The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 7, 1928, Page 1

COAL AND IRON POLICE SLUG NEGRO MINER TO DEATH THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS< FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED OR THE 40-HOUR WEEK : fe th A AEE FANE ol A LABOR PARTY THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Vol. V. No. 107. Publishing Association, Inc., 38 First Sireet, New York, N.Y,’ Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. at the Post Office NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1928 Oitice at New York, N.Y. under the act of March 3, 1879, FINAL CITY | FINAL CITY | EDITION V7 1092 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New York, by mall, 65.00 per year. Published daily except Sumday by The National Daily Worker Price 3 Cents WORKERS PARTY CALLS PROTEST MEETS ON 7c FARE RADEK IN LETTER TO PRAVDA RAPS GERMAN LEFTISTS Says All Workers Must Vote for Party (Special Cable to Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 6.—Karl Radek has sent a telegram to the Pravda, offi- eial organ of the All-Union Commu- nist Party, condemning the selection of special candidates for the Reichs- tag by the German ultra-leftists. He declared that every revolution- ary worker may, reserve the right of criticism, but must vote for the Com- munist Party candidates and abso- lutely support the Communist Party’s fight against the bourgeoisie and the social-democracy. Pravda declares that Radek’s tele- gram was first sent to Trotsky, who apparently refused to sign it. Gregory Belenki, who was expelled frem the Communist Party for oppo- sitional and fractional work, declares that he now submits completely to North Pole Flight to Boost Bloody Mussolini As a bid for popularity among the Italian workers, Mussolini’s fascist. government has sent Gen. Umberto Nobile, of the fascist air force, on a North Pole flight. Perhaps Nobile has been sent out to prepare a safe, cool spot for Mussolini when Italy gets too hot for “Il Duce.” Upper photo shows Nobile’s dirigible, the Italia. Below is shown Nobile’s route, Nobile is shown im inset. SIGMAN PLANS 10 BAR LEFT WING Right Wing Cancels Parade at Convention } | | In their efforts to stifle the .over- whelming demand of the thousands of | BASE AT 4 KINGS BAY, ; | VADSOE, eM wf ih | NORWAY. 7 46 ! STOP FOR AMILL COM EXTENDS RELIEF ACTIVITY DAILY |Pickéts Keep | Seabs Out. - Of Whitman Mill | NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May *6.— As the relief machinery established| for the Textile Mill Committees, here by the Workers’ International Relief, | is rapidly extending its activities to| provide relief for the 23,000 of the) 30,000 textile workers on_ strike} against a wage cut of 10 per cent,| the sé-called “New Bedford Relief Committee” started by the official- dom of the Textile Council with the aid of several city charities, is pre- paring to. close its doors, according to a report yesterday. Taxed Beyond Resources. The Board of Public Welfare, the | official charity body of the city, also |announced that applications of sev- All the devices known to grafti publican secretary of state, her tria was a professor at Syracuse Unive tives on the state payroll and then funds was placed in Mrs. ing the 1925 state census. has revealed. Part of the technique of Mrs. Knapp, who until recently in their names, pocketing the money. ng office-holders of the two corrupt * capitalist parties were used by Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp, former re- 1 for grand larceny of census funds rsity, consisted in placing her rela- herself cashing the checks made out About $1,200,000 of the state Knapp’s hands for the purpose of administer- The defense opened late Saturday. i. pen Fakers Charity Belief to End MITTEE i Trial Berek b EXPOSE TAMMANY IN TRACTION DEAL 2,000 Attend Bronx Meet Saturday ide fight by the workers , led by the Workers’ Party, Tjstrict 2. (Communist) against the seven-cent fare steal will continue tomorrow with six open-air ngs in various parts of the city. Speakers will expose the part of Tammany Hall in the traction deal. The meetings will be held at Fifth Ave. and 110th St., Seventh Ave. and 128th St. First Ave and 79th St. Second Ave. and 10th St., Rutgers | Square and at the south end of Union Square. Among the speakers at the meet- ings will be William W. Weinstone organizer of district 