The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1928, Page 4

\ Page Fotr THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1928 PITTSTON MAYOR GILLESPIE REPLACES TOWN POLICE WITH PENNSYLVANIA STATE GUNMEN (By « Worker Correspondent.) PITTSTON, Pa, (By mail).—That Mayor Gillispie.of Pitts- ton is a direct servant of the coal operators, contractors and the reactionary union leaders’ gang, is revealed by the fact that he instructed the city chief of police McHale not to’send the police {o protect the miners from the gunmen. The miners are always in the majority at their union meet- When the ¢ less sure of themselves. WwW ula’ ings but the contractors are always there with their guns and other concealed weapons and beat the miners up. 's police force is on duty the gunmen are jp lit’) But the contractors, coal operators -and Cappelini have finally influenced the mayor to withdraw the po- lice force from the service and replace it with the state constab- may be miners. He may expect some day to have to their bread. On the other hand, the state constabulary are the For the simple reason that the city_policeman is most likely a miner or an ex-miner, or some of his relatives, or neighbors the mines- himself and dares not cold-bloodedly allow. the con- tractors’ gunmen to murder his friends and relatives and steal of gunmen themselves. They come from hell knows where and they are ready on the command of Governor Fisher, the coal- owner, to shoot any union men at any place and any time. Hence Mayor Gillespie wants the constabulary to be sure to give protee- tion to the contractors’ gunmen. Citizens of Pittston, mark that, for you will need it in time of marking ballots. —ARD. go back to worst type “They Jailed Us But Can Never Break Our Spirit;” Woman Correspondent | Periscope “Grappler” Rares Tests HEROIG MINERS’ WIVES TRAPPED FOR FOUR DAYS | Babies, Mothers, Sleep | on ron Cell Floor Worker Correspondent Ohio, (By Mail).—Will | » me a small space in one of the 51] ed on Saturday, } were tricked into By a Wom LANSING, you ple: 2m arr » we A combination underwater light and periscope, invented by W Weis, has been used successfully in the recovery of drowned bodies in 30 out of 32 attempts. The picture shows Weis, at the right, demon- strating his invention. By applying the eye to the handle of the peri- scope, which is hollow, the searcher. can see a section of the bottom brilliantly lighted. took no part w hatever | 10 the murderers We only went to the protest when some of our men| wild cats 1 to y taken from the hall where we rere told by the sheriff, Clyde Hatley, that we cai onganie «| MACG@arry, Brennan Show woman’s auxiliary Basa ute Selves as Lewis Tools By ANTHRACITE MIN The forces led by McGarry, ®) nan and Harri ing These men arrested the second time are the same ones who were arrested before and on bond. These men | did not t in anything durin | peculiar is the fact that MeGarry s and Brennan should be | anxious to see Sam Bonita stay in them- hime: we a S are exp it ae TReY | selves every day in District 1, how the penitentiary, tho this can be ileal teh aPOW they ace betraying ead (selling out) oosls explained. If Sam Bonita/ eres the membership while they ‘eomes out of jail, Frank McGarry Among these men we had a secret | rho reported every word } 4 ellini and his administration. The that was sa and everything that! iP . was to be done. This was not known | S2Ve-tHt-Union Committee has got Rihae tine: bok war evox uae eo w | bold of a document in which, unde : fixed on that su picious man whale eo nee Oe eee — ia ig og pat aa xed at sus: iS 2 ;| Harris would have forced the miners Badidyed to: spy and le on us. the McGarry, Brennan and Harris forces tries to di dit the Save-the-| of 1703 to go back to work under the Because we did not know the laws! Utes Conn and are trying to| | decision of the conciliation board if miner knows that Brennan | come out openly for the | Every has never upport of Sam Bonita. Eve a ee ah hal § = fe into | set Sam Bonita to repudiate the Save-| they could. Al! miners must also jail ar e ked up for ours. the-Union Committee. | under: stand the - pushing to the In the Wheeling Sunday newspaper | forefront of Nick Bufionti, James While in the first part of the docu- anes appe d articles which said ment: they. come cub sbenky cacains Beata who after Alex Campbell’s 51- women and five nursing babies | /,, Ake |death hid themselves away and would tock q Cappellini, they do not sj anything | were locked up. There were no aeainat Let Thu the leet: part oft 2° ot come out in the open but slunk babies in the jail at that time until val dscaient thes ich at Sam | ay when the miners of 1703 wanted the prosecuting attorney read the Soot +5 remeed Gee tha me _| them to do something in the carrying pape Later we were asked if we} "7 rel pei bans | on of the fight after Campbell’s death. Wanted our babies. They did ‘| Union Committee. This document was | : ces is : yy . did: no ee k one of the Brennan! Call for Repudiation of Traitors. dave give us the papers until they |WTitten up by one of .the Brennan Car . et Vi ¢, Bo: t i. The Save-the-Union Committee had done something ghout the babies, | forces for, Sam Bon:ta to vs i istri | Everything has been done by calls upon the miners of District 1} The little ones were brought to the | jail after a special trip by the prose- suting attorney and let out the same / time with their mothers. They had} to sleep et with their | mothe Some of the floors we nde of sheet iron. Four} of the cots were without mattresses. 