The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 8, 1928, Page 4

‘Page Fotr THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1928 Beat Illinois Miners With Whips in Jail, Worker Correspondent Writes ~— MEETING FIGHTS GET 200 LASHES; 2) BESIDES ON VISITORS’ DAY Victims Are “Tried “Kangaroo Courts” espondent.) Illinois, where carried on by the wonfen have bee n t hair, ep names | ssued instruc~ him , erowbars, or any weapon, and charge| h was peaceful} al of the pickets the women were fully, in the melee that hine gun had also! th ine by one of union offi ie id instructions | given to use it v the the first on pickets at oppor The conditions of the striking min- ers in Pennsylvania have become sc that se tions have severe additional inves- | made. The Uni- | urgh has sent a dele- | b | udents to make notes of} a seminar of minister: | . and » through the strike | ng, the starvation, the un- conditions, and the brutal these people are foreed to} part of Mlinois | being resortec op the spread- ion movement | A mass meeting scheduled at West} Frankfort had to be abandoned b cause of the arrest of several persons | connected with the movement, among} them the speakers scheduled to ap- the gathering. | first arrest was that of the 1 who w: distributing handbills ertising the meeting. When two one of them a speaker, the a secretary in the movement red at the police station to make they were informed tha’} eld incommunicado at | When they returned} ng to try to arrange 's release, they too, were Ei and held incom- the time that a smal’) riends, and their wives gathered at the jail, they had » removed to the Benton County , where the prisoners are allowed | al “Kangaroc | vietim. All| ail are searched re turned over to} r the cts prisoners. If any man does not anything of value, he is ther} th in this “Kangaroo Court,” | him to punishment. | r straps. | f lashes often reach 10, At the close} r’s day, the victim re onal lashes, until s' his relatives or friends suc- the amount that he socalled prisoner a3) was fir red, f court. Th m members were 2 to the diligent | of them } ak tly known what Ic These men told able bat | ne hey be suppressed, as they | were made public | that any other of their men which} should happen to fall into the hands of this faction might be forced to undergo mo: a result of be given them. severe punishment as publicity that might —H. D. ® Jailed Miner Calls All to Aid Struggle \ | | | s | (By a Worker Correspondent.) BELLEF JAIL, Pa, (By, Mail).—As you see, I am an in-) mate of this institution. I am also! a DAILY WORKER reader, and 1! will do whatever I can for my pa- per because it is the best paper! that I have ever read. I am a coal! miner too. The poor people must} | struggle everywhere to make bet- ‘ter conditions. It is needful most! leverywhere at this present mo- iment. Men are on earth to strug- {gle and make living worth while.| | Please thank. Harry Blake for me.| He wrote me a nice letter about) the May Day celebration. I will) answer his letter by sending some money. I am very thankful for) your letter too, i LIVER SMITH. by | ¥« knock- | | hours a day —»I printing the actual facts. Scratch an American ¢ Bhaidreds of States doll up in Turkish trou Shriner from hundreds of American village. so-cal. o way, they go to the to control labo The above picture 1 a where the ix very strong. POLITICAL PARTY EXPLOITS LABOR Men Work for $3 a Day| and a, cig Day Week (By a Worker Correapondent.) LOS ANGELES, Calif., (By Mail) —One of the major political parties her worl employed about hundred Most of these 100 got their thru an employment agency one rs. jobs work aking inquiries regarding | which took 30 per cent of their en-| tire earnings. 