The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 12, 1928, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1928 WORKERS PARTY ISSUES NATIONAL CONVENTION CALL Class Struggle to Be Basis of Campaign (Continued from Page One) No one can today ist party with of the working vention the socialist sharp break with whe ditions it once had. U ship of Hillqui f Thomas, it outlawed gle. Today the pears as an enemy class to be fought m ly. The Wor mist) Party of America i y of worl! img class. str in the Unitec States. Our Party is a Party of revo lutionary class struggle. We are no only vigorous par but ener- getie leaders in a 2 struggles of our worl Executive © order to mobil our Party’s r tion in the comin; tions with a v of utilizing this election camp: for arousing and anizing more effectively r the working class to the capita #fensive. State Delegations On the basis of the strength of the Party organization in the variou states and the industrial importance of the states, t following number of delegates constitute the quota as- signed to each state organization: Alabama 2 Nebraska 2 Arizona 1 Nevada 1 Arkansas 1 NewH’mpsh’re 2 California 11 New Jersey 42 Colorado 6 New Mexico 1 Connecticut 9 New York 48 Delaware 2 No. Carolina 1 Dist. Columbia 2 No. Dakota 6 Florida 2 Ohio 1 Georgia 2 Oklahoma 3 Idaho 1 Oregon 4 Mlinois 25 Pennsjfvania 382 Indiana 6 RhodelIsland 4 Towa 7 So. Carolina i Kansas 5 So. Dakota 5 Kentucky 2 Tennessee 2 Louisiana 1 Texas 3 Maine 2 Utah 1 Maryland 5 Vermont z. Massachusetts 20 Virginia 2 Michigan 20 Washington 7 Minnesota 10 W. Virginia 6 Mississippi 1 Wisconsin 10 Missouri 5 Wyoming 2 Montana 7 What the Convention Will Do. 1. The adoption of the election 2. The nomination of presidential} candidates. | 3. The election of a National Cam-| paign Committee. | This Nominating Convention is of tremendous importance not only for 6aF’ Party but for the whole working class. It is one of the most significant events in the political life of the American workers, The Central Com- mittee urges that every state organi-| zation, no matter how it must strain} itself financially, be represented.| . Special nominating conventions to se-| lect these delegates are to be held. | This convention will be a class} struggle convention. The keynote of| our Party throughout the campaign »} against the wall. | Modjacot | platform of the Party. | Federal Court Sanctions a Se i] UNITE," 1S GALL Conference To Be Held Here May 19 Working womer have played a courageous and significant part in all the great struggles of labor in this vuntry, of which the present. strike in the coal fields is but one example,” declares a eall sent out last night by the Conference Committee to Organ- ize the New York Working Women’s Federation. The statement was issued in con- nection with a conference to be held xt Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, next Saturday, May 19, at 2 o'clock. “The coming conflicts against en- slaving conditions which the power- fully organized corporations and trusts are out to fasten on the work- rs,’ the statement continues, “will place on working women a greater surden than ever before and a res- ponsibility shoulder to shoulder with men, to defeat the exploiters. “The great mass of women, and there are close to 9,000,000 in the industries of the United States, are today unorganized, divided and help- less. Organized industrially and poli- tically, their power combined with working men, would force the ruthless exploiters of American capitalism The basic task of working women is to organize. Work- ing men must build trade unions. The New York Federation of Working Women which is to be organized at the conference next Saturday has for its principal object this task.” HOLD DANCE AT ‘GENTER’ TONIGHT Marionettes Also on Program Tonight workers of many nation- alities will frolie at a dance to be given at the Workers Center, 26-28 Union Square. The dance will follow a performance of the Modjacot mari- onettes. Admission will be free to all those attending the marionette per- formance. Those who can last that long will be able to dance until the early hours of the morning, with music furnished by a regular orches- The Modjacot marionettes, which are directed: by Yossel Cutler and Zuni Maud, will present a program of unusual interest for their third performance tonight. Among the Rifts in the earth dam across the Saluda River at Table L workers and farmers, repeating the San Francisquits dam tragedy in California. Photo at right shows South Saluda River in an attempt to open a valve and relieve pressure of the flood. ORKING WOMEN Lozowick Gets will be for a militant class struggle.) sketches will be one by Moishe Nadir, Our Party is, however, more than a| famous Yiddish humorist and satir- Party of immediate struggles. Our|ist. Tickets are 50 cents for adults Party aims at the mobilization and] and 25 cents for children and are on organization of the working cl. ale at 26-28 Union Square. All the through the very immediate str proceeds go to the Workers .Center. gles for the purpose