The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1928, Page 1

f ale a dame ] ram paicy worker Ficuts, | PAILY WORKER FIGHTS, FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ' UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK I FOR A LABOR PARTY pete Mee OMe es il Vol. V. No. 109. THE DAILY | Publishing Association, Inc., 38 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Outside New York, by mail, 86.00 per year. Eetered A Second-clasm matter at the Post Office at New York, N. under the act of March 3, 1879. Kok, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1928 Published dat SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. y by The National Daily Worker ily exeept | yNaL crry | AL CITY | ___ EDHION Price 3 Cents POLISH TROOPS ATTACK U.S. 8. R. BORDER GUARDS WORKERS PARTY RALLIES MASSES IN FARE STEAL Resolution Co ndemns Tammany Hall Twelve open air mass meetings at which, according to estimate, over thirty thousand -workers attended were held last night under the aus- pices of the Workers (Communist) | Party as the first step in the great drive which is to be dirécted by the Workers Party against the seven-cent fare steal. Resolutions condemning the Tam- many Hall city government and the Republican controlled state legisla- ture which have cooperated in putting over the threatened fare steal for the traction companies were passed with the greatest acclaim at these meetings. The resolutions called up- on the workers and straphangers to organize a labor party as the only means of permanent defense=for the interests of the exploited masses “Fight The Fare Steal” was the slo- ran which resounded at every meet- ing. I. R..T. Serves Order The Interborough Rapid Trans- it Company in the meantime made formal application for the seven-cent fare in the form of an order. served on the city and Transit Commission Just what action the city officials will pretend to take has not yet heen made public owing to the sham battle now being staged between} Mayor (“Traction”) Jimmie Walker | and Aldermanic President McKee whe | has criticized the method of conduct. | ing the “fight” to save the five cent fare. _ Into. the-already complicated. sitwe- tion was injected another element in the form of an announcement of the expectet\ resignation of John F. Gil- christ, chairman of the State Transit Commission and first hand man of Al Smith, It is not yet clear what re- lation this move bears. to the situa- tion which Tammany Hall has been engineering but it is certain that the resignation of Gilchrist does not come 2s a mere coincidence at this time. | Many Meetings | Thé meetings held by the Workers| Party at which some of the best speakers addressed huge audiences in- dicated the determination and indig- nation of the workers of the city The largest meeting took place at 110th St. and Fifth Ave, Others were held at 138St. and 6th Ave.. 10th St. and 2nd Ave. Several others were held in Jamaica, Brooklyn and the Bronx. The following resolution was passed: “WHEREAS, the federal statutory | court has handed down a decision, which permits the I. R. ‘I. to culiect| a seven-cent fare from millions of (Continued om Page Five) MARIONETTES AT CENTER TONIGHT New “Brick” ] Lists Prov- | { 1 | } | Days, to be held Saturday and Sun- There’s No Graft. in-This Worker’s Pockets The New York City depart- ment of street cleaning is the latest government graft case to be exposed. Pecuiations in this department, which have extend- ed over’ 10 years, are alleged to exceed $45,000,000. None of these proceeds found their way into the pockets (of the miser- ably underpaid street cleaners, however. These men, working under..the. most wretched job conditions, are among the worst paid, even of the low priced city employes. PULLMAN PORTERS IN DEMAND FOR STRIKE, Overwhelming sentiment in favor vote of the members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. of an immediate strike is seen in the More than | WORKERS WILL REPUDIATE RULE OF SIGMAN, CZAR Hyman, Cloak Leader, ‘Issues Statement the great masses of cloak and dr | ‘makers in the industry, yesterday} | went into session at the Hotel Brew-| ster here, after several more unsuc- cessful attempts to enter the conven- tion hall of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Police | guard, called in by the reactionary | Sigman clique, refused to pass any- fone not armed with a special pass made out by the right wing in con-| trol of the convention. | After declaring that the delegation | truly representative of the workers in the trade will begin to rebuild the union: shattered by the expulsion pol- icy of the-right wing over the heads of the Sigmans and Sehlesingers, Louis Hyman, New York Joint Board} managét, and the other left wing lead- ers went into session to map out plans | for the immediate steps to be taken | in that direction, From their head- quarters soon came the following of- ficial statement, signed by Louis Hy- man: Mandate from Workers. “Regardless of whether the present administration, which 18 months ago illegally expelled Locals and Joint |Boards representing about 80 percent 6,000 workers have already declared in favor of a strike, only: 50 opposing jof the