8-hour and $6 per Ww The typists got $4 per ich means that they worked eight for themselves and four | hours a day for the employment | agency. Those who stuffed, sealed and packed envelopes carrying political propaganda got $3 per 8 hours and $4.50 per 12 hours, $1.50 of which went to the employment agency. Not only did they work 12 hours a day but they worked seven da: a week No overtime allowance was made for Sunday work. political power dare to work people for 12 hours a day and seven das a week, paying only $3 and $4 per day right before election time? Evidently they don’t give a damn for the workers’ vote—or—O yes, the forelady gave orders to shut up about overtime work—“for ‘WE’ might get in trouble,” she pleaded. There must have been some kind of labor law that was violated. But what is that to a powerful political party that depends on labor for the votes only? And, what are votes so long as’ the dollar is always forth- coming? -Or has the dollar ceased to come so readily since the Teapot Dome scandal? M. Convention. where 2-hour day. | How can a powerful! thruout the United year, Outfitted in this the little s agree with the bigger ones on how men nee or twice a capitalists shows them marching in Miami, Fia., ' Worker Fi Finds Little Door = Significant: | (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANC Cal, (By Mail) —The dedication of the new $9,00! |000 City Hall started here today. | | Boosters stated that 500,000 were in j the line of the parade. The fete will | continue for three days. A newspaper reporter discovered |600 lottery joints in this “pure” city jof Angeles, and the whole police force ed overtime all day trying prevent him from telling hi jthe “law and order” arti bers of the so-called vice-squad. some quarters the reporter threatened with death. The mar visitors will find a wide-open city— and then some. But the speeches of| the grafters will contain nothing but purity itself. And what about the southside door of the new building, the one nearest | the Los Angeles Times? or mem- In just like a door in a small private} home. A man I met on the street the He turned out to be a carpenter painter and writer. He said he would write a story about it. Anyhow, other péoplé began to talk to} tory to} other day drew my attention to it.) caries and Find ae . Turk | REVOLVERS STUCK. IN MINERS BACKS: IN. TERROR REIGN Anth -acite Men Ready to Oust Cappelini (By a Worker Correspondent) PITTSTON, Pa. (By Mail)—We held a’ meeting of the Local Union 1581 of No. 14 colliery of the Pennsyl- vania Coal Co. last week. Over 1200 miners attended the sion. The miners came ready prep 1 to over- throw the reactionary of s who are led by Cardoni and Andrew No- vak, contractors of that colli Thru the terrorizing of the ners and thru the police protection which they received, the machine was able to block the attempt of the rank and | file,to get control of local union 1581, tho the fact is that the miners have not given up the struggle and now }are more determined to fight in the local union and overthrow the officers |in the end. The Save-the-Union Movement has | been leading this fight in and around | the Pittston territory and has been succeeding in the struggle. The only reason that they did not succeed this meeting was because the contractors stuck guns, that is revolvers in the | backs of some of our militant leaders. | They also prevented some of the lead- ing fellows from attending the meet- |ing by not letting them into the hall land getting the police to keep them jout. Then also when the militant |miners from 1703 arrived to help | them in overthrowing the contractors | they had the police hold one on no charges whatsoever. John Salvo was the one that, was held. Another miner was thrown ;down the steps. The Tri-District | Save-the-Union Committee is deter- was | mined that all the contractors shall be thrown out of the Pittston terri- tory. Pittston Local Union 1703 started work on the 30th of April when the company was forced with the district officials led by Cappelini to recognize James Lamarea docking ‘boss, ‘and | Frank McGarry checkweighman. Tho Well, it is| the miners were Teluctant to go back very small for such a big structure— | to work yet it was under the orders jof the mayor that no meeting could be called to explain the situation and that everybody had to return to work. | It is doubtful if the miners would have returned to work if the mayor would have permitted a meeting. about the little door in the big house’ and the wisest in the group suggested | that the entrance probably was i tended to. be used only by the i visible government—made up of crea- tures too small to be seen but ery active in the underworld and other |. questionable undertakings in the com- | munity. Such a body doesn’t take up} much room, you know. used for both coming and going. So the narrow door will serve the pur- |pose after all. P. RINDAL. Hungarian Workers Win Soccer