2 of the Work- ers’ (Communist) Party; Bert Miller. Ry REFUELING | ee “toyt a3 the Fifteenth Party congress, clonk “and sdvesatnekara, tiatithe dalact do | eral hundred strikers are sexing organizational secretary of the New Ez ation of the New York Joint Board| their, Teseuxees beyond ” ther MINE RS 7 O BE All ED York district of the party; D. Benj tenet pa: | strength. ” Both these organizations Nb pk Bacutlnclt 0 PA a aeoeee be permitted to participate to the con- | min, R. Moore, John Sherman, Harry TO SELL WORKERS CENTER “BRICKS” vention to open in Boston this morn- ing, the reactionary officialdom of} the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union have stooped to the} position of ordinary agents provaca- made noisy announcements that ‘not a single person will suffer hunger in | New Bedford.” The leadership of American Federa-| |tion of Textile Operatives, is being ON ENTERING HOME MARTINS FERRY, O., May 6.—Families of 285 miners who have been | ; Blake, Sylvan A. Pollack, J. O. Ben- tall, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, S. Hessin |N. Markoff, Philip Frankfeld and H. |Gordon. The metings tomorrow will be part of a series of open-air mass ‘condemned not only by the thousands of unskilled workers who are rapidly, enrolling themselves as members of handed eviction notices by the mining concerns which employ them in va- rious parts of Eastern Ohio are threatened w: ith summary arrest if they ‘fail to vacate their company-owned homes¢— — teurs for the Boston police force, ac-| | meetngs, at which the slogans will be cording to a dispatch received here} |“Against the Seven-Cent Fare Steal” Modjacot Marionette Performs Wednesday “Buy a brick and-build the Work- ars’ Center!” will become a new slo- gan for the class-conscious workers of New York and vicinity, beginning with today. To wind up the campaign for $30,000 to establish the Workers’ Center at 26-28 Union Sq., bricks of the new building will be sold at 25c¢ 50e and $1 apiece. New collection list for selling of bricks, designed by Hugo Gellert, are being distributed and all workers and unit, subsection and section functionaries should se- cure these new lists at 26-28 Union Sq. The lists are especially: intended for canvassing in shops and workers’ erganizations. With the conclusion of the drive for $30,000—May 15—only than a week away, the collection of funds and selling of bricks must be conducted on a more intensive scale than ever before, it is pointed out. Many — sympathetic tionalities, are hard at work collect- ing funds and arranging social and Jiterary affairs for the benefit of the Workers’ Center. The revolutionary banner, which will be given to the organization making the highest to- tals in the drive, is now on exhibitior at the Workers’ Center. It may be viewed throughout the day until the) conclusion of the drive. A novel entertainment has been ar- ranged at the Workers’ Center, begin- ning Wednesday. The Modjacot Marionettes, which have become fa- mous during the last few years for their satirical and humorous sketches and impersonations, will give per- formances at the Workers’ Center Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunady evenings at 8 o'clock. The marionettes are designed and direct- ed by the revolutionary artists, Yosse! Cutler and Zuni Maud. A new pro- gram will be presented at each epr- Jormance, and as an added attraction there will b2 a concert by the Musi- cians’ Fraction of the Workers’ Party on Sunday evening. Tickets for the Modjacot performances are now on sale at 26-28 Union Sq. at 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. Al) the proceeds will go to the Workers’ venter. Many pledges to the Workers’ Cen- ter drive have not yet been paid up. This has left the center in difficulties as many necessary improvements can- not be made because of lack of funds, All those who have pledged are therefore urged to pay in full as soon as possible. 