The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 11, 1928, Page 2

# — Page Two THE DAILY WOR KER, NEW YORK, FRIDA AY 11, 1928 “Send Free Daily Worker Sub!” Is Plea of Striking Ohio Miner’s Wife WORK ERS URGED py N. y CONVENTION Ca eels Magee! TO HELP STRIKERS IN TWOFOLD FIGHT More Subseriptions Are Pressing Need “T am j a young mother asking | you good comrades to please send me | The DAILY WORKER,” writes Mrs. | Stella Iskwinas, wife of a striking | miner of St. Clairsville, O. “T would Because he was working 15 hours a} liké so much to read it and to know ang ¥ | ie truth day and couldn't do more, Henry A. | please send it to me; I will pay for} tye vs t | was fired and sentenced to 30 days in Bee money. | jail. He was ordered to finish certain F ae | transeripts in his cell before he is re- So if you would trust me, above, a court stenographer, it just as soon as I can get hold of “My husband has been on strike for the last 13 months, and you know how | @usét: He Aas refused. wes hard it is for us. John L. Lewis is} be such a darn good man that we would | / leeney Sw 1 NZS have been dead if it hadn’t been that! . some people didn’t forget us. Please t E DAILY WORKER.” | T ’ This teter is typical of scores nar, LUMNEY 'S Head The DAILY WORKER receives daily seers from striking miners or their wives. | Tou HEENEY, challenger for The DAILY WORKER is as neces-} 4... Tunney’s heavyweight title, sary to these miners as food. They | I sis ees d by T oe must have it in order to beat the alli-| W210 4S Staggered Dy tunney s lec- | ance of the coal operators and the| ture on Shakespeare, stepped into corrupt Lewis machine. the academic ring today and swung The DAILY WORKER is in such| a Vicious brand of Latin at the head | constant financial straits that it is un-| of the heavyweight champion. able to bear the burden of these free} Tunney who has grown stale subscriptions alone. Many of the! shadow boxing with Shakespeare | workers of this country have already | . ., 4 pip ge -, | before business men’s clubs was shown their solidarity with the strik- ‘ a ing miners and textile workers by| caught off his guard by Heeney's providing them with free subscrip- | discourse on Lucretius delivered at tions. Many more are needed, Cut| a fraternity house, where the col- out the attached coupon and mail it lege boys couldn’t tell the difference in with the proper sum. Help the anyway. striking miners in their fight! ot Se 3 oe z - Tunney is expected to challenge all comers to a no-decision bout on pre-Chaucerian poetry in the near future. Gate receipts will go to Tunney and Tex Rickard, who is Striking Miner’s Free Subscription. Daily Worker, 33 First St., New York City. £ am eciclositg Herewith $.;.;..2. | making a close study of the life and for a free subscription to a striking works of P. T. Barnum. | miner. | 6 7 aoats |CLOAKMARERS 10 3:50 6 months | 2.00 . 3 months ‘ 1:50 2 months } “- ‘eer BUILD ONE UNION Boston Mass Meet First Step in Fight ARREST PICKETS |... tcosinet rom Pore one | j wing union, also attended the confer- ence and declared that they wili par- | ticipate in all deliberations of the con- IN NEW BEDFORD | ference, but will not publicly affiliate | with it until after they hold a meet- ing of the group in New York. This group has several delegates in the right wing convention, but when they asked to present the demand of their followets in the International union that Sigman’s destructive war against the membership be ended, they were Police Fail to Halt! Demonstration. (Continued from page 1) of an organization so sensitive to ELECTED MAY 18 state nominating convention of the held Sunday afternoon at Northwest jizer of the Chicago district of the | Workers Party, the election of a per- |of issues and problems. THOUSANDS SPENT Hoover’s Treasurer to ceded by his campaign manager. every attempt to weaken the strike is something the employers fear. The Workers’ International Relief. with its growing distribution cf aid is another vital factor making for recognition of the mill committees’ leading role in the strike. “4 Attack Relief. The relief body, too, attacked in the local press, in spite of the fact that the “Relief Committee” for un- organized strikers, set. up by the Tex- tile Council, has announced that it would be compelled to close doo: - cause of lack of funds. The W. I. R has been attacked editorially in the New