League Honors With the Hungarian Wor | division, and the Scandinavians runnit as first play. Starting the season with only a fev teams, the “Metropolitan”. gradually em: divisions rung. down and very the curtain on_jts successful season o build up to the point where braced | Because 32 teams: in three of its eonsistent adherence les of labe nt of rea and honest play, the “Metropoli has been able to build up a big fol- lowing and all indications are that t season it wil’ continue its sen- |sational growth An amateur baseball league for young workers under the age of 20 {has heen organized by the Chicago District of the Labor Sports Union. Following upon the issuance of a call ito the numerous neighborhood sports |elubs, 12 representatives | meeting. jthe Chicago District of the L. S. U.) the delegates and a promise of whole- | hearted support from his organi ‘tion. ee oe After hearing a report on the prin- ples and activit' of the Labor | Sports Union. from its |tion of Seandinavian workers clubs, _with over 40 delegates present un- | animously decided to indorse and sup- |port the organization. Three andinavian Workers’ Sports Clubs are already affiliated to the Labor Sports Union, and dele- gates from various parts of the coun- try stated that at least six more would join within the following two months. * So thoroughly has the Amateur Athletic Union been exposed as an organization that is soaked thru and hru -with professional practice that the sports pages make no bones about For éx- of seven} clubs came to sthe first organization | Clem Forsen, Secretary of | Yopened the meeting with greetings to| National Secre- | | tary Paul Cline, the national conven- ng them a close second, the Metropol- an Workers’ Soccer. League, which is affiliated to the Labor Sports Union, imple | a “leading sporting editor vhich he pointed out that Charley ?addock, famous sprinter charges 3500 to appear “loyd Hahn, Roston A. A. drags down $1500. And these men are officially classed amateurs and are trying out for es on the American Olympic | am. As the A. A. U. becomes more and more discredited, the Labor Sports Union, the national organization for labor sports and athletics, comes to the fore as a 1 amateur athletic body, promoti physical culture and athletic activity among large numbers of working people. | Hit Fake Union Label TORONTO, May 7 (FP).—The lock- out of union bakers in Toronto has | ended but the abuse of the union label/ of which the master bakers were ! guilty will not be allowed to drop | They put out an imitation label to deceive customers who insisted on union made bread and cake. The city council is considering action regard- ing the fraudulent practice, HIT NEGRO ICE DEALERS. are endeavoring to secure an injunc- tion restraining the New Colonial Ice Company from supplying ice to Negro dealers. The latter are pro- testing against the attempt at mon- opoly on the part of the Italian dealers and are trying to organize sentiment among the Negro ice cen- sumers. Negro ice-dealers of Harlem are conducting mass-meetings in the churches. Penn ee ey “Leave Me for Somebody Else to} Read and Multiply My P ‘ower! ~—The Daily Worker, ee ee a “of | ‘hicago recently wrote an article in! in a meet, whereas | long distance star of | The Italian ice-dealers of Harlem | —MARK. Frank..McGarry. posted up notices) eames yee ‘St tory of Evolution Pictured in Daring Ne Ee most daring tum ever shown toy. he German public was recently shown in Berlin. The picture was re- leased by the Ufa Company, as a spe. cial feature. This is ture,” the story of evolution “from | | the cell to the human being.” Nature | is regarded as directed by two forces jonly, love and hung From the thesis laid down by Haeckel, the di-| 'yeetor, Dr. Ullrich Schultz has taken | | pictures from various medical, scien- | tific, and zoological films, inter- spersed them with a few trick p \ tures, and shown the continuity of ment in nature, from the first | nts in which the lowest forms of | life arose, up to the circulation of the | blood. | Nature’s relentless will to propa- | gate the s is demonstrated not | y the amorous wooing of the| turtle dove, but by the strange court- | ing of spiders and_ snails, rising | throughout Nature to the fights of | the male stag. The different stages | of embyronic life are shown, as well | as the