518,538 AUTOS EXPORTED The total export of motor vehicles from the United States and Canada, including assembly plant output, was 618,538 in 1927, according to “Facts ay and Chas of the Automobile In- eran ueeg: by the Nemec b e, Cham! Cor little more|°* yesterday. Sigman Aided by Police. | A. Weiss, one of the delegates from! the Joint-Board, who reached Boston’ seevral days ago, investigated the! statements of the union membership | in Boston that they are certain Inter-! national officials went to the police | Boston the delegation of left-wingers and militants from locals throughout j the country. In asking this “favor” from the police inspector, the work-; j ers said that the police were told that “a crowd of Communists were coming | to break up the convention with the | aid of a gang of gunmen,” In investigating this statement Weiss decided to go to the office of the police inspector, accompanied by |" an attorney. On reaching police head- quarters, they found A. Barrof, secre-| f tary-treasurer of the International, | Sol Polakoff, International organizer organizations | Police inspector announced. that. the whose membership includes many na-] Officials of the International would } | workers participated in a demonstra- in Boston, and a few other leading figures of'the Sigman clique waiting to speak to the police head. In statements made previously the have the Boston police placed at. their (Continued on raven on Daoe: idee THUGS SHOOT AT HOSE STRIKERS Armed Seabisin Kenosha Make Strike Bitter KENOSHA, Wis., May 6.—The bit- terness of the struggle of the 350 knitters against the open-shop policy and speed-up system of the Allen-A Hosiery Company, is growing more intense as the boss-controlled city au- thorities refuse to take any steps to prevent the mill owners from con- tinuing their_ importation of armed thugs as strikebreakers. A picketing demonstration staged daily by the strikers here, in frank violation of the’ vicious anti-picketing federal injunction, was charged by an armed group of strikebreakers, who began to shoot when the unarmed strikers resisted being dispersed. Not knowing each other very well because they were recently imported from several sections of the country, the thugs. shot one of their own number who was taken to a hospital later with a wound in the thigh, Attack Strikers’ Homes. Five striking workers were arrest- ed Friday when several hundred tion before City Hall. While the cori: mittee chosen by the workers went in to the representative of the “city manager” or mayor, the police at- tempted to break the ranks of the demonstrators by arresting five of their leaders, The committee went to STARTED FROM ROME, ITALY f SCOTT NEARING'S COLUMN TO STAR New “Daily” Feature to Appear Wednesday | Beginning Wednesday, Scott Near- ing, author and lecturer, will contaibe| ute a daily feature column to The | DAILY WOR: The column will be novel in that it| will not be confined to any set sub- ject or-method of treatinent. In ad- dition to containing comment on cur-, rent events, it. will contain social studies, economic analyses ed historical studies. The column-will frequently be in! lustrated with photographs taken by Nearing. * | This. daily feature by one of the} best known writers and propagandists in the radical movement, is only the first of a series of features The DAILY WORKER will introduce in the near future. By the addition of snappy, readable working class fea- tures, The DAILY WORKER plans to inerease its circulation and influence among the broad masses of American workers, WIN WAGE INCREASE. DENTON, Tex., May 6.—Division 88, Order of Railroad Telegraphers, has won a wage increased of two and a half cents an hour per position on the Texas and Pacific Railroad. The the mill committees, but also by their own union membership who realize that the union must assist the T. M. C. in gathering retief for “the vast majority of the semi and unskilled ‘workers if the strike is to be won. Instead of helping the Mill Com- mittees gather relief for the unorgan- ized the union administration al- lowed the city business men, politi- cians, and church charities to obtain control of the relief machinery, the union members point out. They also show that, in addition to giving no assistance to the strikers, the city | politicians in control of relief actually told many workers applying for aid to go back to work if they want food, thus proving an active strike-break- ing agency. e “New Bedford Relief Commit- in its statement yesterday de- Crease oN Hage: on Page Two) WORKERS PARTY EXPELS B, LEDER Betrayed “My Tanta In Coatmakers’ Union tee,” For betraying the interests of the men’s clothing workers, who elected him to the executive board of the Coatmakers’ Local of the Amalgam- ated Clothing Workers’ Union, be- cause they believed that he would fight the