of overthrowin Musical Program Sunday. capital 2b! ng the prole Tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock the tarian dictator Soviet Rep marionettes will give their last per- Vie, and the b E lding up of a Com-) formance. There will also be an extra miunist socie , |attraction in the form of a musical All Party Members Called to Action. | Program by members of the Inter- Every Party member must delete pitted Rabies er ee everything in his or her power Sl orev gurmsaeante pau re make this National Nominating Con- by a string quintette: Mozart's Sere- i : at 5 Y, i ers in the mine strike fields, the tex-| Josooh ee te ae ee tile mills and the needle trades shops) Gavotte. by. auna: Yerzy; pata thes ty, a very iorinat role by | string quintette numbers: Rachmani- deliberations and the decisions of the 5 Page rete vention, Lanae' \- dvpanteailons noff’s Serenade, Mendelssohn’s Scher- ' throughout the country are sending ai gh Pilati poder ebay fraternal delegates. Labor unions, co- pinageed us Sty i The art exhibition that is now be- 0 ve organizations, and organiza-| ; ‘ of fa hilrisl ana exnlol ing conducted at the Workers Center ss are selecting fraternal dele- has enthusiastic comment. A large | collection of paintings and sculpture |by many famous American and for- eign artists is on view daily from 4 to 9 p. m. and all day on Saturdays and Sundays. Lectures are being ar- ‘ranged for the evenings by such well- known revolutionary artists as Hugo Gellert and Louis Lozowick. Admis- sion to the exhibition is 25 eents, the proceeds going to the Center. : As May 15, the conclusion of the campaign for $30,000 to establish the Workers Center, draws near, Work- ers Party units throughout District 2 and other workingelass organiza- tions are urged to exert all efforts to raise their quotas. Competition for the revolutionary banner that will be awarded to the unit or organization collecting the most money grows more intense. Workers, send the . drive over the top! to attend this convention. The Young Workers (Communist) League A pees of America is cooperating energeti- he _ Comrades! Let us make this a year of determined successful struggle against the exploiting class, against _ As. 2ican imperialism! Let us throw ourselves most energetically into the war against capitalism! Let us : fall in line to make this conven- : tion a center for the mobilization of ar Party and a source of inspiration tor ever workingman and working- vor in the country for the fight inst the capitalist class, for the of the working class. CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMIT- Raw Deal from “Daily” Shop DITORIAL initiative varies among the printers in The DAILY WORKER plant. Some, unusually modest, content them- selves with placing their own in- terpretation on the spelling of par- ticular words; others show sufficient courage to change the entire char- acter of a news story’ or special article. In yesterday’s issue of The DAILY WORKER their notions on modern art were revealed. For in the story about the Workers Cen- ter which mentioned the opening of the art exhibition there, Louis Lo- zowick was named among the ar-+ tists who will deliver lectures during the period of the exhibit. But when yesterday’s edition began to fly from the press, it had changed from “Lozowick, revolutionary ar- tist” to “Lozowick, reactionary ar- tist.” $230,000 SPENT TO NOMINATE HOOVER ts Expected to Total| Thousands More WASHINGTON, May 11.—A total »€ $230,000 has been spent thus far in an effort to place Herbert Hoover in the White House. This was ad- mitted today by ex-congressman James W. Good, Hoover’s principal manager, at the socalled investiga- tion that the Senate committee is con- ducting into campaign funds of the presidential candidates. The total Hoover bid for the presidency will be “only” $250,000, Good stated. The $230,000 conceded by Good surpasses considerably the $103,310 slush fund of Governor Al Smith, admitted yesterday by Al’s New York State manager, George R. Van Nammee. Just what the real figurer are can only be conjectured in view of the fact that campaign managers are notoriously conservative in their estimates of slush funds. It seems likely that many thousands above the figures admitted are being spent Though Hoover’s slush fund sur- passed Smith’s, none of the individual contributions to his fund approached the $70,000 figure set by William F. Kenny, Brooklyn contractor, who, according to the testimony yester- day of George R. Van Nammee. Smith’s New York State campaign manager, contributed that amount t the Smith slush fund. The fact that Kenny has received many fat con- tracts from Tammany Hall may have something to do with the warmth of his admiration for Tammany’s chief flukey. LEWIS STRIKES TO GUTTER. SPRINGFIELD, Tl, May 11.