earliest phases of ‘man’s de- velopment towards a civilised fia caves, we are shown cultured chim-| panzees and unhappy human freaks known to international science. — The yerman censor, generally rigidly averse to young people under eighteen siting the cinema, has} passed this picture for those under that age, possibly believing that the biological knowledge now imparted in classrooms may be more effectively taught in this way. No other country is likely to accept certain of the medical pictures as they stand, but | the whole attempt is on. such a fine scale that the film with these few eliminations deserves world-wide no- tice. Says 11,000,000 Negros Have No Voice in Rule WASHINGTON, M May 7. — Prof Kelly Miller of. Howard University conservative leader of Negro intel- lectuals in the capitol, in a letter to the Washington Post declares that the Negroes henceforth will send their own people to congress. “After a lapse of more than a century,” says Prof. Miller, “the Negro congressman is returning to stay. It is a reproach to the race that 11,000,000 loyal and patriotic Negro citizens have no voice in the government by which they are controlled. iid In the damn| Moscow-Warsaw railroad line, breakfast is a matter of pennies. building business only cracks were|line in the first Polish town the traveler pays heavily for undrinkable coffee | with bread. i: At Niegeloroye, the Russian station isa. new. 2-story structure finished in natural wood. The restaurant room | springs up to the roof. Crimson ban- | ners carry greetings to the revolution \in Russian, Polish and Yiddish. No | tips accepted, but there is a hearty farewell to the Amerikansky dele- | gates and a last injunction for them | to fight against the danger of Amer- lica making war on Russia. A few miles further on is the Polish | frontier town. The traveler drags his | baggage to the custom house. A squad of suspicious customs men, flanked | by surly armed soliders, passes from ag to bag. Soon the central table is piled high with. contraband—Mos- cow evening papers, illustrated maga- zines, any scrap of literature with | Russian print. The censor will look them over and return them. | As soon as possible. ly is never. Into the restaurant for a cup of coffee. Waiters, correctly clad in habiliments subserviency. The s team winning the top honors in the “A” | of | Polish equivalent of “mister”—a word |no more used in Russia. Undrinkable coffee. High prices. And the hand outstretched for the tip. On the train Polish officers in | swanky uniforms, swords with silver- SOVIET UNION IS FREE; POLAND A SLAVE LAND WARSAW, May 7. (FP).—At Ni When? | Which apparent-| iegeloroye, last Russian town on the Across the ‘| filigreed seabbards and wolf hounds on leash swagger through the coaches | | In Warsaw the station is incredibly | crowded. On to Stentsch, the Ger- man-Polish border town with the un- enviable name. Here we find that gage in the baggage car at the Ger- man border. More expenses and graft. In Berlin we find that the Poles kept the baggage until Sunday so that they could make the extra Sunday charge. But it was fine to get away from Poland. To Probe Deaths An investigation into the death Friday, April 28 of three passengers on the ferryboat Bronx when the boat tipped forward and threw them over- held last night at St. . I. The Tammany Hall ad-| | ministration has been attempting to | prevent any investigation of the acci- dent. | CHICAGO INTER-RACE AFFAIR | CHICAGO, May 7.—An_ Inter- Racial concert and dance will be held | here Sunday at 3 p. m. at Columbia Hall, 1700 W. 48th Street, under the auspices of Street Nucleus No. 5 of | 5 the Workers (Communist) Party. “4 PRINCIPLES OF COMMU POEMS FOR WORKERS. THE DAMNED AGITATO CONSTITUTION OF THE ee ; POS PARMAR Important Questions treated Order LITTLE RED LIBRARY Eleven Copies for Oni DOLLAR TRADE UNIONS IN AMERICA. CLASS STRUGGLE VS. CLASS COLLABORATION. WORKER CORRESPONDENTS. MARX AND ENGELS ON REVOLUTION IN AMERICA. 