Hillman administration and its followers and their reactionary policies, the District Executive Com- mittee of the Workers’ (Communist) Party, District 2, issued a statement yesterday expelling Benjamin Leder from party membership. The state- mént, which follows in full, is signed by William W. Weinstone, organizer of the district: new eae scale is effective as of Masch: 1 “The Workers’ (Communist) Party, by the end of the coming week. Mining company officials have de- clared that they will not tolerate any delay after the deadline set by the eviction notices. Any miner who at- tempts to enter a company house aft- er the date set for his removal from the dwelling will be immediately ar- rested and charged with tresspassing. Though barracks are being con- structed for the shelter of many of the families who will find themselves homeless as a result of the wholesale evictions, numerous miners will have no place to turn unless they are sup- plied with tents before they find their furniture in the streets. This situa- tion exists in an especially threaten- ing manner in places where not ‘lenough families are to be evicted to justify the construction of barrack colonies. Tents offer the only solution to the eviction problem which is being faced by steadily increasing numbers of striking miners in Pennsylvania and Ohio, as well as in West Virginia. All contributions toward sheltering evicted miners and those who face immediate dispossessal must be sent at once to the National Miners’ Relief Committee, 611 Penn avenue, Pitts- burgh, Pa. Please Quit Nicaragua, Peace Women Plead WASHINGTON, (FP) Resolutions deploring American mili- tary occupation of Nicaragua, de- manding recall of the armed forces and demanding that a civil, rather than a military, commissioner be sta- tioned in that republic, were adopted, May 4, by the conference of the American section, Women’s Interna- tional League for Peace and Freedom. Jane Addams presided. Other resolutions called for de- militatizing the Mexican border, and for the filing of an annual report by May 6.— (Continued on Page Five) the State Department. COMPANY THUGS KILL NEGRO MINER Comrades Strike Two Days in Pr in Protest Against Mi Murder PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 6.—How 150 non-union Negros miners massed to protest the killing of one of their number by a coal and iron policeman at the Mollenaur mine of the Pitts- burgh Terminal Coal Company last Sunday, was disclosed. today by a field worker for the National Miners’ Relief Committee. Efforts of the mine officials to avoid publicity in the killing, resulted im almost complete ignorance of the affair which reached its climax in a two-day strike. According to the investigation made by the field worker for the National Miners’ Relief Committee, the non- demand that the ¢ity authorities sead ser miner was killed following an altercation over a bake game, T! coal and iron policeman used a black- jack in his efforts to settle the dis- pute, it is alleged, and struek the miner on the head, killing him in- stantly. The company policeman was saved from lynching by the Negroes who witnessed the scene only by the ar- rival of coal and iron police from the Broughton, Castle Shannon and Coy- erdale mines of the same company. These combined forces held the’ en- raged strikebreakers at bay until the danger of a riot, which threatened to involve every one on company prop- erty, had passed, The coal and iron policeman charged with the deliberate murder the Negro strikebreaker was spirited away to Coverdale, it is be- lieved. Following the dispersal of the protesting non-union miners, no fur- ther demonstration took place. in the camp on Sunday. Monday morning, however, the pro- tests were renewed when the 150 strikebreakers refused to go to work despite the pleadings of Mine Super- intenednt William Ivel and the threats of coal and iron police. Pa- rading about the scab patch, the Ne- groes demanded the surrender of the company policeman to county authori- ties. Lack of leadership forced the min- ers back to work Wednesday morn- ing following two days of intensive sneyoidatiya by. the company police. TERROR FAILS TO. j and “ “For a Labor Party.” 10-Cent Fare Looms. only @ séveti-cent but the pros- ehicy My a ten-cent fare is now loom- T P PICKETIN jing for the 8,000,000 or more work- ers of New York City, as a result of Arrest of Four Cannot | Break Men’s Spirit BELLEVILLE, Ill., May 6.