The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 8, 1928, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YOR , TUESD. Y 8, 1928 . h canvass of th New Jersey and a thoroug # Seven members of the National Stu-| New Yor! k, dents Training School of the Workers} School are leaving next Monday to be gin a_ subscription in that led on to now be per thattour. “All members of the Workers | School students in their efforts to ex- is essen-| Party in these three states,” declared |tend. the influence of The DAILY umerous strug-| A. Ravitch, circulation manager of |\WORKER. These three states are The DAILY WORKER yesterday, among the most highly industrialized “and all other class conscious work-|in the country, with conseqfent inten- the newspaper that fights for them * all the time. Every class conscious , worker of New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts should heed the ap- peals of these seven workingclass stu- chu- e of jis a Atieke persona ) > itial to them in their who have | An s in com- of the |‘ ven students, a Paha 3 workers of New tour for The|), the itieore ical DAILY WORKER. They will make | « with active partici y Ae Massachuseets e course of this] help these seven National ers should do everything possible to Training sive exploitation of the workers. Now more than ever do these workers need dents and subscribe at once to The DAILY WORKER.” Mill Committees, New Textile Brion Type, Form Fast in New England ONLY PERMANENT |""*" 2s area ORGANIZATION OF CLOTH MAKERS Mill Committees Strike) Heads Popular By HARVEY O’CONNOR. NATIONAL GUARD! STOP RELIEF TO aR iW Strike Breaking Move} Fails The DAILY (Special to CL. AIRSVIL LE, Ohio, INE STRIKERS, WORKER) | ‘Mass: Picket Lines Encircle Reopened Mines TAMMANY SHOWS HAND IN STEAL IN FARE RAISE Workers “Party Leads Fight on 7c Fare (Continued Nr ‘om. mm. Page One) nail at May 7. the attorney for various tractio NEW BEDFORD, ¥ May. 7} of funds,” the Ohio held a meeting last Wednesday at (FP).—Textile mill committees, which | ‘d will discontinue. its which no members of the Board of have sprung up in various parts of| ief among the children of Estimate were preesnt and there de- i ince last winter, have! miners in Eastern Ohio after Gaul Gboa''e plan wish amounts New England since last len ti a 2 5, according to an announce- SeacHialln’ ty ueacenting. the c2tty 6 igkspgabaicale eae U RERDETUIOATS hu 4 t made by Adjutant-General from defending itself against the trac- lowing the strike of 30,000 workers| staggering proportions in the United Frank Henderson. ‘ Hic ain against a 10 per cent wage reduction. ; The mill committees American wor s. They are com- pletely independent of unions and, according to officials. have new concepts and eaes in tex} tile organization. of the big mills. In ak tek Fall | River, committees have been pa ized in 15 mills, according to W. Murdoch, youthful Scottish weaver who is New England secretary. Mill Units Best Form. represent a| master at Wa new departure in ¢fforts to organize structed the clerks to list the nam existing | fice. States that Thomas J. Langfitt, post- Pa., ington, has it of those applying for jobs at his o This is another of the mak shifts by which the bosses endeavor to cloak their real indifference to the sufferings of the unemployed and the} tri TEXTILE PICKETS “KEEP MILLS SHUT). 21 Purpesed Revealed. will stop follows the ion of the state militia in its ich took place two'weeks en, Colonel Don Caldwell in command of the National Guard here The National Guard established kitchens where they dispensed food | > school children last January 28 fol-| owing -a proclamation ordering such| kitchens which was issued by Gov- ernor A. V. Donahey, who is con- sidered to be .quite a large stick of ment that the ‘“re-/| attempting again to operate the mines with scab labor. union machine, have met the picketing with arrests and terror. line at the St. Louis mine, O'Fallon, Ill. Hundreds of coal miners thruout the illinois district are on the mass picket lines a8 the big companies are The coal bosses working hand in glove with the corrupt The above picture shows miners from the picket |Cloak Convention Fake, BAR DELEGATES Hard Hit By Moral Wave DESPITE MILITIA {njunctions Also Fail to Closely Guarded. Few details of this meeting were available but it is known that mem- bers-of the Board of Estimate, the body which is the highest in author- ity to act for the city in the matter, have been aroused by the attempt to eep them out of the “deal” in which ' In New Bedford, the mill commit-| ses of their bie lin the Belmont county jail after they | eet hae rae 3 : he of he eam <i protested against the arrest of five} i tees have organized a strike commit- | pro 'D kh in other years they tee of 27 members, representing most} of their leaders, VESSMEA CxS Joseph V. McKee, president of the Board of Aldermen, in particular is said to be up in arms. At the