Bedford papers, because it placed a large order for bread and other foods with the Finnish Co- operatives in Worcester. The papers wailed: “When the agitators collect food they come to the New Bedford merchants, when they buy food they place orders with their friends in another city.” To this the W. I. R replied that the Finnish Workers Co- operative was providing large quanti- ties of food, at so low a price, as would be impossible to obtain from amy privately-owned firmed. “Icor” Meet Tonight to. Expose “Forward” Lies: A mass meeting called to protest against false charges being circulat- ed by the “Forward” about “Icor,” the Jewish agricultural cooperative tu the Soviet Union, will be held to- night at Webster Hall, 11th St., and Third Ave., at 8.30 p. m. Among the speakers will be Rue- ben Breinin, A. Epstein, Abraham Raisin, A. Sachs, Gina Madan, Dr. J. Glassman, Jacob Levine, K. Mar- mon, Prof, Charles Kunitz, L. Tal- may and E. Wattenberg. Sailor Killed in Wreck WASHINGTON, May 10.—Thirty- three sailors were saved and one was lost when the French fishing vessel Marie Edmee was wrecked on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, coast headquarters have been ad- refused admission into the convention |hall despite the protests of the dele- | gates of their group. After being; barred from the convention hall they} went to the National Conference in DELEGATES TO BE Many Leaders to Speak At National Meet | (Continued from Page One) ternal delegates it is important that we secure workers from shops. The units must consider securing such representatives. They may be in- dividual workers of big shops or workers elected from shops as fra- ternal delegates. It is absolutely necessary that our} convention have as great’ a mass character as possible and that it shall be expressive of the organized work-| ers as well as the unorganized shops. | All functionaries must attend this} meeting without fail on time so that we can transact all our business quickly. “Following the national nominating convention we will have a District nominating convention. This conven- tion will nominate our state ticket and will consist of delegates elected by the units. | Sed ‘* | CHICAGO, May 10. — The Illinois Workers (Communist) Party will be Hall. The agenda will consist of the key- note speech by Max’ Bedacht, organ- manent chairman and the discussion TO ELECT SMITH Testify Today That tens of thousands of dollars are being gathered from all parts of The devil, “who is, himself a great theologian,” has crept in again. This time it is Bishop Anton Bast, of Cop- enhagen, Denmark, who is appearing before..a court of 17 other. ‘divines” to answer charges of unbecoming con- duct.. The picture shows him after he was’ given a three month jail sentence for alleged misuse of charity funds, MAURER UNITES WITH LEWIS GANG Convention Turns Down Forward Measures (Continued from Page One) down to defeat before a combination of the Maurer-Lewis-Brennan forces supported by the Reading socialists. These developments following the unseating yesterday of two militant miners’ delegates, Harvey and Mun- sey have exposed Maurer as the true supporter of the Lewis reaction, the blackest stream in the muddy flow of the A. F. of L. backwash. John Phillips, chairman of the res- olutions committee, and Maurer’s can- didate for the presidency of the Fed: eration, today recommended non-con- currence with a resolution on unem- ployment relief, the establishment of state kitchens and stores and a cam- paign for unemployment insurance on the ground of “impracticability,” the usual excuse resorted to by reaction. The resolution was introduced by John Otis, progressive candidate for the the country in an effort to put the feet of Tammany Hall’s flunkey, Gov- ernor Al Smith, into Coolidge’s presi- dential shoes was revealed here yes- terday at the so-called investigation head of the Federation who has been the leading militant at the conven- tion. Also Labor Party. A resolution introduced by E.’ P. TOMORROW NIGHT Urge Workers to Speed Collections A dance will be held at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square, tomorrow evening in conjunction with the Mod- jaget marionette show. All those at- tending the marionette performance will be admitted free to the dance. The Modjacet marionettes, which are under the direction of Yossel Cutler and Zuni Maud, have already given two highly successful performances consisting of humorous and satirica’ sketches and impersonations. There will be no performance tonight and the little wooden actors will appear for the last time tomorrow and Sun- day evenings at 8 o’clock. Tickets are on sale at 26-28 Union Square, the prices being 50 cents for adults and |25 cents for children. Proceeds go to the Workers Center. | The music at the dance tomorrow |night will be furnished by a regular orchestra, and dancing will continue until the early hours of the morn- ing. On Sunday evening there will be, in addition to the Modjacot per- formance, an interesting concert by |members of the International Morn- ‘ing Branch of the Workers (Com- |munist) Party. A piano solo, music by a quartet and quintet and other numbers will be on the program. Art Exhibit Opens. The opening of the art exhibition at the Workers Center yesterday afternoon attracted many workers The work of a large number of fa- mous painters and sculptors is on view every day from 4 to 9 p, m. and all day Saturdays and Sundays. Lectures by well-known artists are being arranged for the evenings. Among the lecturers will be Louis Lozowick, famous reactionary artist who has just returned from an ex- tended trip to Soviet Russia. Admis- sion to the exhibition is 25 cents, the proceéds going to the Workers Cen- ter. The exhibition is under the direc- tion of Adolf Wolff, of the Art Work- ers Cooperative Studio. The art gal- leries that are cooperating are the Society Anonyme, Inc. the Daniel Gallery, the New Gallery and the jof campaign funds of presidential| Cush of Pittsburgh for a real moye-| New Art Center. The work of a large candidates being conducted by the}meht towards a Labor Party met’the| umber of artists, many of them of Senate committee. George R. Van Nammee, a public service commissioner, who is Tam- many Al’s campaign manager in New York state, admitted that $103,310 had been contributed thus far, the biggest individual contributor being William F. Kenny, a Brooklyn con- tractor, who contributed $50,000, of which $40,000 was a loan. The amount admitted by Van Nam- mee surpasses by many thousands the expenditures of the other candidate: thus far investigated. Everyone knows the Smith slush fund is many times greater than the $103,310 con- Governor Smith, in his own testi- mony, was vague concerning the financial details of his residence at the Hotel Biltmore, where he has oc- eupied an expensive suite for tw« years. Asked if he knew whether his the Hotel Brewster. At the so-called convention of the} |vight wing union, the fight between! \the Sigman majority, and the Breslau- | Schlesinger minority group is becom-| ‘ing sharper. Schlesinger is trying to/ | wrest the presidency from Sigman | but is likely to fail because Sigman greater forces for staging ar- cial demonstrations of applause | and feet stamping. Yesterday Schles-| ;inger folllowed Sigman’s lead and jalso arranged that bouquets of flow- lers be brought to him, while his fol- lowers applauded. | The fight among the union wreck- ers over the question of a referendum for the presidency promises to be- | come bitter despite the arrival of Abe Cahan, chief of the yellow Forward. Schlesinger made very bitter state. ments to the capitalist press denounc- ing Sigman. An attempt to patch the differences between the labor fakers so that they can again unitedly con- tinue to fight the workers’ attempt to rebuild the union, so far failed. But Sigman’s majority will probably {convince Schlesinger to reconsider. Is Acquitted ‘on Charge of “Assault” John Pelega, a window cleaner, who was framed up on “felonious assault” charges during the 1927 general strike was acquitted in gen- eral sessions court yesterday, Judge Mancuso presiding. Pelega, who was free under $5,000 bail, was discharged when the com- plainant, a scab, failed to prove his rent was being provided free by the New York Central Railroad, the al leged owners of the hotel, Smith saic he didn’t: know. ye Hoover’s Treasurer To Testify. J WASHINGTON, May 10.—James W. Good, treasurer of Herbert Hoover’s campaign organization, was subpoenaed this afternoon’ to appear tomorrow before the Senate’s presi- dential fund committee. Philip P. Campbell and McKinley W. Kreight president and treasurer of the “Cur- tis For President” Club, also were subpoenaed. . 14 DIE IN LANDSLIDE. ROME, May 10.