—Fail- | ure of the district officialdom to} check the growing strength of the} progressives in the Illinois coal fields, }which has culminated in the calling of the May 19 convention, has brought on a new reign of terrorism with the | union bosses working hand in eiave'| with the coal barons. Reverse Tactics. Following the sporadic efforts of | the Fishwick machine to oust whole | local boards in some centers, the coal | companies. have reversed their entire tactics and, with the Peabody Coal Co, | in the lead, are attempting to operate | mines thruout the state on separate or temporary agreements. The Pea- | body Coal Company has opened two} mines at Kincaide, while the Old Ben | Coal Company, the Bell and Zoller, | and a number of a smaller concerns | are also starting up. The spontaneous wave of mass/| picketing which has met the latest | treason of the Lewis bosses and the | coal operators is being confronted with the full might of the coal com- pany thugs backed by the state police, county sheriffs, and members of the Ku Klux Klan. The presence of the company terrorists has completely | failed in its object of intimidating the picketers. | A number of arrests made at West | Frankford have resulted in the jailing | of four union members, including James McCullum and Morris Tomash. The latter was distributing handbills for the Save-the-Union meeting. Gerry Allard, prominent progressive | leader and Wm. Matheson, were also| seized while attempting to investigate these arrests. The police, however, | were compelled to-release the two pro-| gressives when no charges could be| framed against them. The. authorities have made attacks | on the mass picket lines at Staunton! and Springfield, as well as at West Frankford. Union conditions have been com- pletely wiped out in the re-opened mines, according to the statements of | (Continued on Page Two) | Federal Workers to Lose $20,000,000 WASHINGTON, (FP).—Chairman Smoot of the senate finance commit- tee, foe of wage increases for federal workers, announces that ‘he will per- mit passage of the Welch salary raise bill in modified form. Instead of granting $40,000,000 more pay to 150,000 federal employes, it will give them half that amount. The house is expected to pass the bill with a $20,- 000,000. limit.on May 7. | the decision of the statutory court of three judges which stated that an 8 per cent return on the valuation for | the Interboro would be neecssary | The decision resulted in much jubila* | tion among the officials of the I. R. T., who stated that a 10-cent fare was necessary to realize the eight per cent return. October 1 is report- ed to be the date fixed by the Inter- borough for putting the 7-cent fare into effect. The application for the 10-cent fare is expected to follow |soon after. Reports persisted yesterday that the Brooklyn-Manhattan transit com- pany was also intending to grab for a 7-cent fare, together with several |surface-car lines in Manhattan and | Brooklyn. A mass meeting to fight the trac- | tion steal was held Saturday night at Third Ave. and 149th St. nearly two thousand workers attended. Louis A Baum, secretary of the Photographic Workers’ Union, was the principal speaker. CALL ILLINOIS * SAVE-UNION MEET Local Flaunts Order of Lewis Machine BULLETIN. BELLEVILLE, Ul, May 6—Lo- cal 70, United Mine Workers ‘of America yesterday elected seven delegates to the District No. 13 convention, completely routing the Fishwick machine. The election fol- lowed the refusal of the member- ship to expel Luke Coffey, the president of the local. The orders of the Lewis machine were tabled by unanimous vote of the rank and file. eG BELLEVILLE, Ill, May 6.—De- claring that/the miners’ union faces destruction at the hands of the Illi- nois coal barons, in the fight against | whom, the officials of the Fishwick machine have showed nothing but in- competence and corruption, 100 lead- ing progressive rank and file mem- | berS of the District 12, United Mine | Workers of America yesterday issued an, appeal for a district convention to be held at Belleville on May 19, The election of rank and file offi- cers who will defend their union by active assistance of the Pennsylvania- Ohio strike, by a fight on wage cuts, fight for a national agreement, fight for the organization of the unorgan- ized, and other vital measures, will-_