The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 8, 1928, Page 5

Es f | | the secretary of state of a certain ! /STATEING IN COUNTRY BREAK INTO EVERY 250 Delegates Expected | at National Meeting (Continued from Page One) York will be the chief speakers, To Break Into South. For the first time in the history of the workingclass movement a ‘deter- mined attempt will be made to break into every state in the country. Such states as Alabama, Arizona, New Mexico, Georgia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, etc. will be represented by delegations of workers, who can be expected to return to their states enthused by the prospect that at last a real attempt is to be made to rouse the workers of the south and instil them with the spirit to carry out the tasks of the Party, preparatory to the coming of its campaign speakers and organizers. To Cover South. the Already, lot,” in these states is attracting con- siderable attention. Reactionaries Pight Communists, Numerous leading officials of some of these states including some gov- iv ernors, secretaries of state, and_at- |* torney generals have refused to reply to communications of the Party re- questing information as to the pro- eedure for getting on the ballot. In- stead they are making preparations to fight the Party by spreading rumors thru the press of the south in which they make all sorts of ridiculous charges. In one instance certain. newspapers let the cat out of the bag by explaining how a letter. addressed by the Workers Party to state found itself in their possession. The secretary of state had passed it on to the governor who passed it on to the democratic state boss who ap- parently is the owner of a chain of newspapers and thought it would make a fine news story. To Build Party. The National Nominating Conven- tion will do much to bring the oppor- tunity facing the party in the south to the attention of the whole’ move- ment, The large delegations coming from the highly industrialized states of the North will help to arouse the membership to the necessity’ of sup- porting the efforts to Build the Party in the South ‘when they return to the home states. This, and .nany other facts will combine to inake this the outstanding political convention cf the decade and full of significance te the working class. NEGROES PROTEST VETERAN ACTION James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the National Association for the ‘Advancement of Colored Peoples has found reason to send a sharp note to the medical director in Washington of the U. S, Veteran’s Bureau protest- ing against race discrimination. » “Unless this policy is discontinued we shall place facts in the hands of such members of congress as may be interested in the situation, as well as in the possession of newspaper edi- tors throughout the country.” Carpenters’’ Strike Defeats Wage-Cut READING, Pa., May 7.—As a re- sult of a strike which lasted five days, the carpenters employed by the Gilpatrick-Dawson Contracting Com- pany, of Pittsburgh, engaged in the ‘vonstruction of the Tyson-Schoener grade school, regained their regular rate of $1 per hour. The company attempted to cut the carpenters’ pay to 80 cents an hour. The carpenters -walked off the job. A clause in the contract between the city and the company penalizes the company for any delay at the rate of $100 a day. The strike and resulting delay forced the contractor to cancel the wage cut. The schoo) ‘board had no authority to intervene, BERT WILLIAMS ESTATE - Bert Williams, Negro comedian, who COMMUNISTS TO. preparations being | « made to “Put the Party on the Bal-|; THE DAILY ORKER, Ww. YOR: TUESDAY, MAY §&, 1 - George White, in inset above, has been aapert “planes for years. propelled, foot-pedalled Augustine beach, Florida. Above is shown his latest model, a motorless, wing- “ornithopter,” ting with birdlike which he is trying out at St. Workers Party Activities To All We wish to the new calend: tablished by the to avoid confli sympathetic organizations in the ar- rangement of affairs meetings. Pi e note the following points. 