same time it. is understood that whatever difference may exist is temporary and will not ‘prevent Tammany from carrying out its original aim to hand i 5} ; racti i the increased fare | Organization by mills better fits|Balk Atte Hi tS n | presidential timber in democratic] UDAPEST, May Morals are L the traction lines new trends in the textile industry) k mpt to Reope es. A small state appropriation | Say Workers B growing better in Budapest, but Stop Miners ee ata a, ! than does craft organization, Mur-| Several Plants was made for opening several of the the dressmakers are terribly. un- Active preparations for a city- i | doch argues. Craft organization in| New Bedford has produced unions | composed almost wholly of the skilled. | he declares. The unskilled masses, dif- | (Continued from Page One) |the gates of the factories closed tight. Now that the officialdom of the ficult in any case to place in unions.| American Federation of Textile feel themselves out of the picture] Operatives, completely under present craft forms. In addition craft distinctions are breaking down as automatic machin- | ery becomes more prevalent. The textile mill committees believe, in the present demoralized state of the textile industry, that complete and effective organization will not be possible for years. Existing unions have been losing ground Since 1921 they point out, as mill after mill slips away from trade union control. The committees propose a flexible, mobile organization of the most ac- tive workers in each mill. Arguing from experience in other industries, and particularly in French textiles, they assert that such committees, ef- fectively led, will mobilize the con- fidence and enthusiasm of unorgan- ized workers in strikes and demon- strations. As the committees grow stronger, closer organization will be possible. But for the present espion- age and workers’ fear of losing their | jobs through agitating keep thou- sands out of the unions who would be willing to follow an aggressive committee’s lead, concludes Murdoch. National Body. Textile mill committee organizers are active in New England, Pennsyl- yania and the south, says Murdoch. Within two or three months a na- tional convention will be held, either in New York or Providence. From| New Bedford, they hope to spread the| fine cotton goods’ strike to nearby| Taunton and Fall River, has openly declared itself opposed to the organization of chil- | dren, the local city politicians led by Mayor Ashley, has made statements to the press denouncing the organi- zation of children. The mayor re- fused to grant the application of the Textile Mill Committees, untier whose auspices the childrens’ clubs were formed, to obtain the use of several city playgrounds for méetings. Hundreds Join Clubs. Elizabeth Donneley, organizer for the relief station of the Workers’ In- ternational, Relief, who is also the leader of the childrens’ groups, de- clares that in spite of, all opposition hundreds of children are joining the clubs daily. Classes on the reasons for the strike an'don unionism are being held daily, as are the general meetings where the children are taught strike songs. The Girl Scouts of America sent a special emissary to the headquarters of the Mill Committees, where the |children meet, to request Elizabeth Donneley te cease organizing the children for the picket line and in support of the strike. “Miss Hall, the {Girl Scout representative, in an in- terview with the local’ papers later, admitted that she questioned each child in the strike headquarters as to whether he would rather be else- where than at the meeting, and had | received a negative reply from each. Miss Donneley seems to have the con- fidence of every child even though | she is only 22 years old, said the Girl and to fine| Scout agent, who has been working goods mills in the Pawtuxet and fin that organization for over twenty Blackstone Valleys of Rhode Island. The committees’ right hand in the} New Bedford strike is the Workers’| International Relief, which is opening! kitchens and grocery stores. W. I. R.| promises to play an invaluable ser- vice in keeping hitherto unorganized strikers from returning to the mills | The much-heralded citizens’ comm tee, which was to give food to unor- ganized workers while the unions cared for their own members, has raised only $400 in addition to the $1,000 given by the textile unions. 