—Fourteen persons were killed and 18 injured by a land- Slide between Saint Benedetto Del Tronto and Grotten Mare on the Adri- atic coast today. The slide covered 450 feet of the tracks with debris. A train was de- railed and caused three deaths when the cars were telescoped. DANCE AT CENTER same fate. Fowler, a delegate of the| international reputation, is on view. Cappellini murder machine in District] Among the artists included in the 1 of the anthracite arose to speak in| °Xhibition are: F. Afroyim, F, Blum- favor of the republican party. An- other delegate spoke in favor of the democratic party. The climax came when the resolu- tion committee controlled by the Mau- rer forces brought in a recommenda- tion ‘to table a resolution condemning the citizens military training camps, introduced by delegate Tashinsky, a young militant miner of local 524. Maurer, closely allied with the ex- treme reaction will, it is expected, seek to go out with a last verbal display of progressivism in order to save his face for his “socialist” campaign. Williamsburgh Women To.-Hold. Mine Conceri Under the auspices of the Women’s Committee for Miners’ Relief, a mas: meeting and ‘concert for miners’ re- lief will be held at the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, 947 Willoughby Avenue, on Monday, May 14, at 8 p. m. Besides the report of a prominent woman speaker on the situation in the strike areas, the audience wil! listen to violin, piano and vocal solos An elaborate program has been pre- pared. The speaker will stress the importance f the mass strike of the unorganizéd miners, telling of the solidarity of these miners with their organized brothers. These miners, who are evicted 24 hours after going on strike, are suffering disease and hunger and are without shelter of any kind, yet are increasingly determined to carry on to victor}, Are you a “DAILY WORKER” worker daily? berg, A. Brook, L. Bouche, D. Bur- liuk, Campendouk, P. Dickinson, I Doi, K. Dreier, D. A. Dreier, Drexel. L. Gatch, Hugo Gellert, Gerber, Lydia Gibson, M. Hartley, M. Harkavy, G. Hondius, I. Howland, H. Kandinsky K. Knaths, Y. Kuniyoshi, A. F. Levin- son, J. Lomoff, K. Nakagawa, B. Nordfelt, P. Klee, P. Geulois, M. Pass Peri, Man Ray, K. Shimizu, T. Shim- izu, N. Spencer, Schwitters, T Tsuzuki, Villon, Max Weber, Adolf Wolff, M. Zorack and W. Zorack, Must Speed Collection Work With only a few days remaining until May 15, when the drive for $30,- 000 to establish the Workers Center comes to an end, the nécessity of speeding up collection work is being stressed. The new lists of Workers Center “bricks” makes it-easy to se- eure contributions, and all worker: should immediately obtain these at- tractive new lists at 26-28 Union Sq. or 108 E. 14th St. The directors of the Workers Center also request that all the old lists be turned in at once. A careful check-up is being kept of the totals collected by each unit and those that are falling behind must get busy at once. The directors of the Center urge that the concluding days of the drive be made the most in- tensive of all. New contributions that have come in during the last few days are: 2A FD38, $18; 1D 1F, $10.25; 1D 2F, $14;-1D 8F, $11; 3C, $44; Section 1, Night Workers Unit 1, $10; Section 1, Night Workers 11, $60: 1AC 6F, $32; Section 8, $10; 3B, $33; 2B 4F, $7.50; Harlem Women’s Ukrainian Society, $10; 1AC 38F, $9: 1B 2 and 8F, $20; 1AC 4F, $23; Lithuanian Literary Society, $100; 8E, $5; Long Island Section, $14.37; 2B SF, $6; 2B 1F, $8; and Section]: 3, $18.25. (Special To The DAILY WORKER), PITTSBURGH, Po, May 10.— | Theodore Karnesky, one of the 75 who picketed before the mouth of the Republic Iron and Steel Com- pany mine at Russellton, Pa. was arrested last Thursday on a charge of disorderly conduct when he at- tempted to speak to non-union min- ers. Karnesky was told that he spoke “too loudly.” Because of the roar of motor trucks which were passing on the state highway along which the case. Pelega was defended by Jac- ques Buitenkamp, attorney for In- ternational Labor Defense, eres { \ picket line was posted, the picket declared he was compelled to speak in a loud voice in order to make we himself heard. Squire Ira H, Ed- mundson of Russellton imposed an $18 fine upon Karnesky. Mass picketing at the Russeliton mine as well as at many other points in the western Pennsylvania strike area continues. At Russellton there is a regular