The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 11, 1928, Page 1

——— Pl N. Y. WORKERS TO AID MINE STRUGGLE ON TWO TAG DAYS 1H DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: | FCR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK | FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 111. Publishing Asseciation, In 33 First Sivecs, New York, N. Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Eetered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥.. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1928 » under the act of March 3, 1979. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Im New York, by mail, $5.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. [ winan cry | CITY EDITION THE DAILY WORKER. Price 3 Cents JAPANESE BOMBARD TSINAN; MURDER THOUSANDS SHELLS DESTROY WORKING CLASS SECTION OF CITY Pravda Sees Danger of U.S. Japanese Clash SHANGHAI, May 10. Several thousand Chinese civilians have been killed by Japanese and Kuomintang troops in the last few days, according to reports received here. Hundreds of civilians were believed o have been killed today when the Japanese troops bombarded the native section of the city with artillery. Many houses in the working class sec- tion of the city are reported to have been completely destroyed. After blasting two breaches in the wall of the native city, Japanese sroops entered it. Violent hand-to- nand fighting occurred when a de- achment of Feng Yu-hsiang’s army ‘lashed with the Japanese. Terror reigned when Feng’s troops, pursued by the Japanese, fled thru the streets of the city shooting down workers in- discriminately. More than five hundred civilians were killed on Tuesday when Japanese roops bombarded the city for three iours, * 8 * According to reports received here oy the International News * Service, the Pravda, organ of the All Union Communist Party, predicts a clash yetween the United States and Japan f Japan insists upon the permanent seeupation of Shantung province. The only genuine opponents of the imperialist powers, the Pravda says, are the worker-peasant forces under the leadership of the Communist Party. thay srg i SHANGHAI, May 10.—The Kwang- si group of the Kuomintang, headed oy Li Chai-sum has signed an agree- ment which grants British interests a concession to complete the construc- tion of a railway from Kouloung, Canton, to Hankow in return for an- other loan of $10,000,000 (Mex.). Te FARE 1S NOW “LEGAL” IN CITY Judges Sign Order to Increase Charge The Interborough yesterday re- seived “legal” sanction for its seven- cent fare when circuit court of ap- peals Judge Martin T. Manton, and district court Judges Knox and Bondy composing the statutory fed- eral court signed a formal order put- ting the recent decision of this court into effect. It was stated that the Interborough, because of the-impending hearing on the order before the U. S. supreme court next week, will not attempt to put the increased fare into effect be- fore the 14th, the date set for the argument. Outlook Dubious. It is generally conceded that the likelihood of preventing the introduc- tion of the seven cent fare “legally” has become exceedingly dubious. But while everyone, particularly officials of the city, professes to be completely pessimistic over the outlook of sav- ing the fast fading five cent fare. it is not beyond the realms of Tam- many possibility that an eleventh hour “way out’? will be found as a result of which the already muchly beemirched Tiger may be enabled for the period preceding election to cover up his soiled fingers. Tt is not at all unlikely that Tam- many will make some further agree- ment with the traction companies which will enable Al Smith, their chief servant, to go before the people ciean. pa meantime former mayor John F. Hylan yesterday propounded a riddle in the form of six questions which he forwarded to “Traction” Jimmie Walker to solve. Two of these questions proved to be cdmplete “stickers” to the dancing mayor and the best he could do was to ask “an- (Continued on Page Two) Daily Worker Agents To Meet Tonight Jay Lovestone, W. W. Weinstone, Robert Minor and A. Bittleman will speak at a meeting and luncheon of NewYork DAILY WORKER agents the tonight at 7 o’clock at the Consum- | ers’ Cooperative Cafeteria, 54 Irving . between 17th and 18th Sts. with the Japanese imperialist troops As Japanese Imperialist Advance The picture shows machine guns, scores co which are being used by the soldiers of Chiang Kai Shek, Chinese warlord, in his struggle | now invading Shantung. Those who resigned declared thaiy the policy of the Lenin League is see- tarian and anarchist and that thc Lenin League is rapidly developing, in- to a party which is hostile to the Communist International. In announcing their resignation, Maslov and Fischer appealed to their supporters to leave the Lenin League return to the Communist Party of Germany and to support the electoral candidates Sebi Berse os the Communist Party. ARREST PICKETS ‘IN NEW BEDFORD Police Fail to. Halt Demonstration (Special to The DAILY WORKER) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May 10. —tThe first arrests yet made in the textile strike here took place yes- terday. For insisting on their rights to continue picketing, two striking wo- men were arrested and charged with loitering and disturbing the peace. In court later they were both placed under bail amounting to $1,100, which was furnished by the Textile | Mill Committees. Phey are to be tried Monday. The police failed to halt the picketing demonstration, although over 100 of them were massed around the Bristol Mills under in- struction to prevent picketing of the plant, in order to “protect” the few straw bosses and scabs enter- ing. eet eee Fourth Week of Strike. (Special To The DAILY WORKER) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May 10.