1, All requests for dates and affairs will ve to be registered on this ca- in the district office, giving the information requested. No affair or meeting is author- by the district unless a written authorization is received in the form of a duplicate blank of the calendar bearing the signature of the district rgunizations, 1 to your attention which has been es- in order various in the ht to hold an affair on trict takes this measure of authorizing the date as well as the character of the affair in order to reduce duplication and to systematize improve the. quality of our activ- ities. William , Welnstone, Dist. Org. Nightwerkers Meet. A special educational meeting of the Nightworkers’ International. Branch, Section 1, will be held today at 2.30 Dp. m, at 60 St. Marks Place, TAC An educational m will be held ting of 1AC 3F tonight at 6.30 sharp at 60 St. Marks Fiabe. « on IF. Subsection 2B, Unit 1F, will hold an educational meet tomorrow at 6 p. m. at 101 W. 27th St.' The subject dis- cussed will be “The Latest. Develop- ments in the Socialist Party.” Wag ae Spanish Fraction Meetnig. A special meeting of tae Spanish Fraction will be held tomorrow at 8.30 p. m., at 143 E. 108rd St....No Member of the Fraction should be absent as a very important report will be given at this meeting. oe arasth 5, Section 5. A special meeting of Branch 5, Sec- tion 5, will be held at 2075 Clinton Ave. at 8.30 sharp, today. hare 3E FDS Meet. S Unit FD3, section 3H, will meet to- today at 6.15 p, m, at ion W. 27th st. sunbention ac Wednenday. A meeting of the enlarged executive of subsection 3C will be held tomor- row at 6.30 p. m. at 101 W. 27th St. All unit organizers and executive members of the subsection must . be present. . * . 2B Unit FD3, of Butection “25, will meet today at 6p. m. at 126 E. 16th Street, to take up important business and dis- cussion. . . . 3E, 8E 1F will meet aay at 101 W. 27th St. at 6.15 p.m. 3E 3F 8E 3F will meet today at 6.15 p. m., at 101 W. 27th St. * . Unit 5SD1-2C. A. Green will lecture on the 7-Cent Fare Steal tomorrow at 6.30 p. m. ac WOMEN TO MEET TO AID MINERS Bronx Rally Will Be Held Tomorrow The Bronx section of the Women’s Committee for Miners’ Relief has ar- ranged a mass meeting and concert for tomorrow night at 1472 Boston Road. At this meeting several miners di- rect from the coalfields will tell the story of the striking miners and their wives and children. Among the speakers will be Juliet Stuart Poyntz and Ray Ragozin. In addition to the speakers there will be a concert, consisting of a singer, pian- ist and dancer. Suppress Communists BOGOTA, Colombia, May 17,—A law that would be used to suppresr the Communist Party has been intro- duced in the senate. It has been the gana -of sharp debate on the senate oor. died March 4, 1922, at Detroit, left an “estate amounting to $34,521 gross and $18,390 net, according to the ap- praisal made recently for tax transfer purposes, GUARD YOUR HEALTH MRS. RASKIN 1707 Boston Road Near 174th St. Sub, Station APT. 4 Offers a limited number of , Individually Cooked Meals Telephone Dayton. 3200. jone Stuyvesant 3816 John’s Restaurant Wes ahe oh eG ITALIAN DISHES © A place with atmosphere where all radicalr meet. 302 E. 12th St. New York. Health Food _ Vegetarian Restaurant 1600 Madison. Ave. " PHONE: UNIVERSITY 6866. All Comrades Meet at BRONSTEIN’S VEGETARIAN HEALTH RESTAURANT 558 Claremont P’kway Bronx. a meeting of Unit 5D1-2C, 2F, at 126 BH. 16th St. * * formerly 1B 1F Meets. of Unit 1B 1F will be evening at 6.30 at 60 A_ meeting held tomorrow Marks P St. PROFESSOR SLUGS, PIONEER AT CCNY Confiscates Leaflets on Ceremony A white-haired professor of City College forgot his professorial dig- nity long enough to chase for several blocks a member of the Young Pio- neers of America, who was distribut- ing leaflets issued by the members the Young Workers’ Commun League at City College, after having punched the youngster in the jaw and confiscated his leaflets. The profes- sor then deposited several of the leaf- lets in a little black bag, ih which were his cap and gown, for future reference. The leaflet called upon the students of the college to boycott the ceremo- nies held yesterday commemorating | the day on which the college received | its charter. These ceremonies were} followed by the inauguration of Fred-| erick B. Robinson, president of the in- stitution. “This Charter Day military spec- tacle, says the leaflet, “with its in-} auguration of a president who has fol- lowed a consistent policy of suspen-| sion and intimidation of all oppo- nents of military drill, takes on al great importance, coming as it does | in a period preceding an imperialist | | Young Workers’ Communist League ‘OF DAVID GORDON Young Workers League Denounces Conviction | | (Continned from. Page One) iable sources is held incommunieado, all attempts to reach him, save. by members of his: im- mediate family or his attorneys, be- | ing rigidly opposed. The final attempt to secure ..Gor- | don’s release is a motion for reargu- | ment of an appeal filed with, the! court of appeals last Monday by Joseph R. Brodsky, his attorney.. The higher court has already upheld the sonviction. Y. W. L. Issues Statement. The district executive committee of | the Young Workers’ League, of which | Gordon was a