—The utter depths to which called union men will sink is illustrated in the current issue of the “Illinois Miner,” organ of the Fishwick machine in the form of a news release naming Joseph Angelo, militant secretary of the District 12, Save-the-Union Com- mittee as “the pay-off. man of the reds.” Rock, S. C., are shown at picture LOUGHEED, THREE OTHERS INDICTED Tammany Graft in City Piling Up William J. Lougheed, street clean- ing department garage forman, whose confession revealed ‘that the street cleaning department under Mayor Walker was honeycombed with cor- ruption, was yesterday indicted, to- gether with three other street clean- ingermployees, for forgery and grand lareeny. The others indicted were Benjamin P. Stoeber, an assistant foreman, Wil- liam J. Oswald, a section foreman, and Charles A. McGee, an assistant superintendent. Additional indict- ments charging violation of the penal eode in unlaivfully accepting fees while in office, were returned against Os- wald and McGee. The four will be arraigned Monday for pleading and fixing of bail. Warrants for the ar- rest of five other employees of the street cleaning department were is- sued. The indictment of Lougheed follows revelations made by him which threat- ened to involve higher ups in the Walker Tammany administration, had not a soft-pedal been applied *.to Lougheed’s charges. A check-up of 90 names on the pay- roll of the Street Cleaning Depart- ment in the Bronx revealed that only five were actually employed in the de- partment. New York’s graft machine may pos-: sibly gain a new wheel in the build- ing of the so-called model tenements on the East Side, it was learned yes- terday. While grand juries in Queens and the Bronx were hearing testimony yesterday on the sewer and street de- partment cleaning steals in their re- spective boroughs, rumors began to spread that the project of Mayor Walker for the widening of Forsyth and Christie Sts. and the erection of homes sponsored by August Heckscher was already covered with graft before any of the actual work has been started. ARRESTS SPUR MILL PIGKETING W.LR. Aid to Strikers Is Growing (Continnetl from page one) lief collections. Farmers just out- side the city and small merchants in the working class residential local- ities are being regularly canvassed for contributions of food and other necessities. Official Relief Nil. A statement issued by the relief committee announces that plans are being drawn up for the organization of permanent relief committees in cities thruout the country. Aside from the special organizer sent in by the Workers International Relief, the entire relief committee’ was recruited from the strikers ranks. They proved very resourceful in mobilizing local aid, The relief work is admittedly the Set WHERE BREAKING OF DAM MENACES THOUSANDS OF FARMERS on left. The dam threatens bursting to engulf thousands of poor} workers struggling above the roaring waters of the Connolly of | Sewer Graft _ Now Virtuous MAURICE E. CONNOLLY, for- mer borough president of Queens, who resigned under fire in the $29,500,000 sewer scandal, yes- terday appeared in court garbed in the cloak of civie virtue. He testified in Long Island City court against Harold Truet, 9 chauffeur, against whom he brought charges of grand larceny. Connolly, under whose reign it is charged that millions were stolen in contracts with sewer building contractors alleged that Truet used a borough automobile without permission on January 14, of last year. MAURER-LEWIS UNION EXPOSED Socialist Covers Self With Reaction (Continued from page one) The progressive delegates sought to show by giving details just what the bureaucrats of the Lewis gang were doing with the money received by by them for relief. Protesting against Maurer’s at- tempt to shut off discussion on the resolution, E. P. Cush, steel worker and recently a representative on the trade union delegation to the Soviet Union, was told by Maurer: “You and your bunch are the dirtiest rats \I have ever come across in my life.” Cush who is about sixty years of age has been a fighter for nearly fifty years against all that is vicious and destructive of unionism and of living standards in the mines and the mills of Pennsylvania. Maurer ruled in order a resolution against the Save-the-Union Commit- tee and another against the National Miners Relief Committee when these were questioned from the floor. This in spite of the fact that he has often boasted that the Pennsylvania Federa- tion never interferes in the internal fights of local bodies, Gangsters Ready. In the fight on these resolutions, which Maurer’s resolution committee recommended for concurrence, Maurer refused to recognize Cush who sought the floor. Fat-bellied officials of the Lewis machine at this point gathered a number of their gangsters and sought to descend upon Cush, who was saved by a number of progres- sive delegates and escorted from the hall. “T still believe in free speech” said Maurer, most vital of all the organizing ac- tivities of the Textile Mill Commit- tees. Especially is this true in view of the fact that the relief committee organized by the officialdom of the American Federation of Textile Workers has practically ceased func- tioning. Doors Are Closed. They frankly announce that they haven’t sufficient funds to keep their doors open. At no time did their ac- tivities assume a constructive char- acter. COAL TOWNS CALL FOR FACTORIES Non Union Shops Are Urged to Replace Organized Mines By ED FALKOWSKI. Brine Pa., May 11.