'Garry, Brennan and Harris to Keep! and of Pittston particularly to re- Sam Bonita in jail. It is a well-known | Pudiate and fight against the betray- fact that Sam Bonita could be out /¢?S Who only want jobs like Frank ‘on bail and could be fighting the ma-| McGarry, Brennan, Harris, James | chine and would be the logical fellow | Kearny and Nick Buffonti. Nick Buf- whom the miners of Pittston would|fonti has exposed Tnmnelt even ast |look yp to, yet the Brennan forces/Tecently as April 27th, when the There were five cells, with 29 women | have Used every means to keep Sa | Bfievanee committee stopped the mine and: five babies in one compartment (Bonita in jail, to bring all kinds of | and called the men out on strike when (not apartment, beg pardon). Twenty | Pressure: all kinds of maneuvers in| the one refused to recognize) women and two school girls were on | forcing Sam Bonita not to eat tor Haines Lemaree fue coking (pass and tee other side. a nev trial or to appeal his case. to Frank McGarry, the checkweighman, We were al! married women, wives|# higher court. Not only that, they |when he went before Superintendent of striking miners, who were tricked | ave trying to stop any action on the | Milton and when Superintendent Mil- with part of the rank and file in District | ton wanted to know who of the griev- in 2 09 that they are fighting against Cap-/ Will have to move out of the picture. | y miner | } | working completely har | down all the mines, brazenly adding | that - ) starvation would soon make the coal | miners see the need of taking a wage! | erating mines thru the state, under| so| terms of separate temporary agree- | ments. ILLINOIS. MINE ‘TERROR REIGNS WORKERS GALL BUT CAN'T HALT FOR CONFERENCE MASS PICKETING Fishwick “Te Fails to Halt Them (By a Worker Correspondent) BELLEVILLE, Ill, (By Mail)- The Illinois coal operators are now -in-hand with | the district union officials, to destroy | (By, a Worker Correspondent) - LANSING, Ohio, (By | constitution of the United States 1 as F : | the union in a manner departing from| gon of aise a pesemiblags. 2: The Beethoven Symphony Orches-| {their once announced policy. Prior} ceived another WecrcR aie i iltra, according to the announcement, | \local and state police broke up 8} will open on Oct. 28 a series of twelve | to April first, the gpreeeictege peaceful mecting at Maynard, tion announced that a month or two of complete hall where 300 men and Union speakers. bape | whe OS The Peabody Coal Company is} The duthorities Who starting to operate two mines in Kin- eaide. The Old Ben Coal Company, {the Bell and Zoller-Company, as well > rter about 35. Se ci araliae |to quarter abou > companies, are op- | j to the: li ca, of freedom, of justice. mets. Conditions established by the union in the past, have been entirely wiped out by The men are compelled to} clean out their own dead-work, lay Beat their own tracks, and put their own oe a props without pay. The operators) ies now find th's the most convenient way of wiping out the union. While once upon a time, the union officials themselves would have fought against any separate agreements, they now | find this policy of the operators inj complete harmony with their own} methods of treason to the union. Wherever the rank and file miners undertook to fight actively against separate agreements, by ‘picketing the mines thus signed up, they soon found themsélves opposed by the combined forces of the coal operators, the| county sheriffs, the bankrupt offi- cials, and members of the K. K. K At several instances the picket lines | were thus broken up, both in Spring-| field, in Staunton, and in West Frank- | © fort. At the latter city several arrests were made. Four members of the union were arrested, and the picket | line ineluding James McCullum.. One| Pe oe |} young miner, Morris Tomash, 88 og ake es arrested «distributing handbills for AT AR 2 the- Save-the-Union meeting. Wher conducted at ull-mines. Wm. Matheson and Gerry Allard came thease’ Wind’ of Suyee: {been left with no-mother. Kind neighbors try days without food. to Lansing. orces. Threats of violence by happen daily. ‘They comfort each other that we will win the strike. anse’ the union of its filth. jing like wildfire. are responding. ports 100 pe Terrorism |Save-the-Union Action Spreads Like Wildfire Mail) —The | general and that section. of it