member, last night is- sued a statement denouncing his con- viction and demanding that he be re- leased at once. Relief Meet, concert arr: essai v's Committee on Miner will be held at Boston srrow evening, M 9, 11 women in the sec by the tellef, tion The annual of th Def day e Street, 3. Second cotne The Jubi the Freiheit Ge York | turday, and Pate Miners’ Relief Dance. d dan ven on M Workers’ The next hike of the Y will be held Sunda er: Bo to will it The statement follows: j ‘ 2 : “David Gordon is a young Commu-} Iron Workers Union. nist. He is being persecuted because & of the Tron pang Bronze | : Cie aaa ung | Work nion will be held tonig of his memb the Younk} Sth St. Various reports will Workers’ (Com eague, and | be Plans for further acti ‘ of union as to enlarging th not because of hi written any “obseene poetry. arrest and conviction is based on an attempt to ush The DAILY WORKER, the rgan of the Workers’ (Communist) Party of an attempt to combat the growing prestige and in- fluence of the Young Workers’ (Com- munist) League amongst the young s of America; in an attempt ermine and demoralize all man- ifestations of revolutionary discontent amongst the working and student youth. ” Active in League. “Gordon is a member of the Dis- trict Executive Committee of the New York Young Workers’ Commu- nist League. He was an active mem- ber. of the Williamsburg Unit of the Communist youth organization, and} as such carried on excellent work amongst the young workers and stu- dents in Williamsburg. He was and is well known for his revolutionary activity there. The Young Workers’ Communist League has participated 10} all of the struggles of the young workers and students in New York. “Leaflets and bulletins -have been distributed to thousands of young workers in large and small factories; the League arranged a demonstration ‘aginst the invasion of Nicaragua in front of the Brooklyn Navy Yard (in which Gordon participated); the helped the Paperbox Makers’ Union when it was out on strike recently, “Gordon, as an active member of the Young Workers’ Communist League, participated in all of these struggles of the ,outh and helped the League in all of its work. The nu- “It is the symbol of the increasing militarization of the American youth, in preparation for the new war which the bankers are planning. It is a form of preparation for similar ven-} tures like the present bloody Wall) Street war in Nicaragua. “It should be made the occasion | | for sterner resolution on the part of) the student body to force the hand of! the Tammanj-controlled faculty on military training. Military training must go! | “The Young Workers’ Communist | League, which raises the slogan of| determined struggle against imperial-| ism and imperialist militarism, takes) this occasion to invite ‘all hones working class students into its ranks for the struggle all along the line— for better conditions for the working youth, for organization of the unor- ganized youth, against military train- ing in the schools and colleges.| against capitalistic teaching in the | schools, for the right to vote at the} age of 18 and so on. “Boycott the ceremonies! Join the Young Workers’ Communist League!”’| Attached to the leaflet is an applis! cation blank for membership in the Young Workers’ League. Over 1,500 of these leaflets were distributed to the students and many oY them boy- cotted the ceremonies. WORKER KILLED, SEMINOLE, Okla., May 6.—Theo- dore Andrews was instantly killed while on a highline in the Bowles area. WE ALL MEET ate the | youth organization shows that the | powerful merical growth of the Communist young workers and students are re- sponding and reacting to its call and | activity. “The case of David Gordon is a po-| litical one, and not a “literary” one i The fact that his poem was used as a basis by the Key Men of America fan ultra-patriotic and ved-baiting organi- zation of professional patriotcers) in an attempt to suppress The DAILY WORKER, which voices and reflects the struggles of militant labor in America proves this conclusively, *The Young Workers’ Communist League demands the immediate and unconditional release of David Gor- don. It calls upon the young workers and students upon the entire working class of America to rally to the de- fénse of Gordon. The Young Work- ers’ (Communist) League will not be daunted by the attempt to persecute and suppress it, but instead will in-| crease its activities amongst the | working class and student youth to build up, strengthen and develop a mass) Communist youth movement in America. “Down with the Key Men of Amer- ica and all other anti-workingclass organizations! Demand the immedi- ate and unconditional release of Da- vid Gordon! A united front of all working and student youth organiza-| tions for the release of Gordon! Long live The DAILY WORKER! Long live the Young Workers’ League! : Tel. Lehigh 6022, Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hours: 9:30-12 A. M. 2-8 P.M. Daily Except Friday and Sunday. 