17 MISSING AS Crew of 47 Imperilled by Crash in a collision with the tanker Swin- burn, off Stapleton, L. I. Nineteen members of the crew swam ashore, a distance of a quarter of a mile. Others were picked up by lifeboats sent out by the liner Adri- atic and the liner Caronia and are now in various hospitals where they are . being treated. The sunken scow had been dredg- ing the narrows a half mile from pier 19,,and had a heavy cargo of wet sand at the time of the accident. ( | years. TAG DAYS FOR MINERS’ RELIEF May 12 and 13 Are Set By Committee An appeal for volunteers for ser- | vice during the Mine Relief Tag Days |to be conducted in New York on Sat- ‘urday and Sunday, May 12 and 13, | has been made to all New York work- \ers’ organizations and fraternal soci- VESSEL SINKS eties by Faniie Rudd, secretary of the New York branch of the National Miners’ Relief Committee, Condition Serious, “In view of the serious conditions prevailing in the strike areas,” the appeal continues, “on which depends |the fate of the miners’ union, and to pation, to pitch in and work for the alleviation of the hunger and disease suffered by thousands of striking mi- ners’ families.” Tag Day Drive stations have been established throughout every section of the city. Literature and collection supplies are being prepared and will be ready by Thursday of this week when they may be called for at 799 Broadway, Room 236, by station cap- tains and other workers who wish to make their club or union headquar- ters a station during the drive, kitchens. The period at which the kitehens were opened coincides with the period at which intensified mass picketing started in the Eastern Ohio strike region. Real Reason. The discontinuance of relief has come at the moment when the coal operators have been forced to realize that the move to break the strike by this method had utterly failed. Sheriff Hardesty of La g and at St. Clairsville, in speaking of the mass _ picketing carried on ‘by the miners following the arrests, said to reporters, “I in- tend to put a stop to this business if it takes all summer. I’m quite certain that the National Guard will cooperate with me.” Recent testimony of a representa- tive of Ohio mine operators revealed that numerous Ohio mines had com- plete arsenals stored away on the mine premises and ready for instant use in case mine authorities ‘deemed it necessary. The munitions included tear gas, machine guns, riot guns, rifles, pistols, and sky rockets for use at night. Rank and File Work. No special agents are sent into the field to distribute aid by the Na- tional Miners’ Relief Committee. Rank and file adminisiration committees are elected from each loc: These committees receive and distribute the shipments of food which are consigned from the office of the National Miners’ Relief Committee to each lo- cal-union. The two carloads of flour and staple foods sent to Eastern Ohio by the committee two weeks ago was apportioned among 45 local unions by representatives from each local. The withdrawal of its relief by the Ohio National Guard will immediately intensify the necessity for food in the affected strike territory. Closing of schools, another reason offered by the militia for the discontinuance of its relief activity, will leave thou- sands of children facing conditions near actual starvation unless food is immediately and regularly sent them. Belmont! county, who caused the arrests at| (Continued from Page One) rank and file, are preparing to fight each other for complete control of the hulk that was once a powerful Inter- national union. The fascist boss of the so-called pressers’ union in New York, Breslau. who is the commander-in-chief of Schlesinger’s fight for the presidency. was busy making statements to the press that Schlesinger will run for office even if their referendum reso- lution falls through. The “referendim” was demanded by the Schiesinger-Breslau gang be- cause Sigman seems to be in control of a majority of the fake delegates here, hoping that by taking the elec- tion of the president off the conven- tion floor Sigman may be beaten. It is apparent, however, that Sigman has used his usual methods of obtaining majorities, and will order this resolu- tion beaten. A fight is also expected toniorrow when the credential com- mittee brings in its recommendation. The Breslau gang will seek to wrest control from Sigman, by challenging the validity of some of Sigman’s “delegates.” Hyman’s Statement. In a statement issued yesterday Louis Hyman, leader of the left wing delegation, declared that the delega- tion is determined to carry out the in- struction given them by tens of thou- sands of cloakmakers whom they represent. These instructions are that in the event that the cliques in control of the convention refuse to permit the honestly elected represen- tatives of the workers to participate in the convention, and to rebuild the union, the left wing leaders are in- structed to immediately begin to lay the basis for the rebuilding of the union shattered by the right wing. All contributions should be addressed now to the National Miners’. Relicf Committee, 611 Penn Avenue, Pitts- burgh, Pa. happy. ws A recent decree of the fears minister of education prohibits high school girls from wearing anything but long skirts and high necks. The desses are all uniform. This wave of morality sweeping the wicked high schools has bowled over the Budapest dressmakers and left them gasping. It means