in, par- ticular, which gives its citizens free- Ohio, and arrested three of the speakers. The arrests took place at the Polish women gathered to be addressed by Save-the- ‘have the wel- \fare of the people in mind” herded some 51 women and children in the St. Clairsville jail, originally meart. Lansing, Ohio, is a living refutation s of “prospérity” in Ameri- Due to the wholesale arrests some families have The chil- | dren run around town crying for their parents and asking when they will after them, but still. many go’ This situation is not a wild flight of the imagination, but solid, concrete facts that can be proved by a visit Authorities ruled by the iron hand of the coal operators have been given {the right to arrest all members and sympathizers of the Save-the-Union This breaks up families ‘and leads to starvation. Terrorism reigns. eompany thugs and beatings by the police But regardless of this injustice, the spirit of the miners is not broken. and say We will The Save-the-Union movement is spread- Non-union fields West Virginia re- ent shut down at Elm At Triadelphia and vicinity Mass picketing is being —WARE. een «—~—DRAMA——» } ‘Beethoven Symphony Orchestra to Give Thirty- Six Concerts LOLA R AINE. ITH the announcement sent pat! yesterday by the Beethoven Sym-/ phony Orchestra that the group will give no less than thirty-six concerts | here next season, it seems that New! York will have an opportunity to) hear another major orchestra outside | of the Philharmonic—the only major orchestra left after the disbanding of the New York Symphony. The Beeth- oven Orchestra gave but seven con- certs here the past season. j in concerts to be given at fortnightly in- tervals on Thursday evenings at Ca negie Hall. It will also play there six Friday afternoons and five Saturday | afternoons as well as at the Brooklyn} Academy five Sundays and at the}; Metropolitan Opera House eight Sun- day afternoons. To the thirty-six concerts scheduled in the metropolitan district | it is proposed to add some fifty near- by, for which bookings are now ‘being made in nearby cities and suburban towns. Instead of long rail journeys it is planned that the out-of-town concerts ‘shall be mainly offered to communities within the commuting area of New York. Arthur, Honegger, the distinguished Swiss composer, whose music has been heard in several of the most not- able performances of orchestras of New York, Boston and Philadelphia in the past year, has accepted an in- vitation to come over as guest conduc- Cae A * tor of the Beethoven Ohissae at the TBrecuts, combine: ite ace pode height of the season next Januavy.| 278 in England and its nine months He will direct two concerts on Jan. lin America, passes its two thousandth 10 and 11, the programs to include performance. his new concerto. “Dracula” in its four years in Eng- Aside from other guest artists who|land netted 1,700 performances and have yet to accept the proposals of|the 250 performances played by the the Beethoven group, the orchestra |Liveright company in America, brings itself is to be enlarged from its pres-| the grand total to 2,000 performances ent personnel of eight-five to a total |for this play based by Hamilton Deane of 102 players. Some of these, it is and John L. Balderston on the Bram said, are to come from the forme:| Stoker novel, which novel, by the way, New York Symphony ranks, while a} has sold 50,000 copies yearly for 30 few also will be Philharmonic men| Years: “Dracula’”” will open in Los whose places have been taken by) Angeles July 1. symphony veterans. sed Georges Zaslawsky will continue as| The principals who will play in the conductor of the Beethoven Orches-| Australian production of “Good News” tra, as he has been since his origina’| left yesterday for San Francisco and | introduction here in 1926 at a special] will sail for the Antipodes next week. } concert in which the Philharmonic! The show is scheduled to open in played for his local debut. ydney sometime in June. thus ‘ | In the latest edition of the “Green-~ | wich Village Follies,” now in its sec- ond month at the Winter Garden. “Dracula” Celebrates 250th Performance Horace Liveright’s production of “Dracula,” the international famous vampire play, played its 250th per- formance last night at the Fulton Theatre, where it has been the past nine months. With this performance to, | Wilsonville, with to find out about this arrest, they were pinched also, but subsequently released as no charge could.be framed up against them. With the general terrorism of the Jocal union in | ence. | membership of 1,000 who also ser‘ | delegates to the Pittsburgh -confer- The Illinois district Save-the-Union a> the prisoners into the jail. i idnary officials ined | 34th E qin geo es SOTA 1 to free Sam Bonita, as the letter|@n¢e committee stopped the miners, | U0" beamed eget tacts Committee realizes that the Fish- h WEEK as Tae: AReatee Cella: ntewen te —say | 72 Hours of Jail fadic y idoitis. ibeolaveriy ck Belfonti in his slinkin, with the ‘state and “county: authori- P Eugene 7 urs oO . indicates by doing it’ cleverly under} g@ manner) |. | ; S, * | wick machine will neither call a spe- i 7 ¢ £ fichti ‘ppellin; {Said it was not h d that he had| ties, goes the policy of expulsion of| O'Neill's St Int | d After the 72 hours were up we were the pretense of fighting Cappellini.