— As the fourth week of the big strike of 30,000 textile workers here draws to a close, increasing signs of the de- termination of the mill owners to break the solidity of the strikers’ ranks are becoming daily more evi- dent. It is generally conceded, how- ever, that the 100 per cent walkout will continue to keep silent the 170,- 000 looms until the wage ~ cut of 10 per cent is restored. That the Textile Mill Committees which have rapidly been building & permanent tho new form of organiza- tion for the 30,000 striking opera- tives, are now acquiring the outstand- ing leadership of the great struggle is frankly recognized by the mill own- ers. These are the real “bulwark against which their repressive meas- ures are to be levelled. Same Old Tale. Along with the bosses’ weekly an- nouncement that the mills will not attempt to open Monday, an announce- ment regularly violated, comes an an- nouncement fiom Samuel D, McLeod deputy chief of police, that orders have been issued to all commanding officers to “act” against “any unusual gathering of persons who annoy those going to work.” This is the culmination of a series of drastic measures, to curtail the activity of the Mill Committees which have led daily picket demonstrations in front of mills attempting tq re- open. In addition to preventing scab- bing, the mill committees have also been active in sending a large com- mittee of women strikers to the homes of those trying to go to work. Cases of attempted scabbing are’ very rare, but the continued activity Ue de hd on Page Tuo): FISCHER AND MASLOV QUIT “LENIN LEAGUE” . al Cable to The Daily Worker) i | MOSCOW, May So. —Scholem, Maslov and Fischer have fesigned from the so-called Lenin League, it was authoritatively learned has withdrawn his candidacy to the Reichstag. GORDON RELEASE | : League, will probably be released on ay. Scholem Cloak C ak Conference at Boston Rallies Workers Choose N.Y. MANY LEADERS 10 _ ADDRESS PARTY — MASS MEETING Illinois Convention To| Open May 13 | The New York Relegation to the| national convention of the Workers} | (Communist) Party will be elected at a conference of all functionaries to be held Friday, May 18 at-8 p. m. at) 108 E. 14th St., Room 43. | Many famous leaders of the workers} | movement thruout the country are in-| cluded in the list of speakers at the —_————$— EXPECTED SOON, Communist Po Poet May Be | Paroled Tuesday David Gordon, 19-year-old member | of the Young Workers (Communist) parole from the New York Reforma- tory next Tuesday, it was announced last night by the Parole Commission. ‘Gordon has served about five weeks of a three-year term imposed upon him for the writing of a satirical poem “America” which appeared in The DAILY WORKER. The poem furnished a pretext for an attack on the paper, resulting in a $500 fine. William F. Dunne, Bert Miller and Alex Bittelman are now free on bail on federal indictments based on the same charge. Campaign Launched. Announcement of the probable re- lease of Gordon follows a campaign of agitation begun immediately after he was ordered to the reformatory. At that time he was a scholarship student at the University of Wiscon- sin to which he is expected to return upon his release. 10 HOLD CLOAK JOBLESS MEET Right Wing Squanders Treasury on Junket While the reactionary -Beckerman- Hillman administration of the Amal-| gamated Clothing Workers Union is squandering the union’s treasury in preparation for the coming conven- tion, by allowing the 300 delegates to the convention in Cincinnati to} take along 700. personal - friends -as guests at the union’s expense, the men’s clothing workers in New York are preparing to hold a mass meeting of all the unemployed men’s clothing workers in the New York market. Hold Jobless Meet. The mass meeting, which will be theld ‘tomorrow afternoon in Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave.. is to (Continued on Page Two) Every worker is invited to attend | tge mass demonstration to greet the delegates to the national nom- Anat convention to be held at | Mecca Temple, 133 W. 55th St., Friday evening, May 25. Among the speakers will be many famous class-war fighters from all sections of the country, who will ap- pear in public in New York for the first time. mass ‘demonstration to be held at Mecca Temple, 183 West 55th St. on Friday, May 25, to greet the dele- gates to the National Nominating | Convention of the Party. The list will include William Z. Fos- | ter, Ben