—Scran- ton’s Chamber of Commerce wants large corporations to build factories in the hard coal belt and particularly in Seranton, anthra- cite center, which is dependent on surrounding mines for business ac- tivity. Wage records show $25,000,000 is paid annually to mine workers of Scranton while the surface workers get $13,000,000. But as time goes on, the mines are being exhausted. Already many have been shut down; strippings abandoned; break- ers suspended or torn down where the coal has been mined out. Ex- perts give assurance of plentiful coal supply for the next 30 years, The last of the good hard coal will have been burned 50 years from now, at the present rate of con- sumption. But what then? To busy cities and towns, in which hundreds of thousands of toilers live, the pros- pect of mine exhaustion is gloomy indeed. It is in preparation against | such time that the Chamber of Commerce is attempting to draw factories into the region. * * * Hi anthracite region is part of the “silk belt” of Pennsylvania. Thousands of girls work long hours for low wages in silk mills seat- tered through the small towns. Anthracite cities‘can hardly hope to induce manufacturers to settle heré because of scenic or climatic advantages. Their chief ‘talking point is cheap labor. While the minérs are 100 per cent organized, no other industry approximates this record, and most are untouched by unionism at all. Knitting, sew- ing, manufacture of various kinds, goes on under open-shop cond'tions. Miners’ daughters are among the most exploited workers it the country. Many of them work 10 hours a day, and make as low as $7 in two ‘weeks. PESSEND efforts. of big-city em- ployers to escape union condi- ‘tions may cause them to establish plants in the anthracite. A cigar | workers’ union in Shenandoah, or- ganized overnight, vanished in the same stretch of time. The Amalga- mated Clothing Workers recently conducted a campaign in St. Clair where a factory was organized. The employers took out injunctions against the A. C. W., and striking girls were arrested, while the fac- tory operated merrily with scabs. SIGMAN, BRESLAU ‘OPEN GANG WAR Workers Real Delegates Map Work Plans (Cantinned from Page One) delegate ‘of Local 52, of Los Angeles whose presentation of a set of reso- lutions calling for the re-establish- ment of peace with the membership was answered by the Sigman and Schlesinger cliques by a refusal to recognize his credentials. Cahan Reveals Plot. The speech of Abe Cahan, begin- ning in a mild enough plea for peace between the union-wrecking factions and for protection against the Com- munists, soon revealed that he, to- gether with Sigman, had plotted to capture the lesdership of the cloak- makers’ union in New York by a de- liberate campaign to break the big | general strike of the cloakmakers in 1926. Cahan also launched an attack on the leaders of the Schlesinger clique. The demand of the clique that a ref- erendum be called for the presiden- tial election was ridiculed by Cahan. Resolutions Unanimously Carried. The National Conference of the real representatives of the workers in the industry was in the meantime adopt- ing resolutions for a program of con- structive work to be immediately put into action. The resolutions were car- ried unanimously after a National Or- ganizing Committee of the I. L. G@ W. U. had been elected. A general summation of the meas- ures adopted follows: 1. A campaign is to be inaugu- rated in the big markets of New York ahd Chicago, where the membership is fighting the International reaction- ary clique, for the organization of the cloak and dress factories, most of which are now open-shop. 2. Branches of the National Con- ference are to be established in all other centers such as Toledo, Balti- |more, Montreal and Toronto, for a drive against the open-shop. 8. Special organizers to be sent to carry on this work thruout the country. 4. The shop unit shall be the basic form for the shops organized in this campaign. A permanent shop chairmen’s coun- cil shall be established, which is to be one of the main factors in the campaign. » 6. A drive is to be begun for the organization of the thousands of Ital- ian workers, a special organizer to be appointed for this purpose. IMORE SLUGGINGS IN MINE TERROR Barbarism Rules Non- Union Fields (Continued from Page One) combat helmets, charged upon the pickets and snatched an American flag from the hands of Mrs. John Allison who was leading the picket line. Steve Kurupa, sub-organizer and Frank Dominano were among the first clubbed. When the pickets had been dis- persed the car circled the heights where most of the miners live and the superintendent pointed out strikers in the streets while the coal police took turns in clubbing them. One niiner was severely beaten as he walked down the street alone. Corporal W. R. Hanna, who is “in- vestigating” conditions in the Save- the-Union walkout im the valley