morning and eve- ning picket line of between 75 and 100. Karnesky’s fine was paid by a collection taken in Russellton after the sentence was imposed. Pennies, “dimes and nickels were scraped from the recesses of pockets which have not contained more than a dol- , lay at a time during the past eight * months. Squire Edmundson is un- es : WINDOW CLEANER MINER FINED $18; SPOKE TOO LOUDLY BEATS FRAME-UP able to estimate how..many strik- ers’ babies went without milk to pay the fine of the “disorderly” picket. Summary arrests and fines im- posed by local justices often rob striking miners of their last pros- pect of food for several days as they pool their pennies to pay the price of liberty for a fellow picket who runs afoul of the state police. The spirit of solidarity manifested by the strikers on such occasions is brought daily to the attention of the National Miners’ Relief Com- mittee in interviews with. local union delegations who come to their headguarters with pleas for relief. What would a life of graft be worth in the United States if it were not for those happy vacations, dear to the hearts of Fall, Sinclar, Mellon and others, which follow the periodic ex- ence E. Knapp, former secretary of state for New York, leaving for a farm” near Albany after a jury had failed to acquit her of charges in- volving thousands in graft. ‘Now Be Honest’ Cries C.C. Head; ‘Pays Bette ar’ WASHINGTON, May 10 (FP).— Edwin B. Parker, chairman of the board of the U. S. Chamber of Com- merce, has circulated copies of his speech before the 16th annual meet- ing of that body, in Washington. His address is largely devoted to warn- ing business men that they must be honest, and not disgrace their class or the advocates of public ownership will get the ear of a fickle public. He deplores greed and corruption—ap- parently referring to Fall, Doheny Sinclair and the Continental Trading }Co. fraud. Edwin B. Parker appeared in cor- respondence brought before the fed- eral trade commission, last month, as the official of the chamber who was active in sending former Gov. Hoard poses? The picture shows Mrs. Flor-| JUDGE MANTON MAKES 7c FARE LEGAL IN CITY More Protest Meetings Are Called (Continued from page one) ‘|other” of “Red Mike” which the for- mer mayor may find equally difficult to answer, Asks About “Deal.” The first question put to Walker requested details of a certain secret conference attended by a number of traction barons and others, “two of whom were big political leaders.” | Jimmie replied with a weak denial of the allegation. It is known, however, that such a meeting did take place. Among those present were Al Smith, Jimmie Walker, Frank Hedley, Judge Olvany, Thomas L. Chadbourne and several jothers, including Herbert Bayard Swope, the executive editor of the World. It is also known that when, several months after the meeting. Walker still continued to talk vigor- ously of the five cent fare in public and gave signs of opposing Tammany disclipine, Swope was sent to the mayor to “remind” him of his pledge. Walker “denied” having attend. ¢ the conference, and has since more or less had his difficulties with Al Smith. Walker likewise parried Hylan’s second question as to why the city employed Charles L. Craig, an attor- ney for traction companies, to fight the fare increase. The question was too hard for Jimmie. In turn Walker asked Hylan about a certain meeting that he (Hylan) had held with T. P. Shonts, late president of the I. R. T., relative to a fare increase. Hylan’s reply is ‘awaited. “Carrion Crow.” Walker denied that he had meant Hylan when on Wednesday he re- ferred to those who like a “carrion crow” are ready to feed politically on the decaying body of the present bad transit situation. “I did not name him,” Walker said yesterday “T had in mind an aggregation o° of Arizona to a conference in Denver} socialists.” to oppose the Boulder Dam bill. He urged that every effort be made to prevent the entry of the goyernment into the electric power business. TO HOLD HAITI MEET ON SUNDAY Workers Will Score U. S. Occupation The All-America Anti-Imperialist League has received a letter from the Patriotic Union of Haiti protesting against the ruthless American Im- perialism which is making every ef- fort to force the Haitian peasants While it is generally. believed that Walker had really aimed the remark at Hylan, his later correction is thought to be not entirely unfounded. In an article by Bertram D. Wolfe. which appeared in The DAILY WORKER of Tuesday a detailed an- alysis was made of “The New So- cialism.”