Gitlow, Scott Nearing, Ben Gold ,representing the needle trades unions, James P. Cannon, and Wm Weinstone. Jay Lovestone will be chairman. In a call issued by the District Ex- ecutive Committee the selection of rank and file shop workers as dele- | gates is stressed. Text of Call. The convention call reads in part as follows: “In accordance with the arrange- ments of the Central Executive Com- mittee, the delegation will consist of active workers representative of all sections of our movement. In addi- tion, fraternal delegates representa- tive as widely: as possible of organiza- tions in sympathy with the Party should be secured. Among such: fra- (Continued on Page Two) STRIKE TO SAVE MILLINER UNION 2 Bosses Fail to Force Girls to Register The struggle of the membership of | |the Millinery Hand Workers Local 43 of the International Cloth Hat Cap and Millinery Workers Union, for the existence of their union, against. the eombined attacks of their reactionary national union officialdom, and the bosses, has switched from a fight of words to a struggle on the picket line Against the unanimous will of the membership, the union officials. an- nounced the local dissolved and or- dered the membership to register as members of local 24. Call Shop Strikes. The first aggressive steps to des- troy this well-organized union by a fake amalgamation scheme were taken (Continued on Page Two) get. How is this family to exist du textile strikers and asks that all Prench Blvd., New ‘Bedford: -> Textile Family of 1a be Weres sich a Week The preture shows the family of Joseph Madeiros, a New Bedford textile striker, and speed-tender in the Potomska Mills, where he earned $17 a week at most. Deduct a 10% wage cut from that and see what you uring the strike the Workers’ Inter- national Relief asks? The W. I. R. is organizing relief among the 30,000 contributions, food and clothing be shipped immediately to Room 4, Franco-American Bldg., 12 Rodney Convention Delegates May 18 BOSTON MEETING FIRST STEP FOR BUILDING UNION More Than 87 Delegates Begin Huge Task BOSTON, Mass., May 10.—With the formation of all the essential per- manent committees completed, the | historical National Conference of the | delegates locked out of the reaction- | ary-controlled convention of the In- | ternational Ladies’ Garment Work- | ers’ Union, completed their first day’s | session and prepared to put into mo- ion the machinery for rebuilding the }union at a mass meeting scheduled \ for last night at the Franklin Union Hall, 41 Barclay St. The National Conference is the | most important single step yet taken \for the reestablishment of a union in the cloak and dress industry, and | for the regaining of union conditions | in the ladies’ garment factories, which were destroyed by the destructive ex- pulsion campaign carried on by the Sigman union-wrecking administra- tion of the International union. Conference Opens. The conference, opened by Lonis Hyman, leader of the Joint Board delegation in the Hotel Brewster late Wednesday -afternoon, was -partici- pated in by delegates from New York, ers when several hundred volunteers, ranks of the labor part in a city-wide tag day for miners’ relief this Saturday and Sun- day. Thousands of New York workers who have hardly heard of the mine struggle will be reached in the great drive. In a statement issued by the New York office of the National Miners’ Relief Committee, the work- ers of the city are called upon to exert every energy and to make every | sacrifice to insure the success of the drive. The statement follows: “Support the miners struggle! “To all workers of New York: “Tens of thousands of striking un- They are actually starving! They are dying of disease with no medical |help available! “They, aid 200,000 striking, orga- nized miners are suffering police bru- talities and jailings, hunger and ex- posure, in their fight for a living wage, to save their union, and for the whole labor movement! “A fund ‘of $20,000 must be raised in New York during the Tag Days} Drive of Saturday and Sunday! Money is needed:for a tent colony, for food, for medical supplies. “Workers, make shop collections on pay day! Volunteer for Tag Day! Get your shopmates to volunteer! “Working women, show your solid- arity with the miners’ wives! Volun- teer for Tag Day! “Young workers, the young strikers are the most militant in the struggle! WORKING WOMEN TO UNITE FORCES Shop and F Factory Delegates Will Organize at May 19! 