1871—THE PARIS COMMUNE. HOW CLASS COLLABORATION WORKS. JIM CONNOLLY AND IRISH FREEDOM. WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 43 East 125th Street, New. York City, NISM: R AND OTHER STORIES. U.S. S. R. by outstanding leaders of the American Labor Movement. From Resides dwellers on lake piles and in| the Poles have failed to put the bag-|- w German Film EN WILLARD } ACK DRAMA. Marie Chambers, who plays one of the chief roles with Willard Mack in his newest play, “The Scarlet Fox,” at the Theatre Masque. Whitford ea who played in the Theatre Guild’s first production of “R. U. R.,” has been engaged to fill his old role when “R. U. R.” goes on tour next season. Mr. Kane will also play in “Marco Millions,” which will be toured as the companion piece to “R. U, R.” “The Death,” a new drama by Leon Blumenfeld, is announced for produc- tion by Edward Cosgrave early in September. Vera Allen, who last year played in “The Silver Cord,” will be one of the principals in the forthcoming “Grand Street Follies,” which opens here about May 24. Other members of the: cast, all of whom have ap- peared in previous editions, are: Ed- la Frankau, Joanna Roos, Frances Cowles, George Heller and George Bratt. . re . Russians to’ Aid Miners CHICAGO, May 7.—The Russian Club, Zvooki Rodiny, will hold a con- cert and international costume bal’ for the benefit of the striking miners on Sunday at Wicker Park Hall 2040-46 W. North Ave. Prizes wil’ be given for the best costumes. Doors open at 4 p. m. FOR. THE CHICAGO FRONT. CHICAGO, May 7—A confession that he had obtained sixteen sub- machine guns from a New York con- cern and had distributed them in un- derworld channels was reported to have been obtained from V. A. Daniels. |The National Bonita-Moleski-Mendola | Defense Committee held a very en- | thusiastic mass meeting here to pro- j tence of Sam Bonita. _FOR DEFENSE OF FRAMED MINERS |Burgess Seeks Votes as Price of Permit (By a Worker Correspondent) OLD FORGE, Pa., (By Mail).— test against the verdict and the sen- Despite the fact that the sheriff of Lackawanna County and the police had made efforts to break up the meeting, and close the hall, the burgess of Old Forge who apparently is on the outs with the county au- thorities permitted the meeting to go on and ordered the state police and county authorities to get out of Old Forge. For the first time in the his- tory of Lackawanna county, this par- ticular burgess gave police protec- tion and permitted the meeting to go on, tho it is well known that he did this for political reasons in fish-- ing for the workers’ votes in Old Forge. Stanly Dziengielewski, Secretary of the National Bonita-Moleski-Mendola Defense Committee. Charles Licata, recording secretary Local Union 1703, and Sam Licata exposed and con- demned Judge McLean and the whole procedure of the trial. . They also exposed how Cappelini works hand in hand with the contractors and the coal operators to murder innocent rank and file leaders to fight in be- half of the miners. A local Bonita-Moleski-Mendola De- fense Committee’ was also organized. A good collection was taken and the meeting adjourned in a very deter- mined manner to free Bonita, Moleski and Mendola. —COAL. Youth Committee Aids Striking Coal Diggers The Youth Committee for Miners’ Relief, of New York, announced yes- terday the result of several collec- tions taken up recently to aid the striking coal diggers. At a meeting held Friday at Morris High School, the Bronx, under the auspices of the Social Problems Club, a campaign for the raising of funds was started. The Social Problems Clubs, City College collected $23.50 it was an- nounced last night. At a tag day held at New Utrecht High School, Brooklyn, $16.50 was raised among the students. A donation of $12.50 was also re- ceived from the Williamsburgh Youth Club and $31 from the Grocery and Fruit Clerks, Union, according to Phil Frankfeld, secretary of the Youth Committee for Miners’ Relief. | 20 WY N LUAU Bway, FULTON ©". “See It and Creep.”—fve. Post. 46 oe Mats. Pete CHANIN'S 46th St. Evenings at 8:25 of Broadway Mats. Wed. & Sat. SCHWAB and MANDEL’'S MUSICAL SMASH OOD NEW with GEO, OLS! and HIS MUSIC ~ 3 WORKERS KILLED; 1 HURT PHIALADELPHIA, May 7.—A smokestack which was being torn down here collapsed, killing Lubin Durham. John Moore, Edmond San-| Joséph Haines sustained | ders and broken arms, legs and ribs. — The Theatre Guild presents —— cess Strange Interlude O'Neill’s Play, John Golden Thea., 68th, E. of B'way “Evenings Only at 6:30. L THIS WEEK VOLPONE Th., W. 52d St. Evs. 8:30 Guild sists. thurs. & Sat. 2:30 Week of 3 ay 14: “Marco Millions” Evs, 8:30. 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