has declared that no picketing will be al- lowed in Westmoreland County in ac- cordance with Sheriff Ray Johnson’s proclamation. The policy of the coal police is to carry on a program of wholesale ter- rorism and slugging wherever mass picketing takes place rather than to make any arrests. This policy is be- ing emphasized because, according to some authorities, pickets cannot “leg- ally” be held for violations of procla- mations which have no basis, The miners in spite of the fearful difficulties under which they are car- rying on are determined to continue picketing and other strike ‘activities. “Those yellow dogs aint gonna break our strike,” Organizer Kurupa 10-Cent Fare for Baltimore Traction Company 07, ON “WATERED” STOCK IS LEGAL, JUDGE DECLARES Decision May Affect Situation Here (Special To The DAILY WORKER) BALTIMORE, May 11.—A ten-cent fare here was today legalized in a de- cision by Judge Joseph N. Ulman of the federal circuit court in which he held that the present fare of nine cents or three tokens for a quarter is “unreasonable and illegal.” The decision is considered one of the most sweeping victories ever won in a court by a street railway com- pany. The judge found for the trac- | tion line at every principal point..The eourt held that an annual earning. of. less than 744% would be confiscatory and that the annual depreciation charge fixed by the public service commission was based on “erroneous and illegal standards.” . . Significant Decision. ‘ The effect of the decision by a fed- eral court in Baltimore granting a ten cent fare to the United Railways Company is regarded as, having-con- siderable significance in the fight of the New York traction companies for an increased fare. The decision of the court confirming the company’s contention that 8% earnings annually is a “fair basis” of return bears di- rectly on the local situation. The stock of the Baltimore company like that of the New York lines is about 300% “water” and an 8% guarantee is the equivalent of about a 200% re- turn yearly on actual investment. PARTY ACTIVE IN ELECTION DRIVE Communists Expected on All State Tickets Reports from all parts. of the United States show the Workers (Communist) Party most active’ in placing Communist candidates on the respective state ballots. For the first time in the history of the Party, ¢om- rades in the South are making the greatest effort to have Communist candidates in the running for politi- cal posts and to vse the coming cam- paign to throw into the foreground the sharpening class struggle in the south now rapidly being industrial- ized as a new stronghold of capitalist exploitation. * . * NORFOLK, Va. May 11:—The Workers (Communist) Party of Vir- ginia will hold its state convention on Sunday at 3 p. m..at Workmen’s Circle Hall, 400 Church St, to vote for candidates for the Party ticket in the coming presidential election ac- cording to T. H. Stone, Southern District organizer. Delegates are ar- riving from all over the state, and especially from the Party’s two strongest units, Richmond, and Nor- folk-Portsmouth. Many fraternal delegates are also expected from vari- ous labor organizations. The southern district organizer of the Party ‘will preside. Comrade Stone also reports that he is on his way to Georgia, Florida and Alabama to help put the Party on the ballot in these states. Paul Crouch of North Carolina, late of the United States army and more recently an inmate of Alcatraz Prison has again enlisted. This time to put the Party on the baliot. Com- rade Crouch is at present in Delu- ware. From there he will proceed to North and South Carolina to organize the Party campaign and have Com- munist candidates on the ballot; | In West Virginia the Workers (Communist) Party state convention is scheduled for Wheeling, May 19th and will also place the Party on ballot. The law in this state requires nomination by state convention; “> dicate that efforts are being made to get on the ballot in the states of Mis- souri, Oklahoma, Kansas. These three states are among the most difficult in the country. The requirements are most stringent and the law so form- .|ulated as to prohibit new parties from going into the elections, but the com- + rades are undaunted and are deter- . mined. to get on the ballot. is John Kangas, a student at the Na- tional Training School has completed his course and is preparing to leave for a tour of the state of Maine and New Hampshire where he will »com-— bine organization work for the Young. ager in New Jersey reports many them 14 for Presidential electors, The. Party candidate for President is Wil- liam Z. Foster and for Vice-President Benjamin Gitlow.’ ‘Scott Nearing will run for Governor of New. J r Albert Weisbord. for United. States . declared, as he gritted his teeth. Reports from the middléwest in-” ‘Workers League with. the job. of. placing the Party on the ballot. | | George Pearlman, campaign man- Communist candidates placed on the ballot for the coming elections, among _ and. Senator. In addition 28 Co M candidates will run for the ponesey care * wu: ee eee.