that they will be deprived of making about 50,000 new dresses this year, with the loss of thousands of dol- lars. The suffering dressmakers are organizing a protest movement and have decided to send a deputation to the premier and the minister of education, requesting that the skirts of high school girls be short- ened and necks lowered to save the industry. HOLD 2 JOBLESS MEETS TOMORROW The New’ York Council for the Un- employed will continue its drive for relief for the unemployed with three meetings tomorrow and Thursday. Two meetings are scheduled tomor- row. Richard Moore, L, Baum, and Fort-Lovett Whiteman will speak at an open air mass meet at 188th St. and Lenox Ave, at 8 p. m, tomorrow. Baum and Philip Frankfeld will ad- dress a meeting of the unemployed at 101 W. 27th St. at 11 a. m. tomor- row. . The speakers at Thursday’s meeting at 138th St. and St, Anne’s Ave., Bronx, will be Baum, Frankfeld and ‘Padgug. SREIGHNTS SOURED NOBILE AT SPITZBERGEN. CORDOVA, Alaska, May 7.—The dirigible Italia was at Spitzbergen today after a hop from Vadsoe, Nor- way, on the Nobile expedition to the North Pole, according to a radio mes- sage intercepted by the government wireless station here, BOSSES SMASH WAGES THRUOUT U. S. Militant Organization Is Vital Need of Starving Workers|' By SCOTT NEARING, (Fed. Press). bh ace they are glad to work for 35 cents an hour. Many of them are waiting for a chance to step in and take a job at any price.” Detroit, the Motor City; center of much-heralded prosperity. The man speaking conducts an employment office for Negro labor. cents. “What else can they do?” de- manded my informant. “Would you have them starve? Some of them have been out of work for 5 and 6 months. They have families. 35 cents is better than nothing!” These same assertions are being made and this same drama is be- ing enacted in industrial centers all over the United States at the pres- ent time. Not in all ‘industrial centers, but in some of the most important. Take Philadelphia as an example. Automatic machine tenders who were getting $20 to $25 a week last fall are now offered as low as $12 per week. Most of the workers have refused to work at this scale thus far, but one of the Phila- delphia employment offices re- ported men taking jobs at this rate. the scale for domestic work ranged from $10 to $15 per week. It is now $8 to $12. The pressure on . the domestic labor market is very strong because many of the men are out of work and their wives are compelled to do something for the support of the family. Here. is. Rochester, N. Y, 125 metal: polishers were employed. in a Rochester shop at a basic rate of 70 per cent per hour. 100 of these polishers have been laid off. In their places new men are being hired: at a basic rate of 50 cents to 55 cents an hour. Where the old men have goné back for the jobs they have been advised to look fér work elsewhere. These new men are not so skilled, but. they are do- ing the work from $9 to $12 less per week. General Electric unskilled at work established throughout. the entire plant and many of the piece- work rates cut. , Unskilled workers in the United states are generally unorganized. Today hundreds of thousands of them are out of work. They and their families are alike suffering. Since there is no organization to hold them steady, they are tearing one another to pieces for jobs and driving the wage rates for un- skilled labor below the subsistence level. ST. CLARISVILLE, May 5 (By Mail).—Mass picketing will continue here despite the strike-breaking ac- tivities.of the state police who have tituted a virtual reign of terror. en the indictments against 25 men end five wemen because of violations of injunctions against picketing will not stor the miners. Break Line. A mass picketing line of more than two hundred men and women in front of the Florence mine of the Y. & 0. Coal Company near here was dis- persed Thursday evening, May 3, by a detachment of Ohio National Guardsmen who were summoned by the superintendent of thé mine. Threatened with violence and a re- petition of the wholesale arrests which took place in St. Clairsville two weeks ago, the miners and their wives dispersed when ordered to do so by the militia, A mass meeting of several hun- dred miners in St. Clairsville was also disrupted as a result of the Na- tional Guard activity on the picket line in front of the Florence Mine. Mass picketing in Ohio which has not lost inttensity since its beginning on April 1, took on a new importance today with the publication of the news that the federal grand jury at Steubenville, Ohio had returned in- dictments against 25 men and five women on charges of violating in- junetions which forbid mass demon- strations in front of or near mines. The 80 indictments were returned out of a total of 125 asked against indi viduals by authorities in this vicinity All were charged with verbal and physical abuse of mine guards and