249 EAST 116th STREET Cor. Second Ave, New York. NEW WAY CAFETERIA 101 WEST 27th STREET NEW YORK All Comrades meet at Eatwell Vegetarian Restaurant '78—2nd Ave., near 5th St. N. Y. We serve fresh vegetables only. No animal fats used here, MESSINGER’S DAIRY and VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 1763 Southern Blvd. Bronx, N. Y. Branches: THIRD AVENUE at 149th STREET. 1000 LONGWOOD AVENUE, B3YBHAA JEYEBHULA DR. BROWN Dentistry. in All Its Branches 801 Bast 14th St, cor, 2nd Ave, Over the bank, New York, Dr. J, Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Algonquin 8183 Telephone Stagg 5356. Dr. J. C. HOFFER Surgeon Dentist 287 South 5th St., near Marcy Ave. Brooklyn, N. Y. Proletarian prices for proletarians, ation work among the union shops and as to a stronger con- the union shops will be taken } trol of up Yorkville I. L. D. thly meeting of the | Flatbush Council Meeting. The Fiatbush Counc. Work- | ingclass House d its reg- ular meeting tomorrow n at 1321 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn . . Hungarinn Needle W A meeting of the Hung Trade*workers will be he B. 8ist St, at 8 p.m. Ben Gold will re- port on the recent important develop- ments in the needle trade unions in the industry. . . . | Plumbers’ Helpers Hike. and The American Association of Plumb- ers’ Helpers will hike to Palisades Tn- terstate! Park on Sunday, Ma D. o | meeting point will be at 136 BH. 24th | Street. | Ca ee | Housewives’ Organizers Meet, — | A regular meeting of the central body and organizers of the, United Council of Workingclass Housewiv. will be held Thursday at 8.30 p. m. at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th Street. | * ° * Harlem I. L. D, The Harlem Section, FOSTER TO SPEAK Meeting. ‘ON MINE STRIKE Meeting for Sections 2 and 3 William Z. Foster, executive secre- tary of the Trade Union Educational League, will discuss the miners’ strike at Bryant Hall, 725 Sixth Ave..| Thursday, at 6 p.m. The full mem- bership of Sections 2 and 3 of the Workers’ (Communist) Party will be present. Foster, who has made an exhaus-| tive study of the causes of the miners’ strike, will relate the facts regard- ing the situation today, paying spe- cial attention to the significance of| 50,000 unorganized miners on strike He will outline the strategies of the! opposing camps in this struggle, and| also touch on the consequences of the} strike if it is not won, showing the) dangerous position in which the whole American. labor movement would be placed. In a statement issued Saturday night. Leon Litwin, organizer of sec-| tion 2 of the Workers’ (Communist | Party, urges all members to attend this lecture. “The miners struggle,” | said Litvin, “is of major concern to! our members and all of us must ac-; quaint ourselves more fully with the! mine situation.” ° Cooperators, Workers M. SUROFF Invites you to visit the store of MEN'S, LADIES’ and BOYS’ Pants, - Sport Knickers, Sweaters, Socks and Belts’ a 735 Allerton Avenue Bronx, Prices reasonable. Pants to order to match coats, No Tip-Ynion Barber Shop 77 rIFTH AVE. Bet. ae a ee Streets cITY Individual Paanitapy | Service by Ex- perts. — LADIES’ wie BOBBING SPECIALIST! Patronize a Comradely Barbe ; | (Special to The DAILY WORs:ERY| | | fields to desperation, which i - | Jones International | Teaver Dae abor Defense 8.30 p.m. at 1 executive commi meet somofpow at 103rd St. A ee will be elected. Ald Miners. of Workingclass da Workers C midnight show, The Young W Club will meet a ers, 118 Bristol S day at 8.30 p.m mittee will ren kere Social Culture ew he Brooklyn, x he executive com- er its re re Ma DAB OES STARVING MINERS JOINING STRIKE | ito Union “Men Leave} Seab Pits |- PITTSBURGH, ‘Pa.,.May {creasingly unbearable conditions in | the mines of the unorganized counties of Pennsylvania are forcing more| ; miners to join the ranks of the strik- . Police brutality, and d spy system within ch makes it difficult to on any organization work are ig little effect on the miners who T--In- are finding steadily, thinner pay en-| ® velopes and larger cars in which to load their coal. These facts are driv- ing the mir in the unorgan pressing itself into a slow spread: of the strike in the rest of western Starvation Pay. At the Vesta No. 8 mine of the and Laughlin Company, in Greene county neat Bobtown, Pa. loaders are receiving $1.45 per car The cars have an average capacity of five tons. Their dimensions are ten feet in length and’ six feet in width with a three-foot depth. Some men working at an almost inhuman speed in the effort to earn a living wage load as many as nine cars daily. Day men receive six dollars a day. Seven hundred are employed at Vesta No. 8 At the Moffet-Sterling mine at Point Marion, 70 cents is the pay for leading a-two and a half ton car with unscreened coal. Day men receive | only four dollars and helpers are paid |three dollars and sixty cents. 