownership ad-|tors, on their way home from the vocate and expert, has been renom-| Associated Press meeting in New York, attended this Chandler luncheon. They asked questions Yet on his office wall in the senate office building hangs a campaign por- Jtrait of Warren G. Harding. which Hoover answered, in strict con- fidence, as to his attitude on certain public issues URHAM, N. C., May 3 (FP).— “Inhuman conditions in the R. J. Reynolds factories, where Camel cigarettes and Prince Albert smok- ing tobacco are produced, were de- scribed at the sessions of the Pied- mont Organizing Council to 106 delegates, gathered from local unions in North Carolina, The wages of the 11,000 workers in the big Winston Salen plants of this firm average only $11 a week, though living costs are high, and R. J. Reynolds’ net profits last yeat amounted to more than four times the total wage bill. The situation in Winston Salem is deplorable. The firm thinks it is so big that it can run roughshed over everything. They are paying ‘ starvation wages. When union representatives try to talk things over with them they are told, “we've got nothing to discuss.” Oe 'HE state administration of. North Carolina abets the open-shop movement in a variety of ways. Commissioner of Labor and Printing Frank Grist sends state printing out of North Carolina, and gives bogus information on unem- ing henge saying there are only 70,000 idle in the commonwealth, and that half of these would not wotk if they had a chance. Prison Superintendent Pou is beginning to put convicts into the mines in com- petition with free. labor. Governor McLean, democrat, has CIGARETTE WORKERS ARE ORGANIZING “Millions jor Ads; Not a Cent for Wages,” Is Bosses’ Slogan been denounced as a tool of the employers. He has not even given the courtesy of a reply to former complaints. “What has Governor McLean ever done for the laboring people of North Carolina?” the workers .are asking. Nothing. The railroads put him there and he’s looking out for their interests’ and the interests of the banks and the mills, They all put him there, is the answer of progressive labor leaders. e conference adopted ‘ resolu- ' tions against the state policy. The Piedmont Organizing Council has been formed for the’ purpose OTIS RUNS FOR LABOR OFFICE MAYOR BLUFFS ON T-GENTFARE STEAL AS PROTEST RISES Opposition 1 of “Masses Is Predicted (Continued from Page One) L. Craig, a traction attorney, on a similar mission to Washington. It is known that certain differences arose between the Tammany adminis- tration which sought to have the in- crease postponed until after the No- vember elections at which time it hopes to elect Al. Smith. The trac- tion companies, fearing some unfore- seen eventuality, have insisted on im- mediate action and have gone through j with the legal proceedings. At the | present moment, they are believed to be willing to wait until affter election inasmuch as the courts have already practically assured the increase by the Wednesday decision. Mass Opposition, Sure. Considerable mass opposition to the increased fare was yesterday fore- shadowed from a number of sources. |The Workers’. (Communist) Party, |which alone has been fighting the | fare steal is planning a city-wide campaign in which the workers and |strap-hangers will be mustered to ight the Tammany-traction move. WORKERS PARTY BARES FARE STEAL District Two Statement Exposes Tammany Hall (Continued from Page One) in hand with the bankers to whom this infamous decision means millions in profits. Immediately after the court made its decision, the stock of the Interborough jumped 100 per cent ‘}on the stock market. These traction Progressives | Support Penn Candidate (Special to The DAILY WORKER) PITTSBURGH, Pa. May ‘3. — John S. Otis, well known progressive trade-unionist of Pittsburgh, will be supported for the presidency of the Pennsylvania State Federation of La- bor made vacant by the recent resignation pf James H. Maurer, by the Progressive Trade Union Commit- tee of this city. Otis is the first pro- gressive candidate to enter the lists. A complete slate of officers will be elected at the May 8th convention in Philadelphia. Otis has been a delegate to the Cen- tral Labor Union from the Machinists local 536 for the past six years, At the American Federation of Labor convention held here last November, he demanded that every affiliated union be assessed for miners’ relief and urged that it take an al part in organizing the millfons ‘of unor- ganized workers. Support Urged. In a statement sent out by Anton Horvat, secretary of the Progressive Trade Union Committee urging sup- port for their candidate he declared: “Brother Otis has been attending state conventions since 1920 and has always been found fighting for 'pro- gressive measures in an effort to make that body a driving force in the labor movement.” Otis was the delegate who directed the attention of the November A. F, of L. convention to the only vital is- sues it considered, the questions of miners’ relief, organizing the unor- ganized, violation of injunctions, and the labor party question. OppoBed By “Fat Boys.” Matthew Woll and William Green felt compelled to take the floor at the convention in an effort to combat the sympathy and approval aroused]: by Otis’ exposition of the progressive platform. Otis is scheduled to represent the Progressive Trade Union Committee at the conference for the formation of a Pennsylvania state Labor Party which meets in Altoona early in May. Railroads Watch C.P.R. MONTREAL, May 3 (FP).—Rail- roaders are speculating on what the Canadian Pacific, privately owned trans-continental line, will do to match the one week vacation with Pay’ recently announced for shopmen of the government-owned Canadian National Railways. For shopmen getting 75¢ an hour. the week off with pay represents a taise of about'1'e in the hourly rate. of organizing the unorganized. The |The average wage is leas than 76c Durham Central Labor Union eall--| however. ed its teat conference, Wage rates on the two Unes have: ben, kept fairly parallel. bandits have already squeezed $65,- 000,000, three times the amount ori- ginally invested through their mani- pulations. As soon as the Interbo- rough decision goes into effect, we ean expect similar action on the part of the B.-M.T. While the traction pirates are at- tempting to squeeze additional tri- bute from the pockets of the work- ers of the city, they are at the same time forcing the traction workers to work under the most inhuman con- ditions, for fifty, sixty and even eighty hours a week at miserable pay and prevented by the wholesale use of spies, thugs and’ scabs from or- ganizing a union to better their con- ditions. s Politicians Pass , Buck. In this critical situation the work- ers of the city must recognize that the so-called friends of the people, the Jimmy Walkers, the Al Smiths, the Untermyers, these suave dema- gogues, are simply trying to pass the buck. We must hold directly respon- sible for this $50,000,000 fare steal the Tammany Hall mayor and gov- ernor, as well as the republican legis- lature which refuses to lift a finger to help the workers of the city. It is time that the workers: of the city woke up to their own interests to the necessity of organizing politi- cally to protect themselves. The de- cision of the federal court must be /\the signal for a mass protest from the workers of the entire city, against the fare steal. Resolutions must be adopted in all local unions, in ald workers’ organizations and at pro test mass meetings. These resolutions should be sent to Mayor Walker and to Governor Alfred Smith. Petitions of protest must be circulated. In every part of the city, special com- mittees should be organized to take up the fight against the fare steal. Workers Must Act! until the fare steal is killed. | Workers demand the maintenance - of the 5-cents fare! Insist at once that the fare in- crease does not go into effect! Refuse to pay the 7 cents fare! Demand an end to the congestion? Demand the right of the traction workers to organize and secure de- cent working conditions Condemn the Walker and Tam- many Hall betrayal of the 5-cents, fare! The fare steal decisions must be the signal for the establishment of & basis for a Labor Party in the city of New York, which shail fight not only this act of robbery but shall also fight for the taking over of the Secret lines by a workers’ govern- ment. District Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party. This fight must be carried forward |