19 Meeting Responding to the call to federate, fronting 80,000 workers in the textile! the industries of New York, and will women workers from shops and fac- tories, industrial as well as house- wives, are sending in their credentials to the conference to be held Saturday, May 19th at Irving Plaza Hall to or- ganize the New York Working Wo- men’s Federation. Juliet Stuart Poyntz, secretary of the Conference committee, has announced that Jes- sica Smith, recently returned frow | Soviet Russia, will participate in the program, describing the great advance of Russian working women under the new order. Albert Weisbord, who has arrived from the New Bedford strike area. will expose the conditions con- is mills, The exploitation in the textile mills, a basic industry where women are in the majority, shows the need for organization of all workers against the speed-up system, the long hours starvation wages and inhuman condi- tions. Official government statistics show that wherever women are em- ployed in non-union or poorly orga- nized trades, their hours and wages are lower. The New York Working Women’s Federation will identify itself with the struggles of working women in put forth every effort to build a powerful movement of industrial wo- men to fight against the slave con- ditions and to organize the great army of industrial women who are the most exploited section of the working class. The New York Conference to be held Saturday, May 19th at 2 p. m., movement take@~—— organized miners are without shelter! } TAG DAYS FOR. MINERS ON SATURDAY, SUNDAY The reality of the tremendous mine struggle with its unprecedented suffering and stirring heroism will be brought home to New York work- men, women and children from the Show your solidarity! eer for Tag Day! “Workers’ children, miners’ child- attack! volunteer as a Tag Day collector. “Tag Days for miners’ pelief— 13.” “U. 8. LABOR ASKS RELEASE OF KUN Labor Defense Conducts Nation-Wide Campaign Mass meetings and demonstration of protest against the arrest of Bela Kun, Hungarian. Communist leader and to demand of the Austrian gov- ernment immediate and unconditional release of Kun and an assurance of a safe journey to the Soviet Union were announced in a statement issued yesterday by the national office of International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th St. Large mass meetings are already in preparation in Detroit, Chicago Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia New. York and elsewhere. Demands of extradition of Kun to the fascist government of Horthy are being madc by the capitalist agents in Europe particularly Great Britain ind in the United States, “The labor movement throughou' non, national secrétary, in.no uncertain manner against any attempt to extradite Kun to the bloody Horthy government Which can only mean certain death.” Responsibility for the arve:. and oes Soviet Republic in 1919, rests now upon Chancellor Seipel’s government in Austria, Cannon added A cable of protest demanding Kun’s unconditional freedom was sent yes- terday in the name of the 300,000 affiliated members of Internationa! Labor Defense. SIX HURT IN AUTO CR4GH SUMMITT, N. J., May 10—Six Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Ir- pescrnditiony, pole, Volunteer for ren bear the brunt of the operators’ Every worker’s child must Saturday and Sunday, May ( 2 anc the world,” announced James P. Can-! “will protest | ersecution of Kun, premicr of the persons were injured today at Chapel ving Place, is the first step to unite| St. and Springfield Ave. when during women in the needle trades, dress-|a dense fog the automobile in which|the old makers, furriers, milliners and others| they were riding left the road at a|'The 'who have fought for years for better| curve. wey crashed into a eee Chicago, and locals of the Interna- tional from other parts of the coun- try. After the election of Harry Ber- lin as temporary chairman of the con- ference an organizational and a cre- dentials committee was elected. Their report showed that 87 delegates were participating in the National Confer- ence, Later the two leaders of the im- partial committee of 50 cloak shop rmen, Saul Shelly, and Steinhardt, officially declared their organization’: affiliation to the conference. In his speech to the conference Shelly de- clared that the shop chairmen’s or- ganization had come to the conclusion that no other course for the reestab- lishment of union conditions is left for them but to join the National Conference of delegates locked out of the convention by the Sigman police for the rebuilding of the union. Refused Admission. Six representatives of the so-callec tolerance group, members of the right (Continued on Page Two) MAURER UNITES WITH REACTION Sanctions Defeat of Forward Measures (Special To The DAILY WORKER) PHILADELPHIA, May,10.—Aban- doning all pretense at progressivism, followers of James H. Maurer, retire ing president of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor and social- jist candidate for vice-president, under \the direction of Maurer himself to- \ day united openly with the Lewis- Cappellini-Fagan gang at the conven- tion of the State Federation in ses- | sion here to defeat practically every forward move of the Pennsylvania workers. All Go Down. Resolutions on unemployment re-> lief, the fight for a 5 day, 40 hour week, the - movement for a real labor party, the fight against the citizens (Contivued on Page Two) Roger Baldwin Denies He Favors Al Smith American Civil Liberties Union, last night denied that he endorsed the yaaa of Al Smith for the pres- idemcy, as reported in sterday’s New York Times. ide S 4 “IT am not interested in either o capitalist. parties,” he t DAILY WORKER last “The record of neither of them support.” (military training camps all went | Roger Baldwin, director of the