50c for 3 Tons! At the Maple Sterling mine of the j paid for three tons. In the Brown Hill imine of the Brown Hill Coal Company, day men are paid only three dollars |and sixty cents per day. The coal is mined under such difficult conditions that in order to earn more than the price of their blasting powder the min- ers are forced to work twelve hours, a day. Fifty-four cents is the price paid for two tons of coal which must be cut at the Brown Hill Mine. Dunkird Coal Company, fifty cents is} dug with a pick where it cannot be} i OPENS TOMORROW \Members of S. P. Aids Workers’ Building (Continued from Pege One} ity. The drive for $30,000} which i \ entering its final week, is enl greater and greater masses of ers, though some Workers’ Party u are lagging behind. “Many units of the Workers’ Part) have not been keeping the pace they set ier in the campaign,” de < William W. Weinstone yesterday careful check-up is being kept of al those that are dropping behind. They ' must get on the job at one Only a week remains until May 15, the con- clusion of the drive, and the $30,000 must be raised by that time. Every worker will benefit from the estab- lishment of this home of the revolu- tionary movement, and every wo should contribute his share tow its establishment. We must show ourselves true and _ self-sacrificing revolutionists in every phase of our | activity.” Modjacot Show Starts Tomorro Tomorrow evening at 8 o’cloc' first performance of the Mor Marionettes will i or | | i | | Sunday eve ing put on e will also be given at the Sunday ning performance by the Music fraction of the Workers’ Party. | large number of workers are preparing |to see this unique entertainment Tickets are on sale at 26-28 Union Sq. at 50 cents each for adults and ‘25 cents for children. All the pro ceeds will go to the Workers’ Center The drive during the last week will |to a large extent, be devoted to the |sale of Workers’ Center “bricks.” Lists for the sale of these “bricks” at 25 cents, 50 cents and $1 can be cured gt 26-28 Union Sq. They shou be circulated in shops, trade t progressive workers’ and among friends and s in order to successfully wind up the campaign to establish the Workers’ Center. In addition, all Work Party units are urged to speed t work of raising their quotas and make the next few days the most productive of all in the collection funds. i\Sailor Won’t Pay Fare: | 'l'welve Hurt in Clash BALBOA, Panama, Canal Zone, May 7.—Twelve persons were injured here last night in a riot which re- sulted when an American sailor re- fused to pay an automobile fare. Six sailors were among those injured The American naval author’ promise an “investigation of the riot Green| county. And a Cut. A cut at the Fancy Hill mine twe| men from five dollars to four and a half dollars. Twenty-four dollars a week is the average pay received by| non-union miners in the Point Marion| district in Greene county. Following the ‘wage cut at the Fancy Hill mine deputy sheriffs were placed on duty in anticipation of possible dissatisfac- tion on the part of the men. Deputy |sheriffs have been threatening sum- mary arrest of any person whom they | suspect of organization activity among | the non-union miners, SAM LESSER CLEANING and DYEING 1818—7TH AVE. Next door to Unity Cooperative 19% Discount to [ members of Cooperative weeks ago, reduced the wages of day | HE ARCHITE! RAL IRON, BRONZE & STRUCTURAL WORK- ERS UNION meets every second and fourth Tuesday of the month, at Rand School, 7 East 35th Street, City. Headquarters: 7 East 15th Street, City. Telephone: Stuyvesant 0144, 2194, | | A Rosenfeld, Secretary. Advertise your here. For information write The DAILY WORKER Advertising Dept. 83 First St, New York City. ; anion meetings te MARY WOLFE |||sruDENT. OF THE DAMROSCH | CONSERVATORY PIANO LESSONS Moved to 2420 BRONX PARK EAST Near Co-operative Colony. Apt. 5H, | Telehone ABROOK 2459. ecial rate ‘to students from the ative House. At Wed., Thurs., . Ats Tickets: 50c¢; ALL PROCEEDS TO MopJACOT MARIONETTES WORKERS’ CENTER 26-28 UNION SQUARE New Program at Each Performance. On sale at 26-28 Union Sq. the Sat. and Sun. P.M. Children 25c. WORKERS’ CENTER!