workers,in the trade and which. the move. out last night by A. Philip Randolph, general organizer of the union. Coincident with this announcement came the news that the Pullman eom- pany is already hiring a large num- LABOR TO AID IN MINE TAG DAYS Many Workers’ Clubs- Mobilize Members In response to the appeal of* the National Miners Relief Committee for volunteers for the Mine Relief Tag day, May 12 and 18, many workers’ clubs, fraternal societies’ and™ bene- volent associations have mobitized their membership for participation-in the drive, it was reported-yesterday by Fannie Rudd, seerotaryof The-Na- tional Miners’ Relief Committee. Workingclass women -and-- shop workers will be mobilized to partici- pate in the Tag Days, it was an- nounced by the Miners’ Relief Com- | mittee. Children Will Paiticigati Children’s Committee ‘for Miners’ Relief has called “upon the workers’ children of New York to participate in tag day collections Sat- The These figures were given®- |tgcognition of the urday and Sunday to raise at least ing Popular Tonight the workers of New York will have an opportunity to witness an entertainment of an unusual sort. The Modjacot Marionettes, that have become famous. during the past few verre for their humorous and satirical sketches and impersonations,«will do their best to amuse a large crowd of workers and to help the Workers Center at the same time. These little wooden actors will perform at 8 p. m. tonight at the Workers Center, 26-28 |. Union Square under the direction of their creators, the revolutionary art- ists, Yossel Cutler and Zuni Maud. Tickets are 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for ,children and can be pur- chased at the Workers Center, All the proceeds will go to the Center. The Modjacot Marionettes will also give performanceg tomorrow, Satur- day and Sunday evenings, the pro- gram being changed for each evening. At the Sunday evening performance there will also be an extra attraction in the form of a concert by members of the International Morning Branch . of the Workers (Communist) Party. The lists of bricks to help build the Workers Center have proved un- usually popular. Hundreds of work- ers have already secured these at- tractive new collection lists and a largo cupply is being sent to all|ports reaching the ‘elicf office yes- (Continued on Page Two) $2,000 to help the striking miners’ children. The Committee has raised} - the slogan, “Every worker’s child out with a collection box.” “One helf a million striking miners children are without food and cloth- ing, livitig in barracks and on the streets exposed to cold and rain and all kinds of diseases,” a statement of the committee says. “These children are fighting courageously with their fathers and brothers: for a decenttiv- ‘ing wage and for the maintenance of a real workers union.” Collection boxes will be obtained at various stations thruout the city. For additional information, children are asked to communicate with the committee. More than 1,000 young workers are expected to participate in the tag day for miners relief to be conducted this Saturday and Sunday, Phil Frankfeld, secretary of the Youth Committee for Miners’ Relief, announced last night. The Workers School, 108 E.. 14th St. has called off its*hike this Sunday, he added, to enable its members to join in the collection drive, A collection of $62.63 was taken up by the committee at Hunter College while the Williamsburg Youth Club has donated $125, according to re- verday, ber of new men to act as strikebreak- er. Many of these are untrained men from the south. In the New York district the scabs are being “trained” in the yards at Mott Haven and Sunnyside, Others are being sent out for trips with older men. Abolition of the tipping system and union are the} fundamental-demands of the workers. They seek regular wages of $150 a month on a time basis of 240 work- ing hours a month. They are now re- ceiving $72.50 a month, on a basis of 11,000 travelled miles every month. According to Randolph, he will pe- tition the United States Railway Mediation Board for an “‘investiga- tion” before he approves the strike! call. -Most ofthe members of the union are believed to be in favor of an immediate strike-and declare that further appeals to governmental of- ficials are futile. Freiheit Gesang-Verein Concert Saturday The Freiheit Gesang-Verein of New York and Paterson will hold its Fifth Jubilee-Concert this Saturday, May 12, at Carnegie Hall. A program of proletarian ballads, including the lat- est’ revolutionary songs from Soviet Russia, will’ feature the concert. Jacob Schaefer and Lazer Weiner will conduct. Jobs Getting Scarcer ALBANY, May 8. 8.—Both employ- ment and payrolls in industry thruout New York State were from 4 to 8 per cent lower in March 1928, than in March 1927, according to statistics published by the New York State Labor Department. since then maintained itself in power thru a regime of terrorism, will seat the left wing delegates or not, we have come here with a mandate from thousands of workers to repudiate the (Continued on Fage Two) FOSTER, GITLOW Penna. Body. Votes to Support Mine Strike (Special to The DAILY WORKERY By ALEX BITTLEMAN PHILADELPHIA, May 8.