. A reference was there made to the pocialist body as “a stinking corpse.” This, it is believed, may have been the basis of the may- or’s accusation although character- istically he has a bit confused his figures of speech. ane gee MEETINGS TO PROTEST An open air mass meeting will be held to protest the seven cent fare steal tonight at Pitkin and Bristol Avenues, Brooklyn, at which the speakers will be C. Raiss, J. Cohen, back to slavery after 124 years of|l. Baum and E. Rosenberg. struggle. The Haitian Patriotic Union warmly thanks the All-America Anti- Imperialist League “which has shown true devotion in favor of the Haitian cause.” A mass meeting to protest against marine intervention and the subjuga- tion of Haitian workers and peasants: will be held next Sunday afternoon. May 13th, at the New Harlem Casino 90 West 116th Street, under the joint auspices of the New York Branch of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League and the Haitian Patriotic Un- ion. Senator William H. King, of Utah, Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER, Manuel Gomez secretary of the All-America Anti- Imperialist League, Henry Rosemond of the Haitian Patriotic Union, J. J Adam, Haitian representative of the Geneva Conference, William Pickens of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Irving Potash, of the Furriers Union will denounce Wall Street occupation Harriet Silverman, secretary of the New York Branch of the League, wil! preside as chairman. Call Strike to Save Millinery “Ur (Continued frem page one) by the heads of Local 24, when the employers, The Barber Hat Co., and The H. Baum Co., agreed to assist in the union wrecking by ordering the hand milliners to register in Lo. cal 24. This the workers refused tc (do. The militant leadership of Loca’ 43 immediately declared both firms of strike, establishing picket lines to prevent the hiring of non-union help ion In ‘the first mentioned firm, threc| girls who had been compelled to re- gister, joined the strike; while in the other shop every hand milliner re- fused to obey the bosses’ order to register, FORD BARS NEGROES ATLANTA, Ga., May 10. — The Chevrolet Motor Company and the Ford Motor Company have recently opened plants at Atlanta. The two plants engaged about 800 workers but have refused to take on any Ne- Load fave in the most minor capac- A traction meeting will also be held tonight in Boro Park, 52nd St. and Fifth Ave., Brooklyn, at which J. Di- Santo, S. A. Pollack and A. Gussakoff will speak. : Tomorrow at Third Ave. and 149th St., Bronx, L. A. Baum, J. 0. Ben- tall, C. Mitchell and G. Padmore wil} address a traction meeting. A fare-steal protest meet will also be held tomorrow night at Grand Street Extension and Havermyer St.. Brooklyn, at which A. Bimba, G. Primoss and M. Sparer will speak. , In addition a meeting will be held at Barrett and Graham Sts., Brooklyn, at which J. Sherman, G. Powers, Kop- pel and E. Stanley will speak. Hold Cloak Jobless Meeting Tomorrow (Continued from Page One) tbe held under the joint auspices of Trade Union Educational League the A. C. W., and the New York Council of Unemployed Workers. Speakers at the meeting will be the leaders of the left wing movement in the Amalgamated. The assembled membership at the meeting will map out plans to orga- nize measures of relief for the severe unemployment crisis now prevalent in the men’s clothing industry. The dis- cussions among the tailors center mainly around the coming convention of their‘union, They are particularly incensed over the recent announce- ment of their union officials, that spent to hire special trains to take the bureaucratic delegates and their huge entourage of parasites to the Cincinnati biennial. Instead of using this money to lighten the burden of unemployment, which thousands of the membership are suffering, because of the officials sanctioning of the basses’ speed up systems, the officialdom squanders the money in joy rides for their ma- chine followers, the tailors declare. TRUCK DRIVER KILLED. Andrew Abbuacci was killed yes- terday in a garage at 2880 Park Ave., the Bronx, when a truck he had start- ed plunged ahead and crushed his head against a wall, tens of thousands of dollars will be - SF ERR SE