|S@I¢ ! Bean int ee ee progressive miners. Several attempts | cial district convention to consider Play, range eriude | taken t ‘ ea Hat Brennan's Record. | Hothing to-do ‘with it. How can thet, — }|the emergency in which the union John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B’way | taken to the c om where we! J miners of Pittston’ foll e have already been made to expel al) | E ra igs ess ow such lead- finds itself in order to take steps tc Biway, 46 St. Eves. venings Only at 5:30, pleaded not and were put{ The membership off District 1 must! ers? How can the miners of District | t#o8¢ who went as delegates to the | inds FULTON 830. Mats. Wed. & 1 ander $200 peace bonds, Two of the| realize what Brennan was when he! support Frank McGarry wh Pittsburgh April first conference. The|7emedy it, nor take any steps to “See It and Creep,” Cage peaks 5 en, Mother Guyan, -haired | b ry PP oe dais : < - i change ‘the destructive separate nd Creep."—-Eve. Post, | een, a gray-haired | was in power before: ‘The same con-/ ports such men for leaders as James! President and secretary of the local ‘ i NE | ‘ady, and Mary Barto, whose husband | tract system which Brennan now! Kearney Nick Belfonti, Wm, J. Bren-| ion of Orient were expelled to-| agreement policy,; or Pee an we(} rule | was one of the six men taken from|comes out against, Brennan was fo | nan nnd lotheia af thie treacherous | &¢ther with the delegates officially Pennsylvania-Ohio_ strike. The uy CHANIN'’S 46th St. eninge at 8:25 Guild Sits ones pki Bet 4 | she hall during the wholesale arrests |in 1920, 1921 and 1922. In spite of! jerew who do not have the guts to| Sent by the union. Not content with] trict Save-the-Union. Committe, at Mats. Wed. & be ahaatetd Week of May 14: “Marco Milllons”” } Saturday, were let out on $500 bond.|the fact that Brennan says that he| eome out and say what they think this, the sub-district machine went its last tin held ine Belleyille, ae SCHWAB and } | I am going to give you a deserip-| i is not secking office, and has no Po-| but try in the underhand way to sell to work, stole the local charter and | 20-8; Monday, April 30th, Mecided te MUSICAL 3 CITT: j tion of our county jail. here are | litical aspirations, yet it is a well- | out the rank and file? | seal, and appointed new officers, who | issue @ call for a special district ial OOD NEWW Winter Garden Bys. 8:30. Mata. | five cells, eacl by nine. They | known fact that the only one that he| esa! | however, do not dare to call a meet-| vention to meet at Belleville, Illinois | | are like is a corridor, | will put into office will be somebody |ing of the membership, knowing the| Saturday, May 19th, 10 a.m. with GEO. OLSEN and HIS MUSIC Greenwich Village Folies | about 60 iong with cement floors | that will do his bidding. It is also a| Accuses eae | overwhelming majority is with the| ‘The call is signed by 100 ‘ian > | and there is sheet iron on the floors! well-known fact that every newspa- | Save-the-Union movement. Attempts| progressive Illincis rank and file of the cells. per which is controlled by the coali/ ATLANTA, ¢ 8.—A Negro, | are being made to expel one whole| members. —WARE. |} *4™ HARRIS Ben, ei ar Fouled: operators is at the present time|Julius Moore, arrested here | ano eer — = oy " s Mats. Wed. & Sat. /openly supporting Brennan, McGarr) | charged with ste Beh 22 yards of | f When we came in Saturday, there were four buckets of garbage stand- ing in back of the jail in the toilet room. And such filth, no sanitation whatever! We asked to have these buckets removed and were told that we would not be here very long. Re- | member that that was Saturday and that we were there until Tuesday afternoon! | Our company at night was bedbugs and cockroaches, something we don’t! nave at home. We even had iron! bars on the windows, and the door | was locked every time the saier left } as after he brought our meals. Some! poor chance we had of escaping waen} ven the steps are guarded, so why | ck us up! | We women had never been in jail intil we were tricked in by the secret | LABOR TEMPLE serviceman, who even preached vio-} te | St. and 2: 7 ence, but was not taken to jail when | 14th St. and 2nd Ave. she othe: men were arrested. Some} wwell reception they gave us while! Marching us to the jail. The guards} were armed to the teeth and even had | ron helmets and steel jackets. The Proletarian Woman. | Well, they tricked us into the jail,| out they did not break our spirit yet , ind never will for this is-a struggle | ence and life. 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