—Amidst great enthusiasm for prosecuting on the political field the fight for win- ; from LABOR PARTY FOR (ming the miners strike. and. other working class struggles, the annual convention of the Pennsylvania State Labor Party adjourned last night. A program of action and several reso- lutions were adopted calling for mili- tant participation of the Labor Party in the coming elections, for the build- ing up.of a strong Labor Party locally and in the state, and endorsing Wil- liam Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow for président and vice-president in the coming national elections. Ben Thomas a member of the machinist union of Philadelphia was elected as state chairman, Emmet P. Cush of Pittsburgh, members of the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers Union, as state secre- tary, Issac Munsey, Negro miner of Avella Pa. as treasurer and eight members of the state executive com- mittee. Maurer Absent. James Maurer and the Reading [unions controlled by the sotialists ‘Continued on Page Two) WORKERS PARTY CONVENTION SOON Communists Will Nominate Pre Peedsicl: Candidates Here The widest ii, »rest is being evinced among all sections of the American working class by the announcement of the national nominating conventior of the Workers (Communist) Party to be held in New York City. from May 25 to 27. The convention is re- garded as an historic event of the first importance in the American la- bor movement. i For the first time in American his- tory there will be a workers’ conven- tion at which every section of the workingclass will be represented. Cot- ton farnicrs,/ miners, textile workers wheat farmers, shoe and needle One of Few Survivors in Dredge Tragedy Lambros Laftakis, government dredge Navesink, burne off Staten Island. Laftakis which collided of his mates were trapped in the dr above, was a fir saved his States ‘aisarti the United with the freighter Swin- life by swimming but 18 drowned. He is shown in man ‘edge and the hospital where he is Wadeng cing treatment. JAPAN SEIZES CHIN2oE RAILWAY; PEKING, May 8.—Japan virtually declared war on China today |" WAR LOOMS when the Tanaka Government formally announced the seizure of the Tsingtao-Tsinan railway. antung. é The seizure is generally regarded as a ppeliminary, step ,towarj the. occupation ofthe. entire. province * TOKYO, May 8.—More than 15,000 additional Japanese troops will be | The Nagoya division, which it is expected will be eeeleye numbers | 18,000 on waré— 15,000 to strength. Japanese troops have already launched an offensive in Tsinan that) is generally regarded as the first step in ah attempt to occupy the whole of Shantung Province. Measures are being taken to disperse troops along the principal railway lines in the Province. Another clash between Japanese | and Kuomintang troops is reported to have taken place in Tsinan last night. TEXTILE UNIONS IN FAKE MERGER Bureaucrats Refuse | Real Amalgamation NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May 8.— Alarmed at the growing influence and control attained by the Textile Mill Committees among the 30,000 textile operatives who are in the fourth week of a strike that completely silenced about 7Q,000 looms in 58 mills here, the functionaries of five locals out of seven of the American Federation of Textile Operatives voted to accept the proposal of the United Textile Work- ers that the two organizations merge. A statement issued by the Textile Mill Committees, which is enrolling into its membership new hundreds of unorganized strikers daily, denounces this move of the United Textile Work- (Continued on Page Five) trades workers, fishermen from the northeast coast, building trades and transport workers. will be represented | Unorganized workers from the fruit orchards .of the west and from the steel mills and the auto industry will be among the delegations from the various states. Numerous fraternal delegates from many workers’ societies, unorganized factories and sympathetic organiza- tions are expected. Work is already in progress in num- erous states to “Put the Party on the Ballot.” This is one of the most dif- ficult tasks facing it: E¥ery one of the 48 states has its own special set of laws to govern the elections and the, requirements to put a minor party on the ballot are different for each state. In some of the states, the law] makes it practically prohibitive to a new party to enter the elections. In California, for example, a new party must present almost 40,Q@00 signa- tures to get on the ballot. A minor concession allows candidates on the ballot as independents on presenting petitions signed by 12,000 voters. In California the Party candidates will} run as independents. Many other states also have laws almost as severe sent to Tsingato, Shantung, the Japanese Cabinet today. FULL PAY RARE AT BISCUIT PLANT One Girl Now Does Job for Three (By a Worker Correspondent) I am one of the wrappers in the llth Avenue plant of the National Biscuit Co. I got $4 a week when I started and they gave me a raise averaging one dollar a year. Lately work has been slack and we |have been laid off every Monday and«sometimes on Thursdays also. When we have put out all the work hes 2 or. 3 o'clock ‘they send us home, but they. don’t mind making us work half an ‘hour overtime if it is busy. We don’t get paid for over-time un- less we work until after 5:30 but they make sure we get out before then so they wont have to pay us. Dock Pay We have rest periods of 15 min utes in the morning so we can hav breakfast. to all of us, some have theirbreak- fast at 11 o'clock and later so that} } | Union One girl does the reliev-| ing ‘and by the time she gets around] Militant Cloak De Delegates 1 to Rebuild Union NEW OFFENSIVE "1S INSPIRED BY BRITISH TORIES |Soviet Union Protests New Murder Plot WARSAW, May 8.