non-union miners. Negro Lynched After NAACP Report MIAMI, May a ee unidentified Negro was lynched by a posse of pursuers half an hour after he had shot and killed Philip H. Lee, chicf of police at Hallandale. No motive for the shooting was established. The affair at Miami comes just the day after a report of the Nationa! Association for the Advancement. of Colored People, through its secretary James Weldon Johnson, which stated that no lynehing anywhere in the ‘United States had been reported dur- ing the first third of the year 1928 Non-Union Agency for Seamen Kept by Senate WASHINGTON, M May 7 (FP). — Without a rollcall, the U. S. senate voted on Friday to withdraw its amendment to the independent offices appropriations bill that would abol- Madden, late chairman .of the house appropriations committee, to abolish this bureau, which has been useless and has had no legal status since the war. The board has kept it alive. While pretending to train young men REACTION ENDORSES SMITH. PROVIDENCE, May 7.—Endorse- ment of Al Smith and president George -L. Berry, misleader of the Pressmen’s Union, been run thru the Rhode Island Federation of Labor by the reactionary officialdom, of discussion. wide campaign to preevnt the Great Vare Steal through the only way this can now be done, the rallying of the masses of workers and strap hange: have been going on u>der the initia- tive of the’ Workers’ (Communist) Party, District 2. The Workers’ Party, which has been alone in the fight against. the fare steal, has al- ready held a number of mass me ings, but the campaign will actua begin in earnest with nearly a doz mass meetings scheduled for ton and dozens of others which are bei planned for this week and next. Meetings scheduled for tonight wil be held at Fifth Ave, and 110th St. 138th St. and Sixth Ave., First Avo. and 79th St.. Second Ave. and 10th St., Rutgers Square and Union Square (south end); also at Steinway a: Jamaica Ave., Jamaica, L. I., Wilkins and Intervale Ave., Bronx; 138th S* and St. Anne’s Ave., Bronx. Among the spe: rs at the mee’- ings will be William W. Weinstone organizer of district 2; Bert Mill organization secretary of the district Juliet Stuart Po;ntz, D. Benjam assistant director of the Worke: School; other speakers ‘will be Rich- ard Moore, Phil Arenberg, M. Castrell Chas. Mitchell, J. Sultan, Harry Blake, Sylvan A. Pollack, J. O. Ben- ‘all, S. Hessin, N. Markoff, Phil Frankfeldt, John Sherman and H Gordon. “Fight the Fare Steal” and “Or- ganize a Labor Party” are the key- note slogans of the campaign. In a statement issued by the social- st party yesterday, it was declared hat Tammany Hall had “defeated an and imposed Walker upon the city.” This was indicated as an evi- dence of the responsibility which Tam- many*bears’ for the fare steal. The statement, which was apparently di- rected to secure the favor of form Mayor Hylan, who has announced his eandidacy for mayor in 1929, is taken in quarters to mean that the social- ists may be willing to endorse Hylan. In other quarters, however, it is thought that the socialists will again support Al. Smith, cheif Tammany leader, as many of them did in 1924, particularly the socialist leaders in the needle trades. Meet to Protest U. S. Rule in Haiti Sunday _A protest meeting against the Wall Street control of Haiti will be held Sunday, May’ 18, at 2 p. m., at New Harlem Casino, 90 W, 116th St., under the joint auspices of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League and the Haitian Patriotic Union, - Among the speakers will be Wil- liam Pickens, of the National Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Col- ored People; Henry Rosemond; of the and Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER. Negro Women Organize A meeting to organize Negro wotn- en workers into unions was. held at the headquarters of the Community Progressive Painters’ Union, a Negro organization at 149 W. 136th St. The question of securing a living wage and improved working conditions for Negro working women was the topic be f th ww of . » A few months ago unskilled Since the first of January 1928, | Schenectady who were receiving |ish the sea service bureau of the Yaitian Patriotic Union; i | lia the goverment dredge Nevesink a certain extent that of the American) Negro workers in Detroit received | the wages of Negro domestic work- | 45 cents to 57 cents an hour are |shipping board. Andrew Furuseth,| 407, U, §, acct pa ginny AL - were missing late yesterday after it | /#ov movement, it is incumbent on al) 45 5 55 cents an hour. Today they | ers in Philadelphia have also been |- now going to work at from 37 cents |for the International Seamen’s Union America Anti-Imperialist League ia yarnmed and sunk in the Narrows workers, no matter what their occu-| aye standing in line for jobs at 35 | steadily falling. Four months ago | to 45 cents per hour, with ptece- | of America, had appealed to Martin 4 " \