—The relations between Poland and the Soviet Unicn which have been strained as the re- |} sult of recent attempts to assasimate | the Soviet Union Minister Bogomulov and the Soviet trade representative Lizarev were further aggravated to- y when Polish border guards at- d a detachment of U. S. S. R. | border police near Dolhino. | The clash followed a protest from |the Soviet Union against the prutec- tion which the Pilsudski government afforded to monarchist Russian ups within Poland. The Soviet note was handed to Foreign | Minister Zaleski on Sunday in connec- | tion with the recent white guardis+ attempt to murder Lizarev. Rid White Terrorists. Itho no details of the clash Lave been received here exeept that two |number of Soviet Union guards | wounded, the fight is believed to have resulted from the attempt of a white |Russian raiding party to cross the i border. The Polish police, it has been openly charged, have aided Russian Hee sige groups in their raids in . R. territory. fe ie to demanding the dis- \solution of white Russian raiding parties which use Polish territory as |their base, the Soviet Union's note ~adaws the extradition “of Westie” chowski for trial in the Soviet Union on the charge of attempting to as- | sasinate Lizarev. The Soviet note points out that Wojciechowski was | mentioned by the Polish government bs associated in the murder of Peter Voikoff, Soviet Union minister to Po- land last year. : The U. S. S, R. note |points out that the Polish Govern- | ment not only took no measures against the white guard terrorists, ! but actually encouraged their organi- ‘zation in every way. Tory Hand. The Polish attack on the U.S. S. R, border police and the recent attempt to assasinate Lizarev is generally re- garded as a result of Lord Birken head’s visit to Berlin, where he is re ported to have conferred with General Konarchevski, of the Polish General staff. According to the press of the |Soviet Union, they are believed to have outlined plans for a military of- fensive against the Soviet Union. Birkenhead is understood to have promised the Polish general with aid in the form of money and munitions. WARNING AGAINST STRIKEBREAKERS Will Fight Dual Body to Finish (Special To The DAILY WORKER) we are not hungry enough to eat| hi s dinner. .If we are one minute late| BELLVILLE, Ohio, May 5. in the morning, we are sent home | Mai ‘Twenty-nine local unions of and no excuses will do, unless it is| District 6, represented in the Save- busy, and then they do us a favor|The-Union movement, have voted to by letting us stay, only they take |condemn the strike breaking and dual off a half hour’s pay. union activities of Oral Daugherty re- We are laid off) so much that we | cently deposed Lewis-Hall official who never get a full week’s pay. The fe now seeking to organize an “inde- first full pay I get I will frame it./ Pendent” mine union in Ohio. It is Our pay envelopes are small, but| known that Daugherty is now and has his does not stop the company from| been with the knowledge of Lewis in aking off 50 cents for “insurance.”|the pay of the coal operators. The |The company gets all the benefit be-|Union which he is attempting to or- ‘cause they have their own doctors |#anize is therefore known to be a com- to fix us up when we get hurt and|Pany union, The Lewis machine which they stall us off when it comes to| Was forced to depose Daugherty when compensation. it could no longer shield him is be- Speed Up |lieved to be sympathetic to Daugh- The speed-up is the worst thing} \erty’s new attempt at strikebreaking. ubout the job. We used to put out | Only the Save-The-Union forces are a lot of work before, but now the | NOW fighting this and other attempts as that of California but everywhere the Party is making a determined ef- fort to get on the ballot. work that was put out by three girls, | >Y the operators to defeat the miners, is done by only one. We have to keep | ST ee up with the packers, because if we don’t give them the boxes to pac! or | Daily Worker Agents they lose time. When it gets to| at Luncheon Friday be about two o'clock we are all in| and after that we don’t know where| The New York DA’ DAILY WORKER we ore ot what we are ae Ne] agents will meet at a luncheon at the wonder there are so many accidents. | This is not all. We must stay after Paonia Consumers Cafeteria, 54 quitting time until all the work is|/*Ving Place, Friday, May 11, at 7 out. The last few hours are torture|P- ™. Speakers will include Jay Love- enough, yet we are kept like slaves|